The Truth Be Told: 08/06/15

Thursday, August 6, 2015

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Comments from around the globe in our inbox have been very complimentary and praising - especially in places where censorship is rampant ... that we are a breath of fresh air.

It also helps that we are an American based information source that is giving the same information our worldwide readers are getting from their news sources and not what the US domestic media and propaganda machine is spewing out so they know that real Americans are nothing like the wingnuts and that we despise them as much as they do.

The wingnuts really can't comprehend how badly they are despised throughout the nation and the entire world - even most those that are 'wingnuts' in their own countries despise American wingnuts ... there are a few that are on par with their American wingnut brethren though, but few - ISIL for example.
Wingnut hate is loosing and always will.
Of course, as we all know the wingnuts deny their hate and accuse everyone else of it in classic transference ... they do this in everything.

Speaking of wingnuts: the wingnut trolls that have attempted to pollute this blog have been for the most part eradicated - most or either in jail or awaiting sentencing for various crimes from drug and human trafficking to pedophilia and murder ... all were caught by law enforcement after we reported their trolling activities here. For those few trolls who have not yet been contacted by the authorities, be patient, they are coming for you.

We would like to give a shout out to Miss Ashley Judd who gave us the idea of reporting the trolls to the authorities and bypassing Blogger all together when she did the same to the trolls infesting her site because reporting them to Blogger is a waste of time.
However reporting them directly to law enforcement gets results (and it just so happens that the trolls trying to infest here were into all manner of anti-social criminal behaviors not just anti-social hate trolling ... something that while does not hold true in ALL trolling cases it does in the overwhelmingly vast majority of them).

One would think that those engaging in felonious activities would be more circumspect and not attempt to troll and be reported - but intelligence has never been a strong suit of trolls and felons.

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Bernie Don’t Play That

Bernie Sanders put on a clinic and completely stonewalled ABC’s News Jon Karl when he tried to get the Democratic candidate to personally attack Hillary Clinton.

Transcript via ABC’s This Week:

KARL: Hey, we are out of time. I want a yes or no answer to one quick question. Hillary Clinton’s poll suggest a lot of people don’t see her as honest and trustworthy. Do you think Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy?

SANDERS: I have a lot of respect for Hillary Clinton. She is somebody I’ve known for 25 years. I’m not going to be engaging in personal attacks against her.

KARL: So you won’t say whether or not she’s honest.

SANDERS: I’m not going to be engaging in personal attacks against her. She and I disagree on many issues. The American people want a serious debate about serious issues, not personal attacks.

KARL: All right, Senator Sanders, thank you very much for joining us.

Whether one supports Bernie Sanders or not, the Senator from Vermont deserves respect for the way that he has conducted his campaign. The media would love nothing more than for Sanders to personally attack Clinton. The corporate media in the United States has convinced themselves that the American people are too stupid to enjoy a debate about issues, so they spend their time trying to goad candidates into personally attacking each other.

Sanders is the only candidate who has not taken the bait. He understands that personally attacking Hillary Clinton would take the focus off of the issues that matter. Plus, one of the reasons why Senator Sanders has attracted such a dedicated following is that he is a different kind of candidate. There is a something dignified about a candidate who refuses to dwell in the sewer of modern American politics.

The contrast between the Democratic and Republican primaries is striking. On the Republican side, rnc chairwhimp Priebus is practically begging his candidates to stop attacking each other, but with Trump sitting at the top of the polls, the Republican primary has become a mudslinging contest.

While the Republicans are doing everything in their power to avoid discussing issues, Democrats are having an issue-driven debate among their candidates that is already sharpening up their vision of what the post-Obama Democratic agenda will look like.

Bernie Sanders isn’t going to be bullied by the corporate media. He knows exactly what the press wants, and he is refusing to give it to them. Whether the media likes it or not, Democrats are going to have a spirited primary centered around the issues.

Save the circus and childish behavior for the Republicans. Democrats are busy plotting a path to a prosperous future for the middle-class.

Bernie Sanders Lobs A Crippling Blow At The Kochs With Bill To Publicly Fund Elections

During a campaign event in New Hampshire, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he will be filing a bill that would effectively cripple the Kochs and wingnut billionaires by providing public funding for elections.

According to the Sanders campaign:

Decrying the influence of big money in American politics, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he will introduce legislation to provide public funding of elections. “We’re going to introduce legislation which will allow people to run for office without having to beg money from the wealthy and the powerful,” Sanders said.

He called the current campaign finance system a “sad state of affairs.” Public funding, he added, would level the political playing field and make elections more competitive. It also would let candidates spend more time meeting voters and discussing issues and less time raising campaign funds. “That’s called democracy and I am going to do everything I can to bring that about,” Sanders said.

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Public funding of campaigns would counteract the disastrous Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Citizens United. That 2010 case and others which followed in its wake have gutted decades-old limits on campaign funding and paved the way for millionaires and billionaires to spend unlimited sums to influence election outcomes. “We must overturn that decision before it’s too late,” Sanders told the crowd here. “We are increasingly living in an oligarchy where big money is buying politicians,” Sanders added.

A law that would provide for public funding of elections would even the playing field and neutralize the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. Because the potential legislation would not mandate public funding or limit donations, the wingnuts on the Supreme Court would be powerless to stop the law.

What Sanders is proposing would cripple the influence of the billionaires because candidates would not have to suck up to the wealthy to fund their campaigns.

The epidemic of billionaire dollars has reached an absurd extreme as Politico recently reported, “The 67 biggest donors, each of whom gave $1 million or more, donated more than three times as much as the 508,000 smallest donors combined, according to a POLITICO analysis of reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and the Internal Revenue Service.”

The reason the American people have a Congress that ignores their priorities is because the men and women who are supposed to serve The People feel more beholden to their wealthy donors than their constituents. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is out to change all of that.

The Sanders bill won’t get sixty votes in the Senate, but the point of the legislation is to raise awareness of the issue while giving Americans a bill to rally around. Bernie Sanders is building an army to take down the Kochs, and his bill is a shot across the bow at the oligarchs.

Trump Says Americans Won’t Vote For Another Black President Because Obama Was So Bad

Trump also said he would win the black vote.
The Delusion is strong in this one Obiwan

Trump Falls Apart When Called Out On His Racism Towards African-Americans

Trump fell apart when questioned about his racism towards African-Americans on ABC’s This Week.

Transcript via ABC’s This Week:

KARL: So let me ask you about something you tweeted last year. You said of Barack Obama, “Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations.”

What did you mean by that?

TRUMP: Well, I think he’s been a very poor president. I think he has done a very poor job as president. We have $18 trillion right now in debt and going up rapidly.

KARL: But what did you mean? What —

TRUMP: Wait a minute.

The world is — we don’t have victories anymore. China is killing us on trade. Mexico’s killing us at the border and also killing us on trade. Mexico’s doing unbelievably against us in trade.

You look at what’s going on with Japan. You look at what’s going on with Vietnam. You look at Saudi Arabia, makes $1 billion a day and we defend them. We get nothing.

KARL: I understand your critique. But why do you say that means we won’t see another black president for generations?

TRUMP: Because I think that he has set a very poor standard. I think that he has set a very low bar and I think it’s a shame for the African American people.

And by the way, he has done nothing for African Americans. You look at what’s gone on with their income levels. You look at what’s gone on with their youth. I thought that he would be a great cheerleader for this country. I thought he’d do a fabulous job for the African American citizens of this country.

He has done nothing. They are worse now than just about ever and —

KARL: But —

TRUMP: — they are — excuse me. They have problems now in terms of unemployment numbers, look at their unemployment numbers. And you have — here you have a black president who’s done very poorly for the African-Americans of this country.

And I think that I will win the African-American vote, and I think I will win the Hispanic vote. And if you see the recent polls that came out, Jon, you’ll see that because I’m leading in the Hispanic vote.

Trump’s claim was that since Obama has been a “bad” president, no African-American will be able to win the White House for generations. When Jon Karl pressed him on what he meant by there won’t be another African-American president for generations, Trump broke into his billionaire bluster and claimed that African-Americans and Hispanics will vote for him.

The contradiction in Trump’s claim was an inference that African-Americans voted for Obama because he is black, but they are going to turn to the rich white man to “rescue” them in 2016. Trump was called out on his racist beliefs, and instead of admitting his racism, he fell apart and retreated to his usual empty tough talk.

When even Jon “Benghazi emails” Karl is calling out Trump’s racism, the writing is on the wall.

However, racism is what has made Trump so popular with Republican voters. Don’t expect Trump to apologize or change because without the racism, he is just another unqualified Republican candidate.