Another adult film star comes forward to backup Stormy Daniels' story of death threats, and to accuse Trump of misconduct and offering to pay her for sex.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:  

A fellow porn star has backed up Stormy Daniels' claims that she was once threatened to stay silent about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. 

Daniels claims she was once threatened in a parking lot in 2011 after she told a tabloid about her affair with the then-real estate mogul. 

Now Jessica Drake, who claims she turned down a $10,000 offer to have sex with Trump after meeting him at a Lake Tahoe golf event in 2006, says that Daniels told her about the alleged threat on two separate occasions. 

'She actually told me about the threat twice,' Drake said, during her appearance on Good Morning America on Monday. 'So the first time she told me about the threat was shortly after it happened. She relayed the experience to me. I said something like, 'I'm so sorry, I can't even imagine. What are you going to do?"


The adult movie star described how she and Daniels met Trump at the 2006 golf event. 

Drake says they, and a third woman, were invited back to his hotel suite where he allegedly kissed them and asked them a number of questions. 

'We were ushered into the room,' Drake said. 'And I remember he was wearing pajamas. And he kissed all of us on the lips and kind of, you know, one of those real close, full-body contact hugs. I do believe 100 percent that he was vetting us to see which one or how many of us he liked.' 

Drake said the trio left but she later got a call from a Trump employee asking her if she would come back for $10,000. 

She says that while she refused, Daniels went back to the future president's room. 

I think this is at least the third, or perhaps fourth, woman who has come forward to say that Donald Trump offered them money for sex.

And she just one of over a dozen to accuse Trump of grabbing her and kissing her without permission.

Donald Trump clearly only thinks of women as sexual objects that he can use as he pleases any time he feels the urge.

 But then we already knew that, didn't we?

Totally rational NRA spokes-asshole Ted Nugent suggests that liberals should be shot like "rabid coyotes."

Ted Nugent showing his penis on stage.

Courtesy of Media Matters:  

TED NUGENT (NRA BOARD MEMBER): Don’t ask why. Just know that evil, dishonesty, and scam artists have always been around and that right now they’re liberal, they’re Democrat, they’re RINOs, they’re Hollywood, they’re fake news, they’re media, they’re academia, and they’re half of our government, at least. So come to that realization. There are rabid coyotes running around. You don’t wait till you see one to go get your gun. Keep your gun handy, and every time you see one, you shoot one.

What did that survey say about the number of gun owners suffering from mental illness again?

Because I think we are looking at Exhibit One right here.

I actually think that if you took Ted Nugent's guns away he would simply roll up into the fetal position and die.

That's an experiment that I would like to witness first hand.

In wake of Parkland school shooting Oregon Governor signs new gun control legislation into law. Minnesota state representative also introduces legislation, gets death threats.

Kate Brown

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) signed new gun safety legislation into law on Monday, making the state the first to tighten its firearm regulations since last month’s mass shooting at a high school in Florida. 

The bill expands an existing law to prevent intimate partners who have a domestic violence or stalking conviction from buying and keeping guns. Until now, the state’s law only applied to married partners, and the new measure closes what was termed the “boyfriend loophole.” 

“I’m proud to sign this bill, making Oregon the first state to take action to prevent senseless gun violence since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida,” Brown said in a statement. “Today marks an important milestone, but we know we have more to do. It’s long past time we hold the White House and Congress accountable. Now’s the time to enact real change and federal gun safety legislation.” 

The bill was introduced in January, but the governor called it “historic” because state legislators decided to advance the measure in response to the Parkland shooting.

Well this is good news, and I am guessing that this is only the beginning.

Especially if those amazing Parkland students have anything to say about it.

"To every spokeswoman with an hourglass who uses free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents...Your Time is running out. The clock starts now."
-@sarahchad_ #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/k29FB2vHPI

— Sarah Chadwick// #NEVERAGAIN (@sarahchad_) March 6, 2018

However a state representative in Minnesota also wanted to introduce legislation to deal with gun violence, things did not go well.

Courtesy of Fox 9: 

Over the last week, Democrat State Representative Linda Slocum has received thousands of emails since introducing one of the most expansive gun control bills in Minnesota. 

Most have been critical, some have been downright nasty. She's been cussed out, compared to Hitler, called a whale and other sexually lewd comments, but one message stood out from the rest. 

“He threatened to kill me,” said Slocum. 

The Richfield representative was startled when she listened to the man's voicemail and then a follow-up email. She does not want to identify him because of safety concerns, but described part of his message to Fox 9.

“I have my gun and I’m ready to come and get you and it was very threatening,” said Slocum. 

As a former teacher and a long-time politician, Slocum says she's used to being called every name in the book, but this was different. She contacted the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office who is now investigating the threat. 

“I will file charges if I hear from him again,” she said.

So when somebody threatens to take away their little metal penis extenders, the knee jerk reaction is to threaten them with said metal penis extender?

In my opinion that right there is reason enough to lose access to those metal penis extenders.

I'm just saying.

Did NRA spokes-psycho Dana Loesch just threaten to kill supporters of better gun control? Cause it certainly sounds that way.

“To every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents…Your Time is running out. The clock starts now."
–@DLoesch #Oscars90 pic.twitter.com/SDVjeTxyfB

— NRATV (@NRATV) March 4, 2018

Seriously, WTF was that?

She calls out journalists, celebrities, and late night talk show hosts, and then name checks half of the MSNBC lineup before stating that their "time is running out?"

How is that NOT considered a direct threat on their lives?

You may notice that the NRA Twitter account included the hashtag Oscars90.

Which caused one Twitter user to point out that Loesch is a failed wannabe actress.

Fun Fact: Dana is a failed sitcom wanna be actress.https://t.co/39FMqFbVdK pic.twitter.com/1DUTa6JJVF

— AlwaysAFedcase (@ChristinLuvsSno) March 4, 2018

Perhaps Loesch is not a crazed aamosexual calling for the murder of her critics, and instead is simply a failed actress, calling for the murder of her critics.

(H/T to Raw Story.)

The Florida school shooting survivor who confronted Marco Rubio about taking NRA money has been forced off of Facebook by death threats.

Temporarily got off Facebook because there’s no character count so the death threats from the @NRA cultists are a bit more graphic than those on twitter. Will be back when I have the time for it. Busy getting my feelings hurt by fellow teenagers at Br**tb*rt

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) February 21, 2018

Courtesy of The Hill: 

A survivor of the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week says he has left Facebook after receiving death threats for his gun control advocacy. 

"Temporarily got off Facebook because there’s no character count so the death threats from the @NRA cultists are a bit more graphic than those on twitter," Cameron Kasky tweeted. "Will be back when I have the time for it. Busy getting my feelings hurt by fellow teenagers at Br**tb*rt." 

Kasky, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has become an outspoken leader of the nationwide student-led movement for gun restrictions in the wake of the shooting, where 17 of his classmates and faculty members were killed. 

The high schooler challenged Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) during a CNN town hall discussion with lawmakers and fellow survivors on gun laws. 

“In the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign?” Kasky asked Rubio.

To threaten the life of a child is shitty enough, but to threaten the life of a kid who just survived a school shooting where over a dozen of his peers were murdered is extra shitty.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

I think this young man and his schoolmates are inspiring, but I certainly understand why they scare the crap out of the NRA.

And they should be scared: 

The students who survived a mass shooting at their Florida high school last week have raised more than $3.5 million since the attack and say they plan to put the money toward a “long-term effort” to reform gun laws. 

More than 18,000 people have donated nearly $1.5 million to the “Never Again” campaign and the upcoming March For Our Lives, both of which were organized by survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., according to the Miami Herald. 

Those donations were followed by a $500,000 donation from George and Amala Clooney, who also plan to participate in the pro-gun control march in Washington, D.C., next month. 

The Clooneys’ donation was followed by matching donations from Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg. 

A spokeswoman for March For Our Lives told the Herald that the $3.5 million raised will first be used to help fund the event in Washington and remaining funds will be put toward the “long-term” gun control effort.

I saw a tweet awhile back that simply said 'These kids will save all of us."

I thought that was a little much at the time, but perhaps that person had a point. 

Michigan man arrested after threatening to kill CNN employees over "fake news."

Courtesy of CBS 46: 

A Michigan man was arrested after an FBI investigation, accused of threatening to travel to Atlanta to commit mass murder at CNN headquarters. 

According to federal court documents, the man, from a Detroit suburb, made 22 calls to CNN about a week ago. 

It began with claims of "fake news" and ended with threats of violence. 

The man told a CNN operator, among other things, "Fake news. I'm coming to gun you all down." 

He then called again, saying "I'm smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you. More manpower. Your cast is about to get gunned down in a matter of hours." 

He continued, "I am coming to Georgia right now to go to the CNN headquarters to f---ing gun every single last one of you." 

So I have a question.

If this lunatic had been successful in killing a CNN news reporter, would that have made Donald Trump legally responsible in any way?

I mean the man has been fomenting violence against the media since he first rode down that escalator to announce he was going to run for president.

And since this is sure to terrify people in the Atlanta community is Donald Trump not also inspiring domestic terrorism?

Now George Zimmerman is threatening to feed Jay Z to an alligator. No wonder conservatives love him so much.

Courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel: 

It all started with a documentary that Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and the Weinstein Company are putting together about the 2012 Sanford shooting, as reported by Variety. Zimmerman said a private investigator with the film crew went to the homes of his parents and uncle. 

The uncle, a retired Army command sergeant major, said the private investigator also trespassed, according to Zimmerman. 

Zimmerman said Monday that he will harm Jay-Z if his family is sought out again.

“What I said is I would beat him as if I was Solange, and he would find himself coming out of the south side of a gator if he comes to Florida and bothers my family,” Zimmerman told the Orlando Sentinel. 

Zimmerman was referring to the sister of Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z’s wife, who famously hit Jay-Z in an elevator. The elevator security footage went viral. 

Rapper Snoop Dogg seems to have jumped into the feud, writing on Instagram: 

“If one hair on Jays hair is touched that’s when the revolution will b televised. ... Trayvon Martin Gone but not forgotten.”

Zimmerman does realize that Jay Z is a very wealthy man who is constantly surrounded by armed bodyguards, right?

This is not some unarmed seveneen year old kid that he is threatening here.

Speaking of Trayvon Martin, get a load of another quote from Zimmerman about this issue:

In a chilling reference to the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman grimly tells us “I know how to handle people who fuck with me, I have since February 2012.”

You know that almost makes me want Zimmerman to start some shit with Jay Z and Snoop Dogg. 

Then it might be there turn to "stand their ground."

Georgia teacher threatens disruptive student's life.

Courtesy of the Atlantic Journal-Constitution:

A Rockdale County teacher is on administrative leave after he was caught on camera during class threatening to “put a bullet” in a student’s head. 

The incident happened two weeks ago at Rockdale Career Academy, but the student’s mother, April Carr, told Channel 2 Action News she was not notified by the principal until last week. 

“I think it’s a terroristic threat on my son’s life,” she told Channel 2, “that I definitely don’t take lightly.” 

Carr said her son and other students were laughing while physics teacher Paul Hagan was at the board. That’s when Hagan made the threats. 

Carr posted video of the threat online and Hagan can be heard clearly saying: “You screw with me you’re going to be in big ass trouble. Don’t smile at me, man. That’s how people like you get shot. I got a bet. I bet by the time you’re 21 somebody’s going to put a bullet in your head. OK. And it might be me the one who does it.”

You know when my daughter's mother moved her to Georgia I was upset that she home schooled her instead of sending her to public school.

But after seeing this video I am wondering if that might not be the best choice considering some of the teachers they employ in Georgia. 

The mother wants this man fired, and I think that is certainly the appropriate response to something like this. 

Congresswoman who overheard Trump condolence call staying away from Washington due to death threats.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) reportedly did not return to Washington this week due to threats she's received since her comments about President Trump's call to the widow of a fallen soldier. 

“She’s home,” Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) told the Miami Herald. 

“I have not spoken with her about it, but I’ve heard that she’s received substantial death threats and I think she is doing everything she can to ratchet down and let some of us, including me, take over.” 

The last time Wilson voted was on Oct. 12. 

A source told the newspaper that "nothing else would keep her from voting," adding that there are investigations into the threats she has faced.

Apparently these ramped up after General Kelly falsely accused Wilson of grandstanding during the dedication of an FBI building, and then attempted to shame her for overhearing a phone call that was broadcast on speaker phone while she was in the car on the way to retrieve the body of Sgt. La David Johnson.

So we now live in a country where the White House Chief of Staff activates the Right Wing flying monkeys to go after critics of his boss. 

Of course Rep. Wilson is also a black woman so she was probably already seen as a vulnerable target.

Sandy Hook denier who sent death threats to parent of shooting victim sent to jail.

Courtesy of CBC News: 

A Florida woman pleaded guilty and was sent to prison Wednesday for threatening a man whose six-year-old son was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut school, which she contended was a hoax. 

Senior U.S. District Judge James Cohn sentenced Lucy Richards, 57, to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention. She pleaded guilty to interstate transmission of a threat to injure in communications with Lenny Pozner, the father of Noah Pozner, who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. 

Cohn called Richards's actions toward Pozner "disturbing" and said no one should cite a conspiracy theory or belief in a hoax in the deaths of 20 children and six adults that occurred at the school. 

"I'm sure he wishes this was false and he could embrace Noah, hear Noah's heartbeat and hear Noah say 'I love you, Dad'," Cohn told Richards. "Your words were cruel and insensitive. This is reality and there is no fiction. There are no alternative facts."

Investigators say Richards made four voicemail and email threats to Pozner on Jan. 10, 2016, after viewing internet sites claiming the shooting was a hoax aimed at curtailing Americans' Second Amendment gun ownership rights. The messages said things such as "you gonna die, death is coming to you real soon" and "LOOK BEHIND YOU IT IS DEATH."

I pushed this story back a day because of the Comey hearing, but I think it is important to remind all of us that these people are still out there, living in an entirely separate reality than the rest of us. 

We even see them here on IM sometimes, people who simply cannot accept the facts as they are, and who create a cocoon of ignorance and denial that makes them feel safe and comforted.

But as we see in this incident these people can also be dangerous, and with one of their tribe of conspiracy theorists now occupying the White House I would imagine that is now perhaps more true than ever before.

Democratic challenger to Iowa Congressman Steve King drops out in the face of death threats.

Courtesy of The Des Moines Register:  

Kim Weaver is ending her campaign for Iowa's 4th Congressional District. 

In a Facebook post Saturday, Weaver, a Democrat, cited threats to her safety, financial security and her mother's ongoing health problems as reasons for her withdrawal. 

"Beginning during my 2016 campaign, I have received very alarming acts of intimidation, including death threats," Weaver said in the Facebook post. "While some may say enduring threats are just a part of running for office, my personal safety has increasingly become a concern." 

In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Saturday, Weaver added to that rationale, alleging that the state of Iowa's Office of Long-Term Care Ombudsman, where she is an employee, saw its budget cut this year as "punishment" for her political candidacy. 


The office received a $164,000 cut this year — a 12 percent reduction from the previous year. 

"I'm feeling guilty that we lost this funding because I'm running for office," Weaver said, adding that she was prepared to take a "voluntary layoff" if the cut requires a staff reduction.

Death threats and dirty political tactics, just a further reminder that the Republicans will do ANYTHING to stay in power.

Weaver was challenging staunch conservative, and strident climate change denier, Steve King whose ardent support for Donald Trump may have put his reelection in jeopardy.

Perhaps that is why they took no chances, and worked to remove the threat early on before his Democratic challenger could attract significant support to take away his seat.

The ends justify the means, and for the Republicans the meaner the means, the better.

This is why you cannot count on the Republicans lawmakers to rein Trump in at all.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

Politico ran a story this morning about the online abuse Representative Bill Flores suffered after Breitbart and a smaller right-wing blog twisted his words about Trump. He said that some of Trump’s policies might not align with the party’s values but he was sure they could work together. That somehow became a headline that read, “BREAKING: Rep. Bill Flores Has CRAFTED a PLAN to BLOCK Trump’s Immigration Reform.” 

Before releasing that particular post, a blogger reached out to Flores and advised him to get ready “for a shit storm,” which is exactly what came his way. Sean Hannity signal-boosted the Breitbart report by giving it air time on his radio show and soon, Flores was under attack online. 

Now, Republicans on the Hill don’t want to be the next to get pounced on, so they’re staying quiet about any misgivings or questions they have regarding Trump. Politico pointed out that by tearing into someone online, the trolls are taking a cue from the President-elect himself.

I mentioned earlier how the National Enquirer was Trump's propaganda outlet with the national reach, but he also has attack media at his disposal.

I think we all saw this in its infancy back in Sarah Palin's heyday when all she had to do was write a Facebook post and her flying monkeys went after Joe McGinniss and even members of his family with stunning aggression. 

However that assault weapon has now been honed to a razor's edge, and Trump has even gone so far as to put one of its triggers into his administration in form of Stephen Bannon.

So no, there are few Republican lawmakers who are going to dare challenge Trump no matter how insane his policy proposals might seem, because they realize to do so is to risk the wrath of Breitbart, Fox News, and numerous other Right Wing news outlets.

There may be a few such as Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Rand Paul who will rise to the challenge, but without greater numbers their attempts will be largely ineffective.

That also means that talk of an impending impeachment are essentially just pipe dreams as well. 

The minute that a Republican lawmaker suggested anything like that he would be crushed under a deluge of bad press, his e-mail box would fill with misspelled threats on his life, and his career would essentially be over in Washington. 

Trump once bragged that he could shoot a man on fifth avenue and not lose any support, and now that may hold true concerning the presidency as well.

In short this next four years is going to suck, and they are going to suck hard.

In order to tamp down threats Fox News had to explain to Trump lawyer why it would be bad for their campaign if Megyn Kelly were killed.

Courtesy of Slate:  

Donald Trump’s feud with Megyn Kelly was way darker than any of us knew. Kelly received so many death threats and so much harassment from Trump supporters after confronting him at the first Republican debate with a challenging question about his many, many misogynistic statements that she needed a special security detail for a year. 

The Trump campaign stoked the flames of the Kelly hate, the Fox News host told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Wednesday, to the point that one of the top executives at Fox News had to explain to one of Trump’s top employees why if she “gets killed” it might be bad for their campaign. 

“Michael Cohen, who is Trump's top lawyer and executive vice president with the Trump Organization had retweeted ‘let’s gut her,’ about me,” Kelly said. “At a time when the threat level was very high, which he knew. And Bill Shine, an executive vice president of Fox, called him up to say, 'You got to stop this. We understand you are angry but she's got three kids and is walking around New York.' ”

“And he didn't much care,” Kelly continued. “And what Bill Shine said to Michael Cohen was, ‘Let me put it to you in terms you can understand: If Megyn Kelly gets killed it is not going help your candidate.’ ”

Yes let's help crazed Trump supporters learn to respect human life by telling them that somebody being killed might hurt their candidate's chances in an election.

Seriously?

In fact things got so bad that Kelly brought armed security staff with her and her family on their trip to Disney World:

By the time the mother of three flew to Disney World for vacation, it was with her “family — and our security guard,” she writes. “Yes, we took an armed guard to the Magic Kingdom. More guns, more guards. My year of Trump.”

And look America you just reinforced this type of behavior by allowing the internet troll come to life who inspired to move into the White House.

"The deplorabes are real. The deplorables are dangerous." Newsweek reporter shares what it is like to be targeted by Trump supporters.

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

The deplorables are real. The deplorables are dangerous. 

Because I have written critically about Trump, I have received innumerable death threats, sometimes just general invocations that I should die, sometimes more specific threats that I should be shot or “lynched,” as one Trump fan wrote. I have been called “kike,” “Jew” and “anti-American Zionist,” even though I’m Episcopalian with a Jewish father (as if that makes a difference). I have received video cartoons that look like they are from Nazi Germany of hook-nosed men dressed in Jewish garb rubbing their hands greedily over piles of money. I have been told to go back where I came from, whatever that means. I have been called “fag,” “pedo,” and once—in an email that made no sense—“nigger-lover.” One Trump fan mentioned he knew which schools my children attended, and correctly named them. Topping it off, some Trump fans have even gone after one of my sons online, although he knew enough to immediately block them. 

My family has been through this before—it is sometimes a consequence of writing about controversial topics—but this is the first time we have discussed whether I should continue investigating an issue. All of them agreed I should stay on this story— since Trump won’t release much information about himself, digging up everything that can be found before the election is important for the country. But why is this even a discussion? We do not live in a third-world nation where journalists who report unpleasant realities are in danger. While I believe that most of these threats—except for Mike’s—are from internet blowhards, why does my family even have to wonder about this? And why am I convinced that, just by writing this article, Mike will get lots of new Twitter followers and praise from profoundly evil people? 

I am far from the only journalist exposed to the bottom-feeders among Trump supporters who traffic in violence, threats, racism and anti-Semitism. In a tweet, Charles Blow, an African-American columnist for The New York Times who has been harshly critical of Trump both in the newspaper and on television, told me he is bombarded with racist fury through email. Katie Tur of NBC reported in an article in Marie Claire that she had to be escorted out of a Trump rally in December by Secret Service to protect her from raging Trump supporters who had sicced on her by their candidate. She was also the primary subject of a death threat two weeks later on Twitter. 

“MAYBE A FEW JOURNALISTS DO NEED TO BE WHACKED,” the tweet from someone with the handle GuyScott33 read. “MAYBE THEN THEYD STOP BEI[N]G BIASED HACKS. KILL EM ALL STARTING W/ KATY TUR.” 

There are more. According to The Daily Beast, Bethany Mandel, a conservative essayist who has written about her opposition to Trump, had been so violently attacked on social media that she felt compelled to purchase a gun for protection. Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, received an email telling him he would be sent to “a camp” when Trump wins. After she published an article in GQ about Melania Trump, Julia Ioffe, a Jewish journalist, received death threats by phone and email, and tweets showing vile images such as an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jewish man on his knees being shot in the back of the head; she filed a police report. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of The New York Times, tweeted a link to a Washington Post opinion piece that was harshly critical of the Trump phenomenon. The vicious attacks on Weisman, who is Jewish, came quickly. 

“Get used to it you fucking kike,’’ tweeted one of the deplorables who goes by the handle “deplorable basket weave.” “You people will be made to pay for the violence and fraud you've committed against us.”

There is more in the article, much more, and I encourage all of you read it. 

Of course we here at IM have already seen this before, in fact it's a little like deja vu.

However back then it was Sarah Palin supporters, and they were threatening to shoot yours truly in the face at the school where I was working at the time.

I, like many others back then, also received threatening emails, in all caps of course, threatening my life and calling me every name in the book. (My favorite remains one which called me a "Faggot Nazi Nigger" a combination of insults so bizarrely incongruous that it almost hurts your head to read it.)

So yes we, including the President, have identified the link between Sarah Palin and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

And what we are learning is that the crazed fringe that were awakened during the 2008 campaign, and who helped found the incredibly disruptive and destructive Tea Party movement, have now circled their inflamed wagons around this new agent of anarchy.

And as his campaign starts to slowly disintegrate are now lashing out much as they did in 2008 and 2009 when the media, and certain bloggers, pointed out the deep flaws in a certain ignorant half term governor from the wilds of Wasilla.

The only question remaining is what happens to them once the Trump campaign flames long before ever reaching the doors of the White House?

That is a question that I am not sure I want answered.

After Donald Trump essentially targets her for assassination the NRA launches an ad calling Hillary Clinton a hypocrite for having security. Update!

Courtesy of Politico: 

Just hours after Donald Trump sparked yet another controversy with remarks that seemed, to some, to encourage violence against Hillary Clinton, the NRA went public with its biggest gift yet to the Republican nominee - a $3 million ad buy attacking Clinton as a hypocrite. 

The spot – which calls Clinton “out of touch” for living under Secret Service protection while promoting gun restrictions – is the biggest single ad buy for Trump this cycle and it brings the NRA’s total spending this cycle to around $6 million. 

Yeah gee why would a woman who has been in the Right Wing crosshairs for almost her entire adult life feel the need to surround herself with armed security?

I mean it's not as if a candidate representing one of the two largest political organizations was suggesting that she be shot or anything.

Oh wait......

You know not only do I think that Hillary Clinton probably needs MORE security protecting her, I think they ought to bill Doanld Trump directly for the added expenses of increasing it.

Update: Politifact weighs in.

Spoiler alert: It's bullshit. 

Some Donald Trump supporters are not satisfied with merely defeating Hillary Clinton, they want her dead.

Courtesy of the New Republic:

They’ve got murder on their minds now. 

At the previous Donald Trump rally I’d attended, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Hillary Clinton was called a “bitch” more times that I could count. “Trump That Bitch” was the most common refrain. They shouted it from the rafters, wore T-shirts emblazoned with it. But at a rally in Raleigh on Tuesday night, a new cry rang out: 

“Hang that bitch!” 

The anger among Trump supporters toward the presumptive Democratic nominee apparently had escalated in the past month, perhaps especially so after FBI Director James Comey announced on Tuesday morning that he would not seek criminal charges against Clinton over her email scandal. This was a travesty against justice, obvious proof of corruption. As Trump said on stage, “Today is the best evidence ever, that we’ve seen, that our system is absolutely, totally rigged.” 

Clinton might have escaped criminal justice, but this mob had a different kind of justice in mind. Trumping that bitch was no longer good enough. Now they wanted her dead.

Of course this can be discounted by the Trump supporters as simply one or two overzealous supporters, much like McCain and Palin did back in 2008 when their rallies erupted in racist epithets and calls for the murder of then Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

However it should be remembered that after he was elected President Obama was on the receiving end of more death threats and hate mail than any other president before him.

I imagine the same will probably hold true for Hillary Clinton.

This kind of hate does not simply dissipate at the end of an election. It festers and grows until it becomes impossible to contain.

A growing number of people do not simply want to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, they want her to disappear for good.

And they don't all call themselves Republicans either.

Florida man fires 33 rounds into woman's front door after she rejects his romantic advances.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

On Monday, according to police, a drunk Florida man who was obsessed with his female neighbor stood outside her house and fired 33 rounds into it with a semi-automatic handgun. 

The woman, who has not been named, told police that Howard Sparber, 69, had been harassing her with sexual propositions since November of last year. She told police that Sparber had been stalking her, and she’d begun taking deliberate steps to avoid him. At one point, she said, he pointed a gun at her making her fear for her life. 

 Luckily, she wasn’t home when Sparber opened fire on her residence, blasting into the storm door, front door, foyer and kitchen cabinetry, and causing around $3,000 in damages. Police say he shot up her house in an attempt to get inside.

The article goes on to point out that there are literally so many stories of men whose sexual advances are rejected, who then resort to threatening the women with firearms, that it is hard to cover them all.

And of course that's true.

Men, especially insecure men, who feel they are being rejected may then feel they have to prove their masculinity by waving around their metal penis extender. 

It is far more common then we would like to believe. 

Guess what guys, it proves just the opposite.

Glenn Beck's radio talk show gets suspended for not confronting caller who hinted at a 2nd Amendment solution for Donald Trump.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Satellite radio company SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck's syndicated show this week and is "evaluating" the program's place over comments made last week by one of Beck's guests. 

Last week, fiction writer Brad Thor appeared on Beck's program and suggested GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was a danger to America and that citizens would have to take means that may not be legal in order to get Trump out of office. Beck did not immediately admonish or distance himself from the comments, leading to the suspension by SiriusXM. 

Look I understand people's very real concerns about Donald Trump, and support numerous methods for stopping him from being elected.

But like pretty much all liberals I draw the line at actual murder.

And clearly Glenn Beck should do the same. 

Female artist who painted unflattering nude of Donald Trump claims to have been assaulted.

Courtesy of the Daily Dot: 

The artist's painting, which depicts the Republican presidential hopeful unflatteringly nude, attracted bids of over £100,000 at the London gallery. According to the Guardian, Gore has been threatened with a lawsuit if she sells the work of art, however, due to its resemblance to Trump. 

Gore, who travelled to the U.K. after reporting a slew of death threats, said her proceeds from the sale will go to benefit Safe Place for Youth, a homeless shelter in Los Angeles.

Though it is always possible that this young woman is making this up for publicity, somebody DID threaten to sue her, her personal information including her address WAS made public, and these ARE Trump supporters we are talking about, so it is certainly well within the realm of believability. 

Donald Trump supporters seem to think they can threaten their way to the presidency.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Since Donald Trump came up empty in his quest for delegates at the Republican state assembly in Colorado Springs nearly two weeks ago, his angry supporters have responded to Trump’s own claims of a “rigged” nomination process by lashing out at Republican National Committee delegates that they believe won’t support Trump at the party’s convention — including House. 

The mild-mannered chairman estimates he’s gotten between 4,000 and 5,000 calls on his cell phone. Many, he says, have ended with productive conversations. He’s referred the more threatening, violent calls to police. His cell phone is still buzzing this week, as he attends the RNC quarterly meetings in Florida, and he’s not the only one. 

In hotel hallways and across dinner tables, many party leaders attending this week’s meetings shared similar stories. One party chair says a Trump supporter recently got in his face and promised “bloodshed” if he didn’t win the GOP nomination. An Indiana delegate who criticized Trump received a note warning against “traditional burial” that ended with, “We are watching you.” 

The threats come months ahead of a possible contested convention, where Trump is all-but certain to enter with a plurality of delegates bound to him on the first ballot, but he could lose support on subsequent ballots as rules will allow delegates to vote however they choose. And although the harassers are typically anonymous, many party leaders on the receiving end of these threats hold Trump himself at least partly responsible, viewing the intimidation efforts as a natural and obvious outgrowth of the candidate’s incendiary rhetoric. 

Earlier I reported on this happening in Colorado, but now it seems to be spreading.

That certainly does not bode well for the Republican party, but it can be extremely helpful to the Democrats in the general if the GOP remains a house divided.

And once again this is why it is so important for the Democrats to get their ducks all in a row so that they can show unity in response to a party in  the political equivalent of free fall.