On Being The Left
I can still vividly remember the first time, as the Bush administration contemplated attacking Iraq, when I made a comment on a blog and was instantly labeled a "lefty" and a liberal.
It had never occurred to me. I had always thought of myself as a kind of rednecky guy who grew up in the desert and looked at the world from the viewpoint of a rather hopeful jaded realist. I voted but didn't really identify with any political group. A lefty? I didn't even know what that meant. Nowadays I am more or less comfortable with this definition from Psychology Today:
So as a member of "the left," I'd have to say that this is the place to be, especially when I see something like the inane muttering of rightwinger Rush Limbaugh:
And, yeah, consent is the magic word. I won't call the rape police if you and somebody else are enjoying something that doesn't appeal to me, if it is something you, or both of you, have agreed to do. Or all three or four of you. And your inflatable love-sheep. Shut the door and go at it, consent is exactly the thing that makes it all right.
Consent is more than a magic word. Consent is the affirmation of human agency. Consent means that you have a soul, you have a mind, you are self-aware and can reason and chart your own course and you have used these mental gifts to make a decision to do something. Consent means that you have positively and consciously decided to engage in an act. Consent is the immediate instance of the general concept of freedom. Sexual behavior without consent is exploitation. I don't really know what "rape police" are supposed to be, but sex without consent is a crime, and regular police are on duty to handle that. Waiting for consent is acknowledgement that your partner is a fully conscious and fully responsible human being, and your equal.
I think "the left" is onto something.
It had never occurred to me. I had always thought of myself as a kind of rednecky guy who grew up in the desert and looked at the world from the viewpoint of a rather hopeful jaded realist. I voted but didn't really identify with any political group. A lefty? I didn't even know what that meant. Nowadays I am more or less comfortable with this definition from Psychology Today:
...one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.That seems like a pretty good definition, and I don't mind seeing myself that way. Liberals don't think everything is about themselves or that their own point of view is the only one.
So as a member of "the left," I'd have to say that this is the place to be, especially when I see something like the inane muttering of rightwinger Rush Limbaugh:
You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.Yes, if two or three or four people consent to something, there is actually, from "the left's" (that is, my) point of view, no problem. It doesn't make lefty-sense to judge people because they enjoy something that I am not interested in.
And, yeah, consent is the magic word. I won't call the rape police if you and somebody else are enjoying something that doesn't appeal to me, if it is something you, or both of you, have agreed to do. Or all three or four of you. And your inflatable love-sheep. Shut the door and go at it, consent is exactly the thing that makes it all right.
Consent is more than a magic word. Consent is the affirmation of human agency. Consent means that you have a soul, you have a mind, you are self-aware and can reason and chart your own course and you have used these mental gifts to make a decision to do something. Consent means that you have positively and consciously decided to engage in an act. Consent is the immediate instance of the general concept of freedom. Sexual behavior without consent is exploitation. I don't really know what "rape police" are supposed to be, but sex without consent is a crime, and regular police are on duty to handle that. Waiting for consent is acknowledgement that your partner is a fully conscious and fully responsible human being, and your equal.
I think "the left" is onto something.
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Without consent, it's rape
Elizabeth Smart On ‘Locker Room Banter’: ‘There’s No Justifying It — Ever’
"Advocate Elizabeth Smart has no patience for the idea that bragging about sexual assault is just “locker room banter.”
In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, the 28-year-old explained why what Trump and his supporters brush off as “locker room banter” is actually damaging to survivors of sexual assault.
Smart said it’s comments like Trump’s that perpetuate rape culture.
“The worst part about it is listening to people trying to belittle it, just saying, ‘Well, it’s locker-room talk, it’s locker-room banter,’” she told the Salt Lake Tribune. “Anyone belittling sexual violence, sexual abuse, they’re doing a huge disservice to victims of violent crimes, violent sexual abuse. There’s no justifying it — ever.”
In a recently leaked hot mic video, the Republican presidential nominee can be heard saying that he just “starts kissing” women without their consent and even “grab[s] them by the pussy,” because “you can do anything” when you’re a star.
Smart told SLT that people need to be educated about the damaging effects of rape culture and ― most importantly ― young women need to learn the power of saying “no.”
“I know I was raised to be kind, to be polite. You didn’t say no, you only said yes,” Smart said. “I wish the word ‘no’ was emphasized. ‘No’ is a good word to say every now and again, especially when it comes to your personal well-being.”"
America Is Having Another Anita Hill Moment
"...Back when Hill brought her claims to Capitol Hill, most Americans were barely aware of the term “sexual harassment” or the fact that there was a body of law to be used to fight predatory behavior in the workplace. In a sense, the real awakening came after the hearings had ended, when thousands of women came forward, often in letters they mailed to Hill, to say that this had happened to them and that they hadn’t understood that it was illegal.
As a result of the dawning realizations, the number of sexual harassment cases filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doubled in just two years. In 1992, later dubbed “The Year of the Woman,” the number of women enrolling in law school peaked at more than 52 percent of all law students, the number of women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives increased by over 60 percent, and the number of women in the U.S. Senate tripled. Dianne Feinstein scored the first female spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee (never again would a woman testify before an all-male panel), and Carol Moseley Braun became the first African American woman in the Senate. In 1993, the Senate added a single-stall women’s bathroom off the chamber floor, finally expanded in 2013 to accommodate the 20 women elected in that session.
None of this just happened. As NPR’s Nina Totenberg put it 25 years after the Thomas hearings, it was because of Hill’s testimony that “all of those silent, female experiences materialized … in the phones exploding on Capitol Hill.” And that was before social media.
Last Friday, after the Washington Post published audio of Trump talking about sexually assaulting women, author Kelly Oxford took to Twitter. “Women: tweet me your first assaults,” she said to her followers, sharing her own harrowing tale under the hashtag #notokay. By late Monday, the New York Times reported, nearly 27 million people had responded. RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, told the Huffington Post that it saw a 33 percent spike in online traffic over the weekend.
My colleague Christina Cauterucci wrote eloquently this week about how women are seeing themselves in Donald Trump’s accusers, to the point where long-buried memories are surfacing, forcing so many of us to confront assaults we had either forgotten, or declined to classify as illegal or improper. This is what Michelle Obama was getting at in her speech on Thursday when she admitted that the revelation about Trump “has shaken me to my core in a way I couldn’t have predicted.”
What took Anita Hill a Senate hearing and years of letters to unearth, broke through via Oxford in two days as she received, and more importantly, showcased, thousands of tweets per hour. That emboldened other Trump victims to come forward. Trump’s latest accuser, Kristin Anderson, said as much to the Washington Post today:
“It’s a sexual assault issue, and it’s something that I’ve kept quiet on my own,” Anderson said. “And I’ve always kept quiet. And why should I keep quiet? Actually, all of the women should speak up, and if you’re touched inappropriately, tell somebody and speak up about it. Actually go to the authorities and press some charges. It’s not okay.”
This dynamic—women who come forward emboldening more women to come forward—is exactly what we saw in the case of Bill Cosby. Only this time it’s even swifter. What became the Year of the Woman in 1992 looks like the Week of the Woman in 2016. That is a spectacular achievement. As sad and frustrating and maddening as it is to hear about women still being abused and treated like dirt by powerful men, this is progress..."
http://pagesix.com/2016/10/16/did-nbc-plan-video-leak-to-take-down-donald-trump/?_ga=1.25909949.1699859296.1465895716
Nobody here cares about the "rumors" you wish to spread.
Go take the trash you enjoy spreading around to InfoWars.
Or wait a few months. After Donald loses on November 8 he may go another direction.
Financial Times reported this morning: Trump son-in-law makes approach on post-election TV start-up
the last time we elected a President under the kind of cloud Hillary's under is 1972
it was a disaster and the country barely survived
and we won't be lucky enough to have her VP go down first
btw, Hillary worked on Ervin's committee
talk about karma
Forget karma
Let's talk reality.
Under a cloud?
You can't see clouds when you choose to keep your head so deeply buried in the dirt.
No one can.
Far from being under a cloud, As Trump stumbles, Clinton weighs a striking choice: Expand the map or stick to the plan
Nixon won 49 states after the Watergate break-in was known
the cloud Hillary is under is that it appears there was a cover-up with the FBI and there is clear proof she violated laws against mishandling classified information and taking bribes from foreign governments
again, Nixon was just elected anyway because he was running against an extremist
it's like deja vu all over again
btw, do yourself a favor and question media authority
every election, they report a landslide looming for the Dems and then a few days prior to the election, it's a close race, and who knows what happened
go to RCP and look at their electoral map
if you click "create your own map" and change a few states that RCP rates a toss-up, you get Trump in the White House
those states are FL, NC, IN, OH, IA, NV, AZ & NH
none are a stretch
but the press keeps acting like the election's all over
and Hillary has stopped making appearances
in the first two debates, the moderators acted like a tag team with Hillary, arguing with and interrupting Trump incessantly without doing the same to Hillary
FOX won't give Hillary the kid glove treatment
concurrence has occurred
It's not 1972 anymore.
Your head has been stuck in the dirt for decades apparently.
Once again your click phobia keeps you ill-informed.
"....After two tumultuous weeks focused on Donald Trump’s behavior toward women, Clinton is ahead in nearly all of the key battleground states where her campaign has directed the most resources, according to many recent polls. But some once-solidly Republican states — notably Arizona, Georgia and Utah — now also appear to be in play...
...The campaign is expected to decide in the coming days whether to make a more aggressive play for states such as Georgia, which is being eyed as one of the more promising opportunities for Clinton, and Arizona, where a couple of high-profile surrogates are being deployed this week: Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) on Tuesday and Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is not willing to concede publicly that any states on the map are lost, maintaining that Clinton’s low favorability ratings and Trump’s anti-establishment message will push undecided voters and independents to break for Trump in the final leg of the campaign...."
Just like you, Trump's head is stuck in the dirt and he refuses to admit the reality of the facts.
"...Even as some polls have shown Clinton with only a modest lead nationally — one published Sunday by The Washington Post had her up four points over Trump — her advantage on the electoral map appears sizable.
One such tally, maintained by The Post’s blog The Fix, projects that Clinton would win 341 electoral votes to Trump’s 197 if the election were held today.
Several states that Trump initially sought to contest, including Colorado and Virginia, have now seemingly slipped out of reach. Clinton was up by 15 points in Virginia, according to a poll released Sunday by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. And Trump has pulled resources from Virginia.
Trump’s failure to perform in such states, Clinton aides said, will allow her campaign to shift attention even more to North Carolina and Florida — two must-win states for Trump — to choke his path to 270 electoral votes..."
"every election, they report a landslide looming for the Dems and then a few days prior to the election, it's a close race, and who knows what happened"
Bulloney.
The most recent US presidential election had Karl Rove freaking out on Fox News saying OH was going for Romney when in fact Obama won Ohio by nearly 3 full percentage points, 2,827.621 to 2,661,407 for Romney.
Also in 2012, Obama won an electoral college landslide, 332-206 as well as a nearly 4 full percentage point victory in the popular vote, with 51.1% for Obama but only 47.2% for Romney.
Trump has gone ahead of HRC by almost one full percentage point exactly once so far during this entire election season, and that was back in July.
"in the first two debates, the moderators acted like a tag team with Hillary, arguing with and interrupting Trump incessantly without doing the same to Hillary"
In the first debate Trump interrupted Clinton 51 times at the debate. She interrupted him just 17 times.
In fact, "Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate."
And in the second debate Trump interrupted Clinton 18 times. She interrupted him once.
Those difference explain why the moderators interrupted Trump more than they did HRC.
If Trump interrupts as many times during the third debate, it would be remiss for the FOX hosts not to stop him for all the world to see.
Hopefully Trump's deplorable supporters will finally follow the rules of the debate and hold themselves silent except when cheering is allowed.
"It's not 1972 anymore"
like Dorothy, when you awake, you will remember everything
"Your head has been stuck in the dirt for decades apparently.
Once again your click phobia keeps you ill-informed."
the discussion is whether the media is biased
simply clicking on more propaganda doesn't prove anything
"....After two tumultuous weeks focused on Donald Trump’s behavior toward women, Clinton is ahead in nearly all of the key battleground states where her campaign has directed the most resources, according to many recent polls. But some once-solidly Republican states — notably Arizona, Georgia and Utah — now also appear to be in play..."
oh, we'll see
according to the Post yesterday, Trump is at the same position he was in before the revelations
we've had lots of Presidents who think they're players
we'll survive
in their gut, Americans realize this
the corruption of Hillary is much more serious
"...The campaign is expected to decide in the coming days whether to make a more aggressive play for states such as Georgia, which is being eyed as one of the more promising opportunities for Clinton, and Arizona, where a couple of high-profile surrogates are being deployed this week: Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) on Tuesday and Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday."
oh yeah, Chelsea will really whip up the crowds
ROFL
of course, Hillary is currently afraid to leave the house
"Just like you, Trump's head is stuck in the dirt and he refuses to admit the reality of the facts."
hasn't Trump been "refusing to admit reality" from the beginning?
when the common wisdom from the places you click is that he would never be where he is now?
sounds like you've got your head up your ass
see a doctor
"...Even as some polls have shown Clinton with only a modest lead nationally — one published Sunday by The Washington Post had her up four points over Trump — her advantage on the electoral map appears sizable."
actually, I just showed you yesterday how if Trump won a few toss-up states he would win the electoral college
"One such tally, maintained by The Post’s blog The Fix, projects that Clinton would win 341 electoral votes to Trump’s 197 if the election were held today."
most of those are too close to call and swing states tend to move in the same direction at the last minute
"Several states that Trump initially sought to contest, including Colorado and Virginia, have now seemingly slipped out of reach. Clinton was up by 15 points in Virginia, according to a poll released Sunday by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. And Trump has pulled resources from Virginia."
thought you said he was refusing to quit and had his head in the sand
I guess that's how it looks with yo head up yo ass
kinda a dark view
"Trump’s failure to perform in such states, Clinton aides said, will allow her campaign to shift attention even more to North Carolina and Florida — two must-win states for Trump — to choke his path to 270 electoral votes..."
and by "attention", we mean sending Chelsea to rev 'em up
ROFL
"The most recent US presidential election had Karl Rove freaking out on Fox News saying OH was going for Romney when in fact Obama won Ohio by nearly 3 full percentage points, 2,827.621 to 2,661,407 for Romney."
he's just one fat guy
he was wrong in one state
so what?
that doesn't compare to the whole liberal media goosing the results and slanting everything to make it look like Hillary is inevitable
and, btw, making a wrong prediction isn't "freaking out"
perfect example of why our politics is so polarized
"Also in 2012, Obama won an electoral college landslide, 332-206 as well as a nearly 4 full percentage point victory in the popular vote, with 51.1% for Obama but only 47.2% for Romney."
did you hear?
Obama won by using the IRS to harass the opposition
"Trump has gone ahead of HRC by almost one full percentage point exactly once so far during this entire election season, and that was back in July."
thought you were all worked up about the electoral college
"In the first debate Trump interrupted Clinton 51 times at the debate. She interrupted him just 17 times.
In fact, "Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate."
And in the second debate Trump interrupted Clinton 18 times. She interrupted him once.
Those difference explain why the moderators interrupted Trump more than they did HRC."
so you admit that the moderators were fighting Hillary's fight for her
if he was interrupting too much, why didn't she counter
there won't be a biased moderator when negotiating with the Russians
"If Trump interrupts as many times during the third debate, it would be remiss for the FOX hosts not to stop him for all the world to see."
or they could just let the world see Trump v. Hillary
that's what the debate is
not Trump v. Hillary and the media
"Hopefully Trump's deplorable supporters will finally follow the rules of the debate and hold themselves silent except when cheering is allowed."
oh yes, good heavens, let there be no reaction
let's hope Hillary's supporters can keep from snoring
btw, if you read the e-mails being released on a daily basis and covered up by the media, Hillary thinks the average American is deplorable
That's some intense loser's lament there.
Don't forget to practice saying "Madame President."
This is awesome!
Thanks to Priya Lynn and her Canadian countrymen who have taken the time to Tell America It's Great
"That's some intense loser's lament there.
Don't forget to practice saying "Madame President.""
oh, I'm losing in either case
just like the rest of America, and, when you get down to it, the world
and "Madame President"?
Hillary, like Trump, aspires to a monarchy
Trump is likely more restrainable but either major party is a disaster
you keep persisting in implying I'm a Trump supporter
I may vote for him, still not sure
but it's not with enthusiasm
just think it's a more manageable disaster
maybe if your head was out where the sun shines, you'd realize that
oh, and I'd be surprised if he doesn't win
let me know if you want to know why
No thanks.
Your fantasies of are no interest to me but you might get lots of interest if you post them at InfoWars.
preconceived notions have always been the downfall of your ilk
like all the "scientific" studies that always magically bring the results you want
talk about a buried head
anything that doesn't match your preconceived notions are a fantasy
believe, hon
Before you get too deep in your own tears over "media bias," let's remember that by six months ago, the media had already given Trump nearly two billion dollars worth of free advertising. They loved him. He was on constantly, every channel. Today he is still on every channel, they report everything he says, it just turns out that he says and does deplorable things every day.
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "oh, and I'd be surprised if he doesn't win".
LOL! B.S. You're desperately hoping that he can pull it out despite being far behind and making statements like that to buoy Trump voters but you're well aware Trump is likely to lose the election to Hillary.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
"Before you get too deep in your own tears over "media bias," let's remember that by six months ago, the media had already given Trump nearly two billion dollars worth of free advertising. They loved him. He was on constantly, every channel. Today he is still on every channel, they report everything he says, it just turns out that he says and does deplorable things every day."
Lefty, he got that "free" publicity because every time a reporter asked for an interview, he said yes. Hillary goes for months without having press conference and has been hiding at home for the last week. Probably having a relapse.
btw, cool handle
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "if you click "create your own map" and change a few states that RCP rates a toss-up, you get Trump in the White House those states are FL, NC, IN, OH, IA, NV, AZ & NH none are a stretch".
LOL! Trump is behind in almost all of those states and in many by a large percentage. He'd have to win all of them and then still would only be at 265 electoral votes and needing more. The odds are stacked heavily against Trump. Every rational person (including most Republicans) acknowledges that Hillary is likely going to be the president.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha!
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President Obama Tells Donald Trump to 'Stop Whining' About Mythical Voter Fraud
Christie Distances Himself From Struggling Trump Campaign
Trump Now Claims 'Illegal Immigrants' Are Behind Voter Fraud
Press hits back hard at Trump's election rigging rhetoric
Trump Says 1.8 Million Dead People Will Vote For Hillary
Clinton holds clear advantage in new poll of battleground states
"The Pew Research Center published an interesting report last week, noting more than 80% of Americans believe partisans “not only disagree over plans and policies, but also disagree on ‘basic facts.’” This was, as the report noted, a widely held belief: “Comparably large shares of registered voters who back Clinton (80%) and Trump (81%) say the two sides are unable to agree on basic facts.”
Ironically, one of the only areas of agreement between Democrats and Republicans is that the other side lives in its own reality.
Pew’s findings were well timed. The day those results were published, Politico published this report:
The latest Marketplace-Edison Research survey shows economic anxiety is up to 36 from 30 a year ago (the scale runs 0-100). But that’s not the depressing part of the poll’s findings.
It’s this: 25 percent of Americans “completely distrust the economic data reported by the federal government, including statistics like the unemployment rate, the number of jobs added, and the amount of consumer spending.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, that number soars to 48 percent of Donald Trump supporters compared to just 5 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters.
As discouraging as this is, the results are helpful in understanding why contemporary debates are so frustrating.
A reality-based observer might note, for example, that the unemployment rate has dropped sharply under President Obama. And the budget deficit has shrunk. And border security has tightened as the number of undocumented immigrants entering the United States has declined. And government spending has leveled off. And murder rates are down. And voter fraud hardly ever happens anywhere in the United States.
Many rank-and-file conservatives will, with great sincerity, insist that each of these claims is wrong. These folks are mistaken, of course, and reality-based observers might point to official evidence to prove their point, but that won’t work – because much of the right “completely distrusts” data reported by the federal government.
Indeed, it must be terribly frustrating for conservatives to be stuck in something akin to a state of Cartesian confusion: independent news organizations, citing official data, will routinely tell the public about important developments surrounding, say, job creation. But for much of the right, independent media outlets are corrupt and untrustworthy; official figures from the government are extension of some kind of conspiracy to mislead the public; and they know in their guts that job creation is collapsing, evidence be damned.
It’s easy to assume many who disbelieve real-world evidence aren’t hearing the facts, but some of this polling data raises a separate explanation: they’re confronted with the facts, but they assume the facts are part of an elaborate, untrustworthy scheme..."
"A reality-based observer might note, for example, that the unemployment rate has dropped sharply under President Obama. And the budget deficit has shrunk. And border security has tightened as the number of undocumented immigrants entering the United States has declined. And government spending has leveled off. And murder rates are down. And voter fraud hardly ever happens anywhere in the United States."
pathetic attempt at misdirection
maybe you can get some help from a professional magician
let's consider:
"the unemployment rate has dropped sharply under President Obama"
well, it spiked in his first year so "dropped" simply means he's repaired some of his damage
more to the point: the labor participation rate is the highest since the Great Depression
so the rate is simply down because so many have given up hope and aren't counted as job seekers
all this despite an all-out Keynesian stimulus doubling the debt from the last 230 years in just eight
and eight years of near zero interest rates
all things considered, Obama's stewardship has been tragic
"And the budget deficit has shrunk."
only because it was high in his first year from a supposed jobs program that wasted trillions on nothing when we had crumbling infrastructure
Obama should be embarrassed
"And border security has tightened as the number of undocumented immigrants entering the United States has declined"
some think it's still too high but I haven't heard anyone not believe this fact
Obama's desire to bring in 11 million illegal immigrants is the issue
"And government spending has leveled off"
because of a deal the Republicans pushed and which Obama fought with all his might
"And murder rates are down"
they were until this year
as police have responded to lack of support from the Barry administration by loosening policies that brought the crime rate down, the murder rate is soaring in many cities
"And voter fraud hardly ever happens anywhere in the United States"
and how would you know that?
Our preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An' all the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
It's alright, I can make it
Bob Dylan made it all right, all the way to the Nobel Prize for Literature through his protest songs and as a spokesperson for civil rights for the dispossessed.
Dylan was an inspired choice for the award.
"it just turns out that he says and does deplorable things every day."
That's right, lefty.
"VIDEO:
Trump: "The election is being rigged by corrupt media."
Trump: "The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement."
Trump: "The crooked Hillary Clinton campaign and the main stream media, which they control and use quite viciously..."
Trevor Noah: "Oh Donald Trump. The media is not rigged against you. They're just recording what you say and playing it back. That's all it is. If anything, you're rigging your own campaign.
Does Trump not realize that he's the one on TV saying the things that make him look bad?? Maybe, you know we laugh at him, but maybe he doesn't realize. Maybe he watches TV going "Who's that guy? He makes me look like @*&#."
Like maybe, maybe Donald Trump is like those animals who don't recognize themselves in a mirror....
(video of animals attacking their own images in mirrors)
...Seriously Donald Trump, Donald Trump, the media has given you billions of dollars of free air time, you realize that. Billions of dollars. How are they rigging it against...? Even your empty podium has been on TV more than Gary Johnson and Jill Stein combined...."
""And voter fraud hardly ever happens anywhere in the United States"
and how would you know that?"
It's not just me who knows it, Anon.
Even Fox News Knows Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims Are Garbage
"...ample studies and election experts agree that voter fraud is both rare and inconsequential. Even the hosts of Fox News’ “The Five,” who often defend Trump, shot down his claims....
...Kimberly Guilfoyle pointed out there have been “a lot of research and studies” examining voter fraud. “Overall, it doesn’t bear out in terms of the numbers to say that there is widespread voter or election fraud,” she said.
Dana Perino pointed that even some members of Trump’s campaign are reportedly telling him that “that’s not really true.”
“It’s not good for American democracy and our elections,” Guilfoyle said, noting that his tactics seem to be “working” on some of his fans.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll released earlier this week found that 73 percent of Republican voters surveyed worried the election could be rigged against Trump. It’s unsurprising given that the Republican nominee has spent years convincing his supporters to believe voter fraud is a real problem despite evidence of the contrary. In fact, one comprehensive study found only 31 likely instances ― out of over a billion ballots ― of in-person voter fraud (the kind that restrictive voter identity laws are trying to prevent.)
Even Bill O’Reilly ― an outspoken supporter of voter ID laws ― said that Trump should “stop whining” about the election being rigged."
"Bob Dylan made it all right, all the way to the Nobel Prize for Literature through his protest songs and as a spokesperson for civil rights for the dispossessed"
he always spoke up for the dispossessed but not necessarily for "civil rights" which has just become a disingenuous phrase meaning government intervention in personal affairs
"Dylan was an inspired choice for the award"
yes, he was
and let's all remember that President is leaving with war looming in 8 different theaters, all due to the weakness he has demonstrated
count on Empress Hillary to be more of the same if she's not stopped
oh Trump is right that the media is TRYING to rig the election
they can be resisted though
Trump goes low, Clinton goes high
70 Nobel Laureates ‘Strongly and Fully’ Back Hillary Clinton
for any newcomers to the blog, a word of explanation:
TTFers tend to only read material that confirms their preconceived bias
here's some reading materials to help those who wish to become informed
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-kathleen-parker-trump-could-win-20161019-story.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441187/wikileaks-podesta-emails-obama-administration-clinton-email-scandal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillarys-state-assist-1476832442
"Trump goes low, Clinton goes high"
does any sane person, paying attention the last two weeks, think Hillary takes the high road?
"70 Nobel Laureates ‘Strongly and Fully’ Back Hillary Clinton"
most of these are foreigners, not qualified to vote in America
they've long resented us
one of those foreigners is Obama
the few Americans include a screaming alarmist named Al Gore, who tells everyone he used to be the next President
When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's family members enter the event hall at Wednesday's final presidential debate in Las Vegas, they will not shake hands as they've done in the past — a change that was reportedly made at the request of the Clinton campaign.
The Clinton campaign negotiated a modified plan that changes the way the candidates' spouses will enter the debate hall. The two sides will not cross paths, and will walk into the room closer to their designated seats.
Normally, the candidates' families greet each other at the start of debate, but it does not look like that will be the case Wednesday night, given Clinton's fear of dramatic stunts.
Both candidates have engaged in a form of psychological jujitsu during these debates. The Clinton campaign invited Mark Cuban, one of Trump's major agitators, to the first meeting. Before the second debate, Trump held a press conference with women who were sexually assaulted by former president Bill Clinton. And for this final meeting, the Manhattan billionaire reportedly invited President Barack Obama's estranged half-brother, Malik Obama — a Trump supporter — as his guest.
Trump has no winning policies to tout so he tries to orchestrate stunts that might increase ratings of his TV shows and upcoming media ventures.
Thanks for the URLs of opinion pieces from the right wing, which will remain unread. Go post them at InfoWars where they might be appreciated.
"The Clinton campaign negotiated a modified plan that changes the way the candidates' spouses will enter the debate hall. "
And the Trump campaign apparently agreed to the changes in that modified plan.
"...The new arrangement calls for the candidates’ spouses to enter the hall closer to their seats, rather than crossing the room, and each other’s paths.
That would avoid any potential for confrontations, given Mr. Trump’s penchant for dramatic stunts.
On Tuesday, an aide to Mrs. Clinton declined to comment on the change, and aides to Mr. Trump did not respond to an email seeking comment.
[PAY ATTENTION, THIS IS THE RELEVANT PART]: It is possible, of course, that further negotiations could result in a different arrangement, if both sides agree, by the time the debate begins at 9 p.m. Eastern.
But the unease over how the candidates’ families interact echoes that of the candidates themselves. At the debate in St. Louis, in a striking departure from tradition, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump did not shake hands at the start, though they did at the conclusion of the 90 minutes.
The Clinton campaign is bracing for other possible Trump surprises at the debate, which seem more likely as the Republican nominee slips further in the polls.
Mr. Trump’s aides are preparing him with a sharp escalation in attacks on Mrs. Clinton’s character and a focus on her health, according to a senior campaign adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity..."
It's pointless to discuss your policies when when you are clearly losing, right Donald?
The so-called "scandals" that the right is trying to pin on Hillary are silly things like using the wrong email servers, or working alongside people who also contributed to a charity she is associated with. Oh, or trying to tar her with her husband's past infidelities. Or getting sick. Trump on the other hand doesn't know the first thing about running a country. He is eager to use nuclear weapons, judges women by their grabbability, does not believe in the democratic process, incites violence, vows to jail political enemies who have not committed any crime -- he's a worm. After the media gave him billions of dollars of free publicity, he complains that they're biased against him, because they show him at his own speeches saying atrocious, deplorable, and dangerous things.
""Oh sure. Twenty-million more Americans are now covered with health insurance, there are no more preexisting condition cancelation games, no more kicking kids off parents' policies until age 26 and you call that a failure."
both the pre-existing condition and age 26 came into effect before Obamacare"
No they didn't, you misinformed lying Trumpster.
Trump wants to eliminate the ACA, which means insurance companies will be free again to deny coverage or charge exorbitant prices for heath insurance polices for sick people who have pre-existing conditions.
Pre-Existing Conditions
"Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies can’t refuse to cover you or charge you more just because you have a “pre-existing condition” — that is, a health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts. They also can’t charge women more than men.
These rules went into effect for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.
What This Means for You
Health insurers can no longer charge more or deny coverage to you or your child because of a pre-existing health condition like asthma, diabetes, or cancer. They cannot limit benefits for that condition either. Once you have insurance, they can't refuse to cover treatment for your pre-existing condition. Learn more about coverage for pre-existing conditions.
One Exception: Grandfathered Plans
The pre-existing coverage rule does not apply to “grandfathered” individual health insurance policies. A grandfathered individual health insurance policy is a policy that you bought for yourself or your family on or before March 23, 2010 that has not been changed in certain specific ways that reduce benefits or increase costs to consumers.
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) Coverage
The Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) ended on April 30, 2014. The PCIP program provided health coverage options to individuals who were uninsured for at least six months, had a pre-existing condition, and had been denied coverage (or offered insurance without coverage of the pre-existing condition) by a private insurance company. Now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans can no longer deny anyone coverage for their pre-existing condition, and so PCIP enrollees can transition to a new plan outside of the PCIP program. Learn more about your health insurance options at HealthCare.gov...."
Trump's desire to eliminate the ACA will also cause young adults to no longer be allowed to remain on their parents' health insurance policies until age 26.
Young Adult Coverage
"Under the Affordable Care Act, if your plan covers children, you can now add or keep your children on your health insurance policy until they turn 26 years old.
What This Means for You
Before the health care law, insurance companies could remove enrolled children usually at age 19, sometimes older for full-time students. Now, most health plans that cover children must make coverage available to children up to age 26. By allowing children to stay on a parent's plan, the law makes it easier and more affordable for young adults to get health insurance coverage.
Children can join or remain on a parent's plan even if they are:
Married
Not living with their parents
Attending school
Not financially dependent on their parents
Eligible to enroll in their employer’s plan..."
You can hold your own opinions, but quit lying about the facts.
some facts for the deniers at TTF to deny:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/exposed-dem-operative-who-oversaw-trump-rally-agitators-visited-white-house-342-times/
"Thanks for the URLs of opinion pieces from the right wing, which will remain unread."
as I said, TTFers only read what they want to hear
meantime, life outside goes on all around them
Uh huh: "The revelation comes from a hidden camera video released Monday by activist James O’Keefe..."
and?
Well I guess he must be out of jail now, anyway.
Snopes is totally impressed.
Ecuador Admits Cutting Julian Assange’s Internet Over Election Meddling
In a statement, Ecuador’s leftist government said WikiLeaks’ decision to publish documents impacting the U.S. election campaign was entirely its own responsibility, and the South American country did not cede to pressure from other nations.
“In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy,” it added in a statement.
“The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially.”
Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador after a British court ordered him extradited to Sweden to face questioning in a sexual molestation case involving two female supporters.
WikiLeaks said it activated “contingency plans” after Assange’s cut-off, and Ecuador said that its action did not stop the group continuing “journalistic activities.”
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has long backed Assange’s right to free speech and has also supported Clinton publicly.
“For the good of the United States and the world ... I would like Hillary to win,” he told broadcaster Russia Today last month.
“The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially.”
deciding what information can be provided to the American people is intervention
Uh huh, like Trump is deciding not to release his income tax forms.
Using bots to generate bogus tweets is intervention too.
"Uh huh, like Trump is deciding not to release his income tax forms"
welcome to the topsy-turvy world of TTF
where deciding to keep your personal information personal is the equivalent of preventing someone else from exercising free speech
a distilled explanation of why Hillary should be prevented from office and influence, regardless of Trump's personal unsavoriness
Welcome to the losing world of Trumpsters where refusing to do what every Presidential candidate has done -- allowing Americans to view their tax returns usually for multiple years to confirm they are decent, hard working, tax paying citizens -- is tolerated.
Majority of Voters Want Donald Trump to Release Tax Returns: Poll
How's that decision to withhold your tax forms working out for you Donald?
A few days ago, we learn Clinton Holds 11-Point National Lead Over Trump: NBC/WSJ Poll
And then he pulled this stunt last night:
Trump won’t commit to accepting election results, at fiery final debate with Clinton
He's toast!
GOP senators slam Trump for refusing to say he'll honor election results
Refusing to honor election results is closer to "treasonous" than to "personal unsavoriness."
3rd Presidential Debate -Trump Blows 3rd And Final Debate - Even Fox News Agrees
"Welcome to the losing world of Trumpsters where refusing to do what every Presidential candidate has done -- allowing Americans to view their tax returns usually for multiple years to confirm they are decent, hard working, tax paying citizens -- is tolerated."
no other candidate has had the courage to stand up to the media, who think they make the rules
if you're that worked up about it, seek a law requiring the disclosure
right now, it just something candidates have acquiesced to as a post-Watergate media requirement
truth is, you learn more about their financial situation from FEC filings
"And then he pulled this stunt last night:
Trump won’t commit to accepting election results, at fiery final debate with Clinton
He's toast!
Refusing to honor election results is closer to "treasonous" than to "personal unsavoriness."
you mean like Al Gore, who sued for recounts and argued about hanging chads, and said the Supreme Court was biased by giving the election to the GOP, and still starts speeches with "Hi, I'm Al Gore and I used to be the next President of the United States"?
hey, let's give him the Nobel Peace Prize
oh, that's right...
"3rd Presidential Debate -Trump Blows 3rd And Final Debate - Even Fox News Agrees"
even? Trump and Fox have a lot of tense history
it may shock you to know though, the media doesn't determine the winner
they just think they do
"you mean like Al Gore, who sued for recounts and argued about hanging chads, and said the Supreme Court was biased by giving the election to the GOP...?"
There you go, lying again.
"To those Trump surrogates who are using Al Gore and the 2000 election as their precedent: Please. Gore did not spend the month before the election telling millions of people that George W. Bush was a criminal and shouldn’t have been allowed to run. The state of Florida’s laws kicked in an automatic recount and when the whole process was finished, he graciously accepted the results. Since Donald Trump doesn’t have a gracious bone in his body, it’s highly doubtful we can expect the same, even if he loses in a landslide.
Unfortunately, the right has killed off another important American democratic norm. Soon there won’t be any left, not even for them."
-- H/T Digby - http://www.salon.com/2016/10/20/the-night-donald-trump-undermined-democracy-wheres-all-this-going-after-the-election-not-someplace-good/
"truth is, you learn more about their financial situation from FEC filings"
And you are still at it, lying yet again.
We didn't find out Trump took a nearly $1 billion dollar loss on his 1995 income tax forms, enabling him to not to pay any income taxes for many years, until Marla Maples Trump released her 1995 income tax forms.
"There you go, lying again"
there you go again, redefining common English language
"when the whole process was finished, he graciously accepted the results"
both he and the rest of the Democratic constantly whine to this day that the election was stolen from him and he really won
what does "gracious" mean in your fantasy world?
"Unfortunately, the right has killed off another important American democratic norm"
Trump is more of a compromised moderate, like Republicans in NY often are
but, most of the GOP agrees with you about this anyway
so, can we say you lied?
if not, explain why
"And you are still at it, lying yet again"
actually, no
and your saying so is a lie
"We didn't find out Trump took a nearly $1 billion dollar loss on his 1995 income tax forms, enabling him to not to pay any income taxes for many years,"
that he calculated his taxes correctly, using the deductions he was entitled to, is not relevant
unless you want to demagogue to get the attention of the ignorant
does Hillary forgo her proper deductions in order to give more money to the government?
if so, tell us how
"unless you want to demagogue to get the attention of the ignorant"
Google "demagogue in 2016 US presidential election" and let us know what you find.
I just got over a million hits and TRUMP appears in almost every headline.
"does Hillary forgo her proper deductions in order to give more money to the government?"
Yes, you deplorably ill-informed Trumpster.
SPENDING IT; It Takes a President To Overpay the I.R.S.
"EACH year, millions of Americans hunt for every legal income tax deduction, but President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, have not been among them lately. Their tax returns show that for both 1997 and 1996 they paid more than twice as much in Federal income taxes as the law required...."
Here’s How Much Hillary Clinton Paid in Taxes Last Year
"Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax returns Friday, shedding light on her financial situation and putting even more pressure on her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, to release his own tax returns.
In 2015, Clinton paid a federal tax rate of 34.2% and a New York state rate of 9% for a total effective tax rate of 43.2%. Her tax rate has been above 40% every year since she left the state department in 2013....
....Clinton had already released her tax returns for the years 2001-2014.
Trump has so far refused to release his tax returns, claiming he can’t do it while he’s under audit by the IRS...."
Greedy Trump's claim he can't release his taxes while under IRS audit is pure, unadulterated bulloney.
beside the 2000 election, Dems are constantly whining that the GOP has majorities in the House and Senate because the process is "rigged"
here's some more times they've whined:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/19/8-times-liberals-claimed-election-stolen-rigged/
it seems only GOP complaints destroy democracy
it's hypocrisy and clover
over and over
"EACH year, millions of Americans hunt for every legal income tax deduction, but President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, have not been among them lately. Their tax returns show that for both 1997 and 1996 they paid more than twice as much in Federal income taxes as the law required...."
are you insane?
this is untrue
she paid tax on her book royalties because she chose to receive the money herself, and was free to do with it as she pleased, rather than have it sent directly to a charity
you could say that about anyone's income
but she didn't forgo any deduction she was entitled
Wyatt/bad anonymous occasionally disingenuously claims he doesn't support trump but he constantly posts lies denigrating Hillary and supporting Trump. In truth, he's desperate for Trump to win and so he regularly posts absurdities like "Trump has always been pro-gay rights and Hillary has always been anti-gay"
Trump has promised to nominate supreme court justices who will reinstate bans on gay marriage and Trump supports so called "religious freedom" laws that will give christians special rights allowing them to discriminate against gays but not allow gays to discriminate against christians. Hillary on the other hand opposes deceptively named "religious freedom" laws and supports the right of gays to marry.
Make no mistake about it, Wyatt/bad anonymous is fully behind the bigotry of Donald Trump and desperately wants to deny Hillary the presidency she has earned and deserves.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/19/dem-operative-plot-women-bullied-men-trump-rally/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/3/susan-sarandon-says-hillary-clinton-more-dangerous/
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/20/the-five-most-outrageous-hillary-clinton-lies-from-the-last-debate/
Oh wow, thanks for all those words from the Moonie rag and it's conservative cousin, the Federalist, 2014's New Web Magazine For Anti-LGBT Conservatives.
BTW, Snopes is still totally unimpressed with O'Keefe's bulloney, which is apparently your favorite lunchmeat.
You eat it right up!
What did your guru say about words? Oh yeah, "It’s just words, folks. It’s just words."
How about you come up with some numbers for a change?
Here are Hillary's latest numbers FYI.
Hillary is still up by an average of more than 6 points in all the polls, up by 92 electoral college votes, and her poll numbers are even up in a traditionally red state like AZ.
Trump currently leads in 3 battleground states -- OH, GA and IA -- while Hillary leads 11 battleground states -- FL, PA, NH, NC, NV, WI, MN, CO, VA, ME, and AZ.
What's amazing is GA and AZ are now battleground states after decades of voting reliably for the Grab Our Pu--ies party.
Wiki reports:
"...In presidential races, Georgia has given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate all but four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 (sweeping every county in the state in 1976); and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot. Republican George W. Bush won Georgia by double-digits in 2000 and 2004, with 54.67% and 57.97%, respectively, of the vote. However, in 2008, John McCain won the state by a narrower margin of only 5 points, winning 52% to Democrat Barack Obama's 47%. In 2012, Mitt Romney won the state with 53% to Obama's 45%...."
Arizona has only voted for a Democrat once since 1964 and that was in 1996 for Bill Clinton.
"We fact checked the whole thing. Here's what we found.
1. Trump said the election is "rigged." It's not.
2. Trump said Justice Ginsburg insulted his supporters. She didn't.
3. Trump said Ginsburg apologized. She didn't, she said her comments were "ill advised."
4. Clinton said she opposed a Supreme Court ruling on guns because the overturned law was trying to protect toddlers. It did involve kids, but that's not all the law did.
5. Clinton said her plan won't add a penny to the debt. That's unlikely.
6. Trump said that Clinton supports all kinds of abortion, including ripping "the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth." That's mostly false.
7. Trump said Clinton wants open borders. She doesn't.
8. Clinton said she was talking about energy when she mentioned "open borders" in a private speech. That appears to be true.
9. Trump said ICE endorsed him. They didn't, a union of some employees did.
10. Trump said he could bring GDP higher than 4 percent. Experts disagree.
11. Trump said the U.S. needs to focus on getting the "bad hombres" out. That's current U.S. policy.
12. Clinton claimed Trump said a "few weeks ago" that he wanted to deport everyone. He said that ten weeks ago, and has since taken two other stances and refused to rule out a pathway to citizenship.
13.Trump said Clinton supported building a wall with Mexico in 2006. She voted in favor of 700 miles of fencing on the 1,989-mile-long border.
14. Clinton said Trump Tower was built with undocumented laborers. It was, though Trump didn't personally hire them.
15. Clinton said Trump encouraged Russia to spy on Americans. He encouraged Russia to spy on her, but not other Americans.
16. Trump said Putin is not his best friend. In 2013, he wondered if Putin might become his best friend though.
17. Trump said he doesn't know Putin. He repeatedly said he did.
18. Trump said "Hillary, you have no idea" that Russia is behind her campaign manager's hack. U.S. intelligence says it is.
19. Trump said it's a lie to say he's advocated for more countries to get nuclear arms (he has) and that he's asked why the U.S. can't use its nuclear arms (he reportedly has.)
20. Trump said he didn't say his accuser's looks undermined her sexual misconduct claim against him. Here's a video of him doing that.
21. Trump said the Mosul invasion was launched to make her look good. It wasn't.
22. Trump said he didn't know any of his accusers. He did.
23. Trump said his accusers claims have been debunked. They haven't.
24. Trump said he didn't mock a disabled reporter. Here's a video.
25. Trump said he opposed the war in Iraq. He didn't.
26. Trump said Clinton will raise your taxes. Only if you're really rich.
27. Trump said Clinton's tax plan will double your taxes. Nope.
28. Trump said Chicago proves that gun laws don't work. That's not how this works.
29. Trump claimed illegal immigrants are treated better than veterans. They're not.
30. Trump claimed Obamacare is raising premiums. He's half right.
31. Trump said Clinton failed to keep U.S. troops in Iraq. That's mostly false.
32. Trump alleged voter fraud citing a Pew report. That report found no evidence of voter fraud.
33. Trump said the Clinton Foundation took millions from the Middle East. It did.
34. Trump said Clinton "gave us ISIS." She didn't.
35. Trump said Clinton's State Department lost $6 billion. It didn't.
36. Clinton said Trump wanted to punish women for abortions. He did, but he walked it back immediately."
From: http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/10/20/clinton-vs-trump-36-fact-checks-from-the-final-presidential-de/21587965/
Trump used his foundation to fund guerrilla filmmaker James O’Keefe
He funneled at least $10,000 to O’Keefe’s Project Veritas
"In Wednesday’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that new videos proved that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had “hired people” and “paid them $1,500” to “be violent, cause fights, [and] do bad things” at Trump rallies.
He was referring to videos released this week by conservative activist James O’Keefe that purport to show pro-Clinton activists boasting of their efforts to bait Trump supporters into violent acts. The videos offer no evidence that Clinton or Obama were aware of or behind the alleged dirty tricks.
Still, Trump claimed the videos exposed that a violence at a March Chicago rally was a “criminal act” and that it “was now all on tape started by her.”
Trump neglected, however, to mention his own connection to the videos, released by James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas tax-exempt group. According to a list of charitable donations made by Trump‘s controversial foundation (provided to the Washington Post in April by Trump’s campaign), on May 13, 2015, it gave $10,000 to Project Veritas.
...5/13/2015 Project Veritas 10,000.00...
CREDIT: Washington Post
Trump, who claimed in the same debate that Hillary Clinton “shouldn’t be allowed to run” for president “based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things,” was funding a convicted criminal. O’Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and a $1,500 fine in 2010 after taking a plea bargain following a botched “sting” attempt at the office of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu.
What’s more, there is a great deal of reason to be skeptical of the videos themselves. O’Keefe has a long history of selectively editing videos to present a false impression to the viewer. His most famous video, an attack on the now-defunct community organizing group ACORN, supposedly showed employees agreeing to help him smuggle underage prostitutes into the country. It turned out the employees later had called the police and O’Keefe eventually paid $100,000 in a settlement after being sued for surreptitious recording of someone’s voice and image.
Even Glenn Beck’s conservative The Blaze slammed O’Keefe over a selectively-edited video purporting to show unethical action on the part of National Public Radio executives, faulting “ editing tactics that seem designed to intentionally lie or mislead about the material being presented.
Though the latest video too has been criticized for selective editing by at least one of its subjects, two of the staffers resigned after its release."
Your silence speaks volumes.
It’s official: The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) voted not to endorse Donald Trump this weekend.
"...“Mr. Trump is perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party,” the group claimed in a release Saturday. “His unprecedented overtures to the ‘LGBTQ community’ — a first for any major-party candidate in our nation’s history — are worthy of praise, and should serve as a clarion call to the GOP that the days of needing to toe an anti-LGBT line are now a thing of the past.” Yes, the statement put “LGBTQ community” in quotes...
...The LCR statement implies that Trump truly is pro-LGBT, but it’s his advisers and allies who are the problem. “As Mr. Trump spoke positively about the LGBT community in the United States, he concurrently surrounded himself with senior advisers with a record of opposing LGBT equality, and committed himself to supporting legislation such as the so-called ‘First Amendment Defense Act’ that Log Cabin Republicans opposes.”
But Trump’s promise to sign the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), which would enable religious discrimination against same-sex couples, is far from the only example of Trump’s anti-LGBT positions. He also said he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn marriage equality — and his specific recommendations confirm this. Despite initially supporting respecting transgender people’s bathroom usage, he has backslid to supporting “states’ rights” to decide anti-trans bathroom policies, a timeless talking point for allowing injustices to persist. The campaign has confirmed that Trump would roll back the Obama administration’s guidance protecting transgender students, workers, and tenants from discrimination, as well as his executive order protecting the LGBT employees of federal contractors. And of course, he picked as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), who not only championed his state’s “religious freedom” pro-discrimination law, but who has a history of nasty anti-gay rhetoric.
Arguably, Trump doesn’t hold a single pro-LGBT position. The outreach LCR praises him for has never included a single promise for how he would improve life for the queer community in the U.S. Instead, Trump has deployed homonationalism, the hope that ISIS’ brand of homophobia is severe enough to rally people together against it. In fact, it was only after the tragic shooting in Orlando that he actually started referencing “LG…BT…Q” people occasionally in his remarks — and only in this capacity. In other words, Trump isn’t actually pro-LGBT, he’s just more Islamophobic than he is homophobic or transphobic..."
"Trump isn’t actually pro-LGBT, he’s just more Islamophobic than he is homophobic or transphobic..."
Clinton supports marriage equality, opposes pro-discrimination "religious freedom" laws, and supports the right of transpeople to use the bathroom of their choice.
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "There are many situations where its appropriate to lie" and repeatedly tells the lie that "Clinton is anti-gay and Trump has always been pro-gay rights".
Tell us Wyatt, how is that lie appropriate?
"No Words, No Numbers said...
Your silence speaks volumes.".
Fantastic job Good Anonymous! Thanks for continuing to slam down the B.S. coming from Wyatt/bad anonymous!
You are welcome, Priya Lynn and thank you for your corrections of other lies that have been posted here too .
You and I and a few others (Hi, Cynthia and Good Lefty!) seem to agree -- this Vigilance blog is a good place to try to correct the lies and take the time Teach the Facts.
Paule Pachter
@PaulePachter
Gen. Colin Powell has announced to @LongIslandAssoc that he will be supporting @HillaryClinton for POTUS
11:01 AM - 25 Oct 2016
Woodbury, NY
Happy Birthday, Hillary! With Love, Stevie Wonder
I'm with her >>>>>>>>
anyone else would have long ago dropped out for the good of the country
but the Clintons, who were penniless when they left the White House, are now worth a couple hundred million
what service did they provide to earn this money?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-kass-1030-20161028-column.html
Trump has already ripped the Republican party to pieces, and those were his allies. It will take them years to recover. His prospects for doing better for the country than he has for the Republican party is somewhere between nil and zero.
I'm not a fan of Hillary, and never voted for her husband. But she is at least competent enough to keep our plutocracy intact until we can wrest control back away from the corporations.
Even many Republicans know Trump is about as safe as playing Russian roulette. The most interesting thing is that ideologically, they have a safe out in Gary Johnson. They could vote for him en masse and spare themselves both from Trump and Hillary, and perhaps minimize the damage Trump has done to their party, and even save a small piece of their dignity.
It is telling that there are so many prominent repubs publicly coming out for Hillary. It really undermines the decades of investigations they have done on the Clintons and highlights how much they were just a smoke screen generated for the media.
Have a nice day,
Cynthia
this morning, the Post-ABC poll has Clinton up by one
this always happens
the Dem is supposedly killing it til the last second, when the polls tighten
but, no matter who wins, America will lose
"The most interesting thing is that ideologically, they have a safe out in Gary Johnson. They could vote for him en masse and spare themselves both from Trump and Hillary"
a few problems with him
he's pro-choice and doesn't support religious freedom
a lesser concern is he would gut the military, leaving us defenseless in dangerous times
also, the media has done a preemptive strike on him, trying to make him look like a moron
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/303499-hillarys-emails-matter-a-retired-cia-officer
a trip down Memory Lane:
Hillary Clinton, in 1992 ,denounced President George H.W. Bush after special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh issued an indictment the weekend before the election against former Defense secretary Caspar Weinberger in the Iran-Contra case.
The Clintons seized on the new indictment, howling about a 'culture of corruption' that supposedly pervaded the administration." Bush’s poll numbers declined and Bill Clinton won the election. Keep this in mind when you hear Hillary talking about how awful it is for law enforcement officials to 'interfere' in the presidential election process.
It was Perot's 18.9% of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election, along with GHWBush's failure to stick to his 1988 pledge "Read my lips: no new taxes" that caused him to lose his reelection effort.
He was losing in the polls long before Walsh issued that indictment.
Don't believe me? Here's Gallup's Gallup Presidential Election Trial-Heat Trends, 1936-2008
Scroll down to the 1992 race and see how low Daddy Bush started against Clinton due to raising taxes after pledging not to.
Comey's actions are unprecedented and possibly illegal.
http://thehill.com/opinion/lanny-davis/303427-lanny-davis-comeys-actions-improper-irresponsible-and-possibly-illegal
http://ktla.com/2016/09/20/george-h-w-bush-to-vote-for-hillary-kennedy-family-member-says/
good news for TTFers who are hoping to see gay-friendly Trump residing at 1600 PA Ave:
RCP's no-toss-up map has Trump with 265 electoral votes, 5 short
but RCP bases its maps on averages, which includes polls taken before Trump's latest surge
most likely to put him over the top: Colorado
although widespread lack of black turnout could turn, in order, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan
so, cause for GLBT optimism
your friend, the Donald, looks on course to win!!
that's right!!
resiiiding
all quiet on the liberal front
hahahahaha!!
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/303748-after-dnc-clinton-campaign-collusion-is-it-any
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/richard_dawkins_misrepresents_science_say_british_scientists-180594
the Dems are becoming unhinged now
James Carville says the vast right-wing conspiracy includes he FBI, the KGB, and all the Republicans in Congress
it all started you see when the Trilateral Commission and the Illumnati merged with the Free f'in masons
hahahahaha!!
The KKK’s Newspaper’s Has Endorsed Donald Trump
Black Mississippi Church Burned And Vandalized With ‘Vote Trump’
A pretrial date has been set for the Donald Trump child rape lawsuit
interesting you don't much about that in the media
they must be rigging the election for Trump
hahahahahahahaha!!
btw, it looks like blacks aren't too excited about Hillary
polls show the aren't planning to vote in numbers as high as the last two elections
if you really wanna hear their views, the Dems haven't done nothing
Spell checking before hitting the "Publish your comment" button is always a good idea.
"interesting you don't [sic] much about that in the media"
Yeah, you'd think the liberal media would be all over it.
Well, the media isn't, but we the people who use FB and Twitter are all over it.
"If you’ve been anywhere near Facebook or Twitter in the past several months, you’re probably aware that there is a case working its way through the courts that accuses Donald Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1994.
On Wednesday, the woman, who remains anonymous, will appear at a press conference with her new attorney, Lisa Bloom, the daughter of Gloria Allred. Bloom wrote a column about the case in The Huffington Post last summer....
...as the reality of the court date increasingly dawns on the press, coupled with Trump’s own admission that he sexually assaults women, the case is getting harder to ignore. Baer said that two media outlets have recently done interviews with Johnson, and stories could pop at any minute.
Erik Wemple, a media reporter at the Washington Post, said he hasn’t talked to many journalists about their decision to shy away from the story. “I can’t cover everything,” he said. “Around the spring, the Washington Post was getting hammered for assigning two dozen reporters to investigate Trump. I wrote a piece wondering whether that was anywhere near enough. It wasn’t, as it turns out.”
In some ways, given the role of Facebook in disseminating news, it matters less this cycle than any other previous one that the media has largely ignored the case. Open platforms, too, have helped the story circulate. The story that Bloom published on HuffPost’s contributor platform has been shared on Facebook 140,000 times. The piece has been viewed 5,221,475 times since June.
But with Bloom’s press conference at 6PM tonight, everything could change."
well, I guess the media just riggin' it for 'em
problem is that, even if true (hopefully he can be impeached and Mike Pence can be President), it's not a crime involving his duties as President like Hillary's disregard for confidential information and taking donations and becoming beholden to hostile foreign governments
I have a feeling, though, that newspapers who are blatantly trying to get Hillary elected, simply don't find the story credible
a Hampton University poll is reporting this morning that Trump now leads there by 3
and that would be...checkmate
University of Denver this morning says Colorado is all tied up
another blue state bites the dust
WBUR poll is reporting New Hampshire is all tied
this is turning into a landslide for the gay-friendly Donald J Trump
and if Trump wins on Tuesday, the SCOTUS deadlock is broken before he takes office because Ruth Bader G says she'll take the first train to Canada
more good news: Barbra Streisand is going too
even though Hillary won't getting that nice free residence on PA Ave, she'll still wind up with no-cost accommodations
in a Federal penitentiary
The HamptonU poll that sampled "802 registered voters who said they were "likely" to vote on November 8, 2015 in the Virginia General Election" shows Trump up by 3 points.
It also reports the "margin of error for the survey is +/- 4.57% for the full sample."
"another blue state bites the dust"
Not exactly. Merely "550 likely voters" in the University of Denver poll show Trump and Clinton tied at 39% in a 4 way race.
Interestingly, 55% of those same 550 likely voters in Colorado feel "things are generally going in the right direction" while only 34% feel "things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track here in Colorado."
Also, Democratic Senator Mike Bennet leads his opponent by 8 percentage points according to those same 550 likely voters in Colorado.
"WBUR poll is reporting New Hampshire is all tied"
Today's WBUR poll actually shows Trump in front, with a razor thin 1-point lead, well within the 4.4 percentage point margin of error. and Trump is still 2 points below his highest result in this poll, which was back in May.
The WBUR poll also found 69 percent believe Trump has done more to divide people than bring them together. Just over 50 percent feel that way about Clinton.
"Not exactly"
ha,ha, good one
here's an exactly fer ya:
exactly one week ago, all the liberals were acting like Hillary had this all wrapped up and Trump was delusional
typical pundit in the media-liberal establishment: "it's unheard of for anyone to come back from this far with less than two weeks to go" or "Hillary has an insurmountable edge in the electoral college"
look at RCP's no-toss map: Donald has 265 and that includes dated averages when he is clearly ascendant
last Friday, Clinton was feigning wanting the FBI to release everything they have
since, they've released the records of an earlier investigation when Bill pardoned Marc Rich in exchange for a contribution to the Clinton Foundation and they also let out that the Clintons are also being investigated for bribery and corruption in connection with payments from hostile foreign governments for speaking fees
now, they're whining that the FBI is releasing too much
as long as Hillary is the center of attention, she loses
what does that say about our Dem nominee?
well, one thing is that if elected the country will be paralyzed for years, just like in 73-74, when Americans ignored Watergate because the other candidate seemed so extreme
who needs that?
"this is turning into a landslide for the gay-friendly Donald J Trump"
gays are so lucky that Trump ran
WALLACE: But, Mr. Trump, let's take one issue. You say now that the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is the law of the land and that any politician who talks about wanting to amend the Constitution is just playing politics. Are you saying it's time to move on?
TRUMP: No, I'm saying this. It has been ruled up. It has been there. If I'm a, you know, if I'm elected, I would be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things.
But they've got a long way to go. I mean at some point, we have to get back down to business. But there's no question about it. I mean most — and most people feel this way.
They have ruled on it. I wish that it was done by the state. I don't like the way they ruled. I disagree with the Supreme Court from the standpoint they should have given the state — it should be a states' rights issue. And that's the way it should have been ruled on, Chris, not the way they did it.
This is a very surprising ruling. And I — I can see changes coming down the line, frankly. But I would have much preferred that they ruled at a state level and allowed the states to make those rulings themselves.
WALLACE: But — but just to button this up very quickly, sir, are you saying that if you become president, you might try to appoint justices to overrule the decision on same-sex marriage?
TRUMP: I would strongly consider that, yes.
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/01/31/ted-cruz-attacks-donald-trump-financial-record-trump-responds/
“If I decide to run for office, I’ll produce my tax returns, absolutely.”
Mr. Trump’s refusal to release his returns is an unprecedented sign of contempt for voters.
The campaign even lies about his initial lie, denying that Mr. Trump ever promised to release his returns.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. . . . They’re sending people who have lots of problems. . . . They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
In the United States of America most of us aspire to live in, we are each judged as individuals. Mr. Trump judges by group
“You’d be in jail.”
American democracy survives the passions and animus stirred up every four years because its leaders always have accepted this rule: The loser acknowledges the winner, and the winner leaves the loser in peace. Mr. Trump disavows both sides of that time-tested formula.
“I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
Mr. Trump’s celebration of torture provides one answer to that question. His vow to kill the innocent relatives of suspected terrorists offers another.
"“I’ve always felt fine about Putin. I think he’s a strong leader, he’s a powerful leader.”"
In keeping with his disrespect for democracy at home, Mr. Trump consistently expresses admiration for the vilest dictators abroad.
“I’d like to punch him in the face, I tell ya.”
Trump did not limit his dark musings to protesters; speaking of Ms. Clinton, he appeared to invite assassination attempts. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said in August. “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
“When you’re a star, they let you do it.”
We've all seen the videotape of Mr. Trump bragging that he forces himself on women, including by grabbing their genitals.
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "this is turning into a landslide for the gay-friendly Donald J Trump".
It is universally acknowledged amongst experts that Trump can't win in a landslide and Hillary is still likely to win the election.
Posts like this prove Wyatt/bad anonymous is a troll. And research shows trolls like Wyatt are sadistic.
He knows Trump has promised to appoint judges to re-instate gay marriage bans and supports so called "religious freedom" laws that allow christians to discriminate against gays but not vice versa. So Wyatt childishly regularly repeats the silly claim that Trump is "gay-friendly" wanting to provoke a reaction from LGBT people and our allies.
Wyatt/bad anonymous says "there are many situations where lying is appropriate". Obviously one of his favourite justifications for lying is that he wants to rile others.
Wyatt/bad anonymous is a troll through and through. He isn't a sincere but mistaken person trying to do what he thinks is right, he's a sadist who enjoys assaulting good innocent people.
Hillary Clinton’s grip on the US presidential election has weakened with less than a week left on the clock, as new polls show the race between the Democrat and Donald Trump going down to the wire in several key swing states. While the former Secretary of State remains the favourite to win the White House on 8 November, a contest that appeared days ago to be all but over has become a nail-biter once more.
Since last Friday, when FBI Director James Comey disclosed the discovery of emails that were evidence, that been destroyed by Clinton, pertinent to the bureau’s investigation of Ms Clinton’s private server, her prospective electoral college lead has plummeted, according to poll averages taken by RealClearPolitics.
A week ago, the aggregator put Ms Clinton more than 100 college votes ahead of Mr Trump, with 333 to the Republican’s 205 on a map where states were counted according to their more likely electoral outcome. Today, the same average of polls gave Ms Clinton just 273 votes, eight ahead of her rival’s 265, and barely more than the 270 needed to claim victory.
the former Secretary of State remains the favourite to win the White House on 8 November.
well, jolly olde chap, the notion of favouritism is never one of factuality, is it?
it is based on bloody subjective criteria and it's determination would be dependent on one's angle of perspective:
or, as a notable Noble laureate once said:
I'm still travellin' down the road
lookin' for another joint
we always the same things
we just 'em from a different point
of view
the shaky states were blue
NEW MARQUETTE LAW SCHOOL POLL FINDS CLINTON LEADING TRUMP BY 6 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN WISCONSIN; SENATE RACE IS VIRTUALLY TIED
But don't worry. Even if you don’t listen to reason and want to freak out about polling numbers, Wisconsin is not the state to freak out about. No poll on the HuffPost Pollster chart has ever shown Trump leading in Packerland. Marquette didn’t change that trend on Wednesday ― the poll showed Clinton leading by 6 points. The pollsters did note some effects from Friday’s FBI announcement about more emails pertinent to Clinton’s private server, but she had a strong enough lead that those effects didn’t change the outcome.
That’s looking like the case in most states, although a couple could flip to Trump. But not enough to change the outline of the race.
New polls from CNN/ORC in four states started the day on a mixed note for Clinton. Two of those showed Trump leading by 6 points in Nevada, and by 5 points in Arizona. Both are more pro-Trump than most other recent polls have been in those states, but Arizona is a traditionally red state, and Trump’s lead in Nevada has wavered back and forth a few times this year. CNN/ORC showed Clinton up 2 points in Florida, and by 4 points in Pennsylvania ― both well in line with recent trends.
Quinnipiac University released a set of four polls Wednesday afternoon, giving Clinton the edge by 1 point in Florida, 3 points in North Carolina, and 4 points in Pennsylvania. The only bad news for Clinton in that set: She trails by 5 points in Ohio.
So, even without Marquette, it would have been a decent day for Clinton ― nothing to imply that the race had dramatically turned toward Trump, which would have to happen soon if Trump is to win. The race remains as it was: Clinton is leading, with a very strong chance of winning. Could there be an upset? Sure. But the polls indicate a solid Clinton lead.
looks like we have a person in denial here
quite a bit of focus on Wisconsin
"That’s looking like the case in most states, although a couple could flip to Trump. But not enough to change the outline of the race."
if you take RCP's no-toss-up map, he needs only five electoral votes and has a number of possibilities
Colorado, Virginia, even Michigan has now closed to within 3 and the momentum is building
Hillary is not good in such situations, think the NH primary
she's tired and unappealing because SHE HAS NO MESSAGE
everyone realizes her only cause is her self-interest
a consensus is building about the lesser of the evils
the FBI thing doesn't seem to be hurting as much as the daily wikileaks
say hello to Monsieur President Trump
the gays should be overjoyed that their friend Trump is coming
things are looking grim for Hillary
well, if things stay this bad through Tuesday, she's still has options
she's made a lot of valuable contacts in the world of nasty government
she could on her burqua and retire to a lounge chair at a girls-only pool in Riyadh
and while she's hobnobbing with all her homophobe benefactors, gays will finally have a champion in the Casa Blanca: Donald J Trump
"she could [sic] on her burqua"
Still can't proofread before hitting send we see.
"Colorado, Virginia, even Michigan has now closed to within 3 and the momentum is building"
Well how about that, out of three states you actually got one right.
The RCP Average of polls for Colorado has Clinton up by 2.6, within 3. And the graph of this state shows the lines diverging wider apart, not moving closer together not showing your imaginary Trump "momentum."
The RCP Average of polls for Virginia show Clinton up by 4.7%. while the RCP Average of polls for Michigan show Clinton up by 5.7%.
I guess two lies out of three attempts at making statements is typical for the party of lying liars who think it's OK to Grab Our Pu..ies.
"if you take RCP's no-toss-up map, he needs only five electoral votes and has a number of possibilities"
Maybe yesterday they did (they didn't) but today the RCP No Toss Up States Electoral College shows Hillary at 302 and Trump at 236.
Uh, 236 plus 5 is NOT 270.
Enjoy your delusion that Trump only needs five electoral votes as long as your belief gives you comfort.
"Still can't proofread before hitting send we see"
oh, theoretically I could
just no one here I want to impress and I think my meaning came through
"Well how about that, out of three states you actually got one right.
The RCP Average of polls"
as I think you are aware, I was citing a poll from yesterday, no an average
when one candidate has momentum, averages over 10 days or so are misleading
but, then, misleading is the basic TTF M.O.
"I guess two lies out of three attempts at making statements is typical for the party of lying liars who think it's OK to Grab Our Pu..ies"
pathetic comment
"Maybe yesterday they did (they didn't) but today the RCP No Toss Up States Electoral College shows Hillary at 302 and Trump at 236"
well, you're correct
Florida has moved to a slight Clinton lead
not good for Trump but it has moved back and forth
Clinton has been putting on a full-court press there
so, I do think Clinton has a slight advantage now from that and reports that half of Floridians voted early
"Enjoy your delusion that Trump only needs five electoral votes as long as your belief gives you comfort"
well, no one's enjoying this
either candidate is despicable
however, it is funny to see entitled elitists like Clinton get a good scare
"who think it's OK to Grab Our Pu..ies"
pathetic comment"
Yes, it was a pathetic comment Donald Trump made on tape in 2005.
What a deplorable elitist he is, thinking he can take whatever he wants from whomever he wants it from!
And his self-unaware wife takes the cake, lamenting about on-line bullying.
Has she read his twitter comments, ever?
No, I don't suppose she's wife #3 due to her reading comprehension skills.
What's funny is reading delusional statements like "he needs only five electoral votes and has a number of possibilities" from alt-right bubble dwellers like yourself.
Give it up Wyatt/bad anonymous. You can't troll us by falsely claiming Trump is gay friendly.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Rudy Giuliani Confirms FBI Insiders Leaked Information To The Trump Campaign
“Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it.”
Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he knew the FBI planned to review more emails tied to Hillary Clinton before a public announcement about the investigation last week, confirming that the agency leaked information to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The former New York City mayor and Trump surrogate has recently dropped a series of hints that he knew in advance that the FBI planned to look at emails potentially connected to Clinton’s private server. The agency discovered the messages while investigating former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) for allegedly sexting with a minor. (Weiner’s estranged wife, Huma Abedin, is a top aide to Clinton.)
Giuliani has bragged about his close ties to the FBI for months, mentioning in interviews that “outraged FBI agents” have told him they’re frustrated by how the Clinton investigation was handled. And two days before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was reviewing the newly uncovered emails, Giuliani teased that Trump’s campaign had “a couple of surprises left.”
“You’ll see, and I think it will be enormously effective,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
All of this has led to suspicion that someone in the FBI is leaking information to Giuliani and the Trump campaign. The Daily Beast’s Wayne Barrett explored those suspicions on Thursday, detailing how Giuliani’s ties to the agency date back to his days as a U.S. attorney in the 1980s.
Giuliani confirmed that notion Friday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
“I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it,” he said. “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.”
Giuliani also said he expected Comey’s announcement to come weeks before it did.
“I had expected this for the last, honestly, to tell you the truth, I thought it was going to be about three or four weeks ago, because way back in July this started, they kept getting stymied looking for subpoenas, looking for records,” he said.
FBI officials knew about the newly discovered emails weeks before Comey’s announcement, according to multiple reports.
Giuliani insisted he had nothing to do with Comey’s decision to announce the probe prior to Election Day ― a move that both Republicans and Democrats have condemned. He also insisted his information comes from “former FBI agents.”
“I’m real careful not to talk to any on-duty, active FBI agents. I don’t want to put them in a compromising position. But I sure have a lot of friends who are retired FBI agents, close, personal friends,” he said. “All I heard were former FBI agents telling me that there’s a revolution going on inside the FBI and it’s now at a boiling point.”
Trump press secretary Hope Hicks did not immediately return a request for comment. "
Research shows internet trolls like Wyatt/bad anonymous are sadists
He doesn't absurdly claim that Trump is "gay-friendly" or that he's going to win in a "landslide" because he believes it, he's just getting a woody over hoping he's riling us.
Loser!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
U.S. Economy In Record 73-Month Streak Of Job Growth: The unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent in October as the economy added 161,000 jobs.
and vast numbers have given up finding work, taking them out of the denominator of this dated stat
a little reading from Nate Silver:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-why-clintons-position-is-worse-than-obamas/
WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP
"and vast numbers have given up finding work"
Well if they have given up looking for jobs among the millions of jobs that have been created over the past 6 years, maybe they are Trump's uneducated angry base.
Not too many employers wants to hire a hothead with a gun and maybe a GED.
"Those with the least number of years of education are far more likely to support Donald Trump, while those who have had the most schooling are much more likely to back Hillary Clinton, according to a Bloomberg Politics national poll released this week"
From: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-12/education-level-sharply-divides-clinton-trump-race
The US is in the middle of a 73-month streak of total job growth, which is a record.
https://blog.dol.gov/2016/11/04/october-jobs-report-shows-how-far-weve-come/
And this month, wages are up 2.8% over the last 12 months.
This growth occurred while the supposedly "job killing" ACA has been in effect
Even you can probably comprehend the massive success of the Obama administration's policies when you look at this Private Sector Employment, United States graph.
Two years after Dumbya left our economy in free fall and Obama's policies were put in place, job growth turned around and private sector job creation has been climbing ever since.
woo-hoo, 73 months of lackluster job growth from a President who wasted most of his first term on pet liberal crap
zero interest rates and doubling the accumulated 200+ plus years of debt in just 7 years ought to get something more than a worsening of the income gap and astronomic unemployment among inner city minorities
the Dem party has failed them, which is why blacks aren't planning to vote for Queen Hillary Corrupton
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article112635048.html
"blacks aren't planning to vote for Queen Hillary Corrupton [sic]"
LMAO
A lot more blacks will vote for Democrat Clinton than will vote for Grab Our Pu--ies Trump.
If you doubt that, then let's see you post a link to ANY poll showing Trump getting more votes from African Americans than Hillary.
She may not get as high a percentage of African American votes in 2016 as Obama got in 2012, but she will most definitely get more such voters' than the racist Trump will get from the people he calls "the blacks."
RCP reports:
"...The most recent YouGov surveys are out, including the recontact survey finished on Nov. 1, and Democrats still hold a sizeable advantage among registered voters over Republicans (eight to nine points), with Clinton now attracting 91 percent of the Democrats to her side. Also following the normal pattern, Republicans “came home” to Trump: He went from 77 percent Republican support to 86 percent.
While the movement toward Clinton is favorable, she is still a little short of Obama’s level of party support, and Trump has also not quite met the standard set by Romney. Clinton is doing well among women, African-Americans, and Hispanics but not as well as Obama did in 2012. Trump is winning men but not by as much as Romney did in 2012..."
It's really too bad you all didn't follow up on your own Grab Our Pu--ies Autopsy Report.
"LMAO"
much like Peter's shadow in the fantasy land you inhabit, you might want to find your ass and glue it back on
it seems to be speaking for ya
"A lot more blacks will vote for Democrat Clinton than will vote for Grab Our @$%@&&@^ Trump
If you doubt that, then let's see you post a link to ANY poll showing Trump getting more votes from African Americans than Hillary."
oh, I never said he would
but the proportion is way down and it's a smaller total number planning to vote anyway
that's a big problem for any Dem because they usually lose the white vote and only make up for it with monolithic support from blacks
looks like that monolith is starting to crack
of the blacks that do vote, estimates are that Trump will get about 20%
one of the many factors that are making this race so close
"She may not get as high a percentage of African American votes in 2016 as Obama got in 2012, but she will most definitely get more such voters' than the racist Trump will get from the people he calls "the blacks.""
well, if Trump wins, look for blacks to return to the party that ended slavery
blacks are starting to realize that Dems have duped them and want them to be perpetually dependent on government programs that treat them without dignity
blacks are starting to realize that their hope is not on making racism a Federal crime or ostracizing every one in our society with a racist attitude
because most people, including blacks, have some degree of racism
raising consciousness about it should be a church program not a government one
what the government needs to do is make inner cities safe, increase FREE ENTERPRISE in inner cities, keep illegal immigrants from taking the jobs of inner city black American citizens, and establish school choice to make public schools accountable to black parents for providing quality education and a wholesome environment
blacks are starting to realize that Dems long ago chose to make the welfare of teacher unions their priority at the expense of the welfare of the inner city black community
"It's really too bad you all didn't follow up on your own Grab Our @#@$@% Autopsy Report."
you seem a little obsessed with heterosexuality
I've got news for you: most men in society who are not part of an evangelical community have spoken like this before
if you're a guy, you know that
if you're a married woman, ask your husband
if you're gay, well, what can I say...you're clueless on such matters
as Trump said when this came out, he's heard much worse playing golf with Bill Clinton
do you really think that's not true?
if so, maybe Peter can help you find the ass you laughed off while he's looking for his shadow
"Grab Our Pu--ies Trump"
you have to wonder how Dems talk themselves into such hypocrisy
yeah, Hillary is all offended by Trump's language while smiles and claps along to Jay-Z using the f word and the n word at her rally last night
says George Orwell: I'm with her
It is moronic how GOP justifiers pretend that the problem with that offensive video was the "language."
A guy bragging that "being a star" means women will let you kiss them and grab their pussies would be deplorable, even if he had used medical terminology for body parts.
oh, probably true
still, not uncommon
he is running for President of America, you know
you live here, right?
it's a land where guys brag to other guys about their sexual prowess all the time
really, doesn't mean much, more just pathetic
again, it's a secular thing
as for celebrity worship
you really don't want to get me started
it's a substitute our culture has made for worshipping God
again, it's the secular types
and I'm sure women do throw themselves at an extremely wealthy celebrity
and probably don't object when he paws them
he's not imagining it
You have a strange concept of "sexual prowess." Assaulting women because "they let you," because you have money and power, is deplorable.
oh yeah
strange
why don't you explain your concept, if any
and if it's "assault" when "they let you", it sounds like we've embarked new adventures in the English language
but, then, what else do you have to fall back on?
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016/11/ben-carson-donald-trumps-new-deal-for-black-america-begins-with-a-good-education/
"They let you" is not the same as "they want you to." When a powerful man brags that people "let him" do things to them he means that they know the consequences of trying to stop him would be too great for them. Sad!
"They let you" is not the same as "they want you to."
oh, I guess not
but it's not "assault" either
and what do you imagine the consequences of saying "I don't want to" would be?
go ahead, use your imagination
you're good at that
I'm sure it makes up for a lack of intelligence
And Jay Z is not running for President and Hillary Clinton who is running for President doesn't use language like The Orange One you plan to vote for does.
Trumps thoughts are so weak, he feels the need to use coarsen language with vulgar words to express them.
"as Trump said [blah blah blah blah blah]
do you really think that's not true?"
Yes, I really think at least 70% of what Trump says is not true.
Trump is a fool's gold-plated liar who lies for profit and sport as evidenced by his self-serving belief he is untouchable: "I could shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters."
It's obvious he believes his supporters like you will support him no matter what he does or says about your mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.
Good luck with that.
You have chosen to ignore another fact about this election, a fact that proves at least some of Trumps' lying words do have consequences: Latino early voting numbers in swing states are way up
"...In Florida, more than twice as many Latinos voted early this year compared to recent elections. North Carolina has a much smaller Latino electorate, but its 75 percent bump in early voting could be crucial in the tightly contested state.
Obviously, not all Latinos are going to vote for Clinton, but a Pew poll last month found that those voters tend to prefer Clinton over Donald Trump by nearly 40 percentage points. Some Latino polling groups think the gap could be a lot bigger.
Trump's struggles to appeal to Latino voters are well-documented.
"They're bringing drugs; they're bringing crime. They're rapists," Trump said at a rally.
The negative backlash against Trump's comments about undocumented immigrants has seemed to drive so many people to register to vote that the practice has been dubbed "The Trump effect" or "El efecto Trump.".."
Busted link's URL
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/11/05/latino-early-voting-numbers-in-swing-states-are-way-up/21599448/
"And Jay Z is not running for President and Hillary Clinton who is running for President doesn't use language"
she does choose who appears at her rallies
and she chooses whether to clap and smile while he uses the F and N words
"like The Orange One you plan to vote for does"
I don't think I've disclosed how or whether I'm voting
I'm simply making the case against Hillary to a deluded blog group
"Trumps thoughts are so weak, he feels the need to use coarsen language with vulgar words to express them"
I don't know that he uses coarse language any more than the average American
he's obviously not a churchgoer but he doesn't go as far as the average cable drama in 2016
and my guess is he's no worse than the average TTFer
true cool anon:
"as Trump said he's heard worse from Bill Clinton on the golf course
do you really think that's not true?"
true fool anon:
Yes, I really think at least 70% of what Trump says is not true
we'll take your evasive answer to mean you know it's true
and, congrats, most Americans agree with you
"Trump is a fool's gold-plated liar who lies for profit and sport as evidenced by his self-serving belief he is untouchable: "I could shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters.""
at the time, that was true
and it's hard to see the statement as "self-serving", it was more self-deprecatory
to interpret it as you do displays your pent-up rage
why don't you just tell us how you feel
hahahahaha!!
"You have chosen to ignore another fact about this election, a fact that proves at least some of Trumps' lying words do have consequences: Latino early voting numbers in swing states are way up"
to begin with, what he said how illegal Mexicans is mostly true
and, yes, this distortion of his words by the media-liberal complex has had an effect
so, when did I "ignore" that?
it's probably the only reason Florida is close
"The negative backlash against Trump's comments about undocumented immigrants"
"undocumented" is illegal
illegal resident don't vote
and those who vote for them probably shouldn't have been let in
What do I imagine the consequences? Trump Sexually Humiliated a Miss Universe Onstage With an Orgasm Joke -- as he says, you should always get even, ten times as hard.
And yes, it is assault.
"as he says, you should always get even, ten times as hard"
That's right.
Thanks for the Slate link: "...It’s the hypersensitive megalomaniac who explodes whenever someone places so much as a single toe upon his paper-thin ego. Trump told a rare truth in this speech: Whether the affront is real or imagined, large or small, with him, it always ends in payback..."
Getting even ten times as hard is what bully losers aim to do.
"...Losing to Clinton on Tuesday would be Trump’s most public and devastating failure. How does a man whose image is based on being the ultimate winner cope with losing? His behavior in defeat has stayed remarkably consistent throughout his career: Either he didn’t really lose, or it was someone else’s fault. In other words, he acts like it didn’t happen.
* * *
Trump is not given to deep analysis of his motives or behavior. But in a series of interviews this year, he did say, with some pride, that he hasn’t changed much since early childhood, when his father, a real estate developer, drilled into his son the directive that he needed to be “a killer,” that there was little in life worse than being “a nothing” and that, whatever he took on, Donald had to be sure to win. Trump’s classmates, neighbors, teachers and friends from New York in the 1950s are united in their recollections of a kid who had a powerful aversion to defeat — and a tendency to blast others when he lost...
...Losing, Trump has stated throughout his public life, is degrading, pathetic, unacceptable. “Man is the most vicious of all animals,” he once told a writer, “and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat. You just can’t let people make a sucker out of you.” He mocked his vanquished GOP primary rivals as “losers” all spring, and it’s his favorite pejorative for people who criticize him..."
-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/what-does-donald-trump-do-when-he-loses-he-acts-like-it-never-happened/
Life is not a series of battles ending in victory or defeat and we do not need to be killers.
It takes a village and we are all better together.
"Life is not a series of battles ending in victory or defeat and we do not need to be killers.
It takes a village and we are all better together."
Hear Hear! That's the difference between conservatives and liberals. For Liberals its "We are all in this together" and for conservatives its "Every man for himself".
Wow, for someone occaisionally claiming he doesn't support Trump and that he's "worried" about Trump being president Wyatt/bad anonymous sure spends a lot of time defending Donald Trump and attacking the supposedly "just as bad" Hillary Clinton.
Just more of Wyatt/bad anonymous's lies. After all his motto is "There are many situations where its appropriate to lie".
Fun Fact: The prayer postion actually originated as a submissive slave stance, offering one's hands to be shackled.
Today it is used as a slave stance offering one's mind to be shackled.
FBI clears Clinton -- again
Every informed and unbiased observer knew all along the FBI wasn't going to find anything on Clinton in Wiener's computer. There was never the slightest evidence of any wrongdoing in all of Hillary's emails but the partisan Comey and the FBI did their best to put a false cloud over Hillary and hand the election to Trump.
The FBI doesn't report to Congress and Congress has no oversight responsibilities for the FBI. Comey broke Justice Department policy by communicating with congress and using innuendo to disparage Clinton before the election when there was no court finding or even an indictment to suggest she had done anything wrong.
Two-faced Comey and the FBI had previously refused to sign on to a letter acknowledging that the overwhelming evidence pointed to Russia as being behind the hacks on Democratic organizations, hypocritically citing the fact that an election was near and he didn't want to influence the public's perception of who to vote for. He had no problem influencing the public not to vote for Hillary prior to the election with no evidence to support that but in his double standard piles of evidence that Russia was involved was to be ignored because the accurate perception would have hurt the Republicans.
The day after the election Obama should unceremoniously fire Comey's a**.
Any American - conservative or liberal - who is not furious at Comey and calling for his termination for screwing with the U.S. election cares nothing for democracy.
"FBI clears Clinton -- again"
everyone's out to get Comey but the truth is he should have never been in this position to begin with
someone is under investigation by the FBI for charges of negligence and mishandling information should have quit the race
more to the point, though, is that Loretta Lynch had to delegate this duty to Comey because she inappropriately had a secret meeting with Bill Clinton while the investigation was nearing a conclusion and when it was found out, she had to do something to cover up
resigning would have been more appropriation
after this flagrant violation of ethics she had to find someone else and Comey was it
takes a lot of chutzpah for her to accuse him of violating DOJ policy after her breach of ethics caused the while problem
a special prosecutor should have been named from the beginning
one still may
the dealings of the Clinton Foundation were clearly illegal and unethical
and Hillary's e-mail set-up was clearly designed to conceal these dealings
if Queen Hillary Corruption is elected tomorrow, look for a reprise of 73-74
when will they ever learn?
when will they eeeevvveer learn?
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "the dealings of the Clinton Foundation were clearly illegal and unethical and Hillary's e-mail set-up was clearly designed to conceal these dealings"
And yet somehow despite 30 years of hundreds of intensive investigations Republicans have been unable to come up with the slightest bit of evidence of any wrongdoings on the part of Hillary or the Clinton Foundation.
Yeah, riiiiiiight, everyone believes you.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
F.B.I. REGRETFULLY ANNOUNCES THAT HILLARY COMMITTED NO CRIMES
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—James Comey, the F.B.I. director, held a press conference on Sunday to “regretfully announce” that Hillary Clinton had committed no crimes related to her e-mails while Secretary of State.
“It is with a deep sense of sadness in my heart that I report that Hillary Clinton committed no crimes,” a visibly emotional Comey said.
Calling the discovery that Clinton could not be prosecuted for wrongdoing “probably the darkest hour of my career at the F.B.I.,” Comey said that he would try to move on from what he called “a shattering disappointment for me personally.”
“No one ever said this job would be a picnic,” he said. “As dismayed as I was to learn that Hillary Clinton committed no crimes, it’s my duty as a professional to find a way forward somehow.”
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump blasted the F.B.I. director. “I thought Comey was rigged, and then I thought he was unrigged, and now I think he’s rigged again,” Trump said. “Lock him up.”
Wyatt/bad anonymous's hilariously obvious lies are an
EPIC TROLL FAIL
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
It won't be a reprise of 73-74. It will be a reprise of the Benghazi hearings and the "birther" claims.
There is no "there" there.
If there was, Republicans would have found it by now. They keep fanning the flames, but all they ever get is a bunch of smoke. Conservatives never learned the lesson of "The boy who cried wolf.". They keep thinkimg that they can keep making up scary stories and that people will believe them.
Please, keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. In four years you get to pick another deplorable from your basket.
Have a nice day,
Cynthia
The only thing those fanatical witch hunts by the Republicans and the FBI have proven over the last thirty years is that
HILLARY CLINTON AND THE CLINTON FOUNDATION ARE SQUEAKY CLEAN!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh My Goodness!
Look at those many upward pointing blue arrows all over RCP.com!
And speaking of two-faced hypocrites with double standards:
Donald Trump who has repeatedly said global warming is a hoax perpetrated by and for the Chinese to harm American industry has asked for permission to build a wall to protect his scottish golf course from the effects of global warming!
Wyatt/bad anonymous said "if Queen Hillary is elected tomorrow, look for a reprise of 73-74".
What happened to "Does anyone think Hillary can win, me neither"
"Mike Pence will be vice president in January"
"Hillary is going to be indicted"
"Trump is going to win in a landslide"
????????????
Awfully late for you to be showing some judgment and do an about face on asserting over and over its a fact Trump will win.
You'll note Wyatt, that even though Hillary is leading in the polls and likely to win none of us on her side are asserting its guaranteed she'll win like you've done with Trump and every other Republican presidential nominee.
That's because we're not trolls and the truth matters to us.
"With one day before Election Day, Hillary Clinton has a four percentage-point lead over Donald Trump, according to the final Fox News national pre-election poll of likely voters.
She’s ahead by 48-44 percent, while Gary Johnson receives 3 percent and Jill Stein 2 percent.
In the two-way race, it’s also Clinton over Trump by 48-44 percent.
Click here to read the poll results.
Hey Wyatt/bad anonymous, if you're not a Trump supporter as you sometimes claim why are you sounding so upset at the thought of Hillary winning????????
DEAR AMERICANS,
Go ahead, vote for the guy with the loud voice who hates minorities, threatens to imprison his opponents, doesn't give a fuck about democracy, and claims he alone can fix everything. What could possibly go wrong?
Good luck.
-- The people of Germany
#beentheredonethat
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tonight, the RCP no-toss map has Trump trailing by 4 electoral votes
gays may be in for a dream within a dream when gay-friendly Donald J Trump accepts Hillary's concession tomorrow night
It was a little-noticed event.
In a campaign appearance at the University of Northern Colorado a week ago, Trump posed for a photo holding a rainbow flag emblazoned with the words "LBGTs for Trump" as he accepted the endorsement of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans.
I challenge you to name one other Republican who could have pulled that off while also receiving the enthusiastic support of just about every redneck and cowboy within a hundred miles – which is a lot of rednecks and cowboys if my visits to Greeley are any indication.
Ted Cruz? Marco Rubio? John Kasich? Not a chance.
How about that Bush fellow? What was his name?
Oh yeah, Jeb.
When this race started early last year, the consensus among the experts was that we were headed for another Bush-Clinton royalty election.
Yeah, that's Trump -- the great uniter of gays and rednecks, as long as they are not black, Hispanic, Muslim, disabled or female.
And if you are female don't look too good or get too close but by all means protect your pu--y from TicTac popping pu--y grabbing lechers!
You Will Not Believe Who Endorsed Hillary Clinton
Thanks for the tip, Orin.
Here's more of the story from Greeley CO:
Why Donald Trump Unfurled An Upside Down Rainbow Flag Onstage
"Put the camera on us, faggot!" screamed a supporter at a prior event.
"In one of the more bizarre moments of his campaign ― but likely among the most calculated events this week ― Donald Trump unfurled a large rainbow flag that had the words “LGBTs for Trump” scribbled across it, shortly after walking onstage at a rally in Greeley, Colorado on Sunday night.
Except that the flag was upside down.
The rainbow flag is a series of six stripes, all having very specific meaning according to the creator of the flag in 1978, Gilbert Baker. The top stripe is red, symbolizing life, and the bottommost stripe is violet, symbolizing spirit. Trump’s flag was upside down, even though the handwriting was right side up. In other words, whoever scribbled on it didn’t have an awareness that the flag was upside down when he or she wrote on it.
Trump took the flag from a supporter who happened to be conveniently placed up near the stage, making it seem as if he simply saw it in the crowd and wanted to take it on the stage. But it appeared to be folded up when handed to him, so it’s hard to believe that Trump could see exactly what it was ― unless he knew ahead of time that someone would be handing him a rainbow flag. He then unfurled it onstage, paraded it back and forth for less than a minute, and then gave it back to the person in the crowd who’d handed it to him.
Gay Trump supporter, Chris Barron, formerly of GOProud and now founder of the tiny LGBT for Trump (even the Log Cabin Republicans decided not to endorse Trump [see Cowardly Log Cabin Republicans Finally Admit Truth: Donald Trump Is A Menace To LGBT Rights]), tweeted early the next morning that “Trump made history last night” and is “the most pro-LGBT Pres candidate ever nominated by either party.” (This of course is patently false and ridiculous, since Trump has opposed rights such as a marriage equality, consistently since he first discussed it in 2000, and has now surrounded himself with ardent homophobes like Ben Carson while he has further pushed an anti-LGBTQ agenda, as I’ve written about in depth in several pieces.) But it remained unclear who wrote on Trump’s flag, because, as stated, anyone with any familiarity of the flag would know it was upside down. It also seems odd that anyone with familiarity would use the term “LGBTs”, with an “s” added at the end.
So, considering this flag-waving might have been staged ― and that the person who wrote on it may not have even been queer and didn’t know which way the flag went ― why would the campaign choose this night to have Trump parade the flag, and then have gay supporters tweeting away that Trump is so pro-LGBTQ?
Perhaps it had something to do with what happened earlier in the day at Trump’s rally in Las Vegas. Trump urged the media to pan out across the crowd, targeting the media as the enemy for not showing the full breadth of his audience, and bringing on all kinds of verbal onslaughts on the media contained in a pen ― as he often does. One supporter then yelled at the reporters, presumably specifically at a cameraperson, loudly and clearly, “Put the camera on us, faggot! Put the camera on us, queer!” The anti-gay rant, captured on video, soon went viral...."
Happy Taco Tuesday to my American neighbours to the south. Here's to a taco truck on every corner!
Up with brown, down with orange!
A couple of polls out of Florida showing Murphy ahead of Marco Rubio by 1 point.
Probably won't work out that way but its nice to perhaps put a bit of a scare into Rubio and his supporters.
I know gays are preeetty to have LBGT friend Donald coming to the White House and they might want to thank African Americans who are running from Hillary Clinton:
"Black voters could be the key to a Trump victory Tuesday.
Preliminary figures released over the last week or so suggest that black voter turnout is down for Clinton and the Democrats — and up for Trump and the Republicans.
Indeed, the Clinton campaign was so rattled by initial reports of low black voter turnout that it spent the entire final week before the election parading a steady stream of black celebrities in front of the electorate, and even resorted to having President Obama near-beg for black voters to turn out.
Just as Clinton is doing worse overall among black voters than Obama did, Trump is doing far better among black voters than Romney was in 2012. A number of polls indicate he could more than double Romney's showing with black voters, which was only 6 percent of the vote nationally.
A Harper Polling survey of Pennsylvania voters released on Friday showed Trump with the support of nearly 18.5 percent of black voters in that state. Another Pennsylvania poll performed by Remington Research Group, released on Oct. 30, showed Trump with 19 percent support among black voters.
A Siena University poll of likely Florida voters showed Trump receiving the support of 13 percent of black voters. Another Remington Research poll, this time of Virginia voters, also showed Trump with the support of 19 percent of black voters there.
More polling by Remington Research released over the weekend showed Trump getting 22 percent of the black vote in Florida, 19 percent in North Carolina, 22 percent of black voters in Wisconsin, and a groundbreaking 29 percent of the black vote in Pennsylvania. By comparison, Romney took only 5 percent of the black vote in Florida, 4 percent in North Carolina, 6 percent in Wisconsin, and 7 percent in Pennsylvania.
It's not hard to see why Trump is doing unusually well for a Republican with black voters.
Unlike every Republican in at least this writer's lifetime, Trump actually made direct, honest appeals to black voters.
"Every African-American citizen in this country is entitled to a government that puts their jobs wages and security first," said Trump upon unveiling his "New Deal" with black Americans. "I'm asking today for the honor of your vote and the privilege of being your president," he continued. "Whether you vote for me or not, I will be your greatest champion," Trump promised.
Markets plunge worldwide as Trump surges to the White House
Putin congratulates Trump
a little trip down memory lane:
in November 2012, after Romney had lost, TTFers said Republicans would have to chaaaange to bring in Hispanic voters if they ever want to win another election
how does that look now?
Well, they certainly changed.
yes, but the change wasn't to appeal to Hispanic voters
Obviously.
Are you trying to take over my job?
well, obviously, TTF was wrong
truth is, with these guys, who engage in so much self-deception, it is often necessary to reiterate the obvious
right, Captain?
Obviously, you missed the point.
I don't know what some TTF poster said four years ago, and given that only about 6 people read this blog, it's not important.
The sentiment expressed above appears to be essentially that outlined on page 6 of the 2012 Republican autopsy:
"If we believe our policies are the best ones to improve the lives of the American people, all the American people, our candidates and office holders need to do a better job talking in normal, people-oriented terms and we need to go to communities where Republicans do not normally go to listen and make our case. We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too. We must recruit more candidates who come from minority communities. But it is not just tone that counts. Policy always matters.
As part of the Growth and Opportunity Project’s effort, focus groups were conducted in Columbus, Ohio, and Des Moines, Iowa, to listen to voters who used to consider themselves Republicans. These are voters who recently left the Party.
Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is “scary,” “narrow minded,” and “out of touch” and that we were a Party of “stuffy old men.” This is consistent with the findings of other post-election surveys."
This was not some TTFer, it was Republican party leaders.
Obviously, Trump didn't follow this game plan, but he made some "chaaaanges" to the Republican party.
Republicans used to cultivate a veneer of civility and try to hide their xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, and disdain for minorities.
Trump let his hate flag fly, and made no apologies for it. He wasn't "PC" and the base loved him for that. He didn't need Latino votes anymore. He cobbled together a coalition of white nationalists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, people who are fine with casual sexual assault, and the religious white right to swing the table in his favor.
It is the new blueprint for future Republicans to win the White House.
This bodes poorly for the future of the US.
Chaaaanges were made. He won the electoral college and heads to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The Hispanic vote was inconsequential.
The consequences for this country however, won't be fully understood for years. It will be painful.
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