My favorite caption for this photo.

A picture of a group of people who all voted for Hillary Clinton. pic.twitter.com/cky6f1Rk2M

— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) April 22, 2018

I saw this picture posted repeatedly on the internet after the funeral of Barbara Bush, but this caption was the one that made be LOL.

Mostly because we know it's true. 

Barack Obama's retrospective job approval rating is 63%.

Courtesy of Gallup: 

Barack Obama's legacy appears to be on the right track, as 63% of Americans in hindsight say they approve of the way he handled his job. Gallup's first measure of Obama's retrospective job approval rating places him behind only John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan among the 10 most recent presidents. Richard Nixon is rated worst today for how he handled his job, with 28% approving.

Actually whoever typed this up made a mistake as George H. Bush is also rated higher than Obama by a point, which I find unacceptable.

I am also not pleased to see Jimmy Carter so far down the list, and Reagan at the top, as I do not believe this factually represents their contributions to this country.

I will say I fully expect that Obama's rating will only rise in the years to come, and that I would not be surprised if at some point he gave Ronnie a run for his money.

Fox News lunatic Jeanine Pirro goes to Chappaqua to shame Hillary Clinton. Does not quite work out as planned.

On "Street Justice," @JudgeJeanine visits @HillaryClinton's hometown to check in on the 2016 presidential candidate. pic.twitter.com/6n2GO3IfMs

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 28, 2018

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro visited Hillary Clinton’s hometown of Chappaqua, N.Y., for a segment that aired Saturday night. Fox News host searches for Hillary Clinton in the woods Fox News host Jeanine Pirro visited Hillary Clinton’s hometown of Chappaqua, N.Y., for a segment that aired Saturday night. 

Pirro, a supporter and confidante of President Trump, spoke to employees at a dry cleaner, pizza shop, bookstore and nail salon to see if they’ve seen Clinton. 

“OK, so I spoke to some people in Chappaqua, now I’m still looking for Hillary so I’m off to the woods,” Pirro said, referencing photos that appeared on social media after the election of Clinton taking a hike through the woods near her home. 

The segment then cuts to Pirro calling out Clinton’s name in the woods. “Do you think she’s home writing another book? Or maybe she’s still reading ‘What Happened’ because she can’t figure out what happened?” Pirro asked.

Pirro called for Clinton to be thrown in jail last October. Her comments came after it was reported Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund the dossier containing unverified claims about Trump’s ties to Russia.

Okay WTF was that?

Is this what passes for news on Fox?

I have seen this idiot a few times before.

Typically the froth dripping from her rabid mouth makes it almost impossible to listen to her rantings for more than a few minutes at a time, but this is even over the top for her.

Pirro seriously HATES the Clintons, especially Hillary.

And much of the reason for that may be traced back to 2005.

Courtesy of CNN:

Jeanine Pirro, the longtime prosecutor who had been set to run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, has decided to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in New York, she announced Wednesday.

Pirro made some excuse about her law career being too important to abandon at the time, but there was evidence that there were other reasons she bailed: 

When Pirro launched the Senate bid against the Democrat, her announcement speech was marred by an embarrassing 30-second silence after she lost a page of her prepared remarks. Then her fundraising got off to a slow start, raising less than $500,000 in her first month. 

A majority of 62 Republican county chairs meeting last week in Albany announced their belief that Pirro should quit the Senate race but did not agree on a substitute candidate.

The next year Pirro was investigated over charges of wiretapping her own husband to catch him in an affair. They later divorced.

Ever since then Pirro has been a dyed in the wool Hillary hater, and clearly that hate has negatively impacted her sanity.

Donald Trump suggests that passing his recent cognitive test means he is more capable of solving the North Korea problem than his predecessors.

According to Reuters Trump said this while being asked about dealing with Kim Jong Un: 

With North Korea persisting as the major global challenge facing Trump this year, the president cast doubt on whether talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be useful. In the past he has not ruled out direct talks with Kim. 

“I’d sit down, but I‘m not sure that sitting down will solve the problem,” he said, noting that past negotiations with the North Koreans by his predecessors had failed to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. 

He blamed his three immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for failing to resolve the crisis and, a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score on a cognitive test, suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it. 

“I guess they all realized they’re going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests,” he joked.

First off, he wasn't joking. The reporter from Reuters is just giving him the benefit of the doubt here.

And secondly Trump is ALWAYS bragging about his intellect, and I imagine truly believes he is more capable than Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, or Barack Obama, who became the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and may have the highest IQ of any president in modern history. 

Keep in mind that Trump's cognitive test consisted of remembering a sequence of numbers, simple subtraction, drawing a clock, and identifying animals by name.

It is a ten minute test that his doctor claimed took him thirty minutes to complete, and THIS suggests that he has good cognitive abilities?

Just the fact that he made the statement above, demonstrates the falsity of that claim.

It should also be mentioned that later in the Reuters article when asked Trump did not rule out a military solution to the North Korean problem.

Such sharp cognitive skills this one.

Official White House position on women accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct is that they are all liars.

.@PressSec tells @JaxAlemany that the official position is that the women who accused the President of sexual harassment are lying. pic.twitter.com/myRI5Nmdn5

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) October 27, 2017

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The White House on Friday confirmed its official stance on the women accusing President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct: They are lying. 

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the position in a press conference on Friday afternoon after CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany posed a question: 

“Obviously sexual harassment has been in the news. At least 16 women accused the president of sexually harassing them throughout the course of the campaign. Last week, during a press conference in the Rose Garden, the president called these accusations ‘fake news.’ Is the official White House position that all these women are lying?” 

“Yeah, we’ve been clear on that from the beginning and the president has spoken on it,” Sanders said in a curt response.

To be clear, according to the Republicans, any woman who accused Bill Clinton of propositioning them is completely believable.

Any woman who accused Democratic fundraiser Harvey Weinsten of sexually abusing or harassing them, completely believable.

Any women who are currently accusing Mark Halperin of being a pig, completely believable.

However the more than a dozen women accusing Trump of harassing, assaulting, or even raping them, well those bitches are lying.

Just thought we should take the time to clear that up.

Well it's pretty easy to see why Trump did not join those five former presidents at that hurricane fundraiser last night.

.@realDonaldTrump-This is what a REAL president looks like—listen to the crowd roar for @BarackObama#AMJoy #Resistpic.twitter.com/b2VBRcUNDO

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 22, 2017

Listen to that crowd.

That is the sound of overwhelming support.

Here is more courtesy of Politico:  

With the American flag as a backdrop and surrounded by Texas A&M University singing cadets, all five living former presidents stood on stage together in College Station, Texas, on Saturday night to kick off a benefit concert to help raise money for hurricane victims. 

President Donald Trump was not in attendance, but a video of his remarks played.

Former presidents Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all attended. 

"All of us on this stage here tonight could not be prouder of the response of Americans," Obama said. "When they see their neighbors, and their friends, when they see strangers in need, Americans step up. And as heartbreaking as the tragedies that took place here in Texas and in Florida, in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been, but what we've also seen is the spirit of America at its best." 

In the six weeks since the campaign began, more than $31 million has been raised from some 80,000 contributors, according to David Jones, chief executive of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation.

Man, this photo. pic.twitter.com/q9TQ6iIA5G

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 22, 2017

There is at least one of these men who I actively despise, and two who are very close to the end of their time on earth. And yet I would gladly chose ANY of them over the traitorous POS currently residing in the people's house.

And did you hear that applause for Barack Obama?

That is the kind of enthusiasm we need to harness for the Democrat's next presidential candidate.

While Donald Trump goes golfing for the 74th time since his inauguration, 5 former president's show up to raise money for hurricane relief.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Members of an exclusive club are making a rare joint appearance Saturday. 

All five living former US presidents will take part in a benefit concert in Texas to raise money for hurricane relief efforts, while President Donald Trump will appear in a taped video message to the concertgoers, the White House announced Saturday. 

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter will attend Saturday night's event, named "Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal," at Reed Arena at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Apparently Trump is going to send a video message, but that is really all he can do right now as he is dealing with more important matters.

Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump Nat'l Golf Club in VA.

This is his 74th day at a golf club, 94th day at a Trump property as president.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 21, 2017

Priorities.

However the men who took their jobs seriously are showing up to help their fellow Americans whose lives have been devastated by these recent disasters.

The concert won't be the first time the former presidents have joined forces. 

After Hurricane Harvey struck Texas in September, all five started the "One America Appeal" charity effort and filmed a video urging citizens to help out amid the devastating flooding. 

They have since resumed the effort in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

As Americans, we lift each other up. I’m proud to be a part of this night. Hope you’ll tune in. https://t.co/FZLWfNBLw5 https://t.co/Mv6Kg2ZwMZ

— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) October 21, 2017

I am long past hoping that Trump is capable of learning on the job, but just maybe he can be shamed into actually doing his job by the example set by these men.

I mean at this point anything is worth a try. 

Former presidents band together to participate in concert to raise money for victims of the numerous hurricanes.

Courtesy of CNN:

All five living former US presidents will participate in a benefit concert to raise money for hurricane relief efforts in Texas later this month, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation announced today. 

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter will appear at Reed Arena at Texas A&M University on October 21 for the "Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal" concert. 

The event will also feature rock and country musicians including ALABAMA, the Gatlin Brothers, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Sam Moore, Yolanda Adams, Cassadee Pope and Stephanie Quayle. Country music artist Lee Greenwood will emcee the event.

"The 43rd President and I, and our distinguished colleagues in this 'One America Appeal,' are very grateful to these wonderful performers -- some of them old friends, some of them new -- for giving their time and talent to help the urgent cause of hurricane recovery in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean," President George H.W. Bush said in a statement. "It's important that those affected by these devastating storms know that, even if the path to recovery feels like a road that goes on forever, we're with them for the long haul."

I have to admit when I first read this I thought they were only raising money for the folks in Texas that were victimized by the hurricanes, but a closer reading revealed that they are raising money for ALL of the hurricane victims, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Can you even believe that we are living in a time when one concert is being put on to raise money for the victims of back to back hurricanes?

And people say climate change is not real.

All I can say is that it is certainly a good thing that we have all of these ex-presidents around to provide some leadership in this area, because the idiot currently in the White House has no fucking idea what he is doing.

Presidents comforting people in their time of need.

Five former presidents band together to help raise money for Puerto Rico. Because somebody has to do something.

Courtesy of WSVN:

All five living former presidents are joining forces on a fundraising campaign to help with hurricane recovery for the U.S., Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. 

Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama have launched the One America Appeal campaign, allowing donors to help with relief efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. 

Organizers say a special restricted account has been established through the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation to collect and quickly distribute donations. Officials say “100 cents out of every dollar” donated will help hurricane victims.

I can only imagine what the conversations between these former presidents must be like. 

I would think there would be a lot of shaking their heads in disbelief and real concern for the future of the country.

Fox News asks its readers if they would even care if Trump were a crook? Wait, what?

Yeah, so what if I'm guilty? Does anybody even care?

Courtesy of Fox News:

WOULD YOU EVEN CARE IF HE WAS GUILTY? 

The stock market is up, unemployment is down and the economy seems to be picking up some steam. The streets are mostly safe, the nation is mostly secure and the world is mostly at peace. 

So does it matter to you whether or not the president is a crook? The answer for a lot of Americans may be no. 

Okay the first thing to point out is that all of the good things happening in the country right now due to President Obama's presidency, NOT Trump's.

Of the 43 bills that Trump has signed into law, NONE of them impact our economy or our security, with the exception of Russia sanctions bill that he was forced to sign against his will.

The article continues:

With the revelation that a grand jury is looking at evidence against members of President Trump’s 2016 campaign team, we move closer still to the possibility that someone could be in very big trouble. 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his squad are moving fast, and the likelihood that some charges will be brought can no longer be ignored. It is not hard to imagine a moment in the very near future where some associate of the president is in the dock, charged with misdeeds relating to Russian interference in the 2016 election. 

But, again, we ask: Would it matter to you?

The next part is a desperate and pathetic attempt to compare Trump's potential criminal activity involving Russia to Bill Clinton's blowjob. 

Because you know in the Right Wing rule book it clearly states, when under attack by the facts redirect to the Clintons.

Now the only possible reason I can come up with for anybody to write this article is because they know that Trump is in deep shit and they are pre-teaching their readers to completely ignore the evidence which proves that.

And do you know what? There IS indeed a segment of the population that will do just that.

But that is a very small, very poorly educated, segment of the population.

For the rest of us the answer to, "Would you even care if he was guilty?," is a resounding "You bet your ass we care!"

White House spokesperson angry that reporters are "pushing a narrative that just doesn't exist," invents one of her own instead.

.@SarahHuckabee: The only thing I see misleading is year's worth of stories that have been fueling a false narrative about Russia collusion. pic.twitter.com/BDzIaiHzNU

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 1, 2017

Transcript courtesy of the Washington Examiner:

"The only thing I see misleading is a year's worth of stories that have been fueling a false narrative about this Russia collusion, a phony scandal based on anonymous sources," Sanders said after being asked how much Trump helped his son write a statement about a meeting he had last year with a Russian lawyer. 

"You guys are focused on a meeting that Don Jr. had no consequence," she said. "[T]he Democrats actually colluded with a foreign government, like Ukraine, the Democrat-linked firm Fusion GPS actually took money from the Russian government while it created the phony dossier that's been the basis for all of the Russia scandal fake news."

"And if you want to talk further about a relationship with Russia, look no further than the Clintons," Sanders said. "As we've said time and time again, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to give a speech to a Russian bank and was personally thanked by Putin for it." 

"Hillary Clinton allowed one-fifth of America's uranium reserve to be sold to a Russian firm whose investors were Clinton Foundation donors, and the Clinton campaign chairman's brother lobbied against sanctions on Russia's largest bank and failed to report it," she said. 

"If you guys want to talk about having relations, which you seem obsessed with doing, look no further than there." "If you want to talk about somebody who's actually been tough on Russia, look at President Trump. He wants more fracking, more coal, more energy, a stronger military, a stronger defense. Those things aren't good for Russia." 

"I think the distinctions are very clear," she concluded. "You guys want to create a narrative that just doesn't exist."

Do you know what narrative doesn't exist? The one about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, with all of the evidence.

But do you know which narrative DOES exist? The one about the Clinton's that I just pulled out of my ass.

Actually that is not fair.

Sanders read that response verbatim from a sheet of paper on her podium, which means it was pulled out of Donald Trump's ass and handed to her in order to create this narrative.

And of course it is indeed a putrid pile of excrement, with virtually no real factual basis.

I already dealt with that uranium nonsense here, the rest is just as bad.

The Clinton campaign chairman's brother? I mean come on!

Is there also a connection between Russia and the Clinton housekeeper's second cousin's, second wife's, former brother-in-law's kid brother?

This definitely smacks of desperation.

A whimsical moment.

So much bad news these days, a little of this is certainly a welcome respite.

How Americans respond when they see the People's President.

Former Pres. Bill Clinton, former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton cheered while attending theater performance in NYC. https://t.co/c8WxE0BwjS pic.twitter.com/NSXYgt2k8G

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 3, 2017

Go ahead, try to imagine Donald Trump getting a spontaneous standing ovation when HE showed up to an event.

Couldn't do it, could you?

Donald Trump has the lowest approval ratings of any other president elected since World War 2.

Courtesy of Gallup:

Donald Trump averaged 41% job approval during his first quarter as president, 14 percentage points lower than any other president in Gallup's polling history. Bill Clinton had the previous low mark of 55%. The average first-quarter rating among post-World War II presidents elected to their first term is 61%, with John Kennedy's 74% the highest.

You know I so want to celebrate this, but the fact is that this asshole represents all of us now so unfortunately this is also a reflection on the entire country. 

God I hate Vladimir Putin right now.

Trump takes to Twitter to ask why the House Intelligence Committee is not investigating Bill and Hillary instead of his ties to Russia, and to bitch about losing that healthcare vote.

Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2017

...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2017

Okay well first off neither Bill or Hillary Clinton are politicians anymore, so the priority for investigating them would be low.

Secondly that Uranium scandal is a Right Wing conspiracy theory that has already been debunked.

This is just another simple minded attempt by Trump to distract from his own scandalous behaviors.

The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a win!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2017

The Democrats will make a deal with me on healthcare as soon as ObamaCare folds - not long. Do not worry, we are in very good shape!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2017

If the Affordable Care Act were to "fold" that would suddenly leave millions of Americans without healthcare and possible kill hundreds, if not thousands, of them.

This is NOT how a president talks about the people he was elected to protect.

There are a number of ways to improve Obamacare that the Democrats would gladly support and that would help it to cover more people more effectively.

Hell Trump could even take credit for "fixing" the law if his ego demands it, neither the Democrats or even President Obama would care, just so long as it helped the American people.

THAT is all that true leaders and public servants care about.

A list of everything, and everyone that Donald Trump has attacked since the election. Do you notice what's missing?

A List: Everything and everyone Donald Trump has attacked on Twitter since the election pic.twitter.com/YthwCyTdXw

— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 14, 2017

Let me give you a hint, it starts with an "R."

A little something to brighten the spirits of those of us who knew what we were doing in that voting booth in November.

The people's President. Hillary tonight at the final performance of The Color Purple. pic.twitter.com/ph9Ju9uIm2

— Ross Rodham 📎 (@OnceUponARoss) January 8, 2017

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Hillary Clinton, who has kept a relatively low public profile since losing the presidential election two months ago, on Sunday showed up at the final performance of the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” reveling in the story of a beleaguered woman who triumphs over the oppressive men in her life (and, along the way, discovers a love for colorful pants). 

Mrs. Clinton, accompanied by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, received several ovations from the sold-out audience as she arrived, and then another round of applause when she was acknowledged by the cast after the show. 

“There’s a lot of really awesome famous and notable people here today,” the actress Patrice Covington, who gave the farewell speech on behalf of the cast after the show, said to the audience. “I’m not going to call all of them out — I know you already know them,” she said, before pausing, looking in Mrs. Clinton’s direction, and waving at her mischievously. At that, the audience erupted into a new, loud round of applause.

The "People's President," I like that.

Really the only solace that seems available these days is the recognition that there are so many Trump voters who will at some point be banging their heads against the wall wishing that they had the common sense to vote for this woman in 2016, instead of the tangerine colored man-child whose administration is guaranteed to be the most corrupt in this nation's history.

Yeah I know, I know, we are supposed to be compassionate for the simple minded, but that is a real challenge when their slack jawed stupidity has inflicted such a catastrophe upon us.

And the really troubling part is that they are unlikely to get any smarter.

Instead they will simply find excuses for being so easily manipulated by the next political con man who comes down the pike.

Hillary and Bill Clinton to attend Trump inauguration.

Courtesy of New York Magazine:  

Bill and Hillary Clinton have decided to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, according to two sources with knowledge of their plans. The Clintons will join former Presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, who have also announced that they will attend. George and Laura Bush said today that they would be present “to witness the peaceful transfer of power.”

Well at least the person who the majority of the American people chose to be their leader will be at the inauguration she was cheated out of.

I think it is very classy for Hillary and Bill to show up. And you know if the roles were reversed that Trump would not be caught dead at her inauguration. 

Still not watching though.  

Bill Clinton lambasts Donald Trump in interview. "He doesn't know much." And of course Trump responds.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Bill Clinton says President-elect Donald Trump "doesn't know much," but that "one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him," according to a local paper near the Clintons' New York home.

Hard to argue with that.

Clinton also said he knew why his wife lost the election:  

"James Comey cost her the election," Clinton said during a lengthy conversation, according to the paper. He argued that "we were seven points up" in polls and on track to win, before the FBI director made an 11th-hour announcement that the bureau's probe into Hillary Clinton's email use as Secretary of State was being reexamined in light of potential new evidence. 

The FBI never changed its conclusion that Clinton shouldn't be punished related to her email use, but Bill Clinton said the high-profile focus on the story so close to the election inflicted significant damage on the campaign.

"I watched her work for two years, I watched her battle through that bogus email deal, be vindicated at the end when Secretary Powell came out -- she fought through that, she fought through everything," he said. "She prevailed against it all. But at the end, she had the Russians and the FBI deal. She couldn't prevail against that. She did everything else and still won by 2.8 million votes."

Once again, Clinton is essentially agreeing with a whole lot of political pundits as well as folks who worked on the Clinton campaign, including his own wife.

And you might as well put me in that category, because I agree as well.

Clinton also had this to say about Putin's hackers: 

"You would have to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on."

That kind of explains why so many Trump supporters refuse to accept what happened in this election.

However it seemed that this final statement proved too much for the Donald:

Later, Clinton marveled at Trump's tone during a phone call the day after the election, saying that Trump acted "like it was 15 years ago," when he was still friendly with the family. 

Still, despite Trump's overtures, Clinton seemed less inclined to let bygones be bygones, slipping in a dig at Trump's claim that he won a "landslide" victory. "Landslide? I got something like 370 electoral votes. That was a landslide," he said.

I bet you can"t guess how Trump responded to that.

Yeah, on Twitter. How did you guess?

Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations). He "doesn't know much" ...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2016

especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more). They focused on wrong states

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2016

Okay so here we are left with a dilemma.

Did Bill Clinton, as man that President Obama called "The Explainer-in-Chief," lie about who made this phone call?

Or is Donald Trump, a man who Politifact characterized as the least truthful candidate in 2016, perhaps lying his ass off?

Gee, that is a conundrum.