Month: April 2016

U.S. Brewery Proposes Line of Anti-Trump Brews

Buck Banks

download-1-350x350A U.S. brewery has launched a line of anti-Donald Trump beers under the tagline, “Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote Drumpf.”

The Dock Street Brewery in Philadelphia announced the line of beers via its website, using the name “Drumpf” as a reference to political comedian John Oliver’s popular “Make Donald Drumpf Again” meme. Trump’s family anglicized their German surname’s spelling after immigrating to the United States.

The first beer in the series, whose debut is still shrouded in mystery, is to be called Short-Fingered Stout.

Lawmaker Asserts Voter ID Law Will Help GOP in Prez Race

Buck Banks

Well I think Hillary Clinton is about the weakest candidate the Democrats have ever put up. And now we have photo ID, and I think photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference as well.

— Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), telling WTMJ that his state’s new voter ID laws were a key reason the Republican presidential candidate will be competitive there in the general election.

An Appropriate Honor for Antonin Scalia

Buck Banks

Gawker: “Last week, George Mason University announced that its law school would be renamed, at the request of an anonymous donor who gave $20 million to the program, after the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia: the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University—ASS Law. (Or ASSoL.)”

The New York Times says the school will now be renamed again to The Antonin Scalia Law School.

Trump Campaign Threatens Delegates Who Switch

Buck Banks

We’re going to have protests, demonstrations. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal … We urge you to visit their hotel and find them. You have a right to discuss this, if … your votes are being disallowed.

— Longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, “threatening to make public the hotel room numbers of Republican National Convention delegates who switch from Trump to another candidate,” Politico reports.

Panama Papers are the World’s Largest Leak Ever

Buck Banks

2.6 terabytes

“The Panama Papers is the largest leak in history. At 2.6 terabytes, it’s on a scale never seen before — over 1,000-fold bigger than Wikileaks’ Cablegate scandal. The 11.5 million records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca reveal an opaque system where billionaires, smugglers, and fraudsters hide their money for reasons both legitimate and criminal,” reports World Policy Journal.

Majority of Voters Say America has ‘Lost Its Identity’

Buck Banks

57%

Of all voters strongly agree or somewhat agree with the statement, “America has lost its identity,” according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Among all Republicans, 79% agree, while only 36% of Democrats agree. The highest level of agreement is expressed by GOP supporters of Donald Trump, as 85% agree. Also interesting: There is a wide partisan division among American voters on the statement, “The government has gone too far in assisting minority groups.” Agreement is 45% among all voters, 72% among all Republicans and 18% among Democrats. Agreement is highest among Trump backers — 80%.