Our constitution was adopted only after John Adams's grand compromise was added. Federal courts were given jurisdiction to protect minorities from the tyranny of majorities. When SCOTUS protects the rights of blacks, women, LBGT & others, it's not legislating. It's doing its job.
There's got to be a psychological explanation why some relatively intelligent white college grads believe only Fox is telling the truth & NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, NYT, WAPO, USA TODAY, etc are all conspiring together against Trump. Never seen anything so crazy in my life.
The Constitution provides the Senate must have a majority of its members (51) present to conduct business. Without McCain the GOP only has 50. If Schumer is even half of McConnell, he'll hold all 49 DEM Senators out of the Senate to prevent a vote on Kavanaugh.
Thanks in no small part to Kavanaugh, Clinton was found guilty of lying under oath about whether he had sex & disbarred. Kavanaugh should be prosecuted for lying under oath, impeached or forced to resign as a Federal Appellate Judge & disbarred.
Dear
@NBC
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@CBS
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@CNN
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@MSNBC
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@FuxNews
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@PBS
: I have this serious problem. Every time I see Trump's face on TV, I have an allergic reaction & turn the channel asap. Just thought u should know, cuz an increasing number of ppl in ur television audiences have similar reactions.
There's something kinky about white mothers who support an obese 72 yr old self-confessed pussy-grabber who's had 3 wives & countless affairs, treats his daughter like a lover, wears his "hair" in a duck's ass & spews lies from an orange face featuring 2 white eye goggle holes.
Tucker Carlson says he "can't wait until the revolution is over" so he can go to restaurants again. That's how Trumpsters see things? They're engaged in a revolution, waging war against our government, our rule of law & us.
When Trumpsters realize they've been completely duped by a cult leader who despises every cell in their bodies, we'll have to protect him from them. I don't feel up to the task, do u?
Don't know or care much about Jill Stein but I do know that a vote for the Green Party on Nov 6 is a vote for the Orange Baboon. So get ur Green thumb out of ur ass & vote Blue Wave so we can get rid of the traitor & have an opp to save the planet too. No time 4 stupid!
Some day Trumpsters will be forced to live with the realization that they were members of a cult, led by a creepy over-70 white man w/thin whipped orange hair & several coats of make up whose main activities consisted of selling snake oil, consolidating power & playing golf. Sad.
Deutsche Bank, one of the dirtiest money laundering banks in the world (as a matter of record), is the only large western commercial bank that continued to lend to Trump. Justice Kennedy's son, Justin, was Trump's loan officer there. The smell of rat is unmistakable!
Refusing to be part of quorum should be easier than voting against 4 red state Dems, Jones & Manchin. Given McConnell's refusal to hold any hearings on Garland, GOP's hiding Kavanaugh's record & Trump's illegitimacy, any politician should be able to make this case to constituents
David Hogg's taking down Laura Ingraham is one of best things since 2016. If a teen can do it, why can't we take down Hannity & Pirro? Are relentless fake news attacks against the rule of law & our democracy or raping Andy McCabe's pension less despicable? Hogg's shown the way!
When this is over and the Fascist White Nationalistic, Misogynistic, Homophobic attempted takeover of our democracy has been defeated, will we be able to forgive the willfully ignorant members of our own families who didn't care about the consequences to us of such a coup?
@realDonaldTrump
These are the tweets of a truly disturbed imbecile, a pathetically insular man whose extreme delusions of grandeur are a profound threat to humanity. If u cared about this country, u'd shut down ur circus freak show and resign.
Don't be depressed by polls showing increasing percentages of Republicans favoring Trump. Those numbers are only correct because the GOP is shrinking. Real patriots, truth seekers, decent people & others appalled by Trump & his cult are becoming Independents or Dems.
Bone Spurs' blunders in Iraq:
*Ignores protocol, shuns Iraq PM, leading to calls 4 expulsion of US troops
*Distribs MAGA hats/Trump flags in flagrant violation of military rules
*Lies about pay raises 4 troops
*Says we were "suckers" 4 past military efforts
*Promotes wall
If they really wanted to reunite immigrant families, they need only transport all the parents & children to a single stadium. In a crowd of 5,000, families would reunite quickly. NO FUCKING EXCUSES.
In suggesting Lester Holt fudged the NBC interview in which he admitted firing Comey was because of the Russia investigation, Trump is testing whether he can convince people they didn't see & hear what they saw & heard 100 million times. Such an aggressive fascist thing to do!
Trump has spent 25 months as POTUS, texting nasty lies about every one who has dared to speak the truth about him. What the fuck did we do to deserve this?
Why do white national domestic terrorist often survive mass murders they perpetuate, but innocent black men are shot in the back while fleeing police they can't trust?
WH claimed "near zero visibility" prevented Trump from attending services for US WWI casualties. However, weather didn’t stop Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron from visiting memorial sites around Paris. WaPo
If Kavanaugh's confirmed, Anthony Kennedy may be remembered like Benedict Arnold 4 dealing w/a Russian asset to install the most partisan & divisive SCOTUS Justice in modern times. His son oversaw over $1B in loans to TrumpCos from Russian money laundering giant Deutsche Bank.
It seems classmates of conscience of Kavanaugh are coming out of the woodwork to tell the FBI he's a liar. Will the FBI be willing & able to listen to them?
Thinking back to night of Nov 8, 2016 when those late votes came in & Trump had won, it felt like my house had been robbed & everything taken. Last 21 months have been about figuring out exactly who the perps were & how they did it. The crime was much worse than it first seemed.
MSNBC reported last night that Trump directed a 15-minute profanity-laced screed on impeachment at Schumer & Pelosi at the beginning of their meeting yesterday. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was kind.
Trump doesn't let reporters finish their questions. He interrupts them with "excuse me," responds with a preconceived lie & then repeats the lie until the reporter gives up. MSM needs to call out Trump for his fascist style & to stop providing him with free time to spread lies.
When a man is called a prick or a woman a cunt, certain gender-specific negative qualities are suggested. While profane, neither is a racial or religious slur. Suggesting someone is a child of an ape and a Muslim is both a racial & religious slur. There's no moral equivalence.
Breaking News: Trump gives weird press conference, speaking as if he were disconnected from reality, blames past presidents for Crimea, North Korea and trade. Press didn't ask him any hard questions.
Would u feel safe if u're on the Manafort jury (unsequestered) & hear Trump make a TV plea on behalf of Manafort? Trump is jury tampering by expressing his views &, worse, by calling out his goons who may be a threat to the lives of jurors they can identify. Horrible.
Breaking: Most reg employees of the BOK Center in Tulsa are declining to work the rally because of health risks. So 300 Trump volunteers who know almost nothing about the bldg will take their places. About 20,000 roaring ppl in the middle of a pandemic. What could go wrong?
In case u missed it, Georgia's 6th House district, which Newt Gingrich won 11 times, elected Lucy McBath, a black woman, as their Congresswoman last Tuesday.
When Trump is gone, they'll be spontaneous parties erupting in the streets. Like those old films of VE Day and VJ Day. The Orange Baboon who would be King will go down for the seventh and final time. Freedom shall ring again throughout this great land.
According to Pew Research (March 2018) the GOP has shrunk to 27% of the American electorate. The 89% of Trumpsters continuing to self-identify as Republican account for less than 25% of the electorate. Trump's support in the GOP is increasing cuz he's driving people out of it.
GOP had 2 yrs during which they could've funded a Wall w/o Dem support. They passed an absurd tax cut & confirmed 2 right wing SCOTUS justices but no wall. This is 100% on the GOP. Unless u wanna blame Mexico.
Even though the Trump-friendly VFW had already moved his rally at their convention to a smaller room because of less interest than anticipated, the smaller room was far from being full.--Chris Hayes
If Trump's election is confirmed as fraud on the electorate, then so was Pence's. They were elected as a ticket. It's not relevant whether Pence participated in or knew about all or some of the fraud in advance; he shouldn't be a beneficiary of the fraud. Nancy may be 46.
Breaking News: WaPo reports that Ivanka Trump was worst offender in WH regarding misuse of personal email to convey government business in 2017. What hypocrites!
Trump will go to Mississippi for another hate rally next week where he'll incite his white suprem cult to vote 4 the GOP Senate candidate who jokes about public hangings & voter suppression. Projected low voter turnout is a rare opp! RISE UP DEMS & VOTE 4 MIKE ESPY ON NOV 27!
Explaining his attending rally in Erie despite enormous hurricane hitting Florida today, Trump says that changing his plans wouldn't be fair to people who lined up over night to get in. MSNBC reports no one waited in line overnight. No one was in line at 11 AM this morning!
It's unspeakably wrong that Trump could make 2 SCOTUS appointments while the legitimacy of his election is in serious doubt. Of all people, a SCOTUS Justice like Kennedy should've understood that. Yes indeed, that smell of rat.
It's a black eye for Yale & its claims to be the best law school in the country that a "double" graduate like Brett Kavanaugh misstated in sworn testimony the legal drinking age in CT. Every student knew that. A Federal Appellate Judge should know better than to lie under oath.
Today Randy & I are celebrating 15 years of legally recognized marriage in Massachusetts. The state that puts love before gender continues to have the lowest divorce rate in the country.
The South has always been the white supremacist, old testament, gun toating asshole of this country. Most of my life it was viewed as a dark dangerous pit of unwelcoming braindrained white ppl w/nasty sheriffs. Then it took over the GOP & became a hellfire-spitting poltergeist.
Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein said he’s been told that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report will show how President Donald Trump helped Russia “destabilize the United States." Newsweek
Remember the good old days when the WH press secretary would resign rather than tell a lie for the President? If we register now & vote these treasonous criminals out of office on November 6, we can reinstate those good old days.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief WH Propagandist, says she'll be leaving by year's end. Nobody's gonna do a better job than u, Sarah, at communicating Trump's unbroken litany of lies to the American people, but can't say "good job." Know u understand.
There's no right to bear arms in Russia or any other dictatorship. So why did all the leaders of the NRA & their families accept an all expense trip to Moscow? WTF is their excuse? It's one thing to be stupid, but willfully stupid smacks of conspiracy against ur country.
We have a criminal Manchurian president who travels frequently to the most conservative and racist places in the country to rant before "Colliseum Crowds" of haters who applaud his lies & deny his illegitimacy. Trump is early Hitler reincarnate with his own TV network.
Spent my first 70 years assured that our rule of law & free elections would continue thru my grandchildren's lives. We were the beacon of democracy 4 an entire planet, the shining city on the hill. Then Trump was mysteriously elected & it all seems to be breaking up b4 my eyes.
Emperor Trump says he wants US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to arrest Omarosa! Every day Trump demonstrates that he's an even more hideous clown than we imagined.
"Trump has met with Putin five times in two years & nobody knows what they're doing. Forget collusion. I wanna know if there's penetration." Bill Maher
The biggest "if" is whether McCain can remain in office long enough to avoid Arizona's GOP Governor from replacing him with an appointee who'll show up and make the quorum.
Imagine being MbS, knowing everyone who eats or deals with him or kisses his ass sees him as the grizzly murderer of a WaPo reporter. That huge stain will follow him for the remainder of his life & far beyond. MbS has reminded us of 9/11 & disgraced his country bigly. Shame.
Anthony Kennedy retired from SCOTUS on July 31, 2018, after writing a sudden unexpected letter of retirement dated June 18, 2018 to the Traitor-in-Chief. We can pray the FBI is investigating this travesty.
He stole elections.
He slams the free press.
He ridicules the judiciary.
He's intimidated Congress.
Now he's proposing to defy the Constitution.
He is Hitler.
"Kanye wore the MAGA hat the entire week during rehearsals & nobody said a thing. Then he claimed the SNL cast tried to bully him into not wearing it at the end of the show" Pete Davidson
Trump's nazi lying disease is contagious!
The most disturbing thing about Trump's mendacity is his dogged determination to make us believe his lies, as if it were a game that reinforces his view that he's smarter than everyone else. Makes my blood boil when he doubles down on doubling down on a lie.
Trump sees this country as another big real estate development deal. There're tenants to evict (immigrants), zoning boards to deceive (governing bodies), banks to borrow from (big donors), new tenants to attract (base), contractors to stiff (us) & mobsters to pay off (Putin).
As
@RepJerryNadler
says, this is something his Judiciary Committee isn’t “eager to do.” But the Senate’s failure to engage in an adequate review of then Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony makes a full House Judiciary review necessary even if awkward and painful
Al Sharpton calls out Donald Trump at Aretha Franklin funeral: “When word went out that Ms. Franklin passed, Trump said, 'She used to work for me.' No, she used to perform for you. "She worked for us."
#Resist
Trump has now spent 25 months as POTUS, primarily spending his time golfing & tweeting nasty lies about anyone who's dared to search for or tell the truth about him. What the fuck did we do to deserve him?
Why does Trump continuously insist that, to the extent possible, only prosecutors loyal to him should oversee investigations of him? Could it be that he's guilty as fuck?
Trump didn't go to France for Armistice Day. Like Maria Butina who famously emailed her Russian handler, Alexander Torchin, for further instructions after Trump had won on Nov 8, 2016, Trump is in France to receive further instructions from his Russian handler, Vladimir Putin.
Breaking News MSNBC's reporting Sean Hannity has used Trump Russia lawyer, Jay Sekulow, in addition to Cohen. And The Atlantic is reporting Hannity also used Joe diGenova & his wife, Victoria Toensing. DiGenova is a Fox contributor. He & Toensing were almost hired by Trump.
Many have noted Kavanaugh lacked judicial demeanor yesterday, including partisan politics, smugness, lying & petulence. But worst of all he's demonstrated he has no regard for proper investigations & the importance of their conclusions. This is basic stuff any judge should know.
@RudyGiuliani
What an embarrassment u are to lawyers & Italian Americans! U're a tired old Mussolini fascist protecting ur "infidelity is best" ethic. Shameful & pathetic.
Trump: "I have lots of people who love me, including a lot of women."
Colbert, "Mr. President, if u're writing a check at the end of the day, that's not love."