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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #38: Wheel Of Corruption VIII: The Wrath Of Khan Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #38: Wheel Of Corruption VIII: The Wrath Of Khan Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! And no, I will not “Shazam” for more. Whatever that is. We are back in our home ladies and gentlemen! And this is the kind of audience you would get with a brand new Wednesday edition! Boy remind me never to take a week off again! Because holy fuck did I almost miss doing Top 10 style commentary on what could be the biggest cluster fuck of the Donald Trump campaign so far. And while I was putting together this edition, Donald Trump went and fucked up again, this time literally taking aim at Hillary Clinton. So this might be our biggest edition ever and I know I say that every time but bare with me. So we’re going to do something quite a bit different for this edition and that is that you guys and gals, frequent viewers of the Top 10 know that I always save the craziest thing for spot number 10 each week. And the reason I love doing that is because it gives me a chance to talk about off topic and non political stuff. But this week because the Donald Trump vs. Khan fight is the craziest story of the week, we are going to throw out our usual nonsense and dedicate all 10 slots to Donald Trump this week. That’s right – Donald Trump is taking not one, not two, not three, but all 10 slots! So to kick things off on this all Trump edition this week, we’re going to have Bill Maher explain to you why Donald Trump is the 1950s candidate of choice:
So where do we begin this week? So we’re going to bring back the wheel in order to tell of the biggest fuck up of the Donald Trump campaign so far. Donald Trump is of course taking up all 10 slots this week plus we have a bonus idiot for you. Obviously the first two slots are going to go to Donald Trump (1, 2) and his ongoing feud with the Khan family over his “support” of our fallen soldiers. Bravo, well done Trump, take a bow. Plus we have some late breaking news for you. Taking the 3rd slot, Donald Trump loses the feud between him and Mr. Khan, and is continuing to dig his own grave in the presidential race. In the number 4 slot, we’re going to show you the relationship between Donald Trump and Paul Ryan – and it’s not a very good one. In the number 5 slot we’re going to talk more random insanity surrounding the Trump campaign. At number 6 we’re going to talk about Donald Trump and his number 1 celebrity endorsement – Clint Eastwood. It seems Clint is sticking by Trumpenfuror after the whole Khan fiasco. In the number 7 slot we’re going to talk about Donald Trump’s (7) denouncement of our “pay to play” campaign finance system then announced his team of all male economic experts! At number 8 - we are going to talk about Donald Trump’s (8) wife Melania and her immigration status, among other things she might be lying about. At number 9 (NEIN!!!) I was originally going to cover Donald Trump and his sons' expensive hunting excursion to Canada, but we have to talk about this whole threatening Hillary Clinton thing. It's a fuck up too big to ignore and it cannot wait until next week. Finally this week we’re going to end on the lighter side and talk about Donald Trump (10) and the $400 million conspiracy theory, and we're also going to talk about Donald Trump and the Olympics - lots of craziness there. And we have a bonus idiot for you who’s not named Donald J. Trump. And to do this we’re going to bring back “People Who Somehow Got Elected”. And the subject? None other than Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell. Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Come on everybody say it with me – it’s time for the: WHEEL OF CORRUPTION!!!!!
And of course if we had a bigger budget we’d have our own graphics and theme music. The wheel is back everybody!! yes just like last time I’ll talk about whatever the wheel lands on. But remember that if it lands on the Guacamole option that it costs $1.50 extra. So this week the items on the wheel will be:
- Gun Nuts
- Go Directly To Jail
- Clip Without Context
- Guacamole
- 5,000
- Poison
- Poison (The Band)
- Community Chest
- Bankrupt
- Morally Bankrupt
- Satan
- Chance
- Buy A Vowel
- Donald Trump
- My Wife
- Food
- Whammy
- A Recent Study
- Constitution
- Guns
- VR Headset
- Babies
- Late Breaking News
- People Who Somehow Got Elected
- 10,000
- How Is This Still A Thing?
- Fox News
- Rocky
- 15,000
- Star Trek
- Congress
- Memorials
- Conspiracy Theories
- Khan
- Something random in the news
- ??? (Mystery)
- Florida (Obviously)
- Infowars
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin
Let’s get going! Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop!!! Clip without context!
Jesus… throwing veterans under the bus are you, Trumpenfuror? Well by now you should be well aware of the feud brewing between our possible future president Donald J. Trump and the family of fallen Islamic American soldier Humayun Khan, who lost his life defending America back in 2004 during a war that, as far as I last checked, is still going on! Well this is turning out to be quite the epic feud, and The Donald is firing on all fours, and well, failing big fucking time. Pass the butter.
In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that he’d “sacrificed nothing” for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.” He also suggested that Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan’s words were his own.
“Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it?” Trump said in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.”
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, his wife Ghazala by his side, recounted to the crowd how his son was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in Iraq.
Khan also chastised Trump for seeking to ban Muslims from entering the country, saying that his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051
“Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it?” Trump said in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.”
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, his wife Ghazala by his side, recounted to the crowd how his son was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in Iraq.
Khan also chastised Trump for seeking to ban Muslims from entering the country, saying that his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051
So this whole thing started when Khan was invited to speak at the DNC and then denounced Donald Trump and his anti-Islamic policies. I mean if you can’t support our nation’s US-born Islamic soldiers, who can you support? Well…
Khizr Khan, who denounced Trump at the Democratic Convention, said “an ethical, moral stand has to be taken, regardless of the political costs.”
Khan, the father of Muslim-American war hero Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq, implored Republican leaders of the Senate and House to disown their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, once and for all.
Appearing in his living room with his wife on MSNBC, Khan stared unwaveringly into the camera with watery eyes and asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.): “Isn’t this time to repudiate Trump?”
“If your candidate wins and he governs the way he has campaigned, my country, this country, will have constitutional crises never before in the history of this country, and my conscience compels me under these very difficult circumstances,” Khan said. “But there is so much at stake, and I appeal to both of these leaders, this is the time. There comes a time in the history of a nation where an ethical, moral stand has to be taken regardless of the political costs. The only reason they’re not repudiating his behavior, his threat to our democracy, our decency, our foundation, is just because of political consequences.”
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/khizr-khan-paul-ryan-mitch-mcconnell_us_579c1d52e4b0693164c1726f
Khan, the father of Muslim-American war hero Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq, implored Republican leaders of the Senate and House to disown their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, once and for all.
Appearing in his living room with his wife on MSNBC, Khan stared unwaveringly into the camera with watery eyes and asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.): “Isn’t this time to repudiate Trump?”
“If your candidate wins and he governs the way he has campaigned, my country, this country, will have constitutional crises never before in the history of this country, and my conscience compels me under these very difficult circumstances,” Khan said. “But there is so much at stake, and I appeal to both of these leaders, this is the time. There comes a time in the history of a nation where an ethical, moral stand has to be taken regardless of the political costs. The only reason they’re not repudiating his behavior, his threat to our democracy, our decency, our foundation, is just because of political consequences.”
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/khizr-khan-paul-ryan-mitch-mcconnell_us_579c1d52e4b0693164c1726f
Holy shit. He scared Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan shitless. But we’re still not done with the first part of this clusterfuck. So now the GOP is firing on all fours *AGAINST* Khan. I mean smear campaign is a go, people!!! So who have they got as an ally? How about RNC interrupter Roger Stone?
According to former Trump campaign staffer and key confidante Roger Stone, Democratic convention speaker Khizr Khan isn’t really just a father of a fallen soldier, he’s a Muslim Brotherhood sleeper agent hellbent on protecting Hillary Clinton.
Stone tweeted his theory Sunday night.
@RogerJStoneJr Mr. Khan more than an aggrieved father of a Muslim son- he's Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/amTCP …
The url in Stone’s tweet links to a website run by anti-Islam pundit Walid Shoebat, and co-run by his son Theodore Shoebat. The Shoebats argue that “Khan is a Muslim plant working with the Hillary Clinton campaign, probably for the interest of Muslim oil companies as well as Muslim immigration into the U.S.”
(…)
The site even attacks Captain Humayan Khan, the decorated soldier who died serving in Iraq. “In regards to his son, many were the ‘Muslim martyrs’ who joined the US military…” they argue. “Is it likely that Khan’s son was killed before his Islamist mission was accomplished? Only another type of investigation will determine that.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-ally-capt-khans-father-is-a-muslim-brotherhood-agent-helping-hillary/
Stone tweeted his theory Sunday night.
@RogerJStoneJr Mr. Khan more than an aggrieved father of a Muslim son- he's Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/amTCP …
The url in Stone’s tweet links to a website run by anti-Islam pundit Walid Shoebat, and co-run by his son Theodore Shoebat. The Shoebats argue that “Khan is a Muslim plant working with the Hillary Clinton campaign, probably for the interest of Muslim oil companies as well as Muslim immigration into the U.S.”
(…)
The site even attacks Captain Humayan Khan, the decorated soldier who died serving in Iraq. “In regards to his son, many were the ‘Muslim martyrs’ who joined the US military…” they argue. “Is it likely that Khan’s son was killed before his Islamist mission was accomplished? Only another type of investigation will determine that.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-ally-capt-khans-father-is-a-muslim-brotherhood-agent-helping-hillary/
?w=600
So to follow their logic – Khan was a devout Muslim. He served in the US Army. Therefore – he And remember – this is the guy whose claim to fame was that he was in a political sex scandal working for the Bob Dole campaign! Bob Dole!!! Why is my voice getting so high?
Conservatives really love has-beens, don’t they? But here’s the really fucked up thing about all of this – in pure Donald J. Trump fashion, he didn’t just keep up with the insults hurled at Khan, he doubled down:
Republican nominee Donald Trump, facing backlash over his controversial remarks about the family of slain Army Capt. Humayun Khan, continued to aggressively push back against critics this morning.
"Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!" Trump tweeted today in reference to an appearance that Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, the slain soldier's parents, were making on CNN's "New Day."
Khizr Khan used the opportunity to praise his son, describing him as a "wonderful, patriotic, deliberate" person. He criticized what he said was Trump's ignorance of the Constitution and said that Trump wanted "one set of rights for himself and another set of rights for others," referring to the First Amendment.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-doubles-criticism-khan-family-blow-back-continues/story?id=41041166
"Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!" Trump tweeted today in reference to an appearance that Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, the slain soldier's parents, were making on CNN's "New Day."
Khizr Khan used the opportunity to praise his son, describing him as a "wonderful, patriotic, deliberate" person. He criticized what he said was Trump's ignorance of the Constitution and said that Trump wanted "one set of rights for himself and another set of rights for others," referring to the First Amendment.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-doubles-criticism-khan-family-blow-back-continues/story?id=41041166
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin it to win it! And it lands on……………………… KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spin it again. And it lands on, well, morally bankrupt. Which is exactly what Donald Trump is. So let’s talk about how low Donald Trump’s polling numbers are among the African American community before we get into more Khan talk.
WASHINGTON ― Rounding out one of the worst weeks in his presidential campaign, Donald Trump faces yet another sad reality. According to new NBC/Wall Street Journal polling released Thursday, only 1 percent of black voters nationally support the Republican nominee.
This is the lowest level of support ever recorded among the demographic, indicating that a sentiment already present among black voters in swing states is widespread. Trump also suffers among Hispanic voters, garnering just 26 percent of their vote, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released earlier this week.
Generating support among voters of color ― whom Trump’s rhetoric habitually alienates ― is key to winning the general election. People of color constitute nearly one-third of eligible voters, making the 2016 electorate the most diverse in U.S. history. This renders it essential for Trump to secure higher numbers of those votes in order to win. President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the black vote and 71 percent of the Hispanic vote nationally in 2012; in 2008, he won over 95 and 67 percent, respectively. The most recent Republican president, George W. Bush, won over 11 percent of African-Americans and 44 percent of Hispanics support in 2004; in 2000 he won 9 and 35 percent, respectively.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-voters-trump_us_57a4a2a1e4b021fd98784a42
This is the lowest level of support ever recorded among the demographic, indicating that a sentiment already present among black voters in swing states is widespread. Trump also suffers among Hispanic voters, garnering just 26 percent of their vote, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released earlier this week.
Generating support among voters of color ― whom Trump’s rhetoric habitually alienates ― is key to winning the general election. People of color constitute nearly one-third of eligible voters, making the 2016 electorate the most diverse in U.S. history. This renders it essential for Trump to secure higher numbers of those votes in order to win. President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the black vote and 71 percent of the Hispanic vote nationally in 2012; in 2008, he won over 95 and 67 percent, respectively. The most recent Republican president, George W. Bush, won over 11 percent of African-Americans and 44 percent of Hispanics support in 2004; in 2000 he won 9 and 35 percent, respectively.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-voters-trump_us_57a4a2a1e4b021fd98784a42
So getting back into the Khan madness – no, we’re still not done. We have a lot to cover here.
In an interview today with a local ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, Donald Trump suggested that what angered critic Khizr Khan was Trump's aggressive efforts to prevent terrorists from entering the country.
"It's a very big subject for me, border security is very big. When you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else. And, you know, I’m not going to change my views on that. We have radical Islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. We’re taking them in by the thousands.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-khan-was-mad-i-ll-keep-out-terrorists
"It's a very big subject for me, border security is very big. When you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else. And, you know, I’m not going to change my views on that. We have radical Islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. We’re taking them in by the thousands.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-khan-was-mad-i-ll-keep-out-terrorists
Awwwwwwwwwww… Donald Trump thinks he can keep out terrorists by banning Muslims. Isn’t that special?
And it gets better – my favorite part of this whole feud has been that Trump thinks that he’s “made a lot of sacrifices”. “I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I have made the best sacrifices. Nobody makes better sacrifices than I do.”
(CNN)Donald Trump rejected a Muslim lawyer's assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the Republican nominee has "sacrificed nothing and no one."
"Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it?" Trump said in an interview with with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that will air Sunday. "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard."
Khizr Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan died in Baghdad in 2004, delivered one of the most powerful speeches of the Democratic National Convention. With his wife Ghazala at his side, Khan repeatedly blasted Trump's immigration proposals -- specifically those aimed at barring Muslims -- and said the billionaire businessman has "sacrificed nothing and no one."
Trump, in the ABC interview, said in response, "I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/index.html
"Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it?" Trump said in an interview with with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that will air Sunday. "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard."
Khizr Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan died in Baghdad in 2004, delivered one of the most powerful speeches of the Democratic National Convention. With his wife Ghazala at his side, Khan repeatedly blasted Trump's immigration proposals -- specifically those aimed at barring Muslims -- and said the billionaire businessman has "sacrificed nothing and no one."
Trump, in the ABC interview, said in response, "I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/index.html
Well he certainly didn’t serve in the military. He didn’t become a self made millionaire. So what sacrifices has Donald Trump made? #Trumpsacrifices
But oh no – we’re still not done! This is getting better and better. I can talk about these stories all night, give me some butter! This is turning into an all out brawl between Khzir Khan and Trump. Round 1!
Khizr Khan on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of dodging the Vietnam War draft, and said he shouldn't have accepted a Purple Heart given to him at a rally earlier in the day, deeming it the latest sign of his inability to empathize with parents of fallen soldiers.
"You dodged the draft," Khan, a Muslim whose son was slain in the Iraq War, said of Trump to CNN's Anderson Cooper. "Put that Purple Heart back on that person's chest."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/khizr-khan-donald-trump-purple-heart/index.html
"You dodged the draft," Khan, a Muslim whose son was slain in the Iraq War, said of Trump to CNN's Anderson Cooper. "Put that Purple Heart back on that person's chest."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/khizr-khan-donald-trump-purple-heart/index.html
Advantage: Khan!! Round 2:
The Twitterverse is trying to teach Donald Trump's spokeswoman Katrina Pierson a sassy history lesson.
In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four years before Obama was elected.
Now, #KatrinaPiersonHistory has been used more than 31,000 times, sarcastically claiming Obama was to blame for key moments in history.
The feud between Donald Trump and Ghazala and Khizr Khan, the parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, has dragged on in the days since they appeared at the Democratic National Convention and criticized the real estate mogul for “smears” of Muslims. Trump’s reactions have only led the issue to snowball as other Muslims and military groups call out Trump for what they call disrespect toward the Gold Star family.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-spokeswoman-blames-obama-for-captain-khans-death/ar-BBvb3JC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four years before Obama was elected.
Now, #KatrinaPiersonHistory has been used more than 31,000 times, sarcastically claiming Obama was to blame for key moments in history.
The feud between Donald Trump and Ghazala and Khizr Khan, the parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, has dragged on in the days since they appeared at the Democratic National Convention and criticized the real estate mogul for “smears” of Muslims. Trump’s reactions have only led the issue to snowball as other Muslims and military groups call out Trump for what they call disrespect toward the Gold Star family.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-spokeswoman-blames-obama-for-captain-khans-death/ar-BBvb3JC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
Trump wins this round. Round 3!
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/khizr-khan-donald-trump-black-soul/
Washington (CNN)Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim US soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said Sunday that Donald Trump has a "black soul," indicating he lacks empathy and compassion.
Khan told CNN's Jim Acosta on "State of the Union" that he hopes Trump's family will "teach him some empathy."
"He is a black soul, and this is totally unfit for the leadership of this country," Khan said. "The love and affection that we have received affirms that our grief -- that our experience in this country has been correct and positive. The world is receiving us like we have never seen. They have seen the blackness of his character, of his soul."
Khan moved into the national spotlight after he pulled out a pocket copy of the Constitution during his speech at the Democratic National Convention. He said Trump would have barred his Muslim family from entering the United States.
Khan said Sunday Trump's "policy, his practices, do not reflect that he has any understanding of the basic, fundamental constitutional principles of this country."
Washington (CNN)Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim US soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said Sunday that Donald Trump has a "black soul," indicating he lacks empathy and compassion.
Khan told CNN's Jim Acosta on "State of the Union" that he hopes Trump's family will "teach him some empathy."
"He is a black soul, and this is totally unfit for the leadership of this country," Khan said. "The love and affection that we have received affirms that our grief -- that our experience in this country has been correct and positive. The world is receiving us like we have never seen. They have seen the blackness of his character, of his soul."
Khan moved into the national spotlight after he pulled out a pocket copy of the Constitution during his speech at the Democratic National Convention. He said Trump would have barred his Muslim family from entering the United States.
Khan said Sunday Trump's "policy, his practices, do not reflect that he has any understanding of the basic, fundamental constitutional principles of this country."
Khan wins this round! Round 4!
The Clinton campaign became aware of Khan's story while preparing for her December speech in Minnesota. According to multiple aides, a member of Clinton's speech writing team came across a print interview where Khizr Khan described the 10 steps that his son, Humayun, took before his death.
It was immediately clear, aides said, how powerful Khan's story was.
"If you want to see the best of America," Clinton said, "you need look no further than Army Capt. Humayun Khan."
Shortly thereafter, Democratic Party representatives contacted Khizr Khan to ask if they could pay tribute to his son's memory at the party's mid-year meeting, Khan told CNN this week.
He agreed............
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/politics/2016-election-khizr-khan-donald-trump-muslim-ban/index.html
It was immediately clear, aides said, how powerful Khan's story was.
"If you want to see the best of America," Clinton said, "you need look no further than Army Capt. Humayun Khan."
Shortly thereafter, Democratic Party representatives contacted Khizr Khan to ask if they could pay tribute to his son's memory at the party's mid-year meeting, Khan told CNN this week.
He agreed............
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/politics/2016-election-khizr-khan-donald-trump-muslim-ban/index.html
Khan wins! It’s a TKO!!!
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin it to win it! And it lands on………… wait for it………….. Clip without context!
Spin it again! Donald Trump. So Donald Trump lost the one-man war against Khzir Khan, and we’ve already covered this extensively, but let’s cover exactly how far he dug himself into a hole. There’s:
Donald J. Trump’s unabashed and continuing hostility toward the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier, and his attacks on Republican leaders who have rebuked him for it, threaten to shatter his uneasy alliance with the Republican Party at the outset of the general election campaign.
Ignoring the pleas of his advisers and entreaties from party leaders in Washington, Mr. Trump only dug in further on Tuesday. He told a Virginia television station that he had no regrets about his clash with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq. And in an extraordinarily provocative interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Trump declined to endorse for re-election several Republicans who had criticized him, including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who both face primaries this month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0
Ignoring the pleas of his advisers and entreaties from party leaders in Washington, Mr. Trump only dug in further on Tuesday. He told a Virginia television station that he had no regrets about his clash with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq. And in an extraordinarily provocative interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Trump declined to endorse for re-election several Republicans who had criticized him, including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who both face primaries this month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0
And how far else has he gone? Well….
Donald J. Trump’s unabashed and continuing hostility toward the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier, and his attacks on Republican leaders who have rebuked him for it, threaten to shatter his uneasy alliance with the Republican Party at the outset of the general election campaign.
Ignoring the pleas of his advisers and entreaties from party leaders in Washington, Mr. Trump only dug in further on Tuesday. He told a Virginia television station that he had no regrets about his clash with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq. And in an extraordinarily provocative interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Trump declined to endorse for re-election several Republicans who had criticized him, including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who both face primaries this month.
He also belittled Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who had criticized his treatment of the Khans, for not being supportive of his campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0
Ignoring the pleas of his advisers and entreaties from party leaders in Washington, Mr. Trump only dug in further on Tuesday. He told a Virginia television station that he had no regrets about his clash with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq. And in an extraordinarily provocative interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Trump declined to endorse for re-election several Republicans who had criticized him, including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who both face primaries this month.
He also belittled Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who had criticized his treatment of the Khans, for not being supportive of his campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-gop.html?_r=0
Just keep digging there, Trump. You’ll reach the bottom of the earth eventually.
There’s always that. But how does Donald Trump’s campaign feel about this?
Following a week of high-profile blunders, Donald Trump’s antics have left the chair of the Republican National Committee “apoplectic” and his own aides “suicidal,” according to several reports.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus was reportedly “apoplectic” over Trump’s bucking the party line by refusing to back House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) or Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for re-election and called several of Trump’s staffers to voice his discontent, according to NBC's Katy Tur.
A longtime ally of top Trump staffer Paul Manafort also told CNBC’s John Harwood that Manafort is “not challenging Trump anymore” and is “mailing it in,” while the campaign staff is “suicidal."
NBC News’ Peter Alexander tweeted that an anonymous source confirmed “it’s all true” about Harwood’s reporting and that the situation is “way worse than people realize.” Manafort, for his part, denied Harwood's report.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rnc-chair-trump-staff-implosion-after-week-of-blunders
RNC Chair Reince Priebus was reportedly “apoplectic” over Trump’s bucking the party line by refusing to back House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) or Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for re-election and called several of Trump’s staffers to voice his discontent, according to NBC's Katy Tur.
A longtime ally of top Trump staffer Paul Manafort also told CNBC’s John Harwood that Manafort is “not challenging Trump anymore” and is “mailing it in,” while the campaign staff is “suicidal."
NBC News’ Peter Alexander tweeted that an anonymous source confirmed “it’s all true” about Harwood’s reporting and that the situation is “way worse than people realize.” Manafort, for his part, denied Harwood's report.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rnc-chair-trump-staff-implosion-after-week-of-blunders
Yes, the campaign is in turmoil. And they certainly don’t need Will Smith laying the smack down on Trum and his fans:
http://www.someecards.com/news/politics/will-smith-trumps-treatment-of-women/
Sixteen years into the Willennium, Earth is reckoning with the candidacy of one Donald J. Trump, and Will Smith is outraged over his treatment of women.
Making the rounds promoting his new film Suicide Squad (in case you haven't already seen the trailer before every YouTube video), Smith spoke up about the way Trump speaks about womankind.
“For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary. And for people to applaud, that is absolutely f**king insanity to me,” an emotional Smith told Australia's news.com.au.
Sixteen years into the Willennium, Earth is reckoning with the candidacy of one Donald J. Trump, and Will Smith is outraged over his treatment of women.
Making the rounds promoting his new film Suicide Squad (in case you haven't already seen the trailer before every YouTube video), Smith spoke up about the way Trump speaks about womankind.
“For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary. And for people to applaud, that is absolutely f**king insanity to me,” an emotional Smith told Australia's news.com.au.
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Come on spin that shit…. Stop! And it lands on……….. babies!
Oh wait, that was a clip from the hilarious 2012 Will Ferrell flick “The Campaign” (if you haven’t seen it yet I highly recommend doing so!). Here’s the clip I was looking for:
You know if we’re going to kick a crying baby out of a Donald Trump rally, shouldn’t we start at least with the guy who’s speaking at the podium? Hey o!!!!
And by the way I think even Trumpenfuror has a low opinion among babies if these photos are any indication:
Spin it again! Congress. You know the funny thing about that baby clip from the Trump campaign so far? He ejected a crying baby after saying he loves babies. “The best babies come from Trump tower… I love babies!!!”. So what about another big baby in government? I’m of course talking about House speaker and current stand-in for White Goodman in the Dodgeball sequel, Paul Ryan. So did Paul Ryan endorse Donald J. Trump for president and did Donald J. Trump endorse Paul Ryan in his reelection bid, or did neither of these things happen?
Donald Trump is refusing to back House Speaker Paul Ryan in his upcoming primary election, saying that he is “not quite there yet” in endorsing his party’s top-ranking elected official, the Washington Post reports.
In fact, Trump praised Ryan’s underdog opponent, Paul Nehlen, for running “a very good campaign.”
Said Trump: “I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country. We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I’m just not quite there yet. I’m not quite there yet.”
https://politicalwire.com/2016/08/02/trump-refuses-to-support-ryan-in-primary/
In fact, Trump praised Ryan’s underdog opponent, Paul Nehlen, for running “a very good campaign.”
Said Trump: “I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country. We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I’m just not quite there yet. I’m not quite there yet.”
https://politicalwire.com/2016/08/02/trump-refuses-to-support-ryan-in-primary/
But Donald Trump didn’t endorse Paul Ryan in his reelection bid! In fact there’s far more to this than it may seem:
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is testing just how far he can push his unconventional campaign without wrecking it.
The Republican nominee shattered traditional political boundaries Tuesday when he told The Washington Post he isn't backing House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain as they face primary challenges. The two leading Republicans seemingly angered Trump with their denunciation of his criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier.
Trump's comments -- delivered to a newspaper he's banned from attending his events since mid-June -- capped a bizarre day on the campaign trail that also included asking for a crying baby to be removed from a rally and causing a stir over Purple Heart recipients.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/donald-trump-paul-ryan-john-mccain-election-2016/
The Republican nominee shattered traditional political boundaries Tuesday when he told The Washington Post he isn't backing House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain as they face primary challenges. The two leading Republicans seemingly angered Trump with their denunciation of his criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier.
Trump's comments -- delivered to a newspaper he's banned from attending his events since mid-June -- capped a bizarre day on the campaign trail that also included asking for a crying baby to be removed from a rally and causing a stir over Purple Heart recipients.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/donald-trump-paul-ryan-john-mccain-election-2016/
And we’re still not done yet. Why yes Donald Trump does indeed think that the former head of the CIA is a – and I’m quoting – “Clinton – Obama pawn”.
After former CIA head Mike Morell endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in an op-ed and accused Donald Trump of being an unwitting agent of the Russians, Trump hit back in a statement denouncing Morell as just another Clinton pawn.
“Hillary Clinton and President Obama bear the direct responsibility of destabilizing the Middle East, having let ISIS take firm hold and Iraq, Libya and Syria, not to mention their allowing Americans to be slaughtered at Benghazi,” Trump began.
“Clinton’s home email server that she lied to the American people about was a profound national security risk, and it should come as no surprise that her campaign would push out another Obama-Clinton pawn (who is not independent) to try to change the subject in a week when Clinton’s role in putting Iran on the path to nuclear weapons and this Administration’s being called out for sending $400 million in cash to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism is on every front page in the country,” he continued.
“Hillary Clinton has bad judgment and is unfit to serve as president,” Trump concluded simply.
http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/trump-hits-back-at-former-cia-chief-mike-morell-another-obama-clinton-pawn/
“Hillary Clinton and President Obama bear the direct responsibility of destabilizing the Middle East, having let ISIS take firm hold and Iraq, Libya and Syria, not to mention their allowing Americans to be slaughtered at Benghazi,” Trump began.
“Clinton’s home email server that she lied to the American people about was a profound national security risk, and it should come as no surprise that her campaign would push out another Obama-Clinton pawn (who is not independent) to try to change the subject in a week when Clinton’s role in putting Iran on the path to nuclear weapons and this Administration’s being called out for sending $400 million in cash to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism is on every front page in the country,” he continued.
“Hillary Clinton has bad judgment and is unfit to serve as president,” Trump concluded simply.
http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/trump-hits-back-at-former-cia-chief-mike-morell-another-obama-clinton-pawn/
Wow, the guy who has literally been calling just about everyone and everything names, said horrible shit about the family of a deceased soldier, is calling Hillary “unfit to serve”?
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy stop! Wow, another clip without context! Steve?
Detroit Rock Titties!
Spin it again. Donald Trump. So one question that hasn’t been asked yet of supporters of possible future president Donald J. Trump – why do you not care about the facts? Well the Washington Post has some answers:
How did Donald Trump win the Republican nomination, despite clear evidence that he had misrepresented or falsified key issues throughout the campaign? Social scientists have some intriguing explanations for why people persist in misjudgments despite strong contrary evidence.
Trump is a vivid and, to his critics, a frightening present-day illustration of this perception problem. But it has been studied carefully by researchers for more than 30 years. Basically, the studies show that attempts to refute false information often backfire and lead people to hold on to their misperceptions even more strongly.
This literature about misperception was lucidly summarized by Christopher Graves, the global chairman of Ogilvy Public Relations, in a February 2015 article in the Harvard Business Review, months before Trump surfaced as a candidate. Graves is now writing a book about his research at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-facts-dont-matter-to-trumps-supporters/2016/08/04/924ece4a-5a78-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Trump is a vivid and, to his critics, a frightening present-day illustration of this perception problem. But it has been studied carefully by researchers for more than 30 years. Basically, the studies show that attempts to refute false information often backfire and lead people to hold on to their misperceptions even more strongly.
This literature about misperception was lucidly summarized by Christopher Graves, the global chairman of Ogilvy Public Relations, in a February 2015 article in the Harvard Business Review, months before Trump surfaced as a candidate. Graves is now writing a book about his research at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-facts-dont-matter-to-trumps-supporters/2016/08/04/924ece4a-5a78-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
And we’re still not done with all the crazy stuff Donald J. Trump has been doing in the last week. I mean there’s nothing wrong with the Constitution right? I mean it’s the US Constitution! It’s the document that makes us, us! Well Donald J. Trump won’t have any of it:
Portland, Maine (CNN)A group of protesters at Donald Trump's rally here on Thursday stood up silently during the Republican nominee's speech and held up pocket copies of the Constitution.
They were quickly ejected by campaign staffers and drew fierce boos and jeers from the roughly 1,800 Trump supporters packed into the auditorium, the capacity of the venue.
The seven protesters held up pocket copies of the Constitution issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. It was not immediately clear whether the demonstrators were affiliated with a particular organization.
The ACLU responded on Twitter, saying: "Glad to see people are standing up for constitutional principles using their ACLU pocket Constitutions!"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/politics/donald-trump-protests-constitution/
They were quickly ejected by campaign staffers and drew fierce boos and jeers from the roughly 1,800 Trump supporters packed into the auditorium, the capacity of the venue.
The seven protesters held up pocket copies of the Constitution issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. It was not immediately clear whether the demonstrators were affiliated with a particular organization.
The ACLU responded on Twitter, saying: "Glad to see people are standing up for constitutional principles using their ACLU pocket Constitutions!"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/politics/donald-trump-protests-constitution/
But for those wondering about Donald Trump and the Constitution, why yes he does in fact hate free speech! Just like a good wannabe dictator should!
Voters on the political right finally believe they have found their weapon in beating back a scourge of social justice both online and in demonstrations across the country, and they believe that weapon is Donald Trump. To hear it told, the brash, supposedly un-PC outsider is just the ticket that conservatives need if they are to restore balance to the societal scale and end the shame-based culture of social justice. But a closer look at Donald Trump’s actions and words clearly show a disturbing pattern: Not only is he a long way from being the proud free-speech activist he claims to be, but he is in fact the most politically correct candidate running for the presidency in 2016.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432848/donald-trump-opposes-free-speech-pc-left
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432848/donald-trump-opposes-free-speech-pc-left
That is some scary shit there. Yes Donald Trump has a right to say what he says, but is there such a thing as going too far?
But getting back to pocket constitutions – you know these are the same things that the Bundy bunch carried around with them when they declared themselves above the law. In fact there’s more to this than you might think. And of course just like everyone else Trumpenfuror doesn’t agree with, he had them removed:
Hillary Clinton also had to deal with protesters while stumping.
Donald Trump was interrupted numerous times on Thursday while stumping in Portland, Maine.
A group of people were removed from the event, all holding pocket Constitutions, a nod to the now-iconic moment by the father of a fallen U.S. soldier who spoke during the Democratic National Convention, blasting Trump for his anti-immigration rhetoric.
It appears at one point, one of the protesters had a whistle. The protesters were booed and called "traitors" as they were removed.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/protesters-pocket-constitutions-removed-donald-917336
Donald Trump was interrupted numerous times on Thursday while stumping in Portland, Maine.
A group of people were removed from the event, all holding pocket Constitutions, a nod to the now-iconic moment by the father of a fallen U.S. soldier who spoke during the Democratic National Convention, blasting Trump for his anti-immigration rhetoric.
It appears at one point, one of the protesters had a whistle. The protesters were booed and called "traitors" as they were removed.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/protesters-pocket-constitutions-removed-donald-917336
And then this is my favorite part - Donald Trump says he would "absolutely debate Hillary Clinton" but he has conditions. And they're the best conditions. Nobody has better conditions than he does.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will commit to three debates this fall with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but may try to re-negotiate the terms that have been agreed upon by a bipartisan commission.
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump told TIME in a phone interview. “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions.”
“I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember? They were making a fortune on them and they had us in for three and a half hours and I said that’s ridiculous,” Trump said. “I’m sure they’ll be open to any suggestions I have, because I think they’ll be very fair suggestions. But I haven’t yet. They’re actually presented to me tonight.”
Read more: http://time.com/4445182/donald-trump-debate-terms/
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump told TIME in a phone interview. “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions.”
“I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember? They were making a fortune on them and they had us in for three and a half hours and I said that’s ridiculous,” Trump said. “I’m sure they’ll be open to any suggestions I have, because I think they’ll be very fair suggestions. But I haven’t yet. They’re actually presented to me tonight.”
Read more: http://time.com/4445182/donald-trump-debate-terms/
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin it again! Cool, I get a bonus spin. And it lands on………… memorials. Damn. You know folks I have to pay my respects to one of the greats that we lost this last week. What has to be one of my favorite movies of all time – the Big Lebowski. RIP David Huddleston.
Huddleston, who portrayed another blowhard — Mayor Olsen Johnson, one of the many Johnsons in town — in the Mel Brooks comedy classic Blazing Saddles (1974), died Tuesday of heart and kidney disease in Santa Fe, N.M., his wife Sarah told The Hollywood Reporter.
In The Big Lebowski, inspired by the noirish work of Raymond Chandler, Huddleston played a multimillionaire (or so he appeared) who shared the last name of the film's protagonist, the hippie Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges). Julianne Moore portrayed his daughter.
In a career of more than 60 films, his breakthrough role came as a vicious gang leader with a sense of humor in Robert Benton’s directorial debut, the Civil War-set Bad Company (1972), which also starred Bridges.
Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-huddleston-dead-big-lebowski-917418
In The Big Lebowski, inspired by the noirish work of Raymond Chandler, Huddleston played a multimillionaire (or so he appeared) who shared the last name of the film's protagonist, the hippie Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges). Julianne Moore portrayed his daughter.
In a career of more than 60 films, his breakthrough role came as a vicious gang leader with a sense of humor in Robert Benton’s directorial debut, the Civil War-set Bad Company (1972), which also starred Bridges.
Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-huddleston-dead-big-lebowski-917418
If you haven’t seen the Big Lebowski it’s easily one of the best movies of the last 20 years. If you have seen it go rewatch it. What are you waiting for? Stop viewing my nonsense. Go watch a great movie and remember a great character actor. I’ll sit here and play Angry Birds while I wait.
Spin it again! Morally bankrupt. You know Donald Trump just can’t stop provoking Hillary Clinton, and every time he does he loses. So who is endorsing Donald Trump with a fiery fury like no other? Why it’s Mr. Dirty Harry himself – Clint “Empty Chair” Eastwood!
NEW YORK — Clint Eastwood has stopped short of endorsing Donald Trump, but in an interview in Esquire magazine he praised the Republican presidential candidate for being “on to something.”
In the interview posted online Wednesday, the actor-director hailed Trump as a foe of political correctness and lamented what he called “the kiss-ass generation.”
“Everybody’s walking on eggshells,” said Eastwood, 86. “We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
http://time.com/4438268/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-2016-election/?xid=homepage
In the interview posted online Wednesday, the actor-director hailed Trump as a foe of political correctness and lamented what he called “the kiss-ass generation.”
“Everybody’s walking on eggshells,” said Eastwood, 86. “We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
http://time.com/4438268/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-2016-election/?xid=homepage
Yes! The “Get Off My Lawn” guy doesn’t see racism. I mean it’s black and white folks. I mean… bad choice of words. I mean… um… shit!
But what is Donald Trump onto? He wasn’t exactly clear about that. And of course rather than apologize, he says “get the fuck over it”!
Clint Eastwood thinks America’s “pussy generation” needs to “just f–ing get over” Donald Trump’s “racism.”
In an interview with Esquire published Wednesday, the actor/director/producer said young America — which he has dubbed both the “kiss-ass” and “pussy” generation — needs to stop throwing the word “racist” around so freely.
“ onto something, because secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up,” he said. “We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
http://www.thewrap.com/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-racism/
In an interview with Esquire published Wednesday, the actor/director/producer said young America — which he has dubbed both the “kiss-ass” and “pussy” generation — needs to stop throwing the word “racist” around so freely.
“ onto something, because secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up,” he said. “We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
http://www.thewrap.com/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-racism/
And the Khans were exploited at DNC:
Clint Eastwood, who spurred a social media storm with comments during his interview with Esquire magazine, says the grieving military family featured during the Democratic National Convention and then embroiled in a war of words with Donald Trump was “exploited” by the DNC.
“What do I care?” Eastwood said when a cameraman caught up with him after the social media firestorm and asked if he feared young people would stay away from his movies.
http://buzz.blog.ajc.com/2016/08/04/clint-eastwood-says-grieving-military-family-was-exploited-at-dnc/
“What do I care?” Eastwood said when a cameraman caught up with him after the social media firestorm and asked if he feared young people would stay away from his movies.
http://buzz.blog.ajc.com/2016/08/04/clint-eastwood-says-grieving-military-family-was-exploited-at-dnc/
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin it to win it! And it lands on…………… Chance! Let’s draw a card shall we?
Cool. I’ve been elected chairman of the board of directors. I may have to pay each of you $50, but I get that big $7,000,000 annual salary! And if I fuck up I get to leave the company with a $63,000,000 bonus and lifetime benefits like use of the private jet!
Damn. Spin it again! Donald Trump! Wait, didn’t we already do Donald Trump already? Is the wheel broken? Can we get my team out here to fix it again? I’ll wait.
OK we’re back! Well it is a wheel, it only has a finite number of items on it. So Donald Trump recently unveiled his all male economic team. Anyone remember that movie Dodgeball when they decide to hold a fundraising car wash and get crushed when some hot girls hold their own car wash across the street? I mean yeah this is kind of like that.
Donald Trump's campaign on Friday announced more than a dozen members of the Republican nominee's all-male economic advisory team, including several prominent real-estate investors, hedge-fund managers and bankers.
Names on the list, which the Trump campaign boasted as having "unparalleled experience and success in business" include Steve Roth, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust; oil and gas tycoon Harold Hamm; Vector Group President and CEO Howard Lorber; Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance director and chairman/CEO of Dune Capital; top fundraiser Tom Barrack, the founder and chief executive at Colony Capital; Stephen M. Calk, chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank; John Paulson, president and CEO of investment firm Paulson & Co.; Andy Beal, a banker, businessman and poker player; and Steve Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-economic-advisory-team-226709
Names on the list, which the Trump campaign boasted as having "unparalleled experience and success in business" include Steve Roth, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust; oil and gas tycoon Harold Hamm; Vector Group President and CEO Howard Lorber; Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance director and chairman/CEO of Dune Capital; top fundraiser Tom Barrack, the founder and chief executive at Colony Capital; Stephen M. Calk, chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank; John Paulson, president and CEO of investment firm Paulson & Co.; Andy Beal, a banker, businessman and poker player; and Steve Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-economic-advisory-team-226709
And of course as you may have guessed they are his biggest donors:
After spending months scolding his rivals for being beholden to their financial backers, Donald Trump unveiled an economic advisory council last week — and filled it with some of his biggest donors.
Of the 13 men — and they are all men — that Trump touted as economic advisers for their “unparalleled experience and success,” five are major donors whose families combined to give Trump’s campaign and his joint fundraising account with the Republican Party more than $2 million. Two more have been pursued for campaign contributions.
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Among those Trump tapped for his economic advisory council is Steven Mnuchin, who, as Trump’s national finance director, is the point man for soliciting campaign cash across the nation. Mnuchin gave Trump $425,000 at the end of June. Others big donors on Trump’s economic advisory team include:
— Stephen Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, who contributed $339,400 to Trump Victory, the Republican’s nominee joint fundraising account with the national and state Republican parties. Feinberg's wife gave another $339,400.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trumps-economic-advisers-are-also-his-biggest-donors-226758
Of the 13 men — and they are all men — that Trump touted as economic advisers for their “unparalleled experience and success,” five are major donors whose families combined to give Trump’s campaign and his joint fundraising account with the Republican Party more than $2 million. Two more have been pursued for campaign contributions.
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Among those Trump tapped for his economic advisory council is Steven Mnuchin, who, as Trump’s national finance director, is the point man for soliciting campaign cash across the nation. Mnuchin gave Trump $425,000 at the end of June. Others big donors on Trump’s economic advisory team include:
— Stephen Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, who contributed $339,400 to Trump Victory, the Republican’s nominee joint fundraising account with the national and state Republican parties. Feinberg's wife gave another $339,400.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trumps-economic-advisers-are-also-his-biggest-donors-226758
And in case you were wondering, why yes, Donald Trump’s economic advisors are the same group who ruined Kansas’ economy:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trumps-economic-team-is-loaded-with-the-same-tea-party-cranks-who-destroyed-kansas-economy/
By now, we all know that Governor Sam Brownback’s Tea Party “experiment” in Kansas has been an abject failure.
Actually, scratch that: There is someone who still thinks Brownback’s Kansas disaster has been a smashing success, and he happens to be a Heritage Foundation economist who is one of Donald Trump’s top economic advisers.
As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities documents, top Trump economics adviser Stephen Moore has been instrument
By now, we all know that Governor Sam Brownback’s Tea Party “experiment” in Kansas has been an abject failure.
Actually, scratch that: There is someone who still thinks Brownback’s Kansas disaster has been a smashing success, and he happens to be a Heritage Foundation economist who is one of Donald Trump’s top economic advisers.
As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities documents, top Trump economics adviser Stephen Moore has been instrument
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Entering the spin zone! Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. Rocky! It seems nobody likes cold blooded murderers like George Zimmerman and Dylan Roof. So this happened:
The man who said he shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in self-defense said he was punched in the face while he was talking to people at a restaurant in Sanford over the weekend.
George Zimmerman called 911 after a man accusing him of bragging about the fatal shooting punched him in the face, authorities said.
http://www.wftv.com/news/officials-george-zimmerman-punched-in-face-for-allegedly-bragging-about-killing-trayvon-martin/417278308
George Zimmerman called 911 after a man accusing him of bragging about the fatal shooting punched him in the face, authorities said.
http://www.wftv.com/news/officials-george-zimmerman-punched-in-face-for-allegedly-bragging-about-killing-trayvon-martin/417278308
And in this corner:
The hate-filled racist accused of slaughtering nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church last year was roughed up Thursday in a jail bathroom, officials said.
Dylann Roof, who is white, was sucker-punched in the shower by a black inmate inside the Charleston County Detention Center around 7:45 a.m., according to Sheriff Al Cannon..
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dylann-roof-assaulted-inmate-charleston-jail-article-1.2738424
Dylann Roof, who is white, was sucker-punched in the shower by a black inmate inside the Charleston County Detention Center around 7:45 a.m., according to Sheriff Al Cannon..
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dylann-roof-assaulted-inmate-charleston-jail-article-1.2738424
Spin it again! My wife.
More specifically – Donald Trump’s wife. Melania. Who you know was caught plagiarizing and rick rolling the crowd at the RNC.
And who did they blame it on? Well specifically they blamed it on longtime speech writer Merideth McIver. Well, the good folks at Twitter found out that – wait for it – Merideth McIver doesn’t exist. Yay!!!!
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/twitter-suspends-account-of-melania-trump-speechwriter-meredith-mciver-who-probably-isnt-a-real-person/25566/
Days after Melania Trump gave a Republican National Convention speech which was plagiarized from an eight year old Michelle Obama speech, the Trump Organization laid the blame on her longtime speechwriter Meredith McIver. The trouble: no such person appeared to exist. Various pages depicting her life were discovered to have only been created after she was assigned the blame for the plagiarism, including a Twitter account which she primarily used to keep insisting that she was in fact a real person. But it appears that Twitter’s management has ultimately reached the opposite conclusion, suspending the account in question.
Days after Melania Trump gave a Republican National Convention speech which was plagiarized from an eight year old Michelle Obama speech, the Trump Organization laid the blame on her longtime speechwriter Meredith McIver. The trouble: no such person appeared to exist. Various pages depicting her life were discovered to have only been created after she was assigned the blame for the plagiarism, including a Twitter account which she primarily used to keep insisting that she was in fact a real person. But it appears that Twitter’s management has ultimately reached the opposite conclusion, suspending the account in question.
But that isn’t the only thing Mrs. Trump has been lying about. In fact she lies about everything and anything. Like what about the college she claims to have graduated from?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-college-claims_us_578dd95ce4b0c53d5cfac0dc?section=
Her bio on her professional site says she graduated, her biographers and wiki page says she didn't. Sounds like some major inconsistencies surfacing here.
-----my own take:
There is a growing contention that Mrs. Trump is lying about having completed college in Slovenia.
If this is true that means that a presidential candidate himself, Donald J. Trump, is most certainly involved in knowingly perpetuating that lie to the public.
Her bio on her professional site says she graduated, her biographers and wiki page says she didn't. Sounds like some major inconsistencies surfacing here.
-----my own take:
There is a growing contention that Mrs. Trump is lying about having completed college in Slovenia.
If this is true that means that a presidential candidate himself, Donald J. Trump, is most certainly involved in knowingly perpetuating that lie to the public.
Or what about her immigration status? Donald Trump’s arch nemesis Univision dropped a bombshell that Melania might not be a full naturalized immigrant:
Melania Trump told Larry King in an interview in 2005 that she had never been married before her nuptials to Donald Trump, but that doesn’t seem to be the whole story. An immigration attorney who works for the Trump Organization, Michael Wildes, who now backs that story, told Univision’s investigative unit that Melania had obtained a green card in 2001 “based on marriage.”
Wildes’s role in the Trump Organization as an immigration attorney was to ensure the legal entry into the United States of contestants in the Miss Universe pageant as well as models who worked for the Trump Organization. Univision confirms that they were told by Wildes that Melania’s green card had been secured on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen a full four years before she married the business mogul on January 22, 2005.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/06/breaking-univision-releases-devastating-melania-trump-green-card-bombshell-details/
Wildes’s role in the Trump Organization as an immigration attorney was to ensure the legal entry into the United States of contestants in the Miss Universe pageant as well as models who worked for the Trump Organization. Univision confirms that they were told by Wildes that Melania’s green card had been secured on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen a full four years before she married the business mogul on January 22, 2005.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/06/breaking-univision-releases-devastating-melania-trump-green-card-bombshell-details/
But what’s even stranger is Melania isn’t providing specifics:
In the piece published Thursday morning, Politico pointed to interviews Trump gave describing the immigration process she used while working as a model in the U.S. before obtaining a green card. Trump described returning to her home country Slovenia every few months to have her visa stamped. Immigration lawyers pointed out that the process she described resembled that used by foreign nationals on a tourist visa, which does not permit them to work in the U.S. The most common visa granted to immigrants permitted to work in the U.S. is valid for three years and does not require visits back to one's home country every fews months to be re-stamped. There is a less common workers' visa that permits holders stay in the United States for up to three years, but that is typically granted only to workers at the upper echelons of their field and at the time in question, Trump was a low-level catalog model.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/melania-trump-immigration-response
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/melania-trump-immigration-response
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Spin that shit! And it lands on…………. Clip Without Context! Man there are a lot of these this week!
Because when one goes to a theme park that’s a giant replica of Noah’s Ark, the last thing they are looking for is logic and reason. Spin it again! How is this still a thing?
Big game hunting – how is this still a thing? Remember last year when that dentist killed Cecil The Lion and all the outrage there? Or how about that veterinarian who killed a feral cat with a bow and arrow and posted it on Facebook? Or when NRA board member Ted Nugent channeled his inner Rambo and mowed down pigs with a high powered automatic rifle from a helicopter? Well now Donald Trump and his sons are going to Canada to shoot animals for sport.
In the heat of the campaign – and during a particularly brutal week for their father — Donald Trump’s two sons suddenly disappeared. Donald Jr. and Eric, according to reports, left the country on a hunting trip.
Beyond that, curiously little is known. Bloomberg Politics reported that the trip was a fundraiser for a foundation run by family members of Tyrone Woods, a Navy SEAL slain in the Benghazi, Libya, attack. Various political reporters heard that they fled to the Yukon, a favorite hunting location of Donald Jr. He then posted an Instagram photo of himself with his son, which showed them in Canada for a “Father son trip” — but in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/06/the-trump-sons-go-hunting-again-will-more-trophy-photos-follow/
Beyond that, curiously little is known. Bloomberg Politics reported that the trip was a fundraiser for a foundation run by family members of Tyrone Woods, a Navy SEAL slain in the Benghazi, Libya, attack. Various political reporters heard that they fled to the Yukon, a favorite hunting location of Donald Jr. He then posted an Instagram photo of himself with his son, which showed them in Canada for a “Father son trip” — but in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/06/the-trump-sons-go-hunting-again-will-more-trophy-photos-follow/
Oh shit!!! I'm being told we have some late breaking news to report! Let's go to that shall we?
Thanks NY Daily News, for saying what we're all thinking. What did Donald Trump imply in this clip?
Donald Trump on Tuesday warned his supporters that if Hillary Clinton were elected president and appointed members to the Supreme Court, there was nothing anyone could do about it – but then added that, given the Second Amendment, maybe there was.
“If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said at a Wilmington, N.C., rally with a shrug. “Although: the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”
What Trump was actually suggesting was not clear. However his veterans affairs adviser found himself in hot water when he said that Clinton should face a firing squad over her use of a private email server.
Trump’s campaign did not respond to queries about his remark, but at least one person attending the rally appeared to sense the comment was out of bounds.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-shoot_us_57aa2f6de4b0ba7ed23dd652
“If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said at a Wilmington, N.C., rally with a shrug. “Although: the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”
What Trump was actually suggesting was not clear. However his veterans affairs adviser found himself in hot water when he said that Clinton should face a firing squad over her use of a private email server.
Trump’s campaign did not respond to queries about his remark, but at least one person attending the rally appeared to sense the comment was out of bounds.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-shoot_us_57aa2f6de4b0ba7ed23dd652
Holy fucking shit. He went there. And of course Mike Pence is pulling the "Move along, nothing to see here" card:
When asked about how he felt about Donald Trump's comments that “Second Amendment people” might be able to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court judges, Mike Pence jumped to his running mate's defense and denied that Trump meant the comments as a threat.
Shortly after Trump made those comments Tuesday at a rally in North Carolina, Pence joined other Trump surrogates trying to walk them back following his own campaign event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-trump-second-amendment-comment
Shortly after Trump made those comments Tuesday at a rally in North Carolina, Pence joined other Trump surrogates trying to walk them back following his own campaign event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-trump-second-amendment-comment
But Trump supporters think it's just fine and dandy that Donald Trump actually called on his supporters to murder Hillary Clinton. And then there's of course Rudy Guiliani. Wait, this guy is still around? And yes he is shooting his mouth off:
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday blamed the media for misinterpreting Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks about the ability of “Second Amendment people” to take action against Hillary Clinton.
"What he said very clearly was that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, she would get to appoint judges to the Supreme Court, and among the other things that they would do to destroy us, would be to do away with the Second Amendment and your right to bear arms," Giuliani said while introducing Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. "Now, is there anybody here that doubts that?" he asked the audience.
"And then he said, 'And you have the power to do something about it,'” Giuliani went on. “And what he meant by that was you have the power to vote against her. You have the power to campaign against her. You have the power to speak against her. You know why, because you're Americans."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/giuliani-blames-media-spin-trump-second-amendment-comment
"What he said very clearly was that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, she would get to appoint judges to the Supreme Court, and among the other things that they would do to destroy us, would be to do away with the Second Amendment and your right to bear arms," Giuliani said while introducing Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. "Now, is there anybody here that doubts that?" he asked the audience.
"And then he said, 'And you have the power to do something about it,'” Giuliani went on. “And what he meant by that was you have the power to vote against her. You have the power to campaign against her. You have the power to speak against her. You know why, because you're Americans."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/giuliani-blames-media-spin-trump-second-amendment-comment
But there's still more:
You know, The Line, the one that He, Trump has to cross before the entire Republican Party, not to mention a good portion of the human race, finds him too revolting for their delicate stomachs? What say you, Paul Ryan? Is that the line? John McCain? Mitch McConnell? All you clowns in the tricorns and the Watering The Tree Of Liberty tank tops? What say you all? Do you stand by this?
How about the elite political press? Is this enough to push you over the line to admitting every day in your coverage that this is not a normal election because the Republican Party has nominated a public sociopath for President of the United States? Once, while contemplating the re-election of Richard Nixon, the late Dr. Thompson once wrote this, and it might be the best single paragraph of political journalism anyone ever wrote:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47492/trump-hillary-assassination/
How about the elite political press? Is this enough to push you over the line to admitting every day in your coverage that this is not a normal election because the Republican Party has nominated a public sociopath for President of the United States? Once, while contemplating the re-election of Richard Nixon, the late Dr. Thompson once wrote this, and it might be the best single paragraph of political journalism anyone ever wrote:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47492/trump-hillary-assassination/
And more - Donald Trump is literally playing with fire here, folks!
People are playing with fire here, and there is no bigger flamethrower than Donald Trump. Forget politics; he is a disgusting human being. His children should be ashamed of him. I only pray that he is not simply defeated, but that he loses all 50 states so that the message goes out across the land — unambiguously, loud and clear: The likes of you should never come this way again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/opinion/trumps-ambiguous-wink-wink-to-second-amendment-people.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/opinion/trumps-ambiguous-wink-wink-to-second-amendment-people.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region
Even the great Dan Rather has denounced Trumpenfuror, and this is a great comment:
"No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today.
When he suggested that "The Second Amendment People" can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential. By any objective analysis, this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics. This is no longer about policy, civility, decency or even temperament. This is a direct threat of violence against a political rival. It is not just against the norms of American politics, it raises a serious question of whether it is against the law. If any other citizen had said this about a Presidential candidate, would the Secret Service be investigating?
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10157249295185716
When he suggested that "The Second Amendment People" can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential. By any objective analysis, this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics. This is no longer about policy, civility, decency or even temperament. This is a direct threat of violence against a political rival. It is not just against the norms of American politics, it raises a serious question of whether it is against the law. If any other citizen had said this about a Presidential candidate, would the Secret Service be investigating?
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10157249295185716
Well said.
And even his own people think he's gone too far:
Donald Trump must end his campaign for the White House in a reckoning with his own madness, while praying that nothing comes of his musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton.
In the event that Trump fails to abandon his candidacy — as he seems determined to — the Republican Party, including vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, must instead abandon Trump for toying with political bloodshed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-hinting-assassination-article-1.2744789
In the event that Trump fails to abandon his candidacy — as he seems determined to — the Republican Party, including vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, must instead abandon Trump for toying with political bloodshed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-hinting-assassination-article-1.2744789
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Let’s spin the wheel one last time this week. And it lands on… conspiracy theories. You know what? We need some proper music for this entry.
Ah much better. So you know about Donald Trump and his insane theory about Russian airliners sending $400 million in US money to Iran right? Well turns out that didn’t happen and Donald Trump might have been making this up the whole time.
Donald Trump is ripping into Hillary Clinton anew over news that the United States government covertly sent $400 million to Iran in January that coincided with the release of four American prisoners, although President Barack Obama's administration has hit back at any notion of a quid pro quo.
"Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, following a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday evening that cited U.S. and European officials, as well as congressional staff briefed on the details of the operation after the fact. As former secretary of state, Clinton has claimed credit for bringing Iran to the bargaining table through sanctions.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/iran-400-million-payment-trump-clinton-226605
"Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, following a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday evening that cited U.S. and European officials, as well as congressional staff briefed on the details of the operation after the fact. As former secretary of state, Clinton has claimed credit for bringing Iran to the bargaining table through sanctions.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/iran-400-million-payment-trump-clinton-226605
I like that one. But it gets better!
One of the key Republican talking points this week has been the widely-debunked notion that a $400 million payment to Iran was a “ransom” to secure the release of hostages, when it was actually a repayment of funds that have been in dispute since 1979. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump placed himself at the center of that story by repeatedly claiming he had seen video of the cash transfer, which he was finally forced to admit did not exist.
At a rally in New Hampshire Saturday, Trump revived the story, and instead of hewing to the Republican talking point that Iran would use the money to fund terrorism, Trump decided, for some reason, to say the opposite:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-weirdly-insists-iran-wont-use-most-of-400-million-ransom-for-terrorism/
At a rally in New Hampshire Saturday, Trump revived the story, and instead of hewing to the Republican talking point that Iran would use the money to fund terrorism, Trump decided, for some reason, to say the opposite:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-weirdly-insists-iran-wont-use-most-of-400-million-ransom-for-terrorism/
That’s right, he is insisting on this. But I can’t quite find the right words to describe how batshit crazy this is. Donald Trump is one candidate who simply defies logic.
Let’s switch subjects and talk about Donald Trump and the Olympics. “Under my watch, America is going to keep winning. We produce the best winners. Nobody produces better winners than we do. There will be no stupid losers here in America”. But what was he doing watching the Mexican pole vaulting team?
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson on Friday mocked Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, joking that the businessman is worried about Olympians pole vaulting over.
"I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go," Johnson quipped an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal.
A central proposal of the GOP nominee's campaign involves building a wall along the southern border and deporting those in the country illegally.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290625-gary-johnson-trump-watching-olympics-to-see-how-high
"I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go," Johnson quipped an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal.
A central proposal of the GOP nominee's campaign involves building a wall along the southern border and deporting those in the country illegally.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290625-gary-johnson-trump-watching-olympics-to-see-how-high
And I normally don’t post satire articles but I love this one:
Psychiatric facilities across the United States are at breaking point after the number of people claiming to be sent from the future to stop Donald Trump reached epidemic proportions.
New research has shown that every ten minutes someone claiming to the from the future sent back to save humanity is admitted to a hospital somewhere in the US.
http://newsthump.com/2016/03/03/psychiatric-hospitals-filling-up-with-time-travellers-sent-back-to-kill-donald-trump/
New research has shown that every ten minutes someone claiming to the from the future sent back to save humanity is admitted to a hospital somewhere in the US.
http://newsthump.com/2016/03/03/psychiatric-hospitals-filling-up-with-time-travellers-sent-back-to-kill-donald-trump/
But then there’s this. And I shit you not. This is how Donald Trump is supporting the US Olympic team in Rio during the games these next two weeks:
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump wished the US Olympic team good luck on Friday -- and may have cleared up a "bigly" debate in the process.
On the night of the 2016 Olympics' opening ceremonies in Rio, Trump posted an image of himself to Twitter and Facebook, giving a thumbs-up with the words "Big League" and "Good Luck Team USA" overlaid.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/politics/donald-trump-bigly-big-league-olympics/
On the night of the 2016 Olympics' opening ceremonies in Rio, Trump posted an image of himself to Twitter and Facebook, giving a thumbs-up with the words "Big League" and "Good Luck Team USA" overlaid.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/politics/donald-trump-bigly-big-league-olympics/
And yes Trump posted a picture of himself – and I am not making this up – in the exact way you would expect a third world dictator to greet his Olympic team. Can we throw that up there?
[font size="8"]Bonus Idiot:[/font]
[font size="8"]Mitch McConnell[/font]
Spin the wheel one last time this week. People Who Somehow Got Elected. Hit it!
And now it’s time for another edition of “People Who Somehow Got Elected”. This week – Kentucky senator and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- NRA). You know it’s nice to know that in an era when gun violence is at an all time high, that the guy in charge of the Senate majority is a paid shill for the gun lobby:
Supreme Court justices are nominated by the president and appointed with the advice and consent of the National Rifle Association, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell offered this unusual view of the confirmation process during an interview with Fox News Sunday. In response to a question from host Chris Wallace, who asked if Senate Republicans would consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court after the election if Hillary Clinton prevails, McConnell responded that he “can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association the National Federation of Independent Businesses.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/20/3761908/mcconnell-no-new-supreme-court-justice-until-the-nra-approves-of-the-nominee/
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/20/3761908/mcconnell-no-new-supreme-court-justice-until-the-nra-approves-of-the-nominee/
Yes. He would let the NRA pick the nominee for the next SCOTUS justice. You know, the people who, I don’t know, decide the supreme law of the land! The NRA. The organization that would have this guy as a member of their board of directors. You know this guy:
Yes that’s NRA board member Ted Nugent, the guy who was just shown threatening the president and Hillary multiple times over. In fact if you go back to Idiots #12, we pointed out that Ted Nugent has a ridiculously long history of threatening to kill Obama, Hillary, and anyone else he doesn’t agree with. If Mitch McConnell gets his way, this man would have to approve of the next appointee to the Supreme Court. In fact Nugent’s rhetoric against Obama and Clinton is so toxic that it even inspired this man to take action and it led to his arrest:
But this whole thing is really pissing people off like Elizabeth Warren, who’s had enough of McConnell’s madness.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) accused Republicans of pure political obstruction of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees Wednesday, prompting a shrug from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who objected to her attempt to expedite 15 long-stalled appointees.
Warren took to the Senate floor in the afternoon seeking unanimous consent to bring up all the noncontroversial judges who have passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, but have not received votes on the Senate floor.
Pointing to a report she released Monday, the Massachusetts senator noted that Republicans have been approving nominees at a glacial pace since taking over the Senate in 2014, approving just 18 judges in this Congress. Judicial vacancies have skyrocketed from 43 to 89.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/warren-hits-petty-absurd-mcconnell-behavior_us_
Warren took to the Senate floor in the afternoon seeking unanimous consent to bring up all the noncontroversial judges who have passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, but have not received votes on the Senate floor.
Pointing to a report she released Monday, the Massachusetts senator noted that Republicans have been approving nominees at a glacial pace since taking over the Senate in 2014, approving just 18 judges in this Congress. Judicial vacancies have skyrocketed from 43 to 89.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/warren-hits-petty-absurd-mcconnell-behavior_us_
In fact McConnell has blocked every single one of Obama’s attempted appointees. Prompting the Washington Post to do some fact checking:
The Washington Post’s editorial board criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) “patently ridiculous” claim that Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is ideologically extreme.
Since Garland’s nomination in March, groups like the Judicial Crisis Network, the National Federation of Independent Business and the National Rifle Association have made numerous false and misleading claims about Garland’s record to portray him as ideologically extreme. In fact, conservatives have praised Garland for years and multiple prominent conservative lawyers have announced their support for Garland’s nomination.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/06/wash-post-debunks-mitch-mcconnell-s-absurd-claim-merrick-garland-ideologically-extreme/210740
Since Garland’s nomination in March, groups like the Judicial Crisis Network, the National Federation of Independent Business and the National Rifle Association have made numerous false and misleading claims about Garland’s record to portray him as ideologically extreme. In fact, conservatives have praised Garland for years and multiple prominent conservative lawyers have announced their support for Garland’s nomination.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/06/wash-post-debunks-mitch-mcconnell-s-absurd-claim-merrick-garland-ideologically-extreme/210740
But the really sad thing? This isn’t the first time Senator Warren has called McConnell out for his nonsense. In fact in 2005, the republicans when Bush was appointing SCOTUS justices, the republicans brought up that Bush must be supported in his decision:
Senator Warren said in a statement, "Senator McConnell is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did - when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes."
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would lead Republicans in obstructing President Obama yet again, this time by leading his party to abdicate their Constitutional duties, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reminded McConnell that President Obama’s will is the will of the people and that he won by five million votes.
Then Warren proceeded to remind McConnell about that thing Republicans are always claiming to worship – the Constitution, specifically Article II, “Article II Section 2 of the Constitution says the President of the United States nominates justices to the Supreme Court, with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
Wait for it… “I can’t find a clause that says ‘…except when there’s a year left in the term of a Democratic President.'”
The next time a Republican waves their pocket version of the Constitution around as they drone on about the debt as an excuse for why they have not shown up to work for weeks, someone ought to remind them that they can’t pick and choose what works for them from the Constitution like they do from the Bible.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/14/elizabeth-warren-reminds-mcconnell-pres-obama-won-million-votes.html
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would lead Republicans in obstructing President Obama yet again, this time by leading his party to abdicate their Constitutional duties, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reminded McConnell that President Obama’s will is the will of the people and that he won by five million votes.
Then Warren proceeded to remind McConnell about that thing Republicans are always claiming to worship – the Constitution, specifically Article II, “Article II Section 2 of the Constitution says the President of the United States nominates justices to the Supreme Court, with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
Wait for it… “I can’t find a clause that says ‘…except when there’s a year left in the term of a Democratic President.'”
The next time a Republican waves their pocket version of the Constitution around as they drone on about the debt as an excuse for why they have not shown up to work for weeks, someone ought to remind them that they can’t pick and choose what works for them from the Constitution like they do from the Bible.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/14/elizabeth-warren-reminds-mcconnell-pres-obama-won-million-votes.html
In fact members of his own party asked him to step down:
A tea party-affiliated group is urging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bow out of his reelection bid next year against Democratic rival Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, citing concerns with the longtime senator's electability.
Matt Hoskins, the Senate Conservatives Fund's executive director, told the Washington Post Tuesday that McConnell isn't a strong enough candidate to face off against Grimes and that it may be time for him to "pass the torch."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/mitch-mcconnell-tea-party_n_3536897.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Matt Hoskins, the Senate Conservatives Fund's executive director, told the Washington Post Tuesday that McConnell isn't a strong enough candidate to face off against Grimes and that it may be time for him to "pass the torch."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/mitch-mcconnell-tea-party_n_3536897.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The fact that McConnell has to frequently be reminded of that document he claims we should support verbatim, is very sad. And you know what? Despite failing poll numbers, McConnell was elected to the senate anyway – for a fourth term! Bravo, well done Kentucky! And is it me or does Mitch McConnell remind me of the asshole heckler from Happy Gilmore? You will not fill this seat, jackass!!
McConnell has promised to shut down any and all discussion of filling the vacancy, even after President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland, a very well qualified judge with years of deep bipartisan support.
Back in March, McConnell’s penchant for obstruction earned him the title of most hated political figure in America according to Public Policy Polling.
On Saturday, McConnell spoke at an event in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, where he declared:
“One of my proudest moments" was when I told Obama "you will not fill this Supreme Court
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/mcconnell-one-of-my-proudest-moments-was-telling-obama-i-wouldnt-do-my-job-now-video/
Back in March, McConnell’s penchant for obstruction earned him the title of most hated political figure in America according to Public Policy Polling.
On Saturday, McConnell spoke at an event in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, where he declared:
“One of my proudest moments" was when I told Obama "you will not fill this Supreme Court
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/mcconnell-one-of-my-proudest-moments-was-telling-obama-i-wouldnt-do-my-job-now-video/
That’s Mitch McConnell – another one of the:
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