Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Cleric: Trump Reveals the Real Face of America

There is too much going on for me to write about all of it. Like, right now the court is hearing an appeal of the Muslim ban, Betsy DeVos has just squeaked by as education-hating Secretary of Education, Kellyanne is insisting that lies are truth, Elizabeth Warren is accused of disdain, Trump accuses the media of not wanting to report terrorism and they are producing facts showing they obsess over it, Yemen has asked us not to protect them, Trump is mad because he didn't know the executive order he signed put Bannon on the National Security Council, and also because Sean Spicer was played by a giiirrrlll ooh-ick on TV ... There's too much but now and then there is one that catches your eye, so let me point to an article in Al Jazeera.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that he was grateful to US President Donald Trump for revealing "the real face of America".

"We are thankful to this gentleman ... he showed the real face of America," Khamenei said in a speech to military officers in Tehran on Tuesday.

"[It was] what we have said for more than 30 years - that there is political, economic, moral and social corruption in the ruling system of the US. This gentleman came and brought it out into the open in the election and after the election."

He referred to the case of a young Iranian boy who was pictured in handcuffs at a US airport following Trump's ban on visas from Iran, among other countries.

"By what he does - handcuffing a five-year-old child - he shows the true meaning of American human rights," Khamenei said. Ayatollah Khamenei: Donald Trump shows real face of US
You might question Al Jazeera as a news source but it is the perfect source for this story. (And, actually, Al Jazeera is often a surprisingly good source of international news.)

So, for one, the Ayatollah's trolling us. Nothing will upset a real American more than somebody who thinks that Trump reveals our "true face." Most of us are just the opposite of him, or try.

But Ayatollah Khamenei isn't saying this for an American audience. He is talking to his own Persian people, and to his fellow Muslims. He is saying that Trump proves without doubt that America is just as corrupt as they have always thought we were. The image of a five-year-old boy in handcuffs is offensive to good Muslim people, just as it is offensive to good Americans of all faiths, and it is having an impact. Why did that happen, why was a little child put in shackles? Oh, no reason, America just doesn't like people from certain countries, like Iran. They scare us. So we take it out on a random five-year-old, take him away from his mother and handcuff him for hours.

As far as they know, we are all like that. Our elected President ordered that to be done, and it reflects on all of us. You think this doesn't motivate people to hate us? Do you think this actually makes us safer?

Here's something to chew on:
He ridiculed the idea of being grateful to former President Barack Obama, saying he was the one who placed "paralysing sanctions" on Iran and helped create the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group through his destabilising actions in Iraq and Syria.
Okay, readers, break into discussion groups and talk among yourselves. Topic: Ayatollah Khamenei and Don Trump are right, Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS, or not. Five minutes.

Trump is making the rest of the world resent us. He is a corrupt, small-time gangster but he is our figurehead and for someone in a distant country he might be the only American they are aware of -- they think we're all like that. He is making the world a more dangerous place for all Americans, and for innocent people around the world.

55 Comments:

Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

Even our allies reject the Orange Asshole.

Enjoy the video:

Donald Trump will not be allowed to address Parliament on UK state visit, says Speaker John Bercow
MPs break into spontaneous applause as Speaker says he will not permit the President to address Westminster Hall

February 08, 2017 9:53 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"Kellyanne is insisting that lies are truth"

Hey, Kellyanne Conjob wasn't all wrong -- she was just mostly wrong.

There was fear of a "Bowling Green Massacre."

But it was not Muslims against Americans.

It was yet another white man filled with hate, trying to incite a race war.

When the Government Really Did Fear a Bowling Green Massacre — From a White Supremacist
Assault rifles, body armor, a possible kill list, but not much attention when feds arrested a white man they said was bent on “race war.”


"The year was 2012. The place was Bowling Green, Ohio. A federal raid had uncovered what the authorities feared were the makings of a massacre. There were 18 firearms, among them two AR–15 assault rifles, an AR–10 assault rifle and a Remington Model 700 sniper rifle. There was body armor, too, and the authorities counted some 40,000 rounds of ammunition. An extremist had been arrested, and prosecutors suspected that he had been aiming to carry out a wide assortment of killings.

“This defendant, quite simply, was a well-funded, well-armed and focused one-man army of racial and religious hate,” prosecutors said in a court filing.

The man arrested and charged was Richard Schmidt, a middle-aged owner of a sports-memorabilia business at a mall in town. Prosecutors would later call him a white supremacist. His planned targets, federal authorities said, had been African-Americans and Jews. They’d found a list with the names and addresses of those to be assassinated, including the leaders of NAACP chapters in Michigan and Ohio...."


Read all about it!

February 08, 2017 2:02 PM  
Anonymous Nasty woman Priya Lynn said...


ISIS has been celebrating Trump's move to ban Muslims from the U.S.


ISIS sees Trump as an ideal enemy for propaganda purposes, the former and current members of the group said, believing that his campaign's heated rhetoric about Muslims will help the extremist group with recruitment by reinforcing its central narrative that the U.S. and the West are at war with Islam."

Trump has made the U.S. seem as evil as ISIS tells its cult members it is.

February 08, 2017 2:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most American Religious Groups Support Same-sex Marriage, Oppose Religiously Based Service Refusals

February 08, 2017 5:43 PM  
Anonymous TTF is a fake news blog said...

"Okay, readers, break into discussion groups and talk among yourselves. Topic: Ayatollah Khamenei and Don Trump are right, Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS, or not. Five minutes."

Look at that. The media of this country has repeatedly made the horrible DJT a sympathetic character by twisting his words and lying about him. Now, Jim Kennedy does the same with the Ayatollah. He didn't say Obama was the founder. He said his actions contributed to creation of ISIS. A fact which is indisputable.

Donald Trump is a disgrace to our country. He is the result of a country under a curse because it has embraced homosexuality by declaring homosexual marriage a constitutional right and penalizing those who refuse to participate in this moral outrage. Hence, no leadership of character was called forth and we had to choose between corrupt Clinton and despicable Trump. Rational people simply voted for what would do the least damage.

"As far as they know, we are all like that. Our elected President ordered that to be done, and it reflects on all of us. You think this doesn't motivate people to hate us? Do you think this actually makes us safer?

Trump is making the rest of the world resent us. He is a corrupt, small-time gangster but he is our figurehead and for someone in a distant country he might be the only American they are aware of -- they think we're all like that. He is making the world a more dangerous place for all Americans, and for innocent people around the world."

Oh, for heaven's sake. You may remember why al quaeda attached the WTC. It was because Americans, infidels, were "present" in the holy land of Mecca and Medina. You may remember Iran took hundreds of innocent americans hostage until Ronald Reagan scared the wits out of them. You might remember that to advocate any religion other than Islam in these country is a capital offense. That Christians are harassed, persecuted and under fear for the lives of their families. And Jews might as well just kill themselves to save these countries the trouble.

"Trump is making the rest of the world resent us."

Odd, just a second ago they were complaining about Obama. Now, Trump.

They actually just hate us because we don't believe in their way of life and we have been more successful than them, making their way of life appear dubious. It's not any more complicated than that.



February 09, 2017 7:21 AM  
Blogger JimK said...

Okay, there's one vote for "Trump and the Ayatollah are right." I think.

JimK

February 09, 2017 9:54 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"You may remember Iran took hundreds of innocent americans hostage until Ronald Reagan scared the wits out of them. "

Where do you come up with this fake shit?

The Algiers Accords were a set of agreements between the United States and Iran to resolve the Iran hostage crisis, brokered by the Algerian government and signed in Algiers on January 19, 1981.[1] The crisis arose from the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and the taking hostage of the American staff there. By this accord the 52 American citizens were set free and able to leave Iran.

Among its chief provisions are:

1. The US would not intervene politically or militarily in Iranian internal affairs;
2. The US would remove a freeze on Iranian assets and trade sanctions on Iran;
3. Both countries would end litigation between their respective governments and citizens, referring them instead to international arbitration, namely to the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal ("President Reagan confirmed the Algiers Accords, and the constitutionality of these arrangements was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dames & Moore v. Regan"), created as a result of the agreement;
4. The US would ensure that US court decisions regarding the transfer of any property of the former Shah would be independent from "sovereign immunity principles" and would be enforced;
5. Iranian debts to US institutions would be paid.

The US chief negotiator was Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher,[1] while the chief Algerian mediator was the Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed Benyahia.

Take your lies to Brietbart/FoxNews/InfoWars where fake reporters make fake news by the hour.

Your claim "Iran took hundreds of americans hostage" is completely false.

Fifty two Americans, not "hundreds" were held during the Iranian hostage crisis

Your claim "Reagan scared the wits out of them" is also completely false.

It was Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, Warren Christopher's negotiations that led to the release of the hostages on Reagan's Inauguration Day.

Get your facts straight so you might stop embarrassing yourself and your party and your pussy grabbing so-called president.

February 09, 2017 9:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Okay, there's one vote for "Trump and the Ayatollah are right." I think."

keep thinking, you'll get there

Obama's actions led to the formation of ISIS

it wasn't intentional

Neither Trump nor your ayatollah buddy have said it was

I think

"Where do you come up with this fake (liberalese deleted)?"

so, you do agree with the rest?

it's a little hard to believe Muslims are outraged that Trump has temporarily halted immigration from a few terrorist countries when Muslim majority countries are so hostile to anyone different from them

don't believe me?

go have that nasty woman march in Mecca or Tehran

I think the tolerance of our society is clear to everyone

February 09, 2017 10:09 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"go have that nasty woman march in Mecca or Tehran"

LOLOLOL

Good luck with that!


February 09, 2017 10:13 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"Obama's actions led to the formation of ISIS

There you go again, tossing more of your bullshit lies around.

Bush's blunder in Iraq led Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad to become Al Qaeda in Iraq, which in turn became ISIS.

Al Qaeda in Iraq "...is believed to have started bomb attacks in Iraq as of August 2003, five months after the coalition invasion and occupation of Iraq, targeting UN representatives, Iraqi Shiite institutions, the Jordanian embassy, provisional Iraqi government institutions.

After it pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in October 2004, its official name became Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn.[2][5][6][7] After several rounds of name changes and mergers with other groups, the organization is now known as Islamic State (IS)."


February 09, 2017 10:47 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"so, you do agree with the rest?"

No.

Nor am I so self-absorbed to believe you may agree with everything I post you do not respond to.

< eye roll >

February 09, 2017 10:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, you're a fool as well as nasty, then

one of the reasons Dems are doomed

February 09, 2017 11:31 AM  
Anonymous triple D said...

dumb Dems doomed?

dang 'dem done!!

February 09, 2017 1:01 PM  
Anonymous who's zoomin' who? said...

For several months, President Trump has continued to hammer media outlets... saying they report fake news. A shocking new poll finds that voters agree...they trust Trump more than the media.

The Emerson College poll found 49 percent of registered voters trusted Trump's team. Meanwhile only 39 percent found the media truthful.

February 09, 2017 1:09 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

Honey, if you think my silence means I agree with anything you have to say, you are the fool.

Dems are far from doomed.

Hillary got votes to be PUSA from millions of more American citizens then your pussy grabber and Democrats picked up seats in both the House and Senate in 2016.

The GOP is stuck with a compulsive liar man child with tiny hands, thin skin, and a twitter account as their leader while the "enemy in the media" like TheHill.com tell us: Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report.

There were 52 not "hundreds" of hostages in Iran and the last asshole you voted for who won the Presidency once the Supreme Court stopped the ballot counting started ISIS with his costly blunder into Iraq.

It must suck being you trying to defend the indefensible especially when you are so misinformed.

February 09, 2017 1:21 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"The Emerson College poll found 49 percent of registered voters trusted Trump's team. Meanwhile only 39 percent found the media truthful."

Let's hear it from the horse's mouth, shall we?

"America Trusts Trump More Than Media, Oppose DeVos for Education Secretary
February 7, 2017

BOSTON, MA – The first poll of Emerson College’s Spring 2017 semester shows the nation is split on Donald Trump’s performance as President so far with 48% of registered voters approving of the job that Trump is doing, versus 47% that disapprove. Republicans approve of Trump 89%/5%, while Democrats disapprove of the President by a margin of 81% to 17%. Trump’s failure to pass the 50% threshold for approval can be accredited to his standing among independents, who disapprove of him 52%/42%.

A key finding of the poll shows that voters find the Trump administration to be more truthful than the news media. The Trump administration is considered truthful by 49% of voters, to 48% of voters who consider it untruthful. Meanwhile, the news media is considered untruthful by a 53%-majority of registered voters, to only 39% who find them truthful (a 14-point gap). Numerous members of the Trump administration – including Trump himself – have been criticized frequently for making false statements. The partisan split on this topic is clear – 89% of Republicans find the Trump administration truthful, versus 77% of Democrats who find the administration untruthful. Conversely, 69% of Democrats find the news media truthful, while a whopping 91% of Republicans consider them untruthful. Independents consider both untruthful – the Trump administration by a margin of 42%/52% and the news media by a margin of 45%/47%.

Trump’s nomination of GOP mega-donor Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education is opposed by a majority, 51%, of registered voters. Only 34% of registered voters support DeVos’ nomination to the cabinet post, while roughly 15% remain undecided on the controversial nominee. DeVos’ nomination is opposed by voters who attended both public and private school, but voters who attended public school – of which DeVos’ is a strong opponent – oppose her nomination by a significant 19-point margin, 32%/51%. Voters who attended private school also oppose DeVos’ nomination, but by a smaller 11-point margin, 42%/51%....

CALLER ID
The national Emerson College poll was conducted February 5-6 under the Supervision of Professor Spencer Kimball. The sample consisted of only registered voters, n=617, with a margin of error (MOE) of +/- 3.9 percentage points. The national data was weighted by 2016 election results, gender, party affiliation, race, age and region. It is important to remember that subsets based on gender, age, party breakdown and school carry with them higher margins of error, as the sample size is reduced. Data was collected using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system of landlines only."


I bet this 617 person poll is as correct as all those polls that predicted Hillary would win the Presidency, don't you?

In fact, you should be sure to scroll down to see the third headline on the Emerson College Polling Society page:

Four New Polls and Emerson Election Map Show Many Tight Races But a Decisive Electoral College Win for Clinton. Senate Dems on Track for 50 or More Seats. Voters Come Home to Major Parties.
November 7, 2016


Oh, oops!

February 09, 2017 3:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh, you're right, your nastiness

no way in the world that 4 out of 10 Americans trust the media

I actually think Trump is pretty honest

he's so narcissistic, he feels no real need to lie about what he thinks

as for Betsy DeVos, I can understand the Dems don't like education coming from anywhere but public education but the emphasis on trying to stop her as opposed to State, Treasury, Defense et al just goes to show how beholden to NEA and AFT money they are

another reason they are doomed, they are losing their base, who would benefit greatly from school choice

and who will increasingly see Dems as craven

February 09, 2017 4:24 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"I actually think Trump is pretty honest "

I hope you will tell us how you choose which of his contradictions to believe if you can.

February 09, 2017 4:41 PM  
Anonymous shame on TTF said...

the whole Dem reaction to Betsy DeVos is showing the public what the struggle against school choice has always been about: not the welfare of the nation's students but protecting the excessive benefits received by teachers who belong to unions

and who lavishly support the Dem party

it's a vicious circle - and it is being outed:

"Protesters physically blocked Betsy DeVos from entering a public middle school in D.C. Friday.

Video from WJLA shows that protesters forced DeVos away from a back entrance to Jefferson Academy in Southwest D.C., where she was scheduled to meet with teachers and parents, joined by new D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson.

One person in the video was heard yelling “shame!” to DeVos as she was escorted into an SUV by her security detail.

In a statement, DeVos said she was “honored” to speak with administrators, teachers and students at the school about “our shared commitment to strengthening public education” and said she wouldn’t be dissuaded by the protests.

“I respect peaceful protest, and I will not be deterred in executing the vital mission of the Department of Education,” she said. “No school door in America will be blocked from those seeking to help our nation’s school children.”

A group of several dozen parents and former teachers organized by the Washington Teachers Union held a “vigil” at the school. They held signs supporting public education. Elizabeth Davis, the union’s president, said that D.C. teachers were concerned that DeVos would seek to use the nation’s capital as an “experiment” for advancing school vouchers and other policies that they believe undermine public schools.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, said on Twitter that DeVos should not be discouraged from visiting public schools.

"Just heard a protester blocked & knocked Secy @BetsyDeVos down at Jefferson," the union president tweeted. "We don't condone such acts.We want her to go to pub schls"

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan also weighed in on Twitter, saying, "Agree or disagree w @BetsyDeVos on any issue, but let's all agree she really needs to be in public schools. Please let her in."

February 10, 2017 3:24 PM  
Anonymous The Obvious said...

Oh yeah, good point, public school teachers are getting rich off us honest, hard-working taxpayers. I forgot that.

A school is not a business that should try to give its customers what they want, where you pick the ideology you want and send your kids to be indoctrinated into it. A school should teach facts, out in the open, responsible to the public. If you want to pay for a private indoctrination, you are free to, or indoctrinate your children at home. Public schools are the cornerstone of the American success story.

Betsy DeVos is the least-qualified person in the world to head the Department of Education, but she invested a lot of dough to buy influence, and now she has it.

February 10, 2017 3:30 PM  
Anonymous reach the facts said...

"Oh yeah, good point, public school teachers are getting rich off us honest, hard-working taxpayers. I forgot that."

I'm sure you forget a lot of inconvenient facts. Of course, thieves rarely get rich. But their victims get poorer. Did you also forget that public school teachers make more than they would if their unions didn't pay off Dem lawmakers?

Take Montgomery County. All their employees have their health insurance 100% paid for by taxpayers. How many private enterprises have that benefit? No wonder teachers get violent if there's a possibility they may have to work for an employer who will hold them accountable.

"A school is not a business that should try to give its customers what they want, where you pick the ideology you want and send your kids to be indoctrinated into it."

You think private schools are ideological than public schools?

Jim, you need to start giving IQ tests before you let people post here.

The idea that a collectivist government makes better educational choices than a concerned is preposterous. And, honestly, offensive. The majority of public schools are failures. The ones that aren't are indoctrination centers for secular humanism.

"A school should teach facts, out in the open, responsible to the public."

The "public" couldn't give a crap unless they're parents. Or trying to push an agenda, such as TTF-style raving lunatic homosexual advocacy. Which is really sad when they use kids as pawns in their political games.

Parents have more sway in a private school where they can remove their tuition.

"If you want to pay for a private indoctrination, you are free to, or indoctrinate your children at home."

Won't need to. Betsy will issue vouchers. And if public schools are really responsible to the public, they will get their appropriate share of the voucher money. The idea they will have to actually be responsible to the public scares the hell outta 'em. It's why they are so desperate to stop Betsy.

"Public schools are the cornerstone of the American success story"

Here's a fact you won't learn in public schools: the most successful people in our society went to private school or were homeschooled.

"Betsy DeVos is the least-qualified person in the world to head the Department of Education,"

As in least qualified to perpetuate our failed system and promote teacher unions. She will vastly improve outcomes for American children.

"but she invested a lot of dough to buy influence, and now she has it."

She gave money to causes she believes in. You should try it.

February 10, 2017 10:26 PM  
Anonymous shame on TTF said...

History was made Tuesday when Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos. But the necessity of Pence’s vote reflected another kind of history, too: The decision by all Senate Democrats to reject DeVos marked a new low for the flailing party.

Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in failing urban schools, the Dems said no, hell no.

Joined by two Republicans, they stood in the schoolhouse door to block vital change, casting their lot with teachers unions that fear reform the way a vampire fears garlic.

Throw away all the subtexts and subterfuge, a defense of the rotten status quo is the only explanation for the bid to block DeVos. The teachers unions pulled the strings, and the political puppets danced to their masters’ tune.

DeVos survived because President Trump is determined to deliver a government that shatters the insiders’ perks and privilege and opens the door to new ways of doing things. In education, that means giving more parents the power of school choice and taking power away from the union establishment.

Millions of children, most poor and many black and Latino, are forced to attend failure factories that rob them of America’s promise. While family breakdown is a prime culprit, the social contract requires society to do its best to compensate.

And there is no question that charter schools, vouchers and other experiments offer the best hope for bringing fresh ideas and progress to educational deserts.

DeVos, a passionate crusader for excellence in the classroom, is just one of the Trump nominees Democrats tried to block in their insane attempts to destroy his presidency before it gets started.

February 11, 2017 9:19 AM  
Anonymous shame on TTF said...

No president has ever had so few cabinet members confirmed at this late date, just as no president has been confronted with such open talk of assassination and impeachment.

Speaking of which, have you heard a single Democrat decry the talk of assassination? Have you heard a single Democrat denounce the violence carried out by so-called protesters?




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The answers are no and no because Dems see the riots and threats of violence as legitimate expressions of disapproval — and convenient for their purposes. Their contribution to the “resistance” started when 70 Democrats boycotted Trump’s inauguration and many senators boycotted confirmation hearings and votes. Maybe they’ll soon throw rocks through windows.

The madness was on full display Monday night when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer boasted in a tweet from outside the Capitol that “While the GOP is pushing a vote on Betsy DeVos, the people are rallying outside. We’re with them.”

Think of that: The Democrats’ leader walks out on his job to play the role of a man of the people in a staged demonstration. This is a party that has lost its mind, as well as its soul.

It is noteworthy that Schumer started the Trump era by talking about a willingness to work with the new president on infrastructure and other areas of common ground. It was too good to last.

For being relatively reasonable, Schumer was denounced by party radicals and anarchists as a collaborator and got noisy, vulgar demonstrations outside his Brooklyn home.



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In a flash, he abandoned any talk of cooperation and jumped on the radical bandwagon, no doubt hoping to keep the minority leader job he just got. Schumer probably also sees going along with the rabble as the only way to raise money for the beleaguered party’s candidates in the 2018 midterms.

In any case, the responsibility of leadership eludes him. Democrats created their own problems by blindly agreeing to all of Barack Obama’s ultra-liberal policies, and the fed-up response of Republican voters was to nominate Trump.

In their response, Hillary Clinton and her team poured acid on Trump and his followers, thinking they could make him so toxic that he would be disqualified. They were wrong.

Yet even now, they apparently have no idea why they failed because they are following the same script again. They continue to denounce Trump in the most hyperbolic terms, declare his nominees unfit and dangerous — and expect a different outcome.

They shouldn’t hold their breath. Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education.

February 11, 2017 9:20 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

That is one shaky finger on the return button!

Is it time to lay off the caffeine or is it all those town hall meetings where GOP officials run away scared when their constituents show up to voice their disapproval of religious bans, Russian influence in the election and White House, and the threatened removal of their own healthcare for the millions of people now covered by the ACA that made you so nervous?

http://www.omaha.com/news/nation/gop-lawmakers-face-angry-worried-constituents-at-town-halls/article_8c15bb9a-8431-59f1-8668-29d5dc112131.html

Thanks for pointing out the bi-partisan vote in the Senate was to keep Betsy DeVos, who paid $47million for her cabinet seat, off the cabinet.

"The decision by all Senate Democrats [joined by two Republicans] to reject DeVos marked a new low for the flailing [bi-partisanship]."

Oh and thanks Theresa for expressing your strong faith in the mighty dollar.

I doubt even the Orange Asshole himself could have said it better.

February 11, 2017 10:00 AM  
Anonymous shame of TTF, shame said...

"That is one shaky finger on the return button!

Is it time to lay off the caffeine"

uh, I consider caffeine a vitamin

"or is it all those town hall meetings where GOP officials run away scared when their constituents show up to voice their disapproval of religious bans, Russian influence in the election and White House, and the threatened removal of their own healthcare for the millions of people now covered by the ACA that made you so nervous?"

if I go to anything like that, it is for entertainment

you have to hand it to the fringe coasts of the US

they know how to entertain

"Thanks for pointing out the bi-partisan vote in the Senate was to keep Betsy DeVos, who paid $47million for her cabinet seat, off the cabinet"

oh, corruption is definitely bi-partisan

"Oh and thanks Theresa for expressing your strong faith in the mighty dollar."

I'm not Theresa but it's interesting you think so

"I doubt even the Orange Asshole himself could have said it better."

coming from a butt wipe like you, I guess you'd know

February 11, 2017 10:14 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"you have to hand it to the fringe coasts of the US"

News flash to the bubble dwellers: Utah and Tennessee are not on "fringe coasts."

Republican House Members Assailed by Angry Crowds at Town Halls in Utah, Tennessee

'Do Your Job!': Rep. Chaffetz Faces Enraged Town Hall Crowd in Utah

"I'm not Theresa "

I see your reading comprehension is still lacking as you noticed I addressed Theresa ("reach the facts") but responded anyway.

Caffeine is not a vitamin.

Here's Donny Boy once again telling you what you and your little hands can go do.

February 11, 2017 11:47 AM  
Anonymous it's alarming how charming you aren't said...

oh, reach the facts wasn't Theresa

I'll stick with caffeine as a vitamin

the military has a daily requirement when it plans meals for its troops

February 11, 2017 11:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Less than a month after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump spoke directly with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, which not only stunned international observers, but also undermined the “One-China” policy, uprooting decades of carefully crafted, delicate diplomacy that had been honored by both parties.

When many speculated that the Republican bumbled into this by accident, the White House quickly pushed back, insisting that Trump – who likes to present himself as master negotiator and strategic genius – was executing a brilliant plan, keeping China on its toes.

“I fully understand the One-China policy,” Trump said on Dec. 11. “But I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things.”

As of last night, the new president has dramatically changed course.

President Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping in a phone call Thursday that he intends to honor the so-called “One China” policy, after earlier suggesting it was open for negotiation in comments that rankled Beijing, the White House said.

“The two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our ‘one China’ policy,” the statement said, which described the talks as “extremely cordial.”


Note the oddity of the phrasing: Trump didn’t just endorse the One China policy; he did so “at the request” of the Chinese president. In other words, Xi Jinping told Trump he wanted the White House to reiterate its support for the policy – publicly and in writing – and the U.S. president effectively responded, “Sure thing.”

It’s hard not to see this as a humiliating moment for Trump, who seriously thought he could play diplomatic hardball with Beijing, only to fail spectacularly with a gambit that was clearly not thought out well.

In fact, by some measures, there was some groveling involved. After Trump thumped his chest a bit, talking openly about his skepticism of One China, Beijing started ignoring the White House. This week, the U.S. president tried to play nice, sending his Chinese counterpart a letter, wishing him a happy Chinese New Year.

And a day later, Trump and Xi finally spoke, with the Republican president giving China what it wanted – in exchange for nothing.

He’s quite the negotiator, isn’t he?

February 11, 2017 2:14 PM  
Anonymous Captain Obvious said...

"No president has ever had so few cabinet members confirmed at this late date,"

Other president's nominees had all of their security paperwork and background investigations completed before they went for confirmation -some of Trump's nominees didn't even submit all their paperwork. It's their own fault.

"just as no president has been confronted with such open talk of assassination and impeachment"

Except of course, Barack HUSSEIN Obama. They haven't rewritten all of history yet, I'm sure you can google some old articles about it. I seem to recall one conservative poster here insisting on a weekly basis that Obama's impeachment was imminent.


"It is noteworthy that Schumer started the Trump era by talking about a willingness to work with the new president on infrastructure and other areas of common ground. It was too good to last."

Putting someone in charge of a school system, 90% of which is PUBLIC, who has NO relavant experience, and is a complete idialog, is not common ground. Trump should know better. You don't put the guy who ran your steak business into the ground in charge of your university - unless your name is Trump, apparently.

A whole slew of private colleges had to be shut down last year because it turned out they were just elaborate schemes to funnel student loan money to company founders. Trump thought that worked so well he now wants to double-down it.

Idiocy, thy name is Trump.



February 11, 2017 3:05 PM  
Anonymous har har har, the three "r"s said...

"Putting someone in charge of a school system, 90% of which is PUBLIC, who has NO relavant experience, and is a complete idialog, is not common ground"

another fine product of public schoolin'

look at how he spells ideologue

you can call her an "idialog" but that's just how craven people characterize those who actually believe in something other than their own personal enrichment

public schools are where America's youth are indoctrinated into leftist ideology by teachers whose unions pay legislators to keep increasing their benefits at the expense of our youth

the despicable day of public school teacher unions is nearing nightfall

February 11, 2017 3:55 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"another fine product of public schoolin'

look at how he spells ideologue"


And here are hundreds of examples of your tiny handed pussy grabber's exclusively expensive private schoolin' learnt lousy spelling.

Shoker! Rediculous chocker Trump attaks and dishoners English with ever-dummer spellings.

Your la de da private schooled president's lousy spelling is "unpresidented".

You must be so proud!

Here's a bubble popper for you pussy grabber supporters to chew on for a bit:

White nationalist movement growing much faster than Isis on Twitter, study finds

He's growing the GOP bass!

Congrachulations!

You must be sew happy!

February 11, 2017 4:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"the despicable day of public school teacher unions is nearing nightfall"

Will that be before or after we impeach Obama?

February 11, 2017 4:47 PM  
Anonymous Captain Obvious said...

Ya got me there. If there is someone here that should know how to spell "ideologue," it is you. I suspect it is your middle name. In my defense however, I did manage to learn how to use both commas and periods.

As for "leftist ideology," it's clear that without public taxes taking care of 90% of breeder's children, most parents wouldn't be bothered enough to send their kids to school at all. Private schools have been able to open up in this country at will, and a number have, going back to the seventeenth century - and some of them even allowed women! But the reason they are stuck at 10 % of the market is that there isn't enough money in it. Most parents don't put a high enough priority on it. If they did, there would be as many good private schools as there are Walmarts, Costcos, and Starbucks. People would be complaining "do they have to build ANOTHER private school here?"

But that's not the way it is. Many locals fight tooth and nail if they want to raise taxes for public schools, and that's one of the biggest bargains American receive for their tax dollar.

Private schools will never be a major part of the American landscape until breeders start paying for it themselves. I'm not holding my breath for that. Vouchers sound nice until somone wants to build a big school for Muslims and have students attend using federal vouchers for that. Then, all of a sudden, like magic, some Christian remembers something about "separation of church and state" and tries to stop it. Christians would like to see those vouchers only go for Christian schools, but there are things in the Constitution you have to rip out for that.

As much as you like to bash unions, teacher salaries are simply not unreasonable. You never see kids stopping in the middle of their basketball game to ogle a teacher going by in her limousine and whistfully utter "man, I can't wait 'till I grow up and be the greatest teacher in the country!"

Public schools use secular humanism so it doesn't interfere with all the indoctrination they get at home.

If your kids didn't follow your path, it was because you weren't a good teacher.

Maybe you can get your money back.

February 11, 2017 5:08 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The Washington Post and other experts have recognized Justin Trudeau as the leader of the liberal global resistance to Donald Trump.

February 12, 2017 8:54 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/bad anonymous said "Obama's actions led to the formation of ISIS"

An oft-repeated Republican lie. It was Bush who put a puppet leader in power in Iraq and the Bush administration who outlawed the Bathist party and fired the entire Iraqi military depriving hundreds of thousands of people of jobs. The banned Iraqi military then formed the basis of ISIS.

Lying Republicans keep trying to blame Obama for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq but it was Bush who signed the Status Of Forces agreement with the Iraqi government that required the removal of all American troops - Obama could do nothing about it and was bound by Bush's agreement to follow through and remove the troops. Obama tried to re-negotiate but the Bush government puppet Iraqi leader refused to allow any American troops to stay in Iraq.

No, if anyone was the founder of ISIS, it was George Bush, not Obama.

February 12, 2017 9:07 PM  
Anonymous Nasty woman Priya Lynn said...

"I listened as they called my President a Muslim.
I listened as they called him and his family a pack of monkeys.
I listened as they said he wasn't born here.
I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that they could.
I saw the pictures of him as Hitler.
I watched them shut down the government and hurt the entire nation twice. I watched them turn their backs on every opportunity to open worthwhile dialog. I watched them say that they would not even listen to any choice for Supreme Court no matter who the nominee was. I listened as they openly said that they will oppose him at every turn.
I watched as they did just that.
I listened.
I watched.
I paid attention.
Now, I'm being called on to be tolerant.
To move forward.
To denounce protesters.
To "Get over it."
To accept this...

I will not.

I will do my part to make sure this great American mistake becomes the embarrassing footnote of our history that it deserves to be.
I will do this as quickly as possible every chance I get.
I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country.
I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed
in a loud and proud voice.
I will let you know in a loud voice every time this man backs away from a promise he made to them.
Them. The people who voted for him.
The ones who sold their souls and prayed for him to win.
I will do this so that they never forget.
And they will hear me.
They will see it in my eyes when I look at them.
They will hear it in my voice when I talk to them.
They will know that I know who they are.
They will know that I know what they are.
Do not call for my tolerance. I've tolerated all I can. Now it's their turn to tolerate ridicule. Be aware, make no mistake about it, every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day forward is now Trump's fault just as much as they thought it was Obama's. I find it unreasonable for them to expect from me what they were entirely unwilling to give."

~Jeremy Mitchell

February 12, 2017 9:49 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

American intelligence agencies are withholding information from Trump because they fear everything they tell him will become known to the Russians.

Trump's only been president for three weeks.

He's already making Nixon look honest, and Dubya look bright. Don't be surprised if he doesn't end ump making Benedict Arnold look loyal.

February 12, 2017 10:20 PM  
Anonymous goose egg days said...

smoking gun

Planned Parenthood gave employees rewards for encouraging abortions to women who came to clinic

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/08/whistleblower-planned-parenthood-had-dead-baby-quotas/

new funding for PP:

zero

February 13, 2017 11:32 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

"smoking gun".

LOL, yet another in a long string of debunked conservative lies about Planned Parenthood.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

February 13, 2017 11:34 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Trump's actions harm the fight against ISIS

BAGHDAD — Reverberations from President Donald Trump's travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security co-operation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group.

Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has sought to contain any backlash from public anger sparked by Trump's executive order banning Iraqis from travelling to the U.S. Also breeding resentment and suspicion are Trump's repeated statements that the Americans should have taken Iraq's oil and his hard line against Iran, a close ally of al-Abadi's government.

Iraqi anger at Washington comes at a crucial juncture in a long and often contentious relationship. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are about to launch an assault aimed at retaking the western half of Mosul that is still under Islamic State control. If Mosul is completely secured, it largely would break the extremist group's "caliphate" in the country.

However, Iraqi and U.S. officials have said maintaining security in a post-IS Iraq will be just as difficult — preventing a resurgence of the militants and containing political divisions among Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Both countries have talked of keeping some U.S. troops long term to back Iraq's security forces in that task, a recognition that the agreement George Bush signed for complete American withdrawal at the end of 2011 was a mistake.

Now the Iraqi leader is coming under pressure. Lawmakers are demanding he reduce co-operation with Washington in the future, limit or prevent American troops from staying in the country after the defeat of IS, and reciprocate for any travel ban on Iraqis. Members of powerful Shiite militias have outright warned of retaliation against Americans if the U.S. carries out any military action against Iran, their patron.

Within Iraq's military, some are galled at being grouped in with terrorists by the travel ban when they have been engaged in slow, grueling combat against IS for more than two years.

February 13, 2017 12:29 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led air power and American special forces have pushed IS out of cities in western Anbar province, along the Euphrates and up the Tigris river valley to Mosul in the north. Since October, they have taken back the eastern half of Iraq's second-largest city.

Iraqi special forces Sgt. Maj. Hussein al-Kabii, stationed in Mosul, called Trump's statement about taking Iraq's oil and his travel ban "just unbelievable."

Lukman Faily, the former Iraqi ambassador to the United States, said the ban still sways Iraqi perceptions of the U.S. despite being temporarily blocked by a U.S. federal court ruling. "Iraqis will not want to have long-term security co-operation with the United States if the United States views them as terrorists," he said.

Some in Baghdad and the Iraqi military would likely welcome stepped-up U.S. military help. But Trump's early moves frustrate an already rocky relationship with Washington.

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003, the American troop presence grew as high as 168,000. The war that ensued killed nearly 4,500 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

Many among the Iraqi public, as well as the military and political class acknowledged the need for — even welcomed — U.S. forces and political support. But that has been mixed with anger over abuses and civilian casualties caused by U.S. troops, as well as frustration that U.S. policy missteps following the 2003 invasion, including disbanding the Iraq army after Saddam's fall, helped foster the insurgency, eventually leading to the creation of al-Qaida in Iraq and later the Islamic State group.

February 13, 2017 12:29 PM  
Anonymous so bemused by the confused said...

here's an amusing piece about TTF:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/liberals-anti-trump-apoplexy-isn-helping-article-1.2969299

February 13, 2017 5:30 PM  
Anonymous The Obvious said...

Oh yeah, "It is a tough time to be a young liberal in America," like everybody in TTF. This New York tabloid thinks we oughta just sit down and shut up. But that isn't going to happen. America has never seen corruption and treason like this. It isn't just a case of a colorful (orange) character getting under liberals' skin.

February 13, 2017 7:41 PM  
Anonymous the retalined masses in public schools said...

obviously, another fine product of public schoolin'

couldn't even make it to the paragraph that said:

"The histrionics in response to President Trump’s election have been, in a word, unseemly. I’m not talking about the laudable Women’s Marches or demonstrations against Trump’s immigration executive order, but the angst-ridden thought-pieces on mothers “paralyzed” at the thought of raising a son in Trump’s America. The help lines for college students unable to deal with Trump-voting relatives at family gatherings. All against a backdrop of perma-apoplexy on social media in which privileged, upper-middle-class white college students unironically take on the affectations of one living in Nazi Germany."

nobody wants anyone to sit down and shut up

the writer merely points out how counter-productive the shrill extreme hyperbole is

it may amuse tie-dyed deadheads in Takoma Park, MD or Marin County, CA

but think of Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania

the level-headed residents will never support you jackasses

and need to get those states back to have any hope of returning to power

that's just obvious

February 13, 2017 8:29 PM  
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February 13, 2017 8:31 PM  
Anonymous who can whistle while they laugh? said...

THE LAUGHING GIRAFFE!!

Mickey: I played cards with a primitive tribe

Davey: Zulus?

Mickey: no, I usually won!

it's soooo obvious who got in some real public schoolin"

February 13, 2017 9:03 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"nobody wants anyone to sit down and shut up"

There you go, lying again.

Steve "Goldman Sachs" Bannon says media should 'keep its mouth shut'

Steve "Goldman Sachs" Bannon and his tiny grabby hands knows what he can go do.

February 14, 2017 7:47 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said.

The message, delivered by Sally Q. Yates and a senior career national security official to the White House counsel, was prompted by concerns that ­Flynn, when asked about his calls and texts with the Russian diplomat, had told Vice ­President-elect Mike Pence and others that he had not discussed the Obama administration sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 election, the officials said. It is unclear what the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, did with the information.

Flynn resigned Monday night in the wake of revelations about his contacts with the Russian ambassador...."


Yates defied President Trump, ordering federal attorneys not to defend the controversial immigration order issued by him and then the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals ruled against Trump; saying travel ban would not go into effect.

The orange asshole owes Sally Q. Yates an apology, two of them.

February 14, 2017 8:16 AM  
Anonymous mr nice guy said...

"There you go, lying again"

actually, you are

as you well know, I was referring to the comment "Obvious" made:

"This New York tabloid thinks we oughta just sit down and shut up"

this statement by you is a perfect example of the shameless hypocrisy and hyperbole of the left

you've lost Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by showcasing this type of behavior

the jackass tactic might play well in New York and California, which would help you if we elected President by popular vote

but not in the heartland

and we, fortunately, have a system that insures widespread support for national office

that won't change, and if Dems ever want to contend again they will have to

"Yates defied President Trump, ordering federal attorneys not to defend the controversial immigration order issued by him and then the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals ruled against Trump; saying travel ban would not go into effect.

The [nastiness deleted] owes Sally Q. Yates an apology, two of them"

far from deserving an apology, Yates deserves to never work in public service again because she abused her office

sounds like the Trump administration handled the Flynn situation correctly

February 14, 2017 8:45 AM  
Anonymous The New Orange said...

The administration was briefed about Flynn. We know that Mike Pence attends the security briefings -- why does everybody assume he was "lied to" and was not in on this collusion with the Russians, too?

It's wishful thinking on the part of those who expect him to be President soon. He's as dirty as the rest of them. He knew what was going on, and lied to the public.

February 14, 2017 9:36 AM  
Anonymous ya gotta have heart said...

funny, anytime any conservative speculates without proof, the media-liberal accuses them of lying

I guess New Orange is a red-faced liar, then

how touchingly enchanting:

red-faced for Valentines' Day!

well done, New Orange

February 14, 2017 9:58 AM  
Anonymous I like that said...

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February 14, 2017 10:00 AM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

"sounds like the Trump administration handled the Flynn situation correctly"

To you maybe.

To this nasty woman and a whole lotta other people it sounds like the haters now in the White House kept Flynn and his Russian contacts around long enough to feed all the crap to Assange that helped get the Orange Asshole elected in spite of his disastrous loss in the popular vote, the loss he keeps trying to pin on bullshit lies about nonexistent voter fraud.

Trump makes groundless N.H. voter fraud claims

You and your tiny hands can go do what your leader, Donnie Boy, tells you to do.


February 14, 2017 11:23 AM  
Anonymous if they only had a heart..a brain..the noive said...

"To this nasty woman and a whole lotta other people it sounds like"

well, how could it not sound like that to you?

when anyone who's not a flaming liberal makes any speculation that's locked down with ironclad empirical documentation, you call that a "lie"

so, I guess you now confirm yourself as a liar

how do they celebrate Valentine's Day down in the vile and nasty gutter you live in?

February 14, 2017 1:25 PM  
Anonymous Nasty Woman said...

What it sounds like to me is "the haters now in the White House kept Flynn and his Russian contacts around long enough to feed all the crap to Assange that helped get the Orange Asshole elected in spite of his disastrous loss in the popular vote, the loss he keeps trying to pin on bullshit lies about nonexistent voter fraud." is the absolute truth, even though Tiny Hands Donnie Boy has known since January 19, 2017 U.S. counterintelligence officials are examining possible ties between Russia and Trump associates.

Instead of asking about it, he avoided security briefings.

Rather than protecting AMERICANS, the Orange Asshole protected his circle of cronies.

Plenty of AMERICANS are pissed off about Donnie Boy opening up US security secrets to the Russians with his unqualified White House choices like Flynn, not just me.

Majority of Americans believe Russia interfered with election: New NBC-WSJ poll

American Voters Say Russia Interfered In Election, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Support Sanctions And Many Want More

In fact Asshole Flynn has finally done the right thing while Tiny Hands Donnie Boy has been too much of a pussified chicken to say what he should have said: "You're fired!"

I suggest you try stating indisputable facts with documentation instead of your bullshit schoolyard insults.

Tiny Hands Donnie Boy's insults about us Nasty Women don't bother us -- they empower us to take him and his base down.

And your lame insults simply demonstrate what a deplorable little bully coward you are.

February 14, 2017 2:04 PM  

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