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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Trump Picks Pence for Vice President

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Previous Related Posts:

Hoosier Hospitality vs. Homophobia
Pence of Indiana Signs Law Permitting Gay Discrimination
Trump announces another Failed Presidential Run

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Trump chose Governor Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate, which seems like a no-drama choice instead of Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie. But Trump managed to turn it into drama-rama by flying Pence to New York then letting him dangle there for 24 hours without any official announcement. Meanwhile, Pence only had one day left to withdraw from the Indiana Governor's race. With one hour left on the clock, and reporters staked out both in New York and Indiana, Trump finally confirmed his choice in his favorite form of communication - a tweet!

One of the worst roll-outs of a VP in history!
























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Friday, March 21, 2014

GOP Reaching Out With Fake Hipster-Doofus

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The GOP has decided to their "outreach" needs to aim at Millenials in the 20-30-something age group, and in their infinite wisdom decided the defining trait of that generation is their ability to whine about every little thing. No really. Let's make a video about whiny self-absorbed and especially MONEY-absorbed hipster dude-bros and win people back into the Republican fold, because "we need the young." Epic Fail.

From Gawker:
Enter Scott Greenberg, a 30-year-old ad guy with a cool shirt, the sort of shirt Adam might wear on Girls. Scott is a hipster. Scott is young. Scott is concerned about paying for things. That's why Scott is a Republican, the face of a new GOP-sponsored ad campaign...
. . . likely, an old donor wants to see some youth outreach, and the RNC finds Scott, a young Beltway acolyte to provide them with a simulacrum of youth culture for a couple of shekels. We have the horn-rimmed glasses! The pomaded hair! A brick tenement across a city street! Talk of money problems and friends!






Parody from PriceOfOil.com



Parody from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver






No matter what your political persuasion, we think you'll agree that the ad is easily mockable. The man, Scott Greenberg, is dressed to the nines in hipster gear, oversize glasses, and a stubble beard. He also comes prepared with indignation and an inability to read cue cards with any amount of subtlety.
~ Yahoo News

Hipster republicans. You couldn't make someone easier for New Yorkers to hate unless you spliced DNA from Leona Helmsley and Carrot Top.
~ Nalano635 on Gothamist

Ok cupid date from hell
~ Ihuffglue91 on Gothamist

He looks like Waldo.
~ sunshine999 on Gothamist

I fuel my hybrid Tesla on kitten tears & racist poems. Take that, Obama!!! #TrumpPalin2016
~ UnfamousChris on YouTube

The Republicans tossed a hanging curveball to the satirists.
~ Garth H. on YouTube

DC has excellent public transport and bike lanes. There's even a bikeshare program all over the city.
~ Process613 on YouTube

This is like an SNL skit poking fun of an RNC ad targeting millenials.
~ IDontWantAChannel on YouTube 

The GOP doesn't realize most millennials, myself included, want to smack the smug off every hipster we see.
~ Edward M. on YouTube

I congratulate you, GOP, on this embarrasingly bad attempt to ingratiate yourself to hipsters. Or is this supposed to be "ironically awful?"
~ Patrick D. on YouTube

C'mon, at least try to make it less obvious that he isn't reading from a teleprompter right off-screen.
~ Blarghalt on YouTube

I can see the teleprompter shining in his glasses.
~ Noah T. on YouTube

I just realized that this is Mitt Romney's illegitimate son.
~ PacificCoast82 on YouTube

If you're spending soooo much of your paycheck on gas, maybe you should make a few sacrifices and take the bus. You seem to live in a busy city. What do you need a car for?
~ Draco Lupus on YouTube

The solution to the oil crisis is in that guy's hair.
~ Draco Lupus on YouTube

Hahaha! GOP thinks they can win over hipsters with a fake hipster! No wonder they most of that "party" hasn't seen the ball since kickoff.....
~ NeutronStar73 on National Journal

Don't hold your breath for an ad in which Scott helps his hipster cohort navigate the GOP position on marriage equality.
~ pdavidcATL on National Journal


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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cathy McMorris Rodgers Gives Stepford SOTU Response

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers R-Washington seems like a nice lady, but her response to the President's State of the Union Speech was a big snore. The main problem was she gave more of a stump speech for herself and ABOUT herself and family than a response to the Presdident. Whoops! She needed more response in her response, and that's probably the nicest thing anyone can say about it. However, if she ever wants to be President of the Spokane Elementary PTA, this speech would probably get her the job.














Obama gives an hour plus long, solid, concise, and detailed speech rooted in the reality of governing and this is the Repubs 12 minute response? OK. 
~ Rupert D. on YouTube

Like most Americans I woke up this morning asking myself "Does Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers really have the most wonderful husband and family in the whole wide world?" I've written to Politifact and Fact Checker to look into this burning issue for America.
~ Nicholas L. on YouTube

Cathy John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt McMorris Rodgers. . . . Wasn’t she a treat? Did you like it as she simpered and unfortunate-necklined her way into your heart, where the real State of the Union lives? Us too! We are sold on her vision for America, even though the speech didn’t really explain what that was. “Anything but the black guy” may be a rallying cry, but does not actually count as a plan to run a country, much to the GOP’s chagrin.
So, what is America’s new Super Sweetheart SuperMom like? Besides being remarkably fecund while in office, having 3 babbies in 6 years, all during her Congressional terms, she is otherwise pretty much your garden variety little snipe of a Republican, but with lady parts, which makes her extra well-suited for reaching out to ladies, because their uteri can all quiver in harmony or bow down before a really busy uterus like Cathy’s or something like that.
~ Wonkette








I am just going to out and out say it. Cathy McMorris Rodgers was TERRIBLE. It was just about impossible to take her seriously during the entire address. It was almost entirely due to her delivery. We all knew what she would be discussing. It was going to be a by-the-numbers Republican refutation of everything that the President stands for, and that is exactly what we got
~ Justin Baragona on Politicus USA

She spoke about her kids and growing up in Kettle Falls, and reiterated the standard Republican criticisms of the Afforable Care Act. She mentioned Sgt. Jacob Hess of Spokane, a marine who died last month in Afghanistan. While speaking about health care, she also said she’d received a letter from “Bette in Spokane” about her insurance premium going up $700.
In total, she mentioned Spokane twice — and the Internet blew up with people confused about why she was talking about Spokane so much.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Inaugural Day for Chris Christie

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Mayor Zimmer Dishes to Feds ~ Christie Camp Denies Allegations
Christie Strikes Back at MSNBC on Hoboken Story
Hoboken Mayor Throws Christie Down on UP with Steve Kornacki MSNBC
GOP Spin on Christie - Bad Bromance and Benghazi

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It was a bitterly cold day in New Jersey as Governor Chris Christie was sworn in for his second term, and his celebration on Ellis Island was canceled due to the Polar Vortex. Probably not the wonderful time he and his wife had been imagining with all the subpoenas and the controversy. But that's okay - they simply pretended nothing was wrong! Also sworn in was the Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno who allegedly threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy funds from the Mayor of Hoboken, but she was all smiles too. Well, I guess they should enjoy life while they have the luxury and before more stuff hits the fan, and I don't mean snow. Also some of the other Republicans have begun to throw snowballs at Christie, and that's got to hurt. But not as much as possible jail time and losing your career and all chances of EVER being President of the U.S. - that's really being out in the cold.












His speech itself was a mix of bromides, clichés, political red meat and his characteristic self-absorption, with the use of the first-person pronoun nearly 20 times by my count. And this is a period of intended new humility for the White House wannabe.
“I believe in you, New Jersey, and I always will,” he declared Tuesday afternoon, as if there could be no greater affirmation than his own faith in the state. Lucky citizens!
Christie was greeted warmly when introduced. The standing ovation he received, presumably from the friends, family and political allies he invited to his inaugural, suggested a circling of the wagons by the committed.
~ James Warren, New York Daily News


He's a friend of mine. He's a good friend of mine. He's a good guy, but you know, he's one email away from a disaster.
~ Donald Trump on Chris Christie

He does not serve the goals of that organization by staying as chairman (of the Republican Governors Association).
From the perspective of setting aside this as an issue in other races, it makes sense for him to step aside. That doesn't mean any of the charges political or otherwise are substantive or not, it doesn't matter. Perception is reality.
~ Republican Ken Cuccinelli, recent gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, on CNN's Crossfire

















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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Palin Plays the "Angry White Victim" Card for ML King Day

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Oh boy, Sarah Palin just loves to nanny-scold our duly-twice-elected President for daring to be black, and what better day to make her point than Martin Luther King Day? So here it is, from her public Facebook, another piece of Sarah Palin's trashy legacy of hate and racism.

From Sarah Palin's Facebook on Martin Luther King Day 2014:
Sarah Palin
Happy MLK, Jr. Day!

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card.

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On MLK Day, tone-deaf Sarah Palin says Obama plays the race card
~ Headline on LA Times

Sarah Palin whitesplains the meaning of MLK Day to that black guy in the White House
Word-twerking reality show spokesmodel Sarah Palin woke up this morning and discovered that it was Martin Luther King Day, which she thinks is like Christmas to black people, and, since she forgot to buy presents, she decided to give The Gift of Advice to President Barack Obama by explaining to him that the First Rule of MLK Day is that black people as a race don’t exist anymore so shut the hell up about them.
~ TBogg on Raw Story

We did not judge her by the color of her skin but rather the lack of content to her character.
~ Stewland on Raw Story

The Tea People and their 10 Watt Goddess never miss an opportunity to tell us that wealthy old white guys are the real victims.
~ FDRLiberal on Raw Story

In a classic case of projection, Sarah Palin wished everyone a Happy Martin Luther King Day then in her best finger wagging fashion told President Obama to stop playing the race card.
. . . Palin is still consumed by bitterness over losing the 2008 election, and she can’t believe that she and John McCain lost to an African American. Republicans have tried to use the ugly politics of racial divide since before Obama took office, and they have failed every single time.
~ PoliticusUSA

Sarah says…again…”LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!”
~ ~ Shamus on PoliticusUSA



She's like a Tea Party sunspot. Every once in a while she pops up and causes noise and static in our entire telecommunications infrastructure.
~ Bill B. on Huffington Post

She keeps trying to bait Obama to acknowledge her, but he's not having it.
~ Walter G. on Huffington Post

So Sarah Palin who defended the Duck guy when he said Black people were happier when they knew their place, thinks everyone else should stop playing the race card. Well, that's just rich, isn't it?
~ Jack C. on Huffington Post

That's really rich for her to even go there, given that nobody has divided the country more, over the last two decades, than her boss, Roger Ailes.
~ Maria Rosa on Huffington Post

It's part of the GOP Tea Party "woe is me" tagline they've been using every day since President Obama was elected.
~ Annie S. on Huffington Post

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Obama Wins on Syria ~ with Media Derp and Sour Grapes - Updated!

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Obama Speaks to the World On Syria

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Give Putin and Russia Get All the Credit








It’s tempting to enjoy the moment, that is, the humiliation of President Obama and the short-circuiting of his war push by a brilliant coup conducted by Vladimir Putin, that sly old dog and ju-jitsu expert, along with Russia’s ally, Syria.
President Obama might as well not bother giving his Oval Office speech tonight, because the chances that Congress will approve Obama’s Authorization to Use Military Force are zero, and the possibility that the United States will go to war against Syria without congressional support are now less than zero.
~ Bob Dreyfuss on The Nation

The administration’s policy in Syria is ad hoc. The president implied this was all in the works, that at the G20 he and President Putin worked this out. That’s ludicrous. They’re making this up as they go along and that’s obvious, I think. The second thing that is clear is that this strengthens Russia and humiliates the United States. Putin is riding to President Obama’s rescue. He is entirely dependent upon the goodwill of Vladimir Putin, who does not [have] our interests at heart.
~ Tucker Carlson of Fox quoted by The Nation as back-up

What happened was Kerry went off message and, as has been his wont as Secretary of State, off the reservation, and violated the cardinal rule of official press conferences: He answered a hypothetical question in a hypothetical way. He blurted out a pie-in-the-sky, hyperbolic idea—getting rid of "every single bit" of the chemical weapons scattered across Syria "in the next week"—but everyone seized on it as a realistic proposal. It's not.
. . . here are two clear winners in this slow-motion train wreck, and they are not Obama or Kerry. They are Assad and Putin. Both wanted, for their own reasons, to avert a military strike, and a military strike was averted. Putin insisted on a diplomatic solution while doing everything to make a diplomatic solution impossible, and now he gets his phony, unenforceable diplomatic solution. Assad wanted to go on killing his opposition, and he will continue to do so.
~ Julia Ioffe on The New Republic




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Saturday, August 17, 2013

GOP ~ Painful Rebranding on Immigration

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 Using the word ‘self-deportation’ — I mean, it’s a horrific comment to make. It’s not something that has anything to do with our party. But when a candidate makes those comments, obviously it hurts us.
~ Reince Priebus Via Business Insider

Correction, 12:26 p.m. ET: An original version of this story said that Reince Priebus referred to Mitt Romney's comments as "racist." He said it "hurts us." Business Insider regrets the error.
~ Correction from Business Insider

It turns out a spokesman for the Republican National Committee mistakenly confirmed on Friday that chairman Reince Priebus had described the term "self-deportation" as "racist."
The committee's communications director Sean Spicer told TPM on Friday afternoon that a regional spokesperson earlier in the day had mistakenly made the confirmation when he was contacted by a Cornell University law professor and blogger.
~ From Talking Points Memo

Mitt Romney in 2012 ~ Self-Deport Grandma

Well, the answer is self-deportation, which is people decide that they can do better by going home because they can’t find work here because they don’t have legal documentation to allow them to work here. (Audience laughs) And so we’re not going to round people up. [...] Well, yes, we’d have a card that indicates who’s here legally. And if people are not able to have a card, and have that through an e-verify system to determine that they are here legally, then they’re going to find they can’t find work here. And if people don’t get work here, they’re going to self-deport to a place they can get work.
~ Then-Candidate Mitt Romney via PoliticusUSA

Steve King, R-IA ~ Drug Mules with Cantalope Calves

Some of (the Dreamers) are valedictorians — and their parents brought them in. It wasn't their fault. It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents.
"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.
~ Rep. Steve King of Iowa on Newsmax

That description comes from many days down on the border, riding and sitting with the border patrol and without them at night, no night vision, watching the shadows come across the border, picking people up personally with my hands, unloading illegal drugs out of a vehicle with a false bottom under the truck. I mean this is a personal experience and I sit there at night and border patrol agents would come to me one at a time in their civil clothes and talk to me clandestinely…This description is the description from that kind of experience.
~ Rep. Steve King of Iowa

Steve King: The GOP is Under a Spell on Immigration

Last year, almost everybody in my conference would’ve agreed with me on this immigration issue. And this year, it seems as though after the presidential election a spell’s been cast over a good number of Republicans and they seem to think the presidential election was about immigration. I’d ask them, find me that debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama that addressed immigration. I don’t remember it. I can’t find it. The election was about jobs and the economy, not immigration. And yet some Republican strategists and leadership have decided let’s just go ahead and debate immigration for twelve months and then we’ll see if we can solve the problem…
~ Congressman Steve King


 GOP Leaders to King ~ Just Shut Up!

I think Congressman King should go get some therapy for his melon fixation. I think there might be medication for that. I think he's a mediocre congressman with no legislative record and the only time he makes national press is when he comes out and says something offensive about the undocumented or Hispanics.
. . . This is a man who couldn't even get elected senator in Iowa. That's why he's not running there. This is a man whose district has been polled and supports immigration reform in the majority. So, you know, he is -- this is his call to fame.
~ Republican Strategist Ann Navarro on Meet the Press

Since 2006 Republicans have grimaced and hidden in the corners and asked, 'Oh, what are we going to do about these people on talk radio, these people on cable news that are saying these things that are driving off the very swing voters we need to get elected to the White House again?' They don't have guts to speak out against the extremists. Mitt Romney never had the guts to speak out against the most extreme elements in his party. And he lost, in part because he followed extremists down a rabbit hole in Iowa in a caucus process on immigration and he got slaughtered among Hispanic Americans...
~ Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe on MSNBC, via Blue Virginia

There can be honest disagreements about policy without using hateful language. Everyone needs to remember that.
~ John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives

I strongly disagree with his characterization of the children of immigrants and find the comments inexcusable.
~ Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader

Well, of course, it's hurtful. Of course, it hurts. ... Just, not good.
~ Reince Priebus on Steve King's Comments


Rightwingers to Leaders ~ We Don't Need Your Stinking Rebranding!

. . . you have to form a very very strong barrier from people just flowing in like candy. It's no good, you can't have it. We either have a country, or we don't have a country.
~ Donald Trump

The Republican consultants are the ones that are sourcing for this, because they're the ones that believe this. But we've never had a majority of Hispanics or even close. We've never had a majority of blacks. We've never had a majority of transgenders and gays, and we've won. This is hocus-pocus. What a trick! The first big trick that the Democrats succeeded in pulling off was telling the Republicans that they gotta get the independents.
So the Republican candidate, every four years, has a campaign aimed at only 20% of the electorate! You know the sold saw that 40% of the voters are gonna vote Democrat, 40% Republican, and the 20% independent, that's where the election's won. And all these consultants tell these Republican candidates, "I'm the guy that can get you a majority of those Hispanic votes and that's how you win.
~ Rush Limbaugh

Tennessee Republican State Rep Scott DesJarlais was presiding over a Tea Party town hall meeting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee this past week, and was approached by a Hispanic girl, eleven-year-old Josie Molina.
Josie took the mic and, with a trembling voice, said to DesJarlais, “Mr. DesJarlais, I have papers but my daddy doesn’t, what can you do to make sure he can stay?”
Josie’s father is currently in deportation proceedings and she is undergoing therapy to deal with the anxiety.
DesJarlais thanked her for the question but said, “the answer remains the same. We have laws and we should follow those laws.” The pro-Tea Party, mostly anti-immigration crowd cheered loudly in approval to his response.
~ Story via Progressive Populist

So the GOP thinks that we must do something to legalize 11 million Mexican criminals. What doe the GOP think about legalizing 11 million American criminals. I am sure they deserve it more than the Mexican do. After all this is their country and it is not the Mexicans country. I would be happier if you would vote to give amnesty to every US citizen charged with a crime that has not been arrested and convicted.
~ Cactus Jack on Newsmax

I am still looking for the part the deports the 11 million illegal aliens. We need to enforce our immigration laws. What are they going to do with the parents of kids who are illegal aliens? This is crazy. Just deport all of them. That is the law.
~ Charles B. on Time

These establishment RNC bozo's are the last gasp of the Romney campaign. They will be sacked in short order. They do not represent the actual base of republican voters and their position papers are meaningless drivel. Certainly they are irrelevant to those who actually vote in republican primaries. This Rinse Prepube (or whoever) is nobody. He is simply a shill for a few corporate billionaires. He and his politburo prance and strut and deluded themselves that they have power. The establishments greed for cheap labor has got to be crushed. They have no support and they are destroying the republican party..
~ HacimObmed on Time












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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Fox Fail ~ Caption Identifies Actress Zooey Deschanel as Boston Bomber

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E Online - Boston Manhunt Boo-Boo
Zooey Deschanel had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombings.

Not exactly breaking news, right?

Tell that to Peter Ogburn's television set, which, while the radio show producer and writer was watching the manhunt for a second suspect unfold on his local Fox station, misidentified the 19-year-old man police were looking for as...

Zooey Deschanel!

"Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel," read the errant caption, which flubbed the name of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was ultimately arrested Friday night after he was found hiding in a boat behind a home in Watertown, Mass.




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I knew she was trouble when I saw that Elf movie.
~ Tim779 on MSN

Can we blame this on an auto-correct fail? I mean everything else is!
~ seasonable on MSN

This comes from a news channel that thinks Mitt Romney is the president.
~ Darter22 on Huff Post

Wow I won the office pool. It was Zooey in the pantry with an ice pick.
~ Camurria on Huff Post

CNN = Bad
Fox = Mega Bad
~ mapleaforever on Huff Post

Fox news reports that Zooey Deschanel and the the janitor of the school that White Hat attended both happened to be seen driving past the same Popeyes Chicken store within the past 10 years. Fox is about to interview the brother of a one time customer of that store for his take on how this is related to Benghazi.
~ Angry Liberal Dude on Huff Post

Maybe Fox just got tired of blaming everything on Obama… Naaaa just joking! They will never get tired of that.
~ JK on Yahoo News

Well Zooey is a bombshell - so I can see how Fox got confused
~ David E. on Yahoo News












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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Trump Vs. Malkin Epic Twitter Fight

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