Creepy Balloon Animals

Not much helium left, to keep the balloons up in the sky.
These are filled with hot air, and are untethered to reality.

Right Wing Watch Verified Account
@RightWingWatch

Q nuts have now legitimately started tweeting this out:

(captured screen shot of tweets shared between twerps)

5:08 PM - 27 Jun 2019

Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman Announces Criminal Indictment
Of Special Counsel Robert Mueller By Citizens Grand Jury

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/freedom-watch-founder-larry-klayman-130000134.html

Who is Larry Klayman?

Standing behind former Infowars Washington bureau chief
Jerome Corsi at the middle of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into suspected Russian election meddling is attorney
Larry Klayman.

In 1994, Klayman opened up the right-wing law shop Judicial Watch,
which is currently under the direction of Tom Fitton but continues to
provide conspiracy theory fodder to right-wing media. There, Klayman
gained notoriety for filing lawsuit after lawsuit against Bill Clinton and
Clinton associates. After he left Judicial Watch for a failed U.S. Senate
run from Florida, bad blood between him and his successors at the group
led him to sue Judicial Watch for defamation and win—one of his rare
wins in court. Klayman went on to found the group Freedom Watch,
which is based on the original model for Judicial Watch—a pro-bono
legal organization devoted to bringing nuisance suits against political
enemies.

Klayman was a key figure in the birther movement that coalesced around
efforts to prove that Obama’s birth certificate was a fake and that he was
ineligible for the presidency.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/who-is-larry-klayman/

December 3, 2018

Larry Klayman
@ LarryEKlayman

Founder of @FreedomWatchUSA and Judicial Watch -
I've dedicated my career to fighting injustice and restoring
ethics to government and the legal profession.


Freedom Watch
@FreedomWatchUSA

Mueller Indicted! @realDonaldTrump @michellemalkin
@IngrahamAngle @seanhannity @marklevinshow
@larryelder @MonicaCrowley

(link)

9:34 AM - 26 Jun 2019

Mueller Indicted!

(June 27, 2019). Today, Larry Klayman, a former federal prosecutor
and the founder of Freedom Watch (link) announced the criminal
indictment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller by...

Freedom Watch @FreedomWatchUSA

Creepy religious right extremist Ralph Reed arrived in DC, as master of ceremonies.
Ralph Reed fronts for the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

That explains Trumpypant's sudden private propaganda production
at the Evergreen chapel at Camp David.

Inconvieniently, Trump's violent sexual aggression was in plain view.
It turns out that violent rapes are merely sins that can be erased.

There is camera footage of Trumpypant's proof of religious purchase.
(Are there rumors that Trumpypants is the Anti-Christ ?)

Donald J. Trump Verified Account
@realDonaldTrump

Wonderful Church service at Camp David. Thank you!

6:20 AM - 23 Jun 2019

Trumpypants telegraphs his position on abortion

April 29, 2019

During his Saturday rally in Wisconsin, Trump charged Democrats
with generally supporting this test case: “The baby is born. The mother
meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby, they wrap the baby
beautifully. And then the doctor and the mother determine whether
or not they will execute the baby.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?noredirect=on


‘Anointed’ Trump Reaffirms His Promises to Religious Right Activists at ‘Road to Majority’

June 26, 2019

Ralph Reed, a Republican political operative who worked to turn out
evangelical voters for Trump’s 2016 campaign, told conference attendees
that Road to Majorityorganizers were honored to have Trump there for his
sixth appearance at the conference, adding that Trump had told Reed that
he was honored to be invited to address the group.

The invocation was delivered by Sister Rose Wangui, a Roman Catholic nun,
who, in her prayer, described Trump as God’s “anointed one.” Trump’s Democratic
opponents, she declared, support an “abortion industry” that she claimed is feeding
“demonic spirits…that drink the blood of unborn babies.” She declared
that abortion procedures were “worse than terrorism.

Ralph Reed returned to the podium and lauded Trump for his alliance to the Religious Right.

“There has never been anyone who has defended us and fought for us
who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one,” Reed said.

Republican senators joined Religious Right activists at the Faith and Freedom
Coalition’s annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C., today,
where they warned that if Democrats are successful in obtaining a supermajority
in the 2020 elections, socialism will be implemented in America.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-activists-meet-the-gops-red-new-scare/

Trumpypants Goon #1 salivating over the presence of rich murderers in Japan

Jennifer Jacobs Verified Account
@JenniferJJacobs

Trump and MBS are meeting on a high floor of the Imperial Hotel
in Osaka right now. Trump calls the Saudi crown prince
“a friend of mine” and says it’s an “honor” to be with him.

(pic)

4:43 PM - 28 Jun 2019


Chris Hayes Verified Account
@chrislhayes

I honestly can’t tweet how I feel about this.

(pic from JenniferJJacobs tweet)

4:53 PM - 28 Jun 2019

Seth Abramson Verified Account
@SethAbramson

I can. I am enraged beyond measure.

6:18 PM - 28 Jun 2019

Seth Abramson Verified Account
@SethAbramson

Grotesque is the only word that comes to mind

(link to NBC News)

6:06 PM - 28 Jun 2019

NBC News Verified Account
@NBCNews

JUST IN: President Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman
at G-20 in Japan, calls him "a friend of mine" and says that he's done
"really a spectacular job" and that it's a "great honor" to meet with him.

(pic)

5:17 PM - 28 Jun 2019


Seth Abramson Verified Account
@SethAbramson Replying to @SethAbramson

1/ By the way, according to my research for PROOF OF CONSPIRACY,
the *maximum* number of U.S. jobs created by Saudi arms purchases is
17,500... and that's a *generous* figure. "One million" is a bald-faced,
*outrageous* lie that, per usual, he delivers dead-eyed and dead-tongued.

6:09 PM - 28 Jun 2019

Seth Abramson Verified Account
@SethAbramson Replying to @SethAbramson

2/ MBS is a crazy, murdering sonofabitch who deposed his relative
(by torturing him) to become the crown prince. That relative was
one of our greatest allies. MBS followed that up by arresting and
torturing (and stealing over $130 billion from) Saudi Arabia's richest
citizens.

6:13 PM - 28 Jun 2019

3/ Do you know what MBS *actually* does to women who militate
for more rights in Saudi Arabia? He has them arrested and tortured
(his preferred method is electrocution) and threatened with rape.
*That's* the man whose rule Trump praises.

It's humiliating to America to watch that.

6:16 PM - 28 Jun 2019

Richard Engel Verified Account
@RichardEngel

The highest-ranking North Korean defector in decades
told me Kim Jong UN likes President Trump because
he’s not “moral,” and doesn't judge."All previous US
presidents so far have been very moral and they paid
great attention on the America’s moral image," he
said of Trump.

8:08 AM - 30 Jun 2019

#Unwantedivanka: awkward moment at G20 prompts slew of Trump parodies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1561958805

Daddy's Little Human Shield ?

Erin Keane

“Ivanka doesn’t materialize in the doorway like Bloody Mary
in ballet flats to make Trump look like a better man. Good lord,
when has he ever cared about looking like a better man?” Keane writes.

She continues: “A better theory is that her little snippet of choreography
is designed to help Trump use men’s own fears of humiliation against
them. Ivanka’s presence subliminally disarms his male opponents —
and isn’t everyone who’s not related to Trump an opponent? —
because a real man, our culture tells us, doesn’t make another man
look small in front of his children.”

Keane concludes the piece by saying that the “White House is a place
for adults,” and that if Ivanka wanted to be taken seriously as an
advocate for women, she’d need to drop the little girl act.
Nearly two years have passed, and while Ivanka is making an
effort to be recognized on an international stage, incidents like
those captured in the G20 video show that global leaders see her
as a child trying to get in on conversations at the adult’s table.

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/01/mo...rious-ivanka-trump-meme-that-explains-itself/

(pResident Orange Goon #1) issued an executive order (EO)
limiting the number of independent federal advisory committees

June 20, 2019

The Trump directive “further lobotomizes the federal agencies
that are in the business of making expertise-driven policy decisions,”
charged James Goodwin, senior policy analyst for the Center for
Progressive Reform. This attempt to cut back on agency reliance
on independent experts, he said, comes at a time when agencies
already have been weakened and depleted by White House policies.

Betsy Southerland is one of those senior scientists who resigned
from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2017, appalled
by then–EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s attempts to reverse the
agency’s environmental policies. She warned that the directive
carries another danger — secrecy.

“This Executive Order is designed to prevent government transparency
and restrict public involvement in government work,” she explained
in an email to WhoWhatWhy.

The White House said it was trying to ensure that government resources
were used wisely. But that excuse doesn’t hold water, critics charge.

The less than $400 million annually spent on these advisors,
Goodwin said, is so little that it represents a “rounding error
of a rounding error” in the federal budget.

“You’re not going to balance the budget on this,” Goodwin stated.

https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/06/20/will-trumps-new-directive-lobotomize-federal-brain/

Make America France/Brazil/Turkey Again!

President Trump's reelection campaign is using free/cheap stock video footage
to portray his real-life supporters on Facebook, using models from France,
Turkey, Spain

Did this happen becauseTrumpypant's young media bros
could not find any videos of attractive average Trumpy
supporters in America ? Or, was it because it is cheaper
to use stock models, and saves campaign cash for other
purposes ?

Stock models

“Tracey from Florida” French (media) company Tuto Photos in Roubaix, France

“Thomas from Washington”-“Bearded and tattooed hipster coffee shop owner posing”
GM (video) Stock out of Izmir, Turkey.

″AJ from Texas” is from Spain ?

A man labeled on another video as “AJ from Texas”stares
into the camera as a voice says, “Although I am a lifelong
Democrat, I sincerely believe that a nation must secure its
borders."

The people in the videos that ran in the past few months are
all actually models in stock video footage produced far from
the U.S. in France, Brazil and Turkey, and available to anyone
online for a fee.

9:26 a.m.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017...hotographer-behind-guy-looking-back-meme.html

“This is a great shot of Thomas from Washington."

"It’s a shame it’s not Thomas from Washington.”

Fred Davis, a campaign consultant who’s produced ads for
George W. Bush and other Republican presidential candidates,
said the Trump campaign’s use of such footage is not surprising,
given the volume of political ads on the internet these days.
“Whoever did this is probably 22 years old, and they’re going
through pictures and thought, ‘This is a great picture,'” Davis said.

https://time.com/5619654/trump-facebook-ads-stock-models/

Trump Facebook Ads Use Models to Portray Actual Supporters

NBC New York- News- national-international

Steve King Mocked After Being Duped Into Tweeting Praise
for Jack Nicholson's Character in 'A Few Good Men'

7/5/19

"Colonel Jessup and all your Marines: God Bless you all"

"You have our back and millions of us have yours!"

"God Bless America and all her warriors defending our Liberty!"

King tweeted on July 4.

King was responding to a tweet from Young Turks reporter Ken Klippenstein
that read:

"Sir, could I plz get a retweet for my uncle Col. Nathan Jessup,
he's in the Marines and spending the 4th overseas keeping our
nation safe."

Posting this before it gets deleted.

(pic)

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 5, 2019

After King responded, Klippenstein changed his Twitter handle
to "Steve King is a white supremacist," which for a time appeared
on the Iowa Republican's timeline.

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-king-twitter-jack-nicholson-tweet-1447751

FOX TV info-tainment fuckery methods used by the Trumpypants Spite House

Did they hire tech bros directly from FOX TV ?

Aaron Mak
@aarontmak

This Trump campaign ad has a shot of a small American business
in Washington. It's actually a storefront in Tokyo. It looks like the
Kanji is even blurred out.

(pic)

7:57 AM - 2 Jul 2019

Aaron Mak
@aarontmak Replying to @aarontmak


(pic of Kanji that is blurred out)

7:57 AM - 2 Jul 2019

Cheap, stupid, half-arsed, and "quick."

Washington, DC takes advice from Boston, MA

When Right Wing Extremist twerps seek attention, coddle them,
protect them, but keep them away from Democrat protesters.

(The DC police ran after Democrat protesters, when they left
the park, but let terps drift over to the Democrat side, tho',)

DCist
@DCist

D.C. police chief responds to video of officers fist bumping
Proud Boy on July 4—MPD is looking into context of footage.
"I do think that probably it was somebody who was taking that
image that was purposely trying to paint the police in a negative
light"

(link)

1:07 PM - 6 Jul 2019


DCist
@DCist

Video from July 4 shows multiple D.C. police officers fist bumping
a Proud Boy after a skirmish by the White House.

(link)

4:00 PM - 5 Jul 2019


A member of the Proud Boys was filmed walking down a police-lined road, apparently fist-bumping several officers.

According to journalist Ford Fischer, who witnessed and filmed the clashes and the police fist-bumping the member of the far-right group, three communists were arrested, with one let go immediately.

Another photojournalist, Zach Roberts, said police directed the Proud Boys to a conservative bar and joined them in their chant: “I like beer”

The opposing communist group burnt two American flags, while chanting “burn baby burn”, and shouting “America was never great”.

The group calls for revolution in the US and the overthrow of capitalism.

DCist
@DCist

Far-right groups are rallying today in Freedom Plaza, with a
counter protest planned in nearby Pershing Park.

(link)

6:30 AM - 6 Jul 2019

Mother Jones Verified Account
@MotherJones

We went to the Proud Boys DC rally so you wouldn't have to.


2:17 PM - 6 Jul 2019

The neo-fascist proud boys organized a "free speech" rally
in DC today. It flopped.

A botched handcuff metaphor, B-list speakers, sweltering heat,
and a big police presence.

Mother Jones Mother Jones @MotherJones


Rachel Sadon
@Rachel_Sadon

.@Curious_Kurz covering the scene at #DemandFreeSpeech
and #alloutdc

(link)

10:12 AM - 6 Jul 2019

Far-Right Rally Kicks Off As Protestors Outnumber Participants | DCist


An overflow crowd of protestors in Pershing Park took part
in a dance party as the rally began.

DCist DCist @DCist

https://dcist.com/story/19/07/05/d-...ud-boy-after-clashes-in-front-of-white-house/

Will Sommer Verified Account
@willsommer Replying to @willsommer

There are about 200 or so people at the Proud Boys rally.
Many more across the street at the counter protest.

(pic)

9:24 AM - 6 Jul 2019

Ali Breland Verified Account

@alibreland Replying to @alibreland

I cannot put into words or show with pictures how
deeply brain poisoned this whole thing is

9:42 AM - 6 Jul 2019

(bodysong opinion- The poisoned brain thing, is what likely
caused the twerps to lose their lucrative perches on multiple
online platforms.)

Ali Breland Verified Account
@alibreland Replying to @alibreland

Numbers are really dwindling on the proud boys side#.
Antifa/counter protestors are still going strong though.
They are still playing cool music with lots of bass

10:41 AM - 6 Jul 2019

Liberal democracy organizes society around respect for
the dignity, equality and freedom of all human beings.

Fascism, by contrast, organizes society around
the vilification of outsiders.

What we're seeing right now-

How all of this neo-fascist, white supremacist, revolutionary language
is becoming acceptable in different ways. Such language and concepts
are starting to become part of the ordinary discourse in America.

It's starting to change the way people are willing to express themselves.
Many people hardly notice when this happens. (pResident Lump) is
articulating many of these ideas.

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/13/tr...s-gift-for-narrative-is-why-he-may-win-again/

2/ 22/ 2018

Here is USCIS's previous mission statement:

"USCIS secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants by providing
accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration
and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of
citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system."

The agency's new mission statement as it appears on the agency's website reads:

"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation's lawful
immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently
and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting
Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values."

The removal of the phrase "nation of immigrants" was announced
to agency staff in an email letter from Director L. Francis Cissna.


Opponents of the Trump administration's immigration policies
criticized the change. In a statement, Eleanor Acer, senior director
for refugee protection at D.C.-based Human Rights First, said:

"Our nation is one built by immigrants—removing this language
does nothing to change that fact, it only reveals the insidious racism
harbored by those in this administration. It is clear from the language
and policies put forth by President Trump and his hard-line immigration
extremists that they will stop at nothing to demonize and dehumanize
immigrants and refugees, who have often fled violence and persecution
in search for a better life for themselves and their children."

Opponents of the Trump administration's immigration policies criticized
the change. In a statement, Eleanor Acer, senior director for refugee
protection at D.C.-based Human Rights First, said:


https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...a-no-longer-a-nation-of-immigrants-uscis-says

*reads a post, where a Lit Alt names
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a
Domestic Enemy*

A fundraising email sent by a college Republican group -
branding the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a
“domestic terrorist” drew a sharp rebuke from the congresswoman,
who warned that similar rhetorical attacks had in the past resulted
in a spike in death threats against her.

An email sent on Tuesday by Tom Ferrall-
(chairman of the Ohio Federation of College Republicans)
bore the subject line “AOC is a domestic terrorist” and asked
recipients to donate to his group. Dave Levinthal, an editor at
the Center for Public Integrity, on Wednesday afternoon shared
a screenshot of the email on Twitter.

“My fellow students often tell me that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
is a ‘role model’ and that America should be more like socialist
Europe,” the email, which appeared not to use the word “terrorist”
elsewhere, read in part. It told recipients:

We need your help to stop the brainwashing!”

The email fit the template for fundraising emails by similar
groups.


“This puts me in danger every time,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...cortez-college-republicans-domestic-terrorist

Why name Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Domestic Enemy ?

She was elected, and serves at the request of American people.

Then again, what the discussion involves, is the fact that
a Toxic Clone of the USA does exist.

On the Toxic Clone side of the fence/wall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
is perceived to be attacking the heart of Toxic Clone's economic engine-

Rep. AOC attacks the funding of the concentration prisons on
Mexico's border. The funding of the Extremist Religous Right
with tax payer money. The funding of the Extremist Political
Right, at the expense of the taxpayer.

Perception is key.

Normal, run of-the-mill, everyday citizens see a neglected, dying child
in a concentration prison, and say "That is not normal. That is cruel."

"That is not how we do things in America! That is inhumane!"

To the Border Guards that suscribe to the outloook of the Toxic Clone
of America, (that are forced to serve as prison guards, to children that
are not visibly related to genetic strains originating from Europe),
the children are just "bodies" of "aliens."

"Invaders."
"Enemy combatants."

Kellyanne Conway suscribes to the outlook of the Toxic Twin of America-
She rushes to the defense of "Mein Führer Trumpypants, that can do no wrong,
on the Toxic Clone side of America.

Defending Trump, Kellyanne Conway demands reporter's ethnicity

17 July 2019

It can seem as if the Trump administration is in willful, determined pursuit
of the destruction of the American ideal and legacy, as a melting pot nation
that holds all individuals to be Americans first in the public square no matter
their religions, ethnicities, races, identities or beliefs.

First the president tells American citizens of color – members of congress,
no less – to “go back” to their countries.

Then Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, trying to deny that Trump’s tweets
were racist, demands to know a reporter’s ethnic identity.

Addressing reporters outside the White House, Conway insisted that Trump,
by tweeting

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested
places from which they came”, did not mean that the members of congress
should visit countries once inhabited by their ancestors.

But wait, said Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter for Breakfast Media.
So what “countries” was the president referring to, then?

At which Conway made this jaw-dropping reply:

What’s your ethnicity?”

Feinberg: Uh, why is that relevant?

Conway: Because I’m asking you a question.
My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy.

Feinberg: My ethnicity is not relevant to the question.

Conway: It is, because you’re asking about, he said ‘originally’.
He said ‘originally from’. [Fact check: three of the four members
of Congress in question are “originally from” the United States,
unless where you were born... is not the same as where you are from...
because you are... not white?]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...a-ocasio-cortez-resolution-republicans-latest

Yes, KA Conway demanded an answer, to a genetic heritage question.

Andrew Feinberg Verified Account
@AndrewFeinberg

.@KellyannePolls: “what’s your ethnicity?”
Me: “it’s not relevant” Kellyanne: “it’s relevant because
[@realDonaldTrump] said ‘originally from’...”

9:24 AM - 16 Jul 2019

Andrew Feinberg Verified Account
@AndrewFeinberg

By asking about my ethnicity (a mix of (....) and (...), I’m told)
in response to my question, @KellyannePolls inadvertently
confirmed that @realDonaldTrump was telling @IlhanMN,
@RashidaTlaib, @AOC, @AyannaPressley to return to
Somalia, Gaza, Puerto Rico, and somewhere in Africa.

(link)

8:18 AM - 16 Jul 2019

Brilliant!

It's (Trump, and all of the Republicans that are in lockstep )
being a traitor.

But it's not just being a traitor. It's the obstruction of justice but its
not just the obstruction of justice. It's the attacks on rule of law.
But it's not just the attacks on the rule of law. It's the assault
on freedom of the press.

But it's not just the assault on freedom of the press.
It's the pathological lying. But it's not just the pathological lying.
It's the unfitness for office. But it's not just the unfitness for office.
It's the incompetence. But it's not just the incompetence.

It's the attacks on our most important allies and alliances.
But it's not just the attacks on most important allies and alliances.
It's the systematic destruction of our environment. But it's not
just the systematic destruction of our environment.

It's the violation of international treaties and agreements.
But it is not just the violation of international treaties and
agreements. It's the embrace of our enemies. But it is not
just the embrace of our enemies.

It's the defense of murdering dictators but it is not just the
defense of murdering dictators. It is the serial undermining
of our national security.

But it is not just the serial undermining of our national security.
It is the nepotism. But it's not just the nepotism.

It's the attacks on our federal law enforcement and intelligence
communities. But it is not just the attacks on our federal law
enforcement and intelligence communities.

It's the fiscal recklessness. But it's not just the fiscal recklessness.

It's the degradation of the office and of public discourse in America.
But it's not just the degradation of the office and of public discourse
in America.

It's the support of Nazis and white supremacists.

But it's not just the support of Nazis and white supremacists.


It is the damage that can not be undone. It is pathology that has
overtaken our politics and our society, the revelation that 40 percent
of the population and an entire political party are profoundly immoral.

It is a disease that has infected our system and is killing it.
At the moment, we still have the wherewithal to fight back.
But even those who recognize the dangers of this litany of
crimes are proving too complacent, too inert in the face of
this threat.


It is one of those moments in the history of a country when
there is a choice to be made, a choice between having a
future and not, between growth and decay, between
democracy and oligarchy, between what we dreamt
of being and what even our founders feared we might
become.


The litany of crises and crimes is so long that we are becoming numb.
You have heard of the fog of war. This is the fog of Trump.
The volume of wrongs becomes its own defense.
Is the president accused of being a rapist?
Well, then remind them he is a racist and
they'll forget.


This is a moment for leaders to step up.
To challenge each of these abuses via every legal
means available. To organize and draw attention to them.
To blow the whistle if you are in government and you are
being asked to violate your oath. To resist and refuse to be
complicit.


If you can't do those things that make your voice heard
and join a movement, support a political candidate, donate
money, register voters, fight voter suppression.

But whatever you do, resist becoming numb.
Resist the temptation to let
the recitation of old crimes and new...
...become a deadening drone.

Every one matters in times like these. Every one must stand up
for what is right. In their homes. In their schools. In the workplace.
In their churches and synagogues and mosques.

We are approaching a great national decision about whether
the American experiment will succeed or fail, whether this
moment does what two world wars, a civil war and countless
past misjudgments and missteps could not.

We will make it together, resist, offer a better alternative,
embrace that alternative and the best leaders we can find...
or succumb, let the inertia of some among us mark the end
of what for two and half centuries was an idea so compelling
it inspired the world.

origin-

David Rothkopf Verified Account
@djrothkopf

It's the racism. But it's not just the racism. It's sex crimes.
But it's not just the sex crimes. It's the concentration camps.
But it's not just the concentration camps. It's the corruption.
But it's not just the corruption.

9:12 AM - 15 Jul 2019

(all paragraphs from these tweets)

Brought to my attention by-

Grasswire2 (4,412 posts)

Magnificent rant from David Rothkopf says it all.

(link to tweets)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212278998

As the search for the cheapest labor led to outsourcing,
in the cheapest place possible, something happened to
corporations. Their excess wealth supplied them with
the ability to form what amounted to their own in-house
banks. Some corporations exploited their employess to
enable it. The corporations developed their own insurance
arms. Everyone started issuing credit cards.

Now, some individuals have achieved so much personal wealth,
they, themselves, are their own bank.

The disconnect between trillionaires and the Middle class,
and general population could not be greater.

America had a breakthrough, this year.

The voices of all people of America were heard.

The minority communities had sent forth women to speak for them.

Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
July 19, 2019

At the firestorm (tRumpypants the pResident) ignited last weekend
when, in a taunting series of tweets, he advised four radical congress-
women to “go back” to their “broken and crime-infested” native countries.
Representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib,
and Ayanna Pressley are minorities, and all but Omar were born in the
United States, so Trump’s tweets were instantly and widely condemned
as racist and nativist.

“Say whatever you will about the president’s tactics, there can be
no question as to his love of our country,” one Trump loyalist
wrote the other day in a Newsweek essay. Actually, Trump’s
whole career raises endless questions on that score.
Everyone knows that the president is in love with himself,
but has he ever shown genuine affection for this country
and its institutions? As he berates four congresswomen
for not loving America, it’s hard not to wonder:
Does he?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...merica-does/eeKVJUZIvi8sjFgLuCxpHN/story.html

(Ah, but Mr. Jacoby, which facade of tRump was speaking ?
Now there is Trump's America, the Toxic Clone of what was
Everyone's America. The racists, White Supremacists, and
Religious Right Extremists, promote something that they call
"Our America." Now, the question is- "Which America do you love ?")

Opinion

Class politics is rising in America.

Trump hopes a culture war might stop it

- Bhaskar Sunkara

It’s a familiar pattern:

Trump does a very racist or sexist thing, Trump opponents call out
his racism and sexism and declare victory. Democratic party elites
jockey for the most “anti-Trump” position. Trump supporters rally
around the president, his detractors remind each other he’s not their
president and things hit a stalemate until the next media event.

This is the exactly what Trump wants politics to become –
not about issues, not a contest about the distribution of power
and wealth, but a culture war hosted by the media and fueled
by competing Twitter teams.

(Rep.) Ilhan Omar tweeted yesterday, quoting Toni Morrison, that
“the function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.
It keeps you from doing your work” and she has refused any
such distraction.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ump-ilhan-omar-politics-culture-war-class-war

John Nichols
@NicholsUprising

The anatomy of a lie: Donald Trump took words from an
extended interview with @IlhanMN out of context.
He claimed she was saying things she didn’t say.
He made it sound like she was attacking working
Americans.

It was all a deliberate distortion.

(link to The Nation)

1:26 PM - 18 Jul 2019

Donald Trump Is Deliberately Distorting What Ilhan Omar Says
About America

We know this because he’s cribbing lines from an interview
with Omar on the Next Left podcast.

The Nation The Nation @thenation

Today, pResident Donald Duncecap is wearing the Joker Mask,
that resembles Jack Nicholson's version.

Victor Blackwell CNN
@VictorBlackwell
Jul 24

Trump: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do
whatever I want.” Mueller Report: “Under applicable
Supreme Court precedent, the Constitution does not
categorically and permanently immunize a president
for obstructing justice through the use of his Article
II powers.”

temporary Attorney General Bill Barr is wearing
Danny DeVito's Oswald Cobblepot mask.
The Penguin has found the cult for him.

Is Robert Mueller wearing the Batman mask ?
The Penguin followed the Joker's orders.
But, Mueller seems to have communicated
the most essential and devastating news-


Elijah E. Cummings Verified Account
@RepCummings

I'm begging the American people to pay attention
to what is going on. Because if you want to have
a democracy intact for your children, and your
children's children, and generations yet unborn
we've got to guard this moment…
this is our watch.

(screen grab capture of CNN coverage of
Democrat Leaders Speaking Out After
Mueller's Testimony)

3:48 PM - 24 Jul 2019

Elijah E. Cummings Verified Account
@RepCummings Replying to @RepCummings

You told me then that you supported the legislation
and that you would work with me to make it happen.
I took you at your word.

(link)

8:05 AM - 27 Jul 2019

Top Democrats Write to President Expressing
“Profound Disappointment” With His Failure to
Work Together to Lower Drug Prices

https://oversight.house.gov/news/pr...t-expressing-profound-disappointment-with-his

“We write today—for the third time—to express our profound
disappointment that you have chosen not to follow through
on your campaign promise to lower drug prices for
the American people,” Cummings and Welch wrote today.

“The people who elected you President believed you when
you said that prescription drug prices are too high and that
drug companies are ‘getting away with murder’—a claim
you continue to repeat. They believed you when you pledged
to create a ‘fair and competitive bidding process’ that would
result in prices ‘coming way, way, way down’ for American
families.”

Strangely, on February 16, 2017, the (pResident) held a
nationally televised press conference during which
he inaccurately criticized Cummings for scuttling
the meeting, suggesting without any basis that
Senator Chuck Schumer had warned Cummings
that it was “bad politics.”

The President’s claims were completely inaccurate,
as Cummings pointed out immediately at the time.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/trump-racist-tweets-cummings-baltimore.html

"The best explanations for Trump’s actions are often the stupidest ones."

"Since he continues to go to war against his enemies
in perpetual campaign fashion, and since many of his
enemies are domestic, this places Trump in the strange
position of frequently disparaging parts of his own country.
This is surely unique in American history. American presidents
simply do not call American cities filthy and dangerous.
George W. Bush may not have enjoyed much support in
places like Baltimore, but he wouldn’t go around calling
Democratic neighborhoods disgusting hellholes.
It does not occur to Trump that the patriotic
requirements of his office require representing
the whole of it."

"It is not merely that Trump is unfit for his job.
He refuses, almost literally, to be president of
the United States."

'Why Trump Spent His Summer Vacation Sending Racist Tweets"

-Jonathan Chait
July 27, 2019

Bottom line-
Minority communities will never vote for tRump.
Women despise tRump, for many reasons.
Democrats are the loyal opposition.

In Donald Duncecap's mind, only one loyalty counts-
Loyalty to him. He demands that his team pledge
loyalty to him. Not the U.S.A. Not the Constitution.

What happened to the pledge, to uphold the law,
in Our Country ?

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute
the office of president of the United States, and
will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect
and defend the constitution of the United States.”

Michael Bennet Verified Account
@SenatorBennet

I’ve endured speech after speech about “fiscal responsibility” from @GOP.

Since 2001

Washington cut taxes by $5T with almost all the benefit going
to the wealthiest Americans. It spent $5.6T on wars in the
Middle East. None of it was paid for.

Their fiscal hypocrisy knows no end.

(pic)

3:10 PM - 25 Jul 2019

"[T]he Trump tax cut caused a huge rise in the budget deficit,
which the administration expects to hit $1 trillion this year,
up from less than $600 billion in 2016."

"This tidal wave of red ink is even more extraordinary than it looks,
because it has taken place despite falling unemployment, which
usually leads to a falling deficit.”

- Paul Krugman

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...e-debt-ceiling

July 25, 2019

House Republicans who opposed this legislation will still take
credit for the parts of it that benefit them, while blaming the
godless socialist Democrats for higher domestic and overall
spending. They won’t blame the president, whose agents negotiated
it and who endorsed and will sign it, though. Someday, by-and-by,
in a second Trump term, they will profess a determination to square
circles and return to the fiscal rectitude they still pretend to revere.
In the meantime, their slogan could echo the prayer of a young
St. Augustine, who was unready to give up the sins of the flesh:
“Lord make me pure, but not yet.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/house-democrats-push-through-trump-endorsed-budget-deal.html

George Takei talking to Seth Myers about being a five year old boy,
and he and his family were marched out of their home at gunpoint,
and leaving their house to go to a Japanese internment prison camp.

Now, in 2019 the government says Japanese-American internment prison camps.

Takei points to the fact that his family stayed together, and Trump's prison
camps at the border separate the children and deliberately keep them apart.
(The parents deported, the child flown, or driven far away from point of entry origin.)

The prison camps for Japanese Americans were just military barracks,
and re-purposed horse barns, but they became homes. The people that
Trump has imprisoned, experience filth, deprivation, starvation, abuse,
beatings, rapes, degradation, neglect of illness and disability. WTF is
the purpose of taking away a child's medicine ?

Takei said that it is inhuman.

There is artwork that came out of the Japanese internment prison.
Proof of life in the camps. It was a community forced to live in exile.
They lost everything that they had worked for. Their homes, their
businesses, their stuff, But, they were supplied with new stuff to carry on
living. There was school, and church, and entertainment like movies.
Trump gives the new immigrants nothing but death. The children die,
the parents die, The immigrants sent out of the USA die after being
deported.

It costs nearly nothing to drive a person to suicide, but Trump's
favorites are getting fat profits for guarding over people, while
the bodies, hearts, and minds of immigrants break.

The guards got a little too enthusiastic about the suffering, so Trump
sent American soldiers to increase the threat. Men outside the fences
in military uniforms with rifles.

Too much like Hitlers's concentration camps.
How does a soldier feel heroic, by observing
human suffering ? Really sure, that this is not
what they signed up for. Then, again, Trump
had American soldiers painting his renovated
fence at the border. Cheap bastard did not want
to pay for it. Took the money away from military
housing renovation for soldiers and their families.
Away from making the bases safer from hurricaines,
and repaired after hurricaines.

ugghhhhh

"The sad truth about Teleprompter Trump"


It’s not new for presidents to use teleprompters.
What is new is a president who sounds nothing
like the person who reads out the words on the
screen

opinion writer- Francine Prose

Aug 2017

If they weren’t working for Donald Trump, one might almost
feel sorry for his speechwriters. How they must labor over
those mellifluous phrases urging tolerance and love –
only to see their hard work undone the minute the boss
gets his hands on an electronic device.

But the ones who deserve our sympathy are the American people,
and the people of the world, who know that this president is
mouthing pieties that he privately mocks, who know they are
being lied to, and who can’t seem to make the pretense,
the meanness and the hypocrisy stop.

His phrasing (punchy, aggressive, frequently inarticulate),
his vocabulary (limited) and his tone (bombastic, unhinged)
could scarcely have been less like what we heard Monday night.
The former director of national intelligence James Clapper publicly
stated that he’d found the emergence of “the real Trump” to be
“scary and disturbing” and that the Phoenix speech cast doubt
on the president’s competence.

We feel reasonably certain that the adults who convince a child
to apologize for his reckless or damaging behavior will try to
dissuade that child from doing further harm. But we have yet
to identify the responsible adult who will gently and legally
take the baseball bat, or the brick – or the nuclear option –
away from the dangerous child in the White House.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/donald-trump-teleprompter-speech

Trump was whining these words, as he retreated away from the confrontation-

"I'm a very successful wrestler promoter."



WTF ?

Trump broke his word, and was violating and agreement.
Trump was given a chance, and Trump lied. (A stupid lie.)
After he lied, he returned to doing what he wanted to do.
He was confronted on it, for a second time.
He returned to doing what he wanted to do.

The third time, Trump was fired, on the spot, and prevented
from having his 3 large goons beat on the man that fired him.
About 40 people stopped it from happening, and they convinced
him that he should leave. (They had weapons, too.)

Trump behaved like a creep.

Seems as if, that is his M.O. (modus operandi)

https://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/th...e_gop_frontrunner_out_of_atlantic_city_venue/

On the night of the event, “I get word that I have to come to the press room in the next building,” Michael Cohl, the tour’s promoter, told Pollstar last August. “I run to the press room in the next building and what do you think is happening? There’s Donald Trump giving a press conference, in our room!”

According to Cohl, Trump then tried to convince him that “they begged me to go up, Michael.”

“Stop it,” Cohl replied. “Don’t make a liar of yourself.”

Thinking he’d extinguished the fire, Cohl returned to the dressing room only to get word five minutes later that Trump (being Trump) had found his way back to the mic.

“Donald,” Cohl pleaded. “I don’t know if I can control this. Stop it.”

Again to the dressing room. Again word that Trump is promoting. This time guitarist Keith Richards offered his help:

“Keith pulls out his knife and slams it on the table and says, ‘What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself? One of us is leaving the building – either him, or us.’”


“One of two things is going to happen,” Cohl told Trump. “You’re going to leave the building and, at 6:40, The Rolling Stones are going to speak on CBS News, or you’re not going to leave the building and I’m going to go on and do an interview to explain to the world why the pay-per-view was canceled”

https://www.pastemagazine.com/artic...t-think-wrestling-is-real-according-to-t.html

Trump's History with Wrestling

It all stems from one of the most infamous, poorly timed, and audience-insulting moments in the history of Raw. In June 2007 an episode of WWE’s flagship show ended with Vince McMahon’s limo blowing up on live TV, with the company’s owner supposedly inside. The plan was to effectively kill off the on-air character of Vince McMahon, while hopefully dredging up at least a fraction of “Who shot J.R.?”-style pop culture fascination, in a storyline that would have further obscured the tenuous lines between wrestling and soap operas. Of course this vignette aired less than two weeks before Chris Benoit, a former world champion and perhaps the most popular wrestler ever among obsessive internet fans (like us), murdered his family and himself in real life. What was planned to be a fake memorial episode of Raw for Vince McMahon on June 25, 2007, turned into a real-life memorial for Benoit, and one that turned increasingly awkward as the true facts of Benoit’s final days trickled out as the show was on the air. McMahon’s on-air death was immediately forgotten, with that whole angle getting scrapped.

Before the storyline was dropped, though, McMahon’s office got a call from an old friend, checking in to make sure the WWE owner was okay. According to Triple H, Trump heard the “news” about McMahon’s limo explosion, and touched base with WWE HQ to ask if this was legitimate or not. If you’re a wrestling fan and this doesn’t take you back to those purer childhood days of make believe, well, that’s good, because even five year olds should be able to tell this stuff isn’t entirely on the level.

Trump and McMahon really are a perfect friendship: both are fantastically wealthy, insulated old men who aren’t quite as wealthy as they want you to believe, or as they possibly could be. Their relationship goes back to at least the 1980s, the last time either should’ve been relevant, when 1989’s Wrestlemania V was held at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. 2007 was probably the high point of their friendship, at least from the public’s perspective, as Donald Trump was a major guest star at Wrestlemania 23, just three months before Vince’s supposed death. They clearly remain tight: they follow each other on Twitter, McMahon has donated millions to the Trump Foundation, and just last week Trump appointed McMahon’s wife Linda McMahon the head of the Small Business Administration. Their friendship is actually kind of touching, even if they probably relate most strongly to the Duke brothers when they watch Trading Places, which is exactly the kind of fresh, current pop culture reference Vince McMahon would appreciate.

Trump's plan to move BLM jobs west is a shallow pretext to gut the agency's mission

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/sto...m-jobs-west-environment-public-lands-congress

So, what does Trump really want ?

A new Trump plan would shift most top agency jobs west from Washington,
a move that could significantly weaken its influence on federal policies.

Moving BLM will similarly rob that department of institutional memory
and weaken its ability to work with Congress and other agencies —
which, in fact, may be the point for the Machiavellians in Trump’s
White House who want to cede public lands that we, as Americans,
all own to states and local governments anxious to turn it over to
developers and extractive industries. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt
recently appointed William Perry Pendley, who through the conservative
Mountain States Legal Foundation has pushed for the federal government
to turn public lands over to states, as acting BLM director.

The petroglyph on the wall couldn’t be clearer.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/sto...m-jobs-west-environment-public-lands-congress

The Topeka Capitol-Journal reported tonight that congressman
Steve Watkins, barely eight months in office, is being asked to
step down immediately by Republicans in Kansas and DC.
The odd thing is though that no one will say why.

Curious and curiouser.

Source: Topeka Capitol-Journal

Kansas Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins declined to answer
news reporters’ questions at a campaign event Thursday amid a flurry
of bipartisan speculation his career in Congress could come to an
abrupt end after eight months in office.

Instead, he bolted into a waiting vehicle and sped away.

Republicans in Kansas and Washington, D.C., were pressuring Watkins
to step down, but the reason for the possible resignation wasn’t certain.

Speculation so far has centered around Watkins unorthodox
"open marriage", and allegations of inappropriate behavior
towards multiple women.

Watkins narrowly defeated Democrat Paul Davis during a turbulent
2018 campaign in which questions were raised about Watkins’ military
service and his treatment of women in Kansas, Alaska and elsewhere.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported he was dating women in Topeka
during the campaign while engaged to be married and after he was wed,
and identified a Wasilla, Alaska, resident who accused Watkins of unwanted
sexual advances. Watkins called the allegations “preposterous.”

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/republicans-pressuring-kansas-first-term

The speculation about Watkins’ future comes after a string of departures
of senior staff in recent months.

Colin Brainard, a longtime congressional staffer who worked for
Watkins’ predecessor, former GOP Rep. Lynn Jenkins, stepped down
as chief of staff this month. His departure followed the resignations
of Watkins’ legislative director in May and his executive assistant in
July.

Adam York, the former legislative director, said he left the office on
amicable terms in anticipation of his daughter’s June birth. He wanted
to return to Kansas to raise his family and accepted a position as director
of programs for the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission.

His departure was unrelated to any issues with the representative, York said.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article234310112.html

August 24, 2019

Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US, has left Washington

UK's ambassador leaves US after calling Trump 'incompetent' in memos

Boris Johnson will now appoint a new ambassador to the US
as he seeks to secure the relationship between the two countries.
The prime minster is due to meet Mr Trump for the first time
since he assumed office this weekend at the G7 meeting in Biarritz.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/worl...AGgG82?li=AA5249&**5252525253Bocid=spartandhp

24 Jul 2019

Trump has long touted Farage as a prospective UK ambassador
to Washington. Johnson was criticised for failing to stand up for
the UK’s ambassador in Washington, Kim Darroch, when Trump
launched an attack on him, hastening his resignation. But allowing
the president to choose Darroch’s successor is likely to be a
genuflection too far.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...lationship-evolve-with-boris-johnson-in-no-10

How does a 19 year old boy get caught up in an issue as delicate
and important, as diplomatic relations beteen the UK and the USA ?

Young, naive, inexperienced Steven Edginton,

"...questions have emerged over leaks of confidential UK diplomatic
cables criticising Donald Trump after a 19-year-old Brexit activist
was revealed to be the person who obtained them."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/21/brexit-party-steven-edginton-darroch-cables

13 July 2019

Kim Darroch: Johnson joins defence of press over cables publication

Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan said an internal Whitehall
inquiry had found no evidence the leak was the result of computer
hacking. Instead, he told MPs the focus was on finding “someone
within the system who has released illicitly these communications”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...osborne-accuses-met-of-flouting-press-freedom

Involved in an activity facilitated by The Daily Mail-

Propaganda disregards facts in favor of promoting an agenda

The intent of propaganda is to mislead people in order to advance
a particular agenda. Undermining and delaying climate policies is
one such agenda promoted by the Mail on Sunday and other
conservative media outlets. This is quite clear in Rose’s writing,
as he rails against the supposed high costs of those policies from
‘green cons.’

Fake science journalists in biased media outlets keep writing false
and misleading pieces about climate change. They don’t learn
from their mistakes, despite being constantly debunked by
climate scientists, because that would require caring about facts
and truth. Doubt is their product, and they peddle it well.
When they’re caught, they just double down on the misinformation.

But that’s not news; it’s propaganda. And that’s why Wikipedia
deemed the Daily Mail an unreliable source. With writers like
David Rose, the ruling was well earned. As Gavin Schmidt put it:

Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin)

I agree w/@DavidRoseUK!
"We cannot allow such a vital issue for our future to be mired in half truths & deceptions"
So don't read the Mail…
February 12, 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ia-outlets-like-the-daily-mail-are-unreliable

Boris Johnson prepares for Biarritz balancing act with Donald Trump

24 Aug 2019

Both men will paint a rosy picture of a future US-UK trade deal,
because the ugly reality of the negotiations can be put off until
later. At some point post-Brexit, the UK will have to make a
decision on whether its regulatory standards are to converge
with the US or with the EU.

It cannot do both. Converging with the US would be likely to
involve breaking promises about British food, agriculture and
animal welfare as well as the National Health Service.

Moreover, any trade deal with the US would have to gain
approval from Congress, and the House of Representatives
will be in no mood to cooperate if Brexit has an impact on
the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland.
The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives,
Nancy Pelosi, has repeatedly said there is “no way whatsoever”
a US-UK free trade deal would be approved if Brexit affected
the border between the two Irelands.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...son-policy-tightrope-trump-biarritz-g7-summit