I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
And the avalanche continues. Republicans who lost their respect when they endorsed Donald Trump is once again gaining some respect by un-endorsing him. The latest to join the ranks of ex-Trump supporters is Republican Senator, Kelly Ayotte.
Ayotte took to Twitter to express her displeasure with the Republican nominee, after the news and audio of a 2005 recording where Donald Trump talked happily about forcing himself on women and groping them.
There’s an old Biblical proverb that proved to be true many, many times, and the unbelievable revelation from Donald Trump’s statements about women is no exception. That Biblical proverb says – for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks – Luke 6:45
Donald Trump has a storied history of womanizing and disrespecting members of the opposite sex. So this video of him talking about how he wanted to “fuck” a married woman and how he gets away with grabbing women “by the pussy” because of his fame, came as no surprise to many. But on Friday when the audio from his 2005 convo with Bill went public, there were a lot of shocked people out there, as if they thought better of Donald Trump!
Donald Trump felt the need to offer a statement, something his campaign called “an apology.”
“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.
No Donald, you say what’s in your heart!
Amazingly, the people who are still pledging their support to Donald Trump are so-called, Christian “ministers.” Pastor Darrell Scott said he doesn’t condone Trump’s comments, but will not condemn Donald Trump for making those comments because he didn’t have the spiritual guidance back in 2005 when Trump made his statements.
Amazing!
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
In newly released tapes, Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican party can be heard making some extremely crude statements about things he has forcible done to unsuspecting women.
Using extraordinarily vulgar language, Donald J. Trump boasted in a 2005 conversation about pushing himself on women and kissing and groping them, remarks that were caught on a live microphone and widely circulated on Friday.
The revelation left the Republican Party shocked and reeling, and the House speaker abruptly withdrew Mr. Trump’s invitation to campaign alongside him on Saturday in Wisconsin.
During the exchange, with the television personality Billy Bush of the program “Access Hollywood,” Mr. Trump recalls how he once pursued a married woman and “moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there,” expressing regret that they did not have sex. But he brags of a special status with women: Because he was “a star,” he said, he could “grab them by the pussy” whenever he wanted.
“You can do anything,” Mr. Trump says.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has never been one to mince his words. In a conference call with reporters on Thursday, Reid let loose on the Republican’s choice to run the country, telling reporters that Trump “raped and pillaged Atlantic City.”
“Nothing is embarrassing to him,” Reid said on the call as quoted by Business Insider. He went on to double down on his criticism of Trump’s mispronunciation of “Nevada” at a rally in Reno. “If Trump doesn’t know how to pronounce the name of our state, how would Nevadans expect him to look out for our state?”
Reid also called Trump a “fraud” who “thinks he’s above the requirement of being candid with the American people” for refusing to release his tax returns.
“He raped and pillaged Atlantic City,” Reid said, referring to Trump’s bankruptcy filings for his casino holdings in New Jersey. “Who knows what his tax returns would show?”
The Washington Post – Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist.
Some will think this an outrageous label to apply to the frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination. Ordinarily, I would agree that name-calling is part of what’s wrong with our politics.
But there is a greater imperative not to be silent in the face of demagoguery. Trump in this campaign has gone after African Americans, immigrants, Latinos, Asians, women, Muslims and now the disabled. His pattern brings to mind the famous words of Martin Neimoller, the pastor and concentration camp survivor (“First they came for the socialists…”) that Ohio Gov. John Kasich adroitly used in a video last week attacking Trump’s hateful broadsides.
It might be possible to explain away any one of Trump’s outrages as a mistake or a misunderstanding. But at some point you’re not merely saying things that could be construed as bigoted: You are a bigot.
Vice News reports that in January, Colombia saw an unusual increase in cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder where a person’s immune system attacks the nervous system, in some cases temporarily paralyzing the body and requiring hospitalization.
As in neighboring Brazil and Venezuela, the uptick in Colombia happened at the same time as a local Zika outbreak, leading experts to begin searching for a connection. Researchers have since rushed to find out more, and a new report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine outlines the most compelling evidence to date linking the mosquito-borne virus to the debilitating disorder.
The study analyzed 68 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome this year at six Colombian hospitals. Researchers determined the presence of Zika infection in those patients offered enough evidence to support the idea that the virus sparks the onset of the syndrome.
“The fact that we found Zika infection in those patients is good evidence that Zika may contribute to development of the disease,” said Beatriz Parra, one of the study’s authors and a researcher at Universidad del Valle in Colombia. As she explained, the evidence strongly supports a link between Zika and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Yep! Trump and his supporters just figured out a way to dive even lower in the gutter! They not only picked on a little girl, but a little girl with disabilities. She couldn’t escape their wrath.
A Colorado woman says she was disappointed to be escorted away from Donald Trump’s rally in Loveland Monday by U.S. Secret Service.
Jennifer Mau and her 7-year-old daughter, who has disabilities, say they attended the rally as an undecided family, wanting to know more about the Republican candidate for president.
Her daughter was born without a jaw bone or ears and receives her nutrients from a feeding tube.
Amid the rally, however, Mau decided to leave with her daughter. Mau said that drew the ire of those surrounding her.
When we were leaving, somebody said, ‘Why are you leaving?’ and basically struck a nerve,” Mau said. “I said, ‘Why are you here? He makes fun of people like you.'”
Several people yelled at her – one followed her, telling her if she loved her daughter she should vote for Trump — until she said Secret Service escorted her out of the rally.
Mau said she was saddened to be harassed for standing up for her daughter with disabilities, but she said she was happy to see some people walk out with her, saying her daughter is beautiful.
As soon as the vice-presidential debate ended, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews called the debate for Republican vice-presidential candidate, Mike Pence. His reasoning made me sick to my stomach, so I changed the channel to see what CNN had to say and they too stated that Pence won.
I sat there shocked, totally amazed at the power of the media and the way this debate was spun to make the American people accept a Pence win.
The Spin? “Mike Pence looked more presidential.”
That’s all. That’s all the political pundits had to say about Pence after the debate was over. That’s all they wanted to see to decide who won the debate. A total disregard to the fact that Mike Pence was unable to prosecute the case for why Americans should put the Trump ticket in the White House.
Pence sat at the debate table and lied, and lied, and lied. He denied recorded facts about things Trump has said – things like banning all Muslims from coming into this country or when Trump called all Mexicans “rapers and killers.” Pence sat in his chair “looking all presidential” according to the talking-heads on MSNBC and CNN, and he lied to the American people when he was put on the spot by the Democratic vice president candidate, Tim Kaine. When Kaine asked why Trump calls women disparaging names for example, Pence looked the right into the camera and denied those recorded facts.
But he “looked presidential” so apparently, he won… according to the political talking heads.
Time Kaine on the other hand did his homework and it showed. He came to the debate armed with direct verbiage, quotes from Donald Trump and Mike Pence himself, and Kaine asked Pence to defend the things he and Trump say. Pence couldn’t, so he lied… again! Yes, Kaine interrupted Pence a few times, but wouldn’t you do the same if your opponent’s game plan was to “look presidential” and lie?
Americans know the game. Tim Kaine clearly won the debate. He was prepared, armed with facts and policies and he clearly expressed why Hillary Clinton should be the next president. But giving Kaine the win would not jive with the apparent talking point these pundits wanted to promote – that Mike Pence threw Donald Trump under the bus and is preparing himself for a top-of-the-ticket run in four years.
If all the pundits say this in unison, word will eventually get back to Donald Trump setting up the news for the rest of the week – the inevitable credit Trump will take for Pence winning the VP debate.
And less than 24 hours after Pence was crowned the winner, Donald Trump spoke to his followers telling them that he deserves the credit.
“Mike Pence did an incredible job and I’m getting a lot of credit because that’s really my first so-called choice,”
“That was my first hire as we would say in Las Vegas, And I’ll tell you, he was phenomenal. He was cool, he was smart. He was meant to be doing what he’s doing and we’re very, very proud of Gov. Mike Pence.”
The question drew much applause from those in attendance in Pennsylvania where Hillary Clinton held a town-hall, and excited the Democratic presidential nominee, Based on her question, the 15-year-old girl at the microphone had obviously seen and heard some of the things Donald Trump said about women, and she compared those degrading statements to the those other girls in her school go through.
She wanted to know how girls should handle such sexist attacks.
“At my school, body image s a really big issue for girls my age. I see with my own eyes what Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look. As the first female president, how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand they are so much more than what they look?”
After the question was asked, Clinton thanked the girl for asking that question before answering,
“My opponent has just taken this concern to a new level,” she continued. “Think about it, my opponent insulted Miss Universe. How do you get more acclaimed than that?”
Clinton said that women cannot take Trump’s comments seriously anymore.
“We need to laugh at it, we need to refute it, we need to ignore it and stand up to it, and especially the bullying,” Clinton said. “There are too many young women online who are being bullied about how they look and being shamed and mistreated.”
A 15-year-old asked Hillary Clinton about Trump’s comments on women https://t.co/5CpjcWTC6e https://t.co/uL7VrhlyIz
— CNN (@CNN) October 4, 2016
Unlike today’s entertainers, Tupac – one of the greatest rappers ever – was never afraid to delve into the land of politics and social injustices. In this MTV clip, Pac talked about greed and directly referenced today’s Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Everybody’s taught that. You wanna be successful? You wanna be like Trump? Gimme gimme gimme, push push push push, step step step, crush crush crush. That’s how it all is… It’s too much money here. Nobody should be hitting the lotto for 36 million and we’ve got people starving in the streets. That’s not idealistic, that’s just real. That’s just stupid… There’s no way that these people should own planes and there are people who don’t have houses.
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Don’t worry, this racist is sure to find new work at Fox News!
A release from Forsyth County Schools says: “Racism and discrimination are not tolerated in our school district. We are committed to ongoing staff training on the acceptance of all individuals. As this is a personnel matter, the district will provide no further comment.”
Allen threw herself into the spotlight when she wrote a response to the Facebook site Opposing Views, which noted that First Lady Obama continues to top the list of most admired women in the world.
“Do you admire her?” Opposing Views asked.
One of Allen’s response is:
“I admire a gorilla more than I admire her. (Wait, I forgot. She is a gorilla)! If she was a real First Lady, she would not have used and abused her title, by thinking that she is entitled to go on all the trips that she takes every other day. But most of all wasted all of our tax payers money. She is the worst example of a First Lady ever! (Or sorry, I meant gorilla, not First Lady)!”
Walked past a Donald Trump building in Manhattan today and saw a bunch of protesters holding signs in support of veterans. I thought, the donald must have pissed off yet another group of Americans. I came and checked online only to find that Trump had some rather disheartening things to say about America’s Vets!
Donald Trump on Monday suggested veterans with PTSD “can’t handle” the psychological toll of combat. The Republican nominee — who benefitted from four deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War — was apparently trying to convey sympathy for veterans with PTSD, but tripped over his own faux-machismo.
Asked by an audience member if he’d support a “more holistic approach to solve the problems of veteran suicide and PTSD,” Trump responded that “a lot of people can’t handle it (combat), and they see horror stories, they see events that you couldn’t see in a movie, nobody would believe it.”
“When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you’re strong and you can handle it,” he told the audience of veterans at a town hall-style event in Virginia hosted by the Retired American Warriors PAC. “We need … mental health help and medical.”
