Above is Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Miss Sassy Is Not Trump's Stepping Stone,"
Don't worry, there's a point here. I'm bringing it to entertainment. Alex Henderson notes:
When he called in to Fox News' morning show, "Fox & Friends," the next day, Trump called for "dishonest" ABC News to lose its broadcasting license.
Trump told the hosts, "I think ABC took a big hit last night. To be honest, they’re a news organization — they have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that."
"He was fact checked on immigrants eating dogs, and after birth abortions – both are hideous and complete lies," said architect Leonard Riccardi.
"Trump essentially just threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license should he be re-elected," said cybersecurity expert Jackie Singh. "Believe him when he 'jokes' about becoming a 'dictator on day one.' Dictators don't believe in freedom of the press; they target journalists to limit their inconvenient speech."
“Look, when you’re complaining about the refs, you know you’re in trouble, no matter what,” Abrams told Chris Cuomo following the debate.
Abrams argued Trump faced “tougher questions,” but that point will matter less to “right-leaning independents” and only sell in the “far-right media universe.” A number of conservatives took to social media on Tuesday to complain ABC News debate moderators Dan Muir and Lindsey Davis were steering the debate Harris’s way by fact-checking and telling Trump to stay on subject more than the vice president.
Jane Fonda appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show Tuesday and issued a stark reminder about former President Donald Trump’s environmental record.
Trump, whom she mocked as “Orange Man,” is “going to burn us down” if he wins back the White House, warned the Oscar-winning actor and climate activist.
But that came after Fonda expressed her disappointment with how long it took for a question on the climate crisis to be asked at the debate between Trump and Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
The climate “should be all of our primary concerns. We are facing an historic catastrophe,” said Fonda, a prolific campaigner whose activism in 2019 saw her put behind bars.
Fonda then issued a plea to voters in the upcoming presidential election:
“When we vote for a president, we’re not marrying them, we’re not even making out with them, we’re not dating them. They’re not perfect. Everybody’s got issues, including presidential candidates. Here’s the thing, we cannot afford to lose four more years to the climate crisis.”
“The orange man represents ‘drill baby drill’ and it’s really serious guys, it’s not rhetoric, it’s true, it’s happening,” she continued.
Following the hottest summer on record, the very last question that ABC's debate moderators presented to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was: "what would you do to fight climate change?"
Harris slammed Trump for having called climate change a "hoax," noting it's "very real," posing physical dangers to Americans, and costing them financially. She touted the Biden administration's investments in renewable energy, as well as, on the other hand, record domestic gas production.
Trump, for his part, completely ignored the question. He spoke of auto manufacturing plants being built in China, and said he would put tariffs on some imported cars. Then, he claimed that "Biden doesn't go after people because supposedly, China paid him millions of dollars." The former president did not offer any plans to fight climate change.
When asked about the issue during the debate with President Joe Biden in June, Trump similarly refused to commit to doing anything about climate change. "During my four years, I had the best environmental numbers ever," he claimed, despite catering to the fossil fuel industry throughout his time in office.
He will certainly do so in a prospective second term, as well. Trump reportedly asked oil CEOs for $1 billion in donations to his campaign in exchange for reversing many of Biden's environmental regulations. He also promised to speed up oil company mergers.
Going out with Ava and C.I.'s "Kamala destroys Donald (Ava and C.I.)"
LINSEY DAVIS: I want to turn to the issue of abortion. President Trump, you've often touted that you were able to kill Roe v. Wade. Last year, you said that you were proud to be the most pro-life president in American history. Then last month you said that your administration would be great for women and their reproductive rights. In your home state of Florida, you surprised many with regard to your six-week abortion ban because you initially had said that it was too short and you said, "I'm going to be voting that we need more than six weeks." But then the very next day, you reversed course and said you would vote to support the six-week ban. Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you?
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, the reason I'm doing that vote is because the plan is, as you know, the vote is, they have abortion in the ninth month. They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, who's doing an excellent job, but the governor before. He said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we'll execute the baby.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And that's why I did that, because that predominates. Because they're radical. The Democrats are radical in that. And her vice presidential pick, which I think was a horrible pick, by the way for our country, because he is really out of it. But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay. And that's not okay with me. Hence the vote. But what I did is something for 52 years they've been trying to get Roe v. Wade into the states.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And through the genius and heart and strength of six supreme court justices we were able to do that. Now, I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. I believe strongly in it. Ronald Reagan did also. 85% of Republicans do. Exceptions. Very important. But we were able to get it. And now states are voting on it. And for the first time you're going to see -- look, this is an issue that's torn our country apart for 52 years. Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote. And that's what happened, happened. Now, Ohio, the vote was somewhat liberal. Kansas the vote was somewhat liberal. Much more liberal than people would have thought. But each individual state is voting. It's the vote of the people now. It's not tied up in the federal government. I did a great service in doing it. It took courage to do it. And the supreme court had great courage in doing it. And I give tremendous credit to those six justices.
LINSEY DAVIS: There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born. Madam vice president, I want to get your response to President Trump.
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Well, as I said, you're going to hear a bunch of lies. And that's not actually a surprising fact. Let's understand how we got here. Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade. And they did exactly as he intended. And now in over 20 states there are Trump abortion bans which make it criminal for a doctor or nurse to provide health care. In one state it provides prison for life. Trump abortion bans that make no exception even for rape and incest. Which understand what that means. A survivor of a crime, a violation to their body, does not have the right to make a decision about what happens to their body next. That is immoral. And one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government, and Donald Trump certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I have talked with women around our country. You want to talk about this is what people wanted? Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot? She didn't want that. Her husband didn't want that. A 12 or 13-year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term? They don't want that. And I pledge to you when Congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law. But understand, if Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will sign a national abortion ban. Understand in his Project 2025 there would be a national abortion ban. Understand in his Project 2025 there would be a national abortion -- a monitor that would be monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages. I think the American people believe that certain freedoms, in particular the freedom to make decisions about one's own body, should not be made by the government.
LINSEY DAVIS: Thank you, Vice President Harris.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there she goes again. It's a lie. I'm not signing a ban. And there's no reason to sign a ban. Because we've gotten what everybody wanted. Democrats, Republicans and everybody else and every legal scholar wanted it to be brought back into the states. And the states are voting. And it may take a little time, but for 52 years this issue has torn our country apart. And they've wanted it back in the states. And I did something that nobody thought was possible. The states are now voting. What she says is an absolute lie. And as far as the abortion ban, no, I'm not in favor of abortion ban. But it doesn't matter because this issue has now been taken over by the states.
LINSEY DAVIS: Would you veto a national abortion ban if it came to --
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I won't have to because again -- two things. Number one, she said she'll go back to congress. She'll never get the vote. It's impossible for her to get the vote. Especially now with a 50-50 --essentially 50-50 in both senate and the house. She's not going to get the vote. She can't get the vote. She won't even come close to it. So it's just talk. You know what it reminds me of? When they said they're going to get student loans terminated and it ended up being a total catastrophe. The student loans -- and then her I think probably her boss, if you call him a boss, he spends all his time on the beach, but look, her boss went out and said we'll do it again, we'll do it a different way. He went out, got rejected again by the supreme court. So all these students got taunted with this whole thing about -- this whole idea. And how unfair that would have been. Part of the reason they lost. To the millions and millions of people that had to pay off their student loans. They didn't get it for free. But they were saying -- it's the same way that they talked about that, that they talk about abortion.
LINSEY DAVIS: But if I could just get a yes or no. Because your running mate JD Vance has said that you would veto if it did come to your desk.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I didn't discuss it with JD In all fairness. JD -- And I don't mind if he has a certain view but I think he was speaking for me but I really didn't. Look, we don't have to discuss it because she'd never be able to get it just like she couldn't get student loans. They couldn't get -- they didn't even come close to getting student loans. They didn't even come close to getting student loans. They taunted young people and a lot of other people that had loans. They can never get this approved. So it doesn't matter what she says about going to congress. Wonderful. Let's go to congress. Do it. But the fact is that for years they wanted to get it out of congress and out of the federal government and we did something that everybody said couldn't be done. And now you have a vote of the people on abortion.
LINSEY DAVIS: Vice President Harris, I want to give you your time to respond. But I do want to ask, would you support any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I absolutely support reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade. And as you rightly mentioned, nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. That is not happening. It's insulting to the women of America. And understand what has been happening under Donald Trump's abortion bans. Couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatments. What is happening in our country, working people, working women who are working one or two jobs, who can barely afford childcare as it is, have to travel to another state to get on a plane sitting next to strangers, to go and get the health care she needs. Barely can afford to do it. And what you are putting her through is unconscionable. And the people of America have not -- the majority of Americans believe in a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. And that is why in every state where this issue has been on the ballot, in red and blue states both, the people of America have voted for freedom.
LINSEY DAVIS: Vice president Harris --
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me, I have to respond. Another lie. It's another lie. I have been a leader on IVF which is fertilization. The IVF -- I have been a leader. In fact, when they got a very negative decision on IVF from the Alabama courts, I saw the people of Alabama and the legislature two days later voted it in. I've been a leader on it. They know that and everybody else knows it. I have been a leader on fertilization, IVF. And the other thing, they -- you should ask, will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Come on.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Would you do that? Why don't you ask her that question --
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Why don't you answer the question would you veto –
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That's the problem. Because under Roe v. Wade.
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Answer the question, would you veto--
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month -
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: That's not true.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And probably after birth. Just look at the governor, former governor of Virginia. The governor of Virginia said we put the baby aside and then we determine what we want to do with the baby.
LINSEY DAVIS: President Trump, thank you.
But what women grasp, apparently men don't -- neither do male-identifying women who'll do anything to get by in the male-dominated media.
DAVID MUIR: We're going to turn now to immigration and border security. We know it's an issue that's important to Republicans, Democrats, voters across the board in this country. Vice President Harris, you were tasked by President Biden with getting to the root causes of migration from Central America. We know that illegal border crossings reached a record high in the Biden administration. This past June, President Biden imposed tough new asylum restrictions. We know the numbers since then have dropped significantly. But my question to you tonight is why did the administration wait until six months before the election to act and would you have done anything differently from President Biden on this?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: So I'm the only person on this stage who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings. And let me say that the United States Congress, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, came up with a border security bill which I supported. And that bill would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now over time trying to do their job. It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States. I know there are so many families watching tonight who have been personally affected by the surge of fentanyl in our country. That bill would have put more resources to allow us to prosecute transnational criminal organizations for trafficking in guns, drugs and human beings. But you know what happened to that bill? Donald Trump got on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said kill the bill. And you know why? Because he preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. And understand, this comes at a time where the people of our country actually need a leader who engages in solutions, who actually addresses the problems at hand. But what we have in the former president is someone who would prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. And I'll tell you something, he's going to talk about immigration a lot tonight even when it's not the subject that is being raised. And I'm going to actually do something really unusual and I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies because it's a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your, your desires. And I'll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first. And I pledge to you that I will.
DAVID MUIR: Vice President Harris, thank you. President Trump, on that point I want to get your response.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I would like to respond.
DAVID MUIR: Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so? That would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: First let me respond as to the rallies. She said people start leaving. People don't go to her rallies. There's no reason to go. And the people that do go, she's busing them in and paying them to be there. And then showing them in a different light. So, she can't talk about that. People don't leave my rallies. We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. That's because people want to take their country back. Our country is being lost. We're a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago. And what, what's going on here, you're going to end up in World War 3, just to go into another subject. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don't want to talk -- not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame. As far as rallies are concerned, as far -- the reason they go is they like what I say. They want to bring our country back. They want to make America great again. It's a very simple phrase. Make America great again. She's destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success. Not only success. We'll end up being Venezuela on steroids.
DAVID MUIR: I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community --
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I've seen people on television
DAVID MUIR: Let me just say here this ...
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that's a good thing to say for a city manager.
DAVID MUIR: I'm not taking this from television. I'm taking it from the city manager.
With its landmark 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the high court dismantled the right to abortion based on the argument that it is not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” as Justice Samuel Alito wrote at the time.
If you extend that argument elsewhere, said Kagan, it’s possible to strike down what would otherwise be firm constitutional protections.
“Then you say the same thing for contraception,” she warned. “Then you can say the same thing for interracial marriage. Then you could say the same thing for gay marriage.”
If that’s not enough to convince you, take Trump’s running mate, whose views on foreign policy are more precisely articulated than Trump’s. Carlson has frequently touted JD Vance as anti-war — so much so that he reportedly argued to Trump that if he did not select Vance, U.S. intelligence agencies would have him assassinated so that whatever “neocon” he did select would ascend to the presidency.
When Trump eventually picked the Ohio senator, Carlson said those who oppose Vance do so only because he opposes “killing other people in pointless wars” and “they thought he would be harder to manipulate and slightly less enthusiastic about killing people.”
But Vance is not anti-war. Like many right-wing contrarians that have grown in popularity in the Trump era, he is steadfastly opposed to supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Yet that is an outlier in an otherwise militaristic foreign policy outlook.
Vance steadfastly supports arming Israel, and has proposed a more muscular approach to Iran. “We need to do something with Iran,” Vance said in July. “But not these weak little bombing runs. If you’re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard.” His views are hard to distinguish from those of Lindsey Graham, a man so comically enamored by the mere thought of bombing Iran that Carlson has often labeled him a childless, bloodthirsty neo-con.
Now, in 2024, we’re in the midst of another election cycle, facing a similarly bizarre and baseless claim: Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were allegedly kidnapping and eating local residents’ pets. Within hours, prominent politicians, including vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, were amplifying this baseless story, which even made its way into official Trump campaign messaging.
These two incidents, separated by two years but linked by their absurdity and rapid spread, are prime examples of the weaponization of misinformation. But how do these false stories take root and spread so quickly?
The Springfield case offers a disturbing glimpse into the anatomy of modern misinformation campaigns. It reveals a complex mix of social media dynamics, political opportunism, and cultural anxieties that can instantly transform a local rumor into a national talking point.
Perhaps most troubling is how these stories echo historical hate-based conspiracy theories. The baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets bears a striking resemblance to blood libel—the centuries-old antisemitic canard that accused Jews of kidnapping Christian children for ritualistic purposes. Both narratives prey on fear of the “other” and attribute grotesque behaviors to marginalized groups, stoking xenophobia and justifying discrimination.
And these incidents are not isolated. On August 30, former President Donald Trump made a similarly outlandish and baseless claim about transgender youth during a speech to the conservative group Moms for Liberty. Trump asserted, “Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
This claim, like the others, is entirely false. There is no evidence of U.S. schools sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without parental knowledge or performing such surgeries on-site. Medical experts (and anyone familiar with how transition-related health care works) have emphasized that any gender-affirming care, especially surgery, requires parental consent and extensive screening, and can often take years to get. Trump’s claim is obviously false, but it serves a political purpose to the people pushing it.
In the past week, two people reported that an agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrived at their homes and asked them about petitions they had signed months ago to add Amendment 4 to the November ballot.
One voter, Isaac Menasche, posted on his Facebook page Wednesday that a detective questioned him about his signature and showed him a folder containing 10 pages of his personal information.
“The experience left me shaken,” Menasche wrote, adding that he had signed the petition. “Troubling that so much resources were devoted to this.”
Menasche confirmed the content of the Facebook post to The Washington Post but declined to comment further.
The investigation comes as Democrats and election experts express concern that DeSantis is using the powers of the state to derail the referendum, which would nullify a six-week abortion ban the Republican governor signed into law last year. The state’s health-care agency recently launched a website that claims the amendment “threatens women’s safety.”
“They want people to stay home and to not vote,” Democratic state Rep. Fentrice Driskell said at a virtual news conference Monday. “They want people to read these articles and hear it on social media that the police showed up at somebody’s door and intimidated them and made them feel bad about signing an Amendment 4 petition.”
“We write to you with urgent concerns over recent actions undertaken at the direction of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to raid the homes of activists, volunteers, and political operatives in South Texas and the San Antonio area and Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s efforts to remove thousands of individuals from voter rolls with little transparency. We are concerned that these actions are intended to intimidate American citizens, in particular Latinos and members of minority communities, from exercising their right to vote through political persecution or deny them that right altogether. We request that the Department investigate these actions, including for violations of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, and take any necessary action to prevent further interference with the rights of voters in the state of Texas,” the members wrote.
“At the same time as these concerning actions by AG Paxton, Governor Abbott has pursued the removal of thousands of individuals from voter rolls in Texas, including over 6,500 purported “noncitizens.” There is little to no transparency in how Governor Abbott has assessed these individuals to be “potential noncitizens,” and we fear these decisions may be made on the basis of those individuals’ perceived race or ethnicity and may deny American citizens their right to vote,” the members concluded.
On Wednesday, members of the Texas delegation held a press call about the concerns raised in today’s letter. A full recording of the press conference can be found here.
The full text of today’s letter can be found here.
Border Report spoke with Lidia Martinez, 80, who said her San Antonio home was raided on Aug. 20 by nine agents from Paxton’s office who took her cellphone, appointment book and laptop.
“I’ve very angry and I’m scared,” Martinez told Border Report. “They questioned me for three hours. They came in and there were seven men and two women and they came in and searched all my house. Every single thing in there. And I asked them if I could change my clothes, and they told me ‘no,'” Martinez said.
LULAC has also asked the justice Department to investigate the incidents.
“It is disgraceful and outrageous that the state of Texas, and its highest-ranking law enforcement officer, is once again using the power of his office to instill fear in the hearts of community members who volunteer their time to promote civic engagement,” LULAC’s Texas State Director Gabriel Rosales said after the searches.
“I have been contacted by elderly residents who are confused and frightened, wondering why they have been singled out. Attorney General Paxton’s actions clearly aim to suppress the Latino vote through intimidation and any means necessary to tilt the electoral process in favor of his political allies,” Rosales said.
In Texas, a 23-year-old father of five was sentenced to six years in prison for severely beating his two-year-old son because he thought the toddler was gay.
Francisco Ricardo Sotello Baez was charged with family violence and assault after admitting to striking his young son in the face multiple times, causing him to bleed from the nose.
Judge Boyd expressed disappointment those interventions had failed to modify the defendant’s conduct.
A police report and his testimony at sentencing revealed Sotello Baez’s actions toward his son were not an isolated incident. The father had repeatedly disciplined the child in an attempt to “toughen him up,” claiming he was concerned about the boy acting in a feminine manner.
Sotello Baez said the child preferred playing with Barbies and kitchen sets over the robots, cars, and soccer balls he had brought home for the boy.
He told the judge he was disappointed his first son might be gay.
Judge Boyd was visibly exasperated with the explanation.
“Basically, you beat up a two-year-old because you think your two-year-old is gay, and you wanna toughen up a two-year-old,” the judge said. “He’s two!”
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