Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From The Onion:
“Chickens don’t appear to have even the slightest aversion to pumping humans full of antibiotics and aggressively breeding them until they literally die from exhaustion. Simply put, they would be more than happy to grind us up and form us into patties, and would begin doing so at a moment’s notice if they could.”
From Frances Langum:
The Hill reports that over 100K people are ready to take to the streets nationwide if Trump fires Mueller.
A coalition of groups opposed to President Trump and his agenda has assembled tens of thousands of individuals pledging to protest if Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller.
Wondering why a few conservative friends fail to be impressed.
From Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post:
As ever, Santa thought long and hard on whom exactly to give this year’s rechristened award to, because Santa is very serious and precise about this award and wants to make certain that it is given solely to the most deserving person. As always, he had a boatload of prospects to consider this year!
Past recipients have included:
2016 – President-elect Donald Chump
2015 – presidential candidate Donald Chump
2014 – TIED – self-proclaimed killer of Osama bin Laden Robert James O’Neill and President Barack Obama
2013 – the obstructionist 113th Congress
2012 – Ex-Hostess Brands CEO Gregory J. Rayburn and his executive board
2011 – the entire Republican congressional caucus
2010 – the obnoxious Phillips “Colon Lady”
2009 – Richard Heinke, the idiot who faked sending his little boy up in a hot-air balloon just for publicity
2008 – disgraced former Democratic IL Governor Rod Blagojevich
Here are the finalists for THIS year’s award:
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
Donald Trump has reportedly banned the CDC from using the following words in their policies, budgets, and communications:
Evidence-based
Science-based
Fetuses
Transgender
Vulnerable
Entitlement
Diversity
This is not exactly true.
This is not Donald Trump’s handiwork.
He is not the author of this list.
He isn’t smart enough to come up with a combination of words so perfectly synchronized to hurt and silence marginalized people.
Only Evangelicals can do that.
As a Christian and twenty-year pastor, one who’s served for much of that time in the American Bible Belt—the list is eerily familiar.
From Tommy Christopher:
Much of Donald Trump’s week was consumed with trying to pass his disastrous tax scam and escalating his offensive against Robert Mueller’s investigation, but he also managed to make time for racism.
While delivering remarks at the FBI National Academy Graduation Ceremony in Quantico, Trump took a break from praising the agency — which he had just finished attacking — to take aim at one of his favorite targets: immigrants.
Trump went off on a tangent about the immigration diversity lottery program, and told the assembled graduates that “They give us their worst people, they put them in a bin, but in his hand, when he’s picking them is, really, the worst of the worst.”
Perhaps as sickening was the reaction of some of the assembled graduates, who laughed at Trump’s attack:
From Shaun Mullen at The Moderate Voice:
If the facts are against you, argue the law.
If the law is against you, argue the facts.
If the law and the facts are against you,
pound the table and yell like hell. ~ CARL SANDBURG
Even with compelling evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin hiding in plain sight, it was inevitable that the congressional investigations into the Russia scandal would descend into mudslinging as conservative Republican calls for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s firing reach a fever pitch, giving the president an opening to again play his favorite responsibility ducking go-free card — what appears to be true is false and what is false is true — for perhaps the highest stakes of all. That would be preserving his feeble and endangered presidency.
What is so frightening is that this Orwellian subterfuge might work.
From Max’s Dad:
I feel sorry for anyone under 40. the millennials or whatever they are called. This group of folks, I call them kids, long derided as slackers, entitled brats and lazy by a generation of baby boomers currently sucking the life out of this country with their own sense of entitlement and their lack of knowledge of anything past their own noses are getting set up for lifetime of hurt. Due to the baby boomers voting into office a group of the most self centered bought and paid for whores of all time, the young of this country face a future of paying for the upkeep of this rotten generation of narcissists who not only refuse to accept any sacrifice, but in effect yell gimme gimme gimme under the guise of protecting their grandchildren.
Yep, this is my generation.
From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
Trump loves to claim he is the most popular and most effective president ever. But all those pathetic claims prove is that he has no connection to reality. The public has an extremely low opinion of Trump.
According to the newest PPP survey, the public thinks Trump is a liar by a 16 point margin, thinks he is more corrupt than Richard Nixon by a 17 point margin, thinks he is mentally unbalanced by a 7 point margin, and would support his impeachment by a 9 point margin.
