Tag Archives: Idiocracy

GOP House Rep Compares Trump To Jesus [VIDEO]

“When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process.” – Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, speaking this afternoon during debate on the articles of impeachment. .@RepLoudermilk: “When Jesus was falsely accused of …

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Stephen Miller Helped Write Trump’s Unhinged Letter

The New York Times reports: The letter read like a Twitter tirade published on White House stationery. The words ran together with the cadence of a Trump rally script, just before the president veers from the teleprompter. The accusations, untruths and wayward exclamation points piled up by the paragraph. Some of the president’s closest advisers were involved in drafting the …

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Senate Approves Spending Bill Creating Space Force

Reuters reports: Congress has passed an annual defense authorization bill following a vote in the Senate on Tuesday that includes a provision that creates a new space force branch of the armed services and provides all federal workers with 12 weeks of paid parental leave for the first time in American history. The bill passed by a vote of 86-8 …

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Russian State TV Calls Trump Russia’s “Agent”

The Daily Beast reports: Sometimes a picture doesn’t have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, Russian state media was gloating over the spectacle. TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and …

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WaPo: Donald Trump Has Publicly Lied 15,413 Times

The Washington Post reports: In 2017, President Trump made nearly 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added another 5,689, for a total of 7,688. Now, with a few weeks still left in 2019, the president already has more than doubled the total number of false or misleading claims in just a single year. As of Dec. 10, his …

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MMA Fighter Hailed By Trump For Offering To Beat Up Democrats Gets Jaw Broken In Championship Bout

MMA Fighting reports: Colby Covington will go home without the UFC welterweight title and instead spent his Saturday night at the hospital receiving treatment following his fifth round TKO loss to Kamaru Usman. Between the third and fourth rounds, Covington went to his corner and told his coaches that he believed he suffered a broken jaw. A replay seemed to …

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Yet Another Example Of Trump’s Bizarre Mental State

The Washington Post reports: Touting his accomplishments during a second Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump recalled a conversation he said he had with real estate developer Charles Kushner. “I said, ‘Charlie, let me ask you what’s bigger for the Jewish people: Giving the embassy to Jerusalem, it becomes the capital of Israel. What’s bigger? That …

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Trump Names Himself TIME’s Person Of The Year

The Associated Press reports: President Trump’s reelection campaign tweeted an edited cover of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue on Thursday which depicted the president’s head on the shoulders of Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate change activist. The tweet suggested that the magazine had erred in naming Thunberg “Person of the Year,” and listed accomplishments of the administration. When …

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Trump Tweets Praise Of “Thug Nasty” MMA Fighter For Vowing To Physically Assault “DC Politicians” [VIDEO]

Law & Crime reports: President Donald Trump mocked the far-left Antifa movement on Twitter, Thursday, in response to an MMA fighter offering to beat up the president’s enemies. Colby Covington has previously met President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump, and has been interviewed by former Turning Point USA figurehead Candace Owens. Watch the clip if you can bear …

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House Approves Bill Establishing Space Force

The New York Times reports: The House on Wednesday passed a $738 billion military policy bill that would authorize the creation of the Space Force and secure paid parental leave for more than two million federal workers. The 377-to-48 vote reflected broad bipartisan support for the compromise package, one of the nation’s most expensive military policy bills to date. It …

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Dennis Prager: Two Masked Men Disrupted My Movie

Fox News reports: Police officers responded to a call on Friday when Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager’s free speech film, “No Safe Spaces,” was allegedly interrupted by two masked men who some customers felt were looking to intimidate moviegoers. The filmmakers are chalking up the incident to evidence as to why the movie is important in the first place. The …

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Federal Judge Blocks Military Funds For Border Wall

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in El Paso on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to pay for border barrier construction with $3.6 billion in military funds, ruling that the administration does not have the authority to divert money appropriated by Congress for a different purpose. The Trump administration was planning to use those funds to build 175 …

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Trump Tweets Bonkers Clip Of Himself As Marvel Villain Who Got Killed By The Good Guys In The Last Movie

Mediaite reports: Team Trump shared a video today mocking Democrats on impeachment depicting President Donald Trump as Marvel supervillain Thanos. Thanos, for the unfamiliar, is the main antagonist of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. His goal is to collect all of the Infinity Stones, because once he does he can snap his fingers and wipe out half the population …

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New Book Claims Trump Called For Evacuating Seoul

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military. In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter …

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Congress Trades Paid Parental Leave For Space Force

Space News reports: The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Dec. 9 unveiled the conference agreement they have reached for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. The conference report includes language to authorize a U.S. Space Force as an independent military branch under the Department of the Air Force. “The FY20 NDAA recognizes …

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Trump: The IG Report Shows Attempt To Overthrow Me

“They fabricated evidence, and they lied to the courts, and they did all sorts of things to have it go their way. And this was something that, uh, we can never allow to happen again. The report actually, and especially when you look into it, and the details of the report are far worse than anything I would have even …

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GOP House Counsel Complains That Democrats Didn’t Enforce Subpoenas That Trump Told Staffers To Defy

Axios reports: Steve Castor, the counsel representing Republicans from the House Intelligence Committee, argued during Monday’s impeachment hearing that House Democrats failed to properly obtain and enforce subpoenas for Trump administration staffers to garner additional testimony in their impeachment inquiry. Yes, but: For the last two months, the White House has blasted the impeachment inquiry as “constitutionally illegitimate” and refused …

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Jewish Groups Blast Trump’s “Anti-Semitic” Remarks

The Washington Post reports: Numerous Jewish groups castigated President Trump this weekend over his speech on Saturday to the Israeli American Council, accusing him of using anti-Semitic tropes while trying to appeal to Jewish voters. In a 45-minute speech in Hollywood, Fla., Trump sought to convince a Jewish audience that they had “no choice” but to vote for him or …

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Man Who Impeached Bill Clinton In Late December Attacks Dems For Ruining Xmas With Impeachment

Hypocrisy is their hallmark. Also cruelty. But also also hypocrisy: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called out House Democrats for trying to impeach President Donald Trump “on the eve of Christmas,” Friday, but on December 19 1998, when Gingrich was speaker, the House of Representatives impeached former President Bill Clinton. “Really, on the eve of Christmas it is …

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Rep. Steve Scalise Accuses Adam Schiff Of “Spying” On Rep. Devin Nunes By Publishing His Phone Call Records

From the right wing Washington Examiner: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spied on the top Republican on his panel by obtaining his phone records and publishing them in an impeachment report, Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Wednesday. “It raises a lot of serious questions,” the Louisiana Republican said. “I want to know all the people Adam Schiff is spying …

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