Video: Brave Female Activist Takes Down SC Capitol’s Confederate Flag, Is Immediately Arrested

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Here’s video of an amazing moment in front of the South Carolina state Capitol, as activist Bree Newsome scales the flagpole and takes down the Confederate flag — then is arrested when she climbs back down.

Unfortunately, the flag was raised again 45 minutes later, in time for a rally of neo-Confederates and white supremacists calling for the flag to stay where it is.

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1 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 27, 2015 12:03:59pm
in time for a rally of neo-Confederates and white supremacists calling for the flag to stay where it is.

Optics are good.

2 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:07:25pm

Hero.

3 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:07:50pm

The applause is lovely.

4 freetoken  Jun 27, 2015 12:08:33pm

Link goes to a hate blog.

5 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:11:21pm

re: #3 wrenchwench

The applause is lovely.

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Adende wins.

6 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:12:17pm

re: #4 freetoken

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Link goes to a hate blog.

Uh huh. Extremist but the people who support that flag ain’t.

7 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 12:12:42pm

Beitbartians fulminating…

- Outside agitator!
- Jail ‘em and throw away the key!
- The Democrats are the real racists!

8 unproven innocence  Jun 27, 2015 12:14:03pm

Unfortunately, the flag was raised again 45 minutes later, in time for a rally of neo-Confederates and white supremacists calling for the flag to stay where it is.

IMO, shining a bright light on bigotry is a positive thing.

9 stpaulbear  Jun 27, 2015 12:14:38pm

Charles, It’s the KitchenAid ad that’s fucking up the site. Any way to trash that one ad?

10 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 12:14:47pm

re: #7 jaunte

Tom Waters typed “She’s just another N” and at that point had to make an effort not to type what he really thought.

11 freetoken  Jun 27, 2015 12:15:09pm

re: #6 HappyWarrior

The tweeter is supposedly a Pastor but checking out his blog pretty much reveals is the same blinded-by-Je$u$ regurgitation of right wing idiocy.

12 Timothy Watson  Jun 27, 2015 12:15:47pm

re: #4 freetoken

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Link goes to a hate blog.

They apparently don’t believe in commas in wingnutville.

13 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:15:51pm

re: #7 jaunte

Beitbartians fulminating…

I have the wrong glasses on, that looked like ‘butthurtarians’. I think I’ll keep these glasses on.

14 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 12:15:54pm

re: #10 Nyet

Someone else managed a “monkey” slur

15 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:15:59pm

re: #7 jaunte

Beitbartians fulminating…

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- Outside agitator!
- Jail ‘em and throw away the key!
- The Democrats are the real racists!

typical right wing fascist fucks.

16 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 12:16:41pm

Alert the flag factories!!!

17 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:16:46pm

re: #14 jaunte

Someone else managed a “monkey” slur

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Original.

18 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 12:18:51pm

Cog-dis of the day: “She’s vandalized the Demoncrat flag! Traitor!”

19 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 12:19:16pm
20 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:19:31pm

re: #18 Nyet

Cog-dis of the day: “She’s vandalized the Demoncrat flag! Traitor!”

Yeah.

21 Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2015 12:20:41pm

re: #9 stpaulbear

Charles, It’s the KitchenAid ad that’s fucking up the site. Any way to trash that one ad?

Which ad slot is it specifically? I can temporarily turn off that slot if I know which one it’s appearing in.

Google Adsense is suspending advertisers who do this, but they keep sneaking back in with different accounts. Very irritating.

22 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 12:25:00pm

I assume she’s a Democrat.

If it’s a Democratic flag, she had a right to do it.

//using the idiots’ logic against them

23 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:25:29pm
24 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:27:55pm

SQUIRREL alert:

25 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 12:29:22pm

re: #24 wrenchwench

So it’s a religious symbol? One more reason it shouldn’t be there. /

26 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:31:52pm

re: #24 wrenchwench

SQUIRREL alert:

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Becsuse it is not the South’s flag. It is the flag of traitors who mostly resided in the South and their descendants who used the flag for white supremacy and against civil rights. That flag isn’t George Thomas or Winfield Scott (both Virginian Union men) flag. Fuck NRO

27 stpaulbear  Jun 27, 2015 12:37:12pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I have no idea what an ‘ad slot’ is, but there were two KitchenAid ads that were running at both the top of a post and the very bottom.

I don’t understand why someone would think that this makes a product attractive to viewers.

28 Unabogie  Jun 27, 2015 12:38:46pm

re: #7 jaunte

Beitbartians fulminating…

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- Outside agitator!
- Jail ‘em and throw away the key!
- The Democrats are the real racists!

Shorter wingnut:

Democrats are the real racists, and this black woman would know this if she wasn’t so stupid.

29 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:40:04pm

re: #28 Unabogie

Shorter wingnut:

Democrats are the real racists, and this black woman would know this if she wasn’t so stupid.

That’s actually Rand Paul’s “argument”. Support our party because 150 ago our party weren’t total dicks to black people.

30 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:40:41pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

Becsuse it is not the South’s flag. It is the flag of traitors who mostly resided in the South and their descendants who used the flag for white supremacy and against civil rights. That flag isn’t George Thomas or Winfield Scott (both Virginian Union men) flag. Fuck NRO

Good answer to a stupid question.

31 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:43:46pm

re: #30 wrenchwench

Good answer to a stupid question.

Thanks, it really is. I’m a Virginian. That flag ain’t mine. It’s from a shameful part of our state’s history where our leaders chose slavery over country and were willing to destroy our nation for it. I don’t want to hear lectures from the scum who write the NRO about how this is like Muslims & Radical Islam. It’s cynical dishonest bullshit.

32 Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2015 12:44:00pm

re: #27 stpaulbear

I have no idea what an ‘ad slot’ is, but there were two KitchenAid ads that were running at both the top of a post and the very bottom.

I don’t understand why someone would think that this makes a product attractive to viewers.

By “ad slot” I just mean the position the ad appears in. I turned off those two slots now - hopefully that will fix it.

33 Lidane  Jun 27, 2015 12:45:58pm

As long as we’re on the subject of Confederate assholes:

Pat Hines is a special case in the long tradition of inbred yokels who think they’d be the plantation owners in a New Confederacy. There’s at least one occasion where it legitimately looked like he was advocating for the murder of schoolchildren to further his goals:

cwcrossroads.wordpress.com

34 Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2015 12:46:05pm

re: #27 stpaulbear

Unfortunately, the advertiser is probably not KitchenAid themselves, but some other agency that’s placing these annoying ads. This is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen advertisers do in a long time — they’re literally driving people away from websites that run these ads.

35 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:47:38pm

re: #33 Lidane

As long as we’re on the subject of Confederate assholes:

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Pat Hines is a special case in the long tradition of inbred yokels who think they’d be the plantation owners in a New Confederacy. There’s at least one occasion where it legitimately looked like he was advocating for the murder of schoolchildren to further his goals:

cwcrossroads.wordpress.com

Sounds reasonable. What the fuck was CNN thinking giving this psycho a platform?

36 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 27, 2015 12:47:44pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

Becsuse it is not the South’s flag. It is the flag of traitors who mostly resided in the South and their descendants who used the flag for white supremacy and against civil rights. That flag isn’t George Thomas or Winfield Scott (both Virginian Union men) flag. Fuck NRO

Too bad Winfield Scott was too old and infirm to take personal command of the Union army. He did live to see the secessionists defeated and his “anaconda strategy” fully vindicated.

37 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 27, 2015 12:49:14pm
38 Timothy Watson  Jun 27, 2015 12:49:42pm

re: #33 Lidane

As long as we’re on the subject of Confederate assholes:

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Pat Hines is a special case in the long tradition of inbred yokels who think they’d be the plantation owners in a New Confederacy. There’s at least one occasion where it legitimately looked like he was advocating for the murder of schoolchildren to further his goals:

cwcrossroads.wordpress.com

Fuck you Don Lemon for having a piece of shit like that on your show and not doing cursory research on the guy.

39 Unabogie  Jun 27, 2015 12:50:26pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

Sounds reasonable. What the fuck was CNN thinking giving this psycho a platform?

CNN stopped thinking altogether. They are no longer a news channel.

40 PhillyPretzel  Jun 27, 2015 12:50:59pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

Caption for pic: Darn. Now they found my favorite hiding place.

41 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:52:04pm

re: #36 Shiplord Kirel

Too bad Winfield Scott was too old and infirm to take personal command of the Union army. He did live to see the secessionists defeated and his “anaconda strategy” fully vindicated.

It is. I have much respect for Southern men like him who chose nation over state/region.

42 Dr Lizardo  Jun 27, 2015 12:52:33pm

re: #39 Unabogie

CNN stopped thinking altogether. They are no longer a news channel.

Maybe they can hook up with InfoWars and give Alex Jones a prime-time slot.

(Hmm…….I hope no one from CNN is checking out this site; I don’t wanna give them any ideas)

43 Decatur Deb  Jun 27, 2015 12:52:54pm

re: #31 HappyWarrior

Thanks, it really is. I’m a Virginian. That flag ain’t mine. It’s from a shameful part of our state’s history where our leaders chose slavery over country and were willing to destroy our nation for it. I don’t want to hear lectures from the scum who write the NRO about how this is like Muslims & Radical Islam. It’s cynical dishonest bullshit.

Wait until this (mostly) true story hits the big screen:

imdb.com

44 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:53:41pm

The link in the first tweet worked for me.

45 ObserverArt  Jun 27, 2015 12:54:10pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Unfortunately, the advertiser is probably not KitchenAid themselves, but some other agency that’s placing these annoying ads. This is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen advertisers do in a long time — they’re literally driving people away from websites that run these ads.

I’ve seen them now on several sites I visit. Even an F1 racing site I follow out of England.

Have you gotten a chance to see how they are coded to do what they do?

Also, in your text above you say: “neo-Confederates and white supremacists” were to be protesting at the SC State House later so the flag went back up. Did some groups actually self-identify as white supremacists??? If so, that is damn bold and in a way shoots down anyone making an argument that the flag doesn’t represent racism.

It is sort of a good thing if they did. This crap needs some more exposure now that the country is focused on it. Those excuses need to be cleared up for all to see.

46 Unabogie  Jun 27, 2015 12:54:16pm

I just saw that an old school friend of mine’s wife changed her Facebook profile picture to a confederate flag, and changed her “cover photo” to more flags. You know, in solidarity with people who want to keep flying the flag of treason, rape, murder, and human slavery.

And one of her posts proclaims that all of this is going too far and could turn someone who’s not racist into a racist.

So how does that work? Which part of demands to take down the flag of the confederacy leads you to somehow accept the philosophy of white supremacy which heretofore you rejected as evil?

47 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:55:39pm

re: #43 Decatur Deb

Wait until this (mostly) true story hits the big screen:

imdb.com

Looks good, I like McConnaughey a lot.

48 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 27, 2015 12:55:47pm
49 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 12:55:59pm

re: #44 wrenchwench

50 stpaulbear  Jun 27, 2015 12:56:13pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

What the fuck was CNN thinking giving this psycho a platform?

re: #38 Timothy Watson

Fuck you Don Lemon for having a piece of shit like that on your show and not doing cursory research on the guy.

Lemon’s name really seems to come up a lot when talking about stupid media. The stuff that comes out of his mouth can be amazingly thoughtless.

51 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:58:09pm

re: #50 stpaulbear

Lemon’s name really seems to come up a lot when talking about stupid media. The stuff that comes out of his mouth can be amazingly thoughtless.

Yeah I had heard and then saw him on the CNN Presidents Day trivia special they did and immediately saw why. He’s fuckin dumb.

52 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 12:58:41pm

re: #44 wrenchwench

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The link in the first tweet worked for me.

Lol oh CNN don’t ever change.

53 goddamnedfrank  Jun 27, 2015 12:58:57pm
54 Decatur Deb  Jun 27, 2015 1:01:56pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Looks good, I like McConnaughey a lot.

A good family friend is from Laurel, the ‘capitol’.

On October 13, 1863, a band of deserters from Jones County and adjacent counties organized to protect the area from Confederate authorities and the crippling tax collections.[6] The company, led by Newt Knight, fought fourteen skirmishes with Confederate forces. They also raided Paulding, capturing five wagonloads of corn that had been collected for tax from area farms, which they distributed back among the local population.[7] The company harassed Confederate officials, with reports of deaths among numerous tax collectors, conscript officers, and other officials in 1864.[4] The governor was then informed by the Jones County court clerk that deserters had made tax collections in the county impossible.[8] By the spring of 1864, the Confederate government in the county had been effectively overthrown.[4] The American flag was raised over the courthouse in Ellisville, and General William T. Sherman received a letter from a local group declaring its independence from the Confederacy.[4] In July 1864, the Natchez Courier reported that Jones County had seceded from the Confederacy.[9]

The legend of Newt Knight and his “company” soon became lore. His son Thomas J. Knight wrote an account of his father that painted a Robin Hood-like character, protecting poor white farmers from the abuses of tax agents.[10]

en.wikipedia.org

55 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:01:57pm

I’m kinda bummed.

In our neighbourhood there is a first nation woman who constantly yells at her kids. By yell, I mean complete with profanity and verbal abuse. She does it during the day and into the late evening, sometimes into the early morning. I can be in my house with the windows closed and even though she’s in her house we can hear her yelling.

This has been going on for months, ever since she moved in a year ago. This afternoon V and I were outside working on the patio when she started up again. In exasperation and in what I thought was under my breath I said “shut up!”

Well, she heard me and went into a yelling tirade against us claiming I was being racist, pushing my white privilege on her, being an aggressive male, I assume ‘white’ was part of it, and how I was disrespecting her race.

Funny thing, my wife was right beside me and told her she had no idea what she was talking about so she went off on my wife doing the same thing. My wife is obviously aboriginal and has gone through hell during her life just as bad in all likelihood as this woman.

It took several minutes just to get this woman to recognize that my wife is aboriginal and then she went into a tirade about how my wife doesn’t do anything for her people. How she came to that conclusion is beyond me without knowing my wife, but she did. My wife spent years volunteering in reading programs to teach aboriginal kids and adults to read.

I didn’t handle it right, I let my frustration get the best of me and while I did not act abusively at all after the initial ‘shut up’, I’m a bit annoyed at myself for not defusing the situation.

56 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 1:03:15pm

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

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57 DodgerFan1988  Jun 27, 2015 1:04:44pm

The irony is that this black woman will serve more time in jail than any of the police officers involved in recent controversial shootings of black males.

58 William Lewis  Jun 27, 2015 1:05:57pm

re: #55 b_sharp

You were never going to do anything “right” according to her. Just file a report of emotional child abuse with CPS and that’s the best you can do.

59 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:07:21pm

re: #58 William Lewis

You were never going to do anything “right” according to her. Just file a report of emotional child abuse with CPS and that’s the best you can do.

I may have to talk to Social Services.

60 William Lewis  Jun 27, 2015 1:08:21pm

re: #59 b_sharp

I may have to talk to Social Services.

You should. If there is a problem like that that anyone can see and hear, I can guarantee worse is going on that you don’t see or hear.

61 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 1:09:03pm

re: #55 b_sharp

{{{b_sharp}}} {{{people who have been through hell}}}

Don’t take the return trip with them.

62 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 27, 2015 1:12:56pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Looks good, I like McConnaughey a lot.

I had not heard of that project. Sounds great. The story of southern loyalists really needs to be told. Thanks for posting this.

63 dholmes32  Jun 27, 2015 1:15:12pm

I used up my last free click for June at the New York Times on a long article about how a 23 YO woman in rural Washington state was groomed by ISIS operatives online. It’s chilling and unsettling. And it doesn’t show any signs of ending well. Here’s the firsts few paragraphs. There is also a video.

Alex, a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted to Islam.

For months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the most attentive she had ever had — who were teaching her what it meant to be a Muslim. Increasingly, they were telling her about the Islamic State and how the group was building a homeland in Syria and Iraq where the holy could live according to God’s law.

One in particular, Faisal, had become her nearly constant companion, spending hours each day with her on Twitter, Skype and email, painstakingly guiding her through the fundamentals of the faith.

But when she excitedly told him that she had found a mosque just five miles from the home she shared with her grandparents in rural Washington State, he suddenly became cold.

The only Muslims she knew were those she had met online, and he encouraged her to keep it that way, arguing that Muslims are persecuted in the United States. She could be labeled a terrorist, he warned, and for now it was best for her to keep her conversion secret, even from her family.

So on his guidance, Alex began leading a double life. She kept teaching at her church, but her truck’s radio was no longer tuned to the Christian hits on K-LOVE. Instead, she hummed along with the ISIS anthems blasting out of her turquoise iPhone, and began daydreaming about what life with the militants might be like.

LOTS more at the link:
nytimes.com

64 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 1:16:07pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

Lucy Pawle: “I appeared to be the only person who spotted this.”

65 ObserverArt  Jun 27, 2015 1:16:52pm

re: #55 b_sharp

I’m kinda bummed.

In our neighbourhood there is a first nation woman who constantly yells at her kids. By yell, I mean complete with profanity and verbal abuse. She does it during the day and into the late evening, sometimes into the early morning. I can be in my house with the windows closed and even though she’s in her house we can hear her yelling.

This has been going on for months, ever since she moved in a year ago. This afternoon V and I were outside working on the patio when she started up again. In exasperation and in what I thought was under my breath I said “shut up!”

- - -CUT- - -

It’s a pain having a conscience isn’t it?

You know, even if you went and knocked on her door and tried to approach the whole thing in a nice way, it sounds like she is so out of control she still would have reacted the same way. Sometimes you can’t win.

Unreasonable is a word for a reason.

And as far as thinking you were not going to be heard, maybe in a way you really wanted it to go the way it did. So, it did. Sometimes we just grow tired of it all, and even feel for the kids getting abused…and it just came out.

You’re a good dude. She is a bad person.

66 Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2015 1:17:10pm
67 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:17:44pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

{{{b_sharp}}} {{{people who have been through hell}}}

Don’t take the return trip with them.

I’m like that. I do something stupid or ignorant and I feel like shit for a while. When I was younger I didn’t care.

68 dholmes32  Jun 27, 2015 1:17:59pm

Judge Richard Posner (sits on the 7th Circuit out of Chicago) has a few things to say about the Obergefell decision. He wishes Kennedy had spent more time on facts and less on citing case law. He savages Roberts and Alito. (I think he shows his contempt for Scalia and Thomas by not mentioning them at all.)

The United States is not a theocracy, and religious disapproval of harmless practices is not a proper basis for prohibiting such practices, especially if the practices are highly valued by their practitioners.

slate.com

Also very much worth a read. I used to not like Posner very much, but as I’ve grown older and matured, I’ve gotten more of an appreciation of his crisp legal prose.

69 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 1:18:47pm

re: #67 b_sharp

Your impulse to want to protect kids wasn’t stupid at all.

70 TimJ  Jun 27, 2015 1:19:22pm

Look at the bright sides: they treated her decently while arresting her and they didn’t shoot her. Progress!

71 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:19:36pm

re: #65 ObserverArt

It’s a pain having a conscience isn’t it?

You know, even if you went and knocked on her door and tried to approach the whole thing in a nice way, it sounds like she is so out of control she still would have reacted the same way. Sometimes you can’t win.

Unreasonable is a word for a reason.

And as far as thinking you were not going to be heard, maybe in a way you really wanted it to go the way it did. So, it did. Sometimes we just grow tired of it all, and even feel for the kids getting abused…and it just came out.

You’re a good dude. She is a bad person.

Thank you my friend.

72 Drive By Commenter  Jun 27, 2015 1:20:06pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

REPORTING!!!! BREAKING!!!!!! THIS JUST IN!!!!!!!! RUN WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not one “spotter” “proof reader” “person” saw that? ‘It’s black. And it looks ARABIC!!! And it’s scary no one is saying anything?!!??!!11!!

73 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:21:51pm

re: #70 TimJ

Look at the bright sides: they treated her decently while arresting her and they didn’t shoot her. Progress!

That was my first cynical comment to V - “At least the cops didn’t shoot her.”

74 allegro  Jun 27, 2015 1:22:27pm

re: #72 Drive By Commenter

REPORTING!!!! BREAKING!!!!!! THIS JUST IN!!!!!!!! RUN WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not one “spotter” “proof reader” “person” saw that? ‘It’s black. And it looks ARABIC!!! And it’s scary no one is saying anything?!!??!!11!!

No one even thought to ask why would ISIS even be at a gay pride parade much less fly their flag at one? Funny as hell though.

75 Teukka  Jun 27, 2015 1:22:38pm

re: #73 b_sharp

That was my first cynical comment to V - “At least the cops didn’t shoot her.”

Maybe it isn’t progress, only that the cops were afraid there was a camera?

76 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 1:22:57pm

re: #55 b_sharp

I would record the abuse and send it to the child services.

77 unproven innocence  Jun 27, 2015 1:24:35pm

re: #76 Nyet

I would record the abuse and send it to the child services.

That’s likely to be a violation of local law, depending on the state/locality.

78 Drive By Commenter  Jun 27, 2015 1:24:39pm

re: #74 allegro

Every symbol on that is a sex toy. It’s too good. and the camera keeps just to the side enough to not totally tip it off. Look at it. Oh I can see the keys typing now in meltdown mode over in Wingnutistan. SEEEEE?????? SEEEE??????? Funny. A real knee slapper.

79 Drive By Commenter  Jun 27, 2015 1:27:00pm

re: #74 allegro

Apparently the right selection of butt plugs, thumpers, dildos and other assorted sex toys can look Arabic when they are on a black flag. What a pack of marrrooonnnsssssss.

80 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 1:27:06pm

re: #77 unproven innocence

That’s likely to be a violation of local law, depending on the state/locality.

The abuse or the recording?

81 jaunte  Jun 27, 2015 1:28:34pm

The Civil War, the Trail of Tears, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam? A stroll in the park compared to expanding health care access to the poor, and gay marriage.

82 unproven innocence  Jun 27, 2015 1:30:48pm

re: #80 Nyet

Recording without permission. An outdoor security camera (with audio) might be one way to circumvent, however. (No, I was not intentionally recording my neighbor.)

83 Drive By Commenter  Jun 27, 2015 1:31:04pm

re: #81 jaunte

Speaking of dildos…It’s the oil powered Ted Cruz model 2015 Humper Thumper.

84 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 27, 2015 1:31:35pm

I love this so much!
Gawker decides to take their version of the high road in its reaction to the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling. | The Daily Caller

“Gawker always takes the high road. Yeah, no, not really.

The news organization can’t just celebrate a SCOTUS ruling that it actually supports — instead, those who run the site must gloat and curse and lash out at anyone with beliefs they assume oppose theirs.

Seeing as CNN’s conservative commentator S.E. Cupp was moved to tears over the decision, one might imagine there are more than a few people over at FNC who back the ruling.”

i don’t know what happened to the original tweet (probably taken down), but you can see it at the DC.

85 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 27, 2015 1:33:13pm

re: #82 unproven innocence

Recording without permission. An outdoor security camera (with audio) might be one way to circumvent, however. (No, I was not intentionally recording my neighbor.)

At least in Illinois, it’s against the law to audio record someone without both parties’ permission, but video recording sans audio is ok (weird, I know).

86 Timothy Watson  Jun 27, 2015 1:33:19pm

Scott Walker sent out an e-mail today with the subject “Should I run?”, my response was “No.” but the e-mail bounced back. :(

87 Timothy Watson  Jun 27, 2015 1:34:03pm

re: #84 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

I love this so much!
Gawker decides to take their version of the high road in its reaction to the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling. | The Daily Caller

i don’t know what happened to the original tweet (probably taken down), but you can see it at the DC.

Poor S.E. Cupp, did she go out of character? Wingnuts might have to purge her for that.

88 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 1:34:55pm

re: #81 jaunte

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The Civil War, the Trail of Tears, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam? A stroll in the park compared to expanding health care access to the poor, and gay marriage.

Hyperbolic back should shut the fuck up.

89 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 1:36:38pm

The media just has no common sense. Yes, an ISIS flag would be at a gay pride rally. Makes total sense.

90 Romantic Heretic  Jun 27, 2015 1:37:05pm

re: #55 b_sharp

From the sounds of it she is an anger addict. I’m not sure you can do anything to defuse such situation.

She needs the conflict to provide her fix.

91 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 27, 2015 1:37:14pm

re: #81 jaunte

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The Civil War, the Trail of Tears, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam? A stroll in the park compared to expanding health care access to the poor, and gay marriage.

Because America’s darkest hours come not from denying rights to others by force, but rather by acknowledging and expanding the rights of others.

What a small, shrivelled, hard, worthless thing is Ted Cruz’s heart.

92 HappyWarrior  Jun 27, 2015 1:38:04pm

re: #91 Blind Frog Belly White

Because America’s darkest hours come not from denying rights to others by force, but rather by acknowledging and expanding the rights of others.

What a small, shrivelled, hard, worthless thing is Ted Cruz’s heart.

That’s how Cruz and many conservatives see it. Pitiful ain’t it?

93 b_sharp  Jun 27, 2015 1:38:26pm

re: #77 unproven innocence

That’s likely to be a violation of local law, depending on the state/locality.

I’m in Canada. I don’t think that’s a problem.

94 wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2015 1:39:35pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

The media just has no common sense. Yes, an ISIS flag would be at a gay pride rally. Makes total sense.

But gay people are scary! It DOES make sense!

/

95 Tigger2  Jun 27, 2015 1:40:04pm

re: #7 jaunte

Beitbartians fulminating…

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- Outside agitator!
- Jail ‘em and throw away the key!
- The Democrats are the real racists!

While we’re at it let throw all White Supremacist in prison too.

96 Nyet  Jun 27, 2015 1:44:14pm

re: #82 unproven innocence

No idea how it is in Canada, but a reasonable law will make an exception in a case like this.

97 Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 27, 2015 1:44:32pm

Kudos to Bree Newsome!

That is Civil Disobedience in the grandest tradition - openly defy unjust law, hurt nobody, force the authorities to arrest you in public, and unapologetically risk the consequences.

Hear, hear!!

98 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 27, 2015 1:46:18pm

re: #81 jaunte

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The Civil War, the Trail of Tears, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam? A stroll in the park compared to expanding health care access to the poor, and gay marriage.

The great depression/dustbowl, the 1918 flu epidemic, World War II overall, the 2008 economic meltdown … Hell, even the oil embargo was worse.

99 goddamnedfrank  Jun 27, 2015 1:46:49pm

re: #82 unproven innocence

Recording without permission. An outdoor security camera (with audio) might be one way to circumvent, however. (No, I was not intentionally recording my neighbor.)

If somebody’s yelling so loud that you can hear them inside your locked house or even on a public street, they’ve surrendered any reasonable expectation of privacy.

100 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 27, 2015 1:46:52pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

Kudos to Bree Newsome!

That is Civil Disobedience in the grandest tradition - openly defy unjust law, hurt nobody, force the authorities to arrest you in public, and unapologetically risk the consequences.

Hear, hear!!

It’s interesting. I wonder if Shawn King is going to pay her court expenses after the tweet he made yesterday?

101 #FergusonFireside  Jun 27, 2015 2:50:26pm

re: #100 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

It’s interesting. I wonder if Shawn King is going to pay her court expenses after the tweet he made yesterday?

Ya’ll have moved on, but FYI Michael Moore is paying for everything.

102 thecommodore  Jun 27, 2015 3:21:00pm

ANOTHER SOROS OPERATIVE TRYING TO START A RACE WAR!!1!1!!


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