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We’re Drowning in Guns and Trump Throws Us…Video Games?

Trish Ponder

This email subject line is the mother of all non-sequiturs

No amount of banned video games or advances in access to mental health treatment could make up for the sheer numbers of guns in America

Reading isn’t Trump’s greatest strength but in his speech addressing the two-for-one mass shootings inspired by his recent campaign trail red meat, he recited the words like a man with a gun to his head. Which is appropriate since, statistically speaking, as an American, he is likelier than citizens from any other country to be near a gun.

But no amount of banned video games or advances in access to mental health treatment (both initiatives which have been blocked repeatedly by conservatives, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) could make up for the sheer numbers of guns in America. Residents of the old Wild West would be afraid to live with what you and I are facing. BELOW THE FOLD »

August 5, 2019| Tags Conservative Agenda, Gun Violence, guns, Republican Lies, Trump | Permalink | Comment (0)

Beto O’Rourke Isn’t Afraid to Call Trump Racist

And He Makes the Connection Between Trump’s Rhetoric and His Followers’ Actions

Trish Ponder

All elected officials need to speak out about Trump’s racist and white supremacist beliefs.

And we wish Beto had run again for senate instead of president. He’s badly needed there.

August 4, 2019| Tags Conservative Agenda, Conservative Values, Donald Trump, Racism, Republican Lies, Republicans, White Supremacy | Permalink | Comment (0)

The King of Debt, as Trump Called Himself, is Earning His Crown

As Usual, It’s Not His Money (This Time, It’s Ours)

Trish Ponder

As tempting as it is to tune out news about the debt ceiling and budget deals, it’s time to pay attention. The excellent Daily 202 from James Hohman and the Washington Post breaks down how bad red ink has gotten under Trump.

Estimated deficit for 2019: $1 trillion +
Deficit for 2018: $779 billion
Deficit for 2016: (Obama) $587 billion

National debt as of July, 2019: $22 trillion
National debt at Trump inauguration: $19 trillion

As we remember, Pres. Obama used debt to successfully stimulate an economy that was collapsing as he took office.

Trump used debt to finance a huge tax break for corporations and rich folk, which he and the Republicans said would make things better for us average Joes.

Here’s the full quote: BELOW THE FOLD »

July 23, 2019| Tags Conservative Agenda, Donald Trump, Economy, Republican Lies, Republican tax cuts | Permalink | Comment (0)

Good Ol’ Red-White-and-Blue American Democratic Socialism Put Humans on the Moon

Jon Ponder

July 21, 2019| Tags American Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialism, Moon Landing | Permalink | Comment (0)

Listen to Trump Repeatedly Trashing the United States

He should go back to the shithole he came from

Jon Ponder

July 21, 2019| Tags Trump Trashes America | Permalink | Comment (0)

Watch the Mueller Report: ‘The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts’

Jon Ponder

Via Deadline.com: The cast for last night’s live-streamed all-star reading (from New York City’s historic Riverside Church) of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts – playwright Robert Schenkkan’s adaptation of the Mueller Report – included Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben Mckenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn.

But performers who were unable to appear in person – including Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mark Hamill – joined in this taped segment, outlining 10 possible acts of obstruction of justice committed by Donald Trump. Annette Bening kicks things off, with Hamill, Mark Ruffalo, Louis-Dreyfus and others each tackling a possible obstruction. Bening brings it home at the end.

June 26, 2019| Tags Mueller Report, Trump Crimes, Trump Lies | Permalink | Comment (0)

Stars Read the Mueller Report

Jon Ponder

Exclusive: De Niro, @robreiner, @SophiaBush, @StephenKing, @jvn, and more are cutting through the Trump administration’s lies about the Mueller report pic.twitter.com/VpJhIGBbv0

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 20, 2019

June 21, 2019| Tags collusion, Mueller Report, Trump Lies | Permalink | Comment (0)

Trump’s Latest Foreign Policy Play Hurts Cubans AND Americans

Buck Banks

Tuesday, June 4, as Donald Trump was wrapping up his only moderately disastrous state visit to the United Kingdom, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a press release announcing that the Trump administration was reversing the Obama administration’s 2014 loosening of restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba.

Of course, to maximize confusion, the policy was set to go into effect THE NEXT DAY — Wednesday, June 6.

The nugget of the press release was this quote attributed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:

“Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “This Administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime. These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services.”

Although it wasn’t spelled out in the press release, supporting documents made it abundantly clear that Trump was returning to those halcyon days of yore when only Americans with direct family ties in Cuba could legally travel there.

BELOW THE FOLD »

June 10, 2019| Tags Cuba policy, Marco Rubio, Trumplomacy | Permalink | Comment (0)

Sorry, Rich People – Obama Was Better for the S&P Than Trump

Jon Ponder

From Fortune:

When it comes to talking himself up, Trump in particular has compared himself to Barack Obama. So, how do the two presidents measure up in terms of growth in major indexes, measured between their inauguration and May 31 of their third year in office?

The short answer is that Trump has quite a way to go. Under Obama, the S&P 500 grew by 56.4%. The Dow Jones Industrials Average was up 50.6% and the Nasdaq, 92.9%.

The numbers under Trump were 21.4% for the S&P 500, 25.2% for the Dow, and 34.2% for Nasdaq.

June 6, 2019| Tags Pres. Obama, S&P, Trump Economy | Permalink | Comment (0)

Funniest Protest Signs from Trump’s U.K. Visit

Buck Banks

The website sadanduseless.com reminds us why we love the Brits.

June 5, 2019| Tags Trumplomacy | Permalink | Comment (0)

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“A fifth member of the National Rifle Association’s board of directors has resigned, the latest in a string of high-profile defections within the powerful gun rights group in recent weeks,” Newsweek reports.

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A new CNN poll finds Joe Biden continues to lead the Democratic Presidential Race with 29%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 15%, Elizabeth Warren’s 14%, Kamala Harris at 5% and Pete Buttigieg at 5%. Harris has plunged from 17% to 5% since June.

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20%

Wall Street Journal: “Shipments of recreational vehicles to dealers have fallen about 20% so far this year, after a 4.1% drop last year, according to data from the RV Industry Association. Multiyear drops in shipments have preceded the last three recessions.”

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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds 64% of Americans say they support free trade with foreign countries. That represents an all-time high in the NBC/WSJ survey on this question, and it’s a 7-point increase from the last time it was asked in 2017.

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“I am going to vote for the candidate who I am absolutely certain has a brain that is functioning. And that narrows it down to exactly one.”

— Dr. Neal Kassell, who performed surgery on Joe Biden three decades ago following two brain aneurysms, quoted by Politico.

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— Eugene Robinson

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“The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted.”

— Hillary Clinton, firing back at President Trump, who claimed on Twitter that Google “manipulated” votes in the 2016 election that would have given him an even greater lead over his opponent and that the company “should be sued,” CNBC reports.

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“He’s an odious little grifter and it’s time for him to go.”

— Fox News host Steve Hilton, quoted by The Hill, on National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre.

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“May God ruin him.”

— Muftia Tlaib, the grandmother of Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI), in a Now This interview, after President Trump suggested Israel ban the congresswoman from entering the country.

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