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ProgressVirginia reported Tuesday afternoon that the Virginia Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee killed Sen. Charles “Bill” Carrico Sr.’s electoral college-rigging bill, despite an offer by Carrico to amend the bill to award electors in proportion to the state’s popular vote. The vote was 11-4 against the bill, although it will not be official until the close of the committee meeting.

On Thursday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted overwhelming to turn down a tentative contract and to go on strike:

We strike at midnight @IAM751! #OurFuture #IAM751Machinists #Solidarity pic.twitter.com/Xs78ECAhli

— IAM Union District 751 (@IAM751) September 13, 2024

This is really going to put a crunch on Boeing, who already has their share of problems:

More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers are poised to strike as soon as their previous contract expires at midnight PT, hobbling airplane assembly at Boeing’s factories in the Seattle area.

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During today's program, Charlie Kirk claimed he had proof to back up Trump's insane rantings from the debate about immigrants are eating pet dogs and now geese.

Kirk played recently obtained audio of a 911 call from a man claiming he saw four Haitian immigrants leaving a park with geese in their hands. The police report was filed. The man said he was close enough to hear their creole accent to identify them as Haitians, but couldn't get any photos or license plate numbers. Sure thing.

Don Trump Junior joined the MAGA circus to discuss. Kirk played a snippet of audio and claimed Haitians are decapitating geese.

In the entire 911 call, there is no mention of murders or decapitations. Only a possible theft.

"The media says that it's not proven," Kirk said, "Well, here is the 911 call you talked about, the 911 call about Haitians decapitating geese."

MAN: I got a question. This is a non-emergency line, correct?

911: Yes, it is.

MAN: I see a group of Haitian people. There was about four of them. They all had geese in their hand. There was about four of them. There was two men, two women.

911: How many geese did they have?

MAN: They each had one.

"I mean, Don, this is happening frequently," Kirk said.

The man never said geese were being murdered, eaten or decapitated.

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Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally Charlotte, North Carolina today and laughed at Trump's claims he'd get rid of Obamacare, but only had concepts to replace it with.

I wrote this in my Presidential Debate wrap-up,"Trump was asked what his healthcare plan would be. He had no answers except to say he was working on “concepts.” Trump had four years in office as he tried to destroy Obamacare and another three years plus to come up with a new healthcare plan, and he had nothing."

Kamala Harris seized on that to great effect.

HARRIS: And North Carolina, on top of all of this, Donald Trump intends to end the Affordable Care Act. (Loud booing) And as Stacy mentioned, you heard what he said in the debate, he has no plan to replace it.

He said, he said, concepts of a plan, you all watched the debate, concepts, concepts, no actual plan, concepts. (Harris and the rallygoers were laughing)

Concepts, concepts, no actual plan, concepts.

And understand what's at stake on that, 45 million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act. And he's going to end it based on a concept.

And take us back to when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.

Well, we are not going back, we're not going back, no, we will move forward.

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Source: Huffington Post

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

“The crime rate in Venezuela is down, I believe, a little bit over 60% over the last several years,” Miller tells the reporters. Trump has made a similar claim.

Del Pino asked if he trusted numbers from a dictator. That's when Miller blew a gasket. It was glorious.

And watch the crocodile tears over victims of immigrant criminals. This is, you may remember, the same man who came up with the plan to separate immigrant families.

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An Atlanta-area judge has thrown out two more charges facing Trump and a third against several of his allies in the election interference case that accuses them of criminally conspiring to try to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Via the Washington Post:

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee stopped short in two rulings issued Thursday of dismissing the entire indictment, which Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) sought more than a year ago under Georgia’s anti-racketeering statute. All the remaining defendants, including Trump, still stand accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy for their alleged efforts after the 2020 election.

McAfee had previously dismissed three other charges against Trump and others. Trump now faces eight charges, down from 13 in the original indictment.

[...] In Thursday’s ruling, McAfee dismissed the three charges under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits state prosecutions of activities that fall under federal jurisdiction.

“The Supremacy Clause declares that state law must yield to federal law when the two conflict,” McAfee wrote.

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My title might be wrong. Kamala Harris insists the word ends in an "ah", not "er."

Source: Atlanta Black Star

Harris agreed with President Joe Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan. The Howard University graduate also accused Trump of making a “terrible deal” with a “terrorist organization,” referring to the Taliban, while he was in the Oval Office.

“And get this. No, get this. And the president at the time invited the Taliban to Camp David, a place of storied significance for us as Americans, a place where we honor the importance of American diplomacy, where we invite and receive respected world leaders,” Harris said on the debate stage.

“And this…,” she started before pausing to seemingly find an appropriate word to use. She then continued, “This former president as president invited them to Camp David because he does not again appreciate the role and responsibility of the President of the United States to be commander in chief with a level of respect.”

Social media users picked up on Harris hesitating for a second during her answer. Viewers started speculating that the former U.S. senator from California may have stopped herself from using a curse word to describe Trump.

“We almost had the greatest moment in debate history lmao,” an X user tweeted in reaction to Kamala Harris’ viral moment. Another person suggested, “She wanted to call him everything but a child of God, lol.”

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was asked on the MeidasTouch podcast what on earth House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to accomplish by threatening to shut down the federal government just before the election.

It’s a good question. As Politico reported Wednesday, the GOP appears to be in total disarray as MAGA Mike tries to do Donald Trump’s bidding by trying to play shutdown shenanigans with a spending package tied to voter suppression. The bill requires proof of citizenship to vote and, as the Brennan Center for Justice explained, it would prevent millions of citizens from voting. “The current protections against noncitizen voting are effective: ballots cast by noncitizens are vanishingly rare,” the Brennan Center noted.

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Well, of course this happened. We've seen stochastic terror stirred up by loser Trump and his MAGAts again and again. Now a small town is deal with the fallout. Via Washington Post:

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said a bomb threat Thursday that led to the evacuation of City Hall and numerous buildings “used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community.”

“Springfield is a community that needs help,” Mayor Rob Rue said in an interview with The Washington Post. The mayor added that national leaders should provide that help and not “hurt a community like, unfortunately, we have seen over the last couple of days.”

The Ohio city recently gained national attention as it became the subject of dehumanizing and xenophobic conspiracy theories amplified by former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who claimed Haitian immigrants there were killing and eating people’s pets. Police officials have repeatedly said there is no evidence to support the claim, which Trump repeated in Tuesday night’s presidential debate.

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Donald's supporters are having trouble explaining why their hero was soundly defeated by Vice President Kamala Harris in the debate on Tuesday. Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau isn't a fan of us women folk. Wallnau declared that Trump's debate loss was due to "witchcraft" and that Harris was "trying to emasculate" his hero.

Harris baited Trump well, and he fell for it at every turn during the 90-minute debate. But losing to a woman is too much for Trump's sycophants, so she must be a "Jezebel." You just know that he wanted to call Harris a 'whore.'

Via Right Wing Watch:

“What you’re seeing now is a real Jezebel,” Wallnau declared. “When you’ve got somebody operating in manipulation, intimidation and domination—especially when it’s in a female role trying to emasculate a man who is standing up for truth—you’re dealing with the Jezebel spirit. … So, with Kamala, you have a Jezebel spirit, a characteristic in the Bible that is the personification of intimidation, seduction, domination and manipulation.”

“She can look presidential,” he continued. “That’s the seduction of what I would say is witchcraft. That’s the manipulation of imagery that creates an impression contrary to the truth, but it seduces you into seeing it. So that spirit, that occult spirit, I believe is operating on her and through her.”

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On CNN's News Night, Anna Navarro asked Scott Jennings straight out if the Trump-promoted conspiracy during the ABC Presidential Debate about migrants stealing and eating cats and dogs was racist.

It's a yes or no question, and not hard to answer.

That is, unless you're in the MAGA cult and filling the role of Jeffrey Lord, the former noxious Trump supporter that either validated or wished away Trump's racism in 2016.

Notice the long pause Jennings takes before finally participating. You could see the screws turning in his head.

NAVARRO: So, yesterday, when he said... when he said that, he wasn't being, uh, sarcastic. He wasn't being hyperbolic. He was amplifying a conspiracy theory that I think you would agree puts a target on the backs of Haitian immigrants and that it is based on racism.

Would you agree on that?

(OS) Anti-Black racism would be more pointed.

Do you think that if... do you think that if there were 20,000 Scandinavians that had been sent to Springfield, people would be saying that they're eating cats and dogs and geese?

JENNINGS: Look, I'm not... I'm not... I'm not gonna answer for him, for his memes or anything else, but I am going to... (OS) Why not?

NAVARRO: No, no, but I'm asking you, do you think that conspiracy is based on racism? I mean, at the end of the day, yes or no?

JENNINGS: Because I'm not gonna answer.

I don't know.

I don't know.

ABBY: That was a long pause, Scott.

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On this day in 1947 T-Bone Walker records his biggest hit "Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)"

Press Watch: Trump’s mental capacity is now topic one.

The Brad Blog:'He Swallowed the Hook': Harris Dominated Trump in Philly Debate.

First Draft: What Kamala’s Orange Beatdown Could Mean In November.

Attention space nerds! How many cosmic objects can you catch in 60 seconds? Enjoy the Roman Space Observer Game!

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

Send tips to mbru (AT) crooksandliars (DOT) com

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Perhaps Donald Trump's most repeated line from the debate, something that's inspired a million memes/videos, is "They are eating the pets!" Trump was talking about the insane conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH were eating people's pets. It's a form of blood libel, really, meant to inspire fear, to hell with the consequences.

Which so far have included a bomb threat aimed at Haitians in Springfield and the Haitian community almost on lockdown, not even able to send their kids to school.

It began as a lie spread on a local Facebook group, was amplified by RT, which of course naturally meant it went right to the GOP to share, and Ohioan who-doesn't-know-how-to-order-donuts, JD Vance, tweeted it out. Trump amplified it at the debate.

And Ohio Congressman, conspiracy theorist, and ignorer-of-mass-rape at Ohio State, Jim Jordan, also shared it, because what else is that scumbag gonna do? Here, Eric Swalwell absolutely torches him for it. It's a MUST WATCH.

After, subscribe to my YouTube channel, Cliff's Edge, where you can find much more content like this.

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The legendary Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913 in Oakville Alabama.

As a kid, the first Olympics I remember watching was in 1968. The network also showed footage of Jesse Owens destroying the 1936 Olympics in front of Hitler's face. Owens won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay, and the long jump, which threw cold water on Adolph's Aryan race crap the Nazis were spreading.

I knew at a young age what a monumental feat that was.

Here's to you, Jesse Owens.

Open thread.

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As the gentle reader will recall, Kamala Harris took a break from debate prep to stop at a Penzey's spice shop in Pittsburgh to pick up a few things. Right wingers, led by Fox, had a meltdown that she would dare to shop at the "meanest spice shop" in the world. Even the Orange Shitgibbon got in on the act, even though, as usual, he didn't know what the hell he was talking about:

Instead of being intimidated, Bill Penzey said he found it amusing and he was glad for the attention because it helped him get the word out even more.

MAGA responded by threatening a boycott, saying they were going to throw out the seasoning that they had already bought and being mean to the business on Yelp. Their tantrum met with almost as much success as when they wanted a boycott in 2016 and business shot up 135%.

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On CNBC's Squawk Box, JD Vance blamed all the problems of the country, including inflation on migrants and claimed the US isn't the most prosperous country in the world.

Vance's outward racist analogies about immigrants are monumentally dumb and weird. Not to mention he has been a key component to promoting the sick conspiracy that Haitians are stealing and eating pets in Ohio.

Let's debunk an often used lie by the Trump Vance campaign. President Biden and Kamala Harris did not let in 25 million immigrants into the country. These numbers count all undocumented worker that have been in the country since 1990.

KERNEN: ...do you see the analysis that there have been positive aspects for the jobs market and for the labor situation from immigration?

VANCE: I've certainly seen these reports, and look, for a generation, Wall Street has said that the way to create prosperity in this country is to flood the country with cheap labor and offsource our manufacturing to places like China, which use cheap slave labor.

What that's actually led is to communities like Springfield, Ohio, where you have 20,000 Haitians who have come in.

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Donald J. Trump isn't taking his debate loss against Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC News very well. The felon choked during the stunning 90-minute debate, during which the former President unraveled. Of course, Trump is denying reality, which is a constant theme with the Mar-a-Lago maniac. The ex-president took to his flailing Truth Social platform to call for the entire ABC News staff to be fired after his defeat on Tuesday.

"People are just starting to give me credit for having a GREAT DEBATE," Trump falsely wrote. "The Voters and Voter Polls showed it, but the Fake News Media wasn't giving the credit that was due."

"Now they are seeing the results with independent Voters, Evangelicals, and more - and saying, WOW!" he added. "Remember, I wasn't debating one person, I was debating three. They should fire everybody at ABC Fake News, whose two lightweight 'anchors' have brought disgrace onto the company!"

The fake news-propagating former President is wrong. Shocking, I know. Even a Republican-sponsored poll shows that Harris curb-stomped Trump during the debate by a wide margin.

Polls and pundits widely criticized Trump's debate performance. The only people propping up the former President's debate performance are those who deny reality. Like this guy, for example:

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Fox News' Greg Gutfeld tried to rescue Trump from his terrible defeat at the debate by whining like a spoiled brat and claiming it was ABC's David Muir and Lindsay Davis who did the heavy lifting to help Kamala Harris win.

Trump's surrogates and media minions all coalesced around ABC to try and shift the narrative away from Trump, the cat and dog man cometh.

GUTFELD: Congratulating Kamala for the debate is stolen valor.

It was Harris who gutted Trump like a stuck pig and not the moderators.

GUTFELD: You should be congratulating David Muir and Lindsay Davis, who did the heavy lifting.

Yeah, three fact checks on Trump's insane and immoral lies certainly accounts for Harris' dominance.

GUTFELD: And so calling that a debate is disinformation.

The only misinformation going on here was Gutfeld's lips moving.

GUTFELD: That's like me going into a bar with Tyrus and inciting a brawl and then later taking credit for all the broken jaws.

Kamala Harris landed upper cuts, crippling liver punches, and straight right hands to Trump's noggin that wiped him out. Nobody else.

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During the Presidential debate on Tuesday, Trump, who has a penchant for spreading conspiracy theories, referred to rumors that stemmed from a Facebook post claiming that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating pets. "They're eating the dogs!" the felon yelled out as Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to be enjoying the meltdown.

Of course, there is no proof of this claim, but Trump and his enablers want it to be true. The Clark County dog warden in Springfield called bullshit on the claims to The Daily Beast.

"Nobody has any proof of anything," Sandi Click told the Daily Beast. "It's all just a bunch of hearsay."

Click, who is responsible for animal welfare investigations, rescues, and enforcement in Springfield, said that although she has received calls about alleged animal cruelty, these tips are all "third or fourth-hand information without any pictures."

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The panel on yesterday's The Five were none too happy with Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris that happened shortly after the debate ended.

Other than their token pretend liberal Harold Ford Jr., the hosts did their best to disparage the endorsement, and to pretend that the timing somehow took away from all the headlines about Harris' debate performance. I hate to break it to them, but that didn't happen.

Here's the snide conversation that took place with that super-stud Greg Gutfeld calling Swift "a 4" and all of them pretending the endorsement would have never happened if Harris hadn't won the debate.

WATTERS: Taylor Swift stepping all over Kamala's debate night. Just minutes after Harris stepped off the stage to soak up all the liberal media love, Swift snagging all the headlines by endorsing Kamala in a mega Instagram post to her nearly 300 million followers, almost as many as you, Dana.

PERINO: Yeah, right.

WATTERS: Strategically, from a communication's perspective, do you think this was wise to roll it out like that?

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