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December 21, 2019

When the Dem candidate debates Trump he/she should have a child cancer patient in the audience


Because stealing from your own children's cancer charity is one of the most disgusting things a person can do and the reality of this needs to be seared into peoples minds with a child's face.



How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#6a7483ad6b4a
December 21, 2019

For those is swing states like MI, WI and PA. What kind of political ads are you seeing?


Anything going after Trump yet?

Just curious. Thanks
December 21, 2019

Trump Adviser Caught On Tape: Voter Suppression Key To GOP Battleground Efforts

Justin Clark was recorded at a private event saying: “That’s what you’re going to see in 2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program.”

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of President Donald Trump’s top re-election advisers told influential Republicans in swing state Wisconsin that the party has “traditionally” relied on voter suppression to compete in battleground states but will be able to “start playing offense” in 2020 due to relaxed Election Day rules, according to an audio recording of a private event obtained by The Associated Press.

“Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places,” Justin Clark, a senior political adviser and senior counsel to Trump’s re-election campaign, said at the event. “Let’s start protecting our voters. We know where they are. ... Let’s start playing offense a little bit. That’s what you’re going to see in 2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program.”


More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-adviser-gop-voter-suppression-poll-watching-2020_n_5dfd46c5e4b0843d35fc2322

December 21, 2019

It's Not 'One Million' -- It's One Meddling Mom - Re: Bigot Mom who lobbied Hallmark

By Jeremy Hooper, Guest Contributor |
December 15, 2019


#OneMillionMoms is REALLY Just This ONE Mad, Mean One –Monica Cole.

For years the main joke about the American Family Association's bombastically overstated One Million Moms (OMM) has involved its name itself. For obvious reasons. When an organization gives itself a grandiose name like that, the comedy is built-in.

But after a weekend where we watched a popular American brand, The Hallmark Channel, temporarily duped into believing that the organization's constant bark was really an effective bite, it is time to move past the jokes and state the obvious about this organization: it is basically One Meddling Mom with an agenda, and no company should be giving her the credence she so desperately craves.

Her name is Monica Cole. In the decade that I have been aware of One Million Moms, she is quite literally the only staff member I have ever heard anyone name. She is the one and only person who appears on their petitions, as well as the one and only person who speaks for them to the media. She is the mom. Her. Solo. One person, supposedly representing one million.

One Meddling Mom has issued so many calls and condemnations over the years, it's become easy to tune them out. As GLAAD has arduously detailed, OMM has gone after everything from recent blockbuster Toy Story 4 for including a seconds-long clip of a supposed lesbian couple that quite literally no one but them noticed, to Chips Ahoy for a Twitter ad featuring a Rupaul's Drag Race star. Basically if a company hires, recognizes, features, or in any way supports an LGBTQ person, One Meddling Mom will issue a petition, claim to have millions of supporters behind her, and then start cranking the AFA machine in hopes of getting some sort of press for her campaign-of-the-week. OMM even uses a conservative PR firm, Hamilton Strategies, to help spread this message to a wider public.

More: https://www.glaad.org/blog/its-not-one-million-its-one-meddling-mom

December 21, 2019

When Trump supporters make fun of the polls showing Trump losing remember these arguments

I had to refresh my brain to remember a few of these in a discussion last night:


1. The National Polls were very close and Hillary won by several million votes.

2. Comey / FBI saying Hillary was under investigation several days before voting was undoubtedly enough bad press to cause her to lose by razor thin margins in PA, WI and MI costing her the election and making the polls look off.

3. Trump got trounced during the midterms and the polls were predicting less of a blue wave than what actually happened.

4. If they say Hillary only won the popular vote because of "illegal" votes in California just shoot back by saying something like: "Just because Trump who stole from his own children's cancer charity and created a fake University to rip people off says it's so doesn't mean it's true. Not to mention his voter fraud investigation came up empty handed.

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December 21, 2019

Senior Editor of Conservative *National Review* Calls for Impeachment and Removal

Ramesh Ponnuru says Congress needs to prove 4 things to impeach a POTUS:

That the facts of the case are true.
That the facts amount to an abuse of power.
That the abuse is impeachable
That is prudent to remove the president.
Read his recent piece at The National Review to see how he responds to these four points. A taste:

On October 3, Trump was asked to clarify what he had wanted the Ukrainian government to do. “They’d start a major investigation into the Bidens,” he answered. Representative Debbie Lesko (R., Ariz.) nonetheless told a CNN reporter on December 13 that Trump had not asked “a foreign power to investigate a political rival.” Her office later “clarified” that she meant to deny only that Trump had wanted the investigation because Biden is a political rival. The fact that they both want to be president in 2021 was, on her view, just a coincidence.

Take the clarification seriously, and what Representative Lesko was trying to do was to defend that second wall. Sure, the president sought an investigation of Biden, but only as a means of making sure that U.S. aid was not going to a corrupt state. Senator John Kennedy (R., La.) has said that the possibility that Trump was concerned about corruption means that he cannot be proved to have had a corrupt intent.

More: https://thewayofimprovement.com/2019/12/20/senior-editor-of-conservative-national-review-calls-for-impeachment-and-removal/?fbclid=IwAR2pQCV8cooMUPkd2L4YE7-OQ8DkIRMrIJfzQ3zBwEw-zjVdYxgiDkb9ISI

December 20, 2019

Could Trump be arrested for admitting he would walk into the girls dressing room when teen girls were

naked? Probably passed the statute of limitations but he flat out admitted he put himself in a position to look at naked teen girls.

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