Jim Hoft Posts Pictures of Three Looted Stores in Missouri, Commenters Spew Torrents of Overt Racism

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All over the right wing blogosphere today, comment sections are packed with the ugliest kind of racist hate speech, reacting to the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri — and the website of the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, is among the worst.

Today one of Hoft’s followers sent him photos of three looted stores, and Hoft posted them with one of his typical wildly exaggerated headlines: TGP EXCLUSIVE: Photos & VIDEO of Ferguson, MO Mass Destruction | the Gateway Pundit.

MASS DESTRUCTION! Well, not really. Three stores. That’s not good, but it’s a long way from being “mass destruction.”

Here are the words Jim Hoft managed to emit to describe these images, in his usual weird, overheated semi-literate fashion.

DAY OF FURY - NIGHT OF FRENZY - MORNING OF DESTRUCTION

VIOLENT PROTESTS ERUPT IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI

Spread to Neighboring Dellwood - Businesses Torched and Looted

Last night several businesses in Ferguson, Dellwood and North County were looted and torched following the death of 18 year-old Michael Brown.

A QuickTrip was burnt to the ground last night after it was looted in Ferguson.

On Monday Morning Adam Sharp drove up to Ferguson to document the aftermath of last night’s looting and rioting.

The Boost Mobile store that was looted:

The QuickTrip was completely destroyed:

Adam interviewed on angry resident who said, “This isn’t justice OR peace!”

Angry #Ferguson Resident: “This Isn’t Justice OR Peace!” from Sharp Elbows on Vimeo.

This note was left on the QuickTrip store:

The Taco Bell lost several windows…

Adam interviewed the owner of Boost Mobile that was looted last night.

Two of his stores were looted. There was gunfire in the area.

And as he undoubtedly expected and intended, Hoft’s knuckle-dragging commenters responded to his barely readable diatribe with torrents of racism. Again, I’m concealing these ugly comments by default because they’re incredibly disturbing, like so many of the comments being posted at right wing sites today about this incident.

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Chimping Out with the Ferguson, MO Pavement Apes!

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You can take them out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of them.
Any excuse to cause violence, steal, and destroy.

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If you want a TV…Free Food…or a Blender. Wait for a Pavement Ape to mess with the cops and then the looting begins.

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Ah yes indeed The American Street Negro, never letting a ” crisis go to waste” and in this case as always is the case a non-crisis.

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Pavement Apes…

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Porch monkeys

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If Obama has sons he would want them to be just like the animals that rioted here

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The black people seem angry. Which is unusual as they are normally so peaceful and gentle.

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Like Muslim males,

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Don’t forget looting the weave store.

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Let me sum up exactly what happened in this incident: a thug was shot for acting like a thug, which resulted in thousands of other thugs acting like the thugs they are. These savages deserve no sympathy from anyone.

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Has to be the groids.

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Again the zoo forgot to lock up the animals.

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Just like muslims!

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When are the pop-po going to start shooting to kill to stop these urban ANIMALS from the usual MO of looting any darn thing they want without any consequences

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This is a good reason for all citizens and businesses to be armed. They could have rid the world of a few worthless slugs and reduced the welfare rolls at the same time.

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Blacks love these stores.
They gotta gets they’s, noam sayin.

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They act like Muslims do, both races can not act civilized.

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Well praise da lord they didn’t touch KFC.

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There are reasons why sub-Saharan Africa has never contributed anything to elevating the human condition.

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Blacks use any excuse to riot and pilage. They certainly don’t seem capable of living in civilized society.

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was obama involved in this riot?

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Miraculously Church’s was spared

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Uncivilized, uneducated animals raised by the same if raised at all.

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You can take the knee grow out of Africa, but you cant ……………….

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more like a ‘n i g g a moment’. See Boondocks on youtube or Cartoon Network adult swim. There are 3 episodes concerning ‘n i g g a moments’. This was one of them!

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Look at the hatred spewed forth in the destruction of others’ property. Blacks destroy and whites rebuild. Why bother? Let blacks rebuild their neighborhoods for themselves. Why anyone would place a business in their neighborhoods is beyond me. And still they wonder why, as soon as any other ethnic group or race develops a little bit of wealth, whether white, brown, yellow or red, they move away from the black areas of the community to allow them to rot in their self-induced decay. Animals, animals, animals. If I was an office, the only way I’d go in that zoo is if I was loaded for black bear….These idiots walked up and started hitting the police officer? Are you kidding me?… And their elders in the community think this behavior is acceptable?…At some point you have to defend yourself and let God sort the deceased ones out.

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Stupid F#cking monkeys will just use they incum tax sheck to rebuild theys nayborhood, yo….Theys too stoopid to reelize they destroyin’ each others stuff….

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Not a trace of Rosco’s Watermelons remains…….

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So the niggers response to racial inequality is to loot and burn its own community? Makes perfect sense to me, homeboy.

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I thought that the darkies only liked watermelon, and fried chicken

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173 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Aug 11, 2014 1:55:28pm
2 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 1:56:15pm

Let deport these assholes, because they sure as fuck don’t deserve to be called Americans.

3 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 1:56:34pm

Hoft knows where his reader base is. Meanwhile, he’s eagerly looking up the party registration of the cop that shot Michael Brown so he can excuse any right wing racism in this story’s wake even though as we see here, he has no problem fermenting it.

4 Lidane  Aug 11, 2014 1:59:45pm

Librul plants! No True Conservative is racist since Dems are the real racists!

Why do you hate America?

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5 Charles Johnson  Aug 11, 2014 2:01:33pm

In this CNN video, a Ferguson police officer yells at protesters, “Bring it, all you fucking animals! Bring it!” Starts at about 15 seconds in.

Video

6 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:02:29pm

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

7 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:02:37pm

Chaos is an opportunity.

I think people definitely use current events to create such opportunitites.
Others just recognize an opportunity.

Like the looting in NOLA after Katrina.

Insidious.

8 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:03:06pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

I feared it would be worse. I didn’t think he’d live to be reelected.

Seriously.

9 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:03:39pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

I actually uh naively thought things would get better. I also did not expect the Islamaphobia to skyrocket as it has.

10 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 11, 2014 2:04:37pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Okay my biggest problem there isn’t the racism it’s the stupidity. You know you’re on camera. Someone with that little impulse control as a cop: not good.

11 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:04:38pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

“People are angry, people are hurt, people are fed up. You have to direct it somewhere — and you can’t direct it at the people who made you angry because they’ll shoot you and kill you,” Laney said.

latimes.com

12 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 11, 2014 2:05:07pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

We aren’t done yet. If they don’t get enough votes in the senate to vote for impeachment (and they won’t get 2/3rds) I fully expect a string of incidents like OK City.

13 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:05:19pm

It makes me wonder how much of the social progress of the last 50 years has been real, and how much is just a shabby plaster job that is disintegrating before our eyes.

14 Lidane  Aug 11, 2014 2:05:25pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

Nope. Not a clue.

I mean, I knew that a significant portion of Real Murica would flip their Klan hoods at a black man becoming POTUS, but the sheer level of crazy unleashed by the right these past six years has been stunning. They didn’t just go off the fucking rails, they nuked the rails from orbit.

15 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 11, 2014 2:05:52pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel

It makes me wonder how much of the social progress of the last 50 years has been real, and how much is just a shabby plaster job that is disintegrating before our eyes.

The answer is in the children, who are far less racist, far less homophobic than generations before. They still have problems, but it’s much less.

16 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:05:57pm

Obama’s election though I think has brought out that part of the country that never accepted the Civil Rights Movement. I was stupid and naive enough in 2008 to think that Obama since he campaigned positively and with a unifying message could defy that. Instead, it’s gotten worse. Right wing racism is much more open than it was in the past.

17 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:06:57pm

re: #15 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

The answer is in the children, who are far less racist, far less homophobic than generations before. They still have problems, but it’s much less.

And that’s why I still have some hope. My kid brother’s sub-generation is a lot less racist and homophobic than mine even is.

18 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:08:01pm

I’m going to avoid venting, and instead go with

BEES!

19 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 11, 2014 2:08:37pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel

It makes me wonder how much of the social progress of the last 50 years has been real, and how much is just a shabby plaster job that is disintegrating before our eyes.

A lot of it _IS_ real. That’s why the reactionaries are so scared. Look at the polling numbers on today’s youth - the far right has lost them and they know it. That’s why the next step is the same as it was in Spain back in 1936: Foment civil war so that those who couldn’t get elected can seize power.

20 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:01pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

The mistake was in thinking the toxin could flush in a couple generations. It’s better if we see where it’s lurking.

The kids are (mostly) alright.

21 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:06pm

Posted on my fb:

Mr. Fender would have been 102 today. Let’s hear it for the man and his amazing contributions to music. …

22 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:20pm

re: #19 William Barnett-Lewis

A lot of it _IS_ real. That’s why the reactionaries are so scared. Look at the polling numbers on today’s youth - the far right has lost them and they know it. That’s why the next step is the same as it was in Spain back in 1936: Foment civil war so that those who couldn’t get elected can seize power.

Your Spanish Civil War analogy looks more dead on the more I learn about that subject.

23 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:38pm

This is heartbreaking.

24 alpuz  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:38pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Nope.

25 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:09:43pm

re: #18 Kragar

I’m going to avoid venting, and instead go with

BEES!

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That “other/unknown” category kind of creeps me out.

26 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:10:05pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Your Spanish Civil War analogy looks more dead on the more I learn about that subject.

Where can I find this analogy?

27 Mattand  Aug 11, 2014 2:10:59pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

Nope.

I was prepared for some idiocy. I didn’t count on stuff like the Republican Party trying to re-ignite the Civil War by encouraging the morons in their ranks to be openly racist (Obama’s born in Africa; takes too much time off; food stamp President; etc.)

28 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:12:21pm

re: #26 FemNaziBitch

Where can I find this analogy?

You asking for books or what WBL has talked about? The best book I’ve read on the subject is Antony Beevor’s book on the subject and for a personal insight, Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Anyhow, as for his actual analogy, a lot of it comes from the fact that like 1930’s Spain we are seeing people who don’t accept a secularizing nation and people who think losing elections is an excuse to throw a tantrum and make threats. Combine that with people who want the church and state mingled and it’s a match made.

29 team_fukit  Aug 11, 2014 2:12:39pm

re: #11 Kragar

I wonder how friendly those businesses were to the community-at-large.

30 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:12:58pm

re: #8 FemNaziBitch

I feared it would be worse. I didn’t think he’d live to be reelected.

Seriously.

Two of us.

31 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:13:48pm

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

That “other/unknown” category kind of creeps me out.

They’re covering up the massacres conducted by giant isopods, I just know it.

32 alpuz  Aug 11, 2014 2:14:54pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Yep. My 16 yr old son and my 16 & 18 year old nephews don’t give a shit about one’s religion, sexuality or the color of their skin. I get the feeling it’s the opinion of a majority of his friends & acquaintances.

I hope the tides will turn.

33 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:15:03pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

You asking for books or what WBL has talked about? The best book I’ve read on the subject is Antony Beevor’s book on the subject and for a personal insight, Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Anyhow, as for his actual analogy, a lot of it comes from the fact that like 1930’s Spain we are seeing people who don’t accept a secularizing nation and people who think losing elections is an excuse to throw a tantrum and make threats. Combine that with people who want the church and state mingled and it’s a match made.

It is indeed an accurate analogy. This is very frightening because a million people died in the Spanish civil war and monstrous atrocities were routine.

34 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 11, 2014 2:15:46pm

re: #26 FemNaziBitch

Where can I find this analogy?

I’ve been arguing, for a couple of years now, that the religious right and the TP are following a course of action similar to that of the Falangists in the lead up to the Spanish Civil War. All that remains is to find their “Franco” and all hell could break loose. Santorum has tried but hasn’t got the military cred or the charisma.

Now given how deeply infested the USAF is by Dominionism, I’d put my money on one of their generals especially after the freak-out over a non-zoomie woman getting a major command recently.

See “The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939” by Antony Beevor for a good history of the subject. The parallels to modern America are quite chilling.

35 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 2:16:03pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

Back in 2008, a lot of us knew that Obama’s election would bring racists crawling up out of their swamps and suburbs, but did anyone think it would be this bad?

No. It was hinted at during the Primary season, and to a greater extend the General campaign (see “I’m afraid of that Obama. He’s a Arab!”), but I thought it would calm down after he was elected. But it didn’t. It got worse, and as far as I can tell it’s only CONTINUED getting worse since.

It’s been very revealing, and what it has revealed is unsettling.

36 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:16:47pm

re: #33 Shiplord Kirel

It is indeed an accurate analogy. This is very frightening because a million people died in the Spanish civil war and monstrous atrocities were routine.

Not to mention the forty years of dictatorship afterwards and said regime helping out many Axis war criminals following WWII.

37 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 2:18:18pm

I guarantee you, Dim is frantically looking for the voting records of the cop that called the crowd “animals.”

38 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:18:29pm

I thought McCain would be a gracious loser and help out POTUS to the best of his ability. Instead him and his former running mate have been at the forefront of some of the most nasty attacks on Obama. McCain thinks he’s sly because sometimes he’ll try to appear above the fray but then he’ll do the shit he always pulls with Obama’s foreign policy endeavors. And Palin, well I don’t think words even need to explain the fact that she’s been fermenting some of the nastiest xenophobia out there.

39 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:19:36pm

Evening Lizardim from the wild north country. Ugh. That’s all I have to say. How go things in the war on derp?

40 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:20:17pm

re: #39 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim from the wild north country. Ugh. That’s all I have to say. How go things in the war on derp?

Derp is on a roll.

41 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:20:51pm
42 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 2:20:51pm

re: #32 alpuz

Yep. My 16 yr old son and my 16 & 18 year old nephews don’t give a shit about one’s religion, sexuality or the color of their skin. I get the feeling it’s the opinion of a majority of his friends & acquaintances.

I hope the tides will turn.

My 23 year old son objects to me using the N-word to say that someone used the N-word. ;-)

I seriously think the younger generation’s inability to understand my generation’s hesitancy on marriage equality is a lot of what drove many of us to accepting it.

You know how Conservatives use the “What am I supposed to tell my kids?” argument? well, it works the other way, too. Try explaining to kids why you think Marriage is okay for opposite sex relationships, but same sex relationships only get Civil Unions.

43 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 2:21:13pm

re: #26 FemNaziBitch

Where can I find this analogy?

You can find it here, on YouTube.

Granada Television’s outstanding documentary on the Spanish Civil War.

Youtube Video

44 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:21:28pm

re: #35 GeneJockey

No. It was hinted at during the Primary season, and to a greater extend the General campaign (see “I’m afraid of that Obama. He’s a Arab!”), but I thought it would calm down after he was elected. But it didn’t. It got worse, and as far as I can tell it’s only CONTINUED getting worse since.

It’s been very revealing, and what it has revealed is unsettling.

I did not support Obama in ‘08. Once he was elected though, I thought (and said), well, he was elected fair and square, let’s give him a chance and see how he does. He came through big time in my opinion and I switched to his side fairly early in his first administration. Many others, including virtually all remaining Republicans, were not willing to give him a chance. They did not care what he could do, or what he did, I will be convinced to my dying day that they care only what color he is.

45 Bulworth  Aug 11, 2014 2:21:57pm

re:
#39

The war on derp has entered a new phase after the shooting/killing in Missouri.

46 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:22:02pm
47 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:22:21pm

I never ever thought I’d be yearning for a man like Dubya to be the defacto leader of the GOP though. I mean Dubya’s presidency was messed up but the man himself wasn’t a racist asshole like the clowns that run the party now. I can’t imagine Dubya tolerating the attacks thrown at the migrant children or the nastiness directed at Muslims. Not trying to say I like W or that he did not have flaws but his non-nastiness to people of different cultural backgrounds is a breath of fresh air compared to the Bachmann-King-Gohmert mindset that has taken over the GOP since Obama’s election.

48 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:22:49pm

re: #39 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim from the wild north country. Ugh. That’s all I have to say. How go things in the war on derp?

Not well. Barbarians at the gate and battering away.

49 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:23:44pm

re: #40 Decatur Deb

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel

I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

50 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:25:26pm

re: #42 GeneJockey

My 23 year old son objects to me using the N-word to say that someone used the N-word. ;-)

I seriously think the younger generation’s inability to understand my generation’s hesitancy on marriage equality is a lot of what drove many of us to accepting it.

You know how Conservatives use the “What am I supposed to tell my kids?” argument? well, it works the other way, too. Try explaining to kids why you think Marriage is okay for opposite sex relationships, but same sex relationships only get Civil Unions.

This is a great post and being a little older than your son, I really appreciate this. Honestly for me regarding that issue, it just bugged me seeing people use the same defense against banning interracial marriage against same sex couples. I am not going to try to paint myself pure as snow. I used the word faggot on many occasions. I as a young teenager found gay eww. But you know what, I saw especially after meeting a distant gay relative and then getting to know some gay people over the years that they were fellow human beings. A lesson totally lost on the people who want to call gay people pedophiles or blame them for Nazism.

51 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:26:09pm

re: #49 thedopefishlives

I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Haven’t tried an airstrike on a neighborhood yet. Ferguson mayor may be reading Rizzo’s gameplan as we speak.

52 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:26:41pm
53 Eventual Carrion  Aug 11, 2014 2:27:31pm

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

That “other/unknown” category kind of creeps me out.

Huge, mutant dung beetles that just roll the people away.

54 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:30:58pm

re: #53 Eventual Carrion

Huge, mutant dung beetles that just roll the people away.

Ah, another Kafka reader, I see.

55 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:31:26pm

re: #12 William Barnett-Lewis

We aren’t done yet. If they don’t get enough votes in the senate to vote for impeachment (and they won’t get 2/3rds) I fully expect a string of incidents like OK City.

I think this is right. The RWNJs have deluded themselves that they are riding a groundswell of anti-Obama sentiment. They are going to react very badly when the election doesn’t go their way. Constant harping about (mostly non-existent) voter fraud from the rightwing media has laid the groundwork for a massive rejection of the results.

56 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:32:28pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel

I think this is right. The RWNJs have deluded themselves that they are riding a groundswell of anti-Obama sentiment. They are going to react very badly when the election doesn’t go their way. Constant harping about (mostly non-existent) voter fraud from the rightwing media has laid the groundwork for a massive rejection of the results.

Obama Hillary is coming for are guns.

57 alpuz  Aug 11, 2014 2:34:41pm

re: #42 GeneJockey

Yeah, I won’t use the word. I’m pretty sure I’ve never typed the clang variation. I learned at young age it was just bad all around.

I worked in restaurants for most of my life. I know this is cliché, but many of my favorite people(friends/acquaintances) along the way have been gay. I never gave one once of a shit.

On a personal note, I explain as much as I possibly can ‘on the level’ to my son. His cousins are a couple of smart cookies too.

58 FemNaziBitch  Aug 11, 2014 2:34:54pm

re: #43 Dr Lizardo

You can find it here, on YouTube.

Granada Television’s outstanding documentary on the Spanish Civil War.

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Video

I’ll see ya’ in about 4.3 hours …

59 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 2:34:57pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel

I think this is right. The RWNJs have deluded themselves that they are riding a groundswell of anti-Obama sentiment. They are going to react very badly when the election doesn’t go their way. Constant harping about (mostly non-existent) voter fraud from the rightwing media has laid the groundwork for a massive rejection of the results.

The wingnuts are essentially expecting that they’ll easily take the Senate later this year. If that fails to materialize - as I believe it will - they’ll go apeshit, screaming about “voter fraud!!” and other assorted BS.

60 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:37:14pm

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

The wingnuts are essentially expecting that they’ll easily take the Senate later this year. If that fails to materialize - as I believe it will - they’ll go apeshit, screaming about “voter fraud!!” and other assorted BS.

I fully expect them to set a record for litigation of allegations of voter fraud. They absolutely refuse to believe that people don’t agree with them.

61 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:37:18pm

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

The wingnuts are essentially expecting that they’ll easily take the Senate later this year. If that fails to materialize - as I believe it will - they’ll go apeshit, screaming about “voter fraud!!” and other assorted BS.

Their incessant lies have been repeated so often they are now accepted as fact by the majority of RWNJs, so much so that they are cited as evidence in support of new, fresh conspiracy theories. These lies include such things as Obama trampling the Constitution with executive orders and the NSA actively recording every telephone conversation in the country.

62 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:38:06pm

What amuses me is when they try to claim they’re not racist by saying they’d support Ben Carson if he ran for president. Yet they want to claim Dems are the real racists even though they’ve had Obama. Besides right wing racial minorities like Carson, Bobby Jindal, and Ted Cruz have their own bigotries. I still remember Herman Cain saying he would not want to be treated by a non-Christian doctor. And of course we’ve seen what Cruz thinks of immigrants and Jindal’s attitudes on gays.

63 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:40:24pm

I hope this guy attempts to resist arrest. I really do.

MMA fighter’s Ex-Girlfriend beaten, near death

Link has photos, some grisly stuff

Porn star Christy Mack says War Machine broke up with her in May but for some reason showed up at her house at 2 AM Friday. She says he walked in, didn’t say a word but unleashed a beating on her friend.

War Machine threw the friend out of the house and then she says he allegedly made her strip and shower in front of him. Then she says the beating began … resulting in 18 broken bones around her eyes, a broken nose, missing teeth, a fractured rib and ruptured liver.

Mack says War Machine also “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”

She says he threatened to rape her but was unable to perform.

64 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:41:32pm

I remember the RWNJ bracing themselves for riots if Obama lost on election night, especially in 2008. One string at Free Republic was full of hand wringing and near panic over the imminent uprising, as well as bloodthirsty promises of resistance. As the election result became obvious, some wag posted “Good news, people! He won!”

65 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:41:42pm

re: #62 HappyWarrior

What amuses me is when they try to claim they’re not racist by saying they’d support Ben Carson if he ran for president. Yet they want to claim Dems are the real racists even though they’ve had Obama. Besides right wing racial minorities like Carson, Bobby Jindal, and Ted Cruz have their own bigotries. I still remember Herman Cain saying he would not want to be treated by a non-Christian doctor. And of course we’ve seen what Cruz thinks of immigrants and Jindal’s attitudes on gays.

You gotta understand—Dems are the real racists because real racism is anti-white. I’ve been driving past this a couple times a day for a week:

encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com

66 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:41:49pm

re: #63 Kragar

She says he threatened to rape her but was unable to perform.

Serves the asshole right.

67 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 2:42:15pm

Conservatism has always been an ideology about re: #65 Decatur Deb

You gotta understand—Dems are the real racists because real racism is anti-white. I’ve been driving past this a couple times a day for a week:

encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com

Ah yeah kind of like how white liberals are race traitors.

68 alpuz  Aug 11, 2014 2:43:38pm

re: #63 Kragar

Well look at that. A MMA fighter rages and beats up a couple of women.
America. I’m back to lurking. Have a good one, Lizards.

69 nines09  Aug 11, 2014 2:43:58pm

re: #52 Kragar

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That about sums it up. For every single solitary moron that calls that little tantrum a riot and calls the people who didn’t loot the same as those who did I just have one question to ask; Just imagine what it would be like to have your son shot dead. Dead in the street. Unarmed. I guess if you had a gun and wanted to take the law into your own hands because of (fill in blank) that’s patriotic? Rights and all? Your kid is DEAD. Like your rotten brain. DEAD. They have no souls.

70 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:44:53pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

Serves the asshole right.

He’s a trained MMA fighter who beats a woman half his size into hamburger, and yet he thinks he’s the one who is “cursed” and the victim in all this.

Not just no, but hell fucking no.

71 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 2:50:00pm

re: #61 Shiplord Kirel

Their incessant lies have been repeated so often they are now accepted as fact by the majority of RWNJs, so much so that they are cited as evidence in support of new, fresh conspiracy theories. These lies include such things as Obama trampling the Constitution with executive orders and the NSA actively recording every telephone conversation in the country.

The echo chamber has taken over.

If they fail to gain the Senate later this year - and I think they will - then logically, it should be obvious that the echo chamber is full of crap. But I doubt the wingnuts will arrive at the logical conclusion.

72 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:50:12pm

re: #70 Kragar

He’s a trained MMA fighter who beats a woman half his size into hamburger, and yet he thinks he’s the one who is “cursed” and the victim in all this.

Not just no, but hell fucking no.

Not enough NOPE in the world for that particular brand of stupid. I have to wonder if steroids were involved; that just seems like such a meatheaded thing to do.

73 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:52:30pm

re: #72 thedopefishlives

Not enough NOPE in the world for that particular brand of stupid. I have to wonder if steroids were involved; that just seems like such a meatheaded thing to do.

The scumball is currently on the run, $10k reward offered by LVPD.

74 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:52:42pm

A freeper spells it out.

I long for the day these type of animals run into REAL revolutionaries!

wouldn’t it be sweet to see a group of Tea Partiers drive up fully armed and ready to defend these businesses?

Actually, freeper opinion was decidedly mixed at first, with a good many posters being severely critical of the cops and expressing some empathy with angry residents. This has largely been swept away in an all too familiar orgy of racism after the looting started.

75 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 2:52:58pm

re: #63 Kragar

I hope this guy attempts to resist arrest. I really do.

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MMA fighter’s Ex-Girlfriend beaten, near death

Link has photos, some grisly stuff

That guy is on the run - there’s a $10,000 reward out for him.

Where’s he Tweeting from?

76 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 2:53:19pm

re: #50 HappyWarrior

This is a great post and being a little older than your son, I really appreciate this. Honestly for me regarding that issue, it just bugged me seeing people use the same defense against banning interracial marriage against same sex couples. I am not going to try to paint myself pure as snow. I used the word faggot on many occasions. I as a young teenager found gay eww. But you know what, I saw especially after meeting a distant gay relative and then getting to know some gay people over the years that they were fellow human beings. A lesson totally lost on the people who want to call gay people pedophiles or blame them for Nazism.

I never found gay ‘eew’. What I mostly found it was irrelevant. That is, it didn’t affect me in any way. In college, a friend propositioned me. It didn’t freak me out, or make me want to slug him, or anything. I just had no interest, and told him so. So, I’ve never understood ‘Gay Panic’.

77 ausador  Aug 11, 2014 2:53:49pm

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

That “other/unknown” category kind of creeps me out.

I keep trying to warn people about the rogue underpants gnomes, but do they listen? DO THEY????

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78 makeitstop  Aug 11, 2014 2:54:36pm

re: #72 thedopefishlives

Not enough NOPE in the world for that particular brand of stupid. I have to wonder if steroids were involved; that just seems like such a meatheaded thing to do.

Given the ‘unable to perform’ statement in the account, I’d say that steroids were pretty heavily involved.

79 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:55:10pm

And I had to look at the comments at TMZ

Why did I have to look at the comments?

80 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:55:20pm

re: #78 makeitstop

Given the ‘unable to perform’ statement in the account, I’d say that steroids were pretty heavily involved.

That’s what made me wonder, actually. I know that can be a side effect of ‘roid usage. And perfectly calm and rational people don’t usually go on violent rampages and beat people to within an inch of their lives.

81 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 11, 2014 2:55:37pm

re: #63 Kragar

She says he threatened to rape her but was unable to perform.

Steroids will do that.

82 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:56:22pm

re: #75 Dr Lizardo

That guy is on the run - there’s a $10,000 reward out for him.

Where’s he Tweeting from?

Somewhere in San Diego from his tweets.

83 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 2:56:23pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

Steroids will do that.

So will dicklessness.

84 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 2:57:12pm

re: #72 thedopefishlives

Not enough NOPE in the world for that particular brand of stupid. I have to wonder if steroids were involved; that just seems like such a meatheaded thing to do.

The TMZ story says he attempted to rape her, but “couldn’t perform”.

Isn’t impotence a side effect of steroid abuse?

85 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 2:57:49pm

The girlfriend says they had broken up months ago. Fucking psycho.

86 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 2:58:38pm

re: #85 Kragar

“Fighting for his life” against his ex-girlfriend? Unless she’s a world-class MMA fighter in her own right, that is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve read since the last Dim Jim tweet I saw.

87 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 2:59:14pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel

A freeper spells it out.

I long for the day these type of animals run into REAL revolutionaries!

wouldn’t it be sweet to see a group of Tea Partiers drive up fully armed and ready to defend these businesses?

The cops are almost certainly aware of this possibility and would turn such a group away. One could get through anyway, possibly using back routes, or just one racist cop could turn a blind eye, and catastrophe would ensue. It is possible, too, that such a group could be overwhelmed and killed by local residents in self defense. Alcohol, arrogance, and tactical illiteracy are not a good combination in unfamiliar areas. This would lead to a martyr mythology of immense dimensions, the American right’s own Horst Wessel.

88 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 3:00:10pm

re: #86 thedopefishlives

“Fighting for his life” against his ex-girlfriend? Unless she’s a world-class MMA fighter in her own right, that is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve read since the last Dim Jim tweet I saw.

Yeah, she looks like she would pose a real threat to him.

89 Charles Johnson  Aug 11, 2014 3:00:25pm

The N word is now showing up in Hoft’s comments. Added it to our samples above.

90 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 3:00:57pm

re: #85 Kragar

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The girlfriend says they had broken up months ago. Fucking psycho.

I get the feeling that this “War Machine” chap will certainly try to fight off the cops when they come to take his ass in.

I also get the feeling that I’ll be reading headlines saying “Fugitive MMA Fighter Gunned Down After Violently Resisting Arrest” in the not-too-distant future.

91 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 3:02:10pm

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

I get the feeling that this “War Machine” chap will certainly try to fight off the cops when they come to take his ass in.

I also get the feeling that I’ll be reading headlines saying “>Fugitive MMA Fighter Gunned Down After Violently Resisting Arrest” in the not-too-distant future.

Pretty much read my mind. Especially if he’s still hitting the ‘roids when they come for him.

92 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:02:42pm
93 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 3:03:14pm

re: #88 Kragar

Yeah, she looks like she would pose a real threat to him.

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Jesus, he could break her in half. “Fighting for his life” my ass.

94 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:03:27pm

re: #88 Kragar

Dude has an anarchy symbol tat on his hand, so what?
//

95 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 3:04:31pm

re: #91 thedopefishlives

Pretty much read my mind. Especially if he’s still hitting the ‘roids when they come for him.

Yep, exactly. Roid rage.

96 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 3:04:35pm

re: #93 thedopefishlives

Jesus, he could break her in half. “Fighting for his life” my ass.

From the reports, he just about did.

97 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 3:04:41pm

re: #70 Kragar

He’s a trained MMA fighter who beats a woman half his size into hamburger, and yet he thinks he’s the one who is “cursed” and the victim in all this.

Not just no, but hell fucking no.

But that’s of a piece with beating women. Abusers often think THEY’RE the victims. Part of the pathology, and their self-justification.

98 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 3:06:07pm

re: #79 Kragar

And I had to look at the comments at TMZ

Why did I have to look at the comments?

“I looked in the trap comments, Ray!”

99 The Mountain That Blogs  Aug 11, 2014 3:06:51pm

War Machine also has multiple prior assault convictions.

100 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 3:06:51pm

Oh yes, he’s a “War Machine” when he likes to project himself as a tough guy but now that he’s in trouble for beating up his ex-girlfriend savagely, he’s claiming that he’s a helpless little who couldn’t have dealt with the manner without resorting to that. What a load of shit this guy is.

101 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 3:07:00pm

re: #99 The Mountain That Blogs

War Machine also has multiple prior assault convictions.

Shocker.

102 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 3:07:03pm

re: #96 Kragar

From the reports, he just about did.

This is why my wife trained for years in taekwondo. She wanted to make sure that if her husband (who turned out to be me) or one of her brothers/-in-laws attacked her, she could hold her own against someone with a raw physical advantage. In this case, the man held both a physical advantage and a training advantage, and she had absolutely no chance.

103 Kragar  Aug 11, 2014 3:07:38pm

From the pictures of her in the hospital, you can’t tell if its the same woman, he beat her that badly.

And his schtick is “100% alpha male”.

Bullshit.

Just so fucking disgusted with bullshit right now.

104 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 3:08:05pm

Watermelon? Jungle? Chimp-out? N-moment?

WTF? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?
Time was when even Stormfront didn’t allow this kind of vile shit, yet this is one of the most popular mainstream conservative blogs.

We are on the highway to hell in this country. These people are crazy and they have a hundred million guns and they are whipping themselves up for an insurrection.

105 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 3:08:15pm

I’m sure the MRA are ready to fight for their pal.

106 HappyWarrior  Aug 11, 2014 3:09:23pm

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel

Watermelon? Jungle? Chimp-out? N-moment?

WTF? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?
Time was when even Stormfront didn’t allow this kind of vile shit, yet this is one of the most popular mainstream conservative blogs.

We are on the highway to hell in this country. These people are crazy and they have a hundred million guns and they are whipping themselves up for an insurrection.

Frankly to me at this point there is no difference between Stormfront and mainstream conservative blogs. Only real difference is Stormfront isn’t ashamed to admit they’er white supremacist assholes. Mainstream conservative blogs and bloggers are too ashamed to admit they’re bigots or blame the bigotry on other people.

107 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 3:11:00pm

re: #103 Kragar

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel

There is way too much crazy going on right now. It’s almost too much to process. Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, religious persecution by Christians against others (while claiming the reverse) - I really need to take a chill pill. Or drink a keg of something suitably alcoholic.

108 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 3:12:17pm

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel

Watermelon? Jungle? Chimp-out? N-moment?

WTF? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?
Time was when even Stormfront didn’t allow this kind of vile shit, yet this is one of the most popular mainstream conservative blogs.

We are on the highway to hell in this country. These people are crazy and they have a hundred million guns and they are whipping themselves up for an insurrection.

I get the feeling a lot of Stormfronters are posting on the more mainstream sites - I was looking over there once to see what idiocy they were babbling about, and I saw a thread discussing their attempts to post on mainstream conservative sites. This was a couple of years ago, and most of them noted they were getting their comments deleted, but they would keep trying. They were particularly hitting Fox News at the time - not Free Republic, though, which they view a “pro-Zionist” and a lost cause.

I’m almost positive there’s SF’ers posting on Breitbart. Some of the terminology they’re using is straight-up Stormfront propaganda.

109 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:13:11pm

12 minutes into Brett Baier’s show…not a single mention of Ferguson. But Obama on vacation made the cut!!!!

110 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 3:13:55pm

re: #109 Kid A

12 minutes into Brett Baier’s show…not a single mention of Ferguson. But Obama on vacation made the cut!!!!

Quelle surprise.

111 lawhawk  Aug 11, 2014 3:16:12pm

You know, in a parallel universe, Hoft would probably have had something positive to add to this discussion and the events surrounding the Brown shooting. He’s from the STL area. He’d probably have some keen insight to share about the area, its history, the racial divide, something. That’s why he calls the blog Gateway Pundit.

But instead, he posts nothing but noxious and hate filled screeds that actually show so much fear and loathing of change. So sad.

112 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 3:16:14pm

re: #108 Dr Lizardo

I get the feeling a lot of Stormfronters are posting on the more mainstream sites - I was looking over there once to see what idiocy they were babbling about, and I saw a thread discussing their attempts to post on mainstream conservative sites. This was a couple of years ago, and most of them noted they were getting their comments deleted, but they would keep trying. They were particularly hitting Fox News at the time - not Free Republic, though, which they view a “pro-Zionist” and a lost cause.

I’m almost positive there’s SF’ers posting on Breitbart. Some of the terminology they’re using is straight-up Stormfront propaganda.

There’s that, and there’s the progressive move by the Tea Party into more and more overt racism. I think the presence of un-deleted racist comments encourages more of them from folks who might have previously kept quiet, but now find there’s not only no penalty for expressing those thoughts, but also actual approbation from the group.

113 Decatur Deb  Aug 11, 2014 3:18:18pm

re: #111 lawhawk

You know, in a parallel universe, Hoft would probably have had something positive to add to this discussion and the events surrounding the Brown shooting. He’s from the STL area. He’d probably have some keen insight to share about the area, its history, the racial divide, something. That’s why he calls the blog Gateway Pundit.

But instead, he posts nothing but noxious and hate filled screeds that actually show so much fear and loathing of change. So sad.

Isn’t Dana Loesch also local? Always good for an illuminating perspective.

114 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 3:18:28pm

re: #112 GeneJockey

There’s that, and there’s the progressive move by the Tea Party into more and more overt racism. I think the presence of un-deleted racist comments encourages more of them from folks who might have previously kept quiet, but now find there’s not only no penalty for expressing those thoughts, but actual approbation from the group.

I also recall seeing a thread on SF about their attempts to preach their message to the Tea Party; some were reporting they’d met with a good deal of success, particularly among posters from the Deep South. This was back when the TP was getting going in 2010.

115 EPR-radar  Aug 11, 2014 3:20:56pm

re: #112 GeneJockey

There’s that, and there’s the progressive move by the Tea Party into more and more overt racism. I think the presence of un-deleted racist comments encourages more of them from folks who might have previously kept quiet, but now find there’s not only no penalty for expressing those thoughts, but also actual approbation from the group.

It’s the political equivalent of watching gangrene spread.

That’s the main reason it is so important to push back against this crap, as opposed to just dismissing it as someone else’s free speech.

116 dholmes32  Aug 11, 2014 3:21:04pm

Obviously Jim Hoft’s minions were not raised by my mother. I used the N word once in front of her and she was so upset I got to hold a bar of orange Dial soap between my lips. Forty-five or so years later and I still remember the taste. Blech.

117 funky chicken  Aug 11, 2014 3:28:13pm

re: #29 team_fukit

I wonder how friendly those businesses were to the community-at-large.

Down ding for blaming the victims, and the businesses were located in the community, so I have to assume they served and employed folks who live there.

118 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 3:28:56pm

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

I also recall seeing a thread on SF about their attempts to preach their message to the Tea Party; some were reporting they’d met with a good deal of success, particularly among posters from the Deep South. This was back when the TP was getting going in 2010.

Well, it was only a hop, skip, and jump from Santelli’s “We shouldn’t bail out the losers who paid too much for houses” rant to blaming the entire economic collapse on minorities, and when that happened, who better for the focus of all the hatred than the first black President? And from there, it’s a direct line to the Confederate id of the GOP.

119 jaunte  Aug 11, 2014 3:29:10pm

Kevin Williamson, being an idiot again.

120 jaunte  Aug 11, 2014 3:31:00pm
121 BeachDem  Aug 11, 2014 3:43:48pm

re: #119 jaunte

In addition to rating that screed as racist, I would also like to rate it as terribly written garbage by someone who apparently thinks he’s clever and witty. On a scale of one to blech, I give it an eleventy!

122 Floral Giraffe  Aug 11, 2014 3:44:37pm

re: #116 dholmes32

Obviously Jim Hoft’s minions were not raised by my mother. I used the N word once in front of her and she was so upset I got to hold a bar of orange Dial soap between my lips. Forty-five or so years later and I still remember the taste. Blech.

Welcome, hatchling!

123 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:44:56pm

re: #121 BeachDem

It’s National Review. It’s not supposed to make any sense.

124 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:45:20pm

re: #116 dholmes32

Greetings, hatchling.

125 funky chicken  Aug 11, 2014 3:50:49pm

re: #119 jaunte

National Review published that crap?

126 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 11, 2014 3:51:18pm

A few freepers still refuse to toe the party line and are instead continuing to focus on police misconduct in Ferguson:

Given that the Ferguson cops aggressively confiscated cell phones from everyone present in order to cover up what they did I’d say the cops brought this on themselves. Their actions *after* the shooting are what’s really causing this riot. If they hadn’t gone into thug-mode to suppress video then this may not have been so bad.

But instead they decided to try to cover things up and that alone is an admission of guilt. If you’re doing the right thing then it doesn’t matter if someone posts the video to LiveLeak (because YouTube will censor it).

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/

and this one on the same string:

Speaking of evidence the police aggressively confiscated cell phones from witnesses in order to cover up what they’d done. Seems to me if the police wanted to make the case for their righteousness in this shooting they’d just play some of the video they confiscated, right?

127 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:51:33pm

re: #125 funky chicken

National Review published that crap?

128 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:52:20pm

re: #126 Shiplord Kirel

Holy shit, that actually makes some sense.

129 EPR-radar  Aug 11, 2014 3:52:23pm

re: #119 jaunte

Here we see why WF Buckley got the big bucks. Putting the “crypto-” into crypto-racism, crypto-fascism etc. is hard work, and WFB’s successors at the National Review aren’t up to the demands of the task.

130 Teukka  Aug 11, 2014 3:52:24pm

re: #63 Kragar

I hope this guy attempts to resist arrest. I really do.

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MMA fighter’s Ex-Girlfriend beaten, near death

Link has photos, some grisly stuff

She says he threatened to rape her but was unable to perform.
[…]
He multiple prior assault convictions

Let me see… Problem with impulse control and aggression? CHECK. Problem with erectile dysfunction? CHECK.

And this, boys and girls, is why you stay the hell away from performance-enhancing substances.

Sheesh. *smh*

The only way this story can go any more sour is if the wingnuts decide that Poor white boy is victim of the feminazi war on the white male!!! 11ty!!! Hurr Durr!!!

131 Dave In Austin  Aug 11, 2014 3:53:11pm

Speaking of Bees

Cicada Wasp. I didn’t know about these. This is a small one that got caught and husked in the garage window.

132 BeachDem  Aug 11, 2014 3:54:39pm

re: #123 Kid A

It’s National Review. It’s not supposed to make any sense.

Anyone who writes “yoga-panted women with vastly complex Starbucks orders” should be writing in a 7th grade diary or on a bathroom wall, not a national publication (even if it is National Review.)

133 Sherlock Hound  Aug 11, 2014 3:55:02pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

“Well, stop pumping yourself full of roids, and maybe you could get it up.”

135 Teukka  Aug 11, 2014 3:55:18pm

re: #131 Dave In Austin

Speaking of Bees

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Cicada Wasp. I didn’t know about these. This is a small one that got caught and husked in the garage window.

*shudder*

I got stung by a wasp on friday. On the throat (not in it), between the windpipe and a big artery. Thankfully clinic was still open. First time in 30 years a wasp has stung me.

136 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:55:37pm

re: #132 BeachDem

Anyone who writes “yoga-panted women with vastly complex Starbucks orders” should be writing in a 7th grade diary or on a bathroom wall, not a national publication (even if it is National Review.)

Doughy Pantload is a “senior writer” at National Review. ‘Nuf said.

137 blueraven  Aug 11, 2014 3:56:18pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Marin County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of Actor Robin Williams | NBC Bay Area

Whoa!

138 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 11, 2014 3:56:23pm

Writing like this makes me miss old William F. all the more. He was at least erudite enough to wrap his classist (especially) & racist (only occasionally) rants in sufficiently flowery language to at least allow the gentle reader the illusion that he was a principled defender of the conservative cause.

139 Charles Johnson  Aug 11, 2014 3:56:30pm

That looks genuine, folks. Multiple sources in the Bay Area now reporting it.

140 Teukka  Aug 11, 2014 3:56:45pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Marin County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of Actor Robin Williams | NBC Bay Area

Damn.

141 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 3:57:38pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Checked himself into a sober center recently, but not because he fell off the wagon.
people.com

142 Charles Johnson  Aug 11, 2014 3:58:10pm

Possible suicide:

143 makeitstop  Aug 11, 2014 3:59:17pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Marin County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of Actor Robin Williams | NBC Bay Area

Holy shit.

144 Gus  Aug 11, 2014 3:59:33pm

Crap.

145 EPR-radar  Aug 11, 2014 4:00:10pm

re: #138 William Barnett-Lewis

Writing like this makes me miss old William F. all the more. He was at least erudite enough to wrap his classist (especially) & racist (only occasionally) rants in sufficiently flowery language to at least allow the gentle reader the illusion that he was a principled defender of the conservative cause.

In WFB’s inaugural piece in the first issue of National Review, the 10-dollar word “sublunary” was used in a piece defending the idea of racist white juries engaging in nullification to oppose enforcement of the Voting Rights Act because white supremacy was objectively justified.

The style and the substance were both typical.

146 SteelPH  Aug 11, 2014 4:00:13pm

Ouch, right in the childhood. :(

147 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 4:00:13pm

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Crikey. I fell asleep at the keyboard and wake up to this. Unlike many of the other famous-person deaths in recent years, I actually liked Williams.

149 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 4:00:37pm

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Possible suicide:

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Fuck.

150 Gus  Aug 11, 2014 4:01:51pm
151 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 11, 2014 4:01:55pm

re: #145 EPR-radar

In WFB’s inaugural piece in the first issue of National Review, the 10-dollar word “sublunary” was used in a piece defending the idea of racist white juries engaging in nullification to oppose enforcement of the Voting Rights Act because white supremacy was objectively justified.

The style and the substance were both typical.

Oh, he was racist. He just usually preferred to hide it behind class in his writing.

152 funky chicken  Aug 11, 2014 4:02:12pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Marin County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of Actor Robin Williams | NBC Bay Area

RIP, Mr Williams. He had discussed a history of depression I think. I hope it was natural causes or an accident.

153 GeneJockey  Aug 11, 2014 4:04:39pm

Statement from William’s Publicist:

“Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time.”

154 ausador  Aug 11, 2014 4:05:35pm

It is particularly sad that many of the comments over at CNN are practically indistinguishable from the ones made TGP. One major difference is that at CNN your talking about something like 11,000 comments versus the 360 or so at TGP. :(

155 darthstar  Aug 11, 2014 4:05:39pm

Holy shit…Robin Williams died.

156 allegro  Aug 11, 2014 4:06:28pm

OMG Robin Williams has died.

157 thedopefishlives  Aug 11, 2014 4:06:42pm

Goddamnit. As if I wasn’t already worn down from the weekend’s derpocalypse, now this, something that actually hurts.

158 Kid A  Aug 11, 2014 4:08:25pm

Depression. I’m glad that we as a society are taking mental issues much more seriously than in the past. A very good friend of mine has been depressed for 20+ years, put a pistol in his mouth a couple of times too, but never could pull the trigger. What used to be seen as a sign of weakness is now looked at like any other illness.

159 Lidane  Aug 11, 2014 4:09:35pm

re: #155 darthstar

re: #156 allegro

WTF? Are you serious?

160 Floral Giraffe  Aug 11, 2014 4:10:13pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Marin County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of Actor Robin Williams | NBC Bay Area

“Believed to have been a suicide”
RIP, Robin

161 Gus  Aug 11, 2014 4:10:30pm

162 allegro  Aug 11, 2014 4:11:41pm

That breaks my heart. I loved that guy.

163 b_sharp  Aug 11, 2014 4:11:56pm

re: #132 BeachDem

Anyone who writes “yoga-panted women with vastly complex Starbucks orders” should be writing in a 7th grade diary or on a bathroom wall, not a national publication (even if it is National Review.)

It was all one run-on sentence so he was trying to be clever.

164 Floral Giraffe  Aug 11, 2014 4:12:55pm

re: #158 Kid A

Prayers for his friends & family. Suicide of a loved one is very painful.

165 funky chicken  Aug 11, 2014 4:13:53pm

Completely OT, but I really enjoy the documentary ESPN made about the Auburn vs Alabama rivalry. We lived in AL twice and it’s very well done.

166 b_sharp  Aug 11, 2014 4:16:15pm

re: #158 Kid A

Depression. I’m glad that we as a society are taking mental issues much more seriously than in the past. A very good friend of mine has been depressed for 20+ years, put a pistol in his mouth a couple of times too, but never could pull the trigger. What used to be seen as a sign of weakness is now looked at like any other illness be it physical or mental.

I’m way too familiar with getting that close. It isn’t a good time when you feel death is preferable to the pain.

167 Dr Lizardo  Aug 11, 2014 4:19:37pm

re: #147 thedopefishlives

Crikey. I fell asleep at the keyboard and wake up to this. Unlike many of the other famous-person deaths in recent years, I actually liked Williams.

I was watching YouTube and I see this.

Shit.

168 lostlakehiker  Aug 11, 2014 4:43:45pm

re: #8 FemNaziBitch

I feared it would be worse. I didn’t think he’d live to be reelected.

Seriously.

Why? History says most presidents, even ones that are hugely controversial, live through their first term in office and live to take office again if they win. Plus, security has generally become tighter, and security in his particular case is probably extra tight.

And then there’s the medical side of things. McKinley and Garfield probably would have survived given modern medicine, and Reagan probably would have died without it.

There was never any prospect of the kind of insider-job assassination that felled Indira Gandhi.

And my own sense of the pulse of the nation is that feelings ran higher back in the days of the Vietnam war and LBJ and Nixon. This opinion is consistent with the fact that in those years we had a spate of assassinations—-JFK, RFK, MLK, and attempts (Wallace)…and I’m sure I’ve left some out.

169 lostlakehiker  Aug 11, 2014 4:51:54pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel

I think this is right. The RWNJs have deluded themselves that they are riding a groundswell of anti-Obama sentiment. They are going to react very badly when the election doesn’t go their way. Constant harping about (mostly non-existent) voter fraud from the rightwing media has laid the groundwork for a massive rejection of the results.

Indeed. Some people don’t seem to be able to think straight about the prospects of “their team”. It doesn’t occur to them that Nate Silver’s remarkable success in calling the 2012 elections on the basis of preliminary polling was a resounding proof of the integrity of the vote. You can’t predict what will be done in back rooms on the basis of polling data. When the polls diverge wildly from the count, the count can be honest anyhow, but it might well be fake. When the polls agree nicely with the count, there’s not much chance of anything substantial being wrong with the count.

170 De Kolta Chair  Aug 11, 2014 5:23:32pm

From The Hollywood Reporter: “[Robin Williams] performed in the mid-1980s in a series of mediocre movies including The Survivors (1983), The Best of Times (1986) and Club Paradise (1986).”

WTF? The Best of Times was fun, with nice performances, especially from Pamela Reed. But I admit they’re right about the other two.

171 Eventual Carrion  Aug 11, 2014 5:28:34pm

re: #72 thedopefishlives

Not enough NOPE in the world for that particular brand of stupid. I have to wonder if steroids were involved; that just seems like such a meatheaded thing to do.

Or meth. Or both.

172 Eventual Carrion  Aug 11, 2014 5:36:54pm

re: #100 HappyWarrior

Oh yes, he’s a “War Machine” when he likes to project himself as a tough guy but now that he’s in trouble for beating up his ex-girlfriend savagely, he’s claiming that he’s a helpless little who couldn’t have dealt with the manner without resorting to that. What a load of shit this guy is.

Well if he puts up a resistance to the right cop(s) that come to pick him up, he could learn some painful restraint holds from them to use next time rather than blunt force to subdue a person giving him “a fight for his life”.

173 Eventual Carrion  Aug 11, 2014 6:01:00pm

re: #142 Charles Johnson

Possible suicide:

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The possible suicide part makes it just so much worse and sad.


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