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Joe Scarborough Condemns Trump’s ‘Chilling Language’ of Betrayal in Firing AG Yates
“That is frightening, chilling language…Take that to Venezuela, OK? We don’t really want to use that sort of language here.”
Articles by Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
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In Donald Trump’s America There is No Free Speech Without a Permit
Protesters at Denver International Airport were told by Denver police, “Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permitâ€
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Regulations ‘One In, Two Out’ Rule
“There will be regulation, there will be control, but it will be a normalized control,” he said, apparently having no idea what “normalized” means.
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Donald Trump Says He Will Announce his Supreme Court Nominee on Tuesday
“I have made my decision on who I will nominate for The United States Supreme Court. It will be announced live on Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. (W.H.)”
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Chuck Schumer Says He Will Ask for a Repeal of Trump’s Travel Ban Today
“There were major holes in how it was done. It almost seems like back-of-the envelope…the slap-dash way it was done was appalling and created the chaos.”
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Trump Blames Delta Airlines System Outage on Sunday for Airport Chaos on Saturday
“Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage,” said Trump but the problems began Saturday with his Muslim ban
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Republican Rep. Charlie Dent Calls on Trump to Halt Enforcement of Muslim Ban
“I urge the admin to halt enforcement of this order until a more thoughtful and deliberate policy can be instated”
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Two House Democrats March on JFK Airport to Fight for Detained Iraqis
“This should not happen in America…We must fight this executive order in the streets, in the courts, anywhere, anytime. We must resist.”
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Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy Schools Republicans on Trump Muslim Ban
“There is no moral equivalence between Obama’s reluctance to militarily intervene in Syria and the #MuslimBan.”
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J.K. Rowling Condemns British PM for ‘Standing Simpering Next to Powerful Racist’ Trump
“May making her “strong statement about the role of women” there, by standing simpering next to a powerful racist.”
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Iran Responds to Trump’s Muslim Ban by Banning US Citizens
“The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran…will take reciprocal measures in order to safeguard the rights of its citizens”
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It Took Obama 922 Days to Drop to 42% Disapproval – It Took Trump Just 8
Donald Trump has proved that it is not always true that the only place you can go is up. He has gone down instead.
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Paul Ryan Gets Added to Wikipedia Page on Spineless Animals (Invertebrates)
The addition by an anonymous hero is certainly accurate, as Ryan has shown himself to be completely spineless when it comes to Donald Trump
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Malia Obama Takes a Stand Against Trump and for Standing Rock at #NoDAPL Protest
“It was amazing to see Malia…to witness…a woman coming into her own outside of her family and outside of the attachments that this country has on her”
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Threatens Our Allies, Says She is ‘Taking Names’
“For those that don’t have our back, we’re taking names, we will make points to respond to that accordingly.”
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Tells Trump ‘Please Please Grow Up’
“I would say, Senor Trump ‘Please please grow up. I mean, now you’re President of a great nation…please grow up, be or try to be a real president.”
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Republican Legislator Says Trumps’ Voter Fraud Claim ‘Undermines the Constitution’
“This basically undermines the idea of an election. This undermines the Constitution. If you really believe there were three to five million illegal votes please share that proof – show us how.â€
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Mikhail Gorbachev Warns That ‘It Looks as if The World is Preparing for War’
Looking at both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Mikhail Gorbachev said, “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.”
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Paul Krugman Explains How Colossally Stupid Trump’s Mexico Tariff Truly Is
“Oh my God. These are spoiled children playing with loaded guns…Now they’re trying to walk it back…How are we going to survive years of this?”
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Press Says Transcript of Trump’s ABC Interview is ‘Bonkers’ and ‘F*cking Nuts’
“This was the stuff that it took Manafort team months to essentially duct-tape him from saying (violating int’l law)”
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Donald Trump Squirms and Lies As He Tries to Explain How Mexico Will Pay For Wall
“Well, I’d say very simply that they are going to pay for it. I never said they’re gonna pay from the start. I said Mexico will pay for the wall.”
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Trump Puts Fascism’s Implacable Foe George Orwell Atop the Bestseller Lists Again
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
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Trump’s Threatened Invasion of Chicago Aimed Squarely at African Americans
Jesse Jackson said what is needed is a plan but Trump has no plan, just a bunch of things he doesn’t like and a short enough fuse to make that a problem.
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Egged on by Bill O’Reilly Donald Trump Threatens to Invade Chicago
“Like any two-bit strongman, @realDonaldTrump will use security challenges, real and imagined, to expand central government control.”
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Glenn Beck Attacks Women’s March as George Soros ‘Astroturf’ Rally
Beck thinks George Soros and radical Islam organized the march. The dead giveaway for Beck must be the pink pussy hats favored by Islamic extremists
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Bill O’Reilly Claims Women’s March Fueled by Some Unidentified ‘Totalitarian Regime’
“All the totalitarian regimes were fueled by whip-ups, okay? And people turned out to the streets, were they spontaneous? No.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Says States Rights Logic Applies to Pro-Environment States Too
“My Republican colleague here is all about states’ rights – except the right to clean air & save lives from pollution”
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Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin Warns ‘The presidency cannot be based on petty lies’
Halperin is right but it is a mistake to assume Donald Trump will see it this way or even that he understands the things he said were lies
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Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing from Trans-Pacific Partnership
“Everyone knows what that means, right? We’ve been talking about this for a long time. Okay, a great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”
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After Spending First 2 Days Bashing Press, Trump Says Focus on Jobs and Nat’l Security
Trump will not, of course, begin by bringing his own jobs back to the US. Those will remain profitably outsourced to China and Mexico
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Trump’s Whining Backfires as Media Rejects Lies, Posts More Pics of Small Crowd
“The genius of defining ‘the media’ as your administration’s political adversary is ‘the media’ won’t fight back. Don’t fall for it.”
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Some in Media Appallingly Agree with Alex Jones About Trump
Alex Jones claims he and Trump are both reading from the ‘sheet music of reality.’ Early indications are the mainstream media seems to agree
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Trump and Spicer’s Rants Today Are An Effort to Delegitimize the Media – and Reality
“It all starts to smack of an effort to stamp out the very possibility of shared agreement on the…role of the…media or even on reality itself.”
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The Media is Left Aghast and Shocked by Donald Trump’s Bizarre CIA Speech
“In front of a memorial to CIA employees who died in the line of service, Trump talked about being on the cover of Time magazine a lot.”
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Trump Melts Down During CIA Speech And Whines About Inaugural Crowd Size
Trump’s speech was no different than any other Trump speech we’ve heard, full of bragging, whining and complaints about imagined persecution
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Trump’s White House Site Erased Civil Rights But Added Melania’s Jewelry Line
“Melania is also a successful entrepreneur. In April 2010, Melania Trump launched her own jewelry collection, ‘Melaniaâ„¢ Timepieces & Jewelry,’ on QVC.â€
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Trump’s Inauguration isn’t Camelot, it’s an Abomination
Jackie Kennedy invented the idea of Camelot to rewrite JFK’s legacy but Trump’s myth is the gaudy facade of hell.
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Donald Trump Lied About How He Came Up With ‘Make America Great Again’
Trump says he was in Trump Tower on November 7, a day after Romney’s loss, when it came to him, but he had used it already in December 2011
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New Poll Shows 70 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Trump’s Use of Twitter
“Nearly seven-in-ten Americans say that Trump’s use of Twitter is a bad idea,” Only 9 percent say they “strongly support” his use of Twitter
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Trump Attacks NBC’s Today Show for Telling the Truth About His Job Creation Lies
Today explained according to the CEOs Trump wants us to ask, the president-elect’s impact on job creation is “very small or nonexistent.”
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The Press Has Enabled the Political Theater Trump Uses as a Substitute for Governing
Nate Silver says, “Here’s the thing. The loss of trust mostly isn’t the pollsters’ fault. It’s the media’s fault. Oh, yes, I’m going there.”
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Paul Krugman Destroys Donald Trump’s Claim to a Mandate
“A national 1 percent swing would have changed everything…it would have looked like a solid mandate for HRC”
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Trump Tries To Fool America With The Claim That His Job Creation Lies Are “Big Stuff”
If Donald Trump’s 730 jobs are “big stuff,” there is word grand enough to describe Barack Obama’s creation of 15 million jobs
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Donald Trump Goes Into Complete Denial As He Claims Approval Polls Are Rigged
“The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before”
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New North Dakota Bill Would Legalize Running Down Protesters With Your Car
The lawmaker says the DAPL protests “are feeling terrorized.” He wants those exercising their constitutional rights to feel terrorized too
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Reince Priebus’s Scary Warning to Government Ethics Chief to “Be Careful”
Priebus’s words must be taken as a dire warning to all others that Trump intends to govern not as a president, but as a dictator
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Former GOP Sen. Tom Coburn Says Trump’s Tweets Aren’t Presidential
“The point is at some point in time the president is going to have to turn to become more presidential and that’s not presidential.”
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Trump Thinks We Deserve it – And We Do if We Stand By and Do Nothing
There is no great mystery here: this is good against evil and “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
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As Inauguration Day Arrives, Trump’s Popularity is Half That of Obama in 2009
Trump says his inauguration is “bigger than expected” but paid seat fillers and a favorability half that of Obama in 2009 says otherwise
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Trump’s Inauguration Takes Another Hit as Jennifer Holliday Cancels Appearance
“I sincerely apologize for my lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues…and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans”
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Republicans Were All About Holding Obama Accountable But Trump is Somehow Exempt
Chaffetz’s position is that wealth puts you above the law: “The president and vice president are exempt. The voters understood this was a wealthy individual.â€
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Former MI6 Agent Says The FBI Knew About Trump and Russia for Months and Did Nothing
The Independent reveals that Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele watched as a cabal within the FBI sat on his Trump-Russia file for months
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Trump Illegal Activity Escalates With Michael Flynn’s Backdoor Russia Talks
Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick as national security advisor, undermined Obama’s foreign policy on behalf of a man who isn’t president yet
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Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Architect of Holy War
According to the First Amendment, it is a problem when a public servant, speaking of the whole of the American people says something like, “To worship our lord and celebrate our nation at the same place is not only our right, it is our duty.†The First Amendment says it is our right. By forbidding…
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With Trump Looking Guiltier Than Ever, He Claims Hillary Clinton ‘Guilty as Hell’
Trump blames “Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans – FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists”
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Chuck Schumer Condemns Chaffetz Attempt to Bully Ethics Office For Criticizing Trump
Jason Chaffetz attacked the ethics office for publicly questioning Trump’s ethics, leading Chuck Schumer to call his bullying “deplorable”
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To Remain Free, the Press Can No Longer Afford to be Stupid About Donald Trump
The mainstream media has proved guilty of two sins – repeating fake news generated by Trump, and failing to report real news about Trump
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Praise for Rex Tillerson Won’t Change the Fact He Owns Holding Company in Russia
Sam Nunn praises Tillerson but seems to be forgetting we are vetting a Secretary of State and not a CEO – particular of a Russian company
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Law Firm Overseeing Trump’s Conflict Of Interest Is Russia’s Law Firm Of The Year
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse: even the people dealing with Trump’s conflict of interest have a conflict of interest.
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Increasingly Hysterical Trump Claims Intel Agencies Are Taking ‘One last shot at me’
In a frenzy of denials, Trump cried ‘fake news,’ accused intel agencies of taking a shot at him, and lied about his business ties to Russia
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PFAW Accuse Jeff Sessions of ‘Putting His Extreme Ideology Above the Constitution’
PFAW assert that “the burden was on Senator Sessions today to show that he’s fit to serve as attorney general. He failed miserably.”
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Witch-Hunter-in-Chief Trump Now Claims Russia Rumors Are a ‘Witch Hunt’ and ‘Unfair!’
The man who orchestrated witch-hunts against President Obama and Hillary Clinton now cries, ‘FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!’
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Trump Press Secretary Demands Chuck Schumer Denounce Protests Against Trump
What Republicans really want is an end to dissent, to not only delegitimize critics but to actually prevent them from speaking.
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Donald Trump Flouts Anti-Nepotism Law to Name Son-in-Law Senior Advisor
As George Takei says, “This isn’t a dynasty. The emperor doesn’t get to appoint his son-in-law as chief advisor. There are rules and laws against this.”
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Steve Doocy Says Jeff Sessions Racist Remarks Are Just a ’20-year-old’ Joke
Steve Doocy referred to Sessions’ racism as “That 20-year-old joke” but “saying that the Ku Klux Klan is OK is not a joke.”
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In a Single Tweet, Meghan McCain Reveals GOP’s Cruel Disregard for Common Decency
“This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won. And if people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how – you will help him get re-elected”
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Criticized at Golden Globes, Trump Takes to Twitter to Heap Abuse on Meryl Streep
Trump never won an Emmy but called Streep “overrated” as she accepted an award for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”
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Rachel Maddow Shows You How to Spot Trump’s Big Fat Intelligence Briefing Lie
If you are curious how to spot Trump’s Russian hack lies for yourself, Rachel Maddow tells you how. Just two ingredients are required: First, you need the declassified version of The Office of the Director of National Intelligence report available to literally everybody who wants to read it (here) and Donald Trump’s own words. As…
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Elizabeth Warren Slams Senate Republicans Over Trump Nominee’s Ethics
“The @SenateGOP are bypassing important steps to make sure these billionaire cabinet nominees are free of dangerous conflicts of interest.”
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Donald Trump’s ‘Man on the Can’ Musings Embarrass America and Endanger Us All
In recent days, Trump has embarrassed himself both over China and Mexico, tweeting off-the-cuff ruminations about issues of critical importance
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Michele Bachmann Advising Donald Trump is the Ignorant Advising the Uninformed
“Our government has been perverted to be used to advance an ungodly agenda†and “undermine American values both abroad and here at home.â€
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Twitter – and the Governator – Heap Mockery on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Insecurities
“I wish you the best of luck and I hope you’ll work for ALL of the American people as aggressively as you worked for your ratings”
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Trump Tweets His Pathetic Insecurities as Post-Trump ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Slumps
“Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. “
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Trump Attacks on Clinton and CIA Director Brennan Lead us Down a Slippery Slope
This is a slippery and dangerous slope down which Trump and his surrogates have embarked. This is how dictatorships function, not democracies
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With Evangelicals Embracing Fascism it Isn’t Democrats Who Have a Religion Problem
Democrats, religious and non-religious, believe all have an equal voice but Republicans believe if you’re not Christian, you get no voice
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Paul Ryan Calls Trump Hero Julian Assange a ‘Sycophant for Russia’
Paul Ryan disagrees with Trump’s endorsement of Julian Assange, saying “He leaks, he steals data and compromises national security.â€
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Trump’s Anti-Obamacare Tweetstorm is Full of Lies, Empty of Facts
When Trump attacks “the failed ObamaCare disaster, with its poor coverage” he ignores the 20 million + who now have coverage thanks to Obamacare
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Deranged Trump Claims Real Problem Not Russian Hacking But Giving Debate Q to Hillary
“Why have they [the DNC] not responded to the terrible things they did and said (like giving the questions to the debate to H)”
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Republican Attempt to Gut OCE Proves Paul Krugman Right on Unprecedented Corruption
“Corruption, scandals, gutting of ethics rules aren’t new; they’ve been the GOP way going all the way back to Reagan. “
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Media Falsely Gives Trump Credit For GOP Ethics Flip Flop
According to CNN, “President-elect Donald Trump dramatically strong-armed House Republicans into line Tuesday in his first Washington power play.”
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DNC Says Republicans Are Returning to Days of Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay
“By crippling the OCE, House Republicans are signaling a return to the days…when Republican corruption in Congress ran rampant.”
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Donald Trump Surprises By Criticizing GOP Attack on Office of Congressional Ethics
“With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog…their number one act”
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Kellyanne Conway Says Office of Congressional Ethics Had to Go Because it Did its Job
“There’s been an overzealousness in some of the processes over the years,” The truth is, legislators targeted by the OCE have voted it away
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Embracing Corruption, House Republicans Gut Outside Ethics Watchdog
“Republicans claim they want to ‘drain the swamp,’ but…ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress.” – Nancy Pelosi
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Less Than Half of Americans Think Trump Can Handle Presidential Duties
Even in areas they express confidence, “Americans are far less confident in Trump than they were in his predecessors, when comparisons are available.”
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Has New Years Run-in With Facts Courtesy of Sopan Deb
“Agreed! Facts matter: so you weren’t at Mar-A-Lago on New Years Eve? You called it fake news, so let’s get this right.”
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2017’s Big Reveal: Useful Idiot Trump, Conflict of Interest Trump, or Meat Puppet Trump
The more he opens his mouth the more he damns himself. Sure he’s a big crybaby. But the smart money is on him being Vladimir Putin’s crybaby
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Todd Starnes Attacks Mormon Tabernacle Choir Member For Comparing Trump to Hitler
“To compare the next president of the United States to Hitler is not only intellectually dishonest – it’s downright repulsive.”
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Time and Facts Are Going to Catch up to Trump’s Russian Hacking Distractions
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, said he can’t defend Trump’s position “We can try to have a better relationship with Russia, but we also have to defend ourselves.â€
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Look For The Privatization of Everything as Trump and GOP Go Full Acquisition Mode
“If the trajectory of 2016 continues through Trump’s presidency, the ‘commons,’ the public sphere and the values of shared responsibility, will be tested as never before.”
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Given a Chance to be Patriots, Too Many Republicans Bow to Putin Instead
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) did one better than Trump, claiming that Russia’s attack on our democratic institutions was somehow a public service
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Paul Ryan Supports Russian Sanctions With Faint Praise and a Swipe at Obama’s Legacy
“It is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia. And…serves as a prime example of this administration’s ineffective foreign policy”
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President Obama Hits Russia With New Sanctions for Election Hacking
“These actions…are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior.”
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Donald Trump Will Have Two Prosperity Gospel Preachers at Inauguration
One of them was investigated by the Senate Finance Committee in 2011 for shady fundraising practices. The other owns one of Detroit’s biggest mansions
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Democratic Leaders Call for Leaders Call for ‘Day of Action’ to Save Healthcare System
Millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump after he promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid†and “he must be held to his promises.â€
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John Kerry Condemns Israeli Foreign Policy Driven By Extreme Right-Wing Elements
“The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.â€
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Trump Tells Israel to ‘Stay Strong…January 20th is Fast Approaching!’
“The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
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Montana Lawmakers Write Letter to Condemn Attacks on Religious Freedom by Anti-Semites
White nationalism and anti-Semitism have become growing problems not only around the world but in the United States, and particular focus has been drawn to the movement, calling itself the “alt-right” because of it’s support for Donald Trump. In Montana, prominent Nazi Richard Spencer’s mother, who owns a business in Whitefish, Montana, has been getting…
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Evan McMullin Said What No Republican Dare Say: The GOP Has a Racism Problem
“When 92% of black voters don’t support the Republican nominee, but the KKK does, there’s a problem. Let’s deal with it and move forward.”
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Move Over Trump’s Ego – Obama Beats Trump as Most Admired Man of 2016
Perhaps the worst blow of all for Trump is that “Fifty percent of Democrats named Obama as most admired, compared with 34% of Republicans choosing Trump.”
