Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-9: The Election From Hell: Wall Of Meat Edition

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-9: The Election From Hell: Wall Of Meat Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! We are back! You know if there's one thing you can count on, much like a Donald Trump Tweet getting proven wrong just a few minutes after he angrily tweets from the toilet at 3:00 AM (sleep is for stupid losers, OK?), is that Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP website is full of good ideas. Of course I say that with the utmost sarcasm. Because this is the site that claims bras cause cancer, advocates for something called "vaginal steaming" (I don't even want to know what that is), and now the latest. Have you seen this thing called the "Jade Egg"? I mean what the fuck is this thing? They claim that "queens and concubines used this to stay in shape", and - I'm also quoting - "cure incontinence and cause strong orgasams", but what you're really doing is shoving a giant egg up a place where it doesn't belong. And that can't be good for anybody - especially you, or the ER doctor who will be operating on you after you perform the "installation" as the object is intended for. Can we show this thing?



Yeah you do not want to know. I'm pretty sure it's a 100% grade A steaming load of bullshit. And it has to be a steaming load of bullshit, because only people stupid enough to believe it would try something like that. And the last thing we need is more people going to the ER for this bullshit. And believe me, my brother, an ER doctor, has definitely seen his fair share of people sticking things where they don't belong. And in case you were wondering, why yes, there was an article from a gynecologist who destroys Paltrow's theory (you can read it here ). Yeah enough of the intro, I'm not going down that hole any further. Hey o!!!! But first, Green Day has an awesome new album out called “Revolution Radio”. If you don't have it, I highly suggest buying that ASAP. It might be their best album since American Idiot. We might try to get Green Day on this show at some point! But they might have better things to do than my dog and pony show. But anyway, they just dropped their new video for the song off that album called “Troubled Times” and it’s awesome:

So where do we begin? Well in the top slot of course is going to go to future president Donald J. Trump, and we only have 4 days until the inauguration, or as I’m now calling it the in-arrgh-uration. Emphasis on the “uration” part. I kid I kid! So for the number one slot -we’re going to talk about how Donald Trump spent MLK day – and if you guessed it was attacking a black representative, you are correct sir / madam! In the second slot, we’re going to talk about the forthcoming train wreck that is the Donald Trump (2) inauguration. In the number 3 slot, we’re going to talk poll numbers. Because Donald Trump is out there spewing nonsense once again about how great his poll numbers are. They’re not. In the number 4 slot, of course is also going to be returning champion Donald J. Trump (4). We’re going to call this one “Donald Trump Vs. The World” because he seems to be pissiing off everybody and everything especially the CIA. In the number 5 slot, we’re going to introduce you to Trump’s security for the big shindig on Friday called “Bikers For Trump” (5). At the number 6, the Bathroom Police (6) are back once again. They’ve been silent for a while, but now it looks like Texas may be following North Carolina’s lead with a newer and scarier law aimed at Texas’ trans folks. At number 7, we’re going to introduce you to the guy who Trump picked to spearhead the replacement of Obamacare, Tom Price (7) and once again, Trump attracts criminals because he is one. In the number 8 slot, we’re going to lighten things up and talk about football. Particularly a team that I follow somewhat closely – the San Diego Chargers, who are now going to be the Los Angeles Chargers, complete with a logo design fail that would make Trump – Pence blush! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot we’re going to once again dedicate this slot to the Trump effect (9). This time a mayor in Michigan outbursts at women and minorities, while a Neo Nazi website collapses after finding out the sites’ owner has a Jewish wife. Or maybe… had a Jewish wife? And Martin Shkreli and Milo Yiannopolous get shut down after protests at UC Davis. Finally this week we’re going to conclude our 5 part lecture series “How To Talk About Trump For Dummies”. This time the fruit of our labor – the dictator comparisons, and the conclusion. Plus we have a final exam for your amusement! And for finishing the exam, we have some live music for you, and this time it’s from Florida’s Against Me! They have a new album out called “Shape Shift With Me”, and they might be stopping by to play something from it! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!


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Before we get started, I must briefly mention that Donald Trump's pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, thinks we should allow guns on campuses, because, wait for it... bears! Seriously? Did Stephen Colbert influence her opinion?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/betsy-devos-grizzly-bears-donald-trump-guns/index.html

snip:
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary nominee, said it should be up to states whether guns are allowed in schools, citing grizzly bear protection as part of her answer.

We'll talk more about the confirmation hearings next week. But first, we have to talk about how Donald Trump spent his Martin Luther King Day – of course in his golden tower. And of course he took to his favorite toy to spout nonsense. Can we throw that Tweet up there, please?



Now let’s flash back about 24 hours earlier. Can we get the flashback cue? Here’s what he did just prior to that:

In the past year, Trump has gotten into public disputes with a beauty queen and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier. But on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump went back and forth with a man whom John McCain once called “one of the most respected men in America.”

It's a widely held opinion. For a lifetime of civil rights work, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Last year, the Navy announced it would name a ship after him, making Lewis one of just a few " to get that honor.

The Lewis-Trump fracas started Saturday, when Lewis told NBC's “Meet the Press” that he didn't see Trump as a legitimate president and wouldn't be attending the inauguration for the first time in 30 years.

Trump struck back on Twitter, saying that Lewis needed to focus on his congressional district in Georgia, “which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/15/in-feud-with-john-lewis-donald-trump-attacked-one-of-the-most-respected-people-in-america/?utm_term=.76995041a281

Yup! He went there! Boy, you know for a president who represents a party who likes to make fun of us liberals for needing “safe spaces”, they sure do need a lot of safe spaces, don’t they? I mean remember in the early stages of the campaign when Trump said he was the only one strong enough to take on Isis? I mean he can’t take the slightest hint of criticism!

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Thank you. But this whole thing is very ill timed because we are literally hours away from him being inaugurated on Jan. 20th, and despite our best efforts to stop him, he will become our 45th president. I mean this is real.

The timing was particularly unfortunate: As Americans prepared to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., President-elect Donald Trump tore into one of the civil rights movement's most iconic figures.

Trump — who drew only 8% of the black vote in the general election last November — appeared to hit a new low in his already fraught relationship with the black community.

After Rep. John Lewis questioned his legitimacy in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump dismissed the Georgia Democrat, who was brutally beaten and repeatedly imprisoned as he protested for voting rights alongside King in 1965, as "all talk" and "no action." The president-elect also described Lewis' district, which includes the Atlanta metro area, as "crime-infested."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-trump-s-attack-john-lewis-came-particularly-bad-time-n707371

Can we throw that tweet up there please?



Dude needs to stop Tweeting, or he could potentially start World War III. But president Man Baby continued in the way he always does:

Trump met with King’s son on the holiday marking the life of the assassinated civil rights icon, just days after the president-elect had gone on Twitter to strike back fiercely at Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of the billionaire businessman’s election as president. Lewis and the elder King were among the Big Six civil rights leaders of the 1960s.

In a post on his Twitter account, Trump had accused Lewis of being “all talk” after the Georgia Democrat said he didn’t think Trump had come to the presidency legitimately. Trump also tweeted that the Southern congressman should pay more attention to his “crime ridden” Atlanta-area district.

Trump’s comments drew widespread criticism, and have done little to reassure those uneasy about the transition from the Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, to a president-in-waiting who struggled to connect with many nonwhite voters during the campaign.

The younger King downplayed the incident Monday, saying that “in the heat of emotion a lot of things get said on both sides.” King, who said he pressed Trump on the need for voting reform to increase participation, called their meeting “constructive.” King said that while he disagreed with the president-elect’s comments where Lewis is concerned, he believes “at some point in this nation, we’ve got to move forward.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tries-to-calm-dispute-with-john-lewis/

He’s all talk, OK? Nobody talks more than John Lewis does. I have the best words! Nobody uses better words than I do! This is a disgrace! Sad! And by the way, has Trump not heard of this new thing called Google? I mean not doing some research before you say something means you will wind up saying something you will regret:

In a photograph from his youth, President-elect Donald J. Trump poses in the dress uniform of a New York Military Academy cadet. He’s posed next to his father, real estate mogul Fred C. Trump, and his mother, the Scottish immigrant/social climber, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.

He graduated from NYMA in 1964, and with all due respect to the class of ’17, at the time his school had the reputation as little more than a holding pen for rich, disaffected young men who’d reach a level of incompetence unwelcome at other institutions.

During that same time, John Lewis, the son of the sharecropper Eddie Lewis, and Willie Mae Carter Lewis, was running the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and he was a keynote speaker at the 1963 March On Washington, the gathering where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/314413-trump-shouldve-googled-john-lewis-before-he-tweeted

Yes that would definitely be worth a Google, you know? Thank you Zach Galafinakis! But my favorite thing about this whole John Lewis mess – if you guess that Trump’s tweet backfired on him BIGLY, then you are correct sir / madam!

Donald Trump may not think much of Rep. John Lewis, but his tweet attacking the civil-rights icon has sent Lewis' book sales skyrocketing.

On Friday, NBC News released a Meet the Pressinterview clip in which the the Georgia congressman said he did not think Trump was a "legitimate president" and was not planning on attending the inauguration.

[It is worth noting that Lewis' district, Georgia's 5th, includes parts of Atlanta's wealthy Buckhead neighborhood, Morehouse College and Emory University (plus other colleges). The poverty rate is slightly above average, but the median income is also slightly above the Georgia average. Atlanta was not one of the 25 cities in the top 100 The New York Times cited in a story about rising crime rates].
http://www.aol.com/article/2017/01/16/trump-tweet-sends-john-lewis-book-sales-soaring/21655318/

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That guy is going to be our new president! I mean he can't even figure out what day he's going to start working because we all know what a hard partier Donald J. Trump is! He will keep this thing going 24/7 ladies and gentlemen! This will be off the hook! It will be insane! So we got to talk about the inauguration. Yes it’s real. Yes it’s a thing that is happening starting tomorrow and continuing through Saturday. Yes, Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. No, you’re not dreaming. But the inauguration, folks, is shaping up to be a colossal disaster. For one thing, you know if Hillary Clinton had been elected president, she could have got the actual Bruce Springsteen to perform at the inauguration. What does Donald Trump get? He gets a Z grade cover band called “The B Street Band”.

(Some of) the Rockettes, America's Got Talent's Jackie Evancho, and (some of the) Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, but one New Jersey group’s gala will get a little Springsteen.

Just not directly.

The New Jersey State Society has booked the B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen tribute band, for their Garden State Inaugural Gala, an event in honor of President-elect Trump’s inauguration taking place Thursday, Jan. 19 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Bruce Springsteen superfan and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will serve as the event’s honorary chair along with wife Mary Pat Christie, according to an event page.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/music_nightlife/Springsteen-tribute-band-B-Street-Band-to-play-NJ-groups-Trump-inaugural-ball.html

Oh yeah there ain’t no party like a Chris Christie party! Woo! They are gonna tear the roof off that sucka! Woo! Woo! Or maybe not. The B Street Band bailed:

The Bruce Springsteen cover band scheduled to play a Donald Trump inauguration party has dropped out of "respect and gratitude" for Springsteen.

The B-Street Band, a popular Bruce Springsteen cover group that's performed nearly 200 gigs a year since 1980, convened in the dressing room Sunday night before a typical late-afternoon gig at Bensalem, PA's Parx Casino.

Will Forte, the group's 63-year-old keyboardist, manager, agent and publicist, among other roles, was telling the band about the "thousands of emails from both sides" he had received after news broke that the group would be playing the Garden State Presidential Inaugural Gala on January 19th as part of Donald Trump's inauguration. "We're standing out in the storm right here," he told the band. "We gotta get out of the storm."
https://www.yahoo.com/music/bruce-springsteen-cover-band-drops-190747454.html

But what else happened this week in the inauguration of the world’s biggest snake oil salesman? Well another act that was scheduled to play Donald Trump’s inauguration also bailed:

Jennifer Holliday has canceled her appearance at Donald Trump’s inauguration event next week, calling her decision to perform a “lapse of judgement.”

In an open letter, provided exclusively to TheWrap, the “Dreamgirls” star apologized to the LGBT community, saying she was “uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time in history and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans.”

Holliday, considered a longtime LGBT ally, explained that she changed her mind after reading a Friday Daily Beast story titled, “Jennifer Holliday Will Perform at Trump’s Inauguration, Which Is Heartbreaking to Gay Fans.”

“My only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I WILL NOT PERFORM FOR THE WELCOME CONCERT OR FOR ANY OF THE INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES!”

Read more: http://www.thewrap.com/jennifer-holliday-trump-inauguration-lgbt/

And then Donald is apparently so desperate to get people to attend his shindig that he’s actively campaigning to get people to come to his inauguration by giving free tickets to his biggest supporters. I am not shitting you here:

President-elect Trump has sent out the following message via text to Trump’s subscribers, and on social media, giving away free Inauguration tickets for both the Inauguration Welcome Concert and the swearing-in ceremony of Trump’s Inauguration on January 20.

“I want to personally invite you to come to Washington, D.C. Friday to witness history, when I, along with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, will take our oaths to serve you – the people of this great country. These tickets to attend are free to my best supporters, but they are going fast, and we have very limited quantities.”

The link to the free Inauguration Day tickets can be found in the below tweet from Trump’s Inauguration Twitter page.
http://www.inquisitr.com/3891175/trump-sends-out-invite-for-free-inauguration-tickets-for-january-20-video/

In case you were wondering how not normal this is, allow me to quote the Joker’s famous monologue from The Dark Knight: “You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! “

Protesters distraught over Trump’s victory will be flooding into Washington next weekend, creating a potent – and potentially tense – mix as they collide with the billionaire’s die-hard supporters at hotels, restaurants, and on the National Mall. Like much of Trump's campaign, the festivities and crowd descending on Washington for the inauguration will not neatly fit into Washington's norms.

"These are unprecedented numbers," said Mike Litterst, a spokesman for the National Park Service, said about the protests. "We're trying to help the groups find suitable alternate locations."

The park service has credentialed at least 28 groups on the national mall and is expecting more than 350,000, according to an internal agency spreadsheet. That’s compared to the five or six requests from groups that they usually receive for inaugurations. The service has struggled to accommodate all of the protesters, which includes a large demonstration of about 200,000 women protesting Trump and others who will sing and fast, for next weekend, Litterst said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-inauguration-dc-bookings-233564

And by the way, you want to know how many of them are coming to protest the inauguration instead of attending it?

Donald Trump's voice won't be the only one heard at this year's inauguration.

Tens of thousands of people are preparing to hit the streets of Washington D.C. during the 45th president's inaugural week. While some will march in support of the president or various causes, a growing number will be on hand to show their opposition to the newly elected president and his administration.

The National Park Service has provided 22 permits for First Amendment events that will take place over inauguration week on park service land that includes the National Mall and the White House. Each protest ranges in size from 50 people to 200,000, however, any protest less than 25 people does not require a permit.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-inauguration-dc-braced-for-900000-protesters/ar-AAlWcZ0?li=BBnbcA1

And by the way – Lee Greenwood stopped being patriotic for a few minutes to say this:

Lee Greenwood, who will perform at inaugural events this week for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, suggested that those who turn down the chance will later regret missing the opportunity.

He said that he had not heard that Jennifer Holliday, announced as a performer at the opening concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, backed out of the appearance on Saturday, citing the negative reaction she got on social media.

“She is going to regret not going in the future,” Greenwood said. “You don’t get this invitation very often.”

He added, “To say no — I can’t imagine the embarrassment she might have later on” for passing it up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/lee-greenwood-says-performers-may-regret-passing-on-chance-to-perform-at-inauguration/ar-AAlVrWT?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

Really Lee? I bet this thing will be more boring and less exciting! I mean we have 3 Doors Down! They haven’t had a paying gig since 2007! And we have a biker show outside! I mean this like the weird alternate reality 1985 from Back To The Future Part 2!!!

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Before we get into this entry, we first have to talk about Donald Trump once again letting his egomaniacism get in the way of critical thought, or any kind of thought. Let’s throw that tweet up there, shall we?

President-elect Donald Trump seems to be setting a trend that when he doesn’t like the news about him he cries that it’s fake news. It certainly happened with the Russian hack story and #GoldenShowerGate.

A new CNN/ORC poll shows that Trump set a record for the lowest poll numbers (40 percent) for a president on Inauguration Day. According to the poll, only 14 percent of Democrats think that Trump will do well as president and only 4 percent think he’s handled the transition well.

In an Associated Press poll of young people, 52 percent of whites, 72 percent of Latinos, 66 percent of Asians and 70 percent of African-Americans think Trump will create more divisions.

Another shocking statistic released this week revealed that 74 percent of Americans want to see Trump’s tax returns.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/internet-unleashes-hilariously-brutal-mockery-on-trump-for-whining-low-approval-numbers-are-fake/

And then Van Jones warns of the forthcoming Trump Kleptocracy - which is fitting given the cabinet of insane billionaire thieves he's appointed to loot this country stupid:

CNN commentator Van Jones on Sunday predicted the U.S. is “on the verge of a kleptocracy,” insisting we “will see a horrendous abuse of power” under the Donald Trump administration, the Wrap reports.

Less than a week before Trump’s inauguration, Jones spoke on a panel about the Netflix documentary “13th,” which centers on race in the criminal justice system. Director Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey were also on the panel.

Asked about the incoming administration, Jones said he expects “mostly bad things” to come from the new president, arguing while “both parties have a challenge,” Trump “will prove to be authoritarian.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/van-jones-warns-of-a-trump-kleptocracy-you-will-see-a-horrendous-abuse-of-power/comments/#disqus

But now we’re going to talk about poll numbers. And the inauguration. This story dropped and it is very telling about who is going to attend Donald Trump’s sham of an inauguration:

A growing group of Democratic lawmakers will boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday as a protest of Trump’s worldview and his criticism of civil rights icon John Lewis, congressman of Georgia.

There are now more than 30 House Democrats — 35, at last count — who have declared that they will not attend the inauguration on Capitol Hill this week. The number rose sharply after Trump tweeted Saturday that Lewis is “all talk, talk, talk” and should “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/16/more-than-30-democratic-lawmakers-now-skipping-trumps-inauguration/?utm_term=.c0db4c781ea2

And he’s not stopping there. Oh no good sir / madam! In fact he’s going even further! Further down the spiral as his poll numbers are at a historically low approval rating! See what I did there?

According to a new ABC News/Washington Post survey released Tuesday, just 40 percent of Americans view Trump favorably, compared to the 79 percent who viewed Barack Obama favorably when he took office in 2009.

Trump trails each of his six predecessors — Jimmy Carter (78 percent), Ronald Reagan (58 percent), George H.W. Bush (65 percent), Bill Clinton (68 percent), George W. Bush (62 percent) and Obama (79 percent) — in terms of favorability. And Trump is the only president-elect of the last seven to be viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans, with 54 percent currently holding that view.

A CNN/ORC survey, also released Tuesday, showed Trump with a 40 percent approval rating on the eve of his inauguration, or 44 points below the 84 percent who approved of Obama at the start of 2009.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-decries-phony-polls-showing-him-with-a-historically-bad-approval-rating-143804996.html

And in fact – take a look at this chart that shows where Donald Trump falls on the list of incoming presidents – also one of the lowest of all time! I mean seriously, America, what the fuck did you get us into?



Ouch!!! I mean how bad can it be, folks?

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted that approval rating polls are rigged against him, as a series of polls show him with historically low approval as he enters office.

"The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before," Trump wrote.

A CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday morning showed Trump with 40 percent approval - six points lower than it was after Election Day, and lower than the last three presidents.

More than half of respondents said they are less confident in Trump's ability to do the job of president due to his statements since becoming president-elect.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll also released Tuesday found just 40 percent respondents approved of how Trump has handled his presidential transition, and 54 percent viewed him unfavorable.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-approval-polls-are-rigged-against-me/ar-AAlWCCz

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So Donald Trump really, and I mean really hates intelligence. And we’re not talking his war on smart people which he declared by appointing Betsy DeVos as the USA’s education secretary – a billionaire who advocates voucher systems for schools and thinks that science textbooks should be replaced with the Bible. No, I’m talking about James Bond, Secret Service type of intelligence. Let’s explain.

President-elect Donald Trump appeared to suggest that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have been behind the publication last week of unverified and salacious intelligence connecting the president-elect to Russia.
The comments on Twitter came hours after Brennan, in an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” called the Republican’s recent remarks about the U.S. intelligence community “outrageous,” and suggested that Trump’s overtures to improve relations with Russia are naïve.
Trump retorted to his 20 million Twitter followers, “@FoxNews ‘Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand.’ Oh really, couldn’t do much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?”
Brennan’s earlier comments came amid escalating tensions between the president-elect and the intelligence community following a series of insults and allegations by Trump in recent weeks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-15/cia-director-airs-warnings-for-trump-amid-intelligence-tensions

But can you guess where this is going from there? Well quite a few things actually. In fact even the Russians are mocking their boy Donald J. Trump. If you can guess, the prostitution scandal that we covered last week isn’t going away any time soon!

President Vladimir Putin cracked raunchy jokes on Tuesday as he poked fun at claims that Russian secret services filmed US President-elect Donald Trump with prostitutes.

Showing he is familiar with the claims in the explosive dossier, Putin launched into a series of ribald jokes about prostitutes, riffing on Trump's former role as owner of the Miss Universe beauty contest.

The unsubstantiated dossier published by American media last week alleged that Russia had gathered compromising information on Trump, namely videos involving prostitutes at a luxury Moscow hotel, supposedly as a potential means for blackmail.

In his first public comments on the claims, Putin rubbished the idea that Russian secret services would have spied on Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe final, as alleged in the dossier.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-mocks-claims-that-trump-was-spied-on/ar-AAlWw4x?li=BBnb7Kz

Does this mean that Donald Trump is Putin On The Ritz? Hey o!!!! Thank you I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress!

Moving on! Thank you!

Yes that’s a stylized intro from the Daily Show mocking Trump as a James Bond villain. In fact – this is so huge that even John McCain – a man who we normally disagree with on just about everything is definitely right about this one!

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told Morning Joe that Russian president Vladimir Putin poses a greater threat to the United States than ISIS.

Said McCain: “I think when you look at Russian increasing capabilities and, by the way, they are closing the gap as far as military capabilities is concerned rather dramatically between themselves and the United States. And that should alarm us all. But look at his behavior, look at what he has – what he has done. He has made no bones about what he wants to do. And he’s done it, but he’s played a very weak hand in the most clever fashion. He’s got the world’s 15th largest economy and yet he’s now a major player in the Middle East.”

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/17/mccain-says-putin-greater-threat-isis/

And the shit is about to hit the fan in regards to Trump pissing off the CIA. I mean Trump is doing his best to really screw the pooch here. You don’t compare the fucking CIA to Nazi Germany. I mean what, are we treading into Glenn Beck territory here?

President-elect Donald Trump has long flirted with an adversarial relationship with our country's intelligence community. And now he apparently has gone too far for at least one of its leaders.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Monday night, CIA Director John O. Brennan had finally had it. Brennan said Trump crossed “the line” by invoking Nazi Germany while talking about the intelligence community having, in Trump's words, “allowed” a dossier full of unconfirmed and salacious allegations about him to leak into the public domain.

Brennan didn't hold back, saying Trump has a right to challenge the intelligence community — but not in this manner.

“It’s when there are allegations made about leaking or about dishonesty or a lack of integrity, that’s where I think the line is crossed,” Brennan said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/17/the-director-of-the-cia-just-went-off-on-donald-trump-it-was-a-long-time-coming/?utm_term=.379426c2d74d

And guess what? Donald Trump returned the favor! He’s getting into some deep shit here folks!

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday night slammed outgoing CIA Director John Brennan for imploring the President-elect to put his confidence in the intelligence community and develop an "appreciation" for the effect his words could have on national security.
The CIA chief defended his agency and said in a Sunday interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace that the CIA was not trying to harm the incoming President or his team.

"There is no interest in undermining the President-elect and the team coming in. It's our responsibility to make sure they understand exactly the dangers that are out there," Brennan said.
Trump has slammed the intelligence community repeatedly over the past few weeks in response to what he said was unfair coverage caused by leaked information from intelligence officials. On Sunday evening he even pointed fingers directly at the CIA director over Twitter.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-donald-trump/

[font size="8"]Bikers For Trump[/font]


So who do you get for security for your inauguration festivities if you’re future president Donald J. Trump and you’ve already pissed off just about every government organization there is – from the CIA to the FBI to the EPA to the Department of Education, to the Parks Department, to the Press, is there anybody that Donald Trump hasn’t pissed off? Well there’s a group calling themselves “Bikers For Trump” that plans to build a “wall of meat” around Donald Trump. I really wish I were making that sentence up!

One of president-elect Donald Trump's biggest supporters is taking it upon himself and his group of bikers to make sure the inauguration event goes smoothly, promising to form a "wall of meat" to guard against any protestors.

Chris Cox is founder of the pro-Trump organization "Bikers for Trump," and is expecting more than 5,000 bikers from his group to be in attendance at the inauguration.

On Sunday, Cox spoke with news show "Fox & Friends" and said that should there be any rowdy protesters in attendance, his group will be there to back up security.

"In the event that we are needed, we certainly will form a wall of meat," Cox told the show.

"What does that mean?" interrupted co-host Abby Huntsman. "What does that mean, 'A wall of meat'?"
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bikers-for-Trump-will-form-wall-of-meat-to-10859328.php

Yeah seriously! What the fuck does “wall of meat” even mean? And they do realize that they’re setting themselves up for endless mockery, am I right? I mean this is the age of the internet here, and I can already hear the sound of 1,000 comedy writers at 1,000 Macbooks. I wouldn’t even expect that the Epic Meal Time guys could build a giant wall of meat!

That’s pretty close. But getting a giant wall of bikers around a place that’s already packed with security to begin with is getting something you didn’t ask for and don’t want. It would be like booking a hotel room, and then all of a sudden a giant tub of Omaha Steaks shows up at your door. I don’t even have a grill! How am I supposed to explain that to Radisson? And there’s more – even these guys are divided:

Three bikers who support President-elect Donald Trump but dislike each other are organizing separate inauguration rallies, confusing would-be participants and causing turmoil within one of Trump's most enthusiastic and visible bases of support.

The three have not joined forces for a large ride into the nation's capital or a unified rally as robust counterweights to anti-Trump activists because of clashing personalities.

In conversations with U.S. News, the three men traded various personal attacks, ranging from claims of alcohol abuse, financial mismanagement, disrespect and fame-hogging to allegedly not owning a bike or riding one very often.

The disunified gatherings are likely to yield smaller numbers than a combined show of support, as they pull from a finite pool of inbound bikers excited by Trump's unorthodox candidacy. The announced rally locations also are not conducive to intermingling.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/bitterly-divided-pro-trump-bikers-split-3-ways-over-inauguration-plans

These guys can’t even keep their own agendas straight! Holy shit! Alcohol abuse? Financial mismanagement? Sounds just like the kind of crowd Trump attracts! But he’s going to make America great again! Bigly! But here’s my favorite part of this whole thing – they will be out… wait for it… IN FORCE!!!

‘Bikers for Trump’ will be at RNC in ‘force’
Chris Cox of “Bikers for Trump” joins MSNBC’s Alex Witt to discuss what his organization will be doing to “calm” the protests that may occur outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
http://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/bikers-for-trump-will-be-at-rnc-in-force-726475331811

And in case you want to see a pic of the Douchebag Brigade:



Oh by the way we're being told this picture is fake. Wait, what? Where's my producer at? Excuse me a minute, I need to go yell at my producer!




[font size="8"]The Bathroom Police[/font]


OK we're back! You know the conservatives love to talk a good game. Especially when it comes to LGBT rights. You know conservatives are praising the fact that Donald Trump picked America’s Got Talent winner Jackie Evancho to sing the national anthem. But they have overlooked one tiny little detail – oh wait it’s a major one, and an actual trans person will be in attendance at the inaugural – Jackie’s trans sister Juliet.

Parents Mike and Lisa Evancho submitted a video of Jackie singing “Panis Angelicus” to the TV competition show, “America’s Got Talent” -- and Jackie got the call.

She was 10 years old, with a voice way beyond her years. She came in second, but either way, a star was born.

Since then, Evancho has sung duets with Tony Bennett and Andrea Boccelli … released seven albums … and performed for President Obama and adoring crowds around the world.

Back home near Pittsburgh, life is a lot more ordinary. Jackie drives her two sisters and brother to school each day, and attends a public high school where, she admits, stardom comes at a price.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackie-evancho-and-sister-juliet-on-bonds-and-bullying/

Now young Juliet is only 17, but she might want to know that the people who her sister are supporting are people who do not have the best interests of the trans community in mind. Let’s go to Texas where they might be fucking up bigger than North Carolina when it comes to LGBT rights:

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Top Texas Republicans are eager to bring a fight that sparked upheaval and business boycotts in North Carolina to the country's largest conservative state, unveiling Thursday a bill that would ban transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice.

The "Texas Privacy Act" requires all Texas residents to use the bathroom or locker room according to the gender on their birth certificates and prohibits local governments from passing ordinances designed to protect gay rights in public restrooms and other "intimate settings."

"It's the right thing to do," said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Houston Republican who oversees the state Senate and quoted Martin Luther King Jr. while promoting the proposal at the Texas Capitol. "The people of Texas elected us to stand up for common sense, common decency and public safety."

Bill sponsor Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, a Republican from rural Brenham, said her "thoughtful and unique" bill won't create a "bathroom police" and will allow anyone to lodge complaints upon seeing something in public restrooms that makes them uncomfortable. She added the bill was written "not to start a controversy but to end one."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e80e8279b8ef41b6adc2361c0fa4b244

It’s the right thing to do? Really, Dan? Have you seen what’s been going on with North Carolina and HB-2? You know we should profile Dan Patrick for a future edition of “People Who Somehow Got Elected”, that would be great. But there’s more this week in regards to the bathroom police, and yes, like all shitty things, it’s also in Texas:

A graphic of the state showing the percentage of LGBT people in each state. Gallup estimated in 2012 that about a half-million Texans identified as gay or homosexual. A Texas lawmaker hopes to eliminate that language from the state's criminal code starting in January.

Every day in Texas, more than an estimated half-million people are breaking a law that's on the books, but unenforceable.

It's technically illegal to be gay in Texas.

The law, passed in 1974, makes homosexual conduct a class C misdemeanor, punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/It-s-still-illegal-to-be-gay-in-Texas-in-2016-A-10779941.php

And Texas just keeps on bringing the hate, and while these should get overturned in SCOTUS, we don’t have a SCOTUS right now, and we can thank Mitch McConnell for that one!

A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services.

The decision sides with Texas, seven other states and three Christian-affiliated healthcare groups challenging a rule that, according to the judge, defines sex bias to include "discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy."

In granting an injunction one day before the new policy was to take effect, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor held that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law governing rule-making practices.

The judge also ruled that plaintiffs were likely to prevail in court on their claim that the new policy infringes on the rights of private healthcare providers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14L0OP

But we do have some good news this week! Obama did the right thing and commuted Chelsea Manning’s brutal 35 year sentence:

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.

The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=64803734&pgtype=Homepage

Now normally this is where I would turn the tables on the bathroom police due to their stupidity and the fact that they’re just plain fucking evil by showing you stories of sex offenders who air on the side of Jesus, but they’ve been oddly silent lately. And we don’t want you to think the Top 10 is all doom and gloom! Instead, going back to the beginning of this entry, Jackie and Juliet both should know that high end clothing stores have run out of ball gowns. This, I shit you not! This is a thing!

President-elect Donald Trump, in a Monday interview with the New York Times, took issue with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech in which the actress slammed Trump without actually naming him.

But it was an offhand remark the president-in-waiting made after his Streep-bashing that caught our eye: Trump played hype man for his own inauguration, boasting that the turnout would be record-setting. “There will be plenty of movie and entertainment stars,” Trump told the Times. “All the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.”

Hang on — is Trump actually saying that Washington’s racks are bare of formal gowns? That there are scant “great” frocks left? Putting aside the old-timey reference to “dress shops” (ladies wear all manner of clothing these days, including pants), we wondered if it was possible that the city’s shops actually had been cleared out of ball-worthy wear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/09/donald-trump-says-d-c-s-dress-shops-are-sold-out-of-inauguration-gowns-wrong/?utm_term=.4d53065030aa

Except, like everything Trump has done so far, once again he’s wrong! And we need some old timey piano music and cue cards for this one! *puts on handlebar moustache and top hat* Why yes, Trump once again has not evolved with the times! He keeps thinking he’s in the 1930s! What? Do you want to go down to the speakeasy and throw down some fisticuffs?

Ladies in Washington planning to celebrate Donald Trump's inauguration as the next president won't, it turns out, need a fairy godmother to find something to wear.

The president-elect told The New York Times in an interview published Monday that enthusiasm was so high for the arrival of his administration that turnout for the Jan. 20 events will be "unbelievable, perhaps record-setting." So much so, he said, that "all the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It's hard to find a great dress for this inauguration."

Not true, according to many boutiques and stores in the business of selling formal wear to those who make their home in the nation's capital.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/DC-Dress-Shops-Dispute-Trumps-Claims-They-Are-Sold-Out-410185275.html#ixzz4W3Yl0Z7J

[font size="8"]Tom Price[/font]


Sadly, we’re still 3 days away from Donald J. Trump being inaugurated as our 45th president. And all serious hell is about to break loose. Really, sometimes I wonder if we’re in the end times because Satan won the election this year. And this is the kind of people he attracts. They say in the Bible that the dark one will pose as a creature of light. But the people who wrote the Bible obviously never met a guy who quotes “Two Corinthians”. And here’s the kind of people who Trump attracts. I give you Tom Price – the guy who Trump picked to lead the department of Health And Human Services and pick Obamacare’s replacement:

President-elect Donald Trump is ready to name an ultra-conservative surgeon, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), to run the Department of Health and Human Services, multiple media outlets are reporting.

The choice would appear to signal Trump’s determination to proceed with a major overhaul of federal health care programs ― including not just repeal of Obamacare but also, perhaps, the privatization of Medicare.

And Price has said he wouldn’t stop with Obamacare. In mid-November, not long after the presidential election, Price said that Republicans could also use reconciliation to change Medicare, as well.

Price has also endorsed transforming Medicaid into a “block grant” ― in other words, giving states a fixed sum of money with which to run the program and then reducing the federal government’s spending on it.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2398295.1444924087!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/usa-election-trump.jpg

But who is Tom Price? What does he want? Was that a good move? Um… like everything else Trump has done so far – NO!!!! Here’s what happened this week:

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Donald Trump's pick to quarterback the replacement of Obamacare, Tom Price, may have broken the law with a questionable stock purchase.

"If he knew about it, it could very well be a violation of the law," Schumer told CNN. "Now they say there's a broker, it's kind of strange that this broker would pick this stock totally independently of him introducing legislation that's so narrow and specific to this company."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/chuck-schumer-tom-price-may-have-broken-the-law-in-stock-transaction/index.html

And Trump actually surprisingly isn’t firing Price – the exact opposite of what we’ve come to expect from that man!

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team defended his nominee for health and human services (HHS) secretary, Tom Price, from charges that he bought shares in a company days before introducing legislation that would have benefited the firm.

A Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday for Price, a Republican congressman from Georgia who, if confirmed, would be a lead agent in carrying out Trump's plans to overhaul President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKBN1510EZ

By the way, in case you were wondering, why yes, this guy does belong to a crazy anti-vaccination group!

Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD. The group (which did not return calls for comment for this story) has been around since 1943. Some of its former leaders were John Birchers, and its political philosophy comes straight out of Ayn Rand. Its general counsel is Andrew Schlafly, son of the legendary conservative activist Phyllis. The AAPS statement of principles declares that it is “evil” and “immoral” for physicians to participate in Medicare and Medicaid, and its journal is a repository for quackery. Its website features claims that tobacco taxes harm public health and electronic medical records are a form of “data control” like that employed by the East German secret police. An article on the AAPS website speculated that Barack Obama may have won the presidency by hypnotizing voters, especially cohorts known to be susceptible to “neurolinguistic programming”—that is, according to the writer, young people, educated people, and possibly Jews.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/11/30/the-new-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-is-a-member-of-a-fringe-medical-organization-heres-what-that-means/#.WD9p1D0_rBY.twitter

[font size="8"]Los Angeles Chargers[/font]

Go Super Chargers! Wooooooooooo!!! Woooooooooooo!!! Woooooo! Woo. Let’s lighten things up and talk about football shall we? So it’s long been proven that owners of sports teams are generally assholes. Doesn’t matter if you’re Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, the Ricketts Family of the Chicago Cubs, Arte Moreno of the Los Angeles Angels , or Alex Spanos, the owner of the formerly San Diego Chargers.

The Los Angeles Chargers unveiled their latest, not-so-greatest logo on the video screen during a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers, and the Staples Center crowd welcomed it with lusty boos.

Jeff Cumberland, the Chargers' tight end, fared no better when he was shown.

Welcome to L.A.!

Dean Spanos, the team's chief executive officer and president, was there to hear it in person, along with his wife and two sons. He announced last week that the team was moving after 56 seasons in San Diego, making him the most hated man among football fans since Art Modell. They'll be playing for the next two seasons in the 30,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/ct-nfl-chargers-los-angeles-relocation-spt-20170115-story.html

Which by the way came with a ridiculous change in logo design. Can we show that?



San Diego fans were extremely quick to Photoshop the logo and it came out with all kinds of modifications, my personal favorite being this:



And man LA fans are definitely not welcoming the Chargers with open arms. Take a look at what happened when quarterback Justin Cumberland was introduced at a recent Lakers game:

LOS ANGELES -- The Chargers' first public presentation in their new city didn't go over so well Saturday.

During Saturday's game against the Lakers, the Clippers showed the new Los Angeles Chargers logo on the video screen, and the Staples Center crowd promptly booed.

After a few seconds, the screen cut to Chargers tight end Jeff Cumberland, who briefly waved but was also booed.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18475653/los-angeles-chargers-jeff-cumberland-booed-los-angeles-lakers-la-clippers-game

But some good news – the San Diego moving companies are not exactly lining up to give the Chargers a proper send off, but rather a middle finger:

The Los Angeles Chargers have received an ice cold reception upon the announcement last week they were moving from San Diego to the city of Angels.

To make things even more difficult, the organization is having a tough time trying to find help for their big move.

Two dozen moving companies from the San Diego area have vowed not to assist the Chargers in their move to Los Angeles. The group of movers publicly expressed their displeasure and their stone-cold commitment to not lending a helping hand on the website WeWontMoveYouChargers.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/01/17/moving-companies-refuse-to-help-chargers-relocate-to-los-angeles.html

[font size="8"]The Trump Effect[/font]


In the interest of time, I will make this entry short. Because there wasn’t so much racism in the last couple of weeks especially with last week’s horror story from Chicago that I fucking hate everyone involved in, but there were a couple that we need to get to before we get to the 10th spot this week. Let’s go to Michigan for this one.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/michigan-mayor-caught-on-tape-calling-black-people-chimps-and-women-dried-up-cnts/

Mayor Jim Fouts of Warren, Michigan came under fire on Monday after audio surfaced of him allegedly using disparaging remarks against African-Americans and women. In recordings obtained by Motor City Muckraker, Fouts reportedly uses the N-word and refers to older women as “dried-up c*nts.”

“Blacks do look like chimpanzees,” the voice says in one recording. “I was watching this black woman with her daughter and they looked like two chimps.”

In one piece of audio, the 74-year-old mayor allegedly explains that he does not date older women.

“Think I want to date a f*cking 60-year-old hag?” Fouts opines. “F*ck that shit. I’m not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age they are dried up, washed up burned out.”

And then there’s this:

Several members of the white nationalist movement are despondent after learning that one of their leaders is actually married to a Jewish woman.

As Salon reports, neo-Nazi icon Mike Enoch — the pseudonym used by the man who created the pro-white nationalist website The Right Stuff — has resigned from his role at the website after being outed by rivals as a New York website developer named Mike Peinovich.

The real shocker, however, wasn’t the identity of Peinovich, but the identity of his wife, who happens to be a Jewish woman. This is particularly surprising because Peinovich often makes “jokes” about the Holocaust on his podcast, where he also regularly talks about killing Jewish people.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/neo-nazi-media-outlet-collapses-after-fellow-racists-discover-the-founders-wife-is-jewish/

We also have to briefly mention that one of our favorite punching bags here at the Top 10 - Martin Shkreli and Milo Yiannopolous were scheduled to give a talk and got quickly shut down, which means they'll both be retreating back to the troll cave that they came from to whine about how liberals are big meanie heads:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article126629829.html

Five years after the pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters swamped UC Davis with negative publicity, another free-speech controversy thrust the normally quiet campus into the national spotlight this weekend.

On Friday, the Davis College Republicans canceled speeches by a far-right website editor and a notorious former pharmaceutical executive after raucous protesters created an atmosphere that campus administrators and police deemed dangerous.

The editor, Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News, returned to campus Saturday, leading a counterprotest march of sorts and accusing the university on Facebook of forcing Friday’s event to stop before it started.

Oh and here's the Trump Effect taken to new extremes. You know we've been railing about white supremacy and the alt reich since the Top 10 began. And well, to use the late great Frank Zappa's words, it can't happen here. Can it?

Several Jewish Community Centers in the U.S. were evacuated Wednesday after receiving near-simultaneous bomb threats, according to various local reports, just nine days after a nearly identical incident targeted 16 Jewish insitutions across the eastern U.S.

Bomb threats were reported in Miami and Palm Springs Garden, Florida, Birmingham, Alabama, West Hartford and Woodbridge, Connecticut, Newton and Worcester, Massachussets, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Albany and Syracuse, New York, Detroit, Michigan, San Rafael, California and Nashville, Tennessee.
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.765875

Yeah I can imagine Mr. I Hate Intelligence now:

"Uh sir, we have received reports that lunatic fringe groups are on the verge of attacking Jewish centers across the country."
"It's fake news, OK? It's a political witch hunt!"

[font size="8"]How To Talk About Trump For Dummies: The End[/font]


OK class!!! Settle down!!!!! Quiet!!!! This is it! This is the very last and final part of our ongoing lecture series “How To Talk About Trump For Dummies”, and as far as I’m concerned – you get an A, and you get an A, and you get one, and you get one! Everybody gets an A! Everybody gets an A! But not quite, and we’re not quite done yet. We’re now less than two days away from the nightmare that is the Trumpocalypse that is beginning. And this next chapter is something that we’ve wanted to talk about since it began. How do you compare history to a guy who now has his finger on the trigger and could be the catalyst to start World War III? What does history side with? Well let’s get out our textbooks, shall we?



[font size="6"]Chapter 13: The Dictatorial Comparisons[/font]

The family Deploribus Tweeter Interruptus is a very strange one indeed. And Newt Gingrich recently crawled out of the same troll cave that Julian Assange and Ron Paul live in to say this:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-congress-232828

In an interview with NPR Newt Gingrich stated the following: "We’ve never seen this kind of wealth in the White House and so traditional rules don’t work, we’re going to have to think up a whole new approach.”

“In the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the White House the way he wants to. He also has, frankly, the power of the pardon, it’s a totally open power. He could simply say, ‘Look, I want them to be my advisers. I pardon them if anyone finds them to have behaved against the rules. Period. Technically, under the Constitution, he has that level of authority.”

Please Read Before Commenting: I realize that Gingrich will not be in Trump's administration. I also realize that he is not Trump's spokesperson. I want to ask however what Trump supporters thought about Gingrich suggesting that Trump use his power to pardon to basically bail out his advisors or anyone else close to him for that respect? Would that be something that would diminish your respect for Trump if he indeed engaged in such deeds?

And you know what? He really isn’t that far off – while he may be one of the most disgusting and repulsive human beings alive, he is right that we really haven’t seen this kind of money in the White House before – especially with the team of millionaires and billionaires that he’s assembled in his cabinet. So how do you compare him to past and present dictators like Kadyrov, Stalin, Mussolini, Kim Jong Un, Fidel Castro, and everyone’s favorite – Adolf Hitler? Let’s start with Bill Maher, who actually did compare Trump to Hitler on a previous episode of Real Time:

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released today reveals that despite what President-elect Donald Trump has said regarding the American public’s interest in seeing his tax returns, the vast majority of people would like for him to release the documents.

Per the survey, 74% of respondents said the incoming POTUS should show his tax returns. 93% of of Hillary Clinton supporters were in favor of this as were 83% of independents. Even 49% of Trump voters feel he needs to release the returns.

The poll also covered some of the concerns over Trump’s compliance with ethics laws and guidelines. 43% feel the soon-to-be president is doing enough right now to comply with ethics laws compared to 44% who believe he isn’t. 52% state that Trump’s proposed plan to have his sons manage his businesses is sufficient while 42% state that Trump should sell his businesses. As one would expect, these divide largely on partisan lines.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-74-of-americans-feel-donald-trump-should-release-his-tax-returns/

However, we here feel that Donald Trump’s maniacal behavior is less like a world dictator and more out of a super villain from a comic book or James Bond movie. In fact can we get some appropriate music to discuss this?

Nah. I’m thinking more:

Yeah that’s it. You know who Donald Trump really reminds us of? I mean sure, you can make all the comparisons to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un, and any of the world’s dictators that you want to make. And most of them are justified. He’ll be bringing down the world’s economies with a single Tweet, and he’ll be starting World War III in the South China Sea, while Russia takes over Europe. But in the end he’s less like them and more like Heath Ledger’s Joker. He talks a good game and causes most people to enter panic mode at the sound of a Tweet being posted. Let’s explain.

Perhaps there was a time when politics and popular culture inhabited two entirely separate spheres, but those days are long gone. Back in 1995, when John Kennedy, Jr., launched George magazine, he acknowledged that politics had crossed over into the world of pop culture and vice versa, and that you had to begin thinking of pols the way we thought of celebrities and entertainers.

While that may be true, we don’t often consider how popular culture, specifically the movies, has come not only to invade politics, but also to shape the contours of our politics. I doubt that Donald Trump’s candidacy — even his nickname “The Donald” is something out of a movie — could have survived if it hadn’t been for the way the movies conditioned us to accept someone like him.

I already have said on this site that Trump is the first “pseudo-candidate,” borrowing a page from the late historian and social analyst Daniel Boorstin. But Trump may also be the first pop culture candidate, crafted from movie conceptions, not least of which is Trump as what you might call an “authoritarian populist.” That is not a political category; it is a movie mash-up of two very popular archetypes.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/21/donald_trump_is_the_joker_forget_mussolini_and_hitler_the_gop_strongman_is_an_authoritarian_populist_straight_from_hollywood/

Pro Tip: In fact – Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hammill, doubled down on the theory that Donald Trump is the Joker. I mean he only voices the Joker in the Batman Animated Series!

As you know, Hollywood has stepped up their verbal attacks against President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters since election day. They can’t seem to accept that America did not want Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her baggage in the White House. I won’t even get into the divisive speech by Meryl Streep last night.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker has not hidden his disdain for Trump as he has been bold to speak out against the new Commander-In-Chief. For those who didn’t know, Hamill also voiced The Joker in the Batman Animated Series.

Hamill took his attacks to the next level when he was challenged to read President-elect Trump’s Happy New Year’s tweet in his Joker’s voice. He thus associated our new incoming leader of the free world to a criminal, psychopath.
http://www.tmn.today/2017/01/mark-hamill-attacks-donald-trump-worst-insult-date/

[font size="6"]Chapter 14: Conclusion[/font]

We hope that you enjoyed this lecture series. Really. We started this because it was the holidays and the outcome of the election that nobody was expecting turned our world completely upside down. And we began by telling how you should talk about Donald Trump to your relatives. And we’re concluding with comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. So I guess the question is, how did we get everything wrong? Where do we go from here? To conclude we’ll talk about a couple of events happening right now that could very well trigger World War III, and it would happen under Donald Trump’s watch!

Pro Tip: For our very last and final Pro Tip, if you are not concerned this far that Donald J. Trump has the power to start World War III, check out what China is warning us about!

In weeks that have been saturated by a presidential farewell address, cabinet confirmation hearings, a press conference from the presidential-elect, and new revelations of possible scandal, there has been little time or bandwidth to analyze the new administration’s perspective on international affairs.

But amidst the media bonanza, a glaring flaw in the Trump foreign policy approach has begun to emerge. One statement by the president-elect and another by the secretary of State nominee suggest that the Trump administration may soon find itself in a serious credibility quandary in Asia.

On North Korea and the South China Sea — two of Asia’s most pressing security hotspots — the Trump leadership has begun to make promises that could be disastrous to keep, but also costly to abandon.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/314622-in-china-north-korea-trump-admin-drawing-a-dangerous-red

Not to mention he can tank economies with a single Tweet!

The dollar slid to a one-month low Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump described the currency as “too strong” in an interview.

The WSJ Dollar Index, which measures the U.S. currency against 16 others, fell 1.2% to 91.09, its lowest point since Dec. 8. The dollar was down nearly 1% against the Japanese yen and Mexican peso.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump said the U.S. dollar was already “too strong” in part because China holds down its currency, the yuan. “Our companies can’t compete with them now because our currency is too strong. And it’s killing us," he said.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-comments-send-dollar-reeling/ar-AAlX6WE?li=BBnb7Kz

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[font size="6"]Final Exam[/font]

OK ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you made it this far in our lecture series! Now it’s time to take the final exam. You have 45 minutes. Here you go. Remember – cheating is against the Top 10 policy but perfectly acceptable in Donald Trump’s America! Let’s put the timer on the clock – and begin! Thanks for taking this class and not dropping out. We here at the Top 10 will begin another lecture series very soon!

Part 1: Dissect this 2-part Trump Tweet (20 points) :



Part 2: The following questions and statements are True / False (HINT: Think like a Donald Trump supporter would!) (10 points)

1. Calling Donald Trump a “man baby” is perfectly acceptable by his standards.
2. Donald Trump is always right, no matter what his detractors say.
3. Facts matter in a world where conspiracy theories have taken over.
4. Donald Trump wants his name and face to be on everything.
5. Everything is failing according to the eyes of Donald Trump.
6. Fake News sites like Prison Planet and Infowars are better than MSNBC and CNN according to Donald Trump supporters.
7. Trump and his followers think that you should move along and that there’s nothing to see here in regards to Russian hacking.
8. Julian Assange is god.
9. Nazism is acceptable.
10. Narcissists love to talk about themselves in the third person by their name and initials.

Part 3: The following questions are multiple choice. Again, think like a Donald Trump supporter would. (30 points, 3 points each) :

1. What type of behavior best suits Donald Trump as defined in the DSM?
A. Delusional disorder
B. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
C. Infantilism
D. All Of The Above

2. When is the best time to use a well-researched article about Trump in an argument with his supporters?
A. Always
B. Never
C. Rarely
D. Sometimes

3. Identify the following fake news site out of this list.
A. Infowars
B. Prison Planet
C. MSNBC
D. Breitbart

4. What should one do when Russian hacking is brought up in an argument?
A. Tell the person who is arguing that they’re wrong.
B. Deny that video footage exists
C. Deny facts
D. All of the above

5. Who are Donald Trump’s favorite punching bags?
A. The “mainstream media”
B. The “dishonest media”
C. You
D. All of the above

6. What would be considered a “safe space” in the eyes of a deplorable?

A. Boycotting a company who you disagree with
B. Needing your own news network because the other one doesn’t share your values
C. Living in your own bubble and not wanting to hear the other side
D. All of the above

7. Donald J. Trump is the hardest working man on the planet. He even worked on Thanksgiving.

A. This is a correct assumption because he said so.
B. This is a correct assumption because his supporters said so.
C. This is a correct assumption because I said so.
D. This is a correct assumption because the media said so.

8. The writers of the film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” slam Donald Trump, causing a Twitter firestorm. What is the correct reaction to this?

A. Wait it out for the correct facts before Tweeting
B. Wait for the official response from @realDonaldTrump before judging the Twitter firestorm.
C. Wait for the media to fact check the official response from @realDonaldTrump before judging the Twitter firestorm.
D. Join the boycott

9. It was revealed that the Russians hacked @realDonaldTrump. How do you respond?

A. You gloat to the Trump fans that we were right.
B. You gloat to the Trump fans that we were right.
C. You gloat to the Trump fans that we were right.
D. You gloat to the Trump fans that we were right.

10. A Trump supporter sends you a death threat on Twitter because you properly report the facts. How do you respond?

A. Report it to the proper authorities.
B. Send him one back.
C. Use a funny meme to piss off the death threat sender.
D. Hit the “alert” button on Twitter.

Part 4: Using the Fake Trump Tweet Generator ( http://www.faketrumptweet.com ), create a fake Trump Tweet for the following hypothetical scenarios. Again, it helps to think like Donald Trump would, using the points we have outlined in all chapters of this textbook. (40 points, 10 points each, 2 additional points per answer for extra credit for creativity)

1. Best Buy announces that it is closing two central distribution centers and laying off thousands of employees. Donald Trump prevents one of them from closing and gives Best Buy some nice tax breaks .

2. Snoop Dogg records a new song with guest Cypress Hill in which they diss Donald Trump in regards to his stance on marijuana.

3. NBC cancels the current season of “Celebrity Apprentice” due to low ratings.

4. Nissan builds a tiny fraction of a percentage of its’ new model of Sentra and Versa in Mexico for overseas purchases.

[font size="8"]And now this:[/font]
[font size="8"]Against Me[/font]

Ladies and gentlemen, playing their song “333” from their new album “Shape Shift With Me”, available everywhere music is sold, please welcome Against Me!

Yeah how about that?

See you next week!

[Initech]

1. Final Exam Answer Key:

Answer key:

Part 1 Answer: Donald Trump is taking credit for something that he had nothing to do with. The Fiat / Chrysler expansion was planned years ago as part of the merger. The factory is only opening this year because it was completed as a part of the agreement Obama reached when he helped Chrysler and Fiat merge. Ford cancelled its’ factory in Mexico because of market pressure, not because of anything having to do with Donald Trump.

Part 2 Answers: 1 – F, 2 – T, 3 – F, 4 – T, 5 – T, 6 – T, 7 – T, 8 – T, 9 – T, 10 - T

Part 3 Answers: 1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – C, 4 – D, 5 – D, 6 – D, 7 – A, 8 – C, 9 – A, 10 - D

Part 4 Answers:

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