Did Humphrey Bogart do a better Donald Trump than Alec Baldwin

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Sunday October 16, 2016 · 7:08 AM PDT

2016/10/16 · 07:08

No doubt all of you have been enjoying Alec Baldwin’s spot on impression of Donald Trump. However with Donald’s meltdown this weekend I can’t help but be reminded that Humphrey Bogart captured the essence of Donald Trump decades before

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The fake Juanita Broaddrick twitter account wants you to believe these tweets are from a 13 year old

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Sunday October 09, 2016 · 6:01 AM PDT

2016/10/09 · 06:01

Do these sound like the tweets of a 13 year old or a alt right deplorable posing as a 13 year old?

Now mind you, one needs to forget that many of these tweets were made at 1 or 2 or 4 in the morning (is this donald trump by any chance?)

I reviewed the account supposedly belonging to Juanita Broaddrick and the one that account alleges is Juanita's 13 year old grand son and neither passes the smell test. Both are anti-Hillary, pro-trump, anti-liberal/democrat and racist. Both accounts push Alt-Right memes as well. They are just your typical alt-right accounts of the deplorables. You can see the tweets.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jul 2 There are people you want to be president... Hillary is not one of them.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jul 9 I hope that FBI Idiot thinks twice about his decision, Hillary should be in prison.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jul 30 Just got done watching the new movie "Hillary's America" which feature my grandma. I recommend it to anyone who is confused about democrats.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Oct 3 Another day goes by and I wonder why people affiliate with Hillary Clinton.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 15 "Hillary Clinton praised an unnamed Stanford rape survivor Wednesday for her courage in writing a letter to assaulter." This makes me sick.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 22 Wow some idiot just tried to assassinate trump 😐

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 23 Do you want an evil hypocrite to be your president? Neither do I. Don't vote for Hillary.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 23 Unlike Hillary... Trump cares about our military and won't abandon troops in a place like Benghazi. Donald J. Trump and Trump Image Library

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 25 Crooked Hillary needs to go.

Ridge Hickey ‏@Ridge_Hickey Jun 25 Want a president that left our troops in one of the most dangerous places in the world and got a good night sleep? Don't vote Hillary.

Here is a tweet where the fake Juanita Broaddrick account claims the other account is from her "13 year old grandson"

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/782774927271211008

Here is the link to the fake account claiming to the the 13 year old

https://twitter.com/Ridge_Hickey

Trump on his sexual predator tape: "This is nothing more than a distraction"

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Saturday October 08, 2016 · 5:37 AM PDT

2016/10/08 · 05:37

While Donald looking like a prisoner being forced to read a coerced confession did say “I was wrong and I apologize” that only lasted approximately 20 seconds and he quickly dismissed what he said and did as “nothing”. The full dismissal of that tape that shows he was a proud sexual predator who bragged openly about his crimes was this:

“ This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we're facing today.”

I have got news for you Donald, sexual assault and harassment of women are both IMPORTANT issues that we are facing today.

Let us not forget that when Roger Ailes stepped down at FOX news a couple of months ago for being discovered as another sexual predator and serial sexual harasser, the “changed” Donald Trump didn’t reel at the horrors the man perpetrated. Rather he looked at Roger and his abuse of women and said, “I like the cut of his gib, let’s hire him for my campaign”. So there is no “new and improved” Donald Trump. His view that women are prey or blow up sex toys put on this earth for his and other men’s amusement is the view he holds today.

It is crystal clear the ONLY thing that Donald is sorry about, is that his views on women and molesting them fun was released to the public. The shame is so great on Donald Trump that it stains EVERY REPUBLICAN who has not unendorsed him and demanded that he steps down!

The Power of the Click and how to Support Hillary Clinton

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Wednesday September 07, 2016 · 9:33 AM PDT

2016/09/07 · 09:33

The second half of August was a rough month for Hillary Clinton. The MSM has been on the attack against her smearing her with one fake scandal after another. In addition, the weaselly Republican head of the FBI dredged up his "Hillary is innocent but I don't like her scandal" a third time by taking the unprecedented step of releasing investigation notes to the public (which interestingly enough show the only liar in all this is Comey). I digress, though this is about how to combat or mitigate the MSM's efforts to give the election to Donald Trump (sort of like what Putin is trying to do).

The thing is much of the MSM coverage is also available online and no doubt these agencies monitor clicks into various articles. So when you see bad press about Donald or positive coverage of Hillary be sure to click those articles. Let the MSM see that doing their jobs correctly as journalists can be as profitable as being in the tank for Donald Trump.

By the same token it's probably a good idea to limit how many smear Hillary articles or Donald really isn't a racist madman articles you visit.

Why Bernie’s Decision is Difficult for Him

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Thursday June 09, 2016 · 5:49 AM PDT

2016/06/09 · 05:49

Bernie spent a life time in politics, but never in a particularly large scale. He represented a relatively small state population wise and no doubt his political events were tame relatively mild affairs. On the national stage he was that “socialist Senator from VT”. He would appear on TV where the hosts would treat him as someone different and with a certain reverence as no one really took the time or effort to target him for criticism or attacks.

Then in his 70s he decided to run for President, not so much because he thought he would win and most likely not even because he thought he would make a great President but because he thought a run would allow him to highlight the positions he was passionate about such as income equality and access to higher education and the need to break up the big banks. Funny thing though, the people had been frustrated of nearly 8 years of Republican obstructionism in Congress. Only the right wing controlled media had done an excellent job of hiding the Republican’s rather callous plan of screwing over the nation for their political gain. Instead the right wing controlled media would blame “Congress” rather than the Republicans controlling Congress. As a result there were a massive dissatisfaction with Washington and people were just as angry with the Democrats as they were the real villains. Well Bernie’s outsider status and a message of fair income and education and reigning in the control of corporate interests really resonated with many of the unhappy people in this nation especially the millennials. On top of that, because Bernie had always been a minor player on the political stage he had never been targeted for a smear campaign like the Clintons or Nancy Pelosi or President Obama or Senator Warren. So without the smear he enjoyed a elder statesmen status on top of his outsider status.

As a result of all of this, campaigning, for Bernie, was not the usual trudging from place to place to talk it up with the people and give speeches to a few 1000 people. Rather it was the life of a rock star. He would travel first class and give speeches in front of 10s of thousands of adoring fans who hung on his every word. That is some pretty heady stuff for a man who for the first 70 years of his life was basically a C or D list celebrity. Suddenly everyone was listening and he had undreamed of crowds chanting his name. Fame and power he never imagined. This sort of rock star treatment can be intoxicating and pretty addicting. As time went on he began to believe his speeches that he would win it all and he had dreams of really being President. Only that wasn’t meant to be and while he convinced himself and his followers that the party would never end, sadly for him and them it did. Suddenly Bernie is facing the prospect of going from one of the most famous and adored people in the Country to going back to being that socialist senator from VT.

That is a tough pill to swallow so it’s quite understandable that Bernie is taking his time swallowing it. For the future of our nation I hope Bernie is the man I think he is and will rise to the occasion and put his self interests aside and does right by our nation and the people who supported him.

Donald Trump broke the Republican's racism/bigotry dog whistle

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Wednesday December 09, 2015 · 11:29 AM PST

2015/12/09 · 11:29

Donald's full on bigot/racist has really changed the usual Republican strategy. The GOP has been appealing indirectly to racists and bigots since Nixon first developed his "Southern Strategy" using "State Rights" as code words for anti-civil rights.

Since then the Republicans and conservatives have become masters in the use of racist and bigoted dog whistles. Every bigot and racist knows full well who supports their positions. The whistle will even appeal to and encourage intolerance and fear and oppression of those that are different then their white Christian selves.

Victims of GOP/Conservative hate mongering for political gain include

African Americans Hispanics LGBT community Muslims Atheist

and so on

It wasn't hard to see that the GOP was going to try and exploit the latest terrorist attack for political gain by stirring up hatred and fear of Muslims while pretending they weren't.

Only problem is that their leading Presidential candidate lacks the subtlety to play the dog whistle game. So now the GOP is forced to denounce the very position they intended to exploit and encourage.

Great turn of events for our nation

Don't ever tell me there is no difference between GOP and Democrats

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Wednesday June 26, 2013 · 8:42 AM PDT

2013/06/26 · 08:42

I can't help but notice on what side the vast majority of the Republican Supreme Court appointments voted on major Civil Rights rulings. If it were up to the Republican appointees gays would still not have the right to vote. It was also the Republicans on the Supreme Court that gutted the Civil Rights act and signaled to the GOP that it's open season on stealing minority voter's rights.

Of course it was the Republican appointments on the Supreme Court that ruled corporations are people and that our politicians should have the right to sell themselves to the highest bidder (which the GOP has taken full advantage up to the tune of nearly a billion dollars.

So don't anyone EVER dare to lie to my face and tell me there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Why the GOP refuses to make a counter offer in fiscal cliff negotiations

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Saturday December 01, 2012 · 9:34 AM PST

2012/12/01 · 09:34

President Obama has done what you expect to have done in a negotiation. He made a proposal with increased income by letting the tax rate for the wealthy go to the level it was at back during the Clinton boon years and he looks for savings from last year's budget cuts, reductions in medicare spending and savings from the end of the wars.

In traditional negotiations the ball would be in the Republican's court. They now should be making a detailed counter offer so that negotiations could move forward. Only the GOP has not done that. Instead of they have done is ridicule the President's plans and offered up platitudes about closing special interest tax loop holes and reduce spending.

There is a good reason the GOP doesn't want to make a detailed counter proposal. The reason is that the American people would hate what the GOP wants. The GOP owes the billionaires and big corporations who spent over half a billion to get them into office or keep them in office big time. So what the GOP wants is to make their wealthy benefactors happy. That means they don't want to raise taxes on the wealthy Now they claim elimination of deductions, but financially that's about as effective as spitting on a five alarm fire. The truth is the increase in tax rates will raise tens of billions of dollars a year while the loop hole closing would be lucky to raise a billion and that is if you harm the nation by eliminating things like tax deductions for charities (which would cripple not for profits and churches).

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Tuesday October 23, 2012 · 6:30 AM PDT

2012/10/23 · 06:30

The third debate was brutal to Romney in so many ways. Perhaps the most interesting was the Nixon like flop sweat

remember the infamous Nixon 5 O'clock shadow and flow sweat debate?

Employee Gate could sink the Romney Campaign

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Thursday October 18, 2012 · 11:17 AM PDT

2012/10/18 · 11:17

Romney getting caught telling employers to strong arm their employees into voting for him. I can't see voters being thrilled that Romney is telling their bosses to strong arm them into voting against their own interests.

Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you're a small business owner, he wants your employees' votes as well and insists that there's nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle. On June 6, Romney led a conference call with support from the über-conservative National Federation of Independent Business and -- to cut to the chase -- urged the bosses on the call to persuade their employees to vote for him in the upcoming election.
"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections," said Romney in a recording obtained by In These Times. "Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/...

President Obama cuts federal Deficit by $200 Billion

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Saturday October 06, 2012 · 8:45 AM PDT

2012/10/06 · 08:45

The good economic news keeps on rolling in. Showing that Mitt's bullshit talks while President Obama's actions walk

The federal budget deficit dipped to $1.1 trillion in fiscal 2012, the 12 month period that ended Sept. 30, according to a report released Friday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The figure was $200 billion less than the deficit recorded the previous year. This time, outlays dropped 1.6 percent last year, while receipts were up slightly. Here's some of the report:

"The 2012 deficit was equal to 7.0 percent of gross domestic product, CBO estimates, down from 8.7 percent in 2011, 9.0 percent in 2010, and 10.1 percent in 2009, but greater than in any other year since 1947. CBO’s deficit estimate is based on data from the Daily Treasury Statements; the Treasury Department will report the actual deficit for fiscal year 2012 later this month.

http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/...

President Obama was smart not to mention the 47% in the debate

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Friday October 05, 2012 · 11:52 AM PDT

2012/10/05 · 11:52

there have been many so called experts that have faulted President Obama for not having brought up Mitt's 47% remarks. What they failed to realize is that the President was debating a serial liar. If President Obama had brought up the issue during the national debate, he would have given Mitt a free pass to refute those remarks to the American public. So instead the President avoided the issue. That forced Mitt to call on FAUX news after the debate and refute his comment to the old angry white men that watch FAUX news. That doesn't get the air play or have the reach of the debate. So many of the debate watchers who had heard about the remark didn't come away with anything that would indicate Mitt didn't have contempt for those 47% of Americans in the moocher class.

The media and pundits are playing checkers while the President is playing chess.

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