Okay, suppositions time: I don’t know but I strongly suspect that it was Barron Trump who strongly suggested Tony Hinchcliffe to his Dad.

My reasoning is as follows: Donald REALLY likes his toxic son. His toxic son really likes these guys:

“Ross is just one of several MAGA-aligned podcasters (Barron) Trump has appeared with in recent months, along with MAGA-friendly podcaster… Theo Von, and Trump-supporting social media influencer Logan Paul.”

Just a theory.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/barron-trump-donald-right-wing-podcasters-rcna166819

Trump says Democrats are "the enemy from within, the other side goes crazy, becomes a salvo -- 'Oh, how can he say'... No, they've done very bad things to this country. They are indeed the enemy from within. But this is who we're fighting. These are the people who are doing such harm to our country with their open border policie’”, record-setting inflation, green new scam, and everything else that they're doing."

He doesn’t consider us Americans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-singles-dems-again-enemy-024827943.html

Trump: “Once I take office, the migrant invasion of our country ends and the restoration of our country begins”

Me thinking: “Except for Elon Musk. I like him. And what’s his name. He makes me laugh. But the rest go. Oh, my golf caddies, they get to stay. Oh, and the people at Maria Largesse can stay. But everyone else… oh and the woman who does my hair. And the guy who makes my hamberfulers. Oh and I guess my wife and her son… no, they are turning on me… screw em they all go. And the lawyers.”

I don’t buy this is the reason that Bezos shit down the endorsement. It’s a conspiracy theory with ZERO facts.

“Executives from Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin, including CEO Dave Limp, spoke with Donald Trump on Friday…”

The idea is SOMEHOW Trump would award Blue Origin (quid pro quo?) some government largesse. Trump has never shown he gives two shits.

If Bezos thinks Trump cares, he’s dumber than Musk.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-election-elon-musk-nasa-2024-10

Finally, people are doing the right thing!

“I know it’s scary” for doctors to push back against restrictions, says Goodrick – and she understands that hospitals and their legal teams are even more risk averse. But she’s steadfast: “I think it’s up to the medical field to say [to the state], ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

#abortion

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/arizona-abortion-clinic

GOP Rep. María Elvira Salazar: “Disgusted by @TonyHinchcliffe’s racist comment calling Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage. This rhetoric does not reflect GOP values.”

Huh. This is the same person who said Argentina was great because it had “only one culture, only one religion and only one race, completely homogenous.”

Sounds EXACTLY on brand to me.

The country has a perception it is “a country of white European descendants.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/28/bad-bunny-trump-harris-puerto-rico/75883153007/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/florida-republican-salazar-praises-argentina-one-race-rcna126218

One last thing:

In the 1980’s under Reagan, American senior citizens got a shock: Social Security was taxed. At the same time, Reagan passed sweeping tax reform that gave the rich and corporations a HUGE tax cut.

Since then we went from a creditor country to a debtor country.

This isn’t a coincidence, this is what happened.

Call be a tax and spend Democrat, at least Democrats pay their bills.

Republicans use China as a credit card. That’s why our debt is so high.

“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) lamenting that Democrats are ‘more offended at a comedian making a bad joke about Puerto Rico’ than with Walz's record on immigration policy as Minnesota governor.”

Immigration policy is set by the US Government—aka Congress. Ms Luna needs to lose her job as she clearly doesn’t understand what it entails. Does she sit all day watching YouTube videos?

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-rally-puerto-rico-new-york-republicans

The importance of role models:

“You know that the statistics are: If a Black child has a Black teacher, by the end of third grade they’re like 13 percent more likely, more likely to go to college,” Harris said. “If they have had two Black teachers by third grade, something like 30 percent more likely.”

And if they have a black President, they realize anything is possible.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/27/harris-launches-full-court-press-for-black-and-latino-voters-in-philadelphia-00185758

“ Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday streamed themselves playing an American football video game against each other on Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party’s efforts to secure votes from young men just nine days before the White House election.”

That would have been fun!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/tim-walz-football-video-game-twitch

“ Democrats can win control of the House by picking up just four seats. As a vice chair of the House Democratic political operation’s “red to blue” project, Kelly told me Saturday she was also in Omaha because “I’m helping to flip the seat.” Among other things, Kelly spoke at a rally along with Vargas and Maya Harris, Kamala Harris' sister.”

Please vote! Your vote REALLY DOES COUNT! It’s the only way to win back Congress.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/10/27/presidential-election-illinois-officials-swing-states-harris-pritzker-johnson-buckner-kelly-mendoza

Charlemagne da God: “legitimate threats, not . . . somebody talking crazy on social media. That’s just me having a conversation with her about the state of our society. So imagine what she actually gets.”

Death threats just for talking to Harris. This is insane.

Harris wants everyone to have a job, a future and a happy life. She gets death threats.

This is insane.

We live in a country which has lost its mind.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/charlamagne-tha-god-has-some-advice-for-harris-and-the-democrats

“The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic's foray in developing an "AI agent," a broad term that describes productivity-focused AI models that are designed to perform tasks autonomously.”

Okay, so why is this amusing?

“Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park.”

PRODUCTIVITY FOCUSED MY ASS!

They want people to pay money for this so they can fire people… to look at photos.

AI is a waste of energy.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/claude-ai-bored-demonstration

“You don’t need to be told what to think. You just need the facts, and you’re here because you have the facts, right? You’re here because you recognize when legacy media edits answers and gives you what they want you to hear instead of the truth, and when they start editing their candidates answers, they’ve lost their moral compass.“

Phil “Dr Phil” McGraw made an extravagant living by telling people what to think.

A con man, pushing a con man.

#politics

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/after-dei-remark-trump-supporter-dr-phil-gets-put-in-his-place-with-a-stinging-one-liner.html

“Not only did he want to purchase Greenland, he actually said he wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico,” Mr Taylor told MSNBC on Wednesday. “Could we swap Puerto Rico for Greenland because, in his words, Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.”

You have to go back a little, but Trump NEVER LIKED Puerto Ricans.

This is who he is. You cannot pretend he is something he is not.

He hates a good number of Americans.

This is reality.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trade-puerto-rico-greenland-dirty-poor-a9679346.html

“Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, said in a statement that Hinchcliffe’s ‘joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.’”

Yeah?

Trump: “(Puerto Rican workers) want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”

Sounds like he thinks Puerto Ricans are lazy.

https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/trump-sent-18-tweets-on-puerto-rico-on-saturday-and-made-things-a-whole-lot-worse/

How do you disavow your candidates rally?

“We don’t know who that was…”

Politico: “The rally, held just more than a week before Election Day, was intended to serve as a platform for Trump to make his closing argument. But the racist slurs and vulgarity of the former president’s opening acts were so striking — and sparked such backlash — that his campaign was left on the defensive and issued a disavowal.“

R’s say it isn’t the GOP… it is now.

#RacistBeingRacist

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/27/trumps-madison-square-garden-racist-00185770

My reminder to partner to get making for pigs in a blanket (veggie hotdogs in crescent rolls)

Okay, it’s no secret I write macOS code. They put Apple Intelligence into the latest Xcode build and I’m properly impressed. It handles nor only boilerplate (meh) but also novel code 🤯…

I was pleasantly surprised.

#TechLife

This is what it looks like and the ugly just gets uglier.