Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Steve0
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But the thing is he can't whinge about 'fake' news when he embarrassed himself by being the biggest 'birther' in america. It's weird, no?
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http://www.nationalreview.com/morni...rence-chuck-schumers-nonsense-paul-ryan-voted
Attempting a non-hypocritical conservatism:
I Guess We’re Just Not Going to Make a Fuss About That!
Remember throughout the summer when Republicans had great fun counting the number of days it had been since Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had held a press conference? The Republican National Committee had fun pointing this out, again and again. Donald Trump had fun pointing this out. Townhall. IJR. Yup, I noted it, too. When the networks didn’t make a fuss, Newsbusters called them out on it. President-elect Trump hasn’t held a press conference since before the election – since July 27, in fact. You don’t see many Republicans complaining about it, though. I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
Yesterday his office announced a press conference for January 11. At this press conference, Trump is expected to give an update on how his separation from his vast personal financial empire is progressing. On November 30, he tweeted, “legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!” Good. Republicans spent a lot of time in the past few years arguing that the vast financial donations to the Clinton Foundation from private donors and foreign countries represented a massive conflict of interest. We wanted to cross-check every massive donation against every decision Clinton had made as Secretary of State – and we found plenty of reasons to be suspicious. But you haven’t heard many Republicans demanding a full separation of President Trump from the Trump businesses. You really haven’t heard any complaining about the Kuwaiti, Bahraini, and Azerbaijani embassies booking events at Trump’s new Washington hotel, and that backdoor way of a foreign government putting money into Trump’s pocket. I guess Kuwaiti money is only bothersome when it ends up at the Clinton Foundation. I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
After promising to release his tax returns several times as a candidate, and then not doing so, the president-elect may not file any more financial disclosures than legally required: The president-elect is not required to file the annual disclosure until 2018, but the past several presidents have filed in the spring after their inaugurations and then every year in office from then on, as a show of openness. Trump’s transition team did not respond to inquiries about whether he plans to follow that example. Republicans would have been fine with that kind of a delay from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, right? Those financial disclosure forms were key to showcasing the “pay-for-play” allegations at the Clinton Foundation. But I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
Back during the campaign, I said a temporary embrace of Julian Assange was dangerous for Republicans. I pointed out Assange’s deeply anti-American ideology and his exposure of Afghan informers to the U.S. military. Silly me for thinking the embrace would be temporary. Kellyanne Conway says “we should pay significant attention” to what Assange says, and Sarah Palin is publicly apologizing to him. I guess he’s “our” guy now, too, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
There must have been some memo I didn’t get, announcing that Republicans don’t care about press conferences, tax returns, payments from foreign governments, financial disclosure, or Julian Assange leaking classified information anymore. Or some revision emphasizing that we only care about these things when Democrats are involved. As noted yesterday, Mary Barra is the CEO and longtime high-ranking executive of General Motors, the taxpayer-saved company once reviled by conservatives as “Government Motors.” She was saluted at the State of the Union by President Obama and in March, Clinton campaign chair John Podesta sent the candidate a “first cut of people to consider for VP”, a list of 39 names that included Barra. Barra’s on Trump’s economic advisory panel now. I guess she’s “our” gal now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that, either.
Attempting a non-hypocritical conservatism:
I Guess We’re Just Not Going to Make a Fuss About That!
Remember throughout the summer when Republicans had great fun counting the number of days it had been since Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had held a press conference? The Republican National Committee had fun pointing this out, again and again. Donald Trump had fun pointing this out. Townhall. IJR. Yup, I noted it, too. When the networks didn’t make a fuss, Newsbusters called them out on it. President-elect Trump hasn’t held a press conference since before the election – since July 27, in fact. You don’t see many Republicans complaining about it, though. I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
Yesterday his office announced a press conference for January 11. At this press conference, Trump is expected to give an update on how his separation from his vast personal financial empire is progressing. On November 30, he tweeted, “legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!” Good. Republicans spent a lot of time in the past few years arguing that the vast financial donations to the Clinton Foundation from private donors and foreign countries represented a massive conflict of interest. We wanted to cross-check every massive donation against every decision Clinton had made as Secretary of State – and we found plenty of reasons to be suspicious. But you haven’t heard many Republicans demanding a full separation of President Trump from the Trump businesses. You really haven’t heard any complaining about the Kuwaiti, Bahraini, and Azerbaijani embassies booking events at Trump’s new Washington hotel, and that backdoor way of a foreign government putting money into Trump’s pocket. I guess Kuwaiti money is only bothersome when it ends up at the Clinton Foundation. I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
After promising to release his tax returns several times as a candidate, and then not doing so, the president-elect may not file any more financial disclosures than legally required: The president-elect is not required to file the annual disclosure until 2018, but the past several presidents have filed in the spring after their inaugurations and then every year in office from then on, as a show of openness. Trump’s transition team did not respond to inquiries about whether he plans to follow that example. Republicans would have been fine with that kind of a delay from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, right? Those financial disclosure forms were key to showcasing the “pay-for-play” allegations at the Clinton Foundation. But I guess he’s “our” guy now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
Back during the campaign, I said a temporary embrace of Julian Assange was dangerous for Republicans. I pointed out Assange’s deeply anti-American ideology and his exposure of Afghan informers to the U.S. military. Silly me for thinking the embrace would be temporary. Kellyanne Conway says “we should pay significant attention” to what Assange says, and Sarah Palin is publicly apologizing to him. I guess he’s “our” guy now, too, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that.
There must have been some memo I didn’t get, announcing that Republicans don’t care about press conferences, tax returns, payments from foreign governments, financial disclosure, or Julian Assange leaking classified information anymore. Or some revision emphasizing that we only care about these things when Democrats are involved. As noted yesterday, Mary Barra is the CEO and longtime high-ranking executive of General Motors, the taxpayer-saved company once reviled by conservatives as “Government Motors.” She was saluted at the State of the Union by President Obama and in March, Clinton campaign chair John Podesta sent the candidate a “first cut of people to consider for VP”, a list of 39 names that included Barra. Barra’s on Trump’s economic advisory panel now. I guess she’s “our” gal now, so we’re just not going to make a fuss about that, either.
It's truly fascinating the realities that people choose to believe.
Not saying you are right or wrong...just think it's fascinating.
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The Narrative of Normalization
Just Say No.
by Chris Brecheen
If you are still trying to convince yourself that a Trump presidency will not be that bad, here is (some of) the cognitive dissonance that exists within that narrative of normalization:
- That a presidential nominee who you praised for not being a typical politician (one who goes back on their promises) will go back on their promises…..but only the ones you don’t like (like cutting YOUR government support or maybe that Muslim registry that DID sound kind of scary). The ones you liked he’ll do. Absolutely.
- That nearly every person who has either lived through or studied Hitler’s rise to power suddenly, all at once, decided to become melodramatic and overwrought. For no reason.
- That he says what he means and you like that. Except for the stuff that you swear you weren’t okay with him saying. You’re not a racist or anything. That was just bluster. But the stuff you agree with wasn’t just bluster; it was totally sincere. You are able to tell exactly which things are bluster and exactly which things he has high integrity about.
- That a guy who lies almost every time his mouth is open was totally telling the truth to you. Totally. And sure he lies all the time, but he’s right about all the stuff you agree with him about. Yep.
- That a presidential nominee who bragged during nationally televised debates about scamming freelance workers and spent twenty-five million to settle a fraud lawsuit can be trusted to know exactly where the water’s edge of “conflict of interest” is between his personal investments and US interests and doesn’t need the slightest oversight.
- That a presidential nominee who bragged during nationally televised debates about scamming freelance workers and spent twenty-five million to settle a fraud lawsuit totally wasn’t saying anything he had to to win so he could defraud YOU.
- That these appointments aren’t terrifying at all. Breathtaking cronyism in a historically uneducated and inexperienced cabinet with a bent towards white supremacy and anti-LGBTQ+ policy is only alarming because everyone on the left is a sore loser.
- That Republican paranoia about [Poor language removed] that Obama never said he would do (like taking away your guns) was justified, but our fear of explicit campaign promises is blowing things out of proportion.
- That Russia hasn’t ever done anything enemy-ish, is absolutely blameless, would never do such a thing, and you should mock everyone who thinks otherwise. Even those seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies. Because what did they ever do.
- That nothing bad ever happened when a president decided not to pay attention to an intelligence report. *cough9/11cough*
- That your vote was all about economics. Not even a teensie weensie bit about race or bigotry. (Even though those “identity politics PC folks” sure had it coming!) Despite the fact that Trump’s tax plan very clearly spelled out that your taxes would be (and will be) going up unless you are a business or in the top 1%. But let’s go with the economy. Absolutely.
- That intelligence agencies are somehow only trustworthy if they are accusing Hillary Clinton of a crime.
- That someone who has called American citizens of the opposition party his “enemies” in a taunt that a twelve year old 4channer would find petulant egged on by a mainstream constituency that is delighted at how much pain and suffering “those [Poor language removed] coastal elites” are about to endure is somehow going to heal the divisions of our country.
- That the party that once used “pinko commie” as an insult to the left to insinuate that they were in league with Russia is now darned cool with those guys and their curious blend of anti-LGBT, one party, imperialistic oppression.
- That after enduring eight years of birther crap, racism, faux lynchings, literal burning effigies, the rhetoric of taking the country “back,” watching the Tea party rise as a Koch brothers astroturf movement involving a bunch of white dudes in revolutionary war costumes calling the administration of a right leaning Democrat (with an infuriating penchant for compromise) “tyranny,” as well as an unprecedented obstructionism at every single level of government, liberals should just “get over it” because “He won.”
- That the REAL problem is that a group who is trying to get everyone the same rights, achieve equality, listen to others’ lived experiences, and empower those pushed to the margins of our society is lacking empathy. If only we’d learn to build a bridge.
- That in a country where the status quo is already violently unjust towards certain people, an administration that has openly voiced hostility towards these people will make things better.
- That a head of state who chooses not only to ignore a foreign attack by our enemies, but also mocks the sitting president who retaliated with sanctions….then turns around and PRAISES the foreign head of state who almost certainly attacked us…. That THAT guy is going to keep US interests safe.
- That a dude who didn’t realize his tweet calling for a boycott of Apple was going to reveal that it had come from an iPhone somehow knows more about hacking than 17 U.S. intelligence communities and a host of private analysts.
- That a guy who brags about grabbing women by the [Poor language removed] isn’t sexist and it totally wasn’t even a little sexist to go ahead and vote to make him the most powerful person on Earth.
- Repeat the last point for racism, xenophobia, ableism and every shitty bigoted thing he has said or done. But it totally isn’t even a little bigoted that all this stuff wasn’t a deal breaker, and liberals are just being “hateful” to suggest it.
- That “the least racist person you’ll ever meet” appointed a white supremacist to a new White House position.
- That a person with an ego so frail that they take to twitter at the slightest criticism (be it from SNL portrayals or a Broadway musical with the audacity to hope that all US citizens would gain equal protection) is going to be an effective diplomat, and totally won’t have a nuclear power rattling its saber at him before he’s even sworn in.
- That negative three million votes is a “mandate.”
- That the problem with a widely diverse groups struggling against the bigotry of cis het white male lawmakers to enact policy that will not target and possibly help marginalized groups is that we are “elites.”
- That nuclear proliferation is a big competition and Trump can “win.”
- That the guy who not only has been conspicuously silent about the shocking uptick in hate crimes but has also demanded a list of the federal employees involved in combatting the rise of extremist groups (but won’t say why) isn’t going to be as bad for minorities as he’s being painted, and all “those people” are just making mountains out of molehills.
- That being cheered on by Nazis is not an inauspicious sign.
- That calling Obama racial slurs and racist epithets are just free speech, but pointing out when Trump is lying with facts should be cracked down on because it’s so hateful.
- That someone who hates taxing the rich and hates unions and hates regulations and hates bipartisan cooperation isn’t talking about the social hegemony of cis het white men when he wistfully looks to the past while invoking a promise to make America “great again.”
by Chris Brecheen — Writing About Writing (And Occasionally Some Writing)Failing better and falling with style.
- That it’s too late to admit you’ve made a mistake and join us in our every effort to #RESIST
Couldn't help noticing this post went strangely uncommented-on by the Trump apologists.
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How else would you describe a two party system where one side spends decades educating its support into looking for a strong leader from outside the political class who "isn't afraid to speak his mind" - and then desperately tries to stop him when he turns up - and where the other side fixes its own candidate selection process to ensure that the one candidate who is the least likely to beat their probable opponent wins?
abelard
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I felt the Bern as much as anyone, and I've read the Wikileaks emails. But Bernie lost by over 3.5 million votes, and didn't win a single state in the South, most of which he lost by ratios of 7 to 3 or even 8 to 2. Conspiracy isn't always the most plausible answer, even if it can be the most reassuring.
The more meaningful step forward for decent people in the US is to organize rather than to blame. How many Bernie supporters can even name their state senators, for example? If we devoted even ten percent as much effort to raising awareness and mobilizing for local campaigns as we do to hailing our latest messiah-who-will-spontaneously-and-single-handedly-redeem-us, we could make a real impact at levels where the Koch brothers dominate primarily because we've abdicated them. The 2010 midterms were at least as influential as 2008, precisely because we didn't bother.
Transforming political trajectories in the US takes years of planning and concerted effort, as the Republicans continue to demonstrate. And this, rather than whinging and scapegoating our way back to the sidelines for another four years, is what it will take to improve the Democratic Party.
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Americans, you should be embarrassed of what you have done.
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Soon to be the actual, real, President of the United States of America
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Do you know the backstory to this photo.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/28/donald-trump-criticized-for-mocking-disabled-reporter/
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Yes.
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Steve0
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I've noticed this narrative sneaking in more and more. Any time a liberal calls it straight they get blamed for the rise of Trump.
- This time 8 years ago McConnell said the obstruction of Obama was to be the primary goal of the House.
- The Tea Party sprung up with the primary objective of obstructing Obama
- Fox news and various radio shows/websites grew massively as good news doesn't sell ad space but outrage does.
The republicans created a monster and in this primary season, completely lost control of him.
There could be an argument that the Democrats did not put up much of a fight but to blame them when they do is ridiculous.
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