The Most Disgusting Right Wing Tweet of the Day: Pat Dollard

Steeped in hatred
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Here’s right wing blogger Pat Dollard, former contributor to Breitbart “News” and guest on Fox News’ “Red Eye” show, the epitome of a pro-war anti-Muslim Republican with more than 38,000 followers on Twitter, managing to pack antisemitism and homophobia into one absolutely vile tweet:

This isn’t unusual for Dollard. If you read his Twitter timeline you’ll see a constant stream of this kind of sick hatred and overt racism, mixed with frequent incitements to violent revolution.

Say hello to the dead end of the conservative movement — this is where it’s headed, folks.

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145 comments
1 BongCrodny  Jul 14, 2014 3:17:30pm

I can figure out pretty easily where assholes go to vote.

2 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 3:19:06pm

I’ve been blocking more #UniteBlue anti-Semitic shit. #Tcot are all HURR HURR I STAND WITH ISRAEL because Jesus & apocalypse.

3 Testy Toad T  Jul 14, 2014 3:23:20pm

That… doesn’t even make sense. Are Jewish mothers ostensibly watching over the shoulders of their children in the voting booth so as to ascertain their sexual proclivities?

4 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 3:24:57pm

re: #2 Pie-onist Overlord

Clowns on the left. Jokers on the right.

Stuck in the middle… as usual.,

5 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 3:27:57pm

re: #3 Testy Toad T

That… doesn’t even make sense. Are Jewish mothers ostensibly watching over the shoulders of their children in the voting booth so as to ascertain their sexual proclivities?

Think Howard Wolowitz from the Big Bang Theory.

6 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 14, 2014 3:28:38pm

And not being either Jewish, Gay or a Mother, but isn’t it safe to say that for 99% of the mothers out there, they aren’t surprised when a child comes out? It’s been my impression that they know long before the child may even admit it to themself, much less others.

RBS

7 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 3:30:48pm
8 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 3:31:39pm

So, I came home to find my street a raging river, the nearby parking lot a swimming pool, and this is just the first round. There’s a string of heavy storms training this way, so we’ll probably find a whole lot more rain and strong storms.

9 sagehen  Jul 14, 2014 3:33:11pm

re: #3 Testy Toad T

That… doesn’t even make sense. Are Jewish mothers ostensibly watching over the shoulders of their children in the voting booth so as to ascertain their sexual proclivities?

Jewish mothers are mindreaders. And their disappointed face is high caliber.

Remember the Tiger Mom’s tales of hurling verbal abuse at her child at loud volume, and taking the child’s toys away, beating the kid if her room wasn’t clean enough, forbidding any privileges until kid got her violin solo right? Calling the kids failures and accusing them of shaming their family if they didn’t get straight A’s? Jewish mothers can get the same results with just a heavy sigh.

10 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 3:35:28pm

re: #8 lawhawk

So, I came home to find my street a raging river, the nearby parking lot a swimming pool, and this is just the first round. There’s a string of heavy storms training this way, so we’ll probably find a whole lot more rain and strong storms.

Yikes!

11 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 3:38:38pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I figure we probably got 1-2 inches of rain in 15 minutes or so. And we’ve got another batch of storms heading this way within the hour. Can already hear the rumbling. Just hope the Mrs. gets home before the next round hits.

12 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jul 14, 2014 3:39:19pm

re: #8 lawhawk

So, I came home to find my street a raging river, the nearby parking lot a swimming pool, and this is just the first round. There’s a string of heavy storms training this way, so we’ll probably find a whole lot more rain and strong storms.

We got soaked at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games on Saturday, but apparently that was nothing compared to last years games when they had 17 inches of rain in two days. Banner Elk, NC…rain and snow and snow and rain.

13 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jul 14, 2014 3:40:59pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

you’re right. nothing in that incoherent noise blast made any recognizable sense. Can this ideology survive its own constant revulsion of Aristotelian Logic and common human decency?

14 AntonSirius  Jul 14, 2014 3:41:21pm

re: #9 sagehen

Jewish mothers are mindreaders. And their disappointed face is high caliber.

Remember the Tiger Mom’s tales of hurling verbal abuse at her child at loud volume, and taking the child’s toys away, beating the kid if her room wasn’t clean enough, forbidding any privileges until kid got her violin solo right? Calling the kids failures and accusing them of shaming their family if they didn’t get straight A’s? Jewish mothers can get the same results with just a heavy sigh.

Q: How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Oh no, don’t put yourself out. (sigh) I’ll just sit here in the dark.

15 Decatur Deb  Jul 14, 2014 3:45:18pm

Primal screams of hatred from the right wing id

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16 Kragar  Jul 14, 2014 3:49:00pm

Vanity Fair: March 2007: “Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood”

Breitbart believes Dollard is onto something important. “There needs to be a confrontation at the pop-culture level of the kids who are over there fighting versus the kids at home who are totally disconnected, immersed in this mindless Abercrombie & Fitch-MTV culture.” Breitbart adds, “There needs to be a revolution, and Dollard is the man who can kick it off. I don’t care if older conservatives are offended by Pat Dollard. I was not looking for someone pristine. He brings to our cause this whole spirit of, like, the Merry Pranksters Two.”

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Ann Coulter adores his work. Like Breitbart, she recognizes his ability to reach young people in ways that other conservatives don’t. She says of his Web postings, “What’s great about them is that they have the panache of a professional MTV video with a very un-MTV message.” In an e-mail she sent to Dollard after an initial viewing of his trailer, she simply gushed, “wow! wow! that certainly is attention-grabbing! I like it—especially the ‘fuck you’ melange with michael moore and [former Democratic Party chairman] terry mccaulliffe. I like it!”

17 Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 14, 2014 3:50:18pm

re: #8 lawhawk

So, I came home to find my street a raging river, the nearby parking lot a swimming pool, and this is just the first round. There’s a string of heavy storms training this way, so we’ll probably find a whole lot more rain and strong storms.

The initial round of storms missed Philadelphia to hit points north. Looks like the next one is coming in to hit us in the next hour or so.

18 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 3:50:26pm

re: #16 Kragar

Vanity Fair: March 2007: “Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood”

MTV had long stopped being a thing by even 2007, right?

19 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 3:51:24pm

And the Mrs. is now home. Whew.

20 JustMark  Jul 14, 2014 3:52:57pm

re: #18 Timothy Watson

MTV had long stopped being a thing by ever 2007, right?

Yeah, just like the right to be about 20 years behind the pop culture times…

21 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 3:54:21pm

re: #11 lawhawk

Yeah, I figure we probably got 1-2 inches of rain in 15 minutes or so. And we’ve got another batch of storms heading this way within the hour. Can already hear the rumbling. Just hope the Mrs. gets home before the next round hits.

I feel your pain there. We’ve had more than enough rain for a year up thisaway. We had a rainstorm on Friday that dumped a similar amount of rain; the fishfolk said they went into a store just as it started, and when they came out, the parking lot was a lake. Doesn’t take much when everything is already severely waterlogged from nonstop rain.

22 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2014 3:54:38pm
23 Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 14, 2014 3:58:45pm

Hmm, I have now realized another use for this plant…

Cardoon.

en.wikipedia.org

Cardoon plant

Cardoon Blossoming

24 Ace-o-aces  Jul 14, 2014 4:01:48pm

re: #3 Testy Toad T

That… doesn’t even make sense.

Yes, I was prepared to be angered by this tweet, but I’m just confused.

25 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2014 4:03:06pm

re: #23 Feline Fearless Leader

Hmm, I have now realized another use for this plant…

Cardoon.

en.wikipedia.org

Cardoon plant

[Embedded image]Cardoon Blossoming

looks like a cross between an artichoke, a pineapple and a thistle.
I like it!

ETA: I should have looked at your wiki link first. :D

26 KiTA  Jul 14, 2014 4:06:48pm

doctorwho.tv

So yeah, looks like the Twelfth Doctor has decided to go after Davros and the Daleks. Woo. Darker and Edgier.

Also:

freewoodpost.com

Commencing immediately, Walmart is lowering the minimum wage of their 2.2 million employees to $1 per hour and permanently ending all health and retirement benefits. The CEO of Walmart, C. Douglas McMillon, made the announcement in a press conference just seconds after the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its controversial decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby. The conservative court determined that for-profit corporations do not have to abide by the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirement if it is against that company’s religious beliefs. The dissent pointed out the obvious slippery slope stating that this decision would allow corporations to “opt out of any law” to which they object to on religious principles. The dissent appears to be right as Walmart has declared that they believe paying more than $1 per hour is morally corruptive and thus against their religious beliefs.

Warning: Satire

27 b_sharp  Jul 14, 2014 4:08:15pm

re: #8 lawhawk

So, I came home to find my street a raging river, the nearby parking lot a swimming pool, and this is just the first round. There’s a string of heavy storms training this way, so we’ll probably find a whole lot more rain and strong storms.

I feel for you.

We’ve had record floods this spring.

28 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 4:10:05pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

But then the right wingers will turn around and complain about Obama not doing anything and letting little kids die on the border.

29 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2014 4:10:27pm

re: #28 lawhawk

But then the right wingers will turn around and complain about Obama not doing anything and letting little kids die on the border.

indeed…

30 Shiplord Kirel  Jul 14, 2014 4:21:03pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I can picture the kind of army Texas could raise for this. The word “rabble” comes to mind. Given their dietary habits and general conditioning, we could probably call them the “Pilsbury doughboys.”

31 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 14, 2014 4:23:03pm

Evening fellow Lizards. Just got back from the annual trek up to Kings Canyon to camp and fish here’s some pics I took while up there. The last bunch are from a hike we did up one of the trails to Mist Falls.

s87.photobucket.com

32 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 4:23:16pm

Drudge touting reports that there are outbreaks of pneumonia and swine flu on the border.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

33 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 4:26:04pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I wonder whether anyone has told GOHMERT that the immigrants are turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents, not sneaking across the border. Or whether that would make any difference to him. There might be a risk of ‘friendly fire’ incidents.

I suppose this man should have pulled out his weapon instead of his clipboard and a bottle of water.

34 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 4:27:16pm

Funny how this never came up while the media was singing his daddy’s praises.

35 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 4:34:42pm

re: #34 Targetpractice

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Funny how this never came up while the media was singing his daddy’s praises.

Yeah, that’s going to end well.

36 austin_blue  Jul 14, 2014 4:34:46pm

“Say hello to the dead end of the conservative movement — this is where it’s headed, folks.”

It can’t die too soon, people. Let’s help!

That level of hate can’t stand daylight.

37 Stanley Sea  Jul 14, 2014 4:37:36pm

re: #31 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Beautiful. Hope you caught a lot.

38 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 14, 2014 4:39:58pm

re: #37 Stanley Sea

Beautiful. Hope you caught a lot.

between the two of us we caught 40 trout including a lot of rainbows and browns. We were at one hole where we saw some that had to be 3+ lbs but they weren’t interested in biting.

39 Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 14, 2014 4:41:59pm

re: #31 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Evening fellow Lizards. Just got back from the annual trek up to Kings Canyon to camp and fish here’s some pics I took while up there. The last bunch are from a hike we did up one of the trails to Mist Falls.

s87.photobucket.com

Great photos!

And in honor of those and the current weather.

Youtube Video

40 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 4:43:12pm

re: #31 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Evening fellow Lizards. Just got back from the annual trek up to Kings Canyon to camp and fish here’s some pics I took while up there. The last bunch are from a hike we did up one of the trails to Mist Falls.

s87.photobucket.com

You can feed the fish, but you’re not supposed to feed the squirrels!

41 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 4:44:46pm

re: #40 wrenchwench

You can feed the fish, but you’re not supposed to feed the squirrels!

SWIM, SWIM, HUNGRY…

42 Patricia Kayden  Jul 14, 2014 4:45:56pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow. I was hoping this was satire. Sigh.

43 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 4:47:34pm

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

Wow. I was hoping this was satire. Sigh.

It’s Gohmert. The man is beyond satire. It is literally impossible to say something so preposterous that it couldn’t possibly have come from his mouth.

44 b_sharp  Jul 14, 2014 4:53:23pm

re: #38 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

between the two of us we caught 40 trout including a lot of rainbows and browns. We were at one hole where we saw some that had to be 3+ lbs but they weren’t interested in biting.

Let’s see your fishing license.

45 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 4:53:46pm

The idea in question - uniting the GOP behind a gold standard. Yeah, fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, but apparently it’s exactly how to get ahead in the GOP and punditry.

46 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 4:53:54pm
47 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 4:55:52pm

re: #32 lawhawk

Drudge touting reports that there are outbreaks of pneumonia and swine flu on the border.

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Source: Washington Free Beacon

One case of swine flu in Nogales.

Don’t tell Drudge, but Nogales is a bi-national city with a line down the middle. So close, a Mexican boy was shot (in the back 7 times) while walking home in Mexico by a Border Patrol agent in the US. (The agent did have to approach the fence to get his shots.)

And there was already swine flu in the US. He might have caught it here.

48 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 4:56:12pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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RON PAUL!!!1!

49 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 4:57:31pm

For Pete’s sake.

50 austin_blue  Jul 14, 2014 4:57:40pm

An interesting OpEd. Poor weird Orange Man, called out n shit:

nytimes.com

51 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 4:59:16pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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Oh FFS, please tell me that that Judy Shelton who wrote that article doesn’t live in Caroline County, VA. Her and even more annoying husband need to go away, they’re local gadfly a who complain whenever any business tries to locate to the county.

52 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:00:33pm

It’s just criticism of Israel.//

53 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 5:01:59pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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For Pete’s sake.

He has such a distinguished-sounding name.

@GrayConnolly

Husbandist|Strategist|Realist|Militarist| Ultramontanist|Biblicist|Jurist| ~SSFC/KLF/ISTJ/Car guy/Basset Hound owner~Proverbs 27:17~ *RTs NOT endorsements*

And I thought for a sec he was really into Montana, but no.

Ultramontanism is a religious belief within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the Pope.

54 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:02:15pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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For Pete’s sake.

The calls for a return to the gold standard have nothing to do with purchasing power or wages and everything to do with the reality that the federal budget spends more in a year than all the gold mined in the history of the planet. How exactly you grow an economy when its money supply is strictly limited, I’ve no idea.

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2014 5:03:57pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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For Pete’s sake.

But it worked out so well for Richard Nixon!!11!!!
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56 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 5:04:43pm

re: #54 Targetpractice

The calls for a return to the gold standard have nothing to do with purchasing power or wages and everything to do with the reality that the federal budget spends more in a year than all the gold mined in the history of the planet. How exactly you grow an economy when its money supply is strictly limited, I’ve no idea. Juice running everything especially the banks how are we going to get it away from them I have an idea….

57 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:05:50pm

Wingnut comments when a Blah person is unemployed:
GET A JRRB U LAZY WELFARE-TAKIN FOOD-STAMP MOOCHER!!!!!!

Wingnut comments when a Teabagger is unemployed:
HURR HURR OBAMA TUKK ARE JRRBS!!!!111!!!

58 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 14, 2014 5:05:59pm

re: #40 wrenchwench

You can feed the fish, but you’re not supposed to feed the squirrels!

It kept them from raiding our camp the way they did some others lol

59 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 14, 2014 5:06:44pm

re: #44 b_sharp

Let’s see your fishing license.

I won’t post it but do have one. Despise poachers and those who go and fish without them.

60 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:07:00pm

HURR HURR OBAMA TUKK ALL TEH JRRBS!!!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY WELFARE-TAKIN FOOD-STAMP MOOCHER!!!!!!!

61 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 5:07:30pm

Judy Shelton also supported Bob Marshall’s even more insane idea for the Commonwealth of Virginia to print it’s own money, or “Marshall Bucks”, as one state politico put it.

(In case anyone was wondering, if the author is who I think it is, she lives like 5 miles from where I do.)

62 b_sharp  Jul 14, 2014 5:07:46pm

re: #59 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I won’t post it but do have one. Despise poachers and those who go and fish without them.

I don’t know, 40 fishees seems like a lot.

Did you tag them all?

63 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:10:00pm

*HURLS THE LAST DESK OUT THE WINDOW*

64 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:10:21pm
65 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:10:47pm
66 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:11:19pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR OBAMA TUKK ALL TEH JRRBS!!!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY WELFARE-TAKIN FOOD-STAMP MOOCHER!!!!!!!

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Well it’s true, it was. Then Ronaldus Magnus took office, completely undermined that commitment by taxing unearned income less than earned income, and ushered in the era of diminishing wages, outsourcing of jobs, and union-busting.

67 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 5:11:27pm

re: #64 Charles Johnson

Exactly the intellectual rigor folks here in Caroline County expect from her and her husband.

68 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:13:08pm
69 PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2014 5:13:51pm

OT: For those who are interested: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is a bonus deal of the day on Amazon. amazon.com

70 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:14:01pm

The house always wins, unless it managed by The Hair Thing

71 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:15:24pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

gold standard

yet people don’t take me seriously when i call for the repeal of the neolithic revolution

72 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:15:55pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

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“By returning the gold standard, we’ll return to solid currency rather than fiat currency! Your wages will be worth more!”

“How is that?”

“Have you seen the price of gold recently? It’s got nowhere to go but up! Your wages will only continue to become more valuable!”

73 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:16:22pm

re: #70 Pie-onist Overlord

Trump Plaza to close, costing Atlantic City 1,000 jobs

job unemployment creator

74 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 5:16:24pm
75 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:16:38pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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For Pete’s sake.

Actually, historically it’s been the opposite. Wage earners’ pay rose with inflation, so their purchasing power remained largely constant. What DIDN’T rise with inflation was the dollar value of their debts, meaning that they got out from under any debt load faster than at zero inflation.

But you know who DID get hurt by inflation? Anyone who held a lot of old debt, because the value of that debt dropped over time. Also people who held onto cash, rather than spending it or investing it. You had to use it or lose it. But with interest rates and inflation really low, there’s little downside to holding large cash reserves, so why invest it?

76 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 5:17:27pm

re: #70 Pie-onist Overlord

And he’ll claim he has nothing to do with any of it - except the payments to him for the right to use the name.

It’ll only be the 5th time one of the Trump casinos has closed up or been forced into bankruptcy.

77 Lidane  Jul 14, 2014 5:18:35pm

re: #18 Timothy Watson

MTV had long stopped being a thing by even 2007, right?

MTV hasn’t been a thing since the late 90’s. Once they started focusing on reality shows over music, they lost whatever relevance they had. And once YouTube started in 2005, that was the final nail in their coffin.

78 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:19:25pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR OBAMA TUKK ALL TEH JRRBS!!!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY WELFARE-TAKIN FOOD-STAMP MOOCHER!!!!!!!

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America used to be a country where working hard and playing by the rules would get you a better life. Low taxes for the rich, globalization, Walmartization, and Republicanism have destroyed that.

79 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:19:30pm

ignatz kat urges a return to the tuna fish standard

80 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 14, 2014 5:19:35pm

re: #62 b_sharp

I don’t know, 40 fishees seems like a lot.

Did you tag them all?

We safely released every fish we caught so they could get bigger. It was me and one of my buddies and while I love trout he is allergic so we didn’t keep any.

81 Lidane  Jul 14, 2014 5:21:25pm

re: #45 lawhawk

The Republican Party: 20+ years behind on pop culture, 30+ years behind on geopolitics, 40+ years behind on economics, 50+ years behind on race and gender relations, and a few centuries behind on science, reason, and reality.

Progress!

82 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 5:21:29pm

re: #76 lawhawk

And he’ll claim he has nothing to do with any of it - except the payments to him for the right to use the name.

It’ll only be the 5th time one of the Trump casinos has closed up or been forced into bankruptcy.

Cracked had a brilliant piece on The Donald. Somehow he is regarded as one of the richest men alive, but he has failed epically at everything he has put his hand to and if his creditors ever called him to account, he’d be screwed.

83 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:22:34pm

re: #76 lawhawk

And he’ll claim he has nothing to do with any of it - except the payments to him for the right to use the name.

It’ll only be the 5th time one of the Trump casinos has closed up or been forced into bankruptcy.

Amazing. People think he’s a genius financier, and yet he’s consistently proven the house DOESN’T always win.

84 Timothy Watson  Jul 14, 2014 5:23:17pm

re: #77 Lidane

MTV hasn’t been a thing since the late 90’s. Once they started focusing on reality shows over music, they lost whatever relevance they had. And once YouTube started in 2005, that was the final nail in their coffin.

Despite being only 26, I think the last time I watched MTV was the mid ’90s. :)

85 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:24:04pm

re: #81 Lidane

The Republican Party: 20+ years behind on pop culture, 30+ years behind on geopolitics, 40+ years behind on economics, 50+ years behind on race and gender relations, and a few centuries behind on science, reason, and reality.

Progress!

The GOP much resembles its membership, a nursing home for ideas that were past their prime decades ago but are kept on life support in the hope that some miracle will come along and breath new life into them.

86 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:24:36pm

now why doesn’t one of these libraritarianists offer to pay people in solid gold?

i’d take it!

87 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:24:48pm

re: #82 thedopefishlives

Cracked had a brilliant piece on The Donald. Somehow he is regarded as one of the richest men alive, but he has failed epically at everything he has put his hand to and if his creditors ever called him to account, he’d be screwed.

I think when history is written he will be viewed as one of the most successful and flamboyant con artists in all history, a man who continued to get rich people to put their money into his projects even after a long, and expensive, track record of failure.

88 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:25:11pm

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

ANTS

89 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:26:02pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

ANTS

Well, I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

90 jaunte  Jul 14, 2014 5:26:41pm

91 Stanley Sea  Jul 14, 2014 5:27:51pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

ANTS

Bummer. That hated time of the year.

92 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 5:28:24pm

re: #82 thedopefishlives

He was fantastic at getting other people to pay for his stuff; whether it was real estate dealings, the casinos, golf courses, etc.

He got the bulk of his wealth from his dad, who made his name in middle class apartment buildings - what people could actually afford instead of his over-the-top gilded atrocities.

93 Amory Blaine  Jul 14, 2014 5:28:32pm

Dripping watermelon juice on the floor?

94 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 5:28:44pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

>ANTS

Those right-wingers are sending their mighty minions to annoy you.

/channeling The Greenwald

95 jaunte  Jul 14, 2014 5:28:58pm

96 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:29:08pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

ANTS

97 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:29:46pm

re: #96 Pie-onist Overlord

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Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

98 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:30:08pm

First I tried blocking up their hole with a paste of boric acid, but that didn’t work so I just antcided them.

99 Lancelot Link  Jul 14, 2014 5:30:38pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Oh noooo! I have an ant invasion in my kitchen!

ANTS INVASION

Youtube Video

100 Jack Burton  Jul 14, 2014 5:31:12pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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I though that even the Weakly Substandard was smart enough to not give this any idea more credit than it gets from Peter Schiff and Paulbots.

Guess not.

101 Amory Blaine  Jul 14, 2014 5:31:45pm

re: #95 jaunte

Dali with an anteater is the only solution!

102 Decatur Deb  Jul 14, 2014 5:32:05pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR OBAMA TUKK ALL TEH JRRBS!!!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY WELFARE-TAKIN FOOD-STAMP MOOCHER!!!!!!!

America used to be a country of shared ideological commitment to hard work and liberty. The welfare state has destroyed that.</blockquote>

Yup, Shapiro’s right. Some did all the work, some took all the liberties. It was the Emancipation Proclamation that ruined it, though.

103 jaunte  Jul 14, 2014 5:32:34pm

re: #101 Amory Blaine

Dali with an anteater is the only solution!

Way back in second place:
siliconedepot.com

104 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:33:09pm

The phenomenon of ants following the trial of other ants to food sources is truly one of evolution’s better tricks. It allows a fairly stupid organism to not only survive, but to thrive.

HOWEVER, it can cause problems. We used to get infestations of ants who tried to get at the sorbitol in our media in the freezer. We ended up with a black line of ants in through a tiny gap, along the floor, up the side of the fridge, and in the door of the freezer - which was full of tiny black frozen ant carcasses. Kinda creepy, really.

105 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:33:15pm
106 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:34:03pm

All this mention of ants has me formicating.

Look it up, if you need to.

107 thedopefishlives  Jul 14, 2014 5:34:37pm

re: #98 Pie-onist Overlord

First I tried blocking up their hole with a paste of boric acid, but that didn’t work so I just antcided them.

We tried distracting them with sugar water laced with boric acid. They weren’t having any of that. I may have to try your solution.

108 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:34:50pm

the ant invasion is clearly caused by statements made by the obama administration

i deplore obama’s Open Kitchen policies

109 dog philosopher  Jul 14, 2014 5:35:39pm

re: #106 GeneJockey

All this mention of ants has me formicating.

Look it up, if you need to.

are you forming at the mouth?

110 Amory Blaine  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:06pm

I ain’t buying that kumbaya bullshit. There was never a common cause. Setting aside of differences maybe.

111 goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:15pm
112 stpaulbear  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:24pm

re: #90 jaunte

I love the way that belching clouds of coal soot repesent civilization. I can’t imagine how dirty everything must have been in the days when everyone burned coal for heat and industry. There are so many reasons to not want to go back to ‘good old days’.

113 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:29pm

re: #106 GeneJockey

All this mention of ants has me formicating.

Look it up, if you need to.

The only good bug is a dead bug. /would you like to know more

114 jaunte  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:32pm

5 visible, a sixth just walked out of camera view to the right.

115 Decatur Deb  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:44pm

re: #107 thedopefishlives

We tried distracting them with sugar water laced with boric acid. They weren’t having any of that. I may have to try your solution.

Diatomaceous earth from the organic shops—jams their exoskeletons and dries them out. Non-toxic if you have your skeleton endo.

116 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:36:51pm

I made a Twitter report on one of the stalkers who is harassing Charles but I’m only a bystander so Twitter says to MYOB

Thank you for submitting your report. The Twitter Trust & Safety Team only reviews harassment reports when:

1) You are directly involved OR
2) You are legally authorized to report on behalf of a person being abused or harassed.

117 Amory Blaine  Jul 14, 2014 5:37:28pm

Feline overlords vs. Ant overlords.

118 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 5:37:54pm

And here I thought I had Bitchy Resting Face.

Written by the same twit who no longer wears his helmet and thinks cyclists shouldn’t have to stop at stop signs.

119 jaunte  Jul 14, 2014 5:38:15pm

Bear in the back just caught a fish.

120 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:38:46pm

re: #115 Decatur Deb

Diatomaceous earth from the organic shops—jams their exoskeletons and dries them out. Non-toxic if you have your skeleton endo.

Yeah? Try breathing a bunch of that shit. One summer another guy and I had to unload a railcar of 50# bags of it, and of course some of them leaked…

121 lawhawk  Jul 14, 2014 5:38:57pm

re: #110 Amory Blaine

Shapiro thinks that he’s breaking new ground with this? He’s essentially retreading the same kinds of arguments made back in the 1930s when FDR enacted the New Deal and the safety net.

The idea that there was some idilyic period in US history where everyone worked for common cause ignores that even at times when people worked towards a common goal - like in WWII, there was still rampant discrimination (against minorities, segregation, etc.). It’s typical revisionist nonsense from Shapiro and others who simply don’t have any answers, only attacks.

122 Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2014 5:39:12pm

re: #116 Pie-onist Overlord

I made a Twitter report on one of the stalkers who is harassing Charles but I’m only a bystander so Twitter says to MYOB

Don’t feel too bad, though - they don’t do anything even if you are directly involved.

123 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:40:02pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

And here I thought I had Bitchy Resting Face.

[Embedded content]

Written by the same twit who no longer wears his helmet and thinks cyclists shouldn’t have to stop at stop signs.

If only those two beliefs would combine in the predictable manner and we’d be rid of him.

124 goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2014 5:40:43pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

And here I thought I had Bitchy Resting Face.

[Embedded content]

Written by the same twit who no longer wears his helmet and thinks cyclists shouldn’t have to stop at stop signs.

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”

― Susan B. Anthony

125 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:42:53pm

Yes, that’s why, last May, 30 million Americans converged on the White House, drove out the Kenyan usurper, and Mitt Romney is President now.

126 Targetpractice  Jul 14, 2014 5:45:26pm

re: #125 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes, that’s why, last May, 30 million Americans converged on the White House, drove out the Kenyan usurper, and Mitt Romney is President now.

[Embedded content]

A President elected by 5 million more votes than his opponent, winning by a higher margin than his first election and the first president to win by better than 50% in decades…is totally not representative of the American people.

127 Decatur Deb  Jul 14, 2014 5:45:40pm

re: #120 GeneJockey

Yeah? Try breathing a bunch of that shit. One summer another guy and I had to unload a railcar of 50# bags of it, and of course some of them leaked…

Think OSHA treats it as a silica. Mask would be needed in large volumes, but you won’t get that spreading a teaspoon in Ant country. Commercially-mined stuff is actually micro fossils of diatoms, but you know that from the lab, no?

en.wikipedia.org

128 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:46:53pm

re: #121 lawhawk

Shapiro thinks that he’s breaking new ground with this? He’s essentially retreading the same kinds of arguments made back in the 1930s when FDR enacted the New Deal and the safety net.

The idea that there was some idilyic period in US history where everyone worked for common cause ignores that even at times when people worked towards a common goal - like in WWII, there was still rampant discrimination (against minorities, segregation, etc.). It’s typical revisionist nonsense from Shapiro and others who simply don’t have any answers, only attacks.

Back before the New Deal, most of us DID work for the same thing - to avoid fucking STARVING!

Conservatives seem angry that people aren’t happy to work harder for less money, but it seems to me that they have a really asymmetrical view of employer/employee relations:

On the one hand, the employer owes the employee only enough compensation to keep him from quitting.

On the other hand, the employee owes the employer his best, hardest effort at all times, and he should be grateful to the employer.

So, to them, for example, the head of Costco is a fool for overpaying his workers, while on the other hand Unions are despicable for getting together to level the playing field and demand more. If there were ever a more elitist philosophy that so hated elitism, I’d be hard pressed to name it.

129 stpaulbear  Jul 14, 2014 5:47:05pm

re: #105 Charles Johnson

Zants!

I can remember this scene sent me screaming out of our living room when I was a kid.

130 ObserverArt  Jul 14, 2014 5:48:27pm

Looks like Texas Governor Rick Perry is wanting to put on a little Texas Tough Answers to Border Problems Demo for his new buddy Sean.

Let’s give them a little response how Texas wants to handle this problem Sean!

(Hat tip to the LGF member(s) that gave me the idea from some of yesterday’s comments.)

131 Floral Giraffe  Jul 14, 2014 5:49:33pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Windex will kill them & wipe out the scent of their trails…

132 CuriousLurker  Jul 14, 2014 5:49:39pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

Juice running everything especially the banks how are we going to get it away from them I have an idea….

You know that book I’m reading that I keep talking about, and the whole Juice & the Bilderburg/bankers/moneylenders thing? It turns out that after the pogroms in Europe around the early Crusades, the Jews that were left were marginalized and could no longer make money as they’d previously done by trading and supplying the upper classes/nobility with luxury items (those positions were taken over by Christians).

The thing was, charging interest was forbidden for all three Abrahamic religions, so the Christians pushed the Jews into becoming moneylenders in order to keep their own hands clean. The upper classes were stingy and would only pay extremely low interest rates that didn’t allow the Jews to make enough income to survive, so they ended up lending to the businessmen & craftsmen, etc.—who desperately needed the loans—at higher rates.

I was kinda gob-smacked. It was like, “Wait—what? You guys effectively forced the Jews into money lending to keep yourselves free of sin, then turned around and called them greedy, eventually creating conspiracy theories about cabals of evil Jewish bankers controlling the world?” *thud*

133 Amory Blaine  Jul 14, 2014 5:50:22pm

Oh noooz! I have dripped empress chicken juice down the front of my new work shirt. I am doomed. Might as well hit the road.

134 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 14, 2014 5:51:02pm

I had to read this story in 8th grade.

Why didn’t they use fucking flamethrowers?

135 Decatur Deb  Jul 14, 2014 5:51:44pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

Back before the New Deal, most of us DID work for the same thing - to avoid fucking STARVING!

…snip

On the one hand, the employer owes the employee only enough compensation to keep him from quitting or putting his head on the end of a pike.

Bastille Day’d that for ya’.

136 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 5:51:45pm

We have weird ants here. They don’t form what my mom calls Ho Chi Ant Trail, they locate the food source and send just enough ants to retrieve it. We aren’t too bothered by them now, but when we moved into our current abode, they’d launch regular foraging parties. Then we’d see a star crossing the kitchen floor. It would be a piece of kibble with 5 or 6 ants muscling it towards the front door. Because of insulation, they’d have to hoist it up the door frame about 6”, then maneuver out. Every once in a while we’d hear the sound of a piece of kibble falling six inches. We’d just take it away and put it back in the dish.

137 wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2014 5:53:34pm

re: #132 CuriousLurker

You know that book I’m reading that I keep talking about, and the whole Juice & the Bilderburg/bankers/moneylenders thing? It turns out that after the pogroms in Europe around the early Crusades, the Jews that were left were marginalized and could no longer make money as they’d previously done by trading and supplying the upper classes/nobility with luxury items (those positions were taken over by Christians).

The thing was, charging interest was forbidden for all three Abrahamic religions, so the Christians pushed the Jews into becoming moneylenders in order to keep their own hands clean. The upper classes were stingy and would only pay extremely low interest rates that didn’t allow the Jews to make enough income to survive, so they ended up lending to the businessmen & craftsmen, etc.—who desperately needed the loans—at higher rates.

I was kinda gob-smacked. It was like, “Wait—what? You guys effectively forced the Jews into money lending to keep yourselves free of sin, then turned around and called them greedy, eventually creating conspiracy theories about cabals of evil Jewish bankers controlling the world?” *thud*

I think that should be forwarded to the next article. >>>>>

138 GeneJockey  Jul 14, 2014 5:54:37pm

re: #135 Decatur Deb

Bastille Day’d that for ya’.

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, or Decapite!

139 CuriousLurker  Jul 14, 2014 5:55:52pm

re: #137 wrenchwench

I think that should be forwarded to the next article. >>>>>

Will do. I have a knack for posting my comments at the exact same time Charles is creating a new thread. Grrrr…

140 Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 14, 2014 7:33:51pm

re: #132 CuriousLurker

You know that book I’m reading that I keep talking about, and the whole Juice & the Bilderburg/bankers/moneylenders thing? It turns out that after the pogroms in Europe around the early Crusades, the Jews that were left were marginalized and could no longer make money as they’d previously done by trading and supplying the upper classes/nobility with luxury items (those positions were taken over by Christians).

The thing was, charging interest was forbidden for all three Abrahamic religions, so the Christians pushed the Jews into becoming moneylenders in order to keep their own hands clean. The upper classes were stingy and would only pay extremely low interest rates that didn’t allow the Jews to make enough income to survive, so they ended up lending to the businessmen & craftsmen, etc.—who desperately needed the loans—at higher rates.

I was kinda gob-smacked. It was like, “Wait—what? You guys effectively forced the Jews into money lending to keep yourselves free of sin, then turned around and called them greedy, eventually creating conspiracy theories about cabals of evil Jewish bankers controlling the world?” *thud*

Did you get to the point where nobles stirred up pogroms and exiles of Jews in order to avoid repaying loans? The Angevins in England were good for that one a few times in the 12th and 13th centuries.

141 CuriousLurker  Jul 15, 2014 5:39:47am

re: #140 Feline Fearless Leader

Did you get to the point where nobles stirred up pogroms and exiles of Jews in order to avoid repaying loans? The Angevins in England were good for that one a few times in the 12th and 13th centuries.

I got to that part last night along with accusations of ritual murder, blood libel, etc. It’s insane.

142 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 15, 2014 5:43:15am

re: #141 CuriousLurker

I got to that part last night along with accusations of ritual murder, blood libel, etc. It’s insane.

Is it also going over the conditions for the Sephardim?

143 CuriousLurker  Jul 15, 2014 6:03:14am

re: #142 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Is it also going over the conditions for the Sephardim?

No, not yet. When I fell asleep reading I was still around the end of the 13th century when the weird accusation started in Paris that Jews were supposedly desecrating the host. I just keeps getting worse & worse.

Sheesh, was there anything they didn’t get accused of?

144 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 15, 2014 6:50:52am

re: #143 CuriousLurker

Sheesh, was there anything they didn’t get accused of?

Yeah, being good citizens who minded their own business.

145 De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2014 7:36:23am

H.G. Wells’ Empire of the Ants (1905). Short and weird.


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