that post was directed at Jack because he left out an important part of the post between us....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltU3ms9 ... e=youtu.be
edit...to take out stupid stuff
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by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:38 pm
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by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:24 pm
Woman Who Accused Trump Of Attempted Rape In ‘97 Responds To Leaked Audio
“How can people not believe me now?”
10/11/2016 02:51 pm ET
Jenavieve Hatch
Associate Women’s Editor, The Huffington Post
Jill Harth accused Donald Trump of attempted rape in 1997, four years after she claims he sexually assaulted her.
Last week’s release of Donald Trump’s horrendous conversation with Billy Bush caused an uproar of epic proportions. The audio was particularly infuriating for Jill Harth, the woman who accused Donald Trump of attempted rape in 1997.
Harth, a make-up artist, accused Trump of doing to her what he’s now been caught bragging about doing to women in general ― kissing and groping without permission or consent. Harth told The Guardian in July that her experience with Trump culminated in an attempted rape in January 1993 in one of his children’s bedrooms at his Florida mansion:
He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again and I had to physically say: “What are you doing? Stop it.” It was a shocking thing to have him do this... And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?
RON GALELLA VIA GETTY IMAGES
Donald Trump in New York City in October 1993, just months after he allegedly sexually assaulted make-up artist Jill Harth.
In April of 1997, Harth filed a lawsuit against Trump for attempted rape. The lawsuit spells out the many instances of harassment that Trump put Harth through from December 1992 to early 1993 ― aside from the attempted rape, Harth also alleges that Trump harassed her regularly (even though he was aware of her relationship with another man at the time) by calling her repeatedly, groping her underneath the dining room table during meals, and telling her then-boyfriend, “I’m very attracted to your girlfriend.”
Harth ended up dropping the lawsuit but has stood by her claims of what happened. She told The Guardian in July that Trump’s team has tried to get her to deny any of her previous claims. “His office – and I have it on my voicemails that he called, that they called – they asked me to recant everything when the New York Times article came out. They were trying to get me to say it never happened and I made it up. And I said I’m not doing that,” she said.
Now, since the release of his offensive and terrifying comments wherein he openly brags about sexual assault, Harth has spoken up again. She told Inside Edition that she was “floored” by the release of the tapes.
“This is what I was saying,” Harth said. “He’s saying from his words what he does. How can people not believe me now? How can they not believe me now?”
Just think: if we lived in a world where we believe women who allege sexual assault ― instead of constantly giving powerful men the benefit of the doubt ― then maybe Donald Trump wouldn’t be 28 days away from the White House.
Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wom ... a43035ba97
A pretrial date has been set for the Donald Trump child rape lawsuit
Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff’s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/306274/ ... e-lawsuit/
After Mike Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992, Trump said Tyson was the real victim
http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/1 ... -recording
The Donald Trump underage rape accusation explained
Mr Trump has repeatedly denied the allegation that he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1994
Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 Monday 10 October 2016
The plaintiff alleges Donald Trump 'initiated sexual contact' with her at four different parties when she was 13 and 'forcibly raped' her on the fourth occasion Alex Wong/Getty Images
A judge has ordered a status conference hearing into a lawsuit submitted by a woman who claims Donald Trump raped her when she was 13-years-old in 1994.
Federal Judge Ronnie Abrams has ordered the hearing for 16 December in a New York court. She has asked for both sides to provide information to assist the Court in advancing the case to settlement or trial.
What does the lawsuit allege?
In the lawsuit the plaintiff, identifed by the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleges Mr Trump "initiated sexual contact" with her at four different parties when she was 13.
At the fourth encounter, she alleges he tied her to a bed "then proceeded to forcibly rape" her.
She says she was lured to the parties, held by billionaire-paedophile Jeffrey Epstein - who is also a defendant in the case - "by promises of money and a modeling career".
What is Donald Trump's response?
Mr Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations.
“As I have said before, the allegations are categorically untrue and an obvious publicity stunt aimed at smearing my client,” Alan Garten, Mr Trump’s attorney, told LawNewz.com.
“In the event we are actually served this time, we intend to move for sanctions for this frivolous filing.”
What evidence does the lawsuit present?
In the lawsuit a witness named as Tiffany Doe alleges she saw both Mr Trump and Epstein repeatedly rape the plaintiff.
The plaintiff's third filing of the lawsuit adds a third witness, referred to in court documents as Joan Doe, who says she can corroborate the accusations.
“In the 1994-95 school year, I was told by the plaintiff in Jane Doe v. Trump and Epstein (1:16-cv-04642, SDNY) that the plaintiff was subject to sexual contact by the Defendants at parties in New York City during the summer of 1994,” she said in a declaratoin, according to LawNewz.com.
Have any other sexual assault claims been made against Donald Trump?
Mr Trump's ex-wife Ivana previously accused him of "raping" her during their divorce in 1991 - though she later said it was not in "a literal or criminal sense".
She accused him of rape after he allegedly ripped her clothes off to have sex with her in a "violent assault".
Mr Trump denied the allegation and said it was "obviously false".
Another woman accused Mr Trump of sexual assault and attempted rape in 1997.
Jill Harth, 34, alleged in a federal lawsuit that Mr trump violated her "physical and mental integrity" by touching her intimately without her consent, according to The Guardian.
Ms Harth later voluntarily withdraw the lawsuit when a parallel case brought against Mr Trump by her husband, who had gone into business with him, was settled.
When The Guardian text her to ask whether she still stood by the allegations, she reportedly replied: "Yes."
What is the political significance of the claims?
In the second US presidential debate, Mr Trump raised rape allegations against former president Bill Clinton.
Following the backlash over his obscene comments about women, Mr Trump released a video apology to say: “I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
"I've said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more-than-a-decade-old video are one of them.
"Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise."
He went on to say: “Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 54111.html
by stillrobertpaulsen » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:36 pm
JackRiddler » Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:03 pm wrote:It prevents him from being instantaneously and exponentially more dangerous. It also prevents the even more dangerous Pence presidency, since the Republicans will be able to dump Trump in about six days if the mood hits them.
But the feeling among some here is that Trump should be given a chance! After all, he's never been president, so his kill-numbers really pale compared to Clinton, Bush and Obama. Let's see if a New York sociopath, New Jersey mobster, money launderer, racist, professional misogynist, and open encourager of mob violence, who has the endorsements of the copper unions and the fascists, and who has promised an immediate round-up of 11 million people as well as a move to the Middle East to TAKE THEIR OIL, can tote up the same kill-numbers given the presidency as those guys. (I figure it will take about a year to match Clinton and Obama, two to match Bush. That's an over-under, of course. Place your goddamn bets.)
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by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:40 pm
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by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:31 pm
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Donald Trump, Banana Republican
Posted on October 10, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
“The U.S. officially became the world’s largest banana republic last night during the debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. As viewers watched in disbelief, Trump threatened the former secretary of state, telling her that in a Trump Administration, she’d be going to jail.”
Mr. Sniffles Goes to Washington
The evening began with observers noting that Trump once again had the sniffles; that he was, in fact, sniffling prodigiously.
They offered a variety of explanations.
Trump may have something up his nose. (Children often jam objects such as beans, peas, and peanuts up their noses.) Or Trump may have allergies. Or Trump may be picking his nose too often, or too aggressively. No one, however, offered any explanation for why Trump is never seen sniffling during campaign speeches.
Those who have at some point in their lives may have abused drugs — a description fitting as many Republicans as Democrats — almost unanimously favored a simpler explanation: Trump is snorting something that causes sniffling.
What condition his condition was in
windbagAlmost immediately Trump condemned Clinton’s conduct during the email scandal — which according to the FBI was careless but not illegal — proposing the appointment of a special prosecutor and saying if he became President he would “instruct my Attorney General to get a special prosecutor to look into your(Clinton’s) situation, because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception.”
His words are worth quoting in full, so there should be no mistake:
TRUMP: I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, and I’m going to say it, and hate to say it: If I win, I’m going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception … A very expensive process, so we’re going to get a special prosecutor because people have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you’ve done. And it’s a disgrace, and honestly, you ought to be ashamed.
48 hours after the world heard Donald Trump explain to Billy Bush that when you’re rich and famous you can “grab them by the pussy” with impunity, because they won’t, or can’t, complain, he was telling a woman that she should be ashamed. What do psychiatrists call that? Displacement?
They certainly don’t call it chutzpah. Donald Trump told America in no uncertain terms that he cannot be embarrassed. That he has no shame.
That he is, in short, a sociopath.
Clinton’s replied, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”
To which Trump retorted: ‘Because you’d be in jail.”
And nobody said anything about it. No one said a word.
Really? Really Anderson Cooper? Martha Raddatz?
“Hey Donald! This ain’t Honduras. We don’t do that here.”
Me, I don’t even like Hillary Clinton. I like her running mate even less.
roid2Her campaign was very efficient in stealing enough primaries from Bernie Sanders to make her the Democratic nominee for President. Her “win” will always have an asterisk beside it, like the one next to the home-run record of juiced-up Mark McGwire.
But that’s not important now. Why?
mussolini2Because in front of America last night Donald Trump admitted that — like some tin-horn General with a medal on his uniform for every 1,000 peasants massacred — he badly wanted to use the power of the presidency to forcibly silence critics and opponents. He said it out loud and in front of millions of Americans.
No dog whistles this time. You could not miss his meaning.
No joy in Mudville again
downloadIt is the sort of talk you hear in countries where peaceful transitions of power are as rare as World Series won by the Chicago Cubs.
Like Honduras, which is ironic, because Hillary Clinton is the latest American viceroy tipping the scales against the legitimate aspirations of the Honduran people. The repression unleashed violence that has led Honduras, the original banana republic, to become known as “the most dangerous country on the planet.”
STALKER TRUMP RESISTING URGE TO “GRAB HIM SOME”
Before last night, if I thought about Donald Trump, I’d have described his as ‘cartoonish.’ Not anymore. Donald Trump is America’s worst nightmare. He’s a thug. We can only be grateful that black boots and riding crops are no longer in fashion.
Here’s what I need to say, to every American within earshot: “Hey Donald! This ain’t Honduras. We don’t do that here.”
Ask Il Duce…. This will not end well.
I don’t expect Trump to be interested in any advice but his own.But I hope a simple admonition might get through to him, a phrase he’d heard from lawyers many times as they offer to sue, the phrase which they invariably use to end their letters.
“Conduct yourself accordingly.”
http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/10/10/do ... more-12969
by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:31 pm
Trump declares war on GOP
says ‘the shackles have been taken off’
Donald Trump started attacking members of his own party in a series of tweets Tuesday after many Republicans rescinded their support for the presidential nominee. The Fix's Chris Cillizza weighs in on the unprecedented unraveling of the GOP. (Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz October 11 at 8:26 PM
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
These Republicans are calling for Trump to step down Play Video1:48
In the wake of a new Washington Post report showing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaking in very lewd terms about women in 2005, some Republicans are calling for Trump to step down as nominee. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)
“Disloyal R’s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary,” he wrote for his more than 12 million followers on Twitter, his preferred platform for picking fights. “They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win — I will teach them!”
By backing away from Trump, Ryan and his allies were hoping to insulate themselves and their majorities on Capitol Hill from the baggage weighing down the nominee’s flagging campaign. For many, the breaking point was the 2005 video.
But they are suddenly dealing with another problem: an impulsive and bellicose businessman with an army of loyal supporters willing to exact retribution against elected officials they feel have abandoned them. The rift could have profound ramifications for the Republican Party as a whole, shattering any sense of unity and jeopardizing its chances of holding onto the Senate and even, potentially, the House.
[The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: ‘It’s every person for himself or herself]
Trump’s barbs left some backers unsettled, including Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has been a Trump booster for months and an informal adviser.
“Dr. Carson has been unwavering in his support but the last 24 hours have made that support very difficult to maintain,” Carson adviser Armstrong Williams said in a statement.
Carson said in a brief interview that Trump “would be wise to praise Ryan rather than be at war with him. I keep trying to emphasize to him that the issues are where you win.”
'Shame on you!': Trump supporters heckle Ryan at Wisconsin rally Play Video2:24
A mixture of boos and cheers greeted House Speaker Paul Ryan at a Republican rally in his Wisconsin congressional district. Addressing the "elephant in the room," Speaker Ryan said he stood by the statement he released Oct. 8. (AP)
But many others rallied around Trump, including the Republican National Committee. Its chairman, Reince Priebus, was in close touch all day with Trump advisers and RNC strategist Sean Spicer was at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Mica Mosbacher, a Trump fundraiser and surrogate, said she was invited to a fundraiser next week for Ryan’s joint fundraising committee but is not going to attend or contribute because of the way Ryan has treated him.
“I don’t feel that Ryan is supporting our nominee and being a team player,” said Mosbacher, who is vowing not to give financial backing to Republicans who have crossed Trump.
Diana Orrock, a Republican National Committeewoman from Nevada, said she is not voting for Republicans who pulled their support Trump — including Rep. Joe Heck (Nev.), who is running for a seat that is critical in the battle for the Senate majority.
“I think they have really irritated a lot of Trump supporters,” Orrock said of Heck and Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.), who also rescinded his endorsement.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally, said Trump should “use the enormous power of social media” to mount a pressure campaign on wavering Republicans.
“It’s time for him to send targeted messages to each district and state and have Republican voters ask their candidates: ‘Are you going to help us defeat Hillary Clinton?’ And Trump should make it clear that the side effect of not helping Trump is electing Hillary Clinton.”
Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson tweeted Monday that she could not keep her mobile phone charged “due to the mass volume of texts from people” who plan to vote for Trump but not for other Republicans on the ballot.
[Trump’s truest believers start to worry: ‘You could easily lose’]
Ryan said Monday that he would no longer defend or campaign with Trump. Dozens of other Republican elected officials have gone even further, calling on Trump to leave the race in the wake of the 2005 video.
“Paul Ryan is focusing the next month on defeating Democrats, and all Republicans running for office should probably do the same,” Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement responding to Trump’s attacks Tuesday.
Trump began his Twitter attacks Tuesday morning in New York before jetting off to raise money in Texas and to host an evening rally in Panama City Beach, Fla. At a San Antonio fundraising event, Trump tore into Ryan, whom he accused of “total disloyalty to the party.”
“I think they forgot that there was an election because something happened in the last month where you didn’t see them, right?” Trump said of prominent Republicans who have not campaigned for him, according to audio of the fundraiser obtained by the Texas Tribune. “You didn’t see them. I said, ‘Why aren’t they on the shows? Why aren’t they all over the place?’ ”
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said the campaign was not preoccupied over whether congressional leadership is with the nominee.
“Mr. Trump’s campaign has never been driven or fueled by Washington. It’s always been driven by the grass roots and it will continue to be,” Miller said. “What we want is everyone who wants to defeat Hillary Clinton to be on board. Anyone who’s concerned about the direction of the country.”
A Ryan confidant said the House speaker — the highest ranking Republican in the country — is trying to strike a careful balance by turning away from Trump but not officially withdrawing his endorsement.
“He’s threading a lot of needles here,” said the confidant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly. “He wanted to make a clean break with Trump. So saying I won’t defend him and won’t campaign with him was his way of making a break. He was so repulsed by the tape. But there are still a lot of members in the conference who don’t want to be at war with Trump’s voters in their district.”
Speaking on his radio show Tuesday, popular conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said: “The Republican Party has sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we’re where we are. The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don’t want to lay in it. Now they want to run from the bed that they made.”
Some Republicans have agonized over how to deal with Trump in the final weeks of the race. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who ran against Trump in the GOP primaries and is running for reelection in a key battleground state, issued a statement Tuesday saying he continues to support the nominee, whom he once called “dangerous” and a “con man.”
“I disagree with him on many things, but I disagree with his opponent on virtually everything,” Rubio said. “I wish we had better choices for president. But I do not want Hillary Clinton to be our next president. And therefore my position has not changed.”
The sentiment that Trump is far from ideal but is better than the only realistic alternative is one many of his backers are clinging to as justification for maintaining their support.
“You don’t go after somebody who is, as Ronald Reagan would say, your 80 percent friend. What you do is stand with them,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said in an interview with Fox Business Network. “And it is not helpful to have this kind of drama going on. What you need to do is say we have a binary choice.”
Democrats on Tuesday continued their fierce criticism of Trump’s lewd comments about women. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said President Obama found the 2005 video “repugnant” and that “there has been a pretty clear statement by people all along the ideological spectrum that those statements constituted sexual assault.”
Campaigning for Clinton in Greensboro, N.C., Obama called Republican officials out for the way they have dealt with Trump.
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“They can’t bring themselves to say, ‘I can’t endorse this guy,’” Obama said. Of those who did pull their endorsement, the president added: “Why’d it take so long for some of them to finally walk away? We saw this coming.”
[Trump’s truest believers start to worry: ‘You could easily lose’]
A friend of Ryan, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, said the speaker didn’t rush into his Monday decision, but was deliberative and thoughtful. In the end, there was no way to make everyone happy.
“He’s just in a hard place, and Trump is recognizing that he’s in a hard place and pushing the lever harder,” the friend said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
by seemslikeadream » Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:42 pm
THE HIDDEN HAND
Breitbart Boss Stephen Bannon Bragged in 2015: ‘I’m Trump’s Campaign Manager’
A year before he became campaign CEO, the alt-right media master boasted he was calling the shots and turning his news site into a platform for his candidate.
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10.11.16 3:53 PM ET
A year before Donald Trump hired Breitbart News’ executive chairman to be his presidential campaign’s CEO, Stephen K. Bannon boasted, “I'm Trump's campaign manager” via email.
Breitbart’s ties to Trump were long suspected before Bannon was brought aboard the campaign following the ouster of campaign chairman Paul Manafort in August 2016. Breitbart News, a website beloved by the so-called “alt-right”, had been a Trump’s staunchest ally in the media. Breitbart was so loyal to Trump that it even took the campaign’s side when then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski lied about bruising Michelle Fields, then a Breitbart reporter.
Bannon’s emails to his former Hollywood writing partner Julia Jones show he at least had reason to believe he had Trump’s ear. In emails reviewed by The Daily Beast, Bannon brags about his political influence.
“I'm Trump's campaign manager,” Bannon wrote in an email sent on August 30, 2015 to Jones, who provided the email to The Daily Beast.
“OMG! Is that confidential or can I tweet it),” Jones replied later that day. “I am soooo impressed. Really! He couldn't have picked a better person. OMG!”
“Confidential,” Bannon responded. “Don't u ever read breitbart--its trump central.”
“Confidential it is,” she wrote. “I thought [Rick] Santorum was your buddy. Isn't Trump a little far left for you?”
“Santorum, [Ted] Cruz , [Jindal], Dr. [Ben] Carson, Carly [Fiorina] all great,” he wrote back. “Trump is a nationalist who embraces [Sen. Jeff Sessions’s] immigration plan.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Alexandra Preate, a representative for Bannon, responded to the emails on Tuesday in a statement to The Daily Beast.
“Mr. Bannon is not nor has ever been 'campaign manager.’ He is a volunteer — as CEO,” she said.
While Kellyanne Conway is the campaign’s manager, Bannon is an an extremely close adviser to Trump. Bannon was in the same room as Trump when he rolled out four women who accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of attacking them just before the second presidential debate on Sunday.
And it’s believed Bannon is rooting on Trump’s new antagonism of Republican leaders who have dropped him, a scorched-earth strategy that threatens a full-blown GOP civil war. Bannon previously called Republican Party’s congressional leaders, a bunch of “cunts” in 2014.
Before officially jumping aboard the Trump train, Bannon was a key figure in helping to mainstream racists who call themselves alt-right. "[Breitbart News is] the platform for the alt-right," Bannon once boasted.
It’s that alliance that has led Jones (who once wrote a Shakespearean hip-hop musical with Bannon, and who as recently as late August was calling him a close friend and “like family”) to reconsider her relationship with him.
"I don't want to know him anymore,” Jones told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “I don't care if I lose the friendship anymore.”
“I'm so disgusted at what Bannon has become,” she continued. “He's been behind Trump's campaign for over a year.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... nager.html
‘Paul Ryan Is The Enemy’: Steve Bannon Ordered Breitbart Staff To Destroy House Speaker
by Justin Baragona | 6:18 pm, October 11th, 2016 240
On the same day The Daily Beast reported on an email from Breitbart chief and current Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon in which he bragged that he was Donald Trump’s campaign manager back in August 2015, The Hill also did a story on leaked emails involving Bannon.
Per emails sent in December 2015, shortly after Paul Ryan became Speaker of the House, Bannon expressed no interest in opening “a bridge” with the Republican leader, instead ordering his staff to destroy him.
On editorial conference calls, the Breitbart chairman would often say “Paul Ryan is the enemy,” according to a source who worked with Bannon at the news organization.
In December 2015, weeks after Ryan became Speaker, Bannon wrote in an internal Breitbart email obtained by The Hill that the “long game” for his news site was for Ryan to be “gone” by the spring.
In the Dec. 1 email, Breitbart’s Washington editor, Matt Boyle, suggested to Bannon via email that a story promoting Ryan’s planned overhaul of the mental health system would be a good way to “open a bridge” to Ryan.
Bannon’s disdain for Ryan is well known. In fact, two former Breitbart employees commented on this as these articles surfaced.
In a piece for his own site, ex-editor Ben Shapiro, referencing Trump’s Tuesday tweetstorm in which he attacked Ryan, noted that Trump was following the Bannon script.
This is Trump in Bannon-esque “burn it all down” mode. That way Trump can pretend he lost due to those cuckservatives like Paul Ryan, who after all have been shlonging Americans with their lies and establishment cowardice for years.
Meanwhile, former reporter Michelle Fields, who quit over the Corey Lewandowski grabbing incident, sent out the following tweet:
The source of the emails also stated that Bannon has an “Alex Jones-level paranoia about Paul Ryan,” seeing him as “part of a conspiracy with George Soros and Paul Singer.”
by JackRiddler » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:56 pm
by Nordic » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:28 am
by seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:12 am
Donald Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy
Donald Trump's insults and interruptions Play Video3:59
Here are a few (but not all) of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's insults and interruptions during a brutal debate in St. Louis on Oct. 9. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
By George F. Will Opinion writer October 10
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”
— “Me and Bobby McGee”
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign’s theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek “Lock her up!” This presaged his banana-republican vow to imprison his opponent.
The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.
Watch: Donald Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005 Play Video3:06
In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on "Days of Our Lives" with actress Arianne Zucker. He is accompanied to the set by "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. The Post has edited this video for length. (Obtained by The Washington Post)
Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today’s righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump’s feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm’s length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: “When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong.”
His sexual loutishness is a sufficient reason for defeating him, but it is far down a long list of sufficient reasons. But if it — rather than, say, his enthusiasm for torture even “if it doesn’t work,” or his ignorance of the nuclear triad — is required to prompt some Republicans to have second thoughts about him, so be it.
[Republicans deserve their sad fate]
For example, Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolinian seeking a third term, represents a kind of Republican judiciousness regarding Trump. Having heard the tape and seen Trump’s “apology” (Trump said, essentially: My naughty locker-room banter is better than Bill Clinton’s behavior), Burr solemnly said: “I am going to watch his level of contrition over the next few days to determine my level of support.” North Carolinians will watch with bated breath as Burr, measuring with a moral micrometer, carefully calibrates how to adjust his support to Trump’s unfolding repentance. Burr, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has not received this nugget of intelligence: Contrition is not in Trump’s repertoire. Why should it be? His appetites, like his factoids, are self-legitimizing.
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters’ surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences. Consider Mike Pence, a favorite of what Republicans devoutly praise as America’s “faith community.” Some of its representatives, their crucifixes glittering in the television lights, are still earnestly explaining the urgency of giving to Trump, who agreed that his daughter is “a piece of ass,” the task of improving America’s coarsened culture.
Because Pence looks relatively presidential when standing next to Trump — talk about defining adequacy down — some Republicans want Trump to slink away, allowing Pence to float to the top of the ticket and represent Republicanism resurrected. This idea ignores a pertinent point: Pence is standing next to Trump.
He salivated for the privilege of being Trump’s poodle, and he expresses his canine devotion in rhetorical treacle about “this good man.” What would a bad man look like to pastor Pence?
[The cowardly GOP has engineered its own suicide]
Still, some journalists, who seem to have no interests beyond their obsession with presidential politics and who illustrate Kipling’s principle (“What should they know of England who only England know?”), are so eager to get started on 2020 that they are anointing Pence the GOP’s front-runner. Perhaps Republicans will indeed embrace a man who embraced a presidential candidate whose supposed “locker-room banter” merely echoed sexual boasts he published in a book.
Today, however, Trump should stay atop the ticket, for four reasons. First, he will give the nation the pleasure of seeing him join the one cohort, of the many cohorts he disdains, that he most despises — “losers.” Second, by continuing to campaign in the spirit of St. Louis, he can remind the nation of the useful axiom that there is no such thing as rock bottom. Third, by persevering through Nov. 8 he can simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published Nov. 9 in one sentence: “Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.” Fourth, Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy, a nauseating but, if carried through to completion, perhaps a curative experience.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 33a9c02247
by seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:39 am
Trump and the Nuclear Keys
By BRUCE G. BLAIROCT. 12, 2016
As the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Israel and neighboring Arab states intensified, I was in an underground missile launch center in Montana with a crewmate when we received an emergency message to prepare for nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Only at the president’s behest would we ever turn keys to fire up to 50 nuclear-armed missiles that could extinguish millions of lives in less than an hour. Once we closed our eight-ton blast door to begin alert duty, we took orders from no one else.
As 20-somethings at the bottom of the nuclear chain of command, launch keys and codes in our anxious hands, we could only imagine how close we were to Armageddon. But we trusted the president to defuse the crisis and avert a nuclear war, and to call upon us to fire only if necessary for the nation’s survival. The whole point would be to never have to fire. Since only he could unleash our weapons of mass destruction — which we could fire in one minute after receiving the order — we felt a trustful, almost intimate connection to the very top of the chain.
We assume that presidents will grasp the power of the nuclear arsenal at their disposal and show the utmost restraint in using it. Dwight D. Eisenhower recoiled at the concept of nuclear overkill, where far more people are killed than necessary to defeat an enemy. After a nuclear war briefing, John F. Kennedy opined in dismay, “And we call ourselves the human race.” Richard M. Nixon (president during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war), in the words of his chief of staff, worried about the way war plans “lightly tossed about millions of deaths.” Ronald Reagan, for all his thunder about the Soviet Union being “an evil empire” and joking that “we begin bombing in five minutes,” was privately averse to nuclear weapons. He wished to eliminate them, as does President Obama.
Donald J. Trump is of a radically different ilk and temperament from past presidents. If I were back in the launch chair, I would have little faith in his judgment and would feel alienated if he were commander in chief. I am not alone in this view. A vast majority of current and former launch officers in my circle of friends and acquaintances tell me they feel the same.
Missileers view their job as deterring our enemies from attacking the United States and its allies. They also know that deterrence could fail by intent, accident or miscalculation, and that preventing such failure depends in no small measure on qualities of presidential leadership — responsibility, composure, competence, empathy and diplomatic skill — that Mr. Trump evidently does not possess. As a launch officer, I would live in constant fear of his making a bad call. Hillary Clinton is right to warn voters not to allow him anywhere near the nuclear launch codes.
The system of nuclear command and control places extreme pressure on hundreds of operators, and excruciating demands on one person: the president. In the midst of crisis, this system might generate highly uncertain information and confusion, and even fail with catastrophic effects. All of which call for a calm and rational respect for the war-making machinery — and the utmost caution in deciding whether to employ nuclear forces.
Mr. Trump is seemingly blind to the importance of restraint in nuclear decision making. He shows no humility toward the civilization-ending destructiveness of nuclear weapons, and offhandedly entertains their use. He has suggested that South Korea and Japan should consider developing their own arsenals. Empowering such a person to single-handedly initiate a nuclear strike would put the nation and the world as we know it in real jeopardy.
All presidents have flaws that cast some doubt on their nuclear judgment. In 1973, as it turned out, President Nixon was not in charge when the order came down to prepare for nuclear conflict. Under stress from the Watergate scandal, he had retired for the evening, drunk. His unelected advisers, led by the national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger, ran the show that night.
Our trust in the president was misplaced. He was not even awake when my crewmate and I saddled up for nuclear war. The president had lost personal control of the situation. But upon reflection, it would have been far scarier if a cocksure Mr. Trump, consulting no one but himself, had been there calling the shots.
Under the Constitution, no one could veto a bad call by a President Trump. The 90 launch officers who are always on duty in the Great Plains, along with their counterparts in submarines patrolling the oceans, would have no choice but to execute the most morally reprehensible order ever issued in the history of warfare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/opini ... .html?_r=0
'Donald Trump is a pig': Roger Waters on attack at mega-fest
A pig bearing a 'Stop Trump' message is towed into position during the Roger Waters performance on the third day of the Desert Trip music festival at Indio, California on October 9, 2016 (AFP Photo/Mark Ralston)
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Indio (United States) (AFP) - Rocker Roger Waters savaged Donald Trump with a pig balloon caricature as he vowed to make the most of his platform Sunday at a first-of-a-kind festival of rock elders.
The former Pink Floyd songwriter, who also renewed his longstanding criticism of Israel, closed out the first three-day weekend of Desert Trip which earlier brought the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney to the vast stage in the Southern California desert.
As Waters played "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," Pink Floyd's 1977 assault on power mongers, an oversize swine-like balloon floated into the crowd with a sketch on it of the Republican presidential candidate.
"Ignorant, lying, racist, sexist," ran the words on the balloon's side, as overhead screens flashed inflammatory quotes by Trump including his boasts of groping women that were recently aired in an explosive video.
Unflattering drawings of Trump -- in one he is naked with a miniscule member and in another he androgynously has developed breasts -- also appeared on screens before the message in bold letters: "Donald Trump is a Pig."
Waters drove home the point with a notch more subtlety as he performed Pink Floyd's classic "Another Brick in the Wall," bringing to stage a troupe of singing teenagers, mostly ethnic minorities, who wore T-shirts that read "Derriba El Muro" -- Spanish for "tear down the wall."
Trump, who is running against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 election, launched his campaign on promises to build a wall on the Mexican border as he alleged that undocumented immigrants were rapists.
- Using his platform -
"The Wall," Pink Floyd's rock opera, takes the barrier as a symbol of personal isolation but it has since frequently become a political metaphor, with Waters proudly an activist.
Speaking to the 75,000-strong crowd, Waters hailed California students at the forefront of the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign that aims to exert economic and cultural pressure on Israel.
"It's rare that somebody like me gets a platform like this, so I'm going to use this platform," said the 73-year-old British rocker.
"I'm going to send out all my most heartfelt love and support to all those young people on the campuses of the universities of California who are standing up for their brothers and sisters in Palestine," Waters said, hoping the boycott movement would "encourage the government of Israel to end the occupation."
Israel and a number of US Jewish groups strongly oppose the movement and recently won a victory when California barred companies that do business with the state from shunning individual countries.
While Waters's anti-Trump stance elicited cheers, albeit not universally, his statement on Israel drew a more muted response with some fans clapping but others booing and at least one proudly waving an Israeli flag as a counter-protest.
Waters is well-known for his criticism of Israeli policy and in 2013 came under fire from Israel supporters for putting a Star of David on the inflatable pig.
- 'My generation' -
Politics aside, Waters crafted the festival's most intricate presentation with the stage transformed into a "dark side of the Moon" and echoing voices reinforcing the music's sense of dislocation.
Desert Trip, which will take place again next weekend with an identical lineup, is forecast to be the most lucrative festival ever with aging baby-boomers paying premium prices for the so-called "Oldchella."
Other performers were Bob Dylan, Neil Young and, on Sunday, The Who, the other pioneers alongside Pink Floyd of the rock opera.
The Who offered an ultra-abridged tour through the baby-boomers' world with news clips showing events from the Vietnam War to last year's Paris attacks as the group played a blistering "The Rock" from its "Quadrophenia" opera.
Singer Roger Daltrey still managed his intense, gritty screams and Pete Townshend his 360-degree arm-swings of his guitar -- but the septuagenarians showed no reserve in joking about their age.
Introducing "I Can See For Miles" as their first hit in the United States, Townshend quipped: "We were sort of 1967's version of Adele or Lady Gaga or Rihanna or Justin Bieber."
And Townshend remembered that the weekend would have been the birthday of bassist John Entwistle -- found dead by a Las Vegas stripper after a cocaine overdose in 2002. Wherever he is, Townshend said, "Have a line for me, John."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump ... 50386.html
ELECTION 2016
The Floodgates Open: Women Call Gloria Allred Alleging 'Inappropriate Contact by Mr. Trump'
"An apology is not enough."
By David Edwards / Raw Story October 10, 2016
Civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred said this week that women have begun contacting her with allegations that they were sexually harassed or abused by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
After news broke over the weekend that Trump had bragged about groping women on a leaked 2005 video, Allred confirmed to Gothamist on Monday that she had been “contacted by women who allege inappropriate contact by Mr. Trump.”
“If there is an unwanted or unconsented to touching of a person’s intimate parts such as the genital areas or a woman’s breasts, that could constitute a sexual assault or a sexual battery,” Allred said. “I am disgusted by what Donald Trump said and admitted that he had done on that video. An apology is not enough.”
In a statement released last week, Allred revealed that Trump had once told her that she “would be very very impressed” with the size of his penis.
It was not immediately clear if Allred was organizing legal action against Trump on behalf of the women who have contacted her.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/g ... e-lawsuits
Donald Trump's 'Great Respect for Women' Led to at Least 20 Gender Discrimination Lawsuits
In one lawsuit, Trump allegedly directed management to fire a female employee for being "fat."
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/d ... n-lawsuits
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