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November 3, 2016

"Melania just plagiarized Trump's second wife Marla Maples."


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Melania just plagiarized Trump's second wife Marla Maples. Here's the only Google results for "if you could dream it, you could become it":


https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/794249853035577345




November 2, 2016

POTUS says Trump is "unfit to be commander-in-chief, and he is not equipped to be president"

"The guy that the Republicans nominated - even though a bunch of ’em knew they shouldn’t nominate him - the guy they nominated who many of the Republicans he’s running against said he was a con artist and a know-nothing and wasn’t qualified to hold this office, this guy is temperamentally unfit to be commander-in-chief, and he is not equipped to be president,” Obama continued.

“This should not be a controversial claim! It really shouldn’t!” he said, sounding exasperated. “It’s strange how over time what is crazy gets normalized, and we just kinda assume, ‘Well, he’s said a hundred crazy things, so the hundred-and-first thing we don’t even notice.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/nov/02/trump-clinton-news-live-election-2016?page=with:block-581a4655e4b07ceadb3a1c05#block-581a4655e4b07ceadb3a1c05
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know-nothing and not equipped


October 18, 2016

"I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes." - POTUS




About Trump's "rigged election" horseshit:

"That is both irresponsible and, by the way, doesn't really show the kind of leadership and toughness that you want out of a president. He started whining before the game's even over? If whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else? Then you don't have what it takes to be in this job, because there are a lot of times when things don't go our way, or my way. That's ok, you fight through it, you work through it. You try to accomplish your goals.

... and so, I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes."


President Obama at the press conference
October 13, 2016

"this is not how decent human beings behave"


The First Lady of the United States:



The men that you and I know don't treat women this way, they are loving fathers who are sickened by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women. They are husbands and brothers and sons who don't tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. And, like us, these men are worried about the impact this election is having on our boys who are looking for role models for what it means to be a man.

In fact, someone recently told me a story about their 6-year-old son who one day was watching the news, they were watching the news together, and the little boy out of the blue said, "I think Hillary Clinton will be president." And his mom said, "well why do you say that?" And this little 6-year-old said, "because the other guy called someone a piggy." And he said, "you cannot be president if you call someone a piggy." So even a 6-year-old knows better. A 6-year-old knows that this is not how adults behave, this is not how decent human beings behave, and this is certainly not how someone who wants to be president of the United States behaves.



https://www.bustle.com/articles/189494-transcript-of-michelle-obamas-speech-about-donald-trump-might-be-her-most-passionate-yet

September 28, 2016

Debate reenactment:







September 23, 2016

A Message from Grandma & Grandpa: We've Seen This Before



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Grandma and Grandpa are right.

September 22, 2016

Countrypuntal

John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again", together, countrypuntal!





Forever Country: Artists of Then, Now, and Forever | CMA



September 18, 2016

"A little slop was poured into their long communal trough"

On CNN this morning they were discussing Trump's banning of reporters, such as the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold and others, and they mentioned the notion of other reporters showing solidarity with those banned etc.: CUPP: Well, and, Brian, just as a follow-up to Lynn's excellent point of backing each other up, Trump over the course of this campaign has banned a number of media outlets from press conferences or coverage.

In my ideal world of courage, if you are a similar media outlet, maybe you say then we're not going to cover you either. I know that is wishful thinking in the days of, 'well, if we can get an opportunity that someone else can't', but that, I think, would really send a message that you don't get to silence the press.

If you silence one of us, you silence all of us. And that's the danger that people need to understand when they look at Trump's actions.



Listening to this, I was reminded of one of my favorite passages from the writings of Harry Crews, from which I quote, and it reflects the state of media solidarity for access that I see today. Crews is writing about hog killing time:

. . . so cold the ground was still frozen at ten o'clock in the morning. The air was full of the steaming smell of excrement and the oily, flatulent odor of intestines and the heavy sweetness of blood - in every way a perfect day to slaughter animals. I watched the hogs called to the feed trough just as they were every morning except this morning it was to receive the ax instead of slop.

A little slop was poured into their long communal trough, enough to make them stand still while Uncle Alton or his boy Theron went quietly among them with the ax, using the flat end like a sledgehammer (shells were expensive enough to make a gun out of the question.) He would approach the hog from the rear while it slopped at the trough, and then he would straddle it, one leg on each side, patiently waiting for the hog to raise its snout from the slop to take a breath, showing as it did the wide bristled bone between its ears to the ax.

It never took but one blow, delivered expertly and with consummate skill, and the hog was dead. He then moved with his hammer to the next hog and straddled it. None of the hogs ever seemed to mind that their companions were dropping dead all around them but continued in a single-minded passion to eat. They didn't even mind when another of my cousins (this could be a boy of only eight or nine because it took neither strength nor skill) came right behind the hammer and drew a long razor-honed butcher knife across the throat of the fallen hog. Blood spurted with the still-beating heart, and a live hog would sometimes turn to one that was lying beside it at the trough and stick its snout into the spurting blood and drink a bit just seconds before it had its own head crushed.



Just sayin'.



http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/18/rs.01.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=GxROLxIJM7cC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=%22moved+with+his+hammer+to+the+next+hog+and+straddled+it%22&source=bl&ots=SFMMRMIgJF&sig=wI_rIWby5G7z0FJMR5IcClxNmHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0ua7T35nPAhVDbD4KHZ4EAVgQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=%22moved%20with%20his%20hammer%20to%20the%20next%20hog%20and%20straddled%20it%22&f=false

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