Sam Damon

I must have misremembered (or lies, damned lies and more damned lies)

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Evidently The Donald has never met a lie he didn’t like. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald has provided a well-crafted essay on Trump’s penchant for dishonesty on the magazine’s web site. It’s well-worth your time.

As Don Fanucci in Godfather II might say, “Here’s a little somethingDon Fanucci to wet your beak.”

“In December 2008, just after the Democrats won the White House, Trump wrote on his personal blog, “Hillary is smart, tough and a very nice person and so is her husband.” He then added, “Bill Clinton was a great president.” The words are simple and clear. Earlier this year, in a deposition given in a lawsuit against Trump involving allegations of fraud regarding his real estate courses (called Trump University), the plaintiff’s lawyer asked Trump if he had ever called Bill Clinton a great president. Trump refused to answer directly, saying the scandal involving Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky had damaged his presidency. Finally, the lawyer showed Trump the blog post in which he had praised Bill Clinton as president and asked if Trump believed what he wrote.

“I was fine with it at the time,” Trump replied. “I think in retrospect, looking back, it was not a great presidency because of his scandals.” In other words, in 2008 Trump thought Clinton was a great president, but then because of the Lewinsky scandal—something that occurred a decade before that blog post—he changed his mind. How did he explain the obvious lie? “It’s not something I gave very much thought to then because I wasn’t in politics,” he said.”

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Sam Damon

The Donald Knows Best

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The folks with elephant pooper scoopers were out in full force again Thursday cleaning up after The Donald’s latest mess.

Trump told folks at a rally in Florida Wednesday that ISIS honor President Obama as its founder and said Hillary Clinton, his opponent for the presidency, was its “co-founder.”

Not only was he wrong, but he was embarrassingly wrong and his surrogates had to go to work and scoop up another pile of, well, you know.

His good media buddy, Hugh Hewitt, a righty radio talk show host, was only too happy Thursday to try to bring Trump back to reality.

Hewitt offered Trump a way out of the comments, but The Donald Knows Best and was having nothing to do with it.

“… Hugh Hewlitt: I’ve got two more questions. Last night,hugh hewitt you said the President was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.
Donald Trump: No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.
HH: But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.
DT: I don’t care. He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?
HH: Well, that, you know, I have a saying, Donald Trump, the pneumonic device I use is Every Liberal Really Seems So, So Sad. E is for Egypt, L is for Libya, S is for Syria, R is for Russia reset. They screwed everything up. You don’t get any argument from me. But by using the term founder, they’re hitting with you on this again. Mistake?
DT: No, it’s no mistake. Everyone’s liking it. I think they’re liking it. I give him the most valuable player award. And I give it to him, and I give it to, I gave the co-founder to Hillary. I don’t know if you heard that. …”

Nice try Hugh, but you should know by now that you can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.

The Donald Knows Best.

 

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Sam Damon

Annie get your gun

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A guest on Tuesday’s MTP Daily show said Mike Pence is like the guy at the circus who has to follow the elephants around with a shovel and clean up after them.

He was talking, of course, about Comrade Trump’s latest trip off the reservation when he suggested Tuesday that Hillary Clinton and her judges will take away people’s guns. Nothing could be done at that point, he said. —except that may “2nd Amendment people” might take some action.

Have a listen.

The implication was that once the court is stacked with lefties, violence might take place. It was a gaffe that politicos quickly jumped on forcing Trump’s gals and guys to try to put out another fire.

The campaign quickly sprang into action.

Mike Pence grabbed his shovel and started stacking.

Then, a statement was issued.

“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.” – Jason Miller, Senior Communications Advisor

That’s not what Trump said. He wasn’t asking for people to go to the polls. He was talking about action being taken after the votes had long ago been counted. When it’s “too late” to do anything politically about it.

It turns out guns weren’t needed for the death of the Republican Party. Just one man’s words.

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… are you shitting me

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It’s Monday, here’s your week so far.

 

Trump the ChumpPasted Graphic

… from Slate,

“It is no coincidence that two of the world’s wiliest dictators—Russia’s Vladimir Putin and, now it seems, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un—are keen to see Donald Trump win this fall’s election.”

 

…From The Washington Post

“We have a wonderful OPPORTUNITY here folks, that may never come again, at the RIGHT time,” Suhayda wrote, according to BuzzFeed. “Donald Trump’s campaign statements, if nothing else, have SHOWN that ‘our views’ are NOT so ‘unpopular’ as the Political Correctness crowd have told everyone they are!”

Suhayda is far from the first avowed white supremacist to publicize his support and enthusiasm for Trump.

Earlier this year, Rachel Pendergraft — the national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard-bearer for the Ku Klux Klan — told The Washington Post that the KKK had begun using Trump’s candidacy as a new conversation starter to recruit followers.”

Yeah, I Hate Mondays.

Your snowball, good luck.
Your snowball, good luck.
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Sam Damon

Psycho Killer Qu’est-ce que c’est

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Every poll in the country is dead wrong. Monmouth University’s poll released Monday, showing Hillary Clinton leading by 13 points, is way off the mark.

Bill Mitchell 2That’s what this Chowda Head is saying. Meet Bill Mitchell, righty radio show talking head who nods his noggin’ like the puppy dog on the dashboard at everything Comrade Trump has to say.

He says in addition to election results, the polls are rigged. Every one of them, The New York Times, the right’s beloved Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, CBS, ABC, Sabato, Nate Silver, Quinnipiac, and

… wait for it …

Faux News, which has Clinton up by 10 points, are just wrong.

They can’t be true, Mitchell says, because Trump has HUGE crowds and that’s proof he’s actually winning.

Just look at the crowds, they’re here to there, he’ll tell you. However, he would never mention that the Trump campaign uses an age-old political tactic of distributing free tickets to more people than fire marshals will allow into the buildings. It makes for photo ops of long lines outside the venue and sets things up for Trump to accuse fire marshals of supporting Clinton.

It also gives Mitchell and the Faux faithful the opportunity to wag their fingers at the polls. Which is enough to put Mitchell in Nutsoville with fellow jackass Carl Paladino, who we featured Sunday.

Those are a couple of scary individuals. Maybe we should take the Talking Heads’ advice and “Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away.”

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Sam Damon

ICYMI — Carl Paladino is nutso

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Trump’s main New York surrogate, Carl Paladino, decided to show his derriere Saturday on MSNBC’s AM Joy. His defense of Trump against security experts who question The Donald’s love affair with pal Vladimir Putin was rubber room material.

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for New York governor, speaks during a rally at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)Paladino has learned well from Comrade Trump and went on the offensive. He showed little respect for Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a security expert and 3-time Purple Heart winner, who questioned Trump’s stance on NATO and Europe, which last time we checked were U.S. allies.

The show’s host, Joy Reid, didn’t let Paladino get away it. Here’s a link to the entire segment. It’s well worth your time.

One more thing — Mr. Paladino, if you don’t mind, please send me a small baggie of whatever you were smoking before you went on the show. That has to be some really good shit.

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