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Why were the voices of nearly a 3M voter plurality not 'recognized' in '16?
The electoral college is an anachronism that gives disproportionate electoral representation to mostly
rural America.
The 'takers' who also receive a disproportionate redistribution of Federal tax revenues.
No, 75K votes over 3 States WAS a fluke. Notwithstanding the obvious flaws of the electoral college, the article does not apply to an historically unpopular incumbent president.
Anybody but Clinton has morphed into anybody but Trump.
I long for the days when Sean was an energetic douchebag lying to the American public about crowd sizes and pretty much every time he opened his word salad spewing mouth.
His 'up there for a cup of coffee' duration as PS at least gave us Mellissa McCarthy's priceless portrayals of his prickly demeanor on SNL.
Two meanings for prickly there.
Sweeping hyperbole and misrepresentation. Like Trump claiming that Mexico would pay for a wall and "I won't have time for golf".
If only this could find its way onto a campaign poster or into a debate with Trump.....
"That's. Not. How. This. Shit. Works. You. Little Bitch."
Little Bitch Corey Lewandowski Testifies Before the House Bitchily
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Honestly, at some point, yesterday, I would not have been surprised if the ghost of James Madison had shown up at yesterday's hearing of the House Judiciary Committee and just started sodomizing former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with his walking stick.
Just sodomizing the shit out of him while slamming his head on the witness table and yelling, "That's. Not. How. This. Shit. Works. You. Little Bitch."
The thing is that, even after getting raped and beaten by a Founding Father, Lewandowski would have said, as he did repeatedly, "The White House has directed that I not disclose the substance of any discussion with the president or his advisers to protect executive branch confidentiality," before he crawled out with bloody anus and bruised head to await his Trump treat in the form of a tweet.
It's hard to pinpoint the dickiest moment that Lewandowski had as he just decided to either stonewall or answer like a smartass child who everyone watching thinks, "I don't believe in spanking, but, goddamn, that little son of a bitch needs to be spanked."
Maybe it was when Rep. Hakeem Jeffries asked (admittedly dickishly himself), "Are you the hit man, the bagman, the lookout, or all of the above?" and Lewandowski responded, "I think I'm a good-looking man, actually." Jeffries should have countered, "This is obviously perjury since I've never seen a pathetic motherfucker who hates himself so much."
Maybe it was when he told Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee that she used her time for "just a rant." Or when he called Rep. Eric Swalwell "President Swalwell" to mock him for his failed campaign. There's contempt and then there's trying hard to be as contemptuous as possible in some weird dick-size battle.
Either way, Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler should have had the sergeant-at-arms cuff Lewandowski and dragged his ass out of the chamber like a fucking pervert at a playground. And, yeah, that's not the way the House is supposed to behave and it likely breaks some rules, but, fuck it, tell Lewandowski to take it to the courts and fight his treatment.
That's the approach the Trump administration uses with every flouting of the law. And it would have actually gotten some great headlines: "Corey cuffed as Democrats sick of Trump's shit; 'I'll fuck his orange face blue,' says raging Nadler, 'and wipe my dick on his stupid hair.'" (And, by the way, to an extent, Nancy Pelosi agrees with me.)
However, towards the end of the day, one person was finally able to slap Lewandowski in his nuts and get that prick to squirm. When the Democrats on the committee finally gave 30 minutes to House Judiciary Counsel Barry Berke, shit got real.
Just let the lawyers do this job. They don't give a fuck about being liked. And Berke tore into Lewandowski, getting the slimy worm turd to say flat out that he lies when he's talking to the media, thus putting his entire credibility into question.
"I have no obligation to be honest to the media," Lewandowski said after an MSNBC clip showed him lying. And when Berke played a Fox "news" clip, Lewandowski said, "I don't think I was under any obligation when speaking to Fox News to not engage in hyperbole." Which is basically the way everyone at that shit network acts. Hell, their motto oughta be "Fox News: We're Not Under Any Obligation to Not Engage in Hyperbole."
Berke calmly sliced and diced the visibly irritated and uncomfortable Lewandowski, throwing at him quotes from his book (which the asshole tried to turn into an ad for himself) and from the Mueller Report, forcing him to affirm that he had lied and lied and lied publicly, again and again, and so why the fuck would anyone trust he's telling the truth.
But it was likely too little too late. You can come up with 100 ways that Democrats did the right thing with this hearing, but the messaging was for shit, and the ability to rally the troops around a strategy has to come from the messaging, not some hope that something will give at some point.
And while he's got snarky little fuccbois like Lewandowski who are ready to snarl and snap going to bat for him, it's gonna take a whole lot more muscle to get at Trump than Democrats are showing now.
As for the media, of course, Lewandowski was on CNN this morning to fuckin' lie some more.
Here's what I think, shithead.
First of all no one defends anyone wearing blackface at any time, at any stage in one's life.
That said, there is nothing in the public life of either man, statements or policies since elected, that remotely suggest that either are anything like the bigoted moron in the WH and those who blindly support him.
I haven't seen Northam talk about many fine people among white supremacists, neo-Nazis and KKK, like the asshole in the WH that you moral imbeciles failed to condemn for that remark.
No evidence that either guy is a self-dealing traitor either.
Last time I looked a majority of blacks in VA did not want Northam to resign. What do they know that you don't know?
Got any evidence that Northam was in the KKK?
Now F.O. Freddy.
You two morons getting tired of projecting your stupidity, hypocrisy and double standards yet?
What a tag team of willful ignorance, moral imbecility, obtuseness and breathtaking lack of self-awareness you make.
My dog would play with me if we made eye contact.
Things have changed over the past 12 years, the average temp is rising you science illiterate.
Keep pissing into the wind, but not the wind from a windmill. Wouldn't want you to get cancer.
Moronic article that ignores both the cumulative effects of climate change and the advancements in science that enable better tracking an analysis than was available when some of the earlier predictions were made.
The climate change effects from a far more industrialized and polluting China and India are also not taken into account by the idiot/'think tank' who wrote the article.
Other than all that, thanks Fox Snooze.
The Rodney Dangerfield of presidents.
She never treated me nicely. I get no respect. Are you kidding? When I was a kid my parents had to tie a pork chop around my neck so the dog would play with me. Uuh brother, It was rough.
Best poster held by a student on the Internet today: "Make America Cool Again".
The intended denotation/connotation is unmistakable.
You wouldn't be able to read it for comprehension. You couldn't even absorb the damning data in my response to your flaming hypocrisy and projection laden post.
if the Democrats are accusing you of it, you can guarantee they are 100% doing it much more, and much worse.
But, but, Mexico is paying...….
20 miles of border fencing
President Trump’s border wall construction has hit a roadblock — again. The Defense Department will not move forward with three border wall projects in California and Arizona, citing “insufficient contract savings.”
The move comes after Trump faced backlash for tapping into Pentagon funds to build part of the wall. A Monday court filing, however, reveals that there were not enough funds to cover the costs of these three projects. As of late August, about 60 miles of wall along the southern border had been updated. [CNN]
8 years of tax returns
The battle over President Trump’s tax returns is shaping up to be a never-ending saga. This week, state prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns. The subpoena was issued shortly after the Manhattan district attorney’s office opened a criminal investigation into hush-money payments made leading up to the 2016 election.
This subpoena is one of several attempts to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which the president said he would make public on the campaign trail. He has yet to do so. [The New York Times]
Gee, see a pattern? It screams lying sack of shit!
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-wednesday-sept-18-2019/
Doesn't negate the hard data that I posted. Your post however does confirm your inability to handle facts that contradict your beliefs.
Cherry pick all you like, but you sanctimonious righty assholes own the hypocrisy orchard.
Cut the shit. For 8 years all that we heard from the tea-baggers was that they were going to 'take their country back' and to keep big gubmint hands off their Medicare.....and pearl clutching over debt and deficits too.
As for those pictures from DD you lost your shit over?
Specificity is the enemy of sweeping generalization about entire cultures. The pictures were specific, particularly Super Girl on her knees.
Red blooded? I want to see a hemoglobin count and a full blood panel to check out the A1C too. I see a crowd of easily frightened diabetics.
Let's take a walk down hypocrisy and double standards lane. Again, if the Democrats are accusing you of it, you can guarantee they are 100% doing it much more, and much worse.
No, you cant guarantee any such fucking thing. You can look at the data and see where there is some equivalency in behavior between politicians in both Parties and where there is not.
What ISN'T equivalent? Only one party dishonestly markets itself as the 'Party of family values'. THAT is an example of GOPERS not walking their talk.
Worse than that? The constant Church Lady level of finger wagging and empty moralizing by GOPERS about religious values while they go about violating as many Commandments as they think that they can get away with.
Those are tie breakers, IMO. Another one? Which Party harangues the most about debt and deficits when they don't hold the presidency and ignores them the worst when they do hold the WH?
Finally, unmentioned in the article, are the staggering number of accusations of sexual predation and the then unknown payoffs by Trump. His advisors, Hicks, Lewandowski and the guy forced out for knocking around his wife, tip the balance against the GOPERS in those categories too.
Conclusion, based upon hard data? You are again simply and completely full of shit. Stop bringing a knife to a gun fight.
You're starting to resemble Fearless Fosdick.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anthony-weiner-photos-scandal-which-party-has-the-most-sex-scandals
Anthony Weiner Photos Scandal: Which Party Has the Most Sex Scandals?
With Rep. Anthony Weiner’s admission of “inappropriate” electronic relationships, another pol is embroiled in scandal. The Daily Beast crunched the numbers to determine whether Democrats or Republicans have bigger problems with impropriety.
THE DAILY BEAST
Updated 04.25.17 10:28AM ET / Published 03.29.10 10:52PM ET
Two things about the Weinergate make today’s scandal a bit different than the majority of political fallouts: He’s a Democrat and he’s not resigning.
But Weiner joins a long list of politicians who have recently revealed improprieties and extramarital flirtations. Of course, The Governator’s love child comes to mind, but former Republican New York Representative Chris Lee resigned less than three months ago after Craigslist “mistakes” went mainstream, last May Rep. Mark Souder, an eight-term Republican from Indiana, resigned after having an affair with a female staffer, and “Tickle Me Eric” Massa burst onto the public stage last March—only to be shuffled out of the House of Representatives.
With every other issue devolving into partisan finger-pointing, The Daily Beast thought it would use two decades of cold, hard data and rational methodology to answer the question everyone in Washington wants to know: Which party has more problems with sex scandals?
After studying more than 60 scandals over the past 20 years involving all politicians or major candidates for city mayor and above—many involved crimes, others just allegations, but all wound up as tabloid fodder—some conclusions can be reached.
• The number of sex scandals has increased dramatically over the past few decades, thanks to technology, new press standards, and a post-Clinton belief that everything is fair game.
• Republicans have more scandals (35 to 28), but Democrats have bigger ones, based on our methodology (13 out of the top 20).
• Democrats tend to have more problems with harassment, staffers, and underage girls; Republicans tend to have more problems with prostitutes, hypocrisy, and underage boys.
To offer some clarity, we’ve broken the scandals into categories, and graded them Cook Report-style. We also ranked all sex scandals overall, using a methodology that accounted for whether a crime was committed, versus inappropriate behavior; whether the charges were proven, versus alleged; the level of office held; and whether the incident involved children, staff, a cover-up or hypocrisy.
Prostitution
This category combines both those who solicited a prostitute but for whatever reason did not accept—think former Idaho Senator Larry Craig—and those who went ahead and became johns. Republicans by a count of six-to-one have been involved in prostitution scandals. For our rankings, soliciting prostitution without accepting it was weighted slightly lower than becoming a john.
Solid Republican (6-1)
Staffer
There’s a clear abuse of power when a politician and his employee is involved in a sex scandal. Democrats, by a count of 16 to six, have seemingly leveraged that power imbalance more.
Solid Democrat (16-6)
Hypocrisy
Almost half the sex scandals we turned up involved someone saying one thing while doing another. The earliest example was womens’ rights champion Robert Packwood, who in 1992 was infamously slapped with several sexual-harassment and abuse charges from former female staffers.
Solid Republican (17-9)
Sexual harassment
Whether threats or phone calls, it’s mostly been Democrats.
Solid Democrat (9-2)
Adultery
Bipartisanship? More of a personal ethical issue rather than a legal one, the adultery category is the most populated, with Republicans and Democrats nearly even, with the Schwarzenegger scandal tipping the category to the Republicans.
Lean Republican (21-20)
Inappropriate conduct with a minor
This type of scandal indicates at the least a serious flaw or lapse in judgment. The most infamous example is former Representative Mark Foley, who exchanged sexually charged emails and instant messages with underage pages. Two Republicans and one Democrat have been involved in this type of scandal.
Lean Republican (2-1)
Sexual relations with a minor
Far more serious than above: the most serious charge, in fact, among all recent political sex scandals. Conviction carries more than a decade in jail, based on federal sentencing guidelines.
Toss up (3-3)
Out-of-wedlock child
Three Republicans have confirmed having children as a result of extramarital affairs, compared to one Democrat. Of course, Schwarzenegger is the latest.
Solid Republican (3-1)
Sexual assault
Six Democrats have faced allegations of sexual assault, compared to four for Republicans.
Lean Democrat (6-4)
Cuckolding
Republicans have had four scandals involving an affair with a married woman—compared to one for Democrats. The only woman on this list, Helen Chenoweth, created a cuckquean (who knew?) out of her lover’s wife.
Solid Republican (4-1)
Coverup
Either with money or behind-the-scenes wrangling or just weak denial lies, six Republicans have been caught covering up a sex scandal, compared with three Democrats, with payoffs ranging from $150,000 or a job for a spouse to, allegedly, $20.
Lean Republican (6-3)
Clark Merrefield was the lead reporter on this project.
Democrats reminded me of the country boy who shows up in the big city pool hall
claiming to not know anything about the game but once he gets the stakes high enough open his case and pulls out his two-piece custom-made pearl-handled monogram pool cue and proceeds to run table.
People were underestimating the Democrats all afternoon and then they whipped out their version of a two-piece custom-made pool cue, aka Barry Berke, who deftly wiped the floor with Lewandowski, took all his money and, just for fun, stole his drawers without removing his pants.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212472031
Pic Of The Moment: In Wake Of Saudi Oil Field Attack, Trump Takes Decisive Action
5. When he says "We'll see what happens" as he frequently does, it means…...
he needs to go watch FOX "news" or call Hannity, or wait for a call from Putin or some other dictator.
8. Or third option, send love letters like he does with Kim Jong Un.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017553210
Out sick they were, or out of Ritalin, when charts and graphs were covered. Same thing when 'which of these is not like the others?' tests were given, hence all the false equivalence shit we're plagued with here.
Huge problem also dealing with the concept 'associated with, but not causative'. Many laughable conspiracy theories follow from that logical disabiity.
The One With Brett Kavanaugh’s Junk
Monday, September 16th, 2019
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal |
http://showercapblog.com/the-one-with-brett-kavanaughs-junk/
So, I enjoyed a much-needed weekend away from the headlines, partaking of good music and good company at this year’s Riot Fest. Regrettably, I did not take any drugs while I was there, so I’m forced to conclude all this news I’m catching up on today is tragically real, rather than just the shittiest trip ever. Fuck.
We’ve all watched Beto O’Rourke emerge as a defiant voice for gun control these last few weeks, (I guess a white supremacist terror attack in your beloved hometown gets under your skin) and naturally the gun nut crowd is displeased. So displeased in fact, that some swollen buttpimple by the name of Briscoe Cain, who, despite a few readily-apparent personality disorders, has become a member of the Texas House of Representatives, threatened to murder him on Twitter. I dunno, if I was arguing to keep assault weapons legal, I would probably avoid making public death threats, but then, I suppose I would also be as malicious, stupid, and crazy as Briscoe Cain.
Deep State Judicial Wizards have resurrected a previously-dismissed emoluments clause lawsuit against the Marmalade Shartcannon, raising hopes that the rule of law might still be a thing. Remember back when “hey, the presidency isn’t an invitation to leave a bribe jar on the edge of the Resolute desk, asshole” was a bipartisan position?
Because we live in hell, our Dolt President is justifying his war on energy-efficient light bulbs by complaining that they make him look orange. Setting aside the catastrophic price all life on Earth is being asked to pay to feed a petty narcissist’s vanity, let me just point out that it isn’t the lighting that makes him look like a saggy, dead-eyed, mound of bacon grease with the pissed-in straw from the bottom of a rabbit cage on top, either.
Princess Ivanka told a roomful of megarich GOP donor jagoffs she got her moral compass from her father, which likely means he initially grabbed it out of some other woman’s pussy, possibly even while Ivanka’s mom was pregnant with her, and gave it to her as an Xmas gift. Anyway, that’s not a compass, that’s a plunger that’s been used so much it’s falling to pieces.
One of the cool things about Fux Nooz (if you’re absolutely fucking awful, anyway) is that you can go on and say “Hey, remember all the super-racist shit that one terrorist mass-murderer said to justify his racist terrorist mass-murder? I think he was super-right about that stuff!”
Job-Outsourcing Hitler Youth Tomi Lahren certainly took advantage of that opportunity, ranting about the need for all patriotic (white) Americans to keep small arsenals in order to shoot immigrants, and I’m sure it brings a smile to the El Paso terrorist’s face, seeing his beliefs parroted from such a potent platform.
But it’s not all waffles and stochastic terrorism over at Shart Garfunkel’s personal propaganda outlet, as a federal appeals court reinstated Seth Rich’s parents’ lawsuit, which will hopefully deter the right-wing shitbagosphere from further terrorizing grieving families with nutjob conspiracy theories designed to keep their rube audience in a state of perpetual frenzy. Looking at YOU, Alex Jones.
The parasitic Sackler family is using every arcane trick they can find to shuffle their money around in order to maintain the lavish lifestyle they’ve built for themselves atop an almost inconceivably high stack of American corpses.
Whether they’re transferring hundreds of millions to shady Swiss bank accounts or trying to minimize damages by having their opioid-dispensing murder machine, Purdue Pharma, file for bankruptcy, these tar-souled demons are just looking for a little discount on their long-overdue accountability, is that really any different than clipping the Sunday coupons?
An intelligence community whistleblower filed a complaint last month, but the DNI insists on hiding it from the American people and Congress, because look, Donald Trump is having a hard enough time making the case for re-election just with the crimes we already know about.
Similarly, Bronco Billy Barr says the House Judiciary Committee can’t see can’t see the grand jury files from the Mueller investigation because of whatever bullshit Calvinball rules he pulled out of his ass this time, because fuck you, we’re just running out the clock, whaddya gonna do about it, Nadler?
The Nazism is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE at the Department of Homeland Security, where some mystery fuckhead apparently felt comfortable tagging the joint with a swastika. DHS. I guess I was hoping the first fascist graffiti in the executive branch would pop up somewhere comparatively less horrifying, like maybe on the outside of Scott Pruitt’s old soundproof wank booth, but I suppose I really ought to be used to disappointment (and atrocity) by now.
So I guess I have to talk about Brett Kavanaugh’s penis now. We keep learning terrible new things about this penis. Things that are as far from “harmless fun” as they could possibly be, whatever the New York Times says.
It is a penis with a history of being shoved into the hands and faces of women who did not want Brett Kavanaugh’s penis shoved anywhere near them. It is a penis whose nefarious activities Brett Kavanaugh seems to have lied about, repeatedly, under oath, during his Senate confirmation hearings, which is a crime, and probably grounds for impeachment. It is a very bad penis indeed.
The Republican response to these new, credible, corroborated, allegations that absolutely fit a well-established pattern has been righteous indignation on behalf of the victims. Wait, that’s not quite right; I mean “righteous indignation on behalf of the abuser.” The GOP wants us to know the real (or “only”) victim here is the lying, drunken creep who has only ever wanted to use his position of privilege and power to make life shittier for all the little people.
Ted Cruz, taking a page from his Turd Emperor’s playbook, assaulted the media for conducting the investigation he and his stooge colleagues were so desperate to avoid. Lindsey Graham, still perplexed at women voters’ jarring shift away from his party in 2018, certainly isn’t going to let the “scurrilous accusations” of a common whore force him to do anything silly like “uphold the law.”
And we can now add what I’ll call the “Shapiro Standard” to the lexicon, thanks to Creeptastic Manboy Ben Shapiro’s skeevy insistence that no sexual assault accusation is credible if the victim can’t carve a perfect facsimile of the attacker’s genitals from a block of marble.
Yeah, Kavanaughty is such a fundamentally dishonest person, you wouldn’t trust him with manager’s keys at a 7-11, but Republicans think it’s appalling to suggest he shouldn’t remain one of the most powerful human beings in the world.
And Redactor General William Barr, looking to rub salt in America’s wounds, actually gave the team who shepherded the scummy little dirtbag’s confirmation through the Senate in spite of his crimes a prestigious award, usually reserved for badasss prosecutors who fuck up terrorists or organized crime rings, because turning the greatest democratic experiment in human history into a festering pile of rhino shit is the Republican Party’s motherfucking mission statement.
Following a drone attack on an oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, the Offal in the Oval took to the Pneumatic Tweeting Machine to proclaim, “Fear not, America, I am dutifully perched by the phone, awaiting instructions from my foreign paymasters,” further vowing to blindly accept the findings of the same murderous thugs who concluded Jamal Khashoggi ran into a doorknob and dismembered himself. Obviously, when he says “America first,” that wasn’t meant to cover the military chain of command, which, according the Constitution, ends in Riyadh.
(Starting a new Middle East war ten minutes after defenestrating John Bolton seems tauntingly cruel, like buying a child the pony they’ve always wanted, only to cook it and eat it right in front of them.)
One of the signs of Hairplug Himmler’s rapid mental decline is the increased sloppiness of the gaslighting. In attacking the dastardly fake news media for reporting that he would merrily meet with Iran with nary a pre-condition, the Dotard seems to have forgotten about all of the times he said he would do just that, with own little sphincter of a mouth.
In front of cameras. Or all the times he marched one of his toadies out to say so. Again, in front of cameras. Look, if you want to destroy the very idea of objective reality, put the fucking work in, you lazy lump.
Manhattan prosecutors have subpoenaed 8 years’ worth of Fat Q*Bert’s tax returns, and they’ve even ordered his lawyers to clean all the grubby, oddly-small, burger grease fingerprints off of ‘em before delivery.
Anyway, we’re probably less than a week away from Old Shartful ordering the entire U.S. Army to protect his most desperately-guarded criminal secrets from the long arm of the law.
Milo Yagotnoplatformnomo has officially been evicted from a furry convention, continuing the most hilarious and well-deserved downward spiral in human history. I sincerely hope this Scumbag Humiliation show gets renewed for several more seasons.
And just like that, all the pleasant feelings from my riotous weekend have been washed away in a flood of news sewage. Sigh. It’s vital to renew the soul from time to time, but the work remains, doesn’t it, Resisters?
PS – You should click on this.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/twitter-has-a-field-day-with-sean-spicers-dancing-with-the-stars-debut/
Nowhere in his post did he imply that, much less state it.
Calling attention to Trump's scuttling of the nuclear deal as contributing to the turmoil in the ME is, in fact, accurate.
Trump's an ignorant, stupid, insecure ass-clown.
It Is F*cking Insane That the United States Is Considering Bombing Another Country in the Middle East
It is even more nuts considering the country is Iran, a nation of 80 million people, and our commander-in-chief is flagrantly insane.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29067249/president-trump-iran-saudi-arabia/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=091619&utm_campaign=nl18040066&src=nl
By Jack Holmes
Sep 16, 2019
On this edition of America First, the President of the United States tweeted that we're "locked and loaded" to go to war with Iran and we're just waiting for Saudi Arabia to tell us what to do. This really is not an exaggeration. "Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked," Donald Trump said on the Tweet Machine.
"There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!"
Yes, we are waiting for word from Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman—the guy who allegedly orders journalists critical of him chopped up and thrown in an oven in the backyard of one of his ambassadors, who leads the regime that is helping to perpetuate a human-rights catastrophe in Yemen using American-made weapons, the same regime that just happens to be spending a fortune at Trump's hotels. If the crown prince gives us the go-ahead, we're bombing Iran! America First.
I'm old enough to remember when the president pushed out his bloodthirsty warmonger of a national security adviser, John Bolton, because Donald Trump is a non-interventionist who won't subjugate America's interests to those of its allies, or whatever.
Turns out the current American regime is only willing to strain our alliances with democratic members of NATO. With authoritarian states, we've got an unbreakable bond. Unless the bond is just with people who put money in our president's pocket. These are the kinds of questions we have to ask ourselves during The Great American Heist.[/b
]It's not yet entirely clear that Iran was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities, according to The New York Times. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen—one side in a proxy war between the Saudis and Iranians over who will control the region—have claimed responsibility, but U.S. officials dispute whether the group has the capability to carry out this kind of attack on its own. Either way, you can't expect the American president to wait for actual confirmation that something is true before he yells about it and possibly takes action.
Smoke billows last week from Saudi Aramco’s oil processing plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, which Trump administration officials say were attacked with drones and cruise missiles.
Certainly, he wouldn't wait for a silly little thing like a declaration of war—you know, an authority allotted to Congress as part of the Constitution’s separation of powers, a measure meant to stop a renegade executive from unilaterally jumping into an armed conflict against a nation of 80 million people.
There is no goddamned way that the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force—which should be repealed in the first place—applies to Iran. And for the record, Trump's predecessor liked an expansion of executive power as much as anybody—and he was a constitutional-law professor. It was Barack Obama who radically expanded the drone war and got our military operating in secret all over Africa.
This is where we remind ourselves that Iran is not Afghanistan, or even Iraq. It would likely make for a far more formidable opponent and, God forbid we tried it, another impossible occupation even once we "won."
Or maybe we'll just bomb their country, a drive-by like Trump ordered in Syria—in concert with France and the UK—earlier in his term. That would totally solve the problem, definitely would not get us sucked into another conflict, and most importantly, would make our president look tough. Or maybe this is all just bluster to begin with.
After all, the last time Trump was set to retaliate after Iran shot down a U.S. drone—Iran said it was in their airspace, while the U.S. said it was in international waters—he called off the strike at the last second with a story he thought made him look Very Presidential.
Oh, that's another element here: we're considering getting into armed conflict with Iran under a commander-in-chief who is completely insane. (Immediately after tweeting we are "locked and loaded," the president had a further message: "PLENTY OF OIL!")
Trump also believes reality itself is malleable and the truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe. Tensions re-escalated in the first place because Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal, the terms of which Iran was complying with, and slapped them with crippling sanctions to...get another deal?
You would think that, having just marked the 18th anniversary of September 11—a reminder we're now poised to send kids to Afghanistan who were not born when the attacks happened—we'd be a little more worried about getting pulled into another quagmire of death and suffering.
You would think that, at this point, we would be re-evaluating our strategy in the region, including our unbreakable bond with Saudi Arabia. And yet you could flip on Fox News this morning and find a Democratic senator from a solid-blue state mongering the war.
How many times are we going to do this? What is the best-case scenario if we enter armed conflict with Iran, which has missiles that can reach deep into Europe and a standing army of well over half a million people? Will we just bomb them and run? Will we try to topple the regime?
Who will rise to power in the vaccuum? What would victory even look like? Can anyone tell us what it will look like in the multiple armed conflicts we're already engaged in nearby? Have we learned fucking anything? How many American kids have to die in the sand and rock before we learn the United States cannot win when it starts blowing things up in the Middle East?
Posting another poster's IQ number is very unfair, very sad.
1. I take accuracy on a story by story basis, and there is no evidence that the media is grossly or even minimally misreporting Trump's fuck-ups and blatant lies.
2. If I PM you my address will you mail me the hallucinogens you are on that cause you to be believe the notoriously outlier 'pollster' Rasmussen?
There are NO other polls that show Trump more popular than Obama at this point in their respective presidencies.
And seriously, 'Metro Voice'?
MetroVoiceNews.com is the on-line edition of the Metro Voice newspapers. Metro Voice was established in 1989 as a regional non-denominational, faith-based community newspaper.
Metro Voice is a member of the Evangelical Press Association–an international organization comprised of the leading publications serving the Christian community.
https://metrovoicenews.com/about-us/
Yeah, that's as if my little blue Baltimore Catechism had a news section.
Nitwit extraordinaire.
Trump frequently cites Rasmussen, which Newsweek has called the president’s “favorite poll.” But Trump is cherry-picking.
Among 88 polls released this year, Rasmussen has the highest approval rating for Trump, according to Real Clear Politics. Three other recent polls have Trump’s latest approval as low as 39 percent: Gallup, NBC News/Wall Street Journal and Reuters/Ipsos. All three polls were taken this month.
If we look at Real Clear Politics’ average of polling data, Trump’s latest approval rating is 42.1 percent, a bit below the average of 44.3 percent on Jan. 27, 2017, a week after he took the oath of office.
Obama, meanwhile, had an average approval of 63.3 percent on Jan. 27, 2009, and an average of 47.7 percent on April 17, 2010, according to RCP.
FiveThirtyEight provides a weighted average of presidential approval polls and compares Trump’s figures with those of past presidents, going back to Harry S. Truman.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/presidential-approval-numbers/
The United States, once a champion of free expression, is now led by a man who says things like this:
“We certainly don’t want to stifle free speech, but ... I don’t think that the mainstream media is free speech ... because it’s so crooked. So, to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me, that’s very dangerous speech and you become angry at it.”
You Trumpanzee morons elected fuckin' Tarzan as your president.
You write bad about good. It dangerous, me angry.
"To me''?. Well, you dumb bastard, that's WHY we have a Bill of Rights and an appropriately prudent, drawn out, amendment process. So that you and the rest of the 'to me' geniuses have a chance, slim though it be with such limited cognitive skills, to be informed on the issue(s) at hand.
Really? Seeing something that the government claims is good and pointing out why it is bad is an essential function of journalism. Indeed, it is one of democracy’s most crucial safeguards. President Donald Trump cannot censor the media in America, but his words contribute to a global climate of contempt for independent journalism. Censorious authoritarians elsewhere often cite Mr Trump’s catchphrases, calling critical reporting “fake news” and critical journalists “enemies of the people”.
He's thinking, "aw shit, am I in the same frame?!"
Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Cool And Unusual Edition
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181261414
Tweet to follow from hubby:
Article one is not the dirty sock I left on the floor.
Article One of the United States Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment and the Senate the sole power to try impeachments of officers of the U.S. federal government.
The Cars' singer Ric Ocasek dead at 75 -- reports (updated)
You might think...…….it's a bad week for rock stars over age 70.
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Source: Omaha World Herald-AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Ric Ocasek, famed frontman for The Cars rock band, has been found dead in a Manhattan apartment.
The New York City police department said officers responding to a 911 call found the 75-year-old Ocasek at about 4 p.m. on Sunday. They said there was no sign of foul play and that the medical examiner was to determine a cause of death.
The Cars chart-topping hits in the late 1970s and 1980s included "Just What I Needed," ''Shake It Up" and "Drive." The band was inducted last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In May of 2018, model and actress Paulina Porizkova announced on social media that she and Ocasek had separated after 28 years of marriage. The pair first met while filming the music video for "Drive."
Rick Ocasek attends a media event prior to his art show 'Abstract Reality' at Wentworth Gallery on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142367987
NO, it does not follow. It took live hearings to publicly bring out the evidence against Nixon. Watch history repeat.
Instead of about a cheap burglary and coverup this one will be about grand theft, and coverup.
You're fucking kidding, right? Trump is and has been a self-dealing, lying, POS for his entire professional life.
He had a 'proclivity' to pay off a porn star days before the election.
He had a proclivity to use a Sharpie to falsify a federal doc.
There are enough obstructions of justice in the Mueller report to provide one impeachment count alone.
YOU have proclivities toward self-delusion, hypocrisy, double standards, false equivalence and moral imbecility.
no direct proclivities by your POTUS
They didn't? LOL!
Deep State intervened by spraying the Grand Jury with chemtrails?
Donald Trump is a deeply stupid man who routinely gets his ass kicked on the world stage
Mirrored by his supporters who also have a case of the 'deep stupid'.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/15/1885047/-Donald-Trump-is-a-deeply-stupid-man-who-routinely-gets-his-ass-kicked-on-the-world-stage
Donald Trump is a deeply stupid man who routinely gets his ass kicked on the world stage
Laurence Lewis for Daily Kos
Sunday September 15, 2019 · 11:40 AM EDT
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Republican presidents are dangerous to national and world security, but none more than Trump. By breaking the deal with Iran, Trump gave Iran the incentive to resume its arms program, which they have done. Which makes the world less safe. Because that's what Trump's ineptitude does: make the world less safe.
Trump's lickspittle Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was outraged that Iran was again ramping up its nuclear weapons program, nevermind why. And with tensions again rising, Trump did what he always does on the world stage: He got his ass kicked.
Now he's considering giving Iran $15 billion dollars in credit to get back in compliance with the deal with which it had always been in compliance—until Trump gave them the incentive not to be. That's Trump's artistry in making deals: getting his ass kicked.
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Trump's trade war already has cost 300,000 American jobs. And every time he opens his mouth about China, the American stock markets get spooked. And then after threatening to escalate his trade war, Trump backed down, and now desperately wants to find a way out of yet another crisis that is entirely of his own making. Because he has no idea what he’s doing. Because he is a deeply stupid man who routinely gets his ass kicked on the world stage.
This would be funny if it weren't so serious. Trump's trade war could devastate the American economy. A nuclear armed Iran would be bad for everyone. A North Korea that is ramping up its nuclear program is bad for everyone. And that the guy who sits at the big desk in the Oval Office is a deeply stupid man who routinely gets his ass kicked on the world stage also is bad for everyone.
Except for those foreign leaders who routinely kick his ass.
Bullshit. There ARE Russian GRU personnel indicted, Trump associates lying about their contacts with Russians also indicted and Putin in Helsinki stating that he wanted Trump to win.
Also, the treasonous POS you support lost the popular vote by nearly 3M votes.
You mean the way that Putin and the Russians did?
I hope he (as well as others)gets caught in his own biased scheme to thwart the will of the people.
'False accusations without recrimination' is a puzzler.
I guess Trump believes accusations, false or otherwise, deserve retaliatory accusations/tweets.
Definition of recrimination: a retaliatory accusation
Kabul Relieves Traffic Congestion By Creating Car Bomb Lane
Published 2 hours ago on September 15, 2019
By Jack S. McQuack
ABUL, Afghanistan — Residents of Kabul are enjoying shorter commute times on the Kandahar–Kabul Highway thanks to the recent completion of a designated car bomb toll lane, sources report.
“For over 18 years motorists had to endure expressways choked with vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), resulting in driver frustration, spilled coffee, and premature detonations due to excessive delays,” said Minster of Transportation and Civil Aviation Muhammad Hamid Tahmasi.
“Now,” continued Tahamsi, “with the patent-pending FastBlast® app, drivers can prepay their tolls and rest assured that they will reach their destination on-time and on-target.”
In addition to helping jihadists deliver their payloads in record time, the $2 billion project funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers is a surprising new stream of revenue for both the Afghan government and local businesses in the postwar draw down.
“We are definitely seeing a lot of new foreign investment in the fertilizer and ball bearing industries,” said Minister of Commerce and Industries Anwar ul-Haq Ahady. “Plus, we are providing generous electric car bomb incentives to help aspiring domestic terrorists ‘go green.'”
“Not to mention jobs in the local funeral industry are skyrocketing,” added Ahady. “Certainly a great time to not be alive!”
US officials applauded Afghanistan’s growing economy and voiced their commitment to its continued success by tentatively pledging billions of dollars to various local rebel factions for decades to come.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/09/kabul-relieves-traffic-congestion-by-creating-car-bomb-lane/