Bruce Hornsby wrote a classic pop song with “The Way It Is” in 1986. But his new album is full of sounds drawing from contemporary classical music and the film scores he’s done with Spike Lee. He joins us to play a couple of songs and talk about a surprising range of music.
If a 17-year-old can cross state lines with an AR-15, go into a protest, shoot three people killing two, walk with his hands up towards the cops and the cops ignore him, and then get back into his car and drive back to Illinois and half of the country makes him out out be some kind of a hero, the country is fucking finished.
Here’s the thing, Pete - that “rooted in faith” stuff? It’s all an act. A sham. A long con. I’m surprised you don’t know this. https://t.co/3Hmb4Vfuvl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2020
re: #157 (((Archangel1)))
Remember the advertisers who “fled” Laura Ingraham over her Nazi apologia slowly slipped back in after the furore died down.
Unless pressure is kept up on advertisers, all they see is sales opportunities. They do not care about fascism, they can make money under that system as well.
Tucker Carlson has no significant advertisers left, but at what point do large advertisers stop supporting Fox News, which rubber-stamped this call for vigilante violence tonight?
How can any corporation trust this network? https://t.co/1GJsfjxjRB— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 27, 2020
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) August 27, 2020
re: #5 teleskiguy
Man shot in the back owned a cutting tool.
Murdering tool performed cleanup for cameras.
Where have I seen her before? Oh wait, now I remember! pic.twitter.com/eKdrFXh51P
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2020
FT!
GOTV!!
You know the drill……
BTW, in case anyone was wondering what has been going on with USS Bonhomme Richard, since the fire last month that burned for four days and left it a gutted hulk in “uncertain” condition: the Navy has announced they are finally getting around to investigating the blaze, and (somewhat unsurprisingly) announced they are investigating a sailor for arson in connection with the fire.
No names have been released yet, but there is suspicion that one Seaman Judas Scapegoat of Coventry, RI may have been involved…
.Must see vid—> https://t.co/5RpCjV8RQ7
— LTS📢 (@LisaToddSutton) August 27, 2020
It’s like a room of Bannon’s troll farm is swarming CSPAN. Each one says “I used to be a Democrat but”
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) August 27, 2020
Now a Q supporter calls in. “I’m very concerned no one is helping the children”
CSPAN guy asks what is Q?
Guy: I guess you could say it’s uhhhhhh….
Hangs up— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) August 27, 2020
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2020
In the last thread where breaking up a Gish Gallop seems tough, it’s because Gish Gallops aren’t meant to have a back-and-forth conversation. They are meant to preach (whether it’s actual preaching, or promoting some sort of political position).
Thus when you interrupt a Gish Gallop, the person (particularly a religious person) will become highly offended.
Videos of people like Duane Gish or Ben Shapiro or just about any Christian caller on The Atheist Experience shows them becoming extremely agitated when they are forced to slow down and explain points.
Where a Gish Gallop is used in a debate, the goal is to group all the assertions. Many times Gish Gallops simply restate the same point in different ways, so in the rebuttal numerous points can be dispatched at the same time.
re: #5 teleskiguy
Here is a question , how would someone know that you have a knife in your car before shooting you & where was it located in the car ? Btw where does #KillerKyle have his rifle stashed while cleaning graffiti? Was he like on a white supremacy mission trip?
— Osbert (Redacted) (@OsbertUSMCVET) August 27, 2020
Also neglected to mention that the terrorist is a trusted member of an US Air Force elite security unit.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 27, 2020
They can’t explain it because it’s a cult, nothing more. https://t.co/xpN4D5eIzS
— skullsinthestars - Black lives matter (@drskyskull) August 27, 2020
Speaking in her nun’s habit, Sister Dede Byrne warned that Joe Biden supports “the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.”
That’s not true. https://t.co/po7Cbgur4f— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) August 27, 2020
Aside from NPR still refusing to use the word “lied,” every time younger people see travesties like this and church organisations do not call them out, more people leave for good or see the hypocrisy for what it is.
I would never vote for a president the shooter at my high school supported.
— David Hogg Text “our power” to 954-954 (@davidhogg111) August 27, 2020
Some real pockets of humanity out there.
Shreveport, Louisiana:
I’ve finally seen it all…🤭😂😭🤣pic.twitter.com/HbzOsclilY— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 27, 2020
I’m off to bed. I’ll follow up in the morning, but this thing looks as bad as Audrey in 1957, which killed 431 people and left over 200 “never recovered”. Poor Cameron. Poor Lake Charles.
It’ll be and f3/f2 tornado for fifty miles inland, 25 miles wide. It’ll be an f1 tornado halfway to Shreveport.
This just sucks.
Night all.
re: #20 retired cynic
Boy, that looks nas-tee…
We are unable to get ahold of my wife’s brother in Alvin. Goes straight to voice mail. We’re hoping he and his wife left some time ago.
Hurricane Laura Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132020
1100 PM CDT Wed Aug 26 2020
…EYEWALL OF LAURA NEARING COAST OF LOUISIANA…
…CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE, EXTREME WINDS, AND FLASH FLOODING
EXPECTED TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY…
A Weatherflow site at Cameron, Louisiana recently reported a
sustained wind of 41 mph (66 km/h) with a gust to 67 mph (108 km/h).
Calcasieu Pass recently reported a sustained wind of 49 mph (80
km/h) with a gust to 70 mph (113 km/h).
SUMMARY OF 1100 PM CDT…0400 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…29.2N 93.2W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM S OF LAKE CHARLES LOUISIANA
ABOUT 65 MI…105 KM SE OF PORT ARTHUR TEXAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH…240 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNW OR 340 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…938 MB…27.70 INCHES
Is there a mission where you sell crack and then use the proceeds to fund Islamic terrorists?
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2020
Got an ad for Jorgensen. Wanted me to take quiz. Here are two of the questions
What is the most important issue facing our nation in 2020?
Auditing the Federal Reserve
Ending the federal war on drugs
Getting rid of the personal income tax
Balancing the ballooning national debt
Bringing our troops home from foreign wars
Fixing our broken healthcare system with free market solutions
Do you believe the allegations of sexual assault both Donald Trump & Joe Biden are facing?
Yes
No
Only Joe Biden
Only Donald Trump
Unsure
Not giving my name/email. Wanted to say drop out of the race, but I think she’s stealing more votes from trump than Joe.
Last couple of days has left me with little hope for people in general, especially in this goddamned country. Christ all.
— Something has to change, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) August 27, 2020
I’m done tonight. Shit is just awful and leaving me hopeless.
Lake Charles, LA NWS radar loop. Tornado warning boxes all over the map, the eyewall is still just off shore.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lake Charles, LA NWS radar loop. Tornado warning boxes all over the map, the eyewall is still just off shore.
It’s a goddamned monster!
Incoming hot take from Town Hall
If the election were held on C-SPAN callers tonight, Trump would win in a landslide
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 27, 2020
re: #33 🌹UOJB!
It’s a goddamned monster!
With the 15mph forward motion, the onshore wind to the east side of the eye translates to 165mph winds, higher in gusts. Everything in that area will be destroyed.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming hot take from Town Hall
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Normal everyday Americans don’t watch or call into C-SPAN.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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If that were how things were done, Ron Paul would have won every election for every office from 2002 until 2012.
And to the surprise of perhaps no one on this website, Kyle Rittenhouse, the alleged Kenosha gunman, is quite a fan of Trump. Hell, maybe Trump will pardon him on his way out next January (and let’s keep our fingers crossed that Trump will indeed be on his way out come January 2021).
The law enforcement-obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
re: #10 jaunte
Daniel Dale is a saint. Tireless truth telling with no alternative agenda.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming hot take from Town Hall
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If it were based on my family, he would be in prison.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 27, 2020
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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As if we needed another reminder that the only way Trump can win is through cheating. Or does Katie really believe every one of those “I’m a lifelong Democrat, but…” callers are for real?
re: #42 Targetpractice
As if we needed another reminder that the only way Trump can win is through cheating. Or does Katie really believe every one of those “I’m a lifelong Democrat, but…” callers are for real?
Idiots in my family believe those fake C-Span calls.
SCRUB for today. Next attempt in 24 hours. https://t.co/VHBXasGKIj
— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) August 27, 2020
re: #38 Dr Lizardo
And to the surprise of perhaps no one on this website, Kyle Rittenhouse, the alleged Kenosha gunman, is quite a fan of Trump. Hell, maybe Trump will pardon him on his way out next January (and let’s keep our fingers crossed that Trump will indeed be on his way out come January 2021).
The murder was a state crime, even if “crossing state lines” could be charged a federal. No DT pardon possible.
The best photos from FREESKIER Volume 22 are now online. Here’s one of our favorites: @trevor_kennison boosting into Corbet’s Couloir. // PHOTO: @_katielo // #FREESKIER #ThisIsSkiing
Anthony Huber, 26, was shot & killed in Kenosha, Wisc. at the BLM riot. He was filmed chasing down the armed teen and hitting him when he was on the ground with a skateboard. He has a criminal history that includes charges of battery & repeat domestic abuse. #KenoshaRiots pic.twitter.com/1rvx7ltKKS
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 27, 2020
This piece of human excrement justifying the murder of the two protesters in Kenosha.
re: #48 DodgerFan1988
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This piece of human excrement justifying the murder of the two protesters in Kenosha.
The “Law & Order” crowd are always in favor of extrajudicial executions.
#KyleRittenhouse is a national treasure.
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) August 27, 2020
What a cockroach.
Andy Ngo needs to be de-platformed. He’s a neo-Nazi propagandist.
The wingnut narrative forming in defense of Rittenhouse is totally unsurprising: They’re claiming he was the victim in this whole incident and that he was acting in self-defense.
According to the narrative, Rosenbaum threw a “molotov” at Rittenhouse as he was fleeing, which was all the justification necessary to fire in self-defense.
Then Rittenhouse fled from the “mob,” trying to surrender himself to the cops. That’s when he was jumped, with Kyle shooting Huber (again in self-defense) after he was hit in the head by a skateboard. And Grosskruetz was shot in the arm (say it with me: “in self-defense”) after he pulled a gun with intent to shoot Kyle.
But I hear you asking “Why didn’t Kyle turn himself into the cops then and there?” Well, it does look like he did have his hands up when the cops showed up…but he was a white boy who looked non-threatening despite having a rifle slung, so they just drove by him. And instead of being so distraught over his actions that he went to the KPD to surrender, he drove all the way back home in Illinois and is now awaiting extradition.
re: #52 Targetpractice
He is going to walk and there will be more riots.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is going to walk and there will be more riots.
And there will be more killings, until Trump rides in on a Border Patrol MRAP, playing Ride of the Valkyries.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is going to walk and there will be more riots.
I doubt he’s gonna walk. And if he did, he’d be a dead man walking - someone will settle his hash real quick.
Huh…..I wonder how this is gonna play out (no pun intended):
The Lakers, Clippers have voted to not finish the season, per source. Unclear if that means they are going home, or if that’s just their position. Meeting is wrapping up.
— Chris Mannix (@SIChrisMannix) August 27, 2020
re: #56 Dr Lizardo
Huh…..I wonder how this is gonna play out (no pun intended):
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I’m seeing a lot of posts about this on Facebook linking it to BLM. Am I wrong in thinking “umm, no this is about the damn virus you all got bored with.”
re: #57 Jack Burton
I’m seeing a lot of posts about this on Facebook linking it to BLM. Am I wrong in thinking “umm, no this is about the damn virus you all got bored with.”
In this case, it seems to be BLM-related. From the SI story:
The first domino fell Wednesday afternoon when players from the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic in protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. When both teams agreed to not play the game, the NBA postponed the other two games scheduled for Wednesday.
“We fully support our players and the decision they made,” the Bucks said in a statement signed by Marc Lasry, Wes Edens and Jamie Dinan. “Although we did not know beforehand, we would have wholeheartedly agreed with them. The only way to bring about change is to shine a light on the racial injustices that are happening in front of us. Our players have done that and we will continue to stand alongside them and demand accountability and change.”
For the immediate future, Thursday’s scheduled games will likely not be played, according to Mannix. The fate of the remainder of the playoffs is still up in the air as players continue to discuss options going forward.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Well it’s good that they are making a stand like this.
That said I wish BLM *and* COVID was the reason for stopping the season. It was stupid to attempt to restart pro sports in the first place.
NBA boycott: a dangerous mix of politics and religion…
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is going to walk and there will be more riots.
I’m predicting a personal-appearance tour with George Zimmerman within a year
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is going to walk and there will be more riots.
Personally, I doubt it will go to trial. He’s going to get offered a combination of juvie until he’s 18, then probation for a few years and community service. The prosecutors will call that “justice,” say in their mealy-mouthed way that the victims “contributed” to their deaths/maiming, and spin it all as a “boy” making mistakes than intentional acts. And that there’s no point in “ruining his life” by taking the whole thing to trial.
re: #62 Targetpractice
The gloves argue intention.
re: #63 retired cynic
The gloves argue intention.
But intention to do what? Note that he’s wearing the exact same type of gloves in the photos from earlier in the day when he’s scrubbing graffiti off a wall.
re: #64 Targetpractice
But intention to do what? Note that he’s wearing the exact same type of gloves in the photos from earlier in the day when he’s scrubbing graffiti off a wall.
and that was intentional as well…sounds like he had this well planned
The Alabama NG will help calm things:
Ivey to send 350 Guard members to Wisconsin if needed
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re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m pretty sure all of his actions were intended. He went looking for trouble. It didn’t matter much to him exactly who he shot, as long as got to kill someone. And a good prosecutor could make that case and put him away for a long, long time.
re: #69 Dr Lizardo
I’m pretty sure all of his actions were intended. He went looking for trouble. It didn’t matter much to him exactly who he shot, as long as got to kill someone. And a good prosecutor could make that case and put him away for a long, long time.
This is Right Wing White Terrorism and has to be nipped in the bud. I hope we get a judge and jury to see that and act accordingly.
“The effort to refashion Trump and his party as embracing of diversity… before the election clashed jarringly with the record of a president whose political career has been defined by themes of white nationalism“ @DavidNakamura writes https://t.co/wKP2GzMj1d
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 27, 2020
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is Right Wing White Terrorism and has to be nipped in the bud. I hope we get a judge and jury to see that and act accordingly.
I agree. Unfortunately though, as America becomes more and more a majority minority country, there’s a good chance we might see more of these atrocities as radicalized young white men, realizing the old status quo is slipping away from them, lash out.
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
I agree. Unfortunately though, as America becomes more and more a majority minority country, there’s a good chance we might see more of these atrocities as radicalized young white men, realizing the old status quo is slipping away from them, lash out.
and portraying themselves as victims of a nation somehow turned against them
It’s worth remembering that Pence’s description of how strong Trump’s response to the pandemic was comes six months to the day after Trump said that having only 15 cases which would soon go down to zero showed what a good job he’d done. https://t.co/0ndwIiwWKs
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 27, 2020
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and portraying themselves as victims of a nation somehow turned against them
I recall (either before or shortly after the 2016 election) when the media was doing their Cletus safaris, a lot of the white interviewees stated they felt that they “no longer recognized America” or that “America was slipping away from them” or things to that effect.
And we all know what that meant. The fact that a Black man with a vaguely Arabic-sounding name had been elected to the position of supreme authority in the United States - not once, but twice - had driven them straight out of their goddamn minds.
re: #62 Targetpractice
Personally, I doubt it will go to trial. He’s going to get offered a combination of juvie until he’s 18, then probation for a few years and community service. The prosecutors will call that “justice,” say in their mealy-mouthed way that the victims “contributed” to their deaths/maiming, and spin it all as a “boy” making mistakes than intentional acts. And that there’s no point in “ruining his life” by taking the whole thing to trial.
Do his parents get sued into oblivion on the civil side in the meantime?
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
“You will not replace us!”
Gee I wonder why they felt the need to ambush these people
No, I really don’t wonder at all
Sudha Narayanan and Neimat Awadelseid looked forward to Tuesday—the day, after a yearslong process, they would become U.S. citizens. They found out only minutes before the ceremony that President Trump would attend, and they didn’t know it would be aired during the Republican convention that night,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
re: #62 Targetpractice
Personally, I doubt it will go to trial. He’s going to get offered a combination of juvie until he’s 18, then probation for a few years and community service. The prosecutors will call that “justice,” say in their mealy-mouthed way that the victims “contributed” to their deaths/maiming, and spin it all as a “boy” making mistakes than intentional acts. And that there’s no point in “ruining his life” by taking the whole thing to trial.
Murder charge over 16 = no juvie in Wisconsin.
Conviction = mandatory Life without the possibility of parole
Very tight definition of self defense here, no stand your ground and limited castle doctrine.
He’s going to die of old age or suicide in Waupun.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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Pete, he can’t be both
Since he actually does all those things every day, he probably isn’t that other thing you say he is (a man of faith)
Here’s the thing, Pete - that “rooted in faith” stuff? It’s all an act. A sham. A long con. I’m surprised you don’t know this. https://t.co/3Hmb4Vfuvl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2020
re: #79 William Lewis
Very tight definition of self defense here, no stand your ground and limited castle doctrine.
Yeah, you ain’t kidding.
As per Wisconsin statute 939.48(2)(a):
“A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person’s assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.”
Fell asleep several hours ago, trying to keep up with Piotrowski. Here was his last report:
So, just found out from a friend of mine in Portland, OR that the legendary Canton Grill Chinese restaurant is closing its doors after 76 years. Damn shame…..I remember that place, and liked to eat there at least twice a month back in the day when I lived in the PDX area.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
So, just found out from a friend of mine in Portland, OR that the legendary Canton Grill Chinese restaurant is closing its doors after 76 years. Damn shame…..I remember that place, and liked to eat there at least twice a month back in the day when I lived in the PDX area.
I was sad to find out that Pedro Wong’s Mexican and Chinese drive-in restaurant in Payson, Arizona was no longer in business…
re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Lake Charles appears to now be in the middle of the intense rain on the south side of the eye:
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Piotrowski claimed that where he was they never got any calm, which is strange because the map indicates they were in part of the eye.
The East-most feeder band is about to sweep us—looks like moderate rain.
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was sad to find out that Pedro Wong’s Mexican and Chinese drive-in restaurant in Payson, Arizona was no longer in business…
Yeah, for me, it’s always kind of sad when I see a local institution close its doors for good. Canton Grill had been serving Portlanders since 1944. On the other hand, I know that nothing lasts forever and frankly, 76 years is one helluva great run.
Canton Grill was one of those old-school Chinese restaurants that seem to be slowly disappearing in the Portland area.
re: #5 teleskiguy
Blake had a knife in his car so it was no threat to the police officer who shot him in his back as he was getting into the car. Who are they fooling?
re: #90 Patricia Kayden
Blake had a knife in his car so it was no threat to the police officer who shot him in his back as he was getting into the car. Who are they fooling?
“those hands were lethal weapons”
re: #2 Ace Rothstein
If a 17-year-old can cross state lines with an AR-15, go into a protest, shoot three people killing two, walk with his hands up towards the cops and the cops ignore him, and then get back into his car and drive back to Illinois and half of the country makes him out out be some kind of a hero, the country is fucking finished.
What Carlson seems to be missing is that if this were true, IF defense of the nation was reduced armed 17-year-olds on the front line, then that’s entirely on TRUMP.
Carlson is quite literally saying defense of America now rests in the hands of the Hitler Youth.
2/— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 27, 2020
I may have seen it here a few months ago, but there was reporting that Chinese restaurants are disappearing everywhere because after the first couple of generations of ownership (which was usually an expediency because other jobs weren’t readily available in China or here) the families have achieved their purpose—to make sure their children or grandchildren could pursue other professions.
Lake Charles, Louisiana - A majority of the windows are blown out of the Capital One Tower. via @johnhumphress #Laura pic.twitter.com/5CIt5bTO8L
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) August 27, 2020
re: #94 Barefoot Grin
I may seen it here a few months ago, but there was reporting that Chinese restaurants are disappearing everywhere because after the first couple of generations of ownership (which was usually an expediency because other jobs weren’t readily available in China or here) the families have achieved their purpose—to make sure their children or grandchildren could pursue other professions.
That’s an interesting point, actually. Now that the second and third generation is firmly established on the socio-economic ladder, there’s no need to continue operating the establishing enterprise.
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
That’s an interesting point, actually. Now that the second and third generation is firmly established on the socio-economic ladder, there’s no need to continue operating the establishing enterprise.
The Med students got sick of doing dishes.
Another interesting thing I learned from a PBS program on the history of Chinese restaurants in America is that, broadly speaking, most of the first were from Fujian province (or Canton) dating back to the 1800s. The next wave was Sichuan via Taiwan: these were mostly Nationalist or people who had to flee with Nationalists to Taiwan during and after the civil war from the area where the Guomindang had set up their capital in Sichuan. Finally, when Chinese food attained more than just buffet status among Americans, a variety of other styles and gourmet fusions appeared.
re: #98 Barefoot Grin
Another interesting thing I learned from a PBS program on the history of Chinese restaurants in America is that, broadly speaking, most of the first were from Fujian province (or Canton) dating back to the 1800s. The next wave was Sichuan via Taiwan: these were mostly Nationalist or people who had to flee with Nationalists to Taiwan during and after the civil war from the area where the Guomindang had set up their capital in Sichuan. Finally, when Chinese food attained more than just buffet status among Americans, a variety of other styles and gourmet fusions appeared.
In 1956 Pittsburgh, the restaurant near us (the first I’d seen) made a point of calling itself “The Free China Restaurant”. It was pretty much chop suey all the way.
#RNC: Harris/Biden are soft on crime and anti-cop.
Also #RNC: Biden is too tough on crime and Harris was a cop! pic.twitter.com/IWq1pZN7hY— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2020
re: #82 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, you ain’t kidding.
As per Wisconsin statute 939.48(2)(a):
“A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person’s assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.”
I’ve a strong suspicion that all this is gonna end up coming down to what happened to prompt Rosenbaum to toss what looks like a plastic bag at Rittenhouse. Personally, I think what we have here is a kid who got way too fuckin’ big for his britches, said some stupid shit, and then shot someone without any real grasp of how bad an idea that was.
re: #99 Decatur Deb
In 1956 Pittsburgh, the restaurant near us (the first I’d seen) made a point of calling itself “The Free China Restaurant”. It was pretty much chop suey all the way.
My grandmother loved Chinese food, but in truth the restaurants we went to were similar. Or else it was basically wonton soup and “sweet and sour” everything. Later, when my Chinese language professor (had to take it as part of my degree) took the grad students out, I finally learned that there is so very much more even in those restaurants, and that most of it is not on menus for the average ignorant white guy like me.
Heavy tropical rains are beginning to move into far southern Arkansas. #arwx pic.twitter.com/6ca6tSBD17
— James Bryant (@KATVJames) August 27, 2020
Tropical storm warnings are up for the southern half of the state. Laura will continue moving into Arkansas through the morning hours with peak impacts this afternoon. Widespread 30-50+ MPH wind gusts are expected along with 3-6” of rain and an isolated tornado threat. #arwx pic.twitter.com/c8d2Vajizr
— James Bryant (@KATVJames) August 27, 2020
re: #100 Ace-o-aces
Their desperation is increasingly palpable.
You know, I was just thinking, maybe Trump should try just straight-up telling the truth. He can address the American people, maybe a live presser even, and say, “Folks, believe me, look, I’ve committed so many crimes, I’m stealing taxpayer dollars every hour of every day, not just me, my kids too, even Jared. But here’s the thing, it’s so many crimes that if I’m not re-elected, we’re all gonna go to jail. I’m an old guy….hell, I can’t take prison, I’d be dead in a month. So sure, OK, Joe’s a nice guy, ain’t gonna lie, but I’m sayin’ c’mon folks, keep me and my kids out of Sing Sing.”
Maybe as a last-ditch tactic or something.
I’ll help his efforts by following him knocking canapés out of his hands when he picks them up and chasing him around the garden. https://t.co/HF3uffHf8N
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) August 27, 2020
I just realized what this case reminds me of: George F’n Zimmerman. Another “white knight” who decided that a gun meant other people had to listen to him and obey him. That having a gun meant he could play vigilante and he could enforce the “law” as he saw it. Then he ran into someone who wasn’t willing to put up with that shit and he panicked.
We could do this all night. https://t.co/8K42xz16bd
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 27, 2020
re: #81 dangerman
Bringing the gun argues intention
Yes, particularly when combined with the fact that he wasn’t local and had no stake in being there. He was there to intimidate and harass. He was close enough that he could get there to get his hate boner on, and shot two people. I don’t care what the first victim did (or what his arrest history was). Rittenhouse created the situation. I really, really don’t care what the second victim did…he was trying to stop a known shooter. Bottom line…it is all on Rittenhouse, his parents, and Kenosha PD.
JFC
Brian Kilmeade recommends that Donald Trump call Jacob Blake’s family and tell them, “we don’t know the details of the case, but we know one thing, we want your son to get better” — especially since “sports now goes on hold because of this.” pic.twitter.com/texpcMxOy7
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 27, 2020
He also had 3 children in the car. What is your point?#JacobBlake https://t.co/NitjXq09HY
— Patti M Piatt #BlackLivesMatter (@PiattPatti) August 27, 2020
He kissed all that orange ass and this is the thanks he gets. 🥴🤣😂 https://t.co/uJzIoaJ8vB
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) August 27, 2020
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That happened to many buildings in downtown Houston after Alicia went through in ‘83. Rocks from roofs of buildings flung around and breaking windows all over.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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That has gotta be one of the whitest, most tone-deaf statements I’ve heard in awhile. “Say something nice to the blah people so they’ll go back to playing sportsball!”
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
That’s an interesting point, actually. Now that the second and third generation is firmly established on the socio-economic ladder, there’s no need to continue operating the establishing enterprise.
The stereotypical Chinese restaurant, grocery store or laundry are also vestiges of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which made it illegal to hire Chinese as employees. They had to found their own businesses to survive.
Jesus has a Sword now……
#FailedChristian #BloodLustingTrumper
And last but not least………
Who taught you this shit?#FailedAmerican.— The Wind Cries “Transparency.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 27, 2020
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
Donald, sat with a musical instrument he doesn’t know how to play and a woman he doesn’t know how to please.
Large communication tower collapsed in Lake Charles, LA during Hurricane #Laura
- @johnhumphress pic.twitter.com/XxMDLiBcWU— SevereStudios (@severestudios) August 27, 2020
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
Come on, be real, just shows Trump is human. Would you invite Ted Cruz to your party?
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The stereotypical Chinese restaurant, grocery store or laundry are also vestiges of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which made it illegal to hire Chinese as employees. They had to found their own businesses to survive.
At one point my mother and I rented a room at the back of a Chinese hand laundry in McKee’s Rocks. We had a back door, but I usually bombed through between the tubs and wringers. I was missing a chance to learn a language, but I was only 6 or 7.
re: #109 Mike Lamb
Yes, particularly when combined with the fact that he wasn’t local and had no stake in being there. He was there to intimidate and harass. He was close enough that he could get there to get his hate boner on, and shot two people. I don’t care what the first victim did (or what his arrest history was). Rittenhouse created the situation. I really, really don’t care what the second victim did…he was trying to stop a known shooter. Bottom line…it is all on Rittenhouse, his parents, and Kenosha PD.
No one drives across state lines to ‘clean up graffiti’ and brings a rifle
No one wears gloves while cleaning graffiti and continues to wear the same pair after.
No one
Interesting that he made sure to have his picture taken while “cleaning”
Who would have touched their weapon with those soiled gloves?
I bet a new pair. Therefore, again, intent.
re: #113 Eventual Carrion
That happened to many buildings in downtown Houston after Alicia went through in ‘83. Rocks from roofs of buildings flung around and breaking windows all over.
That’s the reason for shutters and hurricane glass.
It’s not the wind per se
It’s the stuff the wind picks up and turns into projectiles
Trump responds: pic.twitter.com/CRL1WlVDjv
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2020
re: #115 Targetpractice
That has gotta be one of the whitest, most tone-deaf statements I’ve heard in awhile. “Say something nice to the blah people so they’ll go back to playing sportsball!…”
…for our entertainment
If you are in the trades. There’s lots of work and overtime in Southern LA. Starting today.
Has anyone spoken to Master Rittenhouse’s parents or are they at the Republican Convention in some capacity?
re: #124 Ace-o-aces
GOP voters say they enjoy the “Trump Show” but want to see a plan for second term
This is Reality TV, there is no script…
re: #128 Dave In Austin
Has anyone spoken to Master Rittenhouse’s parents or are they at the Republican Convention in some capacity?
I’m sure law enforcement will be speaking to them soon. Some questions about where the kiddo got that rifle, that sort of thing.
re: #127 Dave In Austin
If you are in the trades. There’s lots of work and overtime in Southern LA. Starting today.
As I mentioned earlier about hurricane Alicia in Houston. I made enough cutting up and hauling away downed trees to buy my girlfriend at the time (became my first wife) an engagement ring.
re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is Reality TV, there is no script…
And we determine reality by how we edit the footage
re: #131 Eventual Carrion
As I mentioned earlier about hurricane Alicia in Houston. I made enough cutting up and hauling away downed trees to buy my girlfriend at the time (became my first wife) an engagement ring.
A few days after Andrew hit Miami-Homestead, we built what became a DoD Joint Task Force. The most organized add-on was a detachment from the US Forest Service—totally had their shit together. They were there in an urban-suburban environment because more than 100,000 trees were down, and they were screwing up the recovery logistics.
re: #117 Dave In Austin
It’s a NT verse that many skip over. Mostly, the NT “Jesus” is not the nice guy that is often portrayed.
He does know they use scanners, right?
President Trump is shifting his focus from the U.S. Postal Service in his concerns about potential fraud in mail-in voting, claiming problems with mailed ballots lie with local elections officials who are “going to count them wrong,” NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “It’s not the post office … it has nothing to do with the post office.”
He added: “The problem is when they dump all these ballots in front of a few people who are counting them, and they’re going to count them wrong. The post office is not to blame.”
re: #135 dangerman
He does know they use scanners, right?
FFS, this schmuck can’t keep his story straight.
re: #135 dangerman
He does know they use scanners, right?
I imagine the moron genuinely believes they count every single ballot by hand like it’s the fuckin’ 1920s.
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a NT verse that many skip over. Mostly, the NT “Jesus” is not the nice guy that is often portrayed.
He got it from his revolutionary mother:
“He hath shewed might in His arm
He hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.
He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He hath sent empty away.
He hath received Israel His servant, being mindful of His mercy.”
(The version of the Magnificat done by your Nederlands Bach bunch is really good.)
Kenosha Police Chief Miskinis responds to the murder of two protestors by saying it wouldn’t have happened if people weren’t out after curfew: “I’m not gonna make a great deal of it, BUT …” pic.twitter.com/GBRo8I5Zka
— The Recount (@therecount) August 26, 2020
The guy with the gun was out after curfew
Interacting with the police
Why wasn’t he detained, cited, anything….
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Things like that make me ponder over the “Jesus myth” theory, or perhaps more accurately, the Jesus of the New Testament is a composite figure put together from the itinerant apocalyptic preachers, Essene sectarians, faith healers and anti-Roman revolutionaries that were actually quite common in 1st century Roman-occupied Judea.
re: #135 dangerman
He does know they use scanners, right?
So election personnel are now incompetent?
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Mostly, the NT “Jesus” is not the nice guy that is often portrayed.
He was a Millenialist street-corner rebbe with a small cult following, prophesying the coming of the Messiah to anyone who would listen. The End Times were here, the Romans had conquered the assorted Jewish warbands and bickering tribes in a slow walk and they owned the Jewish homeland which was evidence of the Tribulation. Like any troublemakers who wouldn’t sit down and shut up he eventually came to the attention of the cops and got nailed to a tree for his troubles. His cult followers, in a great outburst of self-denial claimed he was magically resurrected (see also Qanon etc. for current examples of “executed and replaced with body doubles”) and the legend was born, like Elvis and JFK Jr.
The most accurate representation of what that place and period was really like ever put before the public is the documentary “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Ignore the Hollywood treatments, they never showed the shit and stench.
re: #128 Dave In Austin
Has anyone spoken to Master Rittenhouse’s parents or are they at the Republican Convention in some capacity?
I heard a report this morning that he lived with his mom. I wonder if she indulged his gun and police fetishes to keep him near and dear as a single parent. Pure speculation, of course.
Kenosha needs to do a thorough review of each officer’s social media and other possible connections to militia members.
re: #143 Barefoot Grin
I heard a report this morning that he lived with his mom. I wonder if she indulged his gun and police fetishes to keep him near and dear as a single parent. Pure speculation, of course.
See also: Sandy Hook school murderer. His weapons were gifts/loaners from his mom, the one he killed first.
re: #142 Nojay UK
He was a Millenialist street-corner rebbe with a small cult following, prophesying the coming of the Messiah to anyone who would listen. The End Times were here, the Romans had conquered the assorted Jewish warbands and bickering tribes in a slow walk and they owned the Jewish homeland which was evidence of the Tribulation. Like any troublemakers who wouldn’t sit down and shut up he eventually came to the attention of the cops and got nailed to a tree for his troubles. His cult followers, in a great outburst of self-denial claimed he was magically resurrected (see also Qanon etc. for current examples of “executed and replaced with body doubles”) and the legend was born, like Elvis and JFK Jr.
The most accurate representation of what that place and period was really like ever put before the public is the documentary “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Ignore the Hollywood treatments, they never showed the shit and stench.
Do you really mean “Life of Brian”?
Oof.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 31.7 percent in the second quarter of 2020 (table 1), according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 5.0 percent.
The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the “advance” estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the decrease in real GDP was 32.9 percent. With the second estimate, private inventory investment and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) decreased less than previously estimated (see “Updates to GDP” on page 2).
Also,
Another 1 million American workers filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The report met economists’ expectations, and was a small decline from the prior week, but the report was still somewhat of a disappointment. So far, we’ve only seen one week — at the start of August — with fewer than a million claims since March, when the pandemic started to take its toll on America’s job market.
Continued jobless claims, which count people filing at least two weeks in a row, stood at 14.5 million on a seasonally adjusted basis.
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re: #142 Nojay UK
I think you meant Life of Brian, which I would certainly agree is probably a fairly accurate portrayal of everyday life in 1st century Jerusalem and environs. Granted, played for laughs, but not without some truth in the midst of that biting satire.
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
I think you meant Life of Brian, which I would certainly agree is probably a fairly accurate portrayal of everyday life in 1st century Jerusalem and environs. Granted, played for laughs, but not without some truth in the midst of that biting satire.
Though the filth and squalor was probably better portrayed in Holy Grail, in a different age, of course.
re: #142 Nojay UK
The most accurate representation of what that place and period was really like ever put before the public is the documentary “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Ignore the Hollywood treatments, they never showed the shit and stench.
Don’t you mean “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”?
re: #141 Eventual Carrion
So election personnel are now incompetent?
If they don’t declare me the winner, then yes
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What she meant to say was that “they were looking down on earth.”
BTW, the actor who played Jesus in Life of Brian?
None other than Admiral Piett himself….Kenneth Colley. 😄
Attention voters in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi: President Trump removed $44 billion from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund just as hurricane Laura started bearing down on you. Please be safe. https://t.co/2AoxPgn7PU
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) August 27, 2020
re: #139 dangerman
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guyminor with the gun was out after curfew
Interacting with the police
Why wasn’t he detained, cited, anything….
Had to fix it.
So just checking in here to make sure that what just happened didn’t actually happen.
I mean, you can’t tell me with a straight face that some armed teenager shot and killed two protesters and the police and Fox News are pretty much OK with all of that.
/
re: #139 dangerman
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The guy with the gun was out after curfew
Interacting with the police
Why wasn’t he detained, cited, anything….
What country is this?
re: #155 Dave In Austin
Had to fix it.
I’m don’t disagree but the cops he was talking to wouldn’t have known that by looking
They’d have had to ask
re: #128 Dave In Austin
Has anyone spoken to Master Rittenhouse’s parents or are they at the Republican Convention in some capacity?
The GOP convention will need to be extended for another week to incorporate the shooter, his parents, the Kenosha police, etc.
re: #156 Sir John Barron
So just checking in here to make sure that what just happened didn’t actually happen.
I mean, you can’t tell me with a straight face that some armed teenager shot and killed two protesters and the police and Fox News are pretty much OK with all of that.
/
Not only are they okay with it, they’re declaring him a hero.
re: #161 Targetpractice
Not only are they okay with it, they’re declaring him a hero.
and remind me, the protesters have killed how many people besides zero in Kenosha?
re: #161 Targetpractice
Not only are they okay with it, they’re declaring him a hero.
I just can’t with this country anymore
re: #162 Sir John Barron
and remind me, the protesters have killed how many people besides zero in Kenosha?
You could really substitute any of the cities where there have been protests, as I can’t think of a single person killed by protesters since they began months ago.
re: #164 Targetpractice
You could really substitute any of the cities where there have been protests, as I can’t think of a single person killed by protesters since they began months ago.
Yeah me neither.
Yet some people are pissing themselves about some property damage.
re: #161 Targetpractice
Not only are they okay with it, they’re declaring him a hero.
It’s reflexive
They have no other choice but to take the opposite position from reality
Otherwise they are appeasers, compromisers, in league with blm, far lefties etc
Being moral and civilized now is “weak” and socialist, and marxist, etc..
re: #165 Sir John Barron
Yeah me neither.
Yet some people are pissing themselves about some property damage.
Which really tells you all you need to know about what wingnuts really value in this country. As well as how decades of having every bit of wealth crammed upwards has made people willing to accept the death of others just to hold onto their own meager measure of such.
What’s the Lincoln quote about I’d rather move to an autocratic country that makes no pretense of liberty, fairness, justice or virtue so I can get the barbarism straight and undiluted.
re: #163 Sir John Barron
I just can’t with this country anymore
The past four years have been revealing.
Yeouch
A new Navigator poll finds Donald Trump falling short on some of his key themes from the Republican convention.
Just 43% feel he’s living up to “Make America Great Again,” while 53% disagree.
Just 40% think he’s made America more respected, while 55% disagree.
Just 39% think he’s restored law and order, while 55% disagree.
Just 36% think he’s gotten the pandemic under control, while 64% disagree.
Also important: 61% say Trump wants what is best for himself rather than what is best for the country
The House Oversight committe is pushing the DoD to inviestigate if the other Colonel Vindeman is being retaliated against for reporting concerns. His evaluation before Trump made the Ukraine call:
Yevgeny is the epitome of an Army officer and lawyer. He is a hardworking, disciplined, tough-minded team player who manifests the Army Values. He is unremittingly honest in delivering legal advice, without concern of repercussions. Yev does the right thing and is approachable and personable. … Yev is a top 1% military attorney and officer and the best LTC with whom I have ever worked. Functioning at the executive level, he advises White House senior staff with skill, tact, and judgment on matters of geostrategic importance. Sought by White House staff regularly, he can do any job in the legal field under unusual and constant pressure and scrutiny. Select now for Senior Service College and promote immediately to Colonel. Absolutely unlimited potential!
And his evaulation eight months later:
During the prior reporting period and early portions of the reporting period, LTC Vindman performed his duties satisfactorily. Over time, LTC Vindman displayed increasingly poor judgment and failed to learn from his mistakes. On multiple occasions,his unprofessional demeanor made NSC staff feel uncomfortable. Despite express guidance from his supervisor, he continued to add himself to meetings with senior NSC staff where he did not add value. LTC Vindman’s substandard performance—his lack of judgment, failure to communicate well with his superiors, and inability to differentiate between legal and policy decisions—caused him to lose the trust of NSC senior leadership. … With additional counseling and experience, LTC Vindman’s performance may improve. He would benefit from additional experience in a slower paced work environment subject to less pressure and scrutiny. In time, he may become a better attorney
re: #168 Sir John Barron
What’s the Lincoln quote about I’d rather move to an autocratic country that makes no pretense of liberty, fairness, justice or virtue so I can get the barbarism straight and undiluted.
Something to the effect of I’d rather move to Russia where there is no hypocrisy about liberty. That might be another but my favorite is and I’ll paraphrase is “I wish very much that those who speak of slavery as a positive good try it on themselves.”
re: #159 Sir John Barron
The GOP convention will need to be extended for another week to incorporate the shooter, his parents, the Kenosha police, etc.
And that Democrat planned hurricane means they get a mulligan. //
re: #139 dangerman
Passive voice absolves blame. Involved in an incident with a fire arm. No. He shot and murdered two people.
Y’all, Facebook is dangerous. It’s damaging to the free world. It’s damaging to people.
Facebook doesn’t care if we live or die. They only care about money.#DeleteFacebook https://t.co/LQA2cpTXFB— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 27, 2020
re: #170 dangerman
Yeouch
A new Navigator poll finds Donald Trump falling short on some of his key themes from the Republican convention.
Just 43% feel he’s living up to “Make America Great Again,” while 53% disagree.
Just 40% think he’s made America more respected, while 55% disagree.
Just 39% think he’s restored law and order, while 55% disagree.
Just 36% think he’s gotten the pandemic under control, while 64% disagree.Also important: 61% say Trump wants what is best for himself rather than what is best for the country
His “positives” still sound ridiculously high
This moment demands moral leadership. And these players answered by standing up, speaking out, and using their platform for good.
Now is not the time for silence. https://t.co/hF3dIb7Hde— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 27, 2020
re: #175 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I’m very close to pulling the plug on it and other social media.
Lre: #176 Sir John Barron
His “positives” still sound ridiculously high
They are. But I can’t see him threading the needle enough to win or to make it close enough to cast doubt.
“Abraham Lincoln didn’t die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.”
re: #164 Targetpractice
You could really substitute any of the cities where there have been protests, as I can’t think of a single person killed by protesters since they began months ago.
But but violent revolutionary AntiFa gangs!
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
“Abraham Lincoln didn’t die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.”
In John Wilke’s booth.
re: #161 Targetpractice
Not only are they okay with it, they’re declaring him a hero.
I’m a little surprised they didn’t try linking the shooter to Antifa or Bernie Socialist or something but I guess the Overton Window has moved beyond that now so that anyone shooting black people is automatically justified.
It’s like we’re reliving Reconstruction, Jim Crow lynching.
“The coronavirus may infect anyone, young or old, but older men are up to twice as likely to become severely sick and to die as women of the same age. Why? Men produce a weaker immune response to the virus than do women.” https://t.co/XwxuaTDvPm
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 26, 2020
re: #177 Belafon
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I also saw the Milwaukee Brewers manager wearing a BLM tee-shirt at a press conference, which I thought was something.
re: #176 Sir John Barron
His “positives” still sound ridiculously high
It’s that same 40% over and over
Lre: #186 dangerman
It’s that same 40% over and over
The same that was just enough to make the Bohemian corporal chancellor.
Lost. That’s the best way I’ll describe the past four years. I just hope we look back on these years as a bad case of hiccups rather than a harbinger.
re: #189 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Lost. That’s the best way I’ll describe the past four years. I just hope we look back on these years as a bad case of hiccups rather than a harbinger.
And yet the president* is busy making victory laps this week to celebrate his “leadership”.
How does Tim Scott look at himself in the mirror these days?
re: #190 Sir John Barron
And yet the president* is busy making victory laps this week
Yep. He lives in an alternate reality where he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us. He’s got a monarchical mind and a tyrant’s heart.
Yesterday, I mentioned my hero, Bill Russell’s, reaction to the “doings” in sports. Here’s an article in today WaPo about his actions back in 1961:
Nearly 60 years earlier, Russell was the one pulling himself out of an NBA game as a demonstration against racist behavior. His Black teammates on the Boston Celtics followed suit, as did Black players for their opponent, the St. Louis Hawks.
…it’s likely that NBA players today would have no trouble finding common ground with a sentiment Russell expressed at the time: “I am coming to the realization that we are accepted as entertainers, but that we are not accepted as people in some places.”
Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish has been filled with controversy and tension after our parish government by a vote of 10-5 refused to take down the Confederate South’s Defenders Monument.
Hurricane Laura had other plans and brought it down herself. pic.twitter.com/HmyCVlJF8k— Davante Lewis (@davantelewis) August 27, 2020
Somehow I don’t think this will be considered “God’s will” by the usual suspects.
re: #194 BeachDem
Yesterday, I mentioned my hero, Bill Russell’s, reaction to the “doings” in sports. Here’s an article in today WaPo about his actions back in 1961:
Nearly 60 years earlier, Russell was the one pulling himself out of an NBA game as a demonstration against racist behavior. His Black teammates on the Boston Celtics followed suit, as did Black players for their opponent, the St. Louis Hawks.
…it’s likely that NBA players today would have no trouble finding common ground with a sentiment Russell expressed at the time: “I am coming to the realization that we are accepted as entertainers, but that we are not accepted as people in some places.”
I remember reading a Bob Gibson quote that broke my heart. He said if he couldn’t pitch a baseball, he’d be just another n-word to most white people. Makes me sad. But I sadly do believe that still has truth. The way black athletes are treated when they speak out is appalling.
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
People guarding businesses with rifles are well within the law. Rittenhouse had his hands up when he walked past the cops, so he was clearly no threat to them. There is no comparison with the rioters. …
I will go back to and stand by my original statement that the rioters in Minneapolis who burned down the police station should have been shot as they tried it (though not the people protesting or even looting, as odious as the latter is). Not doing so has set the tone for all this and made the tolerable seem intolerable. A violent attack on a public institution is not a protest or even civil unrest. It is insurrection and violence against the general public and public welfare. Not stopping it with force has let the cat out of the bag and it’s going to be a big, big tiger before this is all over. …
After watching a documentary about the LA Riots of the 90’s you said, “I stand withe the rooftop Koreans, do you?”. I affirmed that I did and do and the rooftop Koreans of our time are atop the buildings of Kenosha, Wisconsin 2020. They are armed and ready to defend their themselves, their families, their businesses, their neighborhood and their town from the rioters and looters, the gangbangers and the White Communists. I stand with the rooftop Americans in Kenosha, do you? …
The Left wing violence has been going on for weeks, and, finally, it can be justified because a violent right-winger showed up for the party. Of course this happened - No shit. If your beloved rioters keep this up, there will obviously be more of the same. Probably a lot more. Again, No shit. But this means that “fascism” is real, right? And so your beloved rioters are righteous, no? Valiant Defenders! …
A 17 year-old kid managed to slot 2 anarchists and hideously maim another. There is plenty of evidence showing he acted in self defense and the prosecutors already overcharged him so he will most likely walk. Antifa isn’t so scary when they can’t mob a person 5 to 1, throw a brick or take a cheap shot. Kenosha antifa couldn’t subdue and disarm a 17 year-old kid who was separated, on the ground and alone, with one of the attackers carrying a Glock and pretending to surrender before pulling it out—typical filthy, dishonorable antifa tactic. False surrender is a war crime under the Geneva convention. …
The arrested the poor boy and charged him with murder even though the videos quite clearly show he was legally and morally in the right. Decent people must find a way to defend him.
re: #196 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I remember reading a Bob Gibson quote that broke my heart. He said if he couldn’t pitch a baseball, he’d be just another n-word to most white people. Makes me sad. But I sadly do believe that still has truth. The way black athletes are treated when they speak out is appalling.
I remember something, a quote from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. As I recall, Malcolm was addressing a group of people and asked the rhetorical question, “What do you suppose white folks call a black college professor?”
I think it’s not too hard to guess the answer to Malcolm’s rhetorical question.
re: #197 Ferdinand
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
So Bundy’s cohorts should have been gunned down when they tore up the entrance door to storm into the legislative session? And I, as a citizen, would be well within my rights to do so even if I am from out of state and not a police officer? Might want to be careful what you wish for.
Edit: Not you of course, the people glorifying the murderer.
Most of white journalism twitter was a flutter about the @nytopinion Tom Cotton Op-Ed becuase they saw it as an embarrassing PR crisis that cost an editor his job.
Many Black people saw the piece for what it was: A dangerous incitement to violence against black protestors.— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) August 27, 2020
The problem with the overwhelming whiteness of American media is the constant failure to deeply grapple with the unspeakable violence that white people have historically wielded against non-whites.
And that white violence is a force that still shapes America.— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) August 27, 2020
re: #197 Ferdinand
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
sickening
re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We have gotten to where we pretty much only watch WFAA, the local ABC affiliate here in the DFW are, for news. Most of the people who work it are either African American or Latino. Plus they have sports reporter Dale Hanson, who can’t always keep his mouth shut or his liquor under control but has stood on the side of minority issues and has supported players’ rights to use their platform to make political changes.
re: #202 Belafon
We have gotten to where we pretty much only watch WFAA, the local ABC affiliate here in the DFW are, for news. Most of the people who work it are either African American or Latino. Plus they have sports reporter Dale Hanson, who can’t always keep his mouth shut or his liquor under control but has stood on the side of minority issues and has supported players’ rights to use their platform to make political changes.
I remember when Hanson spoke out in support of Michael Sam. As a sports fan, I’m definitely happy to see more liberal viewpoints frequently in that arena.
re: #137 Targetpractice
I imagine the moron genuinely believes they count every single ballot by hand like it’s the fuckin’ 1920s.
Why not? It’s how it’s done in most countries. It’s fast, secure, verifiable.
People complain that the US is too big to run elections by hand. The obvious reply is that if the US is big it has lots of people to do the counting.
re: #197 Ferdinand
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
So Rittenhouse was…defending himself or his business?
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re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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“The problem with the overwhelming whiteness of American media is the constant failure to deeply grapple with the unspeakable violence that white people have historically wielded against non-whites.”
“And that white violence is a force that still shapes America.”
Under the guise of protecting property, they’re protecting privilege.
re: #142 Nojay UK
The most accurate representation of what that place and period was really like ever put before the public is the documentary “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Ignore the Hollywood treatments, they never showed the shit and stench.
ITYM The Life of Brian.
re: #197 Ferdinand
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
I would have thought that some conservatives could have mustered a “well I don’t approve of this young man’s actions, but….” response.
But I guess even a limp apology like that would be too much for them.
re: #206 Sir John Barron
So Rittenhouse was…defending himself or his business?
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Tevor Noah said it well yesterday: ‘these guys aren’t going to Kenosha to protect a TJ Maxx, they want to shoot people.’
re: #210 Barefoot Grin
Tevor Noah said it well yesterday: ‘these guys aren’t going to Kenosha to protect a TJ Maxx, they want to shoot people.’
And the gun culture encourages this. It reduces our reality to good guys with guns being the only safeguard against bad guys.
re: #211 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And the gun culture encourages this. It reduces our reality to good guys with guns being the only safeguard against bad guys.
But black people with guns….
So are they actually seriously successfully lifting up Rittenhouse and lionizing him as a fucking hero?! Is this actually happening? And is the media actually fucking both sidesing this?! Because if they are, fuck everything, this is fucking hopeless.
EDIT: Case in point, case in fucking point:
the paper literally sprinted to get into print a story about how a black man being shot by white police and a white right-wing militiaman killing BLM protesters hurts *Dems* politically.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 27, 2020
NYT concludes Kenosha is hurting Dems because NYT interviewed 4 (!) voters.
no indication any Black voters were interviewed
NYT also interviewed an editor of a right-wing Wisc website. no liberal partisans were quoted— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 27, 2020
re: #186 dangerman
It’s that same 40% over and over
I can’t stress enough- if you want to fix what’s wrong in America it starts with fixing Fox News which has a lock on the info diet of Reps. In polling, Rs say they ONLY trust Fox for info. And as it has radicalized- so have they. https://t.co/EIOp6TuGzI
— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) August 27, 2020
Death is final. So many people just want to act cavalier about death. And I guess that’s why I hate the gun culture so much. It can be used to rationalize being upset at loud music being played and shooting the occupants of said vehicle, it can be used to rationalize shooting a car accident victim, & it can be used to rationalize presuming a kid doesn’t belong in a certain neighborhood and should be kicked out by some vigilante wannabe.
re: #197 Ferdinand
As for glorifying Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s already well under way over at Dreher’s blog at the American Conservative. I snapped back at him in his latest post, for saying “nobody is afraid of Kyle Rittenhouses burning down their neighborhoods.” I told him I’m a lot more afraid of Kyles killing one of my black kids than I am of protestors burning down my apartment complex. But it’s the comments in an older post of his about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
Huh. That was weird. Comcast crashed in my neighborhood while my comment was uploading, and only half posted. I just fixed it. There’s a bunch more crazy stuff at Dreher’s blog I had originally included.
re: #210 Barefoot Grin
Tevor Noah said it well yesterday: ‘these guys aren’t going to Kenosha to protect a TJ Maxx, they want to shoot people.’
Lock the mom up too
This is the stuff I wanted to get out. Damn Cosplay Serbians.
But it’s the comments in an older post of his [Dreher’s] about Kenosha where the fascists are really strutting. Here’s a few wretched samples:
People guarding businesses with rifles are well within the law. Rittenhouse had his hands up when he walked past the cops, so he was clearly no threat to them. There is no comparison with the rioters. …
I will go back to and stand by my original statement that the rioters in Minneapolis who burned down the police station should have been shot as they tried it (though not the people protesting or even looting, as odious as the latter is). Not doing so has set the tone for all this and made the tolerable seem intolerable. A violent attack on a public institution is not a protest or even civil unrest. It is insurrection and violence against the general public and public welfare. Not stopping it with force has let the cat out of the bag and it’s going to be a big, big tiger before this is all over. …
After watching a documentary about the LA Riots of the 90’s you said, “I stand withe the rooftop Koreans, do you?”. I affirmed that I did and do and the rooftop Koreans of our time are atop the buildings of Kenosha, Wisconsin 2020. They are armed and ready to defend their themselves, their families, their businesses, their neighborhood and their town from the rioters and looters, the gangbangers and the White Communists. I stand with the rooftop Americans in Kenosha, do you? …
The Left wing violence has been going on for weeks, and, finally, it can be justified because a violent right-winger showed up for the party. Of course this happened - No shit. If your beloved rioters keep this up, there will obviously be more of the same. Probably a lot more. Again, No shit. But this means that “fascism” is real, right? And so your beloved rioters are righteous, no? Valiant Defenders! …
A 17 year-old kid managed to slot 2 anarchists and hideously maim another. There is plenty of evidence showing he acted in self defense and the prosecutors already overcharged him so he will most likely walk. Antifa isn’t so scary when they can’t mob a person 5 to 1, throw a brick or take a cheap shot. Kenosha antifa couldn’t subdue and disarm a 17 year-old kid who was separated, on the ground and alone, with one of the attackers carrying a Glock and pretending to surrender before pulling it out—typical filthy, dishonorable antifa tactic. False surrender is a war crime under the Geneva convention. …
The arrested the poor boy and charged him with murder even though the videos quite clearly show he was legally and morally in the right. Decent people must find a way to defend him.
re: #215 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Death is final. So many people just want to act cavalier about death. And I guess that’s why I hate the gun culture so much. It can be used to rationalize being upset at loud music being played and shooting the occupants of said vehicle, it can be used to rationalize shooting a car accident victim, & it can be used to rationalize presuming a kid doesn’t belong in a certain neighborhood and should be kicked out by some vigilante wannabe.
The same folks who proclaim themselves pro-life are the ones that proclaim that your life is less important than their gun. And they have more guns, meaning they’re even more important, and they damn well want to show you that.
And now it seems like any progress is being made, shit is just devolving even worse because the monsters see no reason for restraint or keeping the mask up: murder is good, murder is great, long as its the untermenschen fake Americans being killed, not the glorious godly super-human Real Americans that love Trump more than everything else and hate blacks and the “other” like all Real Americans should. And they’ll prove it in blood and cheer all the fucking while because they’ve always wanted us dead and now they have the fucking chance and know nothing will be fucking done about it because most of the cops fucking love this and will let it happen.
re: #213 Citizen K
So are they actually seriously successfully lifting up Rittenhouse and lionizing him as a fucking hero?! Is this actually happening? And is the media actually fucking both sidesing this?! Because if they are, fuck everything, this is fucking hopeless.
There are two goals for propaganda: to make the gullible and compliant believe what the propagandist wants them to believe, and to demoralize everyone else into cynical inaction. Don’t let the fuckers win.
If the goopers want to win back the suburbs, glorifying murderers doesn’t look like the way to do it.
re: #219 Ferdinand
A 17 year-old kid managed to slot 2 anarchists and hideously maim another.
Ah, well at least he didn’t shoot two people, just anarchists.
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re: #219 Ferdinand
There is plenty of evidence showing he acted in self defense and the prosecutors already overcharged him so he will most likely walk.
Ah, another grand Stand Your Ground defense.
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re: #205 John Hughes
The US does a shitload more voting more often than most countries and their “ballots” can run to several pages elections of judges and dogcatchers, bond issues, changes to local laws etc. Counting them all by hand would be a Sisyphean task.
Kipling wrote a satirical piece about this peculiarly American obsession with direct democracy in one of his few science-fictional stories, “As Easy As ABC”, about Democrats in a future rural-libertarian Illinois causing trouble by insisting on voting on everything, like what they were going to have for dinner.
Not sure how to say this but, I’m astounded that black people put up with us, and this, and aren’t angrier than they are and have every right to be.
re: #191 Sir John Barron
How does Tim Scott look at himself in the mirror these days?
Easy.
He totally bought into the Ayn Rand worldview. Look out for #1 and Fuck Everyone Else.
I talked yesterday about how the white power structure is entrenched in this country and will not go away easily. I mean just look at the last few days:
1. White kid kills two people and is initially allowed to WALK AWAY after TRYING TO SURRENDER and is only arrested later after returning home. Said white kid then becomes a hero and “national treasure” according to a number of prominent white people (i.e. Tucker Carlson).
2. ANOTHER black man is brutally killed by a white police officer (who most likely won’t see discipline for it because - again - white power structure).
3. Police in Kenosha give high fives and water bottles to heavily armed white dudes in their streets while harassing and arresting black protesters.
4. White people start complaining about black people having the nerve to stop playing the sports they love to watch (and exploit for gain) because of item #2 and because they think the players should just “Shut up and dribble”.
5. The Covington kid and the St. Louis gun couple who trained an ASSAULT WEAPON on peaceful protesters get primo speaking spots at the RNC.
6. The largely white owned media continues to amplify white viewpoints and/or take bothsider-ism to the extreme on issues where one side is CLEARLY much more in the right than the other. And let’s also mention how mostly white run social media CONTINUES to allow neo-nazi, white supremacist and far right movements to prosper on their services.
I was going to stop here, but you know what? Let’s keep going.
7. Black and minority voters are disenfranchised in MUCH higher numbers than white voters…and it’s getting worse.
8. The mixed race family who got a home valuation over $100 000 HIGHER when they removed all the “Black stuff” including A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, from the home during the appraisal.
9. The recent report about black newborns who have worse outcomes when treated by white doctors.
10. The Pandemic. White people are statistically MUCH more likely to survive if infected and are usually NOT the demographic most at risk of infection. Blacks and Latinos? Sorry, brown folks. You get what you get. Best of luck to you. Let’s also mention a not insignificant percentage of white people who accept all the minority deaths from the Pandemic as “acceptable losses”.
11. Oh and most of the cops responsible for Breona Taylors death have STILL seen no consequences.
Why? It’s obvious. There are two Americas: One for white people and one for everyone else and I say this as a white person who realizes my skin color allows me to get a free pass on things when others wouldn’t.
And that’s really fucking appalling.
(Sorry for ranty post. I’m just in a pissed off mood this morning)
Good guys with guns played an under-mythologized role in the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s. The legal victories they supported made them less necessary. It would be best if the climate of law and justice keeps them less necessary.
Deacons for Defense and Justice
en.wikipedia.org
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
1. White kid kills two people and is initially allowed to WALK AWAY after TRYING TO SURRENDER and is only arrested later after returning home. Said white kid then becomes a hero and “national treasure” according to a number of prominent white people (i.e. Tucker Carlson).
“Hi mister police officer, I have no right being here or owning or carrying around this gun and I shot a couple people and might have killed them and I should probably let you know and surrender…”
“Ah, kid, ssssh, just keep going, it’s alright, go on home.”
“Yeah but I shot…”
“Attaboy, here’s a water bottle, thank you for all that you do.”
re: #197 Ferdinand
The Right has totally embraced and defended that punk.
Sick of seeing relatives saying that the N-word should have been shot more than seven times.
Sick of seeing then congratulate the punk for shooting 3 people and cheering the police who handed out water to the thugs.
Sick of them trashing Doc Rivers and LeBron.
re: #206 Sir John Barron
So Rittenhouse was…defending himself or his business?
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When your sister posts he was defending Jesus that was the last straw. I blocked her and don’t give a damn if she whines with another “you’re going to hell” shtick.
re: #231 🌹UOJB!
When your sister posts he was defending Jesus that was the last straw. I blocked her and don’t give a damn if she whines with another “you’re going to hell” shtick.
Gee, I though RW White Jesus always walked around strapped with an AR-15 (when he wasn’t riding his velociraptor)…?
re: #228 Decatur Deb
Good guys with guns played an under-mythologized role in the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s. The legal victories they supported made them less necessary. It would be best if the climate of law and justice keeps them less necessary.
Deacons for Defense and Justice
en.wikipedia.org
As I said yesterday, a new Malcom X is needed; Not just for the black community but for the soul of all of America.
Louisiana is full of petro-chemical plants so it is no surprise that the hurricane has caused dangerous situations:
ftr, street violence reflects poorly on the *party out of power* has never been a thing before in US politics; https://t.co/ePJ6iAdsIa
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 27, 2020
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a NT verse that many skip over. Mostly, the NT “Jesus” is not the nice guy that is often portrayed.
I first encountered it quoted by the fervently anti-mutant Reverend William Stryker in the early eighties seminal X-MEN graphic novel, “God Loves, Man Kills.”
Who says comics aren’t educational?
re: #236 Sir John Barron
It was time for a “Dems in Disarray” post.
You’d think they could try Dat array for once.
*ducks*
re: #235 jaunte
It would be interesting to see some polling. There are people that will be put off by damage caused by those associated with protesters, the “they’re not really helping their cause” types.
re: #238 A Three Hour Tour
I first encountered it quoted by the fervently anti-mutant Reverend William Stryker in the early eighties seminal X-MEN graphic novel, “God Loves, Man Kills.”
Who says comics aren’t educational?
Yeah but the ending was pure fantasy. The cop shot a white person to protect a minority. That would never happen in America…
No sarc tags.
This is extremely powerful.
pic.twitter.com/Jci480Nwsa— Ron Steslow (@RonSteslow) August 27, 2020
re: #233 William Lewis
As I said yesterday, a new Malcom X is needed; Not just for the black community but for the soul of all of America.
If a proponent of violence is needed, he will occur. We spawn them without breaking a sweat in America. Perhaps Putin will slip some MANPADS and LAWs under the Mexican wall, because that’s what it would take, and that’s who would profit.
re: #235 jaunte
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I think there’s a grain of truth here. It’s why some (much?) of the violence supposedly caused by BLM or Antifa is actually by right-wing provocateurs like “umbrella man.”
re: #120 John Hughes
Come on, be real, just shows Trump is human. Would you invite Ted Cruz to your party?
I am reminded of my favorite Ted Cruz story from a Frank Bruni column.
Another Bush 2000 alumnus said to me: “Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz? It just saves time.”
re: #240 Belafon
It would be interesting to see some polling. There are people that will be put off by damage caused by those associated with protesters, the “they’re not really helping their cause” types.
We’ll know in 80 days or so.
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
This. All of this. Can’t say/summarize it any better than that.
re: #245 Decatur Deb
If a proponent of violence is needed, he will occur. We spawn them without breaking a sweat in America. Perhaps Putin will slip some MANPADS and LAWs under the Mexican wall, because that’s what it would take, and that’s who would profit.
That would be for another John Brown. The difference, I think, is subtle but critical.
This is great. LA Dodgers, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Lions, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Cavaliers & Sacramento Kings also offering their arenas/stadiums as voting super centers. More teams will follow https://t.co/nLHQ09fa9K
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 27, 2020
re: #246 Barefoot Grin
This may be the most under-reported story of the Trump era: A president intentionally encouraging violence against American citizens in an effort to retain power through fear and intimidation should be *constant* front-page news.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 27, 2020
re: #251 jaunte
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Good, I wonder who will staff these centers. Some busses for people who don’t drive would be good, too.
I’ve been saying for a long time that the side that shoots first loses. That has been superceded now that the fascists did indeed shoot first, and they have avowedly done so to protect property. So be it. If armed wingnuts come onto my property, I will hunt them like game.
re: #253 Sir John Barron
Good, I wonder who will staff these centers. Some busses for people who don’t drive would be good, too.
I’m sure there are plenty of supporters of the team who would volunteer to help.
re: #256 Belafon
You know they’re working on some kind of suppression.
Kushner has nothing constructive to add. He’s enabling a white nationalist thug, and just wants players to play.
Screw that. People know right from wrong, and what’s happening in this country is wrong, and it starts from Trump on down. Racism and discrimination are real.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 27, 2020
“Armed protesters” and “armed counter-protesters” are not protesters; they are terrorists… full stop, and the media needs to call them that.
re: #253 Sir John Barron
Good, I wonder who will staff these centers. Some busses for people who don’t drive would be good, too.
If they do that for a stadium here in the DFW area, I will sign up to carry people.
Accessory to murder. Conspiracy to commit murder. Felony murder.
She should be charged as well.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 27, 2020
re: #257 jaunte
You know they’re working on some kind of suppression.
Yeah and we have to get out in numbers big enough to overwhelm it.
re: #259 Dragonomics
“Armed protesters” and “armed counter-protesters” are not protesters; they are terrorists… full stop, and the media needs to call them that.
The media needs to sell boner pills and car insurance. That’s all they’re for.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a “hero” but this guy is a “criminal thug”
When I say “for the culture” this is what I mean. pic.twitter.com/CGdDjzXOjd
— . (@vinnie3xs) August 25, 2020
He’s just mad its not the old days where if the blacks acted up you could simply evict them from the slum, amirite Jared?
— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) August 27, 2020
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
I remember something, a quote from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. As I recall, Malcolm was addressing a group of people and asked the rhetorical question, “What do you suppose white folks call a black college professor?”
I think it’s not too hard to guess the answer to Malcolm’s rhetorical question.
He was actually talking to a black college professor, but yeah.
re: #261 lawhawk
The 17 year old ‘s mom gave him the gun illegally, drove him and the gun illegally across state lines to violate a police curfew.
Yep. If that’s the case, then she’s now an accessory to two counts of murder, involved in conspiracy to commit murder, illegally obtaining a firearm for a minor, and illegal flight to escape arrest and prosecution.
re: #253 Sir John Barron
Good, I wonder who will staff these centers. Some busses for people who don’t drive would be good, too.
LeBron James, of course
nbcnews.com
His outfit is also responsible for convincing the teams to put up their stadiums to create these centers in the first place.
Jacob Blake was armed with a KNIFE when cops shot him says Wisconsin AG https://t.co/Q3xbwgUtfJ
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) August 27, 2020
And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
re: #266 The Pie Overlord!
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It’s pretty much official now. They don’t even bother hiding it anymore.
The Republican Party, under Donald Trump is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln.
It is the party of David Duke.
re: #225 Sir John Barron
Not sure how to say this but, I’m astounded that black people put up with us, and this, and aren’t angrier than they are and have every right to be.
This. I just had a chat with a Black coworker who moved here last year from Alabama. He said:
“Honestly, yesterday I was very hurt. I just pushed through. I almost called off work. I have gone from angry, to furious, to confused, to now just painfully hurt. All I can feel is hurt ‘cause I don’t even understand how after so very long how this type of hatred can exist in America.”
We chatted some more after that. I gotta say this one conversation was more clarifying than all the stuff corporate has sent out this summer. I told my coworker that I was there if he ever needed to vent to a white woman.
This new Biden ad airing tonight as Trump accepts his nom is SPECTACULAR
Wow!
Share widely 🙏🏻#BidenHarris2020pic.twitter.com/icAE0aHkIA— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 27, 2020
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s an excellent summation.
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
I thought the knife was IN THE CAR, That’s not the same as being armed with a knife.
While here in the US we’re thinking of Louisiana, on the other side of the globe another disaster happened today:
At least 12 killed, urban flooding in parts of Karachi as monsoon spell wreaks havoc
At least 12 people were killed in various rain-related incidents in Karachi on Thursday, officials and rescue services said, taking the tally of deaths during the three-day monsoon spell in the city to 23.
Meteorological officials said downpours in August have shattered 89-year-old records for the city.
[…]
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
A KNIFE!!!!!
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— aph - r00t folding team #258829 (@bunnibytz) August 27, 2020
re: #268 Dr Lizardo
Yep. If that’s the case, then she’s now an accessory to two counts of murder, involved in conspiracy to commit murder, illegally obtaining a firearm for a minor, and illegal flight to escape arrest and prosecution.
No prosecutor in this nation willing to take on the white privilege therein. Yes, she’s guilty. Yes, she should die of old age in Taycheedah Womens Prison. But she is white so she won’t.
re: #245 Decatur Deb
If a proponent of violence is needed, he will occur. We spawn them without breaking a sweat in America. Perhaps Putin will slip some MANPADS and LAWs under the Mexican wall, because that’s what it would take, and that’s who would profit.
We don’t need a proponent of violence, we need another Malcolm X. Unfortunately, they’re as hard to find as the MLKs.
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
OMG, Kelly, a KNIFE?!?!? Really? Armed?!?!?? Well that deserves seven shots in the back.
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re: #275 gwangung
I thought the knife was IN THE CAR, That’s not the same as being armed with a knife.
Reaching for a KNIFE!!! A black person with a KNIFE!!!!!
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re: #280 William Lewis
No prosecutor in this nation willing to take on the white privilege therein. Yes, she’s guilty. Yes, she should die of old age in Taycheedah Womens Prison. But she is white so she won’t.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
re: #283 Sir John Barron
He might have had a SERRATED GRAPEFRUIT SPOON hidden.
re: #285 jaunte
He might have had a SERRATED GRAPEFRUIT SPOON hidden.
Or, *gasp* a stainless steel spork!!
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
Maybe he was just “standing his ground” or going to arm himself against oppressive government tyranny. That’s OK, isn’t it, KELLY?
re: #275 gwangung
I thought the knife was IN THE CAR, That’s not the same as being armed with a knife.
Every one of his fingers had been fitted with retractable blades. //
re: #211 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And the gun culture encourages this. It reduces our reality to good guys with guns being the only safeguard against bad guys unarmed, mostly black, people.
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
Kyle Rittenhouse is a “hero” but this guy is a “criminal thug”
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I’m curious how they caught him.
re: #291 Belafon
I’m curious how they caught him.
I’m guessing he left something in the system they could use to trace him.
re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m guessing he left something in the system they could use to trace him.
Next time, make sure you do your hacking from the Taco Bell parking lot.
re: #293 Belafon
Next time, make sure you do your hacking from the
Taco Bell parking lotStarbucks!.
Harder to trace…
re: #230 🌹UOJB!
The Right has totally embraced and defended that punk.
Sick of seeing relatives saying that the N-word should have been shot more than seven times.
Sick of seeing then congratulate the punk for shooting 3 people and cheering the police who handed out water to the thugs.
Sick of them trashing Doc Rivers and LeBron.
VOTE!
because all our lives depend on it
re: #295 dangerman
VOTE!
because all our lives depend on it
Particularly the lives of our non white friends, neighbors and family members.
PELOSI: “I don’t think there should be any debates. I do not think that the President of the United States has comported himself in a way that has any association with truth, evidence data and facts. I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 27, 2020
re: #275 gwangung
I thought the knife was IN THE CAR, That’s not the same as being armed with a knife.
Doesn’t matter: by the time the wingnuts get through with re-telling the story, Jacob Blake will been armed with two knives, a sword, three guns, and near-mortally wounded five cops before being “justifiably’ shot in the back as a matter of sheer survival….
re: #221 ericblair
That was excellent!
There are two goals for propaganda:
1. to make the gullible and compliant believe what the propagandist wants them to believe, and
2. to demoralize everyone else into cynical inaction.
Don’t let the fuckers win.
h/t Eric Blair pic.twitter.com/Hmj0btB5Gr— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 27, 2020
WTAF who is this showoff standing between the two drug addicts?
I’ve no idea what ivory tower this was cooked up in, but LGBTQ supporter Ricky Rebel who somehow supports Trump is holding some sort of demonstration in a very unlikely spot.
Ricky coined this: “Swallow my prize”#BidenHarris #wtpBLUE#CommentsWelcome #ImShuttingTheHellUp pic.twitter.com/8GuCtL9kGa— Hashi Alvarez (@AlvarezHashi) August 27, 2020
re: #252 jaunte
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How do Trump aides see Kenosha? Here’s @KellyannePolls to Fox this AM on what they see as political upside: “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety, and law and order.”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 27, 2020
how can he be “best on public safety, and law and order” when this is all happening RIGHT NOW?
UNDER DONALD TRUMP.
how do you explain that?
Republicans Seem to Forget Trump Is Already In Charge <<<——-
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
re: #102 Targetpractice
I’ve a strong suspicion that all this is gonna end up coming down to what happened to prompt Rosenbaum to toss what looks like a plastic bag at Rittenhouse. Personally, I think what we have here is a kid who got way too fuckin’ big for his britches, said some stupid shit, and then shot someone without any real grasp of how bad an idea that was.
For decades teenagers barely older than Rittenhouse were drafted to fight, kill, and die in our wars. Our movies glorified our soldiers and our missions while promoting the message that the enemy is evil and must be destroyed. That is what Trump has been doing since he took the escalator to announce his run for office — working to brainwash the nation that only he should be followed and anyone who opposes him is a criminal. Teenagers, who have less experience in dealing with the real world, are very susceptible — especially when there is a whole RW media and Internet sites promoting these messages of white supremacy and killing opponents. Of course, QAnon has shown that adults are equally manipulatable.
He is no different than Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin, who had been persuaded by Israel’s RW, that Rabin was the enemy and must be destroyed.
True story: years ago when my brother lived in Florida, he had a neighbor who was a police officer involved in undercover investigations. My brother offered to help him out, because like so many gun owners, he wanted to demonstrate his prowess with his weapons in real life situations and was eager to actually kill some “bad” guys.
re: #301 dangerman
Trump has disclaimed any responsibility, and that’s enough for his cult.
The ruling junta and their shock troops are going to be disappointed when they find that the highly complex and refined systems which distribute food, fuel, energy, and money in America break down in civil warfare.
Except Bannon. He knows it. He’s looking forward to it. https://t.co/uYPh5IH2n0— Jeff McFadden (@homemadeguitars) August 27, 2020
Epistemic closure: the originator of the term has a tweet thread that is EXCELLENT, if depressing, but there is a ray of hope in it.
So, years ago I quite accidentally injected the phrase “epistemic closure” into political discourse. This became a buzzword for five minutes, but a lot of people misunderstood it as effectively just a pretentious synonym for “stuck in an echo chamber” or “closed-minded.”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 26, 2020
Another way to say this is Trump’s second-term agenda is too unpopular for him to tell you. So he’s just going to spend his time attacking. https://t.co/OyuoCWrsmf
— Neera -Wear a Mask -Tanden (@neeratanden) August 27, 2020
re: #291 Belafon
I’m curious how they caught him.
Since he waltzed right by the KPD, I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply woke him up in his bed back in IL.
PELOSI: “I don’t think there should be any debates. I do not think that the President of the United States has comported himself in a way that has any association with truth, evidence data and facts. I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 27, 2020
Media spin: WHY IS BIDEN AFRAID TO DEBATE TRUMP????
re: #300 The Pie Overlord!
WTAF who is this showoff standing between the two drug addicts?
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That’s a weird posture, and the other guy has his leg in the air.
Here’s the thing. I’m an older white woman. I see what’s happening. I’m not supporting the right out & out murdering people or writing off the hero worship of the murderers.
I’m not the only white person that feels this way.
When you scare old white women, you’re in the wrong.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 27, 2020
Kellyanne was on FOX this morning. I thought she resigned her post at the WH to deal with some very public family issues. More like she used her daughter’s public outcry to start to disentangle herself from Trumpco. Withdrawal is tough, and she needed a Fox fix.
re: #312 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Kellyanne was on FOX this morning. I thought she resigned her post at the WH to deal with some very public family issues. More like she used her daughter’s public outcry to start to disentangle herself from Trumpco. Withdrawal is tough, and she needed a Fox fix.
She gave notice for September something.
re: #312 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Kellyanne was on FOX this morning. I thought she resigned her post at the WH to deal with some very public family issues. More like she used her daughter’s public outcry to start to disentangle herself from Trumpco. Withdrawal is tough, and she needed a Fox fix.
She announced she was leaving ‘at the end of the month.’ So she’s just using up those couple of bags of lies she’s got laying around the office. It’ll make packing up easier.
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Lake Charles, Louisiana voted 10 to 5 to leave up the Confederate South’s Defenders Monument.
Hurricane Laura toppled the statue atop of the monument overnight.
Photo: @davantelewis pic.twitter.com/Y3HpxbUgZo— Travis Akers (@travisakers) August 27, 2020
re: #165 Sir John Barron
Yeah me neither.
Yet some people are pissing themselves about some property damage.
Let’s not minimize the destruction that looting can inflict on a neighborhood. If your store is burned down or destroyed, you may lose your livelihood and not be able to recover. And if too many shop owners flee a community, the community may not recover either. Chaos and anarchy are destructive too. Even if there are no deaths, violence scars people — and burning cars and breaking windows and invading stores are forms of violence that promote terror and fear and can cause otherwise caring individuals to retreat into a mindset that supports jack-booted agents of an authoritarian regime.
The difference between Trump’s America and Nazi Germany is that Nazi Germany didn’t have Nazi Germany as an example.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) August 27, 2020
Nazi Germany used the Jim Crow South as an example. So, the circle is complete. I guess?
re: #316 The Pie Overlord!
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Hurricane Laura is serious and no laughing matter, but this is delightful.
re: #261 lawhawk
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loss of:
freedom
finances
future gun rights
The 17 year old ‘s mom gave him the gun illegally, drove him and the gun illegally across state lines to violate a police curfew.
— Pesach *P A C E* Lattin פסח לטין (@pesachlattin) August 27, 2020
In honor of Trump’s acceptance speech tonight, I’ll be posting some of my favorite Trump cartoons throughout the day. See more by clicking here: https://t.co/n1Sr6LyOBW #RNC2020 #RNCConvention #RNC2020Convention @freep @usatodayopinion pic.twitter.com/kghBc5oLPd
— MIke Thompson (@ThompsonToons) August 27, 2020
re: #317 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s not minimize the destruction that looting can inflict on a neighborhood. If your store is burned down or destroyed, you may lose your livelihood and not be able to recover. And if too many shop owners flee a community, the community may not recover either. Chaos and anarchy are destructive too. Even if there are no deaths, violence scars people — and burning cars and breaking windows and invading stores are forms of violence that promote terror and fear and can cause otherwise caring individuals to retreat into a mindset that supports jack-booted agents of an authoritarian regime.
The purpose for a demonstration is to seize and consolidate the moral high ground in the public mind. Two assholes, a ratfucker, and a drunk can wreck that in a blink.
re: #290 dangerman
this came out wrong in 290
i meant to strikeout, not bold
“And the gun culture encourages this. It reduces our reality to good guys with guns being the only safeguard against bad guys unarmed, mostly black, people.”
re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg
Particularly the lives of our non white friends, neighbors and family members.
exactly
my vote is not just for me. it’s for everybody
liberty and justice for all, means all. or it means nothing
I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see Rittenhouse become a Fox contributor when he gets older.
Just clicked on CNN: “Well, President is set to give an unprecedented acceptance speech from the People’s House on the South Lawn, a remarkable development.”
No word of the illegality of doing so. They’ve just given up on holding him to account (edition 1,435, 764).
re: #327 Barefoot Grin
Just clicked on CNN: “Well, President is set to give an unprecedented acceptance speech from the People’s House on the South Lawn, a remarkable development.”
No word of the illegality of doing so. They’ve just given up on holding him to account (edition 1,435, 764).
It’s not that CNN gave up.
CNN is COMPLICIT.
re: #317 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s not minimize the destruction that looting can inflict on a neighborhood. If your store is burned down or destroyed, you may lose your livelihood and not be able to recover. And if too many shop owners flee a community, the community may not recover either. Chaos and anarchy are destructive too. Even if there are no deaths, violence scars people — and burning cars and breaking windows and invading stores are forms of violence that promote terror and fear and can cause otherwise caring individuals to retreat into a mindset that supports jack-booted agents of an authoritarian regime.
Yeah I was speaking more relative to some people in my orbit who seemed more concerned about “riots” and property damage than in the underlying conditions that feed all of it.
re: #323 🌹UOJB!
relatives post this as they cheer the punk killer…
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Can you cover the white guy with blood stains and then post it back to them?
re: #303 jaunte
Trump has disclaimed any responsibility, and that’s enough for his cult.
of course
but then how does re-electing him fix this?
re: #327 Barefoot Grin
Just clicked on CNN: “Well, President is set to give an unprecedented acceptance speech from the People’s House on the South Lawn, a remarkable development.”
No word of the illegality of doing so. They’ve just given up on holding him to account (edition 1,435, 764).
Unethical maybe but is it illegal for him to do it? The Hatch Act does not apply to the President.
re: #327 Barefoot Grin
Just clicked on CNN: “Well, President is set to give an unprecedented acceptance speech from the People’s House on the South Lawn, a remarkable development.”
No word of the illegality of doing so. They’ve just given up on holding him to account (edition 1,435, 764).
“Well, you know, this president just does such unprecedented things, which is why some people love him so much. Just breaks down barriers, breaks the mold, really original down to earth guy.”
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Joe will turn every lie and line around on whatever Fat Donny sez tonite. Mark my words. Line by line.
Ratfuckers hard at work fucking rats.
My office has received a recording of a robocall targeting Detroit voters using racially-charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail. It is an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote. https://t.co/lgNEh8mtvf
— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) August 27, 2020
re: #332 Hecuba’s daughter
Unethical maybe but is it illegal for him to do it? The Hatch Act does not apply to the President.
It applies to every GM, GS, and SES that works with him there.
re: #332 Hecuba’s daughter
Unethical maybe but is it illegal for him to do it? The Hatch Act does not apply to the President.
I didn’t know that. Nerts.
re: #326 Eclectic Cyborg
I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see Rittenhouse become a Fox contributor when he gets older.
Gonna be hard from the maximum security pen in Waupun. He’s going down for life, no chance of parole, mandatory sentence in Wisconsin and he’s too old to get juvie.
re: #340 William Lewis
Gonna be hard from the maximum security pen in Waupun. He’s going down for life, no chance of parole, mandatory sentence in Wisconsin and he’s too old to get juvie.
They can always interview him from prison. Like they used to do with Charles Manson from time to time.
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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And Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with a GUN.
Jacob Blake was armed with a KNIFE when cops shot him says Wisconsin AG https://t.co/Q3xbwgUtfJ
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) August 27, 2020
I have this link bookmarked from now to the end of time, because i think i’m gonna keep needing it:
HERE IS ANOTHER ONE
Jacob Blake was unarmed, nonviolent ambushed by multiple cops and shot multiple times at point blank range and that INFRONT OF HIS CHILDREN!!!
Meanwhile….pic.twitter.com/eRxNa8WEZ4— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) August 24, 2020
re: #332 Hecuba’s daughter
Unethical maybe but is it illegal for him to do it? The Hatch Act does not apply to the President.
unethical barely scratches it
no former president would ever think to politicize the WH this way
re: #341 Dr Lizardo
They can always interview him from prison. Like they used to do with Charles Manson from time to time.
True. It’s even cheap - he can’t be paid for it IIRC.
re: #308 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Since he waltzed right by the KPD, I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply woke him up in his bed back in IL.
I meant Brown, the hacker.
There have been tweets that his mother drove Rittenhouse to Kenosha, but I haven’t read any such reports in legitimate news sources. Does anyone have verified information on how he got to Kenosha and then returned home?
1. White man refuses to comply with police orders.
2. He resists arrest.
3. He goes to his car and opens the door.
4. He attacks police officer.
5. He chases police officer.
6. He tries to steal police officer’s car.
7. He is never shot by police.pic.twitter.com/eMRaKeouMQ— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 27, 2020
re: #352 The Pie Overlord!
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He even damaged property, which I’m told justifies shooting people.
Joe Just called #FatDonny 🎶 Pathalogical 🎵🎶🎵
re: #348 Hecuba’s daughter
There have been tweets that his mother drove Rittenhouse to Kenosha, but I haven’t read any such reports in legitimate news sources. Does anyone have verified information on how he got to Kenosha and then returned home?
had a gun but not a driver’s license would be a hell of an irony
re: #321 The Pie Overlord!
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I gotta say that labeling Trump as ‘Peter Pandemic’ is pretty good.
re: #358 dangerman
had a gun but not a driver’s license would be a hell of an irony
It’s a legit question as to how he got home. I mean, fair enough, he might well have had a DL at 17 (I did) and he might’ve just borrowed his mom’s car and hightailed it outta there.
But if someone picked him up after the murders and took him back home, yeah, that person (whether it’s his mom or another individual) could be in big trouble.
TRump minions say they are building “dossiers” on reporters like David Fahrenholt who are exposing Trump corruption:
BTW, if you think the Washington Post got something wrong in a story, we want to know about it! Doesn’t have to be in dossier form, and you don’t have to be the president. We listen to everybody. https://t.co/suUhRZf5zD https://t.co/JmaEkWRjd7
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) August 27, 2020
Praying mantis (Stagmomantis limbata) this morning. Thanks to Zooey for taking me to this part of the yard. And yes, this is the proper orientation of the photo. pic.twitter.com/LkUu6gzjWR
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) August 27, 2020
re: #327 Barefoot Grin
Just clicked on CNN: “Well, President is set to give an unprecedented acceptance speech from the People’s House on the South Lawn, a remarkable development.”
No word of the illegality of doing so. They’ve just given up on holding him to account (edition 1,435, 764).
“unprecedented” because no other President would think to abuse his office and its trappings like that.
But Trump is only it it for the symbols and the pomp and circumstances
Fascinating that no one points out that a Trump supporter murdering two people might be problematic for Trump.
Somehow the only damage of which they can conceive is to Joe Biden. The guy who isn’t president right now.— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) August 27, 2020
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/UC9DBtxcSD
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 27, 2020
re: #363 Barefoot Grin
TRump minions say they are building “dossiers” on reporters like David Fahrenholt who are exposing Trump corruption:
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Som the white house is doing this on behalf of a private business?
re: #362 Dr Lizardo
Also, there’s video of him on his cellphone saying, “I just killed someone.” Who was he talking to? Who was the recipient of that phone call?
A hypothetical (and it’s purely hypothetical): he called his mom - probably not knowing what else to do - and she comes and picks him up and takes him home. Now she’s aiding and abetting, she’s an accomplice to two murders, she’s now involved in illegal flight to avoid arrest and prosecution (across a state line, no less)……IANAL by a damn sight, but as a layman, I’d venture to say she’s now in some pretty deep shit.
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