January 25, 2017

Looks like Gucci trolled KellyAnne...

LMAO.

https://twitter.com/ChetPowell/status/824079034179080192

December 10, 2016

Contact The Electors

http://directelection.org/

I don't know if anyone has posted this link yet but it has very useful info for contacting the electors from the states pig man "won."

November 4, 2016

A collegemate of Donald J Trump Jr tells a disturbing story about Donald Trump Sr

Joy Reid just tweeted this...

October 13, 2016

He Said, She Said

That seems to be the Trump surrogates' big talking point today: "It's all just he said, she said." Funny thing is, for once, they are right.

He said: I go into the pageant dressing rooms and look at the women when they are naked.
She said: He came into the pageant dressing room and looked at us while we were naked.

He said: I can go up to women and just start kissing them or groping them.
She said: He came up to me and just started kissing me and groping me.

October 10, 2016

Is NBC threatening whistleblowers?

On Friday, we saw a tape of NBC employee Billy Bush and NBC employee Donald Trump creating a hostile work environment (at the very least) for NBC employee Arianne Zucker. Now we have learned that NBC employee Mark Burnett is threatening other NBC employees with financial retribution if they release any similar tapes. In other words, if any whistleblowers come forward with evidence that the Apprentice set was a hostile work environment, they will be punished.

October 10, 2016

It wasn't a locker room, it was a WORKPLACE

At the time of the video, both Billy Bush and Donald Trump were employees of NBC. The actress they were so crudely discussing, Arianne Zucker, was also an NBC employee. Donald's appearance that day on Days of Our Lives, and his interview with Access Hollywood, were part of a fairly standard casting stunt designed to promote the Apprentice, Days and Access Hollywood. It is part of Trump's job description to promote his show in this way.

The minute Trump entered that van, he was on the job. Bush, and the camera crew in the van, were also on the job. Bush and Trump were crudely discussing an employee of their parent company in front of other employees of that same company. Arianne Zucker got to spend the rest of her workday around two men who had just been casually discussing her potential sexual assault and a crew of people who had heard her being objectified and demeaned.

(I find Billy Bush's behavior particularly troubling because he not only egged Trump on in the van, he carried the atmosphere of the van into the interaction with Arianne when he told her to hug Trump, knowing full well Trump had just been talking about kissing her and grabbing women's pussies whenever he wanted. Trump had been describing sexual assault and Bush decided to play wingman.)

August 29, 2016

Anybody watch "Roadies" tonight?

I think that was one of the finest hours of television I've ever seen.

August 20, 2016

Welcome Newbies! Introduce your fine selves!

I've been noticing a lot of great new members here lately. I am loving this influx of smart, funny Dems and I want to wholeheartedly welcome you to DU. This place can be fast-paced and a bit crazy so it is sometimes hard for new folks to feel at home but YOU ARE HOME, and luckily, there are no crazy right-wing uncles here to spoil everything.

So please, take a minute to introduce yourself and maybe tell us a bit why you're here. Or, just pop in and say "hi." Either way, welcome home!

August 1, 2016

It's the Galt-Right vs the Alt-Right...

...and the Alt-right won.

Wonder if Paul Ryan will gather up his fellow Galt-righters and build a community in a valley in Colorado? They could call themselves Trump's Mulch and tell stories around the camp-fire of how they are stopping the motor of the world by removing their genius selves from society. That'll show 'em.

Sorry, Paul Ryan. You can look at the neo-nazis on the Alt-Right and say a million times "that's not who we are" but they won, you lost. That Klan rally in Cleveland two weeks ago? That's exactly who you are.

July 26, 2016

I wanted to be President when I grew up.

I was born a political junkie. My parents said that, when I was a baby, I would crawl to the TV screen and kiss it whenever President Kennedy was on. I've collected political buttons since I was old enough to walk into campaign offices and ask for them. Whenever people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered "President."

That usually got a laugh.

They weren't mean laughs, just the laughs of people who, even in the '60's, couldn't imagine a woman as President. By the 70's, some people, mostly women, would say "well maybe there will be a woman president when you grow up." There was never any real encouragement though and, perhaps more importantly, there was no one I could look to as a role model for that ambition. No one talked to me about the importance of good grades or getting into a good college. When I did go to college, a not terribly impressive state college, my mother couldn't understand why I didn't want to be a stewardess. She would honestly say-"But, you're so pretty, you could be a stewardess!"-like that was the highest complement you could give a young woman.

So, yes, there are tears here today. Happy tears. I hope somewhere in America today, some little political junkie girl is watching this who WILL grow up to be President-our fourth or fifth woman president-and will never know that there was a time when that was unthinkable, even laughable.

This, today? This is a big fucking deal.