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Mitch McConnell To Offer No Protection for The Mueller Investigation

After all the blatant, in-your-face signs that Donald Trump is doing all he can to end the Mueller investigation into him and his campaign’s illegal activities, Mitch McConnell continues to offer nothing but encouragement to Trump by paving the path for the obstructer-in-chief to fire Mueller.

Asked about the possibility of a bill that will guarantee the continuation of Mueller’s work, McConnell saw no need for one, saying, “It’s not necessary.”

He added;

“The Mueller investigation is not under threat. The president’s said repeatedly he’s not going to dismiss the Mueller investigation. He’s said repeatedly it’s going to be allowed to finish. That also happens to be my view. As you can imagine, we speak frequently, and there’s never been any indication that he wants to dismiss Mueller or the investigation. It’s going to be allowed to finish.”

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Trump Demands Respect from Reporters While Calling Reporter a “loser”

Don’t laugh, but this is what Donald Trump said on Friday about ‘respect, before he began his short trip to Paris.

“When you’re in the White House, this is a very sacred place for me, a very special place. You have to treat the White House with respect. You have to treat the presidency with respect.”

That statement was part of Trump’s response when a reporter asked about the White House’s ban on CNN’s Jim Acosta. “I think Jim Acosta is a very unprofessional man,” Trump said. “As far as I’m concerned I haven’t made a decision. But there could be  others also.”

While answering the question and demanding respect, Trump naturally disrespected another reporter by calling April Ryan a “loser.”

“You talk about somebody that’s a loser; she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Ryan, in an unprompted diatribe. “She gets publicity, and then she gets a pay raise or a contract with, I think, CNN. But she’s very nasty. And she shouldn’t be. She shouldn’t be. You’ve got to treat the White House and the office of the presidency with respect.”

This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. A self-proclaimed pussy grabber who has absolutely no respect for anyone inside or outside the White House now expects respect in return.

I can’t wait for 2020 to restore some measure of sanity to this nation. I am tired of having a joker in the White House. I am tired of being the laughing-stock of the entire world.

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Andrew Gillum Withdraws His Concession

It’s only been a few days since the midterms and already Florida is keeping true to form and confusing the heck out of the rest of the country. Even the contenders are confused.

On election night, Democratic Governor hopeful, Andrew Gillum watched the election results come in and conceded the race to his Republican challanger, Ron DeSantis.

Now, four days after the election, all eyes are once again on Florida. New vote counts have emerged and recounts are announced, prompting Andrew Gillum to withdraw his concession.

“I am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call we count every single vote,” he said via Twitter.

Recounts are now happening for Florida Senate and Governor positions.

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Republican’s Response to Recent Shooting – “We Have to Protect the 2nd Amendment” – Video

Another week, another mass shooting. This time, in Thousand Oaks California where 12 people fell to a gunman. Reporters are interviewing members of Congress to find out if there anything anyone can do to reduce the senseless deaths of innocent Americans.

Marsha Blackburn is one of these congressional members. Blackburn recently won the opportunity to represent the people of Tennessee, was interviewed on Fox News today and asked about the mass-shooting. And sticking true to form, the Republican began her answer not talking about the lost souls, but instead about protecting the NRA and the 2nd Amendment.

“What we do is say how do make certain that we protect the 2nd Amendment.” Blackburn then went on to talk about mental health, as if mentally challenged individuals are the only ones committing mass murder in this country.

And if you thought Blackburn mentioned anything about guns or the need to have sensible background checks for people buying guns, you would, of course, be wrong.

But, you already know that. 

One thing is sure. Republicans will continue protecting the NRA and guns over the lives of American citizens, as we wait for the next mass shooting.

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Stacy Abrams Still In It – Run-off Vote Set for December – Video

The Georgia Republican running against Stacy Abrams for Governor is also the keeper of the votes. Talk about a conflict of interest.

But even with that in mind, enough Georgians turned out to the polls on November 6th and kept Stacy Abrams close enough to be awarded a do-over in December, December 4th to be exact.

This is one time you can truly say, you can’t keep a good man woman down!

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Fox News Pulls Donald Trump’s Racist Ad

I’ve criticized Fox News over the years and I’m sure there will be more opportunities to criticize them in the very near future. You can bet on it. But when the network show some decency – and that happens as often as there are blue moons – I will support their decency.

Enter support for Fox News’ decency – now that’s a phrase you will not hear often.

As the midterm elections quickly approach, Donald Trump and his herd of Republican sheep are desperate. So desperate they are, that Trump and his clan are running racist ads against Democrats hoping to scare up some votes their way. Most networks have refused to air the ad, but hearing that Fox News is one of these networks… well… good move Fox!

According to Brian Stelter, CNN’s host of Reliable Sources, Fox’s ad sales president has pulled the racist ad off both Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.

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Change Is In Our Hands: Vote!

Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules.

Political rules?

My choice in the New Jersey Senate race is either the incumbent, Democrat Bob Menendez, or the Republican challenger, Bob Hugin.

Senator Menendez was charged with all sorts of nasty political-insider-corruption-fraud-bad-bad-things, when through the process, and it all resulted in a mistrial. Meanwhile, he’s been an effective Senator and has been a terrific friend to teachers and public education in general. He’s also fought hard to get the current administration in Washington to commit some money to rebuild the transportation infrastructure in New Jersey, which has been in terrible shape for years.

Bob Hugin is a businessman and a Republican. If he wins, whatever centrism that exists in his agenda will be swallowed Jonah-like by Mitch McConnell and the ultra-right-wing Know-Nothings who currently run the Senate. And that’s not to mention that he will be obligated to support the most odious, malodorous politician in, well, ever, that being the president of the country who never met a fact he could ignore or turn into a falsehood.

Politics has always attracted people with, shall we say, malleable ethics, but under President Trump, the rules are gone. He has no moral standing, and neither does the Republican Party that supports him while he attempts to trash the constitution and make a mockery of the inclusive values that we’ve tried to practice as a nation. He has nothing but fear and the now-scary title of Commander-In-Chief, which means that he can order soldiers to the border to possibly shoot women and children if they make the mistake of…throwing a rock.

At this point, it is imperative that we as a country put the brakes on Republican one-party rule, as the Republicans did to Democrats in 2010. The House presents the best opportunity for that, because I think the Senate will remain Republican, which has to make the right very happy since they can continue to pack the courts with young judges who think that meaningful constitutional interpretation means living in 1789. In fact, I think the main Republican strategy since the beginning for October is to save the Senate, which explains the president’s continued screeds against immigrants and the media, even when he should be taking a more measured tone in the aftermath of pipe bombs and antisemitic attacks.

And don’t forget that the only meaningful legislation the Republicans have passed is a giant, whopping tax break for the wealthy that has exploded the deficit so completely, it makes the Reagan deficit seem like a rounding error.

Make sure you vote on Tuesday, and in the interests of returning some balance to the country, please vote Democratic. Just think of what two more years of Republican rule will mean for this country.

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Daughter’s Message to Voters – Don’t Vote for My Republican Father

“I can’t imagine him being in any level of government,” she told The Star on Monday.

Emily is referring to her father, Steve West. A Republican candidate for the Missouri General Assembly. The daughter of the Republican also said that her father is a racist and homophobic, and is known to be anti-Semitic.

“A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West said. “He’s made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn’t like the Jews.”

Even the Missouri Republican party issued a statement denouncing Steve West for all his “shocking and vile comments.” The party also distance itself from their candidate, implying that he is not decent, and saying his comments do not represent their belief.

The statement also states that “West’s abhorrent rhetoric has absolutely no place in the Missouri Republican Party or anywhere. We wholeheartedly condemn his comments.”

But Emily was shocked with she drove through the district her father is running for and saw huge amount of support her openly “racist” and “homophobic” father is getting.

“I think it’s just insane that people are putting out his signs,” she said. “You see his signs everywhere. I don’t understand how people can put out his signs knowing the comments that he’s made.”

Emily said her dad’s views have isolated him from the rest of the family. But apparently he is the exact candidate some Republicans in Missouri want in their Government.

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Dictator See, Dictator Do. And the Lies Cost Lives

I know it’s tough to be Saudi Prince Muhammed bin . After all, you’re only 33, which is not enough time to know…anything about how the world really works. You’re fabulously wealthy. You head a government with no opposition and you believe it derives its power from the consent of the governed God and your own assumption that only you and your family, although not your brothers and cousins are fit to rule the country.

You also must contemplate a future for which your country is ill-prepared: a future where oil and gas are in decline and the climate, including the E-Z Bake Oven you call your country, is warming past bake and into broil territory. You’ve done some prior planning in response to this and you’re encouraging wealthy business people and other countries to invest in your future so you can keep your mandate, your power, and the billions of dollars to which you’ve become accustomed.

Oh, and then there’s that devastating war you’ve pursued in Yemen. You know, the one that’s been labeled the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. And you continue the fighting because…um…the Iranians are your worst enemy and they’re arming Houthi rebels in Yemen and you…um…see this as a gigantic threat to your well-being. M, there’s no end in sight mainly because the rest of the world doesn’t see what’s happening.

So the last thing you need now is for the world to focus on the torture, killing dismemberment of a journalist–a journalist!–who lives in Virginia and wrote scathing critiques of you and your government for the Washington Post. You thought that you could slip this one past the world. After all, what’s a journalist’s life worth in Putin/Trump/ land? Journalists write stuff that makes us all feel bad and besides, it’s not very patriotic to critique your country and your dictator-.

At least Donald Trump gets it. He called you and you lied to him about the Khashoggi case and he defended you on the principles of Western jurisprudence, which you don’t really give a darn hoot about. But the point is that he believed you. And with all of this representative democracy that threatens to break out here in Saudi Arabia, it’s nice to know that you can lie to the President of the United States and he will still be your friend.

Of course, buying a few hundred billion dollars of weapons that can be used against Houthi rebels in Yemen helps your relationship with Trump, but those other Republicans are heaving religious morals at you which really, really hurts.

What really hurts the most, though, is that the world doesn’t believe your excuses. You are being questioned. You are being exposed. You have little moral authority. And we didn’t even mention that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudi citizens, or that your father tolerated the extreme Wahhabism that has fueled the terrorist ideologies that are presently wreaking havoc in the world.

There is blood on your hands. And there isn’t enough water in the oceans to wash it off.

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Van Jones Destroys Pat Robertson for Putting Money over Life – Video

Yesterday, Pat Robertson went on his show and somehow managed to put money over the life of a human being. Today, CNN’s Van Jones had a thing or two to say about Robertson, the man who calls himself a Christian.


“That’s not how a minister should be talking about this. That’s literally the reverse of the gospels and teaching of Jesus Christ. To put literally material considerations over the dignity of a human soul is against Christianity.”

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Pat Robertson – “We’ve had so many people killed” – Don’t “Blow Up Alliance Over One Person”

‘Pat Robertson.’ In this case that’s all you have to say. ‘Pat Robertson.’

It’s now official. The televangelist is a right-wing nut-job and his love and support of Donald Trump undeniable.

In a recent show, Robertson tried to defend Trump’s lackadaisical approach to the Saudi’s apparent involvement in the murder of Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

In his televised rant on The 700 Club, the so-called man of God stated that murdering one life should not have any effect on what Trump is trying to accomplish in US-Saudi relations.

“We’ve had so many people killed. We’ve had CIA people killed in Lebanon. People have been taken hostage over the years. I know it’s bad, but we’ve had all kinds of stuff, but you don’t blow up an international alliance over one person. I mean, I’m sorry.”

The so-called “man of God” has spoken!

Unbelievable!

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Charlamagne Tha God Cancels Event with Kanye West

And rightly so. 

The event was supposed to focus on mental illness in the Black community, but in light of Kanye’s mindboggling display last week in the Oval office, Charlamagne pulled the plug on the get-together, saying a conversation with West at this moment “would not be productive.”

Mr. West was smeared by political commentators as a mentally ill “token Negro” performing a “minstrel show” for the president after he sat down in the Oval Office to discuss a range of issues, including criminal justice reform. The pro-Trump rapper, who has spoken publicly about his mental health issues, said during the meeting that he was severely sleep-deprived when he was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Mr. West’s talk with Charlamagne was supposed to tackle the issue of anxiety and how to overcome it “to reach the next level of success.”

“Normalizing being mentally healthy is a conversation that I really wanted to have with Kanye because he’s been so vocal about his own mental health struggles,” Charlamagne, author of “Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me,” wrote in an Instagram post announcing the cancellation. “Unfortunately I think to have that conversation with him right now would not be productive and a total distraction from the point of the convo which is to eradicate the stigma of mental health especially in the black community.”

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