Trump went on Fox (of course) and expressed – in terms he understands – his surprise that Kamala is doing so well. He said he’s surprised she’s doing better than Biden. Here is the quote: “And she somehow—a woman—somehow she’s doing better than he did.”

Trump seems shocked that a mere woman could do better than Joe Biden and, by extension, better than Trump is doing. How could he possibly be beaten by a woman? The fact that he can’t accept the notion that a woman could possibly compete, let alone do better than him, tells you pretty much all you need to know about Trump and his attitude toward women…

I wonder why he didn’t say “that person who happens to be a woman.” He seems to think that “those people who happen to be (fill in ethnicity/gender)” lets him off the hook for whatever bigotry or misogyny he spews after. Apparently, “who happen to be” is quite the disguise for bigotry. He uses it like it’s some kind of magical disclaimer.

Trump spoke at an event Thursday night that was meant to highlight antisemitism. It certainly did that. I’m not sure they meant to do it by putting Trump up in front of the crowd and pointing a spotlight directly AT an Anti-Semite (“Hey, here’s one now!”), but that seems to be the way they “highlighted” it.

He said, “I’ll put it to you very simply and as gently as I can: I wasn’t treated properly by the voters who happen to be Jewish…I don’t know. Do they know what the hell is happening if I don’t win this election? And the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens, because at 40% that means 60% of the people are voting for the enemy.”

Setting aside his reference to his political opposition as “the enemy,” (which, obviously, could never incite violence, of course) he seems to be blaming Jewish people if he loses. Apparently it’s just me, but I start to get nervous when a fascist starts blaming “Jewish people” for things. It starts with one moron saying, “Oh, the Jews did it,” followed by purges, putsches, punishments, and pogroms. Well, we officially have the moron “blaming” the Jews, now. Based on history, what do YOU think is next?

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So now the Trump abortion ban is killing women – exactly as the cons were warned about. In Georgia, the exceptions for medical emergencies are written so vaguely doctors aren’t sure what’s legal and what’s not legal – so they’re afraid to act.

One side of this discussion likes to (falsely) call themselves “pro life” but their policies are now killing the mother and the pregnancies are “terminated” anyway. Causing MORE deaths doesn’t seem very “pro life,” to me. Trump’s dedication to avoiding accurate information has killed a LOT of people in this country and now the killings just keep on coming…

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Yeah, yeah, the whole thing is rigged, right? We’ve been listening to that crap for years, now, and there’s no sign it’s going away any time soon. BUT…as it happens, in THIS election, there is MUCH “rigging” going on. It’s just that it’s the Republicans doing the rigging.

Georgia keeps trying to change their laws so the election board can just, basically, set aside all of those pesky “votes” and choose the person they prefer. Spoiler alert: that will be Trump. No, they don’t say it that way. That will just be the result of what they’re doing. The last one I heard about? They’ve voted to hand-count all paper ballots, slowing the process enough to inject uncertainty that otherwise would not exist. That gives them wiggle room to pretend irregularities.

Nebraska is only one of two states that don’t play the “winner take all” game when it comes to distributing electoral votes. I happen to be a person who prefers that and I believe it was the intent of the founders to award electoral votes in accordance with the majority vote of the given electoral district. I don’t think ANY state should issue electoral votes in a bloc. BUT…

IF Nebraska divides their electoral votes the way they’ve long-since done, they believe their current form of distribution will help Kamala too much. So they want to change it. They want to help Trump, not Kamala. Obviously, election boards shouldn’t be helping either candidate but cons have dropped all pretense of believing in fair and honest elections. Now they’re just outright trying to help the old man. (The old criminal? The old raper? The very old, very weird criminal, raper. There. That’s it…)

What all of this means is that when you hear a con whining, crying, moaning, and groaning about how the election was “rigged,” you can validate that claim and explain to them EXACTLY how it was the GOP that worked so hard to rig it!

Quick question: the GOP is doing all of this preparatory rigging right out in the open. We’re watching them do it. It’s all done with an eye toward creating an illusion of problems in the election and they’re not keep it a secret at all. So, when they start screaming about problems with the election based on all of this rigging we’re watching them do, are we going to believe it? More importantly, what are we going to DO about it?