In her recent appearance with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, former Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton spoke about the state of our union under the so-called “leadership” of Donald Trump, and admitted that she never had to steal documents from President Obama’s desk.
Watch the clip below.
On Friday, Minnesota Public Radio reported that GOP state Rep. Jim Knoblach abruptly suspended his campaign following allegations from his daughter, Laura Knoblach, that he had molested her for 12 years, starting at age 9.
The younger Knoblach, a prominent triathlete who is estranged from her family, recounted that her father “came into her room after she’d gone to bed and climbed in and laid down behind her.”
“He would put his arm around me and not let me get up or get away and he would lick my neck or bite my ear,” she said in an interview with MPR News.
These visits to her room, or similar kissing across her arms and neck and biting her ears while they watched movies on the couch, happened so often throughout her childhood and teenage years it became a defining part of her relationship with her father, she said.
There were other routine behaviors, she said, including more than 30 instances where her father approached her from behind and pressed his body against hers in the kitchen of their home, pinning her against the refrigerator or dishwasher and using his weight and strength to keep her from getting away.
The behavior, she alleges, continued until she was 21, at which point she left her family and moved to Boulder, Colorado.
The neighbors were arguing over a mattress thrown by a dumpster before things heated and the threats began. Moments later, bullets fired and one man was dead.
The video was captured by Kara Box in Abilene Texas on September 1st. Her fiance, Aaron Howard got into the altercation with the father and son, John and Michael Miller, both armed with a handgun and a shotgun. As things escalated, the elder Miller warned Aaron that he will be killed if he came within three feet. Seconds later, he shoots. His son is seen shooting at Aaron with a shotgun.
Both Millers were released on $25,000 bail. Kara Box has since moved.
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A South Carolina congressman kicked off an election debate Thursday with a joke — which got a few laughs inside the room, but drew condemnation from observers across the state and country who didn’t find it funny at all, the Washington Post reports.
“Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news on the Kavanaugh hearings?” Rep. Ralph Norman (R) asked the audience at a Kiwanis Club in Rock Hill, S.C., referring to the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out saying she was groped by Abraham Lincoln.”
At 85, Ginsburg is the oldest Supreme Court justice and its preeminent liberal dissenter.
The comment from Norman, who is running for reelection in November, comes at the height of the controversy surrounding sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, who has denied the accusations.
The crazy thing is much of Trump’s base benefit from these very Entitlement programs, but his base is not rich, and the rich needs this money!
It has been reported that the tax plan Republicans enacted will cost Americans $2.3 trillion. An astronomical cost dumped on our back with the sole purpose of giving more to the rich. So in their effort to justify this thievery, Republicans will cut entitlement programs that help the poor.
Today, for example, Larry Kudlow, the director of the Trump White House’s National Economic Council, spoke at the Economic Club of New York, and had this exchange with CNBC’s Becky Quick:
QUICK: Will the Trump administration tackle entitlement reform?
KUDLOW: Well, we’ve already tackled a big part of the newest entitlement, namely Obamacare. As far as the larger entitlements, I think everybody’s going to look at that probably next year. I don’t want to be specific, I don’t want to get ahead of our own budgeting, but we’ll get there.
Amazingly, his base is okay with losing their life-saving benefits if it means putting more money in Trump’s pocket. They are like sheep following the beloved wolf to their demise.
On his recent appearance on The View, Superstar Willie Nelson happily proclaimed that he is supporting Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke in Texas against Republican Senator Ted Cruz. And when asked if he is concerned about some disappointed fans, Nelson laughed and replied, “I don’t care!”
“You are making headlines yourself with your politics,” Joy Behar said, as she explained Nelson’s support for Beto O’Rourke. “And people are shocked at that, that you would support a Democrat. Do they have some misunderstanding of you?”
“I don’t know, I guess so,” Nelson replied. “I’ve been supporting Democrats all my life.”
This Walmart employee in Minnesota lost her job after this video surfaced on Facebook.
In the video, the Walmart employee refused to allow the Muslim woman a clean changing room. She tells a co-worker, “If she wants to go in, she can go into a dirty one.” She is also heard saying, “they think they own us. And I’m sick of this s—. They think they own the world.’
The Walmart employee then bends over to spy under the door as the Muslim woman tried on clothes in the changing room. CAIR-MN reports the woman no longer works at the Walmart store.
For a man who demands loyalty, the steady drip of betrayals and plea bargains have to be driving the president wacky. And by the tone of his recent tweets, I’d say that I’m not saying anything new.
But loyalty is as loyalty does, and President Trump has repeatedly shown that he is not terribly loyal, even to those who have supported him. He’s burned through more cabinet members than other recent presidents as well as staff members and advisors, and every person who’s left has been the subject of a personal and public attack that demonstrates the personal nature of which the president sees these relationships. Of course, when everything has to be about him, then everything has to be either against him or for him.
The real problem for the president is what Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen have told prosecutors about what he knew and when he knew it, and this can’t be good for him. We already know that Trump lied about his sexual liaisons with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, and generally speaking, when people lie about their affairs, there’s usually much more skulduggery in their closets.
The president can call Robert Mueller’s investigation whatever he wants, but it looks like Mueller is conducting a sober, thorough, evidence-based inquiry that probably bothers the president because none of those three words describes how he approaches problems. It’s usually true that when you don’t have the ideas to support you, then you go after the person. That’s exactly what’s happening here. And if Mueller releases his findings close to the November elections, you’ll be able to see the fireworks no matter where you look in the sky.
The storms of September will pass and the country will unite to help people who have lost their homes and their property, and we will mourn those who have died. But there are more storms yet to come before November’s election and these will be of consequence for everyone.
If you haven’t registered to vote and you still can in your state, then please do. And make sure you vote.
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“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Watch this racist white man repeatedly call this black female police officer the N-word trying to invoke a reaction. She stands unfazed and unbothered.
— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) September 14, 2018
What a QUEEN!
Salute
RETWEET THIS! pic.twitter.com/BAwJsRw6Xa
There was a time when politicians would lie behind closed doors, and if their lie saw the light of day, they would immediately go into damage-control. There was a time when Americans held their elected leaders to a higher standard and demanded the truth.
Then came Trump and a bucket full of lies followed.
On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.
In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.
The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Times, and news circulated about journalist Bob Woodward’s insider account of Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s tsunami of untruths helped push the count in The Fact Checker’s database past 5,000 on the 601st day of his presidency. That’s an average of 8.3 Trumpian claims a day, but in the past nine days — since our last update — the president has averaged 32 claims a day.
…’cause after he left the island, it was impossible, just impossible for 3000 people to die! The holy paper-towel was supposed to soak all that up!
The Republicans’ mighty leader has spoken tweeted!
In yet another blatant in-your-face attempt to show how gullible his supporters really are, Donald Trump went on the television box yesterday and lied.
What else is new? He lies all the time.
Yesterday, during an Oval Office briefing to discuss his administration’s preparedness for Hurricane Florence, Trump was asked if he learned anything from his administration’s disastrous response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. It is common knowledge that almost 3000 died in Puerto Rico as a result of Maria, but that memo has not reached the desk of the mighty leader!
Hurricane Maria was the “hardest one we had by far because of the island nature”, Trump said, adding: “I actually think it was one of the best jobs that’s ever been done with respect to what this is all about.”
He wasn’t done. He had more lies to tell.
“The job that FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous. I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success.”
And if any of his gullible followers missed his television box appearance, Trump went on the Twitter machine and lied some more.
“We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida”, he tweeted, “(and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico…”
Even the Republican Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, could not sit silent like a good Republican while the mighty leader lied. Rossello issued a statement saying,
“No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states.”
Rossello called Hurricane Maria “the worst natural disaster in our modern history” and said work still remained before they could move on to other stages of recovery. He also said he was still waiting for Trump to respond to a petition to help Puerto Rico complete work on emergency housing restoration programs and debris removal.
The consensus is obvious. Losing almost 3000 people is a national disaster.
Seventeen years after September 11th where 2974 people died, we still honor the lives lost in that terrorist attack. If Trump was president then would he call that attack and any feeble response he musters, an “unsung success?”
Maybe he will… maybe he will…
