The Bad Guys and the Bad Women

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They are not the Good Guys. They are not the Good Women.

Lately, the Bad Guys and the Bad Women are making noises, that amount to them claiming to be the Good Guys. It turns out, that they are shills for The Even Worse than the Bad Guys.

ALEC was co-founded by conservative activist Paul Weyrich.

"...a website called ALEC Exposed went live, showcasing more than 800 so-called model bills."

Lisa Graves is executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, the group that built ALEC Exposed

The ALEC Exposed research was eye-opening, said ColorofChange.org executive director Rashad Robinson.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...e-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/

Frank Luntz asked the ALEC luncheon crowd at the Manchester Grand Hyatt:

"How many of you are supporting Donald Trump?"

The reply?

"Crickets," wrote the paper. "None of the hundreds of American Legislative Exchange Council members or guests, including more than 400 lawmakers, said a word."


http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/02/13213/alec-embraces-trumpism


The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has responded to an investigation by Atlanta's 11Alive News Tonight, which exposed millions of viewers to the influence of ALEC's corporate members over the Georgia Legislature.


https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/03/alec-responds-to-atlantas-11alive-still-blocks/203873

A.L.E.C. moves on to other victims, using a double aid sword

In kind, caring, and concerned hands the sword protects those that need assistance. In cruel, heartless, and uncaring hands, it has the power to harm.

( gsgs comment- Conservative Republicans have proved, that if a penny is produced by the blood of 100 human beings, they are willing to kill them all, if the penny lands in their pocket.)


http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...re_gutting_the_powers_of_american_cities.html

Since its distribution in the ALEC committee room, along with a U.S. map designed by the National Restaurant Association, versions of the sick leave policy have been adopted in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Cities in those states no longer have the right to decide whether the people who work there ought to receive a guarantee of sick time with pay.

 

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November 30th, 2016

HYPOCRISY AND TRUMPISM ON THE AGENDA AS ALEC MEETS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.


ALEC’s bill “Substantive Transparency in Education Act” is up for renewal vote by special interest lobbyists and legislators in the Education and Workforce Development Task Force. The bill requires public schools to open up their instructional materials for review by any parent or guardian. Note that the bill does not apply to private schools and many private charters refuse to abide by state open meetings and open records laws.

ALEC, however, is for secrecy when it benefits itself and its donors.


http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/11/30/hypocrisy-trumpism-agenda-alec-meets-washington-dc-week

November 30th, 2016


ALEC’S EXTREME EDUCATION AGENDA ADVANCES WITH TRUMP PICK OF BETSY DEVOS


ALEC education bills were not publicly available at the time of this writing, but the nomination of billionaire Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary is a big win for the ALEC crowd and will be a hot topic at the ALEC meeting.

DeVos and her husband of the AmWay fortune have long bankrolled the dark money group, American Federation for Children (AFC), which spends big each election cycle on politicians advancing her agenda to transform Americas public education system into a for-profit “cash for kids” enterprise. As CMD reported recently, AFC aggressively promotes school vouchers for private schools, religious schools, and even sham virtual schools through ALEC where DeVos lobbyist Scott Jensen, the disgraced former Speaker of the Assembly, has played a leadership role

 

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Here Are The Corporations And Right-Wing Funders Backing The Education Reform Movement

A Guide To The Funders Behind A Tangled Network Of Advocacy, Research, Media, And Profiteering That’s Taking Over Public Education Research

April 27, 2016


https://www.mediamatters.org/resear...ders-backing-education-reform-movement/210054

A long list of Conservative Republicans punishing the poor, the disadvantaged, the young, for not having the protection of great wealth, a network of influence, or having something to offer to the donors to the Conservative Republican cause.

Even Rupert Murdoch cashed in, on taking away money meant for children.



The budget offered by the Trump administration aims to cut Medicaid by $800 billion, nutritional assistance by $192 billion, and $272 billion from welfare programs overall. Critics have pointed out that the plan is unworkable because it’s paid for by a “$2 trillion is a double-counting error”



The White House is set to release President Donald Trump’s first full budget on Tuesday, a plan that will include a cut of more than $800 billion from the Medicaid program for the poor and reductions in other social spending.



In all, the request cuts funding to Ben Carson's agency by some $6 billion for fiscal year 2018, to about $40 billion.


HUD budget slashes housing programs, drawing protests from advocates
05/19/2017


The budget reflects a cruel indifference to the millions of low-income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, veterans, and other vulnerable people who are struggling to keep a roof over their heads," Yentel said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/hud-budget-cuts-housing-programs-238610


Corporations insist on tax breaks, special considerations and fee reduction, and to have the location of business provided with infrastructure paid for by the tax payer, the city, and the citizens of the city or town. They want freebies. Their cry is always- What have you (the city) done for us, lately ?

Corporate welfare, means never having shame, or regrets.

This is in direct conflict with a city trying to provide for the workforce the fuels the corporations.

The most hideous example, is Walmart


JUN. 6, 2013


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/report-walmart-forces-employees-dole-taxpayers

Monetize everything, including the school system, and the assistance programs for the poor, needy, and disabled.


Ronald Reagan's best buddies monetized the elderly. The elderly started to become casualties. No one could put a stop to it. Too much money was to be made. As it is, the abuse still continues. The shareholders do not give a fuck. They want to get paid. As it stands, poor immigrants are paid poorly to add to the profits of the corporation that owns the elder care homes. The hospitals became monetized.

This led to electing a family that is monetizing the presidency of the United states of America.

How much of that military budget is going to the vets, and widows of men killed in Trump's hare- brained "military efforts" ?

 

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The people that are subcontracted, to serve corporations, are about to be punished by Trump's budget.


Trump Budget Deals 'Devastating Blow' To Low-Income Americans

May 23, 2017


Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, called the proposal "a devastating blow to millions of low income people throughout the country, in a transparent effort to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and increase defense spending."


Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs, an advocacy group representing more than 100 anti-poverty organizations, called on lawmakers to "reject the bleak and dangerous vision in President Trump's budget ... The basic living standards that everyone needs — enough food, health care, and housing — are shredded, not strengthened."


http://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/52971...ng-blow-to-low-income-americans-advocates-say



The president is essentially abandoning many people the economy has left behind — a large number of whom voted for him — and is pursuing policies that would make their lives more difficult than they already are," said Robert Greenstein, president of the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.


http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/52956...er-first-budget-plan-with-cuts-to-safety-nets

White House Proposes Deep Cuts To Safety Nets With 'Taxpayer First' Budget Plan

"Taking it away from the vulnerable, and giving it to the wealthy, that do not need it."

 

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Another demonstration, of how Conservative Republicans tell lies. to get what they want. Nobody matters to them, but themselves. No thought left over, for the children that will trail behind them, that inherit the bitter dust.

*tip of the hat to Vera Bad


Whether Republicans just don’t get their act together on a low priority or whether they intentionally take CHIP hostage, failure to renew its funding—now—could put millions of kids’ health at risk, and potentially bust their families’ budgets as parents scramble to get coverage for children who had been insured through the program.


It’s yet another case where Republicans could seriously damage voters’ opinions of them, but no decent person can root for that because it would involve hurting so many people first.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...g-Children-s-Health-Insurance-Program-at-risk

 

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*sigh*

On PBS Newshour, of all places- a man that voices the opinion that the journalist that was knocked down and beaten, is a victim of something that the media brought on itself.

Is this panel discussion member a Pseudo- Conservative ? He speaks his opinion, that the media produced huge reams of stories, that were incorrect. I expected him to go on for quite a bit, with examples. The first card he pulls, is the campus rape story in the Rolling Stone. That is the only news item he cites.



His claims-

1.) The media got stories, wrong, or details in stories, wrong!

2.) Media was wrong, in not catering to Trump

3.) Media was wrong, in not catering to Pseudo- Conservatives

4.) Media was wrong, when journalists and TV news reporters called Trump names, which angered Trump supporters


http://www.wnyc.org/people/tom-rosenstiel/

Greater Boston TV show

Trump standing in front of the 911 memorial espousing nonsense.

Irony, too painfully obvious, considering Trump's rant.

Discussion

The death of civility.

The Montana candidate wanted a favorable photo- op with FOX "news." He threw a temper tantrum and put his hands on a journalist. He put his hands around a journalist's neck. He threw a journalist to the floor, punched the journalist in the head a few times, and proceeded to drag himself onto the journalist's body, to scream out his frustration in the journalist's face.

Why ? Because another journalist, before him, tried to ask him a serious question, that was key to current events, and political activity.


The body-slamming? Ah, yeah, it just seems a little too good to be true to me," said Chandler Ortman, who works in the restaurant industry in Bozeman and voted for Gianforte. "I guess I'm just gonna say he's innocent until proven guilty."

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/53006...ault-charge-hangs-over-tight-special-election

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-and-punched-reporter/?utm_term=.81791df289f1

gsgs comment-

How did the journallst's eye glasses get broken ?


But there is no doubt that Gianforte committed an act of terrible judgment that, if it doesn’t land him in jail, also shouldn’t land him in the U.S. House of Representatives.

http://missoulian.com/opinion/edito...cle_ab947a9d-9220-5dc5-9193-f1ae9ef03c60.html

 

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*looks at still pic of Emperor Caligula Carrot, Empress Melania, and Princess Ivanka, standing with the Roman Pope.

Emperor Carrot is (falsely) broadcasting his triumph over the Roman Pope, and some strange kind of celebration of his own bullying. It is a picture of the bad guy. He smiles like a cartoon villain.


The pope's mien is as joyless as a (Russian) gulag. Odd detail- The Roman Pope is half the Emperors size, and yet, the Pope's hands are larger.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/...ward-language-of-donald-trumps-body.html?_r=0

Empress Melania, and her proscribed role, as sex on wheels

For a woman that spent most of her life in front of a camera, she seems as if her persona suddenly retrograded into the young teen, that she was, on his first photo shoot. In a state of uncertainty, and at the edge of tears. A child posing as an adult, and completely at a loss. Where is her poise and sophistication, when faced from judgement of the Pope ? Look closer, and her eyes tell a story. They are not focused on the camera. They are aiming at the woman at her side- Ivanka. Melania's eyes are full of fear, because, at the moment it dawns on her, that the truth is being exposed, for the whole world to see.

Ivanka is in full Electra mode. She has triumphed over her stepmother, and everyone in her path. She mirror's her father's triumph pose. She gazes at the Roman Pope as he passes in front of her. Her smile is not far away from a smirk. She is the new hotness, and her step- mother is an old witch dressed in black, and suffers in comparison with her youth. Ivanka is the female version of Damien, and it is a dark smile. She is a seducer of old men, but the Pope is not seduced.

The Pope knows what Ivanka is, he gives her a side eye, as he passes. It is Melania's turn to smile with amusement. The Pope has reprimanded Ivanka, with criticism. They are both behaving like school girls, at a world event. One could be a grandmother, the other is a mother of young children, yet their rivalry cannot rest.

Part of the thin slice of voters that brought Emperor Carrot to power, did it for the lawls.

The laughter is sardonic.

 

[Iceprincess12]

You saved Santa a lot of time. Pony this year for sure!

 

[handysr]

They are not the Good Guys. They are not the Good Women.

Lately, the Bad Guys and the Bad Women are making noises, that amount to them claiming to be the Good Guys. It turns out, that they are shills for The Even Worse than the Bad Guys.

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Do you even read what you write? Obviously not. Don't worry, nobody else does either.

Yeah, I fed the troll and therefore bumped the thread up, but meh. I'm sure GSGS got a boner from seeing this hit the hop after several self-bumps.