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July 26, 2016

All of Trump's Fascism and his followers' Fascist Antics , together in one horrifying, handy list

This was posted a few days ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512275530

but didn't get nearly as much attention as it deserved. Please read this list and join the fight to stop this vicious idiot.

https://m.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/?st=iqunrok6&sh=ef9534c3&utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true


Trump openly calls for the U.S to commit war crimes and advocates for the murder of innocent women and children.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/15/3732671/trump-isis-kill-family-members/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-reiterates-desire-to-murder-terrorists-families-a6912496.html

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/

http://www.dailywire.com/news/3891/trumps-horrifying-anti-military-slur-last-nights-ben-shapiro/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/

Trump doubles down after veterans speak out claiming U.S soldiers would not commit war crimes or torture children even if ordered to. Trump responds with, “They’re not going to refuse me. If I say do it, they’re going to do it.“
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/17/rand-paul/rand-pauls-right-geneva-conventions-bar-donald-tru/

http://theweek.com/speedreads/610361/donald-trump-doubles-down-torture-war-crimes

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-US-Military-Will-Commit-Donald-Trumps-War-Crimes-20160307-0011.html

http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/03/donald-trump-says-military-wont-refuse-h

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/a-retired-major-general-sets-trump-straight-after-he-advocates-war-crimes/

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/1/donald_trump_wants_to_commit_war

Trump on torture: “Even if it doesn’t work they probably deserved it anyway.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/opinions/trump-wrong-on-american-torture/

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-waterboarding-it-works-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/donald-trump-on-waterboarding-even-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it

Trump renews calls for torture citing public executions and mass rape committed by ISIS promising for the U.S to do the same, “fighting fire with fire.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-responds-istanbul-waterboarding-torture
Trump says Geneva Conventions a problem and needs to be changed since, US soldiers are to afraid to do their job due to laws which outline the definition of war crimes.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-geneva-conventions-221394?cmpid=sf
Trump threatens to shoot down Russian planes starting war with Russia.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-us-should-shoot-russian-planes-if-putin-calls-fail-454902
Trump says he, "won’t rule out” using nuclear weapons in Europe.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-nuclear-weapons-in-attack-on-europe-a6961101.html
Trump calls for a global nuclear rearmament.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/06/should-more-countries-have-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-thinks-so/

http://time.com/4276960/trump-wants-to-free-the-nuclear-genie/

Trump says he would declare a World War as President.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/donald-trump-bill-o-reilly-declare-world-war-scenario-article-1.2712682

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/14/3798566/trump-muslim-blame-nice-france/

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/trump-oreilly-declare-world-war-iii

Trump's solution for high gas prices is to violate The Geneva Convention by invading several of America's allies in the Middle East and Africa unprovoked to forcibly seize the oil fields for himself.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/donald-trumps-solution-on-gas-prices-get-tough-with-saudi-arabia-seize-oil-fields-in-libya-and-iraq.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/04/23/dumbest-guy-in-the-room-donald-trumps-energy-policy/#700458db29b9

When asked for clarification about the above mentioned plan to steal land from multiple nations on two different continents Trump responded with, “We’re not stealing anything. We’re taking.“
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2068227_2068229_2068345,00.html
Trump says during debate he wants to invade Syria with 30,000 soldiers.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/donald-trump-30000-troops-isis/
Trump runs TV add promising to seize foreign oil fields.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/04/donald_trumps_first_tv_ad_of_the_2016_campaign.html
Trump promises mandatory Death Penalty for anyone accused of murdering a police officer despite no legal grounds to impose that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/10/donald-trump-wants-the-death-penalty-for-those-who-kill-police-officers/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/politics/donald-trump-police-officers-death-penalty/

Trump thinks lethal injection is “too comfortable” Wants to devise a more painful way to execute people.


et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad naseum. all with sources.

USE THIS LIST! This is important.
June 4, 2016

TYT: Obama: Increase Social Security Benefits






Cenk explains Obama's announcement about favoring increasing SS benefits.

Sanders and the PCCC get credit for moving this conversation into the mainstream.
June 3, 2016

Trump is a sponger, a deadbeat, a swindler. His career is based on theft and non-payment

The mind truly boggles that the media just lets this human garbage can run around and say things, never checks him, and never reports on his long and well-documented history of just screwing over people he owes debts to.

Could I dislike this asshat more? I could not.

let's start with his famous bankruptcies. When his opponents point out that going bankrupt multiple times makes him look like a failed businessman, Trump turns it around by saying it was shrewd of him to go bankrupt - just using the system to his advantage. And everyone nods and agrees . . .the rules allow him to do it, and it was to his advantage, so why not? Well, the people he was screwing over in these bankruptcies - his investors, the contractors who had agreed to build something for him and had already invested the time, labor, and materials, the other businesses that had provided him with services or goods, but would never be repaid - were the ones he stiffed. How many other businesses had to go out of business or declare bankruptcy because Hurricane Donald just decided not to pay his debts? How many lives were ruined because they trusted him to do a business transaction?

An old cliche is that good businesses are built on trust. For Trump's partners in business, I'm sure that is a painful reminder of the way he reneges on his contracts

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-bills-specialrepor-idUSKCN0T214Q20151113#JAvZbu4FPKrEOi4C.99

the above article shows that Trump signs contracts, has work done, and then "feels like he was overcharged" and refuses to pay the amounts he agreed on.

There is article after article about how he doesn't pay his bills:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430628/donald-trump-business-record-bully

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/not-comprehensive-history-trump-business-deals-gone-wrong

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/nyregion/after-15-years-in-court-workers-lawsuit-against-trump-faces-yet-another-delay.html?pagewanted=all

Trump DOESN'T PAY HIS BILLS. How nice would that be for the ordinary citizen? Despite all of that, it is becoming clear that he isn't nearly as rich as he claims to be. Even with screwing over all the people he promises to pay, he's been slowly losing his daddy's inheritance (which he screwed his brother out of).

What a piece of garbage. This is why reputation and gossip was so important to the original tribes of homo sapiens - to find out who kept their deals and who cheated. And Trump is a monumental cheater.

June 2, 2016

The MEN of America are poised to hand the reins of the country to an orange-coiffed, piggish man-boy

Ok, my original thread was about the general election

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027872174#post54

but it got locked and I was told to re-post it in GDP, because apparently everyone on this board has terrible reading comprehension.

So, here it is again:

And everyone knows they are stupid enough to do it.

This election is going to split the country along gender lines. And the majority of men in this country are going to vote for this idiot, this thief who doesn't pay his bills, who doesn't know anything, and who thinks he can just coast along by seat-of-his-pants answers, like a kid trying to bluff his way through a book report on a book he hasn't glanced at.

The only question is will enough women vote for Clinton, and will few enough men vote for Trump to create a big enough gap for a Democratic victory.

My gender should be ashamed of this - and if you know men in your lives who might be voting for this asshole, please do what you can to change their minds.


I was referring to this poll: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-majority-americans-dislike-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-n578926

which shows that if the election were held today, a majority of men would vote for Trump.


June 1, 2016

Investigative journalism is not dead!

Gawker on Trump's mysterious hair:

http://gawker.com/is-donald-trump-s-hair-a-60-000-weave-a-gawker-invest-1777581357

At the very least, microcylinders would certainly explain how a 69-year-old man could grow hair with the capacity to effectively wrap itself around the circumference of his head several times over. Without having direct access to Donald Trump’s head, of course, it’s difficult to say for sure exactly how these attachments would function. Are they simply a web of additional hair as described in the Roach lawsuit? Do the microcylinders include what the Ivari brochure dubs “microextensions,” ensuring extraordinary length?

....

Ivari International sat squarely in the direct vicinity of Donald Trump’s office.

Considering the lack of advertising and refusal to share its actual location, new clients would have surely been rare, if not nonexistent. This would mean, then, that Ivari would need some steady source of income from some sort of mega-client. Some mega-client that, perhaps, has built an identity around his objectively terrible hair choices but refuses to concede that his hair is anything but his own. In which case, this bombastic, mega-client would of course demand the utmost privacy.

Wouldn’t it be convenient, then, if Ivari’s New York office was right next door to its number one—and perhaps only—client’s own office? And wouldn’t having other clients become unnecessary if this one hyper-wealthy regular required constant attention?

Might this secret mega-client singlehandedly sustaining Ivari International’s New York office with constant treatments be none other than presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump himself?


Now _that's_ real news!
June 1, 2016

Trump trying to answer questions

Trump doesn't know anything. He's dumb. His answers to questions remind me of this old comedy routine by David Steinberg:

(As if reading the test question) "Refute the allegation that the literature of the middle ages was moribund."
(As if writing) "Some believe that the literature of the middle ages was moribund. Some believe that the literature of the middle ages was not moribund. I believe that the literature of the middle ages was not moribund. In order to refute the allegation that the literature of the middle ages was moribund, one would need to have a detailed knowledge of the literature and history of that period."
(Whispering to self) "which I wish to God I had."

June 1, 2016

The MEN of America are poised to hand the reins of the country to an orange-coiffed, piggish man-boy

And everyone knows they are stupid enough to do it.

This election is going to split the country along gender lines. And the majority of men in this country are going to vote for this idiot, this thief who doesn't pay his bills, who doesn't know anything, and who thinks he can just coast along by seat-of-his-pants answers, like a kid trying to bluff his way through a book report on a book he hasn't glanced at.

The only question is will enough women vote for Clinton, and will few enough men vote for Trump to create a big enough gap for a Democratic victory.

My gender should be ashamed of this - and if you know men in your lives who might be voting for this asshole, please do what you can to change their minds.

May 31, 2016

Clinton server - Molehill or Mountain

I still can't figure out what to make of the Clinton email server 'scandal'.

Here's some perspective . . . Republicans routinely do seriously illegal, unsupervised, dangerous things while in positions of power and are NEVER called on it. Dick Cheney's records from his time in office disappeared into his man-sized safe. Colin Powell just deleted all of his emails from his time as SOS - and apparently his AOL account can't be recovered. Fancy that. Mitt Romney destroyed all of his electronic and email records when he left office. And let's not even start on all of the intelligence failures, betrayals of Americans, and treason that happened leading up to and during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So, Republicans just thumb their noses at the rules and the press never calls them out, their party never calls them out. They don't believe in good government, and so they deliver bad, unaccountable, criminal government.

Clinton wants to be held to the same standard as Republicans when it comes to accountability and rule-following (apparently), that is to say, none. Which, I guess is a goal. Democrats are theoretically supposed to champion good, accountable government, but maybe that idea went out the window in the 80s.

So, what she did seems to me to be no worse than what every member of Bush's government was up to for eight years. And yet it is hard to just dismiss it. The Clintons are supposed to be better than the Bushes. Democrats are supposed to be held to a higher standard than Republicans.

It seems fair to want to hold any Democrat to a standard higher than Snarling Dick's and the Pretzeldunce's record. It is a low bar, indeed.

May 25, 2016

The Revolution was fought against Corporations! The FFs were anti-corporatists

One of the best kept not-really-a-secret(s) (things-which-are-true-but-which-we-never-ever-talk-about-as-a-culture) is that the American Revolution was a struggle against Corporate Control.

The East India Company was a British corporation that had control of the British government when it came to how to run the colonies, and the British government just lay down and let the EIC squeeze the hell out of the colonists. The colonists protested, both peacefully and with vandalism and violence, but the British government stupidly would not consider their complaints against the EIC. They were, one presumes, both bought and paid for.

And so this country was born in the bloodletting of an anti-corporation rebellion. Fighting against the control of these paper machines, which care only to create more wealth for their owners and the rest of humanity be damned, is in our very birth story as a country.

The irony of first one, and then both (you aren't fooling anybody, Democratic leaders), of our major political parties becoming paid stooges for corporate power, so that these paper machines can once again make our lives miserable and extract our wealth, should not be missed, either by our (coincidentally also corporate owned) media or the average American.

I wish we could once again smash these metal motherfuckers (ok, paper motherfuckers) to junk and regain control of our political and economic destinies. It will happen, inexorably, but how much damage will be done before then?

FIGHT CORPORATE CONTOL. It is what the founding fathers both wanted and fought for themselves. It is as American as apple pie.

May 25, 2016

Clinton's 2008 letter to superdelegates should end all discussions of Sanders dropping out



Clinton supporters, please watch this and then kindly cease running your pie holes about Sanders.

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