My Calm Conversation With the Man Who Sexually Assaulted Me
Years after being sexually assaulted, Erica M. Hart asked the perpetrator if he wanted to discuss what happened — on tape. He agreed.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/8/14/my-calm-conversation-man-who-sexually-assaulted-me
Seth Meyers: Trump’s White House is What Happens When ‘a Con Artist Surrounds Himself with Other Con Artists’ – WATCH
Seth Meyers on Monday night looked at how Rudy Giuliani, former White House staffer and Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault, and others he has hired are causing a snowballing set of problems for Trump.
Giuliani is currently hitting the news shows, asserting that he knows what Robert Mueller is up to: trying to get Trump to commit perjury.
Quipped Meyers: “If there’s any trap tailor-made for Trump, it’s a perjury trap. That or fried chicken under a box.”
Trump’s lawyers have ruled out questions from Mueller on obstruction because they claim Mueller already knows the answers. Giuliani and fellow Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow took over Sean Hannity’s radio show on Friday to discuss the case.
Said Meyers: “That’s right. For some reason, Trump’s legal team hosted a radio show. The president of the United States is being represented in the Russia investigation by the Z100 ‘zoo crew’. ‘You’re listening to Rudy and Jaybird in the morning on WHUN, the Witch Hunt.’”
Meyers also pointed out a major lie Giuliani made to Jake Tapper regarding Trump’s request that fired FBI director James Comey give Michael Flynn a break.
Meyers then moved on to Trump’s own attempts to delegitimize the Russia investigation, slamming attorney general Jeff Sessions for being missing in action.
“Okay first of all, when Sessions is scared he doesn’t get stiff. He scurries back into his mushroom house and sips broth from an acorn cap. Second, you’ve never seen anything so rigged in your life? You know what’s rigged? Your life. You’re a billionaire celebrity who dated models and became president despite being a notorious idiot and open racist who had four bankruptcies and been sued thousands of times. Trump was born on third base and thinks he scored a touchdown because he doesn’t know how the rules work.”
Meyers then moved on to Omarosa, reading the excerpt of her book which describes Trump eating a piece of paper in the Oval Office.
Said Meyers: “If your favorite food is well done steak, how far away is paper, really?”
It was an allegation Michael Cohen disputed, which is pretty much a joke, Meyers noted:
“So now we have one liar who admits she lied in the past claiming she’s telling the truth now about the liar she worked for, and a third liar who’s under investigation for lying who taped the first liar to prove he wasn’t lying said the second liar’s lying about the first liar. I’m starting to think none of this happened or they all ate pieces of paper.”
Meyers then moved on to the secret recording of John Kelly firing Omarosa, and Trump’s attempts to destroy Omarosa’s credibility, displaying this tweet: ‘While I know it’s “not presidential” to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible.’
While I know it’s “not presidential” to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
Quipped Meyers: “You know what made Omarosa look legitimate? Putting her in the White House.”
Concluded Meyers: “This is what happens when you’re a con artist who surrounds himself with other con artists. you think you’re picking everyone else’s pockets and then one day you reach for your own wallet and it’s not there and you look up and you see Michael Cohen is eating it.”
Watch:
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A Plea to Stop, or Slow, Brett Kavanaugh
The head of One Colorado is begging his state’s senators to challenge this ideologue.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/8/14/plea-stop-or-slow-brett-kavanaugh
Twitter Is Tired of Hollywood’s Gayface
The outraged reactions to the casting of a straight actor, Jack Whitehall, in Disney’s first clearly gay role mark a turning point in what’s tolerated.
www.advocate.com/film/2018/8/13/twitter-tired-hollywoods-gayface
Pence, DeWine and Husted Bring Wrong and Politically Toxic Anti-LGBTQ Attacks to Ohio
HRC called out Vice President Mike Pence for fundraising for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine and his running mate Jon Husted tomorrow. Pence, DeWine and Husted have all crusaded against marriage equality and sought to undermine reproductive rights.
“Mike Pence, Mike DeWine and Jon Husted have pushed anti-LGBTQ policies that are not only wrong, they are politically toxic in a state with more than 1.5 million Equality Voters,” said HRC State Manager Shawn Copeland. “As Attorney General, DeWine defended the state’s marriage ban, stating that LGBTQ people did not deserve ‘protected-class status.’ DeWine also opposes non-discrimination laws protecting Ohioans on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and protections for LGBTQ youth facing discrimination and bullying at school. As a U.S. Senator, DeWine never scored above a 25 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard, which scores congress members’ votes on LGBTQ legislation.”
As Pence, DeWine and Husted campaign to push their extreme, anti-equality agendas, HRC is on the ground mobilizing our millions of members, supporters and Equality Voters in Ohio to reject the politics of hate and elect Richard Cordray for governor.
For more on Pence’s record, HRC’s comprehensive “The Real Mike Pence” campaign includes a report, microsite and a series of videos shining a spotlight on Pence’s inside-the-White House efforts to continue his decades-long crusade by leading the Trump-Pence administration’s attacks on LGBTQ people, including those who bravely serve our nation in the military. It lays out his long record of support for the abusive practice of so-called “conversion therapy;” his relentless pursuit of a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people; his attempts to block hate crime legislation and funding for HIV and AIDS prevention; and his efforts to undermine access to health and reproductive care essential to LGBTQ people. He also keeps busy with his extremist agenda by working to undermine science, health, transparency, education, justice and public safety.
In Ohio, HRC has identified more than 1,550,000 “Equality Voters” — voters who support LGBTQ-inclusive policies including marriage equality, equitable family law, and laws that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. HRC has prioritized investments and organizing in Ohio in the 2018 cycle, and has already put staff and resources on the ground in the state. Last year, HRC announced a coast-to-coast campaign called HRC Rising, which represents the largest grassroots expansion in the organization’s 38-year history.
NEW ORLEANS OFF THE BEATEN PARTH: AllWays Lounge
Mark Kanemura, Michael Avenatti, Trump Hotels, Ricky Martin, Peter Strzok, Mormons, Tel Aviv, Boys in the Band: HOT LINKS
MICHAEL AVENATTI IN IOWA. Fighting fire with fire. “What I fear for this Democratic party that I love so much is that we have a tendency to bring nail clippers to a gun fight. Tonight, however, I want to suggest a different course. I believe that our party, the Democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire. I believe that we can no longer be the party that turns the other cheek. We must be the party that marshals the power of law and government to strike back at those that strike our cheek and to bring those to justice. When they go low, I say, we hit harder. Now, I know some of you may disagree with me. The answer to Donald Trump, you may say, is to do the opposite of Donald Trump. Be noble, be kind, be classy. And I am all for each of those things. But tonight, with our country under an unprecedented assault by a con man who fights only for himself and degrades the vulnerable and the powerless and regular hard-working people day in and day out, I believe that we must honestly ask ourselves whether those that we fight for can afford our gentleness.”
CUT TO THE FEELING. Rainbow Pride Instastud Mark Kanemura finally got to perform with Carly Rae Jepsen.
POLITICAL SPENDING AT TRUMP PROPERTIES. In 2014 it was $35,000. In 2018 it’s $3,500,000. “At least 125 Republican campaigns and conservative political groups spent more than $3.5 million at President Donald Trump’s resorts, hotels and restaurants since January 2017, the month he was sworn in, according to an analysis by McClatchy.”
INCREASING HORROR. Stephen Miller’s uncle lays into the White House ghoul.
SARDINIA. Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are yachting in the Mediterranean.
PETER STRZOK. FBI agent fired for anti-Trump texts: “Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday — even though the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension. Goelman said the move undercuts the FBI’s repeated assurances that Strzok would be afforded the normal disciplinary process.”
Agent Peter Strzok was just fired from the FBI – finally. The list of bad players in the FBI & DOJ gets longer & longer. Based on the fact that Strzok was in charge of the Witch Hunt, will it be dropped? It is a total Hoax. No Collusion, No Obstruction – I just fight back!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total fraud on the American public and should be properly redone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
ALEX JONES. The conspiracy theorist moved to Vimeo and immediately got cut.
RIP. Trans artist and activist Casey Hoke: “Casey Hoke, a transgender artist, activist and national public speaker dedicated to helping others combat marginalization, has died in Pomona, according to a family statement on his Facebook page. A spokesperson for Los Angeles County Deputy Medical Examiner Juan Carrillo told the Los Angeles Blade that the cause of death was deferred until after an official inquest. He died at his home in Pomona, outside Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, August 8.”
DEVASTATING. Trump tariffs’ effect on the fishing industry. “This isn’t an easily replaced market. What’s going to happen is China is just going to stop buying Alaska fish.”
NOVEMBER POLICY. Mormon church doubles down on gay policy: ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has quietly doubled down on a controversial policy toward gay members by including it in a recently updated manual for missionaries. Addison Jenkins, a student at Brigham Young University and an openly gay Mormon, said the 2015 policy was a watershed moment for the church’s gay members. Up until then, gay Mormons seemed to have a little more flexibility in matters of faith and sexuality. Jenkins said that changed with the new guidelines, which sent a clear message: no more gray area. Or, as he puts it, “If you want to be gay and Mormon, okay, but you have to be Mormon. And you can’t really be gay.”’
TEL AVIV. Thousands march on 9th anniversary of gay youth center shooting. “The 2009 attack was carried out by a lone gunman who killed two young people and wounded dozens more. The shooter was never caught. Many in the LGBT community consider the shooting a hate crime while police have speculated that it was motivated by a personal dispute rather than antipathy toward gays.”
CURTAIN CALL OF THE DAY. The Boys in the Band take a final bow.
We caused quite a heat wave this summer at the Booth. From all of us at #BoysintheBand, thank you for joining the party! pic.twitter.com/9lx0AeOWGg
— The Boys in the Band on Broadway (@BoysBandBway) August 12, 2018
MONDAY MUSCLE. Freddy.
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