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Vox: How America fails its whistleblowers.

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Samantha Bee and Tarana Burke talk past, present, & future of #MeToo, Part 1.

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Trevor: Alicia Menendez—“The Likeability Trap” and the challenges female politicians face.

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Comments

  1. 1

    Giuliani earned a good reputation going after the mob, and now, being investigated by his old office.

  2. 2

    While in Portland yesterday, I saw the decline of Greyhound has gotten worse. Turns out in September, they abruptly moved to curbside pickup, abandoning the depot building across from Union Station. Nights like this, they face losing customers to Amtrak. 508 had no problems last night getting to King Street Station.

  3. 3

    Too funny.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ceasefire-talk-is-news-to-afghan-government-taliban

    Not sure about you but for me terrorists and the Taliban is the least of my concerns. A little stabbing here or there, a little bomb here or there, seems very minor when compared to some heavily armed deranged right wing nut job that wants to shoot up their neighbors.

    I spent Thanksgiving Day at my brother’s house in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut. The town is more blue collar than white collar and in a fairly densely populated neighborhood. My nephew and I were playing basketball in the backyard. It was after sundown, so it was dark out, but only about 7:00pm. While playing we heard gunfire, fairly close in proximity. I felt uneasy, that someone would be just firing off a gun in such a densely populated neighborhood.

    Presently, domestic terrorism in this country is more concerning than foreign terrorists.

    The Hump is just trying to distract from what is going on this Country.

  4. 4

    @ 3

    Presently, domestic terrorism in this country is more concerning than foreign terrorists.

    Thank your Department of Homeland Security for your reduced concern about foreign terrorists.

  6. 6

    Thank your Department of Homeland Security for your reduced concern about foreign terrorists.

    Yeah Bullshit…The terrorists are only taking a break. Maybe Homeland Security should start focusing on Climate Change and Domestic Terrorist then too, such as the con man Hump Jr.

  7. 7

    Thank your Department of Homeland Security for your reduced concern about foreign terrorists.

    Also, what good is reducing foreign terrorists when domestic terrorists are more on the rise and becoming more of a problem. Do you think with fascist Hump in power that Homeland Security will be of much help when domestic terrorism gets completely out of hand? I have my doubts.

  9. 9

    “Three proposed rule changes by the Trump administration could cause millions of poor people to lose access to food stamps and decrease the size of the benefit for millions more.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-proposal-could-cause-millions-lose-food-stamps-n1092866

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Of course they’re attacking the poor and hungry. Of course they are. They’re Republicans, and that’s what Republicans do. Doctor Dumbfuck’s horse eats better than America’s working poor.

  12. 12

    @5 It’s to be expected that the biggest loudmouths on the planet would claim they’re being “silenced” whenever anyone calls out their bullshit and lies.

  14. 14

    (Bloomberg) — The U.S. solidified its status as an energy producer by posting the first full month as a net exporter of crude and petroleum products since government records began in 1949.

    The nation exported 89,000 barrels a day more than it imported in September, according to data from the Energy Information Administration Friday. While the U.S. has previously reported net exports on a weekly basis, today’s figures mark a key milestone that few would have predicted just a decade ago, before the onset of the shale boom.

    President Donald Trump has touted American energy independence, saying that the nation is moving away from relying on foreign oil.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-posts-first-month-70-154903996.html

    It’s not just economic sanctions that are hurting Iran, bitches. Small wonder that Dem candidates for president so frequently oppose fracking.

  15. 15

    How do y’all know that the impeachment thing isn’t going as intended?

    When y’all have to play defense because of it.

    The Associated Press
    Verified account

    @AP

    Right now, Republicans are wielding impeachment mostly as an offensive weapon, and Democrats are generally playing defense or changing the subject as 2020 congressional races rev up. It’s unclear how potent the issue will be by Election Day.

    6:49 AM – 30 Nov 2019

    By Election Day the impeachment issue will be as impotent as Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  18. 18

    @16 Trump disagrees with you. He thinks the way to get four more years of Trump is by extorting a foreign government to fabricate a phony corruption investigation of Biden.

    You’re behind the times, doc. Been spending too much time in the barn.

  19. 19

    Trump is a guy who’s spent his entire life cheating to “win,” and he obviously has no confidence in his ability to win without cheating, even against an awful candidate like Hillary.

    So what does that say about him? And about you, his #1 HA fan?

  20. 20

    @14 aside from cost, why not achieve energy independence with renewables?

    I e has a greater negative effect on the environment than the other. One kills humans the other doesn’t.

    What good is it, if in the long run it’s more costly by having to build/fortify against the ill effects on the climate. And due to climate change if there is mass migrations that also cause costly problems.

    Bob, you seem to think like the rest of the dumbfuck Repukes, very short sighted. What about the fucking Grandchildren? Oh my, the Grandchildren! Need to protect those babies from abortionists, and the sanctity of marriage from gay people….for the Grandchildren.

  21. 21

    @14 aside from cost, why not achieve energy independence with renewables?

    I e has a greater negative effect on the environment than the other. One kills humans the other doesn’t.

    What good is it, if in the long run it’s more costly by having to build/fortify against the ill effects on the climate. And due to climate change if there is mass migrations that also cause costly problems.

    Bob, you seem to think like the rest of the dumbfuck Repukes, very short sighted. What about the fucking Grandchildren? Oh my, the Grandchildren! Need to protect those babies from abortionists, and the sanctity of marriage from gay people….for the Grandchildren.

  22. 22

    @15 Impeaching Trump is about upholding the Constitution and enforcing the rule of law, stupid.

  23. 23

    @14 And here’s Dumbfuck loudly proclaiming himself in favor of planetary destruction, because he’s a dumbfuck.

  24. 24

    He thinks the way to get four more years of Trump …

    The Hump plans on more than 4 more years…..and Bob is ready to call him King Trump when it does happen, he’s ok with that. And after he shits the bed, it will be Queen Ivanka that he’ll be blowing.

  25. 25

    Wars, with dead soldiers, are fought because of oil.

    Not sure I’ve ever heard of a war over the sun, wind, ocean waves, flowing river water, etc…

    But Bob has the mind of a door knob

  26. 26

    But according to Bob I should worry more of dying of AIDS or some other disease due to my sexual prowess of barebacking 8 times a day, 365 days of the year. Not to worry about the Climate, Wars, Wrong Wing fascists terrorists, The Russians and Chinese, a deranged neighbor with a gun. He’s a smart doctor, everyone. So smart he has to come here and show off his incredible smarties.

  27. 27

    Of course Republicans will try to exploit Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors for political gain, because that’s the sorry excuse for citizens they’ve become. We’d have a better democracy if we kicked them out and kept the illegals. That’s how low the GOP has sunk.

  29. 29

    “Why is the president so attracted to autocrats? After a contentious meeting about the president’s engagement with a foreign dictator, a top national security aide offered me his take. ‘The president sees in these guys what he wishes he had: total power, no term limits, enforced popularity, and the ability to silence critics for good.’ … He enthused to reporters about Kim Jung Un’s ability to control his population: ‘He’s the head of a country, and I mean he’s the strong head. … He speaks and his people sit up and listen. I want my people to do the same.’ And he commiserated with Putin about the free press in the United States, telling the notorious thug, ‘You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.'” — “A Warning” by Anonymous, pp. 171-172

    But Doctor Dumbfuck calls the other candidate “awful,” not this one, because he’s a dumbfuck.

    The Republicans have no problem with this, because that’s where they want him to go. They don’t want democracy, they want to turn America into a banana republic run by a rightwing strongman, because that’s the only way they can get their way, and getting their way is all they care about. They don’t care if you have no rights. They believe they’re right and that’s all that matters. It never occurs to them they might be wrong.

    It also never occurs to Doctor Dumbfuck that Trump is far more awful than Hillary ever was, because he’s a dumbfuck, and you can’t expect a dumbfuck to have any smarts about this or anything else. Believe me, the horse has no doubts about who the dumbest critter in the barn is.

  30. 30

    @29 I have a very hard time trying to rationalize blaming The Hump solely for what is happening.

    I really place the blame with all these intelligent career minded people and politicians that are sitting on the sidelines doing nothing about what is about to happen. They all see it and they all probably talk about it in small circles, but they sit and really don’t take a stand, almost as if they are afraid. Afraid of him and his inner circle of supporters, and the American Public.

    Then there are the “supporters”, the Pols that are just about their party. I think even they, like the idea of having the power and really don’t give a shit.

    I really no longer can blame The Hump…I blame the others, there are more of them than him. I blame people like Niki Haley, and others like her. All of them want the power.

    If I had a million bucks – I bet the United States becomes a dictatorship.

  31. 31

    I didn’t read all of your post @29 (second paragraph) until after posting @30…I agree with you. This Country is fucked. The World is fucked. And Russia and China know it too.

    It’s pretty apparent that they deny Climate Change, but they know exactly what’s coming….and not everyone is going to be able to survive…..but they sure do want to. And they’ll need that Banana Republic.

  35. 35

    “I really no longer can blame The Hump”

    I blame Doctor Dumbfuck. After all, somebody’s got to take the blame. Mention anything wrong with this world and I’ll make the case that it’s the doctor’s fault.

  36. 36

    @ 35

    Mention anything wrong with this world and I’ll make the case that it’s the doctor’s fault.

    If it helped y’all get over Hillary’s loss and enabled y’all to blame me instead of y’all’s poor decision-making, Steve, it was worth it.

    I’ll volunteer to do it again next November. ’cause the way things are goin’ for y’all, there’s gonna be a need for another scapegoat.

    I’m here, Steve. Hush little baby, don’t say a word…

    Metallica, Steve, if it helps.

  38. 38

    “referring to #CrookedHillary as a “good candidate”.”

    Here, since you’ll never do it yourself, allow me to fill in the blanks for you, Doctor.

    You believe Hillary was awful because she would never betray our country and our allies for Russia’s benefit as you and your treasonous orange moron have done. It’s his commitment towards betraying our country and stoking the rise of white nationalist fascism that makes your orange moron “not awful”.

  39. 39

    Oh, and the idea of caged toddlers gets your dick hard. Gotta vote for that! Right, Doc?

    Is that what sealed the deal? Caged toddlers? Or did the opportunity to betray our country do it for you?

  40. 40

    How do you know you’ve been propagandized? Other countries have universal healthcare, free college, paid vacations, paid maternity leave & multiple political parties. You’ve been convinced we can’t have the same in the richest & most powerful nation on earth.
    Of course we can

  41. 41

    @40 The difference between us and those other countries is they don’t have Republicans, so no, as long as we have Republicans, we can’t. Hell, at this point, we can’t even defend our elections against interference from a third-world country called Russia. Because Republicans.

  42. 42

    Hmm, I wonder if the rumor I started is true that Doctor Dumbfuck actually voted three times in 2016. Once for the orange moron, once for Jill Stein and the third a write-in vote for Vladimir Putin. Huh! How about that! All of them a vote for more borscht.

    I’d bet in 2020 he’ll do it again, only this time around it’ll be a vote for Tulsi instead of Stein. That’s still a vote for more borscht, though.

    With the doctor, all roads lead to borscht.

  43. 43

    We’ve all heard of the expression “Monday morning quarterback”. Well Bob, isn’t even a Tuesday morning quarterback. He’d be lucky if he could even get anything right on Wednesday.

    Aside from get anything right, he certainly isn’t going to commit to anything. He certainly isn’t committed to the Sanctity of Marriage, whatever the Sanctity of Marriage is, as the horse knows.

    For instance – if you were to ask Bob a question, such as if he thinks The Hump would try to run for a third term, by whatever means, he’s not going to answer that question. For one, he doesn’t want to be wrong and for two he won’t make a commitment that later on he will have to be held accountable for. It’s what Trolls do. For him to say yes he thinks it will happen he then would have to justify why he would sit back and let it happen and not up-rise against it. He doesn’t want to have to debate it and make any commitments one way or the other, especially not have to address if it ever were to happen. He wants to wait until it happens, and then blame everyone but himself – you know because he’s so smart.

    Two reasons for this –
    1.) He doesn’t want to be wrong. Wrong with anything factual or anything to be factual in the future, because he certainly doesn’t mind being wrong about anything that can’t be proven to be factual, such as the many claims he makes here about people’s personal beings and goings on. Aside from the conspiracy theories – such as Hillary running a third term (boy do I hope I am right that she doesn’t)

    2.) He wants to leave his options open, for those factual things that will happen in the future. He wants to be able to then make up reasons of why those things happened as if he would have never thought that they could have happened and himself have to be accountable for that answer. He needs options for all his excuses to place blame elsewhere at that later time.

    It’s what Trolls do and what happens to people whose brains are void or worse filled with shit.

  44. 44

    Republicans, the Racist Incel’s party, hurting the poor.
    Millions could lose access to food stamps under Trump proposal, study finds
    Altered rules would also cut monthly benefits and end free or discounted lunches to nearly a million students

    The changes, if they had been instituted last year, would have resulted in 3.7 million fewer people and 2.1m fewer households receiving the food stamps,
    Benefits would be cut in most states, although states including Vermont, New York, Nevada and Connecticut would fare particularly badly.

    I wonder how hungry people have to get, to blame the republicans who destroyed their safety net, and vote against them?

  45. 45

    @42 “With the doctor, all roads lead to borscht.”

    And incurable stupidity.

  46. 46

    @43 “He doesn’t want to be wrong.”

    Interesting take on someone who’s always wrong.

  47. 47

    @ 44

    Red, you stupid fuck. I swear, you’re getting dumber by the day.

    Reality is that there are millions receiving benefits who do not need them. Alabama is a great example.

    Here’s Alabama since 2016, Red:

    Alabama’s food stamp rolls fell by more than 38,000 recipients in the last year and by more than 100,000 since 2016, according to figures from the Alabama Department of Human Resources.

    Figures from February 2019, the most recent available, showed 730,172 Alabamians received benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. Figures for the same month in 2018 show 768,516 recipients; 2017 had 809,763; and 2016 had 864,645.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/04/food-stamps-in-alabama-38000-off-snap-rolls-in-last-year-7-counties-see-10-plus-drop.html

    That’s a hundred thousand purportedly starving Alabamans, and yet all we hear about is the Crimson Tide’s comparatively weak football schedule this year (which is true, BTW).

    What happens when the food stamps are cut off to people who don’t need them, Red? That’s right, they realize the jig’s up and that fourth flat-screen TV might have to wait.

    Red, you stupid fuck, by parroting what the left wing is telling you about the SNAP requirements being tightened, what you don’t share is that several states will actually see their numbers of SNAP recipients actually increase.

    She said for administrative purposes, the utility change may make things easier but it reduces some of the autonomy states have had in implementing the SNAP program.

    The Urban Institute analysis found the utility rule change would have reduced SNAP participation and benefits in Iowa and Nebraska while Illinois and Missouri would have seen increases.

    https://www.hppr.org/post/some-states-would-gain-others-lose-under-proposed-changes-snap

    And that’s just in the high plains states.

    Pull your head out of your ass, Red, and do a bit of reading before parroting. Every day you are less objective and more like one of the herd. HA already has a YLB and a Fucking Moron. You’ve become a blend of the two of them.

  48. 48

    @ 42

    …voted three times in 2016. Once for the orange moron, once for Jill Stein and the third a write-in vote for Vladimir Putin. Huh! How about that! All of them a vote for more borscht.

    Steve, since voting in the primary for Hillary ended up making her the nominee, which ended up with Trump’s victory because #CrookedHillary was horrid and y’all knew it at the time, anyone who voted for Hillary in the primary ultimately voted for borscht, too.

    I’m just usin’ y’all’s rationale, dude.

  50. 50

    Democrat House members serving districts that voted for Trump:

    Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.)
    Lucy McBath’s (D-Ga.)
    Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.)
    Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.)
    Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa)
    Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa)
    Cindy Axne’s (D-Iowa)
    Jared Golden (D-Maine)
    Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)
    Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)
    Angie Craig (D-Minn.)
    Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)
    Susie Lee’s (D-Nev.)
    Chris Pappas’s (D-N.H.)
    Jefferson Van Drew (D-N.J.)
    Andy Kim (D-N.J.)
    Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.)
    Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.)
    Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.)
    Max Rose (D-N.Y.)
    Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.)
    Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.)
    Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.)
    Kendra Horn(D-Okla.)
    Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.)
    Conor Lamb (D-Pa.)
    Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.)
    Ben McAdams (D-Utah)
    Elaine Luria’s (D-Va.)
    Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.)
    Ron Kind (D-Wis.)

  51. 51

    The DNC is worried about Tulsi Gabbard.

    She polled at 6% in the recent Suffolk/Boston Globe poll.

    The Democratic National Committee is refusing to accept a poll that shows Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) at six percent, according to the Democratic presidential contender.

    The committee, known as the DNC, has recognized Suffolk University as one of the accepted pollsters for debate qualifying purposes when it carried out a poll for USA Today but the committee declined to accept a Suffolk poll conducted for the Boston Globe, Gabbard’s campaign said.

    …

    “The Boston Globe is the largest newspaper in New Hampshire. The pollster the Globe uses is recognized by the DNC for other media outlets, there is no reason the DNC should not recognize this Boston Globe poll, other than adherence to a subjective, non-transparent process where party elites try to dictate to the primary voters,” she continued.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/gabbard-accuses-arbitrary-dnc-of-rejecting-poll-from-accepted-pollster_3161373.html

    Finger on the primary debate scale in 2016 got the DNC #CrookedHillary as an incredibly weak nominee and understandably pissed-off BernieBros.

    It then got the DNC President Trump.

    The DNC has learned little from its previous dishonesty. It’s giving me plenty to hammer y’all with in ’21-24.

  52. 52

    So much talk of nuclear weapons being in the wrong hands.

    Well, Climate Change is it’s own nuclear bomb. We worry about the wrong things. Sure nuclear free countries might be a short term goal and long term goal, but why have any long term goals if you don’t deal with Climate Change.

    Or terrorism for that matter.

    Climate Change deniers are passive terrorists.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-12-01/un-chief-warns-of-point-of-no-return-on-climate-change

  53. 53

    Suffolk hasn’t always made the best decisions, although a bad decision in 2012 – see following – should either be completely disqualifying or non-disqualifying.

    As presidential polls across the nation swing in Mitt Romney’s favor, one survey taker has already called three battleground states for the Republican.

    David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University’s Research Center said he has pulled his pollsters out of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia as all three look set to go to Romney.

    “We’ve already painted those red,” Paleologos told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. “We’re not polling any of those states again. We’re focusing on the remaining states.”

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/suffolk-poll-romney-battleground/2012/10/10/id/459423/

  54. 54

    @50 why that’s a long list you got there Santa Claus.

    Care to make any predictions or statement or are you afraid.

  55. 55

    @ 54

    The statement I will make is that you are a fucking psychotic. You make my skin crawl, and I take little comfort that you are on the other side of the country.

    The prediction I will make is that if Democrats repeat the mistakes of 2016 they have no reason to expect a different ultimate outcome.

  56. 56

    @55 you ever look in a mirror dude. Or maybe you can’t come to even look at yourself in a mirror.

    But you got to love them Republicans….that’s all that should matter to you. You are the psychotic here trolling around.

  57. 57

    Cranky guy – wonder if the horse is refusing to put out.

    Bob – there is obviously not a lot of discussion going on here (or at least from you). You can’t expect things to be much different. Maybe if there was anything you said that was worthy of discussion then you wouldn’t get the responses that you get. You’re the troll here, if and when you get trolled back don’t wet your pants dude (snowflake).

  58. 58

    @47 Typical dumbfuck reasoning: Kicking poor people off food stamps reduces the need for food stamps, because by definition those not getting them anymore don’t need them anymore.

    Republicans love this kind of thinking, because it enables them to redirect more of society’s resources from the poor to the rich.

    Meanwhile, a couple dozen people receiving billions of dollars of capitalist profits they don’t need continue to receive ever more, but the Dumbfuck has nothing to say about that.

  59. 59

    Meanwhile, those who are not dumbfucks might be interested in this article in the November 2019 issue of Scientific American that uses mathematical modeling to explain how and why wealth inevitably becomes increasingly concentrated in market economies:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

    And, if you want a better understanding of what history teaches us about what happens when wealth concentration reaches intolerable extremes, consider ordering and reading this scholarly book:

    https://www.amazon.com/Great-Leveler-Inequality-Twenty-First-Princeton-ebook/dp/B07CSGGZJG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+great+leveler&qid=1575228409&sr=8-1

    (Spoiler alert: Disrupting concentrated wealth and beginning the cycle anew has never in history occurred peacefully.)

  60. 60

    @57 Slow news day. Trump, who’s in Afghanistan, must still be negotiating the terms of his surrender to the Taliban.

    #winning; #artofthedeal

  61. 61

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, I’d like to thank you for the Scientific American article. It encompasses why you are a failure at investing.

    The Yard Sale model explains why you become poorer because you overpay for stocks. It explains why I do not share your fate, because I do not hold onto my stock losers.

    GE, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You failed your family because you are you.

  62. 62

    @61 My stock portfolio is worth 65% more today than it was 3 years ago, so there must be something wrong with your mathematical model.

  63. 63

    Current polls show 50% of Americans support removing Trump from office, with 42% opposed, simply based on the limited knowledge most people have of Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors.

    If these numbers hold up through continuing investigations and impeachment proceedings, and translate into votes in the 2020 election, it’s hard to see how Trump gets re-elected, even with the red states’ built-in Electoral College advantage.

    But anyone who thinks the Far Right — which today is synonymous with the GOP and vice-versa — will accept an election defeat as legitimate is horribly naïve.

    It’s important to understand that Trump’s supporters see him as a religious figure, ordained by God to rule over us all, similar to the ancient “divine right of kings.” They will not be deterred or deprived.

    To them, democracy is anathema, and allowing us to choose a different leader is anathema. They want nothing less than to impose a permanent and unremovable rightwing dictatorship on our country. When Trump declares his hostility to free speech and free press, and utters threats against his critics and opponents, they eat it up.

    We must have no illusions about how dangerous these deluded people are. This is a Hitler movement, and the GOP is transforming before our eyes into a Nazi party. It took the support of only a third of the German people to bring that country under the heel of history’s most evil dictatorship.

    It is wrong to think that Trump is the most dangerous president America has ever had, although he is, or that he is to blame for the grave danger his presidency poses. This — every bit of it — is the fault of his supporters. Like Hitler’s supporters, they will bear the responsibility for everything that flows from their support of a dangerous and evil demagogue.

    Here on HA, there is no bigger admirer, supporter, and shill for Trump than Doctor Dumbfuck. This goes way beyond the doc being a world-class dumbfuck, although he is such. He’s a horse fucker who shills for Nazi wannabes. That, in itself, is a high crime and misdemeanor. There should be an impeachment investigation of his citizenship.

  64. 64

    Yup.

    Tulsi Gabbard
    Verified account

    @TulsiGabbard
    8h8 hours ago

    ✅ Veteran
    ✅ Woman
    ✅ Minority
    ✅ Lifelong Dem
    ✅ Crossover appeal to Independents, Libertarians, Republicans
    The Dem Establishment shld be excited about my candidacy. But they’d rather lose to Trump than win with me, cuz they can’t control me & that scares the hell out of them

    Here’s Tulsi Gabbard being interviewed by Joe Rogan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=gitme_q9G-k&feature=emb_logo

    “Check. Check. Check. Check.”

  65. 65

    @64 Of course she appeals to Libertarians, Republicans, and Libertarians and Republicans calling themselves “independents” because they’re ashamed to admit what they really are. Putin loves her, too. So do you, which says all we need to know about where your true allegiances lay. Like I said, we should conduct an impeachment investigation of your citizenship, because you clearly aren’t qualified to be an American citizen.

  66. 66

    Can anyone envision Goldy repeating this about Democrat nominee Tulsi Gabbard?

    Goldy @GoldyHA
    I’m a big lefty too, but Jesus Christ, Twitter friends, Hillary is the nominee! Push her on policy, but stop attacking her credibility.
    27 May

    What would y’all prefer, HA libbies? Tulsi as your nominee and a decent shot to take down Trump?

    Or four more years of Trump?

    It would be a mistake to wait until after the primaries are done to consider those questions.

    Tulsi Gabbard is more credible than Hillary Clinton ever was.

  67. 67

    Gabbard, awful as she is, would still be better than Trump. Hell, a pile of dog shit is better than Trump. So who does Doctor Dumbfuck shill for? Trump. Horse shit can’t be any better than dog shit, but maybe he’s so used to wiping horse shit off himself that the smell of animal shit doesn’t bother him anymore. Clearly he isn’t bothered by the odors emanating from Trump and the GOP.

  68. 68

    What is so awful about Tulsi Gabbard, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    She’s a woman?

    A minority, perhaps. You’re a racist fuck. That it?

    Can’t be that she’s a veteran. You were drafted to clean latrines for a couple of years so you appreciate that others are able to use them once you’re done with the housekeeping.

    You supported the woman who gave us Trump, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. He’s your fault.

    Now you plan to repeat your mistakes of the past. Maybe it’s because you won’t be alive to see the result.

  69. 69

    @47. That’s all the poor are to the racist incel, just a faceless mass of women and minorities takers of his money and government’s money spending it on their endless flat screen TVs ,

  72. 72

    Yup

    Mayor Pete

    Veteran – Check
    Gay – Check
    Minority – Check
    Lifelong Dem – Check (I think)
    Moderate – Check
    Keeps things positive and stays Classy – Check

    The Dem Establishment should be excited about him. But bothers the heck out of the bigoted ones, they’d rather lose to Trump than win with him.

    Check, Check, Check, Check, Check…..

    Don’t wet your pants Bob. It’s been a slow day for me, stuck in the house doing work and chores. But I’ll be headed out soon, so you won’t have to worry about me.

  73. 73

    Coulda happened to anyone, really. Like publishing a map with a Palestine but no Israel.

    Benny
    Verified account

    @bennyjohnson

    MSNBC tries to dunk on Trump for firing insubordinate Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer.

    MSNBC ends up punching themselves in the balls because they don’t know the difference between Navy Sec. Richard Spencer and White Nationalist Richard Spencer:
    🤣
    ALX 🇺🇸
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    8:56 AM – 1 Dec 2019

  74. 74

    @68 Watch the racist incel try to squirt squid ink.
    The DNC is worried about Tulsi Gabbard.

    Because the DNC didn’t worry about Russian meddling last time and we got trump. We trusted the republicans NOT to cheat THAT much. Of course,
    The DNC is worried about any Russian backed puppet or distraction this time around.

    Still, after poking around the internet. ….
    “what do we know about Gabbard’s base? For one thing, it’s overwhelmingly male — her support among women is practically nonexistent. Her supporters, for instance, are more likely to have backed President Trump in 2016, hold conservative views or identify as Republican compared to voters backing the other candidates.

    On the other hand, garnering approval from conservative media isn’t likely to improve her poor favorability among Democrats or attract the support she needs to win the primary, no matter how loyal her base is.”

    I personally wont’ be voting for Ms Gabbard in the primary, she’s too republican for me.

  75. 75

    Oh Bob – one more thing – what’s your problem with Mayor Pete that Gabby doesn’t have?

    Is it cause he’s gay?

    He seems more of a man than you.

  78. 78

    @ 74

    Because the DNC didn’t worry about Russian meddling last time and we got trump.

    Pretty sure it was because the DNC didn’t worry about Wisconsin last time that y’all got Trump, Red. It didn’t worry about Michigan, or Pennsylvania, either. Not until that frantic last weekend, and by then it was too late.

    Hillary tried to score Arizona, instead of paying attention to the true swing states.

    “This state is in play for the first time in years. Arizona has only voted for a Democrat for president once since 1948, and that was my husband in 1996,” she told 15,000 voters in Tempe.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/12-days-stunned-nation-how-hillary-clinton-lost-n794131

    But narrative is what matters to Red. Whatevs.

  79. 79

    @76. Dog whistle. The racist incel is outraged that the local government is spending it’s taxes on it’s citizens,( and not him?)

    A committee of residents is currently examining ways to spend the money and how to best support the black community through housing, education and economic incentives.

    >> Don’t you worry, now that this is on the radar, I expect the same folk who say it’s perfectly ok to discriminate against minorities and LGBTQ people will be suing like crazy that this policy is discriminating against white people.

  80. 80

    Proposition: If Tulsi Gabbard were the nominee not enough reliable Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 would vote for her instead in 2020. And not enough 2016 non-participants would be inspired by her to turnout in 2020.

    Respond.

    How can Gabbard win? What is her path to victory over Trump? Which Trump states does Gabbard flip and why?

    Does Tulsi Gabbard, a little known, telegenic, Krishna Consciousness, three term House moderate from a tiny state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean produce a surge of turnout in key battleground states? How? Explain the available pool of voters that she brings out? What is it about her or her policy positions that speaks to that pool of voters?

    Or alternatively, how does Tulsi Gabbard, an ethnic Hindu, mixed race, pro-abortion feminist persuade enough 2016 Trump voters in key battleground states to switch their vote? What do those voters look like, who are they, and why would her candidacy persuade them to change?

    If you don’t have good, reasoned, non-flippant answers to those kinds of questions but you promote her as the nominee then let’s all admit it: you’re nothing but a fucking Trump supporting troll.

  81. 81

    If you don’t have good, reasoned, non-flippant answers to those kinds of questions but you promote her as the nominee then let’s all admit it: you’re nothing but a fucking Trump supporting troll.

    BINGO! If he thinks the Gabby girl can win and he could vote for her then not sure he wouldn’t feel the same about Mayor Pete, or he would be able to list the differences of why he would vote for her but not him.

    He’s a bullshitting Troll.

  82. 82

    Mayor Pete is polling better and has a better chance with the Midwest voters.

    Mayor Pete scares the Bullshitter.

  83. 83

    “Mayor Pete” got fewer than 11,000 votes in his first campaign. He got fewer than 9,000 in his second one.

    When Julian Castro was being considered for VP nominee he was hustled out of San Antonio, where he had a small role, and was made HUD director, so he would look like he had done something worthy of running a whole fucking country. South Bend has 102k residents, not many more than there are in Kirkland, WA. San Antonio has 1.5M residents. And they moved Castro out of San Antonio so it would look like he could run a country.

    Running a smallish city isn’t much experience. Booker ran a bigger one, and he’s been a US Senator.

    Mayor Pete might very well be a decent candidate for president. In 2028. After a couple of congressional terms under his belt.

  84. 84

    @81,

    “If he thinks the Gabby girl can win and he could vote for her…”

    If it were true that this person could voter for her, especially as this person has commented that the reason Trump won was because he faced a poor candidate, then he/she would be very ready to respond intelligently to the proposition. Anybody prepared to vote for a candidate, expressing support for that candidate, ought to be able to explain how and why that candidate would perform better in a general election against Trump than Clinton did. If all it takes is for the nominee to remember to campaign effectively in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania then any of the candidates would win. There has to be more to it than just that.

    Or troll.

  85. 85

    @ 80

    Respond.

    How can Gabbard win? What is her path to victory over Trump? Which Trump states does Gabbard flip and why?

    Decent questions, which should be put to every supporter of every Democrat candidate. Not just to me

    • She’s a woman. Last I heard women are ready for a woman president. YLB certainly is.

    • She’s a woman of color. Trump/Pence are white. She could pick, say, Warren as her running mate, just as Obama picked Biden as his so that the ticket would appear more experienced. Then there would be two women on the ticket. See my first point.

    • She would have the DNC’s money and she would have Obama’s OFA support. Obama’s Hawaiian by birth, so is Tulsi.

    • She would be attractive to military members and veterans. Going forward there won’t be very many presidents who have served in the military.

    • She has a chance at flipping union states won by Trump. The AFL-CIO gave her a lifetime 96% score. The average House Democrat receives a 94% score.

    • She is outside the establishment. Trump found success by working outside the establishment.

    • She does pretty well in debates.

    https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/tulsi-gabbard

    • The “Russian asset” thing will go away. It requires Hillary to go away, which might be a problem. But people like Goldy know when to line up behind the party. If Goldy can do it for a POS like Hillary @ 66 he can do it for someone who fights the establishment like Goldy has done.

    The biggest question is, can she get the DNC’s money? Can she get the DNC’s support? Or will the DNC commit suicide again by circling the wagons around a preferred candidate who will lose to Trump in the general?

    Gabbard called out the DNC for its duplicitous behavior in 2016. She was right. She hasn’t stopped doing it. She’s still right.

  86. 86

    Mayor Pete

    Religion – CHECK

    Well a check mark that the Gabby girl don’t have, but may not be a check with the BIGOTED evangelical ones.

    Just when it got interesting I have to go…I have to be somewhere at 6:00pm

  87. 87

    Mayor Pete has gotten a bigger majority then when Sarah Palin ran for Governor and City Council (with about 500 plus votes).

  88. 88

    @68 “You were drafted to clean latrines for a couple of years”

    That’s hilarious coming from the mouthpiece for a chicken-livered draft dodger. I must be getting to you. Good.

  89. 89

    Teh Dumbfuck is busy here today. The horse must have kicked him out of the barn and locked the door from inside.

  90. 90

    @ 87

    Mayor Pete has gotten a bigger majority than when Sarah Palin ran for Governor and City Council (with about 500 plus votes).

    And Obama lost when he ran for Congress against Bobby Rush.

    You’re comparing a mayor of a small city to a woman who won a governorship. His majority was bigger because he was elected against a Republican in a town that leans Democrat.

    Stick with apples to apples, gman.

  91. 91

    @73 Yeah, some MSNBC intern punched the wrong button and flashed the wrong file photo on the screen. The difference between you and news organizations is they correct their mistakes but you keep repeating yours.

  92. 92

    I watched “The (Torture) Report” on Amazon Prime last night. The Deep State and its lawless members are quite a danger to our Constitution and our republic. It’s time to clean house are places like the CIA, FBI, DOJ and IRS.

    I know a lot of you liberal progressive trolls like to make fun of people who talk about the Deep State, but those rogue government employees will turn on your people sooner of later, and you’ll finally realize it’s time to end such organizations.

  93. 93

    @74 “her support among women is practically nonexistent”

    Which may help explain why she’s not running for re-election in a state that never elects Republicans to anything. Tried to get fired from a cubicle job to the C-suite usually isn’t a winning career strategy, though. Maybe she can go back to teaching martial arts.

  94. 94

    @85,

    • She’s a woman.
    Suggesting that all women vote alike? Women as a voting bloc? White women voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016. Pssssst: Hillary Clinton was a woman and she lost. Gabbard loses according to your reasoning.

    • She’s a woman of color.
    Suggesting that ethnic Hindus break to candidates resembling them? No evidence of that in US elections beyond local city councils. Maybe try Surrey BC? Or suggesting that all non-whites will vote for a non-white candidate? Or suggesting that these numbers even matter beyond African American voters? Nothing about her tan helps her either persuade white Trump voters or turnout non-participating African American voters in any large numbers. Again, Gabbard loses according to your reasoning.

    • • She would have the DNC’s money and she would have Obama’s OFA support.
    Making her in that sense equal to all the other candidates. Oh yes. And also equal to Hillary Clinton. Who lost. Again, your nominee loses, according to you.

    • She would be attractive to military members and veterans.
    As a woman? Or as anyone other than Trump aka Corporal Bone Spurs? Facing John McCain this might be a point. Facing Trump, especially in light of current and ongoing events, she’s no better off than any of the others. And barely better than Clinton. Who lost.

    • She has a chance at flipping union states won by Trump.
    They endorsed Clinton in 2016. She lost Michigan. Trumka campaigned tirelessly for her, pissing off a substantial number of Bernie supporters. No evidence that AFL-CIO ratings had any effect on voting in 2016 general. None. Zero. Which is why Clinton lost. Again, by your reasoning Gabbard loses again.

    You haven’t take this seriously at all. That was glib bullshit you pulled out of thin air. There may yet be real reasons you support Tulsi Gabbard. But you aren’t telling them to us here. Let’s be honest. When you weren’t being dumb, you were listing strengths shared by virtually any of the potential nominees and more importantly strengths shared by Clinton herself. Suggesting that Democrats should run another Hillary Clinton makes it sound like you want Gabbard to lose.

    In other words, troll.

  95. 95

    @92 If you dig into the “deep state” I think you’ll find those who authorized torture and wrote legal memorandum justifying it were political appointees of a previous GOP administration.

    There really isn’t a GOP administration I can think of that wasn’t lawless. You have to go back to Eisenhower to find a GOP president who didn’t behave lawlessly. Even Reagan committed impeachable offenses, but he was too popular to impeach. Clinton didn’t have that advantage; and Trump, who is far less popular than Clinton, doesn’t either.

  96. 96

    @85 “Obama’s Hawaiian by birth, so is Tulsi.”

    Wrong. She was not born in Hawaii, nor does she have any native Hawaiian blood. Her ancestry is mixed Samoan-European, and she’s a transplant from Samoa.

  97. 97

    @90 “You’re comparing a mayor of a small city to a woman who won a governorship.”

    Small compared to Chicago, perhaps, but the South Bend metro area has as much population as Alaska does. Just fewer electoral votes, thanks to a system that was created over 200 years ago to preserve southern slavery.

  98. 98

    @94 “White women voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.”

    Only if you believe Trump’s braggadocio, and you seem like that gullible type, so it’s understandable you would post nonsense like that.

    In reality, Trump and Clinton split the white female vote almost evenly, about 47% to 45%.

    https://time.com/5422644/trump-white-women-2016/

    And that was before his support among women voters began evaporating. Good luck with that demographic in 2020.

    I’m not saying no women will vote for Trump next year (if he makes it that far). Somebody in addition to white male Republicans has to occupy the bottom quintile of the IQ bell curve.

  99. 99

    @ 94

    You need to

    1) preserve the states won by Hillary in 2016.
    2) pick up a couple of important ones where Trump’s margin was small.

    Pointing out an “overwhelming majority” of white women who voted for Trump when the exit poll percentage is generally considered to be 53% of them is an inaccuracy.

    You need to pick up some of those 53%. In PA, WI, MI, preferably.

    You need to bring back the black voters who participated when Obama was on the ticket but didn’t when he wasn’t. Not all of them, but some of them. A Warren/Mayor Pete ticket won’t do that for you.

    You demanded a response. I provided one. Fuck you if you don’t like what I wrote.

    You want to pull some voters to the Democrat side who didn’t support Hillary in 2016? Klobuchar or Gabbard might do it for me. The others, not so much.

  100. 100

    @99,

    53% is overwhelming. It’s a six point spread.
    In Michigan Trump’s overall percentage was not really different than his two most recent predecessors. But they lost. Trump won 47.5 to 47.3. So what made the difference for Trump in 2016? Non-white voter turnout was 4% lower in Michigan compared to the rest of the US. And turnout of non-college white men was 4% higher than the US. And there’s a lot more non-college white men than there are non-whites. Trump fired up non-college white men in Michigan while Clinton failed to turnout non-whites. Combining those two things and losing white women by six points makes it impossible for her to survive. Arguing to us that Gabbard can do a little better than Clinton because “reasons” is obvious trolling. You may be a stupid troll. But your stupid reasons are not going to convince people like us.

    You are right,, and surprisingly not stupid, that whoever the Democratic nominee is the nominee must bring back to the polls some or most of the African American voters who stayed home in 2016. That’s especially true considering that non-college white men appear ready to turnout in greater number. But you still haven’t bothered to say what it is about Tulsi Gabbard that would produce that response among African American voters in number approaching Barack Obama.

    There is ample evidence that President Trump himself is doing a lot to produce increased turnout among African American voters in Michigan. But there is also the very same evidence as there was before that foreign nationals are fronting lavish spending to suppress that turnout in that state. For a candidate to be able to cut through that propaganda noise and social media smear campaigning requires the usual charm and charisma, but also a cast iron calm and grounded ego to avoid becoming defensive. Gabbard has already demonstrated very early on that she does not respond to personal smear attacks by rising above the fray. It’s hard to imagine that the African American voters who thronged to Obama’s casual cool “no drama” would respond likewise to Gabbard’s truculence, name calling, and trench fighting. If she can’t keep her cool during the primary fight, how well would she hold up when she has to face a global army of social media bot farms going after her for her unconventional religion, personal relationships, financial relationships, and past associations?

    Again the point here is not to pick on Gabbard. You’re the one “claiming” to support her for the nomination. Although it’s hard to miss that you refer to the Democrats as “you”. So I presume you’d like to see her win the nomination. But not enough to cast a ballot for her in a primary? More trollishness for sure. And for all that, you still aren’t willing to get behind “HER”. That is really explain how SHE would overcome the challenges and obstacles facing any of the Democratic nominees. Arguing that her gender closes the deal is dumb. Clearly, rationally, mathematically gender does not work for Democrats. Not the way it works for Republicans. Not in a national campaign that runs through the Electoral College. She might make a fine Republican nominee. And if she were to win I’d give her a good chance in November too. But she’s running as a Democrat. And for her, that means increasing turnout among non-whites, and winning over white women in a way that Hillary Clinton could not four years ago.

    Still troll.

  101. 101

    It’s hard to get any worse than the Miami Dolphins.

    Goldy’s Eagles just lost to them.

  102. 102

    The Trump administration is entertaining the idea of a “middle class tax cut” that, in addition to ballooning deficits even more, would — you guessed it — go to the affluent and provide virtually no benefit to working class or middle class taxpayers.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/02/2020-elections-former-congressman-joe-sestak-ends-presidential-bid.html

    GOP = party of tax-free wealth, only the working class pays taxes, stacking the deck even more in favor of the rich

  103. 103

    @101 That’s nothing, you should see what happened to Republicans in 2018!

    #partyoflosers

  104. 104

    “‘Nothing matters.’ The phrase has come to summarize the hopelessness of the Trump era. As president, Donald Trump has told more than 12,000 false or misleading claims about everything from the size of the crowd at his inauguration to weather patterns. He’s been accused of sexual assault or harassment by more than 60 women. He called for foreign countries to interfere in U.S. elections on national television. Yet his popularity has remained stubbornly stable, hovering around the 41-42 percent mark, and GOP lawmakers continue to defend him. … Yet, … many of Trump’s opponents have not reacted as if nothing matters. Instead, they’ve responded with outrage, protest and greater engagement. This energy, if sustained, has the potential, at least, to transform the country long after Trump is gone. … It’s difficult to know what will happen once Trump leaves office, whenever that may be. It’s clear, though, that his cruelty, his incompetence, his racism and his lies have pushed many people … have had consequences.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-lies-cruelty-fueled-real-resistance-s-hopeful-news-ncna1092016

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Trump has accomplished virtually nothing in office that will last with one exception: He’s alienated an entire generation of voters and severely damaged the GOP brand. Doctor Dumbfuck will be gone someday, too, and we know what his legacy on HA will be: A dumbfuck who shamelessly shilled for the worst and most abusive president in American history.

  105. 105

    @100.

    Nice job buddy- give it to him.

    I’d like him to expand upon why Warren/Mayor Pete won’t attract the non-white votes.

    Now, I know the answer, I’d just like to hear it from his mouth.

    Non-white Americans might have a tough choice come November,- either stay home and let a racist bigot win, or be afraid (afraid – not really the best word I’m looking for) because of their own biases and vote for the Bigot, or they can be better people and choose the ticket that would help them be better off Warren/MayorPete and not The Hump.

    Something tells me they don’t have the courage nor Can be true to their claims of being Christians.

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