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    https://thinkprogress.org/jason-kess...-df2a95734d6c/

    Not surprised that this rally was a dud, but the author of the column is right. Don't let this make us delude ourselves into thinking that they're gone for good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mecegirl View Post
    I don't even think its that deep. She is just opportunistic. So long as his star was rising she'd latch on. He has low standards for the people he keeps around him so a grifter like her could attach herself easily. Now that he's let her go she's lashing out out of spite.
    That the whole thing is that obvious and NBC still give her the slot that they did on Sunday was a serious "Are you kidding me?" moment.

    "While we take issue with the fact that the President is calling us "Fake News", please ignore that we just gave Omarosa an interview on Meet The Press."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    https://thinkprogress.org/jason-kess...-df2a95734d6c/

    Not surprised that this rally was a dud, but the author of the column is right. Don't let this make us delude ourselves into thinking that they're gone for good.
    Agreed. As long as white supremacists have a friend in the Oval Office, those vermin aren't going anywhere.

    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    That the whole thing is that obvious and NBC still give her the slot that they did on Sunday was a serious "Are you kidding me?" moment.

    "While we take issue with the fact that the President is calling us "Fake News", please ignore that we just gave Omarosa an interview on Meet The Press."
    Yeah, it's hypocrisy, but it's also good business because they KNOW people will watch, and that's all the suits and bean counters care about.

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    Koreas Agree To Hold Another Summit In September

    The summit will take place in North Korea. I wonder if Dolt45 will try and stick his orange nose in that meeting?

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    Vote Like The Affordable Care Act Depends On It (It Does)

    Obamacare’s future hinges on who controls Washington — and state capitals, too.

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    Kellyanne Conway Has Trouble Naming A Top Black White House Aide

    “We have a number of different minorities,” working for the administration, she said on ABC. Suuuuuure! Anything you say, dear.

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    More Than 100 Newspapers Are Uniting To Fight Trump’s ‘War On The Press’

    The Boston Globe has urged newspapers nationwide to publish editorials on Aug. 16 condemning Trump’s anti-media rhetoric. To be honest, I'm surprised it took THIS long for newspapers to unite against Trump's foul rhetoric.

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    Ending Police Brutality Starts With Firing Dangerous Cops

    This week is the fourth anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, and the protests that spread across the nation after that tragedy.

    In the years since Ferguson placed police behavior under the national microscope, confidence in the police has risen and plummeted. Overall mistrust in some communities is a constant, especially among African-Americans. And recent incidents of white people calling the police on black people for simply living their lives haven’t helped the situation.

    Our nation is in the midst of a volatile moment, and it’s crucial ― literally a matter of life and death ― that we identify how we got here and how we can get out. I’m a former Salt Lake City police chief. I believe we should start with the officers.

    In the last four years, we’ve learned an undeniable truth: America’s police departments do not always hire and retain the best officers. We have to make it easier to fire dangerous cops, the ones who pose a threat to communities and to the profession.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Yeah, it's hypocrisy, but it's also good business because they KNOW people will watch, and that's all the suits and bean counters care about.
    Sure.

    You should just quit running your "We are serious news..." spot right around where Omarosa gets a long slot on Meet The Press.

    Either that, or start running it with a disclaimer.

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    Three years ago on this date, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile on David Earl Williams III, the former candidate for U.S. Congress to represent Illinois’ 9th District who on the way towards his challenge of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, actually managed to get beat by Susan Atanus, a fellow Republican who believed that God created things like tornadoes and autism to punish us for abortions and tolerance of gays. How in the world could that happen? Williams was accused of domestic violence by an ex-girlfriend, and that’s already not good… but then he got caught impersonating her online and making posts to try and get her fired from her job and thrown out of the college she was attending. When the court recommended Williams undergo a psychiatcric evaluation, he refused to attend… and then only made it seem like he was hiding some diagnosis that would have truly sabotaged his chances even further.

    It was two years ago that we published our original "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profile of Bill Connor, a Tea Party Challenger to Lindsay Graham for his U.S. Senate seat in the Republican Primary during the 2014 elections. Connor did not get into detail on too many of his issue positions, but he was a big fan of the 10th Amendment and "states' rights", believing that they should be honored so that South Carolina and other states could reject the Affordable Care Act, if they chose. During the primary debate between Graham's challengers, Bill Connor's main tactic to appear the best candidate was to wave a copy of the Constitution around at the podium while occasionally giving assertions that European soldiers he fought alongside in Afghanistan were less hard-working and ingenious than American soldiers because “Europe had gone socialist” and “post-Christian”, that a separation of church and state has led “atheism to be our national religion”; and that Congress should disband federal appeals courts that enforce church-state separation because “if you’re being biblical, you’re doing your job as a judge.” To cement his conservative credentials even further, he insisted that Congress should impeach President Obama over his executive orders on immigration, and flat-out called climate change science "gobbledy-gook". He then asked, sarcastically, that the entire collected audience to take a deep breath, and then exhale it, declaring that since they all just released carbon dioxide, they had just contributed to climate change.

    On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile about Kay Daly, who was originally one of the primary challengers vying to unseat incumbent Congresswoman Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District in the 2016 elections, even creating her own campaign ad to go “RINO Hunting” against her. And WOW what a memorable advertisement it was, where over the course of 30 seconds, Daly accused Ellmers of being a “feminist” who “let homosexuals pretend they’re married”, a “RINO who voted to fund Obamacare and raise the debt ceiling", and that offered “special protections to immigrant child molesters”. Daly’s ad then looped Renee Ellmers saying “RINO” three times, before cutting to a shot of herself in the woods, declaring that she was “hunting RINOS” and inviting others to join her, before firing off a blast of buckshot. Now for reference… we’re talking about RENEE ELLMERS here, the Tea Party Republican who got elected by stirring up fears about a “9/11 Victory Mosque”, whose only real moderate moment of note is that she hesitated on voting for HR 7, a piece of anti-abortion legislation in early 2015. But still, Daly wasn’t done. She then sent out a follow-up e-mail to prospective voters where she charged that Ellmers "Hispanders" to "interlopers" and "deportables." (aka undocumented immigrants) and also took issue with Ellmers' support foran Equal Rights Amendment as "the one lesbians used to burn their bras over" and taking her to task for "Hillary Clinton's Feminist Museum bill" (translation: the National Women's History Museum). After all that bluster and vitriol directed at Renee Ellmers, though… Kay Daly saw a redistricting shift happen in North Carolina, and ended up changing her mind to instead run in North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District, as one of seventeen (yes, 17) Republicans in a primary for the seat. She was proud of her efforts to weaken Ellmers, though, declaring in her new announcement that she was opposed to women serving in the military, and that with Ellmers’ difficulties “the last Southern White RINO has been driven to extinction.” Considering that Kay Daly also feels there is a gay mafia persecuting her because she supports transphobic bathroom bans (no irony, there), and refers to transgendered people are “perverts and deviants”, or “transgenderrhoids” we in no way feel bad for her for finishing way back in eleventh in the Republican Primary for that Congressional seat with only 2.8% of the vote. Sadly, we’re thinking this isn’t the last that we’ll hear of Kay Daly in North Carolina politics, and we’re expecting she pops up as a RINO Hunter in the future.
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    One year ago today, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled John Faircloth, a former police chief of Fair Point, North Carolina who first ran for office to serve District 61 in the North Carolina House of Representatives in… you guessed it, the 2010 Tea Party Wave. It’s unfortunate that Faircloth’s previous profession in law enforcement seems to be affecting his role as a legislator. On two occasions in the past years, Faircloth has sponsored legislation to make it impossible for citizens to have police body-cam footage released. In 2015, Faircloth had a failed attempt in the form of HB 713 and then turned around in 2016 to file HB 972.

    Now, with incidents of police violence around the country against suspects and even police officers in Baltimore being caught on their own body-cams planting evidence on suspects they’re shaking down, the ability for someone victimized by police to have their accounts being verified by the video footage can be crucial to assuring accountability from police departments. But a conservative former cop doesn’t like the sound of that, and would like sheriffs to be immune to the concept of transparency, and just tell the public to get bent if someone’s beat by police. Shockingly, towards the tail end of the turbulent reign of former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Faircloth’s bill managed to get passed through the legislature, and signed into law.

    Now, you might say, “Well, it’s hypothetically bad. It’s not like police violating the public trust is common throughout North Carolina. (HA!) And it’s still up to the sheriff, who wouldn’t suppress the footage if a rogue cop beat up an innocent citizen as this law permits.”

    Well, guess what? It didn’t even take more than a few months for such a scenario to arise, and be met with a legal challenge. At a 2017 Fourth of July celebration in Greensboro, North Carolina, a 15-year-old young man by the name of Josh Charles was waiting outside a restroom while his mother was taking younger siblings to got to the bathroom, and in the time it took her to get back, Charles was accused of fighting with police, resisting arrest, and spitting blood in their face. In the time it took for a couple kids to go potty, all that supposedly happened and his mother walks back with the rest of the family to find her teenaged son on the ground in a pool of blood with a cop holding his hand around her son’s neck, as if to choke him. And guess what the Greensboro police don’t want the public to see? The body camera footage from the cops on scene.

    So you can thank John Faircloth for this scenario.

    But suppressing body camera footage isn’t the only way that John Faircloth would like to empower the cops in North Carolina. Since 2010, the shenanigans that the North Carolina GOP have pulled have caused frequent protests, most famously those on Moral Mondays and being led by the Rev. William Barber. And there’s no better idea to put a stop to that than to sponsor legislation to suppress the First Amendment right to protest. John Faircloth co-sponsored HB 249, which would allow police to label protests that “block traffic” as “economic terrorists”, and allow police to arrest them. Why, that doesn’t sound like something out of an Orwell novel, does it?

    The rest of Faircloth’s voting record is pretty troubling, as well. On top of anti-choice votes and voting to cut voting rights, he voted to block the Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, and for the conservative but unconstitutional staple of drug testing welfare recipients.

    Perhaps most dubious are his votes for anti-LGBTQ measures, as in 2011, he voted to amend the North Carolina state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and more recently in 2016, voted for HB 2, North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill that includes a transgender bathroom ban, and causes boycotts of the state.

    At the age of 79, it’s unclear how long Faircloth plans on staying in office, but even with North Carolina’s gerrymandered legislative map completely redrawn by a judge’s order for the 2018 elections, Faircloth ran for re-election anyway, with no one to oppose him in the GOP Primary. He did, however, get a challenger in the form of Martha Shafer, a retired hospital administrator and a cum laude honors graduate of Duke University. And it seems like Faircloth might be in big, big trouble, as Shafer has been fundraising circles around him, already pulling in ten times the amount of support in a district that will be much more blue this fall than in the past. Here's hoping that after election day, Shafer can help entice Faircloth to reconsider and retire after handing him a loss.
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    The Trump administration is ensnared in another border dispute — this time with Canada

    Machias Seal Island is a 20-acre, treeless island teeming with puffins, razorbills, terns, eiders and other seabirds, making it a prime destination for birdwatchers. Canada and the United States both claim sovereignty over the island, which is about 10 miles off the coast of Maine, and the surrounding 277-square-mile Gray Zone, where fishermen from both countries compete over valuable lobster grounds.

    In late June and early July, Canadian fishermen said, U.S. Border Patrol agents in speedboats intercepted Canadian lobster boats in the Gray Zone.

    “I have no idea where they came from,” said Laurence Cook, a lobsterman and representative of the Fishermen’s Association from nearby Grand Manan Island. “We’ve never seen U.S. Border Patrol in the Gray Zone before.”
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    Cook said at least 10 Canadian boats were stopped and their crews interrogated about whether they were carrying drugs and illegal immigrants.

    The incident comes at a low point in U.S.-Canadian relations. The United States in May slapped tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum, prompting retaliation from Canada on the same metals and other U.S. exports. President Trump has lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him “dishonest and weak.”
    Canada? Seriously? The Trump Administration is getting stranger and stranger. Immigrants are trying to escape from the U.S. Into Canada, not the other way around.
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    FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts

    The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.

    Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday — even though the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension. Goelman said the move undercuts the FBI’s repeated assurances that Strzok would be afforded the normal disciplinary process.

    “This isn’t the normal process in any way more than name,” Goelman said.

    The FBI declined to comment.

    The termination marks a remarkable downfall for Strzok, a 22-year veteran of the bureau who investigated Russian spies, defense officials accused of selling secrets to China and myriad other important cases. In the twilight of his career, Strzok was integral to two of the bureau’s most high-profile investigations: the Russia case, and the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.

    But when a Justice Department inspector general investigation uncovered politically charged messages that Strzok had exchanged with another FBI official, he was relegated to a position in human resources. Conservatives soon made Strzok the face of their attacks against the special counsel investigation into the president’s campaign, and the FBI took steps to remove him from its ranks.
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    In a recent Gallup poll, socialism outperforms capitalism saving Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/240725/...apitalism.aspx

    This worries me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    In a recent Gallup poll, socialism outperforms capitalism saving Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/240725/...apitalism.aspx

    This worries me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    In a recent Gallup poll, socialism outperforms capitalism saving Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/240725/...apitalism.aspx

    This worries me.
    I think it's encouraging, and it's showing a burgeoning split not just from the left and right but from the young and the old.

    This quote I thought was telling, from a completely different article https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...onvention-alec

    “We’re in a battle for the future of our country,” Coburn told the assembly of mostly conservative state lawmakers meeting in New Orleans. “We’re either going to become a socialist, Marxist country like western Europe, or we’re going to be free. As far as me and my family and my guns, I’m going to be free.” -former Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn
    There's a subset of conservatives who believe any form of socialism is evil, even when it's practiced by our allies. That's a tougher sell to people who didn't grow up during the Cold War, and are wondering why our health care system is so broken compared to countries like Canada.

    The time is coming soon, I think, where "Socialist!!" is going to utterly fail as an argument in and of itself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    Sure.

    You should just quit running your "We are serious news..." spot right around where Omarosa gets a long slot on Meet The Press.

    Either that, or start running it with a disclaimer.
    Maybe instead of calling it Fake News, we should call it what it is: Corporate News.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    What I want to know is if she heard him using the N-word so often, which I totally believe, by the way, why did she defend him for so long? Makes her a bit of an Uncle Tom, doesn't it?
    Omarosa only heard the stories, reportedly first hand, about the outtakes from the Apprentice where he did use the N word. Tom Arnold for one has claimed her heard them. Mark Burnett, the show's creator / Exec. producer, refused to release the outtake reels.

    Omarosa does claim to have more direct knowledge of Trump using racial slurs about Kellyanne Conway's husband, who is half Phillipino and had criticized Trump on his blog.

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    I don't know what's more problematic with that photo; the SS tattoo or the "titties" patch?

    And, I see Trump on a Rascal before I see him on a Harley Davidson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    A lowlife? She can be a lowlife for not giving her ghostwriter enough credit with her book. Several people including Trump, John McCain, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, etc have credited their ghostwriters as co-authors of their books.
    Omarosa has a master's degree in journalism.

    Why do you assume she needed a ghost writer? Writing may be the only talent she has.
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