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December 2016

December 10, 2016

Imagine how the GOP leadership would have reacted to the news 8 years ago that Russian hackers, spies and secret agents had gotten Obama elected — NOW in a CIA assessment it turns out that Russia helped Trump win in 2016

Once upon a time the Republican Party claimed to be patriotic. For instance imagine how...

December 09, 2016

WATCH as Colbert trashes the fake president-elect’s, fake news…(an epic rant!)

WATCH as Colbert trashes the fake president-elect's, fake news... : The latest of many Trump-lie...

December 08, 2016

WATCH THIS Michael Moore/Seth Meyers Clip! Please, please, PLEASE Michael Moore be Right ONE MORE TIME! “Trump just might not become president.” — This from one of the few people who accurately predicted Trump’s “Win”

In August, shortly after publishing "Five Reasons Donald Trump will win," filmmaker Michael Moore appeared...

December 03, 2016

To Jerry Falwell Jr Hiring a Coach Who Allegedly Condoned and Covered Up Brutal Gang Rape is Fine

The Rape of the Sabine Women, Piazza della Signoria, Florence (Photo Wikipedia) When a Liberty...

December 02, 2016

The unprecedented rogues’ gallery of billionaires Trump’s trotting out proves he isn’t interested in protecting working people

(Photo YouTube) As the Guardian reports Trump's team is the wealthiest and most cut off...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

14 defining characteristics common to fascist regimes: Yes this means us now

(Photo YouTube) Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy),...

November 25, 2016

Get to Know Your New President and Watch this Documentary Trump Blocked a Few Years Back… Now at Last It is Out — You Need to See This

(YouTube) Mind you this was made BEFORE 2000."Donald Trump: A True Narcissistic Sociopath (Full)" put...

November 21, 2016

No Lives Matter: Will the last gender studies professor welcoming the last gay student to the last safe space college catering to sensitive transgender students learning to write code and dreaming of startups please turn out the lights?

(Photo: Wikipedia) We are facing the most important question in human history and it's not...

November 17, 2016

Hey Evangelical Voters: Jesus didn’t come back but Trump did. Happy Now?

(Photo, YouTube) Eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for chaos. That chaos isn't going to...

November 13, 2016

Do Not Miss SNL’s Heart-wrenching Opening as Kate McKinnon returns as a Defeated Hillary Clinton With a Leonard Cohen Tribute to His “Hallelujah” on Saturday Night Live

(Photo YouTube) Kate McKinnon returned as Hillary Clinton to give an exquisite tribute rendition of...

November 11, 2016

President Trump’s “Reality”: How did we go from arguably the best president of the last 50 years to arguably the worst human being to ever run for high office in American history becoming Mr. President?

(Photo YouTube) How did we go from arguably the best president of the last 50...

November 08, 2016

Today it is time to take out the white trash: Trump’s “legacy” is vanity, tastelessness, classlessness, men behaving badly and making racism mainstream again.

Don't recycle your white trash today, just put it in this basket... Today it is...

November 06, 2016

SHOCKER! Two moderate decent men talking the way we all used to talk about politics—with decency and moderation! Remind yourself of what’s been lost as Mark Shields and David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the death spiral endgame… WATCH

(Photo YouTube) Watch as two moderate decent white men (a dying breed?) talk about the...

November 06, 2016

Don’t Miss This! Watch: “Saturday Night Live” pokes fun at Donald Trump’s relationships with the FBI, Russian president Vladimir Putin and the KKK in its final pre-election show. Alec Baldwin Kills… then Gets so Nice He Made Me Cry For All We’ve Lost…

(Photo YouTube) “Saturday Night Live” poked fun at Donald Trump’s relationships with the FBI, Russian...

November 05, 2016

“BIBLE TRUMPERS”: Do Not Miss Bill Maher praising Donald Trump for “the one good thing he did” — exposing evangelicals, as “the shameless hypocrites they’ve always been” WATCH

(Photo YouTube) WATCH Bill Maher praise Donald Trump for “the one good thing he did”...

November 04, 2016

Stop Whatever You’re Doing and Read This Word-For-Word… If You Do Not Read This Amazing Exposé of The Rise Of The Right, Alt-Right and Fascist White Supremacy Underworld You Will Have Missed The Single Most Important Best And Scariest In Depth Piece Of Journalism Of The Last 10 Years

(Meme on Twitter) Unfortunately, the person who made this meme was right. A small group...

November 02, 2016

Here are 2 pictures that say everything you need to know about the re-branding of the word “evangelical”

Here are 2 pictures that say everything you need to know about the re-branding of...

November 02, 2016

White cop-killer suspect angry because he could not wave confederate flag… Do you think he already voted for Trump before being arrested?

(photos YouTube) White cop-killer suspect angry because he could not wave confederate flag... Do you...

November 02, 2016

DO NOT MISS THIS: Jon Stewart Teaches Us How To Win A Twitter War With the Nation’s Village Idiot: Donald Trump–Hilarious!

(Photo YouTube) Speaking at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit in New York on Tuesday...

November 02, 2016

When Trump loses the election the only unifying issue evangelicals will have left is their hatred of Hillary Clinton

(Photo YouTube) White Evangelicals support Donald Trump. Writing in the Guardian Anthea Butler notes that...

November 01, 2016

Do not miss this! NEW & Spooky/Funny President Barack Obama (best president in the last 50 years) on Full Frontal interviewed by my friend Samantha Bee (most perceptive news person in non-news-comedy) WATCH

(Photo Facebook) When Samantha Bee's show interviewed me I had a lot of fun... great...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

#HillaryIsGreat

(Photo YouTube) Four years from now you'll admit I was right. Hillary is great. WATCH...

October 29, 2016

Sex or Trump? You can’t have both. NEW STUDY FINDS 60% OF AMERICANS WOULD RATHER STAY SINGLE and forego sex THAN DATE A TRUMP SUPPORTER

(Photo YouTube) When it comes to dating and sex, Trump supporters are still a better...

October 28, 2016

Do not miss Seth Meyers doing the best job (so far) of Explaining Trump’s wrecking of the Republican Party

Do not miss Seth Meyers doing the best job (so far) of Trump's wrecking of...

October 28, 2016

It Is With Great Joy That I Present The Most Magnificently Bizarre Trump TV Add Ever (For Real!) And Thus Prove God and/or the Universe Isn’t Laughing WITH America But AT America– Do NOT Miss This!

(Photo YouTube) When your grandchildren and/or aliens from another planet ask "Just how weird did...

October 27, 2016

The Disinherited: There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of step with the rest of America: if you live in a pretend world for long enough you snap

(Photo YouTube) There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of...

October 26, 2016

InterVarsity Follows the TRUMP-VERSION of “JESUS” and Gordon College’s in HARD Turn to the Homophobic anti-Gay (Trumpian GOP) Right

InterVarsity is joining the ranks of what might be called the Ralph Reed/Jerry Falwell...

October 24, 2016

TRUMP: Aging White’s Last Gasp — “End Times” fans signed on for Armageddon then found an alternative reality presidential candidate

(Photo YouTube) # Nostalgia for the lost era of white male boomer control created the...

October 24, 2016

“TRUMP SEEKS REFUGE IN ECUADORIAN LONDON EMBASSY AND IS SHARING ROOM WITH JULIAN ASSANGE”… and other fantasy headlines my Facebook Family and I came up with

(New Jersey monthly Photo/YouTube) Frank Schaeffer Published by Facebook Mentions · 20 hrs ·...

October 23, 2016

Don’t Miss This! WATCH Tom Hanks Give Nervous TRUMPED America The Pre-Election “Dad” Talk We All Needed Needs On ‘SNL’

(Photo YouTube) TOM HANKS -- “America’s Dad” sat down with us for a quiet pep...

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