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THE RESISTANCE
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Tina Fey returned to SNL on Saturday night to reprise her slaying impersonation of Sarah Palin, mocking the frantic and crazed endorsement speech the ex-VP candidate gave in Iowa earlier this week for Donald Trump.
Introduced by Darrell Hammond’s Trump, Fey began by saying she was taking a break from her “full time career of writin’ things on Facebook” to endorse the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Cutting to Trump, he called her “The total package. Smart. Legs. Yelling. Everything. I haven’t seen a woman this impressive since Jeb Bush.”
VIDEO COURTESY OF NBC
Fey’s Palin noted, “I’m here because we Americans are struggling. So many of us have lost our jobs at the factory or our reality shows about Alaska. We’ve seen our own children targeted by the police for no reason other than they committed some crimes.”
Then Fey launched into a riff on Palin’s sing-songy, rhyming babbling from the Iowa endorsement speech, including “a rock and roller, holy roller, pushing stroller, pro bowler with an abscessed molar.”
“She’s a firecracker. She’s a real pistol,” Trump said to the camera before pausing and adding a knowing smile, “She’s crazy, isn’t she?”
Saying a Donald trump presidential nomination will bring out “the unusual suspects” at the GOP convention in Ohio this summer, a Republican strategist said down-ticket candidates running for Congress will skip the convention altogether to avoid being linked to the controversial frontrunner.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Ana Navarro — who doubles as a CNN analyst — told host Jake Tapper that a Trump nomination is “going to put a lot of us in a funky mood.”
“I think you’re going to have a bunch of unusual suspects at the convention if it ends up being Donald Trump,” she explained. “You know I’ve said that a Donald Trump nomination would be very bad for some of the senators, some of folks running statewide in some of the purple and blue states. People like nutter Kelly Ayotte and nutter Rob Portman. I’m not sure how much of the traditional Republican mainstream usual suspects who go to a convention you would see if that’s the case.”
Pressed by Tapper to predict whether candidates would avoid the convention, Navarro reiterated her point, adding Ted Cruz’s name for good measure.
“I think you’re going to see some of the folks running in blue and purple states running away from our nominee if it is Donald Trump, maybe even Ted Cruz,” Navarro asserted.
Let’s hope Navarro is correct and that Trump wins the nomination. Win-Win for everyone!
An anti-gay extremist who has pledged his support for Donald Trump denied that he was anything like Islamic State militants — and to prove it, he called for armed raids of yoga studios to “Christianize the land.”
Theodore Shoebat, a right-wing video blogger who appeared in an anti-LGBT film with Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee, fantasized in a recent post about the wrathful judgment he would unleash on the world’s Hindus should he somehow be declared dictator, reported Right Wing Watch.
Shoebat, the son of fraudulent “terror expert” Walid Shoebat, complained that he is often compared to ISIS because he calls for the killing of gays and others who refuse to convert to Christianity.
“We need a Christian supremacist society or else these things are going to continue to happen,” Shoebat said of a Muslim judge sworn in on the Koran instead of a Bible. “God willing, if Donald Trump wins, and I think he will win, he will put a cap on things like this.”
He turned his attention this week to the more than 1 billion Hindus living in India.
“You need to Christianize the land,” Shoebat said. “We need to destroy these false religions, end of story. Hinduism is an evil, demonic, anti-Christ religion. It needs to be uprooted from the earth and it has no place in the world.”
Shoebat, who was recently named a “pro-family hero” by another anti-gay extremist, said the U.S. should invade India to rid the world of Hindus — and he urged U.S. officials to crack down on American yoga practitioners.
“Yoga? Outlawed, and anyone who teaches yoga? Punished by the state,” Shoebat said. “I think the U.S. government needs to crack down on this evil, demonic thing called yoga … You’re teaching yoga, have the SWAT team bust open the doors to that place and just arrest everybody.”
WILLIAM CELLI
An apparent supporter of Donald Trump‘s was arrested over the weekend after someone reportedly tipped off police that he may be planning a violent act against the Muslim community.
CBS San Francisco reported that on Thursday local authorities were tipped off that William Celli was making explosive devices to use on Muslims. Police evacuated Celli’s neighborhood in Richmond, California on Sunday, and after finding and detonating a suspicious device, Celli was arrested and jailed later in the day.
While police said they couldn’t elaborate on the threats or if the device was active or not, the tipster reportedly said that Celli was planning a threat against worshipers of Islam. According to Celli’s Facebook account, the self-employed plumber had a history of blaming immigrants for taking away business, as well as expressing support for Trump.
And we’re worried about five year old Syrian refugees and Muslim’s? I think both Theo and William should be fitted for strait jackets and placed in the proverbial padded cells!
Congrats Theo and William, you both are this week’s “Trumps Nutters” of the week. Enjoy asshats!
With the holidays just around the corner, the cast of Saturday Night Live has the perfect solution to ending contentious political arguments with crazy distant relatives over Thanksgiving dinner.
Called “A Thanksgiving Miracle,” the sketch parodies a holiday dinner gone wrong when one family member says, “I’m thankful our governor is keeping those refugees out,” which sets off a series of uninformed and ultimately racist comments.
“I saw an ISIS today in the A&P, when I was picking up the yams,” one woman states as her niece rolls her eyes and explains, “No you didn’t, Aunt Cathy. That was an Asian woman.”
VIDEO COURTESY OF NBC
From there it goes downhill with family bickering as Aunt Cathy asks the only black member of the dinner party, “Why is it that your ‘friends’ keep antagonizing the police?”
Having had enough, a little girl gets up from the table and goes to a boombox and introduces the one thing in the world that can bring everyone together: Adele singing “Hello.”
POLL SHOWS GOP MOST UNPOPULAR SINCE THE GROUP BEGAN POLLING
The American Teahadists mission, suicide by politics, is not going so well - as the radical group has sunk to an all time low - with just a 28 percent favorable impression of them.
According to the latest monthly Gallup tracking poll. The number ” is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992,” the polling company stated.
At this very moment, root canals, cockroaches, and genital herpes are more popular than the conservatives.
Rachel Maddow opened her show Wednesday night highlighting the GOP’s record low poll numbers in the midst of the government shutdown. And, as Maddow put it, things aren't going to get better anytime soon for them, because, as she put it, today their strategy “just collapsed.”
Maddow brought up the new spate of “denialism that the debt ceiling matters at all” and how Wall Street is now “freaking out” because they’re realizing some Republicans being okay with default means the U.S. could actually default. And that’s not good for anyone.
Alan Grayson the other day sought to bring a resolution declaring that the government shutdown had been a blight upon the dignity of the legislature, citing multiple polls that showed public opinions of Congress worse than toenail fungus, hemorrhoids, and zombies.
YOU ARE LESS POPULAR THAN DOG POOP
In yet another poll - The Public Policy Polling survey found that Americans prefer witches and hemorrhoids to Congress as a whole, according to USA Today.
Toenail fungus is 41 percent more popular than Congress. Dog shit beats legislators by 47 percent and jury duty is widely preferred by 73 percent. Forty seven percent of people polled would prefer a zombie apocalypse over the GOP lead House of Representatives.
Considering the number of polls of late, and the general disgust of conservatives - with the overwhelming numbers showing "very unfavorable" - how many more does it take before a critical mass of revolt occurs towards the conservative?
Maybe if this country had a modicum of tenability, this polling trend, this downward spiral, would lead the to the American Taliban tanking completely.
One would think that these polls would cause the Right Wing Nut Job to turn apoplectic.
As we have seen of late, voting has consequences, severe consequences.
What's the best way to prevent us from being held hostage every six weeks? Vote these RWNJ's who put us in this mess out of office. Democrats currently have a lead over Teahadists in 17 swing districts, and it just so happens that 17 seats is all the Democrats need to take back the house.
This is because, in his view, “we need to have that moment where we realize we're going broke.” He firmly told the paper, “I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling.” He also characterized the current government shutdown as “the tremor before the tsunami.”
Few agree with Yoho that a failure to raise the debt ceiling, which would mean the United States government would not have adequate funds to pay for all of the debts it owes and would likely default on at least some, would be beneficial. Last week, the Treasury Department released a report that warned that a default could create “a recession more severe than any seen since the Great Depression.”
It came to this conclusion by looking at the consequences of the near default in 2011, which led to a sharp decline in consumer and business confidence, a hit to the financial markets, and a slow down in job growth. The impact on the financial markets from nearly defaulting on the debt and getting a first-ever downgrade on the debt from Standard & Poor’s “persisted for months.” The brinkmanship that time around also meant a $2.4 trillion drop in household wealth, an $800 billion drop in retirement assets, and a hit to mortgages. It increased the government’s borrowing costs by $1.3 billion.
This all happened even though the U.S. didn't actually default in 2011. If that were to happen, investors could become unwilling to lend to the country, leaving it with an immediate cash shortfall and creating unknowable (yet clearly devastating) ripple effects throughout the markets and the global economy.
Threatening to not raise the debt ceiling unless Republican demands are met is a relatively new tactic. Historically, the limit was routinely raised, including seven times under President George W. Bush, and even House Speaker John Boehner used to warn against using it as leverage.
Where does the tinfoil hat society come up this stuff? All this manufactured bullshit by these pseudo patriotic, these so-called Christian conservatives, whose real job is to spread dishonestly without integrity - full of lies and misinformation.
The long history of American anti-intellectualism is now complete. This idea to allow the country to default on its bills, would be just like getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick - and that somehow this sharp jab in the eye will improve your vision.
Yoho is definitely reaching for the lofty levels of stupid routinely attained by Steve King, Louie Gohmert, and Michele Bachmann. Why is it that stupid is the only thing that the universe provides us an infinite amount of?
WHO SHALL GARNER THE COVETED TIN FOIL HAT OF THE GOP
Who is going to lead the GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare for the 38th time?
If you have not heard; been living under a rock, the queen "wacko-bird" is stepping down from office, and the number one query of America is, who takes the thrown to wear the crown jewel......who gets to wear the coveted grand poobah of tin foil hats?
The American Taliban's inability to grasp basic facts — their inability to recognize that they have a problem with facts... speaks to a broader problem, and now that the thrown is being vacated, who in this band of idiots will be the next fearless leader, the next town fool - to make a mockery of these great United States?
Below we pay homage [via MSNBC's evening line up], to the idiot that is Michele Bachmann. Bachmann's mistakes where often offensive, frequently outrageously callous, and recurrently dangerous. Bachmann is the type of "patriot" this country can do without.
The queen of the tin foil is hat is a prime example of stupid run amuck, a special kind of stupid if you will, "where everything on the internet must be true " kind of stupid.
Out of the lunatics in tin foil hat land, I like Ted Cruz chances best to take the reigns of the wacko birds, because we need another Bachmann - and while many fit the bill of "wacko-bird", Ted Cruz finds it a compliment. This is the kind of douche bag we need dawning the head dunce cap, by means of brilliant deduction, empirical wisdom if you will, Cruz is the guy for the job.
Ted " Brylcream Creem a little dab will do you" Cruz stands out alone to me as the sole heir to the American Taliban thrown, his ignorance is amassed by none, his chutzpah is historical, and his willingness to stand before America and be as clueless as Bachmann - is categorically epic!.
Below are six videos courtesy of MSNBC, which look at the legacy of Bachmann; and
a new successor to the tin foil thrown:
NFTOS has learned that Michelle Bachmann may be joining forces with Sarah Palin in a "Please pay me not to run for President" Bus Tour.
Andy Borowitz said it best about Bachmann: "When history writes about Michele Bachmann, her entire congressional legacy will only be found in the monologues of comedians."
