Trump Picks A Fight With King James!

LA Lakers star LeBron James hits back at Donald Trump.

LeBron James opens up a school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. He goes to CNN to talk with Don Lemon and talk about his success. He talks about the Los Angeles Lakers, the Ohio legacy and Donald J. Trump.

CNN re-aired Don Lemon's interview with LeBron James.

The interview focused on James' contributions to his hometown of Akron, Ohio, including a new public school for at-risk third- and fourth-graders there. But the two men also discussed politics. James told Lemon that President Donald Trump has used athletics and athletes to divide the country.
"I can't sit back and say nothing," James said.



This prompt a response for Trump.

Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2018

Now the controversy. Many are calling out Trump for his insult on the intelligence of Black athletes and news reporters.

To call Black people dumb or low IQ is a typical attack from white extremists.

Melania Trump had to calm a fire. Because she actually had her presser release a statement promising that she will do more to help James.

"It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the first lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today," the first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement. "As you know, Mrs. Trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well-being, healthy living, and the importance of responsible online behavior with her Be Best initiative. Her platform centers around visiting organizations, hospitals and schools, and she would be open to visiting the I Promise School in Akron."

This comes on the heels of a special election in Ohio's Congressional district 12. The 12th District is a toss-up now because of the Republican Pat Tibberi's departure. The long time Republican decided to exit placing the suburban Columbus metro district in play.

The Republican running is slightly ahead of the Democrat. The Democrats hope to pull an upset to finish the term and carry forth a full term in 2018 general.

National March On NRA!

NRA is losing money and possibly influence.

The National Rifle Association is facing more heat. The gun lobbyist group is linked to numerous controversies is claiming that they're in the red. Matter of fact, they are reporting that they're broke and they may have to shut down NRATV, the online streaming service that gives Wayne LaPierre, Dana Loesch, and Dan Bongino airtime.

Today there was the National March on NRA in Fairfax, Virginia.

The survivors of the most recent mass shootings have came together to protest the NRA and their grip on the Congress. The protesters are calling out the NRA for standing in the way of reasonable gun control.

They are pushing for increase restrictions to downloadable weapons, repealing the "Stand Your Ground" laws, banning the AR 15 rifle and having the IRS revoke the NRA's tax-exempt status.

It is also a recruiting drive to get people out to vote.

The protest is just the latest in months that have targeted the organization, stricter gun control laws and aim to increase voter registration after a string of mass shootings, stemming back to the high school attack in Parkland, Florida.

Protesters, including some from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, rallied outside the gun-rights organization and were met by several dozen of its supporters.

The protest comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the gun organization targeting the state of New York.

The campaign the NRA highlighted appears to be part of a national effort, spearheaded by Parkland students, calling for companies to cut ties with the group in the aftermath of several high profile U.S. shootings.

The gun lobbying group claims in its lawsuit, which targets Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Department of Financial Services and Maria Vullo, which heads the department, that the state has caused "irrecoverable loss and irreparable harm" to the organization.

Some critics of the NRA believe the claims could be false or a way to increase membership and donations.

Maria Butina also hurt the NRA. The Russian-born gun lobbyist is in federal custody awaiting trial for failing to register as a foreign agent. Butina was doing high level espionage for the Russian government. She had contact with the NRA and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and others within the Republican Party.

Astroworld!

Travis Scott with longtime girlfriend Kylie Jenner.

Travis Scott released his long awaited album Astroworld on Grand Hustle Records.

The rapper third album has features from Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean, Drake, The Weeknd, James Blake, Swae Lee, Gunna, Nav, 21 Sacage, and Quavo.

The album has production from himself, Mike Dean, Hit-Boy, Murda Beatz WondaGurl, Sonny Digital and others.

The album was supported by the single "Butterfly Effect."

The album title is named after Houston's Six Flags Astroworld, a recently closed theme park under the Six Flags Amusement Brands.

The album is dope. So for our Friday music thread, let's take you to Astroworld





Congratulations to Travis Scott on his successful album.

I'm Trying To Help My Fellow American! Why You Call The Law On Me?

California woman was harassed by the cops after Safeway employees called them. They accused her of being a shoplifter.

This happened in California. The folks over at Safeway are doing damage control after some of their employees called the law on a Black woman who they accused of shoplifting.

Erika Martin was giving food to a homeless man outside the store. She never stepped foot inside the store and felt the employees called the law on her because she was Black.



Erika Martin told the junk food media that the incident occurred when she stopped at the store last month to help a homeless man she knew hung out there. She gave him a bag of dog food and some treats for his pit bull. Her two sisters were also there and gave two men care packages with soap, toothpaste, hand sanitizer and other hygiene products.

"I help the homeless as much as I can. I see homeless people weekly and I try help them the best that I can," Martin said.

Martin said her son, who's about to turn 10, and her nieces and nephews went into the store to see if the bakery was giving out free cookies and to get samples from the deli.

Martin stayed outside and talked to her sisters and the man to whom she gave the dog food.

She said a Safeway employee came out of the store, looked directly at her and rushed back inside, which she thought was strange.



As Martin prepared to leave, two police cars drove up and one stopped behind her so she couldn't back out of her parking place. They asked why she was there and if she had any warrants, Martin said. She told them that she'd never even had a parking ticket.

Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson said that a Safeway employee called the police and to report a theft in progress. Five officers were dispatched to interview store employees and the Martin family.

"It was extremely clear to us that no one who had been identified was potentially involved in any sort of criminal activity, and we explicitly said as much to Safeway employees," Nelson said.

Martin said one of the officers told her that Safeway had called the police because she matched the description of someone taking items from the store and said the suspect was wearing a spaghetti-strap shirt.

Martin said she was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt that said "Y'all need Jesus," and had not even gone into the store. Nelson said the description "somewhat matched" the top one of Martin's sisters was wearing.

The employee told the police that the children were running back and forth to a car parked outside.

"During the initial dispatch call, a Safeway employee informed our dispatcher that both employees and customers believed a man and a woman as well as children were working together to try and take items from the store," Nelson said.

"Racism still exists," said Martin.

Martin makes care packages for the homeless people in the Bay Area. She decided to do a good deed for those who couldn't afford a decent meal. Trust me, in Trump's Amerikkka, you're not going to get quality food at reasonable prices.

"The police just blocks me in and I'm like 'what's going on?'" she told the junk food media. "Then [the officer] was like, 'Well, we were called here because you fit the description of someone taking items out of Safeway and bringing it back to your car.'"

The officer asked if they had taken any cookies and he said no.

"My son was crying so much, he was so scared because he thought he did something wrong. He thought the police were going to arrest him for looking behind the counter," she said. "To see my child in so much fear broke my heart."

She said police let them go after about 30 minutes.



"In that short amount of time, we not only determined that no crime occurred, we explicitly told Safeway employees as such. None of the people Safeway identified in their call to us nor in their subsequent interview with us committed any crime whatsoever," Nelson said.

"We were very appreciative of the way the family allowed our officers to wrap up the call, and we apologized for inconveniencing their evening," she said.

Pool Party!

Trump has a job number that is positive (sort of).

Donald J. Trump heads to his Trump Bedminister Golf Course in New Jersey for his vacation. The House of Representatives begin their annual Summer recess. The Senate may be working for an additional 10-20 days before taking off for their summer recess. In order to force Democrats to confirm nominations including Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell is ordering a shorten recess.

The employment rate goes down. The unemployment rate falls to 3.9 percent

The Labor Department on Friday released its hiring and unemployment figures for July. It gives us a look into how the Trump economy is working.

Given that many retail companies are closing, Trump and his minions seriously believe America's jobs are coming back and he credits the "achievements of his Jobs and Tax Cut Act" for the success.

Mind you that 157,000 jobs isn't a lot. We live in a country of 334 million Americans.

How is 157,000 jobs going to be distributed across the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories where residents live?

Americans are having trouble finding permanent work. Companies are struggling to find qualified workers willing to find the right job.

American workers' average hourly paychecks grew tepidly from the previous month and are up just 2.7% compared to the same time last year. During previous expansions, wages have grown at a faster pace. Economists' maintain that wages will rise as economy drains remaining slack from the labor market and businesses' pay more to retain workers.

Although the July hiring number fell below economists' expectations, the government revised the previous months' job gains by an additional 59,000. With revisions, job gains have averaged 224,000 a month over the past three months.

Real Reason To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is! There are 104 million active body people not working in the United States.

1. DEAD

2. BORN

3. IN PRISON

4. IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

6. IN HIGH SCHOOL

7. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING

8. VOLUNTEER

9. DISABLED 

10. STAY AT HOME PARENT

11. RETIRED

12. QUIT ON THEIR OWN

13. NOT HIRING QUALIFIED

14. NATURAL DISASTERS

15. ACTIVE MILITARY 

16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED

17. LAID OFF

18. FIRED FROM THE JOB

19. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY

20. OUTSOURCING

21. IMMIGRANTS TOO AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED BY I.C.E.

22. SHAMED BY SOCIAL MEDIA

So if you actually believe that Trump is doing good, you're wrong. We are going to see the economy tank in three years. The inept leader rollback of regulations, these tariffs, saying these ridiculous comments and pushing for tax cuts are going to hurt us all in the long term.

Most Americans believe Trump is dishonest and a racist. That's not good. People are saying that Republicans are overreaching. This could hurt their chances to hold onto Congress.

The Search For Mollie Tibbetts!

Missing Iowa woman Mollie Tibbetts.

Like all Americans, I would like to see the Iowa woman who went missing these last few weeks returned alive and well.

Mollie Tibbetts is getting national attention. The young 20 year old was an University of Iowa student who disappeared two weeks ago near Brooklyn, Iowa.

Many tips are coming in but no clear indication of confirmation.

Police and the family are offering a reward for her safe arrival.

Tibbetts' family believe that she could be still alive.

"The first night she went missing, I was distaught," said her mother, Laura Calderwood. "I knew her phone was dead, but I sent her a text saying, "I love you. We're looking for you. We will find you no matter what."

"Everyday I feel Mollie's presence with me," said Calderwood.

Her father is quick clear that he's determined to find his daughter. Rob Tibbetts, her father, says that he hopes the reward will be a "financial incentive" for people to come forward with information that they may otherwise be hesitant to reveal.

The Kearney Missouri Police thought a lead was strong. They spotted a woman at a local truck stop over 200 miles away. That lead turned up to be false.

The boyfriend Dalton Jack said that he is hoping his girlfriend is alive and well. He planned on marrying the young woman in the Dominican Republic. Police had formally cleared Jack in the disappearance. He was in Dubuque, Iowa at the time.

We hope that Mollie is found safe and sound.

Now onto the issue that makes me boil. The junk food media's coverage of this. How many people of color went missing without national coverage? How many women are missing since Mollie Tibbetts went missing?

Mollie Tibbetts and her boyfriend Dalton Jack.

Missing white woman syndrome once again comes into question. How many other people went missing since the junk food media covered Mollie's disappearance?

Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. Instances have been cited in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

The phenomenon is defined as the media's undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing men, or women of color and of lower social classes.Although the term was coined to describe disproportionate coverage of missing person cases, it is sometimes used to describe the disparity in news coverage of other violent crimes.

Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of right-wing tough on crime measures that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed.

I mean I am amazed that for every dramatized event involving a missing white woman there's always someone waiting on making a movie or passing a law.

I'm Trying To Stay Out The Rain! Why You Call The Law On Me?

New York woman calls the law on a woman of color after confronting her standing outside a doorway.

Darsell Obregon claims that a white woman called the law on her last week after she tried to get out of the rain. She stood outside a Brooklyn apartment building.

The woman who made the call on her was identified as Arabella Juniper Torres, a white woman who came out the building screaming at Obregon to leave her property or she will call the police.

Darsell was waiting on an Uber pick up and this white woman decided to get riled up over a woman of color standing near her doorway.



This was shared on Facebook and it went viral.

Obregon said she was on her way to a subway station when it started raining. During a thunderstorm, she sought cover near a small space outside an apartment building. She decided to use her Uber app to request a ride.

Soon the woman, Torres comes out saying she better leave, now.

"No more than three minutes later a young woman who lives in the building opened the front door and told me that I can not stand there and had to leave," said Obregon. "I told her I was not going to move (unbeknownst to her I was just waiting for my ride and would be leaving in a couple of minutes) so then she proceeded to call the police..."

Darsell Obregon was harassed by a white woman after she waited on an Uber.

On the video, Torres said, "Ma'am this is not public property. So you're sending an officer because now she's recording me? I asked her to leave and now she's refusing."

Then afterwards, Obregon heads to her Uber with Torres in tow. Torres demanded the Uber driver stop his vehicle and let her out.



"If you go anywhere, you'll be committing a crime as well; you know that right?"

Then she goes for the license plate of the Uber driver and she continued to call 911.

The hashtag #whiteprivilege

Okay, #BathrobeTammy is still on Facebook. She hasn't went silent yet. But sooner or later, she will make her profile private and the junk food media will ridicule her for this.

This is the latest of many incidents where white people call the police on people of color for miscue things.