Clown Car III: Who's Laughing Now

[Timsup2nothin]

Nikki Haley was Indian tho...

I'm gonna take a wild guess that she still is.

But still a hottie.

That too.

 

[Samson]

'He must be stopped': Missouri candidate's children tell voters he's basically a *&!$%

Two of US Republican Steve West's kids ... hav[e] explicitly told the Missouri electorate not to vote their pops into the state's general assembly.

While perceived "homophobia" and "racism" may well win support from some sects of Americans, West's comments on these matters have not impressed his offspring, moving them to contact their local paper.

"My dad's a fanatic. He must be stopped," son Andy West told The Kansas City Star. "His ideology is pure hatred."

Daughter Emily's endorsement also left a lot to be desired. "I can't imagine him being in any level of government. A lot of his views are just very out there. He's made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn't like the Jews."

The siblings refer to West's Monday morning Kansas City radio show on which he pushed "fanatical conspiracies about 'Jewish cabals'", according to the Star.

There's also the one zinger that really ought to seal any idiot's political doom, "Hitler was right", which West reportedly told listeners to KCXL radio on 27 January 2017.

All this among a slew of comments allegedly running the gamut from Islamophobia to homophobia.​

 

[Hrothbern]

'He must be stopped': Missouri candidate's children tell voters he's basically a *&!$%

Two of US Republican Steve West's kids ... hav[e] explicitly told the Missouri electorate not to vote their pops into the state's general assembly.

While perceived "homophobia" and "racism" may well win support from some sects of Americans, West's comments on these matters have not impressed his offspring, moving them to contact their local paper.

"My dad's a fanatic. He must be stopped," son Andy West told The Kansas City Star. "His ideology is pure hatred."

Daughter Emily's endorsement also left a lot to be desired. "I can't imagine him being in any level of government. A lot of his views are just very out there. He's made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn't like the Jews."

The siblings refer to West's Monday morning Kansas City radio show on which he pushed "fanatical conspiracies about 'Jewish cabals'", according to the Star.

There's also the one zinger that really ought to seal any idiot's political doom, "Hitler was right", which West reportedly told listeners to KCXL radio on 27 January 2017.

All this among a slew of comments allegedly running the gamut from Islamophobia to homophobia.​

There is a time that your kids should listen to you
and there is a time they start saying things you better listen to

 

[Broken_Erika]

Pittsburgh, pipe-bomber attacks halted mid-terms momentum says Trump
President Donald Trump has blamed two terror attacks against public figures and worshippers at a synagogue for slowing Republican political momentum.

Speaking at a rally in Missouri on Thursday, Mr Trump said "two maniacs" stopped a "tremendous momentum".

The president did note that taking care of people was more important.

Mr Trump's remarks, called callous by critics, come as the country prepares for mid-term elections next week that could shift power on Capitol Hill.

"We did have two maniacs stop a momentum that was incredible, because for seven days nobody talked about the elections," Mr Trump said during his closing remarks. "It stopped a tremendous momentum."

He added: "More importantly, we have to take care of our people, and we don't care about momentum when it comes to a disgrace like just happened to our country."

"But it did nevertheless stop a certain momentum, and now the momentum is picking up."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46074189

Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055826295337172993

 

[Hrothbern]

Trump in overdrive in the election rallies, his highest score so far on one day 125.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.049049ba8b53

 

[Gori the Grey]

In other news, Heather Nauert, Trump's heir apparent to be the new UN Ambassador (to replace Nikki Haley) legit reminds me of actress Margot Robbie. I thought she was one of the FOX Newsmodels when I first saw her, but it turns out that she just appears on the show sometimes.

She's the one who implausibly claimed not to know anything about the woman in her office who said about McCain "who cares, he's going to die soon anyway" Pretty face don't make no pretty heart.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

She isn't even all that pretty.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Nigeria's army cites Trump to justify shooting Shia protesters

The Nigerian army has cited a video of US President Donald Trump, in which he says soldiers should respond with force to migrants throwing stones, to justify opening fire on a Shia group this week.

"When they throw rocks... consider it as a rifle," Mr Trump says in the clip.

Nigerian police have arrested 400 members of a Shia Muslim sect after days of deadly protests in the capital.

Amnesty International has criticised Nigeria's army for the killings, saying the Shia protesters were peaceful.

But a spokesman for the Nigerian army says their decision to fire live rounds at protesters in Abuja was justified because they were armed, telling the BBC "this is what [Mr] Trump was talking about".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46074719

 

[Takhisis]

She isn't even all that pretty.

Do you actually mean this, or is this said in the spirit that Trump had when he said Trussed Ted's wife wasn't pretty?

 

[FriendlyFire]

But she is a hot Eastern European and white /s

George Papadopoulos’s Own Family Reported His Accused-Kremlin Agent Wife to ICE

“Simona has destroyed George’s relationship with his family,” one close relative who asked not to be identified told Observer. “She has been physically and mentally abusive. Successfully isolating him from all his friends and family. Only his half-sister now has a relationship with him but at one point she had stopped speaking to him.”

“They are making all their best to get me ‘deported’,” said Simona. “I had to hire lawyers yesterday to defend myself.”
The family member Observer spoke to confirmed they had reported her to immigration services—news of which first broke from independent journalist Scott Stedman last week.

https://observer.com/2018/11/george...ported-his-accused-kremlin-agent-wife-to-ice/

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Do you actually mean this, or is this said in the spirit that Trump had when he said Trussed Ted's wife wasn't pretty?

I actually mean this.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I actually mean this.

C'mon LM... as @Gori the Grey says she's clearly an awful person... but the devil often cloakes his messengers in fancy robes... she at least a'ight... you gotta admit.

 

[Traitorfish]

She's a pretty ordinary looking white lady with round features and blonde hair. I think there's just a cultural bias to read that as "attractive", especially among the generation who watch Fox News.

 

[Cutlass]

"CNN refused to run this ad... I guess they only run fake news and won't talk about real threats that don't suit their agenda."
-- Donald Trump Jr. on Trump ad about immigration

"CNN has made it abundantly clear in its editorial coverage that this ad is racist. When presented with an opportunity to be paid to take a version of this ad, we declined."
-- CNN

 

[metalhead]

Don Jr. is right. If your agenda is to not air racist content, you turn down Trump ads.

Would have been a nice policy to have 2 and 3 years ago, when they aired racist hate rallies in full every chance they got.

 

[onejayhawk]

Do what I do and cut the cable. Ta da. No ads. No Fox or CNN.

Also, no ESPN. It isn't all gravy.

J

 

[Takhisis]

I actually mean this.

C'mon LM... as @Gori the Grey says she's clearly an awful person... but the devil often cloakes his messengers in fancy robes... she at least a'ight... you gotta admit.

It's the poster, man, but anyway, yes, she's good-lookingish, even if stereotypically so to a ridiculous level.

I guess it was only a matter of time before Lemon and I disagreed on something other than whether she's right to infract me.

"CNN refused to run this ad... I guess they only run fake news and won't talk about real threats that don't suit their agenda."
-- Donald Trump Jr. on Trump ad about immigration

"CNN has made it abundantly clear in its editorial coverage that this ad is racist. When presented with an opportunity to be paid to take a version of this ad, we declined."
-- CNN

So refusing to run an ad is a bad thing… don't you have a sort of emergency mandatory broadcast system that overrides radio and/or TV's normal programing?

 

[Oerdin]

She is good looking but doesn't seem very nice.

 

[FriendlyFire]

There really are only two kinds of Republicans, the rich and the stupid
I kinda expect this to be honest

Trump Keeps Lying About Having Started His Wall, And His Supporters Don't Care
The president says Congress has given him nearly $5 billion to start building his “Great Wall.” The actual figure is zero.

PENSACOLA, Fla. ― Donald Trump keeps claiming that construction on his promised “great wall” is well underway although not a single yard of it has been built, and his supporters are getting mad ― not at the president, but at those who point out his lie.

“I don’t care. He has done more than any Republican or Democrat,” said Pete Sandifer, a 58-year-old military retiree who with his wife drove two and a half hours from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to attend Trump’s rally in the far western Florida Panhandle.

Sharon Sandifer, 43, disputed that Trump has been unable to secure any funding for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border from any source ― a fact easily proven in the spending legislation that Trump himself has signed.

“Excuse me,” she told HuffPost a short while before Trump arrived at Pensacola International Airport for a Saturday evening rally. “But it’s your word against his.”

“All politicians are liars. They’re all weasels,” said the 60-year-old from Panama City. “You know why he’s so good? Because he’s up there breaking all the furniture. If he wanted to shoot somebody on Broadway, I’d vote ‘not guilty.’”

“They either think it’s mostly built, or they think the Mexican check just hasn’t cleared yet,” Wilson said. “It’s just magical thinking.”

Despite all of this, Trump has claimed that construction has begun on his wall in virtually every rally speech of late. He repeated the falsehood again in Pensacola Saturday night.

“So we’re building the wall. As you know. It started. We did $1.6 billion. We got another $1.6 billion, we’re doing that. And we have another third, but I want to build it all at one time,” Trump said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/trump-wall-lies_us_5bddf9e7e4b09d43e31f6c93

 

[metalhead]

These articles are such a waste of time.

It's not that they believe him, or not. It's that the truth of what he says simply doesn't matter to them. He openly plays white identity politics and does little else, and they love him for it. He is nothing more than a fatty cluster of grievance, and he authentically represents how these people see and feel about the world.

They don't care about a border wall or tax cuts or SCOTUS justices or anything else. 3+ years into this nightmare, and people still don't seem to grasp what is going on here. Going about Trump fandom analytically makes about as much sense as asking a 13 year old girl to explain why she loves Justin Bieber so much.