Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning “the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus” and said her words in recent days “seem to dare it to boil over.” “She must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson and McConnell said in their statement. “We call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.” Their statement does not mention Trump’s recent rhetoric, in which he’s referred to Harris as a “fascist,” “marxist,” “communist” and “comrade.” The former president has also railed against “enemies within” and called for using government resources to prosecute domestic political opponents — such as California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Johnson downplayed Trump’s comments on Sunday shows, insisting he was not talking about specific politicians and adding he “did not hear President Trump say he's going to sic the military on Adam Schiff.” Meanwhile, recently published excerpts of a biography of McConnell says that he bashed Trump as “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” and a “despicable human being” in private following the events of Jan. 6. McConnell has since embraced Trump as the GOP nominee after the two had an icy relationship for years. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment. At a CNN town hall this week, Harris was asked if she considered Trump a fascist and responded: “Yes, I do.” That comment came after Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that the former president met the definition of a fascist. Harris also slammed Trump in remarks this week for, according to Kelly, reportedly saying in private that Adolf “Hitler did some good things.” “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” she said. The vice president has made Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a key focus of her campaign message in the final weeks. She’s due to deliver her “closing argument” for the election during Tuesday remarks at the Ellipse, the location where Trump called on his supporters to march on Congress ahead of the violent attempted insurrection.

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Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him.

A poll from the Art & Science Group released this month showed 28 percent of students ruled out a school due to the politics of the state the college is in. Among those who excluded certain schools, 75 percent of liberals avoided ones they saw as too far to the right on abortion rights or LGBTQ issues, while 66 percent of conservatives crossed off colleges in states they labeled as too Democratic, too liberal on LGBTQ issues or too lenient on crime.

Texas was the most frequently excluded state, with 31 percent of those who eliminated schools based on state saying it was a dealbreaker for them. The other states that were ruled out by 15 percent or more were Alabama, California, Florida and New York.

Hi. The presidential election is the top story, but there are plenty of Senate and House races that could determine the balance of power in Washington and have a huge impact on the next four years, regardless of who wins the White House.

Donald Trump Warmly Discusses Arnold Palmer’s Penis Size

For context, Stormy Daniels says Trump has a small weird looking penis...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/stormy-daniels-tell-all-book-on-trump-salacious-detail-and-claims-of-cheating

She describes Trump’s penis as “smaller than average”. “He knows he has an unusual penis,” Daniels writes. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool…

“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart... It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had"

https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DBXNdm2Kosq

For the third consecutive quarter, Starbucks’ same-store sales fell. This quarter’s 7% decline in same-store sales was the company’s steepest drop since the Covid-19 pandemic.

The company blamed its soft sales on weaker demand in North America. In its home market, its same-store sales decreased 6%. Traffic tumbled 10%, despite increased investments in the business, such as more frequent promotions in its mobile app and an expanded range of product offerings.

In China, its second-largest market, same-store sales plummeted 14%. The company attributed the decline to competition in the country, which it said is altering consumer behavior and changing the company’s strategy for the market.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21534516

1. Trump had knowledge that he lost the 2020 election but spread misinformation to the American public and made false statements claiming significant voter fraud led to his defeat;

2. Trump planned to remove and replace the Attorney General and Justice Department officials in an effort to force the DOJ to support false allegations of election fraud;

3. Trump pressured Vice President Pence to refuse certified electoral votes in the official count on January 6, in violation of the U.S. Constitution;

4. Trump pressured state lawmakers and election officials to alter election results in his favor;

5. Trump's legal team and associates directed Republicans in seven states to produce and send fake "alternate" electoral slates to Congress and the National Archives;

6. Trump summoned and assembled a destructive mob in Washington and sent them to march on the U.S. Capitol; and

7. Trump ignored multiple requests to speak out in real time against the mob violence, refused to instruct his supporters to disband, and failed to take any immediate actions to halt attacks on the Capitol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_hearings_of_the_United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack#7PartPlan