Trump's America

One of Trump's so-called "nice people" was busy:




Holocaust scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University finds swastikas spray-painted on her office wall



A Jewish professor and Holocaust scholar at Columbia Teacher’s College said she found two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur spray-painted on her office wall Wednesday. 

 Elizabeth Midlarsky said she first saw the hate symbols, which included the word “YID” scrawled on a wall outside her office, when she arrived at work at the Ivy League campus at about 1 p.m.













 Meanwhile, in sane America, science is real and Trump is a fake president:

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson

Scientists & engineers launched “InSight” from Earth (a moving platform) across 300million miles to arrive where Mars (a moving target) will be seven months later, landing safely to do geophysics at the Martian equator. And you have a problem listening to us about climate change?



And from a sewer in America, one of its particularly odious rodents emerges to give her opinion:

Our idiot preznit gets schooled by a teenager.

Video of the Day

Happiness:

Who's surprised? This creep put babies in cages. Why is anyone surprised when he gases babies and children.

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Pediatricians ‘stunned and shaken’ as Trump uses tear gas on infants

Americans do not like Trump by a whopping 60%!

UPDATE BELOW


From The Hill: 

"Gallup: 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump

Six-in-ten Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance, matching an all-time high for his disapproval rating in the Gallup Poll. 

 A weekly presidential job approval tracker released Monday found that 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance, while 38 percent said they approve as of the week ending Nov. 25. 

 The president’s disapproval rating has largely hovered in the mid-50 percent range in the Gallup poll, but this week marks the fourth time it has hit 60 percent. 

 It previously hit that threshold in August 2017 in the aftermath of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., again in late October of 2017 and once more in December 2017 around the time the GOP passed its tax-cut legislation." 


America's men and women in uniform don't care much for the CiC either:


Trump’s Approval Rate Among Active-Duty Troops Drops to 44%, Military Times Poll Says







This may be on of many reasons that #45 is so disliked by Americans: 



 Trump suggests the US should form a state-run, global news network to counter CNN's 'unfair' coverage




State-run media, y'know, like the kind that Kim Jung Un enjoys in North Korea, is what #45 slobbers for: A state-run media that broadcasts only what The Dear Leader orders it to -- flattering lies about him and his regime -- that's what President Porn Star Shagger aspires to. It's what defines dictators and thugs.

And it's what the GOP's president wants. 

UPDATE:

More mush from trump, the WATB:

MAGA!

#45 tear-gassed women and babies at the border.

"These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas." --WaPo








"A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She’s barefoot, dusty, and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she’s just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by U.S. agents."




TrumpCultists' Savior said "Suffer the little children..." But I doubt very much J.C. meant to douse the babies with tear gas. However, Trump's base loves him, even if he makes children suffer.






TRUMP'S BASE:

THE POTUS CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING AT MAR-A-LAGO AND THANKED HIMSELF

"...[A]sked what he was thankful for this Thanksgiving, Trump cited his "great family," as well as himself. 

 "I made a tremendous difference in this country," he said.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!

via GIPHY

Chief Justice Roberts instructs the GOP's president on the basics of the American judiciary system...

because Trump knows nothing about it or, for that fact, anything. He only knows how to whine, lie, and pout when something doesn't go his way. That is how a spoiled toddler behaves.




WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. defended the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary on Wednesday, issuing a statement rebuking President Trump’s criticism of a judge who had ruled against the administration’s asylum policy. 

 The chief justice seemed particularly offended by Mr. Trump’s assertion that Judge Jon S. Tigar, of the United States District Court in San Francisco, was “an Obama judge.” Chief Justice Roberts said that was a profound misunderstanding of the judicial role. 

 “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” he said in a statement. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.” 

 Chief Justice Roberts issued his statement in response to a request for comment from The Associated Press about Mr. Trump’s remarks on Tuesday concerning the asylum ruling, which ordered the administration to resume accepting asylum claims from migrants no matter where or how they entered the United States. 

The Blue Tsunami...

that trump and his base pretend never happened.

And that's fine. Let them live in their bubbles while the Democrats move on to their new majority in the House and their victories in state legislatures.


via Daily Kos:

The election was a D blowout (7.8% margin and growing), with structural reasons for the Senate result that has little to do with the popular vote. 

Polling is only confirming how unpopular Trump’s policies and ideas are. His base just lost an election, so no more ‘but his base’ excuses. 

His base is outnumbered and just got outvoted.


And this:

Nate Silver of Five Thirty-Eight

Trump’s Base Isn’t Enough 

 There shouldn’t be much question about whether 2018 was a wave election. Of course it was a wave…. This year’s results do serve as a warning to Trump in one important sense, however: His base alone will not be enough to win a second term. 

Throughout the stretch run of the 2018 midterm campaign, Trump and Republicans highlighted highly charged partisan issues, from the Central American migrant caravan to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. And Republican voters did indeed turn out in very high numbers: GOP candidates for the House received more than 50 million votes, more than the roughly 45 million they got in 2010. But it wasn’t enough, or even close to enough. 

Problem No. 1 is that Republicans lost among swing voters: Independent voters went for Democrats by a 12-point margin, and voters who voted for a third-party candidate in 2016 went to Democrats by 13 points. 

 Trump and Republicans also have Problem No. 2, however: Their base is smaller than the Democratic one.

America has never seen an abuse of power like this, like Donald Trump attempted.

This is what dictators do. An extrodinary abuse of power to want to make the DoJ prosecute his opponent and the former director of the FBI. Unheard of in the history of the United States!

Who are the people who still support this renegade outlaw, traitorous president?



New York Times:


WASHINGTON — President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation. 

 The lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for Mr. Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment. 

 The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. It took on additional significance in recent weeks when Mr. McGahn left the White House and Mr. Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew G. Whitaker, as the acting attorney general. 

 It is unclear whether Mr. Trump read Mr. McGahn’s memo or whether he pursued the prosecutions further. But the president has continued to privately discuss the matter, including the possible appointment of a second special counsel to investigate both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Comey, according to two people who have spoken to Mr. Trump about the issue. He has also repeatedly expressed disappointment in the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, for failing to more aggressively investigate Mrs. Clinton, calling him weak, one of the people said.

So, will Trump and his Cultists scream "LOCK HER UP!" at his next rally?

UPDATE BELOW

Ivanka Trump used personal account to send hundreds of emails about government business in Clinton-esque move, lawyer admits

Jaime Harrison

✔@harrisonjaime

.@realDonaldTrump “But her emails!!!” What was that phrase you used.... #LockHerUp sounds pretty ridiculous now doesn’t it?! Hope your pal @LindseyGrahamSC will also have hearings on this also if he decides to waste more taxpayer money on this foolishness!

Kyle Griffin

✔@kylegriffin1

!! Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, WaPo reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-used-a-personal-email-account-to-send-hundreds-of-emails-about-government-business-last-year/2018/11/19/6515d1e0-e7a1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.8c66a20b933f …

UPDATE:

Karma's a female dog, innit?

House Dems to investigate Ivanka Trump's email use

Acting Attorney General, Matt Whitaker, tied to fraud scheme under FBI investigation

Steve Benen, 11/12/2018


There are so many reasons Donald Trump shouldn’t have chosen Matt Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general, it’s genuinely challenging to choose just one. But by any fair measure, Whitaker’s work with World Patent Marketing Inc. has to be near the top of the list. 

The Wall Street Journal reported the other day:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal investigation of a Florida company accused of scamming millions from customers during the period that Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general, served as a paid advisory-board member, according to an alleged victim who was contacted by the FBI and other people familiar with the matter. 

 The investigation is being handled by the Miami office of the FBI and by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, according to an email sent to the alleged victim last year by an FBI victim specialist. A recording on a phone line set up by the Justice Department to help victims said Friday the case remains active. Mr. Whitaker, appointed Wednesday by President Trump to replace Jeff Sessions as head of the Justice Department, oversees the FBI in his new job. 

 Let’s back up for a minute, because the details are almost hard to believe. Whitaker joined the company’s advisory board after having served as a U.S. Attorney in the Bush/Cheney administration – a fact World Patent Marketing exploited to lure potential clients. Four years ago, the company issued a press release that quoted Matt Whitaker as saying, “As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business ethically and translates them into action.” 

Those comments started to look pretty bad after the Federal Trade Commission filed a civil suit against this World Patent Marketing, describing it as “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” 

Among its alleged victims are many disabled American veterans. Now, the company is facing possible criminal scrutiny from the FBI, all while one of the company’s top officials is running the Justice Department.

The inarticulate and stupid POTUS:

Donald Trump insisted he had not changed his mind on climate change after witnessing the devastation caused by the California wildfires.

“I have a strong opinion,” the US president told reporters as he assessed the damage from one of the blazes that has so far claimed the lives of 71 people, while more than a thousand are missing. 

 “I want great climate, we are going to have that and we are going to have forests that are very safe.” 

“We’ve got to take care of the floors, you know the floors of the forest, very important,” he said. 

“You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole different story. 

 “I was with the president of Finland and he said … we’re a forest nation, he called it a forest nation, and they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. They don’t have any problem, and what it is, it’s a very small problem.”


NOTE; Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said in an interview published Sunday that although President Donald Trump claimed the European leader told him Finns rarely have forest fires because they "spend a lot of time raking," he doesn't recall discussing that with Trump when they met last weekend in Paris.

Niinistö told the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, a CNN affiliate, that the subject of raking was never brought up in his conversations with Trump. 

AND THIS: The GOP preznit calls a Democratic member of the House of Representative "schitt."

Adam Schiff for the win --Democratic Underground Last edited Sun Nov 18, 2018, 04:59 PM - Edit history (1) Adam Schiff ✔@RepAdamSchiff Wow, Mr. President, that’s a good one. Was that like your answers to Mr. Mueller’s questions, or did you write this one yourself? Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump So funny to see little Adam Schitt (D-CA) talking about the fact that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was not approved by the Senate, but not mentioning the fact that Bob Mueller (who is highly conflicted) was not approved by the Senate! 160K 1:36 PM - Nov 18, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 48.2K people are talking about this

Sunday Music Blog

When we call Trump supporters cultiists, that's not hyperbole; it is telling the truth:

This appeared on a billboard somewhere in Missouri. 

It has since been taken down because of complaints from real Christians who were outraged at the blasphemous suggestion that a liar, a cheat, and a self-admitted adulterer and sexual assaulter be compared to their Savior, Jesus Christ.

Friday Night Funnies...

in which the GOP preznit takes a trip into Squirrelly Nutlandia:




Trump's uninformed squirrelly opinion on voting:

TRUMP:  "This is a problem in California that’s so bad of illegals voting. This is a California problem, and if you notice, almost every race — I was watching today — out of, like, 11 races that are in question, they’re gonna win all of them. The Republicans don’t win, and that’s because of potentially illegal votes, which is what I’ve been saying for a long time. I have no doubt about it. And I’ve seen it, I’ve had friends talk about it when people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on. The disgrace is that, voter ID. If you buy, you know, a box of cereal, if you do anything, you have a voter ID."








Your blogging hostess was captured on Instagram in her various disguises on November 6, so that she could vote several times and then go to the nearest supermarket to buy Fruit Loops without the required ID:

Trump and the squirrels in his large, normally empty head:


TRUMP:  "If you look at what happened in New Hampshire, where thousands of people came up and voted from a very liberal part of Massachusetts and they came up in buses and they voted. I said, “What’s going on over here”; my people said, “You won New Hampshire easily except they have tremendous numbers of buses coming up.” They’re pouring up by the hundreds, buses of people getting out, voting. Then they’re supposed to go back within 90 days. And of the people that are supposed to go back, almost none of them do. In other words, they go back after the vote is over. They go back — and I think it’s like 3 percent — I mean, almost nobody goes back to show that, you know, that they were allowed to vote. And so what do you do? Recall the election. Recall the election. I mean, there, you should be able to recall the election."

The above was spoken by the person who is purportedly the Leader of the Free World and who has his very fat little fingers on the nuclear button.

More Blue Wave Good News!

UPDATES ON DEMOCRATS WINNING OTHER RACES ACROSS U.S. BELOW:

"A week later it's clear the midterms did produce a blue wave – here are the three main factors that drove the Democrats' triumph One week ago, three distinct but overlapping currents combined to shift tidal forces in America's midterm elections — and smash the Republican Party's congressional fortress. Those currents were: 

* Demographic change, 

* Democratic mobilization, and 

* Disaffection with President Donald Trump.

As is clearer now than on election night, they produced a blue wave that has fundamentally altered the political calculus of the capital."    --John Harwood | @johnjharwood



 More good news: 

 "We hope Republican Mike Coffman is right! He blames his loss in Colorado on Trump: 

'Donald Trump is about Donald Trump, and what Donald Trump is, is he wants to be the center of attention every single day. He wants to dominate the news cycle every single day, and good luck trying to get a message out of that.'

Army veteran Jason Crow unseated Coffman, becoming the first Democrat to represent Colorado’s Sixth District since it was created. 

 Congratulations, Jason Crow! Way to go!"



AND THE BLUE WAVE KEEPS GETTING BIGGER AND WAVIER!

N.J. Democrat Defeats Trump Ally, Leaving the State With Just 1 Republican in Congress

WHAT?! Mississippi? DEAD HEAT????

Look at this!

Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s loss under the state’s new ranked-choice voting system on Thursday likely means the end of New England Republicans in the House. 

 It’s the first time in over 100 years an incumbent has lost Maine’s 2nd District. Poliquin is still pursuing his legal challenge to the ranked-choice voting system in federal court, but Democrat Jared Golden won more than 50 percent after state election officials tabulated the ranked-choice votes on Thursday afternoon. Poliquin narrowly led the Democrat on the first count, but since neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting system kicked in. 

A federal judge on Thursday morning denied a Poliquin lawsuit to seek an injunction against the tabulation of those votes.


ORANGE COUNTY, CA? SERIOUSLY?

LATIMES:  "Republicans lose a fifth House seat in California as Democrat Katie Porter ousts Rep. Mimi Walters"

In another blow to California Republicans reeling from defeats in the Nov. 6 election, Democrat Katie Porter has ousted GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in an upscale Orange County congressional district that was a longtime conservative bastion. 

 At the same time, the updated vote count Thursday by the Orange County registrar of voters had Democratic House candidate Gil Cisneros pulling 941 votes ahead of Republican Young Kim in an adjacent congressional district. 

 My daughter lives in Orange [BLUE] County, CA.

Dear Red State America,

Your president is:


mad, insane, out of his mind, deranged, demented, not in his right mind, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unhinged, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare; informalmental, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake, off his rocker, not right in the head, round/around the bend, raving mad, batty, bonkers, cuckoo, loopy, ditzy, loony, bananas, loco, with a screw loose, touched, gaga, not all there, out to lunch, crackers, nutso, out of one's tree, wacko, gonzo; and crazy as a shithouse rat.

That is all.

File under: "PIGS ARE FLYING!"

BREAKING NEWS:

Fox News To File Amicus Brief In Support Of CNN’s Jim Acosta Lawsuit

CNN filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s White House Tuesday, after it removed reporter Jim Acosta’s press credentials.

Raw Story:

Fox News fans are not happy that their favorite network is filing an amicus brief on behalf of CNN’s Jim Acosta, who had his White House press pass revoked by the Trump administration last week. 

“Fox News supports CNN in its legal effort to regain its White House reporter’s press credential,” Fox News President Jay Wallace said on Tuesday. “Secret Service passes for White House journalists should never be weaponized.”

YES!

A Week After the Election, Democratic Gains Grow Stronger

Kyrsten Sinema became  the first Democratic senator elected in Arizona in 30 years.

New York Times:


Nov. 13, 2018 233 The 2018 midterm election looked last Tuesday like a serious but not crippling setback for Republicans, yet the picture has grown grimmer since then as a more complete tally of votes has come in across the country. 

 What looked at first like a modest Democratic majority in the House has grown into a stronger one: The party has gained 32 seats so far and appears on track to gain between 35 and 40 once all the counting is complete. And Democratic losses in the Senate look less serious than they did a week ago, after Kyrsten Sinema was declared the winner in Arizona on Monday. 

It now looks like Democrats are likely to lose a net of one or two seats, rather than three or four as they feared last Tuesday. The underlying shifts in the electorate suggest President Trump may have to walk a precarious path to re-election in 2020, as several Midwestern states he won in 2016 threaten to slip away, and once-red states in the Southwest turn a purpler hue. The president’s strategy of sowing racial division and stoking alarm about immigration failed to lift his party, and Democratic messaging about health care undercut the benefit Republicans hoped to gain from a strong economy.

Trump's America

Since self-identified (white) "Nationalist" Trump was elected, Nazi salutes and marches and acceptance have been on the rise. 

Trump has made it comfortable for every bigot, Nazi, White Supremacist, KKKer, misogynist and racist to act out what once was kept in the sewer. Trump has unleashed that filth from the sewer. His cultists are comfortable with this creeping white nationalism, and  they adore him even more for his desecration of American values and honor.

Here's a Baraboo, Wisconsin, high school photo of young, white male students laughing while giving the Nazi salute. 

Let's hear from the folks who fetishize our American military what they think about this disturbing photo. 

Let's hear from the far righties who pound their chests about supporting the troops and respecting the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform how they justify this photo of a salute that their fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, daughters and sons gave their lives to wipe off the face of the earth.

Their idol, Trump, has made this disgusting display acceptable -- even fun -- to young people.

This is what Trump has done to America:

One student in the upper right-hand photo refused to join in the disgraceful display. You can read about him in the link I provided above.

For those thoughtful Americans who wonder how Germany sank into bloody Nationalist Nazism in the 1930s, look at this photo and understand.

It IS happening here.