1ClassyLady 68F
3114 posts
10/15/2016 1:49 am
Michelle Obama’s speech on Donald Trump was remarkable


At an Oct. 13 Hillary Clinton campaign event, first lady Michelle Obama grew emotional while talking about allegations of sexual assault against Republican nominee Donald Trump. (without mentioned his name)

It's been six days since a hot-mic tape in which Donald Trump makes a series of lewd and sexually suggestive comments about women went public. But until first lady Michelle Obama stepped on the podium at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in New Hampshire, no public figure has so effectively encapsulated how this moment has made many American women feel.

An at-times emotional Obama admitted that she “couldn't stop thinking about” the comments made by Trump and had to address them in her speech." It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,” she added. Her speech reflected just how much Trump's remarks affected her.

“This is not normal,” Obama said at one point. “This is not politics as usual.” At another she insisted that “strong men don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.”

What Obama did in the speech is put a face and a name — and a very high-profile one at that — to Trump's words on that bus in 2005. She didn't say “words hurt” or “words have impact,” but that was quite clearly the message she was sending. Even Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States, knows what it is like to be ogled, to be treated as an object by men.

That's powerful stuff.

Obama's speech will go down as one of the most important of this political cycle, a moment in which she crystallized the feelings of many women in the wake of the Trump tape. She was outraged, yes, but also hurt — for herself and for women more broadly. And she expressed all of those emotions in ways you rarely see any politician (or private citizen do) — particularly one as well known as Obama.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
10/17/2016 1:25 pm

I have had good time watching those YouTube video that Alec Baldwin acted as Trump in "SNL smocks Donald Trump on 2nd presidential debate". Trump stalked Hillary's behind. One guy on Ellen's show said "he has a 7 y/o son and he has difficult to explain to his son that "why Trump is so mean to kittens", "Trump keeps grabbing those kittens". I was laughing very hard. There are more women accompanied by Gloria Allred (the famous female attorney with red suit) accusing Donald Trump sexual harassment in the past.

You know kitten means P*ssy.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
10/16/2016 10:00 pm

 第一夫人米雪兒?歐巴馬13日痛批共和黨總統候選人川普2005年污辱女性的錄音,她不認為川普的言論只是「更衣室閒聊」的托辭,而是對所有女性、家長和美國公民的侮辱。

  這位人氣超旺的總統夫人13日在新罕布夏州為喜萊莉?柯林頓助選的集會上表示,川普的言論令人震驚,這些言論出自總統參選人尤其不妥。她的聲音明顯因為情緒激動而顫抖,她說:「此事讓我心寒到骨子裡。這就像噩夢,我寧願沒有發生過,但我們不能置之不理。」

  第一夫人米雪兒表示,川普有長期貶損婦女的紀錄,他的言論只是冰山一角,作為總統候選人,川普在今年的競選以及他的一生中,對待婦女都是持這種令人震驚的詆毀態度。她說:「我們上周都看到川普對婦女的不敬,我不敢相信總統候選人會說出這樣的話。」

  米雪兒出身哈佛大學,曾任律師,她一向避免成為政治焦點,而把重心放在教育與健康議題上。但在新罕布夏州的這場助選活動上,她激昂呼籲選民「阻止這種瘋狂行為」,成功帶動全場氣氛。

  米雪兒說,川普的言論讓廣大女性產生痛苦的聯想,勾起她們在辦公室受到騷擾和性攻擊的不堪回憶。

  她指出,川普的話讓婦女感到極為噁心,就像她們走在街上和工作期間,某個壞人過來靠近她們,說有關女性身體的粗鄙言語。還像一個壞人在辦公室長時間地緊貼著女性的身體,讓人感覺極不舒服。米雪兒說到這裡時,全場鴉雀無聲。

  米雪兒雖然沒有提到歐巴馬總統,但是她說,她家的男主人在女性話題上,完全不像川普那樣,「我可以告訴大家,我一生接觸過的男人中,沒有一個會這樣談論女人。他們都是慈祥的父親,對於誣蔑婦女的歹毒語言會傳到他們女兒的耳朵裡,而深感憂慮。」

  川普在下流的錄音公布後立刻道歉,但他淡化處理,指這是「更衣室閒話」,表示他只是在口頭說,而沒有行動。

  52歲的米雪兒顯然對這種說法相當憤怒,她說:「這不是更衣室裡的玩笑話。這是個有權勢的人無拘無束公然大談性侵害行為。真的在吹噓強吻和觸摸女性的事。」

  她表示:「不論你屬於什麼政黨都無所謂,不管是民主黨、共和黨或無黨無派,沒有女性應該受到這種待遇。沒有人應該遭到如此傷害。」

  她說:「這是不正常的。可恥又令人難以忍受。」



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
10/15/2016 12:01 pm

Nobody else can deliver such a powerful speech as Michelle Obama did. Bar none. She speaks from the heart. It was an impressive speech.

Donald Trump is so disgraceful, shameful and yet he has been nominated by Republican. In Trump's eyes, he only sees those few percentage of ignorant followers but his ego won't let him realize the fact that he is losing the election. I have enough tolerance for his yelling, shouting and ranting everyday accusing Democratic party, or Hillary Clinton.

I have to trust Americans' intelligence on their judgements on the election day, November 8. If NOT, I shall move to New Zealand or Canada where I can have peace and quiet and safety.

Trump has had his casino and lost near $1 billion in 1995 and used that loss to wipe out 18 years income tax, six bankruptcies, NOT paying his construction labors money for their works, mocking Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims, Women, even his own Republican party, .... He forgot those Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims, Asians, Women added up to become a majority.

It is only 24 days left and we will find out the result very soon.



Honesty is the best policy.


beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
10/15/2016 7:13 am

She told a many truths that many Right Wingers try to pretend does not exist. But as with much else, we've never really seen the Republican Mindset face up to truth. They prefer more drama, confabulation and denial and diversionary tactics.
It does not matter that the Trump supporters won't deal with truths and realism, they are kinda like a poor destitute confederate soldier, taking up arms and rushing out the fight to protect the slave owners and their wealthy gathering. With some vain hope that something might trickle down to them, and all that has ever tricked down to them is hardship and a commitment to spin in ignorance.

Ignorance is a interesting thing: It presents an opportunity to Learn, unto those who first must acknowledge their own ignorance.

'"AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN
(likely will be rejected by the truly ignorant)

Proverbs tells us, Proverbs 23:9
"Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words." (therefore, this is written for those who choose to be and become learned)

First, I'll explain the base meaning of Ignorance: Ignorance is a state of being uninformed or lack of knowledge, (lack of knowledge, Lack of information, Unawareness) it can lead to individuals who deliberately ignore or choose to disregard important information or facts.

The ignorant can't help themselves, they grew up in a system of disinformation and distortions, directed by race conflicts and street contentions among the driven masses of the ignorant. Belligerence was supplanted in place of knowledge and produced ignorance to proceed to the level of stupidity. (behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, Stupidity is a quality of being unintelligent, therefore of being ignorant)

The masses were corralled for Centuries and decades upon decades within categories of ignorance , and remained and remain unaware to acknowledge such.

They were used as pawns to protect the avenue for the wealthy to get more wealth and use the people as peons in the game, where they even vote to defeat themselves, and never become aware of having done so. There is a mass of the uneducated who follow Trumps every word, they re-utter it as if it was a scripture they are endeared unto with a passion of full devotion.
Fully Unaware, they are being played for the levels and expanse of their own ignorance. They will reject this, because to them they think they are being smart, even within deeply they know they are unaware of so much and have less regard for fact and choose fiction and drama over fact each and everyday.
They lived for decades by belligerence of many sorts, they exercised it openly for decades in the streets with their assault upon minorities and their futile battle against Civil Rights and Civil Equality.

The wealthy Maintain and Manage the battles of Economic Depravity - to ensure there is no Economic Equilibrium, not among and not for the working poor, the destitute poor whites and the minorities alike. It was a given that they would do all they could to ensure that no economic equilibrium would exist for women, regardless of her skin tone or ethnicity.

Most of such "Ignorant" ones who have been controlled by the wealthy and their agenda, and even fight battles to protect the wealthy and the agenda of the wealthy; will reject all of this.

1-2-3 How to be prepared to Learn

(1). Become aware of being Ignorant
Sadly, it is often, they are not wise enough to acknowledge their own ignorance,
(2). Recognize the levels and category of ones Ignorance.
Those one's who does not recognize the levels and categories of their ignorance, are doomed to remain ignorant.
(3). Become wise enough to become educated and enlightened.
Only the wise, who can honestly recognize their ignorance are the ones who can become educated and enlightened.

We are being held in stagnation and regression by the acts and collective fights by "the ignorant", if they ever make the choice to be and become aware, to become educated, then and only then can America move at the pace its Constitution Designed it to do.

What bogs down our whole system is the spins of which Proverbs tells us to avoid.

Proverbs 26:4 "Don't answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are."

It further tells us:

Proverbs 29:9
"When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest."

Have we not seen this with the incessant ramblings of Trump in his rage and his forms of laughs, there is no rest, he is up at 3am Tweeting about silliness, and then proceeds to fills the next days spinning in rage, after rage, after rage as the ramblings of a mad man gone on a vengeance rage against anyone, anything and everything he can conjure to attack.
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Remember, you don't need to delete or block any of the people who have opposing view, let them speak; they only confirm the insidiousness of their assertions.
It is easy to counter their drama and selective amnesia with sound principles that have many connections to many facts.
When you block them, such things only embolden them to think their foolishness is somehow profound, when you let it stand as they push it. It is easy to summarize the fallacy and fiction in their claims.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
10/15/2016 2:40 am

We have to trust Americans' wisdom that we have elected the first Black president for 2 terms. We have to think positively, we will break the "glass ceiling" to elect a female president.

Trump campaigns has use people's jingoistic chauvinist for his ambition to win this election. His language and behaviors are so nasty that is unprecedented and disbelief. He called Mexicans " *ists", listen what he said in the tape in 1995. How can this man to lead this country? We know politics is nasty, but never seen before that a candidate has no class, no shame, no wisdom to this low level.

When they go low, we go high.



Honesty is the best policy.