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Leonard Leo invests $1 billion in new project to ‘crush’ liberal America
First you buy the Supreme Court justices.
Pay site (Financial Times) with pay wall.
This isn't new info. Shadowy right wing billionaire Barre Seid gave Leo over $1 billion a couple years ago. And the MAGAs always talk about Soros while ignoring their own billionaires.
Trump Meltdown Watch. EmptyWheel.
Trump's crazy-evil is not the worst part; it's that so many people buy his koolaid. There are reports that his rally attendees are leaving early, bored and confused by his rambling. Why doesn't his dementia not make a bigger consequence?
Here's hoping lots of Trump suporters tune in to the debate. And, here's hoping that Harris can provoke him into a drooling, gibbering moron. That's something Biden couldn't or wouldn't do, perhaps because he's basically a decent, normie, and Trump's personality is fundamentally unknowable & unbelievable to a normie. (I've been in a disfunctional relationship. Even while you're getting gaslit again, you can't see it.)
Politicical Posturing of Professional Wrestling. David Kurtz at TPM.
I think she (Harris) will have to assertively demand that Trump step back and give her space. Is his cruising the stage even allowed under the rules? We need a moat, with miniature sharks, and tiny electric boats motoring around, between the candidates.
I predict that Trump will ,in fact,try to rattle Harris by invading her space – it's his go-to move with women. Probably., his base will like it.
Like Pro-wrestling chest thumping.
Maybe Hillary Clinton should sneak up on stage behind Trump and put bunny ears on him.
Or how about a posse of clowns or over-the-top drag queens doing a cheer leading routine. Ridicule is the best medicine against Trump
More interesting observations from Marcy at EmptyWheel.
Some numbers to give context to the importance of the ground game. In 2020, Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes, about 1%. Approximately 2,000,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania did not vote. Harris leads Trump by over 30% (58% v 27%) nationwide among voters 18 – 29. In 2020, Biden got 55% of the female vote in Pennsylvania (v. 44% for Trump). Pennsylvania (and Arizona, Nevada, Mich., Wisconsin, Georgia, and NC) will be won by the candidate that gets their voters to the polls (or mailing their ballot). For Harris, that means young people, many of whom have not previously registered, and women. Trump has a religiously committed base, but Harris has the potential to recruit new voters. If she does, she wins.
Pastor Paula White Cain (Founder, Trump National Faith Advisory Board) called for a "national fast" on a call last night to give Trump "the advantage" in tonight's debate.
White Prosperiry Geezuz works in mysterious ways….
Can they drink?
I’m imagining a hangry drunk mob of MAGATs xit-posting on Xitter.