Author: Randy Slovacek

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Trump Openly Mocks Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford

Americans were stunned last night as Donald Trump openly mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a campaign rally.

After telling the press that she had been “very compelling” last week after her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Trump questioned her credibility last night.

Imitating Ford and her questioner, Trump said, “‘I had one beer.’ Well do you think it was…?”

“‘Nope. It was one beer.’ Oh good. How did you get home? ‘I don’t remember.’”

“How did you get there? ‘I don’t remember.’”

“Where is the place? ‘I don’t remember.’”

“How many years ago was it? ‘I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.’”

“What neighborhood was it in? ‘I don’t know.’ Where’s the house? ‘I don’t know. Upstairs. Downstairs. I don’t know. But I had one beer, that’s the only thing I remember.’”

And the crowd went wild. Watch below.

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News Round-Up: October 2, 2018

InstaHunk Thiago Oliveira

Some news items you might have missed:

• Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco was this weekend – check out InstaHunk Thiago Oliveira’s (above) account for some visual highlights 😉

•The manager of NYC gay bar Monsters has quit amid uproar over racist tweets.

• Actor Jake Choi (ABC’s Single Parents) has come out as sexually fluid. “I’m attracted to everything.”

• Donald Trump’s net worth has declined by more than $1 billion since he launched his presidential campaign.

• Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, The Fault in our Stars) has been cast to play “Tony” in the upcoming remake of West Side Story.

• ABC News reports four members of white supremacist group have been arrested “for committing various acts of violence” at the 2017 Charlottesville rally.

“These guys came to Charlottesville in order to commit violent acts, and it wasn’t the first time they’ve done it.” Watch below.

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Singer/Songwriter Donna Missal Assures Fans “Non-Binary Style” And Fluid Sexuality Are Not

Out singer/songwriter Donna Missal

New Jersey-based singer/songwriter Donna Missal recently took to Instagram to underscore to her fans that her “non-binary style” and “fluid” sexual preference are definitely not “phase.”

Posting last month to her Instagram account, Missal wrote, “my non-binary style and fluid preference has no intention of diminishing gay culture but rather embracing and celebrating it sis i’m not playing dress up and being with a man doesn’t make me less bi read: it’s not a phase”

Sounds to me like she knows exactly who she is 🙂

Missal’s debut album, This Time, dropped last month and she’s already got a full docket of concerts lined up as she hits the road.

Check out her music video for “Keep Lying” below, and check out This Time here.

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That Time When ‘Designing Women’ Went Looking For A Lesbian’

Super-smart guy Matt Baume takes a look back at a 1990 episode of the hit sitcom Designing Women which explored how southerns handled discovering lesbian amongst them.

“When we think about gay characters on sitcoms, we usually picture people in big Northern cities,” writes Baume. “But season four of Designing Women features an unusual southern and conservative take on having queer friends.”

“And it also set the stage for Ellen’s coming out episode, just a few years later,” he adds.

Watch Baume break it down for you below.

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NY Times Reports Donald Trump Is No “Self-Made” Man

Donald Trump

The New York Times has done a deep dive into Donald Trump’s financial worth based on interviews with his father’s former employees and advisers, as well as more than 100,000 pages of documents describing the inner workings and immense profitability of his empire.

The results of The Times research suggests the Donald is no ‘self-made’ man.

Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.

But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.

[snip]

In Mr. Trump’s version of how he got rich, he was the master dealmaker who broke free of his father’s “tiny” outer-borough operation and parlayed a single $1 million loan from his father (“I had to pay him back with interest!”) into a $10 billion empire that would slap the Trump name on hotels, high-rises, casinos, airlines and golf courses the world over. In Mr. Trump’s version, it was always his guts and gumption that overcame setbacks. Fred Trump was simply a cheerleader.

“I built what I built myself,” Mr. Trump has said, a narrative that was long amplified by often-credulous coverage from news organizations, including The Times.

[snip]

By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s.

A lawyer for Trump. Charles J. Harder, issued a statement to the Times saying, “The New York Times’s allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory.”

“There was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. The facts upon which The Times bases its false allegations are extremely inaccurate,” Harder added.

Can you imagine the discovery process if Trump sued for defamation? Would be all kinds of fun…

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Music Video: David Hernandez “Shield (Coat Of Armor)”

David Hernandez (via Hernandez Worldwide Music)

American Idol alum David Hernandez proves he is definitely the king of his own kingdom as he drops his new album, Kingdom: the Mixtape.

Kingdom: the Mixtape teams the hunky artist with the Black Eyed Peas‘ Grammy-winning producer, Printz Board, and features a collaboration with fellow American Idol Blake Lewis.

The follow-up to his 2011 debut album, I Am Who I Am, this new collection of 20 tracks reflects many of the highs and lows he’s experienced since his time on the American Idol stage in 2008, including his sometimes crunchy relationship with the music industry.

“I’ve been sitting on most of this material for years, waiting for the right time to release it,” Hernandez shares via press release. “I’ve listened to too many people’s opinions about when to release, how, what images and content are appropriate… I was just over listening to what other people think I should do. One day I finally stepped back and realized I had a great body of work that deserves to be heard, now.”

Many of the songs explore Hernandez’s journey over the past decade rebuilding trust and love, his refusal to give up, and his persistence to change for the better.

But it’s not all about an uphill climb. There are also tracks that express joy and fun because as Hernandez explains, “Life isn’t always that serious and sometimes you just wanna let go and rage!”

The new album stretches across several genres including power ballads, soul/R&B, and dance tracks.

The title track is an achingly soulful mid-tempo ballad that soars across triumphant drums and a grand piano.

“Shield (Coat of Armor),” the first single and music video from the album, is an uplifting, confident, guitar-driven anthem.

“Beautiful” showcases Hernandez’s vocals in power pop mode, while “Last Supper” and “Animal” are uptempo numbers clearly born for the dance floor.

Then there’s “Break,” an introspective mid-tempo song that lays bare Hernandez’s struggles with addiction.

“I wrote the song at a time when I was drinking a lot and popping Xanax,” says Hernandez. “It was an awful time. We were being evicted from our apartment and everything was going to shit.

“I ended up in rehab and eventually got clean of prescription drugs, and life became much better,” he adds.

While every day can be a private struggle for those with addiction, Hernandez says that he felt compelled to put the song on the mixtape because prescription drug addition has reached epidemic levels among youth.

“Young people are dying and committing suicide. They need to know there is help,” he says.

“I hope listeners hear a piece of my soul in Kingdom: the Mixtape,” shares Hernandez. “I hope they get where I am coming from, really see me for who I am, and that they, too, can relate to the songs. I want the mixtape to be healing, enlightening, and revelrous.”

You can find Kingdom: the Mixtape on iTunes here.

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Trump Administration Will No Longer Issue Visas To Same-Sex Partners Of Diplomats

United Nations Plaza (image via Flickr/AC Moraes)

 In reversing a nine-year policy begun by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Trump administration continues to demonstrate hostility to same-sex couples.

Beginning Monday (October 1), the U.S. State Department will require same-sex partners of staff of international organizations based in the U.S. to be married in order to qualify for a proper visa.

The policy change will affect foreign employees of organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

From the State Department’s website on G-4 visas: “Effective immediately, U.S. Embassies and Consulates will adjudicate visa applications that are based on a same-sex marriage in the same way that we adjudicate applications for opposite gender spouses.”

The State Department issued a statement saying the policy change is meant to “help ensure and promote equal treatment” between straight and gay couples. In order to obtain a G-4 visa, straight couples are required to be married.

The difference for same-sex couples, however, is that in many of their native countries same-sex marriage, or even homosexuality, is illegal.

And, as Fabrice Houdart, a human rights official at the United Nations told NBC News, “The policy seems to presume that same-sex partners should be able to easily visit the United States on a tourist visa where they could get married.

“But for people in many countries, particularly poor and conservative countries like the ones that do not permit same-sex marriage, obtaining a tourist visa to visit the United States is extremely difficult,” he added.

Under the new policy, the partners of United Nations workers, for example, that are not legally married will have 30 days after the new year to either get married or exit the United States.

So, what do these couples do? The choices available to them are abandon their careers here in the U.S. or try to marry and face possible severe penalties back home.

Of the 193 United Nations member states, only a few dozen have recognized same-sex marriage. And then there are countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran which have death penalties for being gay.

Former Ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, called the move “needlessly cruel & bigoted” on Twitter.

And the Human Rights Campaign followed up Powers’ tweet saying the policy change “reflects the hostility of the Trump-Pence administration toward LGBTQ people and our friends and allies.”

“It is hatred, and it is unacceptable,” the HRC added.

(h/t NBC News)

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The Late Show: Kim Jong Un Responds To Trump Using The L-Word

Over the weekend at a rally in West Virginia, Donald Trump told his followers that not only do he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have a great relationship, they “fell in love.”

However, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert seems to have found proof that the North Korean dictator isn’t exactly on the same page as the Trumpster.

Donny – he’s just not that into you.

Watch below.

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First Look At Upcoming Elton John Biopic “Rocketman”

With this teaser video, we get our first look at Taron Egerton who stars (and sings) as Grammy Award winning pop music legend Elton John in the upcoming biopic, Rocketman.
Taron Egerton as “Elton John”

With this teaser video, we get our first look at Taron Egerton who stars (and sings) as Grammy Award winning pop music legend Elton John in the upcoming biopic, Rocketman.

Jamie Bell co-stars as longtime songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin.

The film is directed by Dexter Fletcher, and written by Lee Hall, best known for writing the 2000 film Billy Elliot.

“Everyone thinks it’s a bio-pic. It isn’t,” Egerton told Collider earlier this year. “It’s a fantasy musical, so it’s actually [John’s] songs used to express important beats in his life at emotional moments.”

Rocketman lands in theaters May 17.

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Trump’s ‘Dick Move Of The Day’

Taking questions today in the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump insulted ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega.
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Taking questions today in the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump insulted ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega.

After acknowledging Vega, Trump took a second to tell the crowd, “She’s shocked that I picked her.”

As Vega began to say, “I’m not, thank you…” Trump misheard her and interrupted saying, “That’s ok, I know you’re not thinking, you never do.”

Vega: “I’m sorry?”

Trump: “No, go ahead…” (smirk)

#dickmove