The Republicans' president is using the SOTU to beg Americans for money.

Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream


 "After initially asking donors to send at least $35 in exchange for having their names scrolled during a live stream of the president's speech, the Trump campaign later send out an email solicitation saying only one dollar would do. 

"Even if you choose to only give $1, the proof of your support will send shockwaves around the world as they see every American who proudly stands behind our President," said the pitch signed by the president's son, Eric Trump. "

The fundraising technique is raising eyebrows from ethics watchdogs, who say the unprecedented attempt to raise money off an official White House event crosses a line. 

 'Donald Trump is commercializing and corrupting yet another national institution, making this just the latest disgraceful degradation by Trump of the presidency and our public institutions,' said Robert Weissman, president, Public Citizen."

America's con artist is at it again, using what is called for in the US Constitution to raise money for his next campaign.

Like everything he touches, Trump degrades and corrupts even this traditional Constitutional requirement.

Shame on Trump and everyone connected with this abomination.

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Excellent Super Bowl presentation on freedom of the press.

A slap in the face to Trump's calling America's media "The Enemy of the People."

Trump mouths the words of every tyrant and every enemy of freedom when he calls the free press "Fake News," and "America's Enemy."

Trump's anti-American attack on the 1st Amendment will go down in American history as an attack on our Constitution.

May we ALWAYS have the courage to speak truth to power.

G.O.A.T.

The New York Times named Boston as the greatest sports city in the country.


Good luck to Tom Brady and the Pats. Win or lose, you're the G.O.A.T.!

Friday Night Funnies

#45 claimed Thursday that his top intelligence officials were "misquoted" and "taken out of context" when they publicly broke with some of his core foreign policy views during congressional testimony earlier this week. 

Individual One also said that, Chris Wray, Gina Haspel, and Dan Coats characterized the media’s reporting of their testimony as fake news. Ya just gotta laugh when millions, saw those three testify on Tuesday. Does #45 really think we would believe his unbelievable statement?



Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that his intelligence chiefs, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel, told him that they were misquoted when they publicly contradicted him during public on-camera testimony. 

 He made the claim a day after he tweeted that "Intelligence should go back to school!" 

 "They said they were totally misquoted and totally taken out of context," Trump said when asked by CNN if he raised the testimony with Coats and Haspel during his daily briefing on Thursday.

Dear friends, the POTUS is clearly non compos mentis. We all heard LIVE what HIS intel people said during the televised hearing. There was no "fake news." #45 wants us to disbelieve what we heard with our own ears.

He's nuts. We all know that. Except for his 20 percenters.

Individual Number One told the intel community that there's no one who respects them more than he, DJT...

EXCEPT when he doesn't and insults them, calling them "naive," and "passive."

What was the most idiotic statement made(so far) this week by a Trumper?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president,” Sanders said. 


First of all, how does Sanders know what God "wanted?" Did she/he tell Sanders in a private phone call? Or was it a voice in her head?

Second, if God is running around putting politicians in office because she/he WANTS THEM THERE, then obviously, by Sanders/ logic: 

Nancy Pelosi was chosen by God as well.

Evangelicals should be more reverential toward Madam Speaker! She was chosen by GOD! Sarah said so: 

"I think God calls ALL OF US to fill different roles."




A question for Ms. Sanders:

Tell us what the reason could have been for God to call Osama bin Laden for his "different role?" Also all of the young white males who committed massacres across this country with AR-15s?




Don't expect logic from people like Sanders. IMO, anyone who supports DJT is clearly non compos mentis.

And her words prove it.

An Extraordinary Moment

TrumpCultists continue to defend a schlub who knows nothing about foreign policy and is too lazy to read the intel from his own people. 











 "Trump’s handpicked Intelligence Leaders, Coats and Haspel also warned that Russia will try to interfere in the 2020 election in much the same way it did in the 2016 election. 

The threat assessment report warned about Russian election interference, as well as cyberattacks “to disrupt or damage U.S. civilian and military infrastructure during a crisis.” 

Yet over and over again, Trump has sided with and defended Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. 

In one of the most humiliating moments in American foreign policy, Trump stood on stage next to Putin before a global press gathering last summer and took Putin’s side over that of American intelligence community."

Wednesday Night Funnies

Stupid Man Makes Joke About Severe, Possibly Life-Threatening Weather Coming to Millions of Americans

That stupid man is, of course, the 30 percenters' preznit. (Wait. He's down to 28% approval, so maybe we should call them them 20 percenters?)





A mature, intelligent president would caution the millions and millions of Americans who will have to endure the brutal weather conditions on the way to the midwest, lake states, and the northeast. Chicago will suffer temperatures colder than Antartica! 

What does President Individual 1 do? Does he give comforting words and advice on how to stay safe and warm to those Americans who will be affected? Of  course not. That would take empathy and human decency, and President Individual 1 has none of those attributes.  All he can do is advertise to America and the world his excrutiating stupidity and ignorance on climate change and its effect on the weather. 

Meanwhile, Australia is breaking records enduring its hottest summer.

But the deeply unpopular idiot that currently defiles the Oval Office thinks it's funny and tweets an unfunny joke. He thinks everything is funny, when, in fact, he's the joke. And so are we for having the misfortune of calling this half-wit of a nincompoop POTUS.

HERE'S AN INTERESTING POLL:

 Nearly half of America has no confidence in Trump 'at all' ... and women hate him \



Trump has YUUUGE negativity among women. Gee, I wonder why? 


 As reported Friday, a new low of 27 percent of women approve of Trump’s job performance, compared with 49 percent of men, a vast gender gap.


PRESIDENT NO CONFIDENT AT ALL:

Here's appalling news from the CBO:

Is this how President No Confidence makes America great again?


CBO: Shutdown cost economy $3 billion


The S&P differs with the CBO:


 Government shutdown cost US economy at least $6B, S&P says

President No Confidence thanked Americans for their sacrifice and the suffering HE PUT THEM THROUGH for his pointless, useless, reckless partial government shutdown. There's still no money for his vanity project wall, and he caused this country possibly irreparable harm.

President No Confidence is also President Chaos.

George Conway, Kellyanne's husband, doesn't think much of President Dotard.

Peter Wehner‏ @Peter_Wehner

In the showdown with Nancy Pelosi, Trump's been exposed as pitifully weak, all bluster, a pathetic negotiator. Pelosi rolled him in every way. Egged on by right wingers, the whole thing was buffoonish from start to finish. *This* is how Trump's Art of the Deal works in real life.

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George Conway@gtconway3d

Art of the Fool

Peter Wehner@Peter_Wehner

In the showdown with Nancy Pelosi, Trump's been exposed as pitifully weak, all bluster, a pathetic negotiator. Pelosi rolled him in every way. Egged on by right wingers, the whole thing was buffoonish from start to finish. *This* is how Trump's Art of the Deal works in real life.

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George Conway@gtconway3d

This used to be his signature move after colossally screwing up. But there’s no Chapter 11 for presidencies.

Buzz Ilkington@BuzzIlk

Replying to @Jhalleta @Cernovich

Usually, he declares bankruptcy.

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George Conway@gtconway3d

An important point. Even before today, a large portion of the people who tell pollsters they “approve” of Trump only do so “somewhat.” They know he’s an incompetent fool. Even some of the die-harders will quietly concede it—but he’s the only incompetent fool they have.

Erick Erickson

✔@EWErickson

I’ve been writing for weeks that if Trump caved without a border wall, he’d be giving Pelosi a win and conceding defeat. He’ll look weak to his base. The public vote of confidence from supporters right now is not necessarily their private sentiment.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Statement on Roger Stone's Arrest

JANUARY 26, 2019Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after Special Counsel Mueller released a seven-count indictment of top Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction: 

 “The indictment of Roger Stone makes clear that there was a deliberate, coordinated attempt by top Trump campaign officials to influence the 2016 election and subvert the will of the American people. It is staggering that the President has chosen to surround himself with people who violated the integrity of our democracy and lied to the FBI and Congress about it. 

 “In the face of 37 indictments, the President’s continued actions to undermine the Special Counsel investigation raise the questions: what does Putin have on the President, politically, personally or financially? Why has the Trump Administration continued to discuss pulling the U.S. out of NATO, which would be a massive victory for Putin? 

 “Lying to Congress and witness tampering constitute grave crimes. All who commit these illegal acts should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. We cannot allow any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from appearing before Congress. “The Special Counsel investigation is working, and the House will continue to exercise our constitutional oversight responsibility and ensure that the Special Counsel investigation can continue free from interference from the White House.”

TRUMP OPENS GOVERNMENT FOR 3 WEEKS -- NO WALL

Trump Agrees to Reopen Government for 3 Weeks in Surprise Retreat From Wall

WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed Friday to reopen the federal government for three weeks while negotiations proceeded over how to secure the nation’s southwestern border, backing down after a monthlong standoff failed to force Democrats to give him billions of dollars for his long-promised wall. The decision paved the way for Congress to pass spending bills as soon as Friday that Mr. Trump will sign to restore normal operations at a series of federal agencies until Feb. 15 and begin paying again the 800,000 federal workers who have been furloughed or forced to work for free for 35 days. 

 The plan includes none of the money for the wall that he had demanded and was essentially the same approach that Mr. Trump rejected at the end of December, meaning he won nothing concrete during the impasse.




Trump "won nothing concrete during the impasse," but he did manage to make hundreds of thousands Americans miserable. He's a weak, incompetent, and ineffectual POTUS who has shown he cares nothing for "the forgotten Americans."

ANOTHER CLOSE, CLOSE TRUMP ASSOCIATE IS INDICTED

The Trump administration is crawling with crooks:




Donald Trump ally Roger Stone arrested on seven counts of perjury and obstruction



Trump adviser and original Nixon dirty trickster Roger Stone was arrested on Friday morning in a pre-dawn raid of his Florida home following a seven count indictment by the grand jury. The raid was captured on video, as CNN was at Stone’s home at the moment agents—who were working through the shutdown without pay—arrived to burst into Stone’s residence in a SWAT-style procedure and take the long-time Republican strategist away.





Roger Stone, Adviser to Trump, Is Indicted in Mueller Investigation 

The longtime informal adviser to President Trump was charged with seven counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering, according to the special counsel’s office. 

Mr. Stone has spent decades plying the dark arts of scandal-mongering and dirty tricks to help influence American political campaigns. 

Good Question.

All the screaming and hollerin' over the Covington< Kentucky, boys' school incident is a distraction from this...

Trump's disapproval rating reaches record high as majority of Americans blame him for government shutdown

"Donald Trump's disapproval ratings have reached record highs as the president refuses to back down from his border wall funding demands, sparking the longest government shutdown in US history. 

 A new CBS News poll released on Wednesday shows the White House and GOP leadership are losing support for the president’s campaign promise of a wall sprawling the entirety of the US-Mexico border, with 71 per cent of voters saying they do not believe the issue is worth keeping the federal government closed. 

 Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s disapproval rating has reached an all-time high at 59 per cent — a figure that’s just one per cent higher than his previous record yet indicative of the president’s declining support amid the border wall battle." 

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President Porn Star Shagger is hellbent on ruining not only this country, but himself over his unnecessary partial shutdown of the federal government.

His disapproval numbers continue to grow and his approval numbers continue to sink into the toilet, where they belong.

Plus, Trump showed Americans why Speaker Pelosi is a far, far better leader than he could ever hope to be.

Continue to be resolute, Madam Speaker.

As we pass the anniversary of the second year of the Trump presidency...

David Faris of The Week, reviews Trump's deplorable presidency so far:




"Today (1/20/2019) marks the two year anniversary of President Trump's ignominious reign over the United States. We are now at the midpoint of Trump's first, perhaps only, term as president of the United States, what we can now understand as our collective Trumpening. 

 It is natural to ask about the consequences of handing the office of the presidency to a friendless, joyless, violence-worshipping narcissist. Unfortunately, what we know about the repercussions of this period is vastly outstripped by the disasters to come. For all the many ignominious assaults that the country has endured over the past two years, we have not yet experienced even a fifth of the calamities this man and his misrule will ultimately inflict upon us. But we know a few things. 

 We know that President Trump has, perhaps permanently, transformed the presidency with his malevolence, ineptitude, and divisiveness. Donald Trump is by far the laziest and least informed person ever to inhabit the White House. In two years, he has defined deviance so far down that he may have forever altered the expectations of the office of the presidency itself. As we have learned from a thousand anonymously sourced news analyses, the president's time is largely unstructured, filled mostly with blocks of compulsive Fox News watching, an activity that he telegraphs to the public by live tweeting it. America's voters are constantly being told, by the president of the United States, to watch particular Fox programs and to applaud quotes by right-wing gadflies uttered without any serious pushback from other guests on what is now effectively Republican state television."

Happy MLK Day! Happy Going to the Superbowl AGAIN Day!

G.O.A.T. Tom Brady and the entire Patriots organization.