Notices by Elledeeay (elledeeay@mastodon.world)

@mcv Editor's note: he's blocked now.

The US election's in a few weeks & I'm voting for Jill Stein.

Stein is an environmentalist & anti-war.

The other candidates are a NYC slumlord/sex offender & a neoliberal cop actively facilitating genocide.

Stein is capable, progressive, & the ethical choice. Vote Stein.

@FlashMobOfOne Late response but I saw that and yikes, even Mike Evans will only be out a couple of weeks.

@j He was there tonight. Up his trade value? 🤷🏻♀️

Good #TNF game. The #Rams got away with a face mask after the 2 minute warning. The #rams are dangerous team with a healthy Nacua and Kupp. The #Vikings need to learn not let teams hang around if they want to be elite. #NFL #nflfootball

Man! I go do a chore and the #ravens are kicking the #Buccaneers ass?! I expected more but then again, I shouldn’t have. #NFL #nflfootball #Football #MNF

Instead of watching the conclusion of the #KCvsSF game, I put it on the #snf pregame. They don’t annoy me as much. #NFL #nflfootball #football

Smart of the #commanders to rest Jayden Daniel’s for the rest of the game. You wouldn’t want to risk further injury to him. #NFL #nflfootball #CARvsWAS

I can’t believe I’m rooting for the #49ers to win and they still piss me off. SMDH. #nfl #nflfootball #kcvssf

🏈 #NFL @nfl@a.gup.pe @nfl@nfl.community

"COMMANDERS POURING IT ON!!"

WAS 27-0

@emarktaylor @nfl@a.gup.pe @nfl@nfl.community We had or will have Londoners watch Giants, Panthers, Jags, and Patriots. Is the NFL really trying to grow the game? Does Goodell have some grudge against Britain?

🏈 #NFL @nfl@a.gup.pe @nfl@nfl.community

Yuk!

"Trump is closing his argument with his base by reminding them how much they are like him, that 'we' all feel the same way he does about immigrants and Blacks and women and the disabled and everyone who is not just like they are, which is white and Christian followers of Donald Trump."

Underscore "white and Christian": over half of white Christians have voted for Trump twice and will do so again. White Christian adults….

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
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Trump was still trying this summer to personally persuade a few remaining billionaire holdouts to get back on board.

Two of his biggest targets were #Kenneth #Griffin, the C.E.O. of the hedge fund Citadel,

and #Paul #Singer, the founder of the activist investment group Elliott Management
—both former Haley backers who had yet to endorse him.

In recent years, Griffin has been among the Republican Party’s top benefactors;

as of August, he had donated nearly
💥 $75 million to G.O.P. candidates and super pacs.

But he had publicly disavowed Trump after his Presidency; according to a friend of Griffin’s,
he has privately called the former President a
“three-time loser”
and an “idiot.”

Earlier this year, he said that he would consider giving to Trump,
depending on whom he chose as his running mate;

according to the veteran fund-raiser, he was “not a fan” of Vance.

Singer had similarly given tens of millions to Republican causes this year without formally backing Trump.

In July, Trump met with Griffin and, separately, with Singer.

His lobbying effort was partially successful.

On August 15th, Singer sent $5 million to maga Inc.

Griffin, however, eventually announced that he would not be giving any money to the ex-President.

“I have not supported Donald Trump,” he said this fall.

“I’m so torn on this one.”

He added, “I know who I’m going to vote for,
but it’s not with a smile on my face.”

(Griffin told me that “Americans enjoyed greater economic opportunity,
and the world was a safer place,
under President Trump’s leadership,”
and that
“Senator Vance has matured quickly on the campaign trail.”)

Trump’s courting of billionaires has been an explicit part of the Democrats’ campaign against him.

At the Democratic National Convention, in August,
Harris said that the ex-President’s populist rhetoric did not match the reality of a man who
“fights for himself and his billionaire friends.”

But the talking points miss an uncomfortable fact for both parties:

during the Trump era, it’s the Democrats who have enjoyed a clear advantage with the nation’s wealthiest political donors.

According to OpenSecrets, big donors
—those who gave $100,000 or more to just one party
—contributed $5.2 billion to Democratic causes and candidates in the last election cycle,

and $3.3 billion to Republican ones.

Despite Trump’s cultivation of the crypto bros and Wall Street money,
his online chats with Musk and his Mar-a-Lago fund-raisers with Big Oil executives,

that trend is on track to continue this year.

A recent Bloomberg survey of billionaires showed Harris receiving support from twenty-one of the country’s richest people,
compared with fourteen who were backing Trump.

⭐️The difference, though, is that Trump had taken in millions more from these supporters.

🧨His campaign is far more dependent on its shrinking segment of the ultra-rich.

Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors

Donald Trump unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade about undocumented #immigrants and predicted that this “could be the #last #election we ever have”
if Kamala Harris wins during a private fundraising dinner this summer.

The Guardian obtained a 12-minute recording of a speech that the Republican presidential nominee gave at a dinner on 10 August in Aspen, Colorado,
👉 where attendees were required to donate anywhere from $25,000 to $500,000 a couple.

Trump devoted most of his address to #border security and #immigration, recycling xenophobic claims now familiar from his rallies.

“Radical leftwing lunatics” want people to come in from #prisons, mental institutionsand insane #asylums, he asserted without evidence, adding that the US was harbouring “a record number of #terrorists”.

The former president insisted that “smart, very streetwise” leaders of Venezuela and other South American countries were sending murderers and drug dealers to the US to reduce their own crime rates, relieve the burden on their prisons and save money.

Trump cited a false example of 22 people he claimed had come to the US after being released from prison in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -- “We said, ‘Where do you come from?’ They said, ‘Prison’.
-- ‘What did you do?’ ‘None of your fucking business what we did.’ You know why? Because they’re murderers.”

The candidate added, “I hate to use that foul language”, apparently recognising that his use of the F-word went further than his campaign rallies. -- The Congolese government has said there is no truth to Trump’s statements.

The candidate went on: “These are the toughest people. These people are coming in from Africa, from the Middle East. They’re coming in from all parts of Asia, the bad parts, the parts where they’re rough, and the only thing good is they make our criminals look extremely nice. They make our Hell’s Angels look like the nicest people on earth.”

Studies show that immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born Americans.

Trump flew to Aspen on a Gulfstream G-550 jet once owned by #Jeffrey #Epstein, the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, after his own private plane – a Boeing 757 known colloquially as Trump Force One – encountered engine trouble.

The dinner was held at the $38m home of the investors and art collectors ♦️John and Amy #Phelan.
Guests included the casino mogul Steve #Wynn, billionaire businessman Thomas #Peterffy, Texas governor Greg #Abbott, Florida congressman Byron #Donalds, Colorado congresswoman Lauren #Boebert and former Colorado senator Cory #Gardner.

Trump, who instigated an attempted coup on 6 January 2021 and has claimed that his Democratic rival Harris poses the true threat to democracy, used the exclusive event to warn of dire consequences if she becomes president.

“Look, we gotta win and if we don’t win this country’s going to hell,” he said.
“You know, there’s an expression, this could be the last election we ever have and it’s an expression that I really believe, and I believe that this could be the last election we ever have.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/trump-fundraiser-recording?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@j I hope so too!

God dammit the #yankees win! Oh well. 😡 it’s done. #MLB #baseball

@lawyersgunsnmoney @bmacDonald94 I'll never get over that and the journalist with CP.

Sidney Blumenthal predicts that "Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden will be the ultimate act of ego and the climax of his Hitlerian rhetoric" and that "at his night at the Garden, Trump will revive the memory of the infamous American Nazi mass rally held there on 20 February 1939 through his reflected Hitlerian rhetoric."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/donald-trump-madison-square-garden-rally

Exclusive: Pro-#Trump group funded by #Musk struggles w/outreach targets, inflation of doorknocking figures

The #PAC funded by #billionaire #ElonMusk to help re-elect Trump is struggling in some swing states to meet doorknocking goals & is investigating claims that some canvassers #lied about the number of voters they have contacted….

#Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-trump-group-funded-by-musk-struggles-with-outreach-targets-inflation-2024-10-18/