Notices by Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social), page 2

It's crucially important that posts like this are not written off as the ravings of a blatantly demented sociopath, "Trump being Trump." This is a highly calculated GOP strategy to lay the groundwork for sending the certification of the election to Trump's fellow traitors in Congress and SCOTUS. We must BURY the zombie corpse of the Republican party in huge margins of votes.

The state of the Republican brain in 2024. You can't make this shit up. [via @brainnotonyet.bsky.social]

@nytimes' Maggie Haberman picks up on the stench of death emanating from the Trump camp as he huddles with his billionaire donors, but this is a dangerously wild assertion left totally unchallenged in her piece. Almost impossible to imagine that with any other candidate and reporter. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.zXyN.L6VY3eVfq_bw&smid=url-share

During his cognitively impaired freakshow this morning, a clearly addled Trump claimed that Willie Brown threw shade on Kamala Harris as they were "going down" in a helicopter. Neither thing happened, says Brown. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/donald-trump-willie-brown-helicopter-19629432.php

Prominent sociopath, fraud, and bigot Elon Musk succeeds in shutting down the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, making the world less safe in the face of an onslaught of lies and disinformation from Musk's site X. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/technology/elon-musk-x-advertisers-boycott.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.rEt4.gqvdfhrYvbQ6&smid=url-share

While the criminal Trump has absurdly tried to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation's nightmarish blueprint for American fascism, Project 2025, here he is on the foundation president's private jet on the way to their conference. https://wapo.st/4dbdIcX

It's hard to put this into words, but I'd love young people to know how the excitement around the Harris/Walz campaign is not just some hype, it's a *glimpse of normality* - of how Americans can work for the common good, rather than the weird depressing national paralysis in the face of the GOP criminals, bigots, and sociopaths of the past decade. [photo by Jamie Kelter Davis]

THIS. @coketweet
Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wish they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News.

It's Walz! Let's goooooooo!
HARRIS/WALZ 2024!

The New Yorker's Clare Malone did a lot of solid reporting for her story on RFK Jr., and the bear story is only a minor element. But she did her readers a disservice by quoting an anonymous source describing RFK Jr's litany of dangerous lies about vaccines and autism as "persuasive and nimble," while calling his disinformation "errors," as if they were careless oversights. Not helpful. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign

A classic dish devised by Italian chefs in Mexico, the Caesar salad is a tribute to immigrant chefs everywhere. [gift link] https://wapo.st/4d4LdgO

Even in a week with JD Vance in the news, this RFK Jr. story is bizarre. Love how he tries to get ahead of @newyorkermag by demanding to know how they'll "spin" the story. THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPIN IT, DUDE, IT'S A F*CKING FREAKSHOW AS IT IS. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear-central-park.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.v_4C.6a8n_hnrMY7m&smid=url-share

10/10, no notes. [via @SpryOldLorax]

Trump giving a shoutout to Putin for the "great deal we made" for the prisoner swap is one of the darkest, most horrific moments in American history. The GOP must be defeated up and down the ballot, drowned in a tsunami of votes, so that real investigations of Trump's treason can begin. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-OXq88gr7N?xmt=AQGz675xiVafSe74SLWecU64V8LbZzzHTgQBzy77AJqdww

These creeps know exactly who Donald Trump is -- a terrible danger to this country. They just calculated that they could ride on his bully coattails, which makes them worse than he is. Trump belongs IN PRISON, not the White House. https://www.threads.net/@petebuttigiegwins/post/C-J1_GdtgfG?xmt=AQGzy9eGn6W4R_QV3AWj0Ilssa622_k7A7CVMKuE0ek-iA

To boost Trump, prominent racist, transphobe, and con-man Elon Musk has launched a PAC that harvests voter data through a deceptive "voter registration" app. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

Another sleazy GOP crook caught with his hand in the cookie jar - coal magnate W. Va. gov Jim Justice, now running for Senate - blames "the Democrat machine" for the bank foreclosing on his luxury hotel. https://www.rawstory.com/news/jim-justice-2668861577/

How Kamala Harris' candidacy finally broke the dark trance in the electorate that American fascism was inevitable. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/harris-trump-2024-kamala-vibes-trumpism-loses.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=facebook_share&fbclid=IwY2xjawEY6cpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHU1XCmMW7XuF681FdeRsZ4xnOAgqbgM--MUgZTZT08tjln5jFPcb83j6tQ_aem_sQXn1CfeIyTi9RIDJvnzpQ

In his latest faceplant, pompous buffoon JD Vance - a lead weight around the GOP's neck already - claims Putin freed Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan because "Donald Trump is coming back into office." GOOOOOOD TRY, LITTLE BUDDY. NOW LEAVE THAT DAVENPORT ALONE. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/chameleon-trump-vance-harris-ethnicity/index.html

I'm beginning to think that making truly stupid, deeply nasty people rich and famous was not the optimal plan for our society.