Caravan

Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: This Saturday and next, we're teaming up with our friends from Turn PA Blue to call thousands of likely new Democrats and help them register to vote! Sign up to call potential Democrats as part of our push to register 125,000...

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  • April 22, 2021

Al Sharpton did a piece on immigration that dispels the manner the Fox News-like manner mainstream media is covering “border crisis.” Al Sharpton knocks it out of the park See full episodes here. Al Sharpton did not mince his words in the piece above. Most importantly, he revealed an important chart...

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  • March 31, 2021

Caravan with a drum solo, perhaps Trump will go to the border to help frame what is appearing to be deliberate GOP orchestration of migrant issues at the southern border. As if the Trumpian chaos never existed for four years, with declared emergencies, veiled threats of terrorists, and then that...

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  • March 30, 2021

The GOP hunt for unicorns continues as only the southern border seems to leak Middle Eastern terrorists (not). This fiction was floated during the “caravan” scare pimped during the midterm election and is a continuation of the “Muslim Ban” from the first month of the Trump regime. “Sir Lanka” (whoever...

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  • March 16, 2021

“You know, you can go to Capitol Hill, you can go to the White House,” said one Oath Keeper on the October 29 call. “If they [DC police] are going to allow, you know, a mob to just, you know, basically storm buildings, they’re basically abrogating responsibilities.” Apparently, lazy reactionaries...

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  • February 3, 2021

A bus, traveling from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana, was attacked by a white mob of Confederate flag-waving thugs and louts. The terrorist ran the bus off the road, beat the passengers with pipes and bats, and burned the bus. The riders were from an organized group of young...

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  • November 2, 2020

It was bad enough when Trump tweeted a video of this scene of his supporters ambushing a Biden-Harris bus and said “I LOVE TEXAS!” But then he found out the FBI was actually doing its job and investigating these domestic terrorists, and he totally lashed out — at the FBI....

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  • November 2, 2020

Let us not mince words. What happened yesterday on I-35 was an act of domestic terrorism — supporters of Trump used their cars and trucks to surround a Biden-Harris bus and tried to force it off the road. The FBI is investigating the assault. Meanwhile, Trump, who boasts of “my...

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  • November 1, 2020

Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction.  x tickled by this because I watched 5 seconds of the KATU coverage and the proud boy on the mic said something like 2,000 people were there— voltaverse (@voltaverse) September 26, 2020 x...

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  • September 26, 2020

Donald Trump has buried his head in the sand — and that’s no small feat. Look at that cavernous cranium. He looks like a Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robot, FFS. Or something that escaped from Dr. Moreau’s giant head lab. Seriously, that thing looks like an orange Smart Car. It’s an egregious...

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  • September 24, 2020

The toast is not yet burnt. Trump will need to win all three events. Won’t happen because all Trump has are bizarre lies and falsehoods. x One week from today, President Trump and former VP Biden will meet on the debate stage for the first time. Rachel @Maddow, @NicolleDWallace, @JoyAnnReid...

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  • September 22, 2020

The summary of today's Trump presser: Trump defended Kyle Rittenhouse x Trump actually offers a defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, his right-wing supporter who killed two protesters. “I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would've been killed.” pic.twitter.com/XFBtDOHP8y— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) August 31, 2020 x To be...

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  • August 31, 2020

Somehow Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler got hold of my bile duct and squeezed out all my personal feelings about Donald Trump like it was a very unfunny whoopee cushion. After last night’s Trump-encouraged unrest in Portland, Mayor Wheeler went on a righteous rant today — and he successfully diagnosed the disease...

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  • August 30, 2020

Because we’re still using stereotypes from the 1960s, the Nixonian 1968 campaign Trump now has hate riders and flags. And violence. Presently lots of disinformation on twitter with RWNJs spinning the event. One version of reporting is that a person with a Patriot Prayer hat sprayed someone with pepper spray...

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  • August 30, 2020

in an op ed piece at NBC titled My father, George Soros, is white supremacists' favorite target. But they won't stop us with the subtitle of “The surge in online smears of my father and me amid the Black Lives Matter movement is simply one more installment in a long,...

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  • August 1, 2020

The latest Trumpian trope could be that the second COVID wave is Mexicans!  The latest WH trial balloon is that COVID-19’s second wave is actually coming over the border, because … NAFTA, or something, something. Wait for it to appear in his Tulsa speech. itsgoingdown.org/… It’s another round of caravan-scaring, rather...

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  • June 12, 2020

First of all, you’d have to have a head full of sawdust to buy into this market right now.  Secondly, the only reason the stock market rose by nearly 2,000 points yesterday is that it fell by more the previous day after getting pummeled half to death all week. In...

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  • March 14, 2020

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...

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  • March 14, 2020

The horrors of climate change are unfolding around the world with smothering heatwaves, agricultural losses from flooding, and drought — higher storm surge along with powerful and deadly cyclonic windstorms armed with heavy rainfall and wildfire. The United States and other developed nations experience every single impact listed, we do....

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  • December 13, 2019

You know, being an Irishman, I love irony. And being a Murphy, I love it twice as much, since we have that stupid law named after us. When they interview Trump supporters, there are a growing number of them that say that while they’re actually rather ambivalent about Trump, they...

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  • April 17, 2019

Why? Same reason anything happens in the White House these days. Because Donald Trump is a dick. The Washington Post: White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of...

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  • April 12, 2019

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1271. Sided with dictator Kim Jung Un in the...

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  • March 8, 2019

x Dearest Emily,The sadness in the woman's eyes beggared the imagination. With desperate heart, I seized her hand. “Do not despair, friend! For we shall outlive these horrors!”“Sir,” she responded with infinite kindness. “This is a Wendy's drive-thru.”#NotesFromNationalEmergency — Mike Sell (@mike_sell) February 17, 2019 x #NotesFromNationalEmergencyEven now hundreds, if...

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  • February 17, 2019

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is in a ton of trouble of his own making. How much? Well, apparently not enough to keep Donald Trump from making up crazy shit about him and then blasting it effervescently out his sigmoid colon to a phalanx of red-hatted troglodytes. During his latest Hitler boof...

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  • February 12, 2019

If you didn’t think Donald Trump’s dyspeptic pettiness and despotic daydreams could seep into the real world, well, you haven’t paid attention to history. Or to Donald Trump. Two immigration attorneys and two journalists have reported being denied entry to Mexico in recent days after their passports were flagged. The...

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  • February 2, 2019

If there';s one sure fire diagnostic indicator of a “fucking moron,” it’s the inability to learn from ones past mistakes. I mean, come on, how many times do you have to whack your thumb with a hammer before you put the damn thing down and call a carpenter? I have...

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  • January 17, 2019

Media Matters “TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement. Previous leaders of...

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  • December 14, 2018

Bartolo Fuentes, a well known Honduran activist and journalist is saying someone used a fabricated  Fakeboo…er…Facebook account to use his identity and photograph to swell the famous caravan’s numbers ahead of its departure from Honduras and — surprise, surprise… Facebook has been no help in assisting him at getting to the identity of...

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  • December 7, 2018

Sometimes it’s almost hard to wrap your head around. It was only 29 days ago that we all hit the bricks for the polling places in the midterms, and yet, here we all are, officially on “candidate watch” for 2020. And here, people bitched years ago about the great “sports...

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  • December 6, 2018

It’s getting very, very frightening, kids. Trump likes to look tough, so naturally that means shooting desperate, starving immigrants seeking asylum. Real John Wayne stuff, to be sure. From Military Times: The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing troops stationed at the border to engage in some law...

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  • November 21, 2018

Philadelphia Flyers’ Mascot Gritty is a different kinda guy so he takes representing his diverse city of some 1.5 million residents seriously and has no f**ks to give for racists. Or, it may be that his unfortunate resemblance to a well known shaggy haired orange Dicktator compels him to draw bright...

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  • November 18, 2018

The thrill is gone baby, the thrill is gone away     BB King Just because I haven’t been writing for the last three days doesn’t mean that I have been idle. Far from it. I’ve been laying on the sofa, kicking my feet in the air, giggling like a two...

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  • November 10, 2018

Huffington Post “While President Donald Trump recently tweeted that the migrant caravan of over 5,000 Central Americans is made up of some “very bad thugs and gang members,” a handful of immigration experts and advocates told HuffPost that’s not the case. The reality, some experts said, is that the caravan...

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  • November 1, 2018

I know.  I know.  Merlin1963!  STOP WATCHING MTP ON MSNBC!!!  It the BOTHERSIDERIST DEVIL CHUCK TODD! I got home and was making dinner for my elderly Mom, and the TV was already on.  There is not much I can do.  Mom wants to know what that asshole Chuck Todd and...

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  • October 31, 2018

Not content to settle for one mass killing by a psycho stirred up by his imaginary invasion of the border by exhausted, hungry immigrants, Generalissimo Doofus Dumbass is activating up to 14,00 troops to send to the border in an attempt to cause more….    x #BREAKING Up to 14,000...

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  • October 29, 2018

You can count on the FOX channel — not news to me — and Lou Dobbs to push more anti-immigrant phobia, but now, they are sticking with their love of anti-semitism in the form of George Soros bashing.  Nothing like having a guest like Chris Ferrell of Judicial Watch claim that “caravan”...

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  • October 28, 2018

OK, I think I’ve finally got this shit figured out. The real reason that Dumbledork of DC keeps talking so much is because he’s finally figured out that rank stupidity is the only thing that he can continue to export without China and the European Union slapping a 25% tariff on it. Although,...

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  • October 26, 2018

BOO YA!!!! Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has just a four-point lead against Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), according to a new public poll from Marist College and NBC News. Cruz leads O’Rourke by 49 percent to 45 percent in the poll of registered voters, a warning sign for the polarizing senator as he...

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  • August 22, 2018