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July 15, 2019
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The Damage Report: July 15, 2019

Trump's racist tweet tells minority congresswomen to "go back". John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/2019/7/14/20693758/donald-trump-tweets-racist-xenophobic-aoc-omar-tlaib-pressley-back-countries "President Donald Trump attacked liberal female Congress members in a nativist tweet thread Sunday, telling them to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” Although the president did not tweet at any congresswomen in particular, he was likely referring to a group of progressive first-term members that includes Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all of whom are US citizens. Omar was born in Somalia and became a naturalized citizen as a teenager. Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx (neighboring Trump’s birthplace in Queens), Tlaib hails from Detroit, and Pressley was born in Chicago. Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley recently spoke at the progressive Netroots Nation conference, alongside Rep. Deb Haaland. There, they strongly criticized Trump and his policies and shared their visions for the country." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Fox News finds humor in Trump's racist tweet as Republican leaders refuse to acknowledge Trump's racism. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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AOC and "The Squad" respond to Donald Trump racist tweets. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Mike Pence visits the border to meet with those in charge of the facility, completely ignoring the immigrants being held. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-shower-no-shower-migrants-shout-pence-visits-texas-detention-n1029426 "Vice President Mike Pence saw firsthand the extreme overcrowding migrants are often forced to endure at federal detention centers when he visited two Friday in Texas. Agents wore face masks, and video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. Reporters accompanying Pence described the facility as smelling "horrendous." A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, "No shower, no shower!" ... "Every family that I spoke to told me that they are being well cared for," he (Pence) said." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A US-Iran War has the potential to be one of the worst conflicts in history. John Iadarola and Alex Ward break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/7/8/18693297/us-iran-war-trump-nuclear-iraq "“A nasty, brutal fight”: what a US-Iran war would look like The bottom line: It’d be hell on earth. A deadly opening attack. Nearly untraceable, ruthless proxies spreading chaos on multiple continents. Costly miscalculations. And thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — killed in a conflict that would dwarf the war in Iraq. Welcome to the US-Iran war, which has the potential to be one of the worst conflicts in history. Washington and Tehran remain locked in a months-long standoff with no end in sight. The US has imposed crushing sanctions on Iran’s economy over its support for terrorism and its growing missile program, among other things, after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal last year; Iran has fought back by violating parts of the nuclear agreement and downing an American military drone. To hear President Donald Trump tell it, that last incident brought the US within 10 minutes of launching warplanes and dropping bombs on Iran. Had Trump gone through with the planned strike, it’s possible both nations would now be engaged in a much more violent, much bloodier struggle." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 10, 2019
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Let It Go Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck can't handle the Frozen musical. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/07/08/glenn-beck-unleashes-attack-diverse-casting-frozen-musical-i-cant-take-amount-diversity/224136 "GLENN BECK (HOST): We went to Frozen which -- I can't take the amount of diversity, ok. I just can't take it. I can't take it. I mean it's one thing to be colorblind and ok, whatever, but there's another thing about a story that happens in, I don't know, Scandinavia, alright - the king's not black in Scandinavia. Especially if he has two very white daughters. It's just not happening. .... PAT GREY (CO-HOST): It is amazing how far they've bent backwards in the name of diversity. It has to be -- whether it works or not, they have to change everything. BECK: It doesn't matter." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Tucker Carlson went on a racist tirade against Ilhan Omar and she responded in the best way. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/10/ilhan-omar-tucker-carlson-fox-news-host-racist-fool "The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has called the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson a “racist fool” after he made a racially loaded attack on her live on air. Carlson, a controversial conservative host and Donald Trump supporter, criticized Omar in a three-minute monologue full of anti-immigrant rhetoric and personal attacks on Omar and her family. In the segment, aired on Tuesday night, he described her as “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country” and “a living fire alarm”. He also accused Omar of having “undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people”. Omar, who fled civil war in Somalia with her family in 1991 and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in the US as a child under a resettlement program and making history when she was elected to Congress last year, responded to Carlson on Twitter. She wrote: “Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress. No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect. They will just have to get used to calling me congresswoman!” Her tweet has been favorited more than 84,000 times." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Kellyanne Conway is blaming Democrats for the horrible conditions at the border but AOC isn't having it. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-kids-overcrowded-arizona-border-station-allege-sex-assault-retaliation-n1027886 "WASHINGTON — The poor treatment of migrant children at the hands of U.S. border agents in recent months extends beyond Texas to include allegations of sexual assault and retaliation for protests, according to dozens of accounts by children held in Arizona collected by government case managers and obtained by NBC News. A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy held in Yuma, Arizona, said he and others in his cell complained about the taste of the water and the food they were given. The Customs and Border Protection agents took the mats out of their cell in retaliation, forcing them to sleep on hard concrete. A 15-year-old girl from Honduras described a large, bearded officer putting his hands inside her bra, pulling down her underwear and groping her as part of what was meant to be a routine pat-down in front of other immigrants and officers. The girl said "she felt embarrassed as the officer was speaking in English to other officers and laughing" during the entire process, according to a report of her account." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump is clearly lying about his relationship with Jeffery Epstein. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-acosta-pedophile-palm-beach-sex-trafficking-plea-deal-2008-a8997761.html?utm_source=reddit.com "Donald Trump has awkwardly defended a past association with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying he was a “fixture in Palm Beach”. A day after the 66-year-old financier was charged in a New York court with sex trafficking and accused of luring dozens of girls to his luxury homes and coercing them into performing sex acts, the president was asked about his relationship with him. Epstein had once been a regular at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, but the president claimed he long ago had a falling out with him. “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. The people in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach,” Mr Trump told reporters, in a seemingly awkward exchange at the White House, where the president was meeting with Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim Bin-Hamad Al-Thani. “I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I have spoken with him for 15 years. I was not a fan. A long time ago. I’d say maybe 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 9, 2019
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Sin of Admission

CEO Donald Luskin thinks it's great you may never be able to retire. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-business-guest-retirement-spin_n_5d246316e4b0583e4826fb55 "A guest on Fox Business put a terrible spin on a new poll that showed almost 1 in 4 Americans think they will never be able to afford retirement and will have to work until they die. On Monday’s broadcast of “Making Money with Charles Payne,” Trend Macrolytics’ chief investment officer Donald Luskin said working forever and not retiring “doesn’t worry me personally.” In fact, he described having to work until death “as a great blessing.” Luskin explained: I guess I’m one of those people who plans never to retire. I mean, is bowling that interesting? Is fishing that interesting? I happen to love my work. Why do I want to stop it? It’s not like it hurts. Why would I stop it? This is great. What a great country where we have the opportunity to keep working. What a miracle where our lives are long enough and we’re healthy enough and mentally alert enough so we don’t have to retire like generations before us. This is a great blessing. You should embrace it. Payne asked Luskin about the people who want to retire, but can’t afford to do so. Luskin acknowledged it is “a problem,” but said questions had to be asked." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump was fooled by a fake meme of him and Ronald Reagan. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/feb/04/viral-image/no-ronald-reagan-didnt-say-meeting-trump-felt-shak/ "Did President Ronald Reagan sense he had met a successor to the presidency after shaking hands with a young Donald Trump? No, but a photo of the two men that appeared on Facebook on Feb. 4 suggested as much. "For the life of me, and I’ll never know how to explain it, when I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with the president," the post claims Reagan said about meeting Trump. It was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Though there are several photos of the former president and Trump together, the meetings didn’t inspire Reagan to wax poetic about the current commander in chief. The photo being shared here is authentic and dates back to Nov. 3, 1987, said Joanne Drake, chief administrative officer of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. The image shows then-president Reagan shaking Trump's hand in the Blue Room at a reception for members of an art and preservation in embassies foundation. But Drake said the quote attributed to the 40th president about the would-be 45th president is inaccurate: "He did not ever say that about Donald Trump," she said. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The myth of Donald Trump is just that...a myth. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/08/donald-trumps-origin-story-suffers-another-severe-blow/?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.3ba93e3ecfb9 "The myth of Donald Trump, as written by Donald Trump, took yet another blow Monday. The Washington Post’s Michael Kranish reported that Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance — one of Trump’s go-to brags to play up his credentials — was hardly the feat he has claimed. In fact, Trump leaned on his older brother’s friendship with an admissions officer to get into the school. And even then, he was clearing a much lower bar than exists for acceptance to the prestigious school today. Here are the key parts: James Nolan was working in the University of Pennsylvania’s admissions office in 1966 when he got a phone call from one of his closest friends, Fred Trump Jr. It was a plea to help Fred’s younger brother, Donald Trump, get into Penn’s Wharton School. “He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t,” Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “He said, ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?’ I was happy to do that.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump is furious with Fox News. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacked-fox-aired-soccer-fans-insulting-him-report-2019-7 "President Donald Trump's stinging attack on Fox News on Sunday may have been at least partly provoked by a live segment showing soccer fans chanting "F--- Trump." The Associated Press has cited two anonymous advisers as saying that Trump was "particularly annoyed" Sunday by a live broadcast by Greg Palkot from the Women's World Cup in France. The broadcast showed fans in a Parisian bar celebrating the US's title victory while chanting insults about the president." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The effect that Fox News has on Trump is terrifying. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-st-louis-park-protest-restore-pledge-of-allegiance "President Donald Trump couldn’t help but turn red (white and blue) Tuesday morning upon hearing about a Minneapolis suburb’s city council decision to nix the Pledge of Allegiance from its meetings. Trump’s tweet came shortly after Fox & Friends aired a segment on the Monday night protests at the St. Louis Park City Council chambers for deciding to do away with the pledge. According to the Star Tribune, the city council voted 5-0 on June 17 to cut the pledge out of most meetings, due to concerns that some residents in the “increasingly diverse community” may find it unwelcoming. The Star Tribune reported that last month’s vote was met with backlash at the local and national level, with hundreds of people calling or emailing the city to protest. St. Louis Park City Mayor Jake Spano announced on Twitter later that week that the council would be revisiting its decision. The meeting ended with Spano proposing that the council reverse its decision, and Council Member Anne Mavity introducing a proposal for the St. Louis Park community and city staff meet to discuss next steps. St. Louis Park is the hometown of the filmmaker duo Coen brothers and former Sen. Al Franken." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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NBC reports Mitch McConnell's ancestors owned a number of slaves. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-obama-reparations/index.html "(CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday compared himself to former President Barack Obama by noting they both oppose reparations and both he and the nation's first African-American president are descendants of slave holders. "You know, once again I find myself in the same position as President Obama, we both oppose reparations, and both are the descendants of slave holders," McConnell said, after he was asked if a report from NBC that his relatives were slave holders changed his views about reparations. McConnell did not say if he knew about his family's ownership of slaves before the report was published Monday. Obama's office declined to comment on McConnell's remarks Tuesday. Multiple media outlets, including the Baltimore Sun and the Guardian, reported during Obama's first presidential run in 2007 his mother's ancestors were slave owners." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 8, 2019
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Everybody vs AOC

Trump's friend Jeffrey Epstein is in deep deep trouble. Is Trump next? John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-charged-two-counts-of-sex-trafficking-underaged-girls-pleads-not-guilty-today-live-updates-2019-07-08/ "Federal prosecutors in New York charged wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein on Monday with sex trafficking charges, alleging he abused dozens of underage girls as young as 14. Epstein, 66, was charged with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking with underage females. He pleaded not guilty, according to the Associated Press. The indictment comes 11 years after Epstein cut a deal with attorneys in Florida to avoid a similar charge. "As set forth herein, over the course of many years, Jeffrey Epstein, the defendant, sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations," the indictment reads." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Fox News viewers are furious that the USWNT won the world championship. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/bitter-fox-news-fans-pitch-a-fit-after-us-women-and-rapinoe-win-the-world-cup/ "While most of America was celebrating the U.S. Women’s National Team’s record-setting fourth World Cup Championship win, some Fox News fans were bitterly stewing over the fact that team co-captain Megan Rapinoe scored the first of the two goals that would keep the cup in the U.S. Rapinoe, who is openly gay, has become a sore point for fans of President Donald Trump after she told a reporter that there was no “f*cking” way she would go to the White House if invited — which has naturally made her a target of Fox News viewers." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Joe Biden is downplaying all of the energy from the progressive movement in the Democratic Party. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/politics/aoc-liberals-joe-biden-cnn-interview/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-07-05T11%3A05%3A50 "Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden expressed deep skepticism of the leftward tilt of the Democratic Party in an exclusive interview with CNN airing Friday. Biden, speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo in Des Moines, Iowa, suggested that "Medicare for All" is irrational, argued that the majority of Democrats are "center left" not "way left," and said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while "brilliant" and "bright," did not represent Democrats who can win a general election in a competitive district or state. Biden also addressed his performance during the first Democratic debate, saying that he wasn't prepared for California Sen. Kamala Harris to confront him on issues of race the way she did. The interview made clear that Biden, who is facing criticism from the left of the party amid an increasingly contentious Democratic primary, does not feel the need to sway to the left to capture the party's base and, instead, hopes to set himself apart by embracing his moderation. Biden backed up that confidence by pointing to the 2018 midterm elections, where a host of swing districts were won by more moderate Democrats." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Halle Bailey was just cast as Ariel in Disney's new The Little Mermaid remake, and people are losing their minds. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/freeform-defends-halle-baileys-casting-little-mermaid-1222883 "While many people praised Halle Bailey's casting as Ariel in Disney's upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, others were not happy that a black actress had been chosen to play the role. Some social media users even began using the hashtag #NotMyAriel to express their displeasure with the casting news, which was announced on Wednesday." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Nancy Pelosi dismissed AOC as "irrelevant", but AOC fights back. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/nancy-pelosi-pride-parade.html "SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Neither one drinks, yet they have family vineyards. They both love big bowls of ice cream. Their last names are — depending on the shade of the state — curse words. Pelosi was once dubbed “Mussolini in a skirt,” while she has compared the Donald to Il Duce, clocking their shared need to be at the center of all conversations. And the most powerful woman and most powerful man in the country are both devilishly good at trolling — usually one another. “If he could be president, this glass of water could be president!” Madam Speaker exclaimed disgustedly, as we ate omelets in a restaurant by the bay after she mingled with adoring constituents in last Sunday’s glittery, feathery Pride parade. Many in the crowd were still grateful to Pelosi, now 79, that in her first moments on the floor of the House in 1987, as the plague decimating gay men raged, she defied the advice of Democratic elders and sang out that she had come to Washington to fight AIDS." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 3, 2019
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Trump's Dumb Parade

Meghan McCain is "miserable" at The View. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/media/meghan-mccain-the-view/index.html "New York (CNN Business)Meghan McCain, feeling dejected and sabotaged by her colleagues at ABC, is seriously thinking about departing "The View," two people familiar with the matter told CNN. One of the people, who is a friend of McCain, and who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity, told CNN Business that McCain "doesn't think it's worth it anymore." The friend added that McCain's contract is coming up for renewal later this summer, though that timeline was disputed by a well-placed person at ABC. A senior ABC employee who also spoke to CNN Business said McCain is "miserable" at the network. News of McCain's possible departure was first reported Wednesday morning by The Daily Beast, which detailed behind-the-scenes drama at the daytime program. The website cited sources who characterized her as "exhausted and defeated" and said she was seriously considering exiting the show." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Kellyanne Conway tried to attack AOC and it didn't go well for her. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-kellyanne-conway-congressional-hearing-1447273 "The war of words between Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway continued on Tuesday, as the two women traded barbs over alleged human rights abuses at migrant detention centers on the southern border. Conway had accused Ocasio-Cortez of lying about the dire conditions in the camps after the congresswoman visited several facilities and spoke to detainees being held there. Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire from right-wing politicians and commentators for her well-publicized visits to the detention centers. The congresswoman said that staff there—who she claimed treated her in a threatening and aggressive manner—engage in routine abuse of detainees, who are being held in unsanitary and unsafe conditions. After Conway accused her of lying about the camps—the poor conditions of which were further detailed by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday—Ocasio-Cortez asked on Twitter, "How many migrant women has Kellyanne Conway touched? Hugged? Sat on a concrete floor with? Actually listened to? The answer is none. Her actions show she doesn't believe all human beings are worthy of basic dignity. That's why she defends & muddies the clear and indefensible," she added." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Do you want to help shut down a migrant detention center? John Iadarola and Joshua Collins break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/rep-joaquin-castro-posts-videos-purportedly-texas-migrant/story?id=64079177 "Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas released videos purportedly showing the conditions inside two migrant detention centers along the border with Mexico. Castro, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led a delegation of more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers to tour the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in southwest Texas on Monday. The delegation was told to "surrender their phones" ahead of the tour, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote on Twitter. But Castro "was able to get a device in," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A truck driver and congressional candidate, Joshua Collins, responded to Candace Owens on Twitter in an awesome way. John Iadarola, and Joshua Collins break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The Inspector General has confirmed AOC's allegations against Border Patrol. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-clint-texas-facility/index.html "Clint, Texas (CNN)Democratic members of Congress expressed outrage Monday over the growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border after touring two Texas border facilities prompted by reports of deteriorating conditions. They described horrific circumstances at facilities on the same day the investigative news organization ProPublica revealed a closed Facebook group in which current and former Border Patrol agents reportedly share jokes about migrant deaths, derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers and a lewd meme involving at least one of them. The posts have been turned over to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, said US Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump's Fourth of July Parade siphons millions from National Parks. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-july-fourth-rally-hatch-act-violation.html "President Donald Trump is throwing himself a parade this week, complete with a flyover by the Navy’s Blue Angels and Air Force One, the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines standing by his side, and tanks that the District of Columbia emphatically does not want, although recent reporting suggests they will be parked and stationary, in an attempt to not destroy the roadways, as was originally planned. While historically, any Fourth of July celebration in Washington has been nonpartisan, this year the president will deliver a “Salute to America” address at the Lincoln Memorial. Perhaps he will spend it saluting America in a unifying and sober fashion, with no reference to his party, his enemies, or his reelection bid, but it seems much more likely that he will turn it into a Trump rally." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 2, 2019
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AOC At The Border

AOC went to the border to examine the facilities migrants are being held in. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/01/alexandria_ocasio-cortez_after_visiting_border_detention_center_i_was_not_safe_from_the_officers.html "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to the press following a congressional delegation's visit to the Clint migrant facility in Texas. The congresswoman railed against conditions at the Texas facility and said she herself did not feel "safe" in the presence of border patrol officers. "In that last facility, I was not safe from the officers in that facility," Ocasio-Cortez said Monday afternoon. AOC talked about "abuse in the facilities" and how people were told to drink water out of the toilet. The Congresswoman drove off as a reporter asked if she witnessed the atrocity:" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A report shows the disgusting, sexist, and racist memes shared by Border Patrol agents in a Facebook group. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes "Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings. In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. One member posted a GIF of Elmo with the quote, “Oh well.” Another responded with an image and the words “If he dies, he dies.” Created in August 2016, the Facebook group is called “I’m 10-15” and boasts roughly 9,500 members from across the country. (10-15 is Border Patrol code for “aliens in custody.”) The group described itself, in an online introduction, as a forum for “funny” and “serious” discussion about work with the patrol. “Remember you are never alone in this family,” the introduction said." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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An extreme hail storm has struck Guadalajara Mexico. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/what-explains-freak-hailstorm-mexico-here-s-what-scientists-say-ncna1025761 "The freak storm that dumped more than 3 feet of hail on Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday left locals and people around the world wondering how such an extraordinary event could hit an area that just days before had been basking in warm, sunny summer weather. Some immediately pointed the finger at climate change. “Hail more than a meter high, and then we wonder if climate change exists,” tweeted Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, governor of Jalisco, the state in southwestern Mexico where Guadalajara is. But scientists aren’t so sure of the link. “One good picture often leads people to go, ‘This is unprecedented,’” said John Allen, a meteorologist at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. “It looks impressive, but we’ve seen similar events in other parts of the world fairly recently. … I really don’t think we have a way to say conclusively that an event like this is attributable to climate change.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Reports of concrete milkshakes thrown by left-wing protesters in Portland spread like wildfire in right-wing circles, but is there any truth to them? John Iadarola and Parker Molloy break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/07/01/how-conservative-figures-turned-flimsy-rumor-about-concrete-milkshakes-portland-meme/224103 "Over the weekend, far-right and anti-fascist protesters clashed in downtown Portland, OR. Among the controversies was an attack carried out against Quillette editor Andy Ngo, caught on film by Oregonian reporter Jim Ryan. The June 29 footage shows black bloc demonstrators punching and kicking Ngo while others throw milkshakes at him. The trend of throwing milkshakes at far-right politicians and activists originated earlier this year in the United Kingdom, but has more recently made its way over to the United States. Supporters of the practice see it as a way to humiliate political opponents and make them fear public organizing. Critics correctly note that this is a form of battery but have also warned that this tactic could quickly escalate into more damaging, permanent attacks involving acid or other corrosive chemicals. According to some on the far-right, their worst fears of such an escalation were realized during the attack on Ngo. In reality, there’s not any actual evidence of that -- and that’s a big problem." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Recent polls show who gained the most and took the biggest hit from the first Democratic Debate. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-electability-poll_n_5d18ca8ae4b03d61163d2743 "Last week’s Democratic debates gave Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) a platform to impress viewers and position themselves as credible opponents against President Donald Trump, according to a set of new HuffPost/YouGov polls. In surveys taken immediately after the first and second debates in Miami, Warren and Harris were widely seen as outperforming in their respective appearances, eroding former Vice President Joe Biden’s perceived edge as the most electable candidate." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Is it time to put capitalism out to pasture? John Iadarola and Bhaskar Sunkara break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://progressive.org/dispatches/review-of-the-socialist-manifesto-bhaskar-sunkara-Wright-190606/ "The title of Bhaskar Sunkara’s new book is bold and smart—from a marketing perspective at least—in its reference to The Communist Manifesto. I’m actually a little surprised that apparently no previous book has had that title. The reason may be that other writers have been more humble than Sunkara, the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, and less willing to elicit inevitable comparisons between their work and Marx’s. For no writer, and certainly not Sunkara, will fare well under such a comparison. 41eQaZRTc7L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg But I don’t want to be too harsh on Sunkara, whose magazine has performed useful services for the American left. Sunkara is an effective popularizer and, in an age of mass ignorance, there’s much to be said for popularizations. The book is written for the uninitiated, and if it succeeds in piquing young readers’ interest in socialism, then it has served its purpose. The title is a misnomer, however, for the book is no manifesto. It is essentially a critical history of socialism with a couple of chapters at the beginning and the end on the present and possible future of the left." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Is Bernie Sanders a better candidate than Elizabeth Warren? John Iadarola and Bhaskar Sunkara break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://progressive.org/dispatches/review-of-the-socialist-manifesto-bhaskar-sunkara-Wright-190606/ "The title of Bhaskar Sunkara’s new book is bold and smart—from a marketing perspective at least—in its reference to The Communist Manifesto. I’m actually a little surprised that apparently no previous book has had that title. The reason may be that other writers have been more humble than Sunkara, the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, and less willing to elicit inevitable comparisons between their work and Marx’s. For no writer, and certainly not Sunkara, will fare well under such a comparison. 41eQaZRTc7L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg But I don’t want to be too harsh on Sunkara, whose magazine has performed useful services for the American left. Sunkara is an effective popularizer and, in an age of mass ignorance, there’s much to be said for popularizations. The book is written for the uninitiated, and if it succeeds in piquing young readers’ interest in socialism, then it has served its purpose. The title is a misnomer, however, for the book is no manifesto. It is essentially a critical history of socialism with a couple of chapters at the beginning and the end on the present and possible future of the left." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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July 1, 2019
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The Damage Report LIVE REPLAY July 01, 2019

Tucker Carlson gave a really bizarre take on Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Brooke Thomas and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/tucker-carlson-defends-trumps-praise-kim-jong-un/1612478001/ "Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked controversy on Sunday while defending President Donald Trump's decision to engage with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite international condemnation of Kim as an authoritarian who is guilty of systematic human rights abuses. During an interview on Fox News, Carlson was asked about potential concerns among voters that Trump might be seen as "pandering" to Kim with his often flattering quotes about the North Korean leader and the "chemistry" that Trump says they share. Carlson said there "is no defending the North Korean regime," which he described as "monstrous and "the last really Stanilist regime in the world." "On the other hand, you've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people," Carlson continued. "Not on the scale the North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that we are closely allied with." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump is bragging about his "historic" visit to North Korea. Brooke Thomas and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/tucker-carlson-defends-trumps-praise-kim-jong-un/1612478001/ "Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked controversy on Sunday while defending President Donald Trump's decision to engage with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite international condemnation of Kim as an authoritarian who is guilty of systematic human rights abuses. During an interview on Fox News, Carlson was asked about potential concerns among voters that Trump might be seen as "pandering" to Kim with his often flattering quotes about the North Korean leader and the "chemistry" that Trump says they share. Carlson said there "is no defending the North Korean regime," which he described as "monstrous and "the last really Stanilist regime in the world." "On the other hand, you've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people," Carlson continued. "Not on the scale the North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that we are closely allied with." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Why was Ivanka Trump brought to the G20? John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-g20-macron-may-trudeau-lagarde-snubbed-video-2019-6 "The French government released a video of the White House adviser Ivanka Trump having a stilted conversation with world leaders at the 2019 G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, and it quickly went viral. Some say the video exemplifies why President Donald Trump's eldest daughter shouldn't be used as a diplomat at one of the most important meetings in international politics. The video was posted to Twitter by the BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A Florida police officer has been caught planting evidence. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://theappeal.org/floridians-are-suing-a-cop-fired-for-planting-drugs-in-their-vehicles/ "In October 2017, Derek Benefield was driving in the Florida Panhandle’s Jackson County when he was pulled over for allegedly swerving into the opposite lane. Once at the car, sheriff’s deputy Zachary Wester claimed to smell marijuana and conducted a search of the vehicle, which, he reported, turned up methamphetamine and marijuana. Despite insisting the drugs weren’t his, Benefield was arrested, charged $1,100 in fines and court fees, and sentenced to one year in county jail.* Benefield was seven months into his sentence when, in September 2018, the state attorney’s office dropped his case and those of 118 others. Largely thanks to the diligence of one assistant state attorney, Wester was suspected of routinely planting drugs during traffic stops over his two years in the department. Last month, Benefield and eight others filed a federal lawsuit accusing Wester and two other deputies of planting drugs and making illegal arrests, and the Jackson County sheriff’s office of negligence. The suit accuses all the defendants of violating the individuals’ civil and constitutional rights through illegal search, seizure, detention, prosecution, and incarceration. The plaintiffs’ attorney, Marie Mattox, told The Appeal the suit represents “only the tip of the iceberg,” and she plans to add another 18 to 20 plaintiffs. At least 37 people have filed lawsuits against Wester at the state level. The sheriff’s office declined to comment on the lawsuit." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump knows shockingly little about basic political terms. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-busing-liberalism-g20-press-conference_n_5d17df7de4b082e5536a499d "In comments in Japan on Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared to be confounded by the terms school “busing,” as well as Western-style democratic “liberalism” that was attacked by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Asked at a news conference as the G-20 summit wrapped up about Putin’s attack on the principles that guide the world’s democracies, Trump apparently interpreted the Russian leader’s comments as criticism of “liberals” and he started to rant about California — Los Angeles and San Francisco in particular. Trump also talked around two questions about the busing of children to help achieve racial integration in the U.S. He seemed to think the queries concerned what he referred to as the “primary method of getting people to schools.” He failed to address the issue of busing children to other districts that began in the 1970s to desegregate American classrooms and that sparked major local controversies. NBC News’ Kristen Welker asked if he believed busing was a “viable way of integrating schools.” “Well, it has been something that they’ve done for a long period of time,” Trump vaguely responded. “I mean, you know, there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools. So this is something that’s been done ... it is certainly a primary method of getting people to schools.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump Jr. participated in a racist attack on Kamala Harris on Twitter. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-donald-trump-jr-racist-bot-birtherism_n_5d181b69e4b082e5536a6c9a "Donald Trump Jr. was bashed on Twitter Saturday for boosting a type of “birtherism” campaign against Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) that surged in the wake of her breakout performance in one of the recent debates among Democratic presidential candidates. A right-wing operative attacked Harris on Twitter after the debate, claiming she had no right to represent American blacks because her father grew up in Jamaica. Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage, was born in Oakland, California, in 1964. The attack went viral thanks in part to Donald Jr.’s retweet and an assist from Twitter accounts identified as bots. The onslaught echoed the “birther” campaign against Barack Obama that falsely claiming he was born in Africa and couldn’t legally be president. Donald Trump (with wife Melania ) was a leading voice among a group of conspiracy theorists that promulgated the Obama birther lie. Earlier this month, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner refused to directly answer whether Trump’s birther lie about Obama was racist." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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June 28, 2019
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This Turd Is On Fire!

Trump threw America under the bus in front of Putin. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.apnews.com/60b877521eec4667b64190b77bbf9136 "OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Smiling together on a global stage, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cheerfully dismissed Russian interference in U.S. elections, shared their contempt for the world’s news media and generally flaunted their personal bond on Friday. That was one day after the Russian leader praised the president of the United States for his nationalist world views and vigorously declared the days of the West’s liberals are dying if not already dead. For some time, Trump has defied the once-entrenched Republican distrust if not outright hatred of the powerful nation at the heart of the former Soviet Union. But Friday’s joint appearance seemed to go even further." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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How do we start a revolution? John Iadarola, Brett Erlich, and Lauren Duca break it down on The Damage Report. Click here for Lauren's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Start-a-Revolution/Lauren-Duca/9781501181634 Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Will the DNC host a debate solely on climate change? John Iadarola, Brett Erlich, and Varshini Prakash break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/democratic-debate-climate-crisis-analysis "Thursday’s Democratic debate demonstrated just how far the US is from contemplating the climate crisis as a threat that will touch almost all areas of American life and policymaking. Once again, debate moderators waited until nearly 80 minutes into the debate to pose questions on the climate emergency. The Democrats accurately conveyed the rapidly approaching deadlines scientists have said the world faces in limiting the most dangerous effects of the crisis. But despite the debate taking place in Miami, where the effects of climate change are already apparent, they missed multiple opportunities to press home how rising temperatures play into other political issues. Extreme heat and climate disasters threaten public health and the economy, and crop failures help to drive immigration from Central America." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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It was not a good night for Joe Biden. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/28/2020-presidential-race-trump-talk-kamala-harris-democrat-debate/1597116001/ "WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump seldom passes up an opportunity to trash-talk Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, or, as he calls them, "Sleepy Joe” and “Crazy Bernie.” But Kamala Harris has so far been spared the same level of presidential scorn, vitriol and name-calling. That will probably change following Harris’ solid performance in Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate. In just two hours, Harris not only managed to cast doubt on Biden’s front-runner status, but the California senator also dominated much of the debate and established herself as a formidable contender for the party’s nomination for the presidency. In doing so, she likely made herself a prime target for a presidential attack. “Trump has not gone after Harris so far because she has not been polling as well as Biden, Sanders and (Elizabeth) Warren,” said Lauren Wright, who teaches courses on the American presidency and women and politics at Princeton University." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Andrew Yang is accusing NBC of cutting off his microphone. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/andrew-yang-debate-nbc-microphone-1388053 "White House hopeful Andrew Yang was largely a nonfactor at Thursday’s presidential debate, but the political novice afterward blamed his scant airtime on technical difficulties. Speaking to supporters following the debate, the Silicon Valley businessman leveled an accusation that the debate’s producers had cut off his mic when he wasn’t speaking, thus robbing him of the chance to interject as other candidates continuously did throughout the night. “There were also a few times, FYI, where I just started talking, being like, ‘Hey, I’d like to add something there,’ and my mic was not on,” Yang told his fans. “It’s not like if you start talking it all of a sudden takes over the convo. It’s like I was talking and nothing was happening.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Which Democrat had the best answer to solve the climate crisis? John Iadarola, Brett Erlich, and Varshini Prakash break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/27/activists_still_want_a_separate_debate "As the Democratic debate took place in Miami, climate activists from the Sunrise Movement protested the Democratic National Committee’s refusal to host a climate change-centered primary debate. Climate activists are still camping out in front of DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. At last night’s two-hour debate, about seven minutes focused on climate issues." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Europe's heatwave is so intense wildfires are ripping across Spain. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/europe/france-record-temperature-heatwave-intl/index.html "(CNN) France recorded its highest-ever temperature on Friday as continental Europe continues to struggle with an intense heat wave. The mercury reached 45.1 degrees Celsius (113.2 Fahrenheit) just before 3 p.m. local time in Villevieille, in the Gard department in southern France, according to the French national weather service Météo-France. This is 1 degree higher than the previous record from 2003. Around 4,000 French schools were closed on Friday and the opening hours of parks and public swimming pools were extended. French authorities have taken a number of radical steps this week to prevent a repeat of the tragic consequences of the 2003 heat wave that left around 14,000 people dead. Paris activated its heat emergency plan last weekend, put together in the aftermath of the 2003 heat wave. Cooling rooms were opened in some municipal buildings and mist showers were installed in the streets." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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June 27, 2019
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Come To Your Census

Here are the best moments from last night's debate. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/democratic-debate-highlights-night-1/index.html "Miami (CNN) Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was the top-polling Democratic presidential candidate onstage Wednesday night, and the early moments of the party's first 2020 debate showed why. Warren was asked four other questions before most of the nine other contenders had been asked two. Her platform set the pace for the night, with other candidates embracing elements of it -- or at least passing on opportunities to break directly with her. Meanwhile, two of the most aggressive candidates onstage, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, chose another target to mercilessly attack: former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas. De Blasio hammered O'Rourke on health care, while Castro accused his fellow Texan of failing to do his homework on immigration. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey was a steady presence onstage Wednesday night, offering an aspirational message and separating himself from other candidates on gun control. Warren dominated the debate's first half hour, moving herself closer to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on single-payer health care -- a move that could ease the concerns of progressives in the process. She faded the rest of the way, but went unscathed. That Warren's policy focus dominated the first quarter of the debate, and largely went unchallenged, also signaled a clear leftward shift within the Democratic Party. But that dynamic was apparent throughout the night, especially when candidates were asked about health care, immigration, protecting abortions rights and gun control." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The Supreme Court just okayed Gerrymandering. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/supreme-court-decides-that-courts-cannot-block-gerrymandering.html "The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts may not block gerrymandering in a 5-4 decision that fell along partisan lines. The court also ruled, in a separate high-profile case decided Thursday, that the Trump administration’s reasoning for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census was insufficient, effectively blocking the question for now. On the final day of decisions before the court’s summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinions of the court in both cases. The closely watched case on a charged political matter comes in the midst of the 2020 presidential election. The decision was met with scorn by some Democrats running for president, including former vice president Joe Biden, and a sharp dissent from the liberal justices. “We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” Roberts wrote in the redistricting case. He said those asking the top court to block gerrymandered districts effectively sought “an unprecedented expansion of judicial power.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The Supreme Court just handed Trump a loss...for now. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/census-supreme-court/index.html "Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court has blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census for the time being in a major setback for the Trump administration. The bitter controversy centers around whether the administration can ask all recipients a citizenship question on the 2020 census for the first time since 1950 -- a move that could impact the balance of power in states and the House of Representatives, which are based on total population. Adding the question, critics say, could result in minorities being undercounted. Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that there was sufficient reason for concern about why the Commerce Department wanted to add the question. Roberts had the support of the four liberal justices. Supreme Court justices issued rulings on two major cases during their final day of the term, both dealing with partisan politics. Roberts split his votes, siding with conservatives on a major decision allowing severe partisan gerrymandering, and then crossing ideological lines to side with liberals on the census case." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A pregnant woman has been charged with the death of her fetus after she was shot in the stomach. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/alabama-pregnant-woman-shot-manslaughter-charge-marshae-jones "A woman from Alabama who was shot in the stomach while pregnant – with the bullets killing the fetus – has been charged with manslaughter. Marshae Jones was reportedly five months pregnant when she was shot by another woman in December outside a shop in Pleasant Grove, near Birmingham. On Wednesday, Jones, 27, was indicted by a Jefferson county grand jury on a manslaughter charge and is expected to be held in Jefferson county jail on a $50,000 bond, while the woman accused of shooting her walked free, reported AL.com. The case has raised alarm among pro-choice groups who say it is shocking evidence of how the state’s restrictive abortion laws are now being used against pregnant women. “The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby,’’ said Lt Danny Reid of Pleasant Grove police following the shooting, reported AL.com in December. “It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby.” The Guardian has contacted Jefferson county district attorney’s office for comment." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Middle School Principal Jamaal Bowman wants to unseat one of the most powerful Democrats in the House. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/18/aiming-oust-another-pro-corporate-democrat-educator-jamaal-bowman-launches "Representing what supporters call "a new generation" for the U.S. Congress, middle school principal Jamaal Bowman announced his primary challenge to moderate Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel on Tuesday, calling on constituents to reject the 16-term congressman's record of aligning himself with corporate interests. Bowman is the second progressive candidate to challenge Engel in the 2020 election and the first to win the endorsement of Justice Democrats, the national group which helped launch Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign last year. As Common Dreams reported, teacher Andom Ghebreghiorgis announced his run last week." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Bill de Blasio made a weird pitch during the first Democratic debate. Brooke Thomas and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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June 26, 2019
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Squad GOOOALS

Is the UK about to get their own Trump? John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Chavala Madlena break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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What should you expect in the first Democratic debate of the 2020 election? John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/735852558/democratic-presidential-debate-see-the-20-candidates-who-will-be-onstage "Three senators, four current or former representatives, a mayor, a governor and a former Cabinet secretary all walk onto a stage ... followed the next night by a former vice president, four senators, a congressman, a former governor, a mayor and a pair of entrepreneurs. Millions of television viewers are getting their first extended look at the historically sprawling Democratic primary field over two nights in Miami this week. The field is so large that the Democratic National Committee and NBC News split it into two 10-person debates, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday and Thursday, airing on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump is now going after US Soccer star Megan Rapinoe. John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Rick Strom break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-megan-rapinoe-not-singing-national-anthem/ "Just as he did during Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest in the NFL, President Donald Trump is criticizing soccer star Megan Rapinoe’s decision to stay silent during the national anthem as her team heads into the quarterfinals of the World Cup. Rapinoe, co-captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team, has declined to sing along with her teammates as “The Star-Spangled Banner” plays before each match. Trump, 73, told The Hill this week that he did not find her protest — which is meant to highlight racial injustice and police misconduct in America — appropriate. But he did praise the rest of her team." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A recent poll reveals that the era of Trump is making Americans less tolerant. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/its-not-just-your-imagination-americans-are-getting-less-tolerant/ "Does it ever seem to you like Americans just aren’t quite as accepting as they used to be? Well, it’s not just you. In fact, there’s science to back it up—and it’s pretty concerning. Public Religion Research Institute just finished a new study that found a small but growing minority of Americans who believe businesses should be able to refuse service to others because of their religious beliefs. This was first brought up in the infamous lawsuit a few years back, in which the Christian owner of a bake shop refused service to a gay couple looking to buy one of his wedding cakes. But whatever merits that lawsuit did or did not have, the underlying attitude has started to spread. In 2014, only 16 percent of Americans believed that “it should be permissible to turn away customers based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or race.” In 2019, that number has nearly doubled to 30 percent." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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