Bristol Palin urged her 'followers' not to
fall for the controversy over Starbucks’ holiday cups because it was “an
attempt by the LEFT to make 'christians' look stupid.”
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Gohmert - Not Saying Obama Made Up Climate Change Hoax, He’s Just Askin’
In Texas, every schoolboy learns, apparently, that he can say anything,
no matter how crazy it sounds, so long as he's just askin' what
everyone's a-thinkin', is all. Don't you dare accuse Republican lunatic moron Gohmert...
Wingnut Candidates Not Good Enough For Koch Money–‘No plans To Support Anybody In The Primary’
This is “yooooooge!” 7 Examples Of Republican Pretender Candidates Screwing Over Veterans
These candidates want to be the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, but they can’t manage to support laws to help veterans?Organizers seat woman behind Trump ‘because she’s black’ — so she silently protests by reading her book
Republican Pretender Candidates Pave A Path To Defeat By Courting Lunatic Fringe Extremist Wingnuts
Most of the Republican delegates chosen by March 8th, will come from
states where the majority of wingnut voters are white evangelicals.…
On Friday November 7th, three of the Republican pretender
candidates appeared at a National 'Religious Liberties' Conference in Des
Moines, Iowa. The event was hosted by moronic pastor
Swanson, a hatemonger who openly advocates the death penalty for gays,
because according to his interpretation of the bible, homosexuals are to
be executed. Cruz, Jindal
and Huckabee attended the event.While Cruz, Jindal and Huckabee did not themselves say they approved of murdering gay people for the “sin of homosexuality”, they did nothing to distance themselves from Swanson’s inflammatory comments. All three of them are battling for the support of white evangelical 'christian' voters in the Republican caucuses and primaries.
Their support for Swanson demonstrates that Cruz, Jindal and Huckabee are three of the weakest, most spineless candidates to ever run for pretender. They are too timid to say killing gay people is not acceptable, because, by dog, they want hateful white evangelical 'christian' bigots to vote for them in Iowa, South Carolina and a bunch of other states that vote early on the Republican calendar.
The three men are clear profiles in cowardice. However, from a strictly Machiavellian point of view, they may be doing exactly what they need to do, in order to perform well in the early contests. An analysis by Geoffrey Skelley, at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball site, explains why pandering to White fundamentalists might be smart politics. White evangelicals dominate the early Republican calendar.
In fact, just under 64 percent of the Republican delegates chosen on or before March 8th, will come from states where the majority of wingnut voters identify as white evangelical Christians. Because of their disproportionate influence in early states like Iowa, South Carolina, and seven Southern states that vote on March 1st in the “SEC primary”, white born-again Christians could have a tremendous say in which candidates remain viable by mid-March.
Not all white evangelicals are homophobic bigots or cultural reactionaries. However, enough of them are, so that Republican politicians have no reason to fear they will be punished at the polls for catering to religious extremists on the fundamentalist fringe. The wingnut base in many of the early contests is overrun with white 'christian' fundamentalists, and Republicans trying to scratch and claw their way into the White House seem to think challenging religious bigots over their self-righteous hatred towards others is not smart politics. So rather than standing on principle for loving one’s neighbors and not judging others, the wingnut politicians will take photo-ops with pastors who support executing homosexuals, because it just might earn them some votes.
Yes, Fiorina’s three page tax code exists … kinda
She didn’t lie, but she also didn’t tell the whole truth.
Jon Stewart roasts Trump at veterans’ benefit show
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Jon Stewart Shows Trump And His Fans What They Sound Like To Everyone Else
Everything Trump says sounds like a drunk tweet.
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Carson’s ‘Very Closest’ Friend And Business Partner Is Health Care Fraudster
A man identified by Carson as his “very closest” friend and business partner has been convicted of health care fraud.Carson’s campaign doubles down on claim that China has a military presence in Syria
And they did so using two different explanations for the claim.
Friday, November 13, 2015
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Racist Facebook Rage Descends Upon President Obama As He Debuts His New Page
As predicted, the hate rolls in…
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Anyone Who Calls Obamacare a Job Killer is “Either Ignorant of or Not Interested in the Facts”
It's tough to find a Republican who is not pushing outright
falsehoods about Obamacare. They are either ignorant of or not
interested in the facts.…
We mention this today because you heard a lot about repealing Obamacare during the last Republican 'debat'e, and not much of it will be anchored in facts or truth. It’s tough to find a Republican who is not pushing outright falsehoods about Obamacare. Cruz has been falsely claiming for years that Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in America. Jeb has said, “You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.” Jindal has pushed the myth that Obamacare kills jobs, “Why not delay all of the mandates in Obamacare [which] has become such a job killer in our economy.”
Both writers are from the the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. They went over the latest job numbers and they agree with previous studies; Obamacare is not a job killer. Not only is Obamacare reducing the number of uninsured as intended, but it is also not a job killer. Sorry Republicans.
A few points to remember from the Washington Post:
Strong health-care employment growth shouldn’t surprise anyone. Demand for labor is derived from the demand for the goods and services that people want and need. Thus, we’d expect the expansion of health coverage to boost jobs in that sector — in addition to driving historically large reductions in the number of Americans without health coverage, saving states money and slowing growth in health-care costs.But but…Obama is just subsidizing jobs in healthcare with rich people’s money! Nope, not that either:
Yet House Republicans are still trying to repeal parts of the law, claiming that “many of the key elements of Obamacare [are] harming individuals and families [and] hurting job creation.” Fox News hack O’Reilly maintains that, “While some of the poor benefit, other Americans are punished because the job market is smaller.” Some presidential candidates agree: Jeb calls the ACA “the president’s job-destroying health-care law” and Cruz’s site asserts that “Obamacare is causing millions to lose their jobs.” Cruz and Rubio aren’t even content to repeal parts of the law — they want to repeal the entire thing.
Even if we’re generous here and assume that those shouting “job killer” mean that the gains in the health-care sector are coming at the expense of the rest of the job market, there’s no evidence to support that claim, either.“Well,” injured Republicans will huff, “Obamacare is certainly turning America into a part-time nation!” We’ve addressed this in the past when it was also found to be untrue, but as a reminder:
Nor is there any evidence that Obamacare is causing a shift from full-time to part-time jobs — the number of involuntary part-time workers is actually down since 2013 (and as Dean Baker notes, the evidence that the ACA’s premium subsidies may be encouraging voluntary part-time work is a good thing), while full-time employment has been steadily rising. Again, steady job growth is surely a function of the broad employment recovery, not health reform, but it is yet another trend going the wrong way for the critics.Discussing September’s job numbers, Jason Fuhrman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted, “Full-time jobs more than fully account for all job gains since early ’10, with part-time jobs holding steady.”
In reality, Obama is setting records for job growth. The October jobs report showed that President Obama has overseen 68 consecutive months of private sector job growth. That’s 13.5 million private sector jobs over 68 straight months. He has also overseen the strongest three years for overall job creation (even with the Republican sequester impacting the public sector) since 2000.
Political Polls Less Accurate Than Ever
The fracturing of modern communication methods has made the standard political poll almost worthless. Polls conducted by landline phone tend to skew toward older, more conservative voters. Internet polls tend to skew toward younger, more liberal voters. And it’s harder than ever to get anyone to participate at all.
The modern public-opinion poll has been around since the Great Depression, when the response rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of those who were asked—was more than ninety. The participation rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of the population—is far lower. Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portion of the electorate, not uncommonly something on the order of a couple of thousand people out of the more than two hundred million Americans who are eligible to vote. The promise of this work is that the sample is exquisitely representative. But the lower the response rate the harder and more expensive it becomes to realize that promise, which requires both calling many more people and trying to correct for “non-response bias” by giving greater weight to the answers of people from demographic groups that are less likely to respond. Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal has recalled how, in the nineteen-eighties, when the response rate at the firm where he was working had fallen to about sixty per cent, people in his office said, “What will happen when it’s only twenty? We won’t be able to be in business!” A typical response rate is now in the single digits.There are real-world consequences to political polls, no matter how inaccurate. For example, only the top-polling Republican candidates take part in the televised debates during prime time. And even worse, politicians use polls to determine what issues American voters care about and what they think the government should do about them. The New Yorker explains the problems with polling and had some examples of elections that number crunchers failed to predict.
‘Voting Machines Are Fucked’
‘Voting Machines Are Fucked’: The Daily Show Explains Major Flaw In American Elections
This is definitely something every American voter who cares about the integrity of the electoral process needs to see.
New Hampshire Republican Proves Republican Cabal Correct About Voter Fraud By Committing It
Yet another Republican was busted demonstrating his cabal’s expertise in voter fraud.
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Bristol Palin: Starbucks cups ‘are an attempt by the left to make 'christians' look stupid’
Ah, no ... they do such a bang-up job of it themselves they need no assistance from we sane normal people.
13 things everyone would know if we really had a ‘liberal’ media
If we have a “liberal media,” where are the liberal stories?
Neil deGrasse Tyson infuriates wingnuts by pointing out simple gun violence statistics
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5 Republican governors who trashed their states in the name of wingnuttery
Bernie Sanders Responds To The Clown Car’s Minimum Wage Debate Garbage, And It’s Awesome
Bernie Sanders wasted no time tweeting his position as the Republican cabal candidates advocated for continuing the pandemic of poverty in America.
Trump Calls U.S. Wages Too High
Surprise, surprise. Trump wants a race to the bottom on wages just like the rest of the Republican pretender candidates.
Cruz Just Declared 'War' On Atheists, In The Campiest Way Possible
He really didn’t think this sentence through.
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Rachel Maddow BLASTS The Wingnut Candidates Who OPENLY Support ‘Kill The Gays’
Three Republican pretender candidates attended a “kill the gays”
rally this past weekend, and Rachel Maddow just beautifully TORE THEM
APART. Maddow Calls Out Wingnuts For 'Kill-The-Gays Rally' Appearance
As the three Democratic
presidential candidates were attending a South Carolina candidate forum
hosted by Rachel Maddow on Friday, three Republicans running for
pretender were at a conference organized by a radical right-wing pastor
who has defended the death penalty for homosexuality. MORE
Jeb Caught Bragging About His Disastrous Legacy On Education
Here’s something to keep in mind.
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Jeb Wants To Get Rid Of ALL Obama Progress, Go Back To His Brother’s Failed Policies
Stephen Colbert’s Utter Destruction Of What Little Cred Carson Had Left Is Magical
It didn’t seem possible to make Carson look any more ridiculous until Colbert took a whack at it. Wow!
Another Weird Carson Story: Did He Refuse A DNA Test In A ‘Blackmail’ Paternity Suit?
Carson literally wrote an op-ed where he told people to come clean and be honest. So, what’s with all of his lies?
Carson: 'People Who Know Me Know That I'm An Honest Person'
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