I can hear it now: "Don't overplay your hand" "Make sure you have public opinion on your side" "Don't do anything that upsets the big squishy middle" ... Bullshit. If this is a nation of laws, then we'd better start acting like it. People respond to leadership - to the bold stroke. If you know it's right, then get off your fuckin' ass and do it. We've got veterans who feel they have to chase after a congress critter (a comrade in arms), trying to get him to own up to his responsibility as a representative of the people.
If this turns out to be what the whistleblower complaint is about & it’s accurate, Trump must leave office immediately. A president can’t offer US aid to a foreign country in exchange for prosecution of a political opponent. Heaven help us if we can’t all agree on that. https://t.co/NjfGU2SQgQ
(overheard on twitter) Let's give Trump supporters their own separate country. They can ban Muslims, deport gays, imprison women who've had abortions, and stop immigrants at the border - pretty much whatever they wanna do. When they finally run out of other people to hate, maybe then they'll realize that what they've hated all along is themselves.
Trump Pushes Baseless Smear That Ilhan Omar ‘Partied’ on 9/11
President Donald Trump on Wednesday used his Twitter account to boost a baseless smear claiming that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) danced at an event last week on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, a claim that’s based on footage that wasn’t actually taken from that day.
Trump’s tweet circulated a video from conservative personality Terrence Williams, in which Williams declared that Omar “partied on the anniversary of 9/11.” In his video, Williams comments on footage of the Muslim congresswoman dancing and fumes that she’s disrespecting the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks.
But the footage of Omar dancing actually came from a Sept. 13 event hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus and wasn’t taken on the 11th, as Williams and Trump wrongly claimed.
Trump, however, used Williams’ video to declare that Omar would help Republicans win Minnesota. “Ilhan Omar, a member of AOC Plus 3, will win us the Great State of Minnesota,” the president tweeted. “The new face of the Democrat Party!” Williams’ original tweet was deleted from Twitter at some point on Wednesday. Twitter confirmed to The Daily Beast that the video post was not removed by the social media site’s administrators but was instead deleted by Williams or someone with access to his Twitter account.
Once it's out there, it sticks with the people it was intended for - it's in the bloodstream. And it doesn't matter that it was "retracted' or withdrawn or whatever - it's part of the lore now.
Williams did not respond to a request for comment.
Omar blasted Trump’s smear on Wednesday, tweeting that he has put her life in danger.
“The President of the United States is continuing to spread lies that put my life at risk,” she wrote. “What is Twitter doing to combat this misinformation?”
Trump has frequently targeted Omar with smears, inspiring death threats against the Somali-American lawmaker. In July, Trump suggested that Omar had married her own brother to commit immigration fraud—a baseless claim that’s become increasingly popular on the right, despite being based entirely on a single, anonymous message-board post.
The Lewandowskis out there jump around, frenetically twisting themselves into some really odd shapes as they try to keep from being put under oath to testify. Everything - truth & lies, good & bad, right & wrong - everything is fungible. There are no rules. There are no moral absolutes. And in the end, there is no honor at all. The Daddy State depends on the Silo Effect. They tell some of us one thing, and they tell others a different version of it - trying to make sure one "side" never hears what they're telling the others. Because if there's more than a little crossover, the whole bloody mess begins to crater in on itself.
No one should assume anything Corey Lewandowski says is true, unless he is under oath. That is exactly what he said yesterday (under oath). pic.twitter.com/EjpHk6xj2H
Ya gotta know something's wrong when a candidate for POTUS has to raise close to a billion dollars to land a job that pays $400k a year. That's pretty fucked up right there.
I took these photos at Target a week apart. This is either the greatest example of impulse buying or I uncovered the most adorable drug smuggling operation ever pic.twitter.com/p47F40Wint
