Category: Politics

Thursday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back at criticism over her wardrobe choices during a Vanity Fair photoshoot.

Ocasio-Cortez appeared to be especially not happy with Laura Ingraham’s tweet saying “AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $14,000 to curse out Trump”

The NY lawmaker wrote “Republicans are Very Mad (again) about my appearance. This time they’re mad that I look good in borrowed clothes (again).”

She continued “Listen, if Republicans want pointers on looking your best, I’m happy to share.”

“Tip #1: Drink water and don’t be racist”

She then added in a subsequent tweet “The whole “she wore clothes in a magazine, let’s pretend they’re hers” gimmick is the classic Republican strategy of “let’s willfully act stupid, and if the public doesn’t take our performative stupidity seriously then we’ll claim bias.” GOP, get yourselves together. It’s sad.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also responded directly to Laura Ingraham and wrote “I don’t know if you’ve been in a photoshoot Laura, but you don’t keep the clothes.”

It appears that even if President Trump wins the election, people should get ready for 79 days of hell, as that’s the number of days from Election Day to Inauguration Day.

Democrats have already said that they are planning to conduct riots if President Trump wins on Election Day. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer warned people of retaliation if President Trump wins. She said in a speech if you want churches open and things to go back to normal vote for Biden.

During her weekly press conference, Pelosi said, “I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected President on Tuesday. Whatever the end count is on the election that occurs on Tuesday, he will be elected, on January 20th he will be inaugurated President.”

Liberals are also trying to get the United Nations involved after Election Day.

Writing for the New York Times, Peter Beinart claims the United Nations must intervene.

Beinart argues that since the Democrat party stands for black and minority voters and because of that they are facing chronic racist disenfranchisement.

The more the Democratic Party becomes a vehicle for Black political empowerment, the less its votes count. Democrats must now win the popular vote by three, four or even five percentage points to be assured of winning the Electoral College. They must achieve that margin in the face of a strenuous Republican effort to ensure that many Democratic ballots are not counted. And even if they overcome both of those obstacles, Mr. Trump may still not concede.

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By impeding Black voters, the United States still violates the democratic principles it has helped enshrine into international law.

Beinart offers no proof that voters are being disenfranchised however, just yesterday (right on cue) The Economist published a piece claiming that non-white absentee ballots are being rejected at a higher rate than white absentee ballots.

The fix is in folks, they are going to use riots and claims of minority disenfranchisement to try and get the United Nations involved and overturn the will of the American people.

Wednesday, CNN’s Jim Acosta shared a video of a crowd at a Trump rally behind him chanting “CNN sucks! CNN sucks!”

“This happens at just about every Trump rally,” Acosta wrote.

“I’ve covered five presidential campaigns… long enough to know this isn’t normal.”

“Sometimes I’ll scan the crowd, not for the folks who are chanting but for the people who look back at me silently, letting me know they know it’s wrong.”

Acosta’s tweet received a mixed response on social media.

One Twitter user fired back mockingly “”It is morally wrong to criticize me in any way” – Jim Acosta, apparently”

Another wrote “It’s almost over Jim. 6 more days.”

Raheem Kassam wrote “CNN is a cancer.”

Javier wrote “They’re brainwashed, even if Jesus Christ came back, they’d follow trump instead”

Speaking in Atglen, Pennsylvania, First Lady Melania Trump took direct aim at Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden.

“Joe Biden attacked Trump’s decision to close travel from China. He called it ‘xenophobic hysteria.’ Now he suggests that he could have done a better job,” First Lady Melania told the crowd.

“Well, the American people can look at Joe Biden’s 36 years in Congress and eight years in the V.P. and determine if he will be able to finally get something done for the American people,” Trump continued

“Joe Biden’s policy and socialist agenda will destroy America and all that has been built in the past four years,” the First Lady added.

Defending her husband, first lady Melania Trump said “I do not always agree with the way he says things,” eliciting laughter in the crowd.

“But it is important to hear that he speaks directly to the people he serves,” she asserted.

Appearing on MSBNC, Senator Chris Coons claimed two Supreme Court seats have been “stolen” and “hundreds of judges” shouldn’t “be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences.”

“We’ve got to have a wide-open conversation about how do we rebalance our courts,” Coons told Rachel Maddow.

He continued “Yes, the two Supreme Court seats that have been stolen through these processes that are just wildly hypocritical have been used to jam through partisan nominees.”

“But we’ve got to look at our federal courts as a whole, Rachel.”

“Because we’ve seen hundreds of conservative judges put on circuit courts and district courts all over this country in the last four years.”

“In many cases, too young, too unqualified, and too far right to be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences,” he added.

While Judge Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be confirmed, it will be without the vote of Republican Senator Susan Collins.

Collins said in a statement “Prior to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, I stated that, should a vacancy on the Supreme Court arise, the Senate should follow the precedent set four years ago and not vote on a nominee prior to the presidential election.”

“Because this vote is occurring prior to the election, I will vote against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett,” she continues.

Collins added “to be clear, my vote does not reflect any conclusion that I have reached about Judge Barrett’s qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court.”

Senator Susan Collins’ Senate opponent Sara Gideon wrote:

Susan Collins confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime appointment on the 7th Circuit even though she called the ACA unconstitutional & Roe v. Wade “barbaric.”

This vote is a political calculation—she’s rubber-stamped 181 far-right nominees, including Amy Coney Barrett.

President Trump’s niece Mary Trump suggests she may try to leave the U.S. if her uncle wins re-election, in a new piece for “The Guardian.”

“If he stays in the Oval Office, I’m going to try to get a British passport because I don’t think I’ll fare well,” Mary Trump says

“He’s an extraordinarily vindictive person surrounded by people who are willing to help him be vindictive.”

Mary Trump then continues to warn “in terms of the country, if he wins, it’s over. Democracy is over. The western alliance is over. We’ll be entering an incredibly dark period of autocracy on a global scale.”

Mary Trump also claims in the piece if Trump is able to win somehow it won’t be legitimiate.

She writes “If he wins, it won’t be legitimate. He’s already using the powers of his office to shake people’s confidence in mail-in voting at a time when people want to be voting by mail during the pandemic.”

“He’s telling his followers if Biden wins it will have been rigged, telling them to show up at the polls to make sure there’s no fraud, which is voter intimidation. If you’re a black person in America and a bunch of white guys with automatic weapons are standing outside the polling station you won’t want to vote, which is exactly what Donald wants to happen,” she said.

Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and spoke to Jake Tapper.

Asked by Jake Tapper Sunday “If Democrats keep the House, are you going to run for another term as Speaker?”

Pelosi responded “Yes, I am. But let me also say that we have to win the Senate.”

Pelosi also said that President Trump was “delusional” at the debate when he said the GOP will take the House.

She added “so all this discussion of the virus takes us to the importance of this election. Vote your health.”

During the interview, Pelosi said “to do anything, though, that does not crush the virus is really official malfeasance and to crush the virus we just have to follow the science: Testing, tracing, treatment, mask wearing, ventilation, separation, and the rest.”

Religious nuns wearing “Make America Great Again” masks at President Donald Trump’s rally excited the attention of Twitter users Saturday evening.

At least three different nuns can be seen standing behind the president as he spoke Saturday night in Circleville, Ohio.

The nuns, dressed in white, black and purple habits and wearing crosses around their necks, also wore black masks with the letters “MAGA” on them, were in the front row of the Trump rally.

One nun held a bible in her hands, pictures show, while others held rosaries.

The nuns can be seen applauding throughout the president’s speech, as Twitter users noted.

“Joe [Biden], you want to do all this stuff, why didn’t you do it? You were there 3.5 years ago,” President Trump said to his supporters in Ohio.

“I wouldn’t have run Joe if you did a good job. … The fact is you didn’t do a good job Joe, you let us down,” the President said.

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump narrated a new ad for Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden that aired during the World Series.

Sarah Mucha reported that “the 60-second spot during the World Series, first viewed by CNN, makes the case for the Democratic nominee’s character, painting him as a candidate who would bring the country together and work as hard for those who voted for him as those who did not.”

Brad Pitt calls Biden “a President for all Americans” at the end of the ad.

On the same day the new Pitt narrated ad was reported on by CNN, Joe Biden called Trump supporters who crashed his Pennsylvania drive-in rally and heckled him “chumps.”

The irritated Joe Biden lashed out at a group of Trump supporters who tried to crash his campaign appearance in Pennsylvania.

“We don’t do things like those chumps out there with the microphones, those Trump guys,” he told supporters ensconced in about 130 cars at a drive-in rally at Bucks County Community College in Newtown.

The former vice president attacked President Trump as “the only guy any of us have known as president who’s making money from foreign sources” — but did not otherwise refer to the ongoing controversy over his son Hunter and the younger Biden’s foreign business entanglements.