For the past three weekends, I wake up in the morning and for one glorious moment, everything is fine and there are no worries. Then I remember what happened: our president is a lunatic and he’s going to kill us all. I sigh and read the news on my iPad to see what sh-t Emperor Baby Fists has gotten up to. And why does it always seem worse on the weekends?? Don’t get me wrong, he’s doing plenty of horrible, deranged and deplorable crap throughout the week too. But Easy D seems especially fraught Friday through Sunday. So here’s some of the horrible sh-t that’s happened in the past 48 hours or so.
Trump met Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at the White House. It did not go well, but everything’s relative. I mean, Trump didn’t declare war on Japan (YET), so it did go better than expected. Still, Trump pretended to understand Japanese (he nodded along despite the fact he wasn’t wearing an earpiece to hear the translation), and this also happened. I feel like Abe’s eye roll at the end of the handshake was one of the nicest reactions from a world leader. I imagine when Angela Merkel meets Trump face-to-face, she might vomit on him.
Trump's first press conference with a foreign leader is awkward and embarrassing. Shinzō Abe's eye roll though. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/j3HNJn8gOO
— Common Gay Boy (@CGBPosts) February 10, 2017
Baby Fists won’t shut up about voter fraud. Politico reports: “On Thursday, during a meeting with 10 senators that was billed as a listening session about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the president went off on a familiar tangent, suggesting again that he was a victim of widespread voter fraud, despite the fact that he won the presidential election.” He claimed that “thousands” of Massachusetts voters had been “bused in” to New Hampshire to vote. Cool bonus in this story: during the meeting with senators – some of whom were Democrats – Trump referred to Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” several times and he “told the Democrats he was glad Warren is becoming the face of ‘your party.’” My God. If you want the background on the Liz Warren/Native American issue, go here.
The Muslim Ban is being re-branded. You remember how Baby Fists threw a Twitter tantrum and shrieked “SEE YOU IN COURT” to a federal court? The assumption was that Baby Fists would appeal the court’s decision and take his Muslim Ban executive order all the way to the Supreme Court. Well, probably not. Once the tantrum subsided and Trump was distracted by something shiny, sources told NBC News that it’s far more likely that Trump and his people will just rewrite the executive order and sign another version of the Muslim Ban all over again. So we’ll probably have to go through all of this in a few weeks, probably.
Trump doesn’t understand how government works, at all. This Politico story is actually one of the most terrifying things I’ve read thus far. Three weeks into the job, Baby Fists is apparently perplexed and frustrated with the scope of the American presidency. According to sources, “his mood has careened between surprise and anger as he’s faced the predictable realities of governing, from congressional delays over his cabinet nominations and legal fights holding up his aggressive initiatives to staff in-fighting and leaks.” Like, he literally never considered that he was the leader of a democracy with checks and balances. He literally thought he was elected emperor. Sources say the transition from “businessman” to “president” has “been tough on him.” POOR BABY (FISTS).
Even Trump’s staffers think he’s a moron. Here’s another terrifying passage from the Politico piece: “Trump often asks simple questions about policies, proposals and personnel. And, when discussions get bogged down in details, the president has been known to quickly change the subject — to “seem in control at all times,” one senior government official said — or direct questions about details to his chief strategist Steve Bannon, his son-in-law Jared Kushner or House Speaker Paul Ryan. Trump has privately expressed disbelief over the ability of judges, bureaucrats or lawmakers to delay — or even stop — him from filling positions and implementing policies.” He’s also annoyed by how his staffers keep leaking details of his temperamental behavior and general ignorance, so there’s now an internal investigation into the leaks. Oh, and Trump believes the members of the National Security Council are out to get him, and sources within the NSC say that they don’t believe that he “possesses the capacity for detail and nuance required to handle the sensitive issues discussed on the calls, and that he has politicized their agency by appointing chief strategist Bannon to the council.”
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Who would’ve thought choosing a reality TV personality as president would be this hectic!
If only we would have been warned about his temperament! If only someone told us the office of the presidency was a difficult job!
https://www.indivisibleguide.com
But how about those emails?!?!?
Those emails were SUCH a deal breaker! It’s not like Baby Fists would do something as bad as EMAILS.
But, hey, one was as bad as the other, right? right?
Those emails and “OMG, SHE STAYED WITH HER CHEATING HUSBAND!!!!!!”. Deal breaker for president!
Much better to have unqualified White supremacists, women-hating reality TV stars, pathological liars and corrupt billionaires!
Who would ever have guessed??!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Yes, thank goodness we didn’t get Hillary with her years of experience and her even temperament! #dodgedabullet
Donald Trump thought that being president would be an easy job. He believed that his orders would be accepted and upheld without a problem. Now he must be slowly realizing that it will be a battle for the next 4 years.
I don’t think he understood that the office of the president = public servant.
Trump doesn’t understand anything about service and I would bet that he has never done something for someone else that didn’t benefit him, too, in some way.
I hope these four years destroy him (without destroying the world as well).
Who would’ve though enough Americans would be so naive to vote for this reality TV personality! Did they really believe he could handle being president? We’re all hectic and panicking wit his foolishness!
Yeah, in their frenzied “Washington needs a blunt talking outsider to shake things up” rallying cry they really, really didn’t think things through. Dumbasses, each and every one of them.
I know-like this was a big shock??!! I actually want to scream at the people who voted for him.
The Russian infiltration is getting more traction so pay attention. Trump was working with them for a long time and Flynn is getting busted for discussing sanctions while Obama was president. It is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s going to make Watergate look like minor league!
Saras – it’s hard for me to get all worked up about whether or not Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian officials, considering that it was no secret that Trump intended to drop the sanctions as soon as he could. Trump been yammering about that for many months. Flynn is such a flake that he might actually have forgotten some of the things he chattered about.
But it sounds as though intelligence people believe that the Russians are getting info about everything discussed in the White House, that there’s a mole in the Situation Room. If the leaks are to be believed, they’ve started withholding certain information from the Trumpster and his merry band of thieves. The very fact that they are leaking so much suggests they feel this is the only way to get the word out to people who might pursue it. They haven’t had much success just telling Congress people, the Republicans are too concerned about keeping a lid on it. Apparently McConnell browbeat Obama into silence during the campaign, convincing him that if he said much about it then the Republicans would just loudly claim he was trying to affect the election with rumors and being partisan.
The British fellow who wrote that report about Trump’s Russian connections is well respected and our intelligence people have already partially corroborated it. Plus possible sources in Russia seem to be recently dead or dying …. He did it for a private client but felt he needed to share it with the FBI but that didn’t really seem to go anywhere, they were too busy trying to smear Hillary. So it’s understandable that intelligence folk concerned about the White House would resort to leaking like the proverbial sieve to try to find somebody willing to do something about it. I don’t think Trump realizes that such people do not take an oath of loyalty to the President, but rather to the defense of the Constitution and the law.
Well, I, for one, am totally shocked! He promised he would MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! After eight long years of declining unemployment, 20 million more people acquiring health care and a declining crime rate, I could hardly wait. Are you saying he was lying??
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/donald-trump-a-pillar-of-ignorance-and-certitude-graydon-carter
Braydon Carter is a national treasure. His 1st class trolling of Trump is giving life and light in these darkest of days.
Plus TeenVogue has become a center of resistance, of all places….
I feel so bad for America, and indeed, the world, as his complete ignorance of government and law, ineptitude, lack of respect and manners, egoism, childishness (I could go on, but you get it) means that much of whatever he decides to do and manages to get passed, will filter out to many other countries. He’s dangerous. This twat of a president is such a bad representation of males, and I’m still gobsmacked that he got to where he is. Has it really only been three weeks?! Can anyone name a bigger wanker than trump?
I want to be clear, I did not vote for Trump and I’m scared silly. However, I have heard from people I am acquainted with, who did vote for him, and they are thrilled. They believe he will do great things. If they have some money, they believe they are assured of making more money. If they don’t have any money (or not even a job), they believe they will come into money soon. As soon as Trump brings all the jobs back to the US. Some of these people may not be the brightest bulbs in the bunch, but, in fact some are highly intelligent. To Trump voters he is the new Messiah. This is what scares me even more than Trump himself.
I don’t understand how they can think this! Actions speak louder than words, and so far every single thing Trump and his freak show have done has been an abomination. Everything! How do the financially-challenged people like me figure they’re going to survive when Paul Ryan and Co. succeed in savaging disability, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security? I’m 69, disabled, and will have zero money; I’ll be standing on a street corner with a sign that reads “Will provide unnatural sex acts for $15–or best offer.” How is Trump going to improve the job situation when he and his family have all their products made overseas? You don’t have to be a genius to see all the fallacies in what Trump says, but simple logic would go far….
His supporters have very selective hearing, very selective.
It really is astonishing that Trump gets away with sending Trump clothing lines to China and Vietnam, buying fabric there also, and quite recently has tried (or succeeded) to import about 200 Eastern Europeans to work at his resort in Florida because obviously there are no Americans who can work as waitresses and housekeepers. And yet he yells about forcing other companies to keep production here, even grabbing credit for plans in the works for many months before he even started talking this way. It isn’t that hard to check this stuff out today.
On Lincoln’s birthday it’s fair to say the new POTUS, his loyalist handlers, and the fanatics comprising Congress have not touched the better angels of our nature.
Your comment has me tearing up.
“O powerful western fallen star!
O shades of night—O moody, tearful night!
O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star!
O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.”
~Walt Whitman, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’
omg you have me weeping
Trump and the rest of them are such f*&^%ing knobs.
Agree. They are entitled rich, uppity upper class, racist, mysoginistic b-holes.
Color me shocked 😳
I know, right? Like who would have expected that he wouldn’t know how government works? or that he has the attention span of a gnat? or that he would be flipping out about how there are actually some checks and balances? Yes-this is a HUGE shock.
So his supporters and republicans are forced to make excuses for his appalling behaviour on daily basis.
Less and less Trump voters are now proudly saying they voted for him.
Lots of his voters just realised that they voted against their own interest and will now lose their medical insurance, education support and will probably never get jobs under his schemes.
Republicans thought that they can keep a lunatic president in charge and then get their legislations through in the background. But they have realised that Trump is a crazy and that he is going of the rails on daily basis.
Republicans have realised that Trump winning is the best thing that has happened to Democrats and the American people. Trump has awoken those lazy voters who didn’t vote at all and are now paying the price.
Trump has made those 3rd party voters ashamed of choosing their own self interest and are now suffering as well.
Trump has gotten women, minorities, disables etc to join together to form a force that will get the Democrats the house and Senate next year.
Republicans are still in power, still run from deeply gerrymandered districts, and are still backed by Republican-dominated state governments that are ramming through right-wing laws.
They’re rattled enough to look scared (Town Halls) and get sloppy (McConnell – Warren).
Keep fighting. Persist. And tie all elected Republicans so tightly to Trump that they will go down with the ship.
“Keep fighting. Persist. And tie all elected Republicans so tightly to Trump that they will go down with the ship.” YES
But we need to hold the democrats feet to the fire too. They, more then the republicans, NEED TO HEAR US!
Yes, my PS in other forums is to exhort the Democrats to get more visible, too & to be proud to be in front of this united movement. They ALL need to be reminded that the people, united, still pay them more than their corporate donors.
Speaking of gerrymandering, did you see that re-districting based on party lines was considering gerrymandering in Wisconsin? It’s likely going to the Supreme Court.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund is fighting many of these gerrymandering battles. Needs $$$!
@Bridget, yes, I’ve been pointing that out since the decision was released two weeks after the election. Federal court in Wisconsin found that the state gerrymandered districts in order to suppress the votes in heavily Democratic regions in 2012 and 2014. As the decision came down in late November 2016, the gerrymandered districts were still in play for the 2016 election that delivered Wisconsin to Trump. Wisconsin, home of Paul Ryan.
If I were a Native American I would be so offended by Donald Trump calling anyone Pocahontas. But then again the cheeto-in-chief is by nature an offensive a-hole who cannot comprehend anyone disagreeing with him. He grew up with people catering to his every whim. What an entitled, capricious baby he must have been, and he still is and will be until the end of his life. I hope we do not get all get killed (as Kaiser suggests) because of him.
I fully get that. I think he’s being extremely inappropriate. But Cb didn’t provide any background. It was Warren who claimed to be native, used that on applications to her benefit, then was found to be lying about it all and said she assumed she was because she had “high cheek bones.” So she isn’t. But the term in general as a derogatory- yes. Inappropriate.
PS see my comment below. I actually like her a lot. That’s just what I have read from Reuters and CNN when it all came out.
It wasn’t as though she brazenly made up the story. It was silly, mistaken family lore – literally, this subject JUST came up again. Embarrassing, yes, but malicious, no.
I think you’re taking some things out of context and also not getting the full story. She didn’t benefit from claiming minority status. It really was part of family lore that she accepted as fact.
But the right knows how to beat this s%it into people’s consciousness…”Pocahontas” is the new “Benghazi” and I think it will haunt Warren for the rest of her days because the right will not ever let up.
She did NOT use it on job applications for her benefit. She put it on HR paperwork AFTER she got the job at Harvard. And what do any of us know about our heritage other than what family members tell us? John Kerry didn’t know his grandfather was Jewish until 2003. All this negative stuff about Warren comes from Howie Carr, a right-wing extremist who has NEVER supported a woman for any political office and is not the best when it comes to those pesky things like facts. Carr will repeat his theories over and over and over and over until some people believe they must be true. Carr helped Scott Brown get elected and he was unhappy to see a woman challenge his pet. Carr and Brown have given all this Pocahontas crap to Trump. I’m embarrassed that Carr lives and works and has followers in my state and I wish he would go back to Maine where he came from (but pretends otherwise.)
No, Warren never used her claims to some Native American ancestry to get any benefit on applications or otherwise. That was a Trump lie akin to his birther lies. Where Warren grew up, many people feel they have some Native American ancestry for various reasons, sometimes just a hint of it on old family photographs or stories handed down within the family or physical characteristics that fit Native American genes but not necessarily the other known genetics. It’s hard to track down but represents harmless family history, even if it turns out to not be as common as people might think. Trump started lying about it and calling her Pocahontas because he just doesn’t like that uppity woman.
Using the term “Pocahontas” to describe someone who is Native American is obviously offensive and bigoted. It disturbs me that Warren ever claimed to be Native American without any proof. It baffles me why a smart person would do that. It makes me uneasy that she is becoming the leader of the democratic party because she does have some flaws that I don’t think she’s ever addressed aside from claiming family lore(I could be wrong about that!)
It’s smart for Baby Fist to rewrite the order. Maybe this time he’ll get input from lawyers and officials with knowledge in this area, and MAYBE the order will be constitutional this time! Look at me, still clinging on to that audacity of hope! I’m sure it wasn’t Baby Fists idea to rewrite the order because it’s actually intelligent politically (for him) and legally.
I live in Northern Virginia and I know a ton of people who work for the federal government. My dad worked in intelligence for 45 years and retired about 2 years ago. He still has lots of friends in different agencies and the stuff they are saying is mind-blowing. I’ve NEVER heard people in that field talk so openly about the president, his temperament, his cabinet/advisors/counselors, and what they’re going to do about it. Having Steve Bannon on the security council might end up being the worst choice Baby Fist ever made. Usually people in the intelligence field love republican presidents because that generally means they get more funding & support – that is definitely not the case now.
No leader emerging from the Democrats could possibly be as flawed as Trump, McConnell and Ryan. If she’s emerging, it’s not in spite of her flaws, but because no one else has stepped up in opposition to corporate-owned government the way she has, and has been since her law professor days under Bush.
Watch for Senator Franken, I think he’s starting to emerge as a person of interest.
He is.
I like Franken a lot. And I think he has a soothing voice, which is weird. Lol
@Shambles
I really dig Franken too. I don’t know a ton about his political history or his stance on various issues, so I should probably look into that. Every time I see him on the news he always comes across as reasonable, humble, funny, and tough. And he totally has a soothing voice!
For those who may not know, Al played Stuart Smalley (host of Daily Affirmations) on SNL. He was good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people liked him! 🙂
AND he was one of the railway porters in Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd “Trading Places”. Will always love him for that.
Melly would Sen Warren’s flaws make you far less uncomfortable if she was a man? Just like Trump, Pence, Ryan, McConnell, Tillerson, Flynn and too many other misogynist , racist and selfish male politicians to count?
Because you know, America just dodged a bullet by not electing an ambitious Hillary, the corrupt sender of emails from private servers..worst of all she is a woman who dared stay with her philandering husband!
Why should gender make a difference? As a feminist, I feel it’s important to be equally critical to both genders. I’m not understanding your argument because of course I can be critical of Baby Fist et al and still have a legit issue with Warren. I have been consistently and deeply critical of Baby Fist & Pals during the primaries, election, and beyond. I think it’s odd (and a little closed-minded) that if someone voices a reasonable criticism of a female politician, you assume it’s because of gender.
It’s fair to criticize women for their errors, but in this case, it’s one that’s been corrected and then overblown by the right wing in order to undermine her. That’s where we need to be cautious in terms of repeating stories about female politicians when her (in this case, male) colleagues have done and are doing substantially worse for the country. We are never going to have a perfect political leader, and women are certainly not perfect. This is a time where battles must be chosen wisely.
Yes, the Native status can be a problem if she DELIBERATELY LIED (vs. believed it to be true all her life from family history) but I wish we would not repeat the mistake from Hillary Clinton by focusing on one problematic topic that Republicans WANT us to focus on and throw Warren out with the bath water!
She is a strong, intelligent woman with the goods to bring down this corrupt government with financial over-sight; and so far, one of the few Democrats who Trump is actually afraid of. She gets under his skin like no one else can, which I love! I’m not sure about her ethnic background but I am for any Caucasian woman who stands up to White Supremacists and bullies. Just look up her interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. She never made it about her at all, kept referring back to the importance of the letter she was reading.
Her breaking with the Democratic sheep to speak out has finally gotten them to be more assertive. Sanders was finally on CNN giving interviews about Trump’s corporate greed and defending Obamacare. I barely saw him during the last months of HRC’s campaign pointing out Trump’s corrupt business practices. His passionate support of her as HRC did leading to Obama’s final campaign month would have been really helpful in turning the tides.
I hope I wasn’t coming across as saying “Warren is awful, toss her out!” because that was NOT my intention at all. I really like Warren! I love her depth & breadth of knowledge, her experience, and her titanium balls. It is also awesome that she makes Baby Fists throw temper tantrums! I agree with everything you said!
I’m just concerned about running a candidate who has flaws who doesn’t know how to respond to criticism of said flaws. If that makes any sense? Clinton wasn’t very good at responding to criticism, in my opinion.
On this site I feel comfortable discussing my opinions on politics without Trump supporters calling me a snowflake or saying I’m triggered. Personally, I find it important to be critical of my own party so they can be as strong as possible.
Melly, I hear you. The Democrats have not used the tactics the GOP and other far right wing groups have for decades now to churn out propaganda. The left seems to have always assumed that the truth would somehow prevail. I agree it’s a liability at this point. As I pointed out above, I think “Pocahontas” is the new “Benghazi” and will forever be used to discredit Warren. her ACTUAL experience and qualifications be damned.
Melly, I’m with you on the concern about Elizabeth Warren. I think she has a lot of strengths and I’ll forever admire her for standing up against Betsy DeVos but she needs some sort of resolution to her Native American issue. She did use being Native American to her advantage, even with no proof. We can’t have our politicians judged on whether they are “less bad” than Trump. We need to hold them ALL to higher standards. She lied about being Native American. That’s bad. There is also the issue of her practicing law in Massachusetts without a valid license there. That’s bad too. If she can account for these things and make them right then maybe she has hope. Otherwise let’s not run another person for President that refuses to acknowledge their misdeeds. We can do better than that as a country.
@Melly,
Sorry if my post seemed like I was attacking you. Not meaning to at all:)
*IMO* We all (me included) generally, subconsciously, hold women in politics to a higher standard than men in politics. Or perhaps men are better at covering up their mistakes and remain loved by their voters? See the politician (CT?) who lied about his military service but still got elected or George Bush. Super problematic but still elected.
If they had been women, they would not have survived without major male support (Davos). Men lie in politics all the time or change their speeches to go with their current audience but for HRC, it was a no-go. Even Franken has SO many things from his comedy days (interviews!) or his life in Hollywood that can be used against him but he will have a bit more forgiving room or be able to joke it away.
Sure we want to elect a moral person but the difference between Republicans and Democrats is Republicans are able to look beyond the personal failings and focus on getting their agenda getting passed. A major reason Trump won. I love that Democrats are held to high standards but at the end of the day it doesn’t feed you, stop policies depriving women of their human rights or protect POC’s, LGBT’s, or immigrants. I guess that was my side of this important open discussion.
@someone, no, she did not use it to her advantage. She put it on her HR paperwork AFTER she got the job at Harvard, not before. Sorry but your entire post reads like a Howie Carr column.
Elizabeth Warren related family stories from her grandparents that she had Native American ancestry. It is reported that she is 1/32 part Native American. She never looked for student aid as a Native American, she never looked to have any special consideration as a Native American. She just talked about it as stories that she heard when she was growing up. Heck, my MIL kept talking about how she was descended from John Adams. (She wasn’t.). My daughter doesn’t want to know the truth because it’s a cool story.
What I find humorous is how Massachusetts allegedly bussed a bunch of illegals to New Hampshire to vote. I wonder if they stopped at the local DMV first to get a New Hampshire license to vote…
That’s not at all what I read. She did actually use that on applications and to garner support as a POC. I really wish she hadn’t done that. She is so right on, brave- I really like her! She didn’t need to do that. I feel like she is a true leader that could become president. That’s why I’m so cringey about it
Exactly Matomeda. That’s precisely how I feel, I think you just said it better! =)
In all that I have read about this (and admittedly it’s not like I am doing a research project) the thing I haven’t seen is someone acknowledging that there was a time when it was not so wonderful to be native american and so the children of “mixed” marriages weren’t let in on the details that their descendants might want to know now. Details such as what tribe exactly, what ancestors exactly, etc. Mr. R is part native american and the only reason that is anything more than hearsay is because his grandmother’s cousins kept in touch and they knew his great-grandmother on his father’s side (different tribe).
Anyway you look at it, Warren is a wonderful senator, who has never benefited from what she knows/has been told of her history* so it’s all pretty moot. Unless you are a racist who likes to name call….
* check your sources, people who think she did.
@Matomeda, she used it on HR paperwork AFTER she had the job at Harvard. She did NOT put it on her application paperwork. This narrative that she put it on job applications to qualify as an affirmative action candidate was created by Howie Carr, a misogynistic, bigoted right-wing extremist who has little respect for facts. Carr was angry that anyone would challenge his Golden Boy Scott Brown and this is all he could find against Warren and he blew it out of proportion. He’s the one who dubbed her “Pocahontas.”
Matomeda – you have simply been misinformed by the same biased sources Trump used to concoct his claims against Warren. She absolutely did not use her family stories about being part Native American for any benefit at all. She did not claim to be eligible for any programs aimed at Native Americans or any Affirmative Action programs. She simply relayed an interesting part of her family history as told to her by her grandparents. You may choose not to believe the story, but it’s part of her family story regardless. Why would she not believe it? Her grandparents would be much closer to the actual people involved. Would you disbelieve your grandmother or grandfather telling you some family history? How do you think history gets written, anyway? Stories told through the generations.
Doing the math: If one grandparent is X, then your are 1/8 X. If one great grandparent (your grandparent’s parent) is X, then you are 1/16 X. If one great great grandparent (your grandparent’s grandparent) is X, then you are 1/32 X which is what someone says she claimed. Certainly her grandparents are likely to know about their own grandparents, so that makes the story more credible.
This is such a tempest in a teapot and of course Trump is in the thick of it, just as he insisted for years against all reason that Obama was born in Kenya and somehow (despite having an American mother) was ineligible for the Presidency.
Stella – John Adams is far enough back that nobody within living memory in your mother-in-law’s family would have known him…. But if Warren was told by a grandparent that she was 1/32 Native American, that means a grandparent of one of her grandparents was Native American. That would be a person within living memory of her grandparent or her grandparent’s parent. So unless her grandparent was outright lying to a grandchild, it’s reasonable to assume the connection was recent enough to be known by direct experience.
Sounds like the “Who’s on first” routine, but you can see why she has good reason to believe it. The claim that she lied for benefits was made up out of whole cloth by a right winger promoting her opponent in an election. She never did that, she never used that connection to get any benefit at all. She probably was asked a relevant question on an HR questionnaire (after she had started the job) and relayed the family story.
Melly, I’m disappointed in Warren for doing that.
She also used to be a Republican. Warren isn’t perfect, but she’s evolved into a strong voice and an important leader.
She no doubt has an important and strong voice, and she is undoubtedly a valuable leader for the dems. At the moment my issue would be her being a candidate for president. She has some issues that she hasn’t really explained and that makes me nervous. We need to the the STRONGEST presidential candidate possible in 2020. No taking chances!
Melly:
I hear that. During the election, if one more friggin’ person announced that they’re not sexist because they’d support Warren, I was gonna begin throttling people.
I am so disappointed that after Obama, we don’t have any more younger voices. I like Warren a lot, but not for president. Obama was a hard act to follow: Brilliant, worldly, from a diverse family, middle class but earned his own privilege, and young/attractive to boot. But surely there are other Gen-X and Millenial voices waiting to carry our world into a new era of social acceptance, technological advances, and just a culture of decency and respect.
It was a family story. Why would she question it at all? I wouldn’t have if it were me.
Many Americans have no proof at all of their ethnic heritage much past a couple of generations. Some people assume a certain ethnic background based on their last name, and then find out that the original name was radically changed at Ellis Island because their ancestor couldn’t write and the immigration officer couldn’t spell it so he simplified it to something Anglo-Saxon when actually they were Polish or Hungarian….
Many important details get quickly lost. I know that my grandmother died when my mother was 12, but to this day I have no idea what she died from. Maybe my mother never was told either. Anybody who would know is dead themselves. Americans move around a lot also, which also contributes to loss of details since many of us don’t grow up around extended family.
Stories get passed down through the generations without any documentation. Birth records are very spotty. If we insisted on the kind of proof you want, we would lose some important hints to our genetic identity. Stories about certain ethnic groups in our heritage are especially hard to pin down because people actively tried to suppress that information due to social prejudices and even legal prohibitions to certain groups intermarrying. People may like the idea of being part Native American today, but at the time closer to the living ancestor – it might have been very different and there was reason to avoid talking about it and to avoid drawing attention to what may have been a forbidden act.
It makes me laugh/cry that he’s so stupid and unwilling to learn that he really thinks that all you have to do is call it something different and that makes it okay.
As ever, Twitter stepped up and went in:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/mbvd/see-you-in-the-food-court?client=safari
As for the childish Pocahontas BS-45 strikes me as the kind of guy who had his ass kicked a lot in school, even with a rich daddy. And on the days when he wasn’t getting beat up, he was probably some other bully’s disgusting little toady. I feel like a lot of this is him getting his revenge for that, cause this bish is unhinged.
Yeah, laugh/cry is about where I’m at too. I know people are saying that people are backing away from supporting Baby Fists but I sure don’t see much evidence of that, I still see people on social media and in comments sections praising him left and right. The people mocking him may be greater, but there’s still no shortage of people who will stand by him NO MATTER WHAT.
Thank goodness for the “see you in court” memes, I think they were the only thing I really laughed at this week.
It’s good to laugh once in awhile. I also don’t see Trump supporters backing away. They either don’t want to see the truth of what he really is or just too embarassed to admit they were suckered by a con man. When I talk to Trump voters, they say what a good job he’s doing. I laugh when he keeps showing the suckers what a mess he is and they pretend he’s great. I cry when I remember all these huge mistakes will have a life changing effect on me and millions of innocent people. All Trump supporters should have listened to the people with common sense that warned them this would happen
The supporters I know of his in the Midwest and Southeast are not losing one bit of steam. I’d say if you want to make easy bucks, invest in a fireworks stand in one of those regions, as they are going to blow off a massive number of bottle rockets and cherry bombs on July 4th this year. UGH.
I have seen quite a few Trump supporters get even more impassioned about Trump. They are saying he is being unfairly attacked, that he is doing exactly what he promised unlike other politicians, they actually believe he is draining the swamp etc.
This is why I’m not about the whole “we need to stop being so divisive and sit down and try to understand Trump supporters” narrative. My friend just got into it with some lady on fb earlier because she was talking about transgender people being disgusting and an abomination and said they are sick and shouldn’t be around children. Her buddy was agreeing with her and said that we need to let these people know they were sick so they didn’t think anything they did was normal. Both women were big time Trump supporters with timelines full of Brietbart, Allen West, Judge Jeanine Pirro etc.
My friend realized you cannot reason or argue with people like that. They literally think liberals are the enemy. They admire Trump for his first month in office. It’s like bizarro world.
Both his ghost writer (who spent 18 months with him) and one of his female executives (who was employed 18+ years) precisely defined all of what we’re seeing, long before the election. The lack of interest, near zero attention span and the highly vindictive nature were all noted by them.
On another topic — I don’t buy the Jarvanka narrative that he’s more unhinged at a certain time of week. He has tweeted about a half dozen times on this Sunday morning, about everything from Bernie and “fake news”, to Mark Cuban, to letting everyone know his guest has left his resort.
He must be so bored and he gets worked up by the Sunday news shows.
Elizabeth Warren should have her DNA tested by ancestry.comand 23andme.com to prove with science that she indeed has Native American ancestry. But then again Donald Fidel Castro Trump does not believe in science.
23andme doesn’t reveal anything about the Americas. Their ancestry mapping doesn’t include Native American.
Claiming membership in an indigenous people is about more than DNA. Some also believe it to be about identity and ‘kinship.’ It’s complicated. I can’t speak to her situation, and I have no right to, but there has been a big controversy about a successful Canadian novelist, Joseph Boyden, whose claimed indigenous roots have been challenged.
If you are interested, here’s a fascinating CBC radio discussion with some really good call-ins: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-5-2017-1.3921340/indigenous-identity-and-the-case-of-joseph-boyden-1.3922327
I Had my DNA tested by 23andme and they indeed revealed my Mesoamerican ancestry as well as Spanish and other regions in Europe in lesser degrees.
I think sometimes “complicated” is shorthand for “I’m not as genetically Native American as I claimed to be before”. Although some people (thinking of an author in particular whom I love) who are more European-descended genetically, but are enrolled in a certain tribe and are involved in their community.
I’ve also heard that you could get certain alleles more from one side than the other, so some ancestry may not even show up, especially after a couple generations.
As a side note, I think it’s funny when people say, for instance, “oh I get my high cheekbones from my Native American side” or whatever. Any ethnicity can have high cheekbones or whatever trait.
Fidel Castro believed in science. Cuba has an amazing education system and very good science professionals in most areas!
Is there anyone on this planet surprised that Baby Fists doesn’t understand the first thing about how government works? It was painfully obvious throughout the election. But Hillary’s emails were the problem.
One on hand it’s gratifying to see Baby Fists being trolled so hard. But on the other hand, the fact that someone of his amoral, clueless, reckless “character” is actually our President, with people who still insist on defending every idiotic thing he does, will always be utterly appalling to me. I’m sick.
I was reading a piece about people taking the test for U.S. citizenship recently, and it was heartbreaking to me to read about the hard work people put in to understand how our government is supposed to work — many of whom are the very people Trump and his supporters continue to demonize. While Trump — our own POTUS — would probably not even pass the test! Not to mention his angry, defiant, defensive, ignorant supporters. As I’ve said, I’m sick. Sick.
I’m super impressed by people who pass the citizen test. The test for US citizenship is HARD! At my old job, a couple of my coworkers and I took the practice tests and none of us past the first time. I’m a history/political dork and I got a great education & 2 college degrees.
I have always felt that I could stand in a Mall and ask 100 random citizens to take that test and it would be a shocker if even 10 could pass it.
It’s disheartening and demoralizing, isn’t it Esmom? 😉 I feel like I did after a very significant death way back. I just wanted time to pass very quickly, so that the pain and heartache would lessen. I still feel a little sick everyday since the election, too.
I am still so disturbed by the fact that Bannon drafted an executive order to give himself a seat on the NSC, shoved it in front of Trump, and Trump just signed it without looking. That this Nazi is able to just grant himself more and more power is one of the most chilling things going on right now, imo. Bannon has got to go, but how?
I can’t believe everyone else around him is ok with this, too. WTF is wrong with everyone? It sounds like the NSC is worried about Trump. I’d guess they feel the same way about Bannon.
I have constant flashbacks about discussions I’ve had with friends about how the rise of the Nazis happened and how scores of people — including the US President — stood by and just let it happen. We marveled at that…but now that I see this happening in real time, I think I have a better understanding of how the Holocaust happened.
I still hope that Bannon dies of a heart attack (yep, I said it). He is fat and looks extremely unhealthy.
Mark my words, Bannon will be Trumps downfall. The intelligence people HATE him and are beyond pissed that he has a seat on the NSC. I went to a dinner party last night with some former and current intelligence officials (I was my dad’s +1) and I’ve never seen/heard these people talk about an administration the way they were talking.
Sound like it was interesting melly. What did they say?
Yes, do share! If you can.
Just as a background, my dad worked for an intelligence department for 45 years and retired a couple years ago. I grew up in South East Asia, as that was my dad’s specialty, and was raised in the intelligence community. People who work in the intelligence arena are usually the most diplomatic, patriotic, and outwardly apolitical people you will ever meet. They are NOT happy right now and aren’t afraid to show it – which is stunning. There are a lot of really important and knowledgable people who are seriously considering resigning and moving to the private sector. The ones who want to stay are trying to figure out how to keep American interests safe during the next 4 years. They don’t trust Trump with information. They know things that they didn’t explicitly discuss at dinner, but you could tell they know he’s corrupted (not in the helping his daughter’s business way). They do not like Flynn, obviously. They HATE Bannon. Intelligence people work long hours, a lot of times in hostel locations, for moderate pay because they love this country. Bannon is the opposite of every ideal they hold dear. Trump and Bannon are going to create conditions were our intelligence officers lives will be even further endangered. They are making it more difficult to recruit foreign actors to provide us with intelligence, which means the quality of our intelligence will suffer. I could go on and on and on.
Melly what you are saying is scary, but in a way may provide hope. If the intelligence community hates him, they may find the smoking gun that cannot be overlooked and forces resignation.
Wow, Melly, thank you so much for sharing. When you said “they know Trump is corrupted,” I got actual chills. I still have them. Wow.
Melly, thank you for sharing. I agree with shambles– still have chills about what you wrote re: trump’s corruption. This is the darkest time in our history. How can this continue any further… How do we stop it? In 4 years our country will be decimated. We need to do something now… What though??
Get involved with the Indivisible movement so the intelligence community can quietly back the rebel faction to overthrow the dictator. (Kidding! Or am I?)
I hope these disaffected Intelligence people are gathering the intel that will take him and his toxic crew down.
There is an article in the NY Observer today about this. The intelligence community is starting to withhold information from the administration because they believe that the administration is a pipeline to Russian intelligence.
“What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.””
@cynic
After I saw your comment I read the article and wow, it’s spot on. Exactly what I was hearing. Observer must have quite a few sources for the article, and all of the sources likely have top level security clearances. I can’t remember a time when there were this many intelligence officers willing to leak info to the press, especially this kind of info.
If anyone else wants to read the article, here’s the link. I highly recommend!
http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/
The Observer article is interesting. However, I haven’t yet seen any confirmation of this in other newspapers. I want to believe it for sure, but since the Observer was owned for the last 10 years by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and now is run by Kushner’s relative Joseph Meyer, I worry the sources may be tainted. If anyone has heard of other published confirmation of this, please share, thanks.
Did it ever occur to him that Steve Bannon might be the one who out gets Prez Orange Anal Sore? Donald Trump went from Narcissist to Paranoid in a matter of months. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was diagnosed with a mental disorder. By now, he is a moronic idiot who is being fed by that Racist Dirtbag Steve Bannon who is willing get his way.
He must so regret that he run for president. Trump misses his old life.
The look on his face when he met with Obama at the White House right after he won said it all.
Shinzo Abe’s eyeroll is a thing of beauty.
Were there ever any doubts about Trump not knowing a single things about the democratic system and the presidential role??
+1 And his handshake with Abe was just creepy. baby fists was stroking Abe’s hand with his tiny fists–disturbing and bizarre.
“Trump doesn’t understand how government works, at all.” – Drumpf thinks he is running a company, not a country. He thinks he is a dictator and not a president, that’s why he is shocked when something is not going his way.
I don’t think it’s as simple as saying “you can’t run a country like a business.” Someone pointed out here — and I tend to agree — that some REAL business leaders might do ok as POTUS as long as they have the intelligence and capacity to also understand the workings of government and diplomacy and democracy. And the humility to lean on experts in other areas for support. Trump has none of those qualities.
He goes from one obnoxious, outrageous comment to another. Boo-hooing for Ivanka, treating our longtime allies with disrespect, vilifying the press/media. He is a democracy bulldozer who doesn’t seem to want three branches of national government. This nation has a good thing going believe it or not, and “45” is doing a lot to undermine how great we ARE.
All anyone needed to understand baby fists was to watch the first season of “The Apprentice.” He was like a trainwreck because of his blustering, ridiculously officious personality and how he presented himself as a paragon of exquisite taste when in fact he is garish and raunchy. I watched the first season because I couldn’t believe how anyone could take him seriously. You can’t stop looking. By the second season I stopped watching because he cristalized into the infantile horror that he is. And I sensed that other people would find him interesting in the beginning of the campaign in a trainwreck-worthy way. Now we are getting the second season of baby fists as president and, like his reality show, it all goes downhill from here very fast.
I saw someone comment that “The Donald is the personification of what poor people think looks rich!”
I think that’s spot on, The Warren Buffets or the people who really have the goods think he’s a boob.
Speaking of Pocahontas, I think it’s time for Native Americans to take American back from so-called president Trump!
Sadly, construction has resumed on the North Dakota pipeline.
Howie Carr, right-wing scumbag, right-wing radio talk show host and columnist of the Boston Herald, who rarely uses facts and seems to be stuck in 1983 most of the time, starting calling Warren”Pocahontas” when she challenged his darling Senator Scott Naked Centerfold Brown. His logic was that she isn’t really Native American so he can call her Pocahontas, Fakeahontas, and Princess LIesalot. Brown and his staffers started using the terms and showing up at Warren rallies chanting it (while they were getting paid to do their Senate staff jobs – Scott and ethics are not friends).
Brown and Carr latched onto Trump really early in his campaign. Brown was a campaign advisor and really seemed to believe he would get a Cabinet position – but he didn’t deliver New England so no job for Scott. They gave Trump the “Pocahontas” label for Warren.
Brown also sold his constituent services list to Kelly Ayotte who used it to bombard MA residents with phone calls begging for money and even offered many of them rides to the polls in NH.
Wow. Scott brown is disgusting. He should have been censored, or worse, for misuse of his office.
Also, ugh I hate how even at CB it sounds like some people have bought into Howie Carr’s rhetoric, which is sad.
The last election really had me examining my internalized misogyny, and I see the internalized misogyny again with the discussion on Warren.
I thought Trump was a germaphobe – that’s the biggest reason the long handshake surprised me.
He’s not. That’s just the excuse he made up to dispute the Golden Showers story.
I don’t know He talked about not shaking hands way back, many years ago, and said that he wouldn’t cheat on Ivanka because of being a germaphobe. I remember back then falling for that line. Of course, I found it repulsive he didn’t say he wouldn’t cheat on Ivanka because of his love and devotion to her and his morals. No, not shallow orange man-baby. It was because he’s a germaphobe and afraid of diseases. LOL
Of course, we now know he’s perfectly capable of cheating on Ivanka.
Uhm, Ivanka is his daughter. I think you are just mixing up the women but your post is hilarious and creepy at the same time as a result of the mix-up!
I said to someone “Ivanka said she was raped, she retracted what she said in her deposition to get more settlement money” and they said “you mean he raped his daughter?!?!”
And I gave them a look “no, his first wife”
I mix them up all the time unfortunately. 🙁
Also f*** all the people who don’t believe a husband can rape his wife.
Ivanka is his daughter, but he said he’d date her if she wasn’t! Ugh. What a bizarre thing for him to say. We knew he was a pig, but that’s gross
Someone in a pantsuit nation fb group I’m in posted a video compilation of Trump doing that creepy handshake with people over the years. There is no way the man is a germaphobe. He just uses excuses when it suits him. A germaphobe would also not hold babies on the campaign trail.
Also lol on the Ivana- Ivanka Freudian slip.
In 2015 he quite clearly said he was not. The Liar-in-Chief spews out whatever pops into his mind. Is his anus mouth moving? Then he’s lying.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2015-trump-said-he-wasnt-a-germaphobe-963528
Hahahahaha I might just have to follow Shinzo Abe a lot more! I adored his obvious eye roll mixed with exasperated sigh! I hope Trudeau does something as bitchy and subtle to Trump tomorrow!
And trump looks like he has a vagina in the area where his throat hould be? And Malaria Trump looks like a wraith.
Did she get a sort of ombre dye job, by the way? It looks different. If so, bad ombre.
LMAO! You made me choke on my coffee with that bad ombre.
Hehehe😂😂😂Good one!
When I first looked at the top photo I thought “Wow, what’s Caitlyn Jenner doing on Air Force One?” Maybe melania can teach baby fists how to sit down without wrinkling his pants. He is always so disheveled looking.
Oh Kaiser, I have the very same morning routine
as you. Even though I live in Sweden, I too fear for
what he might have done and how that can affect
My part of the world! 😔
When is DT going to fire Michael Flynn? I hope he will be gone by the end of this week. Too many liars in this administration. I’m saying we have to have country over party. Imo, DT is a Russian agent, he acts that way. He will stand up For Putin and Russia before our his own country. Btw, anyone heard him last night, he’s either sleepy or drugged.
He can’t fire him for fear Flynn will talk. Who do you think told Flynn to make the calls and say what he said? Either Trump did or Bannon did. Either way it looks – and is – really bad.
Trump’s not endearing himself to Pence either by supporting Flynn over Pence.
Oh dear. Palace intrigue. Beware the Ides of March and all that.
@WRTP: I totally agree with you. I believe DT started this mess with Putin to get himself elected, with the help of the fib. I also believe Pence knew about everything that went down.. Imo, Pence is a snake in the grass pretending he’s above the lying , but is just as evil as all those in DT inner circle. Remember he offered the VP to the Ohio Gov Kasic and he refused because he knew DT was not going to do the job as a president. DT told him he would be in charge domestic and foreign affairs. When Kasic asked what DT was going to do his people say he’s going to “MAGA.
@BnA fn
I bet Pence is sorry he took the job now. He’s right in the middle of this sh*tshow and it looks like he has no allies in the WH. He’s just another Trump enabler.
Trump isn’t going out of his way to back Flynn up. On Airforce One when someone in the press asked him about it, he said (obviously lying) that he hadn’t heard the report. I bet Flynn resigns within days.
It’s a nightmare that this vulgar, racist, despicable goon is president. I still wake up thinking it’s a bad dream.
My three year old grandson heard us talking about what Donald is going to do next, and he said “Donald Duck?” We told him no, our president is named Donald, and now he’s running around the house laughing that “Donald Duck is President!” Lol. Of course, being a toddler he has no idea what president means, but it’s so funny. Oh, and my grandson doesn’t know, either. 😉
I was thinking today when we watched a few minutes of SNL with our kids and we were making fun of Trump-ugh, I hate that we are being disrespectful to the POTUS in front of our 2nd grader–but he is SO AWFUL that what else can we do?? It’s so sad that our kids are growing up with this maniac as President.
I hear you, Happy Mom. My kids were little when W was president and then in about 2nd, 3rd grade when Obama first ran. I tried to be as neutral as possible about W so that they would learn respect for the office of the President, same with McCain during the 2008 campaign. I don’t think I could hide my bias towards Obama. All their teachers were really great, too. Although something tells me that would have been a little less jubilant if McCain or Romney had won. I have no doubt, though, that they would have been completely professional.
It kills me when the right tries to demonize teachers, including the BS narrative that they’re trying to “indoctrinate” them with a liberal agenda. I haven’t yet met a public school teacher who was anything but carefully neutral. In fact the social science dept at my kids’ high school was noticeably neutral about Trump. Finally, though, my kids are old enough to know who they support so we can openly mock Trump. They keep giving me grief, however, that I kept saying he could never win. Sigh.
@Esmom-yes, if it was someone like Rubio or Romney I would easily be able to tell my kids, the President loves our country, but some of his ideas are different than mine, and I don’t agree with him on X,Y,Z. Now? I really could cry. How can I tell my kids to respect this President when I believe he is only out for himself, and is trying to change the very fabric of our country?
I think Donald Duck might feel a bit insulted being compared with Trump. Okay, DD does have a hair trigger temper and has had trouble keeping a job sometimes, although he was the sole support of triplet nephews dumped unexpectedly in him so he’s good hearted. When his nephews became obnoxious teens, he did have a steady job as Daisy Duck’s cameraman (she was a news reporter). So he mellowed a little with age, while DT just gets worse and worse and certainly is not a nurturing type.
DD has always worked a lot harder than DT, even if only for $0.05 per hour for Uncle Scrooge (who also works a lot harder than DT and unlike Trump, always pays as agreed, cheapskate though he is). While DD’s nephews were still children/ducklings, DD joined the navy (another difference from DT) and left the boys in the care of Uncle Scrooge (proving Scrooge is much kinder and more nurturing than DT, as well as being a lot richer).
Kaiser, may I say that I know distilling this news is probably taking years off your life, but I do appreciate it so much.
Abe’s eyeroll is better than McCarthy’s “Spicey” to me. High bar, he flew over it. Posting that clip has done a world of good for me this gray Sunday morning.
I know – it’s a thing of beauty, isn’t it. He stepped up & represented the whole of humanity (or the sane ones anyway) with that eye-roll. Good man.
We can only hope that this becomes a “thing” – everyone who meets him competes to end the encounter with an even bigger eye-roll than the previous one. Bwhahahahahaha. If only Theresa May had any kind of backbone, she’d have done the same.
Which world leader gives us the biggest eyeroll?
Abe wins so far, but I am waiting to see what Enrique Peña Nieto brings to the table.
Neto has already stepped up nicely, imo, with his whole Twitter trolling of Trump.
Well, I’m hoping Justin Trudeau does the same tomorrow.
Even an Indian newspaper is making fun of him.
http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/donald-trump-handshake-shinzo-abe-twitter-goes-all-out-japanese-pm-body-language-experts-4520606/
Good piece about the flyover states:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/310054-america-is-held-hostage-by-flyover-states
I live in a flyover state and don’t recognize it from that piece. In fact, the guy who wrote it is from where I live – he has quite the axe to grind.
I really don’t think pieces like this are going to advance any type of progressive agenda.
Maybe, you’re an anomaly in that area. Also, there’s a difference between those who voted for Trump and others. The “minority-MAJORITY” that voted for him IS uneducated, dull and uninformed…and, they DO have disproportionate influence/electoral votes. And, they ARE holding the rest (the real majority) of the country hostage.
Nope, I’m not an anomaly. Believe me, I know this area well.
That said, the current set up of the electoral college does give states with lower populations an advantage, which certainly affected the presidential election results.
One of my coworkers was arguing in favor of the current system BECAUSE it allows the flyover states to gain a foothold against the otherwise heavily populated coastal states. I told him that was fine, but don’t be surprised at or complain about the turmoil that follows an election like this. The majority isn’t going anywhere, and there are plenty of us who aren’t rolling over quietly for it. Alternative politics are not the same thing as administrative policies that restrict the rights of other citizens.
(IMO, the biggest problem facing the American system is voter suppression, particularly gerrymandering, which has DRAMATIC impact on a system where electoral votes are an all or nothing deal. There are plenty of liberal and progressive voters in the flyover states – they’re just drowned out by the redistricting.)
@ Veronica
“There are plenty of liberal and progressive voters in the flyover states – they’re just drowned out by the redistricting.”
Yeah. That’s exactly what I mean about the “minority-MAJORITY”. Because of the gerrymandering and electoral college, the minority appears to be a majority. They are the face of the flyover states.
Born and raised in Kansas myself (and there a lot to visit our farm), I think further analysis of what is going on in that region is very important. A good book dealing with this is by a Kansan that was on the NY Times bestseller list in 2004. It’s called “What’s the Matter with Kansas.” I had my mother–a staunch evangelical Republican–read this book when it first came out. She said, “He’s right, but I’m sorry I just have to vote against anyone supporting abortion.” Proving his point. It’s worth a read for those interested in the cultural aspect of our current situation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/02/historian_richard_evans_says_trump_s_america_isn_t_exactly_like_the_third.html
To keep myself going during this nightmare presidency, I’ve been reading a lot of so-called “fake news” that are doing a great job of exposing and opposing Trump and his minions. Here is an article from Slate magazine
I’ve run out of adjectives to describe this thing….
So, what are you going to do, Emperor Zero?
Let’s see:
1) N Korea launched a missile that you said wasn’t going to happen anymore. Checkmate.
2) The 9th circuit told you to shut it, you respond with “SEE YOU IN COURT!”
Oops, now you’re considering redrafting a Muslim Ban. Checkmate.
3) Flynn is in deep Russian urine. Several key points of the Steele dossier looking more credible. More urination coming? Checkmate.
4) Spicer need to get fired? Too much SNL parody for you? Keep him as PS and continue to get trolled. Fire PS and show how weak you are. Catch-22 Checkmate.
5) where was Pence this morning? Hiding that’s where. Instead you sent out neo-Nazi Stephen Miller to read from a teleprompter. Weak again. Checkmate.
6) Dept of Ed misspelled Du Bois’s name, can’t correct the error, and gets trolled ad nauseum. Checkmate.
7) Jake Tapper crushed KAC. She violated ethics rules for paid government employees. Fire her or not? What to do with this Catch-22? Checkmate.
8) Town Hall meetings not going so well for the GOP. Will they jump their ship or stick with you and take the hardest fall in 2018? Let’s ask conservative WaPo reporter Kathleen Parker. Checkmate.
Btw, Emperor Zero, you are the body double for Henry VIII and Steve Bannon’s Leaking Colostomy Bag. We see you.
People need to face up to the reality that career politicians exist for a reason. If governing were as easy as we thought it was, it wouldn’t be so difficult to find decent leaders.
Exactly, all this nonsense about draining the swamp and electing Trump, so that the country could find “moderation” at a later date are the stuff of pipe dreams. All those able bodied voters that didn’t vote and Trump supporters unleashed anarchy on this country. Now future US presidential elects will feel it is their right to loot and plunder this country like all those dictators from corrupt countries, which we used to look down on. Instead of governing this country and considering their political legacy, future Presidents will spend their time self-dealing and finding ways to profit from the presidency. There are too many legal and ethics violations that this administration has already committed, and there is nothing to stop future Presidents from doing the same. That the Ninth Circuit even had to waste their time reexplaining to the DOJ, Trump, and the American people checks and balances and the purpose of judicial review is ridiculous. Perhaps civics class should be taught from K-12 if it is that necessary for a citizen to care about the state of his/her country. Maybe the President should spend more time figuring out how to stimulate the economy without getting into trade wars with other countries rather than seeing how far he can go before Congress and the courts will stop him.
@Veronica
@Really?
Yup
Hear, hear.
Meanwhile, Imelda and Ferdinand party while the nation continues on its quest to become the laughingstock of the world.
http://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/830582065158557697
Elizabeth warren is originally from Oklahoma, as am I. I would like to point out that *many* Oklahomans have NA heritage even though we may not officially be registered on tribal rolls. Many people did not register out of fear.
When she was a young woman, there were not DNA tests available to tell heritage. So if someone in her family was supposedly Native American, I am sure that she believed that and was not trying to be malevolent about it.
Absolutely. There was also internal tribal politics about who registered for the Dawes Roll — because enrollees received a land grant, some tribe members viewed enrollees as basically race traitors who sold out for a parcel of land. The Native American women who enrolled became good marriage prospects due to their land grants, and many of them married white farmers who wanted their land, like my great-grandmother did. Their children typically identified as white on official documents, for obvious reasons of trying to avoid systemic racism, like my grandmother did. There are LOTS of white people, like me, with family roots in Indian Territory, who have provable NA ancestry. There are also LOTS of white people with family roots in Indian Territory who have NA ancestry that cannot be proved via the Dawes Roll due to the issues with which tribe members chose to enroll and which didn’t.
Dude. Impeach him. I don’t know what that’ll take, but please. Someone get him out of office.
But I’m laughing my ass off at Abe, oh my god. He looked like he wanted to bolt.
Abe’s eye roll was hilarious! What a moron Trump is! What’s with patting Abe’s hand? Trump had no clue what Abe was telling him! “Please look at me” is what the photographers were saying. OMFG. 🙄🙄🙄
I still believe the rumor that Trump never really wanted to be president.
He is beyond vile.
Don’t forget he had his new mouthpiece, Stephen Miller (aka Putin twin and nazi) do press over the weekend. This idiot poli sci major (who drafted the muslim ban) read from a teleprompter and cited voter fraud and said the judiciary had no say in how the executive branch works. WTF! He should go back to school. 3 branches of govt, checks and balances and judges do so have a say.
Looking at that soulless bald white supremacist makes me sick.
CNN reporting that Michael Flynn has resigned from the NSC. His replacement has not yet been named.