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Drumpf is cutting it close. Less than five hours before the 60 Minutes interview and he still has not created a diversion.

Pardon Flynn already. Fire Kelly. Rehire the Mooch.

@realDonaldTrump DO SOMETHING!


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You have to give Don Donald credit for his ability to create distractions.

He's managed to take people's mind off Stormy Daniels and Russia. With Bolton on board, people are now thinking about kissing their butts goodbye.

California Teacher Who Went Off on Anti-Military Rant in Viral Video Fired

Source: nbcbayarea.com

The high school teacher who was recorded going on an anti-military rant during a class in January was fired Tuesday, according to the superintendent of the El Rancho Unified School District.

After a two-month long investigation, school officials decided to terminate Gregory Salcido's position as a teacher at El Rancho High School. In a video, Salcido can be heard criticizing a student wearing a U.S. Marine Corps T-shirt before beginning to insult military members.

"We've got a bunch of dumb s---s over there,'' he can be heard saying in the recording. "Think about the people who you know who are over there -- your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever -- they're dumb. They're not like high-level thinkers, they're not academic people, they're not intellectual people. They're the freaking lowest of our low."

The teacher will remain on unpaid leave pending any appeal to the State Office of Administrative Hearings, according to school officials.

More at: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/Teacher-Who-Went-Off-on-Anti-Military-Rant-in-Viral-Video-Fired-477509623.html

Thoughts on this? Did Salcido know he was being recorded? If not, was it legal for the student who did so to record him? Fox had the student and his lawyer on TV this morning and they were praising the student to the skies for being so patriotic.

Not sure if this is accurate or not, but we can but hope.

Take it for what it's worth.


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DC and Virginia have filed suit against Trump for violations of the Emoluments clause of the Constitution. The All-White House has 3 days to respond to the subpoenas.

https://twitter.com/NoFoxnewstoday/status/976568030783295491

Zuckerberg is "damn near presidential."

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Mark Zuckerberg's knack for harming our democracy and his inability to apologize for anything is damn near presidential.

https://twitter.com/TurnUp_TheTweet/status/976568631357247489

"There! That's the kind of leader we need!"

Ridiculous right-wing fairy tale

More than 1 in 4 Americans show some support for authoritarianism

A new poll finds that 29 percent of respondents expressed support for a “‘strong leader’ or ‘army rule'”

Source: Salon.com


A new survey reveals that although most Americans like to believe they prefer democracy over authoritarian forms of government, the actual content of their convictions can veer precipitously toward authoritarianism.

"If given a direct choice, the overwhelming majority of Americans choose democracy," writes Lee Drutman, Larry Diamond and Joe Goldman of the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group. "In fact, on each of the five questions we asked, three quarters or more of all respondents provide at least some support for democracy, and half or more express support for the strongest pro-democratic option. By contrast, depending on the question, between an eighth and a quarter of respondents provide an answer that does not support democracy."

They added that some of their evidence conflicts with the findings of a 2016 paper called "The Democracy Disconnect" by Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk. &quot a) We do not find that public support for democracy in the U.S. is declining. (b) Nor do we find higher support among young people for an authoritarian political system," the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group writes.

At the same time, the Drutman, Diamond and Goldman found that "only a slim majority of Americans (54 percent) consistently express a pro-democratic position across all five of our measures." Even those who have a dimmer view of democracy, however, were still more likely than not to avoid supporting authoritarian alternatives. That said, the highest level of openness to authoritarianism came from voters who supported Donald Trump in the primaries, while the highest support for democracy came from voters who were either consistently liberal or consistently conservative.

More at: https://www.salon.com/2018/03/16/more-than-one-in-four-americans-prefer-authoritarian-politics/

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