I've always wondered about this pic.twitter.com/btbSTtMYp0— SciencePorn 🚀 (@SciencePorn) October 11, 2016
Oct 15, 2016
Today's Tweet
Oct 14, 2016
Today's Keith
What I've suspected for a while. I can count on Keith to track it down and articulate for me.
Repubs could've glommed onto the main point of the Benghazi thing and gotten after Clinton, but they knew Benghazi was no worse a fuckup than all the other fuckups that get our State Department people hurt and killed on a regular basis. So they didn't pursue it to get at Clinton as the Secretary, and they sure as fuck didn't do it to be noble protectors of our valiant diplomacy warriors. They coulda done that by simply not cutting the State Dept's Security Budgets.
Those hearings were pure theater - as always. But none of that was really the point. The point was to damage Hillary Clinton politically for 2016 (Kevin McCarthy admitted as much on the record), and to maintain the "issue" so they could make money off the issue; money that gets them re-elected.
But that's not the onliest thing. One other thing is how odd it seems that every email portrays Hillary or Podesta or Blumenthal in the worst possible light - and like Keith has said, never a word about GOP or Trump. But here's the kicker: up until a coupla months ago, a lot of these "leaked emails" were slagging Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for doing shady things to fuck over Bernie. Now, suddenly (ie: magically?), Donna Brazile is the one who spent all that time and energy conspiring and conniving, while Wasserman-Schultz has disappeared completely.
Gee, it's almost like "Chairman Brezhnev has a touch of the flu and is currently under a doctor's care in a secure and undisclosed location."
This has smelled like bear shit for a long time now.
Thank the magic sky-goblin for Keith Olbermann.
It's The Consent, Stoopid
The overlooked irony of this photo is that the shirt itself constitutes consent. The lack of which is the entire crux of the issue. pic.twitter.com/7dEoQ4IISa— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 14, 2016
Ex-Trump executive Barbara Res says she believes the allegations of sexual misconduct and assault against Trump https://t.co/qeO85Oz44J pic.twitter.com/VsH1UvvLA5— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 13, 2016
I can say I've walked way too close to whatever line there is that separates Healthy Expression from Sexual Assault.
While we're at it, I have to admit I've crossed a line or two on more than one occasion.
And I won't try to hide behind "too young and too stupid, or too high or too drunk to know better" or "yeah - hormones - whaddaya gonna do?"
For my part - I'm sorry.
I'm always trying to do better.
Because it's what a man does - a man stands up.
From Across The Pond
The world watches us pretty closely most of the time, but it's still a pretty neat trick when you've made the Brits notice just how fucked up our politics really is.
The lead article:
The lead article:
HOW do people learn to accept what they once found unacceptable? In 1927 Frederic Thrasher published a “natural history” of 1,313 gangs in Chicago. Each of them lived by a set of unwritten rules that had come to make sense to gang members but were still repellent to everyone else. So it is with Donald Trump and many of his supporters. By normalising attitudes that, before he came along, were publicly taboo, Mr Trump has taken a knuckle-duster to American political culture.
The recording of him boasting about grabbing women “by the pussy”, long before he was a candidate, was unpleasant enough. More worrying still has been the insistence by many Trump supporters that his behaviour was normal. So too his threat, issued in the second presidential debate, to have Hillary Clinton thrown into jail if he wins. In a more fragile democracy that sort of talk would foreshadow post-election violence. Mercifully, America is not about to riot on November 9th. But the reasons have less to do with the state’s power to enforce the letter of the law than with the unwritten rules that American democracy thrives on. It is these that Mr Trump is trampling over—and which Americans need to defend.And in light of some of our less than sterling political moments - Swift Boat, Iraq's WMD, Whitewater, Willie Horton, Iran-Contra, The Enemies List, Southern Strategy, Joe McCarthy (the list goes on and on) - the fact that this one stands out in bold relief is depressing.
Today's Tweet
They're just after Trump because he's exposing the vast conspiracy of women who don't like to be groped and ogled by gross men.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016
NYT
Please allow me to be the first to pat myself on the back. Obviously, my relentless criticism of (and the level of my contempt for) The Press Poodles in USAmerica Inc's media biz is paying dividends.
Here's the letter NYT published in response to Trump's threat to sue them for libel:
Here's the letter NYT published in response to Trump's threat to sue them for libel:
At great personal expense, I've enlisted the smart and capable Kristen Bell to translate in a way even Trump (and a few of his devoted rubes) can understand. Take it away, Ms Bell:
Way to go, guys - build on that, OK?
What He Brags About
Listen for what a guy brags about most, and that'll tell you what's false about him.
O'Donnell has a good record when it comes to calling these things - especially when it's about Donald Trump.
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