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#EndorseThis: Planned Parenthood Boss Says Trump Worst POTUS For Women’s Issues Ever

#EndorseThis: Planned Parenthood Boss Says Trump Worst POTUS For Women’s Issues Ever

Donald Trump has done plenty to offend women before and after taking the Oval Office. From his outdated “bro code” attitude, to the abuse of female reporters, and the dark whispers of rape and brutality, The Donald has allowed his worldview to seep into the governance of social programs like Planned Parenthood. But it gets worse – he’s not the only Trump in the White House.

In today’s clip, Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood describes her heartbreaking final year directing the women’s health organization. Richards outs Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for what was essentially a bribe-attempt in January of 2017. At a White House meeting, “Javanka” offered the civic leader more money and resources if PP agreed to stop providing abortion.

Richards told Ivanka and Jared to stuff it up their covfefe, telling the pair women’s rights are not for sale. Soon she had concluded that no administration has been as oppressive to women as the current one.

Click for a heroine’s take on a dark era.

#EndorseThis: Oprah Shrugs Off 45, Becomes The Anti-Trump In Van Jones Clip

#EndorseThis: Oprah Shrugs Off 45, Becomes The Anti-Trump In Van Jones Clip

Oprah Winfrey may not run for office in 2020…or ever. But if nothing else, she is proving that a quiet, gutsy, progressive voice can call and raise President Trump’s anti-Hollywood shrieking.

In a new CNN interview clip, Oprah does what any great commander would do. She begins by allowing her second-in-command (the eloquent Ava Duvernay, director of A Wrinkle In Time) to speak about how citizens can combat the divisive rhetoric of Trumpian politics. Then, Oprah steps in to dismiss any notion that she and The Donald are pals.

Finally, Van Jones asks the African-American icon what she would do if given ten minutes to speak alone with Trump. Like any rational person, Oprah isn’t sure she would want to. But her final answer takes the audience’s breath away.

Watch to the 2:00 mark to hear the triumph of grace over derision.

KKK Is A Leftist Organization, According To Die-Hard Trump Supporter

KKK Is A Leftist Organization, According To Die-Hard Trump Supporter

Last night, as CNN’s Super Tuesday coverage wrapped up with die-hard Donald Trump apologist Jeffrey Lord’s claims that the Ku Klux Klan was a leftist organization. Lord, a CNN commentator and once a Reagan administration official, has repeatedly defended Trump’s flirtation with the KKK and propagated a form of revisionist history that denies, or at least downplays, the legacy of white nationalism in this country.

“The Klan is a terrorist organization,” said Jones, before being cut off by Lord.

“A leftist terrorist organization,” Lord interjected.

“You can put whatever label you want on it, that’s your game to play,” responded Jones.

“It’s history,” insisted Lord.

Newsflash for Lord. It is history. The Democratic Party and the KKK did have a cooperative relationship, but that was half a century ago, when Democratic voters were predominantly Southern white Dixiecrats. The South’s shift Republican was irreversible after President Kennedy’s decision to pursue civil rights legislation in 1963. Around the same time, the Republican party began making overtly racial appeals to Southern voters, accelerating the erosion of white Democratic support in the South.

In 2005, Ken Mehlman, the national chair of the RNC at the time, apologized for the Republican Party’s use of racial tension in the South as a political tool: “Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization,” Mehlman said in a speech to the NAACP. “I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.”

It is unlikely that the racists who repeatedly yelled at and shoved Shiya Nwanguma out of Trump rally support either Hillary Clinton’s or Bernie Sander’s policies. Both of them have decided to address racism rather than dress it up as an empty complaint of the “politically correct.”

Engaging in denial for it’s own sake does not erase the fact that the KKK targeted blacks to prevent them from voting in the Jim Crow South, nor that they attacked them and their allies during the Civil Rights era to slow socially progressive legislation — policies that sit firmly on the political left. If the KKK is a leftist terrorist organization, Trump must be redder than Fidel Castro.