a house divided cannot stand, Melania

    Good grief.

Associated Press
CHRISTINE FERNANDO

October 3, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — Melania Trump revealed her support for abortion rights Thursday ahead of the release of her upcoming memoir, exposing a stark contrast with her husband, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on the crucial election issue.
In a video posted to her X account Thursday morning, the former first lady defended women’s “individual freedoms” to do what they want with their bodies — a position at odds with much of the Republican Party and her own husband, who has struggled to find a consistent message on abortion while wedged between anti-abortion supporters within his base and the majority of Americans who support abortion rights.
“Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard,” Melania Trump said in the video. “Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth: individual freedom. What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?” 

 

    Way to go, Melania. Where were you in 2016, when Donald promised the religious right that he would stack the US Supreme Court with their people, who would overturn Roe v. Wade? 

Sudiksha Kochi

USA TODAY

October 4

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump addressed former First Lady Melania Trump’s abortion comments in her upcoming memoir, saying in an interview that he encouraged his wife to write what she believes.

His remarks come after the Guardian reported that Melania Trump defended abortion rights and wrote that the government should not interfere in a woman’s right to choose in her book Melania, which will be released Oct. 8. 

Her views differ from those of Donald Trump, who has celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade and argued abortion legislation should be left up to the states. 

“We spoke about it. And I said, you have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell what you to do. You have to write what you believe,” Donald Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bill Melugin on Thursday. 

“She’s very beloved. People love our former first lady, I can tell you that. But I said you have to stick with your heart. I’ve said that to everybody, you have to go with your heart,” he added. 

    You convinced me, Donald, that you go with your dick, and you don’t love Melania or her pussy.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

 

Donald Trump and North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson caused Hurricane Helene

 

    When I read in various online news reports that Donald Trump said he was surprised that such a powerful hurricane as Helene could happen in September, I wondered how Trump could live in West Palm Beach, Florida and not know the hurricane season begins in June and ends in early November, and some of the most powerful hurricanes have come in September and October? 

    I wondered, because everyone living in Florida, but Donald Trump, knows what you just read above. 

    I wondered how any Republicans and MAGAs in Hurricane-ravaged Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina could want such a hurricane ignorant idiot in the White House? If he can’t anticipate hurricanes in September, how can he anticipate anything?

    Well?

    Hello?

    Anyone home?

    Try on what any half ass shaman or witch sees plain as day.

    Shortly before Helena hatched, North Carolina Lt. Governor Charlie Robinson, a big fan of Donald Trump, and vice-versa, was outed for having been a black Nazi, pro-slavery, glad Martin Luther King was killed, loving to watch transgender porno...

    Trump did not denounce Robinson.

    Helene laid much of Florida and North Carolina to waste.

    Res Ipsa Loquitur, the thing speaks for itself.

    Maybe I would have kept quiet about that if Majorie Taylor Green, Republicans and MAGAs had not gone viral claiming the President Biden and/or Democrats used secret technology to create Hurricane Helene.

    But then, maybe the angels that steer and correct me would have Helene’d me if I had kept quiet about it.

    The Truth often is much stranger than fiction, but it’s really hard for me to imagine anything stranger than Donald Trump, Mark Robinson and Marjorie Taylor Green.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

To get elected president in America, a candidate must back Israel

    I’ve been quiet lately, because I'm spending time with a woman I have known since 2010. It came about after I asked her if she was interested trying to resurrect the dead?

    I’ve also been quiet, because I didn't feel like I had anything to say about America that was new, and I’ve been writing a sequel to Kundalina, Alabama, and I've been helping my ladyfriend write her own book, which might be interesting to anyone who is not brain dead. 

    However, two days ago, someone posted at his Substack something about Donald Trump, which was different than what I see elsewhere online, and I joined into that discussion.

How the hell can Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris? Let me tell you.

And why I remain optimistic
ROBERT REICH

SEP 30

Sloan Bashinsky
I live in Alabama, which means my vote for Harris will be irrelevant, because Trump will win the popular vote here and get Alabama’s electoral votes. 
The MAGAs I know don’t care about Trump’s character. They are convinced the Democrats work for the Devil, who clearly is running Trump, but the MAGAs only see the Democrats, who, unfortunately, have made some really stupid moves, as have Biden and Harris. 
I voted very reluctantly for Biden in 2000, the first time I voted for a major party candidate, because he did not remind me of Adolph Hitler and his brownshirts, which Trump and MAGAs do remind me of.
I cannot vote for someone who continued to give Israel weapons and money it needed to level Gaza, and now other nearby lands. I do not vote for war criminals. I’m a lawyer, aiding and abetting applies.
So, I am disenfranchised by the Republicans and the Democrats. 
I have Republican friends who detest Trump, but they will not vote for Harris. 
In 2016, nobody but people who were not entirley blind thought Trump could win. But you nailed it when you said there are voters who will not say they will vote for Trump, because they don’t want anyone to know, and that’s how he won in 2016, and that may be why he wins in November, because Biden and Harris went way too far out on lots of skinny limbs, and because MAGAS believe whatever Trump tells them.  

Jill
While the whole world now (including the majority of the Israelis) is against the continued bombardment of Gaza perpetrated by Netanyahu, the U.S. has always committed to Israel as our only ally in the Middle East. Thus Biden walks a very thin line, in trying to stop Netanyahu and the bombing. I believe it has been emphasized that the weapons that we give to Israel is for protection not for advancing a war. But Netanyahu will continue to fight this "war" to keep himself out of jail on bribery and fraud charges. 

Sloan Bashinsky
Of what real value is Israel as an ally in the Middle East? What’s over there that America needs? America defends Israel because of the Bible, pure and simple. Bible America will not tolerate a president who does not defend Christianity’s Holy Land from Islam.
Not only did Biden continue to give Israel weapons and money, Israel has access to US Military weapons stockpiles in Israel, which were meant for the US Military’s use. Biden did not cut Israel off because he has no spine and because he knew if he cut Israel off, he had no chance of being reelected, and the same applies to Harris. Which is worse, Trump and his MAGAS, or war criminals in the White House? I am not giving HAMAS a free pass. They devised an attack that provoked Israel to do what it has done in Gaza, to turn the entire world against Israel and America, and Biden took the bait, hook, line and sinker, and now look at what Israel’s military is doing elsewhere nearby, and Biden and the US Congress made that possible with money and weapons aid. America may soon be in World War III, because Biden did not cut Israel off.   

Jill
The problem that you haven't addressed is that Trump adores Netanyahu, just as he adores what he calls other "strong" leaders, i.e,., dictators, such as his good pal Putin, who controls Trump utterly.  

Sloan Bashinsky
Based on all I’ve seen, Trump adores himself. Earlier this year, Trump announced he was Israel’s best friend. Trump knows, to be elected president, he has to back Israel. Putin plays Trump, for sure, and got him elected in 2016. But Trump views himself as God-anointed, after two unsuccessful assassin attempts, when what actually happened was a demon saved Trump twice. It will not hurt my feelings if Trump, Biden, Harris and Vance are abducted by aliens.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com