#Team Normal

[rosielindy]

Heading out into my very red community making a bold statement today hopefully I’ll encounter more like-minded people than not in my travels. Taking a mental health day from work, comp time for all the hours I worked in August and September. No rest for the weary or the wicked. These post it notes aren’t gonna put themselves up!

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Up on i76 in Pennsylvania. This is a traditional static/vinyl billboard (not digital) and will stay up through November. Chip in. https://maddogpac.com/products/quick-donate-1

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Are we really not going to talk about this?

August 29, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Apologies to all for the subject of this newsletter. It relates to Trump's posting a sexually crude attack on Kamala Harris. If you would rather not hear or read about it, please stop here and skip ahead to the article entitled “Trump-Vance campaign doubles down on cemetery desecration.”

On Wednesday, Donald Trump used his vanity social media platform to distribute a photo of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, which contained the caption: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently . . . .”

The link is here if you don’t believe that Trump posted this disgusting sexist attack on Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. I urge you NOT to click on this link. But if you must see for yourself, it is here: Truth Details | Truth Social

The post was part of a string of lunatic posts on Wednesday in which Trump promoted QAnon memes, suggested that Barack Obama should be tried before a military tribunal as a traitor, showed a half-dozen Democratic leaders in orange prison jumpsuits, and featured AI images of Trump riding a lion.

None of the above managed to pierce through the media’s criticism that Kamala Harris’s first interview after the convention will be with her running mate, which the media suggests is a sign of Kamala Harris’s weakness. Such joint interviews are traditional—including Trump/Vance, Trump/Pence, Obama/Biden, Biden/Harris, Romney Ryan, and Clinton/Kaine.

But when Kamala Harris follows that tradition, the media loses its collective mind—while ignoring Trump's use of a misogynistic trope asserting that the only way a female politician can get ahead is by performing sexual acts.

Where is the outrage? Where are the demands to apologize? Where are the editorials in stentorian tones proclaiming that Trump is unfit for the presidency?

We are witnessing the near universal moral collapse of the media. They have created the monster that is Donald Trump. They are allowing him to “slut shame” the first Black South Asian female presidential candidate with impunity. Until the press finds its backbone and moral compass, Trump will continue to slander women, minorities, veterans, LGBTQ people without consequence. That is the lesson Trump takes from our collective silence.

The first question in every press conference with Donald Trump henceforth must be “Will you apologize for and renounce your statement that Kamala Harris used sexual acts to succeed as a female politician?” If Trump refuses to answer that question, the media should walk out of the press conference. Cut off his oxygen—media exposure.

As a husband, father of three daughters, and grandfather of three granddaughters, I urge all women and the men who love them to stand against this outrage. We must not be silent or accept grotesque misogyny as the norm. We harm all women everywhere if we do so. We cannot be silent.

 [Update: Late Wednesday evening, the NYTimes ran a front-page, above the fold story on this topic: Trump Reposts Crude Sexual Remark About Harris on Truth Social. This article is accessible to all. It was written by Michael Gold. I have emailed Michael at michael.gold@nytimes.com thanking him for writing a factual article on this topic.]

Trump-Vance campaign doubles down on cemetery desecration and insulting women without children

A campaign led by normal people would apologize for the Trump's campaign altercation with a military worker at Arlington National Cemetery. Not the Trump-Vance campaign. Instead of apologizing for violating federal rules against using the national cemetery for political purposes, the Trump-Vance campaign released a Tik-Tok video of Trump's visit, claiming that the family of one of the deceased soldiers gave permission to photograph them at the cemetery.

The problem is that family members do not have the authority to waive federal regulations prohibiting photography. Why? Because as the Trump “thumbs-up” photo shows, it is impossible to take a photo that does not capture other grave markers or mourners (as Trump's photo did). Worse still, the family could not give permission to Trump to use Arlington as a site for political campaigning—which he did by converting the photo and video into a campaign ad. See CNN Politics, Arlington National Cemetery: Fresh controversy brews over Trump’s visit.

The increasingly creepy and angry JD Vance responded to the controversy by claiming that the media had exaggerated the significance of “the altercation”—his word, not mine. Worse, he criticized Kamala Harris for not investigating the Abbey Gate bombing on the last day of US troop withdrawal by saying that Kamala Harris could “go to hell.” See CNN Politics, JD Vance defends Trump after cemetery incident, says Harris ‘can go to hell’.

Ah, yes! JD Vance’s precious family values are on full display as he defends the indefensible by swearing at a person who dares to criticize Donald Trump. Of course, Vance is wrong in asserting that there was no investigation of the Abbey Gate bombing. There were multiple investigations by the Department of Defense. Kabul Airport Attack Review Reaffirms Initial Findings.

Perhaps JD Vance intended to be provocative and outlandish in his defense of Trump's desecration of Arlington because yet another “childless cat lady” video of JD Vance has surfaced. This time, Vance asserts that any woman without children is unfit to teach in school because they will “brainwash” the minds of their students. See The Guardian, JD Vance attacks childless teachers in newly resurfaced remarks.

A video of JD Vance’s remarks is here: An Evening with the Ohio Candidates for US Senate.

Vance said,

So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children, that really disorients me and disturbs me. Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.

As usual, Vance is wrong on the facts, politics, and morals. Randi Weingarten is a stepmother to her wife’s child. Factual errors aside, JD Vance believes that anyone without children is out to “brainwash” his kids. In most of America, people without children are known as teachers, coaches, principals, clergy, mayors, business leaders, politicians, and just plain “people.” JD Vance has a creepy worldview in which parents have a privileged status that entitles them to a greater voice in governance than people without children.

Meanwhile, Team Normal continues to act like normal people campaigning for the presidency and vice-presidency

After the disgusting and creepy display by the Trump-Vance campaign, the appearances by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Georgia felt like a breath of normalcy and decency. They started their bus tour through Georgia with a high-profile rally of 10,000 in Atlanta. See Slate, I Was at the Kamala Harris Rally in Atlanta. What You’re Seeing Is Very Real.

Kamala and Tim visited a school in Hinesville, Georgia, where they dropped in on a band practice. The video is here: Harris and Walz speak to students. The tour is part of an effort to decrease GOP margins in red counties of Georgia—essential to winning the race on a statewide level in November 2024.

Harris and Walz will conduct a similar tour in Michigan and Wisconsin over the Labor Day weekend. Trump, Harris heat up campaign trail in mad dash toward Election Day (usatoday.com). And President Joe Biden will appear with Kamala Harris this week!

As I said yesterday, they are acting like candidates who really want to win in November by taking their campaign directly to the people.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[5577v]

i am very normal about the italian creature (he's a lesbian to me)

[homkamiro]

I have finally build enough courage to post my stupid yumeship🥹throw rocks.

[800db-cloud]

reliable excavators

[mail-me-a-snail]

one of my favorite things about unmasked spy is that he has such a peculiar hair pattern with his little gray wings. like if he grew a white streak he could be the next administrator.

also engie is here 👍

[fansids]

Boom!Team Dark cause if Sonic can live around his friends, why can't Shadow?

Bonus:

[egophiliac]

(looks at upcoming card releases)

I'm in danger :)

[sofnaskinder]

When I replayed Blue Rescue Team, every time Gengar showed up I thought it was funny how you can see his full arms in his portrait instead of it just being a headshot... cause it made me think his arms were very short...

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*glancing back at my childhood in the rearview mirror* and what the FUCK was up with my mom always signing me up for Activities

[weird-alex125]

Love wins…

Oregano under:

[daily-gastrodon]

gastrodon and friends

[barkilphedros-hat]

In love with how the universal constant within the Hatchetfield saga is Paul just straight up not having a good time.

[luxwing]

Moodboard for when you finish reading issue 7 of the Team Fortress 2 comic

[homkamiro]

I didn't need your help