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Comey’s Testimony Reminds Us That Trump Is A Predator

Comey’s testimony reminds us that Trump is a predator

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Duggar Family Church Becomes Site of Anti-Trump Protest

Though it was the size of their seemingly ever-expanding brood that first landed Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar in the national spotlight, it’s the couples ultra-conservative religious and political views that have made them enduring subjects of both derision and fascination. That fascination has come at a significant price, as the family has been beset by a string scandals ever since it was revealed in May of 2015 that eldest son  Josh Duggar molested four of his sisters when they were young girls. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the Duggars recently found themselves at the center of an uproar involving both their controversial religious beliefs and one of the more widely criticized policies of the Trump administration. On Sunday, protestors gathered at the Cross Church in Springdale, Arkansas to protest Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement – a global initiative designed to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions. The reason for the location may not have had anything to do with the Duggars, but rather with the church’s founder, Ronnie Floyd, who was reportedly a valued “spiritual advisor” to Trump during his campaign. The peaceful assembly was covered by a local reporter named Katie Davidson: “Protestors have assembled in front of Cross Church in Rogers to ask Ronnie Floyd, who was a member of a spiritual advisory panel for President Trump during the campaign, to help the poor and the climate,” Davidson wrote on Facebook yesterday. It is not known if the fact that the Duggars attend the church was a factor in the protestors’ choice of location, though some have speculated that they might have been motivated by the additional media attention they would receive at the Springdale Cross Church, as opposed to one of the other places of worship presided over by Floyd. Like Bill Gothard , founder of the “Quiverfull movement” that forms the basis for many of the Duggars beliefs, Floyd has been wrapped in numerous scandals over the years. Most recently, Floyd has come under fire the excessive “tithing” demands he makes of his parishioners, as well as for homopohobic views expressed in his book The Gay Agenda: It’s Dividing the Family, the Church, and a Nation . While the Duggars political beliefs have long been a source of controversy, TLC has consistently attempted to separate the family from the ideology, so as not to alienate viewers or advertisers. It’s a task that’s become increasingly difficult over the years and may soon prove impossible. Watch Counting On online to try and pick out all the scenes that have been carefully edited so as not to reveal the Duggars’ most far-right wing beliefs. View Slideshow: The 11 Biggest Duggar Family Scandals of 2015

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Vladimir Putin to Megyn Kelly: Get a Life, Loser!

When he’s not stoically stroking a cat or swivelling in a chair to reveal himself to a captured foe, Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to maintain the illusion that he’s the democratically elected, non-villainous head of a functioning industrialized nation. That means occasionally conversing with reporters, despite the fact that it would be so much easier to put their heads on spikes outside the Kremlin as a warning to others who might be thinking about snooping around. On Sunday night, Trump foil turned Fox News refugee Megyn Kelly interviewed Putin on her new 60 Minutes -esque weekly newsmagazine.  Not surprisingly, Putin was his usual petulant self, bristling at questions about Russia’s alleged collusion with the Trump administration , and seemingly at all times one subtle head nod away from having Kelly dragged off to a Siberian work camp. “You have created a sensation out of nothing,” Putin replied when asked about charges of Russia hacking the DNC and meddling in the 2016 election. “And out of this sensation you created a weapon of war against the president,” he said, referring to Trump. “You people over there … good job. Your lives must be boring.” Yes, Vlad just went full Regina George and basically asked Kelly why she’s so totes obsessed with him. To her credit, Kelly pressed on and asked the real-life Bond villain about the alleged pee tapes starring Trump and some Russian hookers . Okay, she didn’t use the word “pee tapes” but she did ask if Russia has incriminating information that it’s using to blackmail Trump: “Well this just another load of nonsense,” Putin replied. “Where would we get this information from? There was a time when he used to come to Moscow but, you know, I never met him. Do you think we’re gathering information on all of the [Americans visiting Russia on business]. “Have you all lost your sense over there?” he concluded, really piling on the rhetorical questions in not-at-all-super-suspicious fashion. This is some top-notch gaslighting, folks. The good thing about engaging in the kind of cartoonish supervillainy that sounds ridiculous when you describe it out loud is that all you have to do to defend yourself is describe it out loud. It’s a tactic that’s probably been employed by evildoers throughout history. “Riiiiight, I’m brainwashing you into worshipping me as a Christ-like figure so that I can convince you to commit a series of brutal murders in hopes of igniting an apocalyptic race war,” we imagine a young Charles Manson sarcastically dismissing his followers’ suspicions. Clearly, Vlad has learned from the very best bad guys. Sad! View Slideshow: Tiny Trump: Internet Cuts President Down to Size!

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Kathy Griffin: Donald Trump is Ruining My Life!

A few days ago, as you've surely heard by now, Kathy Griffin released some images from a photo shoot she did with Tyler Shields. In the most scandalous photos, Kathy was holding a model of what looked like Donald Trump's bloody decapitated head . It did not go over well. In one fell swoop, she managed to piss off the entire internet — and she even deeply disturbed Trump and his family. She was fired from a few gigs , dragged all to hell in the media, both traditional and social … it was bad. And though she released a video apologizing for the photo shortly after it was published, today she did a press conference addressing the ongoing controversy. In the conference, which Kathy did alongside her lawyer, she was very emotional, and at one point, she even broke down. “I don't think I will have a career after this,” she said. “I think he … I'm going to be honest, he broke me. He broke me, and then I was like, 'No, this isn't right.'” She said that she was sincere in her original apology, but that she feels that Trump and his team are trying to turn the controversy into a distraction . About her CNN firing, she said it was “sad” and “hurtful.” “There's a bunch of old white guys trying to silence me, and I'm just hear to say that's wrong,” she continued. “You don't have to like me, but you shouldn't silence a comic.” She also pointed out how strange it is that the President of the United States is going after, in her words, “D-list comedian Kathy Griffin.” As she said in her apology, she did cross a line with the photo, but she still feels like the backlash is extreme. After all, she's hardly the first famous person to criticize Trump in such a brutal way , but she's the first to get destroyed over it. Check out the press conference in the video below:

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The President Is About To Steal Your Future

If Trump withdraws from the Paris climate accord, young people will suffer the most.

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Josh Duggar: Did He Even Cheat on Anna?

It’s hard to believe that a little over two years ago, Josh Duggar was just another grinning, innocuous member of the massive 19 Kids and Counting brood. Sure, as the eldest of the lot and a semi-successful lobbyist, Josh stood apart in some respects, but to the casual reality TV fan, he was of interest only due to the staggering number of people who share his DNA. These days of course, Josh is no longer an anonymous face in the Duggar crowd, but not because he distinguished himself through hard work and achievement. Quite the opposite. As a result of the Josh Duggar sex scandals that first came to light in May of 2015, Josh’s name is now mentioned alongside the likes of Jared Fogle or Bill Cosby. He’s become infamous as the worst kind of predator, and with good reason. First, the world learned that when he was in his teens, Josh molested five young girls , four of whom were his sisters. (It was later revealed that Josh’s parents failed to report him to the authorities, instead opting to “deal with” the matter in-house.) Shortly thereafter, the affair-facilitating website Ashley Madison was hacked, and Josh’s name was included on the list of clients. So we know that for a long time Josh tried to cheat on Anna Duggar. In fact, he really gave it his all. Josh had not one, but two paid Ashley Madison accounts, and he even used other people’s photos on his profile as part of his effort to lure in potential cheating partners. ( Josh is currently being sued  by a Los Angeles-based DJ whose photos he used. The man claims his involvement in the scandal irreparably damaged his career.) Unlike the molestation scandal, the cheating ordeal had actual, real-world fallout for Josh, whose family forced him into a six month sex addiction rehab program . But now that the dust has settled, we can’t help but wonder – did Josh ever actually cheat in Anna? Was he somehow able to find a willing partner online? We have our doubts. Now, mind you, we’re in no way defending Josh’s character. In fact, the man very clearly has no character to defend. But we are having difficulty imagining that there are women using Ashley Madison (a tough image to conjure on its own), and that those women saw Josh’s profile, became intrigued, offered to meet up, and then were totally cool with finding out they’d been catfished. Now, it’s possible that Josh relied on sex workers for his infidelity, but that seems unlikely for several reasons. For starters, Josh has lived in places – rural Arkansas and (very briefly) Washington, D.C. In the former, we imagine there are very few brothels. The latter is positively teeming with prostitutes, but 1. Josh was only there for a month, and 2. he was a high-profile employee of a conservative lobbyist organization. Pulling off any sort of illicit sex would’ve required a level of stealth that we simply don’t believe Josh is capable of. Not to mention the fact that at this point, any sex workers hired by Josh would’ve probably sold their stories to the tabloid media. A woman named Danica Dillon claimed that she met Josh while she was working as a stripper and that he paid her for sex on multiple occasions, but her claims didn’t hold out in court. She later retracted her version of events on social media, confessing that while she did meet Josh, they never actually engaged in intercourse. Again, we have no interest in defending Josh, only in pointing out the absurdity of his situation: Despite his fame and his constant efforts to cheat on his wife, it looks like he was consistently unable to do so. Josh is worse than a cheater: He’s a wannabe cheater, a failed cheater. So if you’re the one person on the planet who’s still holding on to a shred of respect for this creep, we suggest you go ahead and toss that out the window. View Slideshow: Josh Duggar Sex Scandal Timeline: How His Family’s Empire Crumbled

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Hillary Clinton Commencement Speech: Was She Trolling Trump?

Well, it's graduation time, which means there's a good chance you'll soon be forced to cut a check to a nephew you haven't seen in three years and/or make an appearance at a booze-free party that's attended mostly by snapchatting teens. But there are good things about this time of year, too: Primarily, the fact that you get to see various celebrities do a little cap-and-gown standup routine without actually racking up a lifetime worth of debt yourself. Today, graduates at Wellesley College got the super-, mega-A-list treatment courtesy of former Secretary of State and noted popular vote winner Hillary Clinton, who gave her third commencement speech at the Massachusetts liberal arts school. (Her first was as a graduate in 1969.) Clinton did not announce that she's running for mayor of New York City (looking more and more like a few media outlets got a bad tip on that one), but she did make headlines doing what so many of us have been doing for the past four months: Taking dead aim at the low-hanging fruit that is the Trump administration. After reminding those in attendance that they're “graduating at a time when there’s a full-fledged assault on truth and reason” Clinton really went in: “When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society,” she said at one point. “That is not hyperbole, it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done. … They attempt to control reality.” In case that was too subtle, she also had this to say: “People [are] denying science, concocting elaborate, hurtful conspiracy theories about child-abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors, drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants, Muslims, minorities, the poor, turning neighbor against neighbor and sowing division at a time when we desperately need unity. “Some are even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds, and then defending themselves by talking about quote-unquote ' alternative facts .'” Yeah, it was basically the climactic battle rap scene in 8 Mile disguised as a commencement speech. Watch some highlights in the clip below:

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Ain’t That Amerikkka! Texas Congressman Al Green Threatened With LYNCHING After Calling For Trump’s Impeachment

Congressman Al Green Plays Death Threats He Received For Calling For Trump’s Impeachment Camille Scott, a spokeswoman for Congressman Al Green says he’s been receiving threatening messages to his offices in both Houston and Washington D.C. after calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment earlier this week. The Congressman played some of the more graphic messages for attendees at a town hall in Houston this Saturday, according to Houston Chronicle reports : “You ain’t going to impeach nobody. Try it and we will lynch all of you,” a caller said in one of several threatening recordings the Houston Democrat played at a town hall meeting Saturday. “You’ll be hanging from a tree,” the caller continued. The calls use graphic racial slurs, some calling Green the n-word. “You are so disgusting,” one caller said. “You’re scum. You’re pathetic.” Green says he wanted his constituents to be aware of the calls, but he remains focused on taking steps toward the impeachment process. “You cannot allow hate to be hidden,” Green said about the voicemails. “You have to expose hate. Hate is a means by which people can be harmed. It’s an evil. The best way to deal with evil is to expose.” Green called for Trump’s impeachment from the House floor Wednesday, citing the firing of FBI Director James Comey as one of his reasons. “The president fired the FBI Director who was investigating him and said he did it because of the investigation,” Green said. “That’s pretty serious. That’s obstruction of justice. We believe no person is above the law, not even the President of the United States of America.” Green says his objective in calling the town hall was to allow the Houston community to voice their concerns about the president. Some attendees asked how they could help with the impeachment process. Green encouraged them to call their local representatives and to continue to show up for town hall meetings. “I’m expecting the people to stand up and make their voices heard, so that we in Congress will know what their desires are,” he said. “When the people express their will, I think it will impact the will of the Congress.” The event had a heavy police presence and thorough security checks were administered to all who attended the meeting at Fountain Life Center. Some in attendance expressed their support for Green, including Robin Paoli, who helped organize the Houston Women’s March in January. “We stand with you,” Paoli said of Green. “We stand with your honorable action of holding the president accountable. I as a white woman stand by my brother and say we will not tolerate those kind of death threats and racial slurs that are being thrown at you.” We love that Green is getting support from his constituents on this matter, but do we really want a Trump impeachment? Just know, Vice President Pence is FAR FAR worse. In the meantime though, Trump is doing a great job of making America hate again, isn’t he? Getty Images

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Trump Chaos Poses Hurdles For GOP Midterm Elections

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As President Donald Trump and his team scramble to explain developing troubles from inside the White House, the Republican Party will face challenges in key upcoming elections

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Cookout Food Smells Good: Dave Chappelle Apologizes For Saying “Give Trump A Chance” On SNL

Dave Chappelle Apologizes For Trump Comments On SNL Dave Chappelle’s appearance on SNL was hilarious. No doubt. But he rubbed a LOT of people the wrong way when he started talking that “give Trump a chance” bulls#it. “I’m gonna wish Donald Trump luck, and I’m going to give him a chance, and we the historically disenfranchised demand that he give us one too,” Yesterday, according to MSNBC’s Willie Geist, Chappelle walked his comments back. Dave Chappelle tonight in NY on his November SNL monologue: “I was the first guy on TV to say 'Give Trump a chance.' I f***ed up. Sorry.” — Willie Geist (@WillieGeist) May 16, 2017 Y’all welcoming Dave back? Offering him a burger and some chicken? Image via Getty

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Cookout Food Smells Good: Dave Chappelle Apologizes For Saying “Give Trump A Chance” On SNL