Grey Lemercier
Grey Lemercier's JournalThe one huge reason why Bernie would have lost too (and never hear this discussed)
Taxes pure and simplehttp://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/3/25/11293258/tax-plan-calculator-2016
I took the median (NOT average, so no artificially high number due to the 1%'ers blowing up the average) 2015 USA household income 54,462
I set it for a married couple with a child
and this is what you get
Under Bernie they would pay ALMOST 7000 usd MORE per year than under Hillary and 10,000 MORE than Trump
Now I do it for a single person making 25,000
2600 USD MORE per year than Clinton's plan andf 4700 USD MORE than under trump
a poor single person 15,000 usd a year
1600 usd MORE under Sanders than Clinton, and almost 2500 usd MORE than under Trump
and finally an upper middle class family
combined household income of 125,000 (and THIS is millions of suburban voters of all races, etc) with multiple children
They would pay 16,500 usd MORE under Bernie than Clinton, and 23 THOUSAND DOLLARS more under Bernie than under Trump
THAT WOULD HAVE CRUSHED HIM IN THE GENERAL
no one can ever convince otherwise
Trump's new people....Muslim baiters, Jew baiters, LGBTQ baiters, race baiters, immigrant baiters,
woman baiters, women sexual assaulters, PoC assaulters, lunatic conspiracy theorists, grades A, B, C, D neocons, war hawks, Russian apologists, gangster billionaires (Mercer family, Singer are Koch's squared), police/surveillance state Stasi wannabes, real life ACTUAL white nationalist neo nazis, religious bible banging lunatic dominionists, pro-lifers so extreme they cheer a abortion clinic bomber openly, conmen, conwomen, cons of every imaginable type, oligarchs by the bushelful, petulant vindictive children/spawn and in-laws with power now given beyond rational comprehension, a rapier class of privatisation austerity ghouls, anti-climate change dolts, myriads of other science deniers of all stripes, drill-baby-drill and lay-the-pipeline thugs, etc etc etc, all unleased/uncuffed by a sociopathic narcissistic fascist, a cowed RW congress that will go right along with most of this shit (or actually encourage it), and this ALL backed up by literally tens of millions of newly empowered, vindicated, self-justified (in their hate, their utter vileness, their very inhumanity) common, everyday goons, goons who live right next door to most, and all acting out in either unison or as lone wolfs of bigotry, racism, misogyny, greed, violence and rage......and they will have the full force of the mightiest national government/military the world has ever made on their side.
This is not a clown car, not even a "big tent" of every conceivable caricature-come-true and actual real life nightmare of hate, greed, ignorance,rage, racism, deprivation of all that is worthwhile in life, IT IS A FUCKING FLEET OF SUPERTANKERS
Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world. One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power. That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders.
Two officials who had been handling national security for the transition, former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Matthew Freedman, a lobbyist who consults with corporations and foreign governments, were fired. Both were part of what officials described as a purge orchestrated by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser.
The dismissals followed the abrupt firing on Friday of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was replaced as chief of the transition by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Mr. Kushner, a transition official said, was systematically dismissing people like Mr. Rogers and Mr. Freedman who had ties with Mr. Christie. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Christie had sent Mr. Kushner’s father to jail.
Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump. At times they have been patched through to him in his luxury office tower with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html
Donald Trump Is Picking His Cabinet. Here’s a Shortlist.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html
A serious and profound question. How could we ever know IF multiple key states did indeed
have the actual electronic votes hacked, ie. switched, stolen, disappeared, whatever you want to call it.
I know Crosscheck purged millions of Democrats
The Election was Stolen – Here’s How…
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/
Here in the UK the Brexit vote was as close to 100% legit as you can get, simple paper ballots and a massive counting scheme that engendered near complete confidence in the result (regardless of the disastrous outcome).
BUT
How can we EVER know if they actually did tamper with the actual votes cast in the USA? 
The growing smear campaign against Keith Ellison
Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress , and now he’s being painted as a ‘radical’ with ‘ties to the Nation of Islam.’https://thinkprogress.org/the-growing-smear-campaign-against-keith-ellison-233e16fab864#.wi8i9goj0
With the Democrats in disarray following President-Elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory, the horse-race for the next Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair is tense, messy, and potentially crowded. Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison is one of the favorites — and conservatives are already trying to tear him down with false equivalencies and smear tactics. One common thread to the complaints: Ellison’s religion. Ellison is the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, as well as the first Black congressman from Minnesota.
This tactic is hardly new. When Ellison was first seeking national office, Minnesota Republicans used his faith to attack him, alleging ties to the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. Blatant Islamophobia erupted when, because he is Muslim, he requested to be sworn in on the Quran instead of the Bible.
At the time, Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode (R), who endorsed Trump in 2015, wrote a letter to his constituents claiming that “if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.” (Goode endorsed Trump for President in Breitbart last year).
Ellison ultimately used a Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson. President Obama cited his swearing in an example of America’s religious tolerance in a 2009 speech in Cairo. When the controversy first erupted in 2006, Ellison denied that he was ever a member of the Nation of Islam. He clarified that, while he had never joined the group, he had organized a Minnesota delegation to the 1995 Million Man March, at which the Nation’s leader Farrakhan spoke.
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I tortured myself and turned on Fox News and
some " man in the street" interviewer named Jesse Watters was in Times Square NYC, and got SOOOOOO HILARIOUSLY TROLLED by a group of gay black men. Bill O'Reilly (fucker) was gobsmacked.
I sooooooo want to post the video. Legendary live telly.
We are dying here!!! Lololol
Julian Assange to be interviewed by prosecutor and Swedish police at Ecuadorean embassy in London
Source: The Independent UK
Julian Assange will be interviewed at the Ecuadorean embassy in London on Monday 14 November, the Swedish prosecutor has said. The interview will be conducted by an Ecuadorean prosecutor and the Swedish deputy prosecutor in the case against the WikiLeaks founder and a Swedish police investigator will be allowed to attend the hearing. A DNA sample will also be taken if Mr Assange agrees to give his consent.
The results of the interview will later be reported from Ecuador to the Swedish prosecutors in a written statement," a statement from the Swedish Prosecution Authority said. "After this report, the prosecutors will take a view on the continuation of the investigation."
It adds: "As the investigation is ongoing, it is subject to confidentiality." "Therefore, the prosecutors cannot provide information concerning details of the investigation after the interview." Mr Assange is under investigation by prosecutors for an alleged rape during his visit to Sweden in 2010. He denies the rape allegation and has challenged Sweden's detention order several times.
His request to leave the Ecuadorean embassy to attend the funeral of his friend and mentor Gavin MacFayden was recently blocked. The Swedish prosecutor’s office announced it would not suspend the warrant as it does not allow exemptions to a court decision. Mr Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy since June 2012, after exhausting all legal options in his battle against extradition to Sweden.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-police-ecuadorean-embassy-interview-rape-charges-a7402056.html
Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-is-a-threat-to-the-west-as-we-know-it-even-if-he-loses/2016/11/04/a8dc9100-a2cc-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.htmlThey share ideas and ideology, friends and funders. They cross borders to appear at one another’s rallies. They have deep contacts in Russia — they often use Russian disinformation — as well as friends in other authoritarian states. They despise the West and seek to undermine Western institutions. They think of themselves as a revolutionary avant-garde just like, once upon a time, the Communist International, or Comintern, the Soviet-backed organization that linked communist parties around Europe and the world. Now, of course, they are not Soviet-backed, and they are not communist. But this loose group of parties and politicians — Austria’s Freedom Party, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the UK Independence Party, Hungary’s Fidesz, Poland’s Law and Justice, Donald Trump — have made themselves into a global movement of “anti-globalists.” Meet the “Populist International”: Whoever wins the U.S. election Tuesday, its influence is here to stay.
Although it is often described (by me and others searching for a shorthand) as “far-right,” the Populist International has little to do with the “right” that has thrived in Western countries since World War II. Continental European Christian Democracy arose out of a postwar desire to bring morality back to politics; Gaullism came out of a long French tradition of statism and secularism; Anglo-Saxon conservatives had a historic preference for free markets. Most of them shared a Burkean small-“c” conservatism: a dislike of radical change, skepticism of “progress,” a belief in the importance of conserving institutions and values. Most of them emerged out of particular local and historical traditions. All of them shared a devotion to representative democracy, religious tolerance, Western integration and the Western alliance.
By contrast, the parties that belong to the Populist International, and the media that support it, are not Burkean. They don’t want to conserve or preserve what exists. Instead, they want to radically overthrow the institutions of the present to bring back things that existed in the past — or that they believe existed in the past — by force. Their language takes different forms in different countries, but their revolutionary projects often include the expulsion of immigrants, or at least the return to all-white (or all-Dutch, or all-German) societies; the resurrection of protectionism; the reversal of women’s or minorities’ rights; the end of international institutions and cooperation of all kinds. They advocate violence: In 2014, Trump said that “you’ll have to have riots to go back to where we used to be, when America was great.”
The Populist International holds these goals to be more important than prosperity, more important than economic growth, more important than democracy itself. Like the parties that once formed the Comintern, they are eager to destroy existing institutions — from independent courts and media to international alliances and treaties — to obtain them. This week, Britain’s Daily Mail, a newspaper that propagates the ideas of the Populist International, actually denounced three high-court judges as “Enemies of the People” because they decreed that Britain’s exit from the European Union would require parliamentary consultation. Trump is only one of many politicians — Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Hungary’s Viktor Orban — who have launched attacks on the principles of their own constitutions.
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Lead Brexit Claimant Gina Miller Flooded With Racist Death Threats After High Court Ruling
"Kill her, she's not even British," read one tweet.http://europe.newsweek.com/lead-brexit-claimant-gina-miller-flooded-racist-death-threats-after-high-court-516992
The woman who brought Brexit to the High Court has received death threats and racist online abuse after judges ruled that the U.K. government must get parliamentary approval if it wants to leave the European Union.
In June, during the aftermath of the U.K.'s referendum, businesswoman and philanthropist Gina Miller privately hired City law firm Mishcon de Reya in order to challenge the authority of the British government over implementation of Brexit and its power to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, arguing that Parliament had a say in the matter.
Miller’s victory on November 3 means that the process cannot begin until U.K. lawmakers vote, a decision that has added more frustration and delay to a government that has yet to lay out its Brexit plan.
In an article titled "Who do EU think you are?", U.K. newspaper The Sun called Miller a “foreign-born multi-millionaire” and “the woman who may have sabotaged Britain's Brexit deal.” But comments on social media took criticism to a whole new level, with some users calling for Miller to be "shot" or "hung,” The Huffington Post reports. “Kill her, she’s not even British,” one Twitter account-holder posted.
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Gina Miller Article 50 Judgement Fallout Sees Campaigner Receive Death Threats Online
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/article-50-fallout-sees-gina-millar-receive-death-threats-online_uk_581ba19fe4b020461a1bec57
A prominent campaigner who helped bring about the successful legal challenge to the government over Brexit has received death threats online.
Gina Miller, 51, led the action against the government’s plan to commence Article 50 negotiations to leave the EU without parliament’s consent.
But since the decision of the High Court to accept her claim, Miller has received online threats against her life.
A link about Miller shared into the Facebook group ‘UKIP Peoples Forum 2020’ received the comments “Kill her! 2 behind the ear. Throw her in the garbage. Dustbin, whatever...” and “I hope she gets f...king killed”.
Elsewhere, people on Facebook wrote that Miller “should be shot” and “hung”.
SNP MP Stewart McDonald described the threats as “utterly horrendous”.
President Obama is/was a badass HUMAN, just wanted to salute him as we transition to President
Hilary R. Clinton. 
Late 2008 made me TINGLE as 17 year old human being, and he continued on with impeccable dignity in the face of RW scum attacks, and tumultuous world events for 8 years.
Here is OUR (as in the WHOLE NATION'S, you scum fucking racist, misogynist Trumpster POS) POTUS at the peak of his powers.
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