How do Trump and Paul Ryan plan to repeal Medicare (as well as Medicaid
and Obamacare)? Watch our latest video to find out -- and prepare to
stop them.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Trump "Thanks" Himself Cuz No One Else Will
He really meant to Tweet "Thank you" President Obama but being incapable of telling the truth...The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113.7, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! Thanks Donald!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2016
Our "P*ssy-Grabber" President Is Going To Get A Real Eye Opener At The Women's March On Washington
By ursulafaw
The Women's March On Washington takes place January 21, 2017 and the ladies are going in style. The marchers are making a bold and unmistakeable statement with their choice of headgear, a knitted pink hat, with cat ears; i.e., a "pussyhat.”
The Women's March On Washington takes place January 21, 2017 and the ladies are going in style. The marchers are making a bold and unmistakeable statement with their choice of headgear, a knitted pink hat, with cat ears; i.e., a "pussyhat.”
"We want to ensure that this country knows women are not happy," Women’s March on Washington co-founder Tamika Mallory said. "And when we get angry, change happens. We make things happen."
[The march] “is pro-women. This is a continuation of a struggle women have been dealing with for a very long time. In this moment, we are connecting and being as loud as possible."
Why Paul Ryan Is So Desperate To Vote On Obamacare Repeal Quickly
A debate could expose enough about the consequences to scare off the public — and maybe Donald Trump too.
12/27/2016 02:28 pm ET
House Speaker Paul Ryan has vowed a quick repeal of Obamacare in order to “stop the damage” and because “things are only getting worse.”
Meanwhile, here is a selection of news reports from the past two weeks:
The Obama administration announced that the number of people signing up for insurance through HealthCare.gov, the federal website that 39 states use to administer Obamacare plans, is even higher than last year. State-run sites such as Covered California are reporting similar surges.
Full Article via Huff Post
Full Article via Huff Post
Obama Says He Would Have Won 2016 Election, And Donald Trump Is DYING OMG LOL
By Evan Hurst
Remember on Monday, we told you
all about President Barry Bamz Kenyastan Jones sitting down with his
old pal David Axelrod, who prefers to be called “Axe,” but is really
just known behind his back as “Axeldork” (allegedly), and telling
“Axeldork” that, if he had been inclined to throw the 22nd Amendment in
the trash heap with his long-form birth certificate and run for a third
term in 2016, he probably would have won, which by extension, means he
would have picked Donald Trump by his tiny little hands and thrown him
directly into the sun, assuming that in this scenario the sun is where
you throw yooge losers?
Well.
Well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLD ON LET US FOR TO CATCH OUR BREATH FROM THE HACKY SMOKER GIGGLING WE ARE DOING.President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2016
How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
Reports on the rise of fascism in Europe was not the American media's finest hour
By
John Broich, The Conversation
How to cover the rise of a political
leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and
the encouragement of violence? Does the press take the position that its
subject acts outside the norms of society? Or does it take the position
that someone who wins a fair election is by definition “normal,”
because his leadership reflects the will of the people?
These are the questions that confronted the U.S. press after the
ascendance of fascist leaders in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and
1930s.
Full Article via smithsonian.com
Full Article via smithsonian.com
Bourdain’s wake-up call for liberals calling for revolution: “Whose heads are gonna be on the pike first? Us”
In a new interview, the famously outspoken chef and TV host doesn't mince words about Trump and America
Matthew Rozsa
Like many Americans,
Anthony Bourdain is deeply worried about what the future of this country
will be under President-elect Donald Trump.
“No fan of the Clintons am I, by a long shot,” Bourdain told Eater in an interview published on Wednesday.
“But I’m a New Yorker, Donald Trump is a New Yorker. And the New
Yorkers I know, we’ve lived with this guy for 30 years. I’ve seen Donald
Trump say things one day, and then I saw what he did the next.”Full Article via Salon
The Year in Review: The 10 Best Comedians of the Resistance
By Robbie X Pierce
With a new year (and a new America) fast approaching, it’s time to look back and appreciate the comedians who did their best to satirically expose the horrors of a Trump presidency back when we still had a chance to fix it. From getting his supporters to admit their shockingly unpleasant views to uncovering unbelievable facts about the man himself, these are the people who were really there to make us laugh in one of the darkest years in recent memory. (Notably not on this list: Jimmy Fallon. You know what you did).
See the Top Ten because Lord knows you deserve a good laugh so click HERE for The Advocate
BRAGGADOCIOUS!: Randy Rainbow Moderates Debate
With a new year (and a new America) fast approaching, it’s time to look back and appreciate the comedians who did their best to satirically expose the horrors of a Trump presidency back when we still had a chance to fix it. From getting his supporters to admit their shockingly unpleasant views to uncovering unbelievable facts about the man himself, these are the people who were really there to make us laugh in one of the darkest years in recent memory. (Notably not on this list: Jimmy Fallon. You know what you did).
See the Top Ten because Lord knows you deserve a good laugh so click HERE for The Advocate
BRAGGADOCIOUS!: Randy Rainbow Moderates Debate
Disgraced GOP operative may have violated probation by trying to funnel Chinese money to Trump
Travis Gettys
A disgraced campaign operative for Kentucky senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul may have violated his probation by meeting in New York with undercover reporters offering to make illegal donations to Donald Trump.
Jesse Benton, who was sentenced in September to two years of probation for buying a senator’s endorsement while working for Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign, told the journalists Oct. 13 that he could funnel $2 million toward a pro-Trump PAC through his public affairs company to hide its origins, reported the Associated Press.
The reporters from the Telegraph newspaper were posing as associates of a Chinese benefactor, and foreign nationals are prohibited by law from donating to U.S. federal elections.
Full Article via Raw Story
A disgraced campaign operative for Kentucky senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul may have violated his probation by meeting in New York with undercover reporters offering to make illegal donations to Donald Trump.
Jesse Benton, who was sentenced in September to two years of probation for buying a senator’s endorsement while working for Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign, told the journalists Oct. 13 that he could funnel $2 million toward a pro-Trump PAC through his public affairs company to hide its origins, reported the Associated Press.
The reporters from the Telegraph newspaper were posing as associates of a Chinese benefactor, and foreign nationals are prohibited by law from donating to U.S. federal elections.
Full Article via Raw Story
Jesse Benton with Mitch McConnell. Yes, something really stinks.
Trump rewards big donors with jobs and access
Updated
Not Best And Brightest But Richest And Whitest
Donald Trump Rewarding Million-Dollar Donors With Plum Postings
Team Trump takes pay-to-play politics to a new level
Anti-LGBTQ Junk Science And Fake News Are Poised To Harm the Future of LGBTQ Equality
Pseudoscience and lies have long been the favorite tactics of anti-LGBTQ
extremists, but now that the incoming U.S. president is highly
influenced by hate groups, fake news purveyors, and far-right
publications that peddle such misinformation, these smoke and mirror
tactics are well-positioned to harm LGBTQ equality.
After scientific consensus rejected the “sickness theories” of homosexuality in the 1970s, “anti-LGBT professionals retreated from mainstream scientific organizations and formed their own groups,” Summers explained. These fringe splinter groups, like the deceptively named American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) -- an anti-LGBTQ hate group with about 500 members whose name is meant to be confused with the 60,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) -- funnel debunked “research” to anti-LGBTQ extremist organizations like the Family Research Council (FRC), also a designated hate group. FRC and its allies peddle this misinformation as widely as possible to be used as ammunition in the fight against equality.
Right-wing outlets like Breitbart and The Daily Caller are the go-to platforms for anti-LGBTQ activists looking to push hateful lies and myths. Breitbart in particular regularly pushes pseudoscientific attacks on transgender people. Since March 2016, Breitbart authors have cited ACPeds to falsely claim that affirming transgender youths’ gender identity is a “form of child abuse” in at least 19 different articles. The talking point originated from an American College of Pediatricians “report,” which was quickly touted in other right-wing outlets like The Blaze and The Daily Caller. As The Daily Beast’s Samantha Allen highlighted, right-wing journalists published ACPed’s “child abuse” claim “without contrasting their primary source with the AAP.”
This type of anti-LGBTQ pseudoscience isn’t confined to right-wing web outlets. On Fox News, “Medical A Team” member Dr. Keith Ablow frequently pushes harmful anti-transgender misinformation. In April, Ablow speculated wildly about medical care for transgender youth, and proposed his own harmful “treatments,” akin to conversion therapy, that go against scientific evidence and professional standards from mainstream medical associations.
Even mainstream outlets like The Associated Press and NPR have allowed well-known purveyors of junk science to attack LGBTQ people.
Read More via Media Matters
How Donald Trump Beat Palm Beach Society and Won the Fight for Mar-a-Lago
From the moment Donald Trump
set eyes on Mar-a-Lago, the grand palace of old Palm Beach, he was on a
collision course with one of the richest and most insular towns in
America. Mark Seal chronicles how the president-elect created his
“Winter White House” with brash ploys, lawsuits, and by turning Palm
Beach’s exclusivity against it.
Psychiatrists Call For Trump Mental Exam, Fear He Might Be Unstable
Ya Think???
Published on Dec 25, 2016
A
group of psychiatrists have sent an open letter to Barack Obama about
Donald Trump’s mental health, pleading with him to seek help. They
believe that his outbursts and behaviors indicate some sort of mental
instability. And they’re probably correct. The Ring of Fire's Farron
Cousins discusses this.
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