Thursday, November 30, 2017

Public Service Announcement

Congress is caught up in the sexual misconduct scandals. Will it police its own?
With a spate of sexual harassment allegations stirring trouble on Capitol Hill, Congress faces a new test of how well it can police itself.


Let me be about the billionth person to say this: while the current punishment of sexual harassers is welcome and long overdue, it is intolerable that a person who has boasted about serial sexual assaults remains in the White House.
Enough.
#Impeach
- Andy Borowitz




The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

It's a sign of just how far we have fallen that people are bummed that a former Exxon Mobil CEO with zero foreign policy experience is leaving the State Department.- Andy Borowitz




Putin Payback?
A senior Russian lawmaker says that U.S. media could lose access to government agencies in retaliation for the withdrawal of a Kremlin-funded television station’s credentials in the United States.










Donald Trump attacked a random woman named Theresa May on Twitter instead of the British Prime Minister. This makes me wonder if he put sanctions on the right Korea.- Andy Borowitz




Republican Shenanigans




Radio stations in the DC area are pumping a Tax Reform ad every 10 minutes. GOP investing heavily (Koch?).- Brasilmagic


Roger Stone, Conehead.
Holy Cow, This Investigation Links Roger Stone And A Comedian. I Think Hollywood Already Rejected This Script.
A longtime outsider in New York State politics has been identified as the link between WikiLeaks and Roger J. Stone Jr., an adviser to Donald J. Trump who appears to have had advance knowledge about hacked emails related to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The outsider, Randy Credico, a comedian who has frequently run for office, posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he had received a subpoena requiring him to appear before the House Intelligence Committee next month. The panel is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.


2017. When a liberal saying “Happy Holidays” upsets so-called Christians but a conservative being a child molester doesn’t. -  OhNoSheTwitnt





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Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and John McCain: Donald Trump is an disgraceful manchild whom we must punish with a billion dollar tax cut. - LOLGOP



Let's Be Perfectly Clear: Joe Scarborough Heavily Promoted Trump Through 90% Of His Campaign And He Tells Us Now That Trump Has Dementia?
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on Thursday that people close to President Trump told him during the campaign that Trump has "early stages of dementia."


This from 2016: Joe Scarborough-Donald Trump friendship increasing source of discomfort at NBC







Rock The Voter News





Hey Donald J. Trump since you’re having trouble with this whole “fake vs real” thing, here’s a little cheat sheet for you:
Anti-Muslim videos you retweeted: FAKE
Video of you bragging about assaulting women: REAL. - Andy Borowitz



So How's The Republican Outreach To Latinos Going?
The advocates of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are promising savings of $1,182 a year for median households and the creation of 975,000 full time jobs in the states. But if Section 4303 of the bill is not amended to exclude Puerto Rico, 75,000 jobs to U.S. citizens could be lost. Congress has the responsibility to legislate on behalf of all U.S. citizens no matter whether they reside in the states, commonwealths or territories.
The U.S. tax code treats Puerto Rico as foreign for tax purposes. Since 1921 and until 2006, this has been used by Congress for Puerto Rico’s advantage through special tax provisions that fostered economic development. In 1996, Congress decided to end that special tax policy by legislating a 10-year phaseout of Section 936. By no coincidence, the recession in the island started in 2006 when the phaseout ended. Since then, we have been in a downward spiral and economic decline that led Congress to pass the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Act last year. Adding insult to injury, we were hit with a category five hurricane in September.


In 2035 when we find out what's really happening in the White House right now, we will be shocked that we lived through this. - Laurie Kilmartin


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Business/Tech News

Kim Jong-un Worried That GOP Tax Bill Makes His Plan to Destroy U.S. Redundant - Andy Borowitz





Trump Hires Foreign Workers For Virginia Vineyard. Does Any Republican Care?
The Virginia vineyard, owned by Eric Trump, is seeking six workers to start in January. Businesses owned by President Trump or bearing his name have been frequent users of the program in the past, seeking to hire more than 400 foreign guest workers since he launched his presidential campaign.



The most likely outcome involves DT getting bored of the presidency & abandoning America for a younger, hotter country. -John Fugelsang





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Odd News


Time To Deflate Photo
An underwater cave near Merida, Mexico. I hope those aren't Piranhas.

Peace.


Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Another one bites the dust

NBC fires Matt Lauer after complaint about 'inappropriate sexual behavior'
Matt Lauer was fired from NBC News on Wednesday after an employee filed a complaint about "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace," the network announced.


One by one, we're finding out the true character of the male journalists who treated @HillaryClinton (and her voters) with seething disdain.- Peter Daou





The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

"It's not even lunchtime yet and so far Trump...
- Said to boycott CNN
- Accused Joe Scarborough of murder 
- Threatened a possible nuclear war
Mueller! Where the hell are you?!"
~ Leo Kapakos





White Supremacists Are Ecstatic Over Trump's Snuff Film Tweet 
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke praised President Trump on Wednesday for sharing videos from a far-right British politician purporting to show violence committed by Muslims








The President of the United States just retweeted videos by Britain First, a fascist political hate group. The leader of the free world now officially endorses global white supremacy. - Eugene Gu, MD




We're all pretending that Trump calling Sen. Warren "Pocahontas" in front of Navajo Code Talkers is the worst thing he has done to the Native American people.
I remember when he took their sacred land and treated them like human garbage to build the Keystone Pipeline. - gettinoticedmo tweet


Republican Shenanigans

Idea: somebody should tell Trump they want to make a 3-D scan of his head for a statue but really it’s an MRI. - John Mayer




Trump Revives Birther Conspiracy
President Donald Trump still thinks former President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that in recent months Trump has been reviving his “birther” conspiracy theories about his predecessor.


Matt Lauer lost his job.
Charlie Rose lost his job.
Mark Halperin lost his job.
Glenn Thrush lost his job.
Billy Bush lost his job. 
Harvey Weinstein lost his job.
Kevin Spacey lost his job.
But in politics...
Conyers still in Congress.
Moore still running.
Trump still President.
- Ana Navarro





FEMA Needs To Be Investigated
After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30m in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs.
Bronze Star LLC never delivered those urgently needed supplies, which even months later remain in demand by hurricane victims on the island.


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Rock The Voter News

hey, remember in 2016 when the news channels gave Trump hours of free airtime and never challenged any of his lies? that worked out pretty good for everyone. - Jeff Tiedrich


Fake News Correspondent Grabs Woman At Lecture
Lucian Wintrich, White House correspondent for the far-right website Gateway Pundit, was arrested by UConn police after an altercation at the event he was speaking at Tuesday night.
At one point, Wintrich left his place at the podium in Andre Schenker Lecture Hall, rushed up the steps of the auditorium and grabbed a woman. The crowd reacted quickly, swelling with pushes and shoves until police led Wintrich out into the hallway and then into a restroom.




Mark Halperin
Glenn Thrush
Matt Lauer 
They went easy on Trump but wouldn't let Hillary catch a break... and now we know why #LaueringTheBar - Richard Hine

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Business/Tech News

"NBC knew exactly what it was doing here. The network was treating this like an episode of 'The Apprentice' in which Trump stars and ratings soar. Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush. What a waste of time." - Hillary Rodham Clinton





Good Luck, Chipotle! Love Your Burritos!
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. rallied after founder Steve Ells agreed to step down as chief executive officer, clearing the way for a new leader with the operational expertise needed to pull the burrito chain out of a two-year slump.




Experts Advise Against Throwing Laptop Across Office Even Though It Will Feel Incredible. - The Onion



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Odd News


Time To Deflate Photo

Octopus floor mural.My first instinct would be to wear shoes before walking down that hall.

Peace.


Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Another day, another racial slur

Trump Brings Up 'Pocahontas' At Event Honoring Navajo Code Talkers
President Trump decided to bring up one of his favorite nicknames during an event honoring Navajo Code Talkers — but it's one that is widely seen as a slur offensive to Native Americans. "You were here long before any of us were here," Trump told the men who were being...


While watching the video of Donald Trump tell Native American vets he knows a Senator he nicknamed “Pocahontas”... all by a picture of Andrew Jackson...

I thought to myself...

I don’t think Melania’s anti bullying campaign is going so well. - Tony Posnanski





The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

hey, remember when Kellyanne Conway accused Obama of bugging the White House microwave oven? of course you don't, because eighteen hundred thousand equally batsht insane things have happened since then. -Jeff Tiedich




Tillerson Is Acting Like A Corporate Raider Instead Of A Secretary of State
The top State Department official overseeing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s overhaul of the agency has resigned three months after taking the job.
Maliz Beams stepped down after Tillerson brought her in to guide the restructure of the department, one of the secretary of State's top goals. ...Beams’ resignation comes amid reports of low morale at the agency since the start of the Trump administration. Tillerson denied the reports last month.
"I walk the halls, people smile," Tillerson said. “If it’s as bad as it seems to be described, I’m not seeing it, I’m not getting it.”


The White House Ethics Lawyer resigned today.
In a related story, the Irony Fairy drank til she passed out. -John Fugelsang






Republican Shenanigans

This year, let's put the "Christ, we elected a moron" back in Christmas. - Jeff Tiedrich





Melania's White House decorations are dark, cold, and fill me with dread- gotta hand it to her she nailed the vibe.- Jesse McLaren






Fake News Faker Caught, Again.
Project Veritas, an organization run by conservative activist James O’Keefe, appears to have been get caught trying to pass false sexual misconduct allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore to The Washington Post, extending its history of deploying deceptive tactics to try to ensnare news organizations in controversy.


Congrats to Prince Harry.

Also congrats to all the racists who now must realize that Prince Harry's future mother-in-law is a strong black woman with dreadlocks. 

This is not the 1950's any longer. The world is changing. 

Trump and his racist cohorts are an outlier. Thank God! - Brian Krassenstein





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We live in a world where football coaches get $10 million as a failure bonus and fifth-grade teachers are buying their own staplers. - Tim Reynolds





Rock The Voter News





Robert Mueller Investigating The Firing Of Comey
Special counsel Robert Mueller will interview White House counsel Don McGahn in the coming weeks as Mueller continues to investigate what President Donald Trump was thinking when he fired James Comey as FBI director and helped craft a misleading statement about his son's meeting with Russians last year at Trump Tower.
McGahn came under heightened scrutiny in September when The New York Times reported that he had blocked Trump from sending a letter to Comey outlining his reasons for wanting him fired.


Trump tweeted he is our favorite President. I prefer any other
President, including the 39 who are currently decomposing corpses.- Bette Midler




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Business/Tech News

Here's one I heard last night:  In the #SavingsandLoanCrisis of the 1980s and 1990s, 900 bankers went to jail.  In the 2008 crash NO ONE went to jail!  The #CFPB is all that's standing between regular Americans and the vampire squid banks... - Bette Midler




US Journalists Need To Wear Helmets And Flak Jackets PRONTO
Raw video from outside an event for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore shows two apparent supporters physically attacking two cameramen who were reportedly trying to film the former judge’s arrival.




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Odd News


Time To Deflate Photo
Alpacas are bringing back that favorite 1980's  hairstyle. The Mullet!

Peace.