Hey, Zig. This is great. I'll bet you can find some quotes of libtards calling true-blue Republicans "scum". Go for it, man. Get ahead of the hypocrisy.
I'll even make it easy! When a person or group, far too frequently Republican, shows that they're utter scum, I have called them such. I suppose I'll say this with the note that I really do not like having excellent reason to call anyone scum, though.
Of course... Trump's quote has now been expanded and expanded upon by his Administration.
"Human Scum." Press Sec Stephanie Grisham doubles down, expanding it to all who are "against" Trump
I think that she's quite earned the title of scum herself, either way.
Semantics game form Zig to follow.....
Look, I know there was quite a bit of lynching done in the American West that had nothing to do with race (the necktie party for Horse thieves, etc) but racially motivated killings are what the term has come to mean.
Quite a bit, sure. Still, when the numbers are apparently that about 73% of the lynchings were done to black people overall, there's probably not too much reason to qualify it like that.
This whole "Dear Leader is incapable of error" routine is the most annoying thing about the Trump supporters here .
Mmm. The ones here seem not to defend that position much. It's not incapable of error, it's that he's not uniquely bad. That he's not currently worse than Hitler AFTER Hitler had so very, very many people executed. That he's still better than Hillary would have been, despite Trump and co doing pretty much everything that they criticize Hillary for doing (including the outright lies about her) and doing it so much more and brazenly.
Other news time!
Donald Trump Is Creating “Anchor Babies” for U.S. Illegal Immigrants
The result of Trump’s policies is an ironic failure for him: denied of family planning, these people are now the most likely part of the US population to have unintended pregnancies that result in new, poor, young US citizens, the so-called “anchor babies” that Trump has so insidiously declared have been purposefully planned by immigrants.
This effect is not insignificant: a nonpartisan research organization, the Migration Policy Institute, estimates that undocumented immigrants have given birth to 4 million children in the US so far; 90% of them are estimated to be conceived on US soil. The latest annual figures available indicate undocumenteds gave birth to 250,000 babies in 2016, and that was before Trump policies caused a surge in immigration.
In fact, Trump has created the perfect conditions for increasing the families of undocumented parents with “anchor babies”. Even Breitbart is trumpeting the birth of anchor babies.
It's almost like the Trump Administration's policies were actually intended to magnify just about every problem they're working to "solve" when it comes to foreign countries. Like his trade war with China that's made the bogus excuse for it bigger and, in the incredibly unlikely case that China actually gave Trump what he's demanding in the way of intellectual property law changes, would lead to a lot more American jobs being sent over to China. Trump's Tariffs, Killing American Jobs for the sake of giving American Jobs to the Chinese.
Moving on! Regarding the morons who "stormed" into the Congressional hearing, there's a couple things to say. First, they're all fairly certainly
unindicted felons now on a couple counts, such as Conspiracy to impede or injure officer (18 U.S.C. 372).
Also...
Do Republicans think their voters are complete idiots? Their Trump defenses sure look that way
Republicans' cosplay protest was based on a largely correct principle: Their voters will swallow anything for Trump
Of particular note from that...
The talking point to justify these antics was that, by having closed door meetings, House Democrats are being "secretive." At least, that claim was made in a press release from terminal wingnut Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who declared that the protest was a demand for "increased transparency and inclusion in the impeachment process."
This claim is dumb for a couple of obvious, glaring reasons. First of all, Republican members of the relevant committees are included in the hearings, of course. In fact, 13 out of the 41 Republicans who participated in this stunt were fully entitled to attend Cooper's testimony and ask her questions. Second, the only reason Republicans are in such a panic is that they know that the evidence coming out of these hearings is extremely damaging for Trump — which they wouldn't know if the process were actually secretive instead of leaky as a sieve. Third, Republicans know full well these closed-door meetings are just a preliminary to the public hearings likely to begin in November.
Uh huh. Incidentally, looks like Tulsi was on Fox, repeating the moronic claims of the Republicans. There's plenty more, of course, but... moving on!
Unaccredited for-profit colleges received $11 million in student aid under Trump administration
Guess who is taking funds out of the public trust and sticking it into shady private businesses? If you said, “A Trump official,” you guessed it! According to documents released by the House Education and Labor Committee, the Department of Education funneled $10.7 million in federal aid into for-profit colleges ineligible to receive such funds because they aren’t accredited institutions.
Urgh. This is yet another indication that there really, really should be a huge number of people in the Trump Administration prosecuted for the crimes they've committed, both because they quite earned it and as a warning to future Administrations.
