Neil deGrasse Tyson infuriates wingnuts by pointing out simple gun violence statistics

Neil deGrasse Tyson infuriates wingnuts by pointing out simple gun violence statistics

Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted out a statistic showing that it only took five weeks for household gun deaths to match the number of Americans killed by terrorism since 2001 — and angry gun lovers quickly set out to shoot the messenger.

5 Republican governors who trashed their states in the name of wingnuttery

Here are 5 Republican governors who trashed their states in the name of wingnuttery

Several states in the U.S. currently have Republican governors who came into office on promises of small government and boy, have they delivered.

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.

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Trump Calls U.S. Wages Too High

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.

The Truth Hurts

Cruz Is The Latest Liar In The Biographical Category

The Republican cabal primary process is a test of who can lie best to as many people as possible.

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.

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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

Jeb Wants To Get Rid Of ALL Obama Progress, Go Back To His Brother’s Failed Policies

While at the Republican pretender 'debate' on Tuesday, Jeb declared that he would like to overturn all the progress President Obama has done to reverse...

The Truth Be Told

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!

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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?

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Fox’s Dash Goes Birther Defending Carson

 Dash - the world’s most wooden, least insightful pundit ever – suggested Carson deserves a pass for questions about his autobiography because we should be investigating President Obama’s “sealed records” instead. You know, the ones that are not sealed.

Carson: 'People Who Know Me Know That I'm An Honest Person'

Carson: 'People Who Know Me Know That I'm An Honest Person'

Then nobody knows him because everyone knows he's not an honest person ... we know what he is - he is what we call a liar.

Ben Carson or Ben Ghazi?

Ben Carson or Ben Ghazi? Candidate compares vetting to disparaged Congressional hearings

Republican U.S. pretender candidate Carson, under attack for embellishing key elements of his biography, lashed out at critics during a debate on Tuesday and said he did not like being “lied about.”

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Increasingly The World Sees Republicans As The Greatest Threat To America

It has always been a curiosity that most Americans understand far less about America’s government, its society, and its flaws than most citizens of foreign nations. It is not that foreigners have better access to news coming out of America, they just pay attention to what is happening to a country they at one time thought of as exceptional and at least rational despite its history of war for entertainment and corporate profits. It is no secret that the world’s opinion of America changed drastically after the nation started invading and occupying muslim countries, but the world’s opinion began shifting with the election of Barack Obama.
Obviously President Obama has elevated America’s status and reputation around the world as he attempted, and still continues, to clean up eight years of the shrub junta abominations that drove international disdain for America. But after the past two midterm elections, and the extremist field of candidates for the Republican pretender nomination, people around the world are increasingly convinced that the greatest threat to America is the Republican cabal. It is important to note at the start that although the rest of the world specifically cites Republican politicians by name, they certainly comprehend that those Republicans threatening America are as much the religious and racist base as the politicians serving their interests. This little fact eludes many, many Americans who focus on a personality and not who puts them in the spotlight and position of power and influence; the voters.
An opinion piece in a New Zealand newspaper a few months ago gave particular attention to the extremism being displayed by the Republican cabal pretender candidates and actually cited the support they have from voters. The authors wrote that Republicans “are now essentially a cabal of religious fundamentalism” in citing Cruz’s typically Republican delusional mindset that America’s darkest day was not 9/11, Pearl Harbor, presidential assassinations, or the Civil War. No, according to Cruz and no small number of Republican voters “America’s darkest day was when the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.”
A citizen of Uganda and regular commuter to the United States recently noted that,
“The U.S. Constitution says the government’s responsibility is to provide welfare, security and safety to its population allowing every person the opportunity to live in a dignified manner; Republicans believe otherwise and have created a system that has become a rich man’s plaything.”
A resident of an EU nation remarked that,
“I am completely flabbergasted by what has become of America. In the Republican cabal stupidity is admired and encouraged, intelligence and education are viewed as ‘elitist’, money is their God and fear is their motivator. If more people outside the US continue to speak very loudly about this situation, it might help them turn things around. The hate and fear that Fox (NOT news) promotes helped the Republican Party create and fuel the atmosphere threatening America.
“The takeover of American wingnuttery by evangelical 'christians', Fox News and a handful of shady billionaires transformed Republicans into the cabal of willful ignorance where doctrinal purity is more valued than intelligence, tolerance has been supplanted by persecutory moralizing, and paranoia has replaced realism.”
After living through the shrub years, and well over a decade of wars against muslims, people around the world are astonished, and rightly alarmed, that Republicans and their bloodthirsty base are openly “signaling a frightening abandonment of diplomacy as a means of defusing tension, avoiding conflict and managing international affairs. Instead they remain disposed towards armed intervention despite it has accelerated, not suppressed, Islamic militancy. Something which shouldn’t come as a surprise since persisting with policies that achieve the exact opposite of what was intended is something of an American speciality.”
Citizens of communist China “compared the United States to lawless Somalia” and in Britain a leading newspaper cited the “racism the Republicans promote” as fueling the level and frequency of gun violence. Claire Taylor of Gun Free South Africa said, “The USA is completely out of step with the rest of the world” in promoting the proliferation of guns in an angry, racist, and religiously extreme population. Closer to home, a Mexico City newspaper wrote that “the U.S. has become a structurally violent state where force is frequently used domestically and internationally to resolve differences. Such a phenomenon reflects the feeling of extensive sectors about the supposed legitimacy of violent methods.”
Americans on the left tend to reserve all their outrage and criticism for whichever extremist Republican made the latest outrageous, racist, or offensive statement during an interview or stump speech. However, just the fact that Republican voters are comfortable with “monumentally unqualified extremists in the Oval Office” demonstrates the how twisted the cabal has become; that and that alone is the real existential threat to the nation. It is simple to single out any one, or all, of the Republican cabal pretender candidates as who is most unqualified, most extreme, or most offensive, but that misses the point that it is the base that is inherently extreme, offensive, and unqualified to be regarded as anything other than a serious threat to other Americans and the nation’s well-being.
Any and everything a Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, or Jeb might say or support is precisely what the base demands they say and support. There are some Americans who understand that the Republican cabal and its base are an existential threat to America and they are joined by a substantial number of people from around the world. An Australian opinion writer made an assumption a couple of weeks ago that was only partly correct in saying that “Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America; racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American.” Actually, the Republican base is the Ugly American and the Republican pretender candidates and politicians are simply acting, doing, and saying exactly what the base demands and they are, without question, the greatest threat to America.

Obama Devastates Republicans by Using Reagan To Prove The Success of His Presidency

After the OFA Fall Summit at the St. Regis Hotel in D.C., President Obama crossed the lobby to a restaurant, where according to the pool report, around 55 people were having dinner. Obama gave a few “off-the-cuff” remarks to them, including a real zinger that will devastate Republicans.
“So where are we right now? The economy has improved by every measure,” President Obama said. “The fact of the matter is, is that if you ask the question Ronald Reagan said was the most important thing to ask about a presidency, and that is, ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?'”
“You are,” the President said. “We’ve made great strides on health care. We’ve made strides in education and access to college. We’ve made serious strides in clean energy. You know the statistics.”
During the Summit, Obama talked about his accomplishments, mentioning the most recent jobs report as evidence of some of the progress made. The October jobs report showed, “Businesses added 268,000 jobs in October, making it the 68th consecutive month of private sector job growth. That’s 13.5 million private sector jobs over 68 straight months. Unemployment rate ticked down, wages grew, and overall the economy added 271,000 jobs in October — which makes the last three years the strongest years for job creation since… oh, 2000.”
President Obama isn’t just talking to make his supporters feel good. The President is making sure that the people hear about the good economy that he has overseen, since we don’t hear a lot about those things. Republicans are still pretending as if these positive things haven’t happened, and President Obama is making sure that during the next election, Republicans are held accountable for claiming they will “fix” the economy that they inaccurately claim Obama broke.
Reagan said to judge a president by asking if you are better off now than you were when they took office. President Obama is in an excellent position to borrow that question and use it to highlight his successes. Republicans still worship Reagan and each 2016 candidate is trying their best to show that they are the next Reagan, so this no doubt breaks their heart.