Anti-Immigration Religio-Wingnut Sheriff Joe Arpaio Says Trump is Wrong About Mexicans

When the biggest xenophobe in the country disagrees, you know Trump has lost it.

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Wingnut Voters Are Still Turned On By Trump’s Politics Of Insult And Division

A new CNN poll has Trump soaring to his highest numbers yet, as wingnut voters continue to embrace his politics of division and derision. …

A CNN/ORC poll released on September 10th, shows Trump soaring to new heights in the Republican pretender race. The poll, conducted from September 4-8, found Trump gaining 8 percentage points since August. Trump now leads the Republican cabal field with 32 percent support, followed by Carson at 19 percent and Jeb at just 9 percent support.

Trump’s growing popularity was made possible by huge surges in support from college educated Republicans and from female Republican cabal voters. His campaign built on racist rhetoric and ridiculing others is now not only appealing to male voters and the uneducated, but it is increasingly capturing the hearts and minds of educated Republicans and female Republican cabal voters as well.

In the August poll, Trump had the support of 16 percent of college graduates. In the September poll that number had risen to 28 percent. His standing with female voters rose from 20 percent to 33 percent over the same one month time period.

With Trump essentially winning across every significant Republican demographic, pundits are dumbfounded in trying to explain his popularity. None dare point out the obvious. Republican voters, by and large, support Trump’s loud mouthed bigotry and his unapologetic sexism. As unflattering as that conclusion may be, it is clearly demonstrated by Republican cabal voters continuing to flock to Trump as their first choice for pretender.

Trump’s latest controversial comments where he blatantly ridiculed Fiorina’s physical appearance are being rightfully criticized by journalists and fellow Republican cabal candidates alike. However, it is not likely to cost him votes. Since Trump’s insinuation that Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions because she was menstruating, helped him rise in the polls after the first Republican cabal 'debate', there is little reason to suspect he will suffer any fallout for him comments about Fiorina’s face. Mean-spirited Republican cabal voters after all, seem more interested in egging Trump on, than in penalizing him for his crude sexist remarks.

As long as Republican voters continue to reward Trump for being an obnoxious bully, he has no reason to stop hurling insults and zero incentive to dial down his inflammatory rhetoric. Journalists can criticize Trump all they want, but he is a symptom rather than the cause of the problem. He continues to perform well in the Republican polls, because Republican voters, male and female, educated and uneducated, seem to share his arrogant, simplistic and bigoted world view.

O’Reilly begs the Republican cabal field to be as ideologically excitable and politically incorrect as Trump

O’Reilly begs the Republican cabal field to be as ideologically excitable and politically incorrect as Trump

"The Trump-factor is obliterating standard campaign messaging and rhetoric," he said, so they need to up their game

Bachmann Says Bombing Iran Would Be An Act Of Peace

From a Deranged and Diseased Mind:

Bad pennies and wingnuts both have a way of turning up, again and again.

Bachmann Says Bombing Iran Would Be An Act Of Peace

Wingnut Utopia

Hungary Announces Plans To Prosecute Syrian Refugee Children

This is one of the most vile things you will ever read.

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People Are ‘Doing Too Good With Food Stamps, Social Security’

Lunatic Republican McConnell thinks people are “doing too good with food stamps” and other social programs.

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Scott Fucks Over Florida’s Working Poor Again By Creating Commission Led By Corrupt Wingnut

There are not enough facepalms for this one.
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Kentucky Is Obamacare’s Undeniable Success Story

This Moron Is Trying To Burn It All Down.

Mississippi’s Indefensible Campaign To Save Its Uniquely Anti-Gay Law

Mississippi wants to deny same-sex couples their constitutional right to raise children.

Louisiana Wants Your Eye Doctor To Take The Place Of Planned Parenthood

In Louisiana, Rand Paul could be giving pap smears. 

That’s frightening.

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9-year-long cult vs strip club war continues as pastor sues over topless protesters

9-year-long cult vs strip club war continues as pastor sues over topless protesters

The war between New Beginnings and the Foxhole began nine years ago when cult members protested outside the club, taking down patron’s license plate numbers and imploring them to repent.

St. Louis man jailed for minor traffic violations left comatose after officers blocked paramedics

St. Louis man jailed for minor traffic violations left comatose after officers blocked paramedics

A St. Louis jail inmate who was being held on minor traffic violations is lucky to be alive after jailers refused to release him to paramedics who wanted to take him to the hospital.

Huckabee: Gay Marriage Ruling Is 'Illegal' Because It Confuses People

As Steve Benen noted after Huckabee claimed that the Dred Scott decision is still the “law of the land” and is just being ignored by elected officials, when it comes to the implementation of marriage equality, the lunatic fringe pretender candidate has invented “his own bra... MORE

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Bernie Sanders: Wall Street will pay taxes for speculation, ‘whether they like it or not’

Bernie Sanders Says Campaign Will Expand Beyond Early States

Bernie Sanders says his campaign will look beyond the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire and place resources in states that will vote on Super Tuesday.

Bernie Sanders Explain How Trump Is Using Racism To Get The Republican Cabal Votes

“I am sad to say that in the year 2015, people like Trump are using racism as a way to attract votes.”

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One Statistic Reveals Why The Rest Of Us Think Republicans Are Crazy

A new CNN/ORC poll summed up why many non-Republicans think that the Republican cabal has gone insane. Close to half of all Republicans, and 54% percent of Trump supporters still believe that President Obama is a muslim.

Via CNN:

Among all adults, 39% say they believe Obama is a protestant or other christian, 4% think he’s catholic, 2% mormon, 1% jewish and 1% something else. Another 11% say he’s not religious, and 14% that they just don’t know. There’s a wide education gap here, with most college grads believing Obama is a protestant (63%) compared with just 28% of those who do not have college degrees.

The partisan divide is nearly as large, with 61% of Democrats saying Obama is a protestant, vs. 32% of independents and 28% of Republicans. But the 43% of Republicans and 54% of Trump supporters who say they believe Obama is a muslim is a smaller share than in other recent polling which asked only whether Obama is a christian or a muslim.

When the argument from the pollster is, “Republicans aren’t quite as crazy as we first thought,” things are bad.

It has been seven years, and almost half of the Republican cabal still refuses to believe that President Obama is a christian. The Republican answer to this question is why most Americans who aren’t Republicans think the Republican cabal is insane. The rest of the country gets that Obama is a christian, but many Republicans refuse to embrace reality and join the rest of us.

It is also not a coincidence that the majority of the residents of Republican crazy town support Trump. The mainstream media talking point to describe the rise Trump and Carson is that Republicans don’t want experienced politicians as candidates.

No. A sizable number of Republican voters are bat shit crazy. That’s the real explanation for what is going on. The Republican refusal to join reality in reflected in their polling. Trump and Carson represent the strain of insanity that has taken over the Republican cabal.

The media needs to stop treating Republicans like sane people, and instead accept that the lunatics are running the Republican asylum.

43% Of Republicans Say They Support A Military Overthrow Of The U.S. Government

Republicans are Traitors, pure and simple

We live in very strange times.

Government Shutdown Looms As House “Freedom Caucus” Ignores Boehner and Obeys Cruz

The Republican war on woman reached a new low with House Republicans led by government shutdown ringleader Cruz threatening to shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood is defunded.

The prospect of a shutdown increases each day as Boehner continues to prove as incapable of leading his caucus as he was the last time Republican extremists engineered a government shutdown.

In 2013, Cruz led off the rails ideologues forcing a shutdown because Cruz and his followers don’t believe the government should pay its bills. This time, they are holding the government hostage in an effort to destroy women’s access to healthcare. It’s the war on women all over again – this time in an effort to destroy the country’s biggest reproductive healthcare provider.

The common element in both cases is we have ideologues pushing a government shutdown over a policy objective that will never pass. Even if the House tries to defund Planned Parenthood, there is zero chance of success. The Senate won’t pass it and President Obama will veto any budget that attempts to defund it. Still Cruz and his followers march on pandering to evangelical lunatics and, perhaps, garnering some free publicity for Cruz’s failing pretender campaign.

Combine Cruz’s lust for publicity to breath air into his campaign and Boehner’s incompetence as Speaker, and it means the House doesn’t have enough votes to pass a budget that has funding for Planned Parenthood in it.

The Orwellian sounding “Freedom Caucus” is another player behind Cruz and his attempt to defund Planned Parenthood’s reproductive health services by way of threatening a government shutdown. Led by Jim Jordan (R-OH), The “Freedom Caucus” is also behind efforts to remove Boehner as Speaker. So the fact that they ignore Boehner and obey Cruz comes as no surprise.

They’re milking a severely edited propaganda video for all its worth. The video was produced by David Daleiden, a Republican cabal hack, who probably learned his Goebbels level propaganda techniques from fellow video fraudster and friend, James O’Keefe. Because of the editing involved, it appeared that Planned Parenthood was selling “baby parts” for profit – an illegal practice. Facts never matter when you are waging war on women’s health and using the increasing prospect of a government shutdown to make it happen.

As noted by the Boston Globe, the unedited version of this video makes crystal clear,

There is nothing illegal about what some Planned Parenthood facilities do: provide fetal organs, donated by consenting patients, to medical researchers, while charging a nominal fee that covers the cost of storage and delivery.

Once again, there is nothing illegal about this. Planned Parenthood is not selling “baby parts” nor is it making a profit from the legal practice of providing fetal organs, donated by consenting patients.

Despite the facts, House Judiciary Chair. Bob Goodlatte, said he won’t vote for a budget that includes funding for Planned Parenthood even if it means a government shutdown. During an interview with The Hill, Goodlatte admitted that he is a “long-time opponent of funding for Planned Parenthood.” In other words the doctored Daleiden video is a ruse that Goodlatte latched on to in the name of defunding the largest provider of reproductive health services.

Planned Parenthood receives government funding under Title X, a program that provides low income women with access to family planning services, excluding abortion. The funds it receives under Medicaid allows payment for abortion subject to Hyde Amendment restrictions. In other words, Planned Parenthood is already complying with the same restrictions that apply to any healthcare provider that receives Medicaid payments.

When you consider that 97% of Planned Parenthood provided services are cancer screenings, contraception and tests and treatment of sexually transmitted services, the fact is Republicans are waging war on reproductive health services for women, especially women living on low incomes. These are services that save lives and reduce healthcare costs. Take them away and lives will be lost and healthcare costs will increase. Cruz and his off the rails ideologues in the House are willing to shut the government down in the name of holding women’s health hostage.

Cruz is one of the 3 Republican pretender candidates on record to support defunding Planned Parenthood. Paul and Huckabee are the others. Cruz also held “shutdown strategy talks” with Congressional wingnuts a few days ago.

This time, off the rails ideologues are holding the U.S. government at gunpoint in the name of taking cancer screenings, birth control and treatment for STD’s away from women. The war on women continues.