Mister Trump Says Words

Threats Can Equal Jail Time

2 Bundy Ranch Thugs Who Threatened Feds Going To Jail | Crooks and Liars:

...I’m tired of death threats being dismissed as No Big Deal, especially when the threats come from people who love to brag about their guns. I now point to Cooper, DeLemus and the other 17 and say, “Look at what happened to these guys. Others will go to prison too–just like those Bundy guys. These violent threats will have consequences. Their guns and their freedom will be legally taken away...”

tRump Employed Illegal Models

Models Working For Donald Trump's Modeling Agency Were Brought Into The US Illegally | Crooks and Liars:

It appears that in addition to Donald Trump's own wife, Melania, working illegally as a model in the US, Donald Trump's own agency models may also have worked illegally. And he knew. Coming just a day before Trumps highly touted "immigration speech," where he is expected to explain his both softening and hardening positions, he appears to be facing a new potential scandal...

Sugarhood Being Shafted

I'm a member of the club and I can attest that it has gotten stupidly expensive. My bold.


Insulin price spike leaves diabetes patients in crisis | Butte News | mtstandard.com:

...From 2011 to 2013 the wholesale price of insulin went up by as much as 62 percent. From 2013 to 2015 the price jumped again, from a low of 33 percent to as much as 107 percent, said Dr. Mayer Davidson, professor of medicine at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, who has carefully tracked the rapid and repeated increases.

"This borders on the unbelievable," Davidson said, citing an extremely concentrated insulin which "in 2001 had the wholesale price of $45. By last year, the cost had skyrocketed to $1,447" for the same monthly supply...

American Swimmers Got The Clinton Treatment

Looks like Rio police were the biggest liars in the Lochte drama... if anyone still cares about the truth - Hot Air Hot Air:

...Al seems really worked up over Lochte’s “lies,” doesn’t he? Has Al spent one second on the Today Show listing out all the people Hillary Clinton lied to about her email scam?

As for me, I will take the word of one of our Olympians (yes, even the flakiest of them all, Ryan Lochte) over an inherently corrupt, 3rd world Banana Republic trying to make their disorganized and crime-ridden sports festival look like the poster-child for American bad behavior.

That's the bottom line, but read the whole thing for yourself. My first suspicions were confirmed: media lynching. Like the Duke lacrosse incident, liberals were eager to tut-tut bad Americans; conservatives immediately jumped to the conclusion the Americans were being railroaded. Guess what? The conservatives were right. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. Both sides need to stop jumping to irrational conclusions before all the facts are in. SOS Clinton would certainly appreciate it.

Rant Of The Month: Simply Great

The Moron’s Case For Hillary Clinton…because some of you really are that stupid. � The Contrarian Blog:

...And by the way, don’t give me any of your crap about Bernie, Martin, Ted, John, Marco, Jeb, Chris, Rand, Carly, Ben, Lindsey or any of the others because they aren’t running anymore. And I certainly don’t want to hear some fantastic load of tripe about Gary or Jill because they can’t win either and that’s simply the way it is. Deal with it. Those two are just like all of the other hundreds of people legitimately on the ballot to become President in November who are never going to get within spitting distance of the White House. Ever heard of Rod Silva? Me neither, but he’s running for President on the Nutrition Party ticket. Don’t believe me? Look him up. Here’s the bottom line: only two people can win and it’s not going to be anyone on this Rogue’s Gallery of wannabes…or the guy behind the deli counter or your neighbor’s cat so wake up...

On The Wikileaks Disinformation Campaign

Wikileaks is a Front for Russian Intelligence | The XX Committee:

...Why Assange wants FSB bodyguards is a question every journalist who encounters Julian henceforth should ask. Until he explains that, Wikileaks should be treated as the front and cut-out for Russian intelligence that it has become, while those who get in bed with Wikileaks — many Western “privacy advocates” are in that group — should be asked their feelings about their own at least indirect ties with Putin’s spy services.

P.S. For those familiar with espionage history, there is a clear precedent for such an arrangement. In 1978 the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin appeared to expose the secrets of US and Western intelligence. Its editor was Phil Agee, a former CIA officer who had gotten into bed with Cuban and Soviet intelligence; think of Agee as the Snowden of the pre-Internet era. CAIB was in fact founded on the direction of the KGB and for years served as a conduit for Kremlin lies and disinformation that seriously harmed Western intelligence. While CAIB presented itself as a radical truth-telling group, in actuality it was a KGB front, though few CAIB staffers beyond Agee knew who was really calling the shots. One suspects much the same is happening with Wikileaks.

Pierce Flogs Both Siderism

We Just Previewed Hillary Clinton's Presidency:

...One of our two major political parties has nominated a megalomaniacal know-nothing for the highest office in the land. He is demonstrably racist, demonstrably unfit for the office, and very nearly demonstrably cuckoo bananas. That is the only story anybody should be covering, and there is no Other Side to it. Both Sides do not nominate Donald Trumps. Elite American political journalism is either unwilling or unable to accept the obvious truth of this...

BuzzFeed Exposes Secret Courts

The Secret Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes - BuzzFeed News:

...When the US Congress votes on whether to give final approval to the sprawling Trans-Pacific Partnership, which President Barack Obama staunchly supports, it will be deciding on a massive expansion of ISDS. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton oppose the overall treaty, but they have focused mainly on what they say would be the loss of American jobs. Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, has voiced concern about ISDS in particular, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren has lambasted it. Last year, members of both houses of Congress tried to keep it out of the Pacific trade deal. They failed...

Peter Daou Is Right

My Tweet on Gender Bias Against Hillary Created an Instant Firestorm | BNR:

Anyone who calls it out knows this: Sexism is the thing that shall not be named in 2016. I encountered that unspoken rule today...

As I have grown tired of pointing out for at least a decade, if you refer to SOS Clinton as "Hillary" and you are not personally friends with her, you are committing a form of genderism. Referring to people, especially women, by their first names only diminishes them. Skippy Bush used to give everyone little pet names and nicknames, another practice that diminishes the person while puffing up the namer. How often do you see tRump called Donald by the media? Almost never. You do occasionally still see "The Donald," which is a way of magnifying or empowering him to be larger than life. Maybe, everyone should just start calling Clinton "The Hillary." I think I will just stick with the polite form and name everyone by their highest title. Well, everyone I respect, tRump.

tRump Hangs With Drug Dealers

Trump biographer drops a bombshell on CNN — and exposes his cocaine-dealing crony:

Donald Trump biographer David Cay Johnston Saturday on CNN said that the Republican presidential candidate once protected a convicted felon who was charged with cocaine trafficking...

You could pick practically any sentence from the above post, say it was true about any Democratic candidate, and that candidate would never get elected. Republicans, apparently, not so much.

More On The AP Scam & Sham

Associated Press Becomes Latest To Get Burned Chasing Clinton 'Scandal' Stories:

...Note that the AP’s blunder has been part of a renewed media frenzy about the foundation and its supposedly crooked ways. The press has defended its hyper-attention under the guise of conflict-of-interest concerns about the Clinton charity and Hillary Clinton’s possible presidency. But if the press suddenly can’t sleep at night knowing conflicts of interest might be lurking, why has almost nobody in the media asked if the Trump Foundation is going to be “shut down” if Donald Trump is elected president? Why has the Beltway press been virtually silent about the obvious conflicts looming if Trump hands over his sprawling business enterprise to his sons while he serves as president?

Why is there always a separate, higher standard the Clintons have to meet? And why do news outlets like the Associated Press, and The New York Times, and ABC and CBS, routinely engage in dishonest endeavors in the name of chasing so-called Clinton scandals?

As Dylan Byers announced last year at Politico, the D.C. press seems “primed to take down Hillary Clinton.” The AP did nothing this week to disrupt that claim.

Imagine The Uproar

...if Cam Newton had done this.

NFL: Players are encouraged but not required to stand for national anthem | ProFootballTalk:

...“Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the National Anthem,” the NFL said in a statement issued Saturday, in response to the controversy that emerged when 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick opted not to stand during the playing of the national anthem on Friday night in Santa Clara, prior to a game against the Packers...

Karma Makes Another Visit

Pastor Who Said Pulse Victims ‘Got What They Deserved’ Arrested For Child Molestation | Crooks and Liars

Clinton And Media Bias

Reporting Accurately On Clinton Seems Difficult For The Media:

...Maybe it’s time out of fairness amid the attacks on her by the media, people like Andrea Mitchell, mention her history. Maybe some of the story they tell about Hillary includes her fifty years of service. On a recent front page the Washington Post attacks Clinton again for raising money from the wealthy. Well maybe if the true story of Hillary’s life were told by the media she wouldn’t have to raise the fortunes needed to pay the cost of the media ads, which pay the salaries of those writers and talking heads, to get her story out.

Hillary will win despite the media just going along and repeating Trump’s attempt to portray her as this dark person only out for herself. The American people are smarter than that and understand there is absolutely no comparison between her and Donald Trump.

Evil Apple Gives To GOPers

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donated To Elect Republicans To Congress - BuzzFeed News:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and eight of the company’s top executives donated a combined $45,900 in June to a PAC that helps elect Republicans to Congress, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.

While contributions to both Republican and Democratic leaders are commonplace among corporate figures, it illustrates a particular paradox for Apple executives, whose company boasts LGBT-friendly ideas while top employees also help finance a business-friendly political party that is adversarial to LGBT rights...

And yet the hipster community continues to feature the "cool Apple" product mantra and continues to stuff money in Apple's pockets for their latest unneeded overpriced product because... it's cool like voting for the black guy for president. (And yeah, I heard that more than once back in 08.)

Voter Fraud From tRump Campaign

Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home | US news | The Guardian:

Donald Trump’s new presidential campaign chief is registered to vote in a key swing state at an empty house where he does not live, in an apparent breach of election laws.

Stephen Bannon, the chief executive of Trump’s election campaign, has an active voter registration at the house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, which is vacant and due to be demolished to make way for a new development...

NC's overcooked voter ID law is having some unintended consequences--- catching Republicans who claim FL residence to dodge NC taxes, even though they live in NC ten months of the year. For years, they have voted in both FL and NC but now some local poll watchers have taken to matching license plates with voter registrations, among other things, and some very angry rich white people have been turned away from the polls--- at least according to the rumor mill. I have no first hand knowledge but the story sounds plausible.

About The Willfully Ignorant

Those Who Slyly Call for Violence Own the Consequences:

...I do not know the answer to this question, but I no longer care. Whether it is an angry white man behind a podium in Wilmington, North Carolina, or an angry black man behind a megaphone in Wilmington, Delaware, if you summon violence, you own it. You are morally responsible for the harm that comes to pass.

And do not accuse me of trying to silence legitimate criticism. I have spent the better part of a long legal and academic career attacking the legal inequity and moral bankruptcy of the criminal justice system and the national security state. Some cases may be harder than others, but all but the willfully ignorant recognize the difference between a demand for change—even radical transformation—and a call to arms...

tRump Caught In Another Lie

Chicago Police Say No, Donald Trump Never Talked To Them | Crooks and Liars:

...On Tuesday, the 23rd, the Chicago Police Department refuted Trump's claims vehemently.

CPD spokesperson Frank Giancamilli said, "We've discredited this claim months ago. No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign..."

Ho-hum. The media doesn't even bat an eye/

Good News In Higher Ed

U. of C. tells incoming freshmen it does not support 'trigger warnings' or 'safe spaces' - Chicago Tribune:

University of Chicago class of 2020, get ready for a college experience filled with debate, discussion — and possibly discomfort...

Without a draft, unfortunately, there are few places for a young person to go and learn to live life as it is--- not what we think is or want it to be. The recent overprotective silliness some universities have engaged in is not preparing the students for the real world. Kudos to UoC for trying to get back to reality.