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November 17, 2017

How Four Countries Were Able To Eliminate Gun Deaths

Australia paid citizens to sell their guns to the government.

Following a deadly 1980s and '90s, culminating in a 1996 gun-driven massacre that left 35 dead, Australian Prime Minister John Howard convened an assembly to devise gun-control strategies.

The group landed on a massive buyback program costing roughly $500 million that bought and destroyed more than 600,000 automatic and semiautomatic weapons and pump-action shotguns.

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Japan puts citizens through a rigorous set of tests.

Japan seldom has more than 10 shooting deaths a year in a population of 127 million people, due to its strict laws for obtaining firearms.

If Japanese people want to own a gun, they must attend an all-day class, pass a written test, and achieve at least 95% accuracy during a shooting-range test. Then they have to pass a mental-health evaluation, which takes place at a hospital, and pass a background check, in which the government digs into their criminal record and interviews friends and family.

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Norway exemplifies the power of social cohesion and trust.

Despite having roughly a third of the guns as the US, Norway has about a tenth of the gun deaths. Sociologists who study the Nordic model have found social cohesion, between citizens and between citizens and their government, goes a long way toward ensuring a (mostly) peaceful society.

In Norway, for example, police officers fatally shoot people fewer times in nine years than US police do in a day. Gummi Oddsson, a cross-cultural sociologist from Northern Michigan University, has found that Nordic governments go to great lengths to build trust in local communities.

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The UK took a multi-pronged approach.

The UK has taken an approach that combines elements of the other three countries.

Around the time Australia passed its gun regulation, Parliament passed legislation banning private handgun ownership in Britain and banned semi-automatic and pump-action firearms throughout the entire UK. It also required shotgun owners to register their weapons.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/these-4-countries-have-nearly-eliminated-gun-deaths-%e2%80%94-heres-what-the-us-can-learn/ss-BBF0xCM?li=BBnb7Kz#image=5

I'm not sure I would agree with the guy in Norway about the community policing idea. That seems like it would give fuel to the ultra paranoid. But I think the US could easily do a combination of all of the above.

November 17, 2017

Germany Officially Replaces US As Country With Best Brand Image

Germany has replaced the United States as the country with the best "brand image," according to a new study of 50 countries released Thursday.
The Nation Brands Index (NBI) survey by German-based market research firm GfK and the British political consultant Simon Anholt measured public opinion around the world on "the power and quality of each country's 'brand image.'"
Germany moved up to first place after coming in second in 2016. The U.S. dropped from top to sixth, with France, Britain, Canada and Japan taking spots two to five.

The study calculated the final NBI score by researching how well people viewed a country across six categories: Its people, governance, exports, tourism, investment and immigration and culture and heritage.
The land of sausages, Angela Merkel and "Made in Germany" was in the top five for all but one category. Only in "tourism" did Germany fall outside the top five, coming in tenth.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed the results, saying: "Germany's image no longer rests on our economic strength. People think we're capable of much in the world."

Foreigners' views of the US worsened considerably compared to 2016, particularly in the category "governance," where it slipped from spot 19 to spot 23.
The "Trump effect" explains the fall, according to Anholt.
"The loss of the U.S.'s image in the governance category is indicative of the Trump effect, which was triggered by President Trump's policies and his 'America First' message," he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ouch-this-country-replaces-us-as-country-with-the-best-image/ar-BBF3iAc?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

MAGA!!!

November 15, 2017

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-22: You Cant Always Grope Who You Want Edition

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-22: You Can’t Always Grope Who You Want Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Be sure to join our Top 10 Rewards Program for exciting offers and benefits from our local partners! Oh god I hope it doesn’t come to that. We are back everybody! And whew, what a week it’s been! You know I'd like to first issue a formal apology this week. Yeah it's rare that we actually start the show this way. But I feel that I must apologize to someone who's been kind of a running joke throughout the Top 10. So I'm not usually good at this sort of thing but here it goes. Gwenyth Paltrow and GOOP, I'm sorry. Because we make fun of you for hawking overpriced and completely unnecessary crap to the masses. Well, I feel I can no longer make fun of GOOP because there's someone that has officially topped Gwen and her rich friends for selling that kind of crap. It's the famous New York City department store Tiffany's. Thank you sound effects guy! It's the same Tiffanys that was made famous by Audrey Hepburn, and the song, movie, merchandise, everything. And it is famous for hawking overpriced stuff to rich people who may have more money than god, Jesus, Buddah, Allah, Krishna, Confucius, and Muhammad combined. So what are they offering, you might ask? Well I answer you good sirs and madams! This week - they're hawking $1,000 tin cans. Yes, the same thing you can buy at a store for less than $1.00, they're literally charging a 10,000% markup! Can we get a shot of that?

https://twitter.com/IvyKungu/status/927375127326674944

That's right - in addition to the $1,000 tin can there's also the $1500 coffee can. Hey! We have one of those in the green room (sorry, we're cheap here), and since it's already been used, it can be yours for the low low price of $799! That's only a 5000% markup! There's also the $9,000 ball of yarn. You know, in case your rich cat lady friend isn't pretentious enough. So Gwen, you are no longer officially the chief hawker of overpriced crap. And if you want the same body-poisining supplements that GOOP provides, just go to the Infowars store! You get the added bonus of lead poisoning! That’s enough of the intro. We got a lot of idiocy to get to this week. But first, John Oliver had his season finale this week and recaps the year in review so far, and what a batshit crazy year it’s been and we still have a month left!

In the top 2 spots this week is Roy Moore (1, 2). Boy the shit really hit the fan in the Alabama senate elections and Roy Moore may finally have met his match with molestation accusations! And the GOP are stepping up to defend their champion moral crusader. In the third slot this week is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III because his lies stink like that two year old expired box of Omaha Steaks in your freezer. In the fourth slot, we’re going to recap Trump’s insane trip to China and the end of the second leg of his World Deplorable Tour 2017. At number 5 is also Donald Trump. So while you weren’t looking, some engineering firms built samples of Trump’s “amazing wall” and we’re going to do one of our signature deep dives on this subject. At number 6 is our weekly sermon on all things holy as we recap all the insanity on the Christian right in “Holy Shit”. But this week we’re particularly focusing on their reaction to the Roy Moore shit show. In the number 7 slot is Sean Hannity (7). Don’t think I am not going to let him get away without talking about the insanity surrounding the Alt Right’s insane Keurig protest. At number 8 is the Alt Right (8). So last week we reported that the Sandy Hooking of the Texas tragedy has begun. And the alt right is going batshit crazy again. In the number 9 (NEIN!!!!) slot this week we’ve got another installment of “People Are Dumb” because, well, people are dumb. Finally this week its’ more of the Top 10 World Tour (10). This time around we get to hang out in the Land Down Under! I’m of course talking about the land of kangaroos, Crocodile Dundee, the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef as we visit scenic Australia! Yay! Oh the kids love Australia, don’t they? Plus we have some live music for you – this time from one of Australia’s premier bands, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard! Yes, they have not one, not two but 3 albums this year! Plus they have more coming! How do they do it? Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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So if you’re keeping score at home – so far the members of the White Male Groper’s Club has mainly included some of Hollywood’s elite actors, comedians, producers and directors. So far the only politician who’s been included in the mix is Anthony Weiner. Although come on let’s face it, what he did wasn’t exactly elite – he just showed a picture of his penis on a phone. Well, leave it to the republicans to not only top that, they’re being complete dicks about it!

Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.

It was early 1979 and Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.

“He said, ‘Oh, you don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”

Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32/2017/11/09/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.888b5a9629bf

That’s right – Roy Moore, the guy who is the righteous champion of all things holy and staunch defender of the… *cue reverb*… SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE!!! Ooh, that was some good reverb there! And he is nothing more than a common perverted child molester. And guess what? The GOP is standing by their groper. I mean after all, you can’t spell the word “groper” without GOP!

Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore holds a 10-point lead over his Democratic opponent, according to a new poll.

The Emerson College survey found that Moore has the support of 55 percent of the Alabama voters polled, compared to 45 percent for the Democratic nominee, Doug Jones.

The poll was conducted from Nov. 9 to Nov. 11, after The Washington Post published its report in which a woman accused Moore of initiating sexual contact with her in 1979, when she was 14 and he was 32.

The poll does show improvement for Jones from the last survey conducted in September. That survey gave Moore a 22-point advantage.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/360121-poll-moore-leads-jones-by-10-points

Come on, we haven’t even got to Holy Shit yet! At least save the Jesus facepalms for later! But seriously – here’s where our good old fashioned fire and brimstone American religion has failed us. There are now 53 pastors across the state of Alabama who are approving of Roy Moore’s behavior! They support child molestation. I repeat: 53 pastors now approve of child molestation!

More than 50 Alabama pastors have signed a letter supporting Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.

Moore's wife Kayla posted the letter to her Facebook page Sunday after days of controversy surrounding her husband and allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old in 1979 when he was 32-years-old. Three other women said Moore pursued them as teenagers.

Moore denies the charges.

In their letter, the pastors said Moore was an "immovable rock in the culture wars," and has met attacks with a "rare unconquerable resolve."

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/53_pastors_sign_letter_of_supp.html#incart_river_home

You know what? Fuck your damn culture war! This is children we are talking about, and creepy old fucking weirdos seducing them! Do the right thing for once! I mean really, you can’t spell the word “groper” without “GOP!” But would you be surprised to learn that this might have been a forgery? Hey Christians! Wouldn’t this count as “bearing false witness”?

Kayla Moore, wife of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, shared a letter on Facebook over the weekend indicating support from more than 50 Alabama pastors. Not all the pastors said they gave permission for their name to be be used on what appears to be a recycled letter from before the GOP primary, however.

Moore's wife Kayla posted the letter to her Facebook page Sunday after days of controversy surrounding her husband and allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old in 1979 when he was 32-years-old. Three other women said Moore pursued them as teenagers. The letter was posted before a fifth woman, Beverly Young Nelson, came forward with additional charges Monday.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/53_pastors_sign_letter_of_supp.html

Oh and *ANOTHER* accuser has come forward! This is putting Roy Moore in Herbert The Pervert territory, and I thought he didn’t like competition!

"An Alabama woman is expected to disclose allegations of sexual assault against Roy Moore during a press conference today in New York.

New York Attorney Gloria Allred is holding a press conference at 1:30 p.m. CST (2:30 p.m. EST) with the new accuser, whose name hasn't been made public. The woman alleges that Moore, Alabama's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, assaulted her when she was a minor.

"The new accuser wishes to state what she alleges Roy Moore did to her without her consent," a news release from the lawyer states."
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_alabama_sex_claims.html#incart_river_mobileshort_home

Ooh, I like that one! Seriously the GOP can’t stand that one of their own is now a member of the White Male Groper’s Club! It must be driving them completely insane! So is there anyone left defending Mr. Moore?

Some conservatives are destroying their Keurig coffee machines in protest of the company pulling ads from Sean Hannity's show over his coverage of the sexual misconduct allegations levied at Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Keurig, Realtor.com, 23 and Me, Eloquii and Nature's Bounty all pulled their ads from the television show, in response to the Fox host urging viewers not to rush to judgment against Moore.

On social media, many used the hashtag #BoycottKeurig to slam the company for pulling its ads. Some posted videos of themselves smashing their Keurig machines and others vowed never to use the coffee maker again.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/11/13/people-destroying-their-keurig-coffee-makers-after-company-pulls-ads-hannity-fox-show/857563001/

Bet you didn’t think it was gonna be him did you? And you think you’re so smart! We’re going to talk about this more later in the show, but we’ll end this entry with this clip because I feel it’s fitting!

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Come on sing it with me!

You can’t always grope who you want. You can’t always grope who you want. You can’t always grope who you want. But if you try some times, you might find… some pussy!!! Ooooooo!!!!!! Thank you! So Roy Moore and the Christian right and their god awful “culture war” that they are the only ones convinced they are fighting, are the very reason why we can’t have nice things. As we already pointed out, the Christian right is doing nothing to denounce this mad man and will most likely make him a senator. Yeah let that sink in. So here’s how batshit insane the religious right is:

Nearly 40 percent of Alabama evangelicals say in a new poll that they are more likely to vote for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore after allegations of sexual misconduct arose against him.

A JMC analytics poll finds 37 percent of the evangelicals surveyed say the allegations against Moore make them more likely to vote for the GOP Senate candidate in the upcoming election.

Just 28 percent say the allegations made them less likely to vote for Moore and 34 percent said the allegations made no difference in their decision.

In all, 29 percent of respondents in the poll said the allegations against Moore would make them more likely to vote for him, compared to 38 percent overall who say the allegations would make them less likely to support Moore.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/360010-poll-37-percent-of-alabama-evangelicals-more-likely-to-vote-for-moore-after

Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Really, I’d like to tell them where they can shove this bullshit “culture war”. Although I already did! Moving on! Moving on! So you might want to rethink your senate campaign decisions, there, Alabama GOP. How about a write in candidate?

The chairwoman of the Republican Party of Alabama on Sunday cautioned against supporting a write-in candidate in next month’s Senate race as concerns in the party grow over allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore.

“It would be a serious error for any current elected GOP official or candidate to publicly endorse another party’s candidate, an independent, a third party or a write in candidate in a general election as well,” Terry Lathan told the Alabama Political Reporter.

“I have heard of no GOP elected official or candidate that is even considering this option.”

There has been increasing talk of a write-in campaign since The Washington Post published last week a report containing allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against Moore, the Republican nominee in the Senate race.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/360114-alabama-gop-chair-warns-party-officials-against-write-in-campaign

OK so that doesn’t work! Or maybe you are Roy Moore yourself. Ah, who am I kidding? There’s no one in my audience who’s a wannabe cowboy with a shit eating grin is there? Is there? Well, how about your good friend – the lawsuit?

(CNN)Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore says he will sue the Washington Post over its report alleging he pursued sexual relationships with teenagers -- including a 14-year-old -- when he was in his 30s.
"The Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation because they are desperate to stop my political campaign. These attacks said I was with a minor child and are false and untrue -- and for which they will be sued," Moore said Sunday night during a campaign speech in Huntsville, Alabama.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/roy-moore-washington-post-lawsuit/index.html

Oh come on, Roy! What attack on your character? You’re just a creepy old southern white dude with a god complex who’s part of a “good old boys” club! You’re just doing what your friends in said club would do – have sex with underage girls! Now *THIS* is putting Roy way past the Good Old Boys club into creepy Herbert The Pervert territory!

Greg Legat, who is now fifty-nine and living in East Gadsden, was, from 1981 to 1985, an employee at the Record Bar, a store that was in the Gadsden Mall. By the early eighties, Legat told me, the mall was “the place to be. There were no empty stores. And lots of kids came around. Lots of teen-agers. You went there to see and be seen.” Legat met his wife, Jo Anne, there. She worked at a restaurant called Orange Bowl. Legat remembers that parents dropped their kids off at the mall, typically unchaperoned. Teens filled the place.

Legat says that he saw Moore there a few times, even though his understanding then was that he had already been banned. “It started around 1979, I think,” Legat said. “I know the ban was still in place when I got there.” Legat recalled a Gadsden police officer named J. D. Thomas, now retired, who worked security at the mall. “J. D. was a fixture there, when I was working at the store,” Legat said. “He really looked after the kids there. He was a good guy. J. D. told me, ‘If you see Roy, let me know. He’s banned from the mall.’ ” Legat recalled Thomas telling him, “If you see Moore here, tell me. I’ll take care of him.’ ” Legat said that his boss, Eddie Hill, also told him to look for Moore. A phone call to Hill’s number was not returned.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/locals-were-troubled-by-roy-moores-interactions-with-teen-girls-at-the-gadsden-mall?mbid=social_twitter

You know what’s really creepy? Someone gets paid to write for that character! So what if you’re the Senate? How do you do some major damage control on this whole thing? I believe this is what we call a circular firing squad!

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new accuser said Monday that as a teenager in the 1970s she was sexually assaulted by Roy Moore in a locked car, further rocking the Alabama Republican's race for an open Senate seat. The allegation came on day when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Moore should quit the contest, and Moore fired back that it was McConnell who should step down.

Even before the news conference by Beverly Young Nelson, Moore's campaign released a statement saying that attorney Gloria Allred — who's representing Nelson — "is a sensationalist leading a witch hunt." It said Moore is innocent and "has never had any sexual misconduct with anyone."

In tears, Nelson said in New York that when she was 16, Moore offered her a ride home from the restaurant where she worked. She accused him of touching her breasts and locking the door to keep her inside his car. She said he squeezed her neck while trying to push her head toward his crotch and tried to pull her shirt off.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moore-threatens-lawsuit-over-story-threatens-campaign-085807565--election.html

Yeah… it’s kind of like that! But guess what? He ain’t going anywhere, folks! Oh, this thing just got a whole lot messier especially with a new accuser coming down the pike. But the GOP just can’t see through that one of their own is a creepy fucking pervert! What does it take?

WASHINGTON — A fifth woman accused Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, on Monday of making sexual or romantic advances toward her when she was a teenager, as senior Republicans in Washington called for him to drop out of the race and threatened to expel him from the Senate if he wins.

The new accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, told a news conference in New York that Mr. Moore attacked her when she was 16 and he was a prosecutor in Etowah County, Ala. Ms. Nelson was represented at the news conference by Gloria Allred, a lawyer who has championed victims of sexual harassment.

“I tried fighting him off, while yelling at him to stop, but instead of stopping, he began squeezing my neck attempting to force my head onto his crotch,” Ms. Nelson said in a statement she issued at the news conference. She said Mr. Moore warned her that “no one will believe you” if she told anyone about the encounter in his car.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/roy-moore-alabama-senate.html

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So I was originally going to talk about Infowars in this entry but I don’t have to now! Yay! Thank you to our esteemed Attorney General and Kate McKinnon impersonator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, esquire. For you have saved me!! Why? Because Jeff Sessions lies so much, his lies have their own undertones – much like a fine wine, or that box of Omaha Steaks your clients gave you that’s been sitting in your freezer for the last two years. You’ve been meaning to cook them, damn it!

So what’s Mr. I’m Too Southern lying about this week? Well…

Sessions: I don’t recall Russia reports, but I shot down Trump-Putin meeting.

Mr. Sessions denied that he lied in October when he testified that he knew of nobody in the Trump campaign who had contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign. “And I don’t believe it happened,” he said.

Court records later revealed that Mr. Sessions led a March 2016 meeting in which George Papadopoulos, a campaign aide, discussed his Russian ties and suggested setting up a meeting between Mr. Trump. and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president.

“I had no recollection of this meeting until I saw these news reports,” Mr. Sessions said.

Mr. Sessions testified Tuesday that was still hazy on the details about what Mr. Papadopoulos had proposed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia.html

Well fucking duh! Of course he’s going to lie! That’s what compulsive liars like Sessions do! They lie so much their lies have their own character and body to them. How much does the shit stink, you might ask yourself? Well the answer good sir / madam is this:

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's repeated public comments attacking the Justice Department have not influenced the department or ongoing investigations, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday during a contentious House judiciary committee hearing.

Sessions said although his Justice Department will consider investigations into Hillary Clinton, he could not say whether he would recuse himself from the matter, contradicting his previous statements on the matter. He said there was not yet enough evidence of impropriety to merit assigning a new special counsel.

"You can have your idea but sometimes we have to study what the facts are and to evaluate whether it meets the standard that requires a special counsel," Sessions told Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. "'Looks like' is not enough basis to appoint a special counsel," the attorney general later added.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/sessions-hearing-mueller-papadopoulos-clinton/index.html

Dude, here’s an experiment for all you science loving Top 10 fans – take a Jeff Sessions lie, any lie, take one and let it ferment like a good home brew, or again, that box of Omaha Steaks that’s been sitting in your freezer for the last two years. I don’t even have a working grill, damn it! Well, just like that two year old box of Omaha Steaks, if you peel back the layers, you will find something very disgusting sitting underneath, like this:

We know President Trump during the campaign publicly encouraged the Russians to hack and release Hillary Clinton’s emails. We know he referenced the WikiLeaks email dump 145 times in the closing days of the campaign. We also know that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Russians in June 2016 with the promise of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, and we have learned that campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had extensive contacts with Russian officials that included discussion of “dirt” on Clinton. To say that there is no evidence of collusion, then, would be one more big lie in a series of big lies the administration has deployed to defend itself in the Russia investigation that threatens to sink this presidency. But in case all of that were not enough to constitute “collusion” (which is not a legal term), The Post reports:

Trump’s eldest son exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign at the same time the website was publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials, according to correspondence made public Monday. Donald Trump Jr. did not respond to many of the notes, which were sent using the direct message feature on Twitter. But he alerted senior advisers on his father’s campaign, including his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to two people familiar with the exchanges.

In the messages, WikiLeaks urged Trump Jr. to promote its trove of hacked Democratic emails and suggested that President Trump challenge the election results if he did not win, among other ideas. They were first reported by the Atlantic and later posted by Trump Jr. on Twitter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-communicated-with-wikileaks-during-2016-campaign/2017/11/13/947e64d4-c8

So you say there was no collusion, yet Trump’s own son colluded with Wikileaks and Lord Of The Trolls, Julian Assange! So we’ve removed the 2 year old steaks from their containers, now let’s peel off the wrapper and see what’s underneath that!! Speaking of Wikileaks!

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange went public Tuesday with his pitch to Donald Trump Jr., saying his election-year offer to be an ambassador to the U.S. as an advocate for whistleblowers is still on the table.

Trump Jr. has given his private Twitter correspondences with WikiLeaks over to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Some of those correspondences leaked to the Atlantic on Monday, so Trump Jr. released them on Twitter.

WikiLeaks, which published emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta before last year’s election, pushed Trump Jr. in the private messages to tweet out links to their work and to check out some of the campaign dirt that they’d come across.

Trump Jr. did not respond to most of the messages from WikiLeaks, but the contact has only added to the scrutiny surrounding the Trump campaign and possible ties to Russia.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/360291-wikileaks-to-trump-jr-our-offer-of-being-ambassador-to-the-us

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You know is Donald Trump following us? Or maybe when I put together our World Tour schedule, I was a psychic! Just maybe a week off. We’re in China, he’s in China! We’re in the Philippines, he’s in the Philippines. And yes – he’s with his wannabe BFF, Rodrigo Duterte! You know back to Sean Hannity fans boycotting Keurigs. Here’s the craziest part of this whole thing – they seem to think that’s offensive! Yes, this is somehow offensive!

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/929777702537543681

Nah. You're just an idiot who destroyed a $300 coffee maker. You know what's more offensive? This.

President Rodrigo Duterte crooned a hit Filipino love song at a dinner in Manila for leaders from across Asia, explaining later that it was “on the orders of Donald Trump”.

The US president and Duterte were among 19 leaders at a gala in the Philippines capital on Sunday before the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit. At one point Duterte took the microphone to sing Ikaw (You), in a duet with local pop diva Pilita Corrales.

One of the song’s verses, translated from Filipino, begins: “You are the light in my world, a half of this heart of mine.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/13/you-are-the-light-philippines-duterte-sings-love-song-for-trump

Yes - that's the mass murdering dictator of the Philippines rekindling his bromance with Trump by serenading him with the Filipino equivalent of "I Want To Know What Love Is". Now *THAT* is fucking offensive! Thank you! But there’s more to this trip than just the wrong and very disturbing bromance between Trump and Duterte.

Washington (CNN)Before their bilateral meeting in Manila on Monday, President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte posed for pictures. Reporters were late for what is known as the "pool spray" because, according to the pool report of the meeting, they were held up by security.
When they finally got into the room, reporters asked questions of the two leaders regarding Duterte's controversial human rights record and whether Trump would raise it with him. Here's what happened next:
Duterte: "We will be discussing matters that are of interest to both the Philippines and ... with you around, guys, you are the spies."
"Hah, hah, hah," Trump said laughing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/trump-duterte-press/index.html

Yeah because mass murderers like Duterte will often joke about things that might be considered crimes against humanity to others. Kind of like when you’re playing the latest Mario game and Bowser has a good laugh over the destruction of the Mushroom Kingdom. Yeah never mind that thousands of innocents are dying, let’s all have a good gut laugh about it! I mean because if you can’t laugh at yourself you’re not much of a person, right?

MANILA — President Trump said on Monday that he had a “great relationship” with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, making little mention of human rights at his first face-to-face meeting with an authoritarian leader accused of carrying out a campaign of extrajudicial killings in his nation’s war on drugs.

In a stark break from past practice by American presidents, who have pressed foreign leaders publicly and privately about allegations of human rights abuses, Mr. Trump instead pursued his own transactional style of diplomacy, dwelling mostly on areas of common ground during his meeting with Mr. Duterte. On the sideline of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit meeting, Mr. Trump focused on combating the Islamic State and illegal drugs as well as on trade issues, the White House said.

“Human rights briefly came up in the context of the Philippines’ fight against illegal drugs,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/world/asia/trump-duterte-philippines.html

I have a great relationship with the Philippines, OK! Unbelievable! Totally! The best! You know what can we show that tweet there?

https://twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/930079538184441856

Holy shit! Even his smile is psychotic! I mean how is that possible? That is the smile of a guy who looks like he gets joy from kicking puppies and taking candy from babies! Oh and by the way , way to bury the lead there from Trump spokesperson, and woman whose couch and clothing are most likely covered in cat hair, Sarah Huckabee Sanders! Because this shit is happening and Trump just stands there and smiles psychotically!

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sanctioned a bloody drug war that features extrajudicial killing. He called Barack Obama a "son of a whore." This week, he boasted that he murdered a man with his own hands.

All that went unmentioned in public by President Donald Trump when the leaders held talks Monday in the Philippines.

Reporters saw the beginning of the leaders' bilateral meeting in during which Trump praised Duterte's hospitality, the organization of the summit he was hosting and even Manila's weather. Trump said nothing about human rights and both leaders ignored shouted questions about the violent drug crackdown. The two men also shared a laugh in the meeting when Duterte called reporters "spies."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/13/trump-does-not-publicly-rebuke-duterte-for-drug-war-killings.html

Trump is like this:

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So while Trump is on the second leg of his World Deplorable Tour 2017, let’s talk about some issues back home. Like remember the border wall? Did anyone else forget about that? You know how Trump promised that he was going to build a massive border wall – “It’s gonna be the greatest wall ever, OK? And Mexico is going to pay for it all!”. So how does one begin acquiring land for this job? Well, if you guessed illegally, you are correct!

Washington (CNN)Although approval for a new border wall has yet to come, the Trump administration has taken subtle steps to be able to seize land to build one, including by restarting litigation that has laid dormant for years against landowners, according to a new report from Senate Democrats.
Roughly two-thirds of the US-Mexico border runs through private or state-owned lands, meaning the federal government would need to purchase, seize or seek permission to use land in order to build a border wall. Based on efforts a decade ago to build border fencing, that process is likely to cost the government millions and could take years of complex litigation.
And it appears the administration is gearing up for it.
Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee produced a report on eminent domain and a border wall on Monday, citing the administration's lack of clarity about what would be required to build President Donald Trump's proposed wall.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/border-wall-eminent-domain/index.html

Yeah I think everyone’s hopes are deleted at least for the time being. But you know the border wall was one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises. So he’s fulfilling one end of it illegally. How’s he fulfilling the other end?

Documents obtained by the Observer offer new insights into the Trump administration’s plans for a border wall in portions of the Rio Grande Valley. A map produced in May by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows where the administration expects to build 33 miles of wall in 15 different segments, including portions that would tear through three wildlife areas. The documents also reveal a rating system the administration is using to rank the difficulty of building each segment, based on the topography and the legal difficulty of taking over the land.

“Nice RV park, many retirees live there permanently,” reads the entry for a nearly 2-mile segment that would cut off the Chimney Park RV Resort, the historic La Lomita Chapel and the Riverside Club, a popular hangout for winter Texans. “Western half of segment will impacts [sic] upward of 100 homeowners.” The Army Corps rates building the section as “most challenging.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/map-trump-border-wall-locations-texas/

Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! He’s going to kill lots of innocent wildlife in the process! Now your average Trumplodyte will be bragging about how the wildlife deserved it, because, MAGA! So what kind of wall are they looking at building?

SAN DIEGO — The Department of Homeland Security unveiled several border wall prototypes here on Thursday that the agency said was the first step in carrying out President Trump’s plan to build a barrier along the nearly 2,000-mile border that the United States shares with Mexico.

Agency officials said they would test the mock-ups over the next few months to determine which worked best in curbing illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

“The prototypes are vitally important to the future of border security,” said Ronald D. Vitiello, the acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol. Mr. Vitiello said the walls were central to the agency’s efforts to secure the border.

As Mr. Vitiello spoke alongside the prototypes, erected near existing fencing along the border in San Diego, a few Mexican police officers stood on the other side, watching. Before he spoke, Mr. Vitiello walked over and shook their hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/border-wall-prototypes-unveiled.html

Yeah that’s the kind of shit eating grin that makes people think you should belong on a list and kept 500 feet away from schools and Chuck E Cheeses! Chuck E Cheeses – the Florida of pizza chains! I kid, I kid! Anyway, I am getting off track here! Oh and guess what? You know what else is getting off track? The wall itself!

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall is far from built but towering concrete and steel prototypes in San Diego are making Mexicans living just south of the border feel his campaign pledge has turned them into “pariahs.”

Eight samples as high as 30 feet (9 meters) were completed last week near the Otay Mesa border crossing, the first tangible sign of Trump’s vow to build a wall from California to Texas for some $21.6 billion.

Opposite San Diego, residents of the Mexican city of Tijuana, where homes, companies and parks abut a corrugated steel fence on the border, dread the prospect of work on a permanent wall.

“People are still going to cross out of necessity even though they view us as pariahs over there,” said student Paola Gomez, 21, standing outside her home as the noise of workers putting up the sections drifted across the border.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mexico-wall/mexicans-dismayed-by-rise-of-trumps-border-wall-idUSKBN1D15JA

By the way I love the people who own one of my favorite party games - Cards Against Humanity. They've done all kinds of crazy shit like dig a giant hole, just because. But this week, in relation to Trump's insane border wall, the did this:

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cards Against Humanity, the "party game for terrible people" based in Chicago, has purchased a plot of land on the Mexican border and retained an eminent domain law firm to block the construction of President Trump's border wall.

"Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans. He is so afraid that he wants to build a twenty-billion dollar wall that everyone knows will accomplish nothing. So we've purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built," the company wrote on their website.

Cards Against Humanity purchased the land as part of their "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" holiday promotion. The holiday special costs $15 and features six "America-saving surprises" mailed to participants during the month of December.

The first gift features an illustrated map of the border land purchased, a certificate of the company's promise to fight the wall, and "other surprises."

Read more: http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/cards-against-humanity-buys-land-on-mexican-border-to-block-trumps-wall/2648404/

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Oh and by the way in case you’re wondering – no, Trump’s border wall will *NOT* keep heroin and other illegal drugs out of America!

THIRTY feet high, built of concrete and steel, eight prototypes for Donald Trump’s wall stand in the dusty ground near the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego. Later this month a private company will start testing the slabs to see how they withstand attempts to climb over or tunnel beneath them.

On October 26th, when Donald Trump declared America’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, he said that his signature infrastructure project was a big part of the solution. “An astonishing 90% of the heroin in America comes from south of the border, where we will be building a wall which will greatly help in this problem”, he said. “It will have a great impact.” He had previously suggested that the wall should be see-through to prevent injuries from smugglers launching 60-pound bags of drugs over it (two of the prototypes are transparent). Mr Trump has long argued that a border wall would reduce undocumented immigration including that of drug dealers. But the available evidence suggests that a wall would have no effect on heroin supplies and could even increase the number of undocumented workers in America.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/11/transparent-hype

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Yes, friends! Gather around, friends! Pass the collection plate, friends! Yay, in this most troubling of times, we turn to the holiest among us. But even then we realize that the holiest among us are full of well…

Yay, this week we focus our attention on our esteemed brother Roy Moore! Because you know he is among the holiest among us! And the Christian right seems to have turned politics into a contact sport because, well, he crazy. And most of his supporters are crazy. Like this fucking guy – Wayne Allen Root, who says this:

Right-wing radio host, commentator, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump–obsessed sycophant Wayne Allyn Root delivered a furious rant in defense of Roy Moore on his radio program last week after reports surfaced that Moore had pursued sexual relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, demanding to know why the press never investigated reports that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had gay relationships.

“They’re scumbags,” Root said of Moore’s critics, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom Root insisted is “evil” and “looks like he died 20 years ago.”

Root said that based on the photos he has seen of the women who have accused Moore of pursuing them when they were teenagers, “they were beautiful young girls and they could have passed for 20” and so even if Moore did “hit on a couple of them,” it is no big deal because “every time a see a video or picture of [Joe Biden], he’s got his hand inappropriately on a woman’s ass.”
www.rightwingwatch.org/post/wayne-allyn-root-defends-roy-moore-by-alleging-that-clinton-and-obama-had-gay-relationships/

Yes they beith ever so crazy! Because that’s what the LORD OUR GOD would have wanted! And of courseth, why not blameth all males or anyone who has a penis for that matter? Because that’s what JAYSUS would want!!!!

Religious Right radio host and American Family Association official Sandy Rios attempted today to downplay reports that Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore made romantic advances toward teenagers and molested a 14-year-old girl while in his 30s by implying that most men Moore’s age have things in their pasts that they are “ashamed of sexually.”

On her radio program this morning, Rios attempted to downplay and discredit accusations levied against Moore, questioning whether any of her male listeners did not have some shame over a past sexual act.

“Honestly, do you think there’s a person alive on the planet—certainly, I’ll limit it a little bit, I will say any man listening to my voice—that doesn’t have something in his past, in his box of secrets, that he’s ashamed of sexually?” Rios asked. “Especially, let’s just say, beginning in the ‘60s.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sandy-rios-downplays-roy-moore-allegations-what-man-doesnt-have-something-hes-ashamed-of-sexually/

Yeah so let’s just lump all men in with bizarre sex crimes. You know that’s the kind of logic or lack thereof that the fundies love. One does it, so all must do it! You know – fights breaketh out among thine parents at thine Chuck E Cheese, so all customers who take their kids to Chuck E Cheese are potential fight starters! I kiddeth, I kiddeth. But you know what? You got to standeth by thine man! Because that’s what THE LORD OUR GOD would want and he is up there in HEAVEN shining down the light on ALL!!!

Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore’s run for the U.S. Senate is a dream come true for many Religious Right activists, and they aren’t letting allegations that Moore pursued sexual relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s get in the way of their support for him.

While some conservative activists, such as the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, are hedging their bets by saying that the allegations against Moore would be disqualifying “if true,” others have blindly accepted Moore’s denials and are demonizing his accusers and the media, specifically The Washington Post, which first reported on the accusations.

Moore’s allies at Breitbart News have been all-hands-on-deck to run interference for their candidate and try to dig up dirt on his accusers. The conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group used a local Alabama TV station it owns to defend Moore.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roy-moores-religious-right-supporters-stand-by-their-man/

But now beith some sanity. Or maybe not. Some Alabama republicans were quick to defend Brother Moore but then there were some that were sticking by thine groper:

A number of top Alabama Republicans were quick to defend Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) following allegations that he’d sought sexual relationships with multiple teenagers — and quick to attack Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for throwing Moore under the bus.

McConnell said Moore “must step aside” if the Washington Post’s story was true that Moore, then 32, initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979. It was a line echoed by most senators.

That infuriated a number of Republicans back in Alabama, many of whom defended Moore’s character and suggested the women were likely lying.

“I think it’s just a bunch of bull,” Perry Hooper Jr., President Trump’s Alabama state chairman, told TPM. “Mitch McConnell should know better to make a statement like he made unless he gets all the answers. We’re right in the political zone right now, the election’s December 12th. This is the same campaign issue the left ran against Donald Trump on, they’re doing the same thing against Roy Moore.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-alabama-gopers-blast-mcconnell-defend-roy-moore-after-underage-sex-allegations

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But then finally in case you’re wondering if thine Christian right couldn’t be any crazier, I giveth you Liz Crokin, who sayeth this about child sex slaves and the illuminati. They are DEMONS!!!!!! Sanctioned by the LORD OUR GOD AND THE ALMIGHTY!!!!!! Hallelujah! Passeth thine collection plate!!!

Last week, right-wing “journalist” Liz Crokin alleged that the fact that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta likes to wear red shoes is a sign that he is a pedophile because the Illuminati uses the movie “The Wizard of Oz” to brainwash child sex slaves.

Making a second appearance on a program hosted by one-time “Survivor” contestant Anna Khait that was streamed on Mike Cernovich’s Facebook page last Thursday, Crokin continued on her mission to expose the supposed fact that leading government, entertainment and business leaders are involved in a massive satanic pedophile cult by linking Podesta’s choice of shoes to Illuminati mind-control.

“Tony Podesta is obsessed with his red shoes,” Crokin said. “There is symbolism for red shoes in the occult and it’s also tied to satanic ritualistic abuse and the trafficking of children.”

“The Illuminati, the elites, they use ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to mind control child slaves,” she added. “They use certain films to program children and part of the programming is having them watch these films and they also sexually abuse them and they physically abuse them because the abuse splits their personality and creates different personalities, so then they are able to program them and control them and they virtually become MK-Ultra programming.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-explains-how-the-illuminati-uses-the-wizard-of-oz-to-create-child-sex-slaves/

Holy shit!!! You are actively defending pedophilia! So you can stop this foolishness, Liz! Because if you still defend Roy Moore, you are not the child of the LORD OUR GOD! Yay, mass has ended this week, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:

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OK who wants a nice K-Cup of your favorite beverage? Come and get ‘em, audience! K-Cups for everybody! You get a K-Cup, you get a K-Cup, you get a K-Cup! And you get one! And you get one! And you get one! Everybody gets a K-Cup! Everybody gets a K-Cup!!!! Oh you stay here, Sean Hannity! Don’t let me think I’m letting you get away with this one! Yeah you know what I’m talking about - I’ve mentioned this twice already. But it bears a third mentioning.

Yeah die, you motherfucking Keurig! Die!!!! Because MAGA!!!! You know you’re not really boycotting anything, Hannity fans. See Keurig already got your money. You really want to piss Keurig off take that $300 you would spend on one of their coffee makers and send a video of you lighting that $300 on fire directly! But guess what? It’s only temporary!

In a companywide memo obtained by the media, Keurig CEO Bob Gamgort apologized to employees for attracting national, negative attention to the coffeemaker by creating the appearance that the brand was "taking sides" by pulling its advertising from Sean Hannity's Fox News program.

The memo also placed the blame for the considerable backlash the brand has experienced since that decision on both Hannity and on the way it announced the move via social media.

Last week, Keurig made the not-unreasonable decision to stop advertising its products on "Hannity" after the host appeared to downplay allegations that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had engaged in improper and illegal sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl.

On Saturday, the company announced the decision via a reply to an inquiry by Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, sent to the brand's official Twitter account.
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/13/keurig-sean-hannity-fox-news/

Yeah take a page from Heath Ledger’s Joker – light your money on fire!!! So what did Sean Hannity say that pissed everybody off? You know, maybe don’t use the phrase “lynch mob”, guys!

NEWT GINGRICH: This guys never had a jury trial, he’s never been indicted, there’s never been a chance to measure up against his accusers. I’m not defending him but I’m just saying it’s amazing to me how rapidly the lynch mob can form.

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You and I are in the same position. I, listen, I don’t know.

GINGRICH: I remember still, when you were a mere child I remember Clarence Thomas walking into that Senate hearing room and talking about a “modern day lynching”, and I remember how whipped up and how excited the liberals were and how they had this wonderful witness. And I watched all of them melt as Clarence Thomas just took them to pieces.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/11/13/sean-hannity-show-newt-gingrich-says-lynch-mob-after-roy-moore/218546

Seriously – this whole thing is a trainwreck! And here’s the thing Hannity fans – you’re not really boycotting shit! Keurig already has your money! They couldn’t really give a shit what they do with your machines!

Mix together a popular coffee maker, a conservative TV host and a politician accused of dating teenage girls, and the result is a potent brew of consumer anger.

The #BoycottKeurig hashtag started when coffee maker Keurig said it had pulled ads from "Hannity," the top-rated cable news show hosted by Fox News' Sean Hannity. The decision came after some consumers expressed concerns to the coffee company about host Sean Hannity's coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama.

Brands carefully scrutinize where their ads appear, snubbing outlets that might reflect badly on their image. Yet conservative fans responded by expressing outrage with Keurig's decision, prompting the #BoycottKeurig hashtag and posting videos of themselves destroying their Keurig machines.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-hannity-keurig-fans-boycott/

And then here’s the best part of this whole thing – the MAGA idiots destroying their Keurigs show that they’re actually part of a pro environmental movement! That’s right! By destroying something like the Keurig and boycotting the company, they’re saving the earth! And that’s something that the MAGA idiots hate!

In response to consumer complaints, Keurig wrote Saturday, “We worked with our media partner and Fox News to stop our ad from airing during The Sean Hannity Show,” in a tweet that has since been deleted. (Keurig CEO Bob Gamgort today clarified that “the decision to communicate our short-term media actions on Twitter was done outside of company protocols.”)

The ideological basis of the Keurig Smash Challenge is murky and filled with directionless energy, not unlike coffee. The protesting of Keurig is a small step removed from overtly supporting the reported actions of Moore. What’s more, destroying Keurig machines also clearly aligns these people with a global environmentalist movement. In 2015, the “Kill the K-Cup” campaign took hold among those concerned about the net waste of so many pods. A Canadian advocate encouraged people to publicly abandon the machines.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/conservatives-join-environmentalist-movement/545711/

But Hannity and the Keurig CEO decided to makeup after the fiasco, but hey some MAGAholes got some likes on Twitter and they’re out $300. Can’t wait to see what the next advertising boycott brings! Smash your car, smash your house! You know you want to!

Don’t boycott coffee machine maker Keurig Green Mountain. So says conservative talk show host Sean Hannity, whose fans have been smashing their Keurig coffee makers and gleefully posting the videos on Twitter.

“I am a believer of freedom of speech,” Hannity said during his radio talk show Monday. “I’m not going to support a boycott of Keurig.”

That came after Keurig said it planned to stop airing ads during the Sean Hannity Show on Fox News—sparking videos of Hannity fans smashing their Keurig machines in protest. Keurig’s decision to pull advertising, which its CEO apologized Monday for announcing on Twitter, came after Hannity sparked controversy for defending Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations of sexual misconduct with minors. Moore has denied those allegations, but the controversy has sent Republican leaders scrambling for ways to block his election to the Senate.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/13/sean-hannity-keurig-boycott-fox-news/

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So the Alt Right – they’re like your racist uncle’s brand of racists but with a cool, hip new attitude! I mean you know Trump has emboldened the racists. And it’s also enabled a new generation of racists who, unlike their racist uncles, are proud to wear their racism out in the open. Take for example Alt Right darling and Fox News Barbie doll (now comes with “Hillary For Prison” t-shirt and pre-programmed talking list of Trump conspiracy theories!), Tomi Lahren. Who this week attempted to troll “liberal snowflakes” and it backfired on her spectacularly:

https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/930108538185179136
https://twitter.com/osnapitscri/status/930251393851588609
https://twitter.com/LeBrittfar/status/930110414146494465

I like that last one! So the Alt Right is of course batshit insane. And now let’s focus on another Alt Right darling and guy who thinks “The Man Show” isn’t manly enough, Mike Cernovich, who said this:

Mike Cernovich, a self-described “New Right” pundit infamous for his role in the “Pizzagate” conspiracy hoax, claimed that what he perceives as attacks on him and Infowars host Alex Jones from mainstream media outlets are actually attacks on every nuclear family in America.

On Jones’ program last week, Cernovich and Jones discussed the Senate testimony of a lawyer representing Twitter, who said that the platform had attempted to suppress perceived interference in the 2016 election by suppressing tweets that promoted Wikileaks releases with the hashtags “#DNCLeak” and “#PodestaEmails.” The duo interpreted the statement as validation of their longstanding warnings that conspiratorial globalist forces are using digital platforms to censor and silence their worldview.

“This is not an attack on you and me,” Cernovich told Jones. “We’re just puppets to the globalist pedophile masterminds. You and I, they’re attacking us because we’re public figures. Ultimately, this is an attack on every nuclear family in America. They’re trying to destroy the nuclear family. They’re trying to enslave people.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mike-cernovich-attacks-on-me-are-attacks-on-every-nuclear-family-in-america/

No Mike, we’re just trying to destroy you, big difference! I mean really, do you protest way too much, or is it just you? Yeah it’s just you. By the way in case you wonder what it’s like to work with these insane lunatics, ask the employees at Tesla who this week said this:

Tesla Inc.’s production floor is a "hotbed for racist behavior," an African-American employee claimed in a lawsuit in which he alleged black workers at the electric carmaker suffer severe and pervasive harassment.

The employee says he’s one of more than 100 African-American Tesla workers affected and is seeking permission from a judge to sue on behalf of the group. He’s seeking unspecified general and punitive monetary damages as well as an order for Tesla to implement policies to prevent and correct harassment.

"Although Tesla stands out as a groundbreaking company at the forefront of the electric car revolution, its standard operating procedure at the Tesla factory is pre-Civil Rights era race discrimination," the employee said in the complaint, filed Monday in California’s Alameda County Superior Court.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-13/tesla-a-hotbed-for-racist-behavior-black-workers-claim-in-suit

And that’s in my home state damn it! These alt right lunatics are everywhere! Well, it should be no surprise given the fiasco that’s been happening at Google lately. And speaking of the Alt Right, their favorite news network of choice Breitbart are the big losers this week in their defense of Roy Moore. You know Breitbart – it’s like Fox News but with more use of the N word.

Monday afternoon, the three-level headline on the homepage conservative website Breitbart News said it all: “Alabama Woman Says Roy Moore Sexually Assaulted Her in 1971… ’I Thought He Was Going to Rape Me’… Gloria Allred: Trump Supporter Came to Me.”

The revelations of another accuser of Roy Moore, the Republican’s problematic Senate candidate in Alabama, threw a bucket of cold water on Breitbart and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s attempt to back Moore amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

In what it promoted as an “exclusive” blockbuster story less than 24 hours ago, Breitbart published a piece featuring an interview with the mother of one of the women who has accused Moore of initiating sexual contact with her when she was a teenager. The mother claimed reporters at the Washington Post convinced her daughter to go public.

“She did not go to them,” Nancy Wells told Breitbart of her daughter, Leigh Corfman, who accused Moore of attempting to initiate sexual contact with her when she was just 14. “They called her.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/roy-moore-alabama-senate-sexual-misconduct-breitbart-steve-bannon-20171113.html

And speaking of freaks over there in loser ville, there’s Oath Keepers founder and member of the Bryan Cranston impersonators’ club, Greg McInnes, who said this about last week’s elections in Virginia:

CRTV commentator Gavin McInnes, who also leads the bizarre, misogynistic “Proud Boys” fraternity, said that the historic election of several openly transgender people to state and local offices earlier this week can be blamed on men allowing women to vote.

On yesterday’s episode of “Get Off My Lawn,” McInnes was joined by Gateway Pundit’s White House reporter Lucian Wintrich, who joined him in attributing major Republican losses to Democrats campaigning on “identity politics” by putting forward diverse candidates. They went on to attribute the election of transgender people, including Virginia state assembly candidate Danica Roem, to women’s ability to vote.

“The liberals say, ‘Maybe we should give up on identity politics,’ but you look at all the Sikhs and black people and trans who won in this election and all these unprecedented cases. It had nothing to do with policy. It was all identity politics,” McInnes said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-trans-candidates-wouldnt-have-won-if-men-didnt-let-women-vote/

By the way, anyone really surprised that a known gun nut and creepy looking old guy who very obviously applies a generous dose of Just For Men hair coloring to his hair every morning hosts a show called “Get Off My Lawn”?. I’m not! But have no fear, Alt Right! If you’re that afraid of a democratic takeover of the government after your incompetence, you can always move to Poland – they share their views with you!

The official celebration of Poland’s 99th independence day went innocuously, with the usual ceremonies in the capital. There was even a visit from the European Council’s internationalist president, who insisted to Politico that Saturday’s festivities would proceed “with a smile on our face and with joy in our hearts.”

But for blocks and blocks and blocks beyond the central towers of Warsaw, a much larger crowd swelled beneath a cloud of red smoke.

Tens of thousands of people had come from across Poland and beyond, and reporters documented their signs:

“Clean Blood,” as seen by Politico.

“White Europe” streaked across another banner, the Associated Press reported — as about 60,000 people chanted and marched through Warsaw in an annual gathering of Europe’s far-right movements, which have grown to dwarf the official version of Poland's independence day celebration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/12/pray-for-an-islamic-holocaust-tens-of-thousands-from-europes-far-right-march-in-poland/

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Oh you know what time it is? It’s time for this!

Of course you know by now, people are people, and people are dumb. It’s been a while since we have done this, but there’s a lot of stupid people in the news lately. And while not all of them support Roy Moore, a good majority of them do! So who is stupid this week? Let’s start with this story out of Germany.

A young man arrested by police in the German city of Darmstadt was found to be carrying a python in his trousers.

The 19-year-old was detained for drunken behaviour after a reported altercation with another man had led to complaints from local residents.

While searching him, officers noticed a "significant bulge in his trousers", a police statement said.

The man told the officers he had a snake in his pants, revealing a 35cm (about 14in) baby king python.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41914261

So there you have it folks – a literal trouser snake! I guess that gives new meaning to the phrase “Is that a snake in your pants or are you happy to see me?” Yes – that is a snake in your pants! Next up we go to Florida – because hey, why not? It’s Florida! So there’s a guy who is trying to get his apartment complex to recognize his emotional support squirrel.

Ryan Boylan and Brutis are inseparable pals.

Boylan tells Clearwater’s WFLA News Channel 8, “I can’t imagine not being around her.”

As for Brutis, she always has a shoulder to lean on.

Problem is, Brutis is a squirrel, and property managers at Boylan’s Clearwater Beach condo, who discovered his furry friend in April, say Brutis has got to go or Boylan will be evicted.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article184097341.html

Emotional Support Squirrels – awesome band by the way! Next up – sex on planes! And why am I not surprised that it involves someone going to or coming from Florida?

A man and a woman flew into some trouble Sunday night after they were reportedly caught engaging in a sexual act on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Detroit.

The man, 28, and woman, 48, were not named, but both were issued citations, and the FBI is currently investigating the incident, according to Detoit's WDIV-TV.

The woman was caught giving the man oral sex while the two were in their seats, the station further reported.

Both the man and woman were traveling to Detroit to catch separate connecting flights: He was going on to Miami, and she to Nashville. The two were reportedly strangers before meeting on the plane, officials told WDIV.
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/10/31/strangers-on-delta-flight-performed-sex-act-in-their-seats-officials-say.html

Next up let’s go to Wisconsin – Florida’s drunk uncle, and what do you do if you’re accidentally locked in a freezer full of beer? Well. The answer is obvious! Yeah I know it’s dumb but I can guarantee I would do the same thing!

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — When a central Wisconsin man got locked inside a convenience store cooler overnight, he made the best of it, knocking back a beer and three more malt beverages.

USA Today Network-Wisconsin reports that police were called to a Kwik Trip in Marshfield Wednesday morning. A customer had noticed the 38-year-old man inside the cooler around 6 a.m., and when employees opened it, he fled.

When police found and arrested the man, he told them he went into the store to buy beer and got locked inside the cooler just before midnight Tuesday. He told them he figured he might just as well stay inside and drink.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/10/27/wisconsin-man-beer-cooler/

Next up – we go back to Germany for this one. And really… is it a World War II era bomb or is it a giant pickle? This will be a mystery for the ages!

A German pensioner feared a monster courgette he found in his garden was an unexploded World War Two bomb and called the police.

The 5kg (11-pound) courgette had probably been thrown over a hedge into the 81 year old's garden, police said.

Luckily no evacuation was required in Bretten, a town near Karlsruhe in south-west Germany.

The 40cm (16-inch) vegetable - also called zucchini - "really did look like a bomb", police said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41857694

And finally for People Are Dumb – let’s go to England. Look, if there’s one place in the entire world you don’t want to get naked, it’s a cemetery.

Man filmed naked in graveyard while on community service

The probation service has been accused of "appalling" failings after a man was filmed naked using a leaf blower while doing community service in a graveyard.

The man was also filmed wearing a priest's robes at a church he was supposed to be working at.

The Dorset, Devon and Cornwall Community Rehabilitation Company said a supervisor has since been sacked.

NAPO, the union for probation, said the company is "not fit for purpose".
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-41847967/man-filmed-naked-in-graveyard-while-on-community-service

Wait – the guy was wearing a priest’s robe before this? Way to... excuse the bad pun… bury the lead there, BBC! That’s it this week for:

[font size="8"]World Tour Destination #22: Australia
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Part of our mission statement here at the Top 10 Conservative Idiots is to show you that conservative idiocy isn’t just a problem with America. No, it’s a global problem that is stemming far and wide, and it’s not just America where conservative idiots ruin everything they touch. And if you’re thinking of moving out of the United States just because Donald J. Trump is our current president and our nation is turning to shit, you should know what it is you’re getting into should you decide that you want to leave the country. So if you want a recap of where we’ve been so far, in the last few weeks we’ve discovered that South Korea might go nuclear, China’s falling space station will most likely kill a whole bunch of us, and India’s got some major human rights violations. Man Asia’s not nearly as fun as Europe was. Here’s the tour schedule:

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G’Day mate!!!! We have made it to the land down under! And you know what? We have officially hit all six continents!!!! Whew!!!!! Yeah how awesome is this? We have made it! We are on the home stretch of the first leg of our World Tour, so I will celebrate with a giant 64 ounce can of Toohey’s Ale! Because they do love beer in Australia, and lots of it! So Australia. You might know them as the home of this guy:

But there’s more to Australia than that. It’s the home of one of the world’s original natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef, which might be slowly disappearing if the world’s oil companies don’t get to it first. And it’s the home to another one of the world’s wonders – Ayers Rock. You know it as the giant rock that Tom Cruise nearly fell off of in Mission: Impossible 2. It’s also the home of a man made wonder – the Sydney Opera House. Australia’s also home to some very large and beautiful cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbane. It’s also the home of some very exotic wildlife which includes kangaroos, koalas, and tons of insects and other animals that could possibly kill you! So don’t wander too far into the woods, there, mates! There’s so much more I want to say about the Land Down Under, but in the interest of time we will move right along! So what else is Australia the home of? Well, you might have heard about a crazy election they are going to have that could legalize same sex marriage throughout the country!

Like many Australians, Melissa Chomel wants to marry the person she loves.
She's been looking at wedding dresses online for months, picked a wedding car, but can't decide between a church service or beach ceremony.
But there's no point in making firm plans yet, because she doesn't know if the government will allow her to marry.
You see, Melissa is in love with her girlfriend Ebony.
Since September, Australians have been voting in a divisive postal survey to decide whether or not same-sex couples should be allowed to wed.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/asia/australia-same-sex-marriage-blog/index.html

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And you know when something like this that’s this controversial gets mailed out to everybody in the country, people tend to fuck with it.

ARGUMENTS for and against same-sex marriage have very little impact on whether voters support it or not, a major report has found.

The finding presents a challenge to the rationale behind having a $122 million nationwide debate and postal survey on the issue.

Respondents were randomly assigned either the “plain” version of the question, “Do you approve or not approve of same-sex couples being allowed to marry?” or a version summarising the “equality” and ”religious freedom” arguments for and against.

But the different wording had “no discernible impact on attitudes”, the United States Studies Centre concluded, with “both arguments seem[ing] to carry equal force, cancelling each other out.”

Researchers also found Australians were far more accepting of same-sex marriage than their American counterparts, with 60 per cent of Aussies supporting it compared to just 48 per cent of people in the US.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/gay-marriage/fatal-flaw-with-samesex-marriage-debate/news-story/adb586136e81f1e0d7d4a43c61bcda77

Would it be surprising at all to learn that Australia’s rural conservatives really are no different from rural American conservatives? Well, they’re not! They are definitely cut from the same cloth, especially on this marriage debate!

Liberal backbencher Ian Goodenough has revealed he is among “probably more than a dozen” members working on the alternative bill.

Conservatives have voiced concerns that the pre-existing bill drafted by moderate Liberals, sponsored by Dean Smith, does not include adequate protections for groups that may continue to oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds after the law is changed.

“I believe that the bill is focused on the wedding ceremony itself, but it doesn't go further than that,” Mr Goodenough told ABC Radio on Thursday.

The Smith bill would allow churches to refuse to marry homosexual couples.

But Mr Goodenough said there were not enough protections for schools, parents and religious charities, which he said could risk violating anti-discrimination laws for voicing opposition to same-sex marriage unless there are specific exemptions in the new law.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/11/09/same-sex-marriage-conservative-mps-prepare-bill-stronger-religious-protections

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That’s right! Australia’s rural conservatives want to use their freedom of expression against them to be able to discriminate against same gender couples the same way American rural conservatives want to! I mean really, Australia. You should know from watching us that that’s bad! And you know what? I am going to switch subjects here, Australia’s also as in denial about climate change as we are!

Australia has less than three years to form a coherent, long-term plan to tackle climate change or the effects could be disastrous, a leading expert says.

Internationally renowned climate scientist Will Steffen says it will be impossible to limit the damage caused by rising temperatures and sea levels if Australia fails to act by 2020.

"It would be virtually impossible to cap at (a rise in) 2C degrees... we estimate that could mean somewhere around 15 metres in terms of rising sea levels," Professor Steffen told reporters on Thursday.
https://thewest.com.au/news/weather/australia-lagging-in-climate-change-battle-ng-s-1795248

But there is some good news and I’m actually glad I’m doing Australia this week because… something very awesome happened!

That’s where we’ll leave today’s rolling coverage of the historic same sex marriage survey.

It was a controversial, expensive, and often traumatic exercise which in the end confirmed Australians supported marriage equality in numbers similar to those found by repeated polling.

But it won. 61.6% of people who took part in the non-binding postal survey said Yes. The No campaign got 38.4% - lower than the 40% that former prime, Tony Abbott said would deliver a “moral victory”.

No campaign leader, Lyle Shelton, blamed the media and the “relentlessness” of the Yes campaigners.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2017/nov/15/australias-same-sex-marriage-postal-survey-results-live

Oh and by the way if you visit Australia, don’t make the “dingo ate your baby” joke. One thing – it’s horribly offensive! And two – it’s been done. Seriously, if you’re going to insult, at least find some original material!

Paris Jackson's first trip Down Under got off to an uneasy start following her controversial appearance at Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.

But it appears the 19-year-old has been enjoying her recent days in Australia.

On Thursday, Paris took to Instagram to share pictures of herself patting a dingo - before adding the caption 'A dingo ate my baby'.

Perhaps unaware of the chilling origins of the phrase, 'a dingo ate my baby' was first screamed by Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton after her daughter, Azaria, was abducted from an Uluru campsite in 1980.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5065115/Paris-Jackson-cosies-Australian-animals.html

Yeah so that happened. I take it Ms. Jackson (Oooooooooh!) doesn’t really get out much. But if you’re thinking of moving to Australia, you should at least be aware of what you’re getting into should you decide to leave the US!

GENEVA (Reuters) - Australia should stop rejecting refugees and change its migration laws to come into line with international standards, the U.N. Human Rights Committee said in a report on Thursday.

The committee, which comprises 18 independent experts and monitors countries' compliance with a global human rights treaty, said Australia should come back in a year to explain what action it had taken to meet its concerns.

Australia has been widely criticized by the United Nations and rights groups for detaining asylum seekers who try to reach its shores by boat, even if they are found to be refugees, and keeping them on offshore processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-11-09/un-watchdog-tells-australia-to-change-its-migration-laws

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Australia is a great place to visit. It’s also a great place to live. But if you’re thinking of moving here, you should know that their rural conservatives don’t take too kindly to outsiders. Just stay in the cities and you’ll be good!

Tourism: A
Culture: B+
Political Spectrum: C
Liberal Appeal: B

Overall: B+

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Uh oh, we’re headed to the Middle East next. And our next country will be a particularly fun one to watch because we’re going to Saudi Arabia! And I hear they don’t have much of a sense of humor in that country.

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Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is one of Australia’s premier psychedelic experimental rock bands. One of their latest albums is called “Flying Microtonal Banana”. Playing their song called “Rattlesnake”, please welcome King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard!

See you next week! If we still live through this week that is!

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November 15, 2017

Mark Taylor: Illuminati-Controlled Hurricanes Hit Texas And Florida To Punish Trump Voters

Yesterday, self-proclaimed “firefighter prophet” and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor made another appearance on Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast, where he claimed that the Illuminati sent hurricanes to strike Texas and Florida earlier this year as punishment against those who voted for Donald Trump in “retaliation for backing out of the Paris Climate Accord.”

“These things did not come from God,” Taylor said. “People want to know where is this coming from. Well, I have the answer for you, it’s called the Illuminati, New World Order, Deep State, whatever you want to call it because they’re all part of the same team. The Lord showed me—and I know this is going to be a conspiracy theory but it’ll come out, the truth will come out one day to back this up—but the Lord showed me, Sheila, these two weather incidents with Harvey and Irma, they were manipulated and steered by man, literally.”

“The Lord said, ‘What two states did they hit? Florida and Texas. You think it’s a coincidence that both of these states were the largest electoral votes for Trump?'” Taylor continued. “So the Lord was giving me signs to prove that these were, in fact, manipulated and steered by man.”

Taylor went on to assert that the Illuminati targeted the U.S. with these hurricanes because Trump had “delegitimized climate control” by withdrawing from the Paris Accord, which he asserted was really just a “slush fund to fund the New World Order.”

“This is the largest spiritual battle since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,” he added.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-illuminati-controlled-hurricanes-hit-texas-and-florida-to-punish-trump-voters/

November 15, 2017

Vanity Fair: Has The Far Right Reached A Point Of No Return?

You’d think Bill Clinton was still president, lying about his personal life, and that impeachment was imminent, given how the controversy over Alabama’s Roy Moore has been covered by the far-from-monolithic right-leaning media. Moore may have a firewall to protect him, given his popularity, but the quivering among establishment Republicans is obviously revealing of fissures within the party.

Will Sommer, an editor at The Hill who cranks out a weekly newsletter surveying conservative media, notes how, “Fox and most of the rest of conservative media have been as sparing in coverage of this as they can reasonably get away with, and repeating decades-old Bill Clinton allegations along the way.”

“It’s the same playbook we saw perfected after the Access Hollywood tape came out—avoid talking about it as much and as long as possible, until there’s a defensible narrative that can be rallied around. With Access Hollywood, it was ‘locker room talk’; with the Moore allegations, it’s claims that the allegations are ‘he said-she said’ or that the [Washington] Post can’t be trusted. And, just as the Access Hollywood tape fallout inspired Steve Bannon to bring back Bill Clinton’s accusers, conservative media is doing the same this time around.”

He notes the vivid outlier of Breitbart News, which is far more activist than other media on the right. It broke news (obviously fed by the Moore camp) that the Post was about to publish the Moore story, and last week sent reporters to Alabama to discredit the accusations. This is largely because Bannon has real skin in the game. If Moore goes down, it hurts Bannon’s essential case against a moth-eaten GOP hierarchy that he sees embodied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/has-the-far-right-reached-a-point-of-no-return

They stooped to a new low of defending child molesters. I'd say that's a yes.

November 15, 2017

Cards Against Humanity buys land on Mexican border to block Trump's wall

Source: ABC News

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cards Against Humanity, the "party game for terrible people" based in Chicago, has purchased a plot of land on the Mexican border and retained an eminent domain law firm to block the construction of President Trump's border wall.

"Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans. He is so afraid that he wants to build a twenty-billion dollar wall that everyone knows will accomplish nothing. So we've purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built," the company wrote on their website.

Cards Against Humanity purchased the land as part of their "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" holiday promotion. The holiday special costs $15 and features six "America-saving surprises" mailed to participants during the month of December.

The first gift features an illustrated map of the border land purchased, a certificate of the company's promise to fight the wall, and "other surprises."

Read more: http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/cards-against-humanity-buys-land-on-mexican-border-to-block-trumps-wall/2648404/

BTW - check out their FAQ on the official website - it's hilarious!

November 14, 2017

Bryan Fischer: We Must Withhold Judgment About Roy Moore Because The Biblical Standard Of Proof Ha

American Family Radio’s Bryan Fischer has been a vocal supporter of Roy Moore in his campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate from Alabama, declaring that Moore’s race is “a referendum on the Constitution” and that “we as Christians and as social conservatives must unapologetically defend Moore whenever and wherever we can.” In the wake of reports that Moore pursued sexual relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, Fischer doubled down on his defense of Moore and lashed out against Republicans who have withdrawn their support and urged More to drop out of the race.

Fischer was on the air yesterday when another accuser came forward, recounting an incident in which Moore allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was 16. While Fischer had not seen the press conference, the American Family Association’s president, Tim Wildmon, did watch it and he appeared on Fischer’s show to rather somberly report that this latest accuser seemed credible and her claims about Moore were “very believable.”

In the wake of that news, Fischer’s defense of Moore changed and he started insisting that nobody can condemn Moore because the biblical standard of proof had not been met and so everyone “must withhold judgement” regarding the multiple allegations against him.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bryan-fischer-we-must-withhold-judgment-about-roy-moore-because-the-biblical-standard-of-proof-has-not-been-met/

Hmm... him getting banned for life from a mall for trying to pick up high school girls wasn't enough proof for you, Bryan?

November 9, 2017

Alex Jones: Texas Church Massacre Was Staged

Alex Jones, the tinfoil-hat creator of the conspiracy outlet Infowars, claimed there was “no doubt” that the mass shooting at a Texas church that killed 26 people last weekend was “staged.”

Jones was joined by Shepard Ambellas, editor-in-chief of the conspiracy theory site Intellihub, on air today to further Infowars’ dissection of the Texas church shooting, which has so far included theories that news media gave the shooter “permission” to kill, that the far-left group Antifa was responsible, and that the shooter was under “mind control” from the “deep state.” Jones expanded on his prior theories to claim that the shooting was staged by forces who want to embarrass the president.

“There’s a civil war going on the embarrass Trump. I mean, no doubt this is staged,” Jones said. “And the media is going to spin it and say I said it didn’t happen. That’s not what I said. They let him out of that mental institution when he was planning to kill his command chain. They let him go. They knew.”

Ambellas agreed and told Jones, “They let it all fall through the cracks and then they use it to their advantages.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-claims-texas-church-shooting-was-staged-to-embarrass-trump/

And the Sandy Hooking of this tragedy has begun, although they are much faster than normal. Fuck Infowars. Seriously.

November 9, 2017

Trump Has Tweeted About Hillary More Than 70 Times Since He Won The Election

He just can’t quit her.

It’s been 365 days since Donald Trump won the presidency and Crooked Hillary is still one of his favorite Twitter targets. To be fair, Trump did give former opponent Hillary Clinton a break for a few weeks after November 8, 2016—perhaps he too was in mourning?—but that doesn’t mean he gave up picking on her. To see just how much the president is not over the election, we’ve gathered the 70-plus times he’s trolled Clinton, at least by name (or nickname), since beating her a year ago.

Check them out here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/trump-has-tweeted-about-hillary-more-than-70-times-since-he-won-the-election-a-year-ago/

Bill Maher is right! The GOP really are the democrats' crazy ex girlfriend!

November 8, 2017

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-21: Wheel Of Corruption: Dead Men Tell No Tales Edition

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-21: Wheel Of Corruption: Dead Men Tell No Tales Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Be sure to stop by your Local Top 10 dealer today for our December To Remember sales event. Well qualified lesses of similar Top 10 lists can take advantage of $3,000 cash back or special APR financing! We are back everybody! First off congratulations to the Houston Astros for winning the 2017 World Series. You were the best team this year and deserved it! Sorry Dodgers, you put up a great fight, and you can rest assured that your championship gear will be going to clothe Africa’s starving children. Hey miss, give it a chance, I just got up here. For you watching at home there’ s people already leaving! So we got to talk about some movies. And no not Thor: Ragnarok which is pretty damn awesome and one of Marvel’s best movies yet. But we instead got to talk about a movie that Rob Reiner made about former president LBJ. That’s Lyndon Baines Johnson. You know he was the guy who was president after Kennedy and before Nixon – when you could say our country really went to shit. But here’s what I love about this movie. If you didn’t notice, LBJ was a weird fucking dude. During the tenure of his presidency, this famous conversation was recorded.

That’s right – that’s an actual president of the United States telling the owner of a pants company not to make the crotch too tight! And he actually used the word "bunghole". Do your best Beavis & Butthead impression here! You could make the argument this is the point in American history where the bar was lowered for the presidency. That is, until January 20th, 2017! And we all know what happened there! Now why is this important to this story, you might ask? Because Rob Reiner incorporated this famous scene into the movie! Can we show that?

Yes that is awesome! I couldn’t love this more. I want to see this movie just so I can see this scene! OK that’s enough of the intro. We got a lot of idiocy to cover this week! But first John Oliver is back and he talks about corporate tax incentives:

Hey everyone! The Wheel Of Corruption is back!!! Yay!!!! By the way – before we get into it this week – I want to warn you – we are *NOT* going to cover the Donna Brazile book. No. Not gonna do that. Not touching it with a 10 foot pole. Sigh… another week, another mass shooting. Oh my fucking god will it never end? But before we get into the gun nut insanity this week, we have to talk about how the GOP are the big losers in this election! Yes that was quite a thing of beauty yesterday and I know I will be breaking out my mug of conservative tears! In the second slot this week – we’re going to ask the question – the NRA A+ rating system: How is this still a thing? In the third slot this week is of course Dotard Trump. In the fourth slot we’re going to talk about his trip to Japan. In the third slot is Gun Nut Apologists (4). Because when a mass shooting happens, you can always count on the power of prayer. Not. In the fifth slot is the White Male Groper’s Club (5) which added some more high profile new members, and I think we got the cast for a new movie lined up! Plus the shit hit the fan with Kevin Spacey and House Of Cards. In the sixth slot is our now weekly sermon of all things holy as we report on all the craziness of the Christian right in “Holy Shit” (6). Speaking of the White Male Groper’s Club, in the number 7 spot is Rick Perry (7). Oh don’t you dare think we’re going to let him get away with some shockingly stupid comments about sexual assault now! In the number 8 slot is Papa John’s (8). So their CEO John Schnatter is also in some hot water over some amazingly stupid comments. In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot we’ve got a new installment of “I Need A Drink” and we’re going to tell you about a crazy new product offering from Amazon. File this one under “What could go wrong?”. Finally this week its’ more of the Top 10 World Tour (10). This time we’re going to one of the biggest countries in the entire world. It’s the home of Bollywood, Ghandi, the Taj Mahal, Chicken Tikka, and all sorts of wildlife that could possibly kill you! I’m of course talking about India! Plus we have some live music for you from a little band I like to call the Foo Fighters! Their new album “Concrete And Gold” is one of the best albums of 2017, and if you don’t have it, well, get out of my audience. Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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Come on everybody say it with me. It’s time for the WHEEL OF CORRUPTION!!!! Yayyyyyyyyy!!!

The wheel is back everybody! And of course if we had a bigger budget we’d have our own graphics and theme music. Yes just like last time I’ll talk about whatever the wheel lands on. But remember that if it lands on the Guacamole option that it costs $1.50 extra. So this week we’ve got some all new items on the wheel! They will be:

- Guns
- Abortion
- Crime
- Poverty
- Chance
- 5,000
- Infowars
- Nazis
- Go Directly To Jail
- Buy A Vowel
- North Korea
- Lawsuits
- Whammy
- Donald Trump
- People Are Dumb
- ‘Merica!
- How Is This Still A Thing?
- A Random Tweet
- 10,000
- Community Chest
- Talk Shows
- Clip Without Context
- Something Random In The News
- Fox News
- Polls
- Chance
- Intermission
- 15,000
- Bankrupt
- Golf
- Pirates
- Community Chest
- Florida (Obviously)
- This Fucking Guy
- Beating A Dead Horse
- Holy Shit
- Guacamole ($1.50 Extra)
- Double Whammy
- T-Shirt Cannon
- ? (Mystery Item)
- I Need A Drink
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin

Let’s get this going! Spin it to win it! And it lands on…. No whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy.. .stop! Clip without context!

What would a fundie riot look like? And by the way if there’s no band starting tomorrow called “Fundie Riot”, I will have lost faith in the internet! Spin it again! And it lands on… polls! Congratulations, GOP, you won “The Biggest Loser!”. Here’s our lovely Kimberly to tell you what you’ve won! Well, they didn’t win anything apparently. So you know who the biggest loser in this week’s elections were? Why it’s none other than Virginia’s Ed Gillespie. Let’s explain further. And by the way we’re going to need extra Ha Has and Sad Hulk Music for this one!

This morning I wrote, “if Ed Gillespie loses, some Republicans will want to blame Trump, and he’ll deserve a share of the blame, but it’s a pretty limited share.” That assertion may need revision, with not merely Gillespie and the rest of the statewide ticket losing, but the Republicans in the Virginia state legislature getting demolished. At this hour, Republicans are in danger of losing control of the House of Delegates, where they entered Election Day with a seemingly comfortable 17-seat margin.

Corey Stewart and the Trump-ified faction of the Virginia GOP will insist tonight’s dismal defeat stems from Gillespie’s alleged Establishment squishiness, while northern Virginia Republicans will argue it’s because Gillespie sounded Trump-like with his hard-edged focus and ads on illegal immigration and crime. They may both have a point, as Gillespie’s getting the worst of both worlds: The margins in red rural counties are about the same as 2016, but the turnout is “meh” and Republicans are just getting crushed in the suburbs. It’s not just the ones closest to Washington, D.C.; Northam is beating Gillespie by about a 20-point margin in Loudon and Prince William Counties.

But the key lesson of the night goes far beyond Gillespie. Right now, the Republican party’s brand in Virginia is dirt. Throw in the failure to make New Jersey even remotely competitive, and tonight is about as bad as it can get for the GOP – a sense of déjà vu from the results across the country 2006 and 2008.
www.nationalreview.com/node/453516/print

Oh man that felt good didn’t it! Can we do it again please? I mean come on, this is the year of Trump. And here’s one of the more surprising results of this week’s Virginia elections:

Danica Roem, 32, didn’t want her campaign for the Virginia General Assembly to become about her being transgender. But to some extent, it was inevitable.

Roem would be the first out transgender politician to win and get seated in any state legislature, and her opponent, Republican Del. Bob Marshall, recently sponsored a bill to restrict transgender people’s access to bathrooms. Plus, Marshall keeps bringing up the issue.

On a conservative radio show last month, Marshall said Roem “clearly is a male,” calling her “he” and saying her behavior “goes against the laws of nature and nature's God.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/this-transgender-candidate-is-fending-off-attacks-and?utm_term=.nmPBZdDJz#.mhkaV7eEM

Yes – a trans woman beat out a bigoted transphobe! I mean could this possibly get any better than that? Well this sent the fundies’ underwear in a wad as they were scrambling to explain this one. I think we might need the Sad Hulk Music for this one.

Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall, a conservative culture warrior, has attracted the attention and money of anti-LGBTQ groups in his fight for reelection against Danica Roem, a former reporter who is a transgender woman.

So it was only fitting that Marshall took time on Election Day today to call into Bryan Fischer’s nationally broadcast American Family Radio program, where Fischer praised him for “standing in the way” of progressives’ “deviant agenda” to have transgender people run for public office.

Calling supporters of trans rights the “equivalent of flat earthers,” Fischer told Marshall that “they’re looking at this as the thin edge of the wedge to start pushing transgenders into public office, and right now you’re the one standing in the way of their deviant agenda.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bryan-fischer-tells-bob-marshall-hes-the-one-who-can-stop-deviant-agenda-of-transgender-candidates/

You know Bryan – the only one in this story with the “deviant agenda” is you. Your politics of fear and hatred are getting you nowhere! And they will be the end of you! So the Virginia GOP were the big losers this week. Now let’s go up north to New Jersey. You know – the state that has given us Snooki, and Donald Trump stage prop Chris Christie, and the New York Jets.

Washington (CNN)Democrats have won key races in Virginia and New Jersey, CNN projects, their first major wins during the tenure of President Donald Trump and a boost heading into the 2018 midterms, when control of US House and Senate will be up for grabs.
The blue wave along the East Coast saw Ralph Northam winning the governor's race in Virginia and Phil Murphy victorious in New Jersey. Democrats are also on pace to capture control of the Virginia General Assembly, and several liberals, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio won their mayoral elections.
Virginia's gubernatorial contest was the first major test of Democrats' ability to rebound after Trump's victory. The fundamentals of the state were in their favor: Under Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, unemployment is lower than the national average, and voters have generally told pollsters that they see the commonwealth as on the right track while the nation is on the wrong track.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/2017-us-election-highlights/index.html

Yeah how awesome is this? And you know who the other biggest loser was in this election? Bet you didn’t think it was going to be him, did you? Yeah, sure, the fundamentalists got told to go straight to hell. But he’s the real biggest loser in all of this!

Trump is a deeply unpopular president, and his party is in serious danger of losing control of the House, many of its down-ballot offices, and conceivably even the Senate.

To be sure, Virginia has unique demographic qualities that may have enhanced the power of the anti-Trump wave. It is a racially diverse state with a high proportion of college-educated voters. But there are many House Republicans from districts with similar demographic profiles – in New Jersey, New York, California, among other places. The suburbs alone could offer up enough Republican defeats to flip the House in 2018.

What is remarkable is that the Republican plan to avert this catastrophe is to inflict economic hardship on these very constituents. The party has convinced itself that the solution to its unpopularity is to vote through an unpopular plan to combine tax cuts for corporations and rich people with tax increases on a large minority of the middle class. The highest doses of fiscal pain of the Republican plan would be concentrated on upper middle-class voters who live in blue states – like, say, New Jersey, New York, and California.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/the-anti-trump-wave-has-come-and-republicans-cant-stop-it.html

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Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! Something random in the news!

EDGEWATER, Fla. - A church in Edgewater is changing its sign after a message about forgiveness was misinterpreted by many in the community as a sexual innuendo.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-church-changes-sign-after-message-misinterpreted-as-sexual

Of course it’s Florida! Excuse me a minute…

Spin it again! How Is This Still A Thing?

Time Once Again For:

This week: The NRA A+ Rating System. How is this still a thing? Yet another week and another mass shooting, and the chicken shits in Congress refuse to do anything about gun control, because they take the phrase “Shall Not Be Infringed” just a little too literally. In fact, this shooting happened in Texas – the home of the most godly and most manly senator Ted Cruz. Who earned an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association.

A gunman opened fire Sunday at a small Baptist church in the tiny town of Sutherland, Texas, killing at least 26 people and wounding close to 30 more.

The mass shooting taking place just a month after the deadly Las Vegas shooting, where 58 were killed and 500 more injured, joining a long list of mass shootings in the United States each year. According to the Gun Violence Archive database, the Sutherland shooting marks the 307th mass shooting so far in 2017. (The researchers define a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are killed or injured.)

Following the shooting, messages of support and heartbreak, including the predictable “thoughts and prayers” mantra, flooded social media. One organization, however, has remained silent: the National Rifle Association. The gun group’s silence is deafening and revealing, particularly given that Texas’ lax gun control regulations likely aided the gunman in obtaining his firearms.

A database by Slate of gun regulations state-by-state gives Texas an “F” rating. Texas currently has no laws requiring background checks for private sales, no regulating of firearm registration and no ban on the purchase of assault weapons. The state does not have any restrictions on magazine capacity, nor does it have any restrictions on firearm ownership for the mentally ill. Texas also allows open carry with a permit and concealed carry on college campuses.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/lax-texas-gun-laws-nra-another-horrendous-deadly-mass-shooting/

Yes, we also want to know WTF. Because…. WTF. In fact Texas isn’t the only state where the NRA got some big name contributions. But never mind that because the gun nuts have everyone in mind with their “thoughts and prayers”. Take a look at North Carolina:

As America once again debates its gun laws in the wake of a mass shooting, a new report has found North Carolina’s two U.S. senators among the top beneficiaries of money from the National Rifle Association.

Only one of the 535 members of Congress has gotten more help from the NRA than Republican Sen. Richard Burr, according to The Center for Responsive Politics. Only three, including Burr, got more than GOP Sen. Thom Tillis.

NRA groups have spent nearly $7 million on behalf of Burr. That includes $5.6 million that NRA groups spent last year against his Democratic opponent, Deborah Ross. That was more than the NRA spent against any candidate with the exception of Hillary Clinton.

And Tillis has gotten $4.5 million in help, including independent expenditures against his 2014 opponent, then-incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article177044206.html

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That’s a jaw dropping, stunning level of hypocrisy there. In fact the NRA is bribing people on both sides of the aisle. So how is it that the NRA is able to get away with rating politicians like this? You know it’s like the school teacher who awards the hall monitor because he’s the hall monitor. But this hall monitor has bump stocks and semi automatic assault rifles. You know this is why we can’t have nice things in this country. Even most major newspapers are ready to get rid of the NRA influence on Congress:

Gathering on the House Floor to mark gun violence tragedies has become a common ritual. In the 477 days between the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead and the Las Vegas shooting on Sunday that left 58 dead and over 500 injured there were 521 mass shootings in America.

So when, again and again and again, I bow my head and choke back tears, I can’t help but feel growing anger knowing that moments of silence are the beginning and end of the Congressional response to thousands of Americans being gunned down in the streets.

Offering “thoughts and prayers” without any substantive policy debate about how to reduce gun violence is part of a plan designed and implemented by the N.R.A. and the gun makers that fund it. The gun industry controls the Republican agenda on guns. It’s true in Washington and it’s true in Tallahassee where some of the most dangerous laws are rammed through.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-viewpoint-deutch-gun-control-20171005-story.html

But never mind that the NRA is passing some incredibly dangerous gun laws that led to the likes of Vegas and Texas. The sad fact of the matter is that the least presidential president in US history – Donald J. Trump – is not keeping track of how many deaths are caused by guns. But the world is.

After a Sunday shooting that left 26 people dead in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, President Donald Trump’s response followed the script of his previous responses to such incidents: These incidents happen because of the shooter’s “evil” character or “mental illness,” and that they are not related to U.S. gun laws.

Trump, currently on a four-country tour of Asia, was in Japan when news of suspected shooter Devin Patrick Kelly’s deadly rampage broke. Agence France Presse reported that this is all he had to say about it on Monday before pivoting to talking about reshaping U.S. trade agreements with Japan:

Trump called the ‘horrific shooting’ an ‘act of evil,’ ordering flags be flown half-staff at the White House and federal buildings. ‘Our hearts are broken but in dark times – and these are dark times – such as these, Americans do what they do best: we pull together,’ he said. Though he said ‘it’s a little bit soon to go into it’ regarding calls for gun control, the president promised his administration’s ‘full support’ for the investigation.
https://thinkprogress.org/texas-shooting-world-reactions-934660b616fc/

And what does all that lobbying get you, you might ask? While the US is in the problem of a country-wide gun addiction, guess what? The NRA wants to target (skip!) while they’re young. And we mean really young.

As the U.S. grapples with a serious gun problem, one state hopes to expand those who can possess a gun. Wisconsin's state assembly last week proposed legislation that would allow any resident, regardless of age, to legally hunt in the state.

The bill would specifically eliminate Wisconsin's minimum hunting age, according to the Associated Press.

The current law requires a resident to be at least 12 years old to purchase a hunting license or hunt with a gun. There is a program that allows children as young as 10 to hunt, as long as they are accompanied by an adult. But under that program, the adult and child are only allowed to share one weapon between the two.

The new, Republican-authored bill would allow people of any age to hunt and eliminates the rule that a hunter and "mentor" have only one firearm between them.
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/06/wisconsin-gop-proposes-bill-that-would-allow-toddlers-to-hunt-using-guns/

That’s right – baby hunters! Which we’re sure is most likely an animated Alec Baldwin comedy waiting to be made. That’s enough to make you ask: The NRA A+ Rating System:

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Entering the spin zone! And it lands on……………….. wait for it……… Clip without context!

So the solution for a church shooting is more church. Much like the solution to a drinking problem is more drinking. Got it. Let’s spin it again! And it lands on… Donald Trump. So President Trump is out of the country right now. Can we pass some laws preventing him from coming back please???? But you know this is how parents must feel when their kids are off at summer camp – you know I got that extra spring in my step! So what’s Trump up to now that he’s in Japan?

"Try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. Is that possible to ask? That's not rude. Is that rude? I don't think so," Trump told executives from local automakers during a trip to Japan.

At the same time, Trump thanked Japanese automakers for "building new plants and doing expansions" of existing facilities in the United States. He praised Toyota (TM) and Mazda (MZDAF) for planning a new $1.6 billion manufacturing plant in the U.S.

Trump has made reducing the $57 billion trade deficit with Japan a top priority.

But Japan's big three car companies have huge factories in the U.S., and their production in the country is at a record high. Japanese automakers have been increasing their investment in the U.S. for decades.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/06/news/economy/trump-japan-autos-fact-check/index.html

But Trump… actually is wrong there! Most foreign car manufacturers own plants in America! Like Nissan and Volkswagen in Tennessee, or Hyundai and Mercedes in Alabama, or Honda in Ohio. Of course those are all red, Trump supporting, right to work states, never mind that! And guess what? Trump also did not bow to the Japanese emperor!

U.S. President Donald Trump did not bow when he met Japan's emperor on Monday. Instead, Trump stooped and slightly tilted his head as a gesture of respect to the 83-year-old leader.

Bowing is an important sign of respect in Japan. However, U.S. presidents have been criticized at home for bowing, which can be seen as appearing less powerful. In 1994, President Bill Clinton bent forward with his hands together to meet Japan's emperor at the White House.

At the time, one White House official said"Presidents don't bow, and Emperors don't toast."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/06/breaking-with-tradition-trump-did-not-bow-to-japans-emperor-he-nodded-his-head-instead/23268355/

Trump really is the Larry David of presidents. Curb Your Enthusiasm had a great episode recently where Larry is invited to a dinner party with a soldier, and everyone introduces themselves and says “Thank you for your service”. But not Larry! He greets him with “Nice to meet you!”. D’oh!!!! That would be Trump. Everybody bows…. Trump. Nods. “I’m not into the bowing, OK? Bowing is for losers!”. And Mr. Art Of The Deal is at it again!

TOKYO — President Trump said on Monday that Japan could protect itself from a nuclear-armed North Korea by buying billions of dollars of American military equipment, drawing an explicit link between trade and security as he began a complex, politically charged tour of Asia.

By turns generous and challenging, Mr. Trump saluted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as among his best friends in the club of world leaders. But he railed against what he said were chronic trade imbalances with Japan. And he implicitly acknowledged his disappointment that Mr. Abe did not shoot down missiles that North Korea recently fired over Japan.

“He will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the United States,” Mr. Trump said, standing alongside Mr. Abe at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. “The prime minister of Japan is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment, as he should.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/asia/trump-japan-shinzo-abe.html

Well, if there’s one thing the US does well, it’s make things that kill people! Thank you! And speaking of Trump party fouls, you don’t bring a sword to a nuclear missile fight!

President Donald Trump has headed to Japan at the head of an 11-day Asian tour, with last-ditch efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis before it spirals out of control at the top of the agenda. And, true to form, the guy is not exactly being a confidence builder with respect to his understanding of missile defense systems.

According to the Japan Times, diplomatic sources confirm that with a Monday meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looming, our very lucid leader has set low expectations with complaints that “he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the missiles.” Aside from the fact that this is essentially a racist stereotype and katanas, no matter how well made, cannot shoot down a missile, there are numerous technical reasons why Japan’s Self-Defense Forces stood down.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-asked-why-samurai-japan-isnt-shooting-down-1820158374

Oops! Did we do that? But as Mr. Art Of The Deal knows, he is busy building armies and putting them against each other because he’s playing a really fucked up game of Civilization where one superpower can take over the world by putting them against each other!

Wrapping up a visit here before flying to South Korea, President Trump called for Japan to buy U.S. anti-missile batteries to counter the growing ballistic missile threat from North Korea, saying buying more U.S. military equipment would create more jobs for Americans and increase security for the Japanese.

"He will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of a lot of military equipment from the United States," Trump said Monday during a news conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Trump pointedly teased Abe over the trade deficit between the two countries, and seemed to advocate a military buildup as a way to close the gap.

"It's a lot of jobs for us, and a lot of safety for Japan, and other countries that are likewise purchasing military equipment from us,” Trump said. At another point, he complimented the Japanese economy, but said: "I don’t know if it’s as good as ours. I think not. OK? We’re going to try to keep it that way. And you’ll be second.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-tokyo-20171106-story.html

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Let’s give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? Ooh that was a good spin right there. And it lands on… go directly to jail? No!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I have to give this entry from a jail cell. Spin it again. Guns. So if there’s one thing you can always count on during a mass shooting is that the Christian right is going to tell people that prayer is the number one solution to everything. But hey guess what? It happened in a church! These people were already on their knees praying for forgiveness! And here’s what our Speaker Of The House and after picture in a Jenny Craig ad, Paul Ryan had to say about this:

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is defending his call for prayers after a gunman killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday.

Ryan and other politicians have been criticized for offering thoughts and prayers instead of legislative action to reduce gun violence. But on Monday night, Ryan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham:

“It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the far secular left. People who do not have faith don’t understand faith, I guess I’d have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing this thing, it’s no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in this country when people think like that.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-mass-shooting-prayer_us_5a014f1fe4b07eb51181be67?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

To which I’m sure that was Jesus’ exact reaction. I mean how stupid can you get? Or is this just a way of saying “fuck you, we’re not going to do anything!”. But would you really be surprised that Trump is making this about anything but the guns? If you think anything else, the door is that way!

Stricter gun controls could have resulted in more deaths during the Texas church shooting massacre because a neighbor might not have been able to shoot the gunman, President Trump said Tuesday.

Trump, speaking at a news conference in South Korea, was asked if he would be willing to use "extreme vetting" for people who want to buy a gun, similar to the "extreme vetting" he has discussed for people coming to the United States.

Trump replied that stricter gun controls would have made "no difference" in the carnage Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Devin Kelley, 26, fatally shot 26 people and wounded 20 more during a service at the rural church outside San Antonio.

Trump added that stricter gun controls might have kept Stephen Willeford, who lived near the church, from intervening in the massacre.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/07/trump-tighter-gun-control-could-have-meant-hundreds-more-deaths-texas/839036001/

Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! So you know Trump is always the type of guy you can count on for compassionate conservatism in a time of tragedy like this which seems to be happening once a week now. And you can bet when the next shooting happens, you can count on him for advice like this:

"Instead of having 26 dead he would've had hundreds more dead," Trump said.

Trump has called for "extreme vetting" of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in response to terrorist incidents. But he has resisted any action on gun laws in response to the deadly mass shootings that have occurred during his time in office.
Trump added that "the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago. And Chicago is a disaster. A total disaster."
Sunday's church massacre where 26 people were killed took place in Sutherland Springs, Texas. It marks the deadliest shooting in Texas history, with victims ranging in age from 17 months to 77 years old.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/trump-extreme-vetting-guns/index.html

I mean come on you know it’s bad when the most interesting man in the world does it! When 17 month old BABIES are murdered this is a problem. And the faith based crowd I’m sure will say they deserved it because that’s what Jesus would want. What? It’s still a while before I do Holy Shit! But while on the subject of Gun Nut Apologists, there’s Rush Limbaugh who’s saying this about where terrorists really come from:

Conservative host Rush Limbaugh accused the Democratic Party of producing “terrorists” on Monday.

“Terrorists do not always just come from Uzbekistan,” he said on his radio show, presumably referring to the native country of the man who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York City last week. “They don’t just come from Afghanistan. They don’t just come from al Qaeda. Sometimes, terrorists come straight from the Democrat Party, straight from the American left.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-democrats-terrorism_us_5a01a42ae4b0368a4e86df58?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! And by the way, if you really want to annoy a conservative, just correct them when they call it “The Democrat Party”. It’s pronounced DEMOCRATIC, and you should have learned the “IC” in first grade grammar! But the right is very feverently banging the Civil War drums, and it’s getting scary. Like there’s this jackass who leads a group called “The Oath Keepers”. Arming yourselves in church! What a great idea!

Writing on the Oath Keepers’ website, the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes reacted to Sunday’s mass shooting at a church in Texas by tying it to the supposed “civil war” that he thought far-left activists would try to start on Saturday and by urging all men to go armed at all times and station armed security teams outside of every church.

Rhodes, like others on the far-right, speculated that the shooting was perpetrated by “a Christian hating leftist terrorist,” connecting it with the violent left-wing uprising he and others predicted might occur on November 4, saying, “we may see hardcore leftists become discouraged by the failure of Nov 4 then decide to go full on Weather Underground style terrorist and target conservatives and anyone else they see as being on the political right.”

“But whether he had planned this for some time or was reacting to the failure of the Nov 4 launch of a supposed mass movement to remove Trump, our response must be the same,” Rhodes wrote. That response being to be armed “at all times, in all places,” including church:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/after-church-shooting-stewart-rhodes-tells-oath-keepers-to-go-armed-at-all-times-in-all-places-to-prepare-for-full-blown-civil-war/

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Spin it to win it! And it lands on…. Wait for it… clip without context!

Really? Pizzagate is still a thing? Even Alex Jones said that was bullshit! Time to move along, assholes! Spin it again! Sex. You know we’re just now starting to learn the extent of the damage the White Male Groper’s Club is doing. And Kevin Spacey is quite possibly one of the biggest scumbags alive. Which pains me to say – I love him as an actor, and this year I loved the movie Baby Driver, and I also love House Of Cards. But you know last week he said this:

I mean really – he literally glossed over the fact that he’s gay. I mean it’s like when you watch those pharmaceutical commercials and they start listing a hundred million side effects, and they just casually gloss over death. “Side effects of Frolialis include heart disease, liver fatigue, exhaustion and in some cases death. Do not take Frolialis if you have had any transplanted organs.” Death isn’t a minor side effect of the drug – death is a major side effect of the drug! I mean really, let’s get real, Glaxo! You can’t just gloss over that shit! Who are you trying to fool? Well he didn’t fool the producers of House Of Cards, that’s for damn sure!

Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted one production assistant on the “House of Cards” set and otherwise created a “toxic” work environment through a pattern of sexual harassment that targeted young male crew members, according to a CNN report published late Thursday afternoon.

CNN interviewed eight people who are current or past employees of the Netflix drama, and all eight described Spacey’s behavior on the set as “predatory.” They said it included “nonconsensual touching and crude comments.”

“I have no doubt that this type of predatory behavior was routine for him and that my experience was one of many and that Kevin had few if any qualms about exploiting his status and position,” said the production assistant, who alleged that Spacey sexually assaulted him during one of the show’s early seasons.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/02/kevin-spacey-preyed-on-young-men-on-house-of-cards-set-crew-members-allege/

Holy shit! How has he not been arrested yet? I mean he could go to prison for the rest of his life if any of these cases are taken to court! Well, maybe jail probably isn’t the best place for him. You know – given the stereotypes the right wing has about prison. But at least he’ll have some good company!

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: As claims against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey remain fresh, Jeremy Piven, star of the new CBS drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, today found himself in the spotlight of sexual harassment allegations. On Monday, reality TV personality/actress Ariane Bellamar made specific accusations on social media that Piven groped her on the set of Entourage and at the Playboy Mansion several years ago.

“We are aware of the media reports and are looking into the matter,” a CBS spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline on Tuesday.

The network offered no additional details of what form or function any investigation was taking. Wisdom of the Crowd, from CBS TV Studios, is still be in production on its original 13-episode order.
http://deadline.com/2017/10/jeremy-piven-groping-entourage-set-cbs-wisdom-of-the-crowd-1202198720/

Well one thing we’re learning this week is that it doesn’t matter what race, sex or orientation you run with, anyone can be a member of the White Male Groper’s Club! And it seems Hollywood is full of them! But here’s the difference between Spacey and Jeremy Piven – with as big of a creep as these two are, at least Spacey is man enough to admit his faults.

In a statement made to Entertainment Weekly Tuesday, Piven denied Bellamar's claims.

"I unequivocally deny the appalling allegations being peddled about me. It did not happen,” Piven said. “It takes a great deal of courage for victims to come forward with their histories, and my hope is that the allegations about me that didn’t happen, do not detract from stories that should be heard."

HBO responded to Bellamar's accusations with a statement Tuesday confirming that it was the first time it was hearing of the incident that purportedly took place during the filming of "Entourage."

“Today, via the press reports, is the first we are hearing about Ariane Bellamar’s allegations concerning Jeremy Piven," the statement read. "Everyone at HBO and our productions is aware that zero tolerance for sexual harassment is our policy. Anyone experiencing an unsafe working environment has several avenues for making complaints that we take very seriously.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-jeremy-piven-calls-allegations-against-1509568502-htmlstory.html

Of course he’s going to deny it! So you’ve got Spacey and Piven. Two pretty awesome actors who it turns out are creepy perverts! We need a director in this mix!

Six women, including actors Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, alleged that producer and director Brett Ratner sexually harassed or assaulted them, according to a new Los Angeles Times report.

The Rush Hour and X Men: The Last Stand director, who denies all of the claims, is the latest Hollywood heavyweight to be accused of sexual misconduct following dozens of allegations made against Harvey Weinstein (who denies some, but not all, of the claims.) Ratner’s attorney did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

Munn claims that Ratner masturbated in front of her in 2004 and told her years later that he ejaculated on magazine covers she was featured on. Munn wrote about the 2004 incident in her 2010 book, which prompted Ratner to claim in a 2011 interview that he “banged her a few times, but forgot her.” Ratner later said that he lied about sleeping with her.
http://time.com/5005250/olivia-munn-natasha-henstridge-brett-ratner-sexual-misconduct/

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So the White Male Groper’s Club has already cast it’s two lead actors and a director. How about a third actor? They can all 3 make a blockbuster movie no one will see because they will be making it behind bars!

After a former production assistant accused Dustin Hoffman of sexually harassing her on the set of Death of a Salesman, the director of the 1985 TV movie has released a statement saying that he has a different memory of Hoffman’s behavior during production. “Just watch Christian Blackwood’s wonderful documentary Private Conversations on the making of DOAS to check what a kidder Dustin was on the set, at all time, with everybody,” Volker Schlondorff wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. According to the director, Anna Graham Hunter, a 17-year-old high-school senior when she interned as a PA, took Hoffman’s actions too seriously. In a first-person essay for THR, complete with letters she wrote at the time detailing Hoffman’s behavior, Hunter said the actor asked for a foot massage, inquired about her sex life, and slapped her butt. Not quite, recalls Schlondorff: “Slapping her butt on the way to the car, with driver, stage manager and PAs around, may have happened, but again in a funny way, nothing lecherous about it,” he wrote. “[Hoffman] was a clown, it was part of the way we portrayed Willy Loman as well — but he never played the power play.”
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/death-of-a-salesman-director-dustin-hoffman-was-a-kidder.html

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Let’s spin that shit! No whammy no whammy no whammy.. . stop! Pirates! Folks, sorry, we have to say goodbye to our Pirates Of The Caribbean themed Wheel Of Corruption editions as this is the grand finale for this season. What? It had to end at some point! So let’s watch some Jack Sparrow clips and commemorate the completion of the series!

Spin it again! Holy shit! Yes friends, gather around friends! Pass the collection plate, friends! Yay, in these troubled times, we turn to the holiest among us. But even then we realize that the holiest among us are full of…

Yay, I had considered not doing this sermon this week due to the shocking events in Texas, but doing our due diligence on the holiest among us, I feel that we need to! For instance there’s this douchebag, Theodore Shoebat, who is channeling his inner Adolf Hitler:

Extremist right-wing activist Theodore Shoebat responded to yesterday’s mass shooting at a church in Texas by posting a video on his website in which he said that atheists in America must be subjected to an inquisition and put to death.

Shoebat, who was featured in a radically anti-gay documentary in 2015 along with various Religious Right activists and Republican elected officials, declared that the fact that the man responsible for the deadly attack was reportedly an atheist shows that atheism represents a dire threat to Christians in America and must be dealt with harshly.

“Sodomites and atheists need to be purged from society,” Shoebat said. “Sodomites automatically need to be put to death, that’s a no-brainer because they have already committed the crime of homosexuality. Atheists, on the other hand, they need to be inquisited, bottom line. They need to be inquisited and I think that when you have atheist enclaves in society, when you have atheist strongholds in society, atheist establishments that are very influential and when you see how fanatic they are, how much they hate Christianity, how much they hate God, how much they hate the church, you really can’t tolerate people like that and those people need the death penalty.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/in-wake-of-church-shooting-theodore-shoebat-says-atheists-must-be-put-to-death/

Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I’m sure a joke like that would probably drive him batshit insane! I don’t remember that part in the Bible? Yay, let’s read up – Two Corinthians Chapter 12, Verse 4: “I knoweth what thou art thinking – dost thou prayeth six times or only five?”. Thank you! But no... the church shooting was not that, it was the fault of... thine dirty communists!

End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles said on his “TruNews” television program last night that the left was responsible for the recent mass shooting at a church in Texas and warned Christians to prepare for the day when they are murdered in the streets by communist revolutionaries being controlled by Barack Obama.

“The mass killings of peaceful Christian families in church on Sunday mornings are what America’s political left has given this nation,” Wiles said. “Since 1962, there has been a relentless ongoing war of hatred in the USA against God and Christianity. The religious war has been supported by America’s courts and judges, Hollywood, the entertainment industry, the news media, academia, and the Democratic Party. Fifty-five years later, we have church carpets soaked in blood. Oh, America, how much more of this religious war against God are you going to tolerate? Will you remain silent until your children are bleeding on the church floor too?”

“A dark, sinister entity controlled by Lucifer is behind these mass shootings,” he warned. “These events are not happening at random by mentally ill people. You may not realize it, but the USA is engulfed in a communist revolution. I’ve been warning about it since 2008, with the election of communist street organizer Barry Soetoro, alias Barack Hussein Obama, and I assure you he is behind all of this Resist Trump movement going on right now.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-texas-church-shooting-was-part-of-communist-revolution-orchestrated-by-barack-obama/

I mean… JAYSUS!!!!! And yay, we mentioned our esteemed speaker of the house already. But these people are insanely convinced that thine shooter may be a member of Antifa. Because… they really are deranged! There is Sandy Rios, who gave thine jaw-dropping explanation:

Religious Right radio host Sandy Rios questioned yesterday whether law enforcement officials were being honest about whether a man who committed a mass shooting at a Texas church last weekend was connected to Antifa, claiming that he dressed the part and was an atheist.

On her radio show yesterday, Rios questioned the information that has been reported about the man who shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church last weekend, citing debunked rumors of a planned violent left-wing uprising and the shooter’s alleged atheism.

“Remember, I told you probably a month ago—now this is just speculation on my part—but Antifa was planning on having some sort of an all-out assault on American soil,” Rios said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sandy-rios-officials-may-be-lying-about-texas-church-shooters-atheism-connections-to-antifa/

And then there beith Alex Jones, who doubled down on Sandy Rios' theory about the shooter being thine member of Antifa:

Alex Jones, infamous conspiracy theorist behind Infowars and friend of President Trump, claimed that the far-left group Antifa, along with mainstream media, gave permission to the man who shot and killed 26 people at a Texas church last weekend.

On “The Alex Jones Show” today, Jones was screaming about reports that the shooter had solicited romantic relationships with underage girls, claiming that the only thing the shooter knew was how to be a “little devil worshiper pedophile,” when he began addressing the deceased shooter directly.

“You know what, you little bastard? You’re dead now,” Jones said.

“You got your permission from Antifa and the media to go out—yeah, your mother-in-law is there and there are a bunch of Christians and you hate them and you’re a big leftist Antifa,” Jones said. “And you know what? You’ll kill two birds with one stone. You got permission to be a sack of crap. You’re going to go in there and kill a bunch of people.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-antifa-and-the-media-gave-texas-shooter-permission/

Seriously - even JAYSUS is embarassed by this shit! And then if you want to see the truly craziest among us, none are more paranoid than the Anti-Muslim wing of Christianity, which was DECLARED by the LORD OUR GOD!!!! To be the craziest among us!!! And he says “SATAN I STABBETH THEE!!!!!” Because you know who is really responsible for the Texas shooting? Well...

During a recent appearance on Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program, right-wing activist Matt Barber said that People For the American Way, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and other organizations were partially responsible for the church shooting in Texas last weekend that left more than 20 people dead.

“We need to look at the bigger picture here,” Barber said. “This thing didn’t happen in a vacuum. We need to understand that it is this anti-Christian climate here in the United States … This was a man who hated Jesus, he hated Christians and he literally was engaged in an act of war against Christians.”

“What spurred him on? What caused him to do this?” Barber asked, linking the Texas massacre to the shooting at the Family Research Council in 2012, which right-wing activists routinely blame on the SPLC. “I’m not going to say this is all in the lap of the Southern Poverty Law Center, but Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the SPLC, groups like People For the American Way, Americans United Against Separation of Church and State [sic], the ACLU—don’t forget, Roger Baldwin famously said, ‘Communism is the goal’—communism is atheism, atheism is communism, it’s leftism, they hate Christians, they hate Christianity. So we are seeing a climate of anti-Christian hate and bigotry that I think was the foundation, perhaps even the justification, that this monster used in his own mind to rationalize taking out these precious souls and followers of Christ Jesus.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/matt-barber-says-groups-like-pfaw-splc-and-the-aclu-are-partially-responsible-for-texas-church-shooting/

Now what is it about the Christian right that seems to attract the craziest of the crazy? The cream of the batshit! And thine batshit must be extra creamy! Yeah, that sounds pretty disgusting, I know! But what about it would maketh thine constituents that crazy? I ask you good people of the Top 10 Congregation! Maybe it’s a lack of anti depressants! Or maybe too much, I don’t know how it works with the alt right!

ROBERTSON: He's mentally unstable. But I hope and pray they don't politicize this thing and start talking about gun control and all that because it won't be necessary. But I do think there's got to be a thorough investigation into the effect of antidepressants on these [inaudible]. And they've been so many of these mass killings and almost every one, as I said before, has had some nexus to antidepressants. So, we need to see what we are giving people. But my goodness, our prayers are with those people from that small community in Texas. The worst shooting -- church shooting -- in the history of the United States of America.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/11/06/pat-robertson-blames-antidepressants-texas-church-massacre/218462

Yes.. WTF, lol. Now it is time to pass thine collection plate! Now let me assure my sons and daughters of the Top 10 Congregation… can I get a fuckin’ A? Yes! But let’s assure you that this shall never happen again! For thine self shall be protected from gun attacks by more gun attacks, because that’s what the LORD OUR GOD would want!!!

Conservative megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress, who once claimed former President Barack Obama was the harbinger of the Antichrist and who once said he’d vote for Donald Trump over Jesus Christ for president, appeared on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning to talk about the horrific church shooting that occurred in Texas this past weekend.

During the interview, Jeffress said that having parishioners come into church heavily armed with guns was one way to prevent tragedies like the one that occurred at a church on Sunday in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

When co-host Steve Doocy asked Jeffress if it was common for Christian gun owners to leave their guns with them in their cars before going into church, the pastor replied that “it’s certainly not common in our church” before going on to boast about how heavily armed his parishioners are.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/watch-trump-loving-pastor-boasts-his-heavily-armed-congregants-would-gun-down-attempted-church-shooters/

Yay, mass has ended! May you go in peace! Or pieces, depending on whether or not your church alloweth thine shotgun! That is it this week for:

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Let’s spin that shit! No whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! And it lands on… intermission!

OK we’re back! Spin it again! And it lands on… Sex. So Rick Perry, remember him as the guy who couldn’t name three branches of government that he wanted to cut? Or maybe you remember him from TV’s “Dancing With The Stars”, or maybe you remember him as the former governor of Texas. Well, this week, you will remember him for saying this:

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been reliable for saying and doing ridiculous things ever since he was just a first-term governor way back in 2000, but he really stepped in it on Thursday when he claimed that increasing the use of fossil fuels in Africa will reduce the number of sexual assaults on women.

Perry, who just returned from a trip to South Africa last week, was speaking at an event run by Axios, a new online news site, when a protester yelled that fossil fuels are causing climate change and killing people in poor countries.
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/energy-secretary-rick-perry-claims-fossil-fuels-can-prevent-sexual-assault-in-africa-9928702

Dude, seriously, Rick, you know why they’re called “fossil fuels”? Because the companies who produce these fuels are run by fossils! I mean you want to know the kind of caliber person who runs an energy company like that, just take a look at Don Blankenship who runs Massey Energy:

The Supreme Court is leaving in place the conviction of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship for misdemeanor conspiracy to violate federal safety standards at a West Virginia mine where 29 miners died in 2010.

The court declined Tuesday to take up Blankenship’s case. Blankenship, who recently finished a one-year prison term, had asked the court to review his conviction, which a federal appeals court upheld in January.

Blankenship had said he’s “more than 100 percent innocent” and the case was colored by emotion and publicity. He says natural gas caused the explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine, and the trial judge erred in instructing the jury and limiting cross-examination.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2017/10/11/467175.htm

Or how about these winners who run the controversial two-person Whitefish Energy Company based in Richard Spencer’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana?

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. -- The CEO of a company that received a highly scrutinized contract to restore power to Puerto Rico was born and raised in Baldwinsville.

Andrew Techmanski's company, Whitefish Energy Holdings in Montana, was recently awarded a $300 million contract for restoration of Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria.

On Sunday, though, the head of Puerto Rico's power company said the agency will cancel the contract.

The contract drew scrutiny because the company had only two employees when it was awarded and is headquartered in the hometown of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. (The company has since rapidly hired 300 more employees.)
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/baldwinsville_man_is_ceo_of_whitefish_the_montana_company_that_got_300m_puerto_r.html

So if that’s the kind of caliber person that Africa is counting on to lead them into prosperity, no wonder they’re still left in the dark! I mean Rick Perry’s comments about assault are so jaw-droppingly stupid that they buried the lead on this story which is this:

Perry's proposal would not affect Texas, since Texas has its own electric power market, regulated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Electric power markets in the rest of the United States are regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and would be affected. So perhaps the best possible spin is that Perry is trying to give Texas an advantage by burdening the rest of the country with harmful policies.

It is so common for politicians to say they believe in free markets while promoting government controls that it seems they have forgotten what free means. Free market economics asserts that there is greater cumulative accuracy in the real-time decisions made by millions of Americans through markets than in the decrees of a small handful of bureaucrats. It means bottom-up decision making is smarter than top-down dictates from those who assume themselves to be our betters. And it especially means government shouldn't determine favored outcomes by rigging the rules. Yet that is exactly what Perry's proposal would do to the rest of the country's electrical generation market.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/11/03/rick-perrys-plans-revive-coal-kill-aspirations-free-market

So in case you are wondering how Rick Perry’s comments fit into this and how absolutely wrong he is, he couldn’t be more stupid. Rather than have him be the head of the EPA, I’d much rather see him back on Dancing With The Stars! You know who else leaves the light on for you? Motel 6!

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry raised more than a few eyebrows at a Thursday event in Washington, D.C., when he drew a connection between developing fossil fuels and ending sexual assault. "From the standpoint of sexual assault—when the lights are on...you have light that shines the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts," Perry said.

Shortly after Perry made this statement, advocates from the Sierra Club, an environmental nonprofit, called for him to resign. "It was already clear that Rick Perry is unfit to lead the Department of Energy, but to suggest that fossil fuel development will decrease sexual assault is not only blatantly untrue, it is an inexcusable attempt to minimize a serious and pervasive issue," Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune wrote in a statement. The serious and pervasive issue Brune's talking about is climate change—something fossil fuels have been inextricably linked to in scientific study after scientific study.
https://www.self.com/story/twiwh-rick-perry-fossil-fuels

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By the way, before we do this entry, I do have to say that we’re going to cut the entry this week on Alex Jones and the JFK files and Antifa, but we’ll save that one for next week. Now back to the show. Let’s spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! No, a whammy!!!!

Spin it again. Racism. Pizza. That thing you want to eat all day every day. Yes there’s nothing quite like a double cheese and pepperoni pizza. Or a triple cheese and triple pepperoni pizza! And what better sport to watch while you eat pizza than football? Well, the GOP and their official propaganda outlet Fox News are keeping this bullshit controversy of the NFL kneeling protests alive despite that 98% of the country is sick of it and has already moved on to the next outrage. But not Papa John’s!

If you ask the CEO of Papa John’s, there’s a straight line from his pizza company’s sagging third-quarter earnings through the NFL’s national anthem demonstrations to what he says is “poor leadership” at the top in the NFL.

“This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago,” John Schnatter said in prepared remarks (via Chris Otts of WDRB.com). “Like many sponsors, we are in contact with the NFL and once the issue is resolved between the players and the owners, we are optimistic that the NFL’s best years are ahead. But good or bad, leadership starts at the top, and this is an example of poor leadership.”

Although he did not name Commissioner Roger Goodell by name, Schnatter said that the practice of players kneeling during the anthem to raise awareness of police brutality and social injustice could have been stopped back when Colin Kaepernick began doing it during preseason games in the summer of 2016. Instead, players continued to do so in response to violence across the country and President Trump ramped up the conversation, calling for NFL owners to fire any “son of a bitch” who did not stand for the anthem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/11/01/papa-johns-owner-blames-sagging-sales-on-nfl-anthem-protests-and-league-leadership/

Yeah Papa John’s – the pizza choice of drunken frat boys everywhere! You know it’s maybe a slight step above Domino’s cardboard with ketchup on it that they call pizza. Papa John’s is cardboard with ketchup, with an extra packet of high fructose corn syrup they somehow refer to as garlic sauce! Which by the way prompted a huge sales war with its’ competitors including Pizza Hut and DiGiorno!

Let America’s long-awaited pizza war begin.

Gauntlets are being thrown, lines are being drawn and the battle fields are already littered with uneaten crusts and pools of garlic sauce.

In all seriousness, national pizza chains have been in the news this week after Papa John’s Pizza CEO John Schnatter blamed poor sales on “poor leadership” in the National Football League for reacting too slowly to protests of racial inequality and police brutality by National Football League players during the national anthem before games.

NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart declined to comment on Schnatter's comments. And now Pizza Hut is hijacking the story. Here’s how it started.

"The NFL has hurt us and, more importantly, by not resolving the current debacle to the [players' and owners'] satisfaction, NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's," John Schnatter said on Tuesday during an earnings call.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-pizza-hut-nfl-papa-johns-20171102-htmlstory.html

This is the kind of hijacking story I love – when a competitor decides to go against the other guy’s message! You know it’s like that scene from Scarface where they’re going over the rules and the second rule is never underestimate the other guy’s greed! Although in this case you’re perfectly OK to get high on your own supply! But what do actual NFL players think of Papa John’s crap?

The NFL has been blamed for many things this season. The latest controversy involves Papa John’s, a league sponsor, blaming the demonstrations made by players during the national anthem Wednesday for its poor third quarter sales growth. Papa John’s stock was down about 12 percent in trading Wednesday, and CEO John Schnatter said, “NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders. This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago.”

The Washington Post’s Wonkblog team sees Schnatter’s claim as a stretch. Pizza Hut’s CEO added that his chain hasn’t seen “any impact” on the anthem demonstrations affecting business, while the sales at Domino’s rose 8.4 percent during the third quarter. But Schnatter’s comments during the company’s quarterly earnings call has sparked a divisive question: Is Papa John’s even good?

The question has led many on social media to debate whether the product itself is the reason Papa John’s has struggled of late. So we asked 15 Redskins players to name their three favorite pizza chains. As you’d expect, there wasn’t a consensus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2017/11/03/is-papa-johns-even-good-we-polled-15-redskins-players-for-their-favorite-pizza-chains/

Oh and by the way, we might want to cue the Sad Hulk Music for John’s latest plea. Because he’s whining about the Daily Stormer’s endorsement of Papa John’s!

Papa John’s Pizza has had a rough couple of weeks, which began when CEO John Schnatter seemed to suggest that the company’s flagging profits were the fault of protesting NFL players.

“The controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country,” he said about the incidents in which players refused to stand for the national anthem, blaming NFL executives for showing “poor leadership” by not putting the kibosh on the protests, which were started to call attention to police brutality against black Americans.

https://www.mediaite.com/author/lawrence-bonk/

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Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! Another clip without context!

Because nothing says “compassion” like watching rich old white men talking about women’s critical health issues! Spin it again! I need a drink! It’s now time for:

And man do I need a drink this week! Nothing like a good stiff drink after a mass shooting. Yeah that might come off as insensitive. But fuck it. We’re probably all going to die anyways so you might as well enjoy it, am I right? So my favorite bartender, what drink would go well with a home invasion? Some double malt scotch? Sure, I’ll take a nice glass of that! Because if my house is going to be robbed, I need to do some drinking! So why am I bringing this up? There’s a new product from Amazon that is getting a lot of press. We’ll explain.

Not at home? Not a problem. As a Prime member, you can get packages securely delivered into your home without being there. Plus, grant access to the people you trust, like your family, friends, dog walker, or house cleaner—no more leaving a key under the mat.
Secure access. The In-Home Kit features the Amazon Cloud Cam (Key Edition) indoor security camera and an Amazon Key-compatible smart lock.
Real-time notifications. We’ll send notifications the morning of delivery, just before, and right after. Watch your delivery happening live or view a video clip of it later.
Stop making spare keys. Give family and friends temporary, recurring, or permanent access. Or provide one-time access for your electrician or dog walker. You’re in control—just schedule the date and time window.
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Key-Home-Kit-compatible/dp/B00KCYQGXE

That’s right – Amazon is selling an easily hackable Wifi keypad and camera system! Gee, what could possibly go wrong? Well, a whole shit ton!

Twelve years ago, Amazon launched Prime, a subscription service that entitled members to free two-day shipping in the United States. Since then, it has added a number of options to make delivery faster and more convenient. Prime customers can get same-day delivery, and drop off with an hour or two on some items. Of course, customers aren’t always home to receive their packages. So Amazon started putting lockers in nearby convenience stores and building lobbies. It even showed off drones that could drop the package right into your backyard. Today it’s taking the obvious next step and introducing a service that will allow Amazon couriers to open your front door and put your package safely inside your home.

The service is called Amazon Key, and it relies on a Amazon’s new Cloud Cam and compatible smart lock. The camera is the hub, connected to the internet via your home Wi-Fi. The camera talks to the lock over Zigbee, a wireless protocol utilized by many smart home devices.

When a courier arrives with a package for in-home delivery, they scan the barcode, sending a request to Amazon’s cloud. If everything checks out, the cloud grants permission by sending a message back to the camera, which starts recording. The courier then gets a prompt on their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks. They drop off the package, relock the door with another swipe, and are on their way. The customer will get a notification that their delivery has arrived, along with a short video showing the drop-off to confirm everything was done properly.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16538834/amazon-key-in-home-delivery-unlock-door-prime-cloud-cam-smart-lock

Yeah skip! I mean this is the worst fears of every conservative gun nut – just allow complete strangers to enter your house when you’re not there! I mean did anyone see Suburbicon? Well, apparently no one saw Suburbicon because it was a total box office disaster! Well, the movie was about a home invasion and that’s not something that should be taken lightly in the active shooter era. And you know what? We’re not the only ones who are creeped out by this.

Those are a few of the questions I’ve been fielding from my own family while trying to convince them to let me test out Amazon Key and Cloud Cam at our house. The new smart lock and camera system enables in-home deliveries from the e-commerce giant, among other features.

My family is far from the only one a little unnerved at the prospect. Amazon’s announcement of the new service has triggered a wave of concern and parody from people who aren’t comfortable with the notion of Amazon controlling access their front doors.

Maybe I’m a sucker for Amazon, or just don’t care about privacy, or more likely I just like to try new stuff. In any event, I think this new service could actually be useful, if it works like Amazon says it will. I may be in the minority, but before you pass judgment, here’s more on how Amazon Key actually works.

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Initial Cost: Yes, you do have to pay Amazon for the privilege of giving the company access to your front door. The Amazon Key In-Home Kit package starts at $250 but can cost more than $300 depending on which compatible lock you choose.

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Yes, Amazon turns on your home camera and unlocks your door for you. When you put it that way, agreed, it’s a little creepy.
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/creeped-amazon-key-heres-home-delivery-service-will-work/

That’s right – you pay Amazon $250 for a camera that they can turn on at any time that allows them access to your house! Ain’t technology and predatory consumerism great? Because Amazon is firing on all cylinders on both! I mean what’s next? Drones?

Amazon, Google and other tech giants could soon partner with U.S. cities and states to test more self-flying, package-delivering drones under a new policy put forward by President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

These and other experiments still must obtain the blessings of the federal government, but the new effort — to be officially unveiled by Trump at the White House — aims to speed up the arrival of more drones that can aid law enforcement, monitor crops, study traffic and more.

Under current rules, tech giants are allowed to operate commercial drones in the United States — but only under very specific circumstances. Their unmanned aircraft must be flown within a pilot’s line of sight, for example, and those pilots must obtain licenses. Commercial operators also are restricted to flying only during daylight hours. Their craft is limited in size, altitude and speed, and pilots are generally not allowed to fly drones over people.
https://www.recode.net/2017/10/25/16542940/amazon-google-drones-us-government-trump

[font size="8"]World Tour Destination #21: India
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Let’s give the wheel a final spin this week! T-Shirt cannon! Now if only I had the budget to make and sell t-shirts! Spin it again! World Tour 2017! Hit it!

Part of our mission statement here at the Top 10 Conservative Idiots is to show you that conservative idiocy isn’t just a problem with America. No, it’s a global problem that is stemming far and wide, and it’s not just America where conservative idiots ruin everything they touch. And if you’re thinking of moving out of the United States just because Donald J. Trump is our current president and our nation is turning to shit, you should know what it is you’re getting into should you decide that you want to leave the country. So if you want a recap of where we’ve been so far, in the last few weeks we’ve discovered that South Korea might go nuclear, China’s falling space station will most likely kill a whole bunch of us, and Rodrigo Duterte is in the middle of a literal one man war on drugs. Literally. Here’s the tour schedule:

[font size="6"]India[/font]

Welcome to India everybody! Excuse me a minute while I enjoy this nice plate of chicken tikka, samosas, and garlic naan with a tall bottle of Kingfisher Ale. Ah, now that is good shit! India is one of the largest countries in the entire world. Hell, it was practically its’ own entire continent at one point in its’ history. It’s neighbors are Pakistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Of course when one thinks of India – the first thing that comes to mind is the Taj Mahal, the world’s largest mausoleum! It’s also the home of Red Fort – one of the world’s largest and oldest battle spots. It’s also the home of the Sikh religion and the Golden Temple – the holy center for the religion. India is also the home of Bollywood, and it’s recently seen a huge surge of success in the United States box office with such hit films as Baahubali 2 – a film that this year made more money than the latest Fast & Furious movies! I wonder how many of these movies say something like “We’re not a team! We’re family!”. In fact here’s a sample of what Bollywood is like. Keep in mind I know nothing about these movies, I am just pulling clips from Youtube:

And then there’s also lots of singing and dancing in these movies – which is why they’re a huge part of Indian culture. And India is also the home of Diwali – which is basically the Hindu Christmas. I wonder if Lexus advertises those obnoxious commercials with the giant bows on them during the Diwali to remember sales event? Nice graphic guys! And by the way in case you’re wondering if Indian people have a sense of humor, I give you the Bollywood flick “Toilet”:

Now just remember this the next time you cant get a plumber because you clogged your toilet after a drunken night of bar hopping and cheap burritos – some people in the world don’t have toilets! But what else is India the home of? Well one thing they’re not the home of is women’s rights.

The country ranked a lowly 108 out of 144 in the global gender gap report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Nov. 02. Last year, it stood at 87.

In the WEF report, countries are ranked on parameters of gender equality in health, education, economics, and politics. India’s performance in the health and survival category has been particularly dismal. It remained the world’s least improved country in this measure over the past decade, ranking the fourth-lowest at 141 this year.

India hardly fared better on economic participation and opportunity, finishing at 139. That’s not surprising considering women’s labour participation in India stands at around 28%. And about 66% of the work women do remains unpaid, compared to just 12% of the work undertaken by men. This unpaid work includes time spent on household chores, shopping, caring for family members, and travel related to the household.
https://qz.com/1119312/wef-global-gender-gap-report-india-is-becoming-a-worse-place-for-women/

Yeah there’s nothing funny about that so we wont try! But did you know that India recently decided to stop printing money altogether and switch entirely to electronic currency?

Almost a year ago, the Indian government rolled out an unprecedented policy move. Arguably, it was a time when the country was poised for economic success. With $9.49 trillion in purchasing power parity, it was the third-largest (in PPP terms) and the fastest-growing large economy in the world. On November 8, with no advance warning, India’s two highest-denomination banknotes, the 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee bills, were demonetized, rendering 86% of the country’s currency invalid overnight. The ostensible objective was a popular one: to root out corruption and illegitimate activity involving untraceable cash transactions. As the implications unfolded, I wrote two pieces (“India’s Botched War on Cash” and “Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment”) evaluating the policy and its impact. My assessment of the action was that the policy was poorly thought out and executed and that its net impact would be negative and particularly bad for the poor.

Indeed, India subsequently suffered a dramatic drop in its GDP growth rate, which fell to 6.1% annualized during January–March 2017 after three quarters with the annualized growth rate staying in the range of 7.9% to 7%. It most recent GDP growth figure has fallen to 5.7%, and part of that, too, can be attributed to the policy move from last November.
https://hbr.org/2017/11/one-year-after-india-killed-off-cash-heres-what-other-countries-should-learn-from-it

So what must it be like living in a country where there’s no cash and everything is done electronically? Remember the 2015 Hill Valley from Back To The Future Part II where transactions are done with thumb prints? It’s kind of like that. Oh and guess what? It’s having the opposite effect of what those who rule India had in mind.

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India’s economy will likely grow at its slowest pace in four years this fiscal year, a Reuters poll showed, as a currency ban and the new goods and services tax (GST) have disrupted business activity and dampened consumer demand.

Asia’s third-largest economy will grow at 6.7 percent in the fiscal year ending March 2018, the slowest since the new methodology of measuring gross domestic product (GDP) was introduced in the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to the latest poll of 30 economists.

The poll was taken on Oct. 12-24, closing just before India announced a $32.43 billion plan to recapitalise state banks, a bid to tackle a major drag on the economy.

While the latest poll’s number for this year matches the International Monetary Fund’s toned-down forecast - that was 7.2 percent earlier - it is a sharp decline from 7.3 percent the July Reuters poll showed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-economy-poll/cash-ban-gst-disruptions-to-cool-indias-gdp-growth-to-a-four-year-low-reuters-poll-idUSKBN1CU0DK

But the war on cash has also contributed to a war on cyber crime! That’s right – what happens when you ban cash? Why it brings out the hackers and cyber criminals!

India is reportedly considering Chinese-style exchange ban for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency according to local media reports.

A brief article in today’s Economic Times names an unknown government “committee” as having advised lawmakers to “close” merchants and other “dealers” active in Bitcoin and altcoins.

No background reasoning was given for the committee’s recommendation, which comes as Bitcoin flourishes in both price and volume in India and in permissive jurisdictions around the world.

Hesham Reyman, CEO of Indian exchange Bitxoxo, told the publication the government should focus on “curbing” sales of cryptocurrency involving cash instead of seeking a ban.

At the same time, Forbes India this week carried a full feature on fellow major exchange Zebpay, which is currently adding around 200,000 users to its app-based trading platform every month.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ban-all-crypto-dealers-india-committee-reportedly-tells-government

Ah I love Aziz Ansari! And cyber crime begats rebellion against online retailers! You know Amazon recently expanded to India. And people have already had enough of the retailer’s bullshit – particularly sponsored content. Why can’t we rebel against advertisers here in the US?

A 9,000-member strong Amazon India seller’s forum has pulled back sponsored ads from the e-commerce portal over the last two days to protest against what it believes are the company’s weak return policies. The sponsored ads help sellers promote their products in Amazon’s search results.

The eCommerce Sellers Association of India (ECSAI) plans to continue the strike for at least another day while awaiting a solution from the Jeff Bezos-led company.

The group alleges that its members are bleeding because Amazon has been approving fake return requests and making them pay for reverse logistics. The sellers also say that they are forced to bear the cost of the product that are often damaged or used.
https://qz.com/1119424/sellers-are-protesting-against-amazon-indias-returns-policy-by-pulling-back-ads/

[font size="6"]The Verdict & Scorecard[/font]

Hmmm… this is kind of a tricky one. There’s lots of crime, poverty and crimes against humanity in India. If you do go there, don’t wander too far off from the tourist areas. You should probably stay away from moving there too.

Tourism: B-
Culture: A
Political Spectrum: F
Liberal Appeal: F

Overall: D

[font size="6"]Next Week[/font]

This is going to be a fun one – and since most world tours lack any sort of logic in the touring schedule whatsoever, we’re going to the land down under! That’s right – Australia!

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[font size="8”]Prophets Of Rage[/font]

You know folks I teased some live Bollywood last week but couldn’t find much of anything, Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is a rock / hip hop super group consisting of members of Rage Against The Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy. That’s right – this is the soundtrack to the resistance! Playing their song “Living On The 110”, give it up for Prophets Of Rage!

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See you next week! If we still live through this week that is!

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