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Republicans on Parade – 7/28/2017

Posted by TomCat at 1:00 pm Politics

Jul 282018

Here is the one hundred twenty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is former Republican, Faux Noise perversion and harassment perpetrator, Kimberly Guilfoyle. She is so honored for the Republican way she is dating Putin’s Pervert, Jr. and propagating dick pics around her workplace.

Sources tell HuffPost that Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., engaged in emotionally abusive behavior and showed colleagues personal photos of male genitalia.

When it was revealed last week that longtime Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be leaving the network, some Fox News and White House insiders were surprised that she was choosing to move on from the cable news channel and head to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC. For nearly two years — even once rumors eventually kicked up that she might join the Trump administration — Guilfoyle said that, as a single mother, she had to think of her son’s financial future and couldn’t afford to leave the high-paying gig, multiple sources told HuffPost.

Guilfoyle’s departure was initially billed as her decision. However, as HuffPost first reported last week, multiple sources said she did not leave the network voluntarily. They said Guilfoyle was informed her time at Fox News was up following a human resources investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior including sexual misconduct, and that her lawyers had been involved since the spring. Sources also said that despite being told she would have to leave by July, Guilfoyle repeatedly attempted to delay her exit and tried to have her allies appeal to Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, to let her stay at the network…

Inserted from <Huffington Post>

Click through for much, much more.

The notion that anyone, male or female, could act in a manner too obscene for the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, boggles the mind, and that warranted her parade.

However, there is one, for whom she is not too obscene. I expect her to kick Jr. to the curb and join the White House staff in short order.

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

Open Thread – 7/28/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:00 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 282018

Here in the CatBox, the heat wave goes on and on and on. Thank goodness WWWendy comes tomorrow to destink the foul TomCat!

Jog Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:53 (average 5:26). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Why hundreds of migrant children are still separated from their parents

Trump is just the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Right-wing media panic over Democrats acknowledging health care, housing, and jobs as rights

Barf Bag Alert!!

The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, has a BS in Bullshitology. For this campaign, they get a PhD! (Piled Higher and Deeper) RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From KATU TV: Portland residents will be voting on a so-called climate-change tax this November.

An initiative qualified Friday that would tax businesses to fund renewable energy projects.

The proposal would create a 1-percent tax on retailers with national sales over a billion dollars if those businesses do at least $500,000 in sales in the city of Portland each year.

I like the idea of a tax for green energy, and I will probably vote for it, but I’d rather see the tax on boutique firms that serve the 1%, like yacht sales and high end country clubs instead of retail that will pass the cost to mainstream Portlanders. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Bringing a tumultuous chapter of American history to an abrupt conclusion, Donald J. Trump and three of his adult children fled to Moscow in the early hours of Friday morning.

Accompanied by Ivanka, Eric, and Don, Jr., Trump boarded a specially chartered Aeroflot plane to take him to his new home in Moscow, a nondescript apartment building that also houses the former N.S.A. employee Edward Snowden.

Trump reportedly was in a tremendous hurry to catch the plane and left behind only a one-sentence note, reading, “THERE WAS NO COLUSION [sic].”

Yay, Andy! Oh No!! They forgot to take Pence! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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The Bear Is Hunting Claire

Posted by TomCat at 1:05 pm Politics

Jul 272018

Back in the 19th century, British journalists used the bear as a derogatory symbol for Russia, calling that nation a brutish bully from the back woods. Early in this century, Russia adopted the symbol and it now represents the United Russia Party, Putin’s Russian GOP. Putin’s Pervert may be saying that Russia will interfere in the 2018 midterms to help Democrats, but the bear is after Claire.

The Russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyberattacks targeted Sen. Claire McCaskill as she began her 2018 re-election campaign in earnest, a Daily Beast forensic analysis reveals. That makes the Missouri Democrat the first identified target of the Kremlin’s 2018 election interference.

McCaskill, who has been highly critical of Russia over the years, is widely considered to be among the most vulnerable Senate Democrats facing re-election this year as Republicans hope to hold their slim majority in the Senate. In 2016, President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by almost 20 points in the senator’s home state of Missouri.

There’s no evidence to suggest that this attempt to lure McCaskill staffers was successful. The precise purpose of the approach was also unclear. Asked about the hack attempt by Russia’s GRU intelligence agency, McCaskill told The Daily Beast on Thursday that she wasn’t yet prepared to discuss it.

“I’m not going to speak of it right now,” she said. “I think we’ll have something on it next week. I’m not going to speak about it right now. I can’t confirm or do anything about it right now.”

The senator later released a statement asserting that the cyberattack was unsuccessful… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Daily Beast>

Rachel Maddow covered this story in depth.

Here’s the deal. Despite their threats against Russia and their claims that they are shoring-up the security for the 2018 elections, Trump and the Republican Reich will do everything in their power to enable Russian tampering. They want to protect the election from voters, not for voters. That makes it even more imperative that we get out the vote, and to vote strategically, not conscience.

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

Open Thread – 7/27/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:04 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 272018

Here at the CatBox, the heat wave goes on and on and on. Does anyone have a spare blizzard? TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:40 (average 4:56). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Sean Hannity in 2008: “If you cheat on your wife, are you going to be honest with your country?”

Barf Bag Alert!!

What changed? IOKIYAR! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Who’s Trying to Kill the Affordable Care Act?

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, gives us RepubliCare. If you’re rich enough to pay, you get health care. If not, you get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. Republicans allow you to die at no extra charge. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Cohen Prepared To Assert To Mueller Trump Knew About 2016 Trump Tower Mtg.

That’s proof of conspiracy with Putin [R-RU]. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: House Republicans on Thursday accused the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, of “secretly and nefariously” implementing a plot to uphold the United States Constitution.

In a joint press conference, Representatives Mark Meadows, of North Carolina, and Jim Jordan, of Ohio, said that they had “ample evidence” that Rosenstein was prepared to protect the Constitution “by any and all means at his disposal.”

“There is only one way to describe Rosenstein’s obsession with putting the Constitution before all other concerns,” Meadows said. “Conflict of interest.”

“It is almost as if Rod Rosenstein had taken some kind of solemn oath to defend a centuries-old document,” Jordan said. “This should make every American very, very scared.”

It sounds like Andy is reporting straight news, and Rosenstein is guilty. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Samantha Bee from 7/25

Posted by TomCat at 2:34 pm Politics

Jul 262018

It’s that time of week again, so here are three excellent video clips from Sam’s show last night. Enjoy!

The Spy Who Loved the NRA

When you look at the Republicans she was doinking, she has to be one VERY dedicated spy!

Wait, What Was Watergate Again?

Nixon:Trump::Jaywalking:Murder

Comedians in Cars with Dissidents Getting Coffee

LOL!! I like Masha.

Thanks and kudos to Sam!

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

Open Thread – 7/26/2018

Posted by TomCat at 2:33 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 262018

I’ll be getting this up way late, because I slept poorly last night. Then I took a nap this morning and overslept. Next, I just spent an hour on the phone with a nurse form my Medical Advantage Plan for my annual prescription meds review. The heat wave goes on and on and on.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 5:20). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Soccer Ball From Vladimir Putin Had An Electronic Chip

One has to wonder if Russia has Nano-circuitry tiny enough for Putin to have chipped Trump’s other balls. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Calling it “an exciting new chapter in my amazing life,” Ivanka Trump has been named dean of the business school at the newly reconstituted Trump University.

“I’ve been incredibly blessed with stratospheric success as a businessperson,” Dean Trump said on Wednesday. “This is my chance to give something back, for only fifty thousand dollars in tuition and other fees.”

Trump said that students enrolling at the Trump University School of Business can look forward to gleaning wisdom not only from her but from another star faculty member, Jared Kushner.

“When it comes to business, Jared has been almost as incredible I have,” she said.

I’m calling BS, Andy! There’s no way she can turn out graduates as incompetent and perverted as her father. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: In classic con man fashion, the candidate and president who has sworn to bring manufacturing back to the United States isn’t making any attempt to start with his own campaign. In fact, as evidenced by these photos, the Trump campaign is actively getting their gear made in China.

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Hey Shit for Brains! How about a tariff on flags for assholes? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Republican Propaganda Time!

Posted by TomCat at 1:40 pm Politics

Jul 252018

Yes, I know. You don’t have to tell me that Republican propaganda began, in earnest, with Nixon and has been growing ever since. But the last couple weeks have been very bad for the Tangerine Tovarisch. Twelve of his allies in Russia were indicted. The Helsinki blowjob and his subsequent lame excuse humiliated him. The Mueller probe is closing in. Cohen taped him bribing a mistress. Worst of all, people all over the world are laughing at him. I think the current barrage of disinformation is borne of desperation, and his minions keep goose-stepping behind him.

It was perhaps the most explosive exchange in an incendiary press conference: Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to frankly admit to a motive for, and maybe even to the act of, meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite repeatedly denying Russian interference in American politics during the rest of his appearance with Donald Trump in Finland on Monday.

But the exchange doesn’t appear in full in the White House’s live-stream or transcript of the press conference, and it’s missing entirely from the Kremlin’s transcript of the event. The White House did not immediately provide an explanation for the discrepancy.

Understanding what Putin said depends on what you watch or where you look. If you watch the video of the news conference provided by the Russian government, or by news outlets such as PBS and the Associated Press, you will hear the Reuters reporter Jeff Mason ask a bombshell of a question: “President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?”

Putin then responds with a bombshell of an answer, according to the English translation of his remarks that was broadcast during the press conference: “Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.”… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Atlantic>

The real video exists in thousands of places and you’re about to see it. He can’t change the reality, but his base will never see it, and would not believe it, if they did. In addition, Trump and his allies are now claiming that Russia plans to interfere in the 2018 election on the side of the Democrats.

Rachel Maddow covers these and several more Republican propaganda incidents. I advise you to let the video keep running past it’s end, as in subsequent segments, her panel of experts covers these issues in depth.

It’s important for you to understand these things, so you can debunk and explain these Republican lies.

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

Open Thread – 7/25/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:37 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 252018

As the heat wave enters it’s worst day, I’m running a bit late. Store to Door was late delivering my groceries, and I just finished putting them away and eating lunch. WWWendy is spending a couple days at the beach, and her niece, Katie, is filling in again. She’s a sweetheart. My lone complaint is that she lacks the sadism needed to scrub a back properly. Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:23 (average 5:14). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Why Is The Right So Scared Of A Democratic Socialist?

How terrible she is for luring people to spend their tax dollars on what people need, at the expense of the people, who Republicans say need welfare dollars most: billionaires! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Remember this?): P!nk – Dear Mr. President (from Live from Wembley Arena, London, England

When Pink first sang this song about GW Bush in December, 2006, I thought he was the worst White House resident in my memory. At his worst, he could not hold a candle to the evil that Trump is today. But remember, as bad as Trump is, he only reflects his Republican Reich. Trump is just the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump’s crusade to revoke security clearances from perceived critics was on display again on Tuesday as he threatened to yank credentials from a man he had previously praised, Frederick Douglass.

It was unclear why Trump had turned on Douglass, because, unlike other targets of Trump’s security-clearance rampage, Douglass had not made disparaging comments about him on cable news in recent weeks.

Trump offered few clues as to the source of his unhappiness with Douglass, but he broadcast his disapproval of the abolitionist in a tweet that read, “HE IS NO LONGER DOING AN AMAZING JOB.”

Dang Andy! Trump is just pissed because he realized that Douglas was black. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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