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It's official, trump called Ford a hoax. If you are a women and you support trump, you're a f***ing idiot.

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Kavanagh getting confirmed seems to have pushed her into speaking up. That should say a lot about how justifiably women are upset right now. I hope it gets more young people to vote.

I have to imagine there's a lot of people who just tune out from politics. For as bad as this is (a lifetime appointment), it should wake some people up.

People need to realize that this isn't about politics at all. This isn't normal. This isn't two sides disagreeing on political issues. This is a political party that has been infiltrated and manipulated by hate.
 
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And people eat this s*** up.....

Fox & Friends is struggling to compute Taylor Swift's headline-making endorsement of Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen in her home state of Tennessee. In fact, the hosts don't think she really did it. Founder of the Turning Point USA think-tank Charlie Kirk told the show Monday morning that he suspects Swift had help writing her first outspoken political statement. Kirk said: “It's relatively clear... I don't want to accuse her of this, but I don't think she's the only one who wrote that post on Instagram. She probably got some very bad information.” Kirk added, apparently missing the irony of his statement: “This is what I used to love about Taylor Swift is she stayed away from politics—she was all about music all about, you know, female empowerment.” He went on: “Look Taylor Swift, I love your music, personally, Kanye West, I'm a bigger fan of his. I wish you would have not done this. Stay away from politics.”​

Just a reminder. This is Charlie Kirk.


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How russia manipulates everything. Much longer story at link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

The Agency
From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.​
Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got a call from a resident who had just received a disturbing text message. “Toxic fume hazard warning in this area until 1:30 PM,” the message read. “Take Shelter. Check Local Media and columbiachemical.com.”​
St. Mary Parish is home to many processing plants for chemicals and natural gas, and keeping track of dangerous accidents at those plants is Arthur’s job. But he hadn’t heard of any chemical release that morning. In fact, he hadn’t even heard of Columbia Chemical. St. Mary Parish had a Columbian Chemicals plant, which made carbon black, a petroleum product used in rubber and plastics. But he’d heard nothing from them that morning, either. Soon, two other residents called and reported the same text message. Arthur was worried: Had one of his employees sent out an alert without telling him?​
If Arthur had checked Twitter, he might have become much more worried. Hundreds of Twitter accounts were documenting a disaster right down the road. “A powerful explosion heard from miles away happened at a chemical plant in Centerville, Louisiana #ColumbianChemicals,” a man named Jon Merritt tweeted. The #ColumbianChemicals hashtag was full of eyewitness accounts of the horror in Centerville. @AnnRussela shared an image of flames engulfing the plant. @Ksarah12 posted a video of surveillance footage from a local gas station, capturing the flash of the explosion. Others shared a video in which thick black smoke rose in the distance.​
Dozens of journalists, media outlets and politicians, from Louisiana to New York City, found their Twitter accounts inundated with messages about the disaster. “Heather, I’m sure that the explosion at the #ColumbianChemicals is really dangerous. Louisiana is really screwed now,” a user named @EricTraPPP tweeted at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Heather Nolan. Another posted a screenshot of CNN’s home page, showing that the story had already made national news. ISIS had claimed credit for the attack, according to one YouTube video; in it, a man showed his TV screen, tuned to an Arabic news channel, on which masked ISIS fighters delivered a speech next to looping footage of an explosion. A woman named Anna McClaren (@zpokodon9) tweeted at Karl Rove: “Karl, Is this really ISIS who is responsible for #ColumbianChemicals? Tell @Obama that we should bomb Iraq!” But anyone who took the trouble to check CNN.com would have found no news of a spectacular Sept. 11 attack by ISIS. It was all fake: the screenshot, the videos, the photographs.​
In St. Mary Parish, Duval Arthur quickly made a few calls and found that none of his employees had sent the alert. He called Columbian Chemicals, which reported no problems at the plant. Roughly two hours after the first text message was sent, the company put out a news release, explaining that reports of an explosion were false. When I called Arthur a few months later, he dismissed the incident as a tasteless prank, timed to the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “Personally I think it’s just a real sad, sick sense of humor,” he told me. “It was just someone who just liked scaring the daylights out of people.” Authorities, he said, had tried to trace the numbers that the text messages had come from, but with no luck. (The F.B.I. told me the investigation was still open.)​
The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster, which cited the fake YouTube video. As the virtual assault unfolded, it was complemented by text messages to actual residents in St. Mary Parish. It must have taken a team of programmers and content producers to pull off.​
And the hoax was just one in a wave of similar attacks during the second half of last year. On Dec. 13, two months after a handful of Ebola cases in the United States touched off a minor media panic, many of the same Twitter accounts used to spread the Columbian Chemicals hoax began to post about an outbreak of Ebola in Atlanta. The campaign followed the same pattern of fake news reports and videos, this time under the hashtag #EbolaInAtlanta, which briefly trended in Atlanta. Again, the attention to detail was remarkable, suggesting a tremendous amount of effort. A YouTube video showed a team of hazmat-suited medical workers transporting a victim from the airport. Beyoncé’s recent single “7/11” played in the background, an apparent attempt to establish the video’s contemporaneity. A truck in the parking lot sported the logo of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.​
 
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https://www.businessinsider.com/nikki-haley-resign-investigation-flights-free-private-jets-2018-10

Nikki Haley's resignation comes one day after an ethics watchdog requested an investigation into her acceptance of free flights on private jets
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley's abrupt resignation on Tuesday came one day after an ethics watchdog group requested the State Department's inspector general investigate her acceptance of seven free flights aboard private jets from a trio of South Carolina businessmen.​
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, listed the flights on her 2017 financial disclosure and asserted that each qualified for an exception based on her relationships with the businessmen.​
But the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in its complaint that Haley's financial disclosure did not provide enough information to make the assertion that the flights between New York, Washington, DC, and three South Carolina cities qualified for the exemption.​
Those flights were most likely worth tens of thousands of dollars, CREW suggested.​
"Whether the exception applies depends partly on whether the three businessmen were the only sources of the gifts; if business entities were sources of the gifts, the exception was inapplicable," CREW said. "Federal ethics regulations prohibit employees from soliciting or accepting gifts given because of the employee's official position."​
The three businessmen who provided the flights to Haley and her husband were Jimmy Gibbs, Smyth McKissick, and Mikee Johnson. Gibbs is the CEO of Gibbs International, and McKissick and Johnson are CEOs of private companies in South Carolina.​
"By accepting gifts of luxury private flights, Ambassador Haley seems to be falling in line with other Trump administration officials who are reaping personal benefits from their public positions," CREW's executive director, Noah Bookbinder, said in a Monday statement.​
Tom Price resigned as the secretary of health and human services last year amid a controversy involving his air travel. Other top Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, have come under fire for their air-travel practices.​
 
nikki haley "resigned."

Good. She's fat and ugly. Just look at her face. Who wants that face representing us at the UN?

Edit: These are Trump's words about women in case this wasn't obvious.
 
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Still, take nothing for granted. If you care about the women in your life please vote Blue.
 
Yep, basically hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Most of us have seen enough GOP trickle down economics to know what happens next.
 
Georgia, keep being Georgia.....

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/201...-police-black-man-babysitting-white-children/



White Woman Calls Police On Black Man Babysitting White Children

MARIETTA, Ga. (CBS Local) — An African-American man caring for two white children was questioned by police Sunday afternoon after a white woman reported his behavior as suspicious.

Corey Lewis, who documented the incident in series of videos on Facebook, said he first noticed the woman in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Georgia.

Lewis says she asked him if the children were OK. He said she then came back and asked if she could speak with them. Lewis said he told her no. And that’s when she allegedly began to follow them in a Kia sedan.

“We then left to go get gas, she moved closer and waited there,” Lewis told CBS46.

The woman, who remains unidentified, apparently followed Lewis for almost an hour to his home. That’s when a Cobb County police officer showed up. The officer questioned Lewis, the 10-year-old boy and the 6-year-old girl who were in the backseat of the car before calling their parents.

“I said, ‘Are you saying that because there’s an African-American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,’” said the children’s mother, Dana Mango.

The couple’s son, Addison, attends a youth mentoring program operated by Lewis and is a friend of the family.

“B-W-B which I guess is the new thing, babysitting while black,” said the children’s father, David Parker.

It was the latest in a series of widely reported incidents of people of color being reported to the police while doing lawful activities like golfing too slowly, napping, shopping, canvassing and waiting for a friend at Starbucks.
 
Georgia, keep being Georgia.....

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/201...-police-black-man-babysitting-white-children/



White Woman Calls Police On Black Man Babysitting White Children

MARIETTA, Ga. (CBS Local) — An African-American man caring for two white children was questioned by police Sunday afternoon after a white woman reported his behavior as suspicious.

Corey Lewis, who documented the incident in series of videos on Facebook, said he first noticed the woman in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Georgia.

Lewis says she asked him if the children were OK. He said she then came back and asked if she could speak with them. Lewis said he told her no. And that’s when she allegedly began to follow them in a Kia sedan.

“We then left to go get gas, she moved closer and waited there,” Lewis told CBS46.

The woman, who remains unidentified, apparently followed Lewis for almost an hour to his home. That’s when a Cobb County police officer showed up. The officer questioned Lewis, the 10-year-old boy and the 6-year-old girl who were in the backseat of the car before calling their parents.

“I said, ‘Are you saying that because there’s an African-American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,’” said the children’s mother, Dana Mango.

The couple’s son, Addison, attends a youth mentoring program operated by Lewis and is a friend of the family.

“B-W-B which I guess is the new thing, babysitting while black,” said the children’s father, David Parker.

It was the latest in a series of widely reported incidents of people of color being reported to the police while doing lawful activities like golfing too slowly, napping, shopping, canvassing and waiting for a friend at Starbucks.


I don't fault the officer in this case. He did his job. I fault the lady that called the police.
 
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