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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-1: The Election From Hell: Drain The Swamp Edition
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-1: The Election From Hell: Drain The Swamp Edition
Ed. Note: This list may get blocked from a lot of content filters this week because in the wake of the worst election ever, I am letting the profanity fly. You have been warned.
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Um… OK I had an entirely different thing planned. This is awkward. Where do I begin? Well that’s easy - fuck you America. There I said it. Fuck you Infowars, fuck you conspiracy theorists, fuck you Prison Planet, fuck you Breitbart, fuck you Fox News, fuck you DU hacker(s) who prevented us from accessing this site, fuck you Ron Paul, fuck you Wikileaks, fuck you Twitter deplorables who are treating us like shit, fuck you Gary Johnson, fuck you right wing economists, fuck the electoral college, fuck you racists, sexists, misogynists, and the “alternative right” … just a big steaming pile of fuck you. Yeah fuck everybody who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. And fuck the polls too, they were proven to be useless. I'll never believe anything Nate Silver or 538.com says as long as I live. I’m not angry and bitter about the election or anything. There, I got that off of my chest. What? No, I’m not going to congratulate Donald Trump on winning the presidency. He is the definition of what a conservative idiot really is. So what? I’m supposed to bow down and play nice now? Fuck that! That’s what the Top 10 is about! We’ve spent the last year trash talking Trump and I’m supposed to play nice now? Am I supposed to play nice to the Kings when they beat my Ducks in the finals and win the Stanley Cup and their fans celebrate in my stadium and throw shit at us and fight us? Hell no!!! I won’t do it. I’m dissenting. It’s in my nature to dissent! And you know what? I had originally planned a much different list when Hillary Clinton was supposed to send him packing but since that didn’t happen, strap in because… this is going to be instead a new awakening. It’s a new season and we have a new president who is a raging asshole. He is the definition of everything that’s wrong with this country and it’s now my civic duty to make fun of it. So get ready the Top 10 is going to be bigger and badder than it was last season because we have a new found purpose. So there’s going to be new memes, some possible theme songs, graphics, videos, maybe even a new key and logo if I can secure a Photoshop license. So before we get started, Bill Maher explains that the one good thing about the Trump campaign is that it has exposed the Christian right for the real hypocrites that they are:
So where do we begin this week? You know the good talk shows are going on hiatus until Trump’s inauguration – John Oliver and Bill Maher, and soon Stephen Colbert. But I’m staying. I’m staying and fighting. Conservative idiocy doesn’t take a holiday and neither do we! Well we did take two weeks off and more because of the hack, but still. Well to start 4 fucking years of Donald Trump as our president, I’m going to bring back “People Who Somehow Got Elected” for the first slot. And guess who it is this time around? I don’t even want to reveal. Yeah that’s right. Oh yes my friends, I’m going there. For the second slot, we’re going to talk about Melania Trump’s (2) ridiculous crusade against cyber bullying. Hey you want to end cyber bullying, Melania? Take away your husband’s Twitter account!! For the number 3 and 4 slot, we’re going to do something a bit different. So before the worst election in American history, the New York Times compiled an exhaustive list of the 282 places, people, and things that Donald Trump (3, 4) insulted on Twitter, which is especially ironic given that Melania Trump is going on a crusade to end cyber bullying. We’re going to recreate all of the best quotes using the Fake Trump Tweet generator, and we may even throw you off! In the 5th slot we have to talk about Curt Schilling’s (5) hilarious one man show for Donald Trump in Boston that was attended by – and I’m quoting – “tens of people”. If one man leads a protest did it really happen? In the number 6 slot, boy is Alex Jones (6) losing it. We have to talk about his disastrous 52-hour blow hard-a-palooza (worst music festival ever, by the way!). In the number 7 slot at least something good happened in the race – the good people of Maricopa County finally sent Joe Arpaio (7) packing! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! At number 8 we have to talk about Donald Trump (8) and its’ a giant list of conservative has beens and fuck ups. Yeah, the people we’ve spent the last 10 years making fun of are now in charge. Oh shit. In the number 9 (NEIN!!!!) slot, we’re going to discuss Donald Trump’s enemies list. As Stephen Colbert said he went from zero to Nixon in less than a day! In which case, you can start finding the Top 10 on Infowars.com! Finally this week we’re going to ask the question that was on everyone’s mind. “Who did Taylor Swift vote for????”. Yes this is the question that was on everybody’s minds. Never mind that fascism is going to take over the American government, Taylor Swift may have voted for Clinton! Or did she? We will examine both sides of this issue! I’m going to give you people something. Finally this week - it's been a rough week for all of us and because you're nice for listening to me vent my frustrations about the election, I'm going to give you people something. Yes, I live to give! So with that in mind, how about some live music from Gogol Bordello? They’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album Gypsy Punks (a personal favorite of mine) and they’re touring right now as part of the celebration, and they’re going to be stopping by the show to play something from it! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
And now it’s time for another installment of:
This week: President Donald Trump. Yes, those are 3 words that we never thought we would say. Donald Trump now joins the growing list of “People Who Somehow Got Elected”. Yes this man will have a say in the selection of the next two, possibly 3 SCOTUS justices:
An Associated Press report published Monday details the sexism female contestants and crew experienced from Trump while working on the show. Eight former “Apprentice” crew members told the AP Trump once compared a camerawoman’s beauty to his daughter’s, making repeated comments about the camerawoman’s behind.
A former contestant on the show, Poppy Carlig, said Trump once asked her to twirl in front of him so he could look at her figure.
“I don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that people are having bad intentions with what they are saying,” Carlig told the AP. “He said I reminded him of his daughter and I thought that was really touching because I know how much he values his family.”
Trump has made a slew of questionable comments about his daughter’s looks over the years, saying on ABC’s “The View” in 2006 that “if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-comments_us_57f250d5e4b082aad9bbf2d7
A former contestant on the show, Poppy Carlig, said Trump once asked her to twirl in front of him so he could look at her figure.
“I don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that people are having bad intentions with what they are saying,” Carlig told the AP. “He said I reminded him of his daughter and I thought that was really touching because I know how much he values his family.”
Trump has made a slew of questionable comments about his daughter’s looks over the years, saying on ABC’s “The View” in 2006 that “if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-comments_us_57f250d5e4b082aad9bbf2d7
Yes this guy will now have a say in who decides the supreme law of the land. This is the guy who ran on a campaign of wanting to build a wall on the Mexican border and called an entire country of citizens rapists and murderers. Can you imagine a guy who’s this thin skinned being the next leader of the once-free world? Well for starters he tanked the world’s currencies which goes against right-wing economic theory.
LONDON/SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar, Mexican peso and world stocks began to steady in the European morning on Wednesday, having been hammered overnight as DonaldTrump swept to victory in the U.S. presidential election.
European shares were down less than 1 percent and investors were returning to other markets that had been sent into a tailspin as it became clear the Trump was set for a dramatic victory over heavily-favored Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Investors fear a Trump victory could cause global economic and trade turmoil and years of policy unpredictability, which among other things will discourage the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates in December as long expected.
“I love this country,” Trump said in a victory speech in New York. “America will no longer settle for anything less than the best ... We have a great economic plan, we will double our growth and have the strongest economy in the world.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/global-markets-donald-trump-win-dollar-stocks-peso-reeling_us_58230643e4b0aac624887095?section=us_politics
European shares were down less than 1 percent and investors were returning to other markets that had been sent into a tailspin as it became clear the Trump was set for a dramatic victory over heavily-favored Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Investors fear a Trump victory could cause global economic and trade turmoil and years of policy unpredictability, which among other things will discourage the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates in December as long expected.
“I love this country,” Trump said in a victory speech in New York. “America will no longer settle for anything less than the best ... We have a great economic plan, we will double our growth and have the strongest economy in the world.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/global-markets-donald-trump-win-dollar-stocks-peso-reeling_us_58230643e4b0aac624887095?section=us_politics
And he’ll settle some scores all right. Oh boy, they will be the best score settlers. Nobody will settle better scores than he does.
We know a lot about how Donald J. Trump campaigns. But we know much less about how he will govern.
Trump has shifted positions on a wide range of issues before, after, and during his campaign, making it difficult to know for certain where he will land now that he has captured the White House. His circle of advisers is also smaller and less cohesive than past Republican candidates: Numerous policy aides from prior GOP administrations have opposed his candidacy, along with every living Republican president and nominee, with the exception of Bob Dole. That makes it difficult to predict who he will appoint to carry out his plans.
There are some hints from his inner circle at top positions, though: According to senior campaign aides, his transition team is eyeing Rudy Giuliani as a possible attorney general and Newt Gingrich as secretary of state. RNC chairman Reince Priebus is also under consideration as Trump's chief of staff.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/donald-trump-wins-presidency-heres-how-he-might-govern-n678911
Trump has shifted positions on a wide range of issues before, after, and during his campaign, making it difficult to know for certain where he will land now that he has captured the White House. His circle of advisers is also smaller and less cohesive than past Republican candidates: Numerous policy aides from prior GOP administrations have opposed his candidacy, along with every living Republican president and nominee, with the exception of Bob Dole. That makes it difficult to predict who he will appoint to carry out his plans.
There are some hints from his inner circle at top positions, though: According to senior campaign aides, his transition team is eyeing Rudy Giuliani as a possible attorney general and Newt Gingrich as secretary of state. RNC chairman Reince Priebus is also under consideration as Trump's chief of staff.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/donald-trump-wins-presidency-heres-how-he-might-govern-n678911
Yes Trump’s instability on the positions he maintains is rapidly changing. I mean remember when he couldn’t even get the cost and size of the wall right?
But he is wrong on just about everything. In fact he doesn’t know where he takes a stand until he actually takes a stand on something, and this is about tons of issues. It’s tremendous, tremendous failure.
1. "If Hillary wins, I'll support her."
Pressed twice in the first debate, Trump said he'd accept the outcome of the race.
"I want to make America great again. I'm going to be able to do it. I don't believe Hillary will. The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her."
2. Maybe, maybe not.
"I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now, I'll look at it at the time," Trump said when asked if he'd accept the outcome of the election after alleging widespread voter fraud. Pressed again, he coyly said he'd keep it a secret: "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense, OK?"
3. I'll accept it -- if I win!
"I would like to promise and pledge, to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election — if I win," he said to big cheers at a rally.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/full-list-donald-trump-s-rapidly-changing-policy-positions-n547801
Pressed twice in the first debate, Trump said he'd accept the outcome of the race.
"I want to make America great again. I'm going to be able to do it. I don't believe Hillary will. The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her."
2. Maybe, maybe not.
"I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now, I'll look at it at the time," Trump said when asked if he'd accept the outcome of the election after alleging widespread voter fraud. Pressed again, he coyly said he'd keep it a secret: "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense, OK?"
3. I'll accept it -- if I win!
"I would like to promise and pledge, to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election — if I win," he said to big cheers at a rally.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/full-list-donald-trump-s-rapidly-changing-policy-positions-n547801
And remember all the racism and sexism that came out of the Donald Trump campaign? We don’t even have to remind you about all of that, but we will if we must. I mean this is a guy who bragged about going into the women’s changing room at the Miss Universe pagent just because he could get away with it:
UPDATE: After BuzzFeed News published this story, we heard from a fifth contestant who remembered Trump visiting the dressing room.
Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.
“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA.
Trump, she recalled, said something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing?utm_term=.diRpvZXgk#.regqL2pkz
Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.
“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA.
Trump, she recalled, said something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing?utm_term=.diRpvZXgk#.regqL2pkz
Yes, don’t worry – he’s seen it all before, young ladies. Just move along, nothing to see here.
And this is making us wonder how many times he’s walked in on Melania and his daughter Ivanka.
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Donald Trump’s attack on Carly Fiorina in the newest edition of Rolling Stone, it’s gone largely unnoticed that in the very next paragraph, Trump makes an über-creepy sex joke about his daughter Ivanka Trump.
At 69, he can still carry on like the teen who was yanked out of prep school and delivered to Col. Dobias, the take-no-shit instructor at the military academy. After I met Ivanka and praised her to her father, he said, “Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father?.?.?.?”
Yeah, no need to finish that thought.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-wont-stop-joking-about-banging-his-daughter/
At 69, he can still carry on like the teen who was yanked out of prep school and delivered to Col. Dobias, the take-no-shit instructor at the military academy. After I met Ivanka and praised her to her father, he said, “Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father?.?.?.?”
Yeah, no need to finish that thought.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-wont-stop-joking-about-banging-his-daughter/
Yes. He actually said that. That is a real quote from our 45th president, Donald J. Trump. Who was even being abandoned by his own party shortly before the election:
House Speaker Paul Ryan dealt his own party's presidential nominee a withering blow Monday, telling fellow Republicans he will no longer defend Donald Trump and will instead use the next 29 days to focus on preserving his party's hold on Congress.
"The speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities," Ryan's spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in a statement.
The move -- highly unusual in US political history -- laid bare the seemingly intractable divisions now seizing the Republican Party with a month left before the presidential vote. Support for Trump among the GOP establishment, already weak amid disagreements over policy and tone, has now eroded to new lows.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/paul-ryan-said-he-wont-defend-donald-trump/index.html
"The speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities," Ryan's spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in a statement.
The move -- highly unusual in US political history -- laid bare the seemingly intractable divisions now seizing the Republican Party with a month left before the presidential vote. Support for Trump among the GOP establishment, already weak amid disagreements over policy and tone, has now eroded to new lows.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/paul-ryan-said-he-wont-defend-donald-trump/index.html
But nope… the GOP voted him in anyways. Thank you, America. Because of you we’re stuck with four years of this insane mad man. That’s 45th President Donald J. Trump. Another one of the long list of:
[font size="8"]Melania Trump[/font]
So yeah… seriously what the serious fuck America? You could have done the right thing and prevented this from happening. But it did happen and now we have to live with it. You know I quote the late, great George Carlin who said “In America, anybody can be president, and that’s the problem”. Well, Donald Trump is the problem. And his wife, who will now be known as first lady Melania Trump, did this shortly before the election. Well this is too fucking good. You know every first lady is given a cause. Nancy Reagan’s was drugs. Michelle Obama’s was childhood obesity. And now this is Melania Trump’s.
As US Election Day closes in, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump made a rare campaign speech in Pennsylvania. At the speech's end, Melania Trump told the crowd what will be her cause should she win the privilege to be First Lady: cyberbullying.
"Technology has changed our universe," said Melania Trump on Thursday. "But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and can force them to hide and retreat... It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied, or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground. And it is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet."
She ended by promising to make cyberbullying one of her "main focuses" in the White House.
First ladies—and potential "first gentlemen"—typically champion a somewhat bland cause that most everyone agrees with. Fighting cyberbullying could conceivably fit that mold, but much of the commentary on Melania's speech focused on her husband's own use of social media.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/melania-trump-picks-her-cause-if-shes-first-lady-cyberbullying/
"Technology has changed our universe," said Melania Trump on Thursday. "But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and can force them to hide and retreat... It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied, or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground. And it is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet."
She ended by promising to make cyberbullying one of her "main focuses" in the White House.
First ladies—and potential "first gentlemen"—typically champion a somewhat bland cause that most everyone agrees with. Fighting cyberbullying could conceivably fit that mold, but much of the commentary on Melania's speech focused on her husband's own use of social media.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/melania-trump-picks-her-cause-if-shes-first-lady-cyberbullying/
Hey Melania, you want to make the internet great again? You married a cyber bully! You married *THE* cyber bully! And now that cyber bully is going to become the 45th president of the United States! He will be flying on Air Force One! Will he be using Air Force One to settle his score with Rosie O’Donnell? I mean we’re no longer living in a world where Idiocracy is a comedy, it’s a documentary!
Things got heated between Anderson Cooper and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Thursday night over Melania Trump’s recent speech on cyberbullying, when the “AC 360” host asked, “If it is not okay for kids to do this, why is it okay for adults, for Donald Trump?”
“It’s really not OK for anyone to do [cyberbullying],” Conway responded before Cooper shot back, “Your candidate is the guy on Twitter at 3 a.m.”
Conway went on to say that she gets harassed by journalists online but appreciates that Melania is trying to bring change, the answer wasn’t good enough for Cooper.
http://www.thewrap.com/melania-trump-bullying-donald-trump-anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-cnn/
“It’s really not OK for anyone to do [cyberbullying],” Conway responded before Cooper shot back, “Your candidate is the guy on Twitter at 3 a.m.”
Conway went on to say that she gets harassed by journalists online but appreciates that Melania is trying to bring change, the answer wasn’t good enough for Cooper.
http://www.thewrap.com/melania-trump-bullying-donald-trump-anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-cnn/
That’s right! Did we not forget Donald Trump’s insane 3AM Twitter toilet binge a few weeks ago? I certainly didn’t!
But here’s the really fucked up thing about all of this. I really wish we could control – alt – delete the election. Really I could. But what’s done is done. And when I say fucked up – Mrs. Trump says “our culture is too mean”. Fucking hell!!! We just elected the biggest asshole on the planet as president of the United States!!! This is a guy who made a living firing people on national television!!!
Melania Trump, whose husband has built a public profile partly around his vulgar and offensive Twitter account, called for a gentler and kinder America on Thursday, where children can spend time on social media without fear of harassment.
In a rare public appearance, Trump portrayed her husband as a devoted family man with “deep love and respect” for all Americans with a speech intended to help soften his public image with women.
“Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers,” Trump said at a sports center in Berwyn, a suburb of Philadelphia suburb. She drew cheers as she continued.
“It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground and it is absolutely unacceptable when it’s done by someone with no name hiding on the internet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/melania-trump-cyberbullying-campaign-speech
In a rare public appearance, Trump portrayed her husband as a devoted family man with “deep love and respect” for all Americans with a speech intended to help soften his public image with women.
“Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers,” Trump said at a sports center in Berwyn, a suburb of Philadelphia suburb. She drew cheers as she continued.
“It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground and it is absolutely unacceptable when it’s done by someone with no name hiding on the internet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/melania-trump-cyberbullying-campaign-speech
Come on Melania, your husband walked into a changing room where underage girls were present and bragged about it! Did we not forget that? I mean just… ah…!!!!! My head is about to explode here!!!
OK I feel better. I mean this is just…seriously what the fuck. If Melania really wants to make good on her promise to end cyber bullying she should seriously divorce her husband. Yeah because that would make sense. Even Anderson Cooper saw through this unbelievable hypocrisy. It’s tremendous, tremendous hypocrisy. The best kind of hypocrisy!
Things got heated between Anderson Cooper and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Thursday night over Melania Trump’s recent speech on cyberbullying, when the “AC 360” host asked, “If it is not okay for kids to do this, why is it okay for adults, for Donald Trump?”
“It’s really not OK for anyone to do [cyberbullying],” Conway responded before Cooper shot back, “Your candidate is the guy on Twitter at 3 a.m.”
Conway went on to say that she gets harassed by journalists online but appreciates that Melania is trying to bring change, the answer wasn’t good enough for Cooper.
http://www.thewrap.com/melania-trump-bullying-donald-trump-anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-cnn/
“It’s really not OK for anyone to do [cyberbullying],” Conway responded before Cooper shot back, “Your candidate is the guy on Twitter at 3 a.m.”
Conway went on to say that she gets harassed by journalists online but appreciates that Melania is trying to bring change, the answer wasn’t good enough for Cooper.
http://www.thewrap.com/melania-trump-bullying-donald-trump-anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-cnn/
While ending cyber bullying is a good cause, I get that, what I don’t get is that Melania is married to *THE* cyber bully. He is the definition of what a cyber bully is! In the next two entries we’re going to go through a run down of all the things and people Donald Trump insulted on Twitter. But this has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen coming from a president.
Washington (CNN)Former President Bill Clinton expressed disbelief Friday that Melania Trump would denounce cyberbullying given how much her husband antagonizes others on Twitter.
On Thursday, Melania Trump, in her first speech on the 2016 trail, said she'd work to improve a social media culture that she said has gotten "too mean and too tough" if she became first lady.
"Yesterday, I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife, going out giving a speech saying, 'Oh, cyberbullying was a terrible thing,'" Clinton said at a campaign rally for his wife, Hillary Clinton, in Pueblo, Colorado. "I thought, yeah, especially if it's done at 3:00 in the morning against a former Miss Universe by a guy running for president."
In September, Republican nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter around 3 a.m. ET to slam former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who at the time became a prominent surrogate in Clinton's campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/bill-clinton-melania-trump-2016-election-donald-trump-cyberbulling/
On Thursday, Melania Trump, in her first speech on the 2016 trail, said she'd work to improve a social media culture that she said has gotten "too mean and too tough" if she became first lady.
"Yesterday, I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife, going out giving a speech saying, 'Oh, cyberbullying was a terrible thing,'" Clinton said at a campaign rally for his wife, Hillary Clinton, in Pueblo, Colorado. "I thought, yeah, especially if it's done at 3:00 in the morning against a former Miss Universe by a guy running for president."
In September, Republican nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter around 3 a.m. ET to slam former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who at the time became a prominent surrogate in Clinton's campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/bill-clinton-melania-trump-2016-election-donald-trump-cyberbulling/
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
You know… take a look at these two palaces. Can you guess which one of these gaudy monstrosities belonged to Donald Trump and which one belonged to Saddam Hussein?
That’s a trick question. They’re both Trump’s! Imagine he’s going to bring that decorating style to the White House! With that in mind we’re going to dedicate these next two entries to something that happened while we were off last week.
Throughout the 2016 election, Donald Trump has weaponized his Twitter account to malign his opponents and give oxygen to conspiracy theories and hate groups around the country. The Republican nominee has done so with such frequency that on many occasions his social-media bursts have gone well beyond his 5.9 million followers to dominate entire news cycles for days on end.
The New York Times has cataloged every insult to appear on Trump's Twitter account since he launched his campaign in June 2015. On Monday, the paper devoted two full pages of its print edition to showcasing its impressive work:
According to the Times' official count, over the last 16 months and nearly 4,000 tweets, Trump has aimed his social-media ire at 281 different targets, with Hillary Clinton unsurprisingly taking most of the hits. President Barack Obama, John Oliver, Neil Young, NBC News, the state of New Jersey, and the public at large are just some of the others to appear on the list. While it's exhausting enough to witness Trump's barrage of insults in real time, seeing them neatly collected is downright chilling.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/10/new-york-times-donald-trump-insults-twitter
The New York Times has cataloged every insult to appear on Trump's Twitter account since he launched his campaign in June 2015. On Monday, the paper devoted two full pages of its print edition to showcasing its impressive work:
According to the Times' official count, over the last 16 months and nearly 4,000 tweets, Trump has aimed his social-media ire at 281 different targets, with Hillary Clinton unsurprisingly taking most of the hits. President Barack Obama, John Oliver, Neil Young, NBC News, the state of New Jersey, and the public at large are just some of the others to appear on the list. While it's exhausting enough to witness Trump's barrage of insults in real time, seeing them neatly collected is downright chilling.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/10/new-york-times-donald-trump-insults-twitter
Well if you think we’re just going to sit idly by and let this work itself out, well I’m here to say… *Trump voice* WRONG!!! You’re wrong! You are stupid, you’re losers! So we’re going to get out our scalpels and play Bio 101 teacher here and go through this thing with a fine tooth comb. We put this thing through Microsoft Word. It’s a whopping 97 pages long. The word “crooked” appears 150 times. 15 pages alone are insults directed at Hillary Clinton. We also counted another 3 pages at Megyn Kelly, 2 pages of insults directed at Elizabeth Warren, a full page for Marco Rubio and Karl Rove, and a whole slew of just random insanity. So strap in ladies and gentlemen and get ready because we’re going down the wormhole on this! And all the best ones will be recreated using the Fake Trump Tweet generator, and we may even throw you off. You can read the whole thing here and you should because this man is our 45th president! You can read the whole thing here and you should – it’s frightening!
Hillary Clinton:
Oops! That last one was us! See I told you we would throw you off! Moving on to more politicians. Like Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana:
Or how about Ohio governor John Kasich?
That one… actually sounds like we could have made that one up! But we’re still not done! How about Lindsay Graham?
Or how about Rand Paul? We’re treading into dangerously aggressive territory here, folks!
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Moving on. Seriously this thing gets weirder and weirder. I could devote the whole Top 10 to this thing and I might at some point, maybe for the April Fool’s Day Edition! But there’s so much more, and we have only just begun to explore the first section of it! How about – Rick Perry?
Or how about failed presidential candidate Marco Rubio?
Donald Trump literally took the words out of my mouth! These are getting meta now! How about more Marco Rubio?
We’re still not done! How about former president and guy who should be first husband Bill Clinton?
Holy fuck!!!! Says the guy who bragged about walking into a women’s changing room. Seriously the GOP really lowered the bar here! Oh and we’re still not done with even the political section! How about Karl Rove?
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Keep in mind we’re pulling these quotes from Twitter verbatim. Except for a couple of random fake ones thrown in for good measurement we are not altering these quotes in any way, shape or form. This is our 45th president of these United States doing exactly what he does best – insulting people on Twitter. I mean even on election night, Donald Trump’s campaign took away his Twitter account and told him to go sit in the corner:
A new report from the New York Times reveals that staffers on the Donald Trump campaign have taken direct control of the @realDonaldTrump twitter account away from the GOP candidate. Though Trump still dictates tweets to his press team, including spokeswoman Hope Hicks, they now vet and edit those communiques.
That generally seems to have meant softening what has often been Trump’s harsh and vindictive tone on Twitter. The Times piece specifically describes Hicks modulating this tweet, which in Trump’s original version ended with a more blunt “Get back to work.”
The report does not indicate precisely when Trump gave up direct control of his Twitter account. But previous reporting has found that tweets written directly by Trump could be distinguished from those written by his staff. In general, Trump’s own tweets have been more hyperbolic and negative.
http://fortune.com/2016/11/06/trump-staff-twitter-account/
That generally seems to have meant softening what has often been Trump’s harsh and vindictive tone on Twitter. The Times piece specifically describes Hicks modulating this tweet, which in Trump’s original version ended with a more blunt “Get back to work.”
The report does not indicate precisely when Trump gave up direct control of his Twitter account. But previous reporting has found that tweets written directly by Trump could be distinguished from those written by his staff. In general, Trump’s own tweets have been more hyperbolic and negative.
http://fortune.com/2016/11/06/trump-staff-twitter-account/
You know what we’re seeing here, folks? This is that guy who’s at the job interview, is a minute away from going into the boss and is like “What the fuck does this firm do again?”. And believe me, I’ve been that guy. You do not want to be that guy!
But enough of that. Let’s dive back into the Trump tweets, shall we? Remember – we are taking these quotes verbatim, except the ones we make up. So he attacked the New York Times a lot. And we do mean a lot.
Every article is unfair and biased, folks! What does he think about other media outlets like CNN?
Or what about Fox News! Seriously, is there anything that Trump won’t trash on Twitter?
How about the Huffington Post? Come for the hard hitting political journalism, stay for the articles about the Japanese condom measuring competition!
Or Saturday Night Live?
How about the Associated Press?
The O’Reilly Factor! I mean seriously there’s nothing this guy won’t insult!
The View!
The 2016 Election!
Amazon!
Though he may actually be right about that one. How about the Club for Growth?
And he probably doesn’t get out much. How about Germany?
China!
How about Saudi Arabia?
Now we’re getting into some really random shit. How about T-Mobile?
How about the TSA? And this is especially ironic given his transport vessel of choice!
Or the Oval Office podium?
Or how about the Super Bowl! Seriously the fucking Super Bowl!
Beyonce!
John Oliver! John Oliver rules!
Or my personal favorite of the whole shindig – Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World. Seriously how can anyone hate Neil Young? The guy is a national treasure!
[font size="8"]Curt Schilling[/font]
Enough of that. Let's lighten things up and talk about a real loser in this election - Curt Schilling. Yeah he may have helped the Red Sox in their 2004 World Series victory but even more so what happened before the election. We may need the Sad Hulk music for this one.
But first off before we get into Curt Schilling's misadventure in Boston, I am going to remind Cubs fans to not shoot the messenger, but what is it with world series pitchers attracting such assholes??? Well Jake Arrietta has joined Curt Schilling:
CHICAGO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- He's known for his slider/cutter hybrid, but Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta was recently throwing fire at Hollywood's anti-Donald Trump faction.
"Time for Hollywood to pony up and head for the border #illhelpyoupack #beatit," Arrieta tweeted Wednesday.
Arrieta's tweet referenced the numerous celebrities claiming they would flee the United States if Trump won the election.
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/MLB/2016/11/11/Chicago-Cubs-Jake-Arrieta-tells-Hollywoods-Anti-Donald-Trump-to-beat-it/7651478884223/
"Time for Hollywood to pony up and head for the border #illhelpyoupack #beatit," Arrieta tweeted Wednesday.
Arrieta's tweet referenced the numerous celebrities claiming they would flee the United States if Trump won the election.
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/MLB/2016/11/11/Chicago-Cubs-Jake-Arrieta-tells-Hollywoods-Anti-Donald-Trump-to-beat-it/7651478884223/
Do I need to add Jake Arrieta to the list of people I've told fuck you already? Yes. Fuck you, Jake Arrieta. You're now part of the problem. Moving on though, this was Curt Schilling's epic fail - and I'm quoting - "tens of people" attended Curt Schilling's "Pro Trump" rally. Cue the world's tiniest violin.
Former Red Sox pitcher and current political neophyte Curt Schilling held a Trump “rally” outside Boston’s city on Saturday, but uh, it wasn’t much of a rally.
According to folks passing by, there were around 10 or 15 people in attendance to see the three-time World Series champ. He was pictured with a dejected gaze on his face.
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/10/22/curt-schilling-red-sox-trump-rally-boston-photos
According to folks passing by, there were around 10 or 15 people in attendance to see the three-time World Series champ. He was pictured with a dejected gaze on his face.
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/10/22/curt-schilling-red-sox-trump-rally-boston-photos
Here's a picture of said rally:
But seriously Curt Schilling might as well be friends with George Zimmerman - both of these two cannot stop being colossal dicks on social media. No matter what Schilling says or does, he comes off as a colossal dick.
The former Red Sox hurler took a swipe at Hillary Clinton in a tweet after it became clear that Trump was heading to victory and would become the 45th President of the United States.
"On the plus side @Hillary Clinton won't ask for a recount for fear of being caught cheating while she lost," Schilling wrote on Twitter.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/curt-schilling-gloats-twitter-donald-trump-win-article-1.2866030
"On the plus side @Hillary Clinton won't ask for a recount for fear of being caught cheating while she lost," Schilling wrote on Twitter.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/curt-schilling-gloats-twitter-donald-trump-win-article-1.2866030
And further evidence that Curt Schilling is a colossal dick, he went after Hollywood's "liberal elite" like Matt Damon. I mean come on that's just rubbing salt in the wound at this point. Hey conservatives, STOP BEING DICKS!!!! Can you do that for even one second? Apparently you can't!
As expected, Curt Schilling was giddy following the news of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election.
The former Red Sox pitcher and possible future Senate candidate chatted with TMZ Sports on Wednesday to express his joy over the results and to mock Hollywood stars who supported Hillary Clinton. In particular, Schilling singled out Matt Damon, saying that he and other celebrity supporters should “go away” now that America has decided it’s next president.
“Matt Damon, his entire life is made out of gun violence, yet he wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment,” Schilling said. “Stop with that bulls–t. You guys lost. Go away!”
The aspiring politician and failed video game entrepreneur hopes that the high-profile people who vowed to leave the country if Trump was elected president will actually “get the hell out.”
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2016/11/09/curt-schilling-matt-damon-donald-trump/
The former Red Sox pitcher and possible future Senate candidate chatted with TMZ Sports on Wednesday to express his joy over the results and to mock Hollywood stars who supported Hillary Clinton. In particular, Schilling singled out Matt Damon, saying that he and other celebrity supporters should “go away” now that America has decided it’s next president.
“Matt Damon, his entire life is made out of gun violence, yet he wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment,” Schilling said. “Stop with that bulls–t. You guys lost. Go away!”
The aspiring politician and failed video game entrepreneur hopes that the high-profile people who vowed to leave the country if Trump was elected president will actually “get the hell out.”
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2016/11/09/curt-schilling-matt-damon-donald-trump/
And in case you needed any further evidence of how much of a colossal dick Curt Schilling has been leading up to and since the election, look no further:
Put a bloody sock in it, Curt.
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling tweeted out a photo of a man at a Donald Trump rally wearing a shirt that read, “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required,” with the caption he wrote that read: “Ok, so much awesome here...”
Schilling deleted the tweet a couple hours later.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-finds-offensive-shirt-awesome-trump-rally-article-1.2863303
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling tweeted out a photo of a man at a Donald Trump rally wearing a shirt that read, “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required,” with the caption he wrote that read: “Ok, so much awesome here...”
Schilling deleted the tweet a couple hours later.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-finds-offensive-shirt-awesome-trump-rally-article-1.2863303
Sorry Curt, on the internet there's no such thing as take backs. You've been a dick before like this, but we can show it!
There you have it. They are now against the first amendment.
[font size="8"]Alex Jones[/font]
You know the thing about this election is that it’s really shown people’s true colors. Did you ever see that now infamous episode of South Park called “Scott Tenorman Must Die”? The way that the conservatives have been treating us has been kind of like the way Cartman treats Scott Tenorman in that episode. They’ve just been going crazy since the election and that has me terrified. You should be scared as well. So now we got to talk about Infowars. Shit, do I really have to? Well I will be talking about them a lot more if Donald Trump appoints Alex Jones as his WHPC secretary. And you know Donald Trump *allegedly* called into Infowars to thank them for their support right?
But during the election, you know that Alex Jones went on a batshit crazy 52 hour no sleep marathon broadcast right? I have been awake more than 24 hours at a time, it sucks. But 52 hours with no sleep? Coming from a guy who’s already batshit fucking insane to begin with, getting no sleep? I’m sure we’re bound to get some choice quotes from the lunatic here!
In recent weeks, conservative provocateur James O’Keefe has found himself back in the eyes of the mainstream media due to an undercover Project Veritas video that purportedly shows Democratic operatives scheming to commit voter fraud and create violent reactions at Donald Trump rallies.
O’Keefe showed up today on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, along with Trump ally Roger Stone. Speaking about the possibility of a rigged election that could cost Trump a victory next month, O’Keefe told Jones that a stolen election would mean a revolution would occur.
“If you have 50 to 100 million people in this country who have no one to speak for them what’s going to happen to those people,” O’Keefe stated. “I think that’s a powerful movement of people that are going to literally revolt.”
He noted that it wouldn’t be with “pitchforks” but instead via social media. He then reiterated that people would “literally going to revolt.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-tells-alex-jones-that-people-are-going-to-literally-revolt-if-election-is-stolen/
O’Keefe showed up today on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, along with Trump ally Roger Stone. Speaking about the possibility of a rigged election that could cost Trump a victory next month, O’Keefe told Jones that a stolen election would mean a revolution would occur.
“If you have 50 to 100 million people in this country who have no one to speak for them what’s going to happen to those people,” O’Keefe stated. “I think that’s a powerful movement of people that are going to literally revolt.”
He noted that it wouldn’t be with “pitchforks” but instead via social media. He then reiterated that people would “literally going to revolt.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-tells-alex-jones-that-people-are-going-to-literally-revolt-if-election-is-stolen/
OK already off to a good start, ladies and gentlemen because we have a misuse of the word literally! And you know who’s revolting against a Trump administration? Why it’s not conservatives accusing of voter fraud (something that has um, NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED!
), why it’s people letting the world know how pissed off they are at Donald Trump!
For the third night in a row, anti-Donald Trump demonstrators took to the streets in several big cities and on college campuses across the United States, including an outburst of smashed windows and a dumpster fire in Portland that police countered with pepper spray and flash-bang devices.
About 4,000 protesters assembled downtown late Thursday chanting “we reject the president-elect!” the Associated Press reported. Some among the crowd vandalized 19 cars at a dealership in Northeast Portland, according to a sales manager, Oregonlive.com reports. Protesters then headed west, over the Broadway Bridge and into the Pearl District, where the windows of several businesses were smashed.
The protest was mostly peaceful until demonstrators met with an anarchist group, after which demonstrators vandalized buildings, kicked cars and knocked out power, KGW-TV reported.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/
About 4,000 protesters assembled downtown late Thursday chanting “we reject the president-elect!” the Associated Press reported. Some among the crowd vandalized 19 cars at a dealership in Northeast Portland, according to a sales manager, Oregonlive.com reports. Protesters then headed west, over the Broadway Bridge and into the Pearl District, where the windows of several businesses were smashed.
The protest was mostly peaceful until demonstrators met with an anarchist group, after which demonstrators vandalized buildings, kicked cars and knocked out power, KGW-TV reported.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/
So what else has Mr. Jones been up to since we’ve been gone? Well the Alt Right has been busy gloating about winning the election and dropkicking us whiny liberals. Are these the fucking assholes we really want getting control of the Supreme Court? Hell no!!!!!
“For me, it’s better ecstasy than bagging the prom queen. It’s so ethereal I can’t believe that Trump is tuned into reality,” he said. “Trump’s tuned into America. His sons are tuned into America. They’re retweeting us every day.”
David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, claimed the victory on behalf of America’s white supremacists. “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life - make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!” he wrote on Twitter. “GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP! It’s time to do the right thing, it’s time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!”
Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist who refers to himself as the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” for a “white homeland,” rejoiced on Twitter shortly after midnight.
“The Alt-Right has been declared the winner. The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the ‘conservative movement,’” he tweeted. “We’re the establishment now.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/09/alt-right-declares-total-victory-we-re-the-establishment-now.html
David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, claimed the victory on behalf of America’s white supremacists. “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life - make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!” he wrote on Twitter. “GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP! It’s time to do the right thing, it’s time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!”
Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist who refers to himself as the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” for a “white homeland,” rejoiced on Twitter shortly after midnight.
“The Alt-Right has been declared the winner. The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the ‘conservative movement,’” he tweeted. “We’re the establishment now.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/09/alt-right-declares-total-victory-we-re-the-establishment-now.html
This to me is the most frightening aspect of the 2016 election. It’s not that Hillary lost, it’s that these motherfuckers won. The group that started out as anti-establishment is now the establishment. They will be deciding who goes on courts. They will be deciding who goes on the Supreme Court.
Alex Jones, the notorious conspiracy theorist who enjoys mutual admiration with Donald Trump, warned on his radio program yesterday that if Trump loses the presidential election, it will cause a “worldwide financial meltdown and probably a world war” in which one third of the world’s population will be killed.
“We’re at a decision time,” Jones said, “and I think, in my gut, I know if we don’t elect Trump—but beyond that, if we don’t all start making the right decision to stand up and speak out—I believe we’re going to come under great judgment and I believe there’s going to be a total worldwide financial meltdown and probably a world war. And I think, like the Bible says, I think a third or more of the population’s going to be killed.”
Jones’ guest, Curves fitness founder and consummate conspiracy theorist Gary Heavin, added that the election represents a “great battle” between globalism and nationalism, as foreseen in the Bible.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-if-trump-loses-a-world-war-will-kill-one-third-of-the-worlds-population/
“We’re at a decision time,” Jones said, “and I think, in my gut, I know if we don’t elect Trump—but beyond that, if we don’t all start making the right decision to stand up and speak out—I believe we’re going to come under great judgment and I believe there’s going to be a total worldwide financial meltdown and probably a world war. And I think, like the Bible says, I think a third or more of the population’s going to be killed.”
Jones’ guest, Curves fitness founder and consummate conspiracy theorist Gary Heavin, added that the election represents a “great battle” between globalism and nationalism, as foreseen in the Bible.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-if-trump-loses-a-world-war-will-kill-one-third-of-the-worlds-population/
Donald Trump’s loss would cause a World War? Are you fucking kidding me? Alex, you need to have that tin foil hat surgically removed because people are revolting against Donald Trump’s win, not his loss or his perceived election rigging!!! Just…………. Ah!!!!!!!!! At least after that insane tirade, the New York Magazine is calling Alex Jones what he really is: the King Of Trolls.
In one of the more dizzying examples of the new normal to emerge from the orange smog of Trump’s America, the radio host’s conspiracy-addled media empire has in the last 48 hours recalibrated its editorial mission, turning its attention to “violent” anti-government protesters, “butt-hurt” dissenters, and the unpatriotic masses besieging the president-elect’s home. His reporters now mock those who call for secession and revolution, with no apparent signs of whiplash.
In case you didn’t recognize him, Jones is the same paranoid wingnut carnival barker who said Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama smell like sulfur and must be demons; who believes John Podesta’s leaked emails prove Clinton’s team performed satanic rituals; who has claimed that virtually every major act of terrorism committed on American soil since the Oklahoma City bombing was orchestrated by the U.S. government (including the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the Orlando nightclub massacre, and, especially, 9/11); who has dedicated his 20-year career to fighting the New World Order, an evil organization that includes many government officials and politicians, progressive billionaire George Soros, the Illuminati, and the Rothschild and Rockefeller families; and who, when interviewing Trump a year ago, told the next president that what he was doing was “George Washington level” back when every other media outlet was still treating the reality star like a harmless troll.
http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/alex-jones-king-of-all-trolls-relishes-his-moment.html
In case you didn’t recognize him, Jones is the same paranoid wingnut carnival barker who said Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama smell like sulfur and must be demons; who believes John Podesta’s leaked emails prove Clinton’s team performed satanic rituals; who has claimed that virtually every major act of terrorism committed on American soil since the Oklahoma City bombing was orchestrated by the U.S. government (including the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the Orlando nightclub massacre, and, especially, 9/11); who has dedicated his 20-year career to fighting the New World Order, an evil organization that includes many government officials and politicians, progressive billionaire George Soros, the Illuminati, and the Rothschild and Rockefeller families; and who, when interviewing Trump a year ago, told the next president that what he was doing was “George Washington level” back when every other media outlet was still treating the reality star like a harmless troll.
http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/alex-jones-king-of-all-trolls-relishes-his-moment.html
[font size="8"]Joe Arpaio[/font]
While hate, racism and bigotry may have won thanks to the fucking assholes known as the alternative right in this country (really, calling them anything else is too nice), you know who the biggest loser was in the 2016 election? Sheriff Joe! We previously covered Sheriff Joe last season but thankfully he’s no longer one of the “People Who Somehow Got Elected”!
Some good news from Tuesday, a point of sanity on a day when the nation’s electoral judgment went catastrophically astray: Voters in Maricopa County, Ariz., sent Sheriff Joe Arpaio packing. He lost his bid for a seventh term. After 24 years, “America’s Toughest Sheriff” is done.
Non-Arizonans might know the 84-year-old sheriff from news accounts and TV, mostly Fox, where he poses as a national expert on immigration and inmate humiliation. He’s the lawman who makes jail inmates wear pink underwear and live in a scorching desert tent and eat only two meals a day, because whatever criminals deserve, it isn’t dignity. You may also know him as a chief instigator of the “birther” movement, having dispatched his “cold-case posse” to Honolulu to track down the supposedly forged Obama birth certificate. Donald Trump has backed away from birtherism, but Sheriff Arpaio evidently has not. He told Tea Party die-hards as recently as September that he was still on the case. Sheriff Arpaio and Mr. Trump are longtime mutual admirers; the sheriff spoke at the Republican convention, hailing the nominee and attacking immigrants, to whoops from the law-and-order crowd.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/voters-drive-sheriff-arpaio-out-of-town.html
Non-Arizonans might know the 84-year-old sheriff from news accounts and TV, mostly Fox, where he poses as a national expert on immigration and inmate humiliation. He’s the lawman who makes jail inmates wear pink underwear and live in a scorching desert tent and eat only two meals a day, because whatever criminals deserve, it isn’t dignity. You may also know him as a chief instigator of the “birther” movement, having dispatched his “cold-case posse” to Honolulu to track down the supposedly forged Obama birth certificate. Donald Trump has backed away from birtherism, but Sheriff Arpaio evidently has not. He told Tea Party die-hards as recently as September that he was still on the case. Sheriff Arpaio and Mr. Trump are longtime mutual admirers; the sheriff spoke at the Republican convention, hailing the nominee and attacking immigrants, to whoops from the law-and-order crowd.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/voters-drive-sheriff-arpaio-out-of-town.html
But you think that’s the last we’ve heard of Sheriff Joe, my friends? Oh no. It’s far from over, and the mere fact that this is even being suggested should scare the living fuck out of you. The words “Hitler-esque” don’t even begin to describe what Donald Trump is proposing:
Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly considering Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David Clarke and outgoing Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio as possible nominees to head up the Department of Homeland Security.
Clarke has made a name for himself as a Fox News pundit and avid supporter of the gun lobby, using his platform in the media to attack Black Lives Matter, which he describes as a lawless, “subversive” and potentially ISIS-linked group composed of “black slime” that must be “eradicated,” and to champion the cause of anti-government militants, whom he praises as patriots.
When white supremacists murdered six people at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee County, Clarke faced criticism for being “AWOL.” In September, an inmate died of thirst in a jail run by Clarke. He reportedly begged for water “in the days before he died.”
He has also compared Beyonce to a Ku Klux Klan member, called for the Great Seal of the United States to feature a semi-automatic rifle, and repeatedly demanded a literal uprising against the government in protest of President Obama’s gun violence proposals, potential election rigging and marriage equality.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-transition-team-floats-extremist-sheriffs-joe-arpaio-and-david-clarke-for-homeland-security/
Clarke has made a name for himself as a Fox News pundit and avid supporter of the gun lobby, using his platform in the media to attack Black Lives Matter, which he describes as a lawless, “subversive” and potentially ISIS-linked group composed of “black slime” that must be “eradicated,” and to champion the cause of anti-government militants, whom he praises as patriots.
When white supremacists murdered six people at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee County, Clarke faced criticism for being “AWOL.” In September, an inmate died of thirst in a jail run by Clarke. He reportedly begged for water “in the days before he died.”
He has also compared Beyonce to a Ku Klux Klan member, called for the Great Seal of the United States to feature a semi-automatic rifle, and repeatedly demanded a literal uprising against the government in protest of President Obama’s gun violence proposals, potential election rigging and marriage equality.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-transition-team-floats-extremist-sheriffs-joe-arpaio-and-david-clarke-for-homeland-security/
Holy fucking shit! The “Department Of Homeland Security” is bad enough… but having those two at the head of it? The whole thing would become self aware! Especially if Donald Trump makes good on his promise to rid America of Muslims and Mexicans!
[font size="8"]Donald Trump Transition Team[/font]
It’s too bad there’s no WTF icon for this because… seriously… what the serious fuck? Really this election is a nightmare, the transition team will make you want to throw things at your monitor. All our worst fears are being realized. The worst of the worst of the GOP are being recruited to lead Trump’s transition team. We all thought the GOP was in its’ death throws weren’t we? The only thing I can think is that it’s the series finale and they’re bringing back their all star cast. I mean look at what’s going on. How about Trump’s Surgeon General?
After a stunning win that upended the American political landscape, President-elect Donald Trump and his top advisers now must put together a White House staff and Cabinet — a group that may well include some of those same advisers.
Here are a few possibilities for some of the most powerful roles in a new Trump administration:
Ben Carson
A onetime Trump rival, Carson emerged as one of Trump's most steadfast surrogates. The renowned physician would be an obvious candidate to be surgeon general.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/09/donald-trump-cabinet-white-house/93549214/
Here are a few possibilities for some of the most powerful roles in a new Trump administration:
Ben Carson
A onetime Trump rival, Carson emerged as one of Trump's most steadfast surrogates. The renowned physician would be an obvious candidate to be surgeon general.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/09/donald-trump-cabinet-white-house/93549214/
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?????? Didn’t Ben Carson reject the idea of being Trump’s surgeon general just a few months ago? Oh wait that was Obama. Excuse me a minute…
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he once rejected an offer from President Obama to serve as the nation’s top doctor.
In an interview with the "Alan Colmes Show" on Monday, the retired neurosurgeon said Obama had asked him to be surgeon general, as did President George W. Bush.
“You know George W. Bush offered me that position. The Obama administration, before they found out who I really was, offered me that position," he said in the interview, highlighted by BuzzFeed News.
Carson said he's "not interested" in the job, even if Donald Trump is elected president.
The surgeon general, who must be confirmed by the Senate, oversees public health issues but has little input in general health policy.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/288357-carson-says-obama-sought-him-out-for-surgeon-general
In an interview with the "Alan Colmes Show" on Monday, the retired neurosurgeon said Obama had asked him to be surgeon general, as did President George W. Bush.
“You know George W. Bush offered me that position. The Obama administration, before they found out who I really was, offered me that position," he said in the interview, highlighted by BuzzFeed News.
Carson said he's "not interested" in the job, even if Donald Trump is elected president.
The surgeon general, who must be confirmed by the Senate, oversees public health issues but has little input in general health policy.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/288357-carson-says-obama-sought-him-out-for-surgeon-general
Well that said, who else is going to be in Donald Trump’s cabinet? I’m not calling this a “dream team”, I’m calling this a nightmare.
Rudy Giuliani
The ex-New York City mayor became one of Trump's highest-profile surrogates. The former prosecutor could now be in line for attorney general.
Newt Gingrich
The ex-House speaker became a top adviser and television spokesperson for Trump during the campaign and was even among the real estate mogul's finalists for running mate. He is said to be interested in becoming secretary of State.
Bob Corker
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could also be a possibility to lead the State Department.
Chris Christie
Though shadowed by the recent Bridgegate trial, the New Jersey governor has been a fixture at Trump's side since endorsing him in February and will likely have his eye on a spot in the new administration at the Justice Department or in the White House.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/09/donald-trump-cabinet-white-house/93549214/
The ex-New York City mayor became one of Trump's highest-profile surrogates. The former prosecutor could now be in line for attorney general.
Newt Gingrich
The ex-House speaker became a top adviser and television spokesperson for Trump during the campaign and was even among the real estate mogul's finalists for running mate. He is said to be interested in becoming secretary of State.
Bob Corker
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could also be a possibility to lead the State Department.
Chris Christie
Though shadowed by the recent Bridgegate trial, the New Jersey governor has been a fixture at Trump's side since endorsing him in February and will likely have his eye on a spot in the new administration at the Justice Department or in the White House.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/09/donald-trump-cabinet-white-house/93549214/
And they wanted Hillary in jail. Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nearly every single proposed member of Trump’s cabinet should be in jail! As if things couldn’t possibly get any worse! Excuse me a minute…
In Trump’s America, Sarah Palin might be the next secretary of the Interior Department. According to an anonymous Politico source, the former Alaska governor and onetime vice-presidential hopeful is being considered for the job, and Trump has already said she will certainly hold a place in his cabinet. Other people reportedly on Trump’s short list for the Interior Secretary position include oil barons and Trump’s own son, Donald Trump Jr., who The Washington Post says could conceivably squeak past nepotism laws by declining to be paid a salary.
In any of these cases, things are about to change drastically for the scientists and officials that study, manage, and preserve America’s National Parks and public lands. The Secretary of the Interior is in charge of overseeing the National Park Service, as well as overseeing all federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and presiding over the U.S. Geological Survey, a massive scientific research agency which studies America’s natural resources and anything that threatens them—you know, like climate change, which Trump says he believes is a hoax perpetrated by “the Chinese.”
“Oh my god,” Dwight Pitcaithley, the former chief historian to the National Park Service, said upon hearing that Palin might be up for the Interior Secretary job. Pitcaithley, now a professor at New Mexico State University, spent 30 years with the Park Service before retiring in 2005.
http://fusion.net/story/369192/trump-and-palin-could-devastate-national-parks/
In any of these cases, things are about to change drastically for the scientists and officials that study, manage, and preserve America’s National Parks and public lands. The Secretary of the Interior is in charge of overseeing the National Park Service, as well as overseeing all federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and presiding over the U.S. Geological Survey, a massive scientific research agency which studies America’s natural resources and anything that threatens them—you know, like climate change, which Trump says he believes is a hoax perpetrated by “the Chinese.”
“Oh my god,” Dwight Pitcaithley, the former chief historian to the National Park Service, said upon hearing that Palin might be up for the Interior Secretary job. Pitcaithley, now a professor at New Mexico State University, spent 30 years with the Park Service before retiring in 2005.
http://fusion.net/story/369192/trump-and-palin-could-devastate-national-parks/
Oh yes she’s back everybody! Need I remind people of that word salad from a few months ago?
Maybe I’ll just go against the Surgeon General’s advice and drink heavily for the next four years – it will be a good way to speed things up.
Viewers of tonight’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump who decide to drink every time Trump tells a lie could very well die of alcohol poisoning, according to the US Surgeon General.
After the series of “clown car debates” of 2012, an average of 70,000 additional alcohol poisoning related incidents occurred. Due to the frequently untrue nature of Trump’s comments, first responders are bracing for a potentially more disastrous incident tonight. According to Politico, Trump lied every three minutes and 15 seconds throughout a five day period from Sept. 15 – Sept 20.
Medical professionals found themselves in a similar situation last year, before the GOP primary debates. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said “We are anticipating record levels of alcohol poisoning… all across the country, as Americans engage in drinking games while they watch the debate. We can’t impress enough on people about the danger of mixing alcohol and watching the GOP debates, especially with the field the Republicans are giving us this year.”
http://usuncut.com/news/surgeon-general-warns-drinking-every-time-trump-lies-debate-result-acute-alcohol-poisoning/
After the series of “clown car debates” of 2012, an average of 70,000 additional alcohol poisoning related incidents occurred. Due to the frequently untrue nature of Trump’s comments, first responders are bracing for a potentially more disastrous incident tonight. According to Politico, Trump lied every three minutes and 15 seconds throughout a five day period from Sept. 15 – Sept 20.
Medical professionals found themselves in a similar situation last year, before the GOP primary debates. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said “We are anticipating record levels of alcohol poisoning… all across the country, as Americans engage in drinking games while they watch the debate. We can’t impress enough on people about the danger of mixing alcohol and watching the GOP debates, especially with the field the Republicans are giving us this year.”
http://usuncut.com/news/surgeon-general-warns-drinking-every-time-trump-lies-debate-result-acute-alcohol-poisoning/
Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[font size="8"]Donald Trump’s Enemies List [/font]
Excuse me, waitress? We don’t have a lot of time left before we get to entry number 10 this week, so I need a refill on my Jack & Coke. You know what? Skip the Coke. I’m just going with straight Jack. And bring me the bottle. The large one. Yeah fuck it, I’m going against the surgeon general’s recommendations on binge drinking every time Donald Trump lies because lies, um, all the time every god damn time!!!!! Ah, where ya been? Here you go, keep the change.
Ah, thanks, I needed that! Fuck it. It’s only the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine. So apparently Donald Trump has his own Richard Nixon style enemies list. And you know who the first guy on it might be? Harry Reid!
Washington (CNN)The departing leader of the Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, blasted President-elect Donald Trump on Friday as having "emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry" and said the responsibility for unifying the country is in his hands.
"The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America," Reid, the Senate minority leader, said in a stinging statement, which is a departure from the strategy of other leading Democrats.
Both Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama have argued that Trump should be given a chance to lead. Obama welcomed Trump to the White House Thursday and said they had an excellent meeting. There was no such welcome from Reid.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/harry-reid-trump/
"The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America," Reid, the Senate minority leader, said in a stinging statement, which is a departure from the strategy of other leading Democrats.
Both Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama have argued that Trump should be given a chance to lead. Obama welcomed Trump to the White House Thursday and said they had an excellent meeting. There was no such welcome from Reid.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/harry-reid-trump/
Tell ‘em Harry!!!!!
But seriously we are living in 1975 it seems. Yes Donald Trump has his own Nixon style enemies list:
Crossing President-elect Trump's path is proving to be treacherous and he's not even in office yet.
Areas of the market Trump waged a war of words against - especially technology companies, emerging markets like China, Brazil, and Mexico and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act - are being hit on the stock market. These drubbings quantify just how different Trump's expected administration will be and how costly being on the wrong side appears.
"Investors are already repositioning their portfolios in favor of what they view as Trump Administration policies," says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at money management firm BMO Private Bank. "Seemingly quiet trading on the surface masks the turbulence that’s going on underneath."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/11/10/trumps-enemies-already-paying-price/93587496/
Areas of the market Trump waged a war of words against - especially technology companies, emerging markets like China, Brazil, and Mexico and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act - are being hit on the stock market. These drubbings quantify just how different Trump's expected administration will be and how costly being on the wrong side appears.
"Investors are already repositioning their portfolios in favor of what they view as Trump Administration policies," says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at money management firm BMO Private Bank. "Seemingly quiet trading on the surface masks the turbulence that’s going on underneath."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/11/10/trumps-enemies-already-paying-price/93587496/
Big league. Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!
But I do like where Stephen Colbert said that Trump went from zero to Nixon in 60 seconds:
Stephen Colbert used the lengthy opening monologue of Thursday’s Late Show to slam president-elect Donald Trump’s meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, cast aspersions at the rumored advisers Trump plans to hire as president, and call out the former reality television host for a purported list of “enemies.”
Of the Obama-Trump meeting, Colbert said, “Can you imagine? Just put yourself in that private room when they were together. Can you imagine? Awkward! The first African-American president sitting down with a president-elect who was endorsed by the Klan. A guy who spent five years, created his political career demanding Obama prove where he was born, then denying he did it. What did they talk about?”
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/11/stephen-colbert-trump-enemies-list
Of the Obama-Trump meeting, Colbert said, “Can you imagine? Just put yourself in that private room when they were together. Can you imagine? Awkward! The first African-American president sitting down with a president-elect who was endorsed by the Klan. A guy who spent five years, created his political career demanding Obama prove where he was born, then denying he did it. What did they talk about?”
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/11/stephen-colbert-trump-enemies-list
Nothing you can do folks! You voted for me, you get this! Ah, let’s show Stephen Colbert’s amazing monologue:
[font size="8"]Who Did Taylor Swift Vote For?[/font]
We need some appropriate music to close this season premiere of the Top 10 out. Can we get some appropriate music please?
Really? That’s what we’re going with? OK fine. I’m too fucking angry and drunk to even begin to go yell at my producers. But this has to be the craziest story of the week. Yeah we’re done with creepy clowns for a while because we elected one as our 45th president. So the question must be asked - *cue reverb* - WHO DID TAYLOR SWIFT VOTE FOR????.
Today, Taylor Swift addressed the tendentious 2016 election for the first time. The singer has been shockingly silent throughout this historic election, but she finally posted a photo of herself in line to vote. Some viewed her involvement in the election as overdue, while others appreciated her keeping her political thoughts to herself. But the overall reaction to seeing Swift in line to cast her ballot is: "Who did she vote for?!"
We may never know. And frankly, it's none of our business. We love to see what celebrities stances are on political issues because they are possibly the most influential to the youth as any of the politicians on the ballots, which is why we are so invested in their opinions. At the end of the day, who Swift voted for is her own business.
Swift's secrecy about what candidate she supports goes back to even the first election she voted in. When asked about who she was voting for in 2012 election, Swift told NPR, "I know who I'm going to vote for, but I don't think that it's important for me to say it, because it will influence people one way or another," which is a very fair response. But that doesn't mean that people won't come to conclusions of their own.
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/11/129132/who-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-most-googled-question#slide
We may never know. And frankly, it's none of our business. We love to see what celebrities stances are on political issues because they are possibly the most influential to the youth as any of the politicians on the ballots, which is why we are so invested in their opinions. At the end of the day, who Swift voted for is her own business.
Swift's secrecy about what candidate she supports goes back to even the first election she voted in. When asked about who she was voting for in 2012 election, Swift told NPR, "I know who I'm going to vote for, but I don't think that it's important for me to say it, because it will influence people one way or another," which is a very fair response. But that doesn't mean that people won't come to conclusions of their own.
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/11/129132/who-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-most-googled-question#slide
Hmm… kind of cryptic if you ask me. But why should we care? Oh she only has about 1,000,000,000,000 Twitter followers. Yeah she has all the followers. I said all!!!!
Well, look who finally acknowledged that there’s an election.
Yep, Beyoncé gave her #ImWithHer speech. Madonna performed her last-minute Hillary concert in New York’s Washington Square Park. J. Lo brought Clinton onstage at a concert. Lady Gaga donned the Michael Jackson jacket to make her final pleas, the Boss rocked his rallies, and Katy Perry basically hasn't stopped singing.
All of the music industry’s biggest stars have spent the last week in a veritable musical blitz for Hillary Clinton. But all anyone wants to know is who Taylor Swift voted for.
“Who is Taylor Swift voting for?” has been the top celebrity-related election search query this campaign season. As of an Instagram the “Shake It Off” singer posted at 12 pm ET, she has officially voted.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/08/who-did-taylor-swift-vote-for.html
Yep, Beyoncé gave her #ImWithHer speech. Madonna performed her last-minute Hillary concert in New York’s Washington Square Park. J. Lo brought Clinton onstage at a concert. Lady Gaga donned the Michael Jackson jacket to make her final pleas, the Boss rocked his rallies, and Katy Perry basically hasn't stopped singing.
All of the music industry’s biggest stars have spent the last week in a veritable musical blitz for Hillary Clinton. But all anyone wants to know is who Taylor Swift voted for.
“Who is Taylor Swift voting for?” has been the top celebrity-related election search query this campaign season. As of an Instagram the “Shake It Off” singer posted at 12 pm ET, she has officially voted.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/08/who-did-taylor-swift-vote-for.html
Yeah so Taylor Swift may or may not have helped Hillary Clinton but the theories are out there, and this is how people spent election day. But did she vote for Donald Trump? She’s always been very openly feminist, but what about her wealth? You know who we’ve mocked extensively in previous editions for being open and voting against her best interests? Caitlyn Jenner. Would Ms. Swift follow Ms. Jenner and vote for Trump out of pure monetary interest? We went down the wormhole on these.
I know, I know, it sounds kind of incredulous that the proudly feminist Swift would cast a ballot for Trump. Hillary Clinton seems like the go-to choice for a lot of the feminists of pop culture, after all. But it also sounds very valid that T. Swift would not want her fans to know she's voting for Trump, if she's voting for Trump.
Now there is, at least, substantial evidence that Swift did vote today, and she was encouraging her fans and followers to do the same. Early on Tuesday, Swift posted an Instagram captioned, "Today is the day. Go out and VOTE" (festive American flag emoji included). But what evidence to we have to support that Trump theory? Here is a few key points that conspirators are making right now.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/193876-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-trump-conspiracy-theorists-have-some-out-there-ideas-about-tay
Now there is, at least, substantial evidence that Swift did vote today, and she was encouraging her fans and followers to do the same. Early on Tuesday, Swift posted an Instagram captioned, "Today is the day. Go out and VOTE" (festive American flag emoji included). But what evidence to we have to support that Trump theory? Here is a few key points that conspirators are making right now.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/193876-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-trump-conspiracy-theorists-have-some-out-there-ideas-about-tay
In Swift's girl gang, there are veritable tiers of besties, and it goes without saying that Kloss is on that top tier. Fans all know they're solidly linked together, the dream team of celebrity fan fiction. However, sometimes people forget that Kloss has been dating Joshua Kushner, the brother of Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner, for four years. Whaaaaat? So some would draw conclusions that there may be a sway there, through her true love's true love.
However, in an article for Esquire, a representative for Joshua Kushner stated that he is a proud Democrat and will not be voting for Trump in this upcoming election. Let's strike this one from the record.
However, in an article for Esquire, a representative for Joshua Kushner stated that he is a proud Democrat and will not be voting for Trump in this upcoming election. Let's strike this one from the record.
Exhibit B:
Case B: Katy Perry Is With Her
As in, with Clinton. And fans all know the deep history of bad blood between these two singers. Of course, it seems incredibly petty that Swift would deny a candidate support just because Perry is flying her flag for high for Clinton. However, this is the same Swift who quite possibly dedicated an entire video lined with her whole squad as a low-key attack on the singer.
Ultimately, I'd like to think that Swift wouldn't damn the entire country because of a feud. But that spiteful streak is definitely there, and Lord(e) knows how deep it runs.
As in, with Clinton. And fans all know the deep history of bad blood between these two singers. Of course, it seems incredibly petty that Swift would deny a candidate support just because Perry is flying her flag for high for Clinton. However, this is the same Swift who quite possibly dedicated an entire video lined with her whole squad as a low-key attack on the singer.
Ultimately, I'd like to think that Swift wouldn't damn the entire country because of a feud. But that spiteful streak is definitely there, and Lord(e) knows how deep it runs.
Exhibit C:
I've already discussed this, but let's just delve into it a bit deeper: Swift hasn't been vocal about supporting anyone, right? So doesn't that, in itself, seem inherently suspect?
Historically, no. Swift worries about doing anything that really isolates her fans, and that definitely includes getting political. Back in 2009, Swift dodged questions about her political leanings in Rolling Stone, before relenting that she was fine with the outcome of the election. "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive," she said at the time. "I'm so glad this was my first election." That's a very neutral-sounding statement, to say the least.
Historically, no. Swift worries about doing anything that really isolates her fans, and that definitely includes getting political. Back in 2009, Swift dodged questions about her political leanings in Rolling Stone, before relenting that she was fine with the outcome of the election. "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive," she said at the time. "I'm so glad this was my first election." That's a very neutral-sounding statement, to say the least.
And finally Exhibit D – he’s a Swifty. You know – him:
OK, that is a bold assertion, but let's talk about that one time that Trump tweeted (of course) about his love for Swift? In 2012, Trump said he was so glad Swift was co-hosting the Grammy nominations and said, "Taylor is terrific!" Why does that slightly creep me out?
The hilarious assertion here would be that Swift wouldn't want to let down her biggest fan in the world and would throw him a pity vote. I can easily say, with a relatively strong conviction, that Swift is not concerned about a tweet from four years ago. So of all the potential influencers here, I'm going to go with "nah" on this one.
At the end of the day, I want to believe that Swift's personal convictions would still lean toward Clinton, and that her actual vote (because she is voting) would count toward the Democratic nominee. Crazier things have happened, but rational thinking would assume she's only keeping quiet to keep her fans from tearing each other (and her) apart. Looking at the comment section in the Instagram, the Swifties seem to be divided, so I get it. I get not wanting to cave to that pressure.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/193876-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-trump-conspiracy-theorists-have-some-out-there-ideas-about-tay
The hilarious assertion here would be that Swift wouldn't want to let down her biggest fan in the world and would throw him a pity vote. I can easily say, with a relatively strong conviction, that Swift is not concerned about a tweet from four years ago. So of all the potential influencers here, I'm going to go with "nah" on this one.
At the end of the day, I want to believe that Swift's personal convictions would still lean toward Clinton, and that her actual vote (because she is voting) would count toward the Democratic nominee. Crazier things have happened, but rational thinking would assume she's only keeping quiet to keep her fans from tearing each other (and her) apart. Looking at the comment section in the Instagram, the Swifties seem to be divided, so I get it. I get not wanting to cave to that pressure.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/193876-is-taylor-swift-voting-for-trump-conspiracy-theorists-have-some-out-there-ideas-about-tay
But we may never really know the answer to the question *cue reverb* WHO DID TAYLOR SWIFT VOTE FOR???? OK GUYS, WE CAN TURN OFF THE REVERB NOW!!!! There that’s better. New season. We got a bit rusty in 3 weeks. But Donald Trump did Tweet his love for Ms. Swift:
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We actually made that one up! Hey o!!!
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[font size="8"]Gogol Bordello[/font]
Ladies and gentlemen, playing their song “Think Locally, Fuck Globally” from their debut album, now in its’ 10th anniversary, “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike”, please welcome Gogol Bordello!
Yeah how about that?
See you next week!
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Thanks! Can't wait for next week!
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