Seth Meyers: Trump’s Racist Fearmongering Is His Latest Scam [VIDEO]
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Seth takes a closer look at the only strategy Republicans are using for the midterms: making up a racist scam to scare people.
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5 days before the US #MidtermElections, the Republican President announced his intention to order US troops to build concentration camps and to open fire on refugees seeking asylum in our country.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 2, 2018
re: #1 Kragar
And CNN tosses softball after softball at him even after he incites his thugs to chant “CNN Sucks”.
The most threatening thing about the migrants coming from Central America is that they’re willing to struggle for the American Dream.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) November 2, 2018
Netanyahu likes to befriend dictators and wannabe-dictators:
Netanyahu congratulates Brazil on ‘historic’ plan to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday hailed as “historic” Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s plan to move his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
“I congratulate my friend Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro for his intention to move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem, a historic, correct and exciting step!” Netanyahu said in a statement.
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Why the hell are you mad at immigrants seeking a better life and not the tiny percentage of greedy fucks hoarding the world’s resources while we fight amongst ourselves for crumbs?
— Marsha Warfield (@MarshaWarfield) October 31, 2018
Left hanging on the previous thread (two comments)
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹
Court fight in Dodge City over opening a second polling place. Kris Kobach’s (R-epression) is arguing this would raise concerns over double voting.
kansas.com
(Wichita Eagle)
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TOPEKA
Opening a second polling location in Dodge City just days before the election could open the sites up to double voting, an official in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office said Thursday.
It would be impossible to compare the polling books of two polling places in real time to protect against double voting, said Bryan Caskey, the state director of elections.
“There’s no real time check” between the polling place and the state’s voter registration system, he said.
The League of United Latin American Citizens and 18-year-old first-time voter Alejandro Rangel-Lopez are suing Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox in federal court, seeking to force her to open a second polling location.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t help but note this stupid stunt sending troops to the Southern border is going down right before Veterans Day. Great fucking optics there, boys.
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹
Trump gets his military parade, albeit in Texas.
re: #4 freetoken
Netanyahu likes to befriend dictators and wannabe-dictators:
Netanyahu congratulates Brazil on ‘historic’ plan to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem
That’s right Bibi, go ahead and promote nationalist racists. Because that always works out great for the Jews.
It seems Donald Trump only likes the immigrants he sleeps with.
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) November 1, 2018
Did they go for Surefire Intelligence because Stable Genius was taken?
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) November 1, 2018
re: #8 Belafon
Hey, they’re doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 2, 2018
The NSA, which failed to respond when Russian hackers were first seen inside the DNC’s computer systems in 2015, has now taken to sending messages directly to Russian hackers, reminding them that they are being watched. https://t.co/xpawRK7ccw
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 2, 2018
500,000 first-time voters have cast early ballots in Georgia.
Wow.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 2, 2018
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
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Does any polling model even begin to take that into account in modeling the electorate?
When fear-mongering doesn’t work, lie.
*BETO BOMBSHELL* New Video Shows Staffers Used Campaign Funds to ‘ILLEGALLY AID’ Migrant Caravan https://t.co/hhndFQiIcG
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 2, 2018
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹
When fear-mongering doesn’t work, lie.
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This reeks of James O’Keefe.
During this year’s Open Enrollment period, renewable short-term health plans will be available for this first time. These plans do not have to provide essential health benefits, nor do they protect people with #PreExistingConditions https://t.co/KmH6l6EQi2 #HealthInTheBalance
— Commonwealth Fund (@commonwealthfnd) October 24, 2018
#MAGA Also known as “junk plans.” This is what the Republicans brought you. Along with the tax cut for the super-rich, which is causing the US debt to soar so that the GOP now says they will have to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to balance the budget. https://t.co/1ZvYfP2Mqu
— Proxima Centauri b (@RockyinTX) November 2, 2018
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
But how many of those votes is Brian Kemp trying to invalidate?
Oddly, yes
— 🌟Queen Laurela🌟 (@Labrys024) October 31, 2018
That absolute own when the guy (I think, despite the avatar) you’re responding to is so clueless about New World history that he tosses you a softball… https://t.co/LRhAsOsVyy
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) November 2, 2018
Our men and women in uniform are better trained, better equipped, and better led so they meet any threat with confidence. A wasteful deployment of over-stretched Soldiers and Marines would be made much worse if they use force disproportional to the threat they face. They won’t.
— GEN(R) Marty Dempsey (@Martin_Dempsey) November 1, 2018
When @Martin_Dempsey writes something like this it is a big deal. He’s been monkish in his commitment to staying out of politics. We’re moving into new territory these last 10 days. https://t.co/pMQFA3tlBk
— Greg Jaffe (@GregJaffe) November 2, 2018
re: #9 Belafon
Preet Bharara
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@PreetBharara
Did they go for Surefire Intelligence because Stable Genius was taken?
The local mom & pop grocery store has a generic budget brand called SureFine. It was the first thing I thought of. Flavorless fake food.
re: #21 Skip Intro
So at this point do we assume there’s a Veritas mole in every last Dem campaign in the country, and no R ones?
Also, how does anyone talk in the campaign office when one staffer is guaranteed to be a Nazi provocateur/provocateuse?
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance” (Francis of Assisi). The best leaders include charity and wisdom as points on their moral compass. With it they navigate around the dangers of pride, selfishness, hatred, and dishonesty. #Leadership
— GEN(R) Marty Dempsey (@Martin_Dempsey) October 31, 2018
Who could he be thinking of?
Wonder if he’ll attack Kanye now that he’s backed away from politics.
Trump says Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia who serves as the state House of Representatives’ minority leader, is “not qualified” to be governor
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 1, 2018
Abrams isn’t qualified. LeBron isn’t smart. Maxine Waters has a low IQ. Seems to be a theme here whenever the president attacks prominent people of color. https://t.co/2gnI3Rcr2Y
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 2, 2018
re: #24 Chrysicat
We can be sure that every one of them has a permanent slot on Fox ” News”.
re: #26 Patricia Kayden
I love how self unaware Trump is. It’s amazing.
re: #17 stpaulbear
But how many of those votes is Brian Kemp trying to invalidate?
All of them, Katie.
re: #29 Skip Intro
I love how self unaware Trump is. It’s amazing.
“The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder include: grandiose sense of importance, preoccupation with unlimited success, belief that one is special and unique, exploitative of others, lack of empathy, arrogance, and jealousy of others.”
Well, damn. This describes Trump to a fucking T.
re: #24 Chrysicat
So at this point do we assume there’s a Veritas mole in every last Dem campaign in the country, and no R ones?
Also, how does anyone talk in the campaign office when one staffer is guaranteed to be a Nazi provocateur/provocateuse?
We don’t have to assume that, but candidates should consider vetting volunteers better.
I get the need of high-profile campaigns to enlist as many volunteers as possible. However, enlisting a rodent-copulator will ruin your campaign. The lesson of ACORN cannot be overstated.
LOL, self-pwnage continues … Jacob Wohl can’t dig fast enough with a shovel, perhaps someone ought to offer him a steam shovel.
I became more famous than you. That’s what happened. pic.twitter.com/X4J67eaUJ0
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) November 1, 2018
This is literally just a graph proving people had to google your dumbass to figure out who you are https://t.co/xpUkyB8NTM
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 1, 2018
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹
Hey, Jacob, you got fired by SMOTI. That’s a real achievement.
Is Trump actually serious about eliminating birthright citizenship by EO or is this just another ploy to excite his base to get to the polls? As we all know, he lies about everything.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Is Trump actually serious about eliminating birthright citizenship by EO or is this just another ploy to excite his base to get to the polls? As we all know, he lies about everything.
No, yes, of course.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Is Trump actually serious about eliminating birthright citizenship by EO or is this just another ploy to excite his base to get to the polls? As we all know, he lies about everything.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Steven Miller or Steve King or someone like them suggested it. That said, the GOP has been after that issue all my life.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹
We don’t have to assume that, but candidates should consider vetting volunteers better.
I get the need of high-profile campaigns to enlist as many volunteers as possible. However, enlisting a rodent-copulator will ruin your campaign. The lesson of ACORN cannot be overstated.
Campaigns cannot afford to investigate volunteers — they are delighted that someone is willing to help out. I’ve worked at a low level for several candidates for House; they would never suspect that a volunteer was actively trying to sabotage a campaign. It’s possible some high profile campaigns may place spies among their competitors for information. I just don’t know how our political system can survive if we have to be suspicious of everyone around us.
Stuff from my area of the Left Coast:
- I dropped the ballots for our daughter, son, my wife and myself in the drive-up drop box outside our City Hall/Cop Shop. Four voters, three independents and one Democrat, all voting straight down the ticket for Democrats and their positions on the five Measures that are up. As usual, four of the five are wingnut faves (cut public funding of abortions & services, a constitution change to assure tax-free groceries - that happens to constitutionally lock in low tax rates for grocery chains, screwing over small grocery stores which explains Kroger throwing tons of money at it), allow our law enforcement to cooperate with Hair Furor’s Immigration Strike Force and finally, change the Oregon Constitution so that any tax increases require 60% legislative support for passage. This last one is an attempt by Republicans to wrest some legislative control from the Democrats, to which we all voted ‘fuck that shit’. Same with the other three measures. The one Democratic one was for affordable housing, which we voted for.
In addition, although our local candidates for city positions are non-partisan (lol), they are anything but that this year as the Democrats have finally stepped up and are targeting our small towns with handy post cards that list that city’s candidates that they recommend. Conservatives have pretty much run the town for years and this year they are getting some competition. More on that after the election as I have some humorous news that I want to share about a local candidate that we’re supporting and right now we want to see him win first.
- The Repub candidate for Governor is Knute Buehler (I call him K-noot as that makes me think of K-Fed, lol) and it’s hilarious to see every single mailer of his is completely lacking in the color red. Instead, he’s using a blue with a slight purple tinge to it. It’s like he has an allergy to red.
- Dallas Heard, a Republican who is running for the state senate, has no problem with the color red. His mailers have red splashed all over them. The problem for him is that his latest mailer pleading for votes has a portrait-type picture of him smiling, in a suit and tie with what looks like a half inch wide strip of silver duct tape that runs vertically from just above his left eyebrow to just below his eye, just to the left of the bridge of his nose so it covers the inside white of his left eye. It looks like Heard stuck some duct tape on his face or he tore his skin off and he’s nothing but duct tape underneath (that seems more likely to me). The really shitty thing about this guy is that his family ‘farm’ runs a 12 million gallon wastewater facility and he’s hot about property owners having every property right they can for their land (it’s easy to guess why with a farm like that).
- Halloween night: As usual, all of my conservative neighbors closed their blinds and turned off their porch lights so the kids would know that they are assholes. I thought it was considerate of them because it made our house, one of three decorated on our block, stand out real well. This allowed us to spend four hours shoveling lots of treats into kids bags. Oh, and scaring the crap out of them. My wife get the credit for that as she runs the ‘decorate the house’ show here, I’m just the tech and roadie for her. Dropping spiders, howling and jiggling plants with glowing eyes in them, shrieking wildcats, moaning ghouls and more, all triggered by sound and motion. Lots of lights, toothy pumpkins with flickering green and red lights in them, lots of fake web and too much more to mention, and boy does it work. This year one woman told us that she used to come here as a kid and it scared the crap out of her, and here she was with her husband bringing their daughter to scare the crap out of her. I think we were too successful because when her Mom asked her how she liked the place, she said that she never wanted to come back because it was too scary. Frequently we have to come down the porch and steps to give the scared lil’ peeps their candy…lol!
My wife got lots of compliments and a good time was had by all. Well, except for my asshole conservative neighbors… but that’s a conservative for you.
Miserable.
— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) November 1, 2018
I think they got those labeled backwards.
re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter
We laugh at O’Keefe and anyone who believes his crap.
re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter
Campaigns cannot afford to investigate volunteers — they are delighted that someone is willing to help out. I’ve worked at a low level for several candidates for House; they would never suspect that a volunteer was actively trying to sabotage a campaign. It’s possible some high profile campaigns may place spies among their competitors for information. I just don’t know how our political system can survive if we have to be suspicious of everyone around us.
I don’t mean hiring a private investigator or something. Social media and image searches on the Internet are pretty cheap to do though.
re: #41 Single-handed sailor
I think they got those labeled backwards.
Not a big fan of attacking someone over looks (for example, her lazy eye). My wife has the same condition.
I would much rather attack her over her stated lies positions.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t mean hiring a private investigator or something. Social media and image searches on the Internet are pretty cheap to do though.
Not foolproof.
re: #24 Chrysicat
So at this point do we assume there’s a Veritas mole in every last Dem campaign in the country, and no R ones?
Also, how does anyone talk in the campaign office when one staffer is guaranteed to be a Nazi provocateur/provocateuse?
In a typical campaign, a person who proposes outrageous stunts would be ignored and not treated seriously — and may eventually be asked to leave if they aren’t helping out with operations.
re: #46 Hecuba’s daughter
In a typical campaign, a person who proposes outrageous stunts would be ignored and not treated seriously — and may eventually be asked to leave if they aren’t helping out with operations.
The last time I ran for office, I once jokingly suggested perhaps I should hire a blimp to fly over town with a campaign message.
Several folks who have run various campaigns in the past flooded my E-mail box suggesting how they could do this and how much they would charge for that service.
Here’s a couple of tunes.
#NowPlaying Flávio Guimarães & Netto Rockfeller & Bruno Marques > Sound Tracks > El Gringo https://t.co/sYZ3K26sP0
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 2, 2018
#NowPlaying The Sheepdogs > Future Nostalgia > Downtown https://t.co/eIsH3FEhHT
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 2, 2018
re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹
You can actually purchase that on Etsy.
More context: @realDonaldTrump said that he has told the military to respond to any rock throwing by members of the migrant caravan as if it was an armed attack. “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fightsback. I told them to consider it a rifle.”
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 1, 2018
We had rocks thrown at us all the time in Afghanistan. Responding with lethal force is a fucking war crime. https://t.co/CqKYWfy3so
— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) November 1, 2018
Also, if you respond with “actually, when i was there with this unit..”
Congratulations, you’re a war criminal and a piece of shit.— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) November 1, 2018
The Caravans are made up of some very tough fighters and people. Fought back hard and viciously against Mexico at Northern Border before breaking through. Mexican soldiers hurt, were unable, or unwilling to stop Caravan. Should stop them before they reach our Border, but won’t!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
The accelerating pace of crazy statements from Trump makes me think he’s panicking about what will happen on Tuesday. https://t.co/14m2GHf4Sz
— Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) November 1, 2018
re: #52 Belafon
In an alternate timeline, Goliath pulled out an M-16 and killed David and his entire army.
re: #52 Belafon
I’m not sure what would be worse: A military coup, or a mutiny.
Here is another shooter in the making. cc: @FBI @DHSgov https://t.co/kJ6esiLQA1
— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) November 2, 2018
President Xi Jinping holds talks with El Salvador president, urging solid basis to boost cooperation https://t.co/E95vaYMIJS pic.twitter.com/smIjo120W8
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) November 1, 2018
China is there to capitalize on every country Trump alienates.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
I’m not sure what would be worse: A military coup, or a mutiny.
I wonder how many on the right would get rattled if the military just didn’t follow the orders he gave on the border?
re: #57 Nyet
Well, that deserves a report to YouTube. (I cannot make one as I do not have a Google account.)
How a British seaside village ended up in a GOP congressional ad https://t.co/jboEueWsiI
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 2, 2018
Are we sure the GOP isn’t the Know Nothing Party?
Things normal people don’t think…..
Donald Trump Jr. says he’s worried Robert Mueller will “totally fabricate” charges against him https://t.co/PemyHeWRFB pic.twitter.com/auV8W66hVp
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 1, 2018
re: #59 Belafon
I wonder how many on the right would get rattled if the military just didn’t follow the orders he gave on the border?
That’s the problem. If the military refuses an order from the civilian government, that’s the start of a military coup. If there was a mutiny, then you might have military units fighting each other.
Either one would be bad. The ideal is no one gives the military illegal orders.
My guess would be a bunch of armed yahoos might decide to take on the military (good luck with that) for not following the God Emperor of Loon’s orders.
re: #62 Dave In Austin
Things normal people don’t think…..
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If he shaved, maybe his chin wouldn’t look so… where’s your chin?????
re: #62 Dave In Austin
Things normal people don’t think…..
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Donnie Jr’s worried that his ass is gonna end up in Federal prison - this is simply a preemptive PR strike on his part because he’s obviously scared shitless that Mueller is probably going to indict him.
Idiots start grass fire with incendiary shotgun shells:
This is the stuff, 12 Gauge Flame Thrower - Dragons Breath - 3 Units Per Package
FLAME THROWER CAN now be sent regular FED EX Ground. Normally only $16.00 for s&h.
The “Flame Thrower” round as pictured produces an enormous wall of fire for 100+ feet. The incendiary metal compound contained inside burns when fired at over 4000 degrees fahrenheit, showering your target in a momentary wall of flame. Because magnesium is an ingredient in this payload you will need to clean your gun after you use this round.
I don’t foresee much of a home defense application for this, though arsonists may find it very useful.
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Idiots start grass fire with incendiary shotgun shells:
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This is the stuff, 12 Gauge Flame Thrower - Dragons Breath - 3 Units Per Package
I don’t foresee much of a home defense application for this, though arsonists may find it very useful.
The perfect round for California.
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Idiots start grass fire with incendiary shotgun shells:
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I don’t foresee much of a home defense application for this, though arsonists may find it very useful.
Quoting from the very beginning of the video: I didn’t think it would ricochet and go all the way back to the berm.
Chowderhead. Always know your target and what’s behind it. You thought a paper target would stop it?
This is the kind of guy who gives irresponsible gun owners a bad name.
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Ah yet another crop of Darwin Award winners!
re: #68 Single-handed sailor
The perfect round for California.
Banned as all fuck here, but you can easily buy them in Arizona, Oregon and Nevada and then illegally drive them back. Like all novelty shotgun rounds they do the one thing I honestly can’t abide, strive to turn a firearm into a toy. Running burning magnesium through the barrel also seems like a really good way to ruin a shotgun.
Chalk up another thing the right wing grievance machine would howl about if this was Michelle Obama:
Melania Trump’s overnight stay in Cairo during her October trip to Africa cost taxpayers $95,050, according to federal spending records.
The US first lady and her entourage spent the night at the Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo, which offers rooms starting at $119. The rate for the hotel’s presidential suite can be rented for $699, which includes $156.50 in taxes, per the property’s website.
Although a 2017 Fox News analysis of White House staffing data called the first lady’s office “one of the leanest East Wing operations in recent history,” the price tag for the one night she and her entourage stayed at the Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo was significantly higher than the $77,345.35 that the government spent on her husband’s two-night stay last July at his golf course in Scotland with, among others, son Eric, chief of staff John Kelly, press secretary Sarah Sanders, and social media director Dan Scavino.
Is this something @TomiLahren pleasures herself too?
— 🦈Dave’s Now Evil🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) November 2, 2018
A 4-year-old girl collapses from exhaustion and refuses to walk any further.
Powerful photo from the caravan by @vanhoutenphoto. pic.twitter.com/lIMjJzH9VB— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 31, 2018
This is the enemy, according to Trump and the GOP.
Mark Sanford isn’t endorsing, but he pretty much called Katie Arrington a liar (Charleston, SC City Paper)
Nice non-endorsement there, calling your GOP colleague a liar one week before an election.
Republicans and Democrats have been waiting to see whether Rep. Mark Sanford would endorse in the contest to determine who will replace him in Congress.
A week before Election Day, Sanford told the Post and Courier that he would not be backing anyone in the race, telling the paper that “part of leadership, at times, means knowing when it’s best to keep quiet.”
In an exit interview on Vox co-founder Ezra Klein’s podcast this week, Sanford riffs on his view of democracy in the age of Trump, celebrity politics, “latitude with the truth,” and the role that partisanship plays in governing.
About 52 minutes into the conversation, Sanford mentions his experience on the campaign trail with Rep. Katie Arrington, saying that there were times when she lied.
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Anybody see Ben Garrison’s latest masterpiece racist/misogynist propaganda?
— Humans of Late Capitalism 🕊️ (@HumansOfLate) November 1, 2018
re: #75 DodgerFan1988
This is the enemy, according to Trump and the GOP.
Plenty of conservatives (and foreign rodent copulators) in that thread saying “do it the legal way” and other codswallop.
As many times as this has been explained (including people putting up screenshots and links of DHS rules to apply for asylum), they are terminally ignorant or willfully lying.
re: #77 teleskiguy
Anybody see Ben Garrison’s latest
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Does Garrison’s cartoons actually get published in respectable outlets, or are they just shared around by conservatives thinking how brilliant he is?
Considering how he labels everything right down to a pebble drawn on the ground, I think he knows his audience.
re: #77 teleskiguy
Bizzare feed……
#humansoflatecapitalism pic.twitter.com/wVG1PlDThg
— Humans of Late Capitalism 🕊️ (@HumansOfLate) October 31, 2018
re: #80 Dave In Austin
Bizzare feed……
Well, there’s always my favourite. I’ll leave this one as I go off to bed. G’night y’all.
This halloween, arbys is dressing up as sexy Wendy’s.
Jk! like everyone else on earth, we’ll once again go as a dead eyed gaggle of pathetically unloveable irrelevant dipshits hurling through time towards the inevitable eternal blackness of non-sentience.
Enjoy Arby’s— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) October 31, 2018
A 4-year-old girl collapses from exhaustion and refuses to walk any further.
Powerful photo from the caravan by @vanhoutenphoto. pic.twitter.com/lIMjJzH9VB— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 31, 2018
Donald Trump wants US troops to shoot her. https://t.co/49jGJMUOw4
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 2, 2018
I’ma scratching my head here, not that I put much faith in Twitter surveys
Donald Trump wants soldiers to open fire at the migrant caravan if they throw stones at them…
Is that a good idea?— Nov8Reelection (@4YrsToday) November 2, 2018
re: #82 Kragar
Donald Trump wants US troops to shoot her.
Whereas Betsy DeVos would prefer they shoot her parents, and sell her to “Christian” adoptive parents.
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Idiots start grass fire with incendiary shotgun shells:
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I don’t foresee much of a home defense application for this, though arsonists may find it very useful.
Good Grief! That older guy in the foreground is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Yes, shooting in the vicinity of a wood frame house does have an alarming tendency to set the house on fire. Quite a few firefights between snipers and police end with the sniper either being forced out of a burning house or going up with it. And for some reason fire departments are decidedly unenthusiastic about attempting to put out a housefire in the middle of a firefight.
Somewhat off topic, I remember one set of night exercises in Ft McCoy, Wisconsin where another unit fired some flares. Our battalion along with everybody else got to spend the rest of the night putting out the resulting fires.
It was really enlightened self-interest since the fire was between us and any reasonable escape route.
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹
The last time I ran for office, I once jokingly suggested perhaps I should hire a blimp to fly over town with a campaign message.
Several folks who have run various campaigns in the past flooded my E-mail box suggesting how they could do this and how much they would charge for that service.
I should have described the situation differently — by outrageous, I didn’t mean an unusual stunt but something that might be suggested by the Nazi provocateur in the original post — a violent or racist action.
It just keeps getting worse.
Is she even aware that they are using her name?
— リチャード！ (@RichardGJP) November 2, 2018
Kris Kobach gets advice from Steve Bannon, holds rally at GOP headquarters (Topeka Capital-Journal, more at the link):
Kris Kobach, the Republican nominee for Kansas governor, brought his get-out-the-vote tour to GOP headquarters Thursday evening in Topeka, where he was greeted by an anxious crowd anticipating a close outcome on election night.
The secretary of state appears to be locked in a dead heat with Democrat Laura Kelly, a state senator from Topeka, as moderates weigh their options between those two and independent Greg Orman.
A day earlier, Kobach met with Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist, who offered advice to his conservative confidant in the final days of the campaign.
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The scene at Republican headquarters was different Thursday from two days earlier, when the office was stripped of campaign signs that typically plaster its windows in the hour before Bannon arrived in Topeka. A throng of supporters greeted Kobach and congressional candidate Steve Watkins as they entered through the well-decorated facade.
Party leadership denied the makeover had anything to do with Bannon. Jim Joice, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, described it as “a little rearranging and cleaning.”
“Just trying to make the place a litter nicer and clean up a tad in preparation for tons of volunteers and the bus tour coming by,” Joice said.
Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said he wasn’t buying Joice’s explanation. Hensley said the GOP scrubbed its signage and closed the office early in an effort to distance the party from a controversial figure.
“Bannon is such a lightning rod, they didn’t want him to show up at headquarters,” Hensley said. “They’ve always had signs in the window for as long as I can remember, and I just felt like it was very strange a week before the election that they would take the signs down, turn the lights off and send everybody home. That’s just not normal behavior for a state party to shut everything down a week before the election.”
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Tennessee Inmate Executed After Choosing The Electric Chair
Edmund Zagorski was executed by electric chair Thursday in a Nashville, Tenn., prison after challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection drugs and then choosing instead to die by electrocution.
When asked whether he had any last words, Zagorski, 63, simply replied, “Let’s rock.”
Zagorksi was the first man executed in the electric chair in Tennessee since 2007. He had been convicted in April 1983 of murdering two men — robbing them and slitting their throats during a drug deal.
His execution came after a flurry of legal maneuvering in recent weeks to delay the action. The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday night rejected an appeal to halt the execution. Zagorski had asked the high court to consider whether it was unconstitutional to force him to choose between lethal injection and lethal injection.
34 years on death row. Another inmate, 61-year-old David Earl Miller, has been there 37 years. He is scheduled for execution in December.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
It just keeps getting worse.
This is really looking like what they intended to do is loop in the press into reporting the story (note all the journalists they called), then originally the plan was to go to that Holiday Inn and report “see, it’s all fake news. Here’s the proof.”
When the press didn’t bite, they forged ahead as if all this is real, still trying to get the press to swallow the bait. There’s a woman claiming she was raped. Don’t liberals say “believe all women” you hypocrites? She fears for her safety but we promise she will come forward.
If the woman who’s signature they forged is a real person, I hope she sues Berkman into penury. (Wohl probably not worth anything.)
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Idiots start grass fire with incendiary shotgun shells:
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I don’t foresee much of a home defense application for this, though arsonists may find it very useful.
It’s a fucking magnesium thermite round. Dog help your shotgun barrel, it is not long for this world.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
well, to be fair, it IS an electronic signature put there by an automated DocuSign application, I’ve used said same type of stuff when applying for loans and signing loan documents.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
It just keeps getting worse.
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Pretty sure it is supposed to be a font. Nothingburger.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
It just keeps getting worse.
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Actually on further reflection that’s how DocuSign signatures look, you pick a font style that best approximates your signature and go with that. I forgot that I had to sign something using that system several years ago and that’s the way it worked. It’s still fucking weird and suspicious as hell that they went this route with a supposed accuser making such an explosive allegation, because DocuSigned signatures aren’t witnessed or notarized. The system essentially works by emailing a link to the email address of the person who is supposed to sign and is 100% trust based with no effort to verify identity. There’s also doesn’t appear to be any language about the information being attested to as true under penalty of perjury, so it’s basically masquerading as a legal document.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
Dude, man- trypophobia warning!
(Not all that serious, but I can tell that eyeball thing is definitely gonna screw with my journey to the land of nod.)
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
well, its entirely possible that these geniuses made a fake e-mail account, attributed it to her name and then used that to doctor up some authentication that allows no one to actually examine her actual signature, and if she doesn’t show up, there’s no way to say that it isn’t “her”.
There are literally zero checks that would allow you to authenticate this if they control the e-mail account because if they dummied up the accounts, naturally they have the passwords and they can pose as whomever they damn well please.
There’s no mechanism to pick it apart because its a closed loop, so you’d have to take it on faith (like these guys have earned ANY) that this is authentic…. and based on their modus operandi, only the most gullible (like the people that follow them) would accept this as any kind of proof of any kind….
As a general comment, this election cycle has just gone completely off the rails. I have never seen, in my 62 years, anything close to this. The “president” is off the hook, spewing nothing but stream of consciousness lies.
He has ordered the military to the border to defend an “invasion”, consisting mostly of women and children, that is around 45 days away, by which time the military defenders of our borders will have stood down. He refers to our brave troops as a “human wall” when, if he spreads them evenly, will each be at least a mile apart.
Oh, and in a bit of absurd theater, Rafael Cruz rented a Piper Pawnee today which dragged a banner around downtown Austin (two entire circuits!) that had BETO, with a red circle and slash over it, with the rest of the banner reading “Because Socialism Sux!
I feel like I’m in the middle of an MST3000 convention, but it’s an actual national election.
Fuck me running. It’s BizzaroWorld.
Night all. Turnout by the 18-29 year cohort in Texas is up by 500%. God bless the kids in Florida for their “Vote for Your Life” tour.
That’s how grass roots is done.
Honestly I’m just trying to help Jacob out here LOL.
Just an FYI for @JacobAWohl. Contracting as an unlicensed private investigator is against the law in California. cc: @AGBecerra
— Sexy Undead Guy (@goddamnedfrank) November 2, 2018
re: #100 goddamnedfrank
Honestly I’m just trying to help Jacob out here LOL.
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When he posted his “I’m a cool dude who smokes” pic, I wanted to point out to him that legal smoking age in CA was 21.
re: #101 Kragar
When he posted his “I’m a cool dude who smokes” pic, I wanted to point out to him that legal smoking age in CA was 21.
That’s a statewide thing in CA, eh? In Aspen you have to be 21 to buy tobacco as of last year.
re: #102 teleskiguy
Yeah, statewide as far as I know
I’m imagining ol’ Jacob trying to get someone to buy him some Swisher Sweets outside a 7-11, so he can take a sick picture of him smoking and being cool.
re: #100 goddamnedfrank
re: #101 Kragar
At this point, I’ve lost track of how many laws Jacob A(ss)Wohl has broken so far with this knucklehead stunt. It’s just one layer of stupid on top of the next, with no consideration that making it all very public is just making his legal defense impossible, short of claiming temporary insanity.
@popehat keeps reminding Wohl to listen to his lawyers and shut up, but like most other RWNJs who think they are all that and more, Wohl is forging on ahead. It’s no wonder he loves Trump. They’re birds of a feather, including their net liquidity.
re: #104 teleskiguy
I’m imagining ol’ Jacob trying to get someone to buy him some Swisher Sweets outside a 7-11, so he can take a sick picture of him smoking and being cool.
His pic would have been more effective if he (a) actually had a visible mustache and (b) had a real cigar and not one of those slim kinds. Also (c) clearer skin.
I wonder if he realizes how many people are laughing at him.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Is Trump actually serious about eliminating birthright citizenship by EO or is this just another ploy to excite his base to get to the polls? As we all know, he lies about everything.
And it is a ploy to paint the Dems as a party that encourages terrorist anchor babies.
McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
A presentation and reading by Hamilton Gregory, author of “McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam.” Because so many college students were avoiding military service during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. Their death toll in combat was appalling.
Also known as “McNamara’s 100,000.”
Project 100,000 (also McNamara’s 100,000) was a 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers that would previously have been below military mental or medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating manpower requirements during American involvement in the Vietnam War and ended in December 1971.
As far as I am concerned, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most evil and destructive people of the twentieth century. He had gone on to the World Bank by the time I joined the Army in 1969, but his legacy of bungling, arrogance, and cruelty remained with us for many years, and in many ways is still with us today.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And it is a ploy to paint the Dems as a party that encourages terrorist anchor babies.
Who are born holding live grenades
re: #106 wheat-dogg
I wonder if he realizes how many people are laughing at him.
He’s just like Fuckface Von Clownstick in that he is incapable of shame.
You might have read that Mexico offered temporary asylum to the caravan just to keep them away from the border, denying Trump a crisis to exploit, but he cannot back down from The Threat right now.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You might have read that Mexico offered temporary asylum to the caravan just to keep them away from the border, denying Trump a crisis to exploit, but he cannot back down from The Threat right now.
Mexico should tell the US it has to pay Mexico to harbor the refugees, like Trump told Mexico to pay for the wall.
Green Party candidate in Arizona US Senate race drops out and endorses Kyrsten Sinema.
Polling has been neck-and-neck between Sinema and her Republican opponent, with the Green Party candidate polling at 6%.
Although early votes have already been cast, Angela Green’s endorsement of Kyrsten Sinema might be the push for Sinema to beat Martha McSally.
Ms. Green notes that Ms. Sinema’s positions are largely the same as her own, and blocking McSally is more important.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹
Green Party candidate in Arizona US Senate race drops out and endorses Kyrsten Sinema.
Polling has been neck-and-neck between Sinema and her Republican opponent, with the Green Party candidate polling at 6%.
Although early votes have already been cast, Angela Green’s endorsement of Kyrsten Sinema might be the push for Sinema to beat Martha McSally.
Ms. Green notes that Ms. Sinema’s positions are largely the same as her own, and blocking McSally is more important.
But what about her e-mails?
re: #99 austin_blue
I’m right behind you in the years and I agree, shit has derailed. The Gish Gallop has been inundated by the Trump Tsunami. Open NAZIs running for office, right wing terrorism growing, racism no longer being subtle dog whistles but instead air raid sirens, alternative facts, outright lies and a metric shit-ton more. I find it difficult to comment on any one thing because it’s just an endless barrage of bullshit that never stops.
It depresses me that there are so many heartless people in our country. Unfortunately, in my lifetime I have come to the conclusion that too many people pay lip service to being good people. They may be good people within the part of the world they exist in but when it comes to walking a mile in the shoes of another? Not only no, but Hell no! These types will bust in to tears when their favorite pet falls ill and laugh like an ass at some innocent black guy who was wrongly killed by a cop. They will donate to help a family with a child that has cancer, but only if the kid is white.
In talking to these people I have learned that they love to talk about the misfortune in their lives, seeking my understanding and sympathy for their difficulties. I have also learned that they will laugh at the difficulties of those they don’t like, not stopping for one second to think they they themselves sought my sympathy when things were difficult for them.
I would call it selfishness but it’s much more than that. It’s a really nasty self-absorbed kind of selfishness. Almost childish in nature in some people. Combine that with racism, misogyny, homophobia, religious zealotry and then toss in Commander Chaos and his Ball-sucking Yes Men, you end up with where we are at today.
re: #116 Odie Hugh Manatee
We are paying for past sins.
Ok, this Medium article is funny,
The caravan is covered nicely, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, here. https://t.co/p1ZR0L7sNH
— Steve Bouchard (@sbouchard67) November 2, 2018
Some long forgotten 90s music:
#NowPlaying Soul Coughing > Irresistible Bliss > Soundtrack to Mary https://t.co/SYcKSP8HLj
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 2, 2018
My friend flying to be w/ her family after synagogue killings gave this note to a man on her flight w/ a MAGA hat. He read it all. “A lot of people on the plane were upset, angry, & scared when they saw your hat. To us, your hat sanctions our death, our murder, our evisceration.” pic.twitter.com/fHuNrnFiLW
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 1, 2018
This is the kind of resistance I admire. Outspoken, honest, boldly confrontational—but notice the hearts at the top & the salutation at the bottom, “I love you.” Dr. King would be proud. We will only win back America if we fight very hard, but peacefully and with love. https://t.co/0kMktODIn6
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) November 1, 2018
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Trump’s latest tariffs undercut his first trade salvo in solar https://t.co/S4i16ap3oo
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 2, 2018
I am working with the real life version of Michael Scott from The Office.
Got this email at 5:48 pm, which is when I have class.
Thanks. I need the full answer sheet(s) for Quiz 3 that you provided for me. That would be great if you can put that on my desk A.S.A.P. Please reply A.S.A.P.
My reply at 7:48 pm:
I had class until 6 pm today and will not be in the office until Monday. Please find the key attached.
For context, I’m the manager and the sender is the employee. So, you can imagine my irritation.
Awwww….
“Wait for me, I wanna be in the picture too!” pic.twitter.com/iRdXtcCIPq
— viral viral (@xxlfunny1) November 1, 2018
In Louisville, KY, a con I wish I could attend. Some big names will be there.
Hmmm…
BOOM! Jack Burkman told me that Jacob Wohl’s company Surefire Intelligence has partners who have worked for Trump.@Krassenstein and I have a bombshell story coming soon!
The Truth will win!— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) November 1, 2018
re: #130 MsJ
If these yokels are working for Trump, it will make the Watergate break-in look like a professional job. Burkman and Wohl are more like the burglars in Home Alone than a pair of cagey operators.
re: #130 MsJ
I’d be worried about confirmation bias, especially with the Krassensteins involved, but their other reporting on the dumber and dumberest Wolh and Burkman have been confirmed by multiple sources.
If these two were related back to Trumpworld, it’s bad news for Trump. And it’s not just the FBI that will want to have a discussion, but Mueller.
Muellers’ currently investigating Stone and other right wing loons like Corsi for their role in all this, especially as it relates to wikileaks and their document dumps that helped Trump.
Burkman makes Corsi look like a competent guy in comparison.
And comedians continue to be our only national press.
Stephen Colbert embarrasses Fox News’ Chris Wallace, catches him in immigration lie on-air and calls in fact-check https://t.co/VfujSaQJHb
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 2, 2018
“Is she not washing the windows?”
re: #130 MsJ
If this turns out to be true I will probably giggle a little/lot. There’s not even a word yet for how stupid this kid is. One does have to wonder though how prevalent this sort of thing is and again, who foots the bill for people who seem to have no income? What would be excellent is if this ridiculous stunt caused a huge money spigot to dry up and people end up in jail over it.
Hey, 2018 has sucked big time, a girl can dream…I ask so little.
Doctoring while black.
“Is this your license?” the flight attendant asked the doctor. When the doctor asked what she meant, the flight attendant repeated the question. “Why would I carry someone else’s medical license?” the doctor said she replied. https://t.co/tTS8ZyujYD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 2, 2018
re: #135 A Mom Anon
If this turns out to be true I will probably giggle a little/lot. There’s not even a word yet for how stupid this kid is. One does have to wonder though how prevalent this sort of thing is and again, who foots the bill for people who seem to have no income? What would be excellent is if this ridiculous stunt caused a huge money spigot to dry up and people end up in jail over it.
Hey, 2018 has sucked big time, a girl can dream…I ask so little.
Someone wrote a short thread on twitter yesterday about the 2nd generation of right wing idiots. Parents at least lived in a normal world, these clowns, the younger ones, live in a world where Gateway Pundit, O’Keefe, et al are right and true and they are all true believers who want and need their messages to be accepted as fact and get the recognition they feel they richly deserve.
They exist in the bubble and are hailed as heroes. But to normal people they’re nuts.
But they do not see it that way. They are true believers.
I don’t know how to fix this. I don’t know if you can fix stupidity mixed in with deep brainwashing.
re: #137 MsJ
Yeah, stupid sociopath isn’t exactly in high demand as a set of marketable skills. Well, unless you are a republican. And even that seems to have a bit of a shelf life these days.
Hopefully that trend expands.
re: #133 MsJ
Fox is Trump agitprop network, including their so-called hard “news” guys.
I refuse to call Fox by their given name, because they aren’t news. They are agitprop and a propaganda outlet. When Trump talks about fake news, he’s projecting like IMAX since Fox is the very epitome of fake - they bluster with bulkshit and lie and stoke fear and resentment among the angry white bigots that form the key demographic of Fox (and the GOP).
re: #116 Odie Hugh Manatee
I’m right behind you in the years and I agree, shit has derailed. The Gish Gallop has been inundated by the Trump Tsunami. Open NAZIs running for office, right wing terrorism growing, racism no longer being subtle dog whistles but instead air raid sirens, alternative facts, outright lies and a metric shit-ton more. I find it difficult to comment on any one thing because it’s just an endless barrage of bullshit that never stops.
It depresses me that there are so many heartless people in our country. Unfortunately, in my lifetime I have come to the conclusion that too many people pay lip service to being good people. They may be good people within the part of the world they exist in but when it comes to walking a mile in the shoes of another? Not only no, but Hell no! These types will bust in to tears when their favorite pet falls ill and laugh like an ass at some innocent black guy who was wrongly killed by a cop. They will donate to help a family with a child that has cancer, but only if the kid is white.
In talking to these people I have learned that they love to talk about the misfortune in their lives, seeking my understanding and sympathy for their difficulties. I have also learned that they will laugh at the difficulties of those they don’t like, not stopping for one second to think they they themselves sought my sympathy when things were difficult for them.
I would call it selfishness but it’s much more than that. It’s a really nasty self-absorbed kind of selfishness. Almost childish in nature in some people. Combine that with racism, misogyny, homophobia, religious zealotry and then toss in Commander Chaos and his Ball-sucking Yes Men, you end up with where we are at today.
This is the conclusion of the Powell Memorandum which created the Republican 24/7 Bullshit machine. I still remember when the implementation began when I was a freshman at Pitt in 1973. All of a sudden Ayn Rand’s books were unleashed. Campus Crusade for Christ hijacked auditoriums at Pitt. The Economics department actively recruited for the Libertarian Party. A YAF (Young Americans for Freedom—Bucklyites) chapter popped up as SDS collapsed. The Equal Time and Fairness doctrine were on their way out as the Republican propaganda metastasized. The the New Right came to power in 1978 with Prop 13 in California. Reagan got in and Greed is Good. Looking out for #1 became the American Way Of Life.
And now America is best summarized as “I Got Mine And Fuck You”.
The headline of the @PittsburghPG is the Kaddish. The ultimate tribute to the victims. A statement that Jews belong. (via @catrineinhorn) pic.twitter.com/FOI8Lldt7H
— jodikantor (@jodikantor) November 2, 2018
When it comes to Jacob Wohl, I’m reminded of the idiot Barry Minkow here in Los Angeles. He blazed the path for Wohl. In the 80’s he was profiled as a mastermind with his ZZZZZZBest Carpet Cleaning scam. In reality, Barry was laundering mob money but you wouldn’t know that by the way the Corporate Press kissed his ass.
Then Barry slipped up and got caught. And what did he do? Why Barry done found himself Jay-Zuss and was born again. Yep, the Religious Right Pulpit Pimps took him into their fold and Sho ‘nuff Barry got on the Tax Exempt Pulpit Pimp Train.
Then Barry got caught fleecing the flock to finance his Pulpit Pimp Lifestyle. Off to jail he went. But he got out and went back to his Pulpit Pimpin’ ways as his congregation marks “forgave” him…
re: #137 MsJ
Jacob Wohl and the Ohio gun girl grifter are a match made in heaven. Their offspring would be unimaginably stupid.
re: #136 MsJ
Doctoring while black.
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This shit has to be so exhausting for black Americans.
re: #130 MsJ
Hmmm…
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That story dropped yesterday. There are, umm, holes in Burkman/Wohl’s story, to say the least.
The jobs report will at least give Trump something to talk about other than the Caravan. 250k new jobs in October, and wages up 3.1% over the last 12 months.
Ben’s trying hard to garner some attention with this one.
Get ready for my hottest take of the evening: whiskey tastes like turpentine. All who pretend otherwise may be safely categorized with those who say that they just LOVE salad.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 2, 2018
I wonder what kind of whiskey he drank. Also, how does he know how turpentine tastes like? It might explain a lot.
re: #137 MsJ
Someone wrote a short thread on twitter yesterday about the 2nd generation of right wing idiots. Parents at least lived in a normal world, these clowns, the younger ones, live in a world where Gateway Pundit, O’Keefe, et al are right and true and they are all true believers who want and need their messages to be accepted as fact and get the recognition they feel they richly deserve.
They exist in the bubble and are hailed as heroes. But to normal people they’re nuts.
But they do not see it that way. They are true believers.
I don’t know how to fix this. I don’t know if you can fix stupidity mixed in with deep brainwashing.
David Roberts (@drvox), my newest follow. He’s good.
One thing we’re seeing now is the 2nd generation of Fox conservatives. The first grew up in a normal world & was pulled into Fox world (like my dad). But they *remember* the normal world & can still pass in it; they know what tone & keywords to use. However …
— David Roberts (@drvox) October 30, 2018
He also put up a longer thread about the caravan yesterday. Also very good.
1. I got a little ranty today about this caravan business. A thread, for those who don’t want the 3K-word version. https://t.co/04gVqetK4o
— David Roberts (@drvox) November 1, 2018
re: #105 wheat-dogg
At this point, I’ve lost track of how many laws Jacob A(ss)Wohl has broken so far with this knucklehead stunt. It’s just one layer of stupid on top of the next, with no consideration that making it all very public is just making his legal defense impossible, short of claiming temporary insanity.
@popehat keeps reminding Wohl to listen to his lawyers and shut up, but like most other RWNJs who think they are all that and more, Wohl is forging on ahead. It’s no wonder he loves Trump. They’re birds of a feather, including their net liquidity.
And the most characteristic thing seems to be that Jack and Jake Really Don’t Care, Do U??
My guess is that, looney-tunes as this whole affair appears to “normal” observers, we have to remember (as has been pointed out here) that Jacob Wohl not only “works” in the RW media bubble, he is completely a product of it: I’m sure he thinks he can just brazen it out by trying to cover his scam with the figleaf of “aggressive journalism”: which, along with cover from his other inside- the-bubble supporters will be enough to deflect any legal repercussions.
Oh, and of course, try to spin it as “biased persecution” by the Usual Roster Of Enemies, which he will likely try to vigorously milk for clicks, publicity, and cash.
You would think that Jake The Fake would have a little more cognizance of his legal jeopardy, but this is RW alt-media in The Trump Era: normal considerations usually don’t apply.
About that Caroline/Carolyn Cass person …
Who really is Carolyne Cass, Mueller’s sex assault accuser? @Krassenstein and I got some info. https://t.co/CvSp3RYO08
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) November 2, 2018
In 2017, Cass sued TV producer Erik Desando in small claims court for “break of contract, misrepresented services, character defamation, libel, slander and bait + switch tactics” according to filings from the Santa Monica Courthouse in late 2017. In July of this year, after winning her case, Cass was awarded $10,000 by the court.
HillReporter reached out to Erik Desando for comment, and his thoughts on Ms. Cass. Desando told us “she’s a complete scam artist, loser. She ripped me off. She caused problems for every single person that I’ve introduced her to. She’s a complete nightmare.”
While Cass has yet to speak for herself and has not filed a police report regarding what Wohl and Burkman say are her claims that Special Counsel Robert Mueller raped her back in 2010, images and videos of the woman have already begun to circulate on social media. The following is a video of Cass back in 2009, approximately a year before the alleged sex assault would have taken place.
re: #148 wheat-dogg
Ben’s trying hard to garner some attention with this one.
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I wonder what kind of whiskey he drank. Also, how does he know how turpentine tastes like? It might explain a lot.
Whiskey and salad are both good. This is why you don’t have friends beyond your bubble.
re: #146 makeitstop
That story dropped yesterday. There are, umm, holes in Burkman/Wohl’s story, to say the least.
This whole Wohl thing sounds like the plot of a teenager stoner movie.
It would make a good stoner comedy, actually.
Harold & Kumar frame Robert Mueller of rape
re: #151 wheat-dogg
And apparently Cass is Wohl’s GF.
Jacob Wohl tweeted this photo of the ‘Mueller accuser’ (left), who failed to turn up to his press confidence. You can just stick it into Google Images to get her face, since that exact photo is old, already online and.. his girlfriend. pic.twitter.com/rYyauaWFiw
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2018
re: #154 wheat-dogg
And a commenter in that thread points out …
His mom would make more sense, since the alleged victim would have been an adult in 2010. That girl would have been about 9.
— Jen T. (@stuffjenlikes) November 2, 2018
re: #153 b.d.(soros funded)
This whole Wohl thing sounds like the plot of a teenager stoner movie.
It would make a good stoner comedy, actually.
Harold & Kumar frame Robert Mueller of rape
Can you imagine them sitting around cooking this up?
Stupid reinforcing stupid. They probably convinced each other they had an air-tight scam.
re: #157 makeitstop
Can you imagine them sitting around cooking this up?
Stupid reinforcing stupid. They probably convinced each other they had an air-tight scam.
So, a Fox News broadcast.
re: #133 MsJ
And comedians continue to be our only national press.
That is great. Spring a fact checker on them and suddenly they know the truth.
re: #154 wheat-dogg
And apparently Cass is Wohl’s GF.
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Jake and Carrie sittin’ in a tree
S-C-A-M-M-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes fakery
Now Jake’s workin’ in the prison bakery!
re: #156 wheat-dogg
And a commenter in that thread points out …
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Though I read yesterday Cass is 34. Can’t confirm that though.
In a way, I think social media has created this bubble for idealogues. It’s ironic for all their criticism of “safe spaces” and college campuses but people like Wohl, Ohio gun girl, and others are used to being told “Yeah, you’re right” without push back. One thing I like about our community is if you’re wrong, you’ll get nudged. Yesterday or maybe it was on Wednesday I said that not many Republican candidates use the fact that they speak more than one language anymore. I was reminded of Scott’s Spanish ads and that Rubio used his Spanish in the debates. And I’m sure you all can think of other examples too.
Wohl now: “Yes, I used a bullshit photo, but that was only to protect the identity of my client!”
re: #163 Targetpractice
Wohl now: “Yes, I used a bullshit photo, but that was only to protect the identity of my client!”
“Your Honor, my client is too stupid to go to jail”
re: #160 Jay C
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Jake and Carrie sittin’ in a tree
S-C-A-M-M-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes fakery
Now Jake’s workin’ in the prison bakery!
Her best move was deciding not to attend the press conference and spout lies for Wohl. If she’s smart, she lawyer up and offer to testify against him in return for immunity.
re: #164 b.d.(soros funded)
“Your Honor, my client is too stupid to go to jail”
“…this is a joke, right? Where’s the hidden camera, I’m being Punk’d.”
re: #157 makeitstop
Can you imagine them sitting around cooking this up?
Stupid reinforcing stupid. They probably convinced each other they had an air-tight scam.
A Wall Street guy posted an encounter with Jacob W on Twitter yesterday. The gist is that Jake was dropping one firm’s name to get an interview with a second, demanding a beefy salary, an office and control over X number of accounts, getting rejected, and then going to the firm he had just name-dropped to make the same pitch, but this time name-dropping the second firm.
He’s like the Wolf of Wall Street after he discovered ‘ludes, but somehow never discovered how to sell.
From what I’ve read about Wohl. He seems to have made his mark being a hedge fund type wonder kid. Don’t know what made him think his political opinions were worth more a damn than mine or yours though. That’s what Twitter unfortunately does. It gives obnoxious assholes more credibility than they deserve. Then again, that’s not new since Limbaugh and Father Coughlin who were equally uncredible got tons of airtime in the past so the problem isn’t modern social media, it’s people who take these conmen and women seriously.
re: #161 Big Beautiful Door
Though I read yesterday Cass is 34. Can’t confirm that though.
She seems older than Wohl by a few years, for sure.
re: #164 b.d.(soros funded)
“Your Honor, my client is too stupid to go to jail”
It could work. A lawyer in Kentucky successfully used the defense that he was too drunk to be culpable for ripping off his clients.
re: #1 Kragar
I’ll take “What is Wag The Dog?” for $600, Alex.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
He was a hedge fund wonder kid who was accused of fraud and barred from operating as a financial anything in his home state.
re: #172 wheat-dogg
He was a ledge fund wonder kid who was accused of fraud and barred from operating as a financial anything in his home state.
Or anywhere else in the country, for life.
re: #146 makeitstop
That story dropped yesterday. There are, umm, holes in Burkman/Wohl’s story, to say the least.
That is the weirdest story. It’s breathtakingly…weird. Thanks for the link.
re: #172 wheat-dogg
He was a ledge fund wonder kid who was accused of fraud and barred from operating as a financial anything in his home state.
Ahhh okay so he’s dabbling in politics because he can’t rip people off in another way. It’s so surreal for me to think that this guy was younger than my niece was when Mueller became FBI director and wasn’t even alive when Mueller was prosecuting the Lockerbie bombers and Five Families.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
From what I’ve read about Wohl. He seems to have made his mark being a hedge fund type wonder kid. Don’t know what made him think his political opinions were worth more a damn than mine or yours though. That’s what Twitter unfortunately does. It gives obnoxious assholes more credibility than they deserve. Then again, that’s not new since Limbaugh and Father Coughlin who were equally uncredible got tons of airtime in the past so the problem isn’t modern social media, it’s people who take these conmen and women seriously.
Wohl got into futures at a young age, and promptly got into trouble to the point of getting a lifetime ban for being a scammer. He violated Arizona securities law, refused to cooperate with the authorities, and the National Futures Association slapped his dumbass with a lifetime ban.
Dumbass dad David Wohl is a Trump twit and a lawyer (apparently in the Orly Taitz mode).
re: #176 lawhawk
Wohl got into futures at a young age, and promptly got into trouble to the point of getting a lifetime ban for being a scammer. He violated Arizona securities law, refused to cooperate with the authorities, and the National Futures Association slapped his dumbass with a lifetime ban.
Dumbass dad David Wohl is a Trump twit and a lawyer (apparently in the Orly Taitz mode).
Gotcha. A lifetime ban that young. Wowie.
Let me get this straight. Trump, who admits to being a sex predator who grabbed women by the genitals and got away with it, is adored and called on to campaign for GOPers, but Democrats are leery of dealing with Bill Clinton now?
Yeah, the GOP is a cesspool of misogyny.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 2, 2018
Of course, people are using that story to attack Hillary. Because of course.
People like Wohl and the others though. That’s why I don’t have the optimism that the right of my generation or even the generation after mine is going to be more enlightened. They’re just as stupid, pig-headed, and bigoted as their parents and grandparents. That’s why I don’t engage in generation bashing. I know some boomers including folks here and others who are very insightful and thoughtful people. Individuals are the issue.
re: #178 lawhawk
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Of course, people are using that story to attack Hillary. Because of course.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹
Ms. Green notes that Ms. Sinema’s positions are largely the same as her own, and blocking McSally is more important.
Well, guess now is as good a time as ever to recognize that.
re: #178 lawhawk
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Of course, people are using that story to attack Hillary. Because of course.
More relevant: The sitting president is an admitted sexual predator who has acknowledged using his power to prey on women, engaged in sexual assault, and faced no consequences for it at all.
Yet the media thinks that’s less important than flagellating the DNC over the decades old allegations against a man who left office before most of the youngest voters out there today were sucking at their mom’s teats.
“Liberal media,” my ass.
re: #182 Targetpractice
More relevant: The sitting president is an admitted sexual predator who has acknowledged using his power to prey on women, engaged in sexual assault, and faced no consequences for it at all.
Yet the media thinks that’s less important than flagellating the DNC over the decades old allegations against a man who left office before most of the youngest voters out there today were sucking at their mom’s teats.
“Liberal media,” my ass.
No consequences? The GOP elevated him to the WH - they knew and didn’t care. Or worse, they knew, didn’t care, and purposefully chose him over Hillary because they’re misogynists just like Trump.
Fun fact:
Trump keeps saying, as he did yesterday, that only “3%” of people released for an asylum hearing actually show up for court. His Justice Department says it was 89% last year, 91% in 2016, 93% in 2015, 94% in 2014. https://t.co/ZeMypXduRg
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 2, 2018
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re: #132 lawhawk
I’d be worried about confirmation bias, especially with the Krassensteins involved, but their other reporting on the dumber and dumberest Wolh and Burkman have been confirmed by multiple sources.
If these two were related back to Trumpworld, it’s bad news for Trump. And it’s not just the FBI that will want to have a discussion, but Mueller.
Muellers’ currently investigating Stone and other right wing loons like Corsi for their role in all this, especially as it relates to wikileaks and their document dumps that helped Trump.
Burkman makes Corsi look like a competent guy in comparison.
Corsi? The man who derailed Kerry’s campaign? Sounds pretty competent to me. We underestimate these villains at our peril. We underestimated Trump’s appeal to the public. But maybe the media is finally catching on.
re: #182 Targetpractice
More relevant: The sitting president is an admitted sexual predator who has acknowledged using his power to prey on women, engaged in sexual assault, and faced no consequences for it at all.
Yet the media thinks that’s less important than flagellating the DNC over the decades old allegations against a man who left office before most of the youngest voters out there today were sucking at their mom’s teats.
“Liberal media,” my ass.
I think what gets me is this. Not Clinton but the Clinton’s. As if Hillary is responsible for what Bill did. I don’t see anyone in the media and I should add I don’t expect them to hold Melania responsible for how Trump treats women. This shit just gets old.
re: #184 makeitstop
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All he does is fucking lie his orange ass off and the red hats eat it up.
re: #89 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Tennessee Inmate Executed After Choosing The Electric Chair
34 years on death row. Another inmate, 61-year-old David Earl Miller, has been there 37 years. He is scheduled for execution in December.
Why don’t they just sentence them to death by old age?
re: #188 The Vicious Babushka
Why don’t they just sentence them to death by old age?
Because it doesn’t get their revenge boners going.
re: #153 b.d.(soros funded)
This whole Wohl thing sounds like the plot of a teenager stoner movie.
It would make a good stoner comedy, actually.
Harold & Kumar frame Robert Mueller of rape
re: #156 wheat-dogg
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Yesterday, I said she’d have been six. I was > < close!
re: #186 HappyWarrior
I think what gets me is this. Not Clinton but the Clinton’s. As if Hillary is responsible for what Bill did. I don’t see anyone in the media and I should add I don’t expect them to hold Melania responsible for how Trump treats women. This shit just gets old.
The short answer is nobody takes Melania seriously.
The longer answer is Melania is not seen by anybody as having any sort of influence, whether it be on Donny or on politics. Hillary was an accomplished lawyer and political advocate who spent her time as First Lady being a mover and shaker in her husband’s administration. So far, the only moving and shaking Melania seems to do is with the pool boy when Donny is away.
re: #192 Targetpractice
The short answer is nobody takes Melania seriously.
The longer answer is Melania is not seen by anybody as having any sort of influence, whether it be on Donny or on politics. Hillary was an accomplished lawyer and political advocate who spent her time as First Lady being a mover and shaker in her husband’s administration. So far, the only moving and shaking Melania seems to do is with the pool boy when Donny is away.
True that.
re: #181 Sir John Barron
Well, guess now is as good a time as ever to recognize that.
A Green candidate who recognizes her presence may guarantee the victory of those who oppose Green policies. Someone who learned something from the 2016 debacle?
re: #168 HappyWarrior
From what I’ve read about Wohl. He seems to have made his mark being a hedge fund type wonder kid. Don’t know what made him think his political opinions were worth more a damn than mine or yours though. That’s what Twitter unfortunately does. It gives obnoxious assholes more credibility than they deserve. Then again, that’s not new since Limbaugh and Father Coughlin who were equally uncredible got tons of airtime in the past so the problem isn’t modern social media, it’s people who take these conmen and women seriously.
Brings back memories of Grandma Bacon’s hatred of Coughlin. Only once did a boarder at her home tune the radio into that racist. Grandma went livid when she heard Coughlin call FDR “Franklin Delano Rosenblum”. Grandma shut the radio off and told everyone to NEVER dial in to that racist…
This re: #195 Joe Bacon 🌹
Brings back memories of Grandma Bacon’s hatred of Coughlin. Only once did a boarder at her home tune the radio into that racist. Grandma went livid when she heard Coughlin call FDR “Franklin Delano Rosenblum”. Grandma shut the radio off and told everyone to NEVER dial in to that racist…
My grandparents all loved FDR. My paternal grandfather went to work for the NLRB almost from the start and was there until Nixon beat Humphrey and then he went into private practice. He was well off, in fact my only grandparent with a college degree but he looked out for the little guy.
Tried out the Fallout 76 beta yesterday. And no sir, I don’t like it.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹
Quoting from the very beginning of the video: I didn’t think it would ricochet and go all the way back to the berm.
Chowderhead. Always know your target and what’s behind it. You thought a paper target would stop it?
***This is the kind of guy who gives irresponsible gun owners a bad name.***
Don’t get me started…
Trump’s Spy Machine Stalking Twitter For ‘Insurrection’ (Wonkette, more at the link):
The Trump administration is scraping social media in order to spy on anti-Trump protests, but that’s not all! Curiously vague updates to the new defense doctrine give the military more authority to act in the event of “emergencies,” like an insurrection or an invasion of taco trucks. With such broad tools you’d think a definitely not racist person like Trump might find a way to stop a mass murder or two.
Motherboard reports that when the Trump administration took office it inherited a fancy new computer to spy on the social media of Not America. It didn’t take long for someone to wonder if it could be used to spy on all the communists who didn’t vote for Trump. The Army cut some nerds a check to follow the 2016 post-election protests, like at the inauguration, the airport protests, and the Women’s March. They found that whenever people wear their pink pussy hats and march in the streets they usually post a lot on social media. The report concluded that by cyber stalking social networks, you can predict the likelihood of violent protests.
Heh
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro has some questions for the caravan: “Who’s in that caravan? Are there pedophiles? Are there career criminals? Are there people who think they can beat their wives without consequence?” pic.twitter.com/DZMmYrM5h1
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) November 2, 2018
This is outrageous. We’ve seen absolutely no proof that Roy Moore, Paul Manafort or Rob Porter are in the caravan. https://t.co/ctGQ3YKnZz
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 2, 2018
re: #200 makeitstop
Heh
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What’s she’s really asking is “Are there enough potential Republicans in this caravan to consider letting it through?”
re: #137 MsJ
Someone wrote a short thread on twitter yesterday about the 2nd generation of right wing idiots. Parents at least lived in a normal world, these clowns, the younger ones, live in a world where Gateway Pundit, O’Keefe, et al are right and true and they are all true believers who want and need their messages to be accepted as fact and get the recognition they feel they richly deserve.
They exist in the bubble and are hailed as heroes. But to normal people they’re nuts.
But they do not see it that way. They are true believers.
***I don’t know how to fix this.*** I don’t know if you can fix stupidity mixed in with deep brainwashing.
Trust in Darwin
re: #202 HappyWarrior
JFC Jeanne GFY.
Jim Jeffries and Seth Myers both have a field day making fun of her.
She’s like a caricature of a Fox News host. Yelling, all the time yelling. So freakin’ annoying.
You know the easiest way to check if these people have criminal records? Allow them to apply for asylum, get their personal information and biometric data, then make inquiries of their home countries. Either they have outstanding warrants and/or past convictions OR (and this may be shocking) they’re clean and thus there is no reason to bar them besides “Fear of a Brown Planet.”
And before they scream “They might not have records!,” I direct them to all their bitching about “due process” and “rule of law” a month ago.
re: #204 makeitstop
Jim Jeffries and Seth Myers both have a field day making fun of her.
She’s like a caricature of a Fox News host. Yelling, all the time yelling. So freakin’ annoying.
And so frigging stupid.
There is absolutely no end to their cynicism.
White House official says that a dark anti-immigration ad released this week was put out in an effort to change the focus of cable television from the pipe bombs and the Pittsburgh killings. @shearm @juliehdavis https://t.co/7U3Bt47ca9
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 2, 2018
Assholes. Jerking the entire populace around to try and win a fuckin’ election.
re: #208 Targetpractice
You know the easiest way to check if these people have criminal records? Allow them to apply for asylum, get their personal information and biometric data, then make inquiries of their home countries. Either they have outstanding warrants and/or past convictions OR (and this may be shocking) they’re clean and thus there is no reason to bar them besides “Fear of a Brown Planet.”
And before they scream “They might not have records!,” I direct them to all their bitching about “due process” and “rule of law” a month ago.
Exactly. People like Trump and his allies have no idea how this actually works.
re: #210 makeitstop
There is absolutely no end to their cynicism.
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Assholes. Jerking the entire populace around to try and win a fuckin’ election.
Yeah we get it. You don’t care about the Squirrel Hill victims or those who got threatened by Savoc so you had to scare your base whose idea of Mexican food is Taco Bell.
re: #210 makeitstop
There is absolutely no end to their cynicism.
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Assholes. Jerking the entire populace around to try and win a fuckin’ election.
They think the best way to get people’s minds off acts carried out due to years of hate and bile is to crank up the production of hate and bile. Brilliant!
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re: #213 Targetpractice
They think the best way to get people’s minds off acts carried out due to years of hate and bile is to crank up the production of hate and bile. Brilliant!
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The Big Wingnut Machine runs on hate and bile.
re: #204 makeitstop
Jim Jeffries and Seth Myers both have a field day making fun of her.
She’s like a caricature of a Fox News host. Yelling, all the time yelling. So freakin’ annoying.
Is she the woman who was stalking Hillary Clinton, or am I thinking of a different FOX personality?
re: #143 wheat-dogg
Jacob Wohl and the Ohio gun girl grifter are a match made in heaven. Their offspring would be unimaginably stupid.
Black hole of idiocy.
re: #195 Joe Bacon 🌹
Brings back memories of Grandma Bacon’s hatred of Coughlin. Only once did a boarder at her home tune the radio into that racist. Grandma went livid when she heard Coughlin call FDR “Franklin Delano Rosenblum”. Granma shut the radio off and told everyone to NEVER dial in to that racist…
My husband told me about Coughlin. He was prime age during that animal’s reign of terror. I had not really heard about him. I was gobsmacked at such evil.
re: #143 wheat-dogg
Jacob Wohl and the Ohio gun girl grifter are a match made in heaven. Their offspring would be unimaginably stupid.
It would be some fucked up version of what Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi’s kid might be for tennis…
We just renamed the street outside the Saudi embassy in London pic.twitter.com/5Atl42y74q
— kristyan benedict (@KreaseChan) November 2, 2018
New stationery at Saudi Arabia’s London embassy, and it’s gonna be awkward. https://t.co/mMwlxOmO5J
— Joe Gould (@reporterjoe) November 2, 2018
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹
Is she the woman who was stalking Hillary Clinton, or am I thinking of a different FOX personality?
That’s her. I was hoping she’d just get lost in the woods and never be heard from again. No such luck.
re: #211 HappyWarrior
Exactly. People like Trump and his allies have no idea how this actually works.
They don’t care how any of this works. They care about scary brown people and using them to spin up fearful conservative voters before the election.
Shaun King Resurrects Frederick Douglass’ Anti-Slavery Newspaper (Heavy)
While we don’t have slavery (for now, anyway), Mr. King wishes to highlight the problems faced by the African-American community regarding racism.
buildingthenorthstar.com (Douglass’s original paper was named The North Star, King is trying to garner support for the relaunch)
re: #218 Mike Lamb
It would be some fucked up version of what Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi’s kid might be for tennis…
An idiot savant - totally gifted at being an idiot.
re: #222 makeitstop
An idiot savant - totally gifted at being an idiot.
More like the singularity of idiot savants. We’d finally be able to identify the grift gene.
re: #218 Mike Lamb
It would be some fucked up version of what Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi’s kid might be for tennis…
Their kid will probably be the best guitar player ever.
Words have consequences, you stupid orange meatsack.
Please Watch and Make your Deductions. pic.twitter.com/05yVwULFoh
— Nigerian Army (@HQNigerianArmy) November 2, 2018
The Nigerian military is using Trump’s words to justify shooting to death rock throwing protestors earlier this week. https://t.co/1TKoz9ckGT
— Dionne Searcey (@dionnesearcey) November 2, 2018
re: #144 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
It appears your doggo and kitteh have become fast friends.
Better watch it though…this lifestyle may not meet certain religious right standards.
A dog that lies with a cat is not Gawds natural law.
re: #225 makeitstop
Words have consequences, you stupid orange meatsack.
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Authoritarian wet dreamer.
re: #145 HappyWarrior
This shit has to be so exhausting for black Americans.
It is. But sadly many have grown so used to it all.
I have an elderly Black woman client that is also a friend now. She often says this is just a surfacing of behavior and attitudes that have existed all along.
re: #210 makeitstop
There is absolutely no end to their cynicism.
Assholes. Jerking the entire populace around to try and win a fuckin’ election.
Yes this is perfectly alright. //
Drain the swamp of these arsholes.
re: #150 Jay C
And the most characteristic thing seems to be that Jack and Jake Really Don’t Care, Do U??
My guess is that, looney-tunes as this whole affair appears to “normal” observers, we have to remember (as has been pointed out here) that Jacob Wohl not only “works” in the RW media bubble, he is completely a product of it: I’m sure he thinks he can just brazen it out by trying to cover his scam with the figleaf of “aggressive journalism”: which, along with cover from his other inside- the-bubble supporters will be enough to deflect any legal repercussions.
Oh, and of course, try to spin it as “biased persecution” by the Usual Roster Of Enemies, which he will likely try to vigorously milk for clicks, publicity, and cash.You would think that Jake The Fake would have a little more cognizance of his legal jeopardy, but this is RW alt-media in The Trump Era: normal considerations usually don’t apply.
Jacob probably thinks Trump will pardon him no matter what stupid stuff he does.
He is so into Trump he probably buys everything Trump says.
re: #160 Jay C
🎶
Jake and Carrie sittin’ in a tree
S-C-A-M-M-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes fakery
Now Jake’s workin’ in the prison bakery!
That works out really. Ol’ Jacob can continue to claim he makes a lot of bread…and for once he may not be lying.
re: #145 HappyWarrior
This shit has to be so exhausting for black Americans.
If you haven’t seen it, go watch the Rosa Parks Doctor Who episode. And then imagine the tension you’re feeling happening all the time.
re: #183 lawhawk
No consequences? The GOP elevated him to the WH - they knew and didn’t care. Or worse, they knew, didn’t care, and purposefully chose him over Hillary because they’re misogynists just like Trump.
I always go with useful idiot.
Once he was elected, I really do think McConnell realized he had an idiot that had enough popularity and power for a limited time he could hide behind to get what they wanted since the GOP was in complete control.
That time may be up here soon, but McConnell and gang managed to get a lot of stuff they wanted in the past two years.
re: #184 makeitstop
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Trump Math.
I bet some of that math can be found in Trump International Business Prospectives.
We promise you returns of up to 20% if you enter into this project with us.
What you actually get is a loss of whatever you put in…and no recourse to do anything about it because Trump International will claim they were only a front agent for another company…take it up with them.
Irate passenger contributes to bus crash into river, killing all, in China.
Rant time:
I’m in upstate New York. Have only ever lived in two other states in my life, and neither one is Colorado or Ohio.
Yet every day for the last few weeks, I’ve received at least one text from either or both of those fine states from very earnest (presumably) young people encouraging me to get out and vote in either Colorado or Ohio, sometimes for specific candidates or ballot issues, always on our side, at least.
Around the same time, FB started to show me a crapton of ads from some PAC trying to swing Ohio right - lots of “Democrats are scary and will rape and murder your puppy” stuff.
I let the FB stuff ride because I’m very happy to let that PAC waste its money on misdirected ads that aren’t going to change my vote here in NY.
But I do worry that whatever voter outreach our side is trying to do by texts may not be as effective as it should be if I’m getting this many misdirected messages (and, incidentally, NONE that have anything to do with NY, which may just show, correctly, that their model knows that I show up at EVERY election anyway and don’t need their resources expended on me.)
I just hope whoever’s supposed to be getting those messages in Ohio and Colorado still somehow gets prodded to vote.
re: #204 makeitstop
Jim Jeffries and Seth Myers both have a field day making fun of her.
She’s like a caricature of a Fox News host. Yelling, all the time yelling. So freakin’ annoying.
Every time I see Jeanine Pirro I want to grab a straight jacket and a syringe full of sedative just to make sure she doesn’t hurt herself or someone else.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2018
Joffrey grew up. https://t.co/hpL8fjze0j
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) November 2, 2018
Besides being a raging antiSemite, Islamophobe, and homophobe, Wiles is probably the most slavishly pro-Russian of the major pulpit pimps. He has been predicting civil war and massacres of Christians practically every week for more than twenty years.
Rick Wiles’ hatred of Israel results in a bizarre theory that the absurd right-wing effort to take down Robert Muller is really an Israeli intelligence operation. https://t.co/SH3rMqajdH
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 2, 2018
re: #236 ipsos
Rant time:
I’m in upstate New York. Have only ever lived in two other states in my life, and neither one is Colorado or Ohio.
Yet every day for the last few weeks, I’ve received at least one text from either or both of those fine states from very earnest (presumably) young people encouraging me to get out and vote in either Colorado or Ohio, sometimes for specific candidates or ballot issues, always on our side, at least.
Around the same time, FB started to show me a crapton of ads from some PAC trying to swing Ohio right - lots of “Democrats are scary and will rape and murder your puppy” stuff.
I let the FB stuff ride because I’m very happy to let that PAC waste its money on misdirected ads that aren’t going to change my vote here in NY.
But I do worry that whatever voter outreach our side is trying to do by texts may not be as effective as it should be if I’m getting this many misdirected messages (and, incidentally, NONE that have anything to do with NY, which may just show, correctly, that their model knows that I show up at EVERY election anyway and don’t need their resources expended on me.)
I just hope whoever’s supposed to be getting those messages in Ohio and Colorado still somehow gets prodded to vote.
I’ve gotten a ton of emails from AZ, and during the primary season a lot from Colorado and Massachusetts (I don’t live in any of these states). I’m assume I’ve ended up on their email lists due to previous contributions to the DCCC or DSCC, but why these in particular I’m a little stumped. Maybe back in the day when I contributed to individual candidates whose names and states I’ve since forgotten.
re: #240 Sir John Barron
I’ve gotten a ton of emails from AZ, and during the primary season a lot from Colorado and Massachusetts (I don’t live in any of these states). I’m assume I’ve ended up on their email lists due to previous contributions to the DCCC or DSCC, but why these in particular I’m a little stumped. Maybe back in the day when I contributed to individual candidates whose names and states I’ve since forgotten.
Because of my profession, I cannot make political contributions. So however they got my cell phone number, it wasn’t that way.
My guess is they bought bad lists with garbage data where someone had filled in a “random” number that turned out to be mine. Or could have been a typo, except my area code doesn’t even come close to matching any in OH or CO.
I just hope it isn’t a sign of bigger problems with what’s supposed to be our high-tech voter outreach.
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
Trump-supporting dominionist prayer warriors pray for conservative victories in midterms, declare that “the kingdom of God is invading the United States of America.” https://t.co/n085OYqOQk
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 2, 2018
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
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I remember when this guy was called Osama Bin Laden.
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
I thought God was already here.
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
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It always amazes me how totally they can utterly miss the point of the gospel in their search for power.
re: #242 ipsos
And now a text about a California ballot proposition. WTF?
Seriously - how much money is being spent on messages to bad numbers here?
July 18th. We’re still waiting, Rick.
Rick Wiles: We’re 72 Hours Away From A Coup During Which Trump Will Be Decapitated On The White House Lawn
One of the odd characteristics of conspiracy media is that wrong predictions do not seem to affect the audience at all. We see this with Alex Jones and many others. This is evidence that most of the audience does not truly believe the claims at all, they just see them as a rationale for the hatred and rage that they cannot otherwise justify in public. This is why it is so frustrating to try to convince a Trumpster that Trump is lying. They KNOW he is lying and that is why they support him.
re: #250 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
They’re bullshitters (or bulkshitters, considering the volume).
They don’t care that they’re lying, they’re only concerned with convincing others of their POV.
what a moron
Will be going to West Virginia and Indiana today, TWO RALLIES! Don’t tell anyone (big secret), but I will be bringing Coach Bobby Knight to Indiana. He’s been a supporter right from the beginning of the Greatest Political Movement in American History!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2018
Protesters arrive early for President Trump’s rally in Huntington
CEREDO, w.va. (WSAZ) — Protesters are already showing up at the Huntington Tri-State Airport, hours ahead of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rally.
West Virginia State Police troopers are set up at the intersection of Walkers Branch Road and Airport Road.
Our crew says about a dozen protesters have already lined up. Troopers are on hand to answer questions and direct traffic.
The rally is set to begin at 4 p.m. Friday on the airport tarmac near a hangar space.
Huntington is about an hour’s drive from me. blech
Unrelated: State Sen. John Schickel, R-Union, went to federal appeals court last month to argue that his First Amendment rights are violated by a state ethics law prohibiting him from taking money and gifts from Frankfort lobbyists. ^JC https://t.co/BLWrMfR8zq
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 2, 2018
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
what a moron
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Protesters arrive early for President Trump’s rally in Huntington
Huntington is about an hour’s drive from me. blech
The greatest political movement in history? Yeah no and you can keep Bobby Knight, he’s a psycho asshole.
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“the kingdom of God is invading the United States of America.”
Huh.
So, do we stop them at the border? Shoot them if they throw rocks?
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re: #136 MsJ
Doctoring while black.
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“Yes! Yes I am a doctor. I am a gastroenterologist brain surgeon! So when I am done with this emergency, I could take a look at you! shit for brains!”
[all passengers stand up to applaud her]— jose ramos 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🇩🇴 (@crodrig186) November 2, 2018
re: #257 HappyWarrior
The greatest political movement in history? Yeah no and you can keep Bobby Knight, he’s a psycho asshole.
Bobby Knight is perfect for Trump. Two angry hot-headed jerks jerking each other off.
I’m sooo glad he is associated with Indiana rather than Ohio where he was born and played basketball at Ohio State.
Just finished watching the video.
The sight and sound of Trump and his minions now, literally, makes me physically ill.
Pakistani police say prominent cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack in his bedroom at home in the city of Rawalpindi. https://t.co/JLyHEVvULL
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 2, 2018
Today marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Over the last decade, at least 324 journalists have been killed.
One of the most recent cases was the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal #Khashoggi…
Daily Brief: https://t.co/Jp10P03FAq pic.twitter.com/RJEAjP0BTH— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) November 2, 2018
RS is citing a Guardian reporter who was unfortunate enough to draw the short straw and go on yet another round of “let’s interview Trump supporters in Trump country to find out why they support Trump.”
Steve Spaeth, a 40-year-old West Bend man who operates a home exteriors company, told the reporter during the Oct. 24 rally in Mosinee that “hate” was not too strong a word to describe his feelings toward anyone he considers a political enemy.
“Not at all,” Spaeth said. “I have a deep and absolute disgust for these human beings.”
He identified his enemies as CNN, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, whom he referred to as “Pocahontas” — and was the only foe Spaeth named that had not been sent a mail bomb that same week, allegedly by another Trump supporter, Cesar Sayoc.
“They want to turn America into a socialistic country,” Spaeth said. “It’s disgusting.”
Oooh, scary socialists. Probably hasn’t heard of the Socialist Rifle Association. Aside from horrible things such as organising hurricane relief for Florence and Michael, they promote the right to bear arms by the working class.
re: #250 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Those people are all Triad addicts. Alex Jones and the rest of the conspiracy mongers, among which I include MinTrue (I mean Fox News), are their dealers.
Triad is the term I’ve adopted for the emotions that kick in the fight-or-flight reflex and flood the body with the same chemicals as crack cocaine; fear, anger, and hatred.
There is a good reason these people act like psychotics.
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
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F those Pulpit Pimps.
TAX THE CHURCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How Canadians get rid of their pumpkins.#MeanwhileinCanada pic.twitter.com/mQ1xpkJl8e
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) November 2, 2018
re: #264 Anymouse 🌹
RS is citing a Guardian reporter who was unfortunate enough to draw the short straw and go on yet another round of “let’s interview Trump supporters in Trump country to find out why they support Trump.”
Oooh, scary socialists. Probably hasn’t heard of the Socialist Rifle Association. Aside from horrible things such as organising hurricane relief for Florence and Michael, they promote the right to bear arms by the working class.
That’s why they’re a cult.
He who lives by the meme, dies by the meme. pic.twitter.com/UdnqE9Sslr
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 2, 2018
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
what a moron
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Protesters arrive early for President Trump’s rally in Huntington
Huntington is about an hour’s drive from me. blech
Don’t they have jobs? I thought there are so many JERBS that everyone can have 2 or 3 (& still not make ends meet)
Takes The Walking Dead way too seriously.
Huge cache of weapons seized from home, including 35,000 rounds of ammunition
SHIRLEY, Mass. — Massachusetts State Police say a man was arrested after police found dozens of unlicensed firearms stockpiled in his home. CBS Boston identifies him as 62-year-old Jeffrey Dusti.
Police say they seized approximately 47 illegal firearms, 44 homemade silencers and around 35,000 rounds of ammunition from the man’s home. He was arraigned Thursday in Shirley District Court and was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing next week.
35K rounds is small potatoes by hoarder standards though. A colleague of my brother in Colorado boasts that he has a million rounds stashed in, around, and possibly under his suburban compound. Seems an odd thing to boast about, since ammo stashes will be a major destination if the proverbial stuff did somehow hit the fan in a survival situation.
What!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ERsiqJYa30
— JOKUNLE (@Jokunle) October 31, 2018
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another call to arms from Dominionist nutbags.
And will they admit their god has forsaken them (or doesn’t exist) if the midterm elections don’t go the way they want?
Nah.
because, of course…
“Having lost in two federal courts and fearing more setbacks, the Trump administration is revising rules that allow employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious or moral objections.” https://t.co/qNDuzJu8SA
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) November 2, 2018
But…but…neither of your parents were citizens when you were born, meaning your own citizenship is derived from the 14th Amendment. You are an anchor baby. And if the 14th is changed, you will be a man without a nation.https://t.co/G3F9GbO7an
— Lard of Dorkness (@LardFDorkness) November 2, 2018
Former President Barack Obama @BarackObama is in Miami today to rally for @AndrewGillum @SenBillNelson. The crowd sporadically breaks out into cries of “bring it home!”
Attendees have traveled from all parts of Florida. I met one woman who told me she’s been in line since 7 a.m. pic.twitter.com/Fw7CraHyc8— Maya Kaufman (@mayakauf) November 2, 2018
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What a tool you are Marco. You benefited from the same immigration policies you and Trump want to reverse. History if it remembers you at all will be that of a sad sack of shit with no principles.
Here’s the statement HBO sent BuzzFeed News regarding President Trump’s Game of Thrones-related tweet/meme:
“We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes.”— Michael Blackmon (@blackmon) November 2, 2018
So he stole someone else’s branding. Shocker. /
Darth’s takes are better than Trump’s.
— darth™ (@darth) November 2, 2018
(Can you even imagine the Republican outrage machine’s response if ANY Democratic POTUS had featured themselves in a GoT meme as a way of conducting foreign policy? They’d impeach based on that alone.)
And thank you, @darth.https://t.co/qOEdmM3jEi— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) November 2, 2018
Breaking: federal judge rules naturalized US citizens who’ve been blocked from registering in Georgia must be allowed to vote. This affects over 3,000 voters with registrations put on hold by Brian Kemp. Big victory for voting rights via @LawyersComm & @CampaignLegal lawsuit pic.twitter.com/URe9AnLhkE
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 2, 2018
re: #264 Anymouse 🌹
RS is citing a Guardian reporter who was unfortunate enough to draw the short straw and go on yet another round of “let’s interview Trump supporters in Trump country to find out why they support Trump.”
Oooh, scary socialists. Probably hasn’t heard of the Socialist Rifle Association. Aside from horrible things such as organising hurricane relief for Florence and Michael, they promote the right to bear arms by the working class.
no cult notacult your the cult
re: #149 makeitstop
David Roberts (@drvox), my newest follow. He’s good.
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The points in this post seem appropriate to Jacob Wohl as well.
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, it seems to me that Mr. Wohl is completely untethered from the concepts of truth and falsehood. Further, he seems unaware that others do not appreciate this.
Additionally, his whole goal seems to be to manipulate others for his own benefit. (Aka grifting) And he seems unaware that others might not appreciate this.
I suspect that he is likely to be legally, as well as socially and economically sanctioned. And he seems blissfully unaware of this as well.
As others have pointed out, his behavior probably came from somewhere. Shame on those that left him so unprepared for life outside the bubble.
Why The Whole Freaking World Knows That Rep. Jeff Fortenberry Hates Being Called Fartenberry https://t.co/PUYhTRomP7
— techdirt (@techdirt) November 2, 2018
I listened to the entire 53 minute phone call between @kohenari and Rep. @JeffFortenberry’s chief of staff @DoctorReyn complaining about Kohen FB “liking” a “Fartenberry” sign. It is even more insane than you think. https://t.co/iIfY9IKKLo
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) November 2, 2018
What’s the over/under on Trump passing out by the end of the second rally?
re: #277 HappyWarrior
What a tool you are Marco. You benefited from the same immigration policies you and Trump want to reverse. History if it remembers you at all will be that of a sad sack of shit with no principles.
I wonder what that punk thinks about the Mariel boatlift of 1980 and how he weighs it with The Caravan™ of today?
So, I did a little digging and saw this. Two years ago he was quoted.
He’d sell his own people if it got him advanced politically.
Marco Rubio recalls experiencing racism during Mariel boat-lift
Sen. Marco Rubio recalled the racism he faced as a child as Cubans immigrated to the U.S. during the Mariel boat-lift of 1980.
“Some of the kids, the older kids, were taunting my family: ‘Why don’t you go back on your boat?’” Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, said during a GOP candidates forum Wednesday in South Carolina. “I said, ‘What boat? My mom doesn’t even swim.’”
Rubio said he was a 7-year-old living in Las Vegas when the Mariel boat-lift took place during an economic downturn in Cuba. As many as 125,000 Cubans in six months made the journey from Mariel Harbor in Cuba to Florida.
“I didn’t see it as a reflection on America; I saw it as a reflection on those kids,” Rubio said, adding that his parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba in 1956, raised him and his siblings to never believe they were victims.
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Sometimes you have to let the spirit move you. https://t.co/4n4YMpOjVL
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) November 2, 2018
re: #286 ObserverArt
I wonder what that punk thinks about the Mariel boatlift of 1980 and how he weighs it with The Caravan™ of today?
So, I did a little digging and saw this. Two years ago he was quoted.
He’d sell his own people if it got him advanced politically.
Marco Rubio recalls experiencing racism during Mariel boat-lift
I have a real special hatred for him and Cruz because as Cuban-Americans, they benefited from our very liberal immigration policies with Cuban immigrants especially Cruz. I don’t care but a little bit of fucking empathy for immigrants today would be nice form either of tohse two punk asses.
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
as you may remember i’m currently living in the comforting bubble of West Wing reruns
season 3, episode 18 was a documentary style special in which they interviewed a bunch of real people and intermixed them with apropos clips from the first three seasons
they interviewed dee dee myers, marlin fitzwater, peggy noonan, betty currie, ken duberstein, leon panetta, paul begala, karl rove, kissinger a few others
and a couple of guys named Carter, Ford and Clinton
anyway David Gergen made a nice aspirational comment:
the best thing about our best presidents has been that they have a sense of how much better we can be than we are
and they have a sense of potential, of possibility. to maintain that sense of possibility, about who we can be as a people. and then encourage us to have great dreams. that’s when leaders produce action. thats what you want to keep alive in the white house
then the episode ended and i had a sad
re: #291 dangerman
as you may remember i’m currently living in the comforting bubble of West Wing reruns
season 3, episode 18 was a documentary style special in which they interviewed a bunch of real people and intermixed them with apropos clips from the first three seasons
they interviewed dee dee myers, marlin fitzwater, peggy noonan, betty currie, ken duberstein, leon panetta, paul begala, karl rove, kissinger a few others
and a couple of guys named Carter, Ford and Clinton
anyway David Gergen made a nice aspirational comment:
then the episode ended and i had a sad
Sigh that comment. That’s so the opposite of what Trump is.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
I sure hope I can still move like that when I’m almost 80.
re: #290 makeitstop
I’m inclined to agree. That seems needlessly convoluted for a suicide.
re: #288 HappyWarrior
I have a real special hatred for him and Cruz because as Cuban-Americans, they benefited from our very liberal immigration policies with Cuban immigrants especially Cruz. I don’t care but a little bit of fucking empathy for immigrants today would be nice form either of tohse two punk asses.
we should stop being so surprised or incensed when we see yet another example of republicanism:
- hypocrisy
- do as i say not as i do
- i got mine, fuck you
- yes this was a big personal benefit to me. yes i want to end it for anyone else
we already know what they are. we already know they will not change one whit
they’re just adding exactly the same data points over and over again
re: #297 dangerman
we should stop being so surprised or incensed when we see yet another example of republicanism:
- hypocrisy
- do as i say not as i do
- i got mine, fuck you
- yes this was a big personal benefit to me. yes i want to end it for anyone elsewe already know what they are. we already know they will not change one whit
they’re just adding exactly the same data points over and over again
No surprise just disgust here.
re: #290 makeitstop
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
Well, in theory they could, but it seems like an extraordinary claim.
re: #290 makeitstop
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
I can’t believe nobody on YouTube has uploaded that scene from The Fortune where Nicholson panics and throws the trunk with Stockard Channing in it into the ocean. Beatty comes back: “It was supposed to look like suicide! What, she locked herself in a trunk and threw herself into the ocean?!” Nicholson: “My mind went blank!”
Hey Darth RoadkillHair,
CLINTON was the one who DEPORTED him.
ARPAIO was the one who RELEASED him when he snuck back in.
Yep, that Arpaio - the CONVICT that YOU PARDONED.
You do NOT get to claim to be on the side of law & order when you side with those who let cop killers walk!— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) November 2, 2018
re: #197 Targetpractice
Play Red Dead Redemption 2 instead
re: #292 HappyWarrior
Sigh that comment. That’s so the opposite of what Trump is.
It’s the opposite of what Reagan was, but Gergen looooved him….
This has to be a parody. https://t.co/Z2f6qddE0i
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 2, 2018
re: #301 Archangelus
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Lots of fail there. So aside from being racist, it was full of lies too. Par the course for Dumbald.
re: #290 makeitstop
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
Don’t really have enough info to make a judgement on it. I think they were just taped at the waist and ankles but not the hands. I could see that as some weird suicide pact where they wanted to make sure one of them didn’t chicken out. If it was murder I would imagine they wouldn’t leave their hands free.
re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m inclined to agree. That seems needlessly convoluted for a suicide.
Probably a lot of incentive not to know.
re: #148 wheat-dogg
Ben’s trying hard to garner some attention with this one.
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I wonder what kind of whiskey he drank. Also, how does he know how turpentine tastes like? It might explain a lot.
Turpentine and dandelion wine
I’ve turned the corner and I’m doing fine
Shooting at the birds on the telephone line
Picking ‘em off with this gun of mine
I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head
Going higher and higher till I’m dead
-Randy Newman
re: #290 makeitstop
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
Weren’t there reports that their hands and feet were bound with duct tape?
ummm
Asked if he envisions the US military firing at migrants at the border, President Trump says: “I hope not.”
“I will tell you this, anybody throwing stones, rocks … we will consider that a firearm, because there’s not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock.” pic.twitter.com/mnsc56EFT7— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2018
pretty sure that a bullet in the face is gonna leave a bigger mark than a rock.
I’d never heard this story about Hemingway and Welles:
Hemingway, infuriated, picked up a piece of furniture, and, for a moment, two Great American Geniuses began attacking each other with chairs. Having expended their aggression with their egos mutually intact, though, they realized that the whole thing was ridiculous and, according to journalist Josh Karp’s book Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of ‘The Other Side of the Wind’, they quickly “collapsed to the floor in laughter, and shared a bottle of whiskey.” This is the story of how the men became friends.
Obviously a different time with different sensibilities, but damn, to be in that room
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I will tell you this, anybody throwing stones, rocks … we will consider that a firearm, because there’s not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock.”
Spoken like someone who’s never been outside of his penthouse or red-hatted hate rally.
I see we have another idiotic James O’Keefe hit job being pushed by all the wingnut parrots today. The good thing is that the media seems to have finally learned not to trust this fucking liar.
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummm
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pretty sure that a bullet in the face is gonna leave a bigger mark than a rock.
Hey, Hey Donald J, how many migrants did you shoot today?
re: #305 HappyWarrior
Lots of fail there. So aside from being racist, it was full of lies too. Par the course for
Dumbald. Republicans
Remember the wildly racist ad an opponent ran against John McCain?
The Willie Horton advert?
Mike Huckabee’s pardon?
re: #315 Anymouse 🌹
Remember the wildly racist ad an opponent ran against John McCain?
The Willie Horton advert?
Mike Huckabee’s pardon?
Of course I do. But I was talking specifically about this ad and President.
November is here, and that means a massive shift is coming. And by “massive” I am of course referring to the redefinition of the kilogram unit of mass that the world has been building up to for more than 100 years. Let me explain: pic.twitter.com/FnOmq4dFTF
— Max Fagin (@MaxFagin) November 1, 2018
re: #316 HappyWarrior
Of course I do. But I was talking specifically about this ad and President.
I don’t see how what Donald Trump is doing is any different than other Republicans in the past, save for removing the dog whistles.
re: #318 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t see how what Donald Trump is doing is any different than other Republicans in the past, save for removing the dog whistles.
Didn’t say he wasn’t.
BREAKING: Federal judge denies @realDonaldTrump’s attempt to stop discovery process in “Emoluments Clause” lawsuit by DC/MD A.G.’s. Will allow AGs to get documents showing foreign-government customers at Trump Hotel D.C.
Story coming soon…— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 2, 2018
re: #317 Teukka
That’s pretty neat. Thanks for that.
re: #309 KGxvi
“Police initially believed the sisters committed suicide by jumping off of the nearby George Washington Bridge, but further investigation revealed no signs of trauma that would indicate a plunge from the bridge, police said.”
“Water was found in the sisters’ lungs, the official said, leading investigators to believe they were alive when they entered the water. Police previously said the bodies showed no signs of trauma.”
(Warning, there is autoplay in the below link)
cnn.com
I am cautiously optimistic going into Election Day, because Ted Cruz has been reduced to peddling a Project Veritas conspiracy to try and knock Beto’s momentum.
An incumbent Republican here in Texas wouldn’t be spreading that kind of obvious bullshit if they were comfortably ahead in the polls. Cruz’s internal numbers must be a complete dumpster fire.
RWNJs rolling out a James Okeefe con job against Beto. pic.twitter.com/vwflj1Zm2i
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 2, 2018
re: #317 Teukka
I can’t wait until we find out that the speed of light isn’t a constant and then have to question everything we know about everything.
re: #326 Kragar
I’m getting a barrage of these kinds of comments today:
“THERE’S VIDEO EVIDENCE!!!!! PROJECT VERITAS SAID SO!!!!!!”
I am amused. Lyin’ Ted is desperate if he’s pulling this shit now.
shocked!
Alec Baldwin has been arrested for punching a driver over a parking spot https://t.co/7BOLUhPbjR pic.twitter.com/eWPhFtWPF0
— New York Post (@nypost) November 2, 2018
re: #328 Lidane
I’m getting a barrage of these kinds of comments today:
“THERE’S VIDEO EVIDENCE!!!!! PROJECT VERITAS SAID SO!!!!!!”
I am amused. Lyin’ Ted is desperate if he’s pulling this shit now.
Is this that PV video showing Beto campaign workers supposedly “revealing” their paying for or “support for the refugee caravan”?
The one so heavily edited/dubbed it could be basically about anything?
re: #271 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Takes The Walking Dead way too seriously.
Huge cache of weapons seized from home, including 35,000 rounds of ammunition
35K rounds is small potatoes by hoarder standards though. A colleague of my brother in Colorado boasts that he has a million rounds stashed in, around, and possibly under his suburban compound. Seems an odd thing to boast about, since ammo stashes will be a major destination if the proverbial stuff did somehow hit the fan in a survival situation.
Firearm owning members of Facebook have compiled the most comprehensive list of US firearm owners.
God is an iron.
re: #330 Jay C
Is this that PV video showing Beto campaign workers supposedly “revealing” their paying for or “support for the refugee caravan”?
The one so heavily edited/dubbed it could be basically about anything?
You betcha!
Inbred, mouth-breathing MAGA rubes everywhere are breathlessly pretending that the video is evidence of Beto funding the entire caravan. These people are idiots.
re: #320 Kragar
I’m still kind of surprised that these cases have gone forward. I would have thought there would have been some “political thicket” decisions, or at least lack of standing decisions with respect to the states (saying that Congress would have to be the one to enforce the provision).
re: #333 KGxvi
Their target audience is not people who prefer verisimilitude to truth.
A narrative that has the superficial features of proof and confirms their instincts is preferable to actual proof.
Symbols matter more than the thing symbolized.
Love this bit of Gillum thinking in his interview with Trevor Noah of The Daily Show.
You can tell he was heavily influenced and motivated by Barack Obama. From Tallahassee City Commission in 2003 as Tallahassee’s youngest commissioner to mayor in 2014…and now running for Governor.
One thing for sure, he is more a thinker and a better wordsmith than the Orange Puff Ball in the White House who calls him corrupt.
I’ll tell you, I think there is something pretty amazing that the south might be led by the same people that once built the south. I think there is connection through struggle, um, I think there is something powerful, that having come from a community, that um, has been so often neglected, so often, um, um, young know, put at the pit, you know, of the nation if you will, not always respected, in fact for a long time not respected for our contributions and to now be in a place where you can take that kind of historic pain, that kind of historic suffering and to not be angry about what happened and to say, you know what, let’s move forward together.
I do think there is something, um, that connects me to the history of this state and the history of the south in a way that allows me to talk about these issues differently and to help move and progress not only people of color, along through it there will be celebration without a doubt, but also those who may have been historically on the other side of that, the children’s the children’s children of…
Complete YouTube video interview…
Trick-or-treaters in blackface, Confederate flags shock family on Halloween (Lehigh Valley Live, Penna., with video)
Two trick-or-treaters, believed to be juvenile males, were out collecting candy Wednesday night in Lower Macungie Township sporting blackface and Confederate flag capes as their costumes.
That’s according to a family who confronted the unidentified pair about their apparently racist costumes, then posted video of the exchange on Facebook.
Esperanza Menendez, 17, told lehighvalleylive.com she was taking part in the township’s trick-or-treat night off Route 100 behind Mack Trucks, with her 10-year-old and 18-year-old sisters, as well as a friend.
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Pennsylvania, famous Confederate state.
re: #334 The Ghost of a Flea
Their target audience is not people who prefer verisimilitude to truth.
A narrative that has the superficial features of proof and confirms their instincts is preferable to actual proof.
Symbols matter more than the thing symbolized.
Huh?
My point was more that these cases seem like the sort that judges would have been less inclined to take in the past.
re: #335 ObserverArt
Love this bit of Gillum thinking in his interview with Trevor Noah of The Daily Show.
You can tell he was heavily influenced and motivated by Barack Obama. From Tallahassee City Commission in 2003 as Tallahassee’s youngest commissioner to mayor in 2014…and now running for Governor.
One thing for sure, he is more a thinker and a better wordsmith than the Orange Puff Ball in the White House who calls him corrupt.
Complete YouTube video interview…
We have an African American Lt Governor in Justin Fairfax who I think will probably be the front runner for Governor in 2019 since AG Herring doesn’t really seem to have ambitions beyond AG. Our bench is getting stronger through people like Gillum, Abrams, Beto, & others.
re: #336 Anymouse 🌹
Why am I not surprised?
re: #339 PhillyPretzel
Why am I not surprised?
Because you know the Carville phrase about PA being Philly and Pittsburgh but with Bama in the middle?
re: #333 KGxvi
I’m still kind of surprised that these cases have gone forward. I would have thought there would have been some “political thicket” decisions, or at least lack of standing decisions with respect to the states (saying that Congress would have to be the one to enforce the provision).
Kavanaugh had it covered.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
The infamous “T.” From the turnpike north and a wide strip down the middle of the state.
re: #277 HappyWarrior
What a tool you are Marco. You benefited from the same immigration policies you and Trump want to reverse. History if it remembers you at all will be that of a sad sack of shit with no principles.
Marco’s parents did *not* benefit from “wet foot, dry foot” US Cuban immigration policy. Edit: Marco’s parents immigrated prior to the Cuban American Adjustment Act.
Any Cuban immigrant who stepped foot onto US soil became eligible for a green card. They might have been initially shipped off to New Jersey, but were allowed to return to the Central and South Florida area.
All other Central and South American immigrants to Miami, had to go stand in the several blocks long line for hours at the Miami immigration building at the corner of Biscayne Blvd and 79 street.
You could drive by the building on Saturday, and the line would be forming waiting for the building to open Monday morning.
Fox Business News’s Stewart Varney and Herman Cain celebrate Donald Trump telling troops to shoot unarmed migrants/asylees:
crooksandliars.com
(with video)
Instead of describing Trump’s words as murder, Varney said, “Immigration is now front and center, arguably the other big issue in the election along with the economy. Front and center, tough line Trump. What do you make of it?”
Cain, who is running the America Fighting Back PAC agreed.
Cain said, “I think the tough talk and the tough line is appropriate. We can’t allow, as the president has said many times, we can’t allow people to just come into this country. It’s more like an invasion.”
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re: #345 Anymouse 🌹
Fox Business News’s Stewart Varney and Herman Cain celebrate Donald Trump telling troops to shoot unarmed migrants/asylees:
crooksandliars.com
(with video)(more)
Assholes.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
Because you know the Carville phrase about PA being Philly and Pittsburgh but with Bama in the middle?
That’s why I half-jokingly call it ‘Pennsyl-tucky.’ There’s a vast swath of crazy between Philly and Pittsburgh.
re: #347 makeitstop
That’s why I half-jokingly call it ‘Pennsyl-tucky.’ There’s a vast swath of crazy between Philly and Pittsburgh.
I’ve used that too. Wasn’t always that way sigh. My grandparents home county went from going for Mondale for Trump.
re: #336 Anymouse 🌹
Trick-or-treaters in blackface, Confederate flags shock family on Halloween (Lehigh Valley Live, Penna., with video)
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Pennsylvania, famous Confederate state.
Aka ‘Pennsyltucky’.
re: #333 KGxvi
I’m still kind of surprised that these cases have gone forward. I would have thought there would have been some “political thicket” decisions, or at least lack of standing decisions with respect to the states (saying that Congress would have to be the one to enforce the provision).
I could maybe see a potential standing challenge against the Maryland AG but since the US Constitution explicitly grants Congress “exclusive” legislative authority over DC “in all Cases whatsoever” there’s a pretty good separation of powers argument to be made that Congress and not the Court is the proper check on what Constitutional violations the DC AG can or cannot sue over. In any event the harm in question is being felt directly by constituents in these jurisdictions, which themselves are also bound by the provisions of the Constitution.
re: #318 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t see how what Donald Trump is doing is any different than other Republicans in the past, save for removing the dog whistles.
You know what is different? He was asked not to run the ad. The fucking president went against advisers telling him it was wrong.
Another difference, it was completely wrong in facts.
The Willie Horton ad was bad, but it didn’t completely lie about who all was involved. He was released on a weekend furlough program Dukakis (D) supported. So that is fact though twisted by Lee Atwater.
Clinton put this guy in jail. Under Bush and Arpaio he was let out. Totally backwards from Trump painting it as all Democratic doing.
There is political rubbish and then there is a trash heap a mile high and stinking to high-heaven.
re: #332 Lidane
You betcha!
Inbred, mouth-breathing MAGA rubes everywhere are breathlessly pretending that the video is evidence of Beto funding the entire caravan. These people are idiots.
It is so easy to get them to believe because they are ready to believe and then do. Many of them probably never even see the crappy video and judge it for themselves, they read others take and run with it. Then it becomes book.
re: #317 Teukka
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That’s a fascinating thread, except I wish he’d stop saying things like “the IPK weighs one kilogram”. It masses one kilogram! It weighs about 9.80665 Newtons. “Weigh” and “kilogram” don’t belong together in the same sentence! [/pet peeve]
re: #352 ckkatz
Looks like I am slowly, makeitstop got there first.
Nah on the same track. I remember when I went to Gettysburg. I actually saw more CSA regalia than I ever did in Fairfax County. I’m proud of my second grandfather’s service in the Army of the Potomac. I’m proud to be a Virginian too but not the CSA.
re: #303 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It’s the opposite of what Reagan was, but Gergen looooved him….
like i said- im living in my fantasy west wing
re: #290 makeitstop
I had to run out for a switch for one of my guitars, and on the way to the parts place I heard that NYPD announced that the two Saudi sisters who were found duct taped together in the Hudson River committed suicide.
Yeah, not buying that. Not for a second.
i vaguely remember some cop show - no idea which one
blue bloods, the closer, law and order any incarnation?
a woman and her child were found in the water bound like that
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummm
“I will tell you this, anybody throwing stones, rocks … we will consider that a firearm, because there’s not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock.”
pretty sure that a bullet in the face is gonna leave a bigger mark than a rock.
dont they have, like, gear?
or maybe police and swat are better equipped for this than the army
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aww, is Cletus mad? In ya go! pic.twitter.com/g6cGYShjMY
— dry meat + reality (@barkflight) November 1, 2018
re: #334 The Ghost of a Flea
Their target audience is not people who prefer verisimilitude to truth.
A narrative that has the superficial features of proof and confirms their instincts is preferable to actual proof.
Symbols matter more than the thing symbolized.
As George Carlin said, “I leave symbols to the symbol minded!”.
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