June 20, 2018

Here comes the PR bullshit, starting with the feckless one

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1009518490401812481

Daddy Dickhead did what no one else could or would! Hoooray for my Daddy!!!!

Expect FAUX Snooze to anoint him humanitarian of the year tonight.

June 13, 2018

Democratic candidate who admitted to domestic abuse wins South Carolina congressional primary

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/politics/archie-parnell-south-carolina-primary/index.html?sr=twCNNp061218archie-parnell-south-carolina-primary1019PMStory&CNNPolitics=Tw

Washington (CNN)A congressional candidate in South Carolina who admitted to abusing his ex-wife 45 years ago and lost all support from national and state Democrats has won his Democratic primary, CNN projects.

Archie Parnell overwhelmingly beat his three primary opponents and will go on to face incumbent Republican Rep. Ralph Norman in the general election for South Carolina's 5th Congressional District in November.


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Eek. This is an important seat we could flip too.

June 8, 2018

Doug Ford is Ontario's next premier

Source: Toronto Star

The province of Ontario is now a Ford nation.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford capped an improbable rise to power Thursday, winning the Ontario election with a majority government and banishing Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals into political oblivion after almost 15 years in office.

“This is incredible. My friends, this victory belongs to you. Tonight the people of Ontario have spoken. You have come together around one common vision of Ontario,” Ford, 53, told cheering supporters in Etobicoke.

“We will work every single day for a better Ontario,” said the rookie leader, who only took the helm on March 10 after the resignation of Patrick Brown.

Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/06/07/doug-ford-on-track-to-be-ontarios-next-premier.html

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Inexplicable that Canadians would do this in any form seeing how well "right-wing populism" is working in the US.

June 6, 2018

'She will not be missed': Obituary says that this woman 'abandoned' her children

[link:http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article212570874.html|

The obituary published in the Redwood Falls Gazette — a newspaper from Minnesota — states that Dehmlow was born on March 19, 1938, and married her husband Dennis Dehmlow in 1957, according to Click2Houston.

Then comes the next line.

"In 1962 she became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle Dehmlow," it reads, "and moved to California."