At this point, just two months before early voting starts, by almost any metric – fundraising, polling, the campaign manager being fired, etc. – Winsome Earle-Sears’ incompetent, historically bad Virginia gubernatorial campaign is in turmoil. See below for some reactions to that, including the former head of the VA Log Cabin Republicans (also a former Youngkin appointee) arguing that Earle-Sears is “the dumbest person to run for Governor of Virginia maybe ever,” and “everyone knew this and said nothing.” Ouch. Also, see below for a new ad out highlighting Earle-Sears’ record backing Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs. This all comes a day after a new poll finds Earle-Sears trailing Abigail Spanberger by 12 points.

So, obviously let’s take nothing for granted, and to the contrary let’s work to absolutely run up the score this November. But for now, you’ve got to rather be the “blue” team than the “red” team, that’s for sure.

DPVA Launches New Ad Highlighting Sears’ Record Backing Trump’s Attacks on Jobs

VIRGINIA – Following Virginia losing its “Top State for Business” ranking because of Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs, the Democratic Party of Virginia is launching a new digital ad highlighting Winsome Earle-Sears’ record cheering the actions that are hurting Virginians.

As Trump has threatened Virginians’ livelihoods, Sears was caught on tape saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.” Sears said she would help Trump “get the job done” and that she’s “supporting what the President is doing.”

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Transcript: 

Reporter: Well, Virginia is no longer the top state for business. 

Reporter: Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why. 

Reporter: UVA quarterly economic forecast predicts the Commonwealth will lose 32,000 jobs in 2025.

Narrator: And what is Sears saying about the Trump job cuts? 

Winsome Earle-Sears: How many here have ever lost a job? Oh, you mean it’s not unusual. The media is making it out to be this huge, huge thing, and I don’t understand why.

Sears: I’m supporting what the President is doing.

Narrator: Virginia is hurting, and Winsome Earle-Sears just isn’t listening.

Read more about Sears’ extreme record defending and downplaying the attacks on Virginia jobs:

CNBC announced that Virginia lost the “Top State for Business” ranking due to the attacks on Virginia jobs that Sears supports.  

Winsome Earle-Sears has defended Trump’s attacks on Virginia’s workforce and economy.

• She told the Associated Press that she backed Trump’s efforts and she doubled down.

• She also said Virginians facing layoffs will “be all right.”

• As Donald Trump attacked Virginia’s workforce and economy, Sears declared she would help Trump “get the job done” if she were governor.

• Sears has also said “I’m supporting what the President is doing.”

Winsome Earle-Sears has dismissed and laughed off attacks on Virginia jobs over and over again.

• Winsome Earle-Sears was caught on tape dismissing and laughing off the attacks on Virginia jobs saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.” 
  • When a reporter asked about her comments exposed by Meidas Touch, Sears doubled down and said her message to Virginians facing layoffs is “Don’t despair. Please go to the website.”

• Instead of standing up to attacks on Virginia jobs, Sears told Virginians facing layoffs “don’t fret.”

• Sears also said “just about everybody has lost a job … It is life happening.”

Owen Shroyer, the Infowars host who was pardoned by President Donald Trump after being sentenced to jail for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, expressed concern over Trump’s health in a video on Wednesday.

“By now, you’ve likely seen President Trump’s latest Truth Social post basically saying the Jeffrey Epstein story is a hoax and those that are still talking about it are, from yesterday’s comments, ‘bad people’ and now his ‘past supporters,’” said Shroyer in the video:

So this is like Hillary calling us “deplorables.” This is President Trump basically signaling to his base, his original supporters that have been with him since 2015, that he’s moving on. At least, that’s how I take it. So the people that have been fighting with him since 2015, the people that were in the streets for him, the people that were in prison for him, he’s moved on from us. So now we’re his past supporters, we’re hoaxers, we’re bad people.

Shroyer predicted that Trump’s approval rating would “hit an all-time low by the end of the week,” before expressing concern about the 79-year-old president’s health and age. “I think what’s gonna start happening is Trump’s age and health is gonna become a big story,” said Shroyer. “And I will just say this. He’s wearing more makeup than he normally does, including on his hands now. He’s wearing makeup on his hands for whatever reason. So things are just getting weird.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/man-pardoned-by-trump-concerned-about-president-hes-wearing-makeup-on-his-hands-so-things-are-just-getting-weird/

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will reportedly be in San Francisco on Thursday to announce plans to reopen Alcatraz.

President Donald Trump mentioned in May wanting to reopen the federal penitentiary “to house America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”

The former notorious prison, nicknamed “The Rock,” was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility. It has been a National Park Service site since the 70s.

The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet. It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies.

President Donald Trump’s budget is gutting Medicaid—and rural America is on the front lines of the damage. And big shocker: Most of Trump’s fervent supporters refuse to accept reality.

A health clinic in McCook, Nebraska, which has a population of 7,446, recently made national headlines after announcing that it’s shutting its doors, unable to survive the massive GOP Medicaid cuts.

“Anyone who’s saying that Medicaid cuts is why they’re closing is a liar,” a resident of nearby Curtis, which has a population of 806, told the Washington Post.

Another resident brushed it off as people just “trying to blame everything on Trump,” calling it “horse feathers.” Must be a Nebraska thing.

And the town’s mayor, who proudly displays an Obama punching bag labeled “Obama stress reliever” on his desk, insisted, “I don’t think the signing of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ had one thing to do with the closure of this clinic.”

Okay then.

For years, Trump and the Republican Party have sold rural white voters a story: that the real problem with government isn’t that it fails people like them—it’s that it helps the wrong people. Benefits aren’t going to “deserving” Americans like them but to immigrants, big cities, Black and brown people, and coastal elites. It’s a lie, but a potent one. And it still works.

Right-wing message boards are full of people claiming that the only health care being cut is for “illegals” or freeloaders. So when the cuts hit them instead—the “hard-working, God-fearing patriots”—they short circuit. The media must be lying. There has to be another explanation. It can’t be Trump.

Their political identity is built around the idea that Trump is their champion, even when it’s crystal clear that he’s the one twisting the knife into them.

 

Two things that amaze me:

(1) There are far more photos of Jeffrey Epstein hanging out with Donald Trump in obviously dubious social settings than there are trans women athletes in the entire world of American college sports. Somehow, it’s considered vaguely improper on the part of the liberal left to scream from the rooftops 24/7 that Donald Trump’s best friend for many years — not in any sense an exaggeration — ran a sex slave ring of underage girls, who were raped by men exactly like Donald Trump, who is currently the president of the United States.

(2) Jeffrey Epstein died in federal government custody under the most suspicious circumstances imaginable. If something like this had happened in a third world (LOL) country, everybody would simply take it for granted that he had been murdered, or at a minimum coerced into and allowed to commit an extraordinarily convenient suicide. But as soon as this incredibly predicable thing happened, it was like you were arguing that the government was controlled by lizard people if you were so tactless as to point this out.

The Democrats should be doing nothing but holding press conferences about this, with lurid photos and quotations etc. They should turn the fact that they’re talking about it non-stop in public into a meta-story: Why has the Epstein scandal become such a huge deal? Oh right, here’s why: Because the past and present president of the United States was an enthusiastic regular participant in a a sex slave ring of underage girls, along with dozens if not hundreds of other extremely powerful and influential men in America and across the world, and the pimp who ran this operation was murdered or “allowed” to commit suicide, in order to help the whole thing go away (again). Or at least it sure looks like that!

I mean under the circumstances, it really WOULD be irresponsible not to speculate.

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There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue:  Which is — the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites.

For a scandal that’s supposed to be shrouded in mystery, the details of the Epstein case are pretty well known.

• With the help of associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein procured young girls as high-class prostitutes for a fairly broad cross section of U.S. and global elites.
• We have Epstein’s black book, which includes nearly 2,000 names of associates and clients.
• We have the flight logs of his private jet and its passengers.
• We have searing documentary testimony from the girls who were pushed into servitude at his pleasure.
• We know that Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Larry Summers, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Disney CEO Mike Ovitz, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and many, many more had either meetings with Epstein, visits to Epstein’s private island, or have been subpoenaed for information about either or both.
• And we know that among Epstein’s associates was his neighbor Donald Trump. There are pictures and videos from parties, seven trips on Epstein’s private jet, numerous comments by Trump on how fun it was to hang out with Epstein and his coterie of young girls, connections between girls allegedly put into service by Epstein and their employment at Mar-a-Lago, and even direct testimony from Epstein himself. Audiotape released last year reveals Epstein saying that he was Donald’s “closest friend for 10 years.”

Even things we supposedly don’t know, like the source of Epstein’s wealth, are also pretty clear: He obtained power of attorney over the estate of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner in the late 1980s, from which he appropriated bunches of money for himself. He was paid hundreds of millions more by Apollo’s Leon Black.

In other words, a set of crimes perpetrated by a wealthy guy reached into the heights of the political and economic stratosphere, and went largely unpunished for decades. Yet another Trump connection, his original labor secretary in the first term, Alex Acosta, issued a secret non-prosecution agreement to Epstein in 2008 when he was a U.S. attorney, which allowed Epstein to enter guilty pleas for state charges and avoid federal charges or jail time.

Not nearly enough has been made of Trump rewarding — with a cabinet position — the prosecutor who gave a ridiculously lenient plea/immunity deal to Epstein and his cronies.

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NO, none of these are Photoshopped.

 

 

 

Trump Claims His Uncle Taught the Unabomber at MIT – But There’s One Small Problem

President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his uncle taught Ted Kaczynski at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before Kaczynski became the Unabomber. However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.

Trump attended the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh, where attendees praised his leadership. During his remarks, Trump took a detour to talk about artificial intelligence and his late uncle, John G. Trump, who designed generators and was a professor at MIT. The president has occasionally invoked his uncle to try to burnish his family’s intellectual bona fides, and did so again on Tuesday:

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I have to brag just for a second because when I first heard about AI, you know, it’s not my thing, although my uncle was at MIT. One of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, longest-serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math. That’s a smart man. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius.

But Kaczynski, I said, “What kind of a student was he, Uncle John, Dr. John Trump?” He said, “What kind of a student?” And he said, “Seriously good. He said he’d go around correcting everybody.”

But it didn’t work out too well for him. Didn’t work out too well. But it’s interesting in life.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-claims-his-uncle-taught-the-unabomber-at-mit-but-theres-one-small-problem/

 

If the names of Joe Biden and/or Barack Obama were in the Epstein files:

• CNN would be covering it 24/7 for a week,
• Tapper would already be writing a book,
• Jon Stewart and Bill Maher would be dedicating their shows to it,
• George Clooney and Rob Reiner would be writing NY Times op-eds condemning them,
• the broadcast networks would be running news specials about it.

But the rules are different for Democrats than for Republicans.