Every once in a while Saturday Night Live still manages to hit the comedy bullseye.
Americans (Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan, Aidy Bryant, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney) offer insight into why they’ll be voting for Donald Trump.
not available in my country. gotta fire up VPS
Picking-up with the tiny fingers discussion from below….
re: #2 Dr. Matt
The developing subculture of making dismissive side comments about Donald Trump’s microscopic, sausage-like stubfingers in completely unrelated articles is probably my favorite part about this election cycle.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Boss, can you put a D’Souza warning on stuff like that? I can’t even imagine the kinds of garbage Youtube is going to try to shovel at me now that I clicked on that.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
D comes out swinging: he is a political victim!
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Wow. Just wow. You’re not gonna believe this one.
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Don’t get all clickbaity with Dinesh Disouza bullshit.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Every single D’Souza posting should come equipped with a warning:
Self-admitted convicted felon, Dinesh D’Souza.
Any way to auto tag that? /
New anti-Trump ad features highlight reel of his profanity | WATCH: https://t.co/fp5FPVhBL6 pic.twitter.com/qwNnD1a85N
— The Hill (@thehill) March 7, 2016
re: #3 Charles Johnson
I would. D’Souza is D’ouchebag
re: #11 Lidane
Oh my god the elites just soooooooo don’t get it.
THE RUBES LOVE THIS
THEY FEED ON IT
re: #3 Charles Johnson
With all those images of “Democratic” KKK and slaveholders is D’Souza secretly trying to make Republicans vote Dem again?
re: #8 HappyWarrior
Gah he’s not even original.
Why be original when you can repackage the same bullshit and sell it over and over?
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
Why be original when you can repackage the same bullshit and sell it over and over?
True.
re: #13 Testy Toad T
Precisely. Things that would mortally wound candidates in a sane world actually BOOST Trump.
In May 2014, D’Souza pleaded guilty to one felony count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. D’Souza told Judge Berman, “I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids. I deeply regret my conduct.”
Hillary is so powerful she made Dinesh say he was wrong in court.
I’m sure every party establishment has always been out of touch with its voting base, but how is the 2016 Republican leadership this staggeringly tone-deaf?
How do they so fundamentally fail to understand how Trump is Trumping? Don’t they pay people to analyze shit like this?
Judge Berman played a clip from one of Mr. D’Souza’s interviews, with Newsmax TV, during the sentencing hearing Tuesday. While the judge said that Mr. D’Souza had an “absolute right” to express his opinions, he described his claims of political persecution as “nonsense,” and scolded the defendant, saying that he continued to “deflect and minimize” the seriousness of his crime.“I’m not sure, Mr. D’Souza, that you get it,” the judge said during the sentencing hearing, which lasted more than two hours.
nytimes.com
Dinesh D’Souza Presents:
DEMOCRATS ARE THE REAL RACISTS: THE MOVIE
re: #11 Lidane
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Don’t mind me, I’m just roasting marshmallows over this here dumpster fire…
re: #2 Dr. Matt
I am taking a bit too much joy in John Oliver constantly making jokes about Drumpf’s tiny hamster fists.
re: #18 jaunte
Hillary is so powerful she made Dinesh say he was wrong in court.
It’s obvious that she had threatened his family. That’s the Clinton way
RBS
The thing that really strikes me about that D’Souza video: there’s some major money in this. That production is top flight; this cost a LOT to make.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
The thing that really strikes me about that D’Souza video: there’s some major money in this. That production is top flight; this cost a LOT to make.
Koch brothers.
Ted Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from at least four U.S. Senators this week https://t.co/o7y7Fh9McT
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) March 7, 2016
Four Senators?
War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.
White House avoiding reaction to comment by Mexican President Peña Nieto that Trump is damaging U.S.-Mexican relations
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) March 7, 2016
Mexican president says won’t pay for Trump wall, makes Hitler warning
Mexico’s president has said his country will not pay for White House hopeful Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and likened his “strident tone” to the ascent of dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s comments, published in Monday’s Excelsior newspaper, were among the most critical public comments yet by a foreign leader of the New York billionaire.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
The Uwe Boll school of movie production? Attract backers by offering them a tax write off?
re: #29 Kragar
The Uwe Boll school of movie production? Attract backers by offering them a tax write off?
Hopefully D’Ouchebag continues down the Uwe Boll path and challenges his critics to a boxing match.
The GOP started with “Government always fails. Elect us and we’ll show you how.”
Now they’re doing the same with political parties.
re: #26 b_sharp
Koch brothers.
They have no not only start impeachment proceedings against Hillary the second she gets the nomination, they have to try to tarnish the entire Democratic party.
Molen seems to me a huge wingnut producer. Also producer of some pretty good films. Sad!
re: #25 Charles Johnson
The thing that really strikes me about that D’Souza video: there’s some major money in this. That production is top flight; this cost a LOT to make.
Which is exactly why I was openly wondering in the last thread about where he gets the fucking money to do this from. I’m sure having a well connected producer pal like Gerald Molen doesn’t hurt, but still.
Kim Kardashian tweeted a nude selfie today. If Kim wants us to see a part of her we’ve never seen,
she’s gonna have to swallow the camera.— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) March 7, 2016
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
That seems kind of icky.
VA is a tire fire and it’s always been a tire fire, and to try to pin real suffering on anybody who failed to improve it may be fair but it lacks nuance. The next person to figure out how to make the VA work right will be the first.
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t like such agitprop without analysis. If it’s true, there will be no problem finding sources (e.g. the poster about his role in the radioactive waste dumping in a poor Latino area turned out to be largely true).
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Salon’s headline on this trailer:
Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America” trailer proves there are still filmmakers who think Leni Riefenstahl was too subtle
Tootsie (1982) (unit production manager)
A Soldier’s Story (1983) (unit production manager)
The Color Purple (1985) (unit production manager)
*batteries not included (1987) (associate producer)
Rain Man (1988) (co-producer)
Days of Thunder (1990) (executive producer)
Hook (1991) (producer)
Jurassic Park (1993) (producer)
Schindler’s List (1993) (producer)
The Flintstones (1994) (executive producer)
Casper (1995) (executive producer)
The Trigger Effect (1996) (executive producer)
Twister (1996) (executive producer)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (producer)
The Other Side of Heaven (2001) (producer)
Minority Report (2002) (producer)
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003) (producer)
Beyond the Blackboard (2011) (executive producer)
2016: Obama’s America (2012) (producer)
America (2014) (producer)
The Abolitionists (2015) (producer)
Mark Twain’s cats Blatherskate, Sourmash, Zoroaster & Appolinaris at Quarry Farm in Elmira, NY #MewseumMonday pic.twitter.com/t0xw6FRoCq
— Mark the Mammoth (@MarktheMammoth) March 7, 2016
re: #37 Testy Toad T
The VA has been fighting an uphill fight for decades to get an appropriate level of funding. Between insufficient investment in facilities for years (like those depicted in Born on the Fourth of July during the Vietnam era) to being caught in sequestration despite an increased demand on services due to retiring service members, an aging veteran population, and a whole new group of veterans with specific care needs - such as survivors from IEDs that a generation earlier would have been fatalities - and you’ve got a stressed agency that barely manages to do the job Congress requires.
40k geeks will get it. #40k #warhammer pic.twitter.com/kDie3peJgO
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 7, 2016
Herpty derp incoming tomorrow when this happens:
Investigation into LaVoy Finicum death concludes, results to be released Tuesday https://t.co/4UxvkPFDsP (by @LesZaitz) #Oregonstandoff
— Everton Bailey Jr. (@EvertonBailey) March 7, 2016
UPDATE: As of 10:15 a.m. there are about 8,000 customers without power in our service territory to due to storm conditions. #ElNino #CAWX
— SCE (@SCE) March 7, 2016
re: #44 Lidane
Herpty derp incoming tomorrow when this happens:
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The Internet Experts club have already carefully analyzed the pixels and have determined that since he was white, it was an unjustified murder of an peaceful unarmed man. /need_I_say_more?
RBS
Meanwhile, the Rage Furby is proving he’s no white supremacist today by posting links to white supremacist garbage sites on his Facebook page.
re: #19 Testy Toad T
I’m sure every party establishment has always been out of touch with its voting base, but how is the 2016 Republican leadership this staggeringly tone-deaf?
How do they so fundamentally fail to understand how Trump is Trumping? Don’t they pay people to analyze shit like this?
It’s not one particular thing. Part of it is that the establishment has never really believed the bullshit they were selling, but the base did, which is why they sent a bunch of Tea Party nutters who were totally fine with shutting down the government over raising the debt ceiling. Part of it is that candidates like Trump have never really done well in presidential primaries, so they figured he’d be another Buchanan or maybe a Steve Forbes type, but not the frontrunner. And a big part of it is that they knew what Trump was doing, but they figured they could still control the beast. But as the old saying goes, it was little more than hoping the alligator eats you last.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Related:
These clowns have not yet seen my film but they proclaim it “laughable”—I have the feeling I’ll have the last laugh https://t.co/NNBDJkwOmx
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) March 7, 2016
re: #49 Lidane
Is it true the working title was “DEMOCRATS ARE THE REAL RACISTS: THE MOVIE”? @DineshDSouza
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 7, 2016
Sometimes you don’t need to see a film to know how ridiculous it’s going to be. The trailer is enough. https://t.co/Cz8S8NuasK @DineshDSouza
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 7, 2016
re: #25 Charles Johnson
The thing that really strikes me about that D’Souza video: there’s some major money in this. That production is top flight; this cost a LOT to make.
I don’t see it. I’ve seen Star Trek fan fic that has better production.
re: #37 Testy Toad T
That seems kind of icky.
VA is a tire fire and it’s always been a tire fire, and to try to pin real suffering on anybody who failed to improve it may be fair but it lacks nuance. The next person to figure out how to make the VA work right will be the first.
I have an idea. Give the veterans health insurance and let them go to doctors and hospitals they choose, just like Medicare.
DEMOCRATS IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!!1!!! debunked here at LGF 3 years ago==>
The Civil Rights Act, and the GOP “Southern Strategy” Part I: The Actual History
The Civil Rights Act, MLK, and the GOP “Southern Strategy” Part II: The Denial
Martin Luther King Jr. Was NOT A Republican #tcot #UniteBlue #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/QzAsH0po09 pic.twitter.com/s0nFlROtN7
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 7, 2016
re: #42 lawhawk
The VA has been fighting an uphill fight for decades to get an appropriate level of funding. Between insufficient investment in facilities for years (like those depicted in Born on the Fourth of July during the Vietnam era) to being caught in sequestration despite an increased demand on services due to retiring service members, an aging veteran population, and a whole new group of veterans with specific care needs - such as survivors from IEDs that a generation earlier would have been fatalities - and you’ve got a stressed agency that barely manages to do the job Congress requires.
Nice how the GOP starves the VA of resources, then blames the Administration for problems at the VA. That’s a win/win for the GOP./
GOP now banking on early votes going for candidates other than Trump.
Polls in Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas overstated Trump’s lead by double digits https://t.co/FbsTk5Kby7
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) March 7, 2016
re: #42 lawhawk
The VA has been fighting an uphill fight for decades to get an appropriate level of funding. Between insufficient investment in facilities for years (like those depicted in Born on the Fourth of July during the Vietnam era) to being caught in sequestration despite an increased demand on services due to retiring service members, an aging veteran population, and a whole new group of veterans with specific care needs - such as survivors from IEDs that a generation earlier would have been fatalities - and you’ve got a stressed agency that barely manages to do the job Congress requires.
That bolded part reminded me of this article I read over the weekend. It’s rather infuriating, really:
The federal government has tried for decades to get a handle on its hundreds of thousands of office buildings, storage warehouses, courthouses, hospitals, parking garages and other structures. In California, the federal government owned more than 271 million square feet of property in fiscal 2014, according to the General Services Administration. How much of that property is not being used is not clear.
(snip)
Despite those efforts, the Government Accountability Office reported in June that the government continues to hold more property than it needs, leases when it would be cheaper to own and uses unreliable data to make property management decisions.
If part of the problem is we’re spending money on leases (leases which, by the way, likely drive up lease costs for private businesses through artificial demand, costs that get passed on to consumers) that could be used for actual services, then it needs to be seriously fixed.
re: #55 The Vicious Babushka
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I remember when Jesse Helms was insisting he was a communist.
re: #53 Big Beautiful Door
I have an idea. Give the veterans health insurance and let them go to doctors and hospitals they choose, just like Medicare.
Because the civilian world is just full of specialists and researchers for TBI, PTSD, amputation rehab, and a dozen other medical issues that happen way more often to vets than anybody else.
/
re: #60 Big Beautiful Door
I remember when Jesse Helms was insisting he was a communist.
10 years ago on FreeRepublic, they claimed MLK was a plagiarist, an adulterer and a Communist.
re: #59 KGxvi
I might be wrong but I recall a story awhile back where the government owned an entire office complex and only had like 15 people working in the whole place. I wish I could remember what the source was.
OT: Why the heck can’t you do a case sensitive search on a page in Chrome?
re: #55 The Vicious Babushka
Dr King didn’t have nice words for either party in his day:
Actually, the Negro has been betrayed by both the Republican and the Democratic party. The Democrats have betrayed him by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the Southern Dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed him by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of reactionary right wing northern Republicans. And this coalition of southern Dixiecrats and right wing reactionary northern Republicans defeats every bill and every move towards liberal legislation in the area of civil rights.
But of course, the big trick conservatives like to play today is the simple switch of ideology and party. We’ve been conditioned for decades that the Republicans are conservatives and the Democrats are liberals, that those words can be used interchangeably (even though they are two different things). That’s where they get the whole “the Klan were Democrats” thing - technically true, but objectively nonsense.
re: #62 The Vicious Babushka
10 years ago on FreeRepublic, they claimed MLK was a plagiarist, an adulterer and a Communist.
The first two claims are even true, though it doesn’t diminish him.
Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America” trailer proves there are filmmakers who think Leni Riefenstahl was too subtle https://t.co/uGGqopG1cX
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 7, 2016
re: #59 KGxvi
I’ve seen that too - for instance, every time the USPS considers closing/consolidating post office locations due to reduced demand, low performing metric (sales, volume, etc.) the local politicians act to keep those locations open, so that the post office has to continue paying on those locations, instead of selling them to reduce their overhead.
Same with other agencies. Heck, we see it with the BRAC closures - Congress refused to do the job directly because everyone recognized that it was a set up for failure, so they created a system to close unnecessary and extraneous military bases.
Perhaps we need the same to be done with other government agency properties. It would allow for adaptive reuse, and free up billions in revenues for critical needs.
re: #65 KGxvi
Dr King didn’t have nice words for either party in his day:
But of course, the big trick conservatives like to play today is the simple switch of ideology and party. We’ve been conditioned for decades that the Republicans are conservatives and the Democrats are liberals, that those words can be used interchangeably (even though they are two different things). That’s where they get the whole “the Klan were Democrats” thing - technically true, but objectively nonsense.
Miss Viva 0. Sloan
379 Baldwin Street
Morgantown, West VirginiaDear Miss Sloan:
Thanks for your very kind letter of September 17, making inquiry concerning the way the Negro will vote in the coming election. I am of the impression that the Negro voter will go largely for the Democratic Party. I haven’t fully decided which candidate I will vote for. In the past I have always voted the Democratic ticket. At this point I am still in a state of indecision. Stevenson seems to be more forthright on the race question than Eisenhower, but the Democratic Party is so inexplicably bound to the South that it does leave doubt in the minds of those interested in civil rights. Let us all hope that the candidate most concerned with the welfare for all people of America will win the election.
Sincerely yours,
M. L. King, Jr.,
re: #68 lawhawk
It might not be a bad idea. It’ll definitely hurt some property owners who see government offices move back to government property rather than lease from them. But I think that’s a trade off worth making if it can get us a better functioning government. And if it also means some of the property can be sold and redeveloped, then all the better (just depends on what that property was before).
re: #2 Dr. Matt
Picking-up with the tiny fingers discussion from below….
Our band director held his hands like that when conducting. We called it the “flying assholes”.
re: #49 Lidane
Related:
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@DineshDSouza It’s just a lot of rightwing garbage. and the whole film is laughable.
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