SHRINKAGE: Trump’s victory shrivels into a tiny embarrassment

— Donald Trump’s popular vote victory margin continues to decrease, now down to just 2.5 million votes (1.6%)

Vladimir Shklyarov, Ballet Star, Dead at 39 – by Lique

Read on Substack

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov is dead after falling from the fifth-floor balcony of a building.

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(I’ll say it; it is to wonder how someone capable of his work could simply fall out of a window. Some of the comments on Lique’s Substack go there, as well.)

Gaetz Drops AG Bid & Nancy Mace Wages Transphobic Attack on Sarah McBride | The Daily Show

Desi Lydic unpacks the latest Capitol Hill news: Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s pick for Attorney General, and Nancy Mace targets Congresswoman Sarah McBride with an anti-trans bathroom ban. 

What the host did not point out is that Nancy Mace is a total publicity hound.  She seeks the spotlight at all times.  She demands her staff book her on some media at least once a week.  She demands they video her like you see in the clips above so she can post them on X or other social media.  She is like Marge Greene in that being famous and a celebrity is more important to them than governing.  Being an influencer is more important than forming a more perfect union for everyone.   Making a spectacle and being in the center of what everyone is talking about is what gives them the greatest joy.   As you can see once defending trans people’s rights gave her clicks and views so she was all in for it.  Then her cult switched to fear and hate regardless of the real truth and the denial of science in favor of religion.  In a book written over thousands of years, edited and changed countless times, translated from language to language often by people with no idea how to speak the language they are translating, and then selectively edited by political leaders as to what should be in it and what should be removed … that book says god created them male and female.  So that was written by people who did not understand germs or to wash their hands to prevent sickness, who believed different colored sticks would cause different colored livestock, and had no concept of modern science makes a claim that modern humans in 2024 place more authority in than all the education and medical science of all history.   How is that rational?  Yet these people are elected to the highest offices to run a country that once was respected as striving for enlightenment and civil rights for all, is now being drive to regress to a theocracy where our highest information will be limited to what people in the Bronze Age understood.  We have seen this happen in other countries and we were aghast at it.  Look at Afghanistan?  Look at the Arab countries that turned their backs on science and instead used their holy writings as the way things must always be.  That thinking allows no growth and a supreme denial of reality.  Hugs

Transgender Americans share concerns about Trump’s threats to rollback rights

President-elect Trump made rolling back transgender rights a key issue in his campaign. He promised to limit access to gender-affirming care and to prevent trans athletes from participating in school sports. His election has communities of trans people and allies fearful of widespread discrimination and a loss of health care access. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Orion Rummler of The 19th.

My reading headlines and talking about the stories11 19 2024

This is a completely different video than the one I posted before.  I am sorry that I posted that one.  I hated the glitches in it.   So I trashed it.  I did it before I looked to see if It had comments.  If you left comments please put them on this one.  This one is longer and more in depth, but done with a higher resolution and done at 3 am this morning so I sound better and more coherent.  There are no glitches of either video or audio that I could see / hear.  I hope you will enjoy it.  Today I am going to dump both computers starting at 12:30 pm.  I have the laptop running if I need it.  Hugs.  Scottie

I read a bunch of headlines I have in open tabs and I talk about the stories they pertain to briefly. Nothing in depth, just generalized information in the public sphere of information. If there is a topic you wish me to cover in more detail please mention it in the comments. Hugs

Jon Stewart Urges Dems to Fight Like Republicans and Exploit Loopholes | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart covers the latest post-election news from Trump and Biden world, then unpacks Republicans’ strategy of aggressively exploiting loopholes, in contrast to the Democrats’ style of following rules and norms

Trump Acts Cordial With Biden While Gaetz, Gabbard, and Hegseth Score Nominations | The Daily Show

It is OK and great to stop the video at the 8:30 mark.  After that it gets seriously stupid.  But before that it has a lot to say that is true and said in a semi comedic way.  Hugs

Service Member Flagged Hegseth As “Insider Threat”

 

The Associated Press reports:

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon’s subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. He’s said he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest.

This week, however, a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit’s leadership flagging a different tattoo reading “Deus Vult” that’s been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an “Insider Threat.”

Read the full article. Last month Hegseth sat for an interview with anti-LGBTQ Christian nationalist Kirk Cameron.

Thank you to everyone who commented on my videos

A big thank you to everyone who commented on my YouTube videos.   Unfortunately I just figured out how to see them so I answered them all from months back.  Please keep making them and letting me know what you think of the quality and subject matter.   Hugs 

Jon Stewart On What Went Wrong For Democrats | The Daily Show