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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-6: Little Douche Coup Edition
Last edited Tue Dec 5, 2017, 05:49 PM - Edit history (2)
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-6: Little Douche Coup Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Man you guys are awesome! You’ve been smoking some good covfefe since last week! We’ve got a great show for you this week! Ready to have some fun? We won't have time to cover the death of Trumpcare this week... Oh come on audience, expect it to be good next week! But Trump has promised us it's going to get better at lunch time!
Link to tweet
"The Dems scream death as OCare dies!" Doesn't that sound like a line from a death metal song? Please Mr. President, what have they got?
Come on - Trump has promised to "repeal and replace it" more times than his own supporters have attempted to stage boycotts. I think I have a preview of what the big bombshell that Trump is going to have planned for us at lunchtime is!
Honestly the GOP is going after Obamacare (which, let's be honest - they gave it that name) the way Wiley Coyote goes after the Road Runner. But one of my favorite reactions to this whole mess had to come from California representative Adam Schiff. Can we throw that Tweet up there?
Link to tweet
It's the cycle of shit and it screws us all! OK that's enough of the intro. We will get to the death of Trumpcare next week, that I promise. But this week, we got a lot of idiocy to get to, but first Stephen Colbert slams our top subject Donald Trump Jr:
So where do we begin this week in a week that was a colossal fuck up for the Trump brigade? The top two slots this week are going to go to Donald Trump Jr. Yeah. Unless you’re living under a rock then you know that Trump Jr just dropped a massive bombshell in regards to the whole Russia shindig. So much that it’s spilled over from not just one entry but he’s taking up the top 2 slots. In the number 3 slot is Premier Trump (3). So Trump is starting the “Made In America” week, which sounds like a good idea in theory but is backfiring on him spectacularly. In the number 4 slot is also Premier Trump (4). So he doesn’t have particularly good taste in lawyers, and well, after this one, let’s say his taste in lawyers mirrors his taste in interior decorating. And we’re not kidding. Taking the 5th slot – we have a rare double entry! It’s Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump. So both met with America’s religious faithful in the White House, because, reasons, violating not only the Constitution but also a shit ton of other laws in the process! In the number 6 slot is the White House dinner guest nobody asked for, or wanted – Kid Rock (6). He announced a Senate campaign this week. That’s exactly what we need. Kid Rock in the senate. At number 7 – is Sean Hannity. So we’ve been saying for a long time that Fox News is what America’s version of state run television would look like under a dictatorship, and now actually people are saying that, and naturally this upset professional snowflake Sean Hannity. Taking the number 8 slot is Ann Coulter who went absolutely apeshit after getting bumped from her seat on a flight last week, and I couldn’t love this more! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot we’ve got another roundup of “People Are Dumb”, because there’s lots of stupid people out there. And we also have to talk about the “Cash me outside how boud dat” girl. And we will end this week with the next leg of our World Tour 2017. This time around we’re going to Germany – are the Germans ushering in the perfect liberal utopia? Well they may get there sooner than we are, that’s for sure! Plus we have some great German industrial music for you from a little band called KMFDM. No, it does not stand for “Kill Motherfucking Depeche Mode”. Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!
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We need some music for this one.
You’re my little deuce coupe… you don’t know what I got! Oh sorry got carried away there. Except only we should call this one “Little Douche Coup”. We left the “e” off the word “coupe” on purpose because that’s exactly what this was – a fucking coup. The United States of America is officially under occupation from a hostile foreign enemy that is intent on destroying us. I’m talking about the republican party, of course. And it’s leader Donald Trump, as you know – has a son even stupider and more batshit insane than he is!
The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
If the future president’s elder son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of an ongoing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign — he gave no indication.
He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?_r=0
The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
If the future president’s elder son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of an ongoing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign — he gave no indication.
He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?_r=0
I love that movie. Particularly the scene where a woman walks up to Frank and says “Is this some kind of bust?” Which he responds “Well, it’s very impressive, yes.”. So with that admission – Trump Jr. basically responded with what amounts to, as George Bluth would call it, some “light treason”. What would that entitle, exactly?
"In a statement on Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. said he had met with the Russian lawyer at the request of an acquaintance. 'After pleasantries were exchanged,' he said, 'the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.'
"He said she then turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.
"'It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting,' Mr. Trump said.
Read that last part again: "the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting." Trump Jr. confirmed that he went into the meeting expecting to receive information from the Russian lawyer that could hurt Clinton. That is a breathtaking admission.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Donald-Trump-Jr-s-stunningly-incriminating-11276217.php
"He said she then turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.
"'It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting,' Mr. Trump said.
Read that last part again: "the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting." Trump Jr. confirmed that he went into the meeting expecting to receive information from the Russian lawyer that could hurt Clinton. That is a breathtaking admission.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Donald-Trump-Jr-s-stunningly-incriminating-11276217.php
Except it’s not light treason. It’s full on fucking treason. But here’s the interesting thing – since the admission an Irish based gambling website saw that the impeachment odds of Trump being removed by 2021 have spiked over 60%!!!!
Donald Trump Jr. left many speechless when he shared his full email exchange with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya that led to a meeting during his father’s presidential campaign in 2016.
While some are accusing Trump Jr. of collusion, others are getting out their wallets: PaddyPower, an Ireland-based betting site, has seen more users placing bets on President Trump being impeached before the end of his first term, bringing the site's total odds of the President being shuffled out of the White House by 2021 up to 60%—the highest it’s ever been, according to company spokesperson Lee Price.
" had gone quiet over the last month, and we were starting to wonder if he might have ridden out the initial controversies – but he’s back with a bang today,” Price wrote in an email to Fortune Wednesday.
Not only are PaddyPower bettors increasingly putting their money on Trump being impeached before his first term is over, but they are also betting on him being impeached as soon as this year, bringing those odds up to 33.3%. That's despite the fact that impeachment proceedings are usually lengthy.
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/07/12/donald-trump-impeachment-odds/
While some are accusing Trump Jr. of collusion, others are getting out their wallets: PaddyPower, an Ireland-based betting site, has seen more users placing bets on President Trump being impeached before the end of his first term, bringing the site's total odds of the President being shuffled out of the White House by 2021 up to 60%—the highest it’s ever been, according to company spokesperson Lee Price.
" had gone quiet over the last month, and we were starting to wonder if he might have ridden out the initial controversies – but he’s back with a bang today,” Price wrote in an email to Fortune Wednesday.
Not only are PaddyPower bettors increasingly putting their money on Trump being impeached before his first term is over, but they are also betting on him being impeached as soon as this year, bringing those odds up to 33.3%. That's despite the fact that impeachment proceedings are usually lengthy.
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/07/12/donald-trump-impeachment-odds/
And Trump does have the worst attorneys and we’ll get into that a bit later. But really this whole thing Is like peeling an onion – the more the layers are pulled back, the more it stinks and they more likely you are to cry as a result. In fact, things couldn’t get any worse, could they?
The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election said on Tuesday that it appeared that the president’s son and others at the meeting were “longing” for information on the Democratic National Committee.
In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was asked why Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, would be under the impression that they’d be told information about the DNC, which was hacked during the election.
"It's quite possible that maybe they were longing for such information. They wanted it so badly,” Veselnitskaya said of the June 2016 meeting.
Speaking via a translator, Veselnitskaya denied that she was ever in possession of any "damaging or sensitive information" about Clinton and that "it was never my intention to have" such information. Further, she denied having any ties to the Russian government and said her meeting with the president's son, son-in-law and campaign chairman was intended only to benefit her client's interest related to sanctions leveled back and forth between Russia and the U.S.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-interview-240393
In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was asked why Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, would be under the impression that they’d be told information about the DNC, which was hacked during the election.
"It's quite possible that maybe they were longing for such information. They wanted it so badly,” Veselnitskaya said of the June 2016 meeting.
Speaking via a translator, Veselnitskaya denied that she was ever in possession of any "damaging or sensitive information" about Clinton and that "it was never my intention to have" such information. Further, she denied having any ties to the Russian government and said her meeting with the president's son, son-in-law and campaign chairman was intended only to benefit her client's interest related to sanctions leveled back and forth between Russia and the U.S.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-interview-240393
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Trump Jr. may have to hire Bob Loblaw because you know what a track record the Trump family has on attorneys! But is this the smoking gun? Actual law professors are starting to weigh in!
Paul Buttler was clear as he methodically detailed why there is more than probable cause to charge Donald Trump Jr. with a crime.
"This is smoking gun evidence of collusion, Andrea," Professor Paul Butler said. "Collusion itself is not a crime. What is a federal offense, is soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national like a Russian government operative. A campaign contribution is defined in the statute as anything of value. So it could be money. But it is also a service like opposition research, like dirt on Hillary Clinton. So right now at this moment, there is probable cause to charge Donald Trump Jr. with a federal offense."
The email chain is damning. It is clear from the beginning of the chain that it was about colluding with the Russians.
https://egbertowillies.com/2017/07/11/probable-cause-charge-donald-trump-jr/
"This is smoking gun evidence of collusion, Andrea," Professor Paul Butler said. "Collusion itself is not a crime. What is a federal offense, is soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national like a Russian government operative. A campaign contribution is defined in the statute as anything of value. So it could be money. But it is also a service like opposition research, like dirt on Hillary Clinton. So right now at this moment, there is probable cause to charge Donald Trump Jr. with a federal offense."
The email chain is damning. It is clear from the beginning of the chain that it was about colluding with the Russians.
https://egbertowillies.com/2017/07/11/probable-cause-charge-donald-trump-jr/
So it light treason? Possibly! Is it collusion? Definitely! But what else is it? There’s lots of other things we can call it, but I think the technical term the media is searching for is “clusterfuck”. And where does it all come back to Russia? Here!
The Russian lawyer who peddled dirt on Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump Jr. has ties to former Russian military and intelligence officials, a key congressional committee will hear in testimony next week.
William Browder, an American financier who has investigated Russian corruption for more than a decade, will brief the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing next week on the lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s ties to the Russian government—including to former top members of the GRU and the FSB, two of the Kremlin’s main intelligence agencies. Those ties were spelled out in documents that Browder shared with the committee and provided to The Daily Beast this week.
“Veselnitskaya may have had her own agenda in requesting a meeting with Trump,” according Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer who led the agency’s European directorate of operations. “But Russian intelligence practice is to co-opt such a person by arming them with secret intelligence information and tasking them to pass it to Trump’s people and get their reaction.”
“The key point is that essentially no Russian citizen or lawyer has compromising material on Hillary Clinton which has not been supplied to them from Russian intelligence,” Mowatt-Larssen wrote on Tuesday. “The simple assertion that she had such information is tantamount to declaring that Veselnitskaya was acting as agent of Russian government in this particular role.”
More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jrs-russian-connection-has-ties-to-former-kremlin-spies
William Browder, an American financier who has investigated Russian corruption for more than a decade, will brief the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing next week on the lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s ties to the Russian government—including to former top members of the GRU and the FSB, two of the Kremlin’s main intelligence agencies. Those ties were spelled out in documents that Browder shared with the committee and provided to The Daily Beast this week.
“Veselnitskaya may have had her own agenda in requesting a meeting with Trump,” according Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer who led the agency’s European directorate of operations. “But Russian intelligence practice is to co-opt such a person by arming them with secret intelligence information and tasking them to pass it to Trump’s people and get their reaction.”
“The key point is that essentially no Russian citizen or lawyer has compromising material on Hillary Clinton which has not been supplied to them from Russian intelligence,” Mowatt-Larssen wrote on Tuesday. “The simple assertion that she had such information is tantamount to declaring that Veselnitskaya was acting as agent of Russian government in this particular role.”
More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jrs-russian-connection-has-ties-to-former-kremlin-spies
In fact we almost need a flow chart to explain this. Thankfully Stephen Colbert does!
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We’re still not done with all the Trump – Russia stuff this week. There’s so much that it’s spilling over into a second entry! As I said before in the previous entry, this couldn’t possibly get any worse now, could it? Of course the media is trying to spin this as the democrats are on a “witch hunt” but there is a witch in this hunt – and that witch is President Trump. and of course this jackass had to weigh in on the problem:
Fox News host Sean Hannity lives in an alternative universe and is begging his audience to join him. The right-wing commentator took his spin to towering new heights on Monday when he blamed everybody except the Trump administration for the growing Russia scandal.
Hannity, a mouthpiece for President Donald Trump, had the audacity to point his fingers at Democrats for the shady meeting that took place in June 2016 involving Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and a Russian attorney.
Telling his viewers that they were not going to hear this from the mainstream media, Hannity said that Trump’s legal team thinks the meeting was set up to “give the appearance of Russian collusion.” Hannity alleged that an opposition research firm connected to high-ranking Democrats somehow orchestrated all of this.
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/11/sean-hannity-blames-democrats-for-the-donald-trump-jr-problems/
Hannity, a mouthpiece for President Donald Trump, had the audacity to point his fingers at Democrats for the shady meeting that took place in June 2016 involving Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and a Russian attorney.
Telling his viewers that they were not going to hear this from the mainstream media, Hannity said that Trump’s legal team thinks the meeting was set up to “give the appearance of Russian collusion.” Hannity alleged that an opposition research firm connected to high-ranking Democrats somehow orchestrated all of this.
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/11/sean-hannity-blames-democrats-for-the-donald-trump-jr-problems/
Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Someone should really tell Fox News that THEY ARE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA now! Fox News is played in more places than CNN! Our *PRESIDENT* watches Fox News for 6 hours a day!
President Trump loves Fox & Friends. At 6:24 a.m. on Monday, Trump gushed on Twitter about the “amazing reporting” on the morning talk show. A week earlier he instructed the nation to “watch @foxandfriends now” for their exemplary Russia coverage. He tweeted about the program, hosted by Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade, seven times in March alone, and recently brought it up in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, telling him cheerfully, “I like that group of three people.”
Even after becoming president, Trump reportedly manages to fill his days with “plenty of television,” and from his tweets, it’s often possible to discern when—and what—he’s watching. In January, Axios broke down the president’s media diet:
Most mornings, Trump flicks on the TV and watches "Morning Joe," often for long periods of time, sometimes interrupted with texts to the hosts or panelists. After the 6 a.m. hour of "Joe," he's often on to "Fox & Friends" by 7 a.m., with a little CNN before or after. He also catches the Sunday shows, especially "Meet the Press." "The shows," as he calls them, often provoke his tweets. The day of our interview with him, all of his tweet topics were discussed during the first two hours of "Morning Joe.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/donald-trump-americas-first-tv-president/521640/
Even after becoming president, Trump reportedly manages to fill his days with “plenty of television,” and from his tweets, it’s often possible to discern when—and what—he’s watching. In January, Axios broke down the president’s media diet:
Most mornings, Trump flicks on the TV and watches "Morning Joe," often for long periods of time, sometimes interrupted with texts to the hosts or panelists. After the 6 a.m. hour of "Joe," he's often on to "Fox & Friends" by 7 a.m., with a little CNN before or after. He also catches the Sunday shows, especially "Meet the Press." "The shows," as he calls them, often provoke his tweets. The day of our interview with him, all of his tweet topics were discussed during the first two hours of "Morning Joe.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/donald-trump-americas-first-tv-president/521640/
And this week he's like "Oh yeah I don't have time to watch TV." Bullshit!
Link to tweet
Trump watches so much TV - and Fox News in particular - an organization that denies it's the mainstream media, even though they aren't the mainstream media. It’s like that scene in that movie Captain Phillips where the guys took over the ship and are like “I am the captain now!”. Own it - Fox, you, along with Infowars and Breitbart - are the mainstream media now! I mean you and our president are trying to deny this whole Russia thing ever happened! God could they be any dumber? Well there is Donald Trump Jr.
Days after Donald Trump Jr. hosted a group of Russians at Trump Tower promising to deliver damaging information on the Democratic National Committee and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a hacker believed connected to the Russian government released a trove of documents online ― including ones that sound similar to those reportedly provided to Trump Jr.
Ranit Akhmetshin, a Russian American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer, told The Associated Press on Friday he took part in the meeting on June 9, 2016, along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought a folder full of documents, which he said she left behind after the meeting.
The documents detailed the Democratic National Committee’s finances and funding sources, some of which Veselnitskaya described as unlawful, Akhmetshin told the AP.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-jr-russian-intelligence_us_5969356ee4b0d6341fe8f28f
Ranit Akhmetshin, a Russian American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer, told The Associated Press on Friday he took part in the meeting on June 9, 2016, along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Akhmetshin said Veselnitskaya brought a folder full of documents, which he said she left behind after the meeting.
The documents detailed the Democratic National Committee’s finances and funding sources, some of which Veselnitskaya described as unlawful, Akhmetshin told the AP.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-jr-russian-intelligence_us_5969356ee4b0d6341fe8f28f
Yeah so once again it all comes back to Russia. By the way I love that Stephen Colbert took the time to make his own video called “Collusion”:
That was awesome. But of course Trump Jr is lashing out and calling this thing “nonsense”:
Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning lashed out at the furor over his contact with a Russian lawyer during the height of the campaign, calling it a "nonsense meeting."
“Media & Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story,” he wrote. “If this nonsense meeting is all they have after a yr, I understand the desperation!”
Trump Jr. recently came under fire after the New York Times revealed the June 2016 meeting, in which the Kremlin-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, allegedly pledged to share damaging information about Hillary Clinton. He has denied any wrongdoing and has defended himself via Twitter multiple times since the story broke Saturday. However, his explanation about the circumstances of the meeting shifted over the weekend.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on "Morning Joe" on Tuesday that Trump Jr.'s various narratives about the meeting “does not inspire a lot of confidence” in his statements.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-responds-russia-lawyer-240396
“Media & Dems are extremely invested in the Russia story,” he wrote. “If this nonsense meeting is all they have after a yr, I understand the desperation!”
Trump Jr. recently came under fire after the New York Times revealed the June 2016 meeting, in which the Kremlin-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, allegedly pledged to share damaging information about Hillary Clinton. He has denied any wrongdoing and has defended himself via Twitter multiple times since the story broke Saturday. However, his explanation about the circumstances of the meeting shifted over the weekend.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on "Morning Joe" on Tuesday that Trump Jr.'s various narratives about the meeting “does not inspire a lot of confidence” in his statements.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-responds-russia-lawyer-240396
Yeah so he’s calling this whole thing “nonsense” and a “nothing burger”. But what about a nothing burger with a side of treason, Donny?
Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter Tuesday morning to slam the media for being “extremely invested” in the story of his father’s campaign potentially colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election, following news that Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer last year on the premises of getting information that would be helpful to the campaign.
Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower not long after President Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination. The lawyer has since denied that she told Trump Jr. that she had promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
The President’s son attacked the media two days after the news broke, saying the press must be desperate to cover the Russia story if “this nonsense meeting is all they have” after a year.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-jr-media-must-be-desperate-if-meeting-all-have
Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower not long after President Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination. The lawyer has since denied that she told Trump Jr. that she had promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
The President’s son attacked the media two days after the news broke, saying the press must be desperate to cover the Russia story if “this nonsense meeting is all they have” after a year.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-jr-media-must-be-desperate-if-meeting-all-have
Ah where you been man? Thanks, waiter, I definitely need a drink right now. There’s so much bullshit with this that it’s hard to keep up. I mean it’s funny that Infowars is a website by and for conspiracy theorists, and there’s an actual conspiracy unfolding before our very eyes!
Smoke, meet gun.
On Tuesday morning, there was a stunning development in the Trump-Russia scandal: Donald Trump Jr. confessed. In yet another bombshell story, the New York Times reported on emails showing that the president’s oldest son had eagerly accepted an offer of help during the 2016 campaign from what he understood to be the Russian government. Trump Jr., the Times disclosed, had set up a meeting with a Russian attorney in the hopes of receiving derogatory information on Hillary Clinton straight from Putin’s regime. As the Times was publishing this story, Trump Jr. tweeted out those same emails.
The emails reveal that top Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner attended the meeting and suggests that all three Trump advisers colluded in what seemed to be a Russian government-backed attempt to hurt Clinton in order to help Trump win the presidency. This new development contradicts the long series of denials from Trump defenders who have claimed that there was no collusion, that there was no evidence Russian leader Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win, and that the Trump-Russia affair is merely a hoax perpetuated by loser Democrats and fake news outlets.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/donald-trump-jr-emails-steele-dossier/
On Tuesday morning, there was a stunning development in the Trump-Russia scandal: Donald Trump Jr. confessed. In yet another bombshell story, the New York Times reported on emails showing that the president’s oldest son had eagerly accepted an offer of help during the 2016 campaign from what he understood to be the Russian government. Trump Jr., the Times disclosed, had set up a meeting with a Russian attorney in the hopes of receiving derogatory information on Hillary Clinton straight from Putin’s regime. As the Times was publishing this story, Trump Jr. tweeted out those same emails.
The emails reveal that top Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner attended the meeting and suggests that all three Trump advisers colluded in what seemed to be a Russian government-backed attempt to hurt Clinton in order to help Trump win the presidency. This new development contradicts the long series of denials from Trump defenders who have claimed that there was no collusion, that there was no evidence Russian leader Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win, and that the Trump-Russia affair is merely a hoax perpetuated by loser Democrats and fake news outlets.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/donald-trump-jr-emails-steele-dossier/
I’d have a funny meme ready, but this picture of Trump Jr alone in the woods looking like he’s a rejected character from Dexter and that’s good enough:
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We got to take a break from talking about all this Russia stuff because it’s making me very angry. There’s so much more that we have yet to cover but there’s only so much armchair journalism one can do! But first… we got to talk about Trump’s friend Jim. Yes this is a thing.
I mean really…have we ever had a president with an imaginary friend before? This is kind of sad. Or in Trump’s own words… SAD! Here’s more.
WASHINGTON — For all things Paris, President Donald Trump’s go-to guy is Jim.
The way Trump tells it — Jim is a friend who loves Paris and used to visit every year. Yet when Trump travels to the city Thursday for his first time as president, it’s unlikely that Jim will tag along. Jim doesn’t go to Paris anymore. Trump says that’s because the city has been infiltrated by foreign extremists.
Whether Jim exists is unclear. Trump has never given his last name. The White House has not responded to a request for comment about who Jim is or whether he will be on the trip.
Trump repeatedly talked about the enigmatic Jim while on the campaign trail, but his friend didn’t receive widespread attention until Trump became president. For Trump, Jim’s story serves as a cautionary tale - a warning that even a place as lovely as Paris can be ruined if leaders are complacent about terrorism.
Jim’s biggest moment in the spotlight was during a high-profile Trump speech in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Trump explained that Jim “loves the City of Lights, he loves Paris. For years, every year during the summer, he would go to Paris. It was automatic, with his wife and his family.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-in-paris-the-curious-case-of-his-friend-jim/2017/07/12/84d36a6e-6733-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html?utm_term=.c3ee25b86377
The way Trump tells it — Jim is a friend who loves Paris and used to visit every year. Yet when Trump travels to the city Thursday for his first time as president, it’s unlikely that Jim will tag along. Jim doesn’t go to Paris anymore. Trump says that’s because the city has been infiltrated by foreign extremists.
Whether Jim exists is unclear. Trump has never given his last name. The White House has not responded to a request for comment about who Jim is or whether he will be on the trip.
Trump repeatedly talked about the enigmatic Jim while on the campaign trail, but his friend didn’t receive widespread attention until Trump became president. For Trump, Jim’s story serves as a cautionary tale - a warning that even a place as lovely as Paris can be ruined if leaders are complacent about terrorism.
Jim’s biggest moment in the spotlight was during a high-profile Trump speech in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Trump explained that Jim “loves the City of Lights, he loves Paris. For years, every year during the summer, he would go to Paris. It was automatic, with his wife and his family.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-in-paris-the-curious-case-of-his-friend-jim/2017/07/12/84d36a6e-6733-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html?utm_term=.c3ee25b86377
So now let’s get into the heart of this week and talk about what Trump Jr’s father was up to this week. So you know about his quest to MAGA. And this week, Trump unveiled his plans for a “Made In America” week. Which actually is one of the better ideas he’s come up with. But when you consider his brand it’s a swing and a miss.
PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP, New Jersey— Plagued by daily revelations related to the escalating Russia investigations, the White House has dubbed this week "Made in America week" as it tries to focus on issues that matter to the president's base and promote products made in the United States.
Speaking to reporters at a hotel near President Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre said Sunday that the White House will host a "Made in America" product showcase Monday afternoon featuring products from all 50 states.
The president also is expected to issue a proclamation Wednesday on the importance of making goods in America, and will travel to Virginia on Saturday for the commissioning of the USS Gerald R. Ford, a new aircraft carrier.
"For too long our government has forgotten the American worker. Their interests were pushed aside for global projects and their wealth was taken from the communities and shipped overseas," said Ferre. "Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, not only will the American worker never be forgotten, but they will be championed."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-president-trump-prepare-for-made-in-america-week/
Speaking to reporters at a hotel near President Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre said Sunday that the White House will host a "Made in America" product showcase Monday afternoon featuring products from all 50 states.
The president also is expected to issue a proclamation Wednesday on the importance of making goods in America, and will travel to Virginia on Saturday for the commissioning of the USS Gerald R. Ford, a new aircraft carrier.
"For too long our government has forgotten the American worker. Their interests were pushed aside for global projects and their wealth was taken from the communities and shipped overseas," said Ferre. "Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, not only will the American worker never be forgotten, but they will be championed."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-president-trump-prepare-for-made-in-america-week/
It sounds like a good idea in theory. Sure, let’s showcase everything made in all 50 states for “Made In America” Week. I have no problems with that. So what things are made in America? We could point to the Tesla Model S made in California. Or we could point to the Boeing 700 series aircrafts being made in Everett, Washington. Or we could point to central air conditioning units made in Indiana. But one thing that’s not made in America – Trump brand products! And that is why this is an epic fail!
An investigation from AFP found that Ivanka’s company brought in 82 shipments that went through U.S Customs in that time period. The shipments, over 53 tons worth of merchandise, included 2 tons of polyester woven blouses, 1,600 cowhide leather wallets, and 23 tons of footwear. One of those shipments came two days after her father hosted two dozen CEOs at the White House and lambasted trade deals like NAFTA for the loss of American jobs, while promising that his administration would make moves to bring millions of jobs back.
Christopher Balding, an expert on Sino-US trade relations at Peking University, told AFP it is “very hypocritical to make a policy plank and manufacture her products in China.”
There does not seem to be a slowdown in the plans, either, as a shoe factory in southern China has reportedly received an order for 10,000 Ivanka Trump shoes for next season.
The Trump family’s China-to-America pipeline is even more troubling as the shipment came ashore not long after White House counselor Kellyanne Conway used her administration role to push Ivanka’s fashion line during an appearance on Fox News. The free commercial from the White House resulted in a sales spike, as Trump fans rushed online to buy the first daughter’s outsourced wares.
MORE:
http://shareblue.com/investigation-reveals-ivanka-trump-imported-53-tons-of-made-in-china-clothing-since-her-dad-became-president/
Christopher Balding, an expert on Sino-US trade relations at Peking University, told AFP it is “very hypocritical to make a policy plank and manufacture her products in China.”
There does not seem to be a slowdown in the plans, either, as a shoe factory in southern China has reportedly received an order for 10,000 Ivanka Trump shoes for next season.
The Trump family’s China-to-America pipeline is even more troubling as the shipment came ashore not long after White House counselor Kellyanne Conway used her administration role to push Ivanka’s fashion line during an appearance on Fox News. The free commercial from the White House resulted in a sales spike, as Trump fans rushed online to buy the first daughter’s outsourced wares.
MORE:
http://shareblue.com/investigation-reveals-ivanka-trump-imported-53-tons-of-made-in-china-clothing-since-her-dad-became-president/
Holy shit!!! 53 tons? How much bullshit are they hawking? And I bet it’s poorly made too. Even White House staff members think this is a totally ridiculous idea!
With the president’s domestic agenda derailed by Russian intrigues, family scandals, and legislative gridlock, the Trump administration has rolled out a series of so-called “theme weeks” to highlight purported achievements—or attempted achievements, anyway—in order to shift the national spotlight. The effort has, for the most part, been a failure: “Infrastructure Week” was overshadowed by the Senate testimony of James Comey; “Workforce Development Week,” which was touted by Ivanka Trump, was undercut by her father’s budget; and “Technology Week,” a Jared Kushner pet project, did little to distract from reports that the president had just come under investigation for obstruction of justice.
While Trump himself has demonstrated only anemic commitment to this campaign, the public relations effort continues this week with “Made in America” week, perhaps the most ill-advised and poorly timed of any of the White House’s branded weeks thus far. Companies from all 50 states have been invited to the White House to show off their American-made products and Trump is expected to encourage more companies to manufacture their products state-side, Bloomberg reports. Trump also has plans to head to Virginia for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford Aircraft carrier. “For too long our government has forgotten the American worker,” White House spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré told reporters in a call on Sunday. Those workers, she said, will now be “championed” by Trump.
It’s all a bit jarring, given that both the Trump Organization and Ivanka’s fashion brand have a pretty poor track record of making their products in America:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/made-in-america-week
While Trump himself has demonstrated only anemic commitment to this campaign, the public relations effort continues this week with “Made in America” week, perhaps the most ill-advised and poorly timed of any of the White House’s branded weeks thus far. Companies from all 50 states have been invited to the White House to show off their American-made products and Trump is expected to encourage more companies to manufacture their products state-side, Bloomberg reports. Trump also has plans to head to Virginia for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford Aircraft carrier. “For too long our government has forgotten the American worker,” White House spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré told reporters in a call on Sunday. Those workers, she said, will now be “championed” by Trump.
It’s all a bit jarring, given that both the Trump Organization and Ivanka’s fashion brand have a pretty poor track record of making their products in America:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/made-in-america-week
But like everything Trump does, it is backfiring spectacularly on him:
President Donald Trump is set to declare this week “Made In America” week to help promote products manufactured in the United States, according to The Hill.
But he’s already coming under fire for the move, given that Trump-branded products are often manufactured overseas.
Many of Trump’s clothing items have been made in Mexico and China. During the campaign last year, his use of steel and aluminum from China became a campaign issue.
And just last week, The Washington Post reported on the fashion line of first daughter and White House aide Ivanka Trump, finding that much of it is made by low-wage workers in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-made-in-america_us_596c391ce4b03389bb1878e1
But he’s already coming under fire for the move, given that Trump-branded products are often manufactured overseas.
Many of Trump’s clothing items have been made in Mexico and China. During the campaign last year, his use of steel and aluminum from China became a campaign issue.
And just last week, The Washington Post reported on the fashion line of first daughter and White House aide Ivanka Trump, finding that much of it is made by low-wage workers in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-made-in-america_us_596c391ce4b03389bb1878e1
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Donald Trump and well the Trump family in general don’t particularly have good taste in lawyers, and we mentioned that everyone has been lawyering up because there’s a whole metric fuck ton of people who are going to get in trouble over this whole thing, which is turning into a category 5 shit storm. But there’s one lawyer in the Trump inner circle who we need to pay particular attention to, his name is Rob Goldstone.
The email to Donald Trump Jr. described an intricate back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign that could provide incriminating information about Hillary Clinton — and its emergence in the past week has cast a spotlight on its writer, the publicist who portrayed himself as the emissary in this sensitive task.
Publicist Rob Goldstone is a colorful figure, friends and former associates said, a bon vivant who posts self-deprecating videos on social media, hobnobs with New York socialites and sometimes uses bluster and hyperbole to open doors. The boutique PR firm he has run for 20 years with a partner has relied on a small roster of clients and piecework, setting up shop for several years in rent-free office space and neglecting to pay taxes some years in the 2000s, according to interviews and records.
Goldstone’s fortunes appear to have brightened in 2012, when associates say he took on his most high-profile client, Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov, whose Kremlin-connected family has done business with Donald Trump in the past. Goldstone, 57, appears to have since made at least 18 trips to Russia, one of them just days before he emailed Trump Jr. to arrange a meeting, an analysis of his Facebook profile shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/who-is-rob-goldstone-whose-email-to-trump-jr-on-russia-caused-a-sensation/2017/07/15/8471f520-68c0-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?utm_term=.cc306f1d1422
Publicist Rob Goldstone is a colorful figure, friends and former associates said, a bon vivant who posts self-deprecating videos on social media, hobnobs with New York socialites and sometimes uses bluster and hyperbole to open doors. The boutique PR firm he has run for 20 years with a partner has relied on a small roster of clients and piecework, setting up shop for several years in rent-free office space and neglecting to pay taxes some years in the 2000s, according to interviews and records.
Goldstone’s fortunes appear to have brightened in 2012, when associates say he took on his most high-profile client, Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov, whose Kremlin-connected family has done business with Donald Trump in the past. Goldstone, 57, appears to have since made at least 18 trips to Russia, one of them just days before he emailed Trump Jr. to arrange a meeting, an analysis of his Facebook profile shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/who-is-rob-goldstone-whose-email-to-trump-jr-on-russia-caused-a-sensation/2017/07/15/8471f520-68c0-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?utm_term=.cc306f1d1422
Yeah I think even Saul Goodman would look at this case and go “fuck it”. I mean this guy looks like he was a reject from the Jersey Shore reboot:
Man I thought Rocky had put on a few pounds! “Yeah well you know he’s out of shape and… YOU WANT TO FIGHT THE FIGHT???? I’LL FIGHT THE FIGHT!!!!”. Now just like everything Trump does – here’s where it gets weird.
A new peripheral character in the Trump universe stepped into the spotlight this week: the entertainment publicist and former tabloid reporter Rob Goldstone.
This is the man who facilitated a meeting last year between Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer and Moscow insider, with the promise of information that “would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia.”
Mr. Goldstone, who runs the public relations company Oui 2 Entertainment, contacted Donald Trump Jr. by email on behalf of his client, Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose father, Aras, is a real estate tycoon. Aras Agalarov worked with President Trump and Mr. Goldstone to take the Miss Universe contest to Moscow in 2013.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. posted images of his email exchanges with Mr. Goldstone on his Twitter account after learning that The New York Times planned to publish them. The meeting, details of which were first reported by The Times, took place on June 9, 2016, on the 25th floor of Trump Tower and was attended by Donald Trump Jr.; his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner; Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign manager at the time; and Mr. Goldstone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/style/rob-goldstone-russia-trump.html
This is the man who facilitated a meeting last year between Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer and Moscow insider, with the promise of information that “would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia.”
Mr. Goldstone, who runs the public relations company Oui 2 Entertainment, contacted Donald Trump Jr. by email on behalf of his client, Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose father, Aras, is a real estate tycoon. Aras Agalarov worked with President Trump and Mr. Goldstone to take the Miss Universe contest to Moscow in 2013.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. posted images of his email exchanges with Mr. Goldstone on his Twitter account after learning that The New York Times planned to publish them. The meeting, details of which were first reported by The Times, took place on June 9, 2016, on the 25th floor of Trump Tower and was attended by Donald Trump Jr.; his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner; Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign manager at the time; and Mr. Goldstone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/style/rob-goldstone-russia-trump.html
So let’s show that, shall we?
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3318106.1499794375!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/goldstone12n.jpg
Seriously this guy is like every bad improv character you’ve ever seen! You’ve got Comrade Goldstone, you’ve got pilot Goldstone, you’ve got the bad Yakov Smirnov impersonation, you’ve got Astronaut Goldstone… there’s Flavor Flav Goldstone…
There’s Miss Universe Goldstone:
There’s Redneck Tourist Goldstone With An Offensive Hat:
There’s even more!
I could go on and on! But we’re still not done:
Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly made it all happen:
Goldstone, who arranged the June 9, 2016 meeting with Donny and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, was born in Manchester, England. According to the bio on his company’s website, he started his career as a journalist and in 1986, “relocated to Sydney after being chosen by Michael Jackson to accompany him exclusively on his 1999 Australian tour.” From there, Goldstone founded Crawford Goldstone Publicity and represented artists touring Australia, among others, Cyndi Lauper, Julio Iglesias, James Taylor, Tracy Chapman, BB King, UB40, Marianne Faithful, U2, and Poison. Today, he runs public relations firm Oui 2 Entertainment, where one of his clients is Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.
According to the B.B.C., Agalarov’s father is Aras Agalarov, a real estate developer based in Moscow, who was Trump’s business partner in bringing the Miss Universe competition there in 2013 (Goldstone was a judge for the pageant last year). Per the B.B.C., Aras Agalarov also worked with Trump to bring a Trump Tower to Moscow, though the project didn’t pan out.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/rob-goldstone-donald-trump-jr-meeting
Goldstone, who arranged the June 9, 2016 meeting with Donny and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, was born in Manchester, England. According to the bio on his company’s website, he started his career as a journalist and in 1986, “relocated to Sydney after being chosen by Michael Jackson to accompany him exclusively on his 1999 Australian tour.” From there, Goldstone founded Crawford Goldstone Publicity and represented artists touring Australia, among others, Cyndi Lauper, Julio Iglesias, James Taylor, Tracy Chapman, BB King, UB40, Marianne Faithful, U2, and Poison. Today, he runs public relations firm Oui 2 Entertainment, where one of his clients is Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.
According to the B.B.C., Agalarov’s father is Aras Agalarov, a real estate developer based in Moscow, who was Trump’s business partner in bringing the Miss Universe competition there in 2013 (Goldstone was a judge for the pageant last year). Per the B.B.C., Aras Agalarov also worked with Trump to bring a Trump Tower to Moscow, though the project didn’t pan out.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/rob-goldstone-donald-trump-jr-meeting
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Yeah so the GOP is always quick to scream “religious freedom!!!!!1!” and “free speech!!!!1!”, and they’re playing a very dangerous game right now with the first amendment. So much that remember that dolt who wanted to take her case about serving a gay customer to SCOTUS? Well…
Monday marks the two-year anniversary of a historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, but a controversial case on “religious freedom” is drawing criticism from Iowa LGBTQ supporters.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would rule on a case out of Colorado where a baker refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The ruling could affect similar cases nationwide.
Star runs Creation Cakes Bakery out of her home in Des Moines.
Star said she is a Christian but that she works with same-sex couples.
“I don't necessarily agree with the same-sex (marriage),” Star said. “If they would put ‘union,’ that's ok. I'm not so sure I like the word wedding, but that's them. That’s me. We each have our own opinion.”
http://www.kcci.com/article/scotus-takes-on-controversial-same-sex-wedding-cake-case/10225232
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would rule on a case out of Colorado where a baker refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The ruling could affect similar cases nationwide.
Star runs Creation Cakes Bakery out of her home in Des Moines.
Star said she is a Christian but that she works with same-sex couples.
“I don't necessarily agree with the same-sex (marriage),” Star said. “If they would put ‘union,’ that's ok. I'm not so sure I like the word wedding, but that's them. That’s me. We each have our own opinion.”
http://www.kcci.com/article/scotus-takes-on-controversial-same-sex-wedding-cake-case/10225232
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You’re not even sure about the word “wedding”? Then what the fuck are you doing in the WEDDING industry, dumbass? It’s right there in the name!!! And that should give you some idea of what spirituality is like in the Trump White House. You know they love to do everything closed door and off camera. Well, it should be no surprise that he takes religion that way too – by inviting the most extremist people possible!
Ralph Drollinger is no stranger to controversy. The evangelical pastor has drawn plenty of criticism for his outrageous statements since he started leading a Bible study for congressional members in 2010. The far right extremist has called homosexuality an “abomination,” characterized Catholicism as a false religion, and admonished female lawmakers who continue to work after having children.
Now, he has expanded his Bible study to include most members of Donald Trump’s cabinet. As an outside group that holds events inside a Congressional building, they must be sponsored by an elected official. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretaries Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Sonny Perdue, Rick Perry, Tom Price, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are all current “sponsors” of the Bible study.
“Do not be deceived by syncretistic, ‘prayer breakfasts:’ God only hears the prayers of leaders and citizens who are upright, who live righteously through faith in Jesus Christ,” Drollinger’s written Bible study for July 10 reads. “Scripture is clear; those who are at enmity with Him – who passively or actively reject the Son of God – their prayers are worthless and go unheard. And the State suffers for want of His blessing. The righteous leader is a man of potent prayer.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/07/trump-administrations-bible-study-leader-says-god-doesnt-hear-prayers-jews/
Now, he has expanded his Bible study to include most members of Donald Trump’s cabinet. As an outside group that holds events inside a Congressional building, they must be sponsored by an elected official. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretaries Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Sonny Perdue, Rick Perry, Tom Price, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are all current “sponsors” of the Bible study.
“Do not be deceived by syncretistic, ‘prayer breakfasts:’ God only hears the prayers of leaders and citizens who are upright, who live righteously through faith in Jesus Christ,” Drollinger’s written Bible study for July 10 reads. “Scripture is clear; those who are at enmity with Him – who passively or actively reject the Son of God – their prayers are worthless and go unheard. And the State suffers for want of His blessing. The righteous leader is a man of potent prayer.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/07/trump-administrations-bible-study-leader-says-god-doesnt-hear-prayers-jews/
RIP Religious Freedom. 1791 – 2017. You will be missed. So what did Premier Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions do that violated the first amendment? Why you get a bunch of religious zealots to the White House! This is almost going to be kind of a “Choose Your Own Adventure”, if you will. But here’s what Jeff Sessions did.
The transcript of a speech that Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave to a right-wing legal advocacy group behind closed doors has finally been revealed.
Conservative news site the Federalist reported Thursday that Sessions told the Alliance Defending Freedom—known for its extreme stance on gay rights including comparing homosexuality to bestiality—that religion in the U.S. is under attack and that the American government was not intended to “get between God and man.”
Since Sessions spoke to the closed door meeting earlier this week news organisations—including Newsweek—have asked the Department of Justice for a transcript, commonly distributed after senior White House officials give public speeches, but requests have been ignored. Now the speech has appeared, printed in full, in the Federalist.
In it, Sessions says: “In recent years, many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack. This feeling is understandable.”
“A lot of people are concerned about what this changing cultural climate means for the future of religious liberty in this country,” he added. “The challenges our nation faces today concerning our historic First Amendment right to the 'free exercise' of our faith have become acute.”
http://www.newsweek.com/religion-us-under-attack-sessions-says-hailing-important-work-anti-gay-group-636626
Conservative news site the Federalist reported Thursday that Sessions told the Alliance Defending Freedom—known for its extreme stance on gay rights including comparing homosexuality to bestiality—that religion in the U.S. is under attack and that the American government was not intended to “get between God and man.”
Since Sessions spoke to the closed door meeting earlier this week news organisations—including Newsweek—have asked the Department of Justice for a transcript, commonly distributed after senior White House officials give public speeches, but requests have been ignored. Now the speech has appeared, printed in full, in the Federalist.
In it, Sessions says: “In recent years, many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack. This feeling is understandable.”
“A lot of people are concerned about what this changing cultural climate means for the future of religious liberty in this country,” he added. “The challenges our nation faces today concerning our historic First Amendment right to the 'free exercise' of our faith have become acute.”
http://www.newsweek.com/religion-us-under-attack-sessions-says-hailing-important-work-anti-gay-group-636626
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Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! So our attorney general sees the need to address religious hate groups to feed them the big lie that religion is under attack. Nobody is attacking your religion or beliefs, you crybaby. And why closed doors? The Trump Administration sure does love them some closed door action don’t they? Thank you! But of course he thanked them for “doing the lord’s work”. If hate is the Lord’s work, is the Lord a heartless asshole?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions applauded a conservative Christian organization known for its opposition to LGBTQ causes on Tuesday for defending religious freedom amid a “changing cultural climate.”
Speaking at the Summit on Religious Liberty in Dana Point, California, Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed a hate group.
Despite multiple news outlets’ requests, Sessions’ remarks weren’t released until conservative website The Federalist published them on Thursday. A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed the validity of the transcript to HuffPost on Friday.
The attorney general opened his speech by thanking the Alliance Defending Freedom ― whose founders have said that “homosexual behavior” and pedophilia are “intrinsically linked” ― for the “important work” it does “to uphold and protect the right to religious liberty in this country.” The alliance sponsors litigation related to the First Amendment to protect religious freedom for Christians.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-alliance-defending-freedom_us_59692839e4b03389bb17569c
Speaking at the Summit on Religious Liberty in Dana Point, California, Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed a hate group.
Despite multiple news outlets’ requests, Sessions’ remarks weren’t released until conservative website The Federalist published them on Thursday. A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed the validity of the transcript to HuffPost on Friday.
The attorney general opened his speech by thanking the Alliance Defending Freedom ― whose founders have said that “homosexual behavior” and pedophilia are “intrinsically linked” ― for the “important work” it does “to uphold and protect the right to religious liberty in this country.” The alliance sponsors litigation related to the First Amendment to protect religious freedom for Christians.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-alliance-defending-freedom_us_59692839e4b03389bb17569c
Yeah really that needs the Jesus facepalm. So Jeff Sessions courts the anti-LGBT hate vote. For that he got shredded by Stephen Colbert:
And next behind closed door #2 – we have Premier Trump. So he goes overseas to summon a giant orb:
And then back at home, he invites the fundie hate crowd to the White House – more people who shouldn’t be there. That we didn’t ask for and don’t want:
A group of evangelical leaders met with President Trump on Monday and laid their hands on him as he bowed in prayer while meeting in the Oval Office.
The leaders met with Jennifer Korn, deputy director and liaison from the White House, for a day-long meeting to discuss several issues, including the Affordable Care Act, religious freedom, pending judicial nominees, criminal justice reform and support for Israel. During their visit the leaders paid a visit to the Oval Office where Vice President Pence and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, dropped in.
About 30 leaders received invitations to the White House around a week and a half ago and included many of Trump’s faith advisory council from his campaign, including Florida megachurch pastor Paula White, South Carolina megachurch pastor Mark Burns, former Republican representative Michele Bachmann and Southern Baptist pastors Jack Graham, Ronnie Floyd and Robert Jeffress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/07/12/photo-surfaces-of-evangelical-pastors-laying-hands-on-trump-in-the-oval-office/?utm_term=.3d663db744d0
The leaders met with Jennifer Korn, deputy director and liaison from the White House, for a day-long meeting to discuss several issues, including the Affordable Care Act, religious freedom, pending judicial nominees, criminal justice reform and support for Israel. During their visit the leaders paid a visit to the Oval Office where Vice President Pence and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, dropped in.
About 30 leaders received invitations to the White House around a week and a half ago and included many of Trump’s faith advisory council from his campaign, including Florida megachurch pastor Paula White, South Carolina megachurch pastor Mark Burns, former Republican representative Michele Bachmann and Southern Baptist pastors Jack Graham, Ronnie Floyd and Robert Jeffress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/07/12/photo-surfaces-of-evangelical-pastors-laying-hands-on-trump-in-the-oval-office/?utm_term=.3d663db744d0
Asking Paula White for advice on religion would be like asking the guys from Jackass about personal injury attorneys. You know there’s better people that you could ask about the subject, but just because they hurt themselves all the time doesn't mean that they're the first person you should ask! Thank you! And some say that Trump’s meeting bordered on heresy:
Being president of the United States is hard, and one could argue that the person sitting in the Oval Office needs all the help he can get —earthly or divine.
Donald Trump was prayed for on the campaign trail. Barack Obama called his Christian faith "a sustaining force." And George W. Bush began his second term with prayer and reflection at Washington National Cathedral.
But an image of evangelical pastors laying hands on and praying over President Trump last week has struck an especially visceral chord with critics of Trump and his policies.
The religious leaders in the Oval Office said they were praying for God to give Trump guidance, supernatural wisdom and protection.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-pastors-trump-analysis-20170716-story.html
Donald Trump was prayed for on the campaign trail. Barack Obama called his Christian faith "a sustaining force." And George W. Bush began his second term with prayer and reflection at Washington National Cathedral.
But an image of evangelical pastors laying hands on and praying over President Trump last week has struck an especially visceral chord with critics of Trump and his policies.
The religious leaders in the Oval Office said they were praying for God to give Trump guidance, supernatural wisdom and protection.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-pastors-trump-analysis-20170716-story.html
Ooh, this gets a rare Faithpalm! But here’s something fucking scary that needs to be reiterated – did you know that Trump’s god squad is forming an alliance with Putin? This is some scary shit!!
As evidence continues to emerge of Russia’s alleged attempts at the direction of Vladimir Putin to disrupt the 2016 election through nefarious means, President Donald Trump has endured fiery criticism from all sides regarding his ties to the authoritarian leader. In addition to an avalanche of progressive detractors, Republican senators such as Lindsay Graham (R-SC) have expressed unease about the connection, and Pope Francis declared the budding alliance between the U.S. and Russia “dangerous.”
But as Trump prepared for his first face-to-face meeting as president with Putin this past weekend, his attempt to thaw relations with Moscow was blessed by a seemingly unusual source: Rev. Franklin Graham, a prominent member of the Religious Right and the son of evangelist Billy Graham. Days before the meeting, the younger Graham — a longtime Trump supporter who led a prayer at the president’s inauguration — published a Facebook post voicing optimism about a potential Trump-Putin partnership.
https://thinkprogress.org/religious-right-russia-3e80e2ea2e4a
But as Trump prepared for his first face-to-face meeting as president with Putin this past weekend, his attempt to thaw relations with Moscow was blessed by a seemingly unusual source: Rev. Franklin Graham, a prominent member of the Religious Right and the son of evangelist Billy Graham. Days before the meeting, the younger Graham — a longtime Trump supporter who led a prayer at the president’s inauguration — published a Facebook post voicing optimism about a potential Trump-Putin partnership.
https://thinkprogress.org/religious-right-russia-3e80e2ea2e4a
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[font size="8"]Kid Rock
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Yeah we needed some music for this. You know the White House dinner guest that nobody asked for or wanted is running for Senate. Yes he’ll probably win. Yes, we are truly, truly fucked. So here’s why Kid Rock is running – he says that it’s because – any guesses anyone? Anyone?
Kid Rock, the singer whose career has spanned rap, hard rock and country music, is fueling the speculation that he intends to announce a bid for the U.S. Senate next year to challenge incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. That is unless it's all a publicity stunt.
In a post on his personal website Thursday evening, the 46-year-old singer wrote, "Like politicians write books during their campaigns, I'm planning on putting out music during mine and IT ALL STARTS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT." On Friday, Kid Rock announced he is releasing two new songs.
The post continued, "Senator Stabenow and I do share a love of music, although probably not the same kind. I concede she is better at playing politics than I am so I'll keep doing what I do best, which is being a voice for tax paying, hardworking AMERICANS..."
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537216425/-not-a-hoax-claims-kid-rock-about-michigan-senate-bid
In a post on his personal website Thursday evening, the 46-year-old singer wrote, "Like politicians write books during their campaigns, I'm planning on putting out music during mine and IT ALL STARTS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT." On Friday, Kid Rock announced he is releasing two new songs.
The post continued, "Senator Stabenow and I do share a love of music, although probably not the same kind. I concede she is better at playing politics than I am so I'll keep doing what I do best, which is being a voice for tax paying, hardworking AMERICANS..."
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537216425/-not-a-hoax-claims-kid-rock-about-michigan-senate-bid
OK wait – so Kid Rock is running for Senate *AFTER* announcing the release of two new songs? I mean seriously what’s next? Governor Larry The Cable Guy? Well, he was at least a health inspector. You know for the party that says celebrities shouldn’t be involved in politics – they sure do run a lot of celebrities don’t they? Seriously – they’ve had Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, and now Kid Rock. And even Caitlyn Jenner is thinking of running against Diane Feinstein! Yeah, good luck with that, Cait!
Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympic gold medalist, reality show star and transgender activist, is weighing a run for the U.S. Senate representing California.
“I have considered it. I like the political side of it,” Jenner said in a radio interview with New York’s AM 970 that aired Sunday, adding that she planned to make a decision within the next six months or so.
“I gotta find out where I can do a better job,” she said. “Can I do a better job from the outside, kind of working the perimeter of the political scene, being open to talk to anybody? Or are you better off from the inside, and we are in the process of determining that.”
Jenner has been in the spotlight for decades – first as Bruce, an Olympic athlete and the long-suffering husband and father in the Kardashian reality television empire, and then as the activist who transitioned to Caitlyn in 2015, becoming one of the most famous transgender voices in the world.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-caitlyn-jenner-may-run-for-u-s-senate-1500243172-htmlstory.html
“I have considered it. I like the political side of it,” Jenner said in a radio interview with New York’s AM 970 that aired Sunday, adding that she planned to make a decision within the next six months or so.
“I gotta find out where I can do a better job,” she said. “Can I do a better job from the outside, kind of working the perimeter of the political scene, being open to talk to anybody? Or are you better off from the inside, and we are in the process of determining that.”
Jenner has been in the spotlight for decades – first as Bruce, an Olympic athlete and the long-suffering husband and father in the Kardashian reality television empire, and then as the activist who transitioned to Caitlyn in 2015, becoming one of the most famous transgender voices in the world.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-caitlyn-jenner-may-run-for-u-s-senate-1500243172-htmlstory.html
“I gotta find out where I can do a better job.” Really? How about… not doing this one, Cait? The level of hypocrisy really is too damn high! Hey you know Cait, I like the political side too, but I am in no way qualified to do that job! Which is why I do comedy instead. This is a comedy show! And by the way Cait – you were married to Kris Jenner! You should not be allowed to make any more important decisions! And especially ones that affect public policy! Thank you! Getting back on topic here. But seriously this couldn’t possibly be any worse could it?
Republican rocker Kid Rock coyly teased a run for the United States Senate on his social media this week. Though his formal candidacy is uncertain, in the age of a Trump presidency, officials – including Senator Elizabeth Warren – are taking the rocker at his word.
Rock (born Robert James Ritchie) was an early supporter of President Trump's, and previously supported GOP candidate Mitt Romney. But the Michigan native (who splits his time in Nashville, Tennessee), became politicized after Detroit filed for bankruptcy four years ago.
That summer, in August 2013, CBS reported that Rock gave roughly $1 million to Detroit-based charities that included $250,000 for an interactive music lab at the Detroit Historical Museum, ended a strike by the Detroit Symphony and funded a Made in Detroit Endowed Scholarship at Wayne State University.
"There's no place on earth, no city, with more style than Detroit city. Hands down, that's a fact ... you've got a blank canvas here," Rock said in an interview at the time on CNBC. Rock didn't hint about a political run then, but appeared invested in the future of the city. Now, it appears, Rock is serious about tossing his trucker hat in the next senate race.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/kid-rock-teases-michigan-senate-run-what-are-his-politics-w492317
Rock (born Robert James Ritchie) was an early supporter of President Trump's, and previously supported GOP candidate Mitt Romney. But the Michigan native (who splits his time in Nashville, Tennessee), became politicized after Detroit filed for bankruptcy four years ago.
That summer, in August 2013, CBS reported that Rock gave roughly $1 million to Detroit-based charities that included $250,000 for an interactive music lab at the Detroit Historical Museum, ended a strike by the Detroit Symphony and funded a Made in Detroit Endowed Scholarship at Wayne State University.
"There's no place on earth, no city, with more style than Detroit city. Hands down, that's a fact ... you've got a blank canvas here," Rock said in an interview at the time on CNBC. Rock didn't hint about a political run then, but appeared invested in the future of the city. Now, it appears, Rock is serious about tossing his trucker hat in the next senate race.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/kid-rock-teases-michigan-senate-run-what-are-his-politics-w492317
Hey those Bawitda-Brats aren’t going to cook themselves! Yeah that guy is going to run for senate! That fucking guy! No, unfortunately that’s not an entry for “This Fucking Guy”. So let’s go through a few of his proposed policies, shall we?
On Gun Control
"Getting rid of them is not the answer. The guy who got Osama bin Laden was on Fox News. His daddy raised him in Montana, hunting, fishing. He got it from hunting. What that kid knows is fucking valuable. Shooting 200 yards is hard. To be able to make 1,000-yard shots? I'm glad we have some people like that on our side." – Rolling Stone, February 2015
On Gay Marriage and Abortion
"I am definitely a Republican on fiscal issues and the military, but I lean to the middle on social issues. I am no fan of abortion, but it's not up to a man to tell a woman what to do. As an ordained minister I don't look forward to marrying gay people, but I'm not opposed to it." – The Guardian, January 2015
On Freedom of Speech
"Rap-rock was what people wanted at the time, and they still love those songs at shows. But it turned into a lot of bullshit and it turned out to be pretty gay … If someone says you can’t say 'gay' like that you tell them to go fuck themselves. You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me." – The Guardian, January 2015
"Getting rid of them is not the answer. The guy who got Osama bin Laden was on Fox News. His daddy raised him in Montana, hunting, fishing. He got it from hunting. What that kid knows is fucking valuable. Shooting 200 yards is hard. To be able to make 1,000-yard shots? I'm glad we have some people like that on our side." – Rolling Stone, February 2015
On Gay Marriage and Abortion
"I am definitely a Republican on fiscal issues and the military, but I lean to the middle on social issues. I am no fan of abortion, but it's not up to a man to tell a woman what to do. As an ordained minister I don't look forward to marrying gay people, but I'm not opposed to it." – The Guardian, January 2015
On Freedom of Speech
"Rap-rock was what people wanted at the time, and they still love those songs at shows. But it turned into a lot of bullshit and it turned out to be pretty gay … If someone says you can’t say 'gay' like that you tell them to go fuck themselves. You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me." – The Guardian, January 2015
Ah, OK no PC? Check. Pro gun? Check. On the fence about gay marriage? Check. Freedom of speech? Check! So far you’ve got 3 for 3 there, Richie. What else?
On Choosing to Endorse Mitt Romney in 2012
"[I wanted to make sure he's not] just a rich guy who wanted to become president to out-do [his] dad. I know what it's like to want to be better than your father. Of course, I'm getting these 'I really want to help America [answers]' and I said, 'Cut the shit, this is my living room; this isn't going to leave here.'" – Howard Stern, November 2012
On Supporting Donald Trump in 2016
"I'm digging Trump. I feel like a lot of people, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, feel like if you get Hillary or Bernie, or you get Rubio or Cruz or whoever, there's going to be the same shit. Has that much fucking changed when anyone's in office, whether it's been a Republican or a Democrat in office, in our lifetime, anyway? I haven't really seen this big, like, fucking change. Obviously some people fucked up. [Laughs] That's a long debate. My feeling: let the motherfucking business guy run it like a fucking business. And his campaign has been entertaining as shit.” – Rolling Stone, February 2016
"[I wanted to make sure he's not] just a rich guy who wanted to become president to out-do [his] dad. I know what it's like to want to be better than your father. Of course, I'm getting these 'I really want to help America [answers]' and I said, 'Cut the shit, this is my living room; this isn't going to leave here.'" – Howard Stern, November 2012
On Supporting Donald Trump in 2016
"I'm digging Trump. I feel like a lot of people, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, feel like if you get Hillary or Bernie, or you get Rubio or Cruz or whoever, there's going to be the same shit. Has that much fucking changed when anyone's in office, whether it's been a Republican or a Democrat in office, in our lifetime, anyway? I haven't really seen this big, like, fucking change. Obviously some people fucked up. [Laughs] That's a long debate. My feeling: let the motherfucking business guy run it like a fucking business. And his campaign has been entertaining as shit.” – Rolling Stone, February 2016
Yup! There we go!!!! Ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!!!
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[font size="8"]Sean Hannity
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You know we here at the Top 10 have been saying for a long time that Fox News is essentially state run television. Well, this week, as our “President” refers to him as “Crazy Joe” and her as “Psycho Mika”, or is it “Low IQ Mika”, once again reiterated his stance that Fox News is state run television. Yeah so is Fox News state run television? Let’s explore this for a bit.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough’s ongoing feud with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity continued full steam ahead Monday.
The host of “Morning Joe” followed up a weekend op-ed in The Washington Post on ways President Trump is “killing” the Republican Party with a shot at one of the president’s staunchest defenders, likening Mr. Hannity’s coverage to “state-run” television.
Mr. Scarborough, who recently told comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” audience that he was no longer a Republican, particularly took issue with Mr. Hannity’s coverage of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
“[The White House was] lying to the New York Times, lying to the American people, saying this meeting was just about adoption,” Mr. Scarborough said, The Washington Free Beacon reported. “Then the next day lying about the people that were in it, then going on a TV show that basically is state-run television and being asked at the end of that TV show, ‘Is there anything else that we don’t know about?’ And Don Jr. saying, ‘That’s it.’ And then the next day we find out that another person attended the meeting.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/17/joe-scarborough-continues-fox-feud-calls-sean-hann/
The host of “Morning Joe” followed up a weekend op-ed in The Washington Post on ways President Trump is “killing” the Republican Party with a shot at one of the president’s staunchest defenders, likening Mr. Hannity’s coverage to “state-run” television.
Mr. Scarborough, who recently told comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” audience that he was no longer a Republican, particularly took issue with Mr. Hannity’s coverage of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
“[The White House was] lying to the New York Times, lying to the American people, saying this meeting was just about adoption,” Mr. Scarborough said, The Washington Free Beacon reported. “Then the next day lying about the people that were in it, then going on a TV show that basically is state-run television and being asked at the end of that TV show, ‘Is there anything else that we don’t know about?’ And Don Jr. saying, ‘That’s it.’ And then the next day we find out that another person attended the meeting.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/17/joe-scarborough-continues-fox-feud-calls-sean-hann/
So exploring this further, let’s take a look at an actual network that is vying to be state run television under Premier Trump. They’re called “One Action Network”, and you may not have heard of them, but they managed to land a huge star to their lineup.
One America News is an obscure TV channel struggling to emerge from the cellar of the cable ratings, but it is nonetheless one of President Trump’s favorite media outlets. It’s not hard to see why: On One America newscasts, the Trump administration is a juggernaut of progress, a shining success with a daily drumbeat of achievements.
One America — a tiny father-and-sons operation that often delivers four times as many stories per hour as its competitors — promises “straight news, no opinion,” promoting itself as the antidote to the Big Three cable news networks’ focus on punditry and the one big story of the moment.
But since its inception in 2013, and especially since Trump began his march to the White House, One America’s owner, Robert Herring Sr., a millionaire who made his money printing circuit boards, has directed his channel to push Trump’s candidacy, scuttle stories about police shootings, encourage antiabortion stories, minimize coverage of Russian aggression, and steer away from the new president’s troubles, according to more than a dozen current and former producers, writers and anchors, as well as internal emails from Herring and his top news executives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/an-inside-look-at-one-america-news-the-insurgent-tv-network-taking-pro-trump-to-new-heights/2017/07/05/7475f0a4-4fa2-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.6c46ebf98784
One America — a tiny father-and-sons operation that often delivers four times as many stories per hour as its competitors — promises “straight news, no opinion,” promoting itself as the antidote to the Big Three cable news networks’ focus on punditry and the one big story of the moment.
But since its inception in 2013, and especially since Trump began his march to the White House, One America’s owner, Robert Herring Sr., a millionaire who made his money printing circuit boards, has directed his channel to push Trump’s candidacy, scuttle stories about police shootings, encourage antiabortion stories, minimize coverage of Russian aggression, and steer away from the new president’s troubles, according to more than a dozen current and former producers, writers and anchors, as well as internal emails from Herring and his top news executives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/an-inside-look-at-one-america-news-the-insurgent-tv-network-taking-pro-trump-to-new-heights/2017/07/05/7475f0a4-4fa2-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.6c46ebf98784
Holy shit! So that’s where the pro Trump bots on Twitter come from? Hey those racist memes don’t write themselves! Thank you! Getting back to Sean Hannity for a minute – here’s what he said this week, and we may need some Sad Hulk Music and the whambulence!
Sean Hannity is now teaming up with President Trump in his ongoing attacks against Joe Scarborough, which led to a war of words between the two pundits on Monday morning.
Scarborough kicked things off on 'Morning Joe' when he referred to Hannity's Fox News program as 'basically start-run TV,' which prompted Hannity to unleash on Twitter.
Hannity went after Scarborough's hair, his burgeoning music career and then said that he was a 'sheep' who left the Republican party to keep his MSNBC job.
He also suggested that Greta Van Susteren was fired by MSNBC when she refused to do the same.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4703928/Sean-Hannity-says-Joe-Scarborough-begged-Fox-News-job.html
Scarborough kicked things off on 'Morning Joe' when he referred to Hannity's Fox News program as 'basically start-run TV,' which prompted Hannity to unleash on Twitter.
Hannity went after Scarborough's hair, his burgeoning music career and then said that he was a 'sheep' who left the Republican party to keep his MSNBC job.
He also suggested that Greta Van Susteren was fired by MSNBC when she refused to do the same.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4703928/Sean-Hannity-says-Joe-Scarborough-begged-Fox-News-job.html
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[font size="8"]Ann Coulter
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So you know professional snowflake Ann Coulter. One of the original Top 10 Conservative Idiots and member of the TTCI hall of fame. Who as you may have heard, got bumped from a flight last weekend and went absolutely apeshit. In fact she’s still going. Ann Coulter, as you’re aware, is nothing more than your average schoolyard bully, only she’s got a publishing contract. And has published such incredible texts as:
Yeah. So that’s what we’re dealing with here, and sadly, that’s what Delta had to deal with this week, and you know that airlines have been in the news a lot lately for being unsympathetic. Well, after you hear what Ann Coulter did this week, you’ll actually take the airlines’ side!
Donald Trump is not the only conservative prone to Twitterstorms.
Right-wing columnist and pundit Ann Coulter raised hackles after an outburst of reactive tweets, in her case after a dispute arising from a seat reassignment on a Delta flight from New York City to Florida on Saturday.
Coulter’s tirade was sparked when the author was asked to move from a seat she had pre-booked in an exit row to a “less desirable seat, without explanation, apology, etc.” She went on to complain about the woman she said had taken her seat, calling her “dachshund-legged,” and later posted a picture of her.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/07/17/ann-coulter-takes-off-twitter-after-delta-asks-her-move-her-seat/483686001/
Right-wing columnist and pundit Ann Coulter raised hackles after an outburst of reactive tweets, in her case after a dispute arising from a seat reassignment on a Delta flight from New York City to Florida on Saturday.
Coulter’s tirade was sparked when the author was asked to move from a seat she had pre-booked in an exit row to a “less desirable seat, without explanation, apology, etc.” She went on to complain about the woman she said had taken her seat, calling her “dachshund-legged,” and later posted a picture of her.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/07/17/ann-coulter-takes-off-twitter-after-delta-asks-her-move-her-seat/483686001/
So of course you take to Twitter if you’re a professional bully like Coulter is. What happened when she did? Well she posted such gems as this:
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And then there was this:
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And then there was this:
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Aw, poor little snowflake! Someone needs a safe space! So we ask you – “WHO’S THE SNOWFLAKE????”. Why it’s none other than Ann Coulter! And there’s more to this madness! Is Delta the worst airline in America? Really?
It's naïve, I know.
But when I pre-book a seat, I expect to get on the plane and sit in the seat that I've paid for.
Airlines don't always work like that. Just ask the First Class passenger who says he was removed from his seat in favor of another passenger with higher status.
He said he was threatened with handcuffs unless he complied.
Which leads us to Ann Coulter.
The right-wing entertainer was seated on a Delta flight on Saturday when, according to her own Twitter-telling, she was told to give up her exit row seat.
"'Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?' Flight attendant: 'I don't know.," she tweeted.
And then she tweeted and tweeted some more. She declared Delta "the worst airline in America." She took a picture of the passenger who had allegedly been given her seat.
".@Delta didn't give my extra room seat to an air marshall [sic] or tall person. Here's the woman given my PRE-BOOKED seat," she tweeted, together with a picture of said passenger.
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/delta-vs-ann-coulter-where-do-you-stand.html
But when I pre-book a seat, I expect to get on the plane and sit in the seat that I've paid for.
Airlines don't always work like that. Just ask the First Class passenger who says he was removed from his seat in favor of another passenger with higher status.
He said he was threatened with handcuffs unless he complied.
Which leads us to Ann Coulter.
The right-wing entertainer was seated on a Delta flight on Saturday when, according to her own Twitter-telling, she was told to give up her exit row seat.
"'Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?' Flight attendant: 'I don't know.," she tweeted.
And then she tweeted and tweeted some more. She declared Delta "the worst airline in America." She took a picture of the passenger who had allegedly been given her seat.
".@Delta didn't give my extra room seat to an air marshall [sic] or tall person. Here's the woman given my PRE-BOOKED seat," she tweeted, together with a picture of said passenger.
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/delta-vs-ann-coulter-where-do-you-stand.html
So to extrapolate – this is one of those “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” type of situations. So we’re going to play devil’s advocate for a minute and extrapolate this. If you take Ann Coulter’s side, you’re siding with Ann Coulter, and that’s never advised. On the other hand, if you take Delta’s side, you take Delta’s side. Most people are usually on the side of the passengers, right?
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter unleashed a tweetstorm on Delta Air Lines on Saturday night, complaining about being moved out of a particular seat with extra legroom that she pre-booked.
In one tweet Coulter refers to Delta as “the worst airline in America.”
Coulter had booked a preferred seat in the exit row with extra legroom and was moved to a different seat in the same exit row, according to Delta. The airline said it “inadvertently” moved Coulter from an aisle seat to a window seat in the exit row on the other side of the aisle “when working to accommodate several passengers with seating requests.”
Although Atlanta-based Delta has a mostly non-union workforce with pilots as the only major unionized employee group, Coulter asked: “Does your union hate you, @Delta?”
http://airport.blog.ajc.com/2017/07/16/ann-coulter-tweets-up-a-storm-against-delta/
In one tweet Coulter refers to Delta as “the worst airline in America.”
Coulter had booked a preferred seat in the exit row with extra legroom and was moved to a different seat in the same exit row, according to Delta. The airline said it “inadvertently” moved Coulter from an aisle seat to a window seat in the exit row on the other side of the aisle “when working to accommodate several passengers with seating requests.”
Although Atlanta-based Delta has a mostly non-union workforce with pilots as the only major unionized employee group, Coulter asked: “Does your union hate you, @Delta?”
http://airport.blog.ajc.com/2017/07/16/ann-coulter-tweets-up-a-storm-against-delta/
So here’s a few more gems.
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And by the way, I love that someone put up a Go Fund Me page for Ann Coulter ,.
Yesterday an injustice happened to one of America's shittiest people.
Sure, she mocks 9-11 widows and black people getting killed by police officers and repordedly lives off a diet of the souls of fresh puppies.
But, she's an American and when Americans need help we step up! #MAGA #Snowflakes #ThisDoesntCountAsWelfare
https://www.gofundme.com/ann-coulter-needs-leg-room
Sure, she mocks 9-11 widows and black people getting killed by police officers and repordedly lives off a diet of the souls of fresh puppies.
But, she's an American and when Americans need help we step up! #MAGA #Snowflakes #ThisDoesntCountAsWelfare
https://www.gofundme.com/ann-coulter-needs-leg-room
Which by the way so far has raised $10:
By the way, I love that of two donors one preferred to remain anonymous! LMAO! And by the way Delta themselves responded to her madness by well, giving her the $30.
In a statement, repeated on Twitter, the airline criticized Ms. Coulter for “posting derogatory and slanderous comments and photos in social media” about its employees and customers. Delta said it was “disappointed” in Ms. Coulter and called her actions “unnecessary and unacceptable.”
The airline said it would refund her $30 for the preferred seat she bought, adding, “Delta expects mutual civility throughout the entire travel experience.”
She ridiculed the $30 refund, saying on Twitter that it cost her $10,000 of her time to select the seat she wanted, investigate the type of plane and periodically review seat options.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/business/ann-coulter-delta-twitter.html
The airline said it would refund her $30 for the preferred seat she bought, adding, “Delta expects mutual civility throughout the entire travel experience.”
She ridiculed the $30 refund, saying on Twitter that it cost her $10,000 of her time to select the seat she wanted, investigate the type of plane and periodically review seat options.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/business/ann-coulter-delta-twitter.html
So here’s what Delta said:
Link to tweet
And:
Link to tweet
And Ann Coulter still isn’t done by the way! In fact she tweets this this morning:
Link to tweet
To which Chris Evans, Captain America himself, hilariously responded:
Link to tweet
And let’s not forget while on the subject of Ann Coulter books, she wrote this one!
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So you know people are people, and people are dumb. We did this segment last week after it had been long dormant, and there’s a lot of stupid fucking people out there. And not all stupid people are trump supporters, but all Trump supporters are stupid people. Thank you! So with that in mind we’re going to tell you strange tales of people being well, idiots. Because that’s what we do here at the Top 10 Conservative Idiots. We’re going to start with this story from Europe. We’re going to actually – Norway, the next stop on our World Tour. Yes, the land of the ice and snow is no stranger to idiocy. Here’s what happened:
A penis-shaped rock formation in Norway that was apparently knocked down by vandals last month has been restored to its anatomical glory.
Scaffolding was used to hoist up the protuberance, which is reported to weigh about 12 tonnes (12,000kg.)
The restoration operation was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised about 227,000 kroner ($27,000).
But tourists will have to wait a week before they can see the formation in order to allow it to fasten properly.
Cement, glue and metal fastenings were used to re-attach the Trollpikken, or "The Troll's Penis" to the cliff.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40540561
Scaffolding was used to hoist up the protuberance, which is reported to weigh about 12 tonnes (12,000kg.)
The restoration operation was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised about 227,000 kroner ($27,000).
But tourists will have to wait a week before they can see the formation in order to allow it to fasten properly.
Cement, glue and metal fastenings were used to re-attach the Trollpikken, or "The Troll's Penis" to the cliff.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40540561
Especially when you read this story. And when you see the words “troll penis” and “restored to former glory”… what are you thinking? I know what I’m thinking! And yes, Troll Penis just got added to Lollapalooza this year. Next up we’ve got a couple of stories in Florida, because, of course it’s Florida. This first story involves the Cookie Monster as a drug dealer.
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A stash of cocaine hidden inside a Cookie Monster doll has landed a Florida man in jail on a drug charge.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Wednesday that 39-year-old Camus McNair was arrested after a traffic stop in the Florida Keys involving a car with heavily tinted windows and an obscured license plate.
A deputy smelled marijuana odor after pulling over McNair's car, then searched a backpack in the car and found the Cookie Monster doll. The deputy noticed the doll seemed heavier than it should and a slit had been cut into it.
Authorities say about 11 ounces (300 grams) of cocaine was found inside the doll. McNair was jailed, with bail set at $7,000. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1032017/me-want-cocaine-drugs-found-inside-cookie-monster-doll.html
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Wednesday that 39-year-old Camus McNair was arrested after a traffic stop in the Florida Keys involving a car with heavily tinted windows and an obscured license plate.
A deputy smelled marijuana odor after pulling over McNair's car, then searched a backpack in the car and found the Cookie Monster doll. The deputy noticed the doll seemed heavier than it should and a slit had been cut into it.
Authorities say about 11 ounces (300 grams) of cocaine was found inside the doll. McNair was jailed, with bail set at $7,000. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1032017/me-want-cocaine-drugs-found-inside-cookie-monster-doll.html
Aw… not the Cookie Monster! He’s fallen on some hard times since HBO took over the broadcasting rights to Sesame Street. Next up, we go to the town of The Villages, where a guy was arrested smoking pot not once, but twice, in front of cops… NAKED! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
A Florida man’s naked Sunday stroll was abruptly ended when he was tasered by deputies.
Justin Lee Guscinski, 30, of The Villages, was walking along a street naked just after midnight while holding a silver pipe and smoking marijuana, according to Villages-News.
Deputies approached Guscinski, who sprinted to his property and threatened them.
“You are on my property; I have the legal right to shoot you,” Guscinski allegedly told them, before shoving a deputy and running into the home, according to Villages-News,
http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/naked-florida-man-tasered-twice-after-smoking-marijuana-front-deputies/n9NpXYCAn4ZeueWZldUUpM/
Justin Lee Guscinski, 30, of The Villages, was walking along a street naked just after midnight while holding a silver pipe and smoking marijuana, according to Villages-News.
Deputies approached Guscinski, who sprinted to his property and threatened them.
“You are on my property; I have the legal right to shoot you,” Guscinski allegedly told them, before shoving a deputy and running into the home, according to Villages-News,
http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/naked-florida-man-tasered-twice-after-smoking-marijuana-front-deputies/n9NpXYCAn4ZeueWZldUUpM/
Next up - there's this story out of (also) Florida where a guy called 911 to report that his cocaine was stolen!
A Fort Walton Beach man, who Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies say called himself a drug dealer, is facing charges after he called 911 saying someone stole his drugs.
Sunday morning deputies say David Blackmon, 32, identified himself as a drug dealer and told a deputy someone stole $50 and a quarter ounce of cocaine off the center console.
The deputy reported seeing the cocaine in the spot Blackmon reported it missing from. The deputy also said he found a crack pipe on the floorboard and a crack rock. The money was not found.
http://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Man-claiming-to-be-a-drug-dealer-calls-deputies-reporting-stolen-cocaine-434979033.html
Sunday morning deputies say David Blackmon, 32, identified himself as a drug dealer and told a deputy someone stole $50 and a quarter ounce of cocaine off the center console.
The deputy reported seeing the cocaine in the spot Blackmon reported it missing from. The deputy also said he found a crack pipe on the floorboard and a crack rock. The money was not found.
http://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Man-claiming-to-be-a-drug-dealer-calls-deputies-reporting-stolen-cocaine-434979033.html
While on the subject of stupid criminals - there's this story out of Iowa where a guy robbed a pizza joint and then returned to fill out a job application!
According to Iowa City police criminal complaints, around 3 a.m. May 21, a man was standing in line at Falbo Bros. Pizzeria, 457 S. Gilbert St. Police said the man pulled about $1,800 cash from his pocket and paid for his food. When he put the cash back in his pocket, Cedric D. Johnson, 22, allegedly reached into the man’s pocket in an attempt to steal the cash.
Police said the man grabbed Johnson’s arm and the two men fought over the cash. The money scattered on the ground and people with Johnson tried to pick up what they could from the floor, police said.
Falbo Bros. employees took the combatants outside and the man told Johnson and the people with him that he would be calling the police. Police said the man was then knocked out by Johnson or one of his associates, who then fled on foot.
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/public-safety/johnson-county/iowa-city-man-returned-to-robbery-scene-to-apply-for-job-police-say-20170719
Police said the man grabbed Johnson’s arm and the two men fought over the cash. The money scattered on the ground and people with Johnson tried to pick up what they could from the floor, police said.
Falbo Bros. employees took the combatants outside and the man told Johnson and the people with him that he would be calling the police. Police said the man was then knocked out by Johnson or one of his associates, who then fled on foot.
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/public-safety/johnson-county/iowa-city-man-returned-to-robbery-scene-to-apply-for-job-police-say-20170719
And here’s where fake news can too be dumb! Here’s another story out of Raleigh – Durham, North Carolina, where a plane heading to Charlotte, was evacuated because it was believed that a crew member passed some very bad gas… or was it????
Raleigh, N.C. — Officials at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport said Sunday that some crew members left an American Airlines flight complaining of eye irritation after another crew member passed gas.
On Monday, airport officials retracted their original statement, saying instead that there was a mechanical issue on American Flight 1927 from Charlotte to RDU.
According to an airport spokeswoman, after passengers got off the plane, the crew reported a mechanical issue that in turned caused an odor in the plane.
No passengers were on the plane, and no crew members were injured. The plane was back in service Monday morning.
http://www.wral.com/despite-claims-flight-crew-evacuated-plane-over-mechanical-issue-not-gas/16823919/
On Monday, airport officials retracted their original statement, saying instead that there was a mechanical issue on American Flight 1927 from Charlotte to RDU.
According to an airport spokeswoman, after passengers got off the plane, the crew reported a mechanical issue that in turned caused an odor in the plane.
No passengers were on the plane, and no crew members were injured. The plane was back in service Monday morning.
http://www.wral.com/despite-claims-flight-crew-evacuated-plane-over-mechanical-issue-not-gas/16823919/
Finally this week – remember that insane teenage girl Danielle Brigoli? You know the “Cash me ouside how boud dat?” girl? Would you be surprised at all to learn that she’s in trouble with the law? Well, neither are we!
The Boynton Beach teen who shot to Internet fame by challenging a studio audience to a fight when she uttered “cash me ousside, how bat dah” during an appearance on the Dr. Phil show was in juvenile court in Delray Beach on Wednesday.
Danielle Bregoli, 14, pleaded guilty to grand theft, grand theft auto, marijuana possession and filing a false report. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 22.
Bregoli went viral after uttering the catchphrase while appearing with her mother last September on an episode of the daytime TV talk show entitled “I want to give up my car-stealing twerking 13-year-old daughter who tried to frame me for a crime.”
When the audience heckled Bregoli she hollered, in her streetwise slang: “Cash me ousside, how bat dah.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-reg-cash-me-ousside-girl-pleads-guilty-20170628-story.html
Danielle Bregoli, 14, pleaded guilty to grand theft, grand theft auto, marijuana possession and filing a false report. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 22.
Bregoli went viral after uttering the catchphrase while appearing with her mother last September on an episode of the daytime TV talk show entitled “I want to give up my car-stealing twerking 13-year-old daughter who tried to frame me for a crime.”
When the audience heckled Bregoli she hollered, in her streetwise slang: “Cash me ousside, how bat dah.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-reg-cash-me-ousside-girl-pleads-guilty-20170628-story.html
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That’s it for this week’s edition of People Are Dumb!
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Part of our mission statement here at the Top 10 Conservative Idiots is to show you that conservative idiocy isn’t just a problem with America. No, it’s a global problem that is stemming far and wide, and it’s not just America where conservative idiots ruin everything they touch. And if you’re thinking of moving out of the United States just because Donald J. Trump is our current president and our nation is turning to shit, you should know what it is you’re getting into should you decide that you want to leave the country. So if you want to know where we’ve been so far – France survived election rigging, Italy is batshit crazy, Greece is broke, Ireland has outer natural beauty and inner ugly, and England has that messy Brexit election.
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Next up on our World Tour 2017 is the nation of Germany. There’s lots of things that the Germans are world famous and internationally renowned for. Just don’t mention that one thing that happened in 1942! But what is Germany famous for? It’s the home of Bratwurst, sauerkraut, German babes, and the region of Bavaria – where the capital of Germany, Munich – is home to the original Oktoberfest! Germany is also the home to the world famous football organization Bundesliga – which features such internationally renowned teams as FC Bayeren Munich, Bourissa Dortmund, FC Shalke, Hamburger SV, and Boruissa Mönchengladbach. I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly. Germany is also one of the car capitals of the world featuring such world class auto manufacturers as Bavarian Motorworks (AKA BMW), Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz. Germany is also the home to such world wonders as hilltop castle Neuschwanstein, Brandenburg Gate, and former site of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie. Germany is also home to some of the world’s best classical composers including Beethoven, Shubert, Mozart, Brahms, and Wagner. As for modern music, Germany is also the home of the famous Rock-Am-Ring festival where this happened this year.
A rock music festival in western Germany, Rock am Ring, has been evacuated over a "terrorist threat", the organisers have announced.
Fans hoping to see German rock giants Rammstein streamed out of the Nuerburg arena after organisers asked them to leave in a "calm and controlled" way.
"Due to a terrorist threat the police have advised us to interrupt the festival," they said.
A bomb at a concert in Manchester claimed 22 lives last month.
Some 85,000 people were expected to visit the three-day festival, Efe news agency reports. It falls on the Pentecost holiday weekend.
The organisers said in a Facebook post they hoped the festival would resume on Saturday.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40140968
Fans hoping to see German rock giants Rammstein streamed out of the Nuerburg arena after organisers asked them to leave in a "calm and controlled" way.
"Due to a terrorist threat the police have advised us to interrupt the festival," they said.
A bomb at a concert in Manchester claimed 22 lives last month.
Some 85,000 people were expected to visit the three-day festival, Efe news agency reports. It falls on the Pentecost holiday weekend.
The organisers said in a Facebook post they hoped the festival would resume on Saturday.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40140968
Holy shit! But Germany, France, and the UK all have that in common, and there’s nothing really funny about that. But there’s one thing that is funny that we can all make fun of – conservative idiocy! However, unlike our country, in Germany, when conservatives fail, they don’t get reelected!
After unexpectedly strong showings in Germany’s 2016 regional elections — the AfD took seats in nine out of 16 state legislatures and later picked up two more — the party seemed to falter. In February, they lost a third of their support in the polls, crashing from 15 percent down to 10.
Then came crushing losses for right-wing populist parties in the recent French and Dutch elections, defeats that led many to conclude that the far-right movements of Western Europe had hit their political ceilings and were now likely to slowly but steadily lose further support.
That’s left Europe’s anti-immigrant, nativist right scrambling to regroup — and to recast itself as a champion for Europe’s secular values. And what could seem, at face value, more in line with Europe’s progressive values than giving your party’s top spot to a 38-year-old lesbian?
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/5/15856998/germany-afd-alice-weidel-populist-lesbian-mom-far-right
Then came crushing losses for right-wing populist parties in the recent French and Dutch elections, defeats that led many to conclude that the far-right movements of Western Europe had hit their political ceilings and were now likely to slowly but steadily lose further support.
That’s left Europe’s anti-immigrant, nativist right scrambling to regroup — and to recast itself as a champion for Europe’s secular values. And what could seem, at face value, more in line with Europe’s progressive values than giving your party’s top spot to a 38-year-old lesbian?
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/5/15856998/germany-afd-alice-weidel-populist-lesbian-mom-far-right
But don’t think that Germany is quite the liberal utopia that everyone thinks it is. Germany is home to one of the most violent mafia gangs in the entire world – and got into a literal war with their neighbors to the south – Italy.
Ten years after one of the bloodiest mafia shoot-outs in Germany, Italian and German politicians and researchers gathered in Berlin to discuss how to combat such criminal groups that still have a solid presence in the Bundesrepublik.
On August 15th 2007, images were broadcast around the world of bodies, lying in their own blood, splayed across the asphalt outside a pizzeria, white sheets partially covering them from sight.
The photos weren’t taken in the mafia stronghold of Sicily, but rather in the west German city of Duisburg.
Six people were shot and killed that day amid a feud between two clans of the 'Ndrangheta organization, one of the most powerful mafia groups in Europe. And it was one of the worst mafia bloodbaths in German history, the scale of which has not been seen inside the country since.
But experts warn that this is not a sign that such organized crime groups have left Germany behind.
https://www.thelocal.de/20170713/the-mafia-are-invisible-but-almost-everywhere-in-germany-experts-say
On August 15th 2007, images were broadcast around the world of bodies, lying in their own blood, splayed across the asphalt outside a pizzeria, white sheets partially covering them from sight.
The photos weren’t taken in the mafia stronghold of Sicily, but rather in the west German city of Duisburg.
Six people were shot and killed that day amid a feud between two clans of the 'Ndrangheta organization, one of the most powerful mafia groups in Europe. And it was one of the worst mafia bloodbaths in German history, the scale of which has not been seen inside the country since.
But experts warn that this is not a sign that such organized crime groups have left Germany behind.
https://www.thelocal.de/20170713/the-mafia-are-invisible-but-almost-everywhere-in-germany-experts-say
Now *THAT* is a Boss Baby! Thank you! So what else happens in Germany? You know Trump has been in German news a lot lately – and even they fear that Trump may divide Germany the way a certain German politician did back in the 30s and 40s.
IN THE aftermath of the G20 summit on July 7th and 8th, German politicians traded blows over who was at fault for riots by anti-globalisation activists that smashed up parts of central Hamburg. But a big global event in the heart of a city with a strong anarchist tradition was always bound to prompt protests. Officials’ deeper reasons for anxiety were different: Donald Trump and his attitudes towards Russia and Poland.
To some in Berlin, the president’s meeting with Vladimir Putin was a “Yalta 2.0”, a 21st-century equivalent of the summit in 1945 at which Americans and Russians divided Europe. Angela Merkel saw Mr Trump’s “back-slapping and face-pulling” display before the Russian president (as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a daily, put it) as undermining her efforts to confront Russia over Ukraine. An internal memo by the German foreign ministry summarising the G20 noted: “The summit went very well for Russia…As long as the US breaks rank, Russia can swim in the mainstream.”
https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21725025-angela-merkel-troubled-presidents-chumminess-putin-and-poland-germany-fears-donald
To some in Berlin, the president’s meeting with Vladimir Putin was a “Yalta 2.0”, a 21st-century equivalent of the summit in 1945 at which Americans and Russians divided Europe. Angela Merkel saw Mr Trump’s “back-slapping and face-pulling” display before the Russian president (as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a daily, put it) as undermining her efforts to confront Russia over Ukraine. An internal memo by the German foreign ministry summarising the G20 noted: “The summit went very well for Russia…As long as the US breaks rank, Russia can swim in the mainstream.”
https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21725025-angela-merkel-troubled-presidents-chumminess-putin-and-poland-germany-fears-donald
So even the Germans have their fair share of anti-globalists. Maybe they aren’t so different from the US after all. Does Alex Jones reach a German audience? NEIN!!!! Germany’s also the home of the kick back – and supposedly one to South Africa! Here’s more:
Germany’s SAP will investigate allegations that its South African office agreed kickbacks to a company controlled by the country’s controversial Gupta family, as Europe’s largest software maker became the latest international company to be drawn into South Africa’s biggest post-apartheid political scandal.
SAP confirmed on Thursday that four of its South African managers had been placed on administrative leave and their mobile phones and computers seized as part of the probe, launched after South African press reported the alleged R100m ($7.5m) in kickbacks.
SAP allegedly agreed to pay a 10 per cent “sales commission” in 2015 to CAD House, a company ultimately owned by Gupta family members, to secure business from Transnet, South Africa’s state-owned port and rail operator, according to the reports.
https://www.ft.com/content/d8d693c0-67d8-11e7-8526-7b38dcaef614
SAP confirmed on Thursday that four of its South African managers had been placed on administrative leave and their mobile phones and computers seized as part of the probe, launched after South African press reported the alleged R100m ($7.5m) in kickbacks.
SAP allegedly agreed to pay a 10 per cent “sales commission” in 2015 to CAD House, a company ultimately owned by Gupta family members, to secure business from Transnet, South Africa’s state-owned port and rail operator, according to the reports.
https://www.ft.com/content/d8d693c0-67d8-11e7-8526-7b38dcaef614
Yeah they might take offense to that. Germany is also the home of the heist, as it was revealed last week that thieves in Berlin made off with €4 million in gold coins. Taking their cues from Trump are they?
German special police have arrested several people suspected of carrying out an old-fashioned heist of a €4m (£3.6m) 100kg gold coin in Berlin.
“We are conducting searches and executing arrest warrants in several places in Berlin concerning the break-in at the Bode Museum in March,” regional police said on Wednesday.
A spokesperson confirmed newspaper reports that the suspects arrested at two properties in the Neukölln district were members of an “Arabic-Kurdish clan” known to investigators in connection with drug smuggling, arms trading and racketeering.
The Berlin state office of criminal investigations tracked down the suspects through DNA evidence.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/german-police-make-arrests-over-4m-gold-coin-heist
“We are conducting searches and executing arrest warrants in several places in Berlin concerning the break-in at the Bode Museum in March,” regional police said on Wednesday.
A spokesperson confirmed newspaper reports that the suspects arrested at two properties in the Neukölln district were members of an “Arabic-Kurdish clan” known to investigators in connection with drug smuggling, arms trading and racketeering.
The Berlin state office of criminal investigations tracked down the suspects through DNA evidence.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/german-police-make-arrests-over-4m-gold-coin-heist
[font size="6"]The Verdict[/font]
Did you ever see the day where you thought that Germany would be the liberal utopia everyone thought it was? Well that day is here. It's not perfect - no country really is - but it's definitely much better than what we got in the US right now.
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Germany is awesome. I’ve been there. They love tourists. They reject the Nazism and white supremacy which is becoming the new normal in the United States. They’re apparently surprisingly sympathetic to immigrants too.
Tourism: A
Culture: A+
Political Spectrum: C
Liberal Appeal: B+
Overall: B+
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Next week, we’re going to head up to Scandinavia. Grab your skis and poles and hit the slopes as we’re off to the land of the ice and snow known as Norway!
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Folks my next musical guest is proud to represent their home country of Germany. They have their 20th album coming out on August 18th called “Hell Yeah” which is very anti-Trump. Playing their song called “Kunst” from their greatest hits album “Rocks”, give it up for KMFDM!
Yeah how about that?
See you next week!
Ed Note - BTW next week we will be moving to our new time slot - Wednesdays at 2:00 PM Pacific Time (5:00 PM Eastern Time). Stay tuned!
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