NEW: The video to send to that person in your life who is still supporting @realDonaldTrump. There is no yelling. pic.twitter.com/8ADyBBuFi2— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017
Late Breaking Keith
More Lying Numbers
- Clinton got 2.8 Million votes more than Trump, but Trump's the new Prez.
- In races for the House, Repubs got 49% of the votes and 55% of the seats.
- In the Senate, the GOP owns a "majority" even though the Dems got 23 Million more votes.
The GOP Plan
Coming soon to an America near you.
The two party system in America... pic.twitter.com/QkGtbTUrOH— Timothy Tingley (@timothy_tingley) January 5, 2017
Cuz I can. Cuz you can't stop me. Cuz if you stop me, I'll find another way to fuck you over.
Cuz that's how we do things now.
I get to do whatever you can't force me to stop doing.
Cuz fuck you, that's why.
FYI
Mitch McConnell says "the American people won't tolerate obstruction...".
Now, I'm not completely stoopid (kinda, sometimes, but not completely), and while my memory isn't all that photographic, I'm not a fucking goldfish either, so my first reaction is "The fuck I won't".
But it's good to remember also that when a Repub says "the American people", he's referring to the 23% of the GOP crazies that make up the Radical Right - people he can count on to show up whenever he whistles.
So we gotta push back - loudly and publicly - it's important to let our "leaders" know what we think, and one quick and easy delivery system for that feedback is to tweet at them. So here's an infographic listing all the Twitter handles of the US Senators sitting on the Judiciary Committee.
Hammer 'em.
Now, I'm not completely stoopid (kinda, sometimes, but not completely), and while my memory isn't all that photographic, I'm not a fucking goldfish either, so my first reaction is "The fuck I won't".
But it's good to remember also that when a Repub says "the American people", he's referring to the 23% of the GOP crazies that make up the Radical Right - people he can count on to show up whenever he whistles.
So we gotta push back - loudly and publicly - it's important to let our "leaders" know what we think, and one quick and easy delivery system for that feedback is to tweet at them. So here's an infographic listing all the Twitter handles of the US Senators sitting on the Judiciary Committee.
Hammer 'em.
Jan 4, 2017
It's A Wonderment
It seems like the GOP has grown more and more sour on the CIA ever since they helped the black guy kill Osama bin Laden.
hat tip = @TeaPainUSA
hat tip = @TeaPainUSA
Those Lying Numbers
People voted for either Dems or Other over the Repubs by a margin of nearly 2 million, but somehow the GOP maintained their hold on the majority.
Vote Caging-by-Gerrymandering, plus outright Suppression.
How long do we put up with this shit?
We'll See
Time Magazine Online:
We've become so dis-enamored with politicians that we've gone completely the opposite direction, arriving at a point where we've adopted a straight-up contradiction as our guiding principle:
That weird sound you hear is Ayn Rand doing a series of over-exaggerated zombie face palms.
According to a Gallup poll released Monday, Americans have significantly less faith in Trump than they had in his predecessors. Only 44% said they are confident Trump will avoid major scandals in his Administration, 46% said they are confident in Trump’s ability to handle an international crisis, and 47% said they trust him to use military force wisely. When the same questions were asked at the start of Barack Obama’s, George W. Bush’s and Bill Clinton’s terms, roughly three-quarters of Americans said they had confidence in the newly elected President in these areas.
When compared with Gallup’s averages of confidence polling in his predecessors, Trump comes up short: he has a 32-point confidence deficit in his ability to avoid scandals in his Administration, a 29-point deficit in his ability to use military force well and a 28-point deficit in his ability to manage the Executive Branch. Most Americans (60%) believe Trump will be able to get things done with Congress, but even there he comes up far behind his predecessors — the average number of Americans with confidence in Obama, Bush and Clinton to work with Congress was 82%.The main thing (for me), is that Trump has benefited greatly from Low Expectations. And that's become kind of a standard play with the GOP in the last 25 years or so - The Empty Vessel; the guy with no experience and no practical know-how or training; coming in to do a job that he's woefully unprepared to do.
We've become so dis-enamored with politicians that we've gone completely the opposite direction, arriving at a point where we've adopted a straight-up contradiction as our guiding principle:
Anybody with the right qualifications for the job is obviously unqualified.
That weird sound you hear is Ayn Rand doing a series of over-exaggerated zombie face palms.
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