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Trump Reneging on His Campaign Promises to Voters

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His Supporters Have Been Snookered!

In a 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl, Trump back pedaled on his major campaign promises and a lot else. When asked what his sit-down with President Obama was like he replied, “I found him [President Obama] to be terrific. I found him to be– very smart and very nice. Great sense of humor, as much as you can have a sense of humor talking about tough subjects, but we were talking about some pretty tough subjects.” So no more questions about his legitimacy to be President? No more wondering whether he was born in Kenya? I guess not now that he, Trump, is a member of the club.

The interview went on:   [Read more…]

Trump’s Absurd Plan To Dismantle Government’s Protections

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By Dave Johnson / OurFuture.Org

Donald Trump released a video announcing his agenda for his “first day in office.” One of the things he said is, “I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.” Can we count the number of ways this is absurd and dangerous?

Under Trump’s 2-for-1 idea, if we want to have a regulation that a company can’t store explosives next to an elementary school, we have to eliminate a regulation that protects us from food poisoning AND a regulation that stops companies from taking money out of your bank account for no reason? (Or how about creating fake accounts and charging them fees?)   [Read more…]

TinFoil Trump’s Twitter Temper Tantrum

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By Doug Porter

Based on the say-so of a conspiracy-mongering website that claims 9/11 was an inside job and the killing of children at Sandy Hook elementary school was staged with actors, the President-elect of the United States now says there were millions of illegal votes cast in the 2016 general election.

Donald Trump didn’t make this claim at a press conference flanked by attorneys ready to force states to throw out those votes; he made it on Twitter. And he didn’t make this claim based on any actual evidence at all.

He followed up this initial lie by naming California (along with New Hampshire and Virginia) as states with serious voter fraud. Again, the claim was made without evidence.   [Read more…]

Indigenous Resolve ‘Stronger Than Ever’ as Feds Order DAPL Protest Camp Shut Down

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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday informed Indigenous water protectors and their allies that they have nine days to vacate the main Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp—or else face arrest.

“This decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent confrontation between protestors and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions,” Col. John Henderson of the Corps said in a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II.

The Oceti Sakowin camp, on the banks of the Cannonball River, will be closed Monday, December 5, the letter warned. Any individuals found on Army land north of the river after that date would be considered trespassing and could be prosecuted.   [Read more…]

Pay More and Get Less: The Ryan Plan to Privatize Medicare

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By David Akadjian / Daily Kos

One of the fights likely to come up early during the next administration is privatizing Medicare.

Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has indicated Republicans will try to privatize Medicare in a budget reconciliation bill (a sneaky filibuster proof attack).

You’re going to hear a lot about “choice” and “efficiency” and the amazingness of markets, but Ryan’s plan basically comes down to two things: 1) you will pay more, and 2) you will get less.   [Read more…]

Two Million More Americans Voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump

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By Hunter / Daily Kos

Hillary Clinton may have lost the Electoral College and therefore the presidency, but her lead in the popular vote just topped the 2 million mark.   [Read more…]

Black Friday Shopping Tip: Support Good Journalism Everywhere

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While right wingers run out and buy guns after elections not to their liking, many folks are spending money on words following the election of Donald Trump.

In the days since the November 2016 election, news organizations like ProPublica, the Atlantic, Mother Jones and the New York Times have all seen a rise in subscription revenue and on-line readership. The average daily readership at the San Diego Free Press has increased by more than 50%.

Between the rise of fake news and the fall of the financial underpinnings of news reporting, supporting honest journalism should now be considered a patriotic act. I’d like to take that one step further by suggesting gift purchases on Black Friday to support a free press in this country.   [Read more…]

Anti-Trump Groups Strive for Unity

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The organizers of Monday night’s Community Forum on the Role of Progressives in the Age of Trump weren’t expecting a packed house at the Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest.

Additional chairs were brought in. People were invited to sit on the floor and encouraged to share the eighty printed agendas once they became scarce.

While the overall numbers of people anxious to participate in doing something about the upcoming reign of reaction was impressive, the makeup of the crowd–mostly white, male, and of the baby boomer generation–was disappointing.   [Read more…]

Gregory Canyon Landfill Plan Trashed – Pala Tribe Buys Land to Protect Sacred Sites and Habitat

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A decades-long battle over the proposed Gregory landfill has ended. On Nov. 17 , the Pala Band of Mission Indians announced the tribe has complete purchase of more than 700 acres of the property—including most of Gregory Canyon and Gregory Mountain, a sacred site known as Chokla.

Shasta Gaughen with the Pala Indians called the news “amazing,” adding in an e-mail, ”This means that a dump in Gregory Canyon will never happen. Chokla, Medicine Rock, and other spiritual and cultural sites on the property will now be protected forever. Critical wildlife habitat, endangered species, and the San Luis Rey River will be spared the threat posed by millions of tons of polluting garbage.”   [Read more…]

Late Votes Dim Dems Hopes in County Supervisor Contest

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With just under 200,000 mail-in and provisional ballots left to be counted, two contests thought to be victories for San Diego Democrats have flipped.

Incumbent Dave Roberts now trails Del Mar Mayor Kristin Gaspar by 296 votes in the race for District 3 County Supervisor, a reversal of fortunes with serious long-term implications for the local Democratic Party.

The latest vote counts for Mayor of Lemon Grove now show Raquel Vasquez beating George Gastil by 12 votes.

County Board of Education incumbent Rick Shea, on the other hand, is holding off a charter school lobby financed challenge by Mark Wyland, leading 100,331 to 98,883.   [Read more…]

Police Use Water Cannons in Freezing Weather on Protesters at Standing Rock

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Police used water cannons and tear gas against hundreds of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, late Sunday, Nov. 20. At least one person was arrested and dozens injured.

The confrontation began at 6pm, near the encampment were the protests against the $3.8 billion pipeline have been ongoing for months. According to the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, 400 protesters attempted to cross Blackwater Bridge on state Highway 1806 after removing a burned-out truck.   [Read more…]

It Really Is the End of the World as We Know It

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A little less than two weeks before the election, the Guardian was one of the only media outlets to note the release of a devastating report by the Living Planet Index that outlines how, “The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.”

One might think that such stark news would have trickled into the Presidential race, but, given the debased nature of the contest and the pathetic state of the national corporate media, it was nowhere to be seen in the slime fest that was the 2016 election.   [Read more…]

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