John Oliver reveals that Alex Jones is not only selling batshit crazy conspiracy theories, he's selling batshit crazy merchandise to go with them.

Courtesy of the LA Times:

On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver noted that Jones’ status as a Sandy Hook "truther" qualified him for an Easy Pass to “hell’s version of the champagne room.” But he spent most of his time on a relatively overlooked aspect of Jones’ conspiracy empire -- the wide range of products that he sells in order to fund it. 

According to Oliver, Jones spends nearly a quarter of his airtime plugging InfoWars-branded merchandise, including Wake Up America Patriot coffee to Combat One Tactical Bath Wipes and a powder called Caveman True Paleo (made from “chocolate and domesticated bird corpses,” Oliver joked). 

As the comedian pointed out, it just so happens that many of the products Jones sells, often at a significant markup, purport to address the conspiracy theories with equally wild-eyed zeal. Think: water filters to remove chemicals that supposedly turn frogs gay or vitamins to boost your immunity and ward off germs from allegedly disease-ridden refugees. 

Jones even has his own in-house “expert,” Dr. Edward Group, with dubious qualifications (and equally questionable hair) to back up his various outlandish claims. 

InfoWars is essentially a “QVC for conspiracy,” Oliver argued. 

My favorite line: "Current Russian Ambassador to the United States Donald Trump."

That almost made me blow chardonnay out of my nose. 

So I guess it's time to address this Kid Rock thing.

That was from the folks at Breitbart which is why it probably made you want to hurl red, and white, and blue vomit all over your shoes.

I have an old Google alert for Sarah Palin, so I have been receiving almost constant updates on Kid Rock's supposed run for the Senate.

At first I ignored it as simply a play for attention, which may explain why they came up in Google alerts for Sarah Palin, but they just keep coming.

And now it appears that this idiot might be serious.

https://t.co/RRVgISDFeq pic.twitter.com/VaezmV1Rri

— Kid Rock (@KidRock) July 18, 2017

If the election of Donald Trump has taught us anything it is that there are ungodly amounts of stupid people in this country.

And unfortunately stupid people are just educated well enough to vote for idiots like Donald Trump and Kid Rock.

Apparently this knuckle dragger would be going up against Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat who has held that seat since 2001.

Could he win?

Hell yes he could win.

And then we will have yet one more incredibly unqualified moron in office helping to screw up the country.

Sarah Palin pretends to be standing up for children, while using her own to hawk crappy merchandise on the internet.

Courtesy of Buy One Get One Free Barbie's Facebook page:  

The left seems to have a "War on Decency". We used to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. The left has turned this into an all out war. A perfect example of this is people like Kathy Griffin attacking innocent children. Who does that?!?!  (Perhaps the same people who use their own children to grift for cash online. Just a thought.)


www.merchful.com/sarahpalin is speaking up to those snowflakes who cry for equality and tolerance but can't even handle the actions of their own consequences.... SUCK IT UP CUPCAKE!!! 

There's only 3 days left to support Operation Heal Our Patriots by purchasing through this campaign.

According to the website a "portion" of the proceeds will go toward Samaritan's Purse.

I would imagine that is a small portion indeed.

After all Palin does not do these things out of the goodness of her heart. (What's in it for us?)

One has to wonder at the decision to attack liberals while supposedly raising money for an organization that claims to be working to "Heal our Patriots," as if only conservatives ever serve in the military, demonstrate patriotism, or come home wounded from the battlefield.

In an earlier post on her rarely visited website the Queen of Hypocrisy made this statement: 

Do you often give someone a piece of your mind? I confess to it – and most of us probably have pieces of our minds all over creation! As we grow in grace, however, we’re to exercise freedom of speech more responsibly – in a manner that uplifts, rather than destroys. Even when we have to correct, even when we disagree, we can speak truth in love.

Not sure how much love is contained in the phrase "Suck it up Cupcake."

And Palin's Facebook page and website are chock full of attacks on progressives, the media, and politicians with whom she disagrees.

Many of those posts are full of inaccuracies, exaggerations, and "fake news."

Is THAT her example of speaking "truth in love?"

Remember it is not simply Palin's opinions that are so disgusting, it's the hypocrisy.

I think in some ways this perfectly sums up the Trump administration so far.

Get'cher official Trump print from the Library of Congress. Extra "o" in "too" available separately. pic.twitter.com/Q7OTqpCPjN

— Stephen Lautens (@stephenlautens) February 12, 2017

No your eyes are not playing tricks on you.

That is the official inauguration portrait that WAS being sold on the official Library of Congress website before somebody pointed out that they were shy one "o" in the word "too."

You know for most administrations this would really be no big deal, but since THIS typo is on the portrait of a man who famously struggles with spelling it is simply too (Spelled with two "o's") perfect.

As brand becomes more and more toxic Trump merchandise continues to disappear from more and more stores.

Courtesy of Business Insider: 

Sears' and Kmart's websites no longer sell products from the Trump Home line, which is owned by the Trump Organization. 

As of Friday, a search for Trump Home items on both retailers' sites yielded no results, except items sold by third-party sellers. 

"As part of the company’s initiative to optimize its online product assortment, we constantly refine that assortment to focus on our most profitable items," a Sears Holdings spokesperson told Business Insider. "Amid that streamlining effort, 31 Trump Home items were among the items removed online this week. Products from the line are still offered online via third-party Marketplace vendors."

Neither Kmart nor Sears has carried Trump Home in brick-and-mortar stores. 

Last week, Nordstrom officially cut ties with Ivanka Trump's fashion brand, and her fashion line disappeared from Neiman Marcus' website. Home Shopping Network stopped selling a Trump Home line of lamps.

You know I think this might even bother Trump more than low approval ratings and never ending protests against his presidency. 

After all this is really what defines Donald Trump.

His brand, and its ability to make money.

But seriously why does Trump even need these outlets anymore.

With the help of Kellyanne Conway he can simply open a store right in the foyer of the White House and also market items on the official White House website.

Did Kellyanne Conway just break the law by publicly urging people to buy Ivanka Trump merchandise? Yeah, probably.

Courtesy of Mother Jones:  

Ethics lawyers are alleging that a top White House aide may have broken the law Thursday when she urged Fox News viewers to "go buy Ivanka's stuff." Kellyanne Conway, who serves as a counselor to President Donald Trump, made the remarks while defending a tweet that Trump published Wednesday attacking Nordstrom for dropping his daughter's fashion line. (The president and members of his administration claim the department store's move was politically motivated.) 

"Go buy Ivanka's stuff is what I would tell you," Conway said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. "I hate shopping, but I'm going to get some myself today." She later added: "It's a wonderful line. I own some of it. I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online." 

The comments sparked immediate criticism from prominent ethics experts, including Campaign Legal Center general counsel Lawrence Noble and Norm Eisen, the former chief White House ethics lawyer under Barack Obama. They suggested Conway's statements may have violated a law prohibiting federal employees from using their government positions "to endorse any product, service or enterprise."

So now the Trump administration has turned into a version of the Home Shopping Network.

Great.

But seriously will anything happen to Conway over this?

For their part the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington responded quickly and filed a complaint:

“The law is clear that public officials should not use their offices for their own private gain or the private gain of others,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement announcing the complaint. “It’s hard to find a clearer case of that kind of misuse of office than we saw today.”

Still it's hard to imagine in Donald Trump's America that it will actually go anywhere, but it is nice that some people still think that rules and ethics still matter.

How 2016 of them. 

Besides White House Spokes-liar Sean Spicer already said that Conway had been "Counseled."

Which in Trump-speak I believe means given a pat on the back and a cash prize for being so awesome.

Remember this is a guy who only won this office through the interference of a foreign government.

Why would he care about any of OUR laws?

All he cares about is gaining power and getting rich.

Kellyanne is just doing her part to help make that happen.

Finally, some Trump brand merchandise that makes sense.

Courtesy of Dangerous Minds:

We already have the “Dump with Donald Trump” toilet paper. So naturally, the next inevitable crap-related Trump product is the the Poop Head Donald Trump Dog Bags. I can’t think of a more fitting tribute to the shitty Republican presidential nominee. 

Each roll comes with 15 bags featuring Donald Trump’s head with a steaming hot turd on top. The bag rolls are $4.99 each.

Yeah Trump University never made sense to me, Trump steaks would probably give me food poisoning, and Trump airlines barely even got off the ground.

But Donald Trump dog shit bags?

Now there is some merchandise worthy of the Trump name.

It's Black Friday! Everybody take cover until it blows over!

So it is Black Friday which I will celebrate in my traditional fashion, by not buying one single damn thing today.

Nice try corporate America but if you want me to participate in the shopping equivalent of the Hunger Games you're going to have to offer something a little more tantalizing than 40% off of big screen TV's. (Besides I already have a big screen TV.)

After all I'm a guy, and as a guy this is essentially my caveman like approach to shopping:

"Ugh me need clothes."

Three months later:

"Ugh me still need clothes."

Then another six months after that:

"Ugh me all out of clothes without holes, must go shopping now."

At the store:

"Ugh these clothes next to entrance. Good enough, me buy."

Later at home:

"Ugh hate all of new clothes, me still wear old tattered clothes instead. What's on TV?"

That essentially it, only sometimes it is more primitive.

So you all enjoy your day of allowing big business to manipulate you into acting like animals. I will be right here at home, eating, sleeping, and scratching myself.

You know like an animal, but one who still has money on his credit card.