Nothing says ‘sexual intercourse is a sacred marital privilege’ like Donald J. Trump.
Jared Kushner’s family business was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors for information concerning the dozens of false documents it has filed.https://t.co/gy2XWSC03W
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 21, 2018
— Köksal Akın (@Koksalakn) April 15, 2018
TODAY’S PRESIDENTS’ SCHEDULES:
Barack Obama: Barbara Bush’s Funeral.
George W. Bush: Barbara Bush’s Funeral.
Bill Clinton: Barbara Bush’s Funeral.
George H. W. Bush: Barbara Bush’s Funeral.
Donald Trump: Tweeting Paranoid Libel, Arby’s, and Then Some Golf.— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 21, 2018
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is cool and cute too.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
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From what I understand, the sitting POTUS doesn’t attend a First Lady’s funeral but he could you know actually try to act dignified for once.
re: #7 HappyWarrior
From what I understand, the sitting POTUS doesn’t attend a First Lady’s funeral but he could you know actually try to act dignified for once.
He could try, but he’d fail spectacularly.
re: #7 HappyWarrior
Yes he could but all of us know he will continue to be himself.
i’ve reported like 50 accounts in the past day and twitter has rejected all but one but this is definitely the wildest pic.twitter.com/NV8EH3wIxm
— Joanna Rothkopf (@joannarothkopf) April 21, 2018
splcenter.org
Behold, the infighting within the alt right racist assholes.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
I think WaPo had a similar article. I read it this morning when I was on the train.
Repost from downstairs:
It genuinely disturbs me to think I’m from a country where a vast majority of men think so lowly of women.
— Zahra Haider (@zarahaider) April 21, 2018
Just to disturb you even further. Sorry. I’m saddened and disappointed at the misogyny, lack of empathy and plain stupidity in this country. #Metoo #MeeshaShafi pic.twitter.com/svhGiOAlnL
— Khurram Qureshi (@stringerclifton) April 21, 2018
re: #13 PhillyPretzel
I think WaPo had a similar article. I read it this morning when I was on the train.
Yeah, there’s some class differences within the movement. Apparently Spencer’s seen as a classist asshole and little rich boy. I mean that’s the least of his problems really.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
splcenter.org
Behold, the infighting within the alt right racist assholes.
Whoever wins, we lose.
Dodged those bullets.
losangeles.cbslocal.com
Irvine Man Charged With Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes After Being Turned In By Family Member
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
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splcenter.org
Behold, the infighting within the alt right racist assholes.Whoever wins, we lose.
But OTOH, whoever loses, we win!
re: #19 Jay C
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But OTOH, whoever loses, we win!
I just wish they’d go the fuck away. Fucking miserable buggers.
The WaPo article was called, “Is the alt-right imploding?”
re: #21 PhillyPretzel
The WaPo article was called, Is the alt-right imploding?
I think I read that one too.
I felt I had to hide someones reply to this
Open at you’re own risk
Trump rages he’s not abusive. As I reported in 2016, he sued his now-former best friend on bogus claim to cost the man legal fees. Then he told the man he sued because he thought the man should have publicly proclaimed falsely that Trump was responsible for the mans success.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 21, 2018
— R.K. Hayes (@RK_Hayes) April 21, 2018
re: #24 KGxvi
Trump and Company never make any sense.
When your drawing comes to life 🤣
📹: shiba_mugen pic.twitter.com/dmh8hdY1Lb— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) April 21, 2018
Barack leaning over: “psst, its true…..” pic.twitter.com/r3mr712YMK
— NeverEverTrump (@orangedouche) April 21, 2018
Michael Cohen famously said ‘I’d take a bullet for Donald Trump.’ Well, now that he’s looking at prison time, we’ll see if he’s willing to take a dick. pic.twitter.com/kx9iyiygyY
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 21, 2018
My Uncle died of an HIV infection that he acquired in prison. Prison rape isn’t funny. It’s a malignant epidemic that reflects horribly on our society and the institutional horrors we’re all too happy to condone.
Bill, you’re a goddamned hack, only monsters joke about this shit. https://t.co/6SWLahrjh1— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 21, 2018
Cat liquid pic.twitter.com/UXrZ4nTFM9
— Gaml .y (@m_yosry2012) April 21, 2018
re: #29 goddamnedfrank
We may have stopped it here, but it’s out there, and there are people scared of the story.
Oh, the Nazis are marching again, this time in #Newnan GA https://t.co/S1wOB4AJYs
— 🙅🏽♂️A’KaDimiX 🙅🏽♂️ (@AkaDimiX) April 21, 2018
This is #Newnan sheriff’s SWAT doing highly aggressive crowd control over masks worn by ANTIFA kiddies!?!? What country are we in?! pic.twitter.com/e817JWFBU1
— Derek Gannon (@derekgannoncm6) April 21, 2018
I just witness the most over-aggressive policing I’ve ever seen in #Newnan. Tackling protesters and arresting them… for wearing masks. pic.twitter.com/Mf1e5cfKH2
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
Follow our reporter @letsgomathias who is on the ground in #Newnan, Georgia — where a neo-Nazi rally is set to take place. 👇 https://t.co/MdJbpRTIwH
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) April 21, 2018
A cop points a gun at a protester #Newnan pic.twitter.com/wsQuy6LqVx
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
Fair enough! But with this president, one has to suspect the reason why he didn’t go is: 1) he knew he was despised by many of these people, who he’s relentlessly insulted; 2) he couldn’t be the center of attention; and 3) he’d rather play golf.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2018
re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This country is losing its fucking mind.
This is an actual product available on Amazon, believe it or not: pic.twitter.com/tKVrnBOV2L
— Steve Heller (@sbheller) April 13, 2018
going to make some of this today:
Baked Avocado Fries
WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE A WOMAN pic.twitter.com/fYVLvRD6bB
— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) April 21, 2018
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
The 1960s would like a word with you.
good grief
Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial. Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) April 21, 2018
We’re entering the era where whites are going to lose their privileged status. And some of us whtes are going to fight tooth and nail against it. And, because whites have been in power for so long, they have control of the very institutions that need to be changed. But change will come.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
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I’m familiar with the story. Johnson should get a posthumous pardon but uh shouldn’t be busy with other things?
re: #44 HappyWarrior
I’m familiar with the story. Johnson should get a posthumous pardon but uh shouldn’t be busy with other things?
It’s an uber-pandering deflection/distraction.
And, of course, it’s all about the yam, not Johnson.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
going to make some of this today:
Baked Avocado Fries
How will you afford your retirement?
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
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While you’re at it, Trump, can you pardon all those meaningless drug convictions.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
I’m familiar with the story. Johnson should get a posthumous pardon but uh shouldn’t be busy with other things?
Posthumous pardons are feel good fuckshit. They don’t actually right any wrong and are only designed to absolve society of deserved guilt. In this case it’s even worse because the pardon is a passive aggressive whitewash of continuing institutional racism and racist police brutality.
The Humpback Anglerfish is an angry-looking species that live in deep sea. With the big mouth and the flexible body, the Anglerfish swallows prey which is twice to its size pic.twitter.com/fiTKrxQgvo
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) April 21, 2018
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
Posthumous pardons are feel good fuckshit. They don’t actually right any wrong and are only designed to absolve society of deserved guilt. In this case it’s even worse because the pardon is a passive aggressive whitewash of continuing institutional racism and racist police brutality.
Absolutely.
and…he is rattled and rambling incoherently:
So funny, the Democrats have sued the Republicans for Winning. Now he R’s counter and force them to turn over a treasure trove of material, including Servers and Emails!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
re: #48 Belafon
While you’re at it, Trump, can you pardon all those meaningless drug convictions.
That’s what he should be doing.
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
and…he is rattled and rambling incoherently:
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Your pal Putin was sued too Dumbass. And you don’t get to complain when you claimed there was voter fraud with no proof.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
Translation: We’re the ones who are going to accrue the rewards and power when the race war starts! Not you!
Video of arrests in #Newnan with one officer pointing his rifle at protesters and press pic.twitter.com/72ODQjEx99
— Daniel Shular (@xshularx) April 21, 2018
A bunch of literal Nazis gathering to celebrate Hitler’s birthday down the road and Officer Tactleneck Terry here points his AR at journalists. https://t.co/eHSzfFSZFa
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) April 21, 2018
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Sad. My mom was born and raised a few miles south of Newnan and some of my cousins from smaller towns went to Newnan for high school.
The #ForestHighSchool shooter said he bought the gun without a background check in a private sale arranged thru an online service after the #Parkland shooting so he could get it before he turned 21.
Reporter: Should you have had a gun?
Shooter: No sir.https://t.co/FLAH6dfOgD pic.twitter.com/pCXauBQFgO— Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) April 21, 2018
It looks like a military occupation in #Newnan pic.twitter.com/yYXcp1GZp5
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
Surplus tanks in the streets of suburbia. The Iraq War has come home to roost. https://t.co/jKbvD6YNHX
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) April 21, 2018
re: #12 HappyWarrior
splcenter.org
Behold, the infighting within the alt right racist assholes.
The comments are … interesting.
#عاجل
من مصدر في الديوان : تم التاكيد على نقل الملك الى القاعدة الجوية لحمايته pic.twitter.com/lDLDuPeEl6— غانم الدوسري (@GhanemAlmasarir) April 21, 2018
Unconfirmed reports of gunfire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/Xs7DkqasFz
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 21, 2018
BREAKING: Reports that King Salman has been evacuated to King Khaled air base as gunfire and explosions continue near the Royal Palace and Khuzama district. pic.twitter.com/rQzvX8jjoy
— Haidar Sumeri (@IraqiSecurity) April 21, 2018
No coup attempt in Riyadh. A toy drone/plane got too close too the King’s palace and was shot down. #SaudiArabia #Riyadh
— Margherita Stancati (@margheritamvs) April 21, 2018
re: #62 Big Beautiful Door
The comments are … interesting.
It looks like the Stormfront crowd are squatting in the comment section of SPL.
Odd comments.
re: #63 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Coup d’etat attempt? Terrorist incident?
James Comey’s Memos are Classified, I did not Declassify them. They belong to our Government! Therefore, he broke the law! Additionally, he totally made up many of the things he said I said, and he is already a proven liar and leaker. Where are Memos on Clinton, Lynch & others?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
President Racist Grandpa is really worked up today, you can tell by the increasingly random capitalization. https://t.co/YNMzxczaCY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2018
re: #69 Charles Johnson
Apparently he believes that any declassification needs to be approved by HIM, because HE is the government.
Guessing nobody told him that’s not how it works.
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
And if someone told him it would not matter.
film history trivia:
Of the more than 100 actors in the magnificent film, CASABLANCA, only one (Bogart) was born in the USA. Let today’s opponents of immigration chew on that for a while.https://t.co/jtgYx3j5Nz
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 21, 2018
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
film history trivia:
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Not to nitpick but this is actually wrong. The guy who played Sam was American but definitely a good point because between Bergman, Heinreid, Lorre, & others, lot of immigrants in that cast.
Fucking Fox News, really?
re: #74 electrotek
Fucking Fox News, really?
Gotta pander to the Christians are the real victims crowd even though the majority of the country remains Christian. Sigh. I don’t want to hear right wingers accuse the left of playing the victim when they do shit like that.
re: #75 HappyWarrior
Gotta pander to the Christians are the real victims crowd even though the majority of the country remains Christian. Sigh. I don’t want to hear right wingers accuse the left of playing the victim when they do shit like that.
So tired of them pretending they care about Middle Eastern Christians and Christians from other Muslim countries.
re: #76 electrotek
So tired of them pretending they care about Middle Eastern Christians and Christians from other Muslim countries.
They don’t. They only care about white conservative Christians.
Can’t forget that the Christian Right in this country were staunch defenders of Apartheid.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
The layman’s version of the IgNobel prize asking that very question: “Are cats are liquid?”
A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container. Yet under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition.
This somewhat paradoxical observation emerged on the web a few years ago and joined the long list of internet memes involving our feline friends. When I first saw this question it made me laugh, and then think. I decided to reformulate it to illustrate some problems at the heart of rheology, the study of the deformations and flows of matter. My study on the rheology of cats won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.
jeebus…he is totally unleashed today:
The Washington Post said I refer to Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rod Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers.” This is “according to people with whom the president has spoken.” There are no such people and don’t know these characters…just more Fake & Disgusting News to create ill will!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus…he is totally unleashed today:
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Maybe if you didn’t have a habit of giving people you work with stupid nicknames, we might believe you but you have no credibility at all.
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/79nAyeOh1s
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) April 21, 2018
Did Trump just say that lies are classified? That…ummm…makes no sense. https://t.co/cXrHqpesFa
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 21, 2018
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fucking pathetic mad man just needs to resign retroactively to January 20th, 2017 and everyone he appointed needs to resign immediately. I know it won’t happen but a man can dream.
The master race is having some technical difficulties #Newnan pic.twitter.com/nxMtUKU2JV
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
Verne Troyer Dead at 49 https://t.co/tIfBwHSfnW
— TMZ (@TMZ) April 21, 2018
(Note that I long ago blocked trump Twitter so this is not just unreasonable speculation, but at second and third hand.)
Are we sure Trump isn’t hitting the sauce this afternoon?
re: #89 NetworkKed
(Note that I long ago blocked trump Twitter so this is not just unreasonable speculation, but at second and third hand.)
Are we sure Trump isn’t hitting the sauce this afternoon?
The sauce, probably not; everyone seems to agree his avoidance of alcohol is genuine. But feel-good prescription drugs? In combination or excess?
re: #88 HappyWarrior
Aww. RIP Mini-Me.
Mini-Me: (writing) Are you sure you don’t have a little clone in you?
Foxxy Cleopatra: Yes, I’m sure.
Mini-Me: (writing) Would you like to?
Troyer’s silent mugging after that bit made it funny to me.
re: #87 electrotek
Looks like he killed himself with booze. We freak out over opiates, which are dangerous and addictive, but so is alcohol. Several people in my life have damaged themselves with drug abuse. In every case, that drug was alcohol.
re: #91 TedStriker
Mini-Me: (writing) Are you sure you don’t have a little clone in you?
Foxxy Cleopatra: Yes, I’m sure.
Mini-Me: (writing) Would you like to?
I really enjoyed that series. So much fun.
The Washington Post said I refer to Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rod Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers.” This is “according to people with whom the president has spoken.” There are no such people and don’t know these characters…just more Fake & Disgusting News to create ill will!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
Where would anyone get the idea that you’d come up with degrading names to insult people? Sad! https://t.co/F2j0vpngXA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2018
re: #74 electrotek
Fucking Fox News, really?
The only Christians FAUX supports are those who wear bedsheets with hoods and burn crosses.
The Nazis in #newnan today have been more effective at rallying counter protesters and media than themselves. pic.twitter.com/DCbsxIhgVZ
— Stephen Deere (@stephencdeere) April 21, 2018
re: #99 gwangung
Until Christ comes back.
Unless He has already been back, in which case they’re gonna be real fucking disappointed.
re: #100 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Which is why police are standing up for them.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 21, 2018
re: #102 TedStriker
Unless He has already been back, in which case they’re gonna be real fucking disappionted.
I think they’re going to be real disappointed anyway….
re: #100 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Huh. what’s the wonky black square/ribbon/cross symbol that I don’t recognize on those flags? Damn nazis can’t just stick with one or two, they keep mutating like a virus to throw off immune response.
re: #104 gwangung
I think they’re going to be real disappointed anyway….
They’d throw the swarthy brown dude in jail.
Only about 25 Nazis showed up. There are probably more reporters at the scene than white supremacists.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) April 21, 2018
League of South speaker now front and center talking about the “Devil’s children: international Jewry” who he blames for “race-mixing” and “multiculturalism.”
Fuck this shit #Newnan pic.twitter.com/Vtp3R7HGbz— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
re: #108 Charles Johnson
Hope the Newman GA Chamber of Commerce takes note - a city/town hosting NeoNazis is a surefire way of have businesses NOT locate nearby.
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re: #105 NetworkKed
Huh. what’s the wonky black square/ribbon/cross symbol that I don’t recognize on those flags? Damn nazis can’t just stick with one or two, they keep mutating like a virus to throw off immune response.
It’s the official replacement for the swastika in US National Socialist imagery. Because the former is too obviously Nazi, while the latter is sufficiently Nazi for Nazis but maybe gets below the radar of people who aren’t really into history.
God, I hate these fucking people.
re: #108 Charles Johnson
League of South speaker now front and center talking about the “Devil’s children: international Jewry” who he blames for “race-mixing” and “multiculturalism.”
Fuck this shit #Newnan pic.twitter.com
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 21, 2018
Definitely not even bothering trying to hide or couch their racism and bigotry and anti-Semitism in “soft” terms anymore, especially with the ascendance of Hair Furor to POTUS, I see.
Good…makes it much more easier to identify them as enemies of a just and fair civilization.
re: #111 TedStriker
Definitely not even bothering trying to hide or couch their racism and bigotry and anti-Semitism in “soft” terms anymore, especially with the ascendance of Hair Furor to POTUS, I see.
Good…makes it much more easier to identify them as enemies of a just and fair civilization.
Which I say is a good reason for the First Amendment. Let them stand out in public and tell everyone exactly who they are.
re: #104 gwangung
I think they’re going to be real disappointed anyway….
“Remember that thing I said about loving everyone? I meant it. Down escalator is over there.”
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
“Remember that thing I said about loving everyone? I meant it. Down escalator is over there.”
“Did I fucking stutter?”
re: #113 Belafon
Which I say is a good reason for the First Amendment. Let them stand out in public and tell everyone exactly who they are.
And let them whine like the “snowflake” bitches they are when their real identities are found out and decent people decide to not associate or work with them.
JFC
Speeches are done - like I said there were hundreds and hundreds of guns here today pic.twitter.com/zzPS1QJr2Y
— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) April 21, 2018
It scares me again that we have come to regard white supremacism and overt fascism merely as points along the political spectrum and not as something that is anathema to everything America stands for and has even shed blood to fight against.
re: #118 Charles Johnson
JFC
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Small men fail to understand world, need big guns to feel manly .
I’ve read a lot of Nazi history in the last fortnight. Not WW2 combat, stuff about ideology, policy, and personalities.
One depressing thing: the frequency with which the racist activities of the US South was either invoked or replicated by German national socialists. On many societal levels. Compare and contrast KKK rituals and things like the torchlight marches. Compare and contrast Jim Crow and the Nuremburg laws. I mean, Italian fascists contributed to the rhetorical style and material culture, too, but the overlap and borrowing from the South is big.
Further depressing thought: people in the US went right back to discriminatory social engineering and terror targeted at African Americans—including the works programs and infrastructure transformation of FDR, which took the legs out from beneath African American by cutting them out of benefits and making them eat the negative consequences of the changes—while inflating larger and larger the mythology that we had unique moral clarity because we fought the Axis.
Himmler described national socialism as “socialism for people with good blood” and if you look at the implementation, it was a kleptocracy. Take from the “wrong” people by merging criminality and identity—you are a crime because you are—apply asset forfeiture and collective guilt. Basically, there’s a pyramid chart of who gets how much booty, and always the threat that you can be dropped to a lower status, including the very bottom where you’re deemed an unperson and subject to resource extraction as opposed to just privation.
Furthermore, the concept of the “right” people means infinite mutability of who is in the in-group (and thus deserving) so the distribution of spoils is always a carrot/stick means of demanding compliance: that the ethos makes no sense—the pseudo-science race genetics, the conspiracy theory-rich reading of political philosophy, the empty set of threatening “elites” to be despised and dismissed—is a bug not a feature. All the concepts are instrumental…race, blood and soil, “culture,” et cetera…to justifying the hierarchy and the spoils system, and are deliberately hollow and inconsistent. Bad faith is built into the thought-world at a basic level.
The Obvious Diabeetus Nazis at the rally today are disgusting and can fuck off forever, but it’s important to note that there are a lot of folks who share their thought-world who are considered legitimate commentators on politics and policy, and a long US-distinct history of stripping people of alien culture of assets, justified by their designation—mostly based on white/non-white distinction. Camps and pogroms are terrifying and “never again” should be everyone’s watchword, but the subtler redistributionist system that national socialists push—and I’d argue we’ve had national socialists by another name in our politics since the get-go—we also have to watch out for.
re: #121 The Ghost of a Flea
I’ve read a lot of Nazi history in the last fortnight. Not WW2 combat, stuff about ideology, policy, and personalities.
Further depressing thought: people in the US went right back to discriminatory social engineering and terror targeted at African Americans—including the works programs and infrastructure transformation of FDR, which took the legs out from beneath African American by cutting them out of benefits and making them eat the negative consequences of the changes—while inflating larger and larger the mythology that we had unique moral clarity because we fought the Axis.
And housing policy that excluded a lot of blacks from the benefits of mortgage guarantees, because black neighborhoods were by definition “high risk” and excluded from coverage
The Washington Post said I refer to Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rod Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers.” This is “according to people with whom the president has spoken.” There are no such people and don’t know these characters…just more Fake & Disgusting News to create ill will!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
Right. So crazy to imagine someone who coined the phrases Sloppy Steve, Lyin Ted, Crooked Hillary, Liddle Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Pocahontas, Cryin Chuck, Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd, Leakin James Comey, and Little Rocket Man would have used these comparisons. https://t.co/3AtcX7bqRF
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 21, 2018
re: #123 Barefoot Grin
Right. So crazy to imagine someone who coined the phrases Sloppy Steve, Lyin Ted, Crooked Hillary, Liddle Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Pocahontas, Cryin Chuck, Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd, Leakin James Comey, and Little Rocket Man would have used these comparisons.
he said he didn’t so just shut up and stop hating on our President
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re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And housing policy that excluded a lot of blacks from the benefits of mortgage guarantees, because black neighborhoods were by definition “high risk” and excluded from coverage
I credit Ta-Nehisi Coates for laying out how racist the New Deal was.
What amazes me is the physical infrastructure component…fucking over AA communities by transforming the physical spaces that they had investing time and capital into turning into neighborhoods. Where do you zone the pollution-spewing factories? Where do you put the highway exit versus the overpass?
Then again, I keep getting poleaxed by new versions of ethnic minority profits, white people conspire to take their shit away and the government either helps or turns a blind idea. The Tulsa race riots and the destruction of Black Wall Street; the theft of the very valuable farm businesses developed by West Cost Japanese-Americans during WW2 internment; the fricking murder conspiracy to strip the Osage of their oil profits.
re: #125 The Ghost of a Flea
I credit Ta-Nehisi Coates for laying out how racist the New Deal was.
What amazes me is the physical infrastructure component…fucking over AA communities by transforming the physical spaces that they had investing time and capital into turning into neighborhoods. Where do you zone the pollution-spewing factories? Where do you put the highway exit versus the overpass?
Then again, I keep getting poleaxed by new versions of ethnic minority profits, white people conspire to take their shit away and the government either helps or turns a blind idea. The Tulsa race riots and the destruction of Black Wall Street; the theft of the very valuable farm businesses developed by West Cost Japanese-Americans during WW2 internment; the fricking murder conspiracy to strip the Osage of their oil profits.
I kind of knew about Chicago from a variety of sources, especially after the Cabrini Green demolitions started and I read about the forces that have always worked against AA in US cities (esp. Chicago). But Ta-Nehisi put it together in a way that made it really clear why Chicago is like it is.
HA Goodman went from backing Rand Paul to Jim Webb, took a brief detour to the left to get behind Bernie Sanders and is now calling for Trump to be re-elected in 2020.
The funny thing is that there were people who actually took him seriously.— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) April 21, 2018
(And he’s still predicting that HRC will be arrested any day now for the crime of… something something.) https://t.co/HNaNZG2CTn
— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) April 21, 2018
So Trump seems to be trying to lay a foundation from which he can say Cohen is making things up if he flips. I would assume there would be corroborating evidence from the raids. Trump is screwed.
Alternative facts from trump😎 pic.twitter.com/qUfzk4RMry
— Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio) April 21, 2018
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Well, we haven’t, but the media sure has. Today in the SF Chronicle the Daily Stormer was described as an alt-right site instead of a FUCKING FULL BLOWN NAZI SITE!.
God damned media is going to kill this country.
re: #125 The Ghost of a Flea
I credit Ta-Nehisi Coates for laying out how racist the New Deal was.
What amazes me is the physical infrastructure component…fucking over AA communities by transforming the physical spaces that they had investing time and capital into turning into neighborhoods. Where do you zone the pollution-spewing factories? Where do you put the highway exit versus the overpass?
Then again, I keep getting poleaxed by new versions of ethnic minority profits, white people conspire to take their shit away and the government either helps or turns a blind idea. The Tulsa race riots and the destruction of Black Wall Street; the theft of the very valuable farm businesses developed by West Cost Japanese-Americans during WW2 internment; the fricking murder conspiracy to strip the Osage of their oil profits.
What frustrates me Re: New Deal is many white progressives don’t see that while denouncing people like Obama as sell outs. God knows I have my criticism of Wall Street but Roosevelt was okay with working with people who supported legalized lynching.
re: #131 Skip Intro
Well, we haven’t, but the media sure has. Today in the SF Chronicle the Daily Stormer was described as an alt-right site instead of a FUCKING FULL BLOWN NAZI SITE!.
God damned media is going to kill this country.
Just remember what the NYT said about Hitler.
Police say an initial investigation indicates the woman was handling a firearm when it fired and struck the toddler in the chest. Police say the Ohio mother legally possessed the handgun and had a concealed carry permit. https://t.co/vQlzXDBXHF
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 21, 2018
I have two major problems with the writing in this article:
1) As @Stonekettle always says, there are no accidents with guns
2) “It” fired?? Why is it the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” crowd never show up for these cases? https://t.co/ihXdq9hrxJ— Kevin Hennegan (@KHennegan) April 21, 2018
The Washington Post said I refer to Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rod Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers.” This is “according to people with whom the president has spoken.” There are no such people and don’t know these characters…just more Fake & Disgusting News to create ill will!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
Actually, you’re more like Mr. Magoo — if Mr. Magoo was an asshole criminal. https://t.co/wqlWvbtUiV
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 21, 2018
This is a good breakdown by @LemieuxLGM: https://t.co/4BnMPnh5zc
— Elizabeth Rogers (@ahumorlessfem) April 21, 2018
Quoth:
And Linker reminds us that theater critic analysis is useful for pundits with an axe to grind, and in the particular case of Clinton the derangement tends to be particularly pronounced. So while transparently silly the “most winnable” meme is useful to Linker because it allows him to claim that Clinton and her supporters have no legitimate grievances and nobody else needs to be held accountable, when of course Clinton does have perfectly legitimate grievances and there are a lot of people who made bad judgements and need to be held accountable. As Sargent says, Comey is openly admitting that he put his thumb on the scale because he assumed that Clinton would win. This is bad behavior! (And, incidentally, it’s another reason why high levels of confidence in the outcome of counterfactuals are misplaced. Rubio or Cruz might have been “better” candidates in some abstract sense, but Clinton wouldn’t have been treated as the president-elect by the media or the FBI in those scenarios, and we have no idea how that would have played out. The question of whether Trump is a “bad” candidate is actually very complicated given the Electoral College and the media environment.)
But the narrative seems to be set: anything less than treating the ineptitude and personal corruption of Hillary Clinton as the end all, be all of Trump’s win in 2016 is unacceptable. She must be treated as The Sole Reason and Proof that the Dem Party must be totally burned down first before ever touching Trump.
And I fucking hate it forever.
15 months into Trump Presidency of Fail and Embarrassment and we see him complaining about not calling people certain stupid names because everyone knows he calls people stupid names.
The Demeaning of the United States Democracy.
And a number of Americans celebrate it.
When was that pivot again?
good grief
BREAKING: @Starbucks protesters have entered a downtown #phoenix location. They say the organization is racist and are encouraging people not to purchase beverages from the chain after an incident in #Philadelphia. @azcentral pic.twitter.com/OkovDF61M8
— BrieAnna Frank (@brieannafrank) April 21, 2018
They picked a location where staff is mostly @ASU students. https://t.co/8ySZbzdidg
— Ryan Santistevan (@SantistevanRyan) April 21, 2018
Vulgar pansexual slovenly Imbecile Roger Stone latest to fall out of favor of Noted Idiot Trump in Latest Fecal Palace Intrigue. pic.twitter.com/bd9fE7Oj0c
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) April 21, 2018
re: #131 Skip Intro
Well, we haven’t, but the media sure has. Today in the SF Chronicle the Daily Stormer was described as an alt-right site instead of a FUCKING FULL BLOWN NAZI SITE!.
God damned media is going to kill this country.
The endless normalization of bad behavior by white dudes amazes me, and I’m a giant, very white dude. Like, literally and figuratively super white.
I don’t remember where I first heard the idea that part of white privilege is to treated as an individual as opposed to a manifestation of a collective*, but there’s a corollary in which ugliness and stupid cruelty are excused as being exceptional cases or the product of circumstance or not really meant, and that tolerance is extended disproportionately to white guys. So part of privilege is that not only are you an individual first, but also your unacceptable behavior—be it just rudeness or truly deep ugliness (up to and including stuff like abusive behavior)—is a product of circumstance and context, not a fixed aspect of the self. Whereas the unacceptable behavior of other folk is indicative of the true selves and immutable.
This is the bottom line for every fucking pundit who says something, whines about being criticized, and then come in the hot takes about how they’re silenced and maybe we could learn from them if we just listened…no matter how stupid and substanceless their statements are. Half the right-wing “intellectuals” write content that has no argument, just tu quoque and straw man, yet they are consistently tolerated and coddled. And eventually they cross into total inappropriateness…finally stretching too far with sexist or racist tropes that are only a short walk beyond what they do day after day…they are still permitted to not bear that mistake like an albatross.
Look at the “Friends of Hamas” shit Ben Shapiro pulled. That alone should have demonstrated that he operates not just in bad faith in his commentary, but is fundamentally uninterested in discussion to the point that he will invent misdeeds to attribute to his opponents. Or the ongoing Kevin Williamson fracas. Or Jonah Fucking Goldberg being treated as a serious intellectual when “Liberal Fascism” was a barely-researched, shallow, ahistorical Big Lie.
I frequently say that conservatism right now isn’t conservatism, and the actual ideology at play is more about stratification of entitlements and license (what can you get away with), and a big part of that tiered system is who gets to use language and rhetoric carelessly. Which is genuinely very frightened and disturbing because hearkens back to Sartre’s assessment of the use of works and concepts by antisemites: that they feel no obligation to use responsibly, because they are beyond arguments and simply see their opponents as inherently invalid.
* having just read in detail about Kristalnacht and the subsequent financial penalty all Jews had to pay to the state for the nuisance caused by their destruction of their property, this concept of collectivity assigned as a way of creating group guilt is salient.
Same theme of “who gets to be contextual versus fixed in identity, look at the way violent acts are described when committed by people with privilege in the US context, versus everyone else.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m torn on what should be done, but the company fired the people involved and is setting up training for every branch.
That’s more than a whole lot of other businesses have done.
re: #132 HappyWarrior
What frustrates me Re: New Deal is many white progressives don’t see that while denouncing people like Obama as sell outs. God knows I have my criticism of Wall Street but Roosevelt was okay with working with people who supported legalized lynching.
What frustrates ME is that many white progressives don’t see that blacks and other POCs have a VERY good reason not to trust socialistic solutions if they aren’t a part of them. “Fool me once” and all that is a VERY good rationale to approach white progressives’ solutions very cautiously.
he retweeted this:
I’m astonished at the lack of Republican messaging today about one thing in particular: The memos confirm Trump asked Comey to investigate and lay to rest the Russian hookers stuff, which is something you don’t do if you’re guilty.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 20, 2018
The same can be said of the “collusion” stuff. https://t.co/xMCVuH3OTs
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 20, 2018
then tweeted this:
“At least two Memos Comey shared with a friend contained Classified Information.” Wall Street Journal
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
good grief…he is such a moron.
re: #142 gwangung
What frustrates ME is that many white progressives don’t see that blacks and other POCs have a VERY good reason not to trust socialistic solutions if they aren’t a part of them. “Fool me once” and all that is a VERY good rationale to approach white progressives’ solutions very cautiously.
Great point and we saw that during the primaries.
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
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good grief…he is such a moron.
This is the guy who called for his opponent to be hacked.
#onassignment at a conference in Modesto, CA. Ammon Bundy speaking today, Wayne Hage Jr. yesterday. Lots of talk re: water & grazing rights, #oregonstandoff. @DevinNunes told the crowd that the media in the room “are not here to report the truth… they’re here to mock you.” pic.twitter.com/6av8wxDvhx
— Tay Wiles (@taywiles) April 21, 2018
So where was @DevinNunes yesterday?
Meeting with constituents of #CA22?
No - he made an unannounced visit in #Modesto with Ammon Bundy - you remember the anti-government armed militia Bundy?
Nunes is an embarrassment and must go!#DrewFor22
🗳 vote @JanzforCongress https://t.co/w9B8cYV5cN— Fire Devin Nunes (@realFireNunes) April 21, 2018
Getting closer but still no public appearances in #CA22 from my opponent. https://t.co/NJVQ1gc8O8
— Andrew Janz (@JanzforCongress) April 21, 2018
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
They told him. He didn’t understand.
re: #139 Skip Intro
Roger has died of polonium poisoning but nobody has noticed because the associated twitching, foul smells, and disgusting noises are indistinguishable from his behavior in life.
DO YOU WANT A PARDON? pic.twitter.com/MDuZGLDQlO
— Jennifer Reitman (@JenniferReitman) April 21, 2018
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think he’s actually asking him to join his legal team.
re: #118 Charles Johnson
Looking at the first photo I thought, “How is that jerk going to pull out that pistol with all that extra weight in the way?”
Master race, my ass.
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did we expect anything else from Half Assed Goodman????????
….non-existent “sources” and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates Michael, a fine person with a wonderful family. Michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who I have always liked & respected. Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018
YOU HIRED LARRY KUDLOW WHO CONFESSED TO A $100K/ MONTH COCAINE HABIT.
Again, shut your hypocrite trap… sir. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/kWabhw59m9— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) April 21, 2018
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And again, Kudlow would be dead if he did $100K/month. He had to have been dealing.
So this Starbucks incident has me thinking about the first time my great-grandmother (referred to here after as Muss) explained to me that I was black.
— julia craven (@juliacraven) April 19, 2018
Important perspective, my fellow white people —> https://t.co/9IYOnH0QOz
— Andie the Obamanista (@TheObamanista) April 21, 2018
re: #156 Barefoot Grin
And again, Kudlow would be dead if he did $100K/month. He had to have been dealing.
OF COURSE he was dealing.
when u order a diet coke and pic.twitter.com/so2YCni0ac
— darth™ (@darth) April 21, 2018
Not that I necessarily agree with the sentiment, but he has a point.
So if one of the protesters sees this and shoots the cop, is this an example of good guys with guns protecting Americans against a tyrannical government?
— Andy Diacetis (@andydiacetis) April 21, 2018
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
And since someone made an incredibly stupid comment about how I needed someone to explain to me that I was black, let me explain why I needed such an explanation.
I grew up around black people so I wasn’t thinking about being black. Pretty much everybody was black. So, there.— julia craven (@juliacraven) April 19, 2018
And I bet the white person who made that comment has never had their being white explained to them, because it’s expected to be the default.
This is why Starbucks has to have the training.
re: #160 Amory Blaine
Not that I necessarily agree with the sentiment, but he has a point.
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I don’t think he agrees with the sentiment. I think he’s pointing out the hypocrisy and how ludicrous it all is.
After the neo-Nazis leave Newnan, the overwhelming police presence marches out in military-style formations. pic.twitter.com/jcQgCDfiMC
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) April 21, 2018
check these guys for tattoos, im sure there would be plenty of “surprises” https://t.co/rCn1Bm96uf
— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) April 21, 2018
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, the only time cops should march is at graduation.
Oh shit…
thedrive.com
Details remain very sketchy but there is elevating talk that a coup attempt has been made against King Salman of Saudi Arabia. Heavy gunfire was heard around the sprawling royal palace complex overnight in the Kingdom, and various reports state that the King had been moved to a safe bunker complex at an air base nearby. Other sources say it may be a terror attack or an assault by Houthi forces that infiltrated the country, or even the result of a small drone overflying a palace checkpoint. So at this point, we really don’t have a definitive answer as to what is going on.
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is exactly why my Dad (RIP) always harped on me getting a bag and a receipt for every purchase I made so when they accuse me of stealing I have some proof I did not. Even doing this hasn’t stopped me from being accused of stealing. Being black is hard asf.
— Anti-Gravity Afro (@JB1N1T) April 19, 2018
If you were on a planet where the entire atmosphere was made up of CO2 and you opened a can of Pepsi, it would still go flat immediately.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Plus, he was in Key West on Thursday, not yesterday.
Donald Trump greeted with a chorus of boos in Key West
President Donald Trump’s motorcade was greeted with a chorus of boos and profanity at it made its way through Key West, Florida on Thursday, April 19, 2018.
LOL Whew
After rare gunfire in Saudi capital, officials say they shot down a toy drone
ISTANBUL — After residents in Saudi Arabia’s capital reported hearing rare bursts of gunfire on Saturday evening, followed by videos of heavy shooting that circulated on the Internet, the Saudi government said it had an explanation: Someone had flown a recreational drone, without authorization, and security forces had shot it down.
A government statement said that guards at a checkpoint in Riyadh, the capital, observed the drone shortly before 8 p.m., in the Al-Khozama neighborhood, where a palace belonging to King Salman, the Saudi monarch, is located. The security forces “dealt with it according to their orders,” the statement said.
re: #170 Unshaken Defiance
LOL Whew
Yeah, whew! I went to check a variety of international news sites, and the “toy drone” flap (and what sounds like a trigger-happy reaction to it by security forces) seems to be what the fuss was about.
So far.
When things are this tense, and your leadershiop this awfuil, it pay to gather information fast. If you can get it anyway.
Man…..
Verne Troyer has passed away at the age of 49.
It seems to have been by suicide.
Please get help if you ever feel that it is no longer worth living.
People do care.
Call [no phone numbers allowed]
Available 24 hours everyday pic.twitter.com/3mXry9VOca— Oregon I.T. not IT ⚾ (@OregonJOBS2) April 21, 2018
re: #156 Barefoot Grin
And again, Kudlow would be dead if he did $100K/month. He had to have been dealing.
He took delivery in a Ming vase.
Man, the Portland Trailblazers got swept. That’s rough.
re: #175 Jenner7
Man, the Portland Trailblazers got swept. That’s rough.
Things are not much better for the Not Very Good Cleveland Cavaliers.
Say goodbye to Lebron Cleveland.
re: #176 ObserverArt
Yep, I have a pissed off 14 year old right now. And he takes it out of my Utah Jazz. lol
So exciting! I have agreed to be the Commencement Speaker at our GREAT Naval Academy on May 25th in Annapolis, Maryland. Looking forward to being there.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2018
As a Navy Veteran I’d love to know who at #Annapolis thought it was a good idea to invite a 5X draft dodger, who called POW’s like Navy Veteran John McCain cowards, and who has already committed treason by offering aid and comfort to Russia after their cyber attack on our nation. https://t.co/pKkYmaQmrn
— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) April 20, 2018
re: #161 Belafon
And I bet the white person who made that comment has never had their being white explained to them, because it’s expected to be the default.
This is why Starbucks has to have the training.
It’s just good business to treat everybody equally, dammit…..
Regarding what (ever) is going down in Saudi Arabia right now,
Adam L. Silverman at Balloon Juice has some analysis: unfortunately, for the moment, it is VERY unclear what is (or has been happening).
This tweet seems to sum it up.
Max Abrahms
Verified account
@MaxAbrahms
5h5 hours ago
More
DevelopingSaudi Arabia
What exactly I’m not sure.
17 replies 43 retweets 103 likes
Reply 17 Retweet 43 Like 103
But it appears to be more serious than first reported. Though as Adam points out, it has hardly been reported at all in the media anywhere.
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s such an honor for them to have him relive the 2016 election for the 10,000th time.
OT just because…
These bones now creak
These legs can no long run
Yet here within this book
I live my adventures
My fingers do the running
My heart best fast within my chest
My mind is released
A smile curves these lips
I open a book and read#poem #poet #poetry #fiction #amwriting #amreading pic.twitter.com/nAF2BC74yo— Kathleen Harryman (@KathleenHarrym1) April 21, 2018
re: #181 Skip Intro
It’s such an honor for them to have him relive the 2016 election for the 10,000th time.
I bet he brings Electoral College maps for everyone!
We’re thrilled to present athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick—who refused to ignore or accept racial discrimination—with the #AmbassadorOfConscience award. Thank you for your courage to act against injustice! pic.twitter.com/X3eqFSEjEg
— AmnestyInternational (@amnestyusa) April 21, 2018
re: #181 Skip Intro
It’s such an honor for them to have him relive the 2016 election for the 10,000th time.
You can count on that ass uttering “Crooked Hillary” and sadly a lot of graduates will cheer him.
I think it’s worth remembering that early in Trump’s administration when he was tweeting about “China has to do something about North Korea” China’s official newspapers ran articles stating that there were many more Russians than Chinese in Pyongyang.
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
I bet he brings Electoral College maps for everyone!
Does he know he lost the election in Maryland by 25 points?
re: #187 Skip Intro
Does he know he lost the election in Maryland by 25 points?
It was obviously voter fraud.
Love #Bernie but not voting for him if he runs. Great man but he needs to explain why he didn’t support #DNCLAWSUIT. $200 million stolen deserves a comment. Then kisses Clinton’s filthy ring. Then pushes bs Russian hacking. Sorry, he’s a noble man but doesn’t FIGHT. #TRUMP2020
— H. A. Goodman (@HAGOODMANAUTHOR) April 21, 2018
Who’s shocked?
re: #190 Jenner7
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He and most of the people responding to him are insane. They like Trump because they think he’ll destroy the DNC. They hate democrats that much.
re: #190 Jenner7
Another data point in the “some of these people don’t have an ideology or actual shit they want to see done, they have narcissism and gravitate to whatever belief and affiliation gratifies them in the moment.”
re: #192 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
He and most of the people responding to him are insane. They like Trump because they think he’ll destroy the DNC. They hate democrats that much.
A lot of the fake profiles responding to ol’ Half-Assed Goodman are Russian Trollbots.
re: #192 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
He and most of the people responding to him are insane. They like Trump because they think he’ll destroy the DNC. They hate democrats that much.
My friend was an at-large Sanders Delegate to the DNC - when he lost, my friend switched to Dr. Jill Stein.
They will never hear the end of that from me - especially since they coughed up $500 for the local Dem Rep for the general - holy hypocrisy, Batman!
The “Flawed Candidate” canard doesn’t cut the mustard, sad to say….
BREAKING: Nabi Tajima, the world’s oldest person, dies in southern Japan at the age of 117. https://t.co/K45IbVFQwc
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 22, 2018
re: #190 Jenner7
Time for some tormenting….
Your problem is that You Don’t Know what You Don’t Know. Combined with your mindless heedlessness, it’s no wonder why people mock you.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 22, 2018
Claims to hate the intel community. Supports the guy who supports torture and appointed Pompeo.
RELEASE👏THE👏FAMILY’S👏NAME👏😤 pic.twitter.com/f0gB8eB2Jd
— Jin @ Archimedes Diet Part Deux (@GamerWithAHardR) April 20, 2018
The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service is the “eyes, ears, and voice for U.S. agriculture around the world”, now run by pesticide executives. https://t.co/U8BfT7FBYX
— Anabelle (@Tahoesquaw1) April 22, 2018
re: #199 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
He has a home now!
Cat Walked 12 Miles Back to His Original Family But Met with Heartbreak, Now Finds New Home!
Smh…
“You told me COUNSEL was spelled, C….O…U…N…C…I…L !!” pic.twitter.com/2LBQ1GVz6l— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) April 21, 2018
I’m sorry to keep posting others’ tweets, but there is so much out there:
.@KimStrassel on @Comey memos: “There does seem to be almost a sense of entrapment in these memos, as though he was urging the president to do things so that he could then run back outside and write down the bad things the president had done, in his mind.” #Tucker pic.twitter.com/RlrME0HFye
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2018
— jim manley (@jamespmanley) April 21, 2018
re: #199 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I enjoyed a lot of the anime references in the replies.
Free webcast. Click to see lineup. Tonight tomorrow. From Atlanta the SweetWater 420 Festival. Tedeschi Trucks on now. Enjoy.
re: #205 Barefoot Grin
I’m sorry to keep posting others’ tweets, but there is so much out there:
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Where do they find these morons? Trying to imagine how this would go over as an excuse for Clinton.
Fox irresponsibly feeds it’s victims propaganda, never telling the audience that the people they put on the air are a mix of propagandists and delusional people. Conservative’s #1 enemy is state media Fox News.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 22, 2018
re: #208 HappyWarrior
Where do they find these morons? Trying to imagine how this would go over as an excuse for Clinton.
They are Russian Trollbots!
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #205 Barefoot Grin
I’m sorry to keep posting others’ tweets, but there is so much out there:
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The man they support as leader of the free world can be manipulated into a crime by a man he talked to a few times?
That should be scary as hell, not a defense.
Sad.#VoteBlue2018— John D (@Johnd27D) April 21, 2018
re: #210 Joe Bacon 🌹
They are Russian Trollbots!
Kim Strassel writes for one of the major American newspapers. Lots of folks read her shit on the train into Manhattan from the burbs in Connecticutt.
re: #78 HappyWarrior
Can’t forget that the Christian Right in this country were staunch defenders of Apartheid.
And segregation.
re: #210 Joe Bacon 🌹
They are Russian Trollbots!
I think even trollbots could find a better excuse than Comey entrapped Trump.
Trump supporters:
“He’s too stupid to do anything wrong!”
Also
“He’s a genius!”
Just watched Jeb’s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him. Jeb —- mom can’t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2016
All class, this guy. #RIPBarbaraBush https://t.co/m5H6c8TnGo
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 21, 2018
re: #219 teleskiguy
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Christ. Is this asshole for real? A guy just lost his mom, and he uses her to insult him?
*SMGDH*
re: #220 Teukka
Christ. Is this asshole for real? A guy just lost his mom, and he uses her to insult him?
*SMGDH*
The tweet is over two years old.
re: #213 Barefoot Grin
Kim Stressel writes for one of the major American newspapers. Lots of folks read her shit on the train into Manhattan from the burbs in Connecticutt.
Yes and she writes for the Wall Street Jerk-el which discloses all you need to know about her.
re: #221 Belafon
The tweet is over two years old.
I noticed. But I wouldn’t put it past the Mango Menace not to do a re-run :(
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens charged with felony computer tampering https://t.co/ItzznXE0V9 pic.twitter.com/jsuaDzUqZ1
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 22, 2018
Another corrupt GOPer is running a government into the ground all while trying to normalize his actions and obstruct justice/prevent investigations. https://t.co/qmuZSZA74c
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 22, 2018
Another GOPer is in big trouble with law enforcement. He’s going to try the same Trump route, but with even less success.
re: #224 lawhawk
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Governor 50 Shades Of Kink is doing an invaluable service to America by destroying the Missouri Republican Party!
re: #225 Joe Bacon 🌹
Governor 50 Shades Of Kink is doing an invaluable service to America by destroying the Missouri Republican Party!
If America is that lucky, then we’ll recover from the Trump era faster than even I think we can.
I had an idiot post on my page saying what Bill Clinton did to Paula Jones was worse than Greitens.
I reminded the fool that Bill didn’t tie anyone up and blackmail them…
re: #205 Barefoot Grin
I’m sorry to keep posting others’ tweets, but there is so much out there:
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They are so desperate to present Trump as totally the victim of a grand conspiracy. Something they never would have entertained for a second when there was a black man in the White House.
re: #228 Targetpractice
They are so desperate to present Trump as totally the victim of a grand conspiracy. Something they never would have entertained for a second when there was a black man in the White House.
Kinda ironic, that members the “party of personal responsibility” seem to have great difficulties accepting and much less admitting their own mistakes, which in this case is electing a shady as fuck individual as the president of the land.
I just keep wondering how harsh the reality check will be for them once it finally arrives.
re: #229 Teukka
Kinda ironic, that members the “party of personal responsibility” seem to have great difficulties accepting and much less admitting their own mistakes, which in this case is electing a shady as fuck individual as the president of the land.
I just keep wondering how harsh the reality check will be for them once it finally arrives.
Ah, but you don’t need to have any personal responsibility in the Republican Party because Jesus forgives you!
Evening Lizardim from the thawing wild north country. Today was beautiful and I got to get out a bit and enjoy it. And for once, fishfolk came by to visit and no political statements were had to be found. It was amazing and peaceful and almost like it should be. How go things among the lizardfolk on this gorgeous spring evening?
re: #230 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah, but you don’t need to have any personal responsibility in the Republican Party because Jesus forgives you!
“That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.”
*ROFLcopters*
RIP George Clayton, former member of the Texas School board and racist, who died today on twitter pic.twitter.com/bb2t5kRHMm
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 21, 2018
.@claireballor interviewed @_littledrizzy, the Harvard-bound HS student who owned his troll by showing grace and civility https://t.co/441tiRIuVA pic.twitter.com/4Pb6BCKmKb
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 21, 2018
Imagine the the yawning pit inside a person that compels them to troll minority high school students who are doing amazing things & question their achievements pic.twitter.com/dU6xlQg1C5
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 21, 2018
It’s probably just “economic anxiety”
— Jon Becker (@jonbecker) April 21, 2018
re: #229 Teukka
Kinda ironic, that members the “party of personal responsibility” seem to have great difficulties accepting and much less admitting their own mistakes, which in this case is electing a shady as fuck individual as the president of the land.
I just keep wondering how harsh the reality check will be for them once it finally arrives.
Personal Responsibility is a night club that caters to a particular clientele, one that prefers their Puritanism with a bit of smut and discipline. You can rent it out for special occasions.
re: #224 lawhawk
“Another GOPer is in big trouble with law enforcement. He’s going to try the same Trump route, but with even less success.”
I don’t see Greitens leaving office voluntarily. I read a few days ago that wealthy donors have already told Missouri GOP lawmakers that they won’t fund their campaigns if they don’t support Greitens. It’s going to be really interesting to me to see what the GOP lawmakers do.
re: #229 Teukka
The words don’t mean anything.
Same as when they invoke Jesus, the free market, or the Constitution.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Drake] was accepted to 10 schools — including Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown — and said he plans on becoming president of the United States in 2044.
BREAKING NEWS:
Mitt Romney - 1,585 votes. 49%
Mike Kennedy - 1,642 votes 50%.
There WILL be a PRIMARY. @fox13 #utpol #utgop— Ben Winslow (@BenWinslow) April 22, 2018
Hahahahhahahaha!
re: #235 majii
“Another GOPer is in big trouble with law enforcement. He’s going to try the same Trump route, but with even less success.”
I don’t see Greitens leaving office voluntarily. I read a few days ago that wealthy donors have already told Missouri GOP lawmakers that they won’t fund their campaigns if they don’t support Greitens. It’s going to be really interesting to me to see what the GOP lawmakers do.
Consequences: They’re for the little people who don’t make the rich richer.
Seriously, the fact that, after all this shit, donors are laying an ultimatum demanding the GOP keep supporting this shitheel shows how empty greed and power is all these folks value.
re: #239 Citizen K
Consequences: They’re for the little people who don’t make the rich richer.
Seriously, the fact that, after all this shit, donors are laying an ultimatum demanding the GOP keep supporting this shitheel shows how empty greed and power is all these folks value.
It’s because they are desperate. They’re trying to force party unification.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am curious what he was “2017 World Champion” of.
Edit: Other current and former Texas State Board of Education people are congratulating Drake.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
That response was way too polite.
re: #235 majii
“Another GOPer is in big trouble with law enforcement. He’s going to try the same Trump route, but with even less success.”
I don’t see Greitens leaving office voluntarily. I read a few days ago that wealthy donors have already told Missouri GOP lawmakers that they won’t fund their campaigns if they don’t support Greitens. It’s going to be really interesting to me to see what the GOP lawmakers do.
re: #239 Citizen K
Consequences: They’re for the little people who don’t make the rich richer.
Seriously, the fact that, after all this shit, donors are laying an ultimatum demanding the GOP keep supporting this shitheel shows how empty greed and power is all these folks value.
re: #240 Belafon
It’s because they are desperate. They’re trying to force party unification.
Either way, Greitens is and will be a millstone around the neck of the Missouri GOP.
Works for me…
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim from the thawing wild north country. Today was beautiful and I got to get out a bit and enjoy it. And for once, fishfolk came by to visit and no political statements were had to be found. It was amazing and peaceful and almost like it should be. How go things among the lizardfolk on this gorgeous spring evening?
I rode my scooter for the first time this season. I put on about 40 miles running around town. I skipped Record Store Day because I wasn’t in the mood for crowded stores today.
Edit: this photo is from a few years ago. There’s still snow on the ground here now.
re: #244 TedStriker
Either way, Greitens is and will be a millstone around the neck of the Missouri GOP.
Works for me…
I’m hoping all of these GOP wingnut politicians caught in all kinds of issues are millstones around the neck of the entire Republican National Committee/Party.
re: #238 Jenner7
BREAKING NEWS:
Mitt Romney - 1,585 votes. 49%
Mike Kennedy - 1,642 votes 50%.There WILL be a PRIMARY.
Hahahahhahahaha!
Let me get this straight. The Utah Republican Party has a Primary, to determine if they have a Primary?
JFC
Would a Proposed Law ‘Ban the Bible’ in California?
It is amazing that Snopes would even have to rebut this absurdity but it gets worse: The claim of a Bible ban has actually been made by what pass for mainstream Republicans these days, legislator Travis Allen and media shill Liz Wheeler. The fundy echo chamber is on fire with it.
re: #241 Belafon
I am curious what he was “2017 World Champion” of.
Edit: Other current and former Texas State Board of Education people are congratulating Drake.
He is apparently a world champion cheerleader.
buzzfeed.com
re: #246 stpaulbear
I rode my scooter for the first time this season. I put on about 40 miles running around town. I skipped Record Store Day because I wasn’t in the mood for crowded stores today.
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I rolled Baby out of the garage this afternoon and took her for a 5-minute drive around town. I didn’t want to go too far because I want to keep her as clear of road salt as possible and the roads haven’t been washed down with rainwater yet. Hopefully this week.
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer: Documents seized in Trump lawyer office raid are going to be “very embarrassing” for Hannity https://t.co/6pmK8FI8n9 pic.twitter.com/MCiikXLmik
— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2018
re: #249 TedStriker
I bet Goldy really could tell some stories…
And the years of psychological treatment it will need.
re: #253 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Quick question: Does Hannity look like a Peterson or a Dennison? :P
re: #255 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Let’s try that again.
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Landshark!
One of the obvious inspirations for the Canyonero in The Simpsons.
You know, for all my analytical fussing I never cease to be amazed at how perfectly the political culture of US “conservatism” has become overrun by mountebanks.
Like, the sheer number of obvious fucking confidence men who have latched onto the paranoid style and the persecution complex and monetized it in the most tawdry ways possible.
Like, we’re far past the crude cunning of outrage peddlers like Limbaugh, and moved in to an era of quarter-assed, phoned-in excuses for blatant hustling. And yet it works, because all you need is a 3x5 card cheat sheet of key phrases.
This is what happens when you domesticate rubes. This is what happens when you move beyond mere anti-intellectualism and into contempt for critical thinking because fuck you pansy libs and your A is A fag shit.
.@Scaramucci: “The president doesn’t think he’s superior to anybody. All the president is trying to do is be a patriotic American and make very smart decisions on behalf of all the American people.” @JesseBWatters pic.twitter.com/JWMI7V12al
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 22, 2018
Mooch, how do you say this with a straight face? Seriously, the man actually SAYS THE WORDS that he’s better than everyone else. HE TWEETS THEM.
WTF, man? https://t.co/6kz9QBTDGR— Karoli (@Karoli) April 22, 2018
re: #252 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I rolled Baby out of the garage this afternoon and took her for a 5-minute drive around town. I didn’t want to go too far because I want to keep her as clear of road salt as possible and the roads haven’t been washed down with rainwater yet. Hopefully this week.
I got caught offguard by a little patch of sand about a block from my house and then I was very careful about cornering from then on. I was surprised at how generally clean the roads were today. I think you’d be pretty safe, although there were patches where the road was really wet from snow melt run-off.
re: #259 The Ghost of a Flea
You know, for all my analytical fussing I never cease to be amazed at how perfectly the political culture of US “conservatism” has become overrun by mountebanks.
Like, the sheer number of obvious fucking confidence men who have latched onto the paranoid style and the persecution complex and monetized it in the most tawdry ways possible.
Like, we’re far past the crude cunning of outrage peddlers like Limbaugh, and moved in to an era of quarter-assed, phoned-in excuses for blatant hustling. And yet it works, because all you need is a 3x5 card cheat sheet of key phrases.
This is what happens when you domesticate rubes. This is what happens when you move beyond mere anti-intellectualism and into contempt for critical thinking because fuck you pansy libs and your A is A faggor shit.
The peddlers latched onto long ago that the party/group that runs on privilege, emotion, and essentially non-logic is much easier to take advantage of. Con man used to sell himself as of being of good family stock - and thus obviously could be trusted. This morphed into being part of whatever the proper group needs to be; Christian, Republican, etc. and then having an initial store of trust to be taken advantage of.
And then pile on top of it that once people are time and emotionally invested* in something it is very, very, difficult to give it up as a bad deal since it’s a sacrifice of resources, ego, and often social ridicule for being a sucker.
(* - From my past experience as a fraternity volunteer this is also the key for why young men don’t simply walk away from the stuff like hazing that has not been stomped out yet like it should be.)
re: #262 stpaulbear
I got caught offguard by a little patch of sand about a block from my house and then I was very careful about cornering from then on. I was surprised at how generally clean the roads were today. I think you’d be pretty safe, although there were patches where the road was really wet from snow melt run-off.
I saw a few patches of raw salt in my neighborhood, and as you say, the snow is still melting off into the streets. It was mostly dry, but I’ve got to be extra careful with that big old girl. I’ve already put three summers of work into her and I don’t want her falling apart on me the way Mrs. Fish’s daily driver is starting to.
re: #248 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Let me get this straight.
We’re talking Utah here, so you better be straight.
Apparently the White House is capable of acts of decency
Melania Trump brings White House staffers who were close to Barbara Bush as guests to her funeral https://t.co/VQBqOUCQs1 pic.twitter.com/NNEfIPvc3v
— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2018
re: #248 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Let me get this straight. The Utah Republican Party has a Primary, to determine if they have a Primary?
Mitt Romney fails to secure GOP nomination for US Senate seat in Utah at convention, must compete in primary. (via @ap) pic.twitter.com/EByxYXchfN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 22, 2018
re: #253 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh, boyohboyohboyohboy….If I were @seanhannity right now, I’d be like the bottom line in my raccoon meme: pic.twitter.com/LiKEhcJKRA
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 22, 2018
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Scaramucci Reacts to Watter’s Words”
Is that reference to the pee tape? Asking for a urophilian.
re: #266 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Apparently
the White HouseMelania Trump is capable of acts of decency
FIFY.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
How horrible/low has Fox gotten that Jesse Watters, former Hit Man for Bill O’Reilly, has his own show.
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim from the thawing wild north country. Today was beautiful and I got to get out a bit and enjoy it. And for once, fishfolk came by to visit and no political statements were had to be found. It was amazing and peaceful and almost like it should be. How go things among the lizardfolk on this gorgeous spring evening?
I’m almost getting bored in hotel. Something about not being home? Same shit. Just feeling disrupted.
re: #271 The Major
Actually this is step up for Fox News. Still, don’t expect any Peabody awards anytime soon.
Um, there’s something wrong with this shirt.
#Coachella 😍 https://t.co/5uVw0tVfO5 pic.twitter.com/QwJRDP0Bz7
— H.E.R. (@HERMusicx) April 20, 2018
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Rest in Peace”? Nah. Fuck that guy. How about “Burn in Hell”?
A Virginia man shoots himself in the foot and attempts to blame two black men for his injuries: https://t.co/Kw46Jb2gov pic.twitter.com/yCDfgGStXN
— The Root (@TheRoot) April 22, 2018
Dude looks like Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate pic.twitter.com/6jCkRW6GUm
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 22, 2018
re: #266 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
How nice of her to visit the Great Sept of Baelor. On second thought, didn’t Cersei blow that up a couple of seasons ago?
re: #268 The Major
Speaking of Hannity: could it be that he, like Bill O, had to fork out cash settlements - except that in Bill O’s case, Hannity is the Hill that Fox News will die on?
100% behind Hannity, Fox News? Could we be seeing the impending collapse of Fox’s anchor?
God/Yahweh/Allah/Buddah/Shiva/FSM let’s hope so…
re: #274 teleskiguy
Um, there’s something wrong with this shirt.
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Yup. And the idiot wearing it. If he is trying to be ironic, what’s wrong with him is something different than if he isn’t, but either way.
re: #260 Dave In Austin
Interesting Shot….. Cliff swallow gathering nesting mud comes up short.
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Bringing new meaning to “swallow”.
re: #276 goddamnedfrank
The master would not approve, to say the least.
re: #276 goddamnedfrank
Does he have oddly enlarged knees?
I could see myself wearing a shirt like that at a show, just to annoy people.
re: #274 teleskiguy
Um, there’s something wrong with this shirt.
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Maybe he’s trying to be an ironic hipster dude. Or he’s just plain stupid.
Clearly the guy in that pic is Little Richard!
//
Fuckin’ Torgo, man. You can’t take him anywhere.
My British friend just called Paul Ryan a “twat” and now I’m referring to Paul Ryan as “Twatless Shrugged” until the end of time.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) April 22, 2018
re: #285 wheat-dogg
Clearly the guy in that pic is Little Richard!
It’s Marvin Gaye! Gosh, people are so stoopid!
re: #274 teleskiguy
“My other Bob Marley tee shows Mick Jagger.”
re: #276 goddamnedfrank
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Wow! Another great moment in gooberism. The shooting was an accident, and the shooter himself was the only victim; but he STILL manages to get himself arrested over it.
re: #285 wheat-dogg
Maybe he’s trying to be an ironic hipster dude. Or he’s just plain stupid.
Clearly the guy in that pic is Little Richard!
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Nah. Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy.
/
re: #263 Feline Fearless Leader
Sunk cost fallacy and the idea of affiliation as veracity. Always makes me think of this article.
At this point what irks me is the poor craftsmanship. Like, I can respect a good hustle, but this is just fucking pathetic. Chuck Johnson should not be able to make a car payment, let alone a career, out of the shit he peddles, and yet…it’s not just that he does it, it’s that there’s several clown cars worth of competitors for the same Fiji Mermaid, “off-brand Vienna sausage at the by-the-lot-store”-quality work.
And the ugliness. I can understand greed, I can understand wanting cheap fixes or magic cures. But there’s this entire culture of people who seem to enjoy being scared, and have this kind of sociopathic moray-eel excitement about the idea that people that aren’t like them are in pain.
I swear on the bones of this robot, the internet has connected up all the people that would otherwise just be the neighborhood weirdo that you didn’t leave alone with your pets, and now they’ve got a support network for their psychopathic tendencies.
re: #294 The Major
Do not listen to this unless you really want to hate Bill O’Reiley:
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Which you should already, so.
re: #290 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Wow! Another great moment in gooberism. The shooting was an accident, and the shooter himself was the only victim; but he STILL manages to get himself arrested over it.
Why do they always go the extra step and make the fictional assailant brown? Why add that particular detail?
1988: Giuliani Had FBI End Investigation of Trump Money Laundering - Trump raised $2M for Giuliani https://t.co/95IOq4d2AW
— Alder Wood (@_A__Dub) April 20, 2018
re: #296 The Ghost of a Flea
Why do they always go the extra step and make the fictional assailant brown? Why add that particular detail?
Because they’re racist, moronic fucks, that’s why.
Today in Wheat-dogg family news: my cousin B and I have finally heard from our older cousin M after nearly 30 years of silence. Seriously, M dropped off the planet (apparently) in the 1990s, and none of us had any clue where she was or what she was doing. B and I decided that none of us are getting any younger, and M is the oldest among us first cousins (I’m the youngest) so we decided to get serious about hunting her down. It was not easy. Her name is very common — like looking for a Bob Smith common — and she has no online presence at all. Finally, using those people search sites, we located a likely suspect living in a senior community on the Big Island of Hawai’i. We called a few times, got no answer, but finally B was able to talk to a person in the office who agreed to pass on a message to M. He followed up with a letter to M. Months have passed, but he got a surprise call from M yesterday! While she has some health issues, she’s as sharp as ever at age 71, and I am looking forward to chatting with her on this contraption called the telephone very soon.
re: #296 The Ghost of a Flea
Why do they always go the extra step and make the fictional assailant brown? Why add that particular detail?
Kneejerk racism and a lifetime of prejudicial indoctrination have made dark skinned minorities their subconscious bogeymen. In their worldview that’s the only conceivable kind of person who would randomly attack them for no reason.
re: #295 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Which you should already, so.
Listening to it seems like he’s describing himself when he talks about Franken.
BillO REALLY hates Franken. At least Franken Served in the US Senate.
BillO? $24 Million (that we know about….)
re: #298 TedStriker
Because they’re racist, moronic fucks, that’s why.
And they have no imagination and no use for originality.
re: #298 TedStriker
Well, yeah, but…it’s still fascinating that somewhere in their brain, in the midst of total panic over whatever shit they just pulled, they decide tactically to add detail that the fictive assailant was brown?
Basically, is it implicit racism because they just do it without thinking, or is there an actual workshopping contemplation where they’re like, “yeah, if I say it’s a black guy the cops will totally buy in to this.”
SCIENCE
Average surface temperature of Solar System objects. pic.twitter.com/nt1cip6TMe
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) April 22, 2018
re: #274 teleskiguy
First replies:
U mean Dave Chapelle?
— Dass no me Papi (@RealJoye) April 21, 2018
U mean Charlie Murphy?
— Eskimo Stones ☃ (@ovo_stones_) April 21, 2018
Y’all trippin, that’s Cudi pic.twitter.com/GWGGQtF0YS
— DJoey Bacardí 🚬 (@DJoeyTheDaddy) April 21, 2018
James Cameron Hopes for ‘Avengers’ Fatigue: ‘There Are Other Stories to Tell’ In Sci-Fi https://t.co/f6PML0me2W pic.twitter.com/LVF5tuZFmd
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) April 21, 2018
bitch you’re making three sequels to a ripoff of Fern Gully https://t.co/llQTmo6ay2
— Joshua Guess (@JoshuaGuess) April 22, 2018
And it looks like an inside joke:
😂😂 Martin is eternally hilarious! pic.twitter.com/HP9SgfMNEi
— Mi-Me (@ilovemime) April 22, 2018
re: #307 teleskiguy
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And we’ll go see those if they’re worth it. I’m looking forward to Alita, even if you’re whining, James.
re: #308 Belafon
And it looks like an inside joke
Now I want to make a shirt with a picture of Keith Richards with the letters “John Lennon” above the picture.
re: #303 The Ghost of a Flea
Well, yeah, but…it’s still fascinating that somewhere in their brain, in the midst of total panic over whatever shit they just pulled, they decide tactically to add detail that the fictive assailant was brown?
Basically, is it implicit racism because they just do it without thinking, or is there an actual workshopping contemplation where they’re like, “yeah, if I say it’s a black guy the cops will totally buy in to this.”
Both, and nine times out of ten they’re right, the cops will credulously accept that description. Institutional racism as a self propagating fractal meme bouncing back and forth between the individual act and societal reinforcement creating the environment that incubates it.
re: #307 teleskiguy
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Gotta think older than that. The best nickname I ever heard for Avatar was “Dances with Smurfs.”
re: #307 teleskiguy
I was so hoping that “Ghost In The Shell” would lead to more adaptations of anime in Hollywood….
re: #313 The Major
I was so hoping that “Ghost In The Shell” would lead to more adaptations of anime in Hollywood….
Give it time. We’re getting Alita. I don’t think the general public is ready for Akira or even Appleseed.
re: #310 teleskiguy
Now I want to make a shirt with a picture of Keith Richards with the letters “John Lennon” above the picture.
How about a picture of Skeletor with “Keith Richards” above the picture?
re: #314 Belafon
Give it time. We’re getting Alita. I don’t think the general public is ready for Akira or even Appleseed.
I want a live action “Girls Und Panzer”…
…
…
…
…
What?
< grinning, ducking & running >
re: #311 goddamnedfrank
*sigh*…yeah…
Back in the day, unexplained murders were always done by hoboes and drifters. Same kind of handwave bullshit but with added racism.
Now I’m depressed.
re: #316 William Lewis
I want a live action “Girls Und Panzer”…
…
…
…
…
What?
< grinning, ducking & running >
Just need to lasso Bovington into helping with it.
re: #293 The Ghost of a Flea
Sunk cost fallacy and the idea of affiliation as veracity. Always makes me think of this article.
At this point what irks me is the poor craftsmanship. Like, I can respect a good hustle, but this is just fucking pathetic. Chuck Johnson should not be able to make a car payment, let alone a career, out of the shit he peddles, and yet…it’s not just that he does it, it’s that there’s several clown cars worth of competitors for the same Fiji Mermaid, “off-brand Vienna sausage at the by-the-lot-store”-quality work.
And the ugliness. I can understand greed, I can understand wanting cheap fixes or magic cures. But there’s this entire culture of people who seem to enjoy being scared, and have this kind of sociopathic moray-eel excitement about the idea that people that aren’t like them are in pain.
I swear on the bones of this robot, the internet has connected up all the people that would otherwise just be the neighborhood weirdo that you didn’t leave alone with your pets, and now they’ve got a support network for their psychopathic tendencies.
This! This! A thousand times THIS!!!!
I took this sweet photo of a bald eagle. The story is pretty good too. https://t.co/qFrSM8wofQ pic.twitter.com/rTeJX9xUOK
— Matt Stensland (@SBTstensland) April 22, 2018
As the bald eagle population continues to increase, we’re finding more birds poisoned by lead from spent ammunition. This eagle had to be rehabbed after they found it almost dead, x-ray showed it had swallowed a single lead pellet from spent bird shot.
re: #311 goddamnedfrank
Both, and nine times out of ten they’re right, the cops will credulously accept that description. Institutional racism as a self propagating fractal meme bouncing back and forth between the individual act and societal reinforcement creating the environment that incubates it.
A kid was shot in my neighborhood. He claimed it was a black guy, so the parents in estates, and they are legion, put the neighborhood on lockdown. A few days later it came out that he shot himself after taking his dad’s gun.
re: #322 Belafon
A kid was shot in my neighborhood. He claimed it was a black guy, so the parents in estates, and they are legion, put the neighborhood on lockdown. A few days later it came out that he shot himself after taking his dad’s gun.
A lot of imaginary black guys out there, shooting people at really close range….
re: #320 teleskiguy
Another striking thing about this: I lived in Steamboat Springs, CO for eight years. I don’t remember there not being snow on the valley floor around 4/20. Watching that video in the link, and seeing that valley floor bare, kind of breaks my heart.
“He demanded that I lick his shaft. Little did I know he meant he wanted me to clean his elevators.”
— Mickey Bitsko (@BitskoMickey) April 22, 2018
re: #321 The Major
You asked for it, and The Major delivers….
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Yeah, that’s a fun version of the song.
The movie is even more … something… humorous is the closest word but that’s not really it… than the series was. Having been a real world tanker, the sight of a tank being drifted should make me cringe but hey, it’s anime :D It’s like expecting sane terraforming in Cowboy Bebop.
So, back from the state Dem convention. Good turnout, lots of energy. Some really good statewide candidates (and a few who even have a chance of knocking off Rep. US reps, like Archie Parnell, who almost won the special election for gross, disgusting Mick Mulvaney’s old seat last year.)
My choice for gov. had a great intro for his speech—a marching band, a video by Uncle Joe Biden (James Smith, our candidate was a good friend of Beau’s) and an intro by
Jim Clyburn.
Alison Lundergan Grimes spoke last night at our dinner and was amazing. Tim Ryan also spoke last night, but I left the dinner before he went on.
Jeff Merkley was the keynote today and he was really great.
And Merkley and Ryan spoke at our Women’s Council breakfast today as well. And then…there was Nina fucking Turner, who spoke at the breakfast (I walked out) and also had a slot during the convention (I left as she was introduced.)
When I rejoined the breakfast after she finished yapping, they were lauding her as the voice of the party—first Tim Ryan sang her praises, then one of our state reps yapping about how Our Revolution is getting all these wins (NOT) and were totally responsible for the special election wins in VA, GA, etc. I wanted to puke.
The woman who thought about running as Jill Stein’s VP and refused to support Hillary in the general—she’s supposed to be telling Democrats what to do? Not THIS Democrat. Really ruined an otherwise good convention.
re: #323 Blind Frog Belly White
A lot of imaginary black guys out there, shooting people at really close range….
re: #320 teleskiguy
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As the bald eagle population continues to increase, we’re finding more birds poisoned by lead from spent ammunition. This eagle had to be rehabbed after they found it almost dead, x-ray showed it had swallowed a single lead pellet from spent bird shot.
They still allow lead shot in other states?
re: #296 The Ghost of a Flea
“Why do they always go the extra step and make the fictional assailant brown? Why add that particular detail?”
First, they do it because they can. Second, they know the way the system works, and that for hundreds of years, it has worked in their favor and still does in most cases. They also know that the system is built so that some Americans’ are viewed as being more credible than other Americans in the same nation no matter what the Constitution states.
I’ve posted about Naomi Wu @realSexyCyborg here several times, to highlight her troubles with the male-dominated maker (tech builder) culture and lately with a run-in with Vice magazine outing some of her personal details. Well, anyway, it seems I tweeted something wrong and she has blocked me on Twitter. No clue why, other than I was perhaps a little too snide in a recent reply to her. (To the effect of, I’m not on Twitter 24/7 so how would I know you’ve already answered this question several times before?)
I’m one of her supporters, and even sponsored her when she had a Patreon account. (Now suspended for Vice magazine-related reasons) So, I’m a little miffed.
Life goes on, nonetheless. I wish her the best.
re: #329 Single-handed sailor
They still allow lead shot in other states?
I’m not a hardcore gun person (though I own three firearms), so I’m not familiar with the minutiae of laws pertaining to ammunition composition. I did glean this from the article:
Lead ammunition was banned nationwide for waterfowl hunting in 1991.
In an effort to save their condor population, California implemented a ban that will phase out lead ammunition by 2019.
A day before the President Barack Obama left office, his administration issued an order that would phase out lead ammunition on federal wildlife refuges by 2022.
Under President Donald Trump’s administration, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reversed the order during his first day in office.
re: #333 teleskiguy
If Obama had banned arsenic compounds in food, Trump’s crew would make it legal again. It’s how they work.
re: #331 majii
Every once in awhile I just can’t wrap my head around this shit. No matter how cynical I am, or how steeped in the history and the sociology that describes the larger picture of how common it is. Even with having a dad that was racist.
re: #314 Belafon
Give it time. We’re getting Alita. I don’t think the general public is ready for Akira or even Appleseed.
I’d like to see Gate done as a movie myself.
re: #316 William Lewis
I want a live action “Girls Und Panzer”…
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What?
< grinning, ducking & running >
Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!
re: #333 teleskiguy
I think we can safely say Don Junior likes the taste of lead in his broiled gnu.
re: #335 The Ghost of a Flea
“Every once in awhile I just can’t wrap my head around this shit. No matter how cynical I am, or how steeped in the history and the sociology that describes the larger picture of how common it is. Even with having a dad that was racist.”
If you’re forced to live it and you’re never permitted to forget your 2nd Class status no matter how much you accomplish in your life and/or no matter how faithfully you follow the rules of this society, you know almost from birth how the system works and that there’s a high probability that it will rarely work in your favor.
re: #314 Belafon
Pacific Rim was pretty close to being Evangelion or Betterman.
Daily life at a street market in Baghdad by photographer Ahmad Al-Rubaye @AHMADALRUBAYE pic.twitter.com/QAdagS7Bqx
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 22, 2018
re: #320 teleskiguy
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As the bald eagle population continues to increase, we’re finding more birds poisoned by lead from spent ammunition. This eagle had to be rehabbed after they found it almost dead, x-ray showed it had swallowed a single lead pellet from spent bird shot.
Great picture, sad story
.@JudgeJeanine: “Jim, it’s so obvious; you’re fired and you’re mad. You’re a liar and you’re a leaker. You’re pompous, you’re egotistical, you’re condescending, and you violate the very laws that you’re sworn to uphold because you want to make news.” pic.twitter.com/9j0mPDPz6R
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 22, 2018
For an audience of one. https://t.co/2vMHnpJAUa
— NIͶWoooman77 (@JetScoozr77) April 22, 2018
re: #346 BeachDem
I dunno, but I’ve seen those kinds of sleeves all over the place.
re: #347 Jenner7
I dunno, but I’ve seen those kinds of sleeves all over the place.
It’s the latest fashion for women. It will soon pass.
re: #347 Jenner7
I dunno, but I’ve seen those kinds of sleeves all over the place.
Strikes me as a faux refugee / survivor thing.
re: #345 Jenner7
The concept of the news network manipulating the authoritarian leader by addressing him is just…not what dystopian writers prepped us for. We were braced for a competent Big Brother, and what we got was Big Dumbass.
Marshall McLuhan and Baudrillard are laughing their asses off in Hell.
re: #347 Jenner7
I dunno, but I’ve seen those kinds of sleeves all over the place.
But that is so fugly. Cold shoulder is one thing; wedding dress attacked by coyotes is something altogether different.
re: #339 De Kolta Chair
My MAKA filter must be on too high. Is that a pic of two kitties?
re: #349 Unshaken Defiance
Strikes me as a faux refugee / survivor thing.
You don’t have to live like a refugee.
re: #274 teleskiguy
My BIL said Jimi Hendrix
re: #347 Jenner7
I dunno, but I’ve seen those kinds of sleeves all over the place.
I refuse to buy anything with peek-a-boo shoulders but they are popular this year.
it’s the interest that kills ya.
Boomers: when you pay off your student loans,
Me: when I what pic.twitter.com/bUx6F8AruH— DEATH ✌️ AMERIKKKA (@barf_stepson) April 21, 2018
re: #357 wheat-dogg
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Sleeves? What sleeves? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
re: #341 The Major
Pacific Rim was pretty close to being Evangelion or Betterman.
I almost wrote that, but deleted it.
re: #357 wheat-dogg
I blame Rey’s costume in the new Star Wars movies for the wonky sleeve fashion.
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I think they’re arm wraps, not sleeves. A long strip of cloth wrapped around each arm.
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