When you’re a billionaire businessman, you can expect Bill Gates will eventually invite you to give a large sum of your money to charity, possibly through the “Giving Pledge.” The “Giving Pledge” is the brainchild that came from Bill Gates, close friend and businessman Warren Buffet, and his wife Melinda Gates.
]]>This is for anybody wasting time online blathering about how Hillary and Trump are the same; how if Hillary gets the nomination, they won’t vote at all; or how they’re super-stoked to vote for a third party candidate because THEY HAVE PRINCIPLES, GODDAMMIT. Hi. I’m your Auntie Sara.
]]>Donald Trump: Being Smart Is Dumb, Ignorance Is Good
On Sunday, Barack Obama delivered a stirring commencement speech to the graduating seniors of Rutgers University in which he condemned the toxic “anti-intellectualism” that has taken hold during the current presidential campaign. “Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be: in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” the outgoing president opined.
And for Trump’s tweet…
Donald J. Trump on Twitter
“In politics, and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.” This is a primary reason that President Obama is the worst president in U.S. history!
I had a right wing ‘friend’ of mine on FaceBook explain to me that what I didn’t get was that Trump tweet “what is written is an insult to Obama.” No shit sherlock. Really, no shit. Again, you can’t make this up. I never would have gotten that had you not explained it to me. Thanks.
If you want to follow that screwed up discussion I had over on FaceBook here’s the link.
]]>Truly, Donald Trump knows nothing. He is more ignorant about policy than you can possibly imagine, even when you take into account the fact that he is more ignorant than you can possibly imagine.
]]>“For years now, Ornstein — a political scientist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute — had been arguing that the modern Republican Party is deeply broken.”
The political scientist who saw Trump’s rise coming
In the summer of 2015, most of the political world still thought Donald Trump’s candidacy was a joke. Norm Ornstein didn’t. For years now, Ornstein – a political scientist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute – had been arguing that the modern Republican Party is deeply broken.
Here Are All of Donald Trump’s Flip-Flops on Big Issues
While most presidential candidates craft detailed platforms and spend years trying to sell them to voters, GOP front-runner Donald Trump sometimes takes up two or three contradictory policy positions in the same week – or even the same interview.
Donald Trump Made Up Stuff 71 Times In An Hour
WASHINGTON — Critics of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign often complain about the way the media has reported on his candidacy. It is not just the incessant coverage that riles them. It’s the perceived lack of fact-checking. Trump is known for making outlandish and dubious claims with little connection to the truth.
]]>Mac Stipanovich: An open letter to my fellow Republicans – SaintPetersBlog
Each of us wants to believe that if we were tested in some fundamental way when the chips were down – morally, spiritually, or physically – that we would pass the test. But we do not really expect to be tested.
John Oliver Finally Takes on Donald Trump and It Was Brutally Fantastic | Mother Jones
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