ARE YOU SERIOUS?

New Jersey couple must first have sex with men prior to receiving insured fertility treatment.

Two lesbian couples in New Jersey are suing state officials over a law they said discriminates against same-sex partnerships concerning insurance coverage for fertility treatments, NJ.com reported.

The lawsuit stated that the law requires couples to engage in unprotected heterosexual intercourse on top of being medically diagnosed with infertility before their coverage can pay for the treatments.

One of the two couples bringing the lawsuit, Marianne and Erin Krupa, said they suffered six miscarriages between them and paid $50,000 for treatments while being denied coverage. The suit stated that they have tried to conceive a child since 2013.

“Right away, we were told that without having sexual intercourse, we would not be covered,” Marianne Krupa told WABC-TV.

The suit targeted the Department of Banking and Insurance for allegedly failing to update its definition of an infertile couple in the wake of the legalization of same-sex marriages. New Jersey is one of 15 states requiring insurance companies like Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Krupas’ provider, to provide such coverage. However, only California and Maryland have added language covering same-sex couples into their legislation.

“Horizon covers infertility services equally regardless of sexual orientation,” a statement from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield read. “We interpret the 2001 New Jersey law defining infertility in a gender and orientation neutral manner and our coverage standard complies with federal non-discrimination requirements.”

The suit stated that it seeks to both force state legislators to update the regulations on fertility coverage and recover the money spent on treatment by the Krupas and the other litigants, identified as Sarah Mills and Sol Mejias.

“Every day that New Jersey law continues to exclude women in same-sex relationships from the protections of the infertility mandate, these women must either wait for the law to change as their childbearing years continue to slip away or, if they have any available resources, bankrupting themselves and their families in order to pay for fertility care that is automatically covered for straight women,” the suit read.

New Jersey, what the fuck is wrong with you people!?

Congratulations New Jersey, you are today’s worst humans in the world!

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WILMORE TO CHEETO JESUS SURROGATE KATRINA PIERSON: “FUCK YOU! STOP TRYING TO EXPALIN HIM AWAY”

KATRINA PIERSON SHOP LIFTING QUEEN TURNED TRUMP SURROGATE

Wilmore didn’t mince words last night The comedian showed the clip of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s latest controversy, claiming that a few weeks ago “we thought it couldn’t get worse” than Trump’s attack on the Gold Star family. Then Clownstick made comments encouraging Second Amendment supporters to do something if Hillary Clinton gets elected.

“At this point, if you vote for Trump, you’re just a dick,” Wilmore said, to thunderous applause from his audience. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I hope you get destroyed by a horse-sized duck. How’s that?”

He asserted that there is no possible way it could be misinterpreted, but “Clowntsick’s spokesgobblin , Katrina Pierson” brought amazement to Wilmore as he “watched the bullshit pour out of her mouth.”

In a CNN appearance, Pierson claimed it was about Clinton and gun control. CNN’s Jake Tapper noted that Trump was talking about what Second Amendment supporters could do if she won. Pierson disagreed.

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“Okay, let me stop you right there. Fuck you, that is what he was talking about! I don’t care how convoluted your explanation. We’re not stupid! We can hear! Stop trying to explain him away.”

Rep. Duncan Hunter tried to explain Cheeto Jesus by saying that he isn’t the most eloquent of speakers, “Let’s say Trump’s an English professor with a Ph.D. in grammar.”

Wilmore stopped the clip right there trying not to laugh:

 “First of all, he can’t get a Ph.D. for a subject that’s taught in the fifth grade, okay? That’s like getting a bachelor’s of science in kickball or something. And just to be clear, your argument is that Trump is so incoherent he can’t be held accountable when his words might constitute a federal crime.”

Then there’s the “human embodiment of impotent rage himself Rudy Giuliani,” who blamed the entire incident on “the Clinton spin machine.

” Wilmore that it again presupposes we can’t hear what Trump is actually saying. “Like he’s blaming us for hearing exactly what Trump said. And here’s what really gets me about this: Giuliani is diminishing the power of Trump’s words, yet he’s not always so calm about language,” 

Wilmore said, showing a clip of the former New York mayor blaming the Black Lives Matter movement for the police shootings in Dallas.

Wilmore noted the hypocrisy was obvious.  

“So, when Trump calls for the violent death of his opposition, that’s just Clinton spin. But when it’s Black Lives Matter, they’re literally killing people with the power of their ‘hypnotizing Negro language,'” Wilmore said in air quotes. “Look, the difference between some random protester and someone running to be the leader of the free world is that once you’re president, everything you say has meaning.”

“I don’t care how they spin this, stop being so careless with your language,” Wilmore concluded.

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IS CHEETO JESUS REALLY SUGGESTING A HIT ON COMPETITOR?

You be the judge.

At a campaign rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, dipashit Trump suggested that “Second Amendment people” — gun owners — could be the answer to stopping Hillary Clinton from winning the 2016 election and appointing justices to the Supreme Court.

“If she gets to pick her judges — there’s nothing you can do, folks,” Trump told the crowd, who loudly booed the prospect of Clinton winning. He then added, without smiling or laughing: “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

The Secret Service via twitter said they were aware of the statements made by Orange Hitler.

It’s time for the shit stain named Donald J. Trump to end his campaign, period end of story!

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CNN’S NELL HUGHES HITS NEW ALL TIME LOW

Screw it that Trump got blasted yesterday by the top 50 GOP top security staff.

The big news is that CNN’s GOP “political analyst” Scottie Nell Hughes –has gone full Monty bat shit crazy!

Hughes argued on yesterday that pregnant women who have contracted the Zika virus should be banned from having abortions because birth defects were “nothing new.”

Sen. Marco Rubio insisted to Politico in a recent interview that abortion should be banned with no exceptions including cases where the Zika virus would cause the child to be born with severe microcephaly.

On Monday, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that Rubio’s stance reflected the beliefs of many men in the Republican Party.

“What Republicans did was they poisoned the [Zika] bill with efforts to try to cut back funding for those [reproductive health] clinics and to cut back funding on Obamacare,” Cardona explained. “They really weren’t interested in fixing this issue. They were interested in playing politics and Marco Rubio’s comment underscores why.”

Hughes agreed that microcephaly was a “devastating disease,” but added that children with birth defects were “nothing new.”

“We don’t have the research, we don’t know what Zika is going to do,” she opined. “And Sen. Rubio is doing the correct thing. One out of every 33 babies in the United States right now is born with a birth defect.”

“We’re going to sit there and terminate a life because you’re possibly going to be born with [microcephaly]?” Hughes asked. “I think that’s actually very hypocritical of the Democrat Party.”

“Abortion is definitely not the answer for a way to sit there and cure this disease.”

Scottie Nell Hughes, you are today’s most despicable human in the world! Congrats numb-nuts!

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ZAKARIA TAKES SECOND SWIPE AT CHEETO JESUS FOR BEING A BULLSHIT ARTIST

Fareed Zakaria took the opportunity Sunday morning to address his comments from earlier in the week when he described GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “bullshit artist” for the way he has blustered and lied on the campaign trail.

What Zakaria didn’t do was apologize, and instead went back to the well for more examples from Trump’s history, using “bullshit” four more times in addition to calling the nominee out for “BS” another six times.

“I was asked by CNN to make one more case where Donald Trump had said something demonstrably false and then explained it away with a caustic tweet and an indignant interview,” Zakaria said. “I replied that there was a pattern here and there is a term for a person who did this kind of thing — a bullshit artist. I was not using that label casually, and in case you have sensitive ears, I’m going to use it a few more times.”

And with that he was off, but not before explaining the popular meaning of the word “bullshit” by referring to Harry Frankfurt’s classic essay: “On Bullshit.”

Zakaira noted Trump’s assertion that he had never meant Russian leader Vladimir Putin, only to show clips of Trump talking about knowing him — which Zakaria labeled as “bullshit.”

Among other examples, the CNN host also took Trump to task for saying he will win solidly Democratic states this election but without revealing how exactly he would do it.

“That’s a head-scratcher,” Zakaria said. “Won’t we notice when he campaigns in those states? Or will it be so secret that even the voters won’t be told? Of course, it’s really just BS.”

“Harry Frankfurt concluded that liars and truth-tellers are acutely aware of facts and truth,” he continued. “The BS artist, however, has lost all connection with reality. ‘By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.'”

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"TRUMP IS NOT MENTALLY ILL - HE'S JUST DELIBERATELY DRIVING THE REST OF US INSANE"

During a panel discussion on CNN Friday night, host Erin Burnett took up the subject that has been on everyone’s minds following the events of the past week: Is Donald Trump mentally ill?

The first four days of the previous week were littered with outright lies, out-of-control outbursts and manic airing of petty grievances by Trump that has seen conservatives not only withdraw support, but also fuel rumors that the Republican Party was looking for a way to dump Trump before the election.

On CNN’s Outfront, guests hedged their bets over whether Trump might suffer from a potentially debilitating mental condition that would put the country in danger should he become president, with one panelist admitting he could be “crazy like a fox.”

New York Times reporter Alex Burns got the panel started by stating, “When you look at polls testing the match-up between Trump and Clinton, his temperament, his personal capacity to perform the responsibilities of the presidency is probably the biggest hurdle for him, just outside of various things he had done to offend various groups of voters.”

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN



Adding that voters he has interviewed are beginning to question Trump’s mental state, Burns added, “I was talking to a Republican donor today who said the same thing, ‘I used to think he was crazy like a fox, now I’m not sure it’s like a fox'”

With activist and MoveOn.org spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre adding Trump clearly “knows what he’s doing and we’re giving him an excuse,” conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter filled in the blanks.

“Here’s the thing. I think it is ridiculous for serious people to seriously question Donald Trump’s mental capacity,” she began. “What is happening is that he is driving the rest of us insane. He says these things deliberately to get a charge. He traffics on conspiracy theories to stir it up. He likes to stir up traffic on-line.”

“He’s doing it to us, he’s not insane,” she continued. “I agree with you [indicating Karine Jean-Pierre], he does know what he’s doing. We shouldn't be falling for it.”

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FOCUS ON BEATING TRUMP IN THIS ARMEGEDDON ELECTION

VIDEO COURTESY OF HBO



Bill Maher last night warned liberals against allowing their pet causes to interfere with the larger goal of winning the election.and making sure Cheeto Jesus is not our next President.

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ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: UDAY AND QUSAY TRUMP HAVE KILLED THEIR FAIR SHARE OF ANIMALS

Hillary Clinton had a quick response on Thursday when an animal rights demonstrators broke out during a campaign rally in Las Vegas.

Footage posted by ABC News shows the former secretary of state speaking to Secret Service agents as the protesters began chanting, before saying, “These people must be here to protest [Donald] Trump — he and his kids have killed a lot of animals.”



According to Talking Points Memo, the demonstrators were part of an organization called Direct Action Everywhere.

TPM also reported that Trump’s sons, Eric (Uday) and Donald Jr (Qusay)., are currently out of the US on a hunting trip. Eric Trump, in particular, was mocked by Full Frontal host Samantha Bee a day earlier in a series of tweets.

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TRUMP’S A “LOUDMOUTH DICK”!

Twice this week, a CNN interview featured a flash of profanity related to Donald Trump.

On Wednesday it was Republican strategist Liz Mair, an outspoken critic of the party’s presidential nominee, voicing her displeasure with Trump during an interview with Anderson Cooper.

“His message is being a loudmouthed dick, basically,” she said. “And going out there and offending people and then engaging in an airing of grievances. That’s what he does. He doesn’t have another message.”

Mair, who is now the spokesperson for a group of Republicans backing Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, said she lost hope that the party could rein the real estate mogul in months ago.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“Quite frankly, what I think we’re gonna continue to see throughout this campaign is, we’re gonna continue to see the Republican nominee basically acting as if he’s on a suicide mission and aiming to take the whole rest of the party down with him.”

Mair’s remark came two days after one of the network’s hosts, Fareed Zakaria, referred to Trump as a “bullshit artist” on the air.

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#KATRINAPIERSONHISTORY

Apparently, according to Cheeto Jesus Surrogate Katrina Pierson, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got into a time machine and time warped to 2004 to change the rules of engagement that cost Captain Humayun Khan his life?

This is Pierson’s new synopsis of how the Captain lost his life.

Specifically, Pierson told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday that Capt. Humayun Khan “probably” died because Obama and Clinton crippled our military’s ability to fight by changing the rules of engagement.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“But surely you can understand the confusion, considering how Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq War, Hillary Clinton did,” Pierson said. “Then she didn’t support the troops to have what they need. It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life! So I don’t understand why it’s so hard to understand why Donald Trump was confused.”

There is a very obvious problem with this, of course: Khan was killed by a car bomb all the way back in 2004. During that time, Clinton was a senator for New York and Obama wasn’t even a senator yet.

Twitter was a blaze last night mocking Pierson with the hashtag #katrinapiersonhistory–to which, even by Katrina Pierson’s standards - is a new low for her. Like her mentor, Orange Hitler, nothing appears to be beyond the pale of these two asshats.

Pierson’s belligerent pathological ignorance is at an all time high. Why CNN continues to cater to these low information surrogates (Katrina Pierson and Scottie Nell Hughes), is beyond comprehension - which appears to be at an all time low for the cable news organization.

For Pierson’s ignorance, congrats, you are today’s worst person in the world!

HEMORRHOIDAL HAS-BEEN

Samantha Bee tore into Cheeto Jesus last night for wondering aloud if Ghazala Khan “wasn’t allowed to have anything to say” when her husband criticized him during the Democratic National Convention.

“She was too choked up from seeing her son’s picture,” Bee said, before asking the Republican presidential candidate, “Why are you allowed to have anything to say?”

Bee pointed out that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination amid endorsements from not only lawmakers, but President Barack Obama, First Lady Barack Obama, police officers and “half the fucking Pentagon.”

VIDEO COURTESY OF TBS

“That is how good you have to be if you’re a woman running for president — and she still might lose to this,” she said, as an image of Trump surfaced behind her. “The least qualified candidate ever to lurch into the public spotlight and shit on Gold Star moms while cradling [Vladimir] Putin’s sweaty sack.”

While Trump was the centerpiece of a group of the Republican National Convention’s parade of “hemorrhoidal has-beens,” Bee argued, Clinton and the Democrats managed to one-up the GOP in terms of presenting an upbeat, patriotic message leading up to Clinton’s history-making nomination, which brought Bee to tears.

“I’m not crying,” she insisted. “I just have tears coming out of my wherever.”

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SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES WONDERS WHY SHE IS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF CNN

Orange Hitler surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said Sunday on CNN’s New Day that Trump has been “set up” for attacks after his comments about a heroic Muslim American Army captain who died serving in Iraq.

Hughes was talking about an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, in which Stephanopoulos questioned Trump about comments at the Democratic National Convention by Khizr Khan, father of fallen soldier Humayun Khan. Khan had criticized Trump for comments saying he would ban Muslims from entering the country.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices,” Trump said in the interview. “I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”

Hughes said the interview was edited to make Trump look bad.

“But now that I’ve read the questions and the Trump campaign and others have released the full transcript, you can see what a set up this is,” she said. “Which was nothing but to trap Mr. Trump going forward.”

New Day host Victor Blackwell asked how Stephanapoulos asking, “What would you say to that father” was a set up. He also pointed out her reading of the transcript was inaccurate.

Scottie Nell Hughes, congratulations, you are today's worst person in the world! 

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NOTORIOUS HRC

VIDEO COURTESY OF HBO




Last night Bill Maher urged Hillary Clinton to embrace the dark side and embody the mythical “super villain” Republicans believe her to be.

The voting public, Maher said, “don’t want America’s nicest grandma. They want the wolf that puts a grandma in its teeth. They want a ruthless Mafia boss who will protect their frightened souls, which is why Hillary has to own all the nasty things the haters say and run as the Notorious H.R.C.”

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KHIZAR KHAN EXCORIATES CHEETO JESUS

In by far one of the best speeches to come out of the 2016 DNC conventions - was the one from a father of a US soldier, who just happens to be Muslim.

From the Muslim ban to his open embrace of racial profiling, fear-mongering about Muslims has been a centerpiece of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s campaign. It’s his mantra. But during the last night of the Democratic National Convention, the father of a Muslim U.S. Army Captain who died in Iraq while trying to protect his men during an attack reminded Cheeto Jesus about some relevant passages from the Constitution.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“We are honored to stand here as the parents of Captain Humayun Khan and as patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to our country,” Khizr Khan, father of Humayun, said.

Onstage with his wife, Khan asked whether Trump has “even read the United States Constitution.”

“I will gladly lend you my copy,” Khan said, pulling a pocket-size constitution from his jacket. “In the document, look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘equal protection of law.'”

Khan also said that Orange Hitler has “sacrificed nothing and no one” and suggested he take a trip to Arlington Cemetery to see how people of “all faiths, genders and ethnicities” have “died defending the United States of America.”

“We cannot solve our problems by building walls, sowing division. We are stronger together,” Khan said.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, Trump lamented that the United States government no longer waterboards people and talked about how he wants to “hit” speakers who were critical of him at the DNC convention.

Many verbally destroyed Clownstick, but Khan slayed him like no other this week, hitting the idiot fast and furious with a barrage of facts, even offering Clownstick his own copy of the US constitution.

Apparently with Cheeto Jesus wanting to hit those whom verbally blasted him, its self evident that the carnival barker can dish it out but can’t take his own dose of medicine of not being so politically correct when it comes to speaking about others.

Fact is, Trump is way out of his element, not that he was ever in it, but the fact that so many have pointed to the sheer ignorance of this asshat, which exists on so many levels – proves that this con man is not only an embarrassment to his country, but to the human race as well.

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DNC HEAVY WEIGHTS COMPLETEY SHRED CHEETO JESUS

Yesterday, the GOP presidential nominee asked a foreign government to hack American computers. Most of the US citizenry would have be arrested for treason for conducting such actions.

Up until now, I have severely questioned the judgment and intelligence of Trump supporters and the GOP in general. After today, I question their patriotism.

With that said, speakers at the DNC convention last night took Trump to task, and it was not a good night to be Fuckface Von Clownstick - nor a supporter for that Matter.

Michael Bloomberg, John Hutson, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden and President O all took center stage last night, and oh what a night it was for slaying the green slimy two toed sloth.

Below are videos from last night’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Sit back with your favorite beverage and enjoy the blistering evisceration of Trump.

Rear Admiral John Hutson




Leon Panetta Skewering Trump





Joe Biden on Trump: "No major party nominee has ever known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security." Fact check: True.



Bloomberg “I know A Con When I See One”




Obama Rips Orange Hitler



In the literal sense, Trump is a shit stain on the society of America; he is everything we are not. Hopefully this country wakes up early enough to recognize the disaster that this con-man is.





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“HE CASHED IN”

In one of the most damning speeches against Orange Hitler, Joseph Crowley [New York Rep] just annihilated the carnival barker last night in a profound speech about the days, weeks and indeed the years that followed the 9-11 attacks. While Trump liked to point fingers at what others did wrong and talk about hundreds that protested in the streets of New Jersey, others were helping those who needed it most.

While others, Republican and Democrat, showed up, helped, brought food and support and fought for the first responders who suffered tremendous health problems, Donald Trump did little. According to Crowley, “he cashed in.”

“People forget, but the assistance package that was first proposed didn’t have a dime for New York,” Crowley said. “Hillary helped turn that around — securing $20 billion we needed to get New York going again. But, she didn’t stop there. Hundreds worked on the Pile in the days after 9/11. They came first to find survivors, but eventually searched for remains.”

ORANGE HITLER - WAR PROFITEER



Crowley said that those that were down there trying to help didn’t care about their own health. “They were told the air was fine. But, it wasn’t. And when health issues emerged years later, Hillary Clinton was still by their side.”

Clinton brought families and first responders to Washington to go door to door and lobby for those that needed help the most.

Cowley said that Hillary sought these funds to help local businesses get back to work. “Donald Trump sought a payday for his empire. It was one of our nation’s darkest days, but to Trump, it was just another chance to make a quick buck. Hillary has never and will never forget the reality of that day. And that’s why she will never give up on making us a better and stronger nation.”

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SILVERMAN VERBALLY BITCH SLAPS BERNIE BROS

Saying she was proud to have supported the candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, comedian Sarah Silverman touted the nomination of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — only to have to make an off-script comment to Sanders delegates on the floor.

“Bernie showed us that all of American citizens deserve quality health care and education, not just the wealthy elite,” Silverman said after explaining that she had been “feeling the Bern” for the past year.



She then turned to Clinton, saying, “It’s so inspiring. Just a few years ago she was a secretary and now she’s going to be president. She’s like the only person ever to be overqualified for a job–as the president. I will vote for Hillary with gusto, as I continue to be inspired and moved to action by the ideals set forth by Bernie.”

As her speech wrapped up, she was met with chants of “Bernie! Bernie!” only to hold up her hand and respond, “Can I just say to the `Bernie or Bust’ people—you’re being ridiculous.”

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MCAULIFFE SIDE STEPS COURT TO AIDE EX-FELONS IN VOTING RIGHTS

Gov. Terry McAuliffe is taking action to restore the voting rights of thousands of ex-offenders in the state after a court decision Friday put them in jeopardy. He’s getting around the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling against him by signing 200,000 individual clemency grants to the state’s ex-offenders to ensure their right to vote in November.

In a 4 to 3 decision late Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia stripped away the voting rights from 200,000 ex-offenders who had recently regained full civil rights through one of McAuliffe’s executive orders, effectively disenfranchising one in five of the state’s African American voters.

The court said the governor lacks the authority under the state constitution to issue a blanket rights restoration to everyone in the state with a felony record who has already served their full sentence. A study earlier this year found that the vast majority of those impacted — 80 percent — committed non-violent crimes. Most have been out of prison for more than a decade, and African Americans are disproportionately represented. Forty-six percent of the ex-offenders are black, though blacks make up less than 20 percent of the state’s population.

The non-partisan group that has for months been leading the charge on registering ex-offenders to vote, New Virginia Majority, released a statement saying the ruling “reaffirms the Commonwealth’s Jim Crow legacy,” noting that the vast majority of states restore voting rights upon release from prison.

“Excluding Virginians from the ballot, even after they’ve paid their debts to society, is a cruel, inhumane reminder of past mistakes,” said Tram Nguyen, the group’s executive director. “Importantly, today’s ruling validates entrenched interests in the Virginia General Assembly bent on silencing a large swath of Black Virginians in order to maximize their political power.”

But just hours after the decision, McAuliffe vowed to push back by signing clemency grants for the state’s ex-offenders one by one.

“The struggle for civil rights has always been a long and difficult one, but the fight goes on,” he wrote. “I remain committed to moving past our Commonwealth’s history of injustice to embrace an honest process for restoring the rights of our citizens, and I believe history and the vast majority of Virginians are on our side.”

With the November election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump just few months away, Republicans have accused McAuliffe of pushing the voting rights restoration to help Clinton carry the swing state in the fall.

Virginia, a long-time conservative stronghold, was key to President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories, and is considered a toss-up for 2016. Theoretically, if all 206,000 ex-offenders register to vote before the October deadline, they could decide who sits in the White House next year. The governor’s office says just 13,000 have registered so far, and the new need for individual clemency orders will likely slow down the registration process.

This means legal uncertainty for people like Virginia native Randy Tyler, who lost his voting rights in 1995 due to a grand larceny conviction, and just regained them through the governor’s executive order this year.

“Before, I felt like I was left out. I felt like even though I live in America, I wasn’t a part of it,” he said. “But now, I have the privilege of saying who I want to elect for the presidency. I might be the one vote that makes a difference. I feel like a citizen of the United States again.”

[Cross-Posted from thinkprogress]

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CNN'S NELL HUGHES AN EMBARRASSMENT TO CNN

Fuckface Von Clownstick nutter Scottie Nell Hughes was not happy with the Spanish she heard coming out of Hillary Clinton’s new vice presidential pick’s mouth at a rally in south Florida Saturday.

Former Virginia governor Tim Kaine was named Friday as Clinton’s running mate and the campaign touted his time as a missionary in Honduras where he learned to speak fluent Spanish.

“I appreciating him having multi-cultural and speaking Spanish, I think that’s a great idea,” Nell Hughes said. “And we can all bring out our languages. Melania can come out and speak her five different languages as well, but what Mr. Trump did, he spoke in a language that all Americans can understand. That is English!”

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN



Nell Hughes went on to say that Trump’s English is “one good thing” she experienced at the Republican National Convention this past week. “I didn’t have to get a translator for anything that was going on at the RNC this week. And I’m hoping I’m not gonna have to start brushing up back on my ‘Dora the Explorer’ to understand some of the speeches given this week.”

She claimed Kaine’s Spanish was what stuck out to her the most.

Nell Hughes has been mocked mercilessly on Saturday Night Live after taking the spot on CNN. “As a woman I like Donald Trump, but as a full-blown nutj

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CLOWNSTICK, A MAN OF THE 50'S

TRUMP FAMILY PHOTO CIRCA 1950's

Bill Maher last night reflected on Donald Trump as a quintessential man of the '50s, whose old-fashioned sensibilities about women and minorities may resonate with his fans, but are incompatible with modern society.

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COULD ORANGE HITLER PASS A SANITY TEST?

OLBERMANN ASK'S, CAN TRUMPENSTEIN PASS A SANITY TEST?

Keith Olbermann attempted to understand Republican presidential nominee Orange Hitler aka [Donald Trump] this week through the lens of clinical psychology and determined that the candidate could not pass one of the most widely used “sanity” assessments used to predict criminal and antisocial behavior.

In a column for Vanity Fair that was published on Thursday, Olbermann noted that Trump had repeatedly questioned the sanity of his rivals, including Glenn Beck, Ben Carson, Barack Obama, Ted Cruz and Megyn Kelly.

VIDEO COURTESY OF VANITY FAIR



To evaluate Trump, Olbermann chose a test developed by Canadian criminal psychologist Robert D. Hare. “The Hare Psychopathy Checklist,” Olbermann explained, “serves as a kind of triage device to separate the injured from the tripping from the psychopathic.”

The test awards points for 20 different personality traits. With a maximum score of 40, the test sets the threshold for clinical psychopathy at 30 points.

The Hare checklist considers traits like grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, shallow affect, lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, promiscuous sexual behavior, early behavior problems, irresponsibility and failure to accept responsibility for one’s own actions.

And out of 40 possible points, Trump scored 32 — putting him over the 30 point threshold for a diagnosis of clinical psychopathy.

“The implications are clear,” Olbermann wrote. “Our Trumperor’s New Clothes media rightly sees the latest Trump ‘event’—whatever it is this time—as one of the most unbelievable developments in American political history. But the simple mechanics of following, reporting, and writing the proverbial ‘new high in low’ every single day means that they could be missing one overriding truth about the health of the most remarkable presidential candidate since at least 1864.”

“In short, our amateurs’ exercise with the very professional Hare Psychopathy Checklist suggests that if you were betting on it, you’d probably want to bet that Donald Trump couldn’t pass a sanity test—open book,” Olbermann concluded.

We miss Oblermann’s political daily input, and I for one certainly wish we could get him back on the airwaves - as there is not a better slayer of the green slimy two toed sloth [GOP] than Olbermann!

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CLOWNSTICK’S GHOSTWRITER SPEAKS, AND IT AIN’T PRETTY

Make this video go viral!

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If you didn’t already think Fuckface Von Clownstick was a shit stain, here is proof!

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CLOWNSTICK NUTTERS COME UNGLUED AS CRUZ FAILS TO ENDORSE DON THE CON

In a highly-anticipated speech to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, Sen. Ted Cruz congratulated Donald Trump for securing the GOP nomination for president, but stopped short of endorsing him.

As his speech drew to a close, the thousands of delegates who had sat in respectful silence and cheered for Cruz minutes earlier began booing, screaming, giving thumbs down, and chanting “endorse Trump” and “say his name.” Cruz jokingly acknowledged the angry noises coming from the front-row New York delegation, but never offered the Trump endorsement they sought.

South Carolina delegate Cindy Costa maintained a tense smile on her face as her husband leaped onto his chair and screamed at Cruz.

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“We were hoping [Cruz] would do the right thing, but he didn’t. That’s his bad,” she told ThinkProgress. “At the very first debate, when he was asked if he’d support the nominee, he said he would. This shows he is not true to his word. He’s not a truth-teller.”

As he made the rounds at the RNC this week, Cruz indicated he’s open to another presidential runi n 2020. But Costa predicted the non-endorsement of Trump during a time of uncertainty for the Republican Party will “absolutely” hurt Cruz’s political future.

“He had a grand opportunity to help us coalesce, and he didn’t take it,” she lamented.

Yet other delegates said they were proud of Cruz for refusing to back Trump.

Texas delegate Nicholas Allman, a leader of the state’s College Republicans, said that the decision was “perhaps a rejection of demagoguery as a campaign tactic and an endorsement of values and rules and classical liberal ideology.”

Allman, who hovered on the edge of the convention floor wearing the cowboy hat required of all Texas delegates, said while he voted for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in the Republican primary, Cruz had impressed him by withholding his endorsement.

“That took some serious serious guts,” he said. “A huge percentage of the crowd was booing. And if Donald Trump does become president, he’s going to be a powerful man, and he’s not going to forgive Cruz for doing this to him.”

As Allman and other delegates observed, Cruz’s speech itself had a decidedly un-Trumpian flavor. He called on delegates to “cast aside anger for love” and “vote your conscience.”

As the crowd railed against Cruz, some also directed their anger at his wife Heidi.

And while many of the delegates vented their anger spontaneously, Time reported that the Trump campaign also had a hand in whipping up the crowd’s reaction.

Things got ugly between Trump and Cruz in the final months of the Republican primary, and Wednesday night suggests the two have not yet reconciled. At the nadir of their feud, Trump retweeted a meme suggesting that Cruz’s wife Heidi is unattractive. He later suggested Cruz’s dad might’ve been responsible for assassinating JFK. But through it all, Cruz vowed to abide by a promise he and all the other non-Trump candidates made in the summer of 2015 to support whomever ended up winning the Republican nomination.


[Cross-Posted from thinkprogress]

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“GUESS STACY DASH WASN’T AVAILABLE”

Many members of the African-American community have taken issue with Trump’s new chair of African American outreach: The former winner of ‘The Apprentice’ Omarosa Manigault. Tuesday evening before the Republican National Convention got started, comedian Samantha Bee dropped a quick promotional video for her upcoming special, airing Wednesday.

“Today was the first day of the RNC,” Bee said, a day later. “But really, isn’t it all just one big, long, black, chilling night?”

After mocking the bizarre hashtag the RNC choose, rncincle, and trying to pronounce it, Bee brought up Omarosa.

“She’s uniquely qualified since she’s the only African-American the campaign has ever reached out to,” Bee mocked. “She’s going to do great. Oh, I guess Stacey Dash wasn’t available. Fine.”

Bee also wanted everyone to know that she’d be posting updates throughout the week on the #RNCinCLE. She’s doing it, not so much to talk about the convention, but to let people know her location for safety purposes.

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BEE EXCORIATES PENCE

Samantha Bee lacerated both the Republican National Convention and presumptive vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence on Monday, saying that Indiana would be better off losing him as the state’s governor with him entering the presidential race.

“Indiana voters hate Pence as much as Indiana Jones hates snakes,” Bee said after showing footage of him getting booed during an appearance at a baseball game.

Pence got booed, she said, because of his record of supporting anti-LGBTQ and anti-reproductive health policies.

“It’s 10:30 in Indianapolis, 9:30 in Gary and 1952 everywhere thanks to Pence,” she cracked. “If you’re a lady Hoosier, you may recognize him as the governor to inspected your productive organs every 30 days to make sure you weren’t using them in a way that would make Jesus sad.”

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But while Clinton may have told some lies during her career, Bee said, none was as big as Trump calling the governor his “first choice” for running mate, saying that he made the pick after vacillating between “Republican Littlefinger” Newt Gingrich and Pence, who she described as “Roger Sterling during an asthma attack.”

Bee also noted that she would be going to Cleveland on Tuesday for this week’s Republican National Convention, but admitted to being surprised that Sarah Palin — a vocal Trump supporter — would not be attending.

“She’s mad because Trump stole her word salad spinner,” Bee said, adding, “But at least mega-star Scott Baio will be there — making this the second time he’s watched helplessly as someone jumps the shark.”

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BEE EXCORIATES PENCE

Samantha Bee lacerated both the Republican National Convention and presumptive vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence on Monday, saying that Indiana would be better off losing him as the state’s governor with him entering the presidential race.

“Indiana voters hate Pence as much as Indiana Jones hates snakes,” Bee said after showing footage of him getting booed during an appearance at a baseball game.

Pence got booed, she said, because of his record of supporting anti-LGBTQ and anti-reproductive health policies.

“It’s 10:30 in Indianapolis, 9:30 in Gary and 1952 everywhere thanks to Pence,” she cracked. “If you’re a lady Hoosier, you may recognize him as the governor to inspected your productive organs every 30 days to make sure you weren’t using them in a way that would make Jesus sad.”

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But while Clinton may have told some lies during her career, Bee said, none was as big as Trump calling the governor his “first choice” for running mate, saying that he made the pick after vacillating between “Republican Littlefinger” Newt Gingrich and Pence, who she described as “Roger Sterling during an asthma attack.”

Bee also noted that she would be going to Cleveland on Tuesday for this week’s Republican National Convention, but admitted to being surprised that Sarah Palin — a vocal Trump supporter — would not be attending.

“She’s mad because Trump stole her word salad spinner,” Bee said, adding, “But at least mega-star Scott Baio will be there — making this the second time he’s watched helplessly as someone jumps the shark.”

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"THEY'RE COMING TO CLEVELAND TO DIE"

Ben Domenech from The Federalist wasn’t accepting the spin from his fellow Republican panelists on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.” While Matt Schlapp from the American Conservative Union was insisting that new VP pick Mike Pence and presidential nominee Donald Trump were going to unite Republicans.

Schlapp explained that he has people on his board that were in the #NeverTrump category who are tempered by Trump’s pick for VP. “I have anecdotal evidence that this is happening across the country,” he swore.

Domenech, however, laid down the hard truth.

“The Pence pick does not change the fact that the Republican Party is now the party of Donald Trump,” he said, while Schlapp insisted he was wrong.

“A hundred and fifty years ago this party was begun by Abraham Lincoln on the idea that Constitutional rights were not bound by race or creed. That the American eagle’s wings were broad enough to accept all that would come here. Now, this party is coming to Cleveland to die,” Domenech continued.

“This is not the party of Abraham Lincoln anymore. It is the party of Donald Trump. It has traded statesmanship for xenophobia,” he said alluding to Trump’s ban on Muslims. “It has traded free markets for protectionism. It has traded the higher principles of our better angels for the belief in party identity politics. That is why they are getting zero percent of the black vote in Pennsylvania. That is why you’re going to continue to see this kind of race-baiting approach to politics. I think it’s completely true that this is the end of the party of Lincoln.”

Schlapp broke in, insisting that the kind of words Domenech was spreading were what you’re hearing out of the Washington, DC Beltway elite, despite the fact that Trump just nominated Pence, a member of the Beltway elite, who was supported by the Beltway elite. “They love their country and they simply want to take it back,” he concluded from the record number of supporters that voted for Trump.

“They are desperate for change,” Domenech agreed. “They are desperate for something different than what the elites who have failed them for far too long. But they have turned in their desperation to a man who they don’t fully understand and who’s not going to deliver on his promises.”

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MAHER - HANDLER UNLOAD ON TRUMP KIDS

Fuckface Von Clownstick has been notorious throughout his career for making crude assessments of women based on their appearances — recall him saying that no one would vote for Carly Fiorina because of the way her face looked.

Netflix talk show host Chelsea Handler this week decided to hit back at Trump by giving him some of his own medicine, although she directed it at his son Eric.

During Thursday’s show, Handler talked with Bill Maher about the role that Trump’s children are playing in his campaign. Maher said that he was uncomfortable having the entire Trump family being so deeply involved in his presidential campaign.

“It’s very ‘Banana Republic’ to involve your children to that degree,” Maher said. “I mean, that’s what Saddam Hussein did.”

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When the time came to discuss Trump’s son Eric — whom Maher referred to as “Douchebag Von Fuckface Trump” — Handler made crude remarks about his physical appearance.

“He’s the worst-looking person ever,” she said. “I mean that face is just so unfuckable.”

Maher didn’t comment on his appearance, but he did say Eric was “a horrible person” since he’s also “the one who shoots lions in Africa.”

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25 THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ORANGE HITLER (TRUMP)

Bill Maher last night gave us another round of 25 things voters might not know about Orange Hitler .

“Sometimes, late at night, I worry that my obsessive self-aggrandizement and self-promotion are symptoms of inner weakness and a transparent, childish impulse that everyone can see,” Maher said, speaking as Trump. “I worry they’re laughing at how obvious it is that I’m an abandoned, frightened child swirling in my black emptiness. But then I tweet shit about my poll numbers and I feel better.”

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Maher also didn't pass up the chance to bring back his running joke about Trump’s supposedly-simian background, as “fact” no. 9 stated that Trump “I can peel a banana with my feet.”





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ROLLINS PUMMELS MEDIA FOR GIULIANI’S ASSHAT COMMENTS

Henry Rollins took on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in his latest column for L.A. Weekly. Rollins also excoriated news outlets for going to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for analysis.

“The despicable litanies of willfully ignorant denial and misinformation I have heard spouted in the last several days by pieces of shit like Rudy Giuliani all but ensure that things will get worse,” Rollins wrote.

Giuliani appeared on several news shows following both the shootings and the demonstrations they sparked, arguing that black parents should teach their children to fear other members of their communities instead of police, and saying, “I saved a lot more black lives than Black Lives Matter.”

“The mainstream media outlets allow this utter crap to slide by unchallenged and, by doing so, legitimize falsehoods that could get people killed,” the former Black Flag lead singer said in response. “Ratings-based, 24/7, for-profit media is the complete death of true journalism and a catapult for propaganda.”

But in contrast to Giuliani’s rhetoric, Rollins also addressed white privilege in his column, saying that if white Americans “would immediately and collectively lose their minds” if they had to deal with even a fraction of the experiences black Americans go through in connection with the justice system.

“I’m an educated, Caucasian, heterosexual male. Does this ensure I will have success and live the American Dream? Obviously it doesn’t,” he wrote. “But it damn sure drops me on second base with a great opportunity to steal third.”

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GIULIANI GETS SCHOOLED BY D.L. HUGHLEY

D. L. Hughley fired back at Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday after the former New York mayor claimed that Black Lives Matter was “inherently racist” and was “quickly becoming a terrorist group.”“You cannot tell me ‘all lives matter’ when some are treated distinctly different,” Hughley explained to CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I can mourn for police officers that are slain and I can mourn for two young black men that were slain. I don’t have a moral dilemma in that.”

“I think that ‘all lives matter’ is a perversion of what makes Black Lives Matter special,” Cuomo agreed. “There is an obvious inequity.”

“Police officers have fears and biases,” Hughley explained. “But if your fears and biases get me killed, and my anger and frustration get you killed — act human, we are no more or no less human. Every time you turn around, somebody is making a moral reason why somebody was slain in the streets and it’s an aberrant behavior, and it would be aberrant if I said a young black man slaughtered five police officer or you see five police officers slay black men.”

“When Rudy Giuliani says that Black Live Matter are terrorists,” he continued, “let me tell you something, I don’t think all black people or all white people are all anything. But to be castigated with the same brush that they did [Dallas shooter] Micah Johnson would be the equivalent of me telling you all white people think like [Charleston church shooter] Dylann Roof. And that would be deeply offensive.”

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According to Hughley, some in the media had failed to challenge Giuliani “because a lot of people want that narrative because it edifies their perspective.”

“Do you think he was trying to make a more innocuous point, have a love of humanity?” Cuomo wondered.

“I think there was nothing loving about that situation,” Hughley insisted. “I think he was brutal mayor who basically had a reign of terror of black people in this country — in this city. To me, taking advice from Rudy Giuliani is like Kim Kardashian giving me marriage advice. It is ridiculous.”

“It is ridiculous when you have a person who has set up some of the most heinous thing that have happened to black people in this country, and to say something like that every time somebody says something about injustice, they are the terrorists,” the comedian opined. “MLK would be considered a terrorist, Gandhi was a terrorist, Mandela was a terrorist. And all they were trying to do was fight for justice.”

"And to me, when old white men tell black men how to act, that’s the most ridiculous thing in the world. To tell black people to speak a certain way and to act a certain way is no different from telling a woman how to dress so she doesn’t get raped.”

Rudy Giuliani, congrats, you are today's worst person in the world. Enjoy numbnuts! 

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VICENTE FOX TELLS TRUMP – “USE YOUR MIND IF YOU HAVE ONE”

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has made it no secret about his disdain for Fuckface Von Clownstick. In several YouTube videos, Fox has gone from disgust and contempt to logically refuting everything Trump has said on the stump, even challenging him to debate.

Tuesday, however, Netflix host Chelsea Handler asked him for an update on his seething hatred of the man who could become president of the United States.

“What he has proposed and the way he offends,” Fox said trailing off a little. “It’s incredible.”

Fox continued that he can’t believe that Trump is actually close to occupying the same chair as some of the greatest leaders the country has ever had.

“It’s incredible that this guy with the crazy hair could be sitting in that chair,” Fox continued. “And, I mean, talking about building a wall. The wall is built already and Americans paid for it. It has served no purpose at all.”

Fox instead encourages “other ways and means to use your mind, if [Trump] has one. You can use your intelligence, if he has one, and go a different route.”

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While president, Fox said that he received visits from Sen. John McCain and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who worked with him on a bill for immigration reform for a week.

“It’s been sitting in Congress now for 10 years,” Fox said of the legislation that most believe will never pass the GOP-led House and Senate. “That bill has the solution to this problem, because I’m not for open borders, I think borders should have order.”

But order, Fox says, is not what Trump is proposing.




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CLOWNSTICK MOUTHPIECE GETS SLAMMED YET AGAIN

Guess who doesn’t have a clue when it comes to speaking on moral authority - or is even more clueless when it comes to lecturing black people about their lack of leadership in their own community?

Fuckface Von Clownstick mouthpiece Katrina Pierson

In an appearance on CNN Monday, Clownstick’s mouthpiece said that the current tensions between police and the black community represented a lack of leadership, from President Obama down to the black communities themselves.

“These are actually symptoms of a much greater problem, which is a severe lack of leadership, not just in this country but in the black community,” Pierson said. “This has stemmed from irresponsibility at the executive level. You have a first black president who injects himself in local issues, particularly when it comes to police, and now we have this problem.”

CNN contributor Bakari Sellers didn’t waste any time dropping the hammer on Pierson.

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“I don’t really have any idea what Ms. Pierson’s talking about,” Sellers said. “To say that we don’t have any leadership in the African-American community or to say that we’re just some community walking around aimlessly trying to find or look for some Messiah, it’s just not the case.”

Later in the segment, Sellers said he couldn’t “let Katrina’s statements, which were borderline asinine, go unchecked.”

Pierson is an embarrassment to the human race every time she gets on CNN. Popcorn anyone?

Katrina Pierson, you are today’s worst person in the world. Congratulations!

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Under Obama, Police Have Never Been Safer. Huh, Who Knew?

Following the shooting of police officers in Dallas this week, conservatives raced to Twitter to blame President Barack Obama, but the data doesn’t support their complaints.

Former Rep. Joe Walsh tweeted, “Obama’s words & [Black Lives Matter]’s deeds have gotten cops killed.” Rep. Steve King claimed the shooting had “roots” in the “anti-white/cop events illuminated by Obama.”

But according to an analysis by the Chicago Tribune, blaming Obama or Black Live Matter activists, who began protesting shootings by police following the death of Michael Brown, isn’t supported by any of the data available. In fact, their claims are outright false.

The Officers Down Memorial Page paints a different picture than conservatives would have the public believe. The site tracks law enforcement officers murdered in the line of duty in real time and shows an average of 101 police officers deliberately killed each year under the Reagan administration. Under George H.W. Bush that number fell to 90, to 81 under Clinton and 72 deaths per year under George W. Bush.

As for the Obama administration, that number has continued to drop. The average number of police murdered during his presidency has fallen to an average 62 deaths each year through 2015. Looking at projections for 2016, that number stays the same.

There are so few officers being killed intentionally that just the Dallas shootings skew the data showing a 44 percent increase. Without the murders this week, the year-over-year rise would only have been 17 percent.

This isn’t about better medical care and quicker response time either. Under Obama’s administration, assaults on police officers have dropped as well. The FBI reports that in 1988, the final year of the Reagan administration, police had 15.9 assaults per every 100 law enforcement officers. However, at the end of the Clinton administration in 2000, that number dropped to 12.7 assaults for every 100 officers. Under the Bush administration, it fell again 11.3. The trend has continued under Obama’s administration. The most recent data from the FBI shows that in 2014 it decreased to 9.0.

Facts, they always ruin the narrative of the ignorant! 

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USN REFUTES SNIPER CHRIS KYLE MEDAL ACCOUNT

Responding to reports that famed “American Sniper” Chris Kyle embellished his war record with claims of medals he never received, the US Navy has released his records showing he overstated his valor awards in his best-selling book.

In an unusual move, the Navy released the late Navy Seal’s discharge paperwork showing a discrepancy between what he stated in the book — which went on to become a box office smash — and what he was actually awarded, reports USAToday,

According to the Navy, no records were found for two of six Bronze Stars with combat ‘V’ and the second Silver Star, two of which he had said he received. The Navy did state that famed sniper had earned a single Silver Star and four Bronze Stars during his ten years of service.

“After thoroughly reviewing all available records, the Navy determined an error was made in the issuance of Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle’s form DD214,” Ensign Marc Rockwellpate, a Navy spokesman, said in a statement. “Specifically, the DD 214 did not accurately reflect the decorations and awards to which Kyle was officially entitled. After notifying his family of the error, the Navy issued a corrected copy of the DD 214, which accurately reflects Kyle’s years of honorable and extraordinary Navy service.”

Kyle never corrected the official record, which has cast a shadow over other claims made in his book.

Previously, Kyle was sued for defamation — and lost — after claiming he punched former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, with a jury awarding Ventura $1.8 million.

Additionally questions were raised after Kyle claimed he shot dozens of looters in New Orleans in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina.

According to the Navy, the second Silver Star would have made Kyle one of the most decorated service members in the post-9/11 era.

Kyle died in 2013 while mentoring a troubled veteran at a shooting range.

This embellishment tarnishes the credibility of Kyle. He was already a hero, why lie? Now every word we hear about the sniper will carry an asterisk with it, What a shame. 

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