According to a new PPP poll, 38% of Trump voters believe Women’s March participants were paid. Morons.
The Denver Post printed an Editorial that Trump’s lying must stop NOW.
The United States of America deserves to have a president who tells the truth.
The fact that we feel compelled to make this observation, so early in the new presidency of Donald Trump, suggests that the country is in for a long and miserable four years. Trump and his spokesman, Sean Spicer, need to start telling the truth
Any rational person would expect that if you succeeded in your presidential campaign in part by calling your opponent Lying Hillary, you would seek, as president, to avoid such a moniker
But now Trump, as president, has doubled down on his insistence that he lost the popular vote because as many as 5 million people living in the country illegally cast votes. All 50 states have certified their elections without reporting such fraud. To be the president of all people, and to give what must have been lip service to the idea that patriotism has no room for prejudice, as he did in his inaugural promise, means putting aside these divisive myths
Perhaps worse, Spicer justified the federal hiring freeze Trump ordered with the false assertion that it was to curb “dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years.” We could have praised the freeze as a smart first step for Trump to get a handle on the vast bureaucracy he now oversees; instead we find ourselves informing Spicer that the federal workforce has wavered around 2 million since the 1950s.
HOLY CRAP. The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era
Hey CA peeps…...CALL HER! Let her know Sessions is unacceptable.
If you need her office numbers:
- DC: (202) 224-3841
- SF: (415) 393-0707
- LA: (310) 914-7300
- SD: (619) 231-9712
- Fresno: (559) 485-7430
Dr Who spoke of alternative facts back in January of 1977.
Since the video doesn't show the whole quote, here it is:
And, in honor of Mary Tyler Moore, here’s an episode in which she was dealing with an issue that women are (sadly) still dealing with
Mary: Let me get this straight? The only reason he was paid more than I am is because he was a man?
Mr. Grant: Oh sure it has nothing to do with your work.
Mary: No, no wait a minute, because I want to understand this. I’m doing as good a job as he did.
Mr. Grant: Better!
Mary: Better! And I’m being paid less because ...
Mr. Grant: You’re a woman.
Mary: Well, Mr. Grant there is no good reason why two people doing the same job, at the same place, shouldn’t be making the ...
Mr. Grant: He had a family to support. You don’t. Now why don’t you come back when you have an answer to that.
Mary: Because financial need has nothing to do with it. Because in order to be consistent with what you’re saying, you would have to pay the man with three children more than the man with two children. And the married man more than the bachelor. Mr. Grant, you don’t do that. So what possible reason can you give me for not paying me at least as much as the man who had this job before me?
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