Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)

I love #Raskin with the heat of eleventy million white hot suns.

Jamie Raskin is already “working on” a bill responding to #Trump ballot ruling #SCOTUS

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/jamie-raskin-trump-ballot-ruling-supreme-court

#Egypt proposed a new outline for a hostage release deal on Sunday that would see #Hamas release 40 Israelis taken into the #Gaza Strip in exchange for a 14-day truce, #Israel and foreign media reported.

As per Cairo's proposal, the IDF would halt all military and intelligence operations in the Strip for two weeks in exchange for the release of 40 hostages.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-779388

"Hating the people who hate #Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters

How can Trump gain as GOP front-runner as 4 criminal probes crash down on him? Bc hatred of his accusers is the right's secret sauce.

I've been tracking the right for 15+ yrs, I know why prospect of 4 indictments is boosting #Trump

It's a movement that only cares about avenging the people they hate - the people who hate Trump"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©... and I thread it.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-indictment-waco-rally-gop-frontrunner-20230326.html#loaded

3/ "No one knows how a scenario like this ends. But it clearly cannot end well. Will America really see a 2024 campaign where 1 party’s leading candidate isn’t jetting around to rallies on Trump Force 1 but instead is flown between courtrooms in NY, Atlanta & DC by armed marshals, wearing an ankle bracelet? & what if GOP nominee is convicted? How serious to take Trump’s prediction in a post of “potential death & destruction” if he’s charged? What to expect from fans vowing “Trump or Death”?

2/ "With every headline about porn star payoffs, or threatening phone calls demanding that Georgia politicians find him votes, or a more aggressive federal investigation of his attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump seems to rise another point or two in the polls — building a huge early lead in the race to win the GOP’s 2024 White House nod."

7/ "In an unreality zone called MSNBC, producers have reinvented the Trump saga as a political version of the O.J. Simpson trial — sometimes giving the whole hour to breathless coverage of the legal dramas for a shrinking audience in McWhorter’s “blue America.” Those viewers remain certain that Bragg or Jack Smith or Fani Willis will finally take down Trump despite seeing that the Access Hollywood tape and two impeachments and everything else did not."

6/ "For people fearful that whites or churchgoers are becoming a minority in America, or angry that cosmopolitan elites were redefining society as a rigged meritocracy where people without diplomas could be viewed as losers, Trump’s hokey 2016 message that “I am your voice” resonated. But the perceived slights of the seven years since then...have inspired 2023′s much more dangerous message, that he is “your retribution.”

5/ "Why is this working? Don’t ask the pundits who get paid 6 figures to talk about politics, who seem just as clueless today about Trump & more importantly, his appeal than when he cruised down that Trump Tower escalator ...I’ve spent a lot of time since 2000s listening to people on the right ...& their message is pretty unambiguous. Their movement isn’t defined by what they want but by whom they hate, and Trump is the first politician who could articulate that rage with crude bluntness"

4/ His "occasional rambles into policy...are not what this campaign is about.

Trump’s only real promise is a red wedding of revenge, against a “deep state” that ranges from the FBI to COVID bureaucrats, against the army of prosecutors who happen to be Black, against anybody really — school teachers and college professors, or white-coated doctors, or journalists — that people willing to stand for eight hours in Texas dust think are looking down on them"

8/ "Here’s what’s real: American democracy has been in a doom loop ever since 2015. That’s because the establishment keeps reaching into the traditional toolbox for the things — hard-hitting investigative reporting, congressional hearings, special prosecutors and even impeachment — that always took down the bad guys of yesteryear, like Richard Nixon. The tools don’t work on a movement based around hatred of journalists and prosecutors and even the FBI."

CNN: “National Archives has informed #Trump that it is set to hand over to special counsel #JackSmith 16 records which show Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president…” #Documents #MarALago https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/politics/trump-letter-archives-special-counsel-declassification/index.html

NEW: Leading up to Election Day, citizens, leaders, journalists and politicians called out the dangers of a second Trump presidency.

"What has surprised me, depressed me and ultimately angered me are the voices that have gone silent," marc.e.elias writes. Now is the time for courage, not obedience, he argues. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-is-the-time-for-courage/

Hi Muskrat!

U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new #Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-regulator-opens-probe-into-tesla-cars-over-loss-steering-control-2023-08-01/

🤬#Missouri judge ruled ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect Mon…means next wk health care providers prohib from providing gender-affirming surgeries to children. Minors who began puberty blockers or hormones before Mon will be allowed to cont. meds, but other minors won’t have access to drugs.
Some adults also lose access to gender-affirming care. Medicaid no longer cover treatments for adults, state won’t provide surgeries to prisoners #LGBTQ https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-minors-missouri-196d873aa5a5b8b05b0af18f0e653a16

I'm not replying... you guys, I'm inundated. I still need to import stuff at the new digs.

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Whatever it takes to bring followers over to my new @GottaLaff@mstdn.social account, I've failed.

So, please spread the word to my usual friends to follow me there if somehow I messed up that part of the move.

I'm having a tough time getting it right. Sorry.📢

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Via my pal @PaulHRosenberg:

"We could call them "Executive Disorders," in honor of his psychological condition."

OH GOOD LORD, I'VE CREATED HAVOC!!

Yes, it's me on mstdn.social.

and here at Mastodon.social.

I'm moving to the former.

All is okay.

@kims I'm GottaLaff at mstdn.social and here.

@WarnerCrocker And go viral!