I found this on Daily Kos, thanks to a tab that’s been open for some time that shows me the hottest stories, and this one has some advice for Kamala Harris is debating Trump tomorrow night.
After Trump tells his first obvious whopper, which will probably be less than five minutes in, she could start her next response by simply looking at him for a few seconds then turn her eyes to the camera and say:
“Have you noticed that whenever Donald Trump is on trial, he makes a big deal about wanting to testify, but he never does? That’s because when you testify in court you have to tell the truth.
“It’s not illegal for Donald Trump to lie in his Truth Social posts, or in his fundraising emails, or at rallies, or in interviews or commercials. It’s not even illegal for him to lie to you in this debate. But it is illegal to lie in court, and he knows that, which is why he never testifies. That’s something to keep in mind as you listen this evening. If we had to swear in before this debate, my opponent wouldn’t be here.
“Now, to address the question you asked …“
This is great! My contacts* in the Harris campaign should surely pass it on to the boss!
This is your new Open Thread. All but one of you — see me after class, Eric — should feel welcome to talk about this or whatever else you’d like within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum.
*Who shall remain nameless, and possibly fictitious, I ain’t saying!
I have been anti Agran since at least 1989 when he chaired the Grateful Dead out of playing Irvine Meadows or Irvine again. Deadheads bad, Turkish nationalist genocide deniers a-ok!!!
He still knows more about policy, politics and governance than anyone else running for local office in Irvine.
Guess what Vern, your friend Shammy Shamster Two Name Tammy Kim doesn’t think you are a journalist. She said as much tonight during Irvine council meeting. You can’t be a journalist unless you have an ap press pass.
Aw shucks. Oh well, at least Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala tonight!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris.html
She signed her endorsement “Childless Cat Lady.” She felt compelled to do this sooner than planned, since Trump’s people had made A.I.’s of her endorsing Trump.
Yay for Taylor Swift!
Then Elon Musk promptly on his “free speech” platform being weird and gross at her. Ugh, that guy.
Andrew [Do] stripped from his OC Board committee assignments. NY Times covers controversy.
https://laist.com/news/politics/oc-supervisor-andrew-do-removed-from-his-committee-assignments
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/orange-county-leader-faces-scrutiny-over-charitys-pandemic-spending.html
Oh snap, […] 9/11 again!
What is the media? […] fascist!!!
https://archive-vide]o.granicus.com/irvine/irvine_51646f13-f56a-487c-aa0b-9976d5adf23f.mp4 (Queue to 3:42:00)
Independents don’t seem convinced.
Sure, if your favorite polls say so.
Maybe they still think Kamala is forcing gender change operations on pet-eating, voting, illegal aliens in prison.
Kamala […] Obama […] Kamala […] Trump […] males.
Open thread material:
Just in case you were starting to think Matt Cunningham doesn’t have a life, you are absolutely barking up the wrong tree, he TOTALLY has a life, and you can read all about it at the OCIndependent.
For example: https://ocindependent.com/2024/09/stanton-does-councilwoman-alyce-van-live-in-her-council-district/ He’s spent, so far, what sounds like many days, trying to determine if a certain Stanton Councilwoman running for re-election, one Alyce Van, is spending more time at her house inside her district, or at another house she owns just OUTSIDE that district. Read this thriller with amazement, it’ll keep you on the edge of your seat! I won’t spoil the ending; well okay, it ends with Matt concluding that Alyce’s “residence seems murky, at best.”
One VICTOR BARRIOS, who is running against this elusive Alyce, is sure getting his money’s worth out of Matt!(See comment below, Victor Barrios called me, seems like a nice guy, and denies having anything to do with Cunningham’s “detective work.”)But that’s not all! Matt has been trying HARD, with no success, to get bodycam footage from the Santa Ana Police for over a year, footage relating to TWO different 2023 incidents. https://ocindependent.com/2024/09/santa-ana-refusing-to-release-bodycam-footage-in-councilman-hernandez-sausd-trustee-alvarez-incidents/ Your first two thoughts, like mine, would be, “The police should follow the law and release bodycam footage even if it’s to Matt Cunningham,” AND, “Wait, doesn’t Matt work for the Police Union there, why is he having a hard time?”
Pero, not so fast. These two incidents were not the kind of things you or I would be looking for footage of, nor anything SAPD is required to produce – they are just incidents that are embarrassing to Matt’s political foes: a brawl that Councilman Johnathan Hernandez was involved in, and a DUI that liberal school board member Alfonso Alvarez got. So.. no footage for Matt. But he’s still trying.
[DEEP SAM ELLIOT VOICE FROM BIG LEBOWSKY] Heh. THE WORDSMITH ABIDES. I don’t know about you but I take solace in that.
Wordsmith’s curiosity about who lives where is so situational.
He stalked Tom Umberg but swallowed whole the Sidhu lie that he MEANT to live at the Calbria Apartments when he registered to vote there, but just never got around to moving in.
Has his wife been interviewed by the FBI yet?
So Victor Barrios, who’s running against Alyce Van, tells me he has no idea why Cunningham is doing such extensive detective work on his opponent. He gets along with her; he says she had no opponent when she ran in 2020, and thought she should have one. He sounds like a nice guy, and is unhappy with the services in Hollenbeck Park in their district. He does a lot of coaching – soccer etc. – and is wheelchair bound; recently they filled a lot of the park with rocks which isn’t too helpful to people in wheelchairs.
Alyce IS a Democrat; maybe that’s the only reason Wordsmith is stalking her.
Frances was ON FIRE at the last BoS; and we got it on YouTube now:
Santa Ana USD case re antisemitism gets covered by VOC.
“Jewish advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, allege district leaders violated the state’s open meeting law when putting the courses together to hide antisemitic material.”
https://voiceofoc.org/2024/09/santa-ana-school-district-sued-for-allegedly-creating-antisemitic-classes-in-secret/
Related to Jewish advocacy groups lawfare against SAUSD.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/adl-offshoot-hidden-influence-us-schools-project-shema/288283/
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/bridgewater-slash-raritan/sections/education/articles/school-district-pauses-plans-for-no-place-for-hate-program
Do gets censured.
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/24/oc-board-of-supervisors-censure-supervisor-andrew-do/amp/
Yeah, I’m considering a little parody piece, of all the things Chaffee and Wagner are gonna do now to show their shock and disapproval over their old ally.
Anaheim hired an Armenian-American attorney as their new ethics officer. When I saw new, I mean the position was recently created.
https://voiceofoc.org/2024/09/anaheim-publicly-introduces-ethics-officer/
Well, I’ve seen worse Armenian lawyers. At least one.
I’m interested in seeing what he thinks about the “follow the leader” scheme that generates council consensus (to back their patrons interest) without their having to read a damned thing or meet with any other council members at all. That will be a real test of whether he’s just a fig leaf.
If Do did what everyone is thinking, it is pretty parisitic.
https://voiceofoc.org/2021/08/local-political-leaders-condemn-racist-remarks-hurled-at-oc-supervisors-chairman/
Remember when the county used its appendages to defend Do. Now the future of Do and the OC Human Relations Commission appear doomed.
https://occr.ocgov.com/sites/occr/files/2023-06/Statement_S.Do%26Bolton8.12.21.pdf
Gerda drops another Do diss track.
https://laist.com/news/politics/rhiannon-do-home-purchase-supervisor-andrew-do-orange-county-civil-fraud-lawsuit
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/475175147
Two-name Tammy Kim changed her name back to Shin on her non profit’s 990 for 2023.
And her non profit had an exceptional year In 2023.
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Michelle Steel calls for federal investigation of alleged anti-semitism at SAUSD.
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/28/rep-michelle-steel-requests-a-federal-investigation-into-santa-ana-unified-after-its-sued-for-alleged-antisemitism/amp/
Awww… Kris Kristofferson dead at 88.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/09/29/kris-kristofferson-obituary-dead-at-88/859811001/
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
I’ve just started thinking, as the Vance-Walz debate approaches, and on the day after I premiered my “Hold Me Closer Tiny Vancer,” that if Trump wins and the Republicans keep Congress & Senate, it’ll be only a matter of time that they pull the 25th Amendment on the undeniably insane, senile & unpredictable Hannibal Lecter and install the dependable Vance to accomplish, competently, everything the oligarchy dreams of. What do you think?
Is Amendment 25 a secret part of Project 2025?
Maybe we need a new open thread. Maybe a pre-VP debate thread.
Wrote Hill—billy, El—egy,
Now look how big I am!
Once I was critical
But I’m Hy—pocritical
Now I kiss the Rotting Yam.
We’re Putin’s puppets –
Ukraine can suck it,
And we want an abortion ban!
Yes I’m with the grifter,
With America’s Hitler –
A Tiny Vancer in Trump’s hand!
Now it’s finally real,
Standing here for Peter Thiel, with Master Trump –
And I can hear him
As he brays softly,
Damply:
HOLD ME CLOSER TINY VANCER!
COUNT THE AGE MARKS ON MY NECK FOLDS!
HELP ME BEND THIS LAND TO MY– WILL,
AND ONE DAY THIS THRONE WILL BE YOUR THRONE!
Childless ladies, not enough babies
Childless ladies with their cats
The Liberals feed ‘em,
The Haitians eat ‘em
We say it’s true, and that is that.
Am I helping with all my yelping?
We’ll see on November 5.
But you know what we stand for,
all that we’ve planned for:
Look up Project 2025!
(refrain)
Jeff Katz (challenging Jessie Lopez in Santa Ana ward three) is hosting a watch party tomorrow, October 1, 2024 for Claudia Sheinbaum, the newly elected President of Mexico, whom I am told he is close with.
He is PLASTERED all over Santa Ana’s ward three, especially in Maybury park, where Jessie used to live.
Then of course you’re the troll who mails out dildos and porn pretending to be from us. Is Jeffrey close with you too?
Back in the trash folder, Troll.
Among other things, neophyte Angelina Hicks cretinously neglects to identify Luis Aleman as treasurer for DPOC and regional director of the CDP.
https://voiceofoc.org/2024/09/irvine-officials-backtrack-approving-new-lobbying-rules/