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Monday, February 6, 2017

Rule #1 for fascism: Marginalize the press. And now ALL polling negative to Trump is "fake news":

http://time.com/4660961/donald-trump-travel-ban-polls-fake-news/

Uh-Oh: Does Donald Trump Know How to Read?

This is pretty compelling evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd79UsXSLWg

A president who can barely read? Ugh. Well, we have one more thing to use to attack his self-esteem....

Trump sells out retirees to Wall Street and removes protections against economic collapse

Trump really does seem like a Russian agent trying to destroy the U.S. from within:

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/3/1629437/-Trump-sells-out-retirees-to-Wall-Street-and-removes-protections-against-economic-collapse

An insurgent in the White House

"In politics, chaos normally leads to failure."

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21716026-donald-trump-rages-against-world-he-inherited-president-americas-allies-are-worriedand

Republican Representatives Propose A Bill to Abolish The EPA

This is awful. I can't tell whether it's pure evil or sheer stupidity at work here:

https://futurism.com/republican-representatives-propose-a-bill-to-abolish-the-epa/

Sunday, February 5, 2017

‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’

This article by some of the people who know Trump best gives some wonderful insight into the morass that is Trump's mind:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trump-biographers-presidency-legitimate-214655

In The Age Of Trump, Thank God For James Comey

I was under the perception that three things were mostly responsible for sinking Clinton's election at the end: Comey and his timely updates on the investigation into Clinton's emails, Putin's meddling in the election through Wikileaks, and fake news. Well, according to this, Comey may not have been intentionally at fault:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/in-the-age-of-trump-thank-god-for-james-comey_us_5893e75ce4b02bbb1816b8ee

Trump Takes Propecia, A Hair-Loss Drug Associated With Mental Confusion, Impotence

This could explain a LOT:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-propecia-haiir-loss_us_58936376e4b06f344e4058a6

Congressional Republicans Continue Taking Heat Over Obamacare Repeal

This article talks about my congressman, Tom McClintock, who is, unfortunately, a Republican. But it's great to see locals taking him to task:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congressional-republicans-protests-obamacare_us_5896566ae4b0406131373bae?nvvlt46h5k0ara4i

Friday, February 3, 2017

PPP Poll 40% of voters want Trump Impeached

Another good sign:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/02/1629079/-PPP-Poll-40-of-voters-want-Trump-Impeached

Hill Republicans revolt over Trump's plans to build border wall

Republicans have the most power to wreck Trump's presidency, and this is a good start:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/border-wall-republicans/index.html

The Rise of Progressive 'Fake News'

This sucks. I try to avoid fake news, and will remove it if I inadvertently post any:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/viva-la-resistance-content/515532/?utm_source=

'Trump Adviser' Is a Contradiction in Terms (a.k.a: How to get rid of Steve Bannon)

The best way to get rid of white supremacist Steve Bannon is to give him more publicity than Trump:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-02/-trump-adviser-is-a-contradiction-in-terms

Time Magazine is off to a good start with its latest cover:

http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/

‘I will give you everything.’ Here are 282 of Donald Trump’s campaign promises.

A good list to keep an eye on in the coming weeks, months and years:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-will-give-you-everything-here-are-282-of-donald-trumps-campaign-promises/2016/11/24/01160678-b0f9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.c7d9f7d710f4

I hope I'm kidding about the years part....

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches

Abolishing separation of church and state? Even a conservative Supreme Court SHOULD strike that down:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/trump-johnson-amendment-political-activity-churches.html

Senate Democrats tweet out video calling out Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy in no uncertain terms

And then McConnell has the gall to claim Democrats are not playing nice:

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/1/1628713/-Senate-Democrats-tweet-out-video-calling-out-Mitch-McConnell-s-hypocrisy-in-no-uncertain-terms

(Watch the video)

Remember when Republicans weren't going to let Hillary Clinton have a SCOTUS appointment? Ever?

And here's an example of what will happen if Republicans aren't made to pay for their theft:

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/01/1628480/-Remember-when-Republicans-weren-t-going-to-let-Hillary-Clinton-have-a-SCOTUS-appointment-Ever

Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court Seat Was Stolen by Republicans

It just fucking frosts me, and there HAVE to be serious negative consequences for the Republicans or else it will only encourage further unacceptable behavior:

http://time.com/4656196/scotus-neil-gorsuch-geoffrey-stone/?xid=newsletter-brief

A Scientists’ March on Washington Is a Bad Idea

Oh, bugger:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/a-scientists-march-on-washington-is-a-bad-idea.html

Yeah, that's probably true. But damn it, we can't help it if reality has a liberal bias!

Trump’s Ban Has Republican Fingerprints All Over It

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2017/01/the-ban-is-a-republican-thing-not-just-a-trump-thing.html

And don't forget that Rudy Giuliani admitted they were working on a way to enact a ban on Muslims without calling it a ban on Muslims.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The psychology of why 94 deaths from terrorism are scarier than 301,797 deaths from guns

The statistics are clear, yet low-information voters are scared of the wrong things:

https://qz.com/898207/the-psychology-of-why-americans-are-more-scared-of-terrorism-than-guns-though-guns-are-3210-times-likelier-to-kill-them/

The odds:

"One in 6 million: Risk of dying in a plane hijacking, assuming you fly four times a month and hijackers destroy one plane every year. (Just to be clear, since 9/11, hijackers have not destroyed any flights in the US.)
One in 7,000: the risk of dying in a car accident in any given year
One in 600: the risk of dying from cancer in any given year"

And don't forget the 1 in 3.6 BILLION of being killed in a terrorist attack by a refugee.

How to Build an Autocracy

Your fresh scare for the day:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

Why Trump Won’t Serve His Full First Term

I certainly hope this is true...although the guy who will replace him could be worse:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-trump-wont-serve-his-full-1st-term_us_588ced75e4b06364bb1e2652

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Early Warning Signs of Fascism

This supposedly hangs in the US Holocaust Memorial:

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/

Welcome to Trump's America....

Hilarious old Donald Trump computer commercial and spoofs film Ghost.

How prescient can an old ad be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2coF40vSE&feature=youtu.be

Apparently, a lot: incompetence, ham-handedness, cheating by paying people off, breaking things he knows nothing about, and unwanted sexual advances. Yay.

AARP President: Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan Could Hurt Seniors

Seniors vote, so this could be influential:

http://time.com/4653571/aarp-paul-ryan-medicare/?xid=newsletter-brief

Monday, January 30, 2017

The Inevitability Of Impeachment

Music to my ears!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-inevitability-of-impeachment_us_588e8d52e4b0b065cbbcd09f

It takes a special kind of stupid to crash and burn this quickly. I wonder if any of his voters will experience the shame they so richly should feel.

Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon and the Coming Crisis in American National Life

Inside Bannon's thinking:

http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/

Let's hope he's kicked out when Drumpf gets impeached....

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Trump's debacles with the refugee ban

The results of one of Shitler's first actions:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-muslim-refugee-ban_us_588cb24ee4b0176377948a09

And the backlash:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/court-blocks-trump-refugee-ban_us_588d4b53e4b0b065cbbc6a6f

What would we do without the ACLU?

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Insidious!!

http://www.theonion.com/article/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-en-35788

Pro-life hypocrisy at its finest

Donald Trump Promised To Bring Back Jobs. For These Workers, He’s Taking Them Away.

Is there nothing he can't taint?:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hiring-freeze_us_588b9f18e4b08a14f7e5c121?eo3td6fsnf7nqxgvi

What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash

This free-market, cash-based system could result in better care and should appeal to Republicans...but it still ends up looking a lot like Obamacare:

http://time.com/4649914/why-the-doctor-takes-only-cash/

Republicans Trying To Replace Obamacare Still Don’t Have Any Idea What They’re In For

This could be the Republican Party's Waterloo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-retreat-obamacare-replacement_us_5888f549e4b0024605fd474a

I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah

This is long but truly creepy, frightening and important:

https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/

Breeding people to take over government for the religious right? Yikes.

Trump’s government looks an awful lot like a badly run business

There is too much damn shit that Trump keeps dishing out like a hippo with ebola, but some of them are worth reading if you've missed them, starting with this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-government-looks-an-awful-lot-like-a-badly-run-business/2017/01/26/8b9e4886-e40d-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.8ae27cbbc0a3

Jake Tapper's Response To Steve Bannon Is A Model For Journalists Everywhere

Short, sweet and to the point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J86ILX3-DTY

Trump punching bag

Nicely done cartoon:

https://www.facebook.com/rtpnoticias/videos/1213379418748419/

Friday, January 27, 2017

Trump Acts To Sabotage Obamacare Enrollment, Days Before Deadline

This is just dickish...and people will die as a result:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-enrollment_us_588a9451e4b0230ce61b0b40?vetgfi0iwyul92j4i

The Democratic Base Is Marching Right Past Its Leaders

The Democrat Tea Party, essentially:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-march-democrats-base_us_588a490ce4b061cf898d7e98

The magnitude of response is very encouraging.

West Wing leaker goes dark after pulling back the curtain: Trump "irrational", staff "demoralized"

It's schadenfreude time!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/26/1625349/-West-Wing-leaker-silenced-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-Trump-irrational-staff-demoralized

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Rnc Email Accounts

Hypocrisy, thy name is Trump:

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

Scientists Are Planning A March On Washington, And It Looks Like People Are Totally Down

This is SO damn important:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-planning-march-washington_us_5888f55de4b061cf898c487f?w01dag0uueopqfr

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump's Inauguration

So this is how it REALLY went down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneBUA39mnI

Do cake designs count as intellectual property?

First Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbiGsDMmCM

Then Trump basically used Bane's speech: http://theslot.jezebel.com/donald-trump-plagiarized-bane-in-his-inaugural-speech-1791429625

Now Trump has copied Obama's inauguration cake: https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/flip.it%2FbrsvKD-do-cake-designs-count-as-intellectual-p/f-9a48440c8a%2Fqz.com

Can we all agree that we hope Trump plagiarizes Elvis Presley's death? Like, soon?

Trump Fuming Over Women's March

A great The Young Turks report of what went on behind the scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciVG4b7P3I&feature=youtu.be

A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today

This is depressingly creepy. From Carl Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark":

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

How true. I can't believe I miss George W. Bush...well, at least by comparison.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

After Obamacare report, Republicans want to kill the CBO. Again.

This is a great breakdown of how the CBO has used basic math again and again to show the Republican position on healthcare to be a lie:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/17/1621637/-After-Obamacare-report-Republicans-want-to-kill-the-CBO-Again

So the idea of great bands putting on a free concert at the same time as the inauguration doesn't seem to be happening, but at least Shitler can't get any one to play for him. After losing a cover band, he's down to two has-been singers:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620758/-Yet-another-performer-backs-out-of-the-Inauguration-here-s-the-remaining-county-fair-line-up

But don't cry too much for him. Martin Shkreli will be at the inauguration:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/14/1620423/-Trump-Finally-Lands-An-A-list-Celebrity-To-Show-Up-At-His-Inauguration

The most hated man in America...how appropriate!

Republicans, in lather over question of Trump's legitimacy, want—wait for it—Obama to 'step up'

This is SO delicious:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620765/-Republicans-in-lather-over-question-of-Trump-s-legitimacy-want-wait-for-it-Obama-to-step-up

Hypocrisy and irony lightly blended together in a cool dessert topping for the shit-show mousse surprise!

Thursday, January 12, 2017

A Message To My Doomed Colleagues In The American Media

This is powerful, disturbing and insightful:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexey-kovalev/a-message-to-my-doomed-colleagues-in_b_14138842.html

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Donald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by Russia crime bosses

Surely there's enough evidence to demand full financial disclosure from Twitler. This should not even be a partisan issue:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses

Monday, January 9, 2017

Here Were McConnell's Requirements For Obama's Nominees

McConnell HAS to hold the record for ultimate political hypocrite. He refused to allow Obama's SCOTUS pick to come up for a vote, then got all upset when Democrats said they may reject Orange Hitler's nominee. Now there's this:

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/8/1618252/-Here-Were-McConnell-s-Requirements-For-Obama-s-Nominees

Trump to cede 13 Million jobs to China over next 4 years, in just one industry

The term "penny wise, pound foolish" was invented for people like the Wee-Handed Tangerine Tweet Monkey:

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/08/1618236/-Trump-to-cede-13-Million-jobs-to-China-over-next-4-years-in-just-one-industry

Thursday, January 5, 2017

History Won’t Forget How Barack Obama Was Treated

More Republican hypocrisy. It's actually hard to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i39IqeS8-4

A new brain study sheds light on why it can be so hard to change someone's political beliefs

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/28/14088992/brain-study-change-minds

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

"Billionaire" Trump Can't Pay His Transition Team's Salaries

Another hint that Trump is poor?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/2/1616547/--Billionaire-Trump-Can-t-Pay-His-Transition-Team-s-Salaries

Monday, January 2, 2017

Trump's Poor. And Putin knows it.

When Trump was roasted, he allowed people to make fun of his hair, his family, his taste, etc. But the one topic that was off-limits was to question his wealth. So naturally, that should be the one thing we question the most:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/31/1615891/-Trump-s-Poor-And-Putin-knows-it

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