John Oliver has the solution to Donald Trump’s dilemma. It is also provides a happy ending for virtually everyone. Will Trump go for it? You know, stranger things have happened in this election.
Texas famously slashed funding for reproductive health clinics in the state by two thirds, which caused more than 80 clinics to shut down. This reduced health services to women by half across the state. Texas also defunded all Planned Parenthood clinics completely (regardless of whether they provided abortion services). The result? The number of women […]
The more Trump’s campaign evolves, the more it stays the same. © Kevin Siers It didn’t take long after reorganizing his campaign and even sorta kinda apologizing for the stupid and hateful things he has said, that Trump put his foot firmly in his mouth again. “With one arrogant boast, Donald Trump stumbled into a […]
An important question I have been pondering is why people insist on supporting Donald Trump, even though there is plenty of evidence that he not only lies, lies about things that are easily verified to be false, and even contradict himself. From a progressive perspective, how do we get people to “wake up” and realize […]
Saturday, August 20, 2016
© Jack Ohman If he can sell enough, Trump could make money off of his presidential run. And maybe that was the whole point in the first place.
An anarchist collective named “INDECLINE” yesterday placed full-size naked statues of Donald Trump in public places in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Cleveland. The artist who created the 300 pound statues is mainly known for creating monsters for horror films and haunted houses. The title is a reference to a Hans Christian […]
On Monday, Trump again fell back on his old standby of spewing hatred at immigrants, and called for “extreme vetting” of foreigners before they are admitted to the US. “Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country. Only those who expect […]
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Electoral Vote has a bunch of must-read posts today. The first one offers a likely explanation of why Trump suddenly rearranged his campaign and put Stephen Bannon in charge — someone who has no experience running a political campaign. It is because Trump needs money (perhaps not for the campaign, but for himself) and his […]
Thursday, August 18, 2016
FiveThirtyEight has a good article titled “Election Update: Why Clinton Doesn’t Have This Race Locked Up“. The point is the fact that Clinton has a lead now doesn’t mean that she will win the election. One of the reasons is if people get complacent and stop donating money to Clinton. After all, having the money […]
Thursday, August 18, 2016
[Jokes from Aug 3, 2016] “In the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has refused to endorse Republican leaders up for re-election, accused John McCain of failing veterans, suggested Americans pull their 401(k)s out of the stock market, threw out a crying baby at a rally, fought with the father of a dead soldier, and suggested […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
© Tom Tomorrow It would be a fantastic performance, except for the fact that he has a chance of becoming our next president. Even worse, that more than a third of all Americans have been fooled into taking him seriously and actually want him to be president. And unfortunately, with his talk of how the […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
On Monday during a Trump campaign rally in Ohio, former NY Mayor Rudi Giuliani introduced VP candidate Mike Pence by saying “You know better than I do what a great governor he is of your state.” There’s just one problem — Pence is the governor of neighboring Indiana. Even worse, while introducing Donald Trump, Giuliani […]
Criminal prosecutors in the Ukraine investigating corruption have found the name of Paul Manafort, the man running Trump’s campaign, 22 times (for a total of $12.7 million) on a secret ledger of people who were given large amounts of cash as bribes and paybacks. This blog has mentioned previously that Manafort worked for Viktor Yanukovych, […]
[Jokes from Aug 2, 2016] “Donald Trump had yet another awkward moment today. Apparently there was a crying baby at one of his rallies, and Trump actually kicked it out, saying, ‘Get the baby out of here.’ It backfired when the Secret Service tried to remove Trump.” – Jimmy Fallon “Eric Trump appeared on CBS […]
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