Новости за 30.03.2016

Tell me if you've heard this one before - a Trump rally turns violent with protestors being assaulted by Trump supporters. Seems like a daily news headline, right? Well, this time the person assaulted was a teenager who was not only sexually groped, but also pepper sprayed from a distance of about 8 inches -- by a grown man who ran from the scene.

Donald Trump continued his rampage, adding to the list of people he has alienated, like Muslims, the disabled, the Pope, the media, journalists, and every other candidate running for office.

Full disclosure: I am writing this post on a laptop that I am fully aware is powered by coal. My local community in south-central Illinois depends on coal-fired power plants to provide power to homes and businesses.

In the video above, Irish people react to Donald Trump. But it's not just the Irish. The Hill reports foreign governments are freaking out and the lobbyists they've hired to represent their interests in Washington (yeah) are hearing the anxiety:

Not only has what's left of the Republican Presidential Circus come to Wisconsin, they wasted little time getting the show off.

The Republican establishment and their dark money overlords have decided to make Wisconsin the place they draw a line in the sand against the Donald Trump juggernaut. They are throwing everything they have at Trump here - from ambush radio interviews to every Republican leader in the state attacking Trump and praising Cruz.

Sean Hannity was so busy clutching his pearls over the Donald Trump/Ted Cruz wife wars, he “forgot” that he has spent years race baiting and smearing Michelle Obama. Well, we’re here to remind him!

Y’all, Louie Gohmert has fallen so low on the food chain that we’re going to have to start watering him once a week.

Trying to decide who's to blame for the rise of Donald Trump is all the rage in the Acela Corridor. At The Washington Post, Michael Gersonblames Rush Limbaugh:

Two of our bloggers today go to two small-town newspapers for some amazing insights about blue collar voters and pro-life politics, and then we’re off to the movies for some pop-culture insight… about Donald Trump. Popcorn, anyone?

As reported earlier, the ACLU will be suing the state of North Carolina over it's bigoted transgender discrimination law.

Teacher circled this one because she never met Ann.

Open thread below.....

Happy 42nd birthday to the last album Ian Hunter did with Mott The Hoople.

Ted Cruz breaks the irony meter at this Tuesday's GOP Presidential Town Hall on CNN. Here's how he responded when he was asked how religion played a part in his political decision making and whether or not religion should interfere with that decision making when it affects members of all religions.

It's no secret that Donald Trump is a dangerous narcissist with an affinity for perfidy and hyperbole. The countless examples of his grandstanding are too numerous for one post. The objective of this article is to identify, categorize and disprove Trump's five most hyperbolic claims, in an attempt to centralize the various subsets of his mendacity.

Better than Prison on MSNBC, it's the GOP Town Hall on CNN.

The serious drinking starts once we figure out if Donald Trump is going to show up.

Town Hall Open Thread below....

Not work-safe language in the video.

In this "on vacation web extra" Samantha Bee takes on Sentinel Offender Services, an outfit that makes a profit off of people on probation.

What Samantha doesn't say, is these outfits are part of the trend to privatize government services to for-profit entities. And what happens when you turn over responsibility for the underclass to a for-profit corporation? Bribes, lobbying, false-billing, abuse, and graft.

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David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, went on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell on Monday to try and make sense out of Donald Trump's interview with his paper.

I'm not sure how they did it, but CNN managed to find a few women supporting Donald Trump to interview. These women even have a support group which meets regularly so they can burnish their reasons for loving a fascist. I suppose you'd need one of those to justify it.

In addition to being lawless, destructive, violent and mean, it looks like some members of the Bundy Gang have difficulty managing their finances, and the properties they've been entrusted with.