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Al’s Afternoon Tea: Donald Trump, Garbage Man of the People

By Al Perrotta Published on October 31, 2024

Welcome back in for Al’s Afternoon Tea, our chance to serve up the latest sampling of interesting headlines.

We are five days away from the election. And whatever the outcome, Donald J. Trump will go down as one of the greatest trollers of all time.

Donald Trump, Waste Disposal Worker

When Joe Biden calls Trump’s supporters “garbage,” how does Trump respond? By rolling around Green Bay, Wisconsin in a specially painted garbage truck.

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He would later wear the waste disposal gear at his rally in Green Bay. His message: “Two hundred and fifty million Americans are not garbage.”

Working at McDonald’s was one level of trolling. But to put on waste disposal garments and drive around in a garbage truck? Epic. And yeah. That’s some Halloween costume.

Trump also played stand-up comedian, turning the story of the sanitation worker truck into comedic gold. (WARNING: He does slip one bad word into his monologue.)

By this morning, the former president had released a full-length ad taking full advantage of Biden’s remark. “You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.”

Fox News reports the “garbage” slur is already being used by down-ballot Republicans in their last-minute pitches to voters.

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You’ve got to love the spunk of Trump supporters. Some have taken to showing up for early voting wearing trash bags.

Meanwhile, the president who caused all this ruckus by trashing half of America spent Wednesday noshing on children at a Halloween party.

Beat the Cheat: Colorado Secretary of State Knew Election Passwords Were Online, Did Nothing Until Called Out

Colorado’s Soros-Funded Secretary of State Jena Griswold knew for at least five days that highly sensitive BIOS election software passwords had been made public on her website, but did nothing until the Colorado GOP called her out this week. This according to Next on 9 News:

Anchor Kyle Clark asked Griswold if she had intended to tell the public that her office had dumped the passwords online for all the world to see. What an answer. “We did not decide not to disclose to county clerks.”

Keep in mind, former Mesa County election clerk Tina Peters just got sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to expose how the Colorado election systems had been compromised in 2020. And yet Griswold — whether accidentally or deliberately — exposed system passwords for the 2024 election for anyone to use. Do you think she’s going to be charged?

As we mentioned yesterday, Griswold is the one who tried to kick Donald Trump off the Colorado ballot until the Supreme Court nixed that bit of election interference. She also sent 30,000 ballots to noncitizens.

Patrick Byrne has produced a video to lay out in terms even his mother could understand just how devastating Griswold’s leaks are. Put plainly, those 600 partial BIOS passwords has rendered the results of the 2024 election in Colorado “complete meaningless.” Bad actors have had months to tinker with the election systems all across the state; with the stakes this high, it would be the height of foolishness to assume they have not used every opportunity to do so.

Beat the Cheat: Thousands of Duplicate Voters in Michigan

The Qualified Voter File (QVF) data indicated on Tuesday that 114,545 Michigan voters had cast 279,113 ballots from multiple addresses across the state. That means 164,568 excess ballots.

Thankfully, as Republican National Committee cochair Lara Trump posted, the GOP caught the discrepancy, and Michigan eliminated the extra ballots.

Thank God the RNC is keeping an eye on these things this time, unlike in 2020. With shenanigans like this, you still want to believe Joe Biden legitimately got 81 million votes in 2024? If so, we have some ocean-front property in Arizona we’d like to sell you.

Colorado and Michigan are just two states having issues. Just the News lays out 10 “election irregularities” that have already popped up there.

Harris Administration Would Elevate War Against Meat

Are you paying attention, meat-producing states? Meat lovers? Kamala Harris plans to go after beef, chicken, and eggs if she’s elected. The Washington Examiner reports a Biden-Harris dietary health committee is already planning to issue guidelines after the election that would elevate plant-based proteins over meat and eggs. The recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will be officially announced in December.

The Examiner also lays out how a shift away from red meat and eggs would impact key Rust Belt swing states, like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

If you aren’t already voting with your pocketbook, consider voting with your stomach. As Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska told Food Safety News, the 2025 protein guidance demonstrates “the Left’s war on your grocery list.”

NYC Legalizes Jaywalking

The New York City Council has just legalized jaywalking — their argument being that jaywalking arrests disproportionately impact black people and Hispanics. They failed to mention that so will the cars (of all colors) that will hit the jaywalkers.

But this is how far the crazies have gone now: Crosswalks are racist. 

The Fondest Farewell …

Halloween revelers may be saying “Boo!” but we at The Stream are saying, “Boohoo.” Today, our amazing administrative and editorial assistant Clarice Clayton is retiring. (Don’t tell her I’m writing this. She insists she doesn’t want a fuss.)

Clarice was already a long-beloved figure at our parent organization LIFE Outreach before joining our team in 2020. Her sweetness and almost supernatural efficiency made an immediate impact throughout The Stream, and she’s been foundational in our efforts to keep the content humming and our freelance contributors paid.

Only Clarice could make her biweekly question of “Did you finish up the timecards?” sound like, “Good morning, I really hope you had a wonderful weekend. Are you okay? I’m thinking about you and care about you.”

While she will be missed, we are truly excited for Clarice as she steps into her new season. May it be full of rest, travel, and simple joys.

 

On the Stream Menu

Bunni Pounds explains “How to Be Politically Involved Without Compromising Your Faith.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Brown points out that “If Democrats Lose It’s Because They’ve Become the Scorpion Party.”

 

Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.