Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

New poll shows that majority of Republicans have no interest in seeing a woman become President. Ever!

And this surprises you?
Courtesy of Newsweek: 

Asked if they'd see a woman president in their lifetime, 20 percent of respondents said they "definitely will," while 43 percent said they "probably will." A total of 63 percent believed they would likely see a female president before they die. 

YouGov also asked, "Do you personally hope that the United States elects a woman president of the United States in your lifetime, or not?" Sixty-six percent of all respondents said yes, while 34 percent said no.

A comfortable majority of Republicans—59 percent—responded no, they don't hope to see a woman president in their lifetime, according to YouGov. In comparison, 89 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents responded that yes, they hoped to see a woman president before they died.

Well gee perhaps it wasn't Hillary's politics that made the Republicans hate her so much, but rather her lack of a penis.

Instead of having a Vajayjay running the country they looked for the very embodiment of a dick.

And that boys and girls is how you get this guy.


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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Republican 2018 campaign ads to focus heavily on Hillary Clinton. I'm sorry, what?

And get this, they are STILL running against me.
Courtesy of the AP:

Almost 18 months have passed since Hillary Clinton lost the presidency. She holds no position of power in government. And she is not expected to run for office again. 

Yet Clinton is starring in the Republican Party’s 2018 midterm strategy. 

With control of Congress up for grabs this fall, the GOP’s most powerful players are preparing to spend big on plans to feature Clinton as a central villain in attack ads against vulnerable Democrats nationwide. The strategy, which already has popped up in races in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Dakota, illustrates the resilience and political potency of Republican voters’ antipathy for Clinton. As difficult as it’s been for Democrats to move past the Clinton era, it may be even harder for Republicans. 

“STOP HILLARY. STOP PELOSI. STOP LAMB,” read pamphlets circulated during the special election in Pennsylvania earlier this year. 

That’s just a taste of what’s to come as the November elections grow closer, say those who control the GOP’s strategy in the first midterm elections of Donald Trump’s presidency. 

“I promise you that you’ll continue to see it — Hillary Clinton starring in our paid media. She’s a very powerful motivator,” said Corry Bliss, who leads the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican super political action committee ready to spend tens of millions of dollars to shape House races this fall. “It’s about what she represents. What she represents, just like what Nancy Pelosi represents, is out-of-touch far-left liberal positions.”

Don't you just love the smell of desperation in the morning?

I mean come on!

The GOP are still leaning on the vilification of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to drive their voters to the polls?

And keep in mind that the reason is not because they are incompetent or a danger to the country, the reason is because they were TOO DAMN GOOD AT THEIR JOBS!

That is what terrifies conservative voters, competent Democratic leadership. 

And to prevent that they were even willing to send a twice divorced, habitually lying, reality show TV clown to the White House.

Well my advice to these desperate morons is to go for it.

You campaign against liberal competence, because I am sure you can guess what WE will be campaigning against.

That's right. Now let's see whose voters are more motivated to show up at the polls.

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My favorite caption for this photo.

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. 
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Donald Trump vomits forth another early morning Twitter tantrum. Target: James Comey.

Yes, the best way to secure a job with a new President is to announce there is an open investigation against them a week before the election.

If Comey were trying to curry favor with Hillary he would have announced that the FBI had been investigating the Trump campaign almost since its inception.
That is a LOT of misinformation in just one tweet.
Loretta Lynch? Are we seriously dredging that up again?
They are also CONFIRMED by other members of the FBI and Justice Department that Comey talked to directly after his meetings with Trump.
Just in case you are thinking "WTF?" keep in mind that Comey's big interview with ABC is being broadcast tonight.

Apparently somebody is a little agitated.

But it was not all Comey all the time this morning, Trump had a few other things to bitch about as well.
I did not even realize that lawyers came with an air release valve.

However of course not ALL lawyers are worried about being raided by the FBI.

Only the ones who lied, and paid off porn stars, for Donald Trump.

Then there was this tweet.
I have only one response to this:
 All Trump did with that statement was to remind us that our last completely incompetent president was so much MORE competent than this one.

And he never tweeted like a middle school girl who just found out her best friend was making out with the boy she likes behind the gym either.

Just saying.
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Friday, April 13, 2018

James Comey's book falls into the hands of reporters days before publication. And here we go.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Donald J. Trump asked Director James B. Comey of the F.B.I. to investigate and knock down a lurid but unverified report that placed Mr. Trump years earlier in a Moscow hotel suite with prostitutes, explaining to Mr. Comey that the fantastic story was untrue and was painful and distressing to his wife, Melania Trump.

By Mr. Comey’s accounts, Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, disputed the so-called Steele dossier, a document compiled by a former British intelligence officer that detailed an allegation in which Mr. Trump watched prostitutes urinate on each other. Mr. Comey writes that Mr. Trump insisted that “there’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me” in part because he is a self-professed germophobe. “No way.”

Here was Comey's take on Trump's overall personality: 

“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Mr. Comey writes in the book, saying his service to Mr. Trump recalled for him the days when he investigated the mob in New York. “The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”

Nothing startling about this revelation, we have all seen evidence of that ourselves.

Comey also makes a few other observations:  

“His face appeared slightly orange, with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles,” Mr. Comey writes of his impressions during that first in-person session. He said Mr. Trump had “impressively coifed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his.”

Comey also mentions that Trump is smaller in stature than he first thought, and had smallish hands.

He also writes that Trump  builds a “a cocoon of alternative reality” around himself and those who serve him.

Much of the book is devoted to Comey's fear about how the Trump  presidency is damaging the country: 

“We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country,” he writes, “with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized and unethical behavior is ignored, excused or rewarded.”

Comey also touches on why he felt he had to announce that the Hillary Clinton email case was reopened only a little over a week before the election.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Comey has said that he made the public announcement in part because he was concerned concealing the FBI's investigation would imply bias. However, in the book Comey acknowledges that he assumed at the time that Clinton would win the election. 

“Certainly not consciously, but I would be a fool to say it couldn’t have had an impact on me,” he wrote of the assumption, according to ABC News. "It is entirely possible my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.”

So it appears that Comey was concerned about protecting the FBI's reputation, and felt that Clinton was far enough in the lead that his announcement would not change the outcome.

If only that had been true.

There were reports that the Trump team was coming up with a strategy to deal with Comey's book, but it appears that Trump himself went with "unhinged."
Trump might be right about that "botch jobs" comment as anything that might have helped to get HIM elected is likely going to be seen as a humongous mistake.


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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Per Trump's request Jeff Sessions speeds up investigation into Hilary Clinton's e-mails. Can you say "distraction?"

Courtesy of Newsweek:  

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has answered President Donald Trump’s demands for America’s top law enforcement agency to speed up the delivery to Congress of more than a million documents about an FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server. 

The Department of Justice and the FBI asked Chicago prosecutor John Lausch to oversee the redaction and production of documents over the weekend. Many of these concern the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

This March, the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for 1.2 million documents connected to the investigation and other matters—including potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the investigation of the Trump campaign and the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The committee’s chairman, Republican Representative Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, said last month that just a few thousand documents have been delivered following his original requests last year. The subpoena is part of a joint investigation with the House Oversight Committee.

Trump took to Twitter (of course) to bitch about how long this process was taking.
Hey as far as I am concerned fucking go for it!

How many times have they investigated Hillary now?

And there is NEVER anything revealed which would constitute criminal or unethical behaviors.

My assumption is that either Donald Trump is too deep inside the Right Wing bubble to see how transparent all of this looks to most Americans, or he is so desperate for something he can use to distract attention that he just doesn't care anymore.

NONE of this is going to slow Robert Mueller down by the way, NOR convince the media not to report on the things he uncovers during that investigation.

Trump is pissing into the wind here, and it is splashing back all over him.
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Donald Trump has gone off on some Twitter Tantrums before but today he may have reached a new low.

Well besides this being almost unbelievably immature, it is also inaccurate.

What Schiff actually said was this:  

"While I respect the motive in terms of the Obama administration, they didn't want to be seen as meddling, the American people had a right to know what was going on and could be trusted to do the right thing with it. And they should have defended being more public and aggressive at the time, at least in my view."

This is a common criticism of the Obama Administration from those of us on the Left, but it does not say Obama did nothing, after all he started the whole Russian investigation ball rolling, it just suggests that he could have done more.

If you are looking for somebody who has done NOTHING, well I refer you to the author of that tweet.
That is untrue as well.

Courtesy of The Hill:  

Trump last year said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin when Putin said he didn't meddle in the 2016 election. 

“Every time he sees me he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it," Trump said last November.

Well someone's pants are on fire. 
That's just pathetic.
I think we can all agree that the Russians are laughing their asses off (So presidential by the way.), but they are laughing every time Trump opens his mouth and they remember that THEY were the ones that helped to put him in the White House.
Pretty sure Trump is retweeting a Russian troll here, which of course makes perfect sense since they are still his most aggressive supporters.

This to me demonstrates a man that is having a very public psychotic break.

I imagine behind the scenes that Trump is experience huge mood swings and is likely taking it out on everybody around him.

The man is for all intents and purposes in a kind of emotional free fall, and when his lard ass finally smacks into the reality of his situation they are going to have to cart him out of there in a straitjacket. 
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Friday, February 16, 2018

Rod Rosenstein announces indictments against 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies for interfering in 2016 election.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

Thirteen Russian nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of interfering in the 2016 presidential election — including supporting Donald Trump's campaign and "disparaging" Hillary Clinton, special counsel Robert Mueller announced Friday. 

The indictments — part of Mueller's ongoing investigation — are the first tied directly to Russian meddling in the race for the White House. 

"Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," the indictment says.

Some of those charged also "posted derogatory information" about candidates in the Republican primaries, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and supporting Bernie Sanders and Trump. By the time of the general election, the Russians' efforts included "supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton," the indictment says. 

At a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the defendants allegedly "conducted what they called 'Information Warfare' against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general."

Damn!

Rosenstein also stated that there is no allegation in this indictment that these activities changed the outcome of the election.

The key phrase here is "in THIS indictment."

However some on the Right are taking this to mean that Trump is free and clear, while I know nothing could be further from the truth.

Trump himself jumped on the fact that the Russians launched their campaign in 2014.
Of course the problem with that is that Trump started talking about his presidential run way back in 2013.

I think through this indictment is the first time that we are learning that the Russians actually had boots on the ground here in American during this time period, and were not simply conducting an online election interference campaign.

The time period in which they really ramped things up by the way, the summer of 2016, also coincides with Trump asking Russia to release Hillary's emails, and with his son meeting with Russian operatives in Trump Tower.

And while the Russian operation focused mainly on the easily manipulated deplorables in order to help Trump win, they also used other methods of damaging Hillary Clinton's chances.

Courtesy of Vox:

Friday afternoon, the Justice Department released an indictment that’s part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election led by special counsel Robert Mueller. 

The indictment outlines the lengths Russia went to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump and against Hillary Clinton — including by supporting Bernie Sanders (and, later, Jill Stein). 

The Russian operations on social media were meant to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton and other candidates, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. And they were supposed to support Sanders and Trump. 

“Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them),” they were directed, according to the indictment.

So once again I have to remind people that the ONLY way you know the Russians did not manipulate you in some way is if you voted for Hillary Clinton, because that was the ONE person they were desperate to see defeated.

And look, they were successful.

The Russians wanted to see America destroyed, just like ISIS and just like Al Qaeda, the only difference is that they came up with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

This man. 
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Saturday, February 10, 2018

There is another Devin Nunes' memo coming, and this one attacks the State Department.

Courtesy of Business Insider:  

As Democrats and Republicans continue brawling over the Russia probe, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes is gearing up to release a second memo as part of his investigation into perceived bias within the FBI and Department of Justice. 

Nunes's much-hyped first memo, which was declassified last week, purports to show the FBI and DOJ abusing their surveillance authority by omitting "material and relevant" facts when submitting an application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, a former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign. 

Much of the Republican document also questioned the FBI's decision to use the Steele dossier — an explosive collection of memos by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele alleging collusion between Trump and Russia — as a "roadmap" in the Russia investigation. 

Nunes's next memo, meanwhile, will focus on alleged abuses at the Department of State and a second Trump-Russia dossier compiled by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist with close ties to the Clinton family, according to a Republican familiar with the details. 

Apparently Trump, and his attack poodle Nunes, will not be happy until they have undermined every government law enforcement or intelligence agency in the country.

The first memo by Nunes landed with a thud, and it is likely that this one will be just as pathetic.

Of course that doesn't mean Sean Hannity will not treat it like a smoking gun, and that Right Wing media will not go apoplectic over it. Because they will.

Already one of Nunes' newest allegations has failed the smell test.

Here is a Nunes' quote courtesy of WaPo: 

“The truth is that they [Democrats] are covering up that Hillary Clinton colluded with the Russians to get dirt on Trump to feed it to the FBI to open up an investigation into the other campaign.” —Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Feb. 7, 2018

The Post's fact checkers went to town on that statement, and this is what they ultimately came away with:   

Was the dossier used to gin up media attention to Russia-Trump ties and bolster an existing FBI investigation? Perhaps. That’s certainly a question worth exploring. 

But the media needed little prodding to investigate when candidate Trump appeared unexpectedly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Russian-linked entities leaked emails stolen by Russian hackers in the middle of a campaign. Meanwhile, the initial FBI counterintelligence probe was prompted not by Steele’s reporting but by the loose lips of a Trump campaign staffer. 

Finally, there is no evidence that Clinton was involved in Steele’s reports or worked with Russian entities to feed information to Steele. That’s where Nunes’s claim goes off the rails — and why he earns Four Pinocchios.

But those are facts, and facts have no impact on the Republican bubble, so this next memo is almost certainly going to cause yet another Right Wing freakout that will dominate conservative news outlets for several days. 

And all of this is clearly designed to undermine and ultimately foil the Robert Mueller investigation.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

CNN reporter expresses regret at helping to create a false equivalency between Hillary Clinton and Doanld Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there. 

Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on comedian Larry Wilmore’s “Black on the Air” podcast. In a discussion of presidential politics, Wilmore argued that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, was the victim of a “coordinated attack” coming from Republicans. “Benghazi was … the expression of that attack. In fact, what’s his name, was it [former Rep. Jason] Chaffetz who actually kind of agreed that that’s what they were doing, was weakening her as a candidate.” (Wilmore may have been referring to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who said in 2015, “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”) 

No question about the attack on Clinton, responded Toobin, citing “all that bogus stuff about the Clinton Foundation” — perhaps a reference to the Uranium One story or even to the pre-election reporting of Bret Baier — later withdrawn — that there would be an indictment relating to the foundation.

“And I hold myself somewhat responsible for that,” continued Toobin, a steady presence on CNN since 2002. “I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign. That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump — whether it was his business interests, or grab ’em by the p–––y, we felt like, ‘Oh, we gotta, like, talk about — we gotta say something bad about Hillary.’ And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.”

I would suggest that not only did reporters often suggest that the phony Clinton "scandals" were similar to the raging dumpster fire that represented the Trump campaign, but that they actually suggested that Hillary's "crimes" were potentially more egregious.  

The coverage of Hillary's emails was insane.

So was the coverage of Benghazi, her fainting spell, and virtually everything she did which somebody could find reason to criticize.

In the meantime Trump was being accused of sexual assault, working with the Mafia, and colluding with the Russians to steal the election, and somehow those were seen as equivalent.

I hope that Jeffrey Toobin sets a precedent, and that soon we will hear apologies from a number of CNN, MSNBC, as well as network and print journalists for their part in attempting to even the playing field between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

There was nothing even about these two candidates, and the American people should have been informed of that fact.
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Monday, January 29, 2018

The part of the Grammy's that pissed off the conservatives last night.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may already have a Grammy to her name, but on Sunday night she jokingly auditioned for the role of narrator to "Fire and Fury," Michael Wolff's insider account of drama in President Donald Trump's White House. 

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade," the former Democratic presidential candidate read from the book, before Grammy host James Corden told her she had the award "in the bag." 

Along with Clinton, Corden's bit of searching for the best narrator of Wolff's book included Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, DJ Khaled and other stars.

Now that is some grade A trolling right there.

Some of the broke ass trolls that show up here at IM should take a lesson. THAT is how you do it.

The clip above was the original version, but it does not capture the crowd reaction, which is the best part.

This tweet demonstrates that the Grammy crowd went wild.
Oh yeah, that killed.

However some conservatives certainly did not appreciate the joke.

You know like Trump's Ambassador to the UN.
Ruined the Grammys for you maybe. 
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

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

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.


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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Joy Reid shuts down conservative guest who tries to trot our Clinton conspiracy theory in response to question about Trump's "sh*thole" comments.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

During a panel discussion on Trump’s comments about Haiti and African nations being “sh*tholes,” the AMJoy host turned first to conservative commentator Stephanie Hamill. 

“Stephanie, I will start with you. when you heard what Donald Trump said about Haiti, about the African countries, really talking about El Salvador and any other countries that are nonwhite, how did you feel when you heard those comments?” Reid asked. 

“Joy, we didn’t actually hear him say those words,” Hamill began only to have Reid clarify, “When you read them.” 

“When I read them, yeah, and this is the biggest fake news story of the week,” Hamill replied. “It’s interesting to sit back and watch people are so angry about what that the president didn’t say, and they are more angry than they are at the Clinton’s for getting rich off the poor Haitians with the Clinton Foundation.” 

As the panel expressed shock at Hamill bringing up the Clinton’s, Hamill pressed on. 

“You can ask Klaus Eberwein, the former Haitian government official that has all the dirt on the Clinton Foundation– oh, wait, you can’t ask him because he mysteriously committed suicide the day he was supposed to testify,” Hamill blurted 

“What are you talking about?” asked conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. “This is nuts.” 

“Did you get talking points before you came here from the RNC or the White House?” host Reid cut in. “It’s interesting that yesterday Mark Burns, who was the surrogate we had on on the Trump side yesterday, tried to roll out the same Clinton stuff? Did you get talking points before you came here?” 

“Joy, I didn’t get talking points,” Hamill shot back, attempting to get back to her story. 

Host Reid then cut her off with a warning. 

“I don’t know you, Stephanie, but let me explain this to you: this is not Fox News and we are not going to play the game of rolling out crazy conspiracy theories in answers to my questions and take us off track,” Reid lectured. “So I am going to put you pause for the minute, I’m going to put you to the side because they are more familiar with the way that we do things here.”

Oh yeah, she definitely got some talking points.

Joy Reid is rapidly becoming one of my favorite hosts on MSNBC.

Not only is she always well informed on the issues she presents on her show, but she simply does not tolerate any Right Wing bullshit.

Pretty soon the trolls may have to move away from criticizing Rachel Maddow's hand gestures and focus on some mannerism of Joy Reid's instead.
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Thursday, January 04, 2018

The DOJ is going to reopen the investigation into Hillary's emails. They should call it "Operation Smokescreen."

And here we go again.
Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of State, The Daily Beast has learned. 

An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar with the thinking at the Justice Department’s Washington headquarters described it as an effort to gather new details on how Clinton and her aides handled classified material. Officials’ questions include how much classified information was sent over Clinton’s server; who put that information into an unclassified environment, and how; and which investigators knew about these matters and when. The Sessions ally also said officials have questions about immunity agreements that Clinton aides may have made. 

A former senior DOJ official familiar with department leadership’s thinking said officials there are acutely aware of demands from President Donald Trump that they look into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State—and that they lock up her top aide, Huma Abedin.

Just like clockwork.

Trump and his White House are under all kinds of increased scrutiny, so they throw out their favorite distraction. 

Millions of taxpayer dollars, and thousands of man hours have already been wasted on this bullshit, and the Republicans came up empty.

To do this again, while there are serious investigations concerning their man in the White House, is a nakedly transparent attempt at distraction.
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Clearly worried about the 2018 midterms Donald Trump is arguing that electing Democrats will undo all of his hard work. Damn, I hope so.

Okay there is literally NOTHING to suggest that this is true.

Trump is simply making yet another fact free assertion, not realizing that the Democrats being mobilized by his presidency are typically are far better critical thinkers than the slack jawed morons who voted for him.
I swear this reads like a campaign ad for Democratic challengers in 2018 and 2020.

In fact a former Obama speechwriter has already responded.

Trump simply does not realize that we do not buy his bullshit.

However I have to say I really enjoy watching the beginning of his freakout over the midterms.

I imagine that these will only become more openly desperate and factually inaccurate as we inch closer to November.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Americans once again choose Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the most admired man and woman.

Courtesy of Gallup: 

Americans once again are most likely to name Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most, as they have for the past 10 years. The pair retain their titles this year, although by much narrower margins than in the past. Obama edges out Donald Trump, 17% to 14%, while Clinton edges out Michelle Obama, 9% to 7%.

The 2017 survey marks the 16th consecutive year Clinton has been the most admired woman. She has held the title 22 times in total, more than anyone else. Eleanor Roosevelt is second with 13 wins. Obama has now been named the most admired man 10 times, trailing only Dwight Eisenhower, who earned the distinction 12 times. Obama won all eight years he was president, plus 2008 -- the year he was first elected -- and this year, his first as a former president.

I love the fact that Hillary has the first spot on the female side, and is closely followed by Michelle Obama, with Melania Trump showing up eighth on the list well below Elizabeth Warren and Angela Merkel.

Trump showed up at number two, which is troubling, but he did lose a percentage points since last year.

However I seriously doubt that he will spend very long near the top, as the more we learn about him the less the American people like him. 
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Jeff Sessions orders the State Department to examine the connection between Hillary Clinton and the Uranium One deal. Can you say distraction?

Seriously, this again?
Courtesy of NBC News:  

On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News. 

The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant attorney general made to Congress last month to examine whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Justice Department official said.

Jesus, the Trump Administration and the Republicans are getting really desperate now.

First they suggest appointing a Special Counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton's connection to Fusion GPS to deflect from Mueller's Russia investigation, and now they are suggesting the need for one to investigate Hillary's connection to a 2010 uranium deal that she had nothing to do with personally.

Hell even Fox News deflated this conspiracy theory back in November.

This is just another taxpayer money wasting Benghazi investigation.

Clearly the point is not to discover any actual wrongdoing, but to distract attention away from the Mueller investigation which is freaking Donald Trump and his supporters out big time.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Democrat on Senate Judiciary Committee says that they have shifted focus off Russia probe to "peripheral issues." Yes, it's about Hillary Clinton.

Courtesy of Business Insider:  

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse told the committee's chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, in a letter Friday that he does not think the panel is "presently on a path" to help defend against potential Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections — and beyond. 

That is because the committee is elevating "peripheral issues," Whitehouse said, such as Hillary Clinton's relationship with the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. Fusion hired a former British spy during the campaign to investigate President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

Though Senator Grassley was not names in the article pointed out by Whitehouse, he IS one of the Senators currently calling for a second Special Counsel to investigate Hillary's connection to Fusion GPS and relationship with Russia.

Grassley also called the insinuation by Whitehouse that a Senator had been "nudged" by the White House to be "baseless."

Which is exactly how you would expect somebody who was nudged by the White House to respond.

And of course the House Intelligence Committee, supposedly also investigating the Russian interference, has also wandered way off target:  

The House Intelligence Committee has only issued one subpoena to a financial institution in the 11 months since it opened its investigation into Russia's election interference and potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Moscow. 

The subpoena wasn't to Deutsche Bank — which was fined last year over its involvement in a major Russian money-laundering scheme and has been the Trump family's bank of choice for decades. Rather, the subpoena was delivered to the primary bank for the Washington, DC-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS. 

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee's chairman, stepped aside from the Russia probe in April amid an ethics investigation into whether he'd disclosed classified information in a press conference. But he was cleared earlier this month, and has spearheaded a months-long investigation into who paid Fusion for its work during the 2016 election. 

Sounds like the Republicans in Washington are about to go all Benghazi again. 

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

So what the fuckity fuck is going on with Senator Lindsey Graham?

So now Graham, a former never Trumper, is joining Sean Hannity, and Alex Jones, on the "DOJ conspired with the DNC to sabotage the Trump campaign" bandwagon?

WTF?

And then just yesterday there was this.
I swear that somewhere in Graham's house is a pod lying next to a web covered body which looks suspiciously like a decomposing Lindsey Graham.

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

I think today seems like the appropriate day to share this rather long Seth Abramson thread.














Almost half way there, keep reading.

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