The Long March to 11/24

So Dionne is brighter than Eric?
Dionne Warwick says she didn’t agree to attend RFK Jr. fundraiser
Singer Dionne Warwick on Wednesday said she did not agree to attend a fundraiser later this month for 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite claims of such from a super PAC backing the White House hopeful.

“I don’t know anything about this event. I did not agree to it and I certainly won’t be there,” Warwick wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Warwick’s response was to a post from American Values 2024, a super PAC backing Kennedy, that claimed singer Andrea Bocelli will perform at a fundraiser later this month. The PAC also listed “well wisher guests” including Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson and Dionne Warwick. The super PAC’s post on X linked to an article from DailyMail UK published last week that included similar details.

According to an RSVP from Fighting 4 One America, another PAC backing Kennedy, the event is slated for Jan. 22 in California and appears to be both a fundraiser for the presidential candidate and a celebration of his 70th birthday. Tickets to the event range from $2,500 to $50,000.

Public details surrounding the event’s agenda were not released. The Hill reached out to the event’s organizers for further comment.

The fundraiser comes months after singer Eric Clapton and his band performed at an event for Kennedy and raised a total of $1.2 million for a PAC backing him.

Kennedy, who is running as an independent in this year’s presidential election, has struggled to make a sizable dent in the 2024 general election. Recent polling, however, showed about 1 in 5 registered voters said they are open to supporting the third-party candidate.

Kennedy, who formerly sought the Democratic nomination, supports several populist positions overlapping between former President Trump and some progressives of the Democratic party.

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So Dionne is brighter than Eric?
Dionne Warwick says she didn’t agree to attend RFK Jr. fundraiser
Singer Dionne Warwick on Wednesday said she did not agree to attend a fundraiser later this month for 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite claims of such from a super PAC backing the White House hopeful.

“I don’t know anything about this event. I did not agree to it and I certainly won’t be there,” Warwick wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Warwick’s response was to a post from American Values 2024, a super PAC backing Kennedy, that claimed singer Andrea Bocelli will perform at a fundraiser later this month. The PAC also listed “well wisher guests” including Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson and Dionne Warwick. The super PAC’s post on X linked to an article from DailyMail UK published last week that included similar details.

According to an RSVP from Fighting 4 One America, another PAC backing Kennedy, the event is slated for Jan. 22 in California and appears to be both a fundraiser for the presidential candidate and a celebration of his 70th birthday. Tickets to the event range from $2,500 to $50,000.

Public details surrounding the event’s agenda were not released. The Hill reached out to the event’s organizers for further comment.

The fundraiser comes months after singer Eric Clapton and his band performed at an event for Kennedy and raised a total of $1.2 million for a PAC backing him.

Kennedy, who is running as an independent in this year’s presidential election, has struggled to make a sizable dent in the 2024 general election. Recent polling, however, showed about 1 in 5 registered voters said they are open to supporting the third-party candidate.

Kennedy, who formerly sought the Democratic nomination, supports several populist positions overlapping between former President Trump and some progressives of the Democratic party.

Dionne Warwick says she didn’t agree to attend RFK Jr. fundraiser

Singer Dionne Warwick on Wednesday said she did not agree to attend a fundraiser later this month for 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite claims of such from a super PAC back…

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It pains me to say this, but Fuck Eric Clapton.

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It pains me to say this, but Fuck Eric Clapton.

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I now see "slow hand" in a diff. light also, maybe??? he doesn't understand who he is REALLY helping here,disappointing.

CCGNZ said:

I now see "slow hand" in a diff. light also, maybe??? he doesn't understand who he is REALLY helping here,disappointing.

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It's not just the political issues, either. It's also the professional and personal failures. It's deflating the myth and I'm through with him. Starting with standing up John Mayall for a gig. Though that did give Mick Taylor a beginning, so that's a good thing.

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It pains me to say this, but Fuck Eric Clapton.

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He's a musician and knows his business, but he doesn't know shit about vaccines or medicine. Just because you are rich and famous doesn't mean you are smart, educated, or don't believe fucked up things, look at Elon FFS. Don't get me wrong though, there are lots of smart educated people who believe bullshit too, scientists among them.

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It's not just the political issues, either. It's also the professional and personal failures. It's deflating the myth and I'm through with him. Starting with standing up John Mayall for a gig. Though that did give Mick Taylor a beginning, so that's a good thing.

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I know M Taylor is the middle Stone's guitarist in between B.Jones and R.Wood,sorry but lost on J.Mayall,maybe if Eric wants to get "political",their is plenty going on in England,Brexit/inflation,etc. to put his stamp on.

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It pains me to say this, but Fuck Eric Clapton.

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First Roger Waters …

Most Trump supporters in new poll not confident their votes will be accurately counted
Skepticism over vote counting appears to be spreading into the 2024 election, with most supporters of former President Trump in a new poll expressing doubt their votes will be accurately counted in this year’s election.

In a Suffolk University/USA Today poll published Thursday, 52 percent of voters said they lack confidence the ballots will be accurately tallied.

Nearly 4 in 5 Democrats expressed the opposite, with 81 percent of the party’s voters saying they are “very confident” the 2024 elections will be fair. About 14 percent of Republican voters said the same.

While the parties are divided over election attitudes, they share one sentiment — fear over the future of democracy in the U.S. The reasons behind this fear, however, are different.

The poll found about 83 percent of voters said they are worried about threats to democracy in the U.S. The greatest threats listed included former President Trump at 18 percent; government corruption and dysfunction at 10 percent; and immigration/open borders at 8 percent.

Pressed over which party is more responsible for threatening democracy, 40 percent of respondents said Democrats, while 40 percent said Republicans.

The survey was conducted from Dec. 26-29, just days ahead of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, in which scores of rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results.

The Jan. 6 attack came to symbolize the growing sentiment of election fraud, especially among some Republicans who felt the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump.

Trump has maintained he was the actual winner of the 2020 presidency, despite several election audits and more than 60 lawsuits that failed to prove the election was unfairly decided.

The former president now faces two criminal cases related to his alleged efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election, one of which is centered on his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

Despite these charges, along with those in two unrelated criminal cases, Trump remains the front-runner in the GOP primary, with less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses kick off primary election season.

The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling index shows the former president with a 52.8-point lead over his GOP rivals, with 64.1 percent of the primary vote. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley trails far behind, with 11.3 percent, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis close behind her at 11 percent. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie each have support in the single digits.

The Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

Something doesn't add up with the headline, 35% of republicans don't make up 25% of the voting public and democrats don't believe the bullshit.


A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds
More than 3 in 10 Republicans have adopted the falsehood that the FBI conspired to cause the Capitol riot

Let's talk about the shrinking GOP House majority....

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Something doesn't add up with the headline, 35% of republicans don't make up 25% of the voting public and democrats don't believe the bullshit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/04/fbi-conspiracy-jan-6-attack-misinformation/

A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds
More than 3 in 10 Republicans have adopted the falsehood that the FBI conspired to cause the Capitol riot

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Democrats have idiots too.

What this shows is how robust conspiracy memes (in the old sense: ideas that thrive and multiply in the collective mental ecology) are.

Social media has immensely sped up the rate at which rumors, conspiracy beliefs and crackpot reasoning multiply and mutate.

(That man’s one superpower was harnessing that vast capacity to his purpose.)

This suggests that mentation space has its own defining physical constants. In this case, perhaps — the speed of blight.

BLOCKBUSTER news shakes up 2024 election

Democracy Watch episode 68: Marc Elias discusses major rulings on new maps in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Trump Didn’t Sign Illinois’ Pledge Not to Advocate for Government Overthrow

Donald Trump declined to sign a Red Scare-era loyalty oath promising not to advocate for the overthrow of the U.S. government, a decades-old tradition included in the paperwork required to have his name included on the ballot in Illinois. The omission was first spotted Saturday by reporters for WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times—which noted that the decision was a first for Trump, who signed the oath in both 2016 and 2020. President Joe Biden’s team slammed Trump in a statement Saturday, writing: “For the entirety of our nation’s history, presidents have put their hand on the Bible and sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States – and Donald Trump can’t bring himself to sign a piece of paper saying he won’t attempt a coup to overthrow our government,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said.

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Trump Didn’t Sign Illinois’ Pledge Not to Advocate for Government Overthrow

Donald Trump declined to sign a Red Scare-era loyalty oath promising not to advocate for the overthrow of the U.S. government, a decades-old tradition included in the paperwork required to have his name included on the ballot in Illinois. The omission was first spotted Saturday by reporters for WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times—which noted that the decision was a first for Trump, who signed the oath in both 2016 and 2020. President Joe Biden’s team slammed Trump in a statement Saturday, writing: “For the entirety of our nation’s history, presidents have put their hand on the Bible and sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States – and Donald Trump can’t bring himself to sign a piece of paper saying he won’t attempt a coup to overthrow our government,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said.

Trump Didn’t Sign Illinois’ Pledge Not to Advocate for Government Overthrow

Cheney Orr/ReutersDonald Trump declined to sign a Red Scare-era loyalty oath promising not to advocate for the overthrow of the U.S. government, a decades-old tradition included in the paperwork required to have his name included on the ballot in Illinois. The omission was first spotted Saturday...

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It would interfere with his avenging angel fantasy.





to cleanse the palate:

A fair weather president. "I do not want to be president with a stock market crash. I already found out how lousy this job can be from covid."

Trump predicts stock market crash if he doesn’t win in 2024
Former President Trump on Wednesday predicted there would be a stock market crash if he does not win the presidential election in November.

Trump was asked at a Fox News town hall in Iowa about his previous comments in which he said he hoped any economic downturn would happen in the next 12 months because he did not want to be like former President Hoover, who took office during a stable economy but later oversaw the Great Depression.


“You’re not saying you’re hoping for a crash, just to be clear?” town hall moderator Bret Baier asked.

“No. I think this. I think the economy is horrible, except the stock market is going up, and I think the stock market is going up because I’m leading Biden in all of the polls,” Trump said.

“I think there will be a crash if I don’t win,” Trump added. “And I say that, and I do not want to be Herbert Hoover.”

Trump, who is the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024, sat for an interview with former Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs on a network launched by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell. In the interview, which aired Monday night, the former president described the economy as “fragile.”

“And when there’s a crash — I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months, because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump added. “The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”

Hoover had been in office for just a few months when the stock market crashed in 1929, triggering the Great Depression.

Biden aides and other Democrats seized on the comments, arguing they showed Trump had no regard for the average American worker and was only concerned about his political fortunes.

Just after Trump made the remarks at the town hall, the Biden campaign emailed supporters with a subject line that read: “Donald Trump Already is Herbert Hoover.”

The economy has been a strong point for Trump with voters, with polling showing most Americans trusting Trump over Biden on the issue.

But Biden aides have repeatedly argued the president’s economic plan is working, pointing to a steady decline in inflation, strong employment numbers and continued growth that has defied expectations. The stock market hit record highs in mid-December.

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A fair weather president. "I do not want to be president with a stock market crash. I already found out how lousy this job can be from covid."

Trump predicts stock market crash if he doesn’t win in 2024
Former President Trump on Wednesday predicted there would be a stock market crash if he does not win the presidential election in November.

Trump was asked at a Fox News town hall in Iowa about his previous comments in which he said he hoped any economic downturn would happen in the next 12 months because he did not want to be like former President Hoover, who took office during a stable economy but later oversaw the Great Depression.


“You’re not saying you’re hoping for a crash, just to be clear?” town hall moderator Bret Baier asked.

“No. I think this. I think the economy is horrible, except the stock market is going up, and I think the stock market is going up because I’m leading Biden in all of the polls,” Trump said.

“I think there will be a crash if I don’t win,” Trump added. “And I say that, and I do not want to be Herbert Hoover.”

Trump, who is the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024, sat for an interview with former Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs on a network launched by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell. In the interview, which aired Monday night, the former president described the economy as “fragile.”

“And when there’s a crash — I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months, because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump added. “The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”

Hoover had been in office for just a few months when the stock market crashed in 1929, triggering the Great Depression.

Biden aides and other Democrats seized on the comments, arguing they showed Trump had no regard for the average American worker and was only concerned about his political fortunes.

Just after Trump made the remarks at the town hall, the Biden campaign emailed supporters with a subject line that read: “Donald Trump Already is Herbert Hoover.”

The economy has been a strong point for Trump with voters, with polling showing most Americans trusting Trump over Biden on the issue.

But Biden aides have repeatedly argued the president’s economic plan is working, pointing to a steady decline in inflation, strong employment numbers and continued growth that has defied expectations. The stock market hit record highs in mid-December.

Trump predicts stock market crash if he doesn’t win in 2024

Former President Trump on Wednesday predicted there would be a stock market crash if he does not win the presidential election in November. Trump was asked at a Fox News town hall in Iowa about his…

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Considering how diligently he protected his previous enterprises from bankruptcy, ~shrug~ ok

Liberal Redneck - Donald Trump Argues He Should Be Immune to All Consequences

Maybe wisdom comes with age, after you've been around the block a few times you should be able to figure shit out!

Add the elderly to the GOP voter suppression target list, soon only if they wear a red hat or a white robe, will they be allowed to vote, all others, not so much!

I can see why Joe wants to run against Donald...