Eric the rich asshole says Democrats must clap for the rich asshole if they love Jesus: Americans should be ‘united on God’
Eric the rich asshole speaks to Fox News (screen grab)
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Eric the rich asshole complained on Wednesday that Democrats in Congress did not applaud enough during President some rich asshole’s State of the Union address — and he said that Democrats had a duty to clap when Christianity was mentioned because Americans should be “united on God.”
During an interview with Fox & Friends on Wednesday, President the rich asshole’s son said that he was “focused on the Democrats” while his dad was speaking to the nation.
“And I honestly think they’re scared,” he opined. “And if I look around [during Tuesday’s speech], they don’t have the personality to go against him. They were sitting there. They looked, quite frankly, defeated.”
“I mean, they didn’t stand for anything,” the younger the rich asshole continued. “When he said ‘In God We Trust’ — when my father mentioned ‘In God We Trust,’ the guiding principle of this country, no one stood.”
The hosts of Fox & Friends were ready to support Eric the rich asshole by playing a “montage” of Democrats refusing to stand.
“You know what, I think it’s actually very sad,” Eric the rich asshole stated. “There are things as Americans we should be united on. And if we can’t be united on God, if we can’t be united on African-American unemployment being at the lowest it’s ever been.”
“Honestly, I think they’re scared,” he concluded. “I really really think they’re scared.”
“Well, they thought they had the midterms locked up,” co-host Brian Kilmeade added.
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Nunes could face obstruction charges: Expert says colluding with White House nullifies congressional immunity
Rep. Devin Nunes (C-SPAN)
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Former White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen warned on Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) may have opened himself up to obstruction of justice charges if he colluded with the White House to create a memo smearing the FBI’s Russia investigation.
The Daily Beast reported this week that Nunes has refused to deny that he worked with White House staffers while writing an allegedly misleading memo suggesting that the Justice Department acted improperly when it extended surveillance of former the rich asshole campaign staffer Carter Page, who was thought to be a foreign agent.
“Whoa,” Eisen wrote on Wednesday. “Nunes’s speech and debate clause Congressional immunity may not protect him from liability for conduct outside Congress.”
He added: “Depending on the facts, Nunes may have put himself in middle of a conspiracy to obstruct justice. He better beware: There r no secrets in this White House.”
Whoa—Nunes’s speech and debate clause Congressional immunity may not protect him from liability for conduct outside Congress. Depending on the facts, Nunes may have put himself in middle of a conspiracy to obstruct justice. He better beware: There r no secrets in this White House twitter.com/kasie/status/9…
The Congressional Immunity law states that members of the U.S. Congress can not be prosecuted while they are “attending a session of the body to which the member belongs, excluding an arrest for treason, breach of the peace, or a felony.”
The law also provides immunity from arrest or interrogation “for any speech or debate entered into during a legislative session.”
Neither of those provisions would seem to apply to members working with another branch of government to obstruct justice.
White supremacists back the rich asshole’s remarks about Dreamers
Michael Edison Hayden
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress and the U.S. Tuesday night, and for the most part the speech avoided the type of red meat populist rhetoric that helped attract the support of overt neo-Nazis and white supremacists during his run for office.
One passage from his speech, however, did appear to catch the attention of America’s extreme far right, and it related to so-called Dreamers, or undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
“So tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties-- Democrats and Republicans-–to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed,” Trump said. “My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans--to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers, too.”
Some critics suggested the comment belittled the struggle of immigrants at a time when marginalized communities feel threatened by the political environment, but white supremacists leapt onto social media to sing its praises. David Duke, a former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard and anti-Semitic conspiracy peddler, tweeted a message of gratitude to the president.
“Thank you President Trump. Americans are 'Dreamers' too,” Duke wrote.
Duke also called the speech “very powerful” on his Twitter account. He has long been a vocal supporter of Trump.
A newer guard of white supremacists—the ones who have branded themselves as being “alt-right”, also responded to the line. Richard Spencer, one of the scheduled speakers at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally that descended into chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, quoted Trump and posted a picture of a white family alongside his words. Mike “Enoch” Peinovich, a podcaster who functions as kind of a sidekick figure for Spencer at events, also crowed about the line.
“Ok, the dreamers line was good,” Peinovich wrote on Twitter.
Other white supremacists, like Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, praised the president in more general terms and appeared to get sentimental hearing Trump address the country.
“Anytime one of these official events happens, I'm always jarred by the fact that we actually elected this man President of the United States of America,” Anglin wrote on Gab, a social media site populated by far right users. His site has openly praised domestic terrorism and threatened the murder of children in retaliation for internet censorship in recent weeks.
Some commenters on the left suggested that Trump’s comment about Americans being dreamers was a dog whistle to white supremacists. On Fash the Nation, a white nationalist-oriented podcast that aired immediately after the speech, Peinovich suggested that he and others had to pick up where the president left off by broadcasting their propaganda in explicit terms.
“Who is he dog whistling to?” Peinovich asked, suggesting that many white men shared his racist views but did not always vocalize them. “Someone has to be direct about it.”
One passage from his speech, however, did appear to catch the attention of America’s extreme far right, and it related to so-called Dreamers, or undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
“So tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties-- Democrats and Republicans-–to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed,” Trump said. “My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans--to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers, too.”
Some critics suggested the comment belittled the struggle of immigrants at a time when marginalized communities feel threatened by the political environment, but white supremacists leapt onto social media to sing its praises. David Duke, a former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard and anti-Semitic conspiracy peddler, tweeted a message of gratitude to the president.
“Thank you President Trump. Americans are 'Dreamers' too,” Duke wrote.
Duke also called the speech “very powerful” on his Twitter account. He has long been a vocal supporter of Trump.
A newer guard of white supremacists—the ones who have branded themselves as being “alt-right”, also responded to the line. Richard Spencer, one of the scheduled speakers at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally that descended into chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, quoted Trump and posted a picture of a white family alongside his words. Mike “Enoch” Peinovich, a podcaster who functions as kind of a sidekick figure for Spencer at events, also crowed about the line.
“Ok, the dreamers line was good,” Peinovich wrote on Twitter.
Other white supremacists, like Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, praised the president in more general terms and appeared to get sentimental hearing Trump address the country.
“Anytime one of these official events happens, I'm always jarred by the fact that we actually elected this man President of the United States of America,” Anglin wrote on Gab, a social media site populated by far right users. His site has openly praised domestic terrorism and threatened the murder of children in retaliation for internet censorship in recent weeks.
Some commenters on the left suggested that Trump’s comment about Americans being dreamers was a dog whistle to white supremacists. On Fash the Nation, a white nationalist-oriented podcast that aired immediately after the speech, Peinovich suggested that he and others had to pick up where the president left off by broadcasting their propaganda in explicit terms.
“Who is he dog whistling to?” Peinovich asked, suggesting that many white men shared his racist views but did not always vocalize them. “Someone has to be direct about it.”
the rich asshole tells Puerto Rico: ‘We love you’ as FEMA cuts aid
Graham Lanktree
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Donald Trump told the island of Puerto Rico and other U.S. regions struck by natural disasters last year that America stands by them in his State of the Union address Wednesday.
Yet critics wonder how far that solidarity goes as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) prepares to stop giving out food and water on the island territory of Puerto Rico Wednesday. About 35 percent of people there remain without power four months after Hurricane Maria left the island in ruins.
“A third of Puerto Rico still lacks electricity. Many do not have running water. But FEMA will ‘officially shut off’ tomorrow,” wrote activist Erin Schrode, COO of World Central Kitchen, who is leading the #ChefsForPuertoRico project with Chef José Andrés to distribute millions of meals on the island, on Facebook Tuesday.
In Trump’s State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress he addressed “everyone still recovering” from a series of hurricanes that struck Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands last year. “We are with you, we love you, and we will pull through together,” the president said.
That show of solidarity, however, stands in contrast to “the startling, unimaginable reality here for millions of Americans over 4 months after Maria,” wrote Schrode.
“I am here on the island. Our team traverses its 78 municipalities daily. The post-hurricane emergency is still all too real for large segments of the population, where the majority of multiple regions remain without power and below the poverty line.”
Read more: Puerto Rico proposes hundreds of school closures, with many students looking to U.S. mainland
Food and water shipments will “officially shut off” Wednesday, according to FEMA, because these supplies are now commercially available, suggesting the immediate emergency after the storm has lifted. Some 65 million liters of water and 58 million meals have been given out on the island at a cost of $2 billion, FEMA has said.
The agency will continue to support other organizations working on the island, but will focus on those serving the most remote areas.
“The reality is that we just need to look around. Supermarkets are open, and things are going back to normal,” FEMA's director in Puerto Rico, Alejandro De La Campa, told NPR early this week.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz—who clashed publicly with Trump over the government’s response to the disaster last year—disagrees. Speaking directly after Trump’s State of the Union address, which she attended as a guest of New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Cruz said “there is need still” on the island.
In a speech at the Latino Victory Summit Tuesday Cruz condemned the plan to end FEMA support. “Yesterday, I had to help—because it is a moral imperative to help—a school about 45 minutes from San Juan that still has no water, no electricity and no milk for their children,” she said.
Congress is expected to soon sign off on $80 billion more in disaster relief to add to some $50 billion in aid that it approved last year.
In a letter sent to FEMA’s chief Brock Long, 30 members of Congress warned that ending food and water supplies to Puerto Rico would hurt the island’s people.
Non-profit organizations like World Central Kitchen “can only do so much,” wrote Schrode Tuesday. “The federal government MUST step in and show up in major ways, not disappear or abandon ship at a pivotal moment.”
Yet critics wonder how far that solidarity goes as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) prepares to stop giving out food and water on the island territory of Puerto Rico Wednesday. About 35 percent of people there remain without power four months after Hurricane Maria left the island in ruins.
“A third of Puerto Rico still lacks electricity. Many do not have running water. But FEMA will ‘officially shut off’ tomorrow,” wrote activist Erin Schrode, COO of World Central Kitchen, who is leading the #ChefsForPuertoRico project with Chef José Andrés to distribute millions of meals on the island, on Facebook Tuesday.
In Trump’s State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress he addressed “everyone still recovering” from a series of hurricanes that struck Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands last year. “We are with you, we love you, and we will pull through together,” the president said.
That show of solidarity, however, stands in contrast to “the startling, unimaginable reality here for millions of Americans over 4 months after Maria,” wrote Schrode.
“I am here on the island. Our team traverses its 78 municipalities daily. The post-hurricane emergency is still all too real for large segments of the population, where the majority of multiple regions remain without power and below the poverty line.”
Read more: Puerto Rico proposes hundreds of school closures, with many students looking to U.S. mainland
Food and water shipments will “officially shut off” Wednesday, according to FEMA, because these supplies are now commercially available, suggesting the immediate emergency after the storm has lifted. Some 65 million liters of water and 58 million meals have been given out on the island at a cost of $2 billion, FEMA has said.
The agency will continue to support other organizations working on the island, but will focus on those serving the most remote areas.
“The reality is that we just need to look around. Supermarkets are open, and things are going back to normal,” FEMA's director in Puerto Rico, Alejandro De La Campa, told NPR early this week.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz—who clashed publicly with Trump over the government’s response to the disaster last year—disagrees. Speaking directly after Trump’s State of the Union address, which she attended as a guest of New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Cruz said “there is need still” on the island.
In a speech at the Latino Victory Summit Tuesday Cruz condemned the plan to end FEMA support. “Yesterday, I had to help—because it is a moral imperative to help—a school about 45 minutes from San Juan that still has no water, no electricity and no milk for their children,” she said.
Congress is expected to soon sign off on $80 billion more in disaster relief to add to some $50 billion in aid that it approved last year.
In a letter sent to FEMA’s chief Brock Long, 30 members of Congress warned that ending food and water supplies to Puerto Rico would hurt the island’s people.
Non-profit organizations like World Central Kitchen “can only do so much,” wrote Schrode Tuesday. “The federal government MUST step in and show up in major ways, not disappear or abandon ship at a pivotal moment.”
Obama speechwriter rails against the rich asshole’s State of the Union as ‘white-nationalist wish list’
US President some rich asshole will become the first sitting president to address the National Rifle Association since Ronald Reagan nearly 35 years ago (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
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In an op-ed for the Daily Beast, former speechwriter for President Barack Obama David Litt called out Tuesday’s State of the Union address as a “white-nationalist wish list.”
Litt said that he thought it was impossible to put words in a president’s mouth, but with President some rich asshole’s administration, he isn’t as certain.
As a speechwriter, his goal was always to “write something 90 percent as good as the president would if he had the time.” Not once did he attempt to manipulate the leader of the free world or create policy from a speech. “It wouldn’t have worked,” anyway, because the rigorous process for an Obama speech seems different than the current White House.
Litt assumed that he was similar to every other speechwriter for every other president in history: the personal trainer not a puppet master. His asterisk, however, is the rich asshole.
“If transcribed interviews are any guide, our 45th president’s natural speech pattern is a blend of vagaries and ramblings—a word salad a few weeks past its expiration date,” Litt wrote. “That’s bad for America. But an incoherent president makes the speechwriting process a golden opportunity for a staffer hoping to put a finger on the scale.”
So, for major speeches, the rich asshole has turned to top aides like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, both of whom have a complicated history of shilling for white-supremacists and white nationalist policies.
“It was a combination of raw resentment and entitlement, a mix of David Koch and David Duke. Sure, some rich asshole did the talking. But that was President Stephen Miller’s first State of the Union Address,” Litt said.
In fact, Duke praised the remarks, particularly noting the fact that all Americans are DREAMers.
Watching President Trump @POTUS. A very powerful speech. God bless America!
Litt called out the immigration section of the speech, saying that it was the only real “fleshed-out” part of the address.
“Where the rich asshole had once promised to protect DREAMers, and go after the ‘bad hombres,’ this plan was a white nationalist wish list,” he wrote. “In exchange for giving 1.8 million people brought here as children a chance to become citizens, the rich asshole’s proposed bill would slash legal immigration by 50 percent. That’s a position that would have been shockingly radical not so long ago—but Miller’s former bosses such as Michelle Bachman and Jeff Sessions would have been more than comfortable with it.”
Litt explained that it’s no coincidence that the only policy in the remarks were related to immigration legislation, because it’s Miller’s favorite subject. However, he notes that it’s only been 20 days since the rich asshole referred to the “sh*thole” countries and wanting more Norwegian immigrants.
the rich asshole probably didn’t notice that tax cuts and immigration were the two policies that dwarfed anything else in the speech, but Litt said that Congress, civil servants and American voters will.
If the rich asshole was shooting for unity, he succeeded. “He’s uniting the trickle-down and white nationalist impulses of the Republican Party with remarkable speed,” Litt wrote.
Republicans warn the rich asshole against firing Rod Rosenstein
Greg Price
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Republican lawmakers warned President Donald Trump not to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein while Congress, the Justice Department and the White House tangled over a secret memo that could shed light on misdeeds at the FBI and Justice.
The memo could be made public in the next few days after the House approved its release Monday – though Trump can block the release – and it could cause blowback for Rosenstein, a top Justice Department official.
But Republicans have urged Trump not to hastily dismiss Rosenstein due to the political optics and due process, according to The Hill.
U.S. Representative Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) said a potential Rosenstein departure “raises more flags than it dismisses,” while Representative David Joyce (R-Ohio) suggested both Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Rosenstein should continue their investigations unabated.
“I’m a fan of letting the process run its course,” Joyce told The Hill. “I think we should let Rosenstein, Mueller and everybody else do their jobs and wait to see what the outcome is.”
Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has routinely clashed with and criticized Trump, suggested that firing Rosenstein would provide the president the same dire results as former FBI Director James Comey’s abrupt firing.
“Bad idea. It was a bad idea to fire Comey. I think he recognizes that by now because that’s what got him Mueller. And this would [lead to] just trouble,” Flake said.
Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May after Trump fired Comey, has faced the president’s wrath throughout his first year in office. The memo put together by House Intelligence Committee Chairman and Representative Devin Nunes’s office reportedly shows Rosenstein approved more surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, according to The New York Times.
The extended surveillance reportedly meant the Justice Department believed Page, who went to Russia during the 2016 campaign, may have been a Russian agent.
The memo also asserts the FBI and Justice Department may have relied on the dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in order to obtain the warrant necessary to watch Page. With much of the Steele dossier unverified, at least to the public, Republicans have accused the FBI and Justice of overstepping and bias meant to undermine Trump’s presidency.
The memo could be made public in the next few days after the House approved its release Monday – though Trump can block the release – and it could cause blowback for Rosenstein, a top Justice Department official.
But Republicans have urged Trump not to hastily dismiss Rosenstein due to the political optics and due process, according to The Hill.
U.S. Representative Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) said a potential Rosenstein departure “raises more flags than it dismisses,” while Representative David Joyce (R-Ohio) suggested both Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Rosenstein should continue their investigations unabated.
“I’m a fan of letting the process run its course,” Joyce told The Hill. “I think we should let Rosenstein, Mueller and everybody else do their jobs and wait to see what the outcome is.”
Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has routinely clashed with and criticized Trump, suggested that firing Rosenstein would provide the president the same dire results as former FBI Director James Comey’s abrupt firing.
“Bad idea. It was a bad idea to fire Comey. I think he recognizes that by now because that’s what got him Mueller. And this would [lead to] just trouble,” Flake said.
Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May after Trump fired Comey, has faced the president’s wrath throughout his first year in office. The memo put together by House Intelligence Committee Chairman and Representative Devin Nunes’s office reportedly shows Rosenstein approved more surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, according to The New York Times.
The extended surveillance reportedly meant the Justice Department believed Page, who went to Russia during the 2016 campaign, may have been a Russian agent.
The memo also asserts the FBI and Justice Department may have relied on the dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in order to obtain the warrant necessary to watch Page. With much of the Steele dossier unverified, at least to the public, Republicans have accused the FBI and Justice of overstepping and bias meant to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Steve Mnuchin urges Congress to raise debt ceiling ‘as soon as possible’
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday called on Congress to lift the nation’s debt limit “as soon as possible” so that the federal government can pay government employee benefits and other obligations.
In a letter to congressional leaders and key committee chairmen, Mnuchin said the Treasury Department would continue to suspend payments into federal employee retiree, health and disability funds through Feb. 28.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo nails Sarah Sanders on the rich asshole’s immigration lies: He only wants you if you’re ‘rich and white’
Chris Cuomo interviews Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Screen cap).
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday nailed White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on President some rich asshole’s views on immigration.
During a contentious interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Cuomo pressed Sanders about what the president’s real goal is in ending America’s family reunification immigration policy, which has been in place for decades.
In particular, Cuomo slammed the rich asshole for falsely saying that this policy allows immigrants to bring over an unlimited number of relatives from their countries into the United States.
“The idea, what the president said last night, somebody can bring in as many people as they want,” Cuomo said. “It’s just not true. It’s not true in the facts, not true in reality.”
Sanders tried to defend the rich asshole’s policies by claiming that the president was only acting to protect the security of the American people. Cuomo, however, came right back at her with the president’s own words.
“He wants people to come to the country but not those certain s-hole countries,” he said, referring to the rich asshole’s declaration that we shouldn’t be accepting immigrants from “shithole” African countries. “He wants them rich and white. That’s not America.”
Sanders tried to claim that the rich asshole’s proposed merit-based immigration system is “colorblind,” but Cuomo said you can’t divorce it from the ugly things the rich asshole has said about immigrants in the past.
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Robert Mueller seeks to interview the rich asshole legal team ex-spokesman: source
Mark Corallo (Screen Capture)
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Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the former spokesman for President some rich asshole’s legal team as part of his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Mark Corallo was the spokesman for several weeks, representing the rich asshole’s outside lawyers amid the federal and congressional Russia inquiries, until he resigned last summer.
No interview date has been set, according to the source, who asked not to be identified given the ongoing investigation. Mueller’s team is also investigating whether there was any collusion between Moscow and the the rich asshole campaign.
Corallo’s departure in July came amid other staff changes and media reports that the rich asshole’s legal team was reorganizing and considering ways to try to limit Mueller’s probe.
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Moscow worked to sway last year’s election to the rich asshole. Moscow has denied any interference and the rich asshole, a Republican, has said there was no collusion.
Mueller, a former FBI director, was appointed in May to lead the federal investigation, which so far has resulted in guilty pleas from former the rich asshole national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Former campaign manager Paul Manafort and aide Richard Gates, have pleaded not guilty to charges including money laundering.
Muller’s team has interviewed a number of former top the rich asshole campaign staff, current members of his Cabinet and administration, former U.S. officials, and staff from the social media network Facebook.
U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of three congressional panels investigating Moscow’s activities during the campaign and links to the rich asshole, has also asked Corallo for an interview next month.
the rich asshole, being the sexist pig he is, didn’t mention women once during his speech
Nicole Goodkind
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Donald Trump said many words during his hour and 20 minute long State of the Union address Tuesday evening, but he did not mention women once.
Trump’s first year in office was a landmark year for women, as the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shaped political and popular culture. Multiple elected and appointed officials were forced to resign after admitting to sexual harassment and assault, and more women than ever will run for office in 2018.
The president, meanwhile, made several attempts to limit access to reproductive care, refused to call himself a feminist and was accused of cheating on his wife with adult film star Stephanie Gregory Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Trump's annual average approval rating for his first year in office was only 33 percent among women, compared with 45 percent among men.
But it’s not just Trump: Republicans also have a female problem.
According to recent polling, women favor Democrats over Republicans in the November midterm elections by 16 points, while men support both parties at parity. Such data indicates that Trump "is not likely to be much help in rallying women to support Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections," said Gallup's Megan Brenan.
Ignoring women’s issues during the most important policy-shaping speech of the year doesn’t help. Trump only used the term “woman” once, while telling the story of a homeless woman who was found pregnant and injecting heroin.
“We know where we stand in Trump's vision of our union,” tweeted the National Women's Law Center after his speech.
The official Democratic response to the speech was given by Congressman Joseph Kennedy III. He directly referenced the women’s marches across America last week during his brief remarks.
“You proudly marched together last weekend – thousands deep -- in the streets of Las Vegas and Philadelphia and Nashville,” he said. “You sat high atop your mom’s shoulders and held a sign that read: Build a wall and my generation will tear it down. You bravely say, 'me, too.' You steadfastly say, 'black lives matter.'”
Trump isn't alone. President Barack Obama did not mention women in his final State of the Union speech in 2017.
Trump’s first year in office was a landmark year for women, as the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shaped political and popular culture. Multiple elected and appointed officials were forced to resign after admitting to sexual harassment and assault, and more women than ever will run for office in 2018.
The president, meanwhile, made several attempts to limit access to reproductive care, refused to call himself a feminist and was accused of cheating on his wife with adult film star Stephanie Gregory Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Trump's annual average approval rating for his first year in office was only 33 percent among women, compared with 45 percent among men.
But it’s not just Trump: Republicans also have a female problem.
According to recent polling, women favor Democrats over Republicans in the November midterm elections by 16 points, while men support both parties at parity. Such data indicates that Trump "is not likely to be much help in rallying women to support Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections," said Gallup's Megan Brenan.
Ignoring women’s issues during the most important policy-shaping speech of the year doesn’t help. Trump only used the term “woman” once, while telling the story of a homeless woman who was found pregnant and injecting heroin.
“We know where we stand in Trump's vision of our union,” tweeted the National Women's Law Center after his speech.
We just searched the entire transcript of Trump's #SOTU speech and the words woman or women appear just once. We know where we stand in Trump's vision of our union.
The official Democratic response to the speech was given by Congressman Joseph Kennedy III. He directly referenced the women’s marches across America last week during his brief remarks.
“You proudly marched together last weekend – thousands deep -- in the streets of Las Vegas and Philadelphia and Nashville,” he said. “You sat high atop your mom’s shoulders and held a sign that read: Build a wall and my generation will tear it down. You bravely say, 'me, too.' You steadfastly say, 'black lives matter.'”
Trump isn't alone. President Barack Obama did not mention women in his final State of the Union speech in 2017.
CDC head resigns after report she traded tobacco stocks, proving again how corrupt the no45 admin is
BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 01/31/18 09:50 AM EST
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Brenda Fitzgeraldresigned Wednesday, one day after reports that she traded tobacco stocks while heading the agency.
"This morning Secretary [Alex] Azar accepted Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald’s resignation as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
"Dr. Fitzgerald owns certain complex financial interests that have imposed a broad recusal limiting her ability to complete all of her duties as the CDC Director. Due to the nature of these financial interests, Dr. Fitzgerald could not divest from them in a definitive time period."
"After advising Secretary Azar of both the status of the financial interests and the scope of her recusal, Dr. Fitzgerald tendered, and the Secretary accepted, her resignation," the statement said. "The Secretary thanks Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald for her service and wishes her the best in all her endeavors."
Politico reported Tuesday that Fitzgerald bought a share in Japan Tobacco one month into her leadership of the agency, which is responsible for reducing tobacco use among Americans.
The stock was one of about a dozen new investments Fitzgerald made after she took the job, according to Politico.
She also bought stocks in Merck & Co., Bayer and health insurer Humana.
Fitzgerald was already under scrutiny for failing to divest from other holdings she bought prior to taking the job, which led to her recusal from some health issues.
She was invited to testify before Congress at least four times on various public health issues but was unable to because of her conflicts, drawing the ire of Democrats.
She said she was unable to divest from some holdings because of legal and contractual obligations.
Conservative racist Congressional Candidate praised by the rich asshole Compiles Jewish Enemies Hit List
It’s possible that there exists a worse human being than some rich asshole. This may seem impossible, I know. President Stable Genius is a lot of things — racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and an all-around shithole of what barely passes as an orange-hued human being — but Paul Ryan’s conservative opposition in the upcoming election is all of those things and a lot more.
some rich asshole courts anti-Semites. He loves them and they love him back. But whether or not the rich asshole hates Jews enough is a topic that is often debated by even the most hardcore Nazi Deplorables in the basket. Paul Nehlen? Oh, he hates Jews. With a passion. So much so, that he compiled a “verified” Jewish enemies list.
Nehlen listed people whom he felt “attacked” him in the past week and noted that “of those 81 people, 74 are Jews while only 7 are non-Jews.”
14/ I’ve compiled a list of "verified" Twitter users who have attacked me *in just the last month alone* for my #AmericaFirst positions. Of those 81 people, 74 are Jews, while only 7 are non-Jews. Here is the list:
Now before we go any further, it’s important to note that the rich asshole and Nehlen have been sucking each other off, so to speak, since before the election:
Nehlen also shares many of the rich asshole’s goals:
Now, Nehlen could have apologized. He could have admitted he fucked up. He could have done a lot of things. But you know that one thing you shouldn’t do but you decide to do it anyway because your family tree hasn’t forked in generations so you do it anyway? No, you don’t — but Nehlen knows it very well. He decided the best course of action was to double down on the “Jew” thing and add “I’m a hardcore racist” to the mix.
Nehlen linked a tweet from African-American Fox contributor and former White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush Ari Fleischer in which he listed members of the Congressional Black Caucus who once met with Louis Farrakhan. The tweet was pretty goddamn awful and was heavily criticized, but Nehlen didn’t care about that. He needed to attack another group of people he hates while he was still feeling the high over the attention he was getting from the “Jew” thing:
Whoa Whoa Whoa there with the list making...what race gives you the right to do someth...#ShallNotCensor twitter.com/AriFleischer/s…
21/ Lists are bad. Lists are wrong. Unlesssssssssssss you belong to the only race that can never be criticized. Then lists are fine, is that what I'm seeing here? twitter.com/AriFleischer/s…
22/ Just to be crystal clear, what you are witnessing here is a Jew making a list of Blacks who aren't even attacking Jews...but it's not kosher for a White to make a list of Jews attacking a White. twitter.com/AriFleischer/s…
22/ Just to be crystal clear, what you are witnessing here is a Jew making a list of Blacks who aren't even attacking Jews...but it's not kosher for a White to make a list of Jews attacking a White. twitter.com/AriFleischer/s…
23/ wondering what #BlackTwitter has to say about this Jewish guy making a list of Blacks who aren't doing anything to him? twitter.com/arifleischer/s…
He also refers to himself as “pro-white” — a synonym for “racist shitpile”:
You are a Jewish supremacist.
If being pro-White deems one as a "White supremacist" or an "anti-Semite," then certainly, your philosemetic / anti-White positions label you as Jewish supremacist. twitter.com/benshapiro/sta…
Seriously, he really wants you to know he hates anyone with skin that is darker than a stick of chalk:
Nehlen also bragged that his tweet, which was reported by a fairly large number of people, was not removed because Twitter “could not identify any violations of Twitter Rules…”
19/ While you are waiting for the next and possibly final chapter in the BuzzFeed story, why not swing over to the campaign store for some great #NoCuckZone gear electnehlen.com/shop/
Twitter rules do, in fact, prohibit hate speech, but Nehlen apparently gets a pass here.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just making America great again.
GOP lawmakers say the rich asshole would make mistake in firing Rosenstein but won't do anything
BY SCOTT WONG - 01/31/18 06:00 AM EST
Republicans say President the rich asshole would be making a big mistake in firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has been in the president’s crosshairs since appointing special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the agency’s Russia investigation.
Some Republicans are now worried that a soon-to-be-released memo from GOP staff on the House Intelligence Committee could hand the rich asshole more ammunition to fire Rosenstein — a move they fear would boomerang on the White House and Republicans running for reelection in the House and Senate.
Removing Rosenstein “raises more flags than it dismisses,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (S.C.), one of several Republicans who told The Hill on the record that the rich asshole should not fire the deputy attorney general.
Ousting Rosenstein would only make the rich asshole look guilty, according to Sanford.
“That’s why a whole host of folks inside and outside the White House have warned against that kind of thing,” he said.
“I’m a fan of letting the process run its course,” said Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio), a former county prosecutor. “I think we should let Rosenstein, Mueller and everybody else do their jobs and wait to see what the outcome is.”
“I would advise [the rich asshole] not to do that and I don’t think he will,” added Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), an attorney.
“Bad idea,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has frequently clashed with the rich asshole, chimed in. “It was a bad idea to fire [former FBI Director James] Comey. I think he recognizes that by now, because that’s what got him Mueller. And this would [lead to] just trouble.”
Most GOP lawmakers are in favor of making the House Intelligence Committee memo public, arguing that doing so would let Americans make up their own minds on whether the FBI went too far in seeking surveillance warrants related to the probe of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
The memo, which the committee voted on Monday night to make public along party lines, has been sent to the White House, which has five days to decide whether to allow its release. It is believed to report that Rosenstein gave the green light to continue surveillance of the rich asshole campaign official Carter Page last spring. Democrats on the panel argue it is little more than a set of cherry-picked GOP talking points and have produced their own memo, though the committee voted against making it public.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was prepared with notes to answer questions about the memo and Rosenstein at his press conference on Tuesday, and was quick to walk a careful line.
Asked about the rich asshole’s private grumblings about Rosenstein, he defended the Justice official, saying he was doing a “fine job” and that he saw “no reason” why the rich asshole should fire him.
The Speaker also noted that Rosenstein, who served as U.S. attorney for Maryland under Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, was appointed deputy attorney general after the 2016 election.
But Ryan offered support for Republicans on the Intelligence panel and criticism of the FBI, saying it was up to the Department of Justice and FBI to “clean their own house” if they have personnel problems.
The Intelligence memo criticizes the department and the FBI for failing to adequately explain to a secret spy court that some of the information included in a surveillance application for Page came from opposition research paid for in part by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The Republican warnings that the rich asshole not to fire Rosenstein come a day after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whom the rich asshole openly accused of being biased against him, announced he would step down weeks earlier than had been expected.
McCabe had been Comey’s top deputy before the rich asshole fired Comey last May as he investigated possible collusion between Russia and the rich asshole campaign.
In a brief interview Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said he had “no idea” and “no knowledge” of any plans by the rich asshole to fire Rosenstein.
Top the rich asshole allies on Capitol Hill did not explicitly call for Rosenstein’s ouster on Tuesday. House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) declined to comment for this story. But Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a former head of the Freedom Caucus, suggested Rosenstein was less than forthcoming when he questioned him at a recent hearing about potential anti-the rich asshole bias at the Justice Department.
During that House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Rosenstein stood by Mueller and said he would not fire him without good cause.
“I didn’t feel like his answers were all that great on the committee,” Jordan told The Hill on Tuesday. “That was my one interaction with him, and I wasn’t too impressed.”
the rich asshole had considered firing Rosenstein last summer, The New York Times reported. Instead, he ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but the president backed down after McGahn threatened to quit.
There is speculation on Capitol Hill that if the rich asshole got rid of Rosenstein, he could replace him with a political ally who would fire Mueller and stop the federal Russia probe, which now includes whether the rich asshole committed obstruction of justice.
But some top legal minds in the GOP are warning fellow Republicans to back off. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said on “Fox News Sunday” that he has “100 percent” confidence in Mueller to conduct a fair investigation and urged his colleagues to “leave him the hell alone.”
“I’d follow the good advice of Trey Gowdy of keeping Mueller. Let him do his thing,” said Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.). “I think if you do any type of firing, you just resurrect all the partisan stuff.”
One frequent GOP the rich asshole critic, Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.), said it’d be foolish to try to halt the Mueller probe given that it’s now in the “fourth quarter.”
“Mueller is doing the people’s work, Rosenstein selected him, and I think if you have nothing to hide, them you would want to encourage them to complete the job,” Jones told The Hill. “When you start terminating those for doing their job, there’s something wrong.”
Firing Rosenstein now, Jones said, “would create a national concern by a lot of people.”
Katie Bo Williams contributed.
Huckabee Sanders: Collusion probe ‘a total hoax,’ ‘waste of taxpayer money’
BY JOSH DELK - 01/31/18 09:41 AM EST
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday called the Russia collusion probe "a total hoax" and a "waste of taxpayer money," but added that the White House remains willing to cooperate with the investigation.
Sanders, appearing on CNN's "New Day," accused the network of perpetuating "a total hoax" in its coverage of the ongoing Russia investigation.
The White House press secretary attacked the network for "the Russian fever that you guys have perpetuated every single day," and suggested CNN had only focused on whether the rich asshole was involved in the alleged collusion, not on how Russia tried to influence the election.
the rich asshole's possible involvement falls under special counsel Robert Mueller's purview in the investigation, host Chris Cuomo pointed out.
Mueller's probe has so far led to two indictments and two guilty pleas. the rich asshole's former campaign manager Paul Manafort was indicted in October. In recent weeks, Mueller has suggested he would like to interview the president about his campaign's possible ties to Russia.
Cuomo also brought up reports of the rich asshole's previous plans to fire the top prosecutor last summer and new arguments by the White House counsel that Mueller has not yet met the bar needed to interview the president.
Sanders maintained that the White House is still being fully cooperative with the investigation and that the attorneys were just going through the "proper process" in considering the rich asshole's potential interview with the FBI investigator.
Cuomo said if the lawyers will inevitably come to allowing the rich asshole to interview, they should stop wasting his tax money and green light the interview.
"If you want to talk about wasting tax money, let's talk about the entire investigation as a whole," Sanders shot back.
WATCH: MSNBC’s Joe and Mika gang up on GOP pollster Frank Luntz for lavishing praise on the rich asshole’s speech
Frank Luntz (MSNBC)
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hammered pollster Frank Luntz for praising the State of the Union address by repeating President some rich asshole’s falsehoods.
The Republican political consultant was widely mocked on Twitter for his obsequious praise for the president’s speech, and he appeared Wednesday on “Morning Joe” to talk about it.
Tonight, I owe Donald Trump an apology. Tonight, I was moved and inspired. Tonight, I have hope and faith in America again.
It may go away tomorrow…
But tonight, America is great again. #SOTU
“Why is it that everything he says drives the left nuts?” Luntz said. “Just because Republicans criticized Barack Obama — we all agree that it went too much, it was hyper-partisanship. We have that right now from the some rich asshole speech, and that’s wrong.”
He praised the rich asshole for bragging about the economy during his first year in office, but Scarborough and Brzezinski said the president’s claims were either false or misleading.
“Many of the facts that you have even stated this morning repeating his facts are not accurate” Scarborough said. “Wage growth is about the same as it was for Barack Obama. The job growth, you actually have Barack Obama over seven years doing slightly better.”
Luntz said that was over a seven-year period, not just one year in office — but Scarborough interrupted.
“Hold on, stop — don’t change the subject, don’t change the subject,” Scarborough said. “Let me correct you and correct the president, it does matter.”
Scarborough said Obama entered office during the worst recession in years, but he helped turn around the economy before handing over the White House to the rich asshole — and Luntz continued to defend the president.
“Why can’t people give him credit for what has happened?” Luntz said. “Why can’t they give him credit for as speech that people had a chance to see, if you’re a Democrat there’s something in there for you, if you’re a Republican there’s something there for you.”
That’s when Brzezinski dropped the hammer.
“I think because he’s literally screwed everybody in that room over a few times too many,” she said. “He’s been vulgar and racist and accused one of the senators in that room of giving sexual favors for money. He’s insulted the wife of a Republican senator in that room in the worst way possible.”
Luntz asked what she thought of the speech itself, and Brzezinski seemed appalled that he had missed her point.
“Your job, what you do, Frank, is you read rooms,” Brzezinski said. “You tell me what that room is supposed to respond like to the great dictator?”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo rips the rich asshole’s ‘sorry not sorry’ speech: ‘He did some clapping for himself’
Chris Cuomo "Sorry not sorry" (Photos: Screen capture)
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo broke out lyrics to Demi Lovato’s “Sorry, Not Sorry” to sum up President some rich asshole’s State of the Union address.
During a political discussion about the partisanship of the message, Cuomo noted the rich asshole seemed to turn to the Democrats and say “I’m sorry” before turning to the GOP and saying “I’m not sorry.”
“He went on a little bit of a revenge tour, painting dark pictures of American reality and what he’s going to do about it,” Cuomo continued.
CNN commentator Chris Cillizza noted that the rich asshole’s language has consistently been fearmongering.
“It is based in fear. It is dark… It is an ‘Only I can protect you from these things,'” Cillizza said about the rich asshole’s fearful rhetoric becoming normalized. “Some of that language in there: ‘These people will come into your country and they can murder your kids, just like those people.'”
Cuomo cut in to quote Lovato’s lyrics again.
Being so bad got me feelin’ so good
Showing you up like I knew that I would
“So this is who the guy is,” Cillizza said. “He knows that it works. It is — fear is one of the most powerful motivating factors in politics. I think a lot of people voted out of fear in 2016. They believed he and he alone was the guy who could fix it. That speech — most speeches are 50 percent victory lap, 50 percent ‘here’s what I’m going to do.’ That speech was 80 percent, literally by time, over an hour of ‘I did this and then I did this.’ He wanted to hear clapping for him — did some clapping for himself. But it doesn’t change anything.”
Watch the clip below:
"This is still our House. It’s the people’s House."
some rich asshole’s first State of the Union address was a predictably awful affair. But for one brief moment, the spotlight moved from him to Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois.
Near the end of the speech, Gutierrez, a Puerto Rican and a passionate defender of immigrant rights, left the chamber while the rich asshole was talking.
“Whoever translated it for him from Russian did a good job,” Gutierrez said of the speech.
“I was hoping for some sort of apology on Puerto Rico, but I heard nothing,” he continued. the rich asshole’s treatment of the Americans he has essentially abandoned on the island is, Gutierrez said, “a metaphor for how this president sees all Latinos and people of color: he does not see us as equals and he does not see us as fellow human being.”
the rich asshole’s treatment of the island shows he “probably thinks of Puerto Rico as just another shithole country.”
Right-wing media attacked him, claiming he left because Republicans were chanting “USA” — an ugly suggestion that the congressman implying the congressman
But in fact, he only left due to a scheduling conflict. And it is notable that he even bothered to turn up at all, because several of his colleagues refused to do so.
Later that night, he explained to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow why he dignified the rich asshole with his presence.
“This is still our House. It’s the people’s House,” said Gutierrez. “I didn’t want to abandon my responsibility. I wanted to be there. And I also wanted to be a symbol of resistance in the room.”
His next line was a perfect summary of both why he attended.
“I wanted some rich asshole to know that there are people who think that his racist and hate-filled words and policies and proposals are still being resisted in Congress, and that we’re there and that we’re present and that we’re not going to turn our backs to him.”
He added that the rich asshole’s immigration “compromise” is a sham that would tear apart families, and that his demands for “the wall” have become a coded appeal for militarization and raids against parents who have never committed a crime, and that is a “non-starter” for America.
Many lawmakers had hoped, like Gutierrez, that the rich asshole would finally find it in his heart to take a unifying and bipartisan tone in his address. Instead, insulted DREAMers, prattled on about El Salvadoran street gangs, and took yet another shot at black NFL players who protest police brutality, all the while glossing over white supremacists who are inflicting violence on our communities.
Gutierrez’s decision to show up to the rich asshole’s address was a demonstration of solidarity with the people he represents and their rights and values as a country, in the face of a president who would demolish them. We must follow his lead, and continue to resist.
Stormy Daniels on statement denying the rich asshole affair: 'I do not know where it came from'
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN -
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels told late-night host Jimmy Kimmell on Tuesday night that she did not know where a statement with her purported signature denying an affair with President the rich asshole came from.
Daniels, appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after the rich asshole's first State of the Union address, seemed to suggest that she did not sign the statement released Tuesday.
“Did you sign this letter that was released today?” Kimmel asked her.
“I don’t know, did I?” Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, replied.
“Wait a minute, that you can say, right?” Kimmel said.
“But that does not look like my signature, does it?” Daniels said.
"Hmmm," Daniels said before laughing.
Kimmel then asked the adult film star where the letter came from.
“I do not know where it came from,” she said, adding, “It came from the internet.”
“So you deny having anything to do with it?” Kimmel said.
“I also work for the FBI and I’m a man, according to the internet today,” Daniels replied.
A 2011 In Touch magazine interview with Daniels resurfaced earlier this month, in which she said she had an affair with the rich asshole after he married his current wife, now-first lady Melania the rich asshole.
White House press secretary tells Nancy Pelosi to smile more
"She seems to embody the bitterness that belongs in the Democrat party."
During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday morning, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, discussing the president’s State of the Union speech the night before, suggested that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “smile a lot more often.”
“I think Nancy Pelosi looks like that all the time,” Sanders said, after Cuomo suggested Pelosi had seemed frustrated during President the rich asshole’s speech. “I think she should smile a lot more often. I think the country would be better for it. She seems to kind of embody the bitterness that belongs in Democrat Party right now.”
Sanders added that “last night was a good step forward” and suggested that Democrats as a group “let go of some of that” anger.
“They have to make a big decision,” she said. “They need to decide, Chris. Do they love America more than they hate this president? And are they willing to put some of those differences aside, come together, and do what’s right for this country?”
Aside from the fact that the press secretary’s remark was a sexist jab at the sitting U.S. congresswoman, as Cuomo subsequently pointed out, Democrats had plenty of reason to be frustrated during Tuesday night’s speech.
“Nancy Pelosi would argue — has argued on this set — that it is righteous indignation you see coming from her [centers on] the way last night the president identified the people who killed the children of those African-American couples that were there last night. As ‘illegal entrants as minors.’ They took it as code for “Dreamers” [undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children],” Cuomo said. “…The feeling with this president, he sees diversity as a minus. Not one story [about Dreamers] last night.”
Sanders countered, referencing the president’s recent immigration proposal on Thursday, which gives 1.8 million Dreamers a path to citizenship but curbs legal immigration. “Everybody didn’t get everything they wanted but the country is getting what they need,” she said, adding, “Democrats and Republicans should both be celebrating.”
The rich asshole administration has spent much of the past year targeting young, undocumented immigrants, as well as the skilled and educated legal immigrants he purports to admire. He’s also made several derogatory comments about immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and various African nations, dubbing the latter “shithole countries” during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers earlier in the month.
Pelosi had warned Democrats on Tuesday morning, ahead of the rich asshole’s State of the Union speech, that those planning to walk out during his remarks, in protest of his controversial policies, should stay home. Instead, she suggested Democrats let his stances speak for themselves.
“Let the attention be on his slobbering self,” she told her colleagues during their weekly private meeting, according to Politico. “If you want to walk out, don’t come in.”
Pelosi wasn’t alone in her frustration with the rich asshole’s speech on Tuesday night. Several other Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-NY) and the majority of the Congressional Black Caucus, expressed their displeasure at various points throughout the evening. The latter group appeared particularly unimpressed as the rich asshole bragged about African-American unemployment.
“And something I’m very proud of, African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded,” the rich asshole said. The line received wild applause from Republicans, but as the camera panned over to the Democratic side of the aisle, most of the Congressional Black Caucus appeared unmoved.
While it’s true that Black unemployment has decreased to a record low of 6.8 percent, the rich asshole’s supporters have ignored the fact that much of the credit belonged to the Obama administration, whose “sound decisions” have allowed the rich asshole to “[reap] the rewards, economic analyst Janelle Jones told ThinkProgress this week.
“There’s nothing in [the rich asshole’s] policies that have led to a quick turnaround in black unemployment over the past 12 months,” Jones said.
‘Stop telling women to smile’: Internet lambasts Sarah Sanders for sexist attack on Nancy Pelosi’s SOTU reaction
Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Photo: Screen capture)
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A Wednesday interview with Sarah Huckabee Sanders prompted women to take to Twitter and call out the White House press secretary for embracing the sexist trope that women should smile more.
During the interview with Chris Cuomo, Sanders called out Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and said that she should “smile more.” The demand is often referenced by women as a demand primarily made by men to look pretty and feel what they want them to feel.
Twitter went nuts:
Referring to Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Huckabee Sanders says on CNN:
“I think she should smile a lot more often. I think the country would be better for it.
“She seems to kind of embody the bitterness that belongs in the Democrat party right now.” twitter.com/jeneps/status/…
Nancy Pelosi "should smile a lot more often," @presssec says on CNN. "I think the country would be better for it."
Sarah Sanders thinks Pelosi “should smile a lot more often”??? Because... you know... women who smile are more attractive and nice to be around.
What a backwards bunch of misogynistic crap. twitter.com/cnnpolitics/st…
I think Sarah Huckabee Sanders should lie less. I think the country would be better for it. twitter.com/abbydphillip/s…
Stop telling women to smile. twitter.com/jeneps/status/…
In case anyone still thinks only men are the problem, @PressSec Sarah Sanders on @CNN just now: “I think @NancyPelosi looks like that [the face she was allegedly making during #SOTU] all the time. She should smile more often.”
She wants my rep to smile more. I want Sarah Sanders to lie less. I think the country would be better off for it. twitter.com/cnnpolitics/st…
1. The #hypocrisy
2. The #sexism - women are always told to "smile"
3. The #idiocy
So Sarah HUCKSTER Sanders who has elevated belligerent #lying to an art form twitter.com/CNNPolitics/st…
Sanders is SUCH a big smiler that she can criticize someone else?????
Besides, only fascists want to smile as they watch their country's democracy being drowned by fascism.
OUCH! ICYMI: Melania Trump stayed seated after husband praises ‘faith and family’ as ‘center of American life’ -- and declares 'in God we trust' rawstory.com/2018/01/melani… pic.twitter.com/mA7sfQrHon
I think Sarah Sanders should smile a lot more often ... she seems to kind of embody the bitterness that belongs in the Republican party right now. You do a disservice every time you take the podium abuse the free press. Style points to your stylist this morning.
Hot mic catches the rich asshole promising to ‘release the memo’ he hasn’t read
the rich asshole gives up the game.
As the rich asshole left the room following his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, a CNN camera caught him having a brief exchange with Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) about a memo Republicans have been hyping that purportedly discusses FBI misconduct related to the bureau’s investigation of the rich asshole campaign.
“Let’s release the memo,” Duncan is heard saying to the president.
“Oh yeah, don’t worry. 100 percent. Can you imagine?” the rich asshole replies.
There’s just one problem — the rich asshole hasn’t actually read the memo yet. During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday morning, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged as much.
“Not that I’m aware of — I know he hadn’t as of last night, prior to and immediately after the State of the Union,” Sanders said, asked if the rich asshole has read the memo.
“So obviously, before he goes promising 100 percent, he should read this, because he may be getting set up by the memo if it doesn’t deliver what’s promised by people on the right,” Cuomo replied.
A short time after Sanders’ interview wrapped up on CNN, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley went on Fox News and spun the hot mic video by saying that the rich asshole’s “100 percent” comment just reflected the president’s committing to transparency.
“Well he’s a 100 percent for transparency 100 percent of the time,” Gidley said.
the rich asshole has reasons for supporting the memo’s release that go beyond concerns over alleged law enforcement misconduct. On Wednesday evening, the Washington Post reported that the rich asshole “has told close advisers recently that the memo could provide him with grounds for either firing or forcing [Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein] to leave, according to one person familiar with his remarks.”
The Post report indicates that the rich asshole is planning to allow the memo to be publicly released in the days to come, despite Justice Department concerns that it “could jeopardize classified information,” inaccurately describes the DOJ’s “investigative practices,” and could set a dangerous precedent.
Rosenstein is the only U.S. official with the authority to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation into the rich asshole campaign. Multiple outlets reported that last week that the rich asshole tried to fire Mueller in June of last year — the month after he fired FBI James Comey, who oversaw the Russia investigation before Mueller was appointed by Rosenstein.
Rosenstein or whoever replaces him as deputy attorney general will also ultimately make the decision about whether or not Mueller’s investigatory findings will be made public.
the rich asshole's press secretary attacks the Democratic leader while demanding Democrats cooperate with the White House.
So much for seeking bipartisan cooperation.
The morning after some rich asshole’s State of the Union address, which his advisers pitched as some sort of hollowed call for unity, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared on CNN and immediately lashed out at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
And Sanders did so in a weirdly personal and demeaning way.
Pressed by host Chris Cuomo about how the rich asshole could unify Congress when Democrats like Pelosi showed such disapproval of his agenda Tuesday night, Sanders viciously attacked Pelosi, while questioning her love of country.
“I think Nancy Pelosi looks like that all the time. I think she should smile a lot more often. I think the country would be better for it,” said Sanders.
It’s an audacious suggestion that the country’s welfare in any way depends on the frequency of the Democratic House leader’s smiles.
“She seems to kind of embody the bitterness that belongs to the Democrat [sic] Party right now,” Sanders continued. They have to make a big decision. They need to decide, Chris, do they love America more than they hate this president?”
This was the same sexist trope that Republicans, and many in the media, used against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign: Women politicians need to smile more if they want to be liked and respected.
What Pelosi, and so many Democrats, did during the State of the Union was register their rejection of the rich asshole’s reactionary, white nationalist agenda.
What Pelosi did not do was stand up in Congress and yell “you lie” at the president of the United States, the way Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) did in 2009, during Barack Obama’s first State of the Union.
In fact, the Democratic leader made clear to members that she did not want to see any disrespectful outbursts during the rich asshole’s address.
In that sense, Pelosi showed a lot more class than Sanders.
‘That doesn’t look like my signature’: Stormy Daniels tells Jimmy Kimmel she didn’t write denial of the rich asshole affair
Stormy Daniels (ABC)
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Adult film actress Stormy Daniels allegedly denied having a sexual relationship with President some rich asshole more than a decade ago — but she suggested to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that she didn’t write that statement.
The porn actress appeared Tuesday night on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” shortly after the State of the Union address, to talk about her relationship with the rich asshole.
Kimmel said the statement of denial had scuttled his planned questions, but Daniels implied she had nothing to do with it.
NEW: Stormy Daniels to @jimmykimmel:
JK: "Did you sign this letter that was released today?"
SD: “Doesn't look like my signature, does it."
JK: “Do you know where it came from? Do you have any idea?”
SD: “I do not.”
Here’s the letter >>
“That’s not the craziest thing I’ve read about myself on the internet today,” Daniels said.
Kimmel showed her original statement, and the actress agreed the signatures didn’t seem to match that or autographed head shots — but Daniels played coy when he asked if she’d signed the denial.
“I don’t know, did I?” Daniels said. “That doesn’t look like my signature.”
She wouldn’t say whether the statement was issued without her approval, and Daniels declined to say who might have issued the denial.
However, her attorney Keith Davidson sent an email to a Guardian reporter insisting Daniels had signed off on the denial.
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