Politics: Wtf?! Trump thinks Kamala Harris is a great pick for Biden VP Update: Whelp, he got his wish! UPDATE: Lost Election
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Trump demands transcript of Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes interview
Republicans have suggested that the encounter has been edited to the benefit of the Vice President.
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The most misogynistic ad in the history of politics
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Elon Musk created America PAC to help Donald Trump win the presidential election. Through the end of September, Musk spent $75 million to fund the PAC's activities. More recently, Musk began giving away $1 million per day to registered voters who signed a petition sponsored by America PAC — even though such an offer likely violated federal law. The total amount Musk will spend on America PAC will almost certainly reach nine figures.
Musk seized the handle @America on X to promote America PAC's activities supporting Trump and has repeatedly amplified the account.
On Friday afternoon, America PAC posted a video ad attacking Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. "America really can't afford a 'C-Word' in the White House right now," America PAC posted, adding a laughing emoji. "Kamala Harris is a ‘C word,’" the narrator of the ad says. "You heard that right. A big ole ‘C word.’"
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The "joke" of the ad is that Harris is a "communist." Of course, Harris is not a communist. And the ad makes no effort to show she is a communist. The line is only included as a pretext to repeatedly use a crass, misogynistic slur against Harris.
The ad had no apparent impact on the relationship between Musk and the Trump campaign, which coordinates directly with America PAC. On Sunday night, Musk was featured at Trump's high-profile rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The event featured more sexist attacks on Harris. Businessman Grant Cardone appeared before Trump and described Harris as a prostitute. Cardone said that Harris "and her pimp handlers will destroy our country."
Trump has used a variety of gendered insults to attack Harris during the campaign. On Fox News, Trump said that world leaders would "look at" Harris and use her "like a play toy," adding "I don’t want to say as to why. But a lot of people understand it." On Truth Social, Trump has targeted Harris with crude sexual insults, suggesting her career is based on sexual favors. In August, the Associated Press reported that Trump refers to Harris as a "bitch" in private, citing two sources.
On Monday, America PAC deleted the ad attacking Harris from X. Neither America PAC nor Musk explained — or even acknowledged — the ad's removal from the platform. As of Monday afternoon, the ad remains available on America PAC's Facebook account.
Trump called on Samantha Bee to be fired for using the C-word
In 2018, comedian Samantha Bee used the C-word on her TBS show to describe Ivanka Trump and her complicity in the Trump administration's child separation policy. Bee acknowledged that her words were inappropriate and apologized. Trump nevertheless called on Bee to be fired.Over the years, several women have accused Trump of verbally attacking them with the C-word. In 2016, former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jennifer Lin said that, after she wrote an article about Trump's Atlantic City business dealings in 1988, Trump called her and told her she had "shit for brains." After that call, Lin alleges that Trump called her editor and "referred to me as the c-word." Lin's editor, Craig Stock, confirmed Lin's story to CNN.
In 2023, Jessica Leeds, who alleges Trump assaulted her on an airplane in the 1970s, testified under oath in a defamation trial against Trump that, two years after the alleged assault, Trump recognized her and called her "that c*** from the airplane."
Roberta Kaplan, an attorney, said that "Donald Trump used a coded expression to call her the C-word" at the conclusion of a deposition. "See you next Tuesday," Trump said, using a thinly veiled code for the C-word.
Musk's ad concludes with a similar code: "See you nationwide, Tuesday."
Media largely ignores Musk's ad
Unlike Musk, Bee was not spending tens of millions of dollars supporting a presidential candidate, did not have billions of dollars in federal contracts, and was not the CEO of a public company. Nevertheless, within 24 hours, her comments were covered by nearly every major media outlet, including the Associated Press, the LA Times, CNN, CNBC, and many others.Days after Musk launched his crude attack on Harris, none of those outlets has covered the story. The repeated use of the C-word by Musk's PAC has received almost no coverage, meriting only brief items from ABC News, the Washington Post, and a few online outlets. Late Monday, the New York Times mentioned the ad as part of a larger story, incorrectly reporting that it was no longer available online.
Kamala Harris finds herself on Saturday Night Live amid riff to ‘end the drama-la’ in US politics
Vice-president appears in the mirror opposite impressionist Maya Rudolph in last episode before 2024 election of variety show where politicians go to lighten their image
SNL’s Kamala Harris Cameo Might Have Violated FCC Rules
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr accused ‘Saturday Night Live’ of ‘biased and partisan conduct’ for allowing the vice president on the show.
SNL’s Kamala Harris Cameo Might Have Violated FCC Rules
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr accused ‘Saturday Night Live’ of ‘biased and partisan conduct’ for allowing the vice president on the show.By Eve Batey
November 3, 2024
(l-r) Maya Rudolph and Kamala Harris during the “Pre-Election” Cold Open on Saturday Night Live Episode 1869 on Saturday, November 2, 2024Will Heath/NBC
Asurprise appearance by Kamala Harris might have galvanized this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, but it might also have landed it in hot water. According to a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, the sketch—in which Maya Rudolph’s satirical portrayal of the Democratic candidate for president sat hand-in-hand with real-life vice-president Kamala Harris—was a violation of the agency’s long-established equal-time rules, which require licensed broadcasters to offer all major candidates a platform, not just the candidate of the broadcaster’s choice.
The cry of foul came from the FCC’s former general counsel Brendan Carr, who was nominated by both President Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump to the five-member commission. Posting to X (formerly Twitter), the self-described senior Republican on the commission wrote that the SNL cold open “is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”
“The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election,” Carr wrote of sketch, continuing, “Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”
This isn’t the first time Saturday Night Live has raised FCC-related eyebrows with an election-eve appearance. In on November 1, 2008, then-Republican candidate for president John McCain appeared on SNL in the show’s cold open and again during “Weekend Update." That near-election timing was enough to spur musings that Democratic candidate Barack Obama should have demanded a comparable amount of screen time from NBC. (The then-senator didn’t, and—spoiler alert—he won that election anyway.)
The show has a rich history of presidential candidates appearing as themselves, including Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Donald Trump, whose 2015 turn as host reportedly involved consultations with his bodyguard about whether or not certain sketches were funny. That same year, former FCC chair Tom Wheeler, who had been appointed to his position by Obama, vowed to vigorously enforce equal time rules during the 2016 presidential election.
The rules, which originated with the Radio Act of 1927 but were adapted and altered through the 1960s, require “any licensee of a broadcast station who permits any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station to afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.”
It’s a rule that’s attracted particular attention as influence over public opinion has shifted from radio and TV to social media. The FCC currently has no jurisdiction when it comes to powerful platforms such as Meta and X (formerly Twitter), the latter of which has—in the words of the New York Times—been turned into a reflection of owner Elon Musk’s personal views in the months leading up to the election. It’s worth noting that Carr has been a defender of Musk, announcing in April that he opposes efforts to “weaponize the government” against the far-right-leaning mogul.
According to the New York Times, sentiments and misinformation spread on those FCC-unregulated platforms are responsible for a remarkable spike in xenophobia and hate speech. Meanwhile, the FCC is here to fight the real enemy: Comedic outlets like SNL and Jimmy Kimmel Live, which was fined $395,000 in 2019 after it used a simulated Emergency Alert System tone to punctuate a monologue joke, another shocking violation of clearly society-saving agency policies.
Thank you, Vice President Kamala Harris and women of color movement leaders
Vice President Kamala Harris had 107 days to unite the Democratic Party and launch her campaign for president. She made history as the first Black and South Asian woman to secure a major political party’s nomination. And her groundbreaking campaign was carried by Black women and other women of...
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