In an early morning tweet on Thursday, Donald Trump admitted that
Russian interference helped him win the election, but says that the
Mueller report shows he had nothing to do with it.
He later deleted the
tweet and had to tell reporters that Russia did not help him get elected
at all.
But the bigger issue is that we know election interference
happened, but Mitch McConnell and Trump are preventing us from making
sure it doesn’t happen again.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses
this.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Mitch McConnell Admits That He Stole Obama's SCOTUS Seat & Will Fill Another Seat in 2020!
Sometimes things get recorded that while not surprising, are still
shocking when you hear them said out loud. This was one of those moments
from Mitch McConnell (who we've always known to not possess any
integrity)... This just redoubles our confirmation!
Mueller Speaks - Passes On Opportunity To Clear Trump & Demonstrates That Bill Barr Lied
Robert Mueller gave his first public remarks in over two years on
Wednesday and in the process made headlines with several statements.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Mueller Statement Fuels Demand For Trump Impeachment
Special counsel Robert Mueller made his first statement about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read the full story here.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
DISGRACEFUL!!! Donald Trump Sides With Kim Jong Un Against Former VP Joe Biden
Let's talk about Donald Trump's continued refusal to act in a manner
befitting a loyal American resident while overseas. Especially where it
relates to his cozy kinship with the likes of North Korea's Kim Jong
Un.
Man Who Watches TV All Day Says Democrats Are Lazy
Donald Trump is addicted to television and golfing, not exactly the
traits that you want to see in a resident. But nonetheless, he’s taking
the time to accuse the Democratic Party of actually being the lazy ones
in Washington, D.C., even though he’s spent more than $100,000 of our tax
dollars playing golf.
The man is so desperate to smear Democrats that he will say anything to see if it sticks, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
The man is so desperate to smear Democrats that he will say anything to see if it sticks, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
Trump Admin Stall On Tubman $20 Bill Inspires DIY Solution
Joy Reid reports on the excuse making by Treasury Secretary Steve
Mnuchin for the Trump administration's delaying of the roll-out of a
Harriet Tubman $20 bill, and talks with Dano Wall, an artist who has
designed an ink stamp to print Tubman's face over Andrew Jackson's face.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019
SE Cupp explains Trump's 'perfect' exit ramp out of office
CNN's SE Cupp says resident Donald Trump enjoys the fun parts of being resident but hates doing the hard work.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Nancy Pelosi Is Skullfucking Trump And It's Making Him Crazier
Posted by Rude One
I've said it before and I'll say it again: When Nancy Pelosi belts up the strap-on, it's just a matter of time before someone's screaming. She rode serial molester Dennis Hastert like a monkey on an elephant. She made George W. Bush beg for more ass reaming. And now she's locked and loaded the extra-large dildo, the one shaped like a tentacle, and she's skullfucking Donald J. Trump. She's thrusting that footlong right into his eyehole, tickling his brain, and driving him completely mad. He is pretty much shouting at her to stop, but she won't. She'll just keep skullfucking until he begs her to stop or she goes right through the back of his pumpkin head.
You can watch it happen in real time on video of an event yesterday where Trump was supposed to be announcing more socialism for farmers, $16 billion to farms affected by his idiotic trade war with China. Where's that money coming from? "This support for farmers will be paid for by the billions of dollars our Treasury takes in," he reassured. No shit, motherfucker. So does everything we spend money on. But in that precious way of stating the obvious, Trump continued, "We’ll be taking in — depending on what period of time we’re talking — many billions of dollars. Far more than the $16 billion that we’re talking about." So it's good to know that we happen to have $16 billion just sitting around in a slush fund or something and don't need, say, Congress to approve it.
Then you can see when Pelosi commenced the skullfucking. Asked about Pelosi's comment that he needs an intervention, Trump went off the rails, if his train was ever on them in the first place. He went around the room, demanding that staff and advisers who were at the meeting tell the cameras that he was perfectly calm when he told Pelosi and Chuck Schumer he wouldn't work on an infrastructure bill (or anything) while Democrats investigated him.
He asked Kellyanne Conway, Mercedes Schlapp, Larry Kudlow, Sarah Sanders, and Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley to testify that he was calm. Here's how Trump put it to Sanders: "The narrative was I was screaming and ranting and raving, and it was terrible. And I watched Nancy and she was all crazy yesterday...Just out curiosity — you were there — what was my tone yesterday at the meeting?" Sanders attested to this frantic fuck's calm demeanor.
Here's the thing, though. I think it was absolutely planned. I think Trump told everyone he was going to ask them if he was totally chill at the canceled infrastructure meeting. All the answers he got seemed absolutely practiced. So Pelosi's thrusting so far into his dullard's brain pan that he can't get her out of there.
Throughout this whole frankly fucking odd display, Trump kept making all kinds of asides, like to Kudlow, "Larry has done more live television. Maybe Regis has you by a little bit, right? Not by much." Yeah, that's a Regis Philbin reference. And this: "I don’t want to say 'Crazy Nancy,' because if I say that, you’re going to say it’s a copy of 'Crazy Bernie,' and that’s no good, because he — Bernie is definitely crazy." But he couldn't help but attack Pelosi more because, you know, chicks, man: "It was sad when I watched Nancy, all moving — the movement and the hands and the craziness — and I watched — that’s, by the way, a person that’s got some problems." He's gonna be mocking her movements soon because that's what this lump of shit thinks is funny.
The rest of the appearance, which, to remind you, was about giving money to farmers who he himself has harmed financially, was just as alarming. Trump criticized Rep. Jerrold Nadler by saying, "Jerry Nadler. I know him well. I’ve had great success against Jerry and I will again." That's an allusion to a 1980s zoning battle. Seriously, Trump's fucking brain stopped functioning around 1990.
"I'm a very capable person," Trump said at one point and wasn't joking. (He was joking when he called himself "an extremely stable genius," so let's let that on go.) He insisted repeatedly that he knew things, understood things, was well-versed in a subject. I teach students who lie to me all the time about studying something or reading something. I know that Trump was fuckin' lying when he said of the release of John Walker Lindh, "Believe it or not, about two weeks ago, I went to the best lawyers in our country that work for government. I said, 'What could we do about this?'" Bullshit. He probably saw Tucker Carlson jacking off about Lindh and wondered why they weren't talking about him for five minutes.
And asked about who he was accusing of treason, after being reminded that one can be sentenced to death for that, Trump responded, "If you look at Comey; if you look at McCabe; if you look at probably people — people higher than that; if you look at Strzok; if you look at his lover, Lisa Page, his wonderful lover — the two lovers, they talked openly." Trump's weird fascination with the Strzok/Page affair is just pure dickishness, his default posture. But, yeah, sure, let's just move on from him implying that leaders of the FBI deserved to be executed.
By the way, several farmers and Farm Bureau officials were forced to stand there the entire time and had to be wondering what the fuck they had gotten themselves into. And Trump proclaimed once again that everything is really about him and him alone. Talking about farm states, he said, "China has openly stated they’re going to use the farmer. The reason is because I got the farmer’s votes. You look at a map; it’s all red, meaning Republican, meaning Trump. It’s all red in the middle states, as you know. It’s got a little blue here and a little blue there." I guess it's useless at this point to try to say that California is the largest farm economy in the nation and is being hurt badly by this trade war.
Look, I've got a problem with how Pelosi is handling the lugubriously slow walk towards impeachment. But I'm all in on her penetrating Trump's tiny mind and buying a condo there. One thing he hates more than anything is being bested by a woman, and right now, he's frantically trying to figure out how to degrade her and get her out of there. No, it's not impeachment. It is, though, making Trump look weaker and weaker and more easily defeated. It's not a great plan, but it's sure as shit an entertaining one.
Side note: Here's an exchange that didn't get much notice between Trump and Conway.
MS. CONWAY: Very calm. No temper tantrum...I’m sure somebody has it on tape too. But you were very calm. Stood at the edge of the Cabinet table.
THE PRESIDENT: They have it on tape someplace?
MS. CONWAY: Sure.
THE PRESIDENT: Good. That’d be good.
Um, are they taping the Cabinet Room?
(Correction: I originally said the meeting took place in the Oval Office. That was wrong.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: When Nancy Pelosi belts up the strap-on, it's just a matter of time before someone's screaming. She rode serial molester Dennis Hastert like a monkey on an elephant. She made George W. Bush beg for more ass reaming. And now she's locked and loaded the extra-large dildo, the one shaped like a tentacle, and she's skullfucking Donald J. Trump. She's thrusting that footlong right into his eyehole, tickling his brain, and driving him completely mad. He is pretty much shouting at her to stop, but she won't. She'll just keep skullfucking until he begs her to stop or she goes right through the back of his pumpkin head.
You can watch it happen in real time on video of an event yesterday where Trump was supposed to be announcing more socialism for farmers, $16 billion to farms affected by his idiotic trade war with China. Where's that money coming from? "This support for farmers will be paid for by the billions of dollars our Treasury takes in," he reassured. No shit, motherfucker. So does everything we spend money on. But in that precious way of stating the obvious, Trump continued, "We’ll be taking in — depending on what period of time we’re talking — many billions of dollars. Far more than the $16 billion that we’re talking about." So it's good to know that we happen to have $16 billion just sitting around in a slush fund or something and don't need, say, Congress to approve it.
Then you can see when Pelosi commenced the skullfucking. Asked about Pelosi's comment that he needs an intervention, Trump went off the rails, if his train was ever on them in the first place. He went around the room, demanding that staff and advisers who were at the meeting tell the cameras that he was perfectly calm when he told Pelosi and Chuck Schumer he wouldn't work on an infrastructure bill (or anything) while Democrats investigated him.
He asked Kellyanne Conway, Mercedes Schlapp, Larry Kudlow, Sarah Sanders, and Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley to testify that he was calm. Here's how Trump put it to Sanders: "The narrative was I was screaming and ranting and raving, and it was terrible. And I watched Nancy and she was all crazy yesterday...Just out curiosity — you were there — what was my tone yesterday at the meeting?" Sanders attested to this frantic fuck's calm demeanor.
Here's the thing, though. I think it was absolutely planned. I think Trump told everyone he was going to ask them if he was totally chill at the canceled infrastructure meeting. All the answers he got seemed absolutely practiced. So Pelosi's thrusting so far into his dullard's brain pan that he can't get her out of there.
Throughout this whole frankly fucking odd display, Trump kept making all kinds of asides, like to Kudlow, "Larry has done more live television. Maybe Regis has you by a little bit, right? Not by much." Yeah, that's a Regis Philbin reference. And this: "I don’t want to say 'Crazy Nancy,' because if I say that, you’re going to say it’s a copy of 'Crazy Bernie,' and that’s no good, because he — Bernie is definitely crazy." But he couldn't help but attack Pelosi more because, you know, chicks, man: "It was sad when I watched Nancy, all moving — the movement and the hands and the craziness — and I watched — that’s, by the way, a person that’s got some problems." He's gonna be mocking her movements soon because that's what this lump of shit thinks is funny.
The rest of the appearance, which, to remind you, was about giving money to farmers who he himself has harmed financially, was just as alarming. Trump criticized Rep. Jerrold Nadler by saying, "Jerry Nadler. I know him well. I’ve had great success against Jerry and I will again." That's an allusion to a 1980s zoning battle. Seriously, Trump's fucking brain stopped functioning around 1990.
"I'm a very capable person," Trump said at one point and wasn't joking. (He was joking when he called himself "an extremely stable genius," so let's let that on go.) He insisted repeatedly that he knew things, understood things, was well-versed in a subject. I teach students who lie to me all the time about studying something or reading something. I know that Trump was fuckin' lying when he said of the release of John Walker Lindh, "Believe it or not, about two weeks ago, I went to the best lawyers in our country that work for government. I said, 'What could we do about this?'" Bullshit. He probably saw Tucker Carlson jacking off about Lindh and wondered why they weren't talking about him for five minutes.
And asked about who he was accusing of treason, after being reminded that one can be sentenced to death for that, Trump responded, "If you look at Comey; if you look at McCabe; if you look at probably people — people higher than that; if you look at Strzok; if you look at his lover, Lisa Page, his wonderful lover — the two lovers, they talked openly." Trump's weird fascination with the Strzok/Page affair is just pure dickishness, his default posture. But, yeah, sure, let's just move on from him implying that leaders of the FBI deserved to be executed.
By the way, several farmers and Farm Bureau officials were forced to stand there the entire time and had to be wondering what the fuck they had gotten themselves into. And Trump proclaimed once again that everything is really about him and him alone. Talking about farm states, he said, "China has openly stated they’re going to use the farmer. The reason is because I got the farmer’s votes. You look at a map; it’s all red, meaning Republican, meaning Trump. It’s all red in the middle states, as you know. It’s got a little blue here and a little blue there." I guess it's useless at this point to try to say that California is the largest farm economy in the nation and is being hurt badly by this trade war.
Look, I've got a problem with how Pelosi is handling the lugubriously slow walk towards impeachment. But I'm all in on her penetrating Trump's tiny mind and buying a condo there. One thing he hates more than anything is being bested by a woman, and right now, he's frantically trying to figure out how to degrade her and get her out of there. No, it's not impeachment. It is, though, making Trump look weaker and weaker and more easily defeated. It's not a great plan, but it's sure as shit an entertaining one.
Side note: Here's an exchange that didn't get much notice between Trump and Conway.
MS. CONWAY: Very calm. No temper tantrum...I’m sure somebody has it on tape too. But you were very calm. Stood at the edge of the Cabinet table.
THE PRESIDENT: They have it on tape someplace?
MS. CONWAY: Sure.
THE PRESIDENT: Good. That’d be good.
Um, are they taping the Cabinet Room?
(Correction: I originally said the meeting took place in the Oval Office. That was wrong.)
Friday, May 24, 2019
Unless You Start Arresting People, Impeachment Is The Only Play Left For Congress
Posted by Rude One
Every single goddamned day that we're cursed to live through in this stupid, dangerous era, theresident of the United States, who really is
Donald Trump, does or says something or has something revealed that he
deserves to be impeached over. Whether it's seriously threatening to commit genocide in Iran, demanding that his political opponents be investigated and jailed, pardoning war criminals, or the fuckery
with Deutsche Bank, as well as his ongoing refusal to comply with any
congressional investigations, Trump, who looks like a sack of rats that
got blasted with an exploding orange dye pack, commits more high crimes
and misdemeanors with each passing moment.
But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has not just dismissed talk of impeachment proceedings in her chamber, she is actively trying to squelch it in her caucus. She said not impeaching is doing the work Americans want: "This is not about politics; it's about what's best for the American people" and "This isn’t about politics at all. It’s about patriotism. It’s about the strength we need to have to see things through." That's right. It's patriotic to leave a madman in power without challenging him in the strongest possible way.
Look, Pelosi has accomplished a shit-ton for progressive goals. But we can separate out good from bad, we can criticize, goddamnit, and I gotta say: I don't get her game on this. Pelosi and some other Democrats said that an impeachment inquiry would distract from the economic and legislative agenda of the party. Except there is no agenda that can be accomplished while Trump hangs over everything. And if Pelosi is hoping to kick the can down the road and hope that Trump won't win reelection, well, Hillary Clinton has a bunch of dusty inauguration swag she can sell you.
Hakeem Jeffries, the New York representative who is the head of the Democratic Caucus, said, "We did not run on impeachment, we did not run on collusion ... so logic suggests that we should carry forward with the agenda that we communicated to the American people." Except that, once again, it's a fundamental misread of the electorate. Democrats may not have run on impeachment, but they absolutely ran on being a check on Trump.
And many of them ran specifically on going after Trump's criminality. To most people not versed in the nuances of congressional power, the 2018 campaign read as "impeach the motherfucker" and they voted with that in mind. If Democrats fail to follow through, it's gonna piss off some voters. It's like saying to your kids that you're going on vacation to the most wonderful place on earth where they'll get to see a mouse. They're gonna fuckin' think it's Disney World, for good goddamn reason. If it turns out to be Mee-Maw's old rodent-ridden house in Dubuque, shit's gonna get messy on the drive.
You can say that we don't know what Pelosi and the House leadership are up to. You can say that we mortals are too puny to understand the zillion-dimensional chess that's being played. Except almost every time someone says that, it turns out that the shit that's going in is exactly the shit we see. There is no greater purpose to understand. There is no other dimension and we're just playing a frantic game of motherfuckin' checkers.
Right now, impeachment is the only play left for Congress, unless the House Democrats are willing to arrest people like Don McGahn and even William Barr for failing to show up for subpoenaed testimony or Steve Mnuchin for not turning over Trump's taxes. Even then, Trump would let everyone go to jail to protect his lying, voluminous ass. Besides, what happens after they do testify? Oh, right. Fucking impeachment.
By not impeaching, by allowing theresident to order his lackeys and even ex-lackeys to defy subpoenas, Pelosi is letting
Trump get away with a level of audacious corruption that would make
Boss Tweed blush. Embedded in Pelosi's refusal to go down impeachment
road is a belief in the better angels of democracy. Those angels never
existed. And if they did, Trump would have pulled their wings off and
grabbed 'em by their pussies, daring anyone to stop him.
His actions demand action. Trump brought this on. He is not the victim in this story, no matter how much he whines that he is. He is the villain. Treat him like one.
(Note: I've talked before about why your objection that the Senate will refuse to remove Trump from office is bullshit. So I'm not going into that here, except to say that impeachment is an end in itself.)
Every single goddamned day that we're cursed to live through in this stupid, dangerous era, the
But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has not just dismissed talk of impeachment proceedings in her chamber, she is actively trying to squelch it in her caucus. She said not impeaching is doing the work Americans want: "This is not about politics; it's about what's best for the American people" and "This isn’t about politics at all. It’s about patriotism. It’s about the strength we need to have to see things through." That's right. It's patriotic to leave a madman in power without challenging him in the strongest possible way.
Look, Pelosi has accomplished a shit-ton for progressive goals. But we can separate out good from bad, we can criticize, goddamnit, and I gotta say: I don't get her game on this. Pelosi and some other Democrats said that an impeachment inquiry would distract from the economic and legislative agenda of the party. Except there is no agenda that can be accomplished while Trump hangs over everything. And if Pelosi is hoping to kick the can down the road and hope that Trump won't win reelection, well, Hillary Clinton has a bunch of dusty inauguration swag she can sell you.
Hakeem Jeffries, the New York representative who is the head of the Democratic Caucus, said, "We did not run on impeachment, we did not run on collusion ... so logic suggests that we should carry forward with the agenda that we communicated to the American people." Except that, once again, it's a fundamental misread of the electorate. Democrats may not have run on impeachment, but they absolutely ran on being a check on Trump.
And many of them ran specifically on going after Trump's criminality. To most people not versed in the nuances of congressional power, the 2018 campaign read as "impeach the motherfucker" and they voted with that in mind. If Democrats fail to follow through, it's gonna piss off some voters. It's like saying to your kids that you're going on vacation to the most wonderful place on earth where they'll get to see a mouse. They're gonna fuckin' think it's Disney World, for good goddamn reason. If it turns out to be Mee-Maw's old rodent-ridden house in Dubuque, shit's gonna get messy on the drive.
You can say that we don't know what Pelosi and the House leadership are up to. You can say that we mortals are too puny to understand the zillion-dimensional chess that's being played. Except almost every time someone says that, it turns out that the shit that's going in is exactly the shit we see. There is no greater purpose to understand. There is no other dimension and we're just playing a frantic game of motherfuckin' checkers.
Right now, impeachment is the only play left for Congress, unless the House Democrats are willing to arrest people like Don McGahn and even William Barr for failing to show up for subpoenaed testimony or Steve Mnuchin for not turning over Trump's taxes. Even then, Trump would let everyone go to jail to protect his lying, voluminous ass. Besides, what happens after they do testify? Oh, right. Fucking impeachment.
By not impeaching, by allowing the
His actions demand action. Trump brought this on. He is not the victim in this story, no matter how much he whines that he is. He is the villain. Treat him like one.
(Note: I've talked before about why your objection that the Senate will refuse to remove Trump from office is bullshit. So I'm not going into that here, except to say that impeachment is an end in itself.)
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Donald Trump Is Desperate For Merrick Garland To Keep His Financial Lies & Fraud A Secret!
In a hilarious twist of fate, Judge Merrick Garland is one seat on a
three judge panel which will rule on the matter of whether or not
Trump's accounting firm will be required to comply with a congressional
subpoena related to EIGHT YEARS of his financial data.
Chuck Schumer: What happened at White House would make your jaw drop
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
speak out after resident Trump halted infrastructure policy
negotiations and held an impromptu speech where he said he won't work
with Democratic leaders.
Donald Trump May Be Threatening Or Bribing Don McGahn Into NOT Testifying Before Congress!
Here are the receipts that lead me to question whether or not Donald
Trump is threatening and/bribing Don McGahn to violate legal
congressional subpoenas. The time is LONG PASSED for the Democrats to
act and impeach Donald Trump!
Trump Can't Handle Heckling
How can the Democrats beat Cry-Baby Trump? Cenk Uygur and Ben Gleib, hosts of The Conversation, break it down.
https://www.gleib2020.com/
https://www.gleib2020.com/
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Friday, May 17, 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Tells Fox "News" To Go Fuck Itself With Roger Ailes's Femur
Fuck yeah, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president, just
went to war with Fox "news." In a series of tweets, Warren told Fox
to get the fuck away from her with this town hall bullshit. Apparently,
Fox invited her to appear on their network of the damned and Sean
Hannity, and she declined, explaining, "Fox News is a hate for profit
racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspirators—it’s designed
to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to
provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and
hollowing out our middle class."
Warren didn't stop there. Ever the professor, she tied Fox's white nationalist propaganda directly to the wallets of its owners and shareholders. "It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money," she says, and that a Democrat appearing on a town hall on the network gives cover to the sales team trying to tell skittish advertisers that Fox really, really is fair and balanced, despite the fact that it's so extravagantly biased that Goebbels would watch it and say, "Jesus fuck, tone it down a bit."
Then Warren brings it back to voters: "I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates—especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers." She doesn't shit all over the Democrats who have already appeared at a Fox town hall - Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar - but she sure as hell draws a big damn line in the sand.
"Fox News is welcome to come to my events just like any other outlet," Warren concludes. "But a Fox News town hall adds money to the hate for profit machine. To which I say: hard pass."
And I am so hard right now that I could jackhammer a hole in my wall.
It's about goddamn time one of the Democratic candidates stopped with this whole bullshit idea that they have to "reach" Fox "news" viewers. It turns Fox into the de facto spokes dicks for the mythical "White Working Class," a group that is so much more than Fox-infected assholes (and is also far, far bigger once you remove "white" from the name). And Warren's rejection of Fox turns a spotlight on the "news" network's efforts at stupiding their viewers with a nonstop fecal flow of fear and fuckery.
Warren didn't stop there. Ever the professor, she tied Fox's white nationalist propaganda directly to the wallets of its owners and shareholders. "It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money," she says, and that a Democrat appearing on a town hall on the network gives cover to the sales team trying to tell skittish advertisers that Fox really, really is fair and balanced, despite the fact that it's so extravagantly biased that Goebbels would watch it and say, "Jesus fuck, tone it down a bit."
Then Warren brings it back to voters: "I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates—especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers." She doesn't shit all over the Democrats who have already appeared at a Fox town hall - Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar - but she sure as hell draws a big damn line in the sand.
"Fox News is welcome to come to my events just like any other outlet," Warren concludes. "But a Fox News town hall adds money to the hate for profit machine. To which I say: hard pass."
And I am so hard right now that I could jackhammer a hole in my wall.
It's about goddamn time one of the Democratic candidates stopped with this whole bullshit idea that they have to "reach" Fox "news" viewers. It turns Fox into the de facto spokes dicks for the mythical "White Working Class," a group that is so much more than Fox-infected assholes (and is also far, far bigger once you remove "white" from the name). And Warren's rejection of Fox turns a spotlight on the "news" network's efforts at stupiding their viewers with a nonstop fecal flow of fear and fuckery.
Maybe Kirsten Gillibrand and Pete Buttigieg will back out of
their scheduled appearances.
Essentially, Warren just declared war on Fox "news." She went far, far further than just declining the town hall. She went for the throat, naming evil where she sees evil. Warren dug up the rotted whale carcass of Roger Ailes, ripped out his femur, and started fucking Tucker Carlson's ass with it.
Look for Fox to react furiously, as Fox will do, likely calling her everything from "Pocahontas" to "Emma Goldman" (actually, Emma Goldman doesn't have a Disney cartoon, so Fox viewers wouldn't understand it). They'll make her seem like Stalin has been reincarnated and that Warren and AOC are gonna be forcing you to eat organic dirt to stay alive while Rashida Tlaib ululates in your ears.
But Warren wouldn't have started this if she didn't know what she was getting into. She could have politely declined and moved on. This is a war she wants. This shows she knows that you have to kill the troll if you want everyone to be able to cross the bridge.
Essentially, Warren just declared war on Fox "news." She went far, far further than just declining the town hall. She went for the throat, naming evil where she sees evil. Warren dug up the rotted whale carcass of Roger Ailes, ripped out his femur, and started fucking Tucker Carlson's ass with it.
Look for Fox to react furiously, as Fox will do, likely calling her everything from "Pocahontas" to "Emma Goldman" (actually, Emma Goldman doesn't have a Disney cartoon, so Fox viewers wouldn't understand it). They'll make her seem like Stalin has been reincarnated and that Warren and AOC are gonna be forcing you to eat organic dirt to stay alive while Rashida Tlaib ululates in your ears.
But Warren wouldn't have started this if she didn't know what she was getting into. She could have politely declined and moved on. This is a war she wants. This shows she knows that you have to kill the troll if you want everyone to be able to cross the bridge.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Conservative calls for the total annihilation of the Republican Party as Giuliani openly ‘betrays’ the United States
Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin said in a column for The Washington Post, that
the GOP should be dismantled after ignoring President Donald Trump’s
attempt to, yet again, gain help from a foreign government to help him
win an election.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/conservative-calls-for-the-total-annihilation-of-the-republican-party-as-giuliani-openly-betrays-the-united-states/
https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/conservative-calls-for-the-total-annihilation-of-the-republican-party-as-giuliani-openly-betrays-the-united-states/
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Rural Trump voters are in for a major shock
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
Economists, reports Politico,
are fleeing the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service. Six
of them resigned on a single day last month. The reason? They are
feeling persecuted for publishing reports that shed an unflattering
light on Trump policies.
But these
reports are just reflecting reality (which has a well-known anti-Trump
bias). Rural America is a key part of Donald Trump’s base. In fact,
rural areas are the only parts of the country in which Trump has a net positive approval rating. But they’re also the biggest losers under his policies.
What,
after all, is Trumpism? In 2016 Trump pretended to be a different kind
of Republican, but in practice almost all of his economic agenda has
been G.O.P. standard: big tax cuts for corporations and the rich while
hacking away at the social safety net. The one big break from orthodoxy
has been his protectionism, his eagerness to start trade wars.
And all of these policies disproportionately hurt farm country.
The Trump tax cut largely passes farmers by, because they aren’t corporations and few of them are rich. One of the studies
by Agriculture Department economists that raised Trumpian ire showed
that to the extent that farmers saw tax reductions, most of the benefits
went to the richest 10 percent, while poor farmers actually saw a
slight tax increase.
At
the same time, the assault on the safety net is especially harmful to
rural America, which relies heavily on safety-net programs. Of the 100
counties with the highest percentage of their population receiving food
stamps, 85 are rural,
and most of the rest are in small metropolitan areas. The expansion of
Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which Trump keeps trying to
kill, had its biggest positive impact on rural areas.
And
these programs are crucial to rural Americans even if they don’t
personally receive government aid. Safety-net programs bring purchasing
power, which helps create rural jobs. Medicaid is also a key factor
keeping rural hospitals alive; without it, access to health care would
be severely curtailed for rural Americans in general.
What
about protectionism? The U.S. farm sector is hugely dependent on access
to world markets, much more so than the economy as a whole. American
soybean growers export half of what they produce; wheat farmers export 46 percent of their crop. China, in particular, has become a key market
for U.S. farm products. That’s why Trump’s recent rage-tweeting over
trade, which raised the prospect of an expanded trade war, sent grain
markets to a 42 year low.
It’s
important to realize, by the way, that the threat to farmers isn’t just
about possible foreign retaliation to Trump’s tariffs. One fundamental
principle in international economics is that in the long run, taxes on
imports end up being taxes on exports
as well, usually because they lead to a higher dollar. If the world
descends into trade war, U.S. imports and exports will both shrink — and
farmers, among our most important exporters, will be the biggest
losers.
Why, then, do rural areas support Trump? A lot of it has to do with cultural factors. In particular, rural voters are far more hostile to immigrants
than urban voters — especially in communities where there are few
immigrants to be found. Lack of familiarity apparently breeds contempt.
Rural
voters also feel disrespected by coastal elites, and Trump has managed
to channel their anger. No doubt many rural voters, if they happened to
read this column, would react with rage, not at Trump, but at me: “So
you think we’re stupid!”
But support
for Trump might nonetheless start to crack if rural voters realized how
much they are being hurt by his policies. What’s a Trumpist to do?
One answer is to repeat zombie lies. A few weeks ago Trump told a cheering rally that his cuts in the estate tax have helped farmers. This claim is, however, totally false; PolitiFact rated it “pants on fire.”
The reality is that in 2017 only about 80
farms and closely held businesses — that’s right, 80 — paid any estate
tax at all. Tales of family farms broken up to pay estate tax are pure
fiction.
Another answer is to try to
suppress the truth. Hence the persecution of Agriculture Department
economists who were just trying to do their jobs.
The
thing is, the assault on truth will have consequences that go beyond
politics. Agriculture’s Economic Research Service isn’t supposed to be a
cheering section for whoever is in power. As its mission statement
says, its role is to conduct “high-quality, objective economic research
to inform and enhance public and private decision making.” And that’s
not an idle boast: Along with the Federal Reserve, the research service
is a prime example of how good economics can serve clear practical
purposes.
Now, however, the service’s
ability to do its job is being rapidly degraded, because the Trump
administration doesn’t believe in fact-based policy. Basically, it
doesn’t believe in facts, period.
Everything is political.
And who will pay the price for this degradation? Rural Americans. Trump’s biggest supporters are his biggest victims.
More from Paul Krugman on rural America.
Opinion | Paul Krugman: What’s the Matter With Trumpland?
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
New York’s State Senate Just Passed Two Major Bills That Have Trump Stressed!
The New York State Senate is taking care of business in the absence of leadership in Congress in Washington D.C.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Over 800 Former DOJ Lawyers: Trump Would Be Charged With MULTIPLE FELONIES If He Wasn't Resident!
Yesterday a statement was released (linked below) signed by over 800
former line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States
Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice. In this
statement, they assert that Donald Trump, in no uncertain terms, would
be charged with obstruction of justice... if not for the fact that he is
a sitting resident.
https://medium.com/@dojalumni/statement-by-former-federal-prosecutors-8ab7691c2aa1
https://medium.com/@dojalumni/statement-by-former-federal-prosecutors-8ab7691c2aa1
Resident Donald Trump Business Lost More Than $1 Billion Over 10 Years - WTF!
Trump lost $1.17 billion between 1985 and 1994, according to tax documents obtained by the New York Times.
Resident Donald Trump Is A Criminal Level Tax Cheat
There’s new reporting by the New York Times that Trump lost $1.17 billion between 1985 and 1994 according to documents obtained by the Times. David Cay Johnston says this adds to the mounting evidence against Trump on tax fraud.
Resident Donald Trump Is A Criminal Level Tax Cheat
There’s new reporting by the New York Times that Trump lost $1.17 billion between 1985 and 1994 according to documents obtained by the Times. David Cay Johnston says this adds to the mounting evidence against Trump on tax fraud.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Democrats Should Be Unrelenting On Trump's Taxes
Posted by Rude One
Look, I get why 75% of Americans, according one poll, haven't read any of the Mueller report. Yeah, part of it is that we're now so fucking stupid and so easily distracted that the very idea of sitting down and facing 400 pages of redacted shit with Russian names and banks and more sounds not just intimidating, but, fate of the nation aside, so goddamn dull. The Starr report on Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky had dicks and pussies and cigars in pussies and dicks in mouths. Of course, people wanted to read that. We're animals, after all.
People like things simple and readily graspable. They don't want your nuance. They don't want your multi-level conspiracies that are like jigsaw puzzles where the last piece is lost under the couch and you just can't reach it. They like it cut and dried, man, easily digestible and easily spit out.
Donald fuckin' Trump knew that all the way back in 2011 when he started his bat shit crusade against Barack Obama for the crime of being black while president. We all know the birther nonsense, where idiots demanded that Obama produce a birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii (and when he did produce one, it wasn't the right one for them). Trump also hopped on the college records bandwagon, too, saying that Obama's university applications and such were big secrets. You can trace the layers and layers of hypocrisy through Trump's Twitter feed, like a mille-feuille of shit.
Like in July 2012, when the dumb orange motherfucker tweeted, "For the sake of transparency, @BarackObama should release all his college applications and transcripts--both from Occidental and Columbia." Or in August of that year, when he implored that Mitt Romney "shouldn't give additional tax returns until @BarackObama gives his passport records, college records & applications."
For the vast majority of us, it was a ludicrous beclowning of the electoral process. But for those who were starting to pay attention to this pathetic reality TV host as a viable candidate and thought, "I like how he sticks it to the Negro," it was fuckin' catnip. And, goddamn, it's so easy to rally behind: Yeah, why won't that Obama prove to us where he came from? (Being racists, they never realized how horribly racist it was.)
Trump even went so far as to say that Obama wouldn't be hiding his records if nothing bad was in them: "Why would @BarackObama be spending millions of dollars to hide his records if there was nothing to hide?" he asked in 2012. He also tweeted on 9/11, our holiest of holy days, "Why won't Obama release his college applications? Is there something 'foreign' about them?"
Obviously, for Donald Trump, refusing to release private information to the public, or, you know, to him, is akin to being guilty. It's right there. The dumb orange motherfucker himself said as much.
So, while they should have been doing this since 2016, Democrats now have a talking point against Trump that is the perfect combination of simple and deadly. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a man who definitely has had a gerbil or two inserted in his rectum, declined to turn over Trump's federal income tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, as required by law. This is on top of Trump suing to stop Deutsche Bank from cooperating with congressional investigators, likely because that would involve having his taxes revealed.
The reason that the birther shit had an effect (no, it didn't stop Obama, but it helped Trump's rise), the reason that the Hillary email shit had an effect, the reason why so many aggravatingly simple things have an effect is because they force you to make a decision. Either you want to know about Hillary Clinton's emails or you didn't. And Democrats can use that method to what is inarguably a more noble end: to find out if theresident of the United States is a goddamn criminal.
Every fucking day, every opportunity they have, every interview, every speech, Democrats should be demanding that Donald Trump release his taxes. They should be saying that he must have something to hide. It should be the only fucking thing that anyone can think of. They should get people to show up at Republican town halls to ask why the GOP doesn't care about Trump's taxes.
No, you won't get Trump's idiot hordes or his Republican lickspittles and ass remoras to turn against him (although you might succeed in getting a little creeping doubt in there). But you know that 75% who didn't read the Mueller report ain't just Trump-humpers. There are not only a lot of voters who are on the Democrats' side who need a rallying point, but there are those who aren't paying attention at all, who are disengaged, who might just fucking love the clean and clear either/or on Trump's taxes.
So many of us on the left want Democrats to get savage. But there has to be a cohesive message behind the savagery, one that's not complex or needs more than a bumper-sticker to explain. This idea is a damn start. Get people paying attention so that when the impeachment hearings start, they're already on board.
Look, I get why 75% of Americans, according one poll, haven't read any of the Mueller report. Yeah, part of it is that we're now so fucking stupid and so easily distracted that the very idea of sitting down and facing 400 pages of redacted shit with Russian names and banks and more sounds not just intimidating, but, fate of the nation aside, so goddamn dull. The Starr report on Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky had dicks and pussies and cigars in pussies and dicks in mouths. Of course, people wanted to read that. We're animals, after all.
People like things simple and readily graspable. They don't want your nuance. They don't want your multi-level conspiracies that are like jigsaw puzzles where the last piece is lost under the couch and you just can't reach it. They like it cut and dried, man, easily digestible and easily spit out.
Donald fuckin' Trump knew that all the way back in 2011 when he started his bat shit crusade against Barack Obama for the crime of being black while president. We all know the birther nonsense, where idiots demanded that Obama produce a birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii (and when he did produce one, it wasn't the right one for them). Trump also hopped on the college records bandwagon, too, saying that Obama's university applications and such were big secrets. You can trace the layers and layers of hypocrisy through Trump's Twitter feed, like a mille-feuille of shit.
Like in July 2012, when the dumb orange motherfucker tweeted, "For the sake of transparency, @BarackObama should release all his college applications and transcripts--both from Occidental and Columbia." Or in August of that year, when he implored that Mitt Romney "shouldn't give additional tax returns until @BarackObama gives his passport records, college records & applications."
For the vast majority of us, it was a ludicrous beclowning of the electoral process. But for those who were starting to pay attention to this pathetic reality TV host as a viable candidate and thought, "I like how he sticks it to the Negro," it was fuckin' catnip. And, goddamn, it's so easy to rally behind: Yeah, why won't that Obama prove to us where he came from? (Being racists, they never realized how horribly racist it was.)
Trump even went so far as to say that Obama wouldn't be hiding his records if nothing bad was in them: "Why would @BarackObama be spending millions of dollars to hide his records if there was nothing to hide?" he asked in 2012. He also tweeted on 9/11, our holiest of holy days, "Why won't Obama release his college applications? Is there something 'foreign' about them?"
Obviously, for Donald Trump, refusing to release private information to the public, or, you know, to him, is akin to being guilty. It's right there. The dumb orange motherfucker himself said as much.
So, while they should have been doing this since 2016, Democrats now have a talking point against Trump that is the perfect combination of simple and deadly. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a man who definitely has had a gerbil or two inserted in his rectum, declined to turn over Trump's federal income tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, as required by law. This is on top of Trump suing to stop Deutsche Bank from cooperating with congressional investigators, likely because that would involve having his taxes revealed.
The reason that the birther shit had an effect (no, it didn't stop Obama, but it helped Trump's rise), the reason that the Hillary email shit had an effect, the reason why so many aggravatingly simple things have an effect is because they force you to make a decision. Either you want to know about Hillary Clinton's emails or you didn't. And Democrats can use that method to what is inarguably a more noble end: to find out if the
Every fucking day, every opportunity they have, every interview, every speech, Democrats should be demanding that Donald Trump release his taxes. They should be saying that he must have something to hide. It should be the only fucking thing that anyone can think of. They should get people to show up at Republican town halls to ask why the GOP doesn't care about Trump's taxes.
No, you won't get Trump's idiot hordes or his Republican lickspittles and ass remoras to turn against him (although you might succeed in getting a little creeping doubt in there). But you know that 75% who didn't read the Mueller report ain't just Trump-humpers. There are not only a lot of voters who are on the Democrats' side who need a rallying point, but there are those who aren't paying attention at all, who are disengaged, who might just fucking love the clean and clear either/or on Trump's taxes.
So many of us on the left want Democrats to get savage. But there has to be a cohesive message behind the savagery, one that's not complex or needs more than a bumper-sticker to explain. This idea is a damn start. Get people paying attention so that when the impeachment hearings start, they're already on board.
Monday, May 6, 2019
TRUMP IS FREAKING OUT!!! Robert Mueller To Testify Before Congress On May 15th!
As Jesse Dollemore predicted on February 25th and April 9th, it looks like Robert
Mueller will get his turn in the Congressional witness chair to testify
directly about the report which bears his name!
Donald Trump Tweeted That He's Owed An EXTRA TWO YEARS In Office Because Of "STOLEN TIME!"
Over the weekend Donald Trump tweeted the anti-Constitutional and
anti-democratic idea that he should have two extra years tacked on to
the end of this term of office to make up for the 22 months of the
Mueller Probe.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Trump's Manservant Bill Barr LIED TO CONGRESS And Then Failed At Covering It Up!
Let's talk about the incontrovertible timeline of sinister behavior
which includes Bill Barr's perjury before Congress about whether or not
he knew of Robert Mueller's frustration with his March 24th 4 page
summary of the 448 page Mueller Report!
Arrest Trump AG Barr If He Resists Subpoena
Former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich says Trump’s Attorney
General Bill Barr should be arrested and put in jail if he refuses to
cooperate with Democrats in Congress. Reich tells The Beat, if Barr
doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena the public must think of it
as “a constitutional crisis”.
Senator Mazie Hirono Lays Into Attorney General William Barr
"The American people know that you are no different from Rudy Giuliani
or Kellyanne Conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once
decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval
Office," says Sen. Hirono to AG Barr in a contentious exchange.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Robert Mueller Blasted AG Barr For Distorting His Report
By Red Painter
Shortly after Barr released his 4 page summary, Mueller wrote a sharply worded letter blasting Barr for completely spinning his findings
Shortly after Barr released his 4 page summary, Mueller wrote a sharply worded letter blasting Barr for completely spinning his findings
Mueller and his team are clearly livid at how Bill Barr handled
the roll out of their 448 report. From his bungled 4 page letter,
declaring his client, Donald Trump, cleared of all crimes, to the
heavily redacted 448 page report a month later with Barr's press
conference, Barr has acted to protect Donald Trump and not as the
country's Attorney General.
The Washington Post is reporting that Mueller wrote a letter in late March to Bill Barr complaining that the 4 page letter he wrote “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the Special Counsel's work. The Washington Post reports that they have a copy of the letter and were able to review it.
The letter was written immediately after Barr stated that Mueller had found no conspiracy between Trump and Russia and that Mueller had not reached a conclusion regarding whether Trump had obstructed justice.
The letter was so out of the ordinary and revealed a "dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that it shocked senior Justice Department officials.".
In the letter, Mueller wrote:
The letter also requested that Barr release the entire 448 page report, introductions, and executive summaries.
The Washington Post further reports that DOJ officials were "taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter" and that they were surprised he expressed concerns. It is reported that Barr and Mueller spoke the day after Barr received the letter. Officials say that in the call, Mueller expressed concern "that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work." Barr reportedly "took issue" with Mueller calling his letter a "summary" (it clearly was a summary, but Barr didn't like that word...whatever).
This bombshell could not come at a worse
time. Barr is scheduled to appear tomorrow morning before the Republican
led Senate Judiciary Committee and Thursday in front of the Democratic
led House Judiciary Committee, for what was already going to be a raking
over the coals. This news will add an extra layer of intensity that I
do not think anyone anticipated.
Congress (Democrats) responded:
It will be interesting to see if Barr even shows up today.
The Washington Post is reporting that Mueller wrote a letter in late March to Bill Barr complaining that the 4 page letter he wrote “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the Special Counsel's work. The Washington Post reports that they have a copy of the letter and were able to review it.
The letter was written immediately after Barr stated that Mueller had found no conspiracy between Trump and Russia and that Mueller had not reached a conclusion regarding whether Trump had obstructed justice.
The letter was so out of the ordinary and revealed a "dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that it shocked senior Justice Department officials.".
In the letter, Mueller wrote:
“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the
public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the
context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions.
There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of
our investigation.
This threatens to undermine a central purpose for
which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full
public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
The letter also requested that Barr release the entire 448 page report, introductions, and executive summaries.
The Washington Post further reports that DOJ officials were "taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter" and that they were surprised he expressed concerns. It is reported that Barr and Mueller spoke the day after Barr received the letter. Officials say that in the call, Mueller expressed concern "that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work." Barr reportedly "took issue" with Mueller calling his letter a "summary" (it clearly was a summary, but Barr didn't like that word...whatever).
Congress (Democrats) responded:
It will be interesting to see if Barr even shows up today.
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