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August 9, 2016

Sen. Susan Collins says she will not vote for Trump, joining growing list of Republicans

Source: Washington Post,

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist Republican, announced Monday that she will not vote for Donald Trump, joining a growing list of GOP officials who have come out against the mogul for president.

Collins writes in a Washington Post op-ed published online Monday night that three incidents led her to conclude that the GOP nominee lacks essential qualifications to be president: his mocking of a disabled reporter, his intense criticism of a U.S.-born federal judge who is Mexican American and, most recently, his attacks against the Muslim American parents of an Army captain who was killed in Iraq.

“My conclusion about Mr. Trump’s unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics,” Collins writes. "Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.”

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Collins becomes the latest in a small but growing group of Republican senators who have said they will not vote for Trump. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has vocally opposed the mogul for months. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina told CNN in May that he did not intend vote for Trump or Clinton.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/08/sen-susan-collins-says-she-will-not-vote-for-trump-joining-growing-list-of-republicans/



THIS JUST ANNOUNCED ...... ON ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES about 5 minutes ago.
August 8, 2016

interesting article about UFO's. are they out there

will i see disclosure in my lifetime?

http://www.ferocesmente.com/space-exploration/nasa-scientist-speaks-out-theres-someone-else-on-the-moon/

It seems that it isn’t a question anymore whether or not there are mysterious ‘Alien’ structures on the moon. In the last couple of years, numerous scientists with verifiable background have come forward speaking about a sinister truth behind Earth’s moon.

Ever since the Freedom of Information Act was created, people have become aware that not all what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ is made public. We are talking about the numerous discoveries that have been made throughout the years and have been kept safely away from society.

One of the best comments about this secrecy was made by Neil Armstrong when he said that there are: “great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of the truth’s protective layers.” (source) (source)

The Freedom of Information Act allows full or partial disclosure of highly classified –previously unreleased—information and archives controlled by the Government of the United States of America.

<snip> ~~~~~> In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,” he revealed, “but nobody has talked about until now.”
According to Armstrong, unofficially, “We were warned away.” “I cannot go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology. They were great … and threatening “.

and here is a video

(cue music Do do do do ..... do do do do )






************ ALL I CAN SEE IN MY HEAD NOW IS the movie "independence day" with earth being attacked. scares me.
August 8, 2016

interesting discussion: The Party Of Honest Abe Now Stuck With Dishonest Don


The Party Of Honest Abe Now Stuck With Dishonest Don
Historians see in Trump the biggest liar in presidential politics. Ever.
08/07/2016 03:38 pm ET



“In American history, we’ve never had a major presidential candidate who fabricated facts with the regularity of Donald Trump,” said Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University. “He just simply makes up things.”

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Theda Skocpol, a government and sociology professor at Harvard, agreed that Trump’s dishonesties have set a new standard. “Trump lies constantly and shamelessly. I do think he is in new territory,” she said.

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Falsehoods For The Sake Of Falsehoods

In Trump’s case, whether the word “lie” technically describes his falsehoods is unclear. By definition, “lying” means knowingly and purposefully misrepresenting facts. In Trump’s case, he often appears not to understand the difference between what he is saying and actual reality.

“I can’t think of any presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, in recent American history who wasn’t accused of lying. It’s the nature of the job, almost, to skew facts toward a political end,” said University of Memphis historian Aram Goudsouzian. “But Trump lies more frequently, and on a larger scale. Most important, even when confronted with contrary evidence, he still insists that he is right. It is a special kind of delusion.”

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He added: “There’s something psychologically warped with someone who sees no distinction between facts and fiction at all. The sign of crazy is when someone believes his own bullshit. And he believes his own B.S.: Everything he says is true because he said it.”

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Trump’s need to invent facts about his own success appears to be a trait associated with narcissistic personality disorder, according to mental health professionals who have studied his public remarks, with the possibility that the malady may be antisocial personality disorder ― formerly known as sociopathy.

That certainly was the assessment of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), who, on the day he lost the critical Indiana primary in May, lashed out at Trump’s relationship with facts. “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies,” Cruz said. “I say pathological because I actually think Donald, if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he could say one thing in the morning, one thing at noon and one thing in the evening, all contradictory. And he’d pass the lie detector test each time. Whatever lie he’s telling, at that minute he believes it.”

READ THE FASCINATING ARTICLE HERE. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-historic-liar_us_57a72edce4b03ba680129d06?

[[ Be sure to share this article with everyone you know so the WORLD knows Trump is a Liar ]]

July 25, 2016

WATCHING MSNBC. they interviewed a CRAP delegate from Oregon. She says she may not vote Hillary

SHE SURE AS HECK DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THIS OREGONIAN!!!


As far as I'm concerned, if that "Democratic person" doesn't vote for our Nominee, for HILLARY CLINTON, she is a traitor to Democrats!!
I would NEVER vote for the Dem convention person who would not vote for our nominee!!

Shame shame on you woman (don't know her name).

July 25, 2016

A Christian? Oh really?

July 25, 2016

Trump is a Crook. Why is this not all over the Main Stream News ??


Trump's Wealth Built on Stiffing Scores of Contractors, Businesses and Employees for Years, Report Finds
A pattern of not paying bills in full is traced.

A major investigation by USA Today has revealed one of the sordid secrets to the profit making in Donald Trump’s business empire: don’t pay your bills in full, whether from small businesses, contractors or even the lawyers you’ve hired to stonewall them.

The overall ugly picture that emerges goes far beyond Trump’s use of bankruptcy court, where debts can be forgiven or restructured depending on their category and type of federal bankruptcy filing. What’s most provocative about USA Today’s reporting, which goes beyond previous accounts of the same tactics or his mob connections, is how Trump has a longstanding pattern of ignoring his bills and walking away from debts owed contractors and employees.

“At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments and other government filings reviewed by the USA Today Network, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work,” the newspaper wrote Friday. “Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.”

That summation is the tip of a later iceberg, and one that should make Trump’s white, working-class followers shudder—because he has a habit of stiffing blue-collar laborers.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trumps-wealth-built-stiffing-scores-contractors-businesses-and-employees-years-report
July 22, 2016

I HOPE ONE OF TRUMPS Ex-wives spill some bad news for him

come on Ivana, come on Marla, what did he really do to you??


July 19, 2016

HIS WIFE MAY BE A COMMUNIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melania's father was a Communist.


Her father, Viktor Knavs, who managed car and motorcycle dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer,[8][7] and was a member of the Slovenian Communist Party, came from the nearby town of Radeče. Her mother, Amalija (Ulčnik),[7] came from the village of Raka[9] and was a patternmaker at the children's clothing manufacturer Jutranjka in Sevnica.[7][10] She has an older sister, Ines,[11] and an older half-brother, whom she has never met,[12] from her father's previous relationship.[7]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump

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