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Making Kamerica Great Again!

Proud Boys, Donald J. Trump, J.D. Vance
Political sexual assault of Kamala Harris

By Tess Lawrence

Two-timing man-baby, the wannabe two time president Donald J. Trump and new bestie wannabe Veep, J.D. Vance are clearly shit-scared of Vice President Kamala Harris.

That much is clear.

To put it in language these red necks understand, she’s got them by the balls. Without laying a manicured finger on either of them.

In the relatively few weeks since President Joe Biden reluctantly passed the star spangled baton to Harris, the Dems presidential candidate is on her way to making herstory as the first black woman to do so and she is surely about to make history of Donald Trump himself when she is elected President. Yes, I’m calling it on this day.

Sweet Justice awaits for all those women assaulted, abused and publicly vilified by Trump the vector who thinks himself the epitome of masculinity and power.

Trump is Walking White Trash: No More Making America Grate Again

His abuse of them, is an abuse upon all women and ultimately, upon us all. For that is the invasive chancre of abuse.

Praise be the bemused Fates; no more making America grate again. May he remain a one hit blunder. A one-trick phoney. He’s walking white trash. Harris will make Kamerica great again.

Return of The MAGA not inevitable

Because of Kamala Harris, the return of the MAGA is no longer inevitable.

Like Trump, his campaign slogan is passe and long past its expiry date. The world has moved on but Trump is still tethered to his messianic delusions, still spouting the same old same old empty rhetoric as befits a gonnabe wannabe has been.

Remember how just a few weeks ago he said he would stop the war (take your pick) if he won the election – even before he was inaugurated? Sure, babe.

Trump, Vance and Political Gang Bang of Harris

The proud bully boys Trump and Vance – and their campaign platform – seem intent on continuing their vapid political gang banging Harris in ugly and ominous ways that should post red flags about the black white ops promulgated by a core of fundamental Republicans who form the vertebrae of Trump’s home guard patriots and evangelical camp followers.

Their continuing facile bilge and personal attacks on Harris reflect a clearly deep rooted fear and loathing that goes beyond even misogyny to incorporate wholesale gender and racial insult and white male supremacy. This despite both men being wed to women with ‘foreign’ blood in their veins.

Former First Lady, American Melania Trump was born in Slovenia. Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance was born in California to American parents originally from India.

Seems you can bed them but don’t vote for them.

Being there as First or Second Lady is fine – but Madame President? No way Jose. That is really gender border jumping. Next, we’ll have Hispanics trying to run the joint.

Hatred by Proud Bully Boys Trump and Vance for Harris is Palpable

The hatred that these proud bully boys feel for Harris is palpable. Watching their body language and demeanor when they speak about her betrays a visceral response that is disturbing.

So is the apparent competition between them to insult Harris the most? If so, then Trump wins hands down. He always has his grubby hand reaching for pussy.

Trump, Vance, Creeps Who Can’t Fathom Harris

They really are a couple of creeps who are out of their depth with Harris. Trump can’t fathom her. And he can’t understand the political fever about Harris that is intoxicating the electorate and firing the imagination of those who had despaired of a reset in American politics and politicking.

The grotesquerie of these two needy and privileged power mongers ganging up against Kamala Harris is like watching them engage in the political assault of a rival.

Vance is Trump’s Political Toy Boy

The campaign rhetoric from Trump has descended into a continuum of sexual invective. It’s Trump’s scratchy playbook when he’s confronted by a female who is not an acolyte. He doubles down when it’s a woman of colour.

Trump and Vance are disgusting in their sexism. Vance is content to be Trump’s political toy boy.

His vulgar trash talk of Harris cannot be dismissed as ‘locker room‘ banter, as offensive as that is, although you will recall how Melania Trump seemed to not only condone her husband’s infamous pussy grabbing quote but also did some spin doctoring remedial work on the Access Hollywood tapes to contain the fallout and manipulate the media narrative.

In 2019, when Harris was campaigning, Trump was actually complimentary about her.

By 2020, Trump, who has a history of demeaning women on an industrial scale, changed his tone deaf tune. He turned even uglier than usual. As do his continuing lies.

Writing for National Public Radio, in October 2020, Juana Summers wrote this scathing article about Trump and his vile insults against Harris and women in general.

From the get-go Trump has been unnerved by Harris, as the Summers article points out.

Trump has never got over losing the Presidency with the Biden/Harris ticket.

The demeanour of Trump’s Republican campaign is now repetitive and boring.

Like Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in Australia, Trump bangs a single beat on an already broken drum. They douse their flags in the incendiaries of hate and racist rhetoric of the ‘other’ seemingly oblivious to their own historical familial roles as the ‘other’ and colonisers to boot.

Big Trump and Little Trump Throw Red Meat to Throng

Narcissist The Donald picked J.D.because he reminded him of himself. Mistake number one.

Big Trump and Little Trump are good at blooding the crowd, throwing red meat to the throng as if it was the Fourth of July or January 6th.

That doesn’t mean what they say is of any consequence or has any veracity. Far from it.

Truth Not Legal Tender for Donald Trump

The truth is not legal tender as far as Donald Trump is concerned.

Ever since the Kamala Komet soared through the cosmos of the star spangled banner mere zeptoseconds in light years and campaign time, the Kamala Harris phenomenon has thrown asunder any notion by Donald Trump and the tethered Republican Party that The White House and the United States were simply theirs for the taking.

They have a fight on their soiled hands that they didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t anticipate. Silly proud bully boys. They fight dirty but they fight stupid.

So how are these two alpha white males coping when pitted against alpha black female Kamala Harris? Not very well. Not very well at all. And the Grand Old Party ain’t doing so well either.

About five weeks ago, Trump took to the stage to answer questions from the National Association of Black Journalists Conference in Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention was held and where Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination to stand for the Presidency of the United States before a rapturous audience.

Trump is used to his ego being oiled by partisan applause and invariably, sycophantic hosts; otherwise he rarely fronts.

But when he loped out from stage left, it was already clear to him, from the few who put their hands together to welcome him, that he was not preaching to the converted.

Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News (US) was the lead interviewer and was in no mind to pander to the former President. She got straight to the point querying Trump about just a few of his racist rantings.

Trump Loses It Big Time at NABJ Convention

He lost it. Big time. He turned ugly and he turned on Scott, as you will see from the revealing and compelling YouTube video we’ve posted. Watch his hands and body language as he fails time and again to justify his behaviour and dangerous, divisive asinine comments and conduct.

Bear in mind that Trump has referred to black women journalists as ‘stupid,’ ‘loser’ and ‘nasty’. He showed his true colours at the NABJ Conference.

He lashed out at Kamala Harris as well,implying she had earlier identified as Indian and only latterly identified as black for political reasons. It was a lie of course. And the Harris membership of the Congressional Black Caucus is only one of the reasons it is.

For someone who has culturally appropriated the colour orange, he’s got a damn cheek.

And, oh yeah, he called Vice President Kama Harris a “fucking bitch.”

Trump shows his true colours at the NABJ Conference:

 

Ever since the sermon on the Butler mount when Trump mercifully dodged a bullet, depriving him of martyrdom and thereby an excuse for losing the election, Trump has tried to peddle the preposterous notion that he was saved from assassination by an interventionist God in order to save America; ergo to save the world (vomit bag please).

He wrongly assumed he would be delivered unto the White House via the ballot box and not a bullet on a wave of national sympathy, carried aloft by the better white angels of supremacy.

Trump God’s man. Watch out Baby Jesus, Baby Man is coming for you

All he had to do was keep reminding his followers, hunters and conspiratorial gatherers that he was God’s man. Watch out baby Jesus, Baby Man is coming for you.

He wouldn’t have to campaign, or have a political platform. Wouldn’t even have to walk on water. He would just have to be.

Trump Got What He Wished For, But All Went Awry

Biden Stood Down. Harris Stood Up

Alas things have gone awry. Clichés are truisms for a reason. The Donald should have been more careful about what he wished for.

Biden stood down. But then, Harris stood up. Turns out she is twice the (wo)man Biden is, and twice that again when it comes to Trump, as far as the people are concerned.

Kamala Harris caught the world by surprise. But not prolific truth-to-power Texas based journalist James Moore.

In his Texas to the World Substack episode headlined The Tortilla Curtain republished here in The AIM Network, he shamed many of us by posting her many accomplishments in relation to ‘the border problem’ and exposes the lies and misrepresentations of Harris by Trump and other Republicans in relation to her assigned role with the notoriously porous borders.

But Moore’s article also reveals the extent to which the Biden Administration suppressed the achievements of Kamala Harris.

Here’s just some of what we (me) didn’t know:

“… Our involvement in the Contra War in Nicaragua and the Civil War in El Salvador included American aid for interests that consistently violated human rights. The results of these interventions have been long-term political and economic instability that created an environment for drug cartels to exercise violence and outsized influence.

Those are the issues President Biden charged Vice President Kamala Harris with addressing. He did not put her in charge of border security; her task was to begin finding methods to reduce the social and economic crises plaguing Central America and causing migration. No matter how many times Greg Abbott and Trump lie about her being a failed “border czar,” Harris’ responsibility was to mitigate the root causes of migration, which, unsurprisingly, she accomplished. Initiatives established by the Biden Administration and instituted by Harris have included numerous investments in jobs for the region by American corporations.

  1. Gap committed to increasing its material sourcing from Central America, aiming for $150 million and is expected to create 5,000 additional jobs in the region​.
  2. Visa plans to invest $270 million over the next five years to integrate more people and small- to medium-sized businesses into the global financial system​
  3. AgroAmerica, a family-owned food corporation is investing $100 million across several projects, including a food ingredients refinery, a banana plantation, and an avocado plantation and processing plant, which will create 1,000 permanent jobs​ with living wages.
  4. Nespresso (Nestlé) is supporting over 7,500 coffee producers with regenerative agriculture practices and training​​.
  5. Target has committed to increasing its spending by $300 million in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by 2033.
  6. Columbia Sportswear plans to create over 6,900 jobs in the region by purchasing up to $200 million in products​​.
  7. Millicom is investing an additional $350 million by 2025 to expand and maintain its mobile and broadband networks​ in the region.

Those are plain and stubborn facts, not the political untruths… ”

Make Kamerica Great Again!

Kamala Harris is set to reset the political demeanour of the United States.

Make Kamerica great again! She is making the improbable possible.

Her enthusiasm and excitement is infectious. Little wonder she’s described as a ‘Happy Warrior.’

She is clearly up for the fight. And is taking that fight up to Trump and his sidekick.

She’s fearless. She’s unfazed by her opponents.

Despite Trump’s constant clit baiting and feeble attempts at click baiting, she has remained resolute and focused.

First Black Woman in the White House

Harris is destined not only to be the first female President of the United States but the first black female President of the United States. Thanks to no small measure to Donald Trump.

Cometh the Hour Cometh the Woman

Virtually within minutes of entering the presidential race, money literally started to pour into her campaign coffers, unsolicited. It’s quite fascinating.

She clearly takes great delight in the opportunity she’s been bequeathed. The joy and the scent of victory are both palpable.

It would be unfair to simply reduce her burgeoning popularity to the fact that she’s not Trump. Harris represents a new promise, in many ways an old fashioned promise with a progressive political dialect.

Kamela Harris Femocracy Saves Democracy

Democracy needs saving, we know that. We know that in Australia as well.

Men like Trump and Peter Dutton are dour and bleak harbingers. They are irritants, messengers of doomsday rhetoric.

They are men of yesterday.

Harris brings the promise of a new tomorrow. I’ve argued that in many ways the President of the United States is the President of the World. You know wot I mean.

Childless Catwoman Set To Take Out Trump

Little Trump, J.D. Vance has doubled down on his “childless cat ladies” cruel insult and jibe. Fathom it here.

Such insult is almost a badge of honour. Surely Little Trump Vance will get his comeuppance when Harris is sworn in as President.

If Harris wins both the popular and College vote, it’s likely that Trump will cry foul again. Somehow, I don’t think many will tolerate such nonsense a second time.

Madame President Kamala Harris?

Yes, She Can, Yes, She Will!

You go, girrl! Hands up those who can’t wait to watch Kamala Harris take on Donald Trump in the next Great Debate next week on September 10?

Now it’s Trump’s turn to be the old geezer in the room. She’s not going to take his shit if he tries any pussy baiting, verbal or otherwise. In fact this lady don’t take no shit from anyone, not from Netanyahu and certainly not from the former President.

Within minutes of President Joe Biden’s withdrawing from the Presidential race and announcing Kamala ‘lotus flower’ Devi Harris as his heir apparent, there was a seismic shift in the earth’s political axis. Not sayin’ it righted itself, but it sure tilted back in a certain direction.

Obama Gave Biden His Day In An Unjealous Sun

Unlike Biden for Harris

When Biden was Vice President to the self confident cool dude President Barack Obama, he was permitted his days in an unjealous sun, building on his already impressive public and political profile, enjoying kudos for ambassadorial and diplomatic jobs well done for a nation well represented by him on the international stage.

When Biden in turn became President, his sidekick Kamala Harris was not afforded that same degree of media exposure, profile or public acknowledgment of achievements by Biden’s Administration, especially in so far as press conferences and authoritative latitude and policy were concerned.

Consequently Americans – and the world – were not as familiar with the Vice-President as they should be on this day.

There was no succession planning; Harris was an outlier from the outset. That didn’t stop her from making her own way, forging a reputation for problem solving and standing her ground, establishing and nurturing international contacts that will stand her in good stead should she be elected president.

Biden, his minders and strategists were so obsessed with ploughing already barren ground where the Commander-in-Chief is concerned.

Keeping up appearances and propping up the President literally as well as figuratively was a prime concern and as we know, getting through the day without some kind of blunder by Biden, made it a good day.

His impressive deeds fell into the shadows. And those prepared to sing his praises dwindled.

If Biden wore odd socks, no one would believe it was just a fun thing to do. Indeed, it is said that Jill Biden literally supervises and dresses her husband. Vintage First Ladies did such things.

For a while there, the madding crowd aided and abetted by many, conspiracy uglies and Trump MAGA pretorians, started to demonise Dr Biden, holding her responsible for Biden’s intransigence on standing aside. Cherchez la femme? Rather cherchez the Democrat Party.

The Church of Former and Latter Day Trump, the saviour now anointed by a Republican God who spared his life so that he might again lead America into the Trumpian wilderness. All along that hair was as a halo around St Donald of Butler.

Remember, Harris still remains a heartbeat from the Presidency. If Biden was to drop dead tomorrow, or prove to be incapacitated, Kamala Harris would become the President of the United States.

That means the Donald would be up against an incumbent President Kamala Harris.

I can hear the childless cat ladies of the world purring. Me among them, as a childless dog lady.

© Tess Lawrence

Tess Lawrence is Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia and her most recent article is The night Porter and allegation of rape.

 

 

 

 

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Murdoch’s monster Trump all trussed up and in for a wild ride

A hog-tied Joe Biden is depicted in a life-size decal on the tailgate of a pickup truck in an image Donald Trump posts on Truth Social, Good Friday. Cue howls of outrage. Clearly, The Donald wants to make himself centre of attention again, via a “dead cat on the tailgate” decoy, in case we dwell on Biden’s rise in the polls. Or his success in fund raising.

Biden-gate is bad. But if anyone is all trussed up and in for a wild ride, it’s Trump. He is indicted on eighty-eight charges which include two federal counts for attempting to overturn a federal election and the alleged mishandling of presidential documents.

If full penalties were applied, (it’s unlikely), Trump could face seven hundred years in prison and eleven million in fines. This week, he must explain to a Manhattan court how he dipped into campaign funds to pay hush money to keep his squalid personal life out of the news.

Just before the 2016 presidential election, Trump pays $130,000 hush money to adult film star and film director, Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, with whom he had a brief affair in 2006. Fearing for her life, Clifford signs a non-disclosure agreement.

“… There would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed.”

But look over there. It’s Kevin Bloody Rudd. Reports he calls Trump “destructive” and a “traitor to the west”. How very dare he? A barrage of smoke bombing erupts. Murdoch’s Empire strikes back. Every corporate news outlet has a Simon Benson, an Andrew Bolt or a Rita Panahi, huffing and puffing and clutching their pearls, over how Kevin Rudd cannot possibly be our next US ambassador because Trump hates him.

It’s clear Trump has no idea who Rudd is, but even our ABC credits his response to a loaded question written by Sky News and asked by yet another Murdoch tool. Take a bow, Brexit dimwit, Nigel Farage. Nigel’s another life member of chameleonic, cheapjack populism international.

It’s a tempest in a teapot but it shows how deeply our MSM is in thrall to Murdoch. Trump, a FOX production, is unlikely to be re-elected. But he’s still Murdoch’s sock puppet. He can’t even recall Joe Hockey, an embarrassingly unctuous toady, who as Bondi Partners founder, tapped into a lazy $368 billion, AUKUS boondoggle, where grift meets graft.

POTUS doesn’t appoint our US ambassadors, of course. The manufactured incident, Trump’s Gulf of Tonkin, disrupts news of the former failed president in court, as his sleazy past and lack of fiscal probity catch up with him. It slows his campaigning. For a while.

Trump is charged with no fewer than thirty-four cases of having falsified business records in relation to bribes or blackmail. No president can pardon state felonies.

It’s a world first even in the hanky-panky of POTUS which stars the late Marilyn Monroe’s breathy, X-rated rendition of Happy Birthday to JFK at a Madison Square Garden party fundraiser, 19 May 1962. Marilyn is sewn into a sequinned gown which just sold at auction for US$4.8 million. No room for underwear, commentators spluttered at the time.

Seven other presidents are alleged to have dropped their daks; or had affairs while in office, from FDR to Trump, yet Lyndon Baines Johnson is -until the current Trump case is settled- the only POTUS known to have paid child support for a child he fathered.

In a new twist, which Trump’s former doorman, Mr Dino Sajudin is prevented from discussing there is evidence that American Media Inquiry, a company offering a “catch and kill service” to those evading bad publicity, paid Sajudin $30,000 to keep mum about the child support Trump pays for a child he fathered in the late 1980s, at his World Tower built on the site of a department store, demolished by underpaid, undocumented Polish workers. Classy? He did quietly settle a class action with $1.4 million in 1988.

“Whenever Trump would come to the building, he would quite often give everybody a hundred-dollar bill,” the doorman recalls. On the other hand, he adds, “It’s like a corporate mob, so to speak. They’ll try to be nice to you in the beginning, to try and get what they want. And then, if that doesn’t work, they try to strong-arm you.”

The strong-arming in focus, today, in court is via non-disclosure agreements. Trump has a company for those, The National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid has American Media Inc, a shell company. AMI pays you to keep silent while you pay them a million dollars if you blab. What makes the three hush money payment cases felonies, and not misdemeanours, is that they are alleged to have been made from election campaign funds.

The seventy-seven-year-old dotard faces thirty-four counts of fraud in the first criminal trial of a former president. Trump’s payments to Daniels and McDougal break federal rules on corporate and individual campaign donations, prosecutors contend. Above all, the bribes are meant to “conceal damaging information from the voting public.”

Will a hog-tied Biden upstage Judge Juan Merchan? The federal judge slaps a gag order on Trump for threatening the judge’s daughter and orders Trump not to publicly attack potential witnesses, prosecutors, court staff, their families or prospective jurors.

Sounding off on the oxymoronic Truth Social, Trump calls Merchan a “true and certified Trump hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

“In other words, he hates me,” Trump adds, should the word “hater” need a gloss. “Judge Merchan should recuse himself, he cannot give me a fair trial.” Trump also alleges Merchan’s daughter is “a senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm.”

The gag order won’t worry Trump. Nor curb his antics. His dog-eat-dog world view is of life as a bleak, pitiless, contest in which winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.

But wait. Is Trump condoning vigilante violence, riot and affray, again? A Biden kidnapping is mild compared with his MAGA mob, of two thousand rioters, led by Proud Boys and sundry other, gun-toting, thugs which attempted to hi-jack democracy, 6 January 2022.

How could anyone forget Trump’s assault on the Capitol and the violent disrupting of a joint session called to ratify Biden’s election as America’s forty-sixth president according to the Final Report of the House January 6 Committee, published late last December?

Trump was conspiring to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, obstruct the certification of the election results, and discount citizens’ legitimate votes as special counsel Jack Smith spells it out. Nor was he any innocent bystander.

“The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,” reads the report. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”

A grave threat to democracy, the attack “put the lives of American lawmakers at risk,” the nine-member panel concludes. But that was yesterday. Or at least last year.

Trump’s invective is ever more violently dystopian. Biden’s border bloodbath? Immigrants are poisoning the blood of the nation, claims the son of a Scottish mother and the grandson of an enterprising Bavarian immigrant, Friedrich Trump, 1869-1918, who ran a barbershop and a Yukon brothel among other ventures, in his quest to make his fortune.

Ironically, when Friedrich did make enough money to return home to marry the girl next door, authorities deported him as a draft-dodger. Too young for military service when he left; he was a few months too old when he returned. He and his wife were deported.

Trump warns of “a bloodbath” if he’s not re-elected causing the nation to forgo Don- economics which include a hundred percent import duty on China’s cars. It will be the end of democracy itself, he says. Everybody knows Biden is a dark state tyrant.

A rich kid who was sent to military school to cure his teenage intransigence, Trump, once the playboy of the Western World who dedicated his life to burning through his father’s fortune, is down on his luck, broke and increasingly desperate and demented.

Appearing in his fever-dreams, doubtless, is the ghost of a doting father, Frederick Christ Trump, workaholic property developer, rack-renter and a Republican who made donations, developer-friendly friends and did favours for the Democrat machine running Brooklyn.

Fred Trump’s idea of fathering was to let his boy watch him work. A master of the art of the crooked deal, Fred’s scams include setting up a company to inflate invoices relating to the upkeep of his rental empire. His tenants would see their rents increased according to the fraudently calaculated expenditure. What a mensch!

“Be a king. Be a killer”, he told Donald. Yet he expected his son to learn how by osmosis.

A quick and dirty way to build identity and forge community is by mocking, vilifying and excluding outsiders and transgressors. Get in the van, Biden. The decal is selling well.

The $254 million which poured into Donald Trump’s “election defense fund” between 4 November 2020, the day after Joe Biden’s election and 20 Jan, Bidens’ election, is almost gone on legal fees. Baulky billionaires alienated by Trump’s followers’ armed attack on Capitol Hill 6 January are now kissing and making up with Mr Tangerine Tan.

What makes Trump richly attractive is that the professional hustler, serial liar, sex pest and rapist is no Joe Biden, who proposes a twenty-five percent billionaire’s tax.

Not content with his gold, “never surrender” sneakers, a steal at $399, freak of the week, in the elite billionaire redhead class, goes to Father Don Trump who is now flogging bibles to help pay his legal fees. Come on down. For $59.99, you, too can say “God Bless America” by ordering your own (two testaments for barely the price of one).

You also get all the words to God Bless The USA, The Declaration of Independence, The Pledge of Allegiance and a copy of the Constitution of the United States, which Trump broke in at least eight ways during presidency, before we even getting to the vexed question over his legal culpability for his role in inciting the insurrection.

But Trump’s bizarre attempt to pose as an honest to goodness, sweet little old Bible-toting guy, itself so deeply inappropriate yet so fittingly inauthentic will not save him. Nor will Trump Media and Technology Group Corp Inc., a way of floating his cash-strapped vanity publishing and propaganda unit, Truth Social, on the stock market.

True, in another richly attractive world first, Trump Media etc provides a vehicle for any kind of outfit to buy a stake in his presidency, without the risk of being named or found out,

“Think about it: Saudi sovereign funds, Russian oligarchs, Sicilian mobsters, Nigerian oil ministers, hedge-funders, private-equity bros, and MAGA-loving billionaires now have a direct, unregulated money pipeline into the presumptive Republican nominee.”

Yet on the downside, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp Inc. has attracted the attention of authorities who suspect it of being another Trump, pump and dump scheme. Whilst its value soared following its float, DJT is beginning what may be a rapid if not disastrous free-fall. Trump, himself is prohibited from selling his shares for six months but by that time, the company will probably be yet another Trump bankruptcy.

One sure way of triggering that decline is for a desperate Trump to get his henchmen to collude in his selling some of his fifty-eight percent holding. Once the market gets wind of that, his stock like his political fortunes will sink like a stone.

The image of Joe Biden hog-tied is a type of call to violence as is Trump’s thinly veiled attack on the daughter of a judge and his increasingly violent imagery of bloodshed. In the context of his urging over two thousand supporters to storm the Capitol and in the testimony of those he has paid hush money, moreover, there is every reason to take Trump’s threats seriously – especially in the context of what we know of his upbringing with its emphasis on ruthlessness, cruelty, dishonesty and winning at any price.

The Murdoch empire’s attempts to distract our attention from the monster it created and its legitimising of one of the most toxic candidates for the presidency of the US should be called for what it is, a last-ditch attempt to prop up an ugly and increasingly strident faux-populist demagogue who has only ever been interested in his own, personal gain and who will cheerfully destroy whatever remains of justice, democracy and decency in his path.

 

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