Author: Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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Anti-Trump Electoral Voter Files Lawsuit to Vote Against Trump

Some of the 270 electors who will eventually vote for the next president in December are so serious against voting for Donald Trump, they’re taking their fight to court.

According to the lawsuit, some of the electors are demanding the freedom to vote for someone else, even if it means voting against their state’s election results.

A lawyer for Michael Baca, a Colorado elector, told Politico that his client is preparing a lawsuit challenging state laws that force electors to vote for their party’s nominee.

There are currently 29 states with laws on the books that bind electors to the election result in their respective states, but those laws have never been enforced.

Further, the penalty for violating the law is typically a small fine.

There are at least six “faithless” electors who say they plan to undermine the Electoral College by voting for someone other than their nominee.

If they move forward with their protest, it will be the largest electoral defection since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison.

Art Sisneros, a GOP elector from Texas, told Politico he will decide next week whether to join the protest and cast his vote for someone other than Donald Trump.

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David Clarke Defend Racists – “I refer to myself as [boy]” – Video

When Donald Trump tagged Jeff Sessions, a man who previously lost a congressional confirmation battle for a federal judgeship due to his racist views, no one thought Sessions would get another chance to get a cabinet position in any future administration. But here he is, being considered by Donald Trump to be the next Attorney General.

Of course, Fox News will bring on people sympathetic to racist. In defending one of Session’s racist remarks, where he referred to a black man as “boy,” David Clark found nothing wrong with that because he too refers to himself as a boy too.

DAVID CLARKE: Look, nobody’s perfect. If he made some statements, he called somebody boy —

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Don’t worry, Eric, we’ll get to you.

CLARKE: Megyn, I refer to myself as that.

ERIC GUSTER: Can I answer the question, Megyn?

CLARKE: When someone says, Sheriff, where you from? I tell them, I tell them I’m a Milwaukee boy. OK, if some people are offended by that, I get that, but that’s being hypersensitive.

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White Supremacist Trump Supporter asks – “Are Jews People?” – Video

Before Donald Trump came along, these people lived content little lives under a racist rock in their racist neck of the woods. They stayed stuck in their racist bubble of hate while the rest of the America worked towards putting our differences aside. But since they got one of their own in the White House, these racists are now out of the woodwork and they are spreading their message of hate from the mountain tops.

For his part, Donald Trump is helping out by bringing a known racist like Steve Bannon as his chief adviser.

Meanwhile, speaking about spreading their message from the mountain top, CNN introduces a panel featuring another known racist named Richard Spencer. In the segment below, Spencer spews his hate and asks if “Jews are people or instead soulless golems?”

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Mike Pence – “Who Cares” if Trump Has Conflicts of Interests

As you’ve probably heard, Donald Trump and his business partners from around the world are having secret meeting. Again, these are men who have business ties with Trump, and they are sneaking in under the cover of night and outside of any media coverage to see their business partner.

Some people apparently think there is nothing wrong with this obvious conflict of interest.

During an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Pence was asked about allegations that Trump’s meetings with business leaders from nations like India could constitute “the Clinton Foundation on steroids.” His response was to quote a line he heard from Trump on the same subject: “Who cares?”

After Pence reassured viewers that “the best legal minds in the country” were involved in the transition process, Wallace pointed out that this is “not just a legal question,” but one that speaks to the ethical character of the president-elect, particularly given reports that his children (who are still in charge of his business empire) will also act as advisers to the new administration.

“Well, I can tell you, in a recent interview after the election, the president-elect summed up his view of his interest in his business life with two words. He said, ‘Who cares?’” Pence replied to Wallace.

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Band ‘Green Day’ Leads Chant – “No Trump, No KKK” at AMAs – Video

Green Day stopped by the American Music Awards to perform their hit song “Bang Bang.” The track appears as the lead single off the band’s recently released Revolution Radio, The Rolling Stones Report.

In front of rapidly changing visuals of graffiti, Green Day powered through their stirring, raucous new single. In the middle of the song, the band broke into “Born to Die” by Austin punk group MDC. The song has become a recent popular chant for students protesting Donald Trump’s presidency, changing the final lines to “No Trump/No KKK/No fascist USA.”

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Donald Trump – America’s Dictator Has Arrived

We’ve all been asking for clues, we’ve tried to see what a Trump presidency would be like. And all the while, Donald Trump has sent clear messages telling us exactly what he is about and by extension, what a Trump presidency would be like – A Dictatorship.

Did we really miss these very clear clues or maybe we chose to ignorantly cast a blind eye to what was so obvious.

When Trump repeatedly denounce President Obama’s leadership style and instead praised Putin and referenced Putin’s leadership style to that of a “great leader,” did we miss that message? When it was proven that Trump collects magazines and newspapers bearing favorable stories and images of himself and even buying a life-size image of himself. A man so full of himself that he brands his name on everything he owns, did we not see the signs of a self-loathing dictator?

When one of the pillars of his presidential campaign was the constant breaking down of the “free media” and freedom of speech. When he calls the media “the enemy” and tells his followers, “don’t listen to anything the media say,” when he started sending out his own Trump approved news-spin on Facebook and Twitter – something some people called Trump Network – did that not strike you as a dictator setting the groundwork to dismantle the free media and institute a government-run “news” outlet?

The people he is putting in high cabinet positions. The way he holds secret meetings with foreign leaders out of view from the American people or the national press, the way he say “I alone can fix it” as if America is waiting for the Great Donald Trump to ride in on his golden horse to give us all a million dollars, showed us all the writings on the wall.

Even now that he has won the presidency, Trump is still showing his dictatorship style. His more recent tweet attacked the cast of Hamilton because members of the Hamilton audience booed Trump’s Vice President. Trump tweeted, “This should not happen!”

Donald Trump’s presidency will be that of a Dictatorship, and anyone who refuse to see this is blind and already in the Trump corner.

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Trump’s Vice President Gets Booed at Showing of “Hamilton” – Video

Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential pick, Mike Pence, decided to take in the Broadway show, Hamilton. His outing didn’t go well.

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Donald Trump Pays $25 Million to Settle Fraud Cases Against Him

Now, for those who have followed Trump during his presidential campaign and hung on to his every word for dear life, you are probably dead by now. I’m sure you have heard Trump say time and again that he never settles lawsuits because settling lawsuits show that you have something to hide.

Well, apparently Trump has something to hide. He has decided against fighting to prove his innocence in multiple fraud cases against him and has instead chosen to settled those cases $25 million. The fraud cases were due to his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump University.

The settlement eliminates the possibility that Trump will be called to testify in court in the midst of his presidential transition. It ends three separate lawsuits that made claims against Trump University, including a California class action case that was scheduled to go to trial later this month, as well as a second suit in that state and an action filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

 

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Republican David Frum Finds a Constitutional Way to Remove Trump from Office

While some dissatisfied Congressional Democrats appear impotent with the thought of a Trump presidency, some in the Republicans party are diligently researching ways to remove one of their own from getting the ultimate power of President of the United States.

David Frum, speechwriter for former Republican president, George W. Bush, came up with a rather unique and Constitutional method to take Trump out.

“Presidents can be removed in two ways,” Frum said. “By impeachment of course for high crimes and misdemeanors. And we have a pretty high bar for what constitutes that. But if somebody is simply psychologically or physically incapable, there is also a process in the Constitution, section four of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment that says, it’s a complicated process, it’s difficult to do. I don’t predict that this will happen at all. But I do think we are going to be talking about it more and more as we wonder about the mental state of the President Elect.”

Donald Trump has been erratic. He spoke to the Australian Prime Minister over an unsecured phone. He met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe without any policy briefing.  Trump continues to tweet about the New York Times unaware that the stature of the President Elect criticising the free press sends the wrong signals to despots especially coming from presumably the world’s number one democracy. He tweeted about a meeting with Ford Chairman Bill Ford about a plant he claimed was being shipped to Mexico that was never going to Mexico.

Frum is referencing this part of the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

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Jews Concerned about Surge in Anti-Semitism In Trump Era

PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL - MARCH 5: (ISRAEL OUT) A Jewish man looks at anti-semitic graffiti which was sprayed on the gate of a synagogue March 5, 2006 in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, in central Israel. Police are investigating the incident after inscriptions, in Hebrew, "death to Jews" and swastika drawings were found with the signature "white power." (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

If you’re not a white male between the ages of 65 and 85, then you have something to worried about in this Trump era.

At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish civil rights group, about 1,000 people listened to talks expressing shock at the hatred expressed during the presidential campaign and questioned what they thought was a high-level of acceptance by other Americans.

“I’m struggling right now in this American moment,” said Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, an education and research organization, in his talk at the event. “I wonder whether I have been — and I think the answer is probably yes — a little bit naive.”

During this past year, anti-Semitic imagery proliferated on social media, Jewish journalists were targeted and longstanding anti-Jewish conspiracy theories got a fresh airing. Much of the bias originated with the alt-right, or alternative right, a loose group espousing a provocative and reactionary strain of conservatism. It’s often associated with far right efforts to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”
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Trump Supporter Cites “Internment Camps” For Muslims

He was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on Fox News about Donald Trump and his many statements about stopping an entire group of people from coming to America based entirely on their religion. The U.S Constitution is totally against religious tests of course, but certain people are in the Trump camp are willfully blind to the Constitution.

His name is Carl Higbie and he is a Trump supporter. And he is apparently in favor of using the likes of “internment camps” to hold Muslims in America.

KELLY: Come on. You’re not — you’re not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, I hope.

HIGBIE: No, no, no. I’m not proposing that at all, Megyn, but what I am saying is we need to protect America from —

KELLY: You know better than to suggest that. I mean, that’s the kind of stuff that gets people scared, Carl.

HIGBIE: Right, but it’s — I’m just saying there is precedent for it, and I’m not saying I agree with it, but in this case I absolutely believe that a regional based —

KELLY: You can’t be citing Japanese internment camps as precedent for anything the president-elect is gonna do.

HIGBIE: Look, the president needs to protect America first, and if that means having people that are not protected under our Constitution have some sort of registry so we can understand, until we can identify the true threat and where it’s coming from, I support it.

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NBA Teams Are Refusing to Stay at Trump Hotels

These are the smart ones. We can only hope others will follow.

According to Mediaite, The Milwaukee Bucks, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks “have moved away from Trump hotels in New York City and Chicago, which bear Donald Trump‘s name through a licensing agreement,” ESPN reports. The Grizzlies and Mavericks have stayed at Trump SoHo in the past, but they’re searching for other options.

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