Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Some Powerful Photos from the Women's March (Global)
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| Berlin |
There are too many striking images from yesterday's march-gone-global to post them all so I'm choosing some of my personal favorites to highlight for a variety of reasons. (All photos can be enlarged by clicking on them.)
Artistry: Whichever photographer landed this shot managed to walk away with a visually striking and symbolically powerful piece. The beautiful German woman s/he photographed looks exactly like the poster directly behind her 😊
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| Paris |
Humor: You'll definitely want to click this pic from Paris to see one of the funniest signs ever!!
I probably looked at this photo half a dozen times before I saw the LOL moment. I'll make it easier for you by dropping a hint:
- Focus on the sign that has four pieces of yellow tape on it.
- See it?
- 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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| Chicago |
P Is For Vendetta: The next photograph is humorous as well, but it adds a little ass-kicking oomph to the comedy category.
This Chi Town woman ain't playin'! But judging by the expression on her male companion's face, he's probably grateful for that fact 😉
Chicago: it's not just known for its deep-dish pizza anymore.
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| Washington D.C. |
Poignancy: The next picture imbues the very point of political photography—it forces the viewer to stop and think.
This young man exposes Trump and the GOP for the heartless, money-wasting vultures that they are. Comrade Trump wants to build a damn wall, while Comrade Ryan is scrambling to gut medicaid, medicare, social security, welfare, and a myriad of other social programs that serve to assist the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and veterans.
FUCK THE WALL.
Pay more attention to the young man in the picture who NEEDS ramps and less (or zero) attention to the racist snowflakes who apparently get a case of the vapors just from thinking about a Mexican crossing the border. What comes after the wall, comrade? Are we going to start flinging virgins over it as sacrificial appeasements to El Chapo? (Hint: this ain't Skull Island and El Chapo ain't King Kong 😒)
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| Washington D.C. |
Triple Hitter: This photo wins for three YUGE reasons.
1) The lighting is gorgeous and makes for a beautiful backdrop.
2) That's one of my best friends holding up her signage all loud and proud. (Go Amy go!)
3) Click on the photo for an enlarged view and check out what those fallopian tubes are up to 😂 🙌
I was supposed to be in D.C. with her, but I was too ill to go. It is literally the only life event I'll look back on with the coulda-shoulda-wouldas.
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| Washington D.C. |
Snarkaliciousness: This photo—damn! It needs no explanation. All I'll say is: You go girl!
Actually I will say one more thing. Namely, Comrade Ass makes this entire damn nation look like a huuge, bigly loser. Some people take pride in classless vulgarity—they refer to it as not bowing to political correctness!—but the majority of us prefer human decency to sleaze.
One thing I have found to be true about the most vocal proponents of the First Amendment on Twitter is they tend to be less concerned with protecting free speech for its constitutionally intended applications than they are concerned with their right to use free speech to degrade and humiliate others. If you see the words 1a/2a in a Twitter profile, save yourself a headache and block them. All 1a/2a means is "I'm an obnoxious racist and misogynist troll who gets off on demeaning others. Oh and I love guns. Yeehaw."
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| Washington D.C. |
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Girl Scout Scorned: It might be time to reevaluate your life and morals (or lack thereof) when even the Girl Scouts hate you. Or at least that's what a normal person would do. But the Man-Baby-In-Chief?
It won't happen. On the contrary, I doubt any of us will be surprised if he goes on a Twitter rampage against Thin Mints, Samoas, and the little girls who sell them. "The Girl Scouts are huge losers. Their cookie-selling business is going under. Sad." [insert long-suffering sigh]
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| New York City |
Irony: Yes, Trumpel Thinskin, even the introverts hate you enough to protest your funky ass. They might have a hard time saying it, but they can write it out in signage like nobody's business. Which brings me to yet another point...
There was no group of people NOT represented in yesterday's historic, global march. Despite the disadvantage they would have been at had the demonstrations turned riotous, wheelchair-bound and blind citizens protested. Our fellow deaf Americans were so numerous that interpreters were on podiums at every speech.
All races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, ages, and political identities were accounted for. It was the definition of democracy and beauty.
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Karma: There are so many other photos that should be included here, but I have to end with the one that irritates Comrade Trump most of all: the side-by-side comparisons of Obama's first inauguration to his.
Trump's propagandist #ScarySpicer had the nerve to flatly lie during his first post-inaugural press conference ever by stating that Trump's inauguration was the most heavily attended in history. (Obama's first inauguration actually holds that honor.) When pressed about this lie today on Meet The Press, Kellyanne Conway told Chuck Todd that Spicer hadn't lied, but had provided "alternative facts" 😒
Hold on to your alternative Xanax, peeps. It's gonna be a long, anxiety-ridden four years.
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Kellyanne & George Conway: Pure Evil
Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway (very appropriate last name) is likely a new—albeit haggard—face on the national scene for those who don't pay attention to politics, but she's been a part of the extremist rightwing D.C. establishment for decades. Behind the dead eyes and nauseatingly fake smile exists an insidious creature who has been directly involved in and/or an ally to several of the capital's sickest sins against democracy.
Kellyanne's husband, George Conway III, is an equally repulsive man and serves as literal proof that twisted birds of a feather do indeed flock together. The following list is only the tip of the iceberg, but will hopefully shed light on the most important things you need to know about America's newest white-power couple.
Meet the Conways
1. KA Conway and fugly alt-right Breitbart head Steve Bannon were recently outed by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch as members of the ultra-secretive group CNP (Council for National Policy). According to the SPLC:
"The CNP is an intensely secretive and shadowy group of what The New York Times once described as “the most powerful conservatives in the country.” It is so tight-lipped that it tells people not to admit their membership or even name the group. Revealing when or where the group meets, or what it discusses, is also forbidden. The organization, which can only be joined by invitation and at a cost of thousands of dollars, strives mightily to keep its membership rolls secret."
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Kim Davis and Mat Staver (center); 2015.
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On the surface, there is nothing noteworthy in and of itself about the clandestine CNP. Once you delve deeper and look at the CNP's many extremist members, however, the picture grows more troubling. Here are four of a plethora of such members:
- Mat Staver: leader of Liberty Counsel, a hate group whose goal is to re-criminalize gay sex. Also a lawyer, Staver's clients include Kim Davis, the Rowan County KY clerk who infamously refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples after SCOTUS' landmark ruling. Staver compared Davis' alleged plight to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.
- Michael Peroutka: board member of League of the South, a white supremacist organization.
- Jerome Corsi: an Obama "birther" hardliner; also a frequent propagandist for the radical right.
- Philip Zodhaites: an influential religious right donor; convicted in September 2016 for kidnapping a child from her lesbian mother and smuggling her to Nicaragua. Zodhaites' defense lawyer and suspected co-conspirator was none other than Mat Staver.
"It provides an important venue in which relatively mainstream conservatives meet and very possibly are influenced by real extremists, people who regularly defame LGBT people with utter falsehoods, describe Latino immigrants as a dangerous group of rapists and disease-carriers, engage in the kind of wild-eyed conspiracy theorizing for which the John Birch Society is famous, and even suggest that certain people should be stoned to death in line with Old Testament law.”
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| Kellyanne & George Conway III |
2. The 2016 election wasn't the first time a Conway pursued a Clinton like a rabid animal. Kellyanne's husband George, a real "gem" of a low-moral lawyer, has represented mega-corps like Phillip Morris against cancer patients and news reports. A colleague and friend who defended the tobacco giant alongside him was Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor Conway would go on to conspire with against President Bill Clinton.
It was Conway and Starr who served as Paula Jones' lawyers, pulling the sexual harassment case seemingly out of thin air. The Jones lawsuit was filed one day before the statute of limitations would have ran out, given the date the alleged incident occurred. Propaganda surrounding the case was continuously leaked to Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report. George Conway denied being the leak, but given Keith Olbermann's report on Kellyanne's conspiratorial effort against Bill Clinton, the denial is questionable at best.
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3. Apparently marriages that hate together stay together because both of the Conways have pressed for legislation that negatively and selectively impacts African-Americans and the poor. Among a multitude of other appalling grievances against humanity, KAC helped Newt Gingrich draft a particularly brutal piece of anti-welfare legislation. Republican Paul Ryan, the current Speaker of the House, plans to make the law that resulted from the Conway-Gingrich effort disgustingly worse.
Not to be outdone by his wife, George—a member of the ultra conservative Federalist Society—is a staunch advocate of denying former felons the right to vote. His argument justifying the continualization and expansion of the discriminatory practice amounts to a whole lot of rhetoric. At the end of the day, not allowing former inmates to vote is a gross miscarriage of justice which ultimately impacts minority and poor communities at a disproportionate rate.
Conclusion
I've highlighted only three out of a veritable Pandora's Box of grave concerns to be cognizant of and watchful over. That the fanatical rightwing virus the Conways infect others with is about to nest itself in the West Wing of The White House should be equally—if not more—disturbing to all of us than the arrival of Donald Trump himself.
Remain vigilant. Don't give in so much as an inch. The most vulnerable Americans amongst us are counting on watchdogs to be strong and resist. Elected Democrats have made it clear they are a bunch of simpering, hand-wringing pussies. In other words, no help is coming. We ARE our only champions.
Not to be outdone by his wife, George—a member of the ultra conservative Federalist Society—is a staunch advocate of denying former felons the right to vote. His argument justifying the continualization and expansion of the discriminatory practice amounts to a whole lot of rhetoric. At the end of the day, not allowing former inmates to vote is a gross miscarriage of justice which ultimately impacts minority and poor communities at a disproportionate rate.
Conclusion
I've highlighted only three out of a veritable Pandora's Box of grave concerns to be cognizant of and watchful over. That the fanatical rightwing virus the Conways infect others with is about to nest itself in the West Wing of The White House should be equally—if not more—disturbing to all of us than the arrival of Donald Trump himself.
Remain vigilant. Don't give in so much as an inch. The most vulnerable Americans amongst us are counting on watchdogs to be strong and resist. Elected Democrats have made it clear they are a bunch of simpering, hand-wringing pussies. In other words, no help is coming. We ARE our only champions.
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