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God love NBC News who fact-checks Donald Trump’s “biggest falsehoods and lies” of 2017 in this minute and a half video.
I love that the tweet ends “so far…”
It was a tough job, don’t you know? How to choose which lies to feature – there were so many.
Watch below.
Fact-checking President Trump’s biggest falsehoods and lies of 2017 so far https://t.co/DfTqfFjoRr pic.twitter.com/lnsfRfw42X— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 24, 2017
On Christmas Eve, Donald Trump took to Twitter to rant yet again about how he’s not getting enough credit for his “achievements” and how the media ignores how “Big” and “Strong” his “BASE” is.
The Fake News refuses to talk about how Big and how Strong our BASE is. They show Fake Polls just like they report Fake News. Despite only negative reporting, we are doing well – nobody is going to beat us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
The Fake News refuses to talk about how Big and how Strong our BASE is. They show Fake Polls just like they report Fake News. Despite only negative reporting, we are doing well – nobody is going to beat us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2017
I’ll admit I don’t understand the odd, strange use of capital letters.
What doesn’t make any sense, however, is that the number one source of news for most Americans is (sadly) Fox News which trumpets and fawns over every poo-poo and burp President Cheeto eeks out.
So, if Fox News is constantly sharing glowing reviews of Trump’s work, how can he say there’s “only negative reporting?”
#Sad
By the way, did I mention Trump’s approval rating per the Gallup Daily Tracking poll is a dismal 38%? It’s pretty much the same story over at the Real Clear Politics job approval average.
So. Much. Whining.
For months, Donald Trump has continually downplayed any benefit wealthy folks might see from the recently passed GOP Tax Scam.
Over and over, Trump has told anyone who would listen how the tax legislation would hurt him and his rich buddies, and then quickly pivot to refer to the bill as a “middle class” tax cut.
Just one example – here’s Trump on November 29: “This is going to cost me a fortune, this thing. Believe me. Believe. This is not good for me… I have some very wealthy friends – not so happy with me. But that’s OK.”
But this is what the Trumpster had to say to his ultra-rich friends last night at his Mar-a-Lago resort, via CBS News:
President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, “You all just got a lot richer,” referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier. Mr. Trump directed those comments to friends dining nearby at the exclusive club — including to two friends at a table near the president’s who described the remark to CBS News — as he began his final days of his first year in office in what has become known as the “Winter White House.”
Bolding is mine.
“I have some very wealthy friends — not so happy with me” – Trump to voters at a Missouri rally“You all just got a lot richer” – Trump to wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago
This GOP tax bill was a scam to hoodwink average folks, hook up the wealthiest Americans. This proves it.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) December 24, 2017
Axios and Survey Monkey queried folks to find out what their favorite holiday movies are.
I’m guessing there were a lot of younger folks in the mix as Elf and Die Hard made the cut.
No Santa Claus Is Coming To Town or Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Not even Love Actually?
Leave a comment below if your favorite isn’t here.
I’m not sure where this odd trope came from that pretends we lost the ability to say “Merry Christmas?”
And suddenly pussy-grabber Donald Trump has now given us the gift of “Merry Christmas-ing?”
There’s even a creepy pro-Trump video featuring a little girl THANKING him for LETTING us say “Merry Christmas.”
WTF?
Let’s check the video tape, share we?
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| Totally fan-boying out with Zach Wahls |
I will never forget the first time (or the many, many other times) I watched Zach Wahls thoughtful, moving, pro-marriage equality speech before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee, back in 2011.
Stepping up to defend marriage equality, he spoke eloquently of his two mothers and his childhood:
“I’m not really so different from any of your children. My family really isn’t so different from yours. After all, your family doesn’t derive its sense of worth from being told by the state, ‘You’re married—congratulations!’ No, the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other, to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones; it comes from the love that binds us. That’s what makes a family.”
What happened next was the very definition of “viral video;” millions and millions of views on YouTube.
The Advocate called it “the most popular political video of 2011.”
In 2012, the handsome 20-eyar-old Wahls released his book, My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family.
Short story – I was with my husband Michael in New York City as he was on a publicity tour with his client, Olivia Newton-John.
We were leaving CNN where Olivia had just done an interview about her latest album, and walking down the hallway to the elevators, I see Zach Wahls walking towards us. He was on a promo tour for his book.
I dropped everything I was carrying and totally fan-boyed out. I explained to Michael and Olivia who he was, his speech, and just a lot of blathering blah blah blah. #EmbarrassingButAHugeFan
Zach was very charming, reaching for a book and autographing it to me. His mothers, seeing and recognizing Olivia, stood back and watched this whole moment unfold.
Eventually, we all took pictures and went on our separate ways.
In the elevator, Olivia laughed telling me she had never seen me so animated or excited in all the years she knew me.
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| Zach Wahls with Olivia Newton-John and his mothers |
Zach went on to serve as co-chair for “The Outspoken Generation,” a Family Equality Council initiative that gave the children of gay and lesbian parents a platform to speak out in support of their upbringing.
He also helped launch Scouts for Equality, an advocacy group that sought to challenge the Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gay and lesbian scout leaders.
And then there is his stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention, where he thanked President Obama for his support of same-sex marriage.
Fast forward to now and Zach has announced that he is running for state Senate in Iowa’s 37th District.
The 26-year-old will soon graduate with a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Hello? Princeton University? No slacker here.
I’ll totally be contributing to his campaign.
If you’ve never seen it, you must watch 19-year-old Zach Wahl’s speech in February 2011.
I can’t tell you how moved I was when I saw this. This guy is a political star.
The New York Times is reporting Donald Trump raged through a June Oval Office meeting with senior advisers angry at the level of travel visas issued to what he clearly considered undesirable immigrants saying Haitians “all have AIDS” and Nigerians would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.
Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.
Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
The White House has acknowledged the meeting but denied Trump used the words “AIDS” or “huts.”
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Some news stories you might have missed:
• Living in Las Vegas, it’s pretty hard to ignore a sexy Santa’s helper from Chippendales 😉
• A huge study of 15,624 teens by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows 25% of LGBTQ teens have attempted suicide.
• A 4th federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s transgender military ban. #SoMuchWinning
• In the wake of his stunning loss in the Alabama Senate race, Republican Roy Moore encouraged his followers to attack his Democratic opponent’s gay son.
• That fire chief in Atlanta who was fired for passing around his anti-gay book at work has lost in court.
• President Obama surprises kids at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington with toys for the holidays: “Doing something good for somebody can make you feel better.” #RealPresident
Former Pres. Obama surprises kids at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington with toys for the holidays: “Doing something good for somebody can make you feel better.” https://t.co/mhfdzZwsS5 pic.twitter.com/MLnqcPupKG— ABC News (@ABC) December 23, 2017
Ok, we’re not just talking “Christmas lights” here. Video mapping, projection mapping, moving spotlights – designer Matt Johnson ain’t playing here.
Johnson’s latest Christmas light show continues the tradition and unique style of fast-paced, high-energy, Dubstep and EDM remixed synchronized light displays that have become Matt’s signature style.
This 2017 Star Wars light show is located in downtown San Antonio, Texas at Dignowity Park and runs nightly from 6pm to 10pm until New Years. The show Celebrates the launch of the new movie Star Wars The Last Jedi which will be released December 15th.
I’m pretty sure this beats just about everyone’s holiday decorations. Watch below.
From HuffPost Politics – Donald Trump’s first year in office in three minutes.
This is a masterpiece pic.twitter.com/K0lqg4GfBh— Aaron Vallely (@Vallmeister) December 22, 2017