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Is it Parody or is it Real-Life? Unfortunately, the latter

Here is a short list of bizarre things appointed, elected or campaigning officials do or say. To get on the list, they have to subscribe publicly to a theory that shows a fundamental lack of critical thinking and/or a commitment to ignoring the facts. Please remember these “fine” people at the next election. In no particular order:

Rep. Bryan Zollinger (R, ID state) finds it “plausible” that "former President Obama, Virginia Gov. McAuliffe, Charlottesville Mayor Signer, and George Soros could somehow be connected in planning and orchestrating the clashes in Charlottesville". Sources: Zollinger’s FB page and news articles, e.g., (www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/22/bryan-zollinger-idaho-rep-boasts-of-increased-dona) 22Aug2017

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R, CA), among other things:

(1) is widely recognized as a fervent Putin supporter. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” said House Maj. Leader Kevin McCarthy (R, CA) (www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.bb3698b6e1ee)

(2) says [Russian intelligence services' interference in the U.S. election was no different from the NSA's] "bugging [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel's phone." (www.yahoo.com/news/dana-rohrabacher-republican-once-arm-152431648.html)

(3) believes the Charlottesville white supremacist in Aug 2017 rally was staged by a former “Hillary and Bernie supporter” who got Civil War re-enactors together to protect the statue of Lee. “It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation,” Rohrabacher said, in an effort to “put our president on the spot ... It was a setup for these dumb Civil War re-enactors,” (www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-sanders-supporters-behind-hoax-171009763.html)

Alamance County commissioner Tim Sutton (R, NC) said “You can call them slaves if you want to ... I would just call them workers” (www.thetimesnews.com/news/20170821/actbac-to-commissioners-leave-monument-alone)

(to be updated from time to time to add new ones and delete obsolete ones)

#democracy dies in darkness

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Update for Trump Voters

1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.

2. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we will build a wall.”

3. He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.

4. He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.

5. He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.

6. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.

7. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.

8. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.

9. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

10. He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.

11. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he green lighted a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained

12. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.

13. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.

More to come.

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