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July 21, 2016

Al Franken is having a blast on Morning JoeScum

says he loves Christie talking about locking up since he may well be locked up

July 21, 2016

Cruz Blocked From Adelson’s RNC Suite After Refusing To Endorse Trump



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-blocked-sheldon-adelson-suite
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Billionaire GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson refused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) entry to his suite at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night after the Texas senator declined to endorse Donald Trump in his speech, CNN reported.

Senior Adelson aide Andy Abboud confirmed to CNN that his boss had invited Cruz to visit with him and his wife Miriam, but turned him away at the door after he stunned the audience at Quicken Loans Arena by urging voters to vote their conscience in November.

"When he didn't endorse, they were stunned and disappointed," Abboud told the network.

"We could not allow Ted Cruz to use the Adelsons as a prop against Donald Trump," he continued. "The Adelsons support Donald Trump and made that clear. They like Ted Cruz, but there was no way the Adelsons were going to be the first stop after not endorsing. That would be disrespectful to our nominee."

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Unity on steroids
July 21, 2016

‘Art of the Deal’ ghostwriter hit with cease and desist letter, demand for payment after trashing

Don the Con in New Yorker interview

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-ghostwriter-hit-cease-desist-letter-article-1.2719411
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Donald Trump ghostwriter Tony Schwartz has been slapped with a cease and desist letter after calling out the wannabe President as a “sociopath,” the journalist said Wednesday.

“It’s nuts and completely indicative of who he is,” Schwartz — who co-authored 1987’s bestselling “The Art of the Deal” — told Rachel Maddow.

The cease and desist comes in response to Schwartz’s damning tell-all interview with The New Yorker earlier this week.

"I put lipstick on a pig," he told the mag. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."

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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahh

July 21, 2016

I'm a christian, I'm a conservative and I'm a ReTHUG

He's also the guy who took political contribution for expenses - to pay his mortgage, to go on trips with the family and to play golf.

July 21, 2016

I've turned them off

Empty fucking suits - not a word about their candidate - just attack, attack, attack.
Fuck these fucking fucks

July 20, 2016

Catch the clip with Don the Con and George Stephanopoulos

from tonight's news

I don't know which was more embarrassing - Don the Con's lies about what happened re the plagiarism or George's deference to BS.

I once had a student present to a class and his peers cheered. I laughed loud because I knew it was all lifted and I mean all.

Both Don the Con and George were still praising the great plagiarized speech. They are fucking shameless. You do not praise fraud and it is fraud.

July 20, 2016

Introduction to Mike Pence - he spent political donations to pay the mortgage

on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html
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Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.

And then, scandal.

Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.

The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters — and undermined Pence’s strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.

“It was a brazen act of hypocrisy,” said Billy Linville, who was Sharp’s campaign manager. “It was a bombshell, for sure. . . . Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.”

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Don't fall for that Jebus BS - he's just another ReTHUG scumbag who hates women as well.

July 20, 2016

Don the Con Jr. plagiarized Buckley last night

For the second night in a row, a speech given by a member of Donald Trump's family is raising eyebrows for lines previously used elsewhere.

Donald Trump Jr. in his headline address at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland delivered a near-exact repetition of a small part of an American Conservative article written by F.H. Buckley, titled "Trump vs. the New Class."

"Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-Era Department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers," Trump's son said in his speech Tuesday night.

The line in Buckley's article reads, "Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers."

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-conventions/donald-trump-jr-s-speechwriter-defends-recycling-lines-rnc-n612976

July 20, 2016

Hehehehehehhee thou shalt not plagiarize and then lie

It's not going away -the fallout continues - did the ballet dancer English major and close family friend rework the speech and steal Michelle's speech?

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