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  • Trump was 'extremely disciplined in grifting' and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says [TDS from businessinsider]

    06/27/2022 9:35:19 AM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 65 replies
    businessinsider ^ | Jun 15, 2022 | Erin Snodgrass and Charles R. Davis Jun 15, 2022
    Analyzing Trump's presidency, a fascism expert argues he tried to use the office to make money. The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat described Trump to Insider as a "dedicated" and talented "grifter." When looking back on President Donald Trump's time in office, Ruth Ben-Ghiat sees someone who pursued a unique goal among his predecessors, one requiring extreme discipline and dedication from the unlikely leader. "Trump's aims as president were totally different from any other president, Republican or Democrat," Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University who is an expert on fascism, told Insider. "His aims were autocratic in that he wanted to...
  • Trump endorsement divides Republicans in deep-red Nebraska

    04/29/2022 6:21:49 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 23 replies
    wgnradio.com ^ | 4/28/22 | GRANT SCHULTE
    In one of the nation’s most overwhelmingly Republican states, the party is entering the final stretch of a bruising primary campaign deeply divided over who should become the nominee for governor. Nearly all of Nebraska’s GOP establishment leaders are lining up behind businessman Jim Pillen, believing he would be the easy favorite to win in November. But no endorsement matters quite like that of former President Donald Trump, who is backing his longtime friend Charles Herbster and will hold a rally on his behalf Friday. And in a twist, a third candidate, state Sen. Brett Lindstrom, is emerging as a...
  • Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings

    03/26/2022 6:51:36 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 102 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 26, 2022 | By AARON MORRISON and LISA MASCARO
    NEW YORK (AP) — “Senator,” she said, letting out an audible sigh. In that singular moment, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for countless Black women who have had to gather all the patience, strength and grace within to answer insinuating questions about their credentials, qualifications and character. It was Day One of questioning at the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Harvard-educated Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated for the nation’s highest court, was making history. The federal judge had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, namely the Republican senators who are erecting a wall...
  • AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts blame on inflation; GOP gas hype

    03/15/2022 4:46:25 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 24 replies
    AP ^ | Mar 15, 2022 | JOSH BOAK, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and DAVID KOENIG
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing political attacks over rising costs, President Joe Biden exaggerated his role in reducing the federal deficit and skirted responsibility by asserting that a flood of government spending into the economy has no impact at all on higher prices. It actually does. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, went too far in pinning blame for surging gasoline prices on Biden..... THE FACTS: The Republican leaders of Congress are overstating Biden’s ability to influence energy prices and the impact of the canceled Keystone pipeline. Gasoline prices have been rising in tandem with oil prices since spring 2020 because demand has grown...
  • Polar bear inbreeding and bird 'divorces': Weird ways climate change is affecting animal species

    02/13/2022 6:39:58 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 12, 2022 | ByJulia Jacobo
    The world's biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns. And while that "doom and gloom" is the typical discourse surrounding how climate change is affecting biodiversity, another interesting aspect of the warming temperatures is how different species have been adapting over the decades, as the warming progresses, experts say. Here are some unusual ways climate change is affecting nature: Higher temperature extremes may increase the risk of outbreaks of tuberculosis in Kalahari meerkats by increasing physiological stress, as well as the movement of males between group, according to a study published...
  • The Hill: Trump evokes antisemetic tropes, says Jewish Americans 'don't like Israel'

    12/17/2021 4:52:11 PM PST · by RandFan · 55 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/17/21 06:29 PM EST | BY CAROLINE VAKIL
    Former President Trump evoked antisemitic tropes about Jews in excerpts of an interview released on Friday and claimed that they “either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel.” In the interview with journalist Barak Ravid, portions of which were played on an episode of the “Unholy: Two Jews on the news” podcast released on Friday, Trump said that "there's people in this country that are Jewish — no longer love Israel. I'll tell you, the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country,” Trump said in an interview He also used common antisemitic tropes about Jewish...
  • WTH? GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel Blocks Trump Election Lawyer Jenna Ellis on Twitter After News Breaks on RNC Attorney’s Election Lies

    07/11/2021 4:33:41 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 40 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | July 11, 2021 at 5:04pm | Jim Hoft
    In March President Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to the RNC demanding that they quit using his name to fundraise. The letters were also sent to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).The Republican Party abandoned President Trump following the election where Democrats were able to steal a landslide victory from the most popular president in US history.The RNC quickly moved on following the election and started to fundraise and focus on the Georgia runoff elections. They refused to support President Trump.It was almost as if Democrats had taken over the RNC?Now there is evidence...
  • U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew on why he will go to Tokyo Olympics without Coronavirus Vaccine

    07/09/2021 7:56:55 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    MSN ^ | 07/09/2021 | Dave Sheinin
    Team USA swimmer Michael Andrew confirmed Thursday that he remains unvaccinated for the coronavirus ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, reaffirming a stance he and his family made clear at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials last month and probably subjecting himself and U.S. officials to further uncomfortable questions when the Games begin in two weeks. Andrew, 22, said during a remote media availability from the U.S. swim team’s training camp in Hawaii that he chose not to get vaccinated in the month between the trials and the Olympics, explaining: “It was kind of a last moment. I didn’t want to put...
  • Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Accuses China of a Cover-Up

    05/04/2020 7:03:22 AM PDT · by edwinland · 6 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 4, 2020 | New York Times
    President Trump stepped up criticism of China, part of an international backlash over the outbreak. President Trump accused the Chinese government of making a “horrible mistake” in its coronavirus response and of then orchestrating a cover-up that allowed the pathogen to spread around the world. “My opinion is they made a mistake. They tried to cover it, they tried to put it out. It’s like a fire,” Mr. Trump said on Sunday night during a virtual town hall on Fox News. “You know, it’s really like trying to put out a fire. They couldn’t put out the fire.” China did...
  • ‘Nice try, journo’: WaPo reporter deletes deceptive tweet that tried to pin price spike on Trump

    04/24/2020 9:12:56 AM PDT · by rintintin · 29 replies
    bizpacreview ^ | April 24, 2020 | Frieda Powers
    A reporter at The Washington Post learned that size does matter after trying to pin the exorbitant price of isopropyl alcohol on President Trump and his administration. The Post’s Amber Phillips posted and then deleted a tweet on Thursday announcing that the cost of isopropyl alcohol on Amazon was shockingly $2,375. Her tweet came after Trump’s coronavirus task force briefing at the White House Thursday where a Department of Homeland Security official spoke about the use of the product against the coronavirus.
  • Democrats slam Trump’s ‘dead of night’ decision to fire intelligence community IG

    04/04/2020 8:57:45 AM PDT · by chief lee runamok · 73 replies
    faux ^ | 04/04/2020 | Adam ShawDan Calicchio
    Democrats on Friday reacted furiously to President Trump’s decision to fire the intelligence community inspector general who informed Congress about the Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
  • Bernie Sanders rolls out video casting Trump as threat to Jews. Four-minute spot includes Democratic primary candidate speaking about Jewish pride and outreach director accusing president of being a white nationalist.

    01/26/2020 6:10:37 AM PST · by karpov · 83 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | January 26, 2020 | Ron Kampeas
    WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders launched a campaign video highlighting his Jewish identity and casting President Donald Trump as part of the white nationalist threat. The four-minute video posted Thursday night on Sanders’ Twitter feed, interpolates excerpts from Sanders’ speech last year to J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, with commentary by Joel Rubin, the campaign’s Jewish outreach director. It starts with Sanders’ declaration of pride in being Jewish. “I’m very proud to be Jewish and look forward to becoming the first Jewish president in the history of this country,” Sanders says. During his 2016 run for...
  • Peaceful Virginia Gun Rally Prompts GQ Magazine Writer To Compare Some Protesters to 'Nazis'

    01/24/2020 10:17:03 AM PST · by rktman · 18 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 1/23/2020 | Andrew J. Sciascia
    Talia Lavin ✔ @chick_in_kiev I wrote about Monday’s rally in Richmond, and how thousands of armed men holding a city at gunpoint is hardly a “peaceful” event: https://www.gq.com/story/pro-gun-rally-threat … That Pro-Gun Rally in Virginia Wasn’t Exactly “Peaceful” The threat of violence in Richmond—and arrest of neo-Nazis—sent other groups into hiding. gq.com
  • No One Likes Private Health Insurance.

    01/22/2020 10:50:26 AM PST · by GuavaCheesePuff · 44 replies
    Medium ^ | 2019 | Lauren Martinchek
    There’s no denying that the healthcare system in the United States has been at the forefront of national discourse in the midst of the democratic presidential primaries. Of course, largely due to the fact that Bernie Sanders has made it his mission to draw attention to and change the fundamental brokenness of the current system. Now it should come as no surprise that calls for an overhaul of the way health insurance is provided — such as Bernie’s Medicare For All plan — have been met with staunch resistance not just from the left, but the more moderate, corporate friendly wing of the Democratic...
  • Vanity Fair Recycles Failed 2016 Predictions for 2020

    08/23/2019 6:19:58 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 10 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | August 23, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick
    It's pretty much a done deal. President Donald Trump's chances of re-election are almost non-existent. In fact for him to win the 2020 election "might take an act of God." So declared T.A. Frank in Wednesday's Vanity Fair. And if Frank's smug certainty in prognosticating the outcome of the next election sounds familiar, he was just as certain of Trump's 2016 election loss in October of that year. So T.A. Frank 2019, meet T.A. Frank 2016 as we compare the two predictions that made it sound as if both election results were done deals before they actually happened. First let...
  • 'I didn’t want anything to do with him': Hillary says Chelsea saved marriage to Bill after Lewinsky affair

    01/19/2020 5:55:22 PM PST · by simpson96 · 99 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 1/18/2020 | Caitlen Yilek
    Hillary Clinton opened up about her marital struggles with Bill Clinton in an upcoming documentary about the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. “I didn’t want anything to do with him,” Clinton said, appearing to tear up, in a trailer of the four-part series which premieres in March on Hulu. The Clintons’ marriage faced a difficult period when Bill had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky during his presidency. He initially denied the affair under oath, which led to his impeachment in December 1998. Months earlier, Chelsea Clinton, who was 18 years old around the time the Lewinsky scandal played...
  • YouTube's top related videos have a climate change denial problem (only 11.05 years left)

    01/18/2020 7:12:23 AM PST · by Libloather · 7 replies
    Mashable ^ | 1/17/20 | Marcus Gilmer
    A new study claims that YouTube is rife with misinformation about climate change and that some major advertisers inadvertently have their ads running alongside these videos. The new report comes from activist organization Avaaz, a relatively new global group that harnesses the power of collective action via campaigns and petitions. The Avaaz study found that not only were a significant number of climate change denial videos surfacing on the platform, but that YouTube's algorithm was sending viewers to even more of those types of videos. Additionally, in a move that might actually cause YouTube to do something about it, Avaaz...
  • ‘Make or break moment.’ Tampa Bay leaders hold climate change summit.

    01/18/2020 7:31:45 AM PST · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Tampa Bay ^ | 1/08/20 | Zachary T. Sampson, Langston Taylor
    ST. PETERSBURG — As she arrived to speak at the region’s first ever resilience leadership summit, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor came upon a hotel parking lot packed with cars. Hundreds of people from local governments, universities and scientific consulting firms had shown up Tuesday. Valets at the Hilton in Carillon Park double-parked vehicles, choking the entry. The scene summarized the day: a symbol both of the growing interest in climate change in Tampa Bay and the enormous hurdles officials face as they aim to curb emissions (from cars, for instance) contributing to rising seas. **SNIP** Among the first speakers was...
  • Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second

    01/14/2020 6:15:44 AM PST · by PROCON · 116 replies
    cnn.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2020 | Ivana Kottasová
    (CNN)The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said. A new study released on Monday showed that 2019 was yet another year of record-setting ocean warming, with water temperatures reaching the highest temperature ever recorded.
  • Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Blame Trump for Iran Shooting Down Ukrainian Airplane

    01/13/2020 2:07:44 PM PST · by Kaslin · 47 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2020 | Julio Rosas
    "The View's" hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar joined the chorus of liberal pundits and Democratic politicians by blaming President Trump for the Iranian military shooting down the Ukrainian airplane. The airplane flew out of Tehran's international airport the night their military fired dozens of ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq that house American troops. The attack was in response to the U.S. military killing Iranian general and terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani. The Pentagon said the strike was necessary because Soleimani was planning on carrying out more attacks against Americans in the region. Host Sunny Hostin asked Rep. Adam Schiff...