Kansas Crimson

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 11:36 am With Biden on the ticket, Trump was relatively subdued, making lower-risk comments about Biden’s age, and allowing the drama to come from infighting amongst dems. It was almost like his handlers had finally reigned him in.

But now, he’s again appealing to his, and his base’s, worst instincts.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 1:22 pm J.D. Vance, Father of Biracial Kids, Endorses Trump’s Race Rant: ‘Totally Reasonable’

“They don’t give me pause at all,” Vance said of Trump’s comments…

i’m rapidly losing respect for vance’s wife

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 1:22 pm J.D. Vance, Father of Biracial Kids, Endorses Trump’s Race Rant: ‘Totally Reasonable’

“They don’t give me pause at all,” Vance said of Trump’s comments…

i’m rapidly losing respect for vance’s wife

Moments before former President Trump took the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday, the organization's president was called back to address an issue.

Why it matters: Trump did not want to be fact-checked live and was refusing to go on stage, NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios.

"[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? He's not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'" Lemon said.

The intrigue: The Q&A with the GOP presidential nominee was delayed more than an hour before he eventually joined a panel of Black journalists, including ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba.

At the time, President Trump blamed the delay on audio problems.

Lemon told Axios, "There were audio problems, but they were resolved very quickly."

"The bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking," Lemon said.

Behind the scenes: The stalemate was so prolonged that NABJ leaders were prepared to explain to the audience of nearly 2,000 people why Trump would not appear.

"I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking... we couldn't compromise on that.

As Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.

The other side: The Trump campaign disputes NABJ's account. Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Axios on Friday that they waited "for close to 40 minutes while audio/technical issues were fixed by NABJ."

Audio issues were apparent during the event.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:40 pm but i just read a quote from jd saying trump takes the hard interviews, and answers the difficult questions

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:20 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:40 pm but i just read a quote from jd saying trump takes the hard interviews, and answers the difficult questions

I watched the whole thing, I didn't see him answer one question.

A host on Mike Lindell's television network called on Vice President Kamala Harris to take a DNA test to prove a demonic spirit wasn't prompting her to say she was Black.

During his daily "Let's Talk About It" program on Lindell TV, host Will Johnson defended former President Donald Trump's claim that Harris had only recently "happened to turn Black."

Harris' father is Jamaican, and her mother was Indian, making her the first Black and first Asian American vice president.

But Johnson suggested Thursday that Harris was lying about her race and should take a DNA test.

"How about we get Kamala Harris to do a DNA test like him and like Elizabeth Warren?" Johnson said. "Then we'll put it to rest. She comes back, and she's a little bit more Black than Elizabeth Warren is Indian, then we'll, OK, go, she can be Black half the time."

"Why not do that?" he asked. "And then they say we are the weird ones — we're the weird ones because we don't want to go along with the insanity."

Johnson argued that a "demonic spirit" had caused Harris to identify as Black.

"It's because it's a demonic spirit," he opined. "I know a lot of people don't like to hear that, but it's true."

"These people have lost their everlasting mind, and they want us to play along," he added. "I'm not going to, and you're not gonna force me to play along with your insanity. These people have a mental illness that's being controlled by a demonic spirit."

japhy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 12:30 pm I got a first hand demonstration of the weird behavior of a narcissist last weekend. My mom started hospice and the family came to see her. Niece and nephew from Chicago and niece from Nashville all fly in to St Louis. My brother and his malignant drunken narcissistic gf decide they will come too. My brother hasn't seen his kids in a couple of years because they don't want to be around the gf and the drunken dramatic chaos that comes with her. Brother doesn't tell his own kids he is coming, cuz maybe they will refuse to see him? My sisters let the kids know dad is coming and make it known to brother and gf, that gf is not welcome in mom's facility. They don't want the chaos, leave that shit at the door.

So gf drives up and drops my brother off in a huff and leaves to go hang out at the mall until he is done with visit. 10 minutes later my brother gets a text and says "oh no". His son leans in and reads the text. gf says, "I was in a bad accident and may have totaled the car." Brother spends the next 45 minutes frantically texting with gf. Pays no attention to his mom or his kids who he hasn't seen in two years. When my sister leaves she drives around the mall hoping to see gf in handcuffs heading off for a DUI. No sign of an accident or police. After a couple of hours everyone else is leaving the facility. As my nephew is leaving he sees gf drive by in her car with a small dent in hood coming to facility. Not one spoke about the bs, it was just understood that she wanted attention and if she couldn't create chaos in the room with everyone in the audience, she would do it outside and interject by text. My brother seems to be addicted to the "thrill" of the chaos.

Attention; good kind or bad kind, it doesn't matter. The attention is what they crave.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:14 pm it’s all that woman in blue’s fault…you know, the rude one from abc

KUTradition wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 2:40 pm shocked i tell you, just shocked

Omarosa Manigault Newman called out Trump during an appearance on CNN’s Laura Coates Live Wednesday night, saying that she distinctly remembered him identifying as Swedish, “because he didn’t want to acknowledge that his father was German and his mother was Irish, and he thought that that would play better to those who were patronizing his businesses.”