Trump is determined to nail Obama for his crimes, if only he can find out what they are.

President Donald Trump headed into the weekend appearing convinced his predecessor committed a crime worthy of investigation — despite being unable to name the crime or provide any evidence for it. By Sunday, he emerged prepared to wage wholesale political war with the last person who held his office.

It was always about Obama. Mediocre white guys are one thing, but a not so mediocre black guy as president – that’s a personal insult to Trump himself and must be avenged.

Escaping the White House for another weekend at Camp David, Trump appeared “highly focused” on Obama over the course of

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Same old same old same old – we’re told about the desperate need to respect trans rights, while we’re not told what, exactly, trans rights are meant to be, and whether they’re the same basic rights we should respect in all cases (cf the “Universal” in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) or special rights particular to trans people, and if it’s the latter, whether those putative rights are compatible with everyone else’s rights.

Amnesty press release:

UK human rights organisations speak out for trans equality amidst growing threats to trans rights

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Teen Vogue has an op-ed by a boy who wants to compete against girls instead of boys:

Growing up, I never felt like I fit in. I was trying to be this cool, masculine, teenage boy, but I felt like I was faking it. In high school, I secretly shopped for girls’ clothes at Goodwill and would put them on after school. But when I looked in the mirror, I was so disappointed. I didn’t understand it at the time, but what I was experiencing was gender dysphoria, a deeply painful feeling that comes from knowing that your sex assigned at birth and your body do not reflect your true gender.

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From the police blotter:

Headline: Woman who ‘bragged about being a paedophile’ approached boys at Remembrance event

Subhead: Recently-released prisoner Leah Harvey showed ‘sheer arrogance’ by talking to the boys in front of police officers. She later approached two girls in a takeaway

Story:

Leah Harvey breached her sexual harm prevention order twice by approaching two boys at a Remembrance Day event and two girls working in a takeaway.

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The second breach occurred between November 4 and November 26 and involved two teenage girls working at a takeaway in the Caerphilly area.

Ms Yeo [the prosecutor] said she went into the takeaway and made the girl feel “uncomfortable”.  

The defendant returned on November 22 and tried to talk

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No you are.

Donald Trump has hit back at Barack Obama’s criticism of his administration’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, accusing the former US president of being “grossly incompetent” during his time in office.

It is rare for a former president to rebuke a successor, but Obama did so during an online speech to graduating university and high school students yesterday, although he did not name Trump in his comments.

It’s also rare for a selfish malevolent corrupt greedy racist sexist lazy brainless monster to be president, too.

“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending

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Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on The same rights as others.

As someone who doesn’t think or feel in any of the ways required to qualify as either “man” or “woman” according to gender ideology, what I want to know is this:

• Which toilet am I allowed to use if there are only two and both are reserved for people who think or feel in ways that I don’t?

• Which sporting events am I allowed to participate in if they’re all reserved for people who think or feel in ways that I don’t?

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Trump responds to Obama’s speech: "Look, he was an incompetent president, that's all I can say. Grossly incompetent." pic.twitter.com/bgkbMFvURr

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2020

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It’s not a sign of a healthy movement for social justice when all it can offer is repetition of dud slogans. By “dud” I mean slogans that don’t even work as slogans, independent of how often they get repeated.

Like so:

We'll keep saying it until *everyone* knows:

Trans rights = human rights.
Trans rights = human rights.
Trans rights = human rights.
Trans rights = human rights.
Trans rights = human rights.
Trans rights = human rights.

#IDAHOBIT

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) May 17, 2020

That’s just stupid. You can’t force people to “know” something just by typing it six times on Twitter. You can type any old nonsense six times on Twitter; you can do it six times … Read the rest

Pink News is worse than ever.

Meet the powerful international cabal of…lesbians.

“TERF is hate speech and it’s time to condemn it,” gender-critical writer Amy Dyess announced in October 2018 – words she now regrets.

Hmm. Amy Dyess has, shall we say, picked quite a few fights with various women – fights that came out of nowhere and escalated the way a rocket escalates. I’m one of those women and I had barely interacted with her.

“TERF is a slur used to sexually harass, threaten, and silence lesbians,” continued Amy’s viral Medium post, which was liked more than 4,300 times.

Back then, Amy was connected to an international network of powerful lesbians.

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Eric Trump says Democrats are exploiting the pandemic to Defeat Donnie the Good.

He told the geniuses at Fox yesterday:

They think they are taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time. You watch, they’ll milk it every single day between now and Nov. 3. And guess what, after Nov. 3 coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.

Ah yes, we’re all milking it. We just love not being able to get on a bus or take our time deciding which ice cream to get. We also love watching people die in agony.… Read the rest

Oh so that’s which movie it is. I’ve never seen it (and have no desire to).

A few hours after taunt-tweeting at Laurence O’Donnell, suggesting the MSNBC anchor cried when forced to admit that, yes, the President made a lot of money on The Apprentice (a dubious claim that has been debunked before), but a few hours before he retweeted a pic of new Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany done up like Supergirl, Trump shared a “deep fake” video in which his own head was superimposed on Pullman’s as he gave the St. Crispin’s Day-esque speech from the Roland Emmerich’s 1996 film Independence Day.

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The Beeb reports:

Two teenage girls have been murdered in a so-called “honour killing” in north-west Pakistan following a video circulated on the internet.

They are said to have been shot dead by a family member earlier this week in a village on the border of the North and South Waziristan tribal districts.

The killing occurred after a short mobile video of them with a young man surfaced on social media, police said.

Totally understandable. Female people are a commodity, whose value rests on the purity (as opposed to filth) of their genitals. They belond to the men in their family, and if their genitals are rendered impure, they become not just worthless but a liability. Their filth equals … Read the rest

I have to return to this absurdity, because there’s just so much absurdity in it.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2020

It’s the fact that he tweeted it that’s so grotesque – that it’s right there for all to see.

You know, a normal person wouldn’t see it as flattering in the first place. A normal person wouldn’t see a clip with her head perched awkwardly on someone else’s body as a compliment. It’s not a compliment, is it. It’s a statement that Trump’s body is not all that glorious, along with a statement that his general self-presentation is not all that great. The alternative body is relaxed, comfortable, cool – not herky-jerky and flailing like Trump’s … Read the rest

This one is soooooooooooooo pathEtic…………………..

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2020

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Maya Forstater notes how confused about human rights some core human rights organizations are:

Stonewall was set up to defend the rights of gay and lesbian (and later bisexual) people. Its charitable objects are to promote human rights as set out in the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These are the laws which protect everyone’s rights. But in 2015 it adopted the “trans rights” cause and since then has been enthusiastic about ignoring and undermining women’s rights.

Stonewall has called for ‘gender identity’ to replace ‘gender reassignment’ (the idea of transition) as a protected characteristic in equality law and to “remove exemptions, such as access to single-sex spaces”.

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Late Friday night – oh hey Nancy by the way I’ve gotten rid of another one of those pesky General Inspector losers who kept getting in my way.

President Donald Trump has removed State Department Inspector General Steve Linick and replaced him with an ally of Vice President Mike Pence — the latest in a series of moves against independent government watchdogs in recent months.

Ah yes, one of those “independent” government watchdogs who are allies of the badmaddogs.

Trump informed Congress of his intent to oust Linick, a Justice Department veteran appointed to the role in 2013 by then President Barack Obama, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday night.

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Trump is getting more and more tantrummy about the CDC.

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches past its ninth week, tensions are rising between the White House and the nation’s leading public health agency. In interviews with CNN, senior administration officials in Washington, as well as top officials at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta describe a growing sense of mistrust and animosity between the White House and CDC over how quickly the US should reopen and how the government tracks data on the virus.

Similarly, if Trump Tower had a fire raging on the tenth floor, Trump would be expressing mistrust and animosity toward the NYC fire department.

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Brilliantly done.

https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1261612399725068288 https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1261612403495665664 https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1261612407220252673 https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1261612411464888321… Read the rest

Also today:

The Trump administration really thinks the American public will be impressed by the claim that their (nonexistent) pandemic response plan is in a binder (!), as opposed to Obama's wimpy one which is just sheets of paper stapled together. Beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/GvYvdx0SL5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020

I’m reminded of Trump’s “we have nicer apartments than they do.”

"The president said the Pentagon is developing a 'super duper missile' … what was the president describing?" — this exchange is basically an SNL skit pic.twitter.com/QmREiE2RDy

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020

Trump offers some remarkably callous comments about the US coronavirus death toll, which currently sits at 86,607: "It's a very, very small percentage. I say

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Reuters reports:

Lying in rows of cots in a small hotel on the outskirts of Kiev, 51 babies born to surrogate mothers are stranded in Ukraine as the coronavirus lockdown is preventing parents from the United States, Europe and elsewhere from collecting them.

In other words the disgusting practice of renting human incubators (who just happen to be women, and not trans women at that) has resulted in 51 babies with no parents in the midst of a pandemic.

Interesting that exploiters of women choose Ukraine as their human incubator supplier. That couldn’t be because Ukraine is so desperate and vulnerable could it?

Ukraine imposed a ban on foreigners entering in March, and most parents have only seen their

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