The rats are eating each other. 

After Lyndsay Graham called the debate a disaster, now Trumps enforcer close enough to travel on his jet with him.
As well as directly taking a shot at Laura.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-loomer-trump-graham_n_66e32519e4b0056e82917b22?fn

'We know you're gay': Laura Loomer uses childish taunt as Lindsey Graham calls her 'toxic'
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/we-know-youre-gay-laura-loomer-uses-childish-taunt-as-lindsey-graham-calls-her-toxic/ar-AA1qtsGf

It shouldn't be a thing, yay or nay that is your private life, but its todays GOP. 

Most of what Laura says has no factual basis, much downright crazy conspiracies, so...

Some people are just too deplorable:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-losing-the-post-debate-debate

One thing we often don’t pay enough attention to is how even people living in the midst of events in real life have their perception of those events shaped by media coverage and discourse online. My most striking experience of this came on January 7, 2021—one day after the January 6th insurrection—when I went back to the National Mall and spoke with a number of people who had themselves participated in the riot the day before. Nearly all of them told me the same thing without prompting: The insurrection had actually been sparked by left-wing Antifa agitators.

This, of course, had been a rampant conspiracy theory on the right-wing internet the day before. But I was gobsmacked to hear it from those who had been on the ground and participated themselves. They’d lived through a historical event, seen it with their own eyes—done it with their own hands!—then gone back to their hotels and plugged their brains into the MAGA media machine to learn what had really happened.

BBC News - Vance doubles down on false 'pet-eating' claims

today

Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance has doubled down on false claims that migrants are eating household pets in an Ohio town, as city officials repeatedly debunked the rumours.

 

The baseless claims have led to several security threats, and on Sunday Wittenberg University in Springfield said it had to cancel events because of a threat targeting members of its Haitian community.

 

Appearing on Sunday talk shows, Vance defended the false stories, saying "media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes".

 

“It comes from firsthand accounts from my constituents. I say that we’re creating a story, meaning we’re creating the American media focusing on it." ...

 

Trump, like Vance, has doubled down on the baseless claims and said the town had been "destroyed" by immigration.

 

A couple of interesting articles looking at Laura Loomer (I sometimes feel her name should be more like Looper, but anyway...):

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/laura-loomer-is-the-symptom-not-the

Back in the good old days, some Republicans actually did speak out against all the crap that constantly poured out of the orange buffoon's mouth:

The difference is that in 2015 a few Republicans spoke out against Trump. Among them was Jeb Bush, who was struggling to figure out how to combat Trumpism at the time. He sharply criticized Trump’s remark. “Send them all back? To a hellhole?” Bush told reporters.

GOP voters, it turned out, were more persuaded by Trump’s conspiracy theories than by Jeb’s policy arguments.

And it’s been that way ever since. Loomer isn’t the disease, she’s the product of a MAGA movement that both attracts and produces attention-hungry fantasists—a movement that routinely whips up threats against minority communities and—not so long ago—attempted an insurrection.

Jeb Bush. What happened to him, eh?

Also:

https://newrepublic.com/article/185981/laura-loomer-trump-media-criticism

A lot of gossipy speculation popped up late last week, winking and nudging about the true nature of their relationship. I will confess to a mild level of interest in this topic, although never before mealtime. It is shocking that Trump can have her as a regular travel companion while his wife is nowhere to be seen. Can you imagine what the press would be doing if Doug Emhoff were back home in California and Kamala Harris was hopping across the nation in the company of, oh, some youngish left-wing social media star? Whose views were of the left-extremist variety? Yes, we can imagine. 

Even I have to admit, it does seem a bit, well...weird that this Loomer woman is hanging around him (almost) constantly, yet he just brushes it off.

Mind you, I seem to recall John Edwards trying something similar back in the day, and I don't think that ended terribly well for him. Having said that, all of his shenanigans happened before the age of Trump.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/north-carolina-mark-robinson-black-nazi-posts

Wouldn't it be nice (fitting) if this deplorable managed to sink Trump's chances and the rest of the deplorables along with him? 😀

Last polling I saw told me this idiot was on a clear road to losing.

The Washington Post - Opinion - We’ve all been ‘idiotcepted’

How manipulative, morally malleable politicians are making politics dumber than ever.

18 Sep 2024

Much has been written about misinformation in today’s politics, but one particular phenomenon deserves greater examination. The best term for it is probably “idiotception.”

 

Idiotception is a self-perpetuating, IQ-destroying cycle: Politicians hear or invent a stupid lie, which they plant in the minds of their followers. Their followers then repeat that stupid lie back to those same politicians. 

 

Then, the politicians insist they have no choice but to act on the stupid lie. After all, the public demands it!

 

This is precisely what transpired recently with Republicans’ racist lies claiming that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. ...

 

Within days, half of Trump voters believed this dehumanizing story was true, a YouGov poll found. ...

 

Dumb, baseless stories floated by randos have always had the ability to gain followers. But in today’s media environment, they can spread and strengthen astonishingly quickly, particularly when they serve the agendas of manipulative, morally malleable politicians.

 

That's going to hurt him, quite a bit.

Speaking of Laura Loomer - this very clever video from The Lincoln Project may get a few Trump staffers worried:

Independant - Ohio sheriff condemned for saying people with Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded

20 Sep 2024

An Ohio sheriff is under fire for a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democrat wins the presidency. ....

 

Likening people in the U.S. illegally to "human locusts," Zuchowski wrote on a personal Facebook account and his campaign's * account: “When people ask me... What’s gonna happen if the Flip-Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say ... write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!" 

 

That way, Zuchowski continued, when migrants need places to live, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families ... who supported their arrival!”

 

*  Zuchowski is a Republican in the thick of his own reelection campaign.  🙄

Another idiot who deserves to lose.

More fallout from Mark Robinson's candidacy (and the orange buffoon's endorsement of him). What an honours list to be a part of (or not):

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/21/politics/donald-trump-north-carolina-mark-robinson/index.html

But Trump ignored that history and in March endorsed Robinson, who could join a long list of candidates Trump backed after they’d heaped praise on him and who went on to win the GOP nomination despite red flags only to then lose the general election. That list includes 2022 Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake, 2022 Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial contender Doug Mastriano and more.

“I have a bad trait,” Trump said last month at a rally in Georgia. “I only like people who like me.”

No! Really? 🙄

Sideface:

 

 

Independant - Ohio sheriff condemned for saying people with Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded

 

20 Sep 2024

 

An Ohio sheriff is under fire for a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democrat wins the presidency. ....

 

Likening people in the U.S. illegally to "human locusts," Zuchowski wrote on a personal Facebook account and his campaign's * account: “When people ask me... What’s gonna happen if the Flip-Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say ... write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!" 

 

That way, Zuchowski continued, when migrants need places to live, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families ... who supported their arrival!”

 

 

*  Zuchowski is a Republican in the thick of his own reelection campaign.  🙄

 

Ahhh...the proverbial "Good guy with a gun"

 

sir1963:   Ahhh ... the proverbial "Good guy with a gun"

 

Zuchowski Surname Meaning

Polish (Żuchowski): habitational name for someone from Żuchowo in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship named with the nickname Żuch (from Old Polish żuchać ‘to chew’).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

ezbee:

 

Kevin Sorbo

Irony much?