PolitiFact's 2016 Lie of the Year: Fake news

Better late than never

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/politifacts-2016-lie-of-the-year-fake-news/2306159?utm_source=TBT_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daystarter

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Does a Ukrainian-Style Revolution Await Washington?

Ukrainians have seen the likes of Donald Trump before, in ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. Both men ran against strong women — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Yulia Tymoshenko, respectively — and won by small margins. And both were wealthy outsiders with a flair for the flamboyant. But in 2014, after weeks of protests over his rejection of an EU association agreement, Yanukovych fled his post for exile in Russia.

So is Trump vulnerable to being ousted by popular rebellion? While a Ukrainian-style Maidan Revolution in Washington, D.C. seems unlikely, a return to the late 1960s, when students, women, protesters and minorities took to the streets across America, could easily be in the cards. Especially if Trump, like Yanukovych, refuses to become president of all the people, encourages corruption and remains committed to his extremist policies.

Three possible outcomes await. By gleefully abandoning all semblance of civility in his campaign and consciously insulting his political adversaries among the elites and in the population, Trump crossed a line that will be next to impossible to uncross. At least half the country will likely remain sullen, angry and unwilling to accept Trump as their legitimate president. When leaders lose legitimacy, as Yanukovych did within a year of his 2010 election, their ability to serve successfully declines, and they have no choice but to increasingly resort to demagoguery, coercion and cronyism.

http://www.ozy.com/pov/does-a-ukrainian-style-revolution-await-washington/74352?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12112016&variable=9d91d2d18ffb4c5a3c26fdf0d50dd20e

Trump Falls Behind In Race To Create American Jobs

A major new American deal with Iran was announced yesterday, in keeping with longstanding tradition for the lead-up to the inauguration of a new Republican president.

Boeing announced that it will sell 80 passenger jets to Iran Air for $16.6 billion, supporting almost 100,000 US jobs. The deal includes fifty 737s and thirty 777s to be delivered starting in 2018, and one wide-body 666 to be delivered at the sound of the last trump.

The deal puts Donald Trump in third place behind Pres. Obama and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for creation of American jobs this year. Khamenei has now saved or created more than 100 times as many jobs as Trump has, giving Trump just four years to catch up.

Khamenei told The Fucking News over beers last night, "Look. We get that Mr. Trump has fallen for the usual 'small business creates jobs' bullshit. We just want him to know that if he wants to understand the complexities of creating good, solid, American, manufacturing jobs, we're here for him. Assalaamu alaykum."

The new jets will feature added leg room and behead room, as well as spacious overhead compartments for stowing Jews. Boeing says some of the planes will be 14% more fuel-efficient than current models, helping Iran to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

Trump told The Fucking News in an impromptu interview at four o'clock this goddamn morning when sane people are fucking asleep you goddamn maniac that the $16.6 billion price tag is too high and vowed to negotiate a better deal for Iran.

House Republicans last month passed a bill that could stop the deal. If Pres. Trump signs it, that will bring his job-creation total to -99,000.

(FILED UNDER REALLY GOOD HUMOR)

http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=bc6cfeeede3f05b8504f947c9&id=9703ac38a4&e=02dfd0c468

Intel Warning: Trump Determined To Strike Inside U.S.

Reports that US intelligence believes Russia attempted to help Donald Fucking Trump become president by hacking information harmful to Hillary Clinton sent a shockwave through Washington this weekend, as politicians came to terms with the new reality that other powers can release information that will affect things.

After Trump dismissed the findings as not consistent with what he wants to believe is true--and belittled American intelligence in the process--US intelligence agencies were reported yesterday to be on alert for possible reprisals by Trump's forces, non-state Trump actors, or lone-wolf Terrorumpists.

The New York Times this weekend reported that Russia also hacked into Republican emails but did not release them because Russia is not covered by the Fairness Doctrine any more than American TV news is.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers vowed to investigate just as soon as they wrap up torture, the Iraq War, missed 9/11 warnings, and Pearl Harbor. Also, it turns out Congress knew about it at the time, Sen. Maj. Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to keep it quiet, and Democrats went along because they are Democrats.

http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=bc6cfeeede3f05b8504f947c9&id=9703ac38a4&e=02dfd0c468

Breitbart Loses So Many Advertisers That They Are Now Advertising Steve Bannon

‘Unnerving IQ’

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i9o8CR_kjJ6mBd44k6CRZEhlXuZqq-XCCOoj-e8RJ7Q/edit#gid=0

The outrage over Steve Bannon has spilled over to Breitbart News, of which Bannon has been the Executive Chairman of for years. Multiple advertisers including Kellogg’s, BMW and others have begun pulling their advertisements, seemingly in a move to distance themselves from the controversial online newspaper. The move by Kellogg’s sparked outrage by Bannon and Breitbart, who have decided to call for a boycott of all Kellogg’s products, via their website, as a means to fight back.

The move by many of these large corporations to cancel ad contracts on Breitbart seems to already be hurting the company, as the majority of current ads on the news site are being fed to the site by Google and Taboola, which are third party ad providers, and there now appears to be no indication of any direct advertising on the site. The inventory appears to be so low that ads are now appearing on Breitbart touting Steve Bannon’s IQ as ‘Unnerving. The ad in question, which you can see in the image above, which directs to Brainsmuggler.com, and appears to be created merely to make money from a deluge of banner ads and popups, is likely earning Breitbart a few pennies per click.

While this ad likely isn’t created by Breitbart or Bannon, it is rather ironic that such an ad now appears on a site which is struggling to achieve meaningful revenue. Perhaps if Bannon’s IQ was really so ‘unnerving’ he wouldn’t have killed the hands that are feeding him.

Conway warns Trump capable of manipulating the stock market using Twitter

and he's willing to do it whenever he feels like it.

CONWAY: So, President-elect Trump sees that he has this massive online platform. He says about 35 million on Twitter and Facebook combined. And he sees an opportunity to communicate right to people by cutting through the noise or the silence, whatever the case may be, through social media platforms. But see that through tweets now he can affect industry, he affected the stock market yesterday, frankly, and he did it twice. He did it in two different ways: first, by telling Boeing to cancel the project or maybe put it on hold. He thinks it's too expensive, it goes against his entire platform of cutting waste and abuse in the system. And then their stocks went down 1.5 percent yesterday. And then secondly, he went down to the lobby in Trump Tower where the media are, and he announced a $50 billion -- that's with a "b" -- investment by SoftBank.

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/12/trump-will-keep-using-twitter-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/

Conway warns Trump capable of manipulating the stock market using Twitter

and he's willing to do it whenever he feels like it.

CONWAY: So, President-elect Trump sees that he has this massive online platform. He says about 35 million on Twitter and Facebook combined. And he sees an opportunity to communicate right to people by cutting through the noise or the silence, whatever the case may be, through social media platforms. But see that through tweets now he can affect industry, he affected the stock market yesterday, frankly, and he did it twice. He did it in two different ways: first, by telling Boeing to cancel the project or maybe put it on hold. He thinks it's too expensive, it goes against his entire platform of cutting waste and abuse in the system. And then their stocks went down 1.5 percent yesterday. And then secondly, he went down to the lobby in Trump Tower where the media are, and he announced a $50 billion -- that's with a "b" -- investment by SoftBank.

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/12/trump-will-keep-using-twitter-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/

Approved: Black Festivus pole will be placed in Capitol

The state has OK’d a politically charged “Festivus” pole for display in the Capitol this holiday season.

The Department of Management Services, which oversees state property, cleared the pole to have a place in the plaza-level rotunda, spokeswoman Maggie Mickler said Thursday.

The all black, six-foot-tall pole “will contain the names of all unarmed black men killed by police in 2016,” according to the application from South Florida activist and former blogger Chaz Stevens.

Stevens now runs the Religious Liberty Project, which plans to put a “Shot by Cops” pole in all 50 state capitals.

“Additionally, a distressed black and white American flag will be flown at half-mast, lowered in protest to this senseless slaughter,” he said on the group’s website.

“Kneeling at the base is the number 7, painted in the colors of the San Fransisco 49ers, signaling our support for those who peacefully and silently protest,” referring to quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

He has gained attention—and opprobrium—for not standing during the National Anthem as a protest over the treatment of African Americans by police.

Mickler said DMS also approved a winter solstice poster from the First Coast Freethought Society in Jacksonville.

The only other application received is from All Saints Catholic Ministry of Lehigh Acres, Mickler said. Though the application mentions a display of “possibly (a) nativity scene,” she said the group now just wants to put up a “seasonal banner.”

Stevens previously has been approved to install a pole made of empty Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans, meant to mark Festivus, the fictional holiday from a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld.”

Last year, the pole was gay-pride themed, in rainbow colors with a disco ball on top.

'Trumps Nuts' a Holiday Classic for 2016

Fiona Apple’s remake of Nat King Cole’s ‘The Christmas Song’ is the holiday song 2016 has been asking for.
Video has been taken down unfortunately


Trump’s nuts roasting on an open fire
as he keeps nipping at his foes.
you’ll cry creepy uncle
every time he arrives
for he keeps clawing at your clothes
everybody knows some money and entitlement
can help to make the season white
mothers of color with their kids out of sight
will find it hard to sleep at night.

They know that truuump is on his way.
he’s got black boys in hoodies locked up on his sleigh
and every working man is going to cry
when they learn that Letch don’t care how you live or if you die

Sooo I’m offering this simple phrase
to kids from 1 to 92
although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Donald Trump, fuck you