Sunday, August 23, 2015
Wingnuts Scared Michelle Obama Will Run in 2016: ‘Burn Down The White House’
Wingnuts have decided that “gorilla” and “tranny” Michelle Obama
is going to run for President — and they’re ready to “burn down the
White House” if she is elected!
Final Nail In The Coffin For Republican Cabal 'Autopsy' Report ...
As Republicans Rally Around Trump's Anti-Immigration Plan
Remember the republican cabal autopsy
report, the document the republican national coven commissioned
following the cabal’s pummeling in the 2012 elections? It may be hard to
remember since the report, which called for the cabal to remake its
image but supported no substantive changes in public policy,... MORE
Wingnut Hate Speech Radio Hack: Let’s Use Hispanic Slaves To Build Southern Border Wall
Nearly every Republican candidate has been on his show. Not one has condemned his comments.Hillary Clinton Obliterates Jeb For His Defense Of Hateful “Anchor Babies” Slur
The Hillary Clinton campaign came down hard on Jeb after the Republican defended the use of the slur “anchor babies.”
Hillary For America Latino Outreach Director, Lorella Praeli, pulled no punches in a statement:
During a press conference Jeb tried
to outdo Trump and other Republican pretender candidates by
doubling down on the hateful term ‘anchor baby’ when referring to the
U.S. born children of immigrants.
It’s a disgrace to see these candidates attack a
group of American citizens who not only have the same rights as
everybody else in this country but also represent the very values this
country was built on.
If Republicans continue to wonder how to
label these children, Hillary has already made it clear to them: They
are not ‘anchor babies.’ They are babies. They are our neighbors. They
are our families. They are part of our communities. They are American
citizens. Period.
Jeb was asked by reporters if he regretted using the term anchor babies during a recent radio interview, and he snapped at the reporter, “You give me a better term and I’ll use it.”
Jeb knew that the term was offensive because as co-chair of the Hispanic Leadership Network, he signed off on a memo that warned wingnuts that the term anchor baby could be viewed as offensive.
The biggest indicator that anchor baby is an
offensive slur is that Latinos have reacted to Bush’s comments with
outrage. Rep. Linda Sanchez, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
said, “From the depths of my heart, I look at someone like Jeb,
who really should know better and that all I can think of is the Spanish
term, sirvengüenza, which means somebody who is completely without
shame to attack children this way.”
The Clinton campaign was correct. Jeb’s use of
the slur was a disgraceful bit of shameless political pandering in a
desperate attempt to out do Trump’s racism. Jeb was trying
to reassure Republican voters that he is a racist bigot too.
The people that Jeb, Trump, and their fellow
Republicans are demonizing are children. Innocent children who did not
get to choose where they were born. These kids are also legal citizens
of the United States of America. Republican cruelty to children is the Republican cabal’s new family value.
Republicans
can resist. They are giving in to their racist impulses and throwing
away any chance that they once had of winning in 2016. The only anchor
that Republicans should be talking about is the anchor of racism that is
sinking their cabal.
Jindal's 'Anchor Baby' Double Standard
Jindal's mother moved to America
already three months pregnant, but he still said he was happy to use the
term anchor baby in the current debate about birthright citizenship.
Your Weekly Guide To The Wingnutosphere
Here are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this past week.
Kiddie Time at the Republican cabal 2016
Hot hate for Fiorina, Weiner's wiener hacking, politicizing rape, and Ann Coulter charging Trump for use of her rump oh my!…
Why The Wingnuts’ #AllLivesMatter Is Complete Bull Shit
When you take into account their positions on the death penalty, the
wars they’ve championed, and their desire to take away healthcare, they
don’t really believe All Lives Matter.
They Can't Get A Room ...
'Christian' Pastor Out On Bond For Child Sexual Abuse, Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse
This guy’s family members and supporters literally have to be seen to be believed.
Read more
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For The Third Time, David Barton Falsely Claims Obama Administration Won't Prosecute Child Pornography
As
we have noted several
times before, David Barton is not about to stop repeating one of his
shrieking points merely because it happens to be demonstrably false, and
other day he provided more evidence that he simply does not seem to
care
about the truth of the things that he says.
Since 2011, we have he... MORE
Saturday, August 22, 2015
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Consumer watchdog agency gets $14 million in refunds from the banksters
The Consumer Financial Protect Bureau caught another bank cheating its
customers and again has secured millions in refunds to said customers.
This time it's Citizens Bank skimming off the top of customers'
deposits.Citizens Bank agreed to refund at least $14 million and pay $20.5
million in fines for shortchanging customers who made mistakes on their
deposit slips, federal regulators said Wednesday.
The bank engaged in “shoddy practices that deprived consumers of money that was rightfully theirs,” said Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
From January 2008 to September 2012, Citizens Bank investigated and fixed errors only if the discrepancy was more than $50. From October 2012 to November 2013, the bank lowered that threshold to $25.
The failure to fix errors violated the bank’s own promise in account disclosures to verify deposits, Cordray said.
About $11 million will be refunded to individual account holders, and $3 million to business accounts. In total, more than 475,000 accounts were due refunds not because the bank couldn't do the math to correct deposit errors, but because it refused to if it could make some money off of them. Add another $14 million to the $10.8 billion the agency has secured in its short lifespan for consumers cheated by the financial industry.
That will only make all the Republican presidential candidates, as Charlie Pierce points out, even more committed to getting rid of the CFPB. Because how will the almighty market work if the banksters can't game it?
The bank engaged in “shoddy practices that deprived consumers of money that was rightfully theirs,” said Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
From January 2008 to September 2012, Citizens Bank investigated and fixed errors only if the discrepancy was more than $50. From October 2012 to November 2013, the bank lowered that threshold to $25.
The failure to fix errors violated the bank’s own promise in account disclosures to verify deposits, Cordray said.
About $11 million will be refunded to individual account holders, and $3 million to business accounts. In total, more than 475,000 accounts were due refunds not because the bank couldn't do the math to correct deposit errors, but because it refused to if it could make some money off of them. Add another $14 million to the $10.8 billion the agency has secured in its short lifespan for consumers cheated by the financial industry.
That will only make all the Republican presidential candidates, as Charlie Pierce points out, even more committed to getting rid of the CFPB. Because how will the almighty market work if the banksters can't game it?
With Scholar's Killing, ISIL Steps Up War On History
ISIL - The Republicans of the Middle East seeking to rewrite history just like their US Republican brothers are.
Bernie Sanders Urges Unions To Stand Up And Use Their Power To Crush The Koch Brothers
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
called on unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat
the Koch brothers during a speech in Nevada.
At the Nevada State AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention, Senator Sanders said:
Today, as a result of the disastrous Citizens
United Supreme Court decision, the Koch brothers, the second wealthiest
family in America, is prepared to spend some $900 million this election
cycle — more than either the Republican cabal or the Democratic Party is
likely to spend.
Why? What do the Koch brothers want? Let me tell you.
The Koch brothers and their billionaire allies don’t
just want to cut Social Security, they want to eliminate Social
Security; they don’t want to just cut Medicare, they want to eliminate
Medicare; they don’t just want to cut healthcare at the VA, they want to
eliminate the Veterans Administration; they don’t want to just cut the
Postal Service, they want to eliminate it; they’re not only opposed to
increasing the minimum wage, they don’t believe in the concept of the
minimum wage; they don’t want to just cut the estate tax, they want to
abolish it.
In other words, the Koch brothers and the
billionaire class want it all. They want to give Americans the “freedom”
to live in poverty working for $3 or $4 an hour without healthcare,
without childcare, without a pension, without the ability to send their
kids to college, and without any hope that their children will have a
higher standard of living than they do.
And they understand that the major obstacle standing in the way of their extreme, right-wing agenda is the trade union movement.
That’s why they have fought so hard to eliminate unions in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and all over this country by ending collective bargaining rights.
That’s why they have fought so hard to eliminate unions in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and all over this country by ending collective bargaining rights.
And, that’s why I believe that we need to create a
political revolution in this country of millions of workers, veterans,
the elderly, the disabled, people of color standing together and telling
the billionaire class that enough is enough! Your greed is destroying
this country. You cannot have it all! You cannot continue to get tax
breaks while children in this country are going hungry.
This country belongs to all of us, not just to a handful of millionaires and billionaires.
Senator Sanders was correct. For the Koch brothers to
be defeated, unions are going to have to flex their muscles. Unions
don’t have the money to match the Kochs, but they have something more
important.
Union members are some of the best organizers in the
country. The Kochs have the dollars, but unions have the ability to get
out the vote.
Ordinary Americans can’t beat the Koch brothers in a
dollar for dollar battle, but they can out vote the billionaires. The
Kochs and other wingnut billionaires were routed in 2012 because
regular Americans went to the polls and voted.
The political revolution that Bernie Sanders is
leading is a movement of the people. Sanders has not only tapped into
the anger of ordinary American.
Senator
Sanders is giving them an avenue for action, and the action that the
Koch brothers fear the most is millions of Americans coming out to vote
on Election Day.
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