Disgusting!!! Matt Lauer and the rest of the corporate media REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT Trump to win!!!!
Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!
Apparently, the Enraged Bull Pantomime Blogger (me) is enraged at Matt Lauer and the rest of the corporate media, who apparently REALLY REALLY want Trump to win.
The corporate media continue to give Trump a pass on all his lies and all his slander against Hillary--not to mention all the batshit conspiracies he spews. No fact checking here, nosireebob! Nope, nope, nope!
Then, Matt Lauer grilled Hillary--often rudely and disrespectfully interrupting her before she could even answer the question--and gently, respectfully tossed Trump a series of softball questions wrapped in soft fluffy pillows. As one DKos headline below remarks, Lauer might just have well have asked Trump what he did on his summer vacation for as rigorous as he was as a "journalist." Lauer gave Trump pass after pass after pass; for example, Lauer never once held Trump accountable for his lies about Iraq and Libya. Hell, why not question Trump about his tax returns, his habitual bankruptcies, his child rape lawsuit, TrumPEW, Pam Bondi, and the thousands of times he's stiffed his working and middle class employees out of their pay, including several of his advisers and staff who just quit for lack of payment? If Hillary's e-mails indicate her character regarding the position of Commander-In-Chief, then don't all those scandals indicate Trump's character regarding the position of Commander-In-Chief, huh Huh HUH?!??
And, while Lauer told Hillary only to speak about her own capabilities--which she faithfully did--Lauer let Trump ramble on and on and on about how terrible "Obama and Hillary" are. You'd think that Hillary was Obama's veep instead of Joe Biden. No fact checking here neither, nosireebob! Nope, nope, nope, nope! Conservative Clown Car says that Matt Lauer's performance was "...not merely a failure, it was horrifying and shocking."
I can only conclude that the media and Matt Lauer REALLY REALLY WANT Trump to win.
I guess they figure they're wealthy enough to be insulated from the disaster that a Trump presidency would bring.
Just ask Tony Perkins whether his special privilege insulated him against the flooding in Louisiana.
Disgusting.
Those bastards all need to be fired, and we need to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and start fining these assholes right out of business for spewing their own lies and for refusing to hold idiots like Trump accountable for their lies. They should all have their licenses revoked. And, after Matt Lauer's pitiful performance as moderator, the Commission on Presidential Debates should replace FUX as the last moderator with Rachael Maddow.
As for Lauering the bar, mebbe ol' Matt was sucking up (well, dunno about "up" but definitely sucking) as bromantically as he could to curry favor for a spot in in the new Bannon-Ailes-Trump-shit (aka BATshit) tin-foil hat right-wing network that's going to make Daily Kos look like FUX Noise once Trump's White House dreams are smashed. Lauer saw the forum as his job interview with the new BATshit TrumpbartTV network.
It's ironic that Trump's surrogates, like Michele Bachmann, claim that there will be no more elections if Trump is not elected. I think it far more likely that there will be no more elections if Trump is elected.
Please, friends--don't sit this one out. As this Internet meme says, there's way too much that we desperately need and fought hard to win at stake...
...even if you only see it as voting against Trump, our future existence at stake--not only as a nation but as a planet. It really is that serious.
Why risk utter destruction when we can haz a good, decent president who I think would actually be stronger than O'Bama? Like I've been saying, I've been grateful that O'Bama has been militarily mellow--we desperately needed a break from all the invasions and saber-rattling. But there are times you need a leader with brains and balls. Hillary has both; Trump has neither. All Trump has is a tiny, shriveled, little gherkin. And yes, I do think Hillary is both good and decent. It took me a lot of investigation to counteract all the negative spin that Republicans and corporate media have been drowning us with about her since nineteen-ninety-whatever...and I've learned a lot more about various politicians' charitable foundations and past Secretaries' of State private e-mail servers and how the media dig their claws into Hillary while ignoring Republican malfeasance. I'm looking at you, Colin Powell...per the headline below about your private server. You really shouldn't fib like that, sir. Why damage your credibility even further? We as a nation stopped respecting you after you sold us out to give baby Bush cover to invade an innocent Iraq. He will forever remain the chimp, and you forever remain the chump. Lying even more now to throw Hillary under the bus ain't gonna get you your self respect back. You should have thought of that earlier, dumbass.
So, remember, boys 'n' girls,
VOTE BLUE
ALL THE WAY DOWN!!!!!
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-- Dot Calm's shadow
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...I fuckin' love this story. Not only is Brown acknowledging that menstruation isn't limited to cis-gendered women, but they are also giving a hand-up to lower-income students who struggle to buy food...let alone having to pay up because of their biology. Good on ya, Brown!!!
AlterNet: The 8 most scathing take-downs of Matt Lauer's Abysmal Job Moderating NBC's "Commander-in-Chief" Forum
...I'm relieved I'm not the only one who saw what was happening and is mad as hell about it. To quote the article, "CNN's senior media and politics reporter, Dylan Byers, offered this sober and accurate assessment of Lauer's job:
'Political interviews, forums, town halls, debates, these are really big, significant deals. They’re especially big, significant deals given all that’s at stake in the 2016 election. You don’t send Matt Lauer to do a political reporter’s job. Look, in a debate, it might be fair to argue that you can let the two candidates fact-check each other. But when it comes to these one-on-one interviews, these forums, you have to step up and play that role. That onus is on you, and Matt Lauer didn’t do that. He certainly didn’t do that with Donald Trump. He didn’t do it on the Iraq War. He didn’t do it on a number of other issues and frankly, this criticism that he went a lot harder on Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, I think, is well founded.'"FiveThiertyEight: Election Update: The Swing States Are Tightening, Too
...fuck, Fuck, FUCK. Friends, PLEASE do what you can to keep Trump out of the White House. PLEASE!!!!!
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Vox: This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever
...I wonder if my Tea Party Christian friend would believe it if he saw it. Naaaaah...!
Vox: Trump: this Esquire article proves I opposed the Iraq War. Esquire: no, it doesn't.
...Again, Trump is caught in a lie. As usual, not only are his facts dead wrong, but he has no concept of time, either--he forgets that 2004 is after the chimp invaded!
Vox: Last night, Clinton got 6 questions on her emails. Trump got zero on his Iraq lies.
...oh, and using a private e-mail server like Secretaries of State before you did does not equate to Commander-In-Chief decisions being made on a daily basis. Clinton has shown she would not make this mistake twice--and I have no problem believing that she--like my incredibly good-hearted, highly intelligent, impeccably ethical father--is just not tech savvy. Lots of people aren't. Doesn't make them bad people, as Dot Calm would say. Doesn't disqualify them for Commander-In-Chief, either. On the other hand, Trump's idiocy, ego, fecklessness, and flippant attitude that often includes disregarding the obvious reality under his orange nose DO disqualify him for Commander-In-Chief. Unless you're a Tea Party Christian champing at the bit to bring on the apocalypse.
Vox: Nancy Pelosi says a Clinton landslide could put the House in play. The math backs her up.
...Let's make it happen, friends. Please. Show the rethuglikkkants the door for obstructing O'Bama for the last eight years. Phuque them and the horses they rode in on!
Vox: Alpine High School shooting in Texas: what we know
...JEEzus Phuquen H. Christ...NOT AGAIN!!!!! Don't they know that, now that we have more guns than people (110 guns for every 100 people), America is the safest nation in the world with the lowest crime? Don't they know that, huh Huh HUH?!??
Vox: Aleppo, explained for non-experts and Gary Johnson
...Johnson's Aleppo gaffe is a disqualifying statement: it disqualifies him for the office of POTUS. And Johnson is a damn sight more intelligent and rational than Trump, who makes disqualifying statements all day every day! Meanwhile, gutsy Dr. Jill Stein vandalized a bulldozer at the Dakota Access pipeline site. You go, Jill!
Vox: Colin Powell's advice to Hillary Clinton makes her private email server look like less of a scandal
...Here's the article I meant when I addressed Powell in the introduction above, saying we're looking at him. This article is not quite the same level of Republican-damning as the Benghazi report, but it would take a lot of wind out of Republican and corporate media sails if it were to gain some traction in the public square. The Hillary e-mail story just is not as big of a scandal as the media have led us to believe!
Vox: Just in case anyone was still wondering, Donald Trump really, really loves Vladimir Putin
...and Donsie Wonsie thot we'd forgotten about his steamy, passionate bromance with ferret-face Putin...! Srsly, imagine if Obama or Hillary had even once spoken about the chimp the way Trump the chump speaks about Obama and Hillary...! Rethuglikkkants would be storming the White House with torches and pitchforks.
Vox: 15 tweets that show Matt Lauer's rough night hosting NBC's Commander-in-Chief Forum
...MoFo should have questioned the low-T orange fucksicle about his tax returns, his child rape lawsuit, TrumPEW, Pam Bondi, and the thousands of times he's stiffed his working and middle class employees out of their pay, including several of his advisers and staff who just quit for lack of payment.
Vox: Matt Lauer totally blew it on Trump's lies about Iraq and Libya
...Just the facts, ma'am.
Vox: Trump's solution to military sexual assault wouldn't actually change the process at all
...Nosireebob, wouldn't change it at all. Just make the bimbo report up her chain of command, even if her commander is also her assailant. Trump is now acknowledging that military sexual is a problem. I guess that's a step up from his earlier boys-will-be-boys remarks about, well, you put men and women together, what else would you expect? Um...men to behave like civilized beings? Or should we force women to wear burkas because it's too much to ask men to control their own behavior? Not that rape is about sex
--it's about power, and the military is all about power. And that's another typical piece of Trump misinformation--he thinks that rape is just rough sex. No wonder he stands accused of raping a child.
Vox: Soledad O'Brien: Donald Trump coverage has normalized white supremacy in America
...just as Trump coverage has normalized a lot of bigotry and tin-foil hat conspiracy. Would you believe that my Tea Party Christian friend believes all the Alex Jones and Steve Bannon bullshit about Hillary having "serious" health issues? If anyone has serious health issues, it's Trump--starting with his lack o' mental health all the way down to his tiny, shriveled orange gherkin.
Vox: Darren Seals, a Ferguson protester, found dead in burned vehicle in St. Louis suburb
...Yikes!! Seals fought to educate us all about police brutality. He was a force for good no matter what color you are.
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Movies!
In honor of my recent science theme, here's a video on James "The Amazing" Randi debunking faith healers, psychics, and other purveyors of woo. I wish my Tea Party Christian friend would watch this. Sadly, he'd never dare...or, if he did, he'd still manage to compartmentalize between the proven fakes and the unproven fakes, as if the unproven fakes are somehow not fake. Is it just me, or does Randi look like Gandalf with his beard when he wears a hood or the right hat?
'Til next time, check out these great channels:
...or, if you just want something mindless and fun, try Tested
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