Tag Archives: Teabagistan

From the Washington Post: A day after Donald Trump told people at the National Rifle Association that Hillary Clinton would strip away their right to bear arms, the Republican seemed to suggest on social media that his opponent, who he thinks totes a hard line on gun control, should disarm her Secret Service team. Asked what Trump meant by his …

Right wing commentator Erick Erickson writes: Mitt Romney has given up on trying to recruit someone for a third party effort against Clinton and Trump. I opposed Romney in 2008 and 2012, but I think the time has come for Mitt Romney. I’d gladly work for a Romney Presidency given the choices between Clinton and Trump. There is more and …

Reuters reports: George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas reported on Friday. Zimmerman could not be reached to verify the reports by KTNV in Las Vegas and the Daytona Beach News-Journal. His offer to sell the Kel-Tec …

Shocking. The Hill reports: The National Rifle Association (NRA) has endorsed Donald Trump for president. NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox announced the endorsement Friday during the gun lobby’s annual conference in Louisville, Ky. The NRA told supporters Trump is the only remaining presidential candidate who will defend their Second Amendment rights, and urged skeptical Republicans who supported other candidates during …

Via Business Insider: Donald Trump says America’s enemies would “love” for Hillary Clinton to become president of the US. In a tweetstorm Friday morning, the presumptive Republican nominee said his Democratic rival has “no chance” of fixing the “total mess” on the world stage. “Crooked Hillary has zero imagination and even less stamina,” Trump tweeted. “ISIS, China, Russia and all would …

Mother Jones reports: A Maryland delegate selected by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for the Republican National Convention was indicted on Wednesday on federal weapons and child pornography charges. The federal indictment alleges that Caleb Andrew Bailey, 30, of Waldorf, Maryland, illegally mailed a cache of ammunition and explosives through the US Postal Service and illegally possessed a machine gun and …

USA Today reports: It already looks like the 2016 general election is going to take the concept of negative campaigning to new heights. During an interview with Sean Hannity Wednesday, Donald Trump brought up an unproven accusation of a nearly 40-year-old sexual assault against former president Bill Clinton. Trump’s comment came after Hannity accused The New York Times of bias …

The Hill reports: The GOP Senate campaign arm says in a new ad that Hillary Clinton is Democratic candidates’ “burden to bear” this fall. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is slamming Clinton as “a living history of scandal, lies and spin” in a video meant to put Democratic senators on the defensive. The ad, slated to run both on television …

From the right wing Heritage Foundation: The largest conservative congressional caucus is calling into question the legality of President Barack Obama’s transgender bathroom directive for schools. Chairman Bill Flores, R-Texas, is encouraging Republican Study Committee members to sign on to a letter, pushing the Departments of Education and Justice to detail how, and on what authority, they plan to enforce …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he’s elected to the White House. Trump’s picks include Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of Missouri. Also on …

From a New York Times Magazine profile titled Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride: Then there was his interview the previous week with the MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who asked him whether his pro-life views meant that he also supported criminal penalties for a woman who had an abortion. Trump had replied that yes, there should be “some form of punishment.” Now …

Rafael Cruz, the batshit crazy father of Ted Cruz, has finally responded publicly to Donald Trump’s claim that he associated with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of JFK. From World Net Daily: “These accusations are totally unfounded and without merit,” the elder Cruz told WND. In response to Trump’s charge he met and associated with Lee Harvey Oswald, …

Dujour Magazine today published a lengthy profile of Melania Trump. Much of it you may find interesting, but here’s the pull quote that outlets are running: “I do have sympathy. I’m a very compassionate person. But don’t sneak in and stay here without papers. We need to follow the law. If the law needs to be different, we need to …

Via Mediaite: In an interview with Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Radio, Trump ally Roger Stone suggested that a Trump administration ought to shut CNN down because they peddle propaganda and censor reporting that does not suit their narrative. The remarks came in the context of a discussion where Stone described stories that he said CNN had muzzled, in …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: InfoWars broadcaster and Donald Trump ally Alex Jones is back to claiming that First Lady Michelle Obama is secretly a transgender woman, but this time he’s adding a new twist to his conspiracy theory: that Obama had comedienne Joan Rivers killed after she joked about the first lady being trans. Jones told his …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump vowed Monday that if elected president he would rescind the Obama administration’s new directives aimed at protecting transgender people against discrimination in schools and health-care coverage. But even as Trump accused the administration of federal overreach and argued that such matters should be addressed by the states, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee also sounded …

From wingnut Brent Bozell’s CNSNews.com: “A human civilization’s best chance at survival is to anchor itself in the God of creation,” Phil Robertson says during the trailer for the new film “Torchbearer.” A film that focuses on how the Western world is breaking its relationship with God, “Torchbearer” is set to get a screening for distributers at the Cannes Film …

The Koch Brothers want to make sure the GOP retains the Senate majority. Via Politico: Key groups in the Koch brothers’ political network on Monday began reserving $30 million in advertising buys in key Senate races in August and September, a network official tells POLITICO. The television and digital ad buys, from Freedom Partners Action Fund and other groups, are …

Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro yesterday declared that their already-infamous “renegade Jew” headline is just one more example of what the site has become since his resignation. He writes: I’ve made my thoughts on Breitbart clear before. But since my departure, they’ve become something far worse than Trump’s Pravda – they’ve become a cite that openly panders to alt-right anti-Semitism …

Via Business Insider: “Bernie Sanders is being treated very badly by the Dems,” Trump tweeted on Monday. “The system is rigged against him. He should run as an independent! Run Bernie, run.” Bernie Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, has had an impressive rise this election cycle, mounting a surprisingly tough challenge to Clinton. Although he’s the longest-serving Independent member …