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It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Mitt Romney, who has been running for president since about five seconds after he was born, has been dreaming of this campaign for probably his entire life. He has spent the last decade filling his time with active campaigning of one sort or another, either in the form of actual baby kissing and speech giving, or by the strategic lack of those things, and so it’s forgivable for us to have assumed that he would actually be any good at it. Clearly, we were mistaken.

At first, during the primary, his apparent lack of punch on the campaign trail was due to the out-sized crazy-town behavior of his opponents. You may be a great ventriloquist, but if the other guy on stage just set himself on fire, it’s going to be hard to get the crowd’s attention. People were watching the Republican Primary Debates for the same reason many people watch car races: For the carnage. Romney just didn’t offer enough explosive potential to capture much of the imagination compared to genuine mental patient Michele Bachmann, or 1600’s Puritan reenactor Rick Santorum. And really, Herman Cain? That was unbelievable. And a Newt Gingrich comeback? Newt Gingrich campaign events are like conservative Iggy Pop concerts. This guy is capable of anything. He might just burn the whole place to the ground.

Once the ridiculous and unstable had left the national stage and it was time for the grown-ups to take over the conversation, I expected Romney to improve. Instead, I was treated to one bizarre gaffe after another, week after week, since before the Olympics. At one point, and I’m not even sure when it happened exactly, it became clear that somehow, despite years as a professional candidate for something, Romney just wasn’t that good at this.

 

Romney has tried to treat Obama like just another Herman Cain, and he is finding the President far more formidable. Romney’s other problem is that he hasn’t successfully answered the central question any candidate has to be able to answer: Why are you running for president?

 

How could he be this bad, without anyone noticing until it was too late? First, because of the prolonged and unusual primary season, the only thing Romney got really good at was destroying weak challengers. Barack Obama has the best team of campaign minds alive on the planet, some of whom are already hall-of-fame players of historically unlikely skill and talent. No one running anywhere, ever, has had a better campaign staff. After spending all his time beating down all the neighborhood kids at T-Ball, Romney had never managed to cultivate the skill of a Major Leaguer. Romney has tried to treat Obama like just another Herman Cain, and he is finding the President far more formidable. Romney’s other problem is that he hasn’t successfully answered the central question any candidate has to be able to answer: Why are you running for president?

Everything stems from that. It makes up the rationale around which your campaign will be built. Romney has supplied no hint of an answer to that question. He has demonstrated to the public no indication at all about what he would do, who he would be, or why he even wants to be here in the first place. Romney is almost pathologically short on details. About anything. Even stuff no one cares about. Back in August, he took one of those super contrived, “I’m a regular guy” photo ops where the candidate goes shopping. Here an excerpt of the pool report, via Wonkette:

Gov. Romney left Bradley’s Hardware at 8:54 a.m. with a beige bucket of goods. Asked what he bought, Romney told your pooler, “Hardware stuff.” Then, he said, “Going to the grocery store now,” and climbed into his Suburban.

He can’t even come up with specifics about something as trivial as his shopping list. It would be like if he went to Geno’s in Philadelphia on the obligatory “the candidate eats a cheese-steak” campaign stop, and then refused to tell anyone what he ordered. Hey Mitt: It doesn’t matter what’s in the Goddamned shopping bags. It matters that you don’t want to tell anyone. It makes you look sketchy.

You know when you go to a furniture store and they have the entertainment centers set up, and to make them seem more real they put these cardboard televisions and DVD players in them? That’s the Romney Candidacy so far. A Republican would go here.

This lack of specificity isn’t limited to the contents of his shopping list. Let’s not forget about this exchange with Matt Lauer, from back in January. Via the Chicago Tribune:

LAUER: Are there no fair questions about the distribution of wealth without it being seen as envy, though?

ROMNEY: You know I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like. But the president has made this part of his campaign rally.

What have we learned? That Romney only wants to talk about income inequality and tax policy behind closed doors. Until last week we had no way of knowing what Romney’s real thoughts on the matter were, as none of us are allowed into any of the “Quiet Rooms” he’s talking about. This is why the recently revealed 47% tape is so important. Aside from any of his actual comments, it represents the first time any of us has been allowed to hear what goes on in these exclusive enclaves that serve, by the Romney’s own admission, as the only appropriate place to discuss class and the tax system. So, now that we are somewhere less noisy and more appropriate, please Mitt, share with us your thoughts. From Mother Jones:

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. And he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

You may be asking yourself, “Why haven’t I heard any of this before now?” The answer is simple. You don’t have $50,000 to give to the Romney campaign. Only then can you afford to hear Mitt’s thoughts on the non-rich and what hopeless losers they are. He also found time to insult immigrants.

“[If] you have no skill or experience…you’re welcome to cross the border and stay here for the rest of your life.”

He also shares a few thoughts on the Israel/Palestine situation.

“I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there’s just no way. And so what you do is you say you move things along the best way you can. You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that it’s going to remain an unsolved problem.”

He just goes on and on like this. It’s really pretty amazing, and the whole thing is worth watching. If you’ve ever had a question about the Romney’s view on something and you are having a hard time getting a straight answer from him, look to the tape. He probably has a candid, though horrible, answer for you.

 

That the information is only available to those paying a high premium is alarming as well. I wonder how much it costs to find out what he bought at the hardware store? Everything starts to make more sense now. Romney isn’t short on details, he’s just not giving them away for free.

 

Is this how rich people talk about the poor when they think no one is listening? Apparently. I expected that Romney was no friend to the underclass, but the pure disgust and loathing with which he regards them is a little startling. That the information is only available to those paying a high premium is alarming as well. I wonder how much it costs to find out what he bought at the hardware store? Everything starts to make more sense now. Romney isn’t short on details, he’s just not giving them away for free.

One must wonder, and I’d really like an answer from the Romney Campaign about this, is this what all of his private fundraisers are like? He has them constantly. These are exclusive no-press-allowed campaign events for only the most affluent of Romney Supporters. Romney’s 47% speech comes from video recorded secretly at one of these fundraisers. It was, as far as I can tell, just a typical fundraising stop on the Romney Campaign Schedule. I’d wager this isn’t the first and only time he’s spoken like this to roomfuls of fellow wealthy people. If so, how many times has he made comments like this in the past?

Romney has been caught, red handed, talking behind the country’s back. At the very least, we now know that the Quiet-Rooms-Romney is a lot more callous and uncaring than than Happy-Public-Rally-Romney. Is this the real Romney Campaign, and all the baby kissing and public rallies are just for our benefit? Is he saying one thing in public, and another in private? It would appear so. Keep in mind, this video was shot back in May. It’s not like it came from decades ago. These are comments made in the context of this campaign, so the answers to these questions are of paramount importance. These are, as far as I can tell, the only clues we have to who the real Mitt Romney is. The American People deserve a clearer picture. Exactly how two-faced is this candidate? If the real Romney can only be seen beyond the 50,000 dollar barrier, does it even matter what he says the rest of the time?

Slowly, we begin to see a picture emerge. I immediately thought back to the now forgotten story of the time in High School when he and his gang chased down and harassed a gay classmate. When you start to put that together with the obvious contempt he has for those of lower economic classes than himself, not to mention all of the other tone deaf, hyper rich guy comments he’s made over time, (the $10,000 bet with Rick Perry, the “corporations are people” comment, all the dodgy tax stuff etc.) he starts to look more and more like just another spoiled trust fund baby with a too high opinion of himself, and a too low opinion of everyone else.

And don’t let the Romney Campaign fool you. What he said wasn’t “Inelegant.” I’ve heard loads of Mitt Romney speeches and interviews, and the comments in the video were almost uncharacteristically clear and unambiguous. This is a man that can talk for hours and never say anything, and in the space of about two minutes he outlined a pretty specific theory about the motivations of the American voter, and the lower classes generally. At last, after years of hearing him tell everyone what they wanted to hear, we get to learn of the man himself, and the nature of his values. For the longest time, the campaign has resisted showing us the real Romney, and now it appears that we know why.

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Chief Justice ‘Shaken’ by Public Reaction to Him Handing Trump Near-Total Immunity

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Last year, when Donald Trump’s attorneys declared he had “total immunity” from prosecution, many in the legal community scoffed. No president in all of American history had ever proclaimed they could not be convicted for serious violations of law—most infamously, President Richard Nixon had to have been keenly aware he might be criminally prosecuted.

Just eleven days after Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974, TIME reported, “Nixon’s new status as a private citizen puts him in grave peril.”

In fact, TIME continued, “the Watergate grand jury had vigorously wanted to indict Nixon while he was President.”

The American public is aware presidents can be prosecuted for certain crimes, and there is a foundational expectation of that possibility. In February of 2021, after the Democratic House impeached Donald Trump, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared the ex-president should face criminal prosecution rather than impeachment.

“Donald Trump’s legal troubles are far from over, despite his acquittal in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial that ended on Saturday,” Reuters reported on February 16, 2021. “Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted this just moments after voting to acquit Trump, saying the courts are the proper forum for holding the former president accountable for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.”

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We now know that after Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the U.S. Supreme Court to settle the claim of “presidential immunity” by Trump’s attorneys, it refused, waiting for a lower court to weigh in. Chief Justice John Roberts sent a “scathing critique of [that] lower-court decision and a startling preview of how the high court would later rule,” The New York Times reported last month.

“Behind the scenes, the chief justice molded three momentous Jan. 6 and election cases that helped determine the former president’s fate,” according to The Times’ reporting.

“’I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently’ from the appeals court, he wrote,” The Times reported, offering this interpretation for the Chief Justice’s message: “In other words: grant Mr. Trump greater protection from prosecution.”

During oral arguments at the Supreme Court, Trump’s attorney, John Sauer, had literally argued a president could order a coup and be protected by immunity because it was an “official act” of the presidency.

Sauer also argued a president could order the assassination of a political rival and still have immunity from prosecution.

Chief Justice Roberts responded to the “momentous trio of Jan. 6-related cases…by deploying his authority to steer rulings that benefited Mr. Trump, according to a New York Times examination that uncovered extensive new information about the court’s decision making.”

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In short, the Chief Justice used his powers to intervene and craft an opinion that some experts have said creates new law—certainly nothing that is found in the U.S. Constitution.

“There’s no legal authority for it,” remarked CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen back in December.

Nor, as the “originalist” far-right justices on the bench have adopted, does Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling lie in the “history and tradition” of the United States.

And yet, despite decades of history starting with Richard Nixon, and despite the scathing dissenting opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, CNN reports on Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts “was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision affording Trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.”

“The Roberts Court has been in sync with the GOP political agenda largely because of decisions the chief justice has authored: For Trump and other Republicans. Against voting rights and racial affirmative action. Against federal regulations over environmental, public health and consumer affairs,” CNN’s Chief Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic reported. “Roberts, joined by his five fellow conservatives, found that the former president was entitled to presumptive, if not absolute, immunity for actions related to his official acts. Roberts’ view of official acts, as opposed to private ones, was vast.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion on Trump’s immunity blasted Roberts and the far-right justices, famously declaring:

“Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency.  It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law. Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for ‘bold and unhesitating action’ by the President, the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.”

She also wrote:

“The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military dissenting coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.”

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‘They Are Partners’: Experts Warn on Trump and Putin After Bombshell Woodward Revelations

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Political experts and top journalists are delving into reports from Bob Woodward’s new book, and issuing warnings about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as Americans face a historic and pivotal election just four weeks from today.

CNN obtained a copy of Woodward’s latest, titled, “War.” In it, the Watergate journalist delivers stunning revelations.

Donald Trump, the ex-president and Republican Party’s presidential nominee, has continued his secret relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Christian nationalism-aligned autocrat and alleged war criminal. According to excerpts from Woodward’s book, Trump has spoken to Putin at least seven times since he left office in January of 2021.

Another bombshell: Trump sent Putin COVID tests at the height of the deadly pandemic while Americans were desperately seeking them. Putin warned the U.S. president to not tell anyone, “because people will get mad at you, not me.” More than 1.2 million Americans died from the deadly disease.

And still more: President Joe Biden knew months ahead of time that Putin would attack Ukraine, via a “treasure trove of intelligence,” including human intelligence from inside the Kremlin, and warned President Zelenskyy, who did not believe the Russian president would be so foolish. Later, as the illegal war was going badly, Biden administration officials warned Putin to not use nuclear weapons, which he had been considering. Reportedly, there was a 50-50 chance Putin would go nuclear.

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“’That fucking Putin,’ Biden said to advisers in the Oval Office not long after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Woodward,” CNN reports. Biden added: “Putin is evil. We are dealing with the epitome of evil.”

Critics are expressing anger and astonishment amid the latest revelations.

David Rothkopf, the noted foreign policy, national security, and political affairs analyst and commentator shared his observations via social media: “So, let me get this straight, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national secrets and while there, had Vladimir Putin on speed dial for regular private chats? After he tried to overthrow our government? And Putin is helping his campaign now? And there are people who would actually vote for this guy? It’s obvious he has no qualms about betraying the U.S. The question is why are those who support him willing to help him do so?”

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser added, “This day is a reminder that Trump kept a trove of secret classified foreign intel at Mar-a-Lago. Will there ever be a trial???”

Matt McDermott, a Democratic strategist remarked: “Americans were dying by the tens of thousands and supply shortages were paralyzing our country’s pandemic response, and all Donald Trump cared about was helping Vladimir Putin. This is unconscionable.”

Dr. Norman Ornstein, the well-known political scientist and AEI emeritus scholar noted: “So Trump sent Covid tests to Putin when there was a shortage here. Meaning it is very likely that some people died as a consequence of his sucking up to his dictator buddy. Then add that he talked to Putin multiple times after leaving office. What top secrets did he share?”

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell wrote: “Hard to believe this guy is still a coin flip away from a second term.”

Dan Barr, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arizona responded to Rampell, writing: “Trump’s fan boy fascination with Vladimir Putin will someday be fertile ground for psychobiographers, but for now it is disqualifying for him to be President of the United States. Ronald Reagan would certainly think so, as do all his former aides who now support @KamalaHarris.”

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Some noted that as Trump secretly sent Putin COVID tests, “in at least three instances” he “played politics and deliberately delayed disaster relief as president” because he did not want to send it to Democratic areas of the country, according to PEOPLE.

Ian Sams, senior national spokesperson and senior adviser to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, posted this to social media:

Alexander Vindman is the former Director for European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). His congressional testimony on the Trump-Ukraine alleged extortion scandal led to Trump’s first impeachment.

On Trump’s “7 meetings with Putin,” he warns: “It is reasonable there is a recording of these calls in an exquisite intel program. Trump would not be the target of the collection, but because Putin is a high-value target, Trump would be caught in the collection. The Russians definitely have a recording of every call.”

“Trump’s 7 calls with Putin also explain why Putin was emboldened to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and sustain more than 2 years of war. Putin has made a huge investment in Trump and expects that investment to payoff,” Vindman adds. “It’s clear now more than ever that @realDonaldTrump was the decisive factor in convincing Putin to wage a wider war on Ukraine. Trump has taken the world to the brink of Armageddon. A second Trump term would have America—& with it the entire world—go over the precipice. Trump was, is, & will be a clear & present danger to the United States.”

Investigative journalist Dave Troy, who has written extensively about Vladimir Putin, in April at The Washington Spectator warned: “Trump’s Peace Plan? Nuclear Blackmail.”

On Tuesday he weighed in on the Woodward bombshells.

“The best way to understand Trump’s ongoing fealty to Putin is that they intend, together with Musk, Vance, Gabbard, Ramaswamy, Thiel, RFK, Orban, Kim Jong Un, and friends, to reorder the world using nuclear blackmail,” he wrote at the start of a lengthy thread on X. Troy concludes, “when you read that Trump sent Putin COVID tests in 2020, and has spoken with him seven times since being out of office, know why: they are partners.”

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‘Dangerous’: Musk Laughing at Idea of ‘Puppet’ Kamala Harris Being Killed Sparks Fury

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The U.S. Secret Service reportedly intervened last month after tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose companies have received billions in taxpayer dollars through federal defense and intelligence contracts, subsidies, tax credits, and loans, posted a so-called “joke” on his social media platform X claiming no one is even attempting to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a nearly two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson that posted Monday, Musk and the far right-wing host wisecracked about both his original post and his thoughts that led to the now-removed tweet.

After laughing about what will happen to Musk if Donald Trump loses his presidential bid, Musk suggested he will be imprisoned and wondered if he will see his children.

“I’ve been trashing Kampala nonstop,” Musk told Carlson, appearing to pronounce the Vice President’s name incorrectly. “Well, the Kamala puppet, I call her, you know, the machine that the Kampala puppet represents.”

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“Yeah, she’s irrelevant,” Carlson declared, waving his hand in the air dismissively.

“I made a joke, which I realized I deleted, which is like, ‘nobody’s even bothering to try to kill Kamala, because it’s pointless’,” Musk said, laughing with Carlson. “What do you achieve? Nothing. Just buy another puppet.”

“Nobody’s trying to kill Joe Biden,” Musk added. “It would be pointless.”

“Some people interpreted it as I was, as though I was calling for people to assassinate her,” Musk explained. “But I was like, but I was like, doesn’t it seem strange that no one’s even bothered to try?” he asked, laughing.

“Nobody tries to assassinate a puppet,” Musk concluded.

The Daily Beast reports Musk is a “longtime financier of Republican causes,” and “joined Trump last Saturday for his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania—the site of July’s assassination attempt. After jumping around on stage—a move that he was widely mocked for on his own site—the X CEO dished out some fear-mongering about how, if Trump doesn’t win, ‘this will be the last election.'”

Back in February The Wall Street Journal described Musk’s SpaceX as “a major national-security contractor” that “is deepening its ties with U.S. intelligence and military agencies.” The company has “a $1.8 billion classified contract with the U.S. government.”

“The Pentagon has more recently done business with SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service, including agreements to pay for Ukrainian internet links during Ukraine’s war with Russia,” The Journal also reported, noting Starlink has a $70 million U.S. military contract.

A short excerpt (bel0w) from the Musk-Carlson interview dropped Monday night, garnering 5 million views in about 13 hours. It prompted many to express outrage, anger over the violent rhetoric, and concern over a military government contractor joking about presidential assassinations. Some said they believed the FBI or Secret Service should get involved.

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Brad Moss, a well-known national security attorney, commented: “If one of my clients made this ‘joke’ their clearance would be suspended before the interview ended.”

National security expert Olivia Troye served as Vice President Mike Pence’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, and has had roles at roles at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the intelligence community (at the National Counterterrorism Center,
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Energy), and at the Department of Defense (DOD) according to her official biography.

“Joking about assassinating our elected leaders is not just tasteless—it’s dangerous,” she warned. “In today’s divided climate, we need responsible voices, not reckless rhetoric that normalizes violence. It’s un-American for Elon Musk & Tucker Carlson to make light of such serious threats. Our leaders—and all Americans—deserve better.”

Christopher Burgess, a writer, speaker and commentator on national security issues who served for over 30 years at the CIA, commented: “Reaction: DISGUSTING

Racist – Misogynist – Cultist

All on display in one 10-15 second sound bite – there is no place for this – anywhere let alone the United States of America”

“Nothing to see here,” remarked gun violence prevention advocate Shannon Watts. “Just a man with classified federal contracts worth billions fantasizing about the assassination of the President and Vice President.”

“Deport this clown,” urged Esquire columnist Charles P. Pierce.

Journalist Jon Ralston, CEO/Editor of The Nevada Independent remarked: “These people are grotesque, the vanguard of Team Trump, simpering fools joking about assassinations. Musk, once thought a visionary, is a pathetic troll on a site he has destroyed.”

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