As the November elections draw near, and Russian interference in the 2016 elections is being confirmed, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, has told CBS News, “I am concerned that the Russians never left.” Illinois Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley is a longtime advocate for protecting our country’s election infrastructure and he has always maintained…
People of a certain age will recall the great 1966 comedy film by Norman Jewison called “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.” It is about a Soviet submarine that gets stranded on an island off the coast of New England, and it hilariously captures the paranoia that was rampant during the Cold War. Perhaps…
Somehow lost in all the other news headlines over the past two days is a report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that confirms Russian attacks on the U.S. elections systems during the 2016 election cycle. And in confirming what happened, the Committee also explained how the Russian cyber-attacks compromised the systems in 18 states in…
There is Jones by the Christmas tree telling us “I always try to tell the truth,” quoting Spider-Man: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Take away healthcare because it’s hurting you. Take away corporate taxes (and raise yours). Take away regulations that protect you from clean air, water, and food.
The Peoples Daily calls Trump’s moves “petty,” his phone call “despicable,” and warned his “unscrupulous actions have set off alarms for the development of bilateral ties.”
Red States America will be free from the “evil grip of…big government” and turn “into a low-tax, low-wage, low health paradise where it’s every man for himself.”
California voters beat back an assault on their intelligence and social consciousness by Republicans and corporations to promote the general welfare of the people.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Melania was paid $20,056 for 10 modeling jobs that occurred in the seven weeks before she got a work visa.
Trump is breaking federal law and Trump Hotel Las Vegas is operating illegally. He should accept the federal government’s order and treat his workers with respect.
F.B.I. directors are supposed to be above politics, not in them. Mr. Comey has to do the right thing – resign.
“She looks angry. She looks upset. She comes across as hectoring. That’s not a good picture to paint as you come down the final stretch.”
The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.â€
He is taking the conspiracy theories and obstruction that dogged his presidency from day one and throwing them back in Republicans’ faces.
Trump’s favorability stands at 12 percent compared to Romney’s 20 percent, and even the Log Cabin Republicans declined to endorse him
Trump supporter will seek out the “Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American and go right up behind them and make them a little bit nervous.â€
“I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old [African-American] daughter’s face in a gas chamber…”
“What made America great in the first place? America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”
“’I know it (obscenity) when I see it.’ Likewise, this Court knows disenfranchisement when it sees it and it is obscene.â€
“He turned sideways to be sure that we would see that he has an open carry gun, which is legal but it’s intimidating. Don’t come here and stare into the office all day.”
Trump, who interrupted Clinton 51 times, complains “The constant interruptions last night by Tim Kaine should not have been allowed”
Trump stiffed American steel workers by directing untold millions to China whose trade practices helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of America.
First George H.W. Bush said he would vote for Hillary Clinton; now it turns out a daughter of George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, attends a Clinton fundraiser in Paris – with Huma Abedin no less. Abedin, much hated by Republicans as some sort of alleged Muslim fifth columnist, hosted the event along with Vogue editor-in-chief…
“One Donald comes to Miami to sip cafecito cubano and talk about the human rights abuses of Castro’s communist regime. The other Donald thinks that because of his money and his business, that he’s above the law.”
The approach, the disrespect, and bullying to use the museum was inappropriate and reflective of the insensitivity [to] civil and human rights reflective of Trump over the years.
Trump claims he is beating the system as his supporters game the system by rigging online polls to show he’s beating the system
“It may be inconvenient for Trump to release his tax returns. But the IRS has confirmed that nothing prevents any of us from releasing our tax returns any time we want.”
Trump thinks the right of the people to be secure and free of “unreasonable searches” shall not be violated unless they are people of color.
Donald Trump can’t defend his appalling words and deeds so he attacks the character of all his critics. The other day, Trump nemesis Mark Cuban tweeted that he was going to watch Hillary Clinton crush Donald Trump, and that he had front-row seats: Just got a front row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at…
The meeting was as bizarre a convocation as any known to history, the disreputable hailing the disreputable and defending the indefensible by cloaking hate in sanctity
Sean Hannity appeared in a Trump promotional ad, and now Fox News has banned him from promoting Trump unless they are paying him to do it
Trump: “Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies?” CBS News: “Hillary Clinton has not done an airplane rally.”
“MAYBE A FEW JOURNALISTS DO NEED TO BE WHACKED…MAYBE THEN THEYD STOP BEI[N]G BIASED HACKS. KILL EM ALL STARTING W/ KATY TUR.â€
“Understand that by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse. It is true. You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case lawâ€
He says he will make America great again, safe again. It’s hard to picture a coward like this doing anything of the sort, because if you’re president, you don’t get to hide.
“CNN is disgusting and they’re disgraceful. I watch it all. I watch all of it folks…It is so unfair.”
The fact is, the system worked this weekend – stabber shot dead, a man sought in connection with bombing, and bombs found in train station
He knows nothing about me. But look at the results under his guidance – a total disaster!
Just as the media has set a lower bar for for the GOP nominee, “Donald Trump now has a lower bar to clear certainly in terms of debates.”
Hillary for America has released a new video about Donald Trump’s birther lies, saying, “As much as he may try to walk back his own birtherism, Americans aren’t buying it. That’s because we all know who Donald Trump is. His political identity is based on this outrageous lie, and there is no erasing it in…
Donald Trump has been called, and Paul Krugman says, “I suspect Donald Trump is feeling a bit sandbagged right now.”
“You watch my statement. We have to keep the suspense going. You my friend, you watch the statement. I think you’ll be happy.”
“The media didn’t force him to come out and take a position being a birther, but he did!”
The Trump campaign has issued a statement on Trump’s position regarding President Barack Obama’s birth: “Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was…
“A lot of people have now convinced themselves that he has made some new disclosure about his health…It’s a con, but it’s very compelling”
“Trump’s cholesterol was once high but now he has no health issues. Per the authority of an audience member at Oz event.”
“@CLewandowski_ said on CNN I never reached out to Trump Organization. Folks, this guy just lies & lies without shame. Unbelievable.”
Lewandowski could not defend Trump’s foreign business interests so he did not even try. Instead, he attacked the integrity of the author.
“Right now you have Donald Trump in a situation where he makes money by aiding the people whose interests don’t coincide with America’s.”
“Contrary to yesterday’s report on Fox, Oz will NOT be reviewing the results of Trump’s recent physical”
“This is a policy which, if you had spent more than ten minutes working on it, you would realize that there were huge holes. But they…didn’t spend that”
“I am fully confident that they comported themselves with the utmost professionalism and demonstrated their real breadth and depth of intelligence capabilities.”
Duke says the GOP is a ‘big tent,’ apparently because it includes those those who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic”
“You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter,” he claimed, disqualifying himself
“Russia wasn’t going to realize its technology potential under a regime where business success depends mainly on political connections.”
“Of course it’s legal. It’s a war. Until the war is over, anything is legal.”
“I’m the ‘irrelevant dope’ and ‘basket case’ who wrote Art of the Deal @realDonaldTrump. You called it second best book ever written.”
Trump is a threat multiplier. He is a conscienceless marketer, ready to steal language to appeal to different groups of people
“This is wrong on its face. Optically it stinks. And so I think the debate commission has a particular Chris Wallace problem that they need to address.”
“Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people, under one God, saluting one flag.”
Economist Paul Krugman exposes Vladmir Putin’s weak economic progress compared to the steady climb of the US economy under President Obama
“Clinton is getting the backing of senior military service members and former officials with command and management experience because of her proven record of diplomacy and steady leadership on the world stage.”
Trump’s plan is the same as ever: to lie early and often. Wallace’s plan is to let him.
“Fire that idiot pipsqueak Brian Stelter, who said anybody that raised a question about Hillary’s health was a conspiratorial thinker”
Pam Bondi was without doubt one of the Trump “pay to playmates” who made Trump “University’s†problems go away.
Not only does Trump make money off countries with anti-gay laws, but the guy he picked as his VP is the architect of Indiana’s anti-gay RFRA
In a 2008 book, Jerry Boykin “violated [the] Uniform Code of Military Justice†with a “wrongful disclosure of classified informationâ€
“We all have our coughing spells but it doesn’t look good when you have all of these conspiracy theories about her health.”
Asked if he would let undocumented workers stay, Trump said, “I’m not ruling out anything. We’re going to make that decision into the future. OK?”
“This stuff about growing an economy that works for everybody, we haven’t been sitting in an ivory tower looking out at the world; we’ve not ever been sitting in penthouses looking out at the world.”
“Labor Day is a long-standing tradition celebrating the American worker but with millions of Americans out of work, we must do something to get America back to work”
White supremacists interviewed spend “first minute or so talking about what they believe as white supremacists. So you have normalized that.”
In a state and country that knows the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics.
Laura Ingraham complained it was “convenient” that CNN feed dropped during Trump visit to black church. Sopan Deb said, “Totally inaccurate”
“You’re going to go after somebody’s body to denigrate their ideas? What grade are you in? Are you a 13-year-old boy? ,,, That’s revolting.â€
Tucker Carlson says if blacks want to hear what Trump thinks about them, they can turn on the TV, but what they will be turning to is a campaign commercial
Trump’s hiring of undocumented workers proves the real criminals “hire” undocumented workers under conditions more consistent with slavery than employment
Trump’s new Deputy Campaign Manager, Citizens United President David Bossie, “has devoted his career ever since to trying to tear down Hillary Clinton”
Fox News not only helped create the atmosphere of hate that made Trump possible, but the simplistic thinking that makes the Trump campaign tick like the dystopian clockwork marvel that it is. For example, yesterday, Tucker Carlson of Fox & Friends, seemingly intent on demonstrating that Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who once compared NFL scandals with Benghazi,…
“Glenn Beck, it’s a holy war for him at this point. I mean, he’s off the rails attacking me every day, blaming me for Trump.”
“Most magnificent speech ever given…Hell of a speech. Almost perfect…epochal, historic, unprecedented…Excellent…”
“You can get them but you shouldn’t be allowed to vote, it’s a conflict of interest. Take that away, we’d win every single election in this country”
Trump now characterizes the Clinton Foundation as a “vast criminal enterprise†even though in the past, he has made donations to the foundation
“By all that’s holy in American politics, the Democrats ought to be finished. They ought not even have a chance…and Hillary ought not to have a prayer.”
Asked by host Don Lemon, ‘So you don’t think that she did anything wrong with the handling –‘ Cuban answered, ‘No, I really don’t.’
“We’re talking about a candidate who is clueless on immigration policy…He talks in platitudes, not real solutions.”
“When you have a real presidential campaign, you have surrogates, you roll out policy, you coordinate. There’s none of that going on and it’s chaos”
Republicans have gotten whites to vote against their self-interest for years and years. Trump’s plan is to somehow get blacks to do the same.
On the contrary, we have seen religious laws against abortion, contraception, marriage equality, religious diversity, education, and even global warming
It is astonishing what conservatives hold against President Obama and Hillary Clinton, based on nonsense they themselves have invented
“He wears it like a crown — Make America Great Again — but Trump made his shirts in Bangladesh, his ties in China and his suits in Mexico.”
We have an Islamophobic candidate whose campaign CEO has a Muslim landlord, and actual evidence of voter fraud – from the guy running Trump’s campaign
It was “another blown 48 hours” – time that could have been spent pushing all the Right’s numerous invented scandals about Hillary Clinton
“Clinton called the Republican nominee a racist…the sound of silence among mainstream Republican elected officials yesterday is stunning.”
Having just praised Trump as some sort of 100-foot tall Badass McCarthyist God walking tall across the landscape, scooping up undocumented workers in each of his massive hands, what was Coulter to think?
Sexist, Racist, and Anti-Semitic. Clinton has every reason to criticize Trump’s relationship with these people when she speaks in Reno, Nevada today.
“The alt-right is using the same tactics that the left has used for generations now, basically fighting fire with fire.”
Trump “literally took all sides. So you can’t say he was for the war. You can’t say he was against the war. He was all over the place.”
To Roger Stone’s suggestive, “I think she’s a Saudi asset,” Alex Jones could find only a vulgar reply: “Did Huma have her genitals cut off?”
Coulter makes being dumb a virtue and crudity indispensable…hurt feelings enshrined in gloss to be read alongside Trump’s endless whine.
