Category: Never My President

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Lady Gaga Calls Out Trump, Government Shutdown During Vegas Show

From Billboard:

The singer paused during her performance of "Million Reasons," saying, "If the fucking president of the United States could please put our government back…there are people who live paycheck to paycheck and need their money."

She then took aim at Pence, whose wife Karen is under fire for accepting a job at a school that excludes LGBT children, adding, "And to Mike Pence, who thinks it's acceptable that his wife works at a school that bans LGBTQ: you're wrong. You say we should not discriminate against Christianity. You are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian. I am a Christian woman, and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome. So you can take all that disgrace, Mr. Pence, and you can look yourself in the mirror and you'll find it right there."

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Trump Supporters

IMHO, this movie (Bird Box if you haven't heard of it) deserves every merciless, hateful meme it's generating. A cheap ripoff of the general idea of A Quiet Place (which I thought was excellent, by the way), it's obvious Sandra Bullock's bank account was getting more than jus a little lean when she agreed to participate in this travesty. If it was playing in a theater I would've demanded my money back. It's that bad.

 

 

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Telling It Like It Is

Twitler meltdown in 5…4…3…

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And You're Still a Fucking Asshole

So the Orange Menace claims that Mueller's sentencing recommendations for Paul Manafort prove his innocence and exonerate him of any wrongdoing.

No, Donnie Two Scoops. It proves just the opposite. But you're too stupid to realize it.

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Amazingly Accurate

Culled from a series of tweets by the Hoarse Whisperer:

I understand narcissistic personality disorder like the back of my hand. Trump is as familiar as an old movie, so let me share some intel. People with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) seem erratic but they're actually ultra-predictable. They are simple machines. There are only two driving impulses: 1) Avoid shame and 2) Collect adoration and esteem. That's it. There is no other priority or concern. Trump will do anything humanly possible to try to avoid being publicly shamed/diminished in others' eyes. It's an impulse he can't control. Take Russia/Putin. If Trump were to acknowledge Russia interfered, he'd be admitting he was less worthy of the presidency. Donald Trump would literally sell out his entire family and the country as well to avoid acknowledging that he didn't deserve the office. He is pathologically incapable of doing anything which admits to the world his worst internal fear: he's unworthy of being seen as special. Now, he has no choice on how he has to play this. He HAS to actually make Putin look worthy of partnership. He has to make the shameful thing, look unshameful somehow. He has to make shameful hacking and potential collusion somehow seem smart or purposeful or dignified. It cannot be done. It makes no logical sense. It will fall apart and as it does, Trump's behavior and lying will get more outlandish. But make no mistake, Donald Trump is clinically incapable of doing anything other than what he is doing: trying to avoid the shame of being discovered to be illegitimate and unworthy of public respect. He has an uncontrollable compulsion to avoid that awful truth. No matter how absurd each new action or lie sounds, he'll throw even his own family under the bus until there is no way out and then he will first explode on everyone and everything around him when he realizes there is no escape. It will be the crazy tweetstorm to end all tweetstorms and then he'll either a) implode in a miserable ball of self-loathing and flee or concoct some attempt at a face-saving exit, claiming he's too good for the job or that he's protesting the "deep state." It'll be transparent bullshit that none but the most loco Trumpers believe but he will take it to the grave, swearing it's true. The key thing to remember in watching Trump is that there are literally only two things going on in his mind at all times: 1) Fight to the death to avoid being seen as shameful or underserving of public adoration 2) Doing whatever it takes to make the people right in front of him think he's powerful, important and special. That's it. Donald Trump is an empty shell. You need do no more than ask "what shame is he trying to avoid?" and you'll understand his every move.

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The Morning After

Was it a Blue Tsunami? No, but a blue wave did wash out a good amount of the garbage infecting government.

As of this posting it's still a toss-up between Arizona's two Senate candidates. It may be days (or weeks) before we know the results, and even then both sides have said the courts will be enlisted no matter who wins.

And don't panic about Jeff Session's "resignation." We all saw this coming—including Mr. Mueller—who has undoubtedly already got failsafes in place for this very eventuality.

The following is unabashedly stolen from I Should Be Laughing because it sums up what happened yesterday more succinctly than I could ever hope to.

Okay … was it all we hoped for? Was it better than we expected? No, but that's okay because, first off, we took the House, putting an end to those in Congress who will do whatever the Racist-In-Chief wants to do.

Beto lost to Ted Cruz in Texas, but in the long run it might be for the best because whatever Beto O'Rourke does next, and in the future, he will always best Cruz.

Florida once again proved they put the 'Duh' in Flori-duh by electing racist Trumpets Ron DeSantis over Andrew Gillum, and, as of now, making it a tie between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson.

But enough about that …. Let's talk some good stuff.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky Kounty Klerk who famously refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost her reelection bid to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr.

Karma is good.

Up in Minnesota they have elected Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, as the country's first Somali-American elected to Congress. In Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, who also won her election. Tlaib and Omar will be the first Muslim women in Congress.

In Colorado, Jared Polis won the governor's race and is the first openly gay person to be elected governor in America.

Funny side note: the Colorado cake baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple now has a gay governor.

Angie Craig, a lesbian candidate, won her race to take the U.S. House seat for Minnesota, unseating Republican Jason Lewis, a vicious anti-LGBT lawmaker.

Allis not good everywhere, because Iowa has reelected Nazi-sympathizer, racist and white supremacist Steve King to a ninth term. Really, Iowa?

Democrat Anthony Brindisi is the winner of the race for New York's 22nd Congressional District, besting Trump supporter and asshat, Claudia Tenney.

Gay former Marine Neil Rafferty won his race for the State House in Alabama. The seat was vacated by Patricia Todd, Alabama's first openly gay legislator.

Chris Pappas is now New Hampshire's first openly gay member of Congress.

Kris Koback, a Trump lapdog, wanted to be governor of Kansas; Kansans said, 'No.'

Dana Rohrabacher, one of Putin's favorite lawmakers, appears to have lost his bid for reelection to represent California's 48th congressional district in Congress.

GOP Governor Scott Walker lost in Wisconsin.

Massachusetts voters have handed a resounding victory for transgender people, voting Yes On 3 and defeating a first-of-its-kind effort to repeal the state's landmark transgender rights law.

J.D. Ford, another openly gay man, bested Republican Mike Delph, who is best known for his staunch opposition to gay marriage equality.

Sharice Davids made history as the first openly gay Native American elected to Congress in Kansas.

Jennifer Webb, another LGBTQ candidate, and Democrat won a narrow victory to take a seat in Florida's state Legislature. Webb is the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to that position.

Ayanna Presley has become the first Black congresswoman in Massachusetts.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest person ever in the House of Representatives.

Lauren Underwood wins her House race, becoming the first Black Woman to win her Illinois district.

91% of all the House candidates Trump endorsed lost last night.

Democrats flipped—as of posting time last night—some 28 House seats.

Democrats have flipped 5 governor seats.

Democrats have flipped 4 state legislative chambers.

Democrats took control of the NY State Senate.

Democrats flipped 21 state legislative seats.

Democrats flipped 3 state Supreme Court seats.

Democrats broke the North Carolina GOP supermajority.

Democrats rebuilt the "Blue Wall" in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and that's a big deal for 2020.

Winning the House means that Adam Schiff, not Trump lapdog Devin Nunes, will chair the House Intel Committee.

Democrats can investigate and check the Trump Administration.

Your votes mattered.

But, no matter what happens, remember this: we are done with Paul Ryan.

And don't feel bad about the lack of a Blue Tsunami. With wins at local and state levels we are setting the stage for 2020 and beyond; with wins for women and people of color and LGBTQ Americans, we are setting the stage to take the power from old rich white men.

The game is on!