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Karen Scofield's avatar

Love This 💯👍💙🇺🇸

Mike's avatar

Book Jennifer Rubin now now now, please! before anybody else does. She has to be interviewed by you specifically Rick.

Rubin wrote a brilliant WAPO opinion 8/9/2024 - "Democrats in ‘array’: Harris-Walz ticket has momentum".

(Title ain't a typo, but a play on what you'd *otherwise expect*, for decades)

Rubin articulates a cohesive, coherent dynamic of a Democratic party trying to grow up - betraying its history & very nature of self-loathing, self-defeating, self-destructive intra-party civil War waging tendencies, to become an effective political party ... At least momentarily.

Ruben's piece has "name calling" and adjectives leveled at Democrats the likes of which you NEVER hear - intensity, authenticity, supercharged with joy & energy, rip roaring rally,

C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-C-E

... Whaaaa???

(I'm getting light in the head, with excessive enthusiasm - it's a laborious burden being a lifelong Democrat. LOSING to GENIUS PHD ECONOMIST from 1930s Hollywood, preaching Voodoo Trickle-Down IMAGINARY ECONOMICS. LOSING to The village idiot George W. Of "Mission Accomplished" Fighter-Jet Fame - BEFORE he even barely got started murdering 650,000 Iraqis, for an imaginary link to Al Queda that existed exclusively in Dick Cheney's tortured skull. And for the WMD that never were. Letting the vastly most experienced presidential candidate LOSE in 2016 to a Seditionist domestic terrorist, singing his sadistic sentiment for violence throughout 2016. But it's okay - we all knew then he was a Con-Man, Fraud, Rapist. Taped in his own voice about grabbing women by their genitals.)

Jennifer Rubin distills the essential elements of a competent campaign ... By DEMS???? Heady times these days, for a long-suffering Democrat!

Bob McKeown's avatar

Rick, Jen Rubin and Michael Steele are my three favorite ex-Republican, pro-democracy peeps.

I can take or leave the rest of the Never Trumpers on a case-by-case basis, but I've begun to call them the Never Trump Industrial Complex.

Peter Summers's avatar

Right on as usual! And kids are categorically off limits! Trump is looking more and more like a very tired old man. If he loses he has plenty of legal matters to keep him busy that are not going to disappear. Maybe he should start phasing in a new hair color that won’t clash with an orange jumpsuit.

Rusalka's avatar

Wait till you see Elon Musk on Monday give Trump on X all the time in the world to address the nation. No questions asked or no need to answer any. Not sure what the set up is like, but imagine filled with his adoring MAGA sheep to stroke his ego. Voted the 2 worst and evil people in a poll by Robert Reich’s Substack.

Bob McKeown's avatar

Elon will be on ketamine and Trump will be snorting Adderall, so it should be quite a party.

I wonder if they're gonna trash talk Joe Rogan (who's bigger than Elon in the podcast world, LOL) who just endorsed RFKjr. I love how Rogan trash talks vaccines, meanwhile he's a garbagehead with his own body ;)

I love how all the druggies are right wing now. Another callback to the Third Reich ;)

Bob McKeown's avatar

To JD Vance. Frank Zappa's majestic love ode to a couch, Sofa No. 2. Sung in English and German.

And it's harmonically _gorgeous._

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUzNjJdBnxs

Bob McKeown's avatar

I am the heaven

I am the water

Ich bin der Dreck unter deinen Walzen (I am the dirt beneath your rollers)

(Oh no, whip it on me, honey!)

Ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz (I am your secret smut)

Und verlorenes Metallgeld (And lost metal money)

(Metallgeld)

Ich bin deine Ritze (I am your cracks)

Ich bin deine Ritze und Schlitze (I am your cracks & crannies)

I am the clouds

I am embroidered

Ich bin der Autor aller Felgen (I am the author of all tucks)

Und Damast Paspeln (And damask piping)

Ich bin der Chrome Dinette (I am The Chrome Dinette)

Ich bin der Chrome Dinette (I am The Chrome Dinette)

Ich bin Eier aller Arten (I am eggs of all persuasions)

Ich bin alle Tage und Nachte (I am all days and nights)

Ich bin alle Tage und Nachte (I am all days and nights)

Ich bin hier (I am here)

Und du bist mein Sofa (And you are my sofa)

Ich bin hier (I am here)

Und du bist mein Sofa (And you are my sofa)

Ich bin hier (I am here)

Und du bist mein Sofa (And you are my sofa)

Yeah, my Sofa

Yeah-ha-hey

Gabrielle Smith's avatar

Thank you again Rick. You and Lawrence are priceless. I want the Media to do press avails with Trump, but I want them to do them the way they do them with the President and Karine Jean-Pierre. I want them to scream questions at him. I want them to be disrespectful, antagonistic, and rude to him. I want them to ask unapologetically stupid, intelligent, wrong, or right questions and follow-ups. I want them to constantly interrupt him as he tries to answer their question/follow up. If he gets rattled or confused or makes a misstatement, I want them to go for the juggler as they do with the President. And at the end of the avail, I want them to write the same kind of good/bad/worthless/valuable/biased/unbiased columns they write about the President or the WH Press Secretary. If they cover Trump like that then yes the Media is a valuable part of the equation and yes the VEEP should give them an interview. But until they are better than the craven bunch of suck ups that they were during the Trump “interview” (and whenever they deal with Trump at all) then she should be under NO obligation to do any type of avail as it would be a total waste of her and our time.

Laura Havranek's avatar

Thanks Rick. Yes that Mar-a-Lago press conference was another dumpster fire followed by the Montana rally fundraising trip. Harris and Walz are going coast to coast and garnering support. And let’s stop the pervert posts with the pictures of children. Can he be reported?

Kerry Truchero's avatar

Some pretty fabulous accordion hands!

DK Brooklyn's avatar

But why show the video of the lies? It amplifies them even if in the next moment you tell us those are lies. So now I have the story of the Congo releasing prisoners in my head. It doesn’t erase it when you tell me it’s a lie.

Nola Fingmatter's avatar

Oh my flaming GODDDDD! Thank you so much for bringing this up. A few of us, including me, have been yelling about this for the past 9 years with little to show for it but ruptured vocal cords and a permanent knot on the forehead. How in God's name is this possible???? Dolt 45 got about 500 billion hours of free press coverage in 2015-16, because, as you love to point out - he has a "feral cunning" that, among other things, he KNEW that he was "news" just by virtue of opening his mouth. The more outrageous his every statement, the more the press would cover it. The stupider, the better. And the press got suckered on literally an hourly basis. HOW could they not have the faintest clue that they were being played??? And on top of that, King Tiny Hands loved (and still loves) nothing better than demeaning, insulting, denigrating and bullying the press to no end. "Fake news," "You're a terrible person." "Enemy of the people." And the press NEVER fights back. (Thank you sir, may I have another?) How is this possible? And while they're fawning and groveling to the Orange Emperor With No Clothes, accepting his nonsensical blatherings like the word of God, the press either doesn't cover the news conferences of the Harris campaign at all, and has routinely beaten up on Joe Biden. Cardinal sins against the democratic process in my book.Do they remotely care that they are enabling the most dangerous man alive, to potentially win the highest office in the land (again)??? And again I ask - how the flaming f**K is this possible??? Thank you, Rick Wilson, for taking this time to yell and scream about this, and everybody out there - please share!

Christopher's avatar

How about prepare a list of legitimate questions for the apparently unseasoned press corps covering Trump. I want Trump to be directly asked about the 10 million dollars from Egypts President to his campaign. I want Trump to be directly asked about Bob Woodward story that Trump knew early on in January 202O that Covid was spread aerially and that it was much much worse than the flu and why he lied about this knowledge. I want Trump directly asked about his name be in the Epstein files multiple times. The press corps needs to do this directly on camera with Trump.

Kerry Truchero's avatar

New meme proposal for the Lincoln Project. “Donald. What’s wrong with you?” Cozying up to dictators, soliciting bribes from oil company CEOs, picking a couch fucker, praising Hannibal Lecter, making up weird names like Kamabla, etc., etc.

Bob McKeown's avatar

So I just tore Maggie Haberman a new one on a CNN thread. She said that campaigns have become Choose Your Own Adventure narratives and I'm still scraping pieces of skull off the ceiling. What bothsiderist garbage. There's objective truth and objective falsity and any reporter worth their salt has an obligation to not only be able to tell them apart but to set the record straight for their readers.

I called Mags tantamount to a Kremlin propagandist.

Rusty Rollings's avatar

They didn’t push back! Lawrence O’Donnell was on fire last night ripping the press.

Nan Mullins's avatar

Kudos, Rick!! You are one of my heroes ! The media networks are owned by wealthy people who stand to benefit from a Trump win, as you know . Sinclair owns a lot of local stations , and controls even local news: hence, Matt Gaetz gets glowing coverage in NW FL , again , as you know. This should not be allowed . There is no opportunity for rebuttal!!!