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kpete's JournalTrump slams Ryan: I didn’t inherit GOP, I won it
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday continued his slams on Speaker Paul Ryan, denying the Speaker’s assertion that he “inherited” the Republican Party mantle.
“Paul Ryan said that I inherited something very special, the Republican Party,” Trump tweeted. “Wrong, I didn't inherit it, I won it with millions of voters!”
more 
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/278966-trump-slams-ryan-i-didnt-inherit-gop-i-won-it
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Pierce translates Ryan's long-winded nonsense on supporting Trump.
Let's run all that through the trusty ZEGS-2000 Universal Translator and see what comes out.
"I'm going to come around on the vulgar talking yam, but I need a few weeks of completely undeserved approval to make sure my media-cultivated image as a serious person stays nice and shiny."
Thank you for your attention.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a44622/paul-ryan-trump-endorsement/
Trump dons hard hat, then bemoans regulations on hairspray
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Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump on Thursday complained about the environmental regulations against hairspray, comparing it to the types of regulations miners face.
During a rally in West Virginia, Trump was presented with a hard hat from a miners union that endorsed him, which he donned onstage, then tried to fix his hair.
“My hair look alright? Give me a little spray,” he said. “You know you’re not allowed to use hairspray anymore because it affects the ozone. You know that, right?"
“In the old days you’d put the hairspray on and it was good. Today, you put the hairspray on and it’s good for 12 minutes.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/278946-trump-dons-hard-hat-then-bemoans-regulations-on-hairspray
The best taco bowls are made by immigrants who resent a rich prick calling them rapists.
Love inauthentic Mexican!
https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/728340647711805441
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/728297587418247168
OC Weekly's Cover This Week Features a Donkey Drumpf-ing Trump
OC Weekly‘s cover features a nude Trump being mounted by the Democratic donkey
. The donkey urges readers to “Check out our Trump coverage” as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee yells “It’s yuuuge!”
Here’s the cover via OC Weekly:
MORE about cover here:
http://addictinginfo.org/2016/05/05/newspaper-cover-perfectly-demonstrates-what-will-happen-to-trump-and-gop-on-election-day-image/
Trump responds: "I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan's agenda."
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-paul-ryan
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/05/paul-ryan-declines-to-support-trump-as-republican-nominee
Let this sink in: The Republican Party has chosen a birther/bigot as its presidential candidate.
Trump understands very well that racism and sexism are crucial components of the nationalistic insurgence he wants to lead; he appeals openly to some of the darkest impulses in our political id.............
Remember this, no matter what Trump now says, his entire political existence is built on bigotry
............. here’s what everyone should never forget: No matter what Trump now says, he owes his entire political existence to bigotry. The inimitable James Carville recently wrote a piece making what will, increasingly, be a critical point:
“I’m a Catholic. I’ve seen enough baptismal water spilled to fill William Taft’s bathtub ten times over. But it doesn’t take a Catholic like me to understandthe original sin of the Trump candidacy. His first act on the political stage was to declare himself the head of the birther movement. For Trump, the year 2011 began with the BIG NEWS that he had rejected Lindsey Lohan for Celebrity Apprentice, but by April, his one-man show to paint Barack Obama as a secret Kenyan had become the talk of the country. Five years later, Trump is nearing the Republican nomination.”
Birtherism is how Trump lunged into presidential politics. It was his first – and loudest – dog whistle. And the thing about birtherism, in addition to being patently untrue, is that there’s no reason to believe it apart from bigotry. To support the theory is to announce, in the clearest possible terms, one’s own prejudices.
Again, Carville explains:
“Look, I understand that there’s plenty of craziness to investigate in our politics. Cruz believes that global warming is a hoax. Ben Carson claimed that the Biblical Joseph built the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Heck, once upon a time, George W. Bush famously thought the jury was out on evolution. But Trump’s birtherism is far, far more important – for two reasons. First, in my experience, when a politician says he doesn’t talk about an issue, that’s precisely what you should ask him about. Second, there’s another difference between being a birther and a flat-earther. It’s possible to believe the Earth is flat and not be a bigot, but it’s impossible to be a birther and not be one.”
MORE:
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/let_this_sink_in_the_republican_party_has_chosen_a_birther_as_its_presidential_candidate/
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Rob Reiner voices the frustration of millions, calls out media coverage of Donald Trump on “Morning Joe”
The "Being Charlie" director excoriates Scarborough & Co. for their refusal to acknowledge Trump's racist appeal VIDEO: http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/rob_reiner_voices_the_frustration_of_millions_calls_out_media_coverage_of_donald_trump_on_morning_joe/
Charles M. Blow: Black Men, Violence and ‘Fierce Urgency’
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Our society treated black bodies as disposable, if not bound for eradication. Generations of educational, employment, housing, lending and criminal justice policies form the substrata roots of this problem, and they are deeper and more complex than the visible weed of community violence that is so tall and tangled.
Even urban infrastructure like highways were used as a tool to distance and destroy black neighborhoods, as Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx explained in March at the Center for American Progress. As Foxx put it, “The growing gaps between the wealthy, the poor and the middle class have been exacerbated by our transportation system,” and “Attitudes about race and the poor have been embedded in our infrastructure for far too long.”
The roads to America’s prosperity either plowed through black and poor communities or were literally designed to pass them by.
It is easy to argue that these policies took centuries to carve their scars and will likely take a long time to heal (that is, once the country truly decides to begin that healing, instead of plunging the shiv deeper into the wound).
But that is the long view. What do we do now, in the short term, about the disproportionate number of black lives caught in a vortex of violence? What do we do in the meantime? In the space between where we are and where we must arrive, how do we stop filling the cemeteries with the bodies of ever more young black men?
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much, much, much more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/opinion/black-men-violence-and-fierce-urgency.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
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