Law, Power, and Justice

SNARKY NOTES ABOUT LIFE AND THE NEWS

4 NOVEMBER 2024

Trump, they say is losing it, melting down because of the situation with the polls.  “It’s going to be so much fun.  It’ll be nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular, but it’s going to be something”  Good lord, what does this mean?  About removing fluoride from water: “It sound O.K. to me.”  He’s talking about hitting Michelle Obama.  What?

There’s a late breaking poll which has a reputation of being right especially late in the game showing Harris up in the polls.

Proud Boys were at the Atlanta rally for Trump yesterday?  According to Andrea Mitchell citing Garett Haag. 

Podcast: The President’s Daily Brief (11/4/24) “Daring Israeli Raid….

• (Note: While this podcast is good for foreign and especially military updates, it is right wing and has associations with right wing organizations like Hillsdale College).
• Iran has said that they can develop nuclear weapons if they are under existential threat.  The leader’s fatwah against the use of nuclear arms 2003 is the only thing prohibiting this.  This is one of the most explicit acknowledgments of their ability.  CIA has said that they could amass enough material to build a weapon within about a week. 
• Leaders of the Helsinki Commission are putting pressure on Biden to allow Poland to extend their anti-missile coverage over Ukraine.  This comes as Russians increasingly attack western Ukraine.  This is dangerously close to NATO regions.  This is now a new request.  There is a change in NATO leadership that may help get potential for reconsideration. 
• An Iranian/American journalist has been imprisoned in Iran, according to the State Department. 

Trump in PA.

• Trump is blathering the same old garbage.  There are women behind him cheering about other people being put in jail.
• Trump wants to return to an era like that of his father’s – the world according to Fred Trump – who always respected police officers, just like the guys on January 6^th.
• When Trump starts these “off-script” little stories, the people in the audience think he’s talking to them directly.  There’s an intimacy about it.  It’s an intimacy that most politicians cannot match.  They can’t talk off-script.  They have to be handed a focus-group tested speech and they cannot even tell a story off script.  They are not speakers.  They are not politicians really.  They are money makers, money raisers.  They are cardboard ciphers who are put up there with focus-group tested speeches.  They don’t like audiences.  They don’t like people.  (Note; Politican whose staff had to put a noise scrambling device in front of him to keep the press from recording his off the cuff statements.)
• They have put all these women behind Trump speaking in Pennsylvania.  “Make America wealthy again.”  Jesus.  He’s telling some story about an old women taking three apples (imported from somewhere) to the cashier.  She takes one back and buys two.  This should not be happening anywhere in the US.  Jesus.
• Trump says he will cut taxes on workers. These people are morons.  He says he’s going to cut all their energy bills.  “He doesn’t fight for your fracking.”  (Talking about some local politician.)
• Trump is introducing Barron and Ivanka  (neither of whom are there at the rally). Ah, and Melania who is also not there.
• “We’re not going to let anybody laugh at us.”   The whole world is evidently laughing at us. 
• Just think, in addition to all the other weird as shit stuff, Trump ends every rally speech with YMCA the anthem of the Gay Male Community.
• I truly hope I have just listened to Trump’s last rally speech.
• If he wins I am going to lose my mind.  It is a country half full of morons.  It will take generations to repair the damage that has been caused by a party promoting the dumbing down of the population for political purposes.