The Justice Department wants to know who’s visiting this anti-Trump
website. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks,
break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://tytnetwork.com/join/
“The
Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a
website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los
Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
Dreamhost,
a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the
Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes
goes too far under the Constitution.
DreamHost claimed that the
complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to
handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government,
in addition to contact information, email content and photos of
thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing
protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.
“That information could
be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and
express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First
Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be
enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”
When contacted,
the Justice Department directed The Hill to the U.S. attorney's office
in D.C. The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment but provided the
filings related to the case.
The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.”
Read more here: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
Showing posts with label Hypocrisy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hypocrisy. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Donald Trump Retweets White Supremacist Jack Posobiec
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's forced
condemnation of alt-right racist white supremacist terrorists, followed
by his immediate retweeting of one of them, sending a signal of support
and alliance.
Monday, August 14, 2017
Donald Trump Offers A Weak And Late Statement On White Supremacy Terrorists Who Support Him!
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's LATE and WEAK
statement this morning on hate groups and white supremacy terrorists in
America.
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Has A Meltdown After Trump Condemns White Supremacists In Charlottesville
By Hayley Miller
Former KKK leader David Duke was none too pleased that President Donald Trump
on Monday finally got around to condemning extremist groups by name ―
including including neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan ― for the deadly
weekend protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Minutes after Trump’s speech, Duke lashed out in a series of tweets, claiming Trump had been manipulated by the media.
“It’s
amazing to see how the media is able to bully the President of the
United States into going along with their FAKE NEWS narrative,” Duke
tweeted.
Soon after that, in an anti-Semitic, racist Periscope video rant,
Duke spoke directly to Trump, claiming white nationalists abhor
violence. He said “it’s just ridiculous” that the president felt he had
to make Monday’s statement.
“President
Trump, please, for God’s sake, don’t feel like you need to say these
things,” Duke admonished in the video. “It’s not going to do you any
good.”
Duke
also stuck up for James Alex Fields, 20, the white nationalist motorist
accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing
Heather Heyer, 32. “When you’re under attack ... you panic and you do
things that are stupid and you do things that are wrong,” Duke said.
Trump
made an address to the nation on Monday, after two days of withering
criticism for a vague Saturday statement that criticized hatred and
bigotry on “many sides.”
“Racism
is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and
thugs, including the KKK, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate
groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as
Americans,” Trump said.
Lawmakers
from both parties had called Trump out for not specifically denouncing
hate groups in the wake of a white nationalist rally that left three
people dead, including two state troopers, and at least 19 injured.
Some
white supremacist organizations, such as the Daily Stormer, praised
Trump’s vague weekend statement. Duke at the time appeared to warn the
president against calling out white nationalists, a group that has
largely embraced Trump.
Duke said on Saturday that the rally would help fulfill Trump’s “promises.”
“This
represents a turning point for the people of this country,” Duke said.
“We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the
promises of Donald Trump.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Trump 'seriously considering' pardoning convicted racial profiler Joe Arpaio
According to a report from state news channel Fox News, Donald Trump is “seriously considering” pardoning Crooked Joe Arpaio, who was recently convicted
of criminal contempt of court for his racist and illegal campaign
against Latinos and immigrants in Maricopa County as sheriff.
He faces up to six months for his reign of terror.
Fox says that Trump’s interview took place on Sunday, which means that Trump prioritized speaking out about a possible pardon for Arpaio over finally saying that his KKK and Nazi supporters in Charlottesville, Virginia, were bad. Clearly, “bad hombres” will always defend “bad hombres” when it comes to terrorizing people of color:
He faces up to six months for his reign of terror.
Fox says that Trump’s interview took place on Sunday, which means that Trump prioritized speaking out about a possible pardon for Arpaio over finally saying that his KKK and Nazi supporters in Charlottesville, Virginia, were bad. Clearly, “bad hombres” will always defend “bad hombres” when it comes to terrorizing people of color:
“I am seriously considering a pardon for
Sheriff Arpaio,” the president reportedly told Fox News at his club in
Bedminster, N.J. “He has done a lot in the fight against illegal
immigration. He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has
happened to him.”
Arpaio is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5
and could spend up to six months in jail. Though his attorneys are
planning on appealing the conviction, a presidential pardon would be the
swiftest exit from the case.
Trump told the network the pardon could come as early as this week.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689535/-Trump-seriously-considering-pardoning-convicted-racial-profiler-Joe-Arpaio
With his approval rate now at 34%, the end is near for this cretin. Thank God.
With his approval rate now at 34%, the end is near for this cretin. Thank God.
Donald Trump Signs Congress Russian Sanctions Bill Quietly And In Private
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's departure from
his usual trait of bluster and bragging, where he signed the tougher
Russian sanctions bill sent to him from Congress in private rather than
with a public ceremony.
Steve Bannon To Be Fired Because Of Too Many Donald Trump Jokes?
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses the sideways NON-ANSWER Donald
Trump gave when directly asked about whether or not he still has
confidence in Steve Bannon.
Friday, August 11, 2017
Trump bowing and scraping...on bended knee...to Vladimir Putin
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse Dollemore addresses Donald Trump and his THANKS
and APPRECIATION to Vladimir Putin after having retaliated against
almost 800 U.S. State Department employees working in Russia.
Why Can't Donald Trump Say a Single Bad Thing About Vladimir Putin?
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Foreign Diplomats Call Trump A Laughing Stock Who Is Obsessed With Obama
According to a new report, foreign diplomats visiting the United States
are less than impressed with Donald Trump. In fact, they can’t seem to
stop laughing about how pathetic he really is, and about the fact that he
won’t shut up about his predecessor, Barack Obama.
When other countries are laughing, we should probably reevaluate our choices.
According to a new report, European diplomats do not have a very flattering image of Donald Trump. In fact, according to these European diplomats, who interviewed with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity, they actually view Donald Trump as most Europeans do, as a complete laughingstock. The latest available polls show us that 79% of people living in Europe do not trust Donald Trump. They do not think he is an effective leader, and they think he is an embarrassment for the United States, and as a U.S. citizen, you're absolutely right. We agree with you on this.
But the fact that these diplomats, who do have the job of having to meet with Donald Trump, having to work with him when he goes on these overseas trips, the fact that they see him as a laughingstock is not anything that people in the United States should be laughing at. That is a very dangerous situation when nobody among your ally countries respects your leader, that they do not view him as a very serious person, and more important as the interview states, they don't view him as an intelligent person. One of the diplomats said that they actually play a form of word bingo when the president is around because he always uses the same words, over and over, like it's great, it's very, very good, it's tremendous. They say he has such a limited vocabulary, that is one of the sources of ridicule among the other diplomats.
Furthermore, and one of the most dangerous about him they said was that the man is clearly obsessed with President Obama. During meetings, they said Trump would not want to debate issues. He would ask if it was something Obama had supported. If the answer was yes, Obama supported it, Trump would blindly and blankly say, then I do not support it. No debate, no discussion, no understanding at all of what they were actually talking about. He just wanted to be opposed to anything that Barack Obama was for, and that is one of the biggest problems that they see over in Europe. Donald Trump is too obsessed with Obama to be an effective leader.
According to these diplomats, it appears that Donald Trump's only policy goals for the United States are to undo the accomplishments of Barack Obama. And to be honest, from what we've seen so far coming out of the Oval Office, that does appear to be his only agenda. He doesn't care about creating jobs. He doesn't care about protecting the environment or anything having to do with anything related to Americans. He just wants to roll back every single thing President Obama did so that four, eight years down the road, Obama can't look at this country and say, oh, that was the program I put in place, because Donald Trump wants to destroy it all.
And he's not only destroying things over here in the United States, as we see from this story. He's also destroying our image that Barack Obama had rebuilt amongst our allies in Europe, and maybe that's Trump's plan, since everyone in Europe really seemed to like Barack Obama, especially after eight years of Bush and our image overseas declined tremendously. Barack Obama repaired that. So I guess Donald Trump destroying that is just another part of his let's undo all of Obama's accomplishments policy.
When other countries are laughing, we should probably reevaluate our choices.
According to a new report, European diplomats do not have a very flattering image of Donald Trump. In fact, according to these European diplomats, who interviewed with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity, they actually view Donald Trump as most Europeans do, as a complete laughingstock. The latest available polls show us that 79% of people living in Europe do not trust Donald Trump. They do not think he is an effective leader, and they think he is an embarrassment for the United States, and as a U.S. citizen, you're absolutely right. We agree with you on this.
But the fact that these diplomats, who do have the job of having to meet with Donald Trump, having to work with him when he goes on these overseas trips, the fact that they see him as a laughingstock is not anything that people in the United States should be laughing at. That is a very dangerous situation when nobody among your ally countries respects your leader, that they do not view him as a very serious person, and more important as the interview states, they don't view him as an intelligent person. One of the diplomats said that they actually play a form of word bingo when the president is around because he always uses the same words, over and over, like it's great, it's very, very good, it's tremendous. They say he has such a limited vocabulary, that is one of the sources of ridicule among the other diplomats.
Furthermore, and one of the most dangerous about him they said was that the man is clearly obsessed with President Obama. During meetings, they said Trump would not want to debate issues. He would ask if it was something Obama had supported. If the answer was yes, Obama supported it, Trump would blindly and blankly say, then I do not support it. No debate, no discussion, no understanding at all of what they were actually talking about. He just wanted to be opposed to anything that Barack Obama was for, and that is one of the biggest problems that they see over in Europe. Donald Trump is too obsessed with Obama to be an effective leader.
According to these diplomats, it appears that Donald Trump's only policy goals for the United States are to undo the accomplishments of Barack Obama. And to be honest, from what we've seen so far coming out of the Oval Office, that does appear to be his only agenda. He doesn't care about creating jobs. He doesn't care about protecting the environment or anything having to do with anything related to Americans. He just wants to roll back every single thing President Obama did so that four, eight years down the road, Obama can't look at this country and say, oh, that was the program I put in place, because Donald Trump wants to destroy it all.
And he's not only destroying things over here in the United States, as we see from this story. He's also destroying our image that Barack Obama had rebuilt amongst our allies in Europe, and maybe that's Trump's plan, since everyone in Europe really seemed to like Barack Obama, especially after eight years of Bush and our image overseas declined tremendously. Barack Obama repaired that. So I guess Donald Trump destroying that is just another part of his let's undo all of Obama's accomplishments policy.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Trump Just Helped Prove How Fake His Twitter Following Is
This is what happens when your biggest fans are bots.
Like pretty much everything else about his presidency, Donald Trump’s Twitter following is a lie. His social media fan base is mostly made of fake accounts; his legion of followers overwhelmingly comprised of automated bots.
This weekend, Trump inadvertently reminded us how phony his social media popularity is when he shined a light on what he erroneously believed was an adoring supporter. That Trump booster turned out be a Twitter bot—just one of the millions of fake accounts that exist solely to bolster the popularity of the most unpopular president in American history.
On the heels of the president basically catfishing himself, Twitter has since suspended the fake account and a slew of others just like it.
http://www.alternet.org/media/trump-just-helped-prove-how-fake-his-twitter-following
Like pretty much everything else about his presidency, Donald Trump’s Twitter following is a lie. His social media fan base is mostly made of fake accounts; his legion of followers overwhelmingly comprised of automated bots.
This weekend, Trump inadvertently reminded us how phony his social media popularity is when he shined a light on what he erroneously believed was an adoring supporter. That Trump booster turned out be a Twitter bot—just one of the millions of fake accounts that exist solely to bolster the popularity of the most unpopular president in American history.
On the heels of the president basically catfishing himself, Twitter has since suspended the fake account and a slew of others just like it.
http://www.alternet.org/media/trump-just-helped-prove-how-fake-his-twitter-following
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
How Racist Can The White House Get? (Answer: Very)
Posted by Rude One
The last couple of days have been banner ones for racists of just about every stripe, from backwoods yahoo country fucks to ostensibly educated white nationalist shit crumbs, from pandering politicians to true believers. Let's just run it down:
1. The Department of Justice is exploring whether the federal government should be "suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants." It's as if they believe that diversity on college campuses is a bad thing, probably because it makes people more sympathetic to people of other races. And how can you have a race war if that happens?
2. President Donald Trump announced his support for the RAISE Act, which is an anodyne acronym masking a shitty policy. It looks to cut in half the number of legal immigrants coming into the country, and it emphasizes skilled workers who can speak English. Oh, and only spouses and children can come over with immigrants.
When nutzoid hate-filled jizz goblin Stephen Miller, a senior policy advisor and winner of "Man Who Most Looks Like a Star Trek Alien" was asked about the racist implications of the proposal, he went into an outrage froth that coated the gathered reporters in a glistening film of saliva. It reached a spittle-flecked climax when Miller attacked CNN's Jim Acosta for daring to suggest that one purpose of the bill might be to bring in more white people, saying that "it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree." Fuck's sake, "cosmopolitan" means you give a shit about the world. The opposite of "cosmopolitan" is, more or less, "xenophobic." Or it's just an anti-Semitic dog whistle (which is extra weird since Miller is Jewish). Either way, between that and a bizarro attack on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty, it was a fucking train wreck of an appearance.
3. The Washington Post printed transcripts of Trump's late January phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. While they are masterpieces of fuckery, dickishness, and doltishness, it's also worth pointing out how fucking openly racist Trump is willing to go when talking about refugees.
When Turnbull presses Trump on honoring a deal on at least vetting refugees to possibly take them into the United States, Trump goes twitchy with paranoia. He knocks Cubans: "You remember the Mariel boat lift, where Castro let everyone out of prison and Jimmy Carter accepted them with open arms. These were brutal people." Yeah, see only 2% of the 125,000 Cubans who came here in 1980 were deemed criminals who needed to be deported. The rest fucking made Miami what it is today. (Oddly, Miller brought up the Mariel boat lift in his remarks yesterday. These Trumpers are consistent in their assholery.)
Then, after Turnbull insists that the U.S. live up to its obligations, something Trump is well-known not to give a flying rat fuck about, the president says of the refugees who have been living in horrific conditions on islands off Australia, "I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people...maybe you should let them out of prison." Who knows where all these milk jobs are, but Trump equates "refugee camp" with "prison," which would probably shock a lot of the little children who are there.
This shit is so blatant it'd make a robed KKK member say, "Whoa, a little obvious there, fella."
Look, we know Trump is racist. We knew it for years, from the Central Park Five to birtherism to the Muslim travel ban. It has been one of his most consistent traits. And we know that Trump has surrounded himself with racists, with people who are directly connected to white nationalist groups. And we know that Trump's supporters are racist (yeah, you are, fuck off).
And now we're seeing the policy implications of that. Trump used to ask various non-white groups, "What the hell do you have to lose?" in electing him.
It's pretty clear that the answer is "a future."
The last couple of days have been banner ones for racists of just about every stripe, from backwoods yahoo country fucks to ostensibly educated white nationalist shit crumbs, from pandering politicians to true believers. Let's just run it down:
1. The Department of Justice is exploring whether the federal government should be "suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants." It's as if they believe that diversity on college campuses is a bad thing, probably because it makes people more sympathetic to people of other races. And how can you have a race war if that happens?
2. President Donald Trump announced his support for the RAISE Act, which is an anodyne acronym masking a shitty policy. It looks to cut in half the number of legal immigrants coming into the country, and it emphasizes skilled workers who can speak English. Oh, and only spouses and children can come over with immigrants.
When nutzoid hate-filled jizz goblin Stephen Miller, a senior policy advisor and winner of "Man Who Most Looks Like a Star Trek Alien" was asked about the racist implications of the proposal, he went into an outrage froth that coated the gathered reporters in a glistening film of saliva. It reached a spittle-flecked climax when Miller attacked CNN's Jim Acosta for daring to suggest that one purpose of the bill might be to bring in more white people, saying that "it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree." Fuck's sake, "cosmopolitan" means you give a shit about the world. The opposite of "cosmopolitan" is, more or less, "xenophobic." Or it's just an anti-Semitic dog whistle (which is extra weird since Miller is Jewish). Either way, between that and a bizarro attack on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty, it was a fucking train wreck of an appearance.
3. The Washington Post printed transcripts of Trump's late January phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. While they are masterpieces of fuckery, dickishness, and doltishness, it's also worth pointing out how fucking openly racist Trump is willing to go when talking about refugees.
When Turnbull presses Trump on honoring a deal on at least vetting refugees to possibly take them into the United States, Trump goes twitchy with paranoia. He knocks Cubans: "You remember the Mariel boat lift, where Castro let everyone out of prison and Jimmy Carter accepted them with open arms. These were brutal people." Yeah, see only 2% of the 125,000 Cubans who came here in 1980 were deemed criminals who needed to be deported. The rest fucking made Miami what it is today. (Oddly, Miller brought up the Mariel boat lift in his remarks yesterday. These Trumpers are consistent in their assholery.)
Then, after Turnbull insists that the U.S. live up to its obligations, something Trump is well-known not to give a flying rat fuck about, the president says of the refugees who have been living in horrific conditions on islands off Australia, "I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people...maybe you should let them out of prison." Who knows where all these milk jobs are, but Trump equates "refugee camp" with "prison," which would probably shock a lot of the little children who are there.
This shit is so blatant it'd make a robed KKK member say, "Whoa, a little obvious there, fella."
Look, we know Trump is racist. We knew it for years, from the Central Park Five to birtherism to the Muslim travel ban. It has been one of his most consistent traits. And we know that Trump has surrounded himself with racists, with people who are directly connected to white nationalist groups. And we know that Trump's supporters are racist (yeah, you are, fuck off).
And now we're seeing the policy implications of that. Trump used to ask various non-white groups, "What the hell do you have to lose?" in electing him.
It's pretty clear that the answer is "a future."
Saturday, August 5, 2017
The Making Of Donald Trump - Interview With David Cay Johnston
Randi Rhodes interviews David Cay Johnston, investigative journalist and author,
a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting about his book - The Making of Donald
Trump - Get the book here - every purchase supports the show: http://amzn.to/2cnN0z9
For the full show, get a commercial-free audio podcast at RandiRhodes.com and please subscribe to Randi's YouTube channel!
Randi Rhodes Number-one ranked progressive radio talk show host, political commentator, entertainer and writer. The Randi Rhodes Show, was broadcast nationally on Air America Radio, and Premiere Radio Networks from 2004–2014. Rhodes, represents aggressively independent media.
The Miami Herald described her as "a chain-smoking bottle blonde, part Joan Rivers, part shock jock Howard Stern, and part Saturday Night Live’s ‘Coffee Talk’ Lady. But mostly, she's her rude, crude, loud, brazen, gleeful self."
Rhodes and her show won numerous awards for journalism and broadcasting, including Radio Ink’s Most Influential Woman, Radio Ink’s Most Influential Women’s list (multiple years), TALKERS magazine’s Woman of the Year, and the Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Contributions to the Talk Industry by a Woman.
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Randi Rhodes Number-one ranked progressive radio talk show host, political commentator, entertainer and writer. The Randi Rhodes Show, was broadcast nationally on Air America Radio, and Premiere Radio Networks from 2004–2014. Rhodes, represents aggressively independent media.
The Miami Herald described her as "a chain-smoking bottle blonde, part Joan Rivers, part shock jock Howard Stern, and part Saturday Night Live’s ‘Coffee Talk’ Lady. But mostly, she's her rude, crude, loud, brazen, gleeful self."
Rhodes and her show won numerous awards for journalism and broadcasting, including Radio Ink’s Most Influential Woman, Radio Ink’s Most Influential Women’s list (multiple years), TALKERS magazine’s Woman of the Year, and the Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Contributions to the Talk Industry by a Woman.
Friday, August 4, 2017
Trump Taking Another THREE WEEKS Off
Hypocrite isn’t a strong enough word for whatever the fuck Trump is…
Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
"Donald Trump recently called the White House a dump, and maybe that is why he is taking an almost three week vacation from “the swamp.”
Trump will begin his first “official” vacation since taking office Friday by heading to his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. According to the Associated Press, the reason behind the vacation may be because the White House West Wing needs to replace their 27 year old heating and cooling system, which would require all residents to vacate during that work.
The planned 17 day vacation is receiving a lot of attention because of Trump’s past remarks on vacations. Most recently he told GOP senators that they shouldn’t take an August recess and “we shouldn’t leave town” until they fix the health care system, something that has not happened yet.
Read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/online/low-energy-man-announces-three-week-vacation/
"Donald Trump recently called the White House a dump, and maybe that is why he is taking an almost three week vacation from “the swamp.”
Trump will begin his first “official” vacation since taking office Friday by heading to his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. According to the Associated Press, the reason behind the vacation may be because the White House West Wing needs to replace their 27 year old heating and cooling system, which would require all residents to vacate during that work.
The planned 17 day vacation is receiving a lot of attention because of Trump’s past remarks on vacations. Most recently he told GOP senators that they shouldn’t take an August recess and “we shouldn’t leave town” until they fix the health care system, something that has not happened yet.
Read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/online/low-energy-man-announces-three-week-vacation/
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Trump 'personally dictated' false statement about son's meeting with Russian lawyer
Trump personally dictated a statement that was
issued after revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer
during the 2016 election. The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Carol
D. Leonnig explain.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-on-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/2017/07/31/04c94f96-73ae-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-on-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/2017/07/31/04c94f96-73ae-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html
Saturday, July 29, 2017
The Past 5 GOP Presidents Have Used Fraud And Treason To Steer Themselves To Electoral Victory
By Thom Hartmann
/
AlterNet
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and author of over 25 books in print.
People are wondering out loud about the parallels between today’s Republican Party and organized crime,
and whether “Teflon Don” Trump will remain unscathed through his many
scandals, ranging from interactions with foreign oligarchs to killing
tens of thousands of Americans by denying them healthcare to stepping up
the destruction of our environment and public lands.
History
suggests – even if treason can be demonstrated – that, as long as he
holds onto the Republican Party (and Fox News), he’ll survive it intact.
And he won’t be the first Republican president to commit high crimes to
get and stay in office.
In fact, Eisenhower was the last legitimately elected Republican president we’ve had in this country.
Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961, six different Republicans have occupied the Oval Office.
And
every single one of them - from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump - have
been illegitimate - ascending to the highest office in the land not
through small-D democratic elections - but instead through fraud and
treason.
(And today’s GOP-controlled Congress is
arguably just as corrupt and illegitimate, acting almost entirely within
the boundaries set by an organized group of billionaires.)
Let’s start at the beginning with Richard Nixon.
In 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson was desperately trying to end the Vietnam war.
But
Richard Nixon knew that if the war continued - it would tarnish
Democrat (and Vice President) Hubert Humphrey’s chances of winning the
1968 election.
So Nixon sent envoys from his campaign to
talk to South Vietnamese leaders to encourage them not to attend an
upcoming peace talk in Paris.
Nixon promised South
Vietnam’s corrupt politicians that he would give them a richer deal when
he was President than LBJ could give them then.
LBJ
found out about this political maneuver to prolong the Vietnam war just 3
days before the 1968 election. He phoned the Republican Senate leader
Everett Dirksen – here’s an excerpt (you can listen to the entire conversation here):
President Johnson:
Some of our folks, including some of the old China lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying please notify the [South Vietnamese] president that if he'll hold out 'til November the second they could get a better deal. Now, I'm reading their hand, Everett. I don't want to get this in the campaign.
And they oughtn't to be doin' this. This is treason.
Sen. Dirksen: I know.
Those
tapes were only released by the LBJ library in the past decade, and
that’s Richard Nixon that Lyndon Johnson was accusing of treason.
But by then - Nixon’s plan had worked.
South
Vietnam boycotted the peace talks - the war continued - and Nixon won
the White House thanks to it. As a result, additional tens of thousands
of American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians,
died as a result of Nixon’s treason.
And Nixon was never held to account for it.
Gerald Ford was the next Republican.
After Nixon left office the same way he entered it - by virtue of breaking the law - Gerald Ford took over.
Ford
was never elected to the White House (he was appointed to replace VP
Spiro Agnew, after Agnew was indicted for decades of taking bribes), and
thus would never have been President had it not been for Richard
Nixon’s treason.
The third was Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980.
He
won thanks to a little something called the October Surprise - when his
people sabotaged then-President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to release
American hostages in Iran.
According to Iran’s
then-president, Reagan’s people promised the Iranians that if they held
off on releasing the American hostages until just after the election -
then Reagan would give them a sweet weapons deal.
In
1980 Carter thought he had reached a deal with newly-elected Iranian
President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr over the release of the fifty-two
hostages held by radical students at the American Embassy in Tehran.
Bani-Sadr was a moderate and, as he explained in an editorial for The Christian Science Monitor earlier this year, had successfully run for President on the popular position of releasing the hostages:
"I
openly opposed the hostage-taking throughout the election campaign.... I
won the election with over 76 percent of the vote.... Other candidates
also were openly against hostage-taking, and overall, 96 percent of
votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it
[hostage-taking]."
Carter was confident that with
Bani-Sadr's help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had
been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of
1979. But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980
Presidential election, California Governor Ronald Reagan, would go to
win an election.
Behind Carter's back, the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with
the leader of Iran's radical faction - Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Khomeini - to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980
Presidential election.
This was nothing short of
treason. The Reagan campaign's secret negotiations with Khomeini - the
so-called "October Surprise" - sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr's attempts
to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of 2013:
After arriving in France [in 1981], I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the “October Surprise,” which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.
And Reagan’s treason - just like Nixon’s treason - worked perfectly.
The Iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed Jimmy Carter's re-election hopes.
And
the same day Reagan took the oath of office - almost to the minute, by
way of Iran’s acknowledging the deal - the American hostages in Iran
were released.
And for that, Reagan began selling the
Iranians weapons and spare parts in 1981, and continued until he was
busted for it in 1986, producing the so-called "Iran Contra" scandal.
But, like Nixon, Reagan was never held to account for the criminal and treasonous actions that brought him to office.
After
Reagan - Bush senior was elected - but like Gerry Ford - Bush was
really only President because he served as Vice President under Reagan.
If
the October Surprise hadn’t hoodwinked voters in 1980 - you can bet
Bush senior would never have been elected in 1988. That's four
illegitimate Republican presidents.
And that brings us to George W. Bush, the man who was given the White House by five right-wing justices on the Supreme Court.
In the Bush v. Gore
Supreme Court decision in 2000 that stopped the Florida recount and
thus handed George W. Bush the presidency - Justice Antonin Scalia wrote
in his opinion:
"The counting of votes ... does in my
view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner [George W. Bush], and to
the country, by casting a cloud upon what he [Bush] claims to be the
legitimacy of his election."
Apparently, denying the
presidency to Al Gore, the guy who actually won the most votes in
Florida, did not constitute "irreparable harm" to Scalia or the media.
And
apparently it wasn't important that Scalia’s son worked for the law
firm that was defending George W. Bush before the high court (thus no
Scalia recusal).
Just like it wasn't important to
mention that Justice Clarence Thomas's wife worked on the Bush
transition team and was busy accepting resumes from people who would
serve in the Bush White House if her husband stopped the recount in
Florida...which he did. (No Thomas recusal, either.)
And
more than a year after the election - a consortium of newspapers
including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today did
their own recount in Florida - manually counting every vote in a process
that took almost a year - and concluded that Al Gore did indeed win the
presidency in 2000.
As the November 12th, 2001 article in The New York Times read:
“If
all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards
and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore
would have won.”
That little bit of info was slipped
into the seventeenth paragraph of the Times story on purpose so that it
would attract as little attention as possible around the nation.
Why?
because the 9/11 attacks had just happened - and journalists feared
that burdening Americans with the plain truth that George W. Bush
actually lost the election would further hurt a nation that was already
in crisis.
And none of that even considered that Bush
could only have gotten as close to Gore as he did because his brother,
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, had ordered his Secretary of State, Kathrine
Harris, to purge at least 57,000 mostly-Black voters from the state’s rolls just before the election.
So
for the third time in 4 decades - Republicans took the White House
under illegitimate electoral circumstances. Even President Carter was shocked by the brazenness of that one.
And Jeb Bush and the GOP were never held to account for that crime against democracy.
Most recently, in 2016, Kris Kobach and Republican Secretaries of State across the nation used Interstate Crosscheck
to purge millions of legitimate voters – most people of color – from
the voting rolls just in time for the Clinton/Trump election.
Millions
of otherwise valid American voters were denied their right to vote
because they didn’t own the requisite ID – a modern-day poll-tax that’s
spread across every Republican state with any consequential black,
elderly, urban, or college-student population (all groups less likely to
have a passport or drivers’ license).
Donald Trump still lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, but came to power through an electoral college designed to keep slavery safe in colonial America.
You
can only wonder how much better off America would be if 6 Republican
Presidents hadn't stolen or inherited a stolen White House.
In fact - the last legitimate Republican President - Dwight Eisenhower - was unlike any other Republican president since.
He ran for the White House on a platform of peace - that he would end the Korean War.
This from one of his TV campaign ads:
“The
nation, haunted by the stalemate in Korea, looks to Eisenhower.
Eisenhower knows how to deal with the Russians. He has met Europe
leaders, has got them working with us. Elect the number one man for the
number one job of our time. November 4th vote for peace. Vote for
Eisenhower.”
Two of his campaign slogans were "I like Ike" and "Vote For Peace, Vote For Eisenhower".
Ike
was a moderate Republican who stood up for working people - who kept
tax rates on the rich at 91 percent - and made sure that the middle
class in America was protected by FDR's New Deal policies.
As he told his brother Edgar in 1954 in a letter:
"Should
any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment
insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not
hear of that party again in our political history."
And
Eisenhower was right - the only way Republicans have been able to win
the presidency since he left office in 1961 has been by outright
treason, a criminal fraud involving conflicted members of the Supreme
Court, or by being vice-president under an already-illegitimate
president.
And that's where we are today, dealing with
the aftermath of all these Republican crimes and six illegitimate
Republican presidents stacking the Supreme Court and the federal
judiciary.
And this doesn’t even begin to tell the story of how the Republican majority in the senate represents 36 million fewer
Americans than do the Democrats. Or how in most elections in past
decades, Democrats have gotten more votes for the House of
Representatives, but Republicans have controlled it because of gerrymandering.
This raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the modern Republican Party itself.
They
work hand-in-glove with a group of right-wing billionaires and
billionaire-owned or dominated media outlets like Fox and “conservative”
TV and radio outlets across the nation, along with a very well-funded
network of right wing websites.
The Koch Network’s
various groups, for example, have more money, more offices, and more
staff than the Republican Party itself. Three times more employees and
twice the budget, in fact. Which raises the question: which is the dog, and which is the tail?
And, as we’ve seen so vividly in the “debate” about healthcare this year, the Republicans, like Richard Nixon, are not encumbered by the need to tell the truth.
Whether
it’s ending trade deals, bringing home jobs, protecting Social Security
and Medicaid, or saving our public lands and environment – virtually
every promise that Trump ran and won on is being broken. Meanwhile, the oligarchs continue to pressure Republican senators to vote their way.
Meanwhile, a public trust that has taken 240 years to build is being destroyed,
as public lands, regulatory agencies, and our courts are handed off to
oligarchs and transnational corporations to exploit or destroy.
The Trump and Republican campaign of 2016, Americans are now discovering, was nearly all lies, well-supported by a vast right-wing media machine
and a timid, profit-obsessed “mainstream” corporate media. Meanwhile,
it seemed that all the Democrats could say was, “The children are
watching!”
Fraud, treason, and lies have worked well for the GOP for half a century.
Thus,
the Democrats are right to now fine-tune their message to the people.
But in addition to “A Better Deal,” they may want to consider adding to
their agenda a solid RICO investigation into the GOP and the oligarchs
who fund it.
It’s way past time to stop the now-routine
Republican practice of using treason, lies, and crime to gain and hold
political power.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
How Much Degradation Can We Stand? The Most Embarrassing Things Trump Said In Three Speeches
Posted by Rude One
Donald Trump, a man who wouldn't know honor if it bit his ass and screamed, "I'm honor," gave a speech to the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. During it, he unzipped his fly and pulled out his little dick, stretched it until it was near ripping and said, "Check out that dick, boys. Not bad. Not bad, if I say so myself. And you know I do." When he wasn't shaking his dick at the children, he was making jokes like he was starring in Hell's version of Catch a Rising Star, riffing and then stepping away from the microphone and swinging his Yeti-like arms for emphasis. It was like watching a brain-damaged ape trying to imitate Rodney Dangerfield.
The next night, last night, Trump had another one of his Nuremberg Rallies (yeah, I'm comparing him to Hitler - Do we have to wait until he's gassing people to do that?), this time in Ohio. An asshole in defeat, he is a throbbing, distended sphincter in victory. So he dropped his pants in front of the gathered 6,000 people and said, "I'm gonna make Democrats and Jeff Sessions and Lisa Murkowski kiss my fat ass!"
Well, not really. But it was two days of utter degradation, an embarrassing display put on by our goddamned president. You've heard some of the shitty things he said, but, believe me (as he would say), there was line after line of shame and shamelessness and dickishness and brazen fuckery. For instance,
At the Boy Scout Jamboree:
- "I am thrilled to be here. Thrilled. And if you think that was an easy trip, you’re wrong." Trump is acting like he personally hiked through the mountains of West Virginia to get to the event when he was brought there on a golden throne. Probably there was no golf cart go from the holding area to the stage. But he wants the kids to be grateful he made the effort.
- "By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible, massive crowd, record-setting is going to be shown on television tonight? One percent or zero?" Trump is obsessed with setting records. He could just become a professional hot dog eater and call up Guinness, but, no, he's gotta fuck with all of us.
- "I saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in New York were at this party." In the midst of a rambling tale about William Leavitt, Trump dropped in that he went to a cocktail party with the "hottest people." Because of course he did. Because why would he waste his time with less than the hottest? Because what the fuck else would you tell a bunch of children and teenagers eager to race wooden block cars? A story about camping? He'd've had to have fucking camped to do that.
- "Do you remember that incredible night with the maps and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue, and that map was so red, it was unbelievable, and they didn't know what to say?" He told the Scouts about his election victory. Because of course he did. He also shit on Hillary Clinton. Because of course he did.
- "By the way, under the Trump administration, you’ll be saying, Merry Christmas again when you go shopping. Believe me. Merry Christmas. They've been downplaying that little, beautiful phrase. You're going to be saying, merry Christmas again, folks." It's fucking July. It's. Fucking. July. Anyone saying, "Merry Christmas" now is a fucking loser.
And then at his speech "Saluting American Heroes" in Ohio:
- "It's great to be back in Youngstown. It was an incredible time we had. And you know the numbers, and you saw for many, many years Democrats -- and they're really great -- but Democrats, they win in Youngstown. But not this time." Election victory. Because of course.
And then at his rally in Youngstown later:
- "Boy, he's a young one. He's going back home to mommy. Oh, is he in trouble. He's in trouble. He's in trouble. And I'll bet his mommy voted for us, right?" This was a reaction to a protester, bullying him and deriding him for doing what Trump did for years on Twitter when Obama was president.
- "We're gonna have it so that Americans can once again speak the magnificent words of Alexander Hamilton, 'Here the people govern.'" This was weirdly sandwiched between his proclamation that he was going to bring back factory jobs and his assertion that only the "late, great" Lincoln was more presidential than him. As usual, Trump gets history wrong. Hamilton was talking about Congress, especially that Congress was a check on the power of the presidency. In other words, "Here, sir, the people govern: Here they act by their immediate representatives" is a direct rebuke to Trump's desire to run roughshod over Congress.
- "So they'll take a young, beautiful girl, 16, 15, and others and they slice them and dice them with a knife because they want them to go through excruciating pain before they die. And these are the animals that we've been protecting for so long." This was shortly after Trump praised police brutality towards people arrested as gang members. It's fear-mongering in its purest, most sinister form, a kind of propaganda that will get people worked up.
- "We will buy American and will hire, finally, American." Trump's own businesses are seeking visas to hire foreign workers. So, you know, fuck that lie.
At each of these occasions, the crowds, even most of the Scouts, cheered and chanted wildly.
This vertiginous ride we're on has gotten sickening. Trump has degraded the language, the laws, the nation, and us, all of us. How far into the dirt will he drag us before we finally either give up or fight back?
Donald Trump, a man who wouldn't know honor if it bit his ass and screamed, "I'm honor," gave a speech to the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. During it, he unzipped his fly and pulled out his little dick, stretched it until it was near ripping and said, "Check out that dick, boys. Not bad. Not bad, if I say so myself. And you know I do." When he wasn't shaking his dick at the children, he was making jokes like he was starring in Hell's version of Catch a Rising Star, riffing and then stepping away from the microphone and swinging his Yeti-like arms for emphasis. It was like watching a brain-damaged ape trying to imitate Rodney Dangerfield.
The next night, last night, Trump had another one of his Nuremberg Rallies (yeah, I'm comparing him to Hitler - Do we have to wait until he's gassing people to do that?), this time in Ohio. An asshole in defeat, he is a throbbing, distended sphincter in victory. So he dropped his pants in front of the gathered 6,000 people and said, "I'm gonna make Democrats and Jeff Sessions and Lisa Murkowski kiss my fat ass!"
Well, not really. But it was two days of utter degradation, an embarrassing display put on by our goddamned president. You've heard some of the shitty things he said, but, believe me (as he would say), there was line after line of shame and shamelessness and dickishness and brazen fuckery. For instance,
At the Boy Scout Jamboree:
- "I am thrilled to be here. Thrilled. And if you think that was an easy trip, you’re wrong." Trump is acting like he personally hiked through the mountains of West Virginia to get to the event when he was brought there on a golden throne. Probably there was no golf cart go from the holding area to the stage. But he wants the kids to be grateful he made the effort.
- "By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible, massive crowd, record-setting is going to be shown on television tonight? One percent or zero?" Trump is obsessed with setting records. He could just become a professional hot dog eater and call up Guinness, but, no, he's gotta fuck with all of us.
- "I saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in New York were at this party." In the midst of a rambling tale about William Leavitt, Trump dropped in that he went to a cocktail party with the "hottest people." Because of course he did. Because why would he waste his time with less than the hottest? Because what the fuck else would you tell a bunch of children and teenagers eager to race wooden block cars? A story about camping? He'd've had to have fucking camped to do that.
- "Do you remember that incredible night with the maps and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue, and that map was so red, it was unbelievable, and they didn't know what to say?" He told the Scouts about his election victory. Because of course he did. He also shit on Hillary Clinton. Because of course he did.
- "By the way, under the Trump administration, you’ll be saying, Merry Christmas again when you go shopping. Believe me. Merry Christmas. They've been downplaying that little, beautiful phrase. You're going to be saying, merry Christmas again, folks." It's fucking July. It's. Fucking. July. Anyone saying, "Merry Christmas" now is a fucking loser.
And then at his speech "Saluting American Heroes" in Ohio:
- "It's great to be back in Youngstown. It was an incredible time we had. And you know the numbers, and you saw for many, many years Democrats -- and they're really great -- but Democrats, they win in Youngstown. But not this time." Election victory. Because of course.
And then at his rally in Youngstown later:
- "Boy, he's a young one. He's going back home to mommy. Oh, is he in trouble. He's in trouble. He's in trouble. And I'll bet his mommy voted for us, right?" This was a reaction to a protester, bullying him and deriding him for doing what Trump did for years on Twitter when Obama was president.
- "We're gonna have it so that Americans can once again speak the magnificent words of Alexander Hamilton, 'Here the people govern.'" This was weirdly sandwiched between his proclamation that he was going to bring back factory jobs and his assertion that only the "late, great" Lincoln was more presidential than him. As usual, Trump gets history wrong. Hamilton was talking about Congress, especially that Congress was a check on the power of the presidency. In other words, "Here, sir, the people govern: Here they act by their immediate representatives" is a direct rebuke to Trump's desire to run roughshod over Congress.
- "So they'll take a young, beautiful girl, 16, 15, and others and they slice them and dice them with a knife because they want them to go through excruciating pain before they die. And these are the animals that we've been protecting for so long." This was shortly after Trump praised police brutality towards people arrested as gang members. It's fear-mongering in its purest, most sinister form, a kind of propaganda that will get people worked up.
- "We will buy American and will hire, finally, American." Trump's own businesses are seeking visas to hire foreign workers. So, you know, fuck that lie.
At each of these occasions, the crowds, even most of the Scouts, cheered and chanted wildly.
This vertiginous ride we're on has gotten sickening. Trump has degraded the language, the laws, the nation, and us, all of us. How far into the dirt will he drag us before we finally either give up or fight back?
Russian Mob Money Helped Build Donald Trump Business Empire - Trump’s Russian Laundromat
A stunning report in The New Republic alleges that, whether Donald Trump
knew it or not, for decades he made a large portion of his personal
fortune from Russian mobsters & oligarchs.
Trump's Russian Laundromat
Trump's Russian Laundromat
Ron Perlman Talks President Donald Trump Speech Patterns
Joy Reid is joined by actor and author Ron Perlman, and Columbia
University professor of linguistics John McWhorter, on the bombshell
statements and run-on sentences from Donald Trump’s recent New York
Times interview.
John McCain Is The Perfect American Lie
Seventeen
years ago I gave John McCain’s Presidential campaign five bucks. It
was my first time donating to a political campaign, much less a
Republican one. But like a lot of people, I marveled at his backstory
of surviving years and years in Viet Cong captivity (I even read, like,
three pages of that big David Foster Wallace story about him), and—more
important—I eagerly took all his Straight Talk Express horseshit to
heart. Hey, that Republican is saying stuff about other Republicans! He seems like a real rebel!
Back
in 2000, McCain scratched that itch for anyone like me who enjoyed
pretending to be politically independent, and who happily latched onto
McCain as a talisman of that independence. You see, guys! I can vote for a Republican when it’s the RIGHT Republican!
And over the course of this century, McCain has dined out on his
reputation as The Good Conservative. He’s the senator who gives
thunderous copy to reporters, and does SNL, and issues bipartisan reports on the military giving the NFL promo money, and does the occasional cameo on Parks &Rec.
He fulfills every Brokawian wet dream certain members of the press
still have about politicians setting aside their differences and doing
the RIGHT THING, by God.
Today, Senate Republicans moved one step closer to dismantling Obamacare, potentially leaving millions of people uninsured, jacking up their premiums, and letting insurance companies cover only what they feel like covering. John McCain voted for that bill because of course he did. He has always been a big talker, but when it comes to the actual meat-and-potatoes voting process, he falls in line.
He didn’t do the right thing. He didn’t even come within 500 yards of doing the right thing. For the past two decades, he has never done the right thing. He’s a fraud. Alex Pareene had him nailed ages ago. In fact, it’s “nice” Republicans like McCain who provide cover for evil swine like Mitch McConnell, allowing them to gut the American security net and fuck over anyone who doesn’t live behind an iron gate.
But that didn’t stop McCain from having the gall—the unmitigated, repulsive GALL—to stand up in front of the Senate today and put on his Maverick jammies and deliver a sermon bashing the very non-legislation that, only minutes earlier, he had flown cross-country to help will into being:
This
is the part where I point out that McCain has brain cancer and is
likely dying. And while I wouldn’t wish brain cancer on my worst enemy,
McCain’s illness shouldn’t act as some magical shield that absolves him
from abetting—no wait, LEADING—a GOP whose appetite for brazen
monstrousness grows by the day. And yet, there were Senate Democrats
giving our man a standing O right after he gleefully fucked their
constituents, because Democrats would happily set aside differences with
Godzilla for the sake of gentility. There was scumbag opportunist Cory
Booker, hugging McCain and acting like this was some kind of
heartwarming meeting of the minds. And of course, there were the usual
political access merchants who were more than happy to line up and shine
McCain’s boots:
This
is vile. John McCain was never anyone’s white knight. This is the man
who ushered in the age of troll candidacies by tapping Sarah Palin as
his running mate. This is the man who caved to Donald Trump even after
Trump had the audacity to mock his time as a POW. This is the man who
called his own wife a cunt in public. This is a man who has spent all
this time acting as if all the Bad Republicans were forcing him to go
along with their nefarious deeds while voting in lockstep with them. He
is not a reluctant Republican. He’s a shitbag, same as the rest of them.
If you’re some Pollyanna offering your support to John McCain as he hollows out Medicaid, you’re a naïve dupe. As this guy said, The West Wing wasn’t real. It was never real. The twin illusions of bipartisanship and decorum have always provided handy cover for anyone looking to willfully ignore the fiendish inequalities of the American political infrastructure and the GOP’s rapturous thirst for cruelty; a thirst that has only recently emerged in the foreground thanks to the existence of President Trump.
"John McCain is the perfect American lie, a man who professes to be noble and fair and just while being none of those things."
I
was duped when I gave McCain my pitiable little sum all those years
ago, but I know better today. Everyone should know better. Everyone
should realize that John McCain is the perfect American lie, a man who
professes to be noble and fair and just while being none of those
things. He served his country honorably in combat, but in no other
fashion. And he serves out his time in the Senate, and here on planet
Earth, as a pathetic enabler. Never the lion; always the sheep. For
seventeen years, gullible people have been waiting for him to make his
face turn, to make some grand defiant move for the sake of God and
country. But that was always just clever branding on his part, and today
should serve as a cold slap in the face to anyone who still thought he
might have that kind of political courage left in him.
He's a fucking disgrace.
He's a fucking disgrace.
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