Dr Sharon Krossa 🪷 (the real kind—PhD!)
@skrossa
Web consultant & trainer—SK+ & Stanford—Scottish medieval historian—Baby whisperer—#KHive #ForThePeople #HarrisWithAnH2024
For handy reference, this thread has links to good information & analysis relevant to the 2024 elections. (Please pardon me as I update it!)
26. The difference is that some of them believe the bad guys are Satan-worshiping Jews who drink children’s blood and sell girls for sex, while others believe the bad guys are rich white men like Trump who act with total impunity.
December special election scheduled in a R+20 Tennessee seat with a third of Nashville in it Former Gov. Phil Bredsen (D) lost it by 0.5% in 2018 to Marsha Blackburn
🏴 😕“America was our ally for so long. We relied on America so much. Now it's an embarrassment.”
What do they all have in common
Trump calls for Kamala Harris, Oprah, Al Sharpton, and Beyoncé to be prosecuted
My favorite signs from today as Scotland turned out to protest Trump. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…
The very origin of QAnon - the heart of the conspiracy theory fueling much of his base - was outrage at a global qabal of elite pedophiles running a deep state, against whom Donald Trump will fight and bring to justice. Failing this fight changes everything. "He's one of THEM!"
A thoughtful thread about the precarity of Trump’s current position regarding the Epstein files with respect to many in MAGAland.
1. Liberals should bear in mind that recent revelations by the Wall Street Journal would *not* have the impact they are currently having if the president had not already triggered a crisis of faith in the cult of maga.
29. The longer the Epstein scandal goes on, the more the president brings needed attention to that cancer. As Lindsay Beyerstein said, he is literally trying to get a woman who is “a pedophile, a sex trafficker and a perjurer … to vouch for him.”
8. If we boil down the Epstein scandal to a word, it might be “weakness.” Magaworld was willing to overlook any crime Trump had committed with the understanding that he would, as president, use that power to bring to justice people who were, in maga’s eyes, “the real criminals.”
16. This weakness, and the implied fraudulence within it, could be the foundation for a “permission structure” in which GOP voters are allowed to complain about Trump without seeming liberal or woke. They might vote for a Democrat or, more likely, stay home on Election Day.
'Irregardless' is a word.
Hit me with the harshest reality truth.
Using seatbelts, life jackets, helmets, condoms, safety harnesses, steel toed boots etc isn’t an indicator of a phobia either, they are just rational, logical tools for protecting one’s self in certain environments.
As a reminder, the only rule that really matters to Trump is "Win that day's headlines." So you send Lutnick out to brag about a $550 billion "signing bonus" that hasn't been agreed to in writing, and that isn't actually a bonus, and may not be $550 billion, because who cares if…
It's frustrating that we have no real idea of what this deal involves. But that's not surprising, given that the FT says "the deal was pulled together in a slapdash manner during a 70-minute meeting between Japan’s chief negotiator Ryosei Akazawa and Trump."…
Unsurprisingly, the Financial Times is reporting that Japan does not agree with Lutnick's description of the deal - and that there is no written agreement for the $550 billion. Lutnick has been saying taxpayers will get 90% of the profits from these factories - Japan says profits…
Mockler: The Biden DOJ worked a lot differently— Cuomo: This is a talking point. Mockler: Are you telling me that Trump would allow Pam Bondi to open investigations of Donald Trump Jr?
The Federal Reserve is not in the executive branch.
No executive branch officer should even harbor—much less display—severe contempt for any POTUS And yet … Jay Powell clearly does The Fed is an unwieldy beast—one whose structure guarantees a state of enmity between the Fed chair and POTUS—and shouldn’t exist 🚨End the Fed!🚨
Can we just skip the mid decade redistricting nonsense and switch to allocating US house seats proportional to the house vote in each state? Or a German style mixed system with constituency and list seats (to balance any discrepancies in the map)
PBS has done follow up stories about the floods in Texas. Fox News has not.