This is Layla. After six years being the bat dog for the Clearwater Threshers, she's officially retiring. At Friday night's game, the 13-year-old moseyed out to home plate to pick up her final bat. 14/10 happy retirement, Layla
"Christian Nationalism is forcing schools to post the Ten Commandments while nominating a candidate for president who has violated almost all of them."
BREAKING: MSNBC's Joy Reid enrages MAGA world with a jaw-dropping takedown of "dangerous, felonious, wannabe autocrat" Donald Trump and his plan for "straight-up fascism."
And she was just getting warmed up...
"Because what I know is that Donald J. Trump cannot be allowed back in the White House. Full stop. Period," said Reid.
"Because Donald Trump is a dangerous felonious wannabe autocrat who is vowing to release hundreds of violent insurrectionists from prison by pardoning them, to open internment camps on U.S. soil, and round up millions of uncodument migrants to put there, and sic the Justice Department on his declared enemies," she continued.
"He has called for the execution of people he doesn't like including former Joint Chief Chairman Mark Milley," said Reid. "He has admitted that he wants to be a dictator like his favorite dictators Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping, and the dictator of North Korea Kim Jong Un."
"And please spare me the 'on day one' bit. They all vowed to only be dictator on day one," she added.
"Second. Project 2025 cannot be allowed to be implement in the United States. It is straight-up fascism which would unleash the U.S. military on American citizens like an official death squad," she said.
"It would turn the federal government into the equivalent into the Chinese parliament or the Russian duma where you have to take a personal oath to the official party and to the president to keep your job," explained Reid.
"It would unleash a national abortion ban using federal agencies to end access to everything from contraceptive to IVF to books and more," said Reid. "It means turning this country literally into Gilead from the Handmaid's Tale excepted with tariff-induced 100% inflation."
"And if you were to combine a Trump autocracy, a fully Christian Nationalist Republican Party in control of both houses of Congress, and the current Supreme Court majority, well bar the door and unleash the Devil because we would be finished as a democracy."
As apocalyptic all of this sounds, it's absolutely spot on. Everything is on the line the election. If we allow the felon Donald Trump to take power, America as we know it is over.
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Just gonna say it again:
I love Joe Biden. He saved democracy in 2020. His legislative record is the arguably the most consequential of any modern president, including my former boss. And right now there's nothing more important than defeating Donald Trump in this election.
It seems like Biden and his team think that despite what we all saw on Thursday night, the President is still the best candidate to do that.
Like we've said on the pod, that's their call, and if they stick with it, we'll certainly keep doing everything humanly possible to help re-elect the President - including encouraging the hundreds of thousands of @votesaveamerica volunteers who helped elect Biden in 2020 to again donate their time and money to winning in November.
Stakes are too high to do anything less.
I’ll grant Trump one thing— the upcoming debate is inherently unfair to him…
The questions are gonna be about platform and policy.
Not about sharks, showers, boats and batteries.
So, he’s pretty much fucked.
With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.
Here is what Trump said to Dr. Fauci of his pandemic press briefings:
“My God, these ratings are amazing. They’re better than cable, they’re better than network…”
People were dying.
He cared about ratings.
We cannot let that sociopath anywhere near the White House, ever again.