Courtesy of Dallas News:A sheriff from Texas complained to Trump about a state senator just now. "Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career," POTUS said.— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) February 7, 2017
There's a Texas state senator with a target on his back today, courtesy of President Donald Trump and the Rockwall County sheriff.
At a meeting this morning with sheriffs from around the country, Sheriff Harold Eavenson complained about a state senator for getting in the way of some measures he felt would be helpful.
"Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career," Trump offered.
The sheriff declined, according to pool reporters on hand in the Roosevelt Room and Oval Office at the White House, where Trump met with law officers from around the country.
Eavenson is in line to become president of the National Sheriff's Association in June. He has been active in the Sheriff's Association of Texas.
So the president is now a hitman for hire by any supporter who wants a politician's career destroyed?
How is THIS not an impeachable offense?
Glad you did an article on this. Frightening to the max.
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Did an article? You mean copy and paste an article by someone else? As bloggers do...
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DeleteI'm positive that was just a light hearted moment. As if he's every light hearted.
ReplyDelete"How is this not an impeachable offense?" - my thoughts exactly. But they will all say that Trump was obviously joking....uh huh.
ReplyDeleteIt's just locker room talk...
DeleteThis is just breaking news. It also highlights the confiscation (robbery) of assets to fund local law enforcement. (Line heir pockets)
ReplyDeleteHope Rachel M. picks this up.
O/T If you like Rachelle you'll also like RandiRhodes.com 4-6pm ET. It's a Podcast.
DeleteTrump's answer to anyone criticizing this statement will be to admonish them for not having a sense of humour. Such a joker!
ReplyDeleteYes, just some light banter to lighten things up, just like berating Arnold at the pray breakfast.
DeleteSo why didn't the sheriff, Mr. Big Shot, give the name, because he was lying?
Nothing is too low for NMP! May the impeachment process commence immediately.
ReplyDeleteThere's simply not a word despicable enough to call this pig. I get tired of my husband saying, "you can dislike the man but you have to respect the office." NO, I DON'T.
ReplyDeletePig is the appropriate word. GO READ Animal Farm. Please. Please. It's becoming too much like a playbook for this administration. We must resist, not laugh, not accept pure imagination nor 'alternative-facts' as they attempt to alter history and the present events.
DeleteHow very democrat.
ReplyDeleteFuck you
DeleteOT? "Murkowski on Senate’s Confirmation of Betsy DeVos"
ReplyDelete"on commitments she made to me during our meetings – to defend state and local control of our schools, to implement federal education laws as they are written, and that she will not undermine or ignore our public schools or force vouchers in any state."
http://midnightsunak.com/2017/02/07/murkowski-reacts-devos-confirmation/
In an earlier tweet, President Donald Trump wrote "Betsy DeVos is a reformer, and she is going to be a great Education Sec. for our kids!"
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Reformer??? hardly, Be prepared for more court fights against taxpayer money for charter schools and religious based schools.
In the end, how did Murkowski vote?
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"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."
Delete-- Adolph Hitler, April 26, 1933
In the end, how did Murkowski vote?
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Both Murkowski and Collins voted NO, tied went to pence, voted yes.
We lost the battle by a slim margin. It showed that there are republicans willing to go against trump.
Now the fight will be with congress and betsy, that is if she ever figures out what her duties are.
Murkowski voted against Devos because it was safe. She knew she could score political points for voting against because Devos would be confirmed by Pence's tie breaker. It was a crafty political move by Murkowski, and she keeps getting voted in up here because Joe Miller always rears his head.
DeleteNext time, fuck it, let's have some Joe Miller if he runs again and NOT vote for Murkowski just because she is the lesser of two evils. She hasn't really proven herself to be that, even with this carefully crafted vote.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/melania-trump-settles-defamation-suit-against-blogger-who-claimed-she-worked-as-an-escort/
My sympathy is entirely with the blogger. Poor guy - to have been targeted by someone who has no need for money or fame. And the woman in question's already gotten lots of notoriety. Her photos, unclothed and partially clothed, have been in magazines and tabloids and on the internet for years. And she was worried about an "escort service" rumor when lots of legitimate questions about her coming to this country and her background have gone unanswered? Besides, what million dollar income should this woman be entitled to now that she is, heaven help us, First Lady? Is she planning to sit in the Green Room at the White House hawking her jewelry line or her caviar-laced cosmetics on Fox News? It's been less than a month since the ignoble inauguration and the country is in dire straits already. What will we be like in six months?
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"My sympathy is entirely with the blogger"
DeleteYou must be a very confused person. Anyone else has the right to protect their own dignity. Just when it seems the IMers can't get any more ridiculously stupid, bang zoom! You go and hit it out of the park.
She couldn't win against the newspaper so she attacked the blogger.
DeleteWhat a sad, sad little husband she is married to. You know he's behind this lawsuit, right?
has the right to protect their own dignity
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ha ha ha, she lost that when she posed nude for the men's magazines, soft porn is not modeling.
She also lost her dignity when she decided the role of the first lady is to pimp her "products" not made in America.
this had nothing to do with dignity but grifting.
Anon at 2:35 pm. As far as I'm concerned, she lost her "dignity" when she posed largely unclothed in photographs that were shown in magazines and tabloids. She did that for profit. Not behavior befitting a woman who is now First Lady of the United States.
DeleteWhen these rumors started, those behind them apologized and retracted what they had written. That should have sufficed.
She does not need the money; she'd be involved in immense conflict of interest battles if she tried to profit from being First Lady. Just imagine if Laura Bush or Michelle Obama had ever tried to profit personally from their roles. No one would have worried about their "dignity"; they would have been condemned by the media and by everyone else.
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political implications of 35% of Americans not knowing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same things will be a complete disaster for Republicans after people realize that Trump has demolished their health insurance."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/07/disaster-looms-gop-35-americans-idea-trump-gut-health-care.html
HELLO JUNKIES!
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Trump is sounding more like Putin every day.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/as-scary-as-it-gets-dem-senator-vows-to-investigate-trumps-strange-relationship-with-putin/
DeleteThe Democrats couldn't get one more Republicans to cross over.
ReplyDeleteThat fuck DeVos was confirmed with Cocksucker Mike Pence casting the tie breaker.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-set-confirm-education-secretary-083014424.html
Everyone take the pledge on EVERYTHING.
"George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Take the DeVos pledge: If your senator votes to confirm, you will vote against their reelection and donate to their opponent."
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/827899220564799490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
( I have a feeling some Departments of Education (California) and some individual schools districts and even local schools are going to give the big middle finger to DeVos.)
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rubio-took-almost-100-000-from-betsy-devos-family-before-confirming-her-today-9123691
DeleteI thought Melania sued because she was accused of being an escort?
ReplyDeleteThe $150 million lawsuit against Mail Media, the Daily Mail’s owner, in New York state court, claiming the article had cost her millions of dollars in potential business.
What potential business? She just said she's not an escort?
Putin has probably been giving someone in the White House instructions in how to "eliminate" the opposition. Maybe Trump admires the fact that Putin has done in many of his critics, especially the ones in the press. But here? This situation has just gone beyond intolerable.
ReplyDeleteI simply cannot imagine any president, even Richard Nixon and he was pretty bad, making threats like that publicly about an ruining an elected official in this country.
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Steve Bannon's bible is "The Art of War."
DeleteI think that explains a lot.
Not saying she is one, look at her face, Melania should be the spokeswoman for Abused-Wives-R-Us.
ReplyDeleteWhen you watch this video you will see a sad woman who puts on a fake smile when her husband looks at her and frowns when he looks away.
Look at how she dances with her husband and look at how she dances with a perfect stranger.
Look at how her face is glowing with a real man. If she was any happier and at ease, she would be sweating and smoking a cigarette.
She doesn't look emotionally damaged with a stranger, just with her husband.
That's bollllshiittt that being accused of being an escort has affected her being the First Lady.
Melania looks perfectly happy when she in the company of a real man who pays attention to her.
Donald, a real man would not exit a limousine and let his wife walk by herself like a stray dog.
https://youtu.be/LMV1HA2O3x8
I remember the look of dismay on the Obamas' faces when they saw what Trump had done. He's a real pig, the genuine article.
DeleteBut he was also a pig when she married him.
Trump administration facing another lawsuit. This time from the Humane Society.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hsus-usda-animal-welfare-records_us_5899e500e4b09bd304bd8d7f?section=us_politics
"Numerous animal protection groups slammed the change for devastating their ability to do work, but the HSUS may be in a particularly advantageous position to fight for getting the data back. That’s because the HSUS sued the USDA in 2005, alleging the department had violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide records related to animal experimentation in research facilities.
They reached a settlement in 2009, with the USDA agreeing to make numerous records public online. These included information about pain and distress in lab animals.
In a notice sent to the USDA on Monday, the HSUS argues that the department violated their terms of the settlement in deleting their animal welfare records. If the USDA does not reinstate the records, the HSUS will move to get a court order for them to do so, or will reopen the suit, the notice says."
Bury the Trump administration in lawsuits I say!
First lady Melania Trump can't adequately cash in on her multimillion-dollar brand following false reports that she once worked as a high-paid escort, she says in a freshly filed lawsuit against an online tabloid.
ReplyDeleteWhat brand? The Trump brand took a nose dive since that idiot became president. Just ask Ivanka.
"If the enemy makes a mistake our roaring missiles will hit their targets," Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, said during massive air defense drills, the state-owned Fars News Agency reported.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/06/iran-and-china-respond-trump-military-drills/97555758/
"These points are all within the range of Iran's missile systems, and they will be razed to the ground if the enemy makes a mistake," Mojtaba Zonour, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. "And only seven minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”
ReplyDeleteIran also warned that if attacked, its missiles would target the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, American installations in the Indian Ocean and the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
ReplyDeleteIs that why Trump is moving the embassy to Jerusalem?
DeleteWhite House Admits They Use Fake News Label To Punish Press That Criticize Trump
ReplyDeleteDeputy Assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka, said that the White House is going to continue calling the media fake news until the press stops being critical of Trump.
...Any story that criticizes Trump, or that the President does not like is going to be labeled “fake news” by the White House. It seems that the only real news that the White House will accept is stories that praise Trump.
The real point of the Trump White House’s adoption of the fake news term as a weapon is the delegitimation of the free press. The White House is attempting to delegitimize facts and information that they don’t like by labeling them as not real. If President Trump and his team are able to successfully confuse the American people, it will be more difficult to hold them accountable for their actions.
The fake news punishment is more than a way to pressure the press to give Trump positive coverage. The White House is trying to discredit the flow of factual information to the public.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/07/white-house-admits-fake-news-label-punish-press-criticize-trump.html
Trump Is Losing The Media War As CNN Isn’t Putting Up With Anymore White House Lies
The Trump White House suffered another defeat in their war with the media today as CNN immediately shot down a Sean Spicer lie about why the network turned down an offer to interview Kellyanne Conway.
...The White House press secretary looked the American people in the eye and lied to them. For any other administration being told that a White House senior adviser lacks the credibility needed to be on cable news would be a problem. For the Trump administration, it is an excuse to lie about the actions of a cable news network.
CNN isn’t putting up with the White House’s daily distortions of truth. I don’t support the limiting of access to information, but the time has come for television networks to evaluate the decision to show White House events live. If an administration is going to use the platform of the presidency dishonestly, the press has a duty to check the White House statements for factual accuracy.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/07/trumpcnn-putting-anymore.html
I think Mr. Cooper did well about pushing the truth as he was covering attacks, he was there! Mr. Fat orange arse was on his gold plated toilet at the times. Lol.
DeleteThe White House complaints about a lack of respect are only serving to remind reporters to examine Trump at all times with a critical eye because Donald Trump doesn’t want respect. He wants to silence disagreement and dissent.
ReplyDelete...Kellyanne Conway then complained about CNN giving too much coverage to Trump’s Muslim ban.
It’s clear that by respect, Kellyanne Conway meant more favorable coverage towards Trump. Press outlets should cover Trump in an even more critical manner now that he is president than they did when he was a candidate. One of the problems in the media coverage of the 2016 election is that too many members of the media didn’t take Trump seriously as a candidate.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/07/kellyanne-conway-demands-press-show-respect-trump.html
No one in the Trump administration has shown any respect for the American people as they proceed to gut environmental and other regulations and end Obamacare, Social Security and Medicare. Why should the American people respect an administration that, within weeks of taking office, is already trouncing on the Constitution?
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Kellyanne Conway abruptly ends Capitol Hill outreach when GOP staffer asks about SNL: report
ReplyDelete...Conway abruptly ended another meeting, where she dismissed the concerns of voters about DeVos, after a congressional staffer asked her about a “Saturday Night Live” sketch ridiculing White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
The staffer asked Conway if she’d laughed at the sketch, the website reported, but a source said her face “turned to stone.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-abruptly-ends-capitol-hill-outreach-when-gop-staffer-asks-about-snl/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa
Delete" a source said her face “turned to stone.”
SNL lampooned DeVos in that sketch. Destroyed her.
DeleteFrom the reactions I think SNL is going to be having more Spicer and DeVos in sketches.
Hair Furor will not be pleased.
Old enough to remember when SNL first got started. Back in their heyday...
DeleteOrange Anus is making SNL GREAT AGAIN!!!
Jake Tapper corners a flailing Kellyanne Conway on Trump’s ‘offensive’ lies
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/thats-just-false-jake-tapper-corners-a-flailing-kellyanne-conway-on-trumps-offensive-lies/
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/we-have-not-retracted-cnn-shoots-down-sean-spicers-latest-lie-about-kellyanne-conway/
Yeah, she is so not credible. Her 15 minutes of fame are over. No one goves a pos sbout her anymore, just lies is what goes on in my mind. But I listen to make sure i can be infirmed of lies. Lol.
DeleteEven Fox News Isn't Buying Trump's Claim Networks Don't Cover Terrorist Attacks
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/02/even-fox-news-isnt-buying-trumps-claim
Trump's 'Terrorism Isn't Covered' Ruse Is Old Breitbart Trick
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/02/trumps-terrorism-isnt-covered-ruse-old
Elstun Lauesen said the DeVos confirmation was a done deal- and that's why McConnell permitted Lisa Murkowski to fool Alaskans into thinking she had any principles (in return for Lisa's help in getting DeVos through committee).
ReplyDeleteLisa Murkowski is and has always been a conniver and every non-Republican that ever voted for her should hang their stupid heads. Joe Miller in the US Senate would not have been any different than Murkowski.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/betsy-devos-democrats-defeat-234753
Delete@1:25 say what you want. I see a slovenian illegal immigrant prostitute-escort/ goldigger. She knew who she got involved with, and I'll give you a lil hint it wasn't for love
ReplyDeleteWell, add, how do we know she can stay alive tomorrow and the next her elevator could crash, she could be hit by a bus, .. any number of things. So how could we know she could make millions? How stupid.
Delete"I'll give you a lil hint it wasn't for love" of giving a Golden $hower demo to HER tiny dick man child. $he fucking had HI$ VIAGRA baby.
DeleteBarron wa$ the 'MonEy $hot' Ticket.
More Than 650,000 People Have Joined a Campaign to Impeach President Trump
ReplyDeleteA campaign to impeach President Donald Trump now has more than 650,000 signatures.
The online petition, which is spearheaded by two nonprofit advocacy groups, Free Speech for People and RootsAction, was created the day of President Trump's inauguration, Jan. 20. The campaign said that as of noon on Feb. 7, its petition had 655,363 signatures....
http://time.com/4662800/campaign-impeach-president-donald-trump/
Petitions do not impeach presidents, no matter how many foot stomping bed wetters think signing it will do something.
DeleteMaybe the DNC should not have colluded with the Hillary campaign to ramrod Hillary thru the nomination process against the wishes of so many, only to get caught red handed and ultimately fail. Maybe you should instead work against the DNC that has lied to you and failed you miserably.
It's going to take a vote to impeach from the House of Representatives, controlled by the GOP and then a trial by the Senate, controlled by the GOP. And then we would get Pence. Now he would probably be somewhat cowed by what had happened to his leader but he'd still be president and just as crazy as he is now.
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So, everyone can now go against da dump. He can get pissed and go aftwr and have even more lawsuits. Come on people go against him.
ReplyDelete$he will be FIRED the 1st day:
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/318310-gop-lawmaker-proposes-abolishing-department-of-education
Tip of the iceberg. The one in the WH is bigger then the one that sank the Titanic.
ReplyDeletelittle dick Marco, but BIGGER the drumpf> 100Grand!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rubio-took-almost-100-000-from-betsy-devos-family-before-confirming-her-today-9123691
Huckabee sanders stated he was jiking. HA!
ReplyDeleteNo he was not.
Huckabee Fuckerbee how zactly is it spelled?
DeleteYay! NYC students walkout.
ReplyDeleteI. Can"t. Take.Anymore.
ReplyDeleteWow, first primary in June! People.
ReplyDeleteGet people you know that didn't vote, registered if needed, and vote in primaries!
Vote everytime! We need to vote.
However you feel about no ACAcare, sec. Of Education,...
Start now. On getting everyone registered and start to vote.
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