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Hostilities and human displacement continue in Syria despite the Turkish “pause”

Trump’s complete and clueless capitulation to Turkey and the associated betrayal of the Kurds continues as a “pause” in combat operations is to last 120 hours prior to the meeting in Sochi between Erdogan and Putin. 300,000 people are now said to be displaced. Erdogan expected a confrontational meeting, but the mood softened when it became…

Tass announces joint US cyber operations with Russia – again?

A surprise announcement from the Russian news service, TASS: According to the FSB in Russia, the US government has now agreed to carrying out joint cyber operations with Russian intelligence. What? pic.twitter.com/RUDHurrWf8 — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 18, 2019 This bit of cynical non-collusive activity first was mentioned around the time of firing Comey and…

James Mattis on Trump's 'overrated' dis: 'I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals'

So Donald Trump hires only the best people, and yet he regularly and viciously insults nearly all of them on the way out the door. According to several accounts of Trump’s Velveeta meltdown in the White House yesterday — during which he called Nancy Pelosi a “third-rate politician” — Trump also disparaged his former secretary…

LOL. Gen. Mattis Roasts drumpf. (Updated with full speech)

"I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the most overrated general," Mattis says. "I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me." pic.twitter.com/Hzpe5lUeje — NBC News (@NBCNews) October 18,…

Individual-1 has another rally… this time in Dallas – Beto has a rally across town

There’s a Beto counter-rally (above) about 14 miles away from the Trump rally in Dallas at the American Airways Center (image below). At the Trump rally there are more than a few riffs on today’s craziness with Turkey and #Trumpeachment Daniel Dale tweets the fact-checks below. This is the American Airlines Center, note the signature…

Mayor of Doral heard about G7 plans from Mulvaney press conference

You’re not the only one surprised that Donald Trump is corruptly using his office to boost his own company’s profits. (Okay, you’re not surprised. Who are we kidding?) Apparently, Juan Carlos Bermudez, the mayor of Doral, Florida, where Donald Trump’s very posh and expensive bedbug hatchery is currently located, was taken aback as well. From Washington…

#KremlinAnnex Thursday protest week 66

x 'All Roads With You Lead to Putin' – @SpeakerPelosi Thank you, Madam Speaker! – @KremlinAnnex Ã¢ÂœÂŒÃ¯Â¸ÂÃ°ÂŸÂ‡ÂºÃ°ÂŸÂ‡Â¸ pic.twitter.com/Oz5IxQu15W — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) October 17, 2019 x Spotted on the way from the #KremlinAnnex in Washington, DC! This was so beautiful! The truck drove around the Lafayette park where we protest. We helped out and chanted:…

Facebook might be a GOP media organ … surprise, surprise

New Popular Info article describes how completely the post-2016 use of Facebook for political purposes has been compromised beyond foreign ad buys and manipulation by malign actors. 2. "Decisions are made to benefit Republicans because they are paranoid about their reputation among conservative Republicans, particularly Trump," one former Facebook employee who worked in the DC…

Mulvaney made Arms for Dirt much worse for Individual-1, and Rick Perry will resign … really

Mick Mulvaney, fact witness, copped to the quid pro quo by admitting that “we do it all the time, get over it”. This rendered null a week of Trump proclaiming “No Quid Pro Quo”. It’s probably the best he could do for media framing considering as he’s still OMB head, he did hold the arms shipment…

CNN’s Shame: No Questions on Poverty or the Climate Emergency

photo: (right: Homeless Man In Boston Enver Rahmanov • CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped) In solidarity, Alan Minsky for Mike F., Mike H., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA national team. Tell The DNC And The News Networks:We Need Debates About The Real World!Questions About Poverty And HomelessnessA Complete Debate On The Climate Emergency …

Mulvaney admits to quid pro quo, says 'get over it'

Okay, the goalposts are now somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy. In a press conference today, chief White House toady Mick Mulvaney basically admitted there was a quid pro quo involved in the administration’s decision to hold up funds for Ukraine earlier this year. According to Mulvaney, the administration was hoping to press Ukraine into investigating one…

White House Announces that G7 to Be at Trump's Doral Resort in Florida.

More enriching of Trump’s bank accounts at taxpayers’ expense: WASHINGTON — President Trump intends to host next year’s G7 conference at his Doral International Resort in Miami in June, the White House confirmed Thursday, a controversial decision certain to raise conflict of interest questions given the financial benefit to Trump’s business. There is currently a press conference…

NC-Sen: Clay Aiken Teams Up With NowThis To Expose Voters To The Real Thom Tillis (R)

NowThis has launched the newest season of my favorite series, Who Is?, a weekly show that goes after different Trump enablers (Administration members, Fox News stooges, politicians). This week, they brought in Clay Aiken to expose fellow North Carolinian and huge Trump enabler, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R. NC). Check out the episode below: By the…

Will Gordon Sondland, the “Second Amigo”, corroborate Individual-1's role in Arms for Dirt

House impeachment hearings continue with EU ambassador Gordon Sondland today. Lawmakers plan to grill Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Thursday about a private discussion he had with top Ukrainian officials in the White House in which he explicitly mentioned the Ukrainian gas company linked to Hunter Bidenhttps://t.co/RisiWENu0G — Christina Lutz 🇪🇺 (@ChristinaLutz17)…

Apparently, dotard Jr. is Still Getting His Talking Points from Russia.

Just two comrades, spitting out talking points from the mothership… From the loins if a stable genius. DAMN! pic.twitter.com/R804aIX5lw — KhaziLove4AllPeople (@khazir10) October 17, 2019 The look when he realizes what he just said pic.twitter.com/89pgO3xU8D — Whatev (@whatsgo1ng0n) October 17, 2019 Oh Fredo. — Annie Heckenberger (@anniemal) October 17, 2019 pic.twitter.com/GkvtMPeRxd — durrati 🆘 (@durrati)…

Paranoid Trump is convinced John Bolton shivved him over Ukraine

And, you know, he’s probably right. I mean, John Bolton is what you’d get if the demon from Child’s Play had possessed Orville Redenbacher instead. That caramel corn-looking motherfucker is evil to the core. The Daily Beast: In the course of casual conversations with advisers and friends, President Trump has privately raised suspicions that a spiteful…

“Dude gotta go” … majority in favor of impeachment and removal

The Trump meltdown seems not to have had much effect, other than enhancing Speaker Pelosi’s image with women as Gallup polls a majority in favor of impeachment and removal. So much Republican cowardice, especially in the US Senate, as #Trumpeachment continues. There could be an actual breaking point, even as history might suggest it is already…

Trump 'pro-life' evangelicals are now fiercely defending the murder of actual babies

The exact same people who claim to be “pro-life” and scream about the termination of a clump of cells are now justifying and excusing the murder of actual babies in Syria. This goes well beyond their glorification of assault rifles or laughing at a stupid video depicting a congregation getting butchered by Donald Trump-as-Kingsman. This is…

Trump “pro-life” evangelicals are now fiercely defending the murder of actual babies

From now on, anyone going on a rant about how they are pro-Trump because they are “Christian” and “pro-life” are getting sent these photos by me—directly and with no warning. Why? Because they are responsible for supporting this carnage. I decided not to show these four photos directly in the article, but I have links…

LOL. Kevin McCarthy and Trump Don’t Know Why Pelosi Laughed at Trump’s Letter to Erdogan.

Second LOL diary of the evening. I can’t help that the LOLs just keep on coming… Confirmed: Kevin McCarthy confirms that Nancy Pelosi owned the president 😂 pic.twitter.com/SwsB2RM02K — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 17, 2019 Are they really that stupid or just counting on their audience to be? drumpf’s “serious item”… I staged a dramatic…

The first thousand days of Trump ends with his meltdown in front of the Democratic leadership

Dude gotta go. These words on White House stationary should embarrass all Americans, but Trump's "confidential" enclosure of the SDF Commander's letter will give our allies even less reason to trust America. Is this a common practice? How much NATO correspondence has been forwarded to Putin? https://t.co/7ADqh5rEjF — Ned Price (@nedprice) October 16, 2019 .@Lawrence:…

Post-Debate Musings: Bernie’s Heart and His Courage Just Fine with Me

By Donna Smith Fifteen days from now I will know what it’s like to have Medicare coverage. For the past 64 years and 11 months, I have been at the mercy of a for-profit insurance and health system that doesn’t forgive illness or injury and never forgets my age. Since 2006, my husband has had…

LOL. Speaker Pelosi Pinned the Photo of Her Dressing Down Trump to Her Twitter Page.

For some damned unhinged reason the dotard thought he’d own the speaker by twitting out the above photo of her berating him… Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown! pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2019 Bwa haha pic.twitter.com/VwSI4V73G0 — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 16, 2019 What a Moran.

Police violence is also gun violence

When presidential candidate Julian Castro said “Police violence is also gun violence”, I nearly jumped out my seat. Castro also said” I’m not going to give these police officers another reason to go door-to-door in certain communities because police violence is also gun violence While Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar fought over the white working-class vote,…

Trump tweets his humiliation on #NationalBossDay

Trump tries to recover from his unhinged meeting with Democratic leadership Looks like she owned you on #NationalBossDay. Been there. Don’t mess with mama! https://t.co/8unyy930Dj — Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) October 16, 2019 Go Nancy!#TrumpMeltdown https://t.co/Q0hnnyCJ0e — Pièce de Résistance (@PieceDeReSister) October 16, 2019 Per Dem aide:Schumer to Trump: "Is your plan to rely on the…

Stop using GOP talking points re: healthcare – you already “pay for it”

Call private health insurance costs “taxes in everything but name.” Analysis: Americans already pay a "gigantic" hidden health-care tax, economists say. The question of who will foot the bill for Medicare-for-all is almost beside the point. https://t.co/12fott4Bqf — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 16, 2019 To some economists, the question is moot: Americans already pay a massive…

Check out the kookaburra letter Trump sent to Erdogan after giving him green light to invade Syria

This comes courtesy of Trish Regan at — oh, here it is — Fox Business. Other reporters have followed up on this and confirmed it’s real. Yes, 100 percent real. Though I’m still holding out hope that my brain has been floating placidly in a vat of dive-bar egg brine since, I don’t know, November…

For #Trumpeachment, there are more 'bad hombres' than the '3 Amigos'

Will Trump throw Mulvaney under the bus, as the rest of the ‘3 Amigos” — Gordon Sondland and Rick Perry come before the House committees, after Kurt Volker has already testified. Mick Mulvaney arranged meetings between Rudy and Don when Giuliani was bragging publicly about enlisting Ukranians to probe the Bidens. Mulvaney met frequently with Gordon Sondland, and hid…

The MOAT (Mother of All Tweeters)

The last time the President told the press to ask my lawyer, Michael Cohen was subsequently fitted for a numbered orange jumpsuit. Well, Rudy, I think your right profile is your best side and black and white stripes say GQ federal prison. You remember in 2018 aboard Airforce One when the President, with obvious guilt…

Even more Trump nonsense this week as disinformation spews at the White House

After trying to orchestrate a reality-TV moment with grieving parents, more craziness in the White House. Daniel Dale has counted all of last week’s lies. The translator's face is all of us. https://t.co/HLVWV7juPr — Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) October 16, 2019 Trump just claimed that America’s relationship with Italy goes back “thousands of years.” Trump made…

Why Fox News is getting trounced in the public opinion battle over Trump impeachment

Shepard Smith's recent, abrupt resignation isn’t the only crisis Fox News is facing these days. Aside from allegations that conservatives simply will not tolerate any dissenting voices amid a chorus that worships Donald Trump, the right-wing cable news outlet is struggling as it tries to fight the public opinion battle over impeachment. The unfolding inquiry in the…

Democracy For America Keeps Up The Momentum To Flip Virginia General Assembly From Purple To Blue

Received this e-mail from Democracy for America: There’s no such thing an off-year. In just 21 days, voters in Virginia will head to the polls for several critical elections — and trust me, they’re going to be CLOSE. DFA is supporting 14 candidates statewide — but we only need to win two races in both the State Senate and the House…

Trump on the Kurds: 'There's a lot of sand they can play with'

Yes, but what were the Kurds wearing when Turkey invaded? That’s what I want to know. x “It's not our problem,” Trump says in Oval Office of Turkey's invasion into Syria. He adds that the Kurds are “not angels.” Also, he says this: “They've got a lot of sand over there…. There's a lot of…

KY-Gov: New Mason-Dixon Poll Has Gov. Matt Bevin (R) & AG Andy Beshear (D) Tied At 46-46

Here’s the latest news out of Kentucky: A new survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy shows Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear deadlocked in Kentucky's gubernatorial race, with the election just three weeks away. Mason-Dixon interviewed 625 registered and likely voters from Oct. 10-13 for the poll, which found Bevin and Beshear tied at…

Trump claims Dems are impeaching him because all our candidates are garbage

It’s hard for me not to picture him shuffling around the White House at night with Kleenex boxes on his feet, shouting guacamole recipes at Nixon’s ghost. Especially when he says stuff like this: x You would think there is NO WAY that any of the Democrat Candidates that we witnessed last night could possibly…

Erdogan Will Not Meet with The Vice-Colluder, only The Colluder-in-Chief Himself.

In another move to slam dunk on the dotard and disrespect the U.S., Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he will not meet with V.P. Pence, whether or not Mother is with him, but will hold out for a visit from The Big Colluduna himself. Haaretz.com “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State…

Warren needs to do an object lesson for reporters and politicians on Medicare 4 All – Over and over

This claim that Warren must talk about raising taxes for Medicare for All is not going to stop. This is the discourse and the media is not going to veer from it. This is what I think she needs to do. Warren should carry a 5 dollar bill and a 10 dollar bill with her…

#Trumpeachment closing in: WH panics as compliance refusals include Pence and #RudyColludy

If they’re innocent why are they not cooperating. Let's be clear: The President of the U.S. Senate – still a Congressional body – is rejecting a Congressional request for information. Pence is irredeemably conflicted. He either should resign as Senate President or follow the rules.https://t.co/wdywUvbTlA — Joel Rubin (@JoelMartinRubin) October 15, 2019 The counsel for…

Lara Trump: Most Americans have never even heard of the Kurds, so whatevs

The moral depth of these people is breathtaking. On Monday, Lara Trump — who’s married to Donald Trump’s fourth-favorite tragic mistake — appeared on Fox News at Night. The show’s host, Shannon Bream, asked her what she thought of a New York Times story (“Trump Followed His Gut on Syria, Calamity Came Fast”) that excoriated the…

CNN Debate: You're a Frontrunner When Everyone Takes a Swing at You.

Actions speak volumes over words, and the punches thrown by the Democratic presidential candidates at Elizabeth Warren tonight scream, “She’s the frontrunner!” I don’t give a shit how often they say, “Polls don’t matter! I meet all kinds of people out on the campaign trail…blah, blah, blah.” The rest of the crowd on that stage tonight…