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Voters are both having buyer's remorse about the outcome of the 2016 election and wishing they could return to the good old days of 4 months ago. By an 8 point margin, 49/41, they say they wish Hillary Clinton was President instead of Trump. And by a 16 point margin, 55/39, they say they wish Barack Obama was still in office instead of Trump.
One thing hurting Trump is that Americans expect honesty from their President and his aides, and they feel like they're not getting it. Last week Trump tweeted that it was unreasonable to expect his press staff to always tell the truth, but 77% of voters say they do expect the President's Press Secretaries to tell the truth all the time compared to only 14% who say that isn't that expectation. Only 38% of voters say they consider Trump to be honest, to 55% who say they don't think he is. And a majority of voters (51%) outright say they consider Trump to be a liar to 41% who say they disagree with that characterization.
"Lying Hilary." Isn't that how Trump characterized his opponent during the election?
His audiences also chanted "Lock her up." And here today we are seeing an investigation which puts Trump's incarceration well within the realm of possibilities.
Gee if only the American voters had seen any evidence of who Trump would be as president during the campaign.
You know aside from the FUCKING EVIDENCE THAT WE ALL SAW EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THAT CAMPAIGN!
Sorry, got a little worked up there.
Crooked Hillary! Private Server!
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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/19/bill-maher-delivers-message-american-hear-defeat-trump.html
"Rosenstein said, “was profoundly wrong and unfair both to the Department of Justice and Secretary Clinton.” The press conference “explicitly usurped the role of the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General and the entire Department of Justice; it violated deeply engrained rules and traditions; and it guaranteed that some people would accuse the FBI of interfering in the election.”
ReplyDelete"As a federal prosecutor, he was a role model. {Comey}His speeches about leadership and public service inspired me."
"At the start of the press conference, the Director stated that he had “not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice…. They do not know what I AM about to say.” the July 5 press conference was profoundly wrong and unfair both to the Department of Justice and Secretary Clinton. It explicitly usurped the role of the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General and the entire Department of Justice; it violated deeply engrained rules and traditions; and it guaranteed that some people would accuse the FBI of interfering in the election."
"I strongly disagreed with his explanations, particularly his assertion that maintaining confidentiality about criminal investigations constitutes concealment."I informed the senior attorney that the President was going to remove Director Comey, that I was writing a memorandum to the Attorney General summarizing my own concerns, and that I wanted to confirm that everything in my memorandum was accurate. He concurred "to address the media claims that the FBI asked for additional resources for the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. I am not aware of any such request. Moreover, I consulted my staff and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and none of them recalls such a request." {Source john $ miller}
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rod-rosenstein-james-comey_us_591f10e4e4b03b485cb1190e
Well at least he has trained her to walk behind him
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US first lady ignores Trump criticism and shuns headscarf
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Ignoring President Donald Trump's past admonition, U.S. first lady Melania Trump did not cover her head Saturday when they arrived in Saudia Arabia on the opening leg of his first international tour since taking office.
Two years ago, then-citizen Trump criticized then-first lady Michelle Obama's decision to go bare-headed on a January 2015 visit with her husband.
"Many people are saying it was wonderful that Mrs. Obama refused to wear a scarf in Saudi Arabia, but they were insulted. We have enuf enemies," Trump tweeted at the time, including a short-hand spelling for "enough."
.... Trump's daughter, Ivanka, a senior White House adviser who is also accompanying her father, also left her head uncovered.
"Trump's prospects for victory. I understood the concerns people had but I didn't believe that they would choose as their vehicle someone as conspicuously flawed as Trump. "It has made me change my understanding of why people vote. It's less about the issues and more about gut appeal."
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Gut appeal: racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc.
DeleteFuck Zakaria. He forever lost my respect when he fawned all over Trump with his 'just became President' shit when he dropped bombs in Syria.
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@ 7:24 I agree, trump has lowered the standard so far, that warning the enemy ahead of time and dropping bombs on out-dated aircraft, empty buildings and missing the runway on purpose has become presidential.
DeleteWhich, by the way lasted about 15 secs.
"By an 8 point margin, 49/41, they say they wish Hillary Clinton was President instead of Trump."
ReplyDeleteIf it's only 8 points that, in itself, is tragic.
Fun Fact: Some people are saying that Drumpf still carries his "Malignant Narcissist" ID card which earns the user a 2% discount at select coffee shops, fast food restaurants and brothels.
1. The Religious Right’s Delight
ReplyDelete" “you already saw how U.S. evangelicals were moving in. But now the floodgates are open… "
2. Loss of Funding
“Our entire HIV program was mostly U.S.-funded.”
"in Trump’s budget, it seems certain that the tens of millions of dollars the U.S. spends on protecting LGBT people from persecution, and protecting everyone from HIV, will be eliminated. Such sums are a minuscule amount of money in the context of the overall federal budget, but they are a lifeline for HIV services and LGBT protections in places where being gay is a capital crime."
3. A Blank Check for Bigots
" When the U.S. secretary of State says that LGBT rights are human rights (that Secretary of State was Hillary Clinton), that changes policies and cultures worldwide."
4. Human Rights Undermined
“It’s the rule of law internationally. It’s the international system itself. It’s the notion that human rights are universal and sacred. That’s what’s at stake with the Trump administration.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/26/at-the-united-nations-it-s-human-rights-putin-style
5. America’s Example
"Anyone who doesn’t see how the Trump administration is devastating LGBT people internationally is either willfully ignorant or tragically apathetic"
" ‘We got ourselves here and we’ve got to get ourselves out of it.’”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/19/how-the-trump-effect-is-endangering-lgbt-people-worldwide
It is quite likely (mathematical chancewise) that one of the T.Rump kids or moreso grandkids is gay, can't wait for them to come out and turn against the shitgibbon.
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ReplyDeleteUS surveillance recorded Russian agents vowing to "get" Hillary Clinton
ReplyDeleteU.S. spies reportedly heard a Russian military intelligence officer bragging about his organization planning to target Hillary Clinton in May 2016.
The officer told a colleague that GRU would cause havoc in America’s presidential election, Time reported Thursday.
This here is the decision point, this is where Russia was discovered — before the first release of DNC emails via DCLeaks in June 2016 — to have already been working on undermining Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations.
The real question is whether anyone in the Trump campaign was aware of this help they were about to receive, and how much they were willing to help the Russians in exchange.
In law enforcement there is a concept known as “consciousness of guilt.” It’s where someone over protests their innocence, overreacts to what should be a harmless question, or tried to repeatedly hide something that shouldn’t, on it’s own, be a suspicious act. And then you have the Trump campaign who repeatedly lied about having 18 phone, face to face and electronic contacts with Russian officials.....
But contacts did take place, a lot of contacts. If there was no ill intent to any of these contacts, if they were just “business as usual”, if all of this wasn’t a great big bag of “thank you” to Russian for what they did to Hillary Clinton’s campaign — why all the specific lies about it all?
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663835/-US-surveillance-recorded-Russian-agents-vowing-to-get-Hillary-Clinton
Maybe they need to re-visit the time period of Ivanka's vacation with putin's girlfriend in Aug 2016 and see what the spies were saying.
Delete"That news stands in contrast to what Trump transition team chair-turned-Vice President Mike Pence said in January,"Reuters, citing current and former U.S. officials familiar with the communications, reports that the “previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia.”
Deleteccording to Reuters, during the transition period, Flynn and Kislyak discussed “establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and [Putin] that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations.”continue to show there was a consciousness of guilt as they continually avoided telling the TRUTH."
was that back channel actually channels? Ivaaaaahnka /Deng, Flynn Kislyak, Jared and_________, Eric and__________ Melania's family and __________?
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ReplyDelete"As a country we need to really think about what our priorities are. We should be investing in schools and education, not jails and incarceration. We should be investing in our future."
Gee if only the American voters had seen any evidence of who Trump would be as president during the campaign.
ReplyDeleteHis supporters don’t care, they bought the “jobs” and “America first” crap hook line and sinker. Their hatred for Obama and Hillary were also a factor and he gave/gives them the chance to vocalize their hatred at his rallies.
They will never change their minds even though he has done absolutely nothing about creating jobs and has only taken credit for jobs creation that he had no hand in.
It also appears that the majority of his supporters are unpatriotic because they see no problem with russia getting trump elected!!!
"Russia is our friend! Russia is our friend! Russia is our friend!...." Heard at a nighttime torchlit rally in support of Trump (somewhere in the South recently).
DeleteIn other words, 'Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has *always* been at war with Eurasia.'
In keeping with your first paragraph, there is an inherent rudeness in this country that dRumpf gives voice to. Remember "she's
DeleteJUST like me!" Palin followers? They don't realize that's it's not an attribute, especially to admit as much.
There are no jobs to bring back from "overseas, thir world countries), not unless we want $3 per day jobs with no benefits or safety regs.
Delete"Good" (paying) jobs have largely been automated. No company is going to "bring back" labor intensive jobs (the majority of jobs lost to automation and computers). How can anyone be too stupid to see this?
10:17 AM - of course they're not, and the willfully ignorant are too blind to see it.
DeleteAaron Sorkin said in "The American President" that the office is *ALL* about character.
DeleteWe knew Trump's character from the start. And the stupid, ignorant, greedy and shitforbrains voted for him anyway.
Now we all have to suffer.
The only shining light is if enough Democrats, Independents, Non-Partisans and those with an ounce of integrity ALL turn out for the mid-terms and vote every Republican out of office. If the voters can't be bothered to do that, then they deserve what they get.
This administration is what laziness gets you.
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impeach dRUMPf before he becomes a total DICKtator:
Umm, so is he telling trump he is destroying the USA?
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OVERHEARD: CBS had a camera set up that caught a conversation between King Salman and President Trump, per pooler Jerome Cartillier, of AFP. King Salman to Trump: “Syria too used to be one of the most advanced countries. We used to get our professors from Syria. They served our kingdom. Unfortunately, they too brought destruction to their own country. You could destroy a country in mere seconds, but it takes a lot of effort.”
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/05/20/the-latest-from-saudi-arabia-110-billion-dollars-in-military-sales-hr-mcmaster-and-jared-high-five-in-riyadh-twin-barrel-trump-scoops-by-nyt-and-wapo-bday-craig-melvin-220391
Looks like the Saudis already have little donnie’s number: give him something gold and shiny and he is putty in their hands.
DeleteThey are high-fiveing over this arms deal, however since little donnie is notorious for making bad deals, how much did he screw over the USA?
I forget, what was the margin of her win on Election Day?
ReplyDeleteIt was actually her margin of loss, she did not win on election day. By quite a bit. Have you been on an isolated island or in a coma?
DeleteApparently it isn't just lyin don who has his dick in the ringer, but also, too, boy wonder jared and prince rheesus are being sized up for big boy jail.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, would LOVE to see that happen.
It is always about him: HE doesn’t gain anything, to hell with the people!!!
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Trump tells advisers he wants to end key Obamacare subsidies
.... Trump told aides in a Tuesday Oval Office meeting that he wants to end the payments to insurers because he doesn't gain anything by continuing them, according to a senior White House adviser. "Why the hell would we?" he asked about continuing the payments, according to the adviser.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/donald-trump-end-payments-obamacare-subsidies-238616
If Trump completely screws up The Affordable Care Act, he WILL go down!
DeleteWhat a fucking jerk! He could care less about Americans - especially those he sees as 'beneath' him - meaning the poor, middle class and minorities!
He's already stated he intends to undermine the ACA but cutting off all funding and support.
DeleteThat's right out of the Republican playbook. If they can't do it through the front they starve it through the budget.
It's how they undermined public education.
Obama was mostly honest. The deplorables fell into complacency. Now they have what they deserve - the most dishonest orange sphincter to ever sit at the top of the heap.
ReplyDeleteThere may never come a time when the deplorables realize they were screwed. Due to utter and absolute stupidity. And DeVos is in charge of their offspring's edumacation.
The Kushner-Comey Connection
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/05/19/the-kushner-comey-connection/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/20/1663846/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-A-Chaotic-week-for-Trump-and-more-to-come
ReplyDeleteI voted for Hillary Clinton and am utterly appalled at the doings, lying, blustering and bullshit of Donald Trump. He is NOT my potus and does NOT represent me in any way.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of Americans and people around the world cannot stand the egomaniac and fraud! He truly is anti Americans and America!
A bit over 1000 days. I have never referred to the orange shitgibbon illegally occupying the White House as president and never will.
Delete"better to live One Day as a Lion"djt?
ReplyDeleteRight - remember how the fucking ReTHUGS and peepond lamebrains piled on Canadidate/President Obama for slight misspeaks such as the "We've been to all 50, [forty]-seven states" outdoor speech? Obama, clearly a bit tired after a lot of campaigning, is about to say, "we've been to all 50 states." Off acmera, you can see he glances at an aide, who corrects him, "no, they won't go to all 50 sataes they've been to 47 though." The wind makes the "forty," a correction made in seconds, unclear and almost inaudible. The peeponders et al castigate him, claiming something erroneuos that he was talking about Islamic states (which 57 has no correlation to.) And they kept that type of bullshit up for years, about such a minor gaff, while, oh, just don't expect us to get important stuff right.
ReplyDeleteThere will be another circle of hell created for these T.Rump defenders.
It's not like Trump won majority of votes. It's just that he won enough in 4 states to win the election
ReplyDeleteActually he won enough votes in 31 of the states to win the election. If it was only four he would not have won, but he took 31 of the 50 states.
DeleteThe American public was warned about buyer's remorse after the Brexit vote and before the election. They chose to ignore it. Now they're paying for it.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but the Constitution has no "do over" clause and no, the people cannot vote no confidence and recall the president. The only option is impeachment and even if that can be proved, Congress has to do it. The House initiates it and who did the American People put in charge of both the House and the Senate? That's right. Republicans.
So suck it up. You got what you voted for, plus you foisted your stupidity, ignorance and short sightedness on the rest of us. Now we ALL must suffer for your dipshittedness.
Suck to be you.
I have a pension, health insurance and will not lose my house. I also have a governor with a spine and balls who will tell Trump where to stick his executive orders. They'll be tied up in court until we get someone SANE in the White House. And I'm not talking Pence or even Ryan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4525708/Barack-Obama-plays-exclusive-Italian-golf-course.html
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