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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:42:53 GMT
MAGABOMBER CAPTUREDThis is Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man suspected of sending pipe bombsPipe bomb suspect: Cesar Sayoc, Jr. in custody for allegedly sending suspicious packages
DNA evidence played a role in the arrest, the officials said.
Oct. 26, 2018 / 9:00 AM MST / Updated 11:41 AM MST
By Pete Williams, Rich Schapiro, Adiel Kaplan and Corky Siemaszko
A Florida man with a troubled past was identified Friday as the suspect who sent more than a dozen pipe bomb packages to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, law enforcement officials said.
DNA evidence played a role in the arrest of 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc Jr., whose past criminal history includes an arrest for making a bomb threat — and who, according to a cousin, worked as both an exotic dancer and bouncer in a number of strip clubs.
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Sayoc's white van, which had pictures of Trump and the presidential seal plastered to the windows, was seized by the officials and hauled off to a secure facility.
In Washington, Trump praised the FBI and Secret Service for the swift arrest of the suspect.
"It’s like a needle in a haystack," Trump said. "And they have done an incredible, incredible job."
Sayoc has a criminal record in Florida and was arrested in 2002 for making a bomb threat, according to Miami-Dade County court records. He pleaded guilty. There were also two arrests, one in 1992 and the other in 2014, for petit theft.
In the latter theft case, Sayoc tried to walk out of a Walmart with a shopping cart filled with $239 worth of merchandise, according to an arrest affidavit.
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Sayoc also appeared to have money troubles. Records revealed he had a property foreclosed on in 2009 and filed for bankruptcy in 2012. At the time, he was living with his mother and employed as a store manager, records show. But of late, Sayoc had been living in his van and showering at the gym where he works out, a Florida-based cousin who asked not to be identified told NBC News.
A registered Republican, Sayoc appeared to attend a Trump rally in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2016. His Facebook page and Twitter accounts contained several postings in support of Trump. There were also several on his Facebook page critical of George Soros, the liberal philanthropist who was targeted with one of the package bombs earlier this week.
Sayoc had previously lived in North Carolina, New Jersey, Michigan, and Brooklyn, New York, according to records.
On Facebook, Sayoc also claimed to be a booking agent with Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. A spokesperson for the tribe told NBC News that Sayoc was not a member and had never been employed at the casino.
Sayoc grew up in North Miami Beach with his two sisters and was thrown out of his house as a teenager, his cousin said. The cousin described him as a "loose cannon" and a "lost soul" who was estranged from his family and had been abusing steroids.
Image: Cesar SayocCesar Sayoc at a Donald Trump rally.via Facebook
"He's been in the strip clubs since he was 22, that was his life," the cousin said. "He was a male dancer and he wanted to be a wrestler. He was taking steroids. He was all buffed up....He was built like a rock."
Another cousin, who lives in another state, told NBC News she was stunned by Sayoc's arrest.
"Oh my God," the woman, who also asked not to be identified, said. "He's always been a very nice, thoughtful person. I don't know anything about this. It's shocking."
The cousin said she hadn't seen Sayoc for two decades but that he called her recently after her father died.
"It was mostly just small talk," she said. "How's your family, that kind of thing. I don't really know that much about him. We have a very big family."
The dramatic development came on the same day that two new suspicious packages were found, one addressed to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and the other to James Clapper, former director of national intelligence.
Brandy Zadrozny, Donna Mendell, Courtney McGee, Ken Dilanian and Hannah Rappleye contributed.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mail-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-custody-allegedly-sending-pipe-bombs-n924856
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:43:26 GMT
The following seems to be true of most eastern Europeans, not just Russians. At first I thought the reason was that they are just catering to the Republican's bogus patriotic propaganda and want to come off as patriotic as well. Another surprise to me living in Arizona I have found SO MANY second generation Mexican Americans hate new Mexican and Central/South American immigrants and do not want them here. They hold a deep grudge and resentment towards these people for some reason. I don't know if any of the below reasons would relate to them however.Why Do Russian-Speaking Immigrants Always Vote Republican?The Russian-speaking immigrant community is obviously too small for it to be an important factor in any elections, but if you were ever curious who it voted for and why, I will provide an answer in this post.
The absolute majority of Russian-speaking immigrants is rabidly conservative. And when I say the “majority”, I mean everybody except me and N. This is probably the only immigrant group that fully and passionately identifies with the anti-immigrant stance of the US Republicans.
So why does the immigrant group that finds it harder than any other to adapt to the life in the US always vote for the party of people who dislike immigrants?
Here are some answers:
1. Racism. The Aryan Brotherhood would be shocked to hear the amount of racist garbage a quiet, nerdy Russian-speaking immigrant (from here on referred to as RSI) who is a college professor of chemistry or a nurse can unleash within the space of one minute. One of the reasons I avoid RSIs is that I can’t deal with the racist comments that come out of their mouths two minutes after we get introduced to each other.
2. RSIs come share a history that is so cruel and painful that the idea of social compassion is alien to them. It is useless to try to bring up the suffering of the poor, the unemployed, the disabled, the needy. The everybody-for-himself dog-eat-dog mentality is so deeply ingrained that the idea that somebody somewhere might get help is rejected out of hand.
3. The Cold War mentality and rhetoric are embraced passionately by the RSIs. The absolute majority of them are miserable as immigrants. They cannot, of course, accept that their decision to emigrate was a mistake, so they console themselves with the myth of American exceptionalism and support the US invasions of other countries.
4. The RSIs lead a very feminist existence yet compensate for that by promoting a passionately anti-feminist discourse.
5. If there is any sentiment that is more vicious than the RSI racism, it is its homophobia. As a result, the idea of gay rights is personally traumatizing to the US RSIs.
6. The concept of paying taxes is historically alien to an RSI. Paying taxes that would go into any form of a social safety net is even more alien.
7. On a more metaphysical level, the RSIs are bothered by the idea of change because, historically, they have experienced too much instability. The greatest personal transformation they have gone through (the emigration) turned out to be a mistake. This is why they cling to conservatism.
8. The words “socialism” and “communism” carry a very personal and painful set of connotations for an RSI for reasons that I hope I don’t have to explain.
9. An immigrant community that is as deeply alienated from its new country as the RSI community will always try to identify with the political movement that manages to sell itself as representing the most authentic local values and lifestyles. Voting Republican permits an RSI to feel like, for that single moment of casting a vote, s/he finally belongs.
10. RSIs very rarely speak English well. As a result, the only English-language TV and radio they can access linguistically is the least sophisticated one. And we can all guess which channels and stations are the simplest to understand on the level of language competency.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:43:59 GMT
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Cesar Sayoc Jr., Alleged Mail Bomber, Threatened Democrats on TwitterT he 56-year-old Florida man has a significant criminal history and appears to have frequently posted far-right conspiracy theories about Trump’s opponents.
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Cesar A. Sayoc, the Florida man reported to be the mail bombing suspect, frequently posted conspiratorial pro-Trump messages on Twitter or made threats to Democratic leaders, including some who would later receive potentially explosive devices in the mail this week.
Sayoc—who was named by several national media outlets as the man authorities arrested Friday in connection with the attempted bombings—tweeted frequently from what appears to be his account: @hardrock2016.
The account and his Facebook profile, which feature pictures of Sayoc, 56, at Trump rallies, also contain some of the same images plastered to Sayoc’s van, including flags for Florida’s Seminole tribe and collages of pro-Trump and anti-CNN meme stickers.
The Facebook account is almost exclusively pro-Trump content, including pictures and videos Sayoc purportedly filmed at one of the president’s political rallies. And the Twitter feed is littered with far-right conspiracy theories or violent threats aimed at some of President Trump’s most outspoken critics.
He appears to have repeatedly tweeted about George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist who has long been the target of far-right, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
At one point, Sayoc purportedly wrote “you will vanish” in a tweet aimed at the billionaire. Soros received a suspicious package at his Westchester County home on Monday—the first of at least 12 mailed to liberal public figures this week.
Other tweets falsely claimed the February 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was a false-flag operation orchestrated by Soros and his liberal allies.
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The account also frequently posted angry messages about Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose name was listed as the return address on the mailed pipe bombs.
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Other prominent liberal activists—including Parkland survivor David Hogg and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick—are targeted in his tweets.
“Antifa your next [sic],” the account threatened anti-fascist protesters in one particularly violent tweet that included images of what appears to be dead people killed by a python.
Additionally, the account has tweeted violent threats and pictures of death at Sarah Jeong, a New York Times opinion columnist who became the subject of a right-wing troll mob this summer over her old tweets being perceived as “anti-white.”
Sayoc’s purported Twitter account also sent a gory image of a beheaded goat to comedian Jim Carrey, an outspoken Trump critic, ominously adding: “We will see you real soon.”
Other tweets criticized immigrants or promoted ISIS violence, praising the terrorist group for killing gay men. Elsewhere, he seems to have shared anti-Muslim memes.
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The account also posted video of what appears to be Sayoc himself chanting Trump’s name at what looks like an indoor Trump rally. On his now-deleted Facebook page, Sayoc posted images of the press area at a Trump rally, focusing on the TV reporters reporting to-camera.
Sayoc’s image also appears frequently on a separate Facebook profile called “Chippen Fellas,” which seems to promote male stripper events. The page appears to be run by Sayoc.
The Florida man has a significant criminal history and was previously charged with making a bomb threat in 2002. The ruling in that case was not immediately clear on Friday. Sayoc was also convicted of theft in 2014 and 2013, and battery in 2013, public records show.
In 2012, he filed for bankruptcy, and declared in court filings that he lived with his mother.
—Andrew Kirell, Adam Rawnsley, and Lachlan Markay contributed reporting.
www.thedailybeast.com/cesar-sayoc-jr-alleged-mail-bomber-threatened-democrats-on-twitter?yptr=yahoo
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:44:31 GMT
 Tyranny of the MinorityBy Rebecca Solnit EASY CHAIR — From the March 2017 issue
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Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it bigger, with space for people of other faiths or no faith, people of color, poor people, and women. Imagine then that someone stole a shingle, or a nail — first one, then another. After many such small thefts, the structure weakens. The roof begins to fall in; whole rooms are torn down, the wreckage is carted away; eventually, all that remains is a skeleton.
Democracy, as the historian Sean Wilentz wrote, depends on “the many” — on the power of ordinary people “not simply to select their governors but to oversee the institutions of government, as officeholders and as citizens free to assemble and criticize those in office.” In its eagerness to return the house to its original size, the Republican Party eventually began to dismantle the edifice itself, overriding any efforts to make it more spacious and secure.
The dismantling started in the 1960s, when the two main parties reversed positions on civil rights. Lyndon Johnson led the Democrats toward stronger alliances with people of color and with women. The Republicans, meanwhile, won the South with the Southern Strategy, that euphemistically named program to gain the support of white Southerners by stoking their racial fears. Justification for the approach had been offered years earlier by William F. Buckley Jr. “The White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically,” Buckley wrote in 1957. “For the time being, it is the advanced race.” On the basis of that “advanced” status, Buckley decided, a decision to wrest control from the majority “may be, though undemocratic, enlightened.” At its most ideological, the withdrawal from the democratic experiment has served white supremacy; at its least, it has been a scramble for power by any means necessary. Even as the civil-rights movement and the Voting Rights Act sought to undo Jim Crow, a new, stealthier Jim Crow arose in its place.
Writing in The New Republic, the journalist Jeet Heer explains that Buckley’s fledgling conservative movement recognized that by persuading disgruntled whites across the country to vote according to their racial and ideological rather than economic interests, it could gain “reliable foot soldiers” in its larger project of undermining the left. In wooing white voters, Republicans rejected — indeed, ejected — non-white constituencies, who found their only and imperfect home with the Democrats. And where Democrats have been wavering and inconsistent in their desire to expand democratic participation, Republicans have been firmly committed to limiting it: rather than attempting to win the votes of people of color, they attempt to prevent people of color from voting.
They have not been particularly secretive about their goals. Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who was an early supporter of Donald Trump, has deplored the effects of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, because women tend to vote in favor of social programs. Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategist and adviser, once “mused about the desirability of limiting the vote to property owners,” according to the New York Times. His interlocutor noted that such a move would exclude a lot of African Americans. “Maybe that’s not such a bad thing,” Bannon replied. Trump, meanwhile, has openly gloated over the number of black people who didn’t vote in 2016.
Republicans’ furious and nasty war against full participation has taken many forms: gerrymandering, limiting early voting, reducing the number of polling places, restricting third-party voter registration, and otherwise disenfranchising significant portions of the electorate. Subtler yet no less effective have been their efforts to attack democracy at the root. They have advanced policies to weaken the electorate economically, to undermine a free and fair news media, and to withhold the education and informed discussion that would equip citizens for active engagement. In 1987, for example, Republican appointees eliminated the rule that required radio and TV stations to air a range of political views. The move helped make possible the rise of right-wing talk radio and of Fox News, which for twenty years has effectively served the Republican Party as a powerful propaganda arm.
In last November’s election, Donald Trump won thanks to narrow margins in just three states. However, there were multiple voting irregularities reported, making it a real possibility that he did not win some or all of those states, and therefore lost not only the popular vote (which he did, by more than 2.8 million votes) but the Electoral College as well.
In 2000, when the recount in Florida was under way and the outcome of the election remained uncertain, well-dressed men and women showed up to disrupt the process. These were not spontaneous protesters but Republican operatives and paid participants; their wardrobe gave the event its name, the Brooks Brothers Riot. The party feared that if the recount went forward, Al Gore might win the state, and thereby the presidency.
When the 2016 election was challenged by the Green Party’s Jill Stein, the party intervened again. Nick Shapiro, a Bay Area software executive, returned to his native Detroit to assist with the recount in December. He told me that the Republicans were out in force. At the vast Cobo Center, where Shapiro was assigned to work, each table had at least one Republican observer standing by, equipped with a script that they used to contest every single precinct. There were only a few observers present from the Green Party. Shapiro told me that the election officials at the table he was monitoring were prevented from counting a single vote during his first four-hour shift.
The problems the Michigan recount was intended to address weren’t negligible. Optical-scanner machines had recorded 75,000 “blank” votes for president, a higher number than in previous elections; these ballots were never manually inspected to decipher the voters’ intentions. People sometimes purposefully leave portions of their ballot blank, but machines also sometimes fail to count ballots that have been marked. In addition, Detroit officials claimed that eighty-seven of the city’s optical scanners had broken down during voting, and there was a discrepancy in many Detroit-area precincts between the number of paper ballots on hand and the number of people who were recorded to have voted. All this, in a state where Trump’s victory came down to 11,000 votes. Yet a Michigan law prevented recounts in precincts with such discrepancies, which meant that a record number of precincts in this Democratic stronghold were excluded from the process. In the end, though, neither the Republicans’ ground-level sabotage nor the bizarre regulation mattered; an obliging judge called off the recount after three days.
The anomalies and irregularities in Michigan are hardly exceptional. Voting systems in the United States are rife with problems, their methods often shoddily designed, their standards inconsistently applied. When you add the effects of human and machine error to those of massive disenfranchisement, our elections appear neither representative nor fair.
Some Republicans have argued for a more inclusive approach, but they are not leading the way. The party isn’t changing its strategy in order to win a majority; it is intensifying its efforts to suppress that majority. It has committed itself to minority rule. As the non-white population swells, Republican scenarios for holding power will look more and more like those of apartheid-era South Africa — or even the antebellum South. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, is infamous for his efforts in the 1980s to persecute black voting-rights activists and intimidate hundreds of black voters. In the next decade, either the Party of Lincoln will force us to backtrack for decades, perhaps a century, or we will overcome its obstructionism and walk forward. If anything redeems this nation, it’s the idealism that has for centuries moved abolitionists, suffragists, Freedom Riders, and their like to stand up for the country’s principles — to risk, sometimes, their lives. Hundreds of activist groups have formed in the wake of the election, beginning projects to register voters, renew voting-rights campaigns, and organize local power to influence national policy. The NAACP’s Barber calls this era the Third Reconstruction.
On January 6, the final drama of the Electoral College unfolded, as the states delivered their electoral votes in a joint session of Congress. That cold winter day in Washington, seven legislators, five of them people of color, spoke out against the proceedings. James McGovern, from Massachusetts, mentioned “widespread violations of the Voting Rights Act.” “People are horrified,” said Barbara Lee, a congresswoman from Oakland. Yet as police arrested onlookers shouting objections from the gallery, Vice President Biden gaveled her and the others down.
It’s worth remembering that democracy has always flourished not in the citadel of government but in the campaigns to open it up, to make it more than it has been. The dream arises on the outside, but it is about being allowed in. May we pry open the doors, unlatch the windows, let the breeze blow through.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:44:59 GMT
VICE Special Report: A House Divided
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'VICE Special Report: A House Divided' is nominated in the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special." See below for links to watch more of this year's nominees from VICE.
With exclusive access to the President, his inner circle and key opponents, VICE founder Shane Smith examines the rise of the Tea Party, the faltering of key deals, and how growing extremism has left America more divided than ever.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:45:28 GMT
FOX started a civil war in earnest in the 1990's against liberalism. The stolen 2000 election woke some Liberals up to it, then 9/11 woke some more and then the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan even more came out of their slumber. Liberals got somewhat complacent under President Obama but with Trump everybody seems to be awake. This may be the real start of some changes if it looks like the midterm elections are a loss for Liberals and Democrats. jhar is right that the Democrats may fear their progressive left more than they fear Republicans but the thing about the left is they are willing to compromise with each other. We saw Hillary and Bernie come together after the primaries and the corporate Hillary Democrats let the progressives write their party platform. Progressivism is the future of the Democratic Party. |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:46:25 GMT
I guarantee it isn't just a few or "some" Trump supporters and conservatives that believe this way. They are brick walls. They cannot be reasoned with even when evidence is presented. That is why they must be kept out of power and stopped from stealing elections.
At Least 1 Trump Supporter Still Thinks Obama, Clintons Sent Bombs To ThemselvesHuffPost
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Even after a suspect was arrested, some supporters of President Donald Trump appear to be clinging to the idea that this week’s attempted bombings of prominent Democrats were faked.
At least 14 of the packages were sent to high-profile Democrats whom Trump has attacked, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Reporter Ali Vitali of MSNBC’s “11th Hour” asked an attendee at Friday night’s Trump rally in North Carolina what he thought of the mailed explosives.
“Barack Obama probably sent his to hisself [sic],” said the man, identified as Arvil Runyon. “And Hillary Clinton probably sent hers to herself.”
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Earlier Friday, authorities arrested 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc in connection with the packages.
Even so, Runyon told MSNBC, “they probably had it done. They may have paid him to do it.”
When asked what Obama or Clinton could gain from doing that, the man said he believed it would be done to create more support for the left, “trying to bring people, feeling, over to their side.”
That sentiment echoes the “false flag” conspiracy theories that have been swirling on the right all week. The president himself seemed to fuel them in a tweet Friday, sent before Sayoc was arrested.
“Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows,” Trump said, adding quotation marks around the word “bomb.”
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Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!
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Many, including Obama himself, are arguing that the vitriolic words from Trump and far right-wing pundits hold weight with his supporters, sometimes to a dangerous degree.
As The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker put it, “these targets of Trump’s rhetoric became the intended targets of actual violence in the form of pipe bombs.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:46:53 GMT
The suspected Pittsburgh shooter allegedly had a following on a social network that many call the far-right's alternative to Twitter — here's everything we know about GabTroy Wolverton Oct. 27, 2018, 8:35 PM The man who allegedly opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing 11 people and injuring six, was reportedly a frequent poster on Gab, a relatively new social network that has attracted many from the far-right fringe. Robert Bowers, the suspected shooter, reportedly joined Gab at the beginning of this year, using it to post a series of anti-Semitic messages and redistribute many more from other users. Immediately before he allegedly attacked the synagogue, Bowers took aim at HIAS, a Jewish organization that helps refugees. "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people," he wrote, according to an archive of his Gab posts. "I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in. Read more: Here's what we know about Robert Bowers Gab, which bills itself as the free-speech alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has become a haven for far-right extremists. The site does not police hate speech, instead encouraging users to take advantage of its tools to filter out posts they find offensive. Here's what we know about Gab: Gab was launched in August 2016. consumers could only use the site if they'd been invited to register. The site was cofounded by Andrew Torba. Torba previously cofounded AutomateAds.com, previously known as Kuhcoon, a social media advertising company that had been backed by Y Combinator. Rival AdHawk purchased AutomateAds last year. Torba founded Gab with Ekrem Büyükkaya, with whom he'd worked at AutomateAds.com. Torba launched Gab as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, which has drawn the ire of some on the far right for banning people like Milo Yiannopoulos. Getty Torba told BuzzFeed News he had been frustrated with the way "left leaning Big Social" sites were filtering posts, feeling like they weren't qualified to judge what was news or harassment. "It didn't feel right to me, and I wanted to change it, and give people something that would be fair and just," he told BuzzFeed News. Torba touts Gab for its commitment to free speech.  One of many antisemitic posts that can be easily found on Gab. Gab Gab's guidelines prohibit users from posting certain kinds of things, such as threats of violence, illegal pornography, and other users' private information, without their consent. But it generally doesn't bar posts that many might consider abusive or hateful. Instead, it offers features that allow users to filter out offensive posts. The site quickly became a popular hangout for white supremacists. Despite being kicked off of Twitter and other online services, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones retains an active presence on Gab. Gab Gab has an open-door policy for far-right figures like Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones, who have been kicked off of Twitter and other tech platforms. Although the site purports to be open to anyone who shares "in the common ideals of Western values, individual liberty, and the free exchange and flow of information," it's most frequently populated by far-right ideologies. The service is relatively small. As of the beginning of September, Gab had 635,000 registered users, according to a document it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's up from just 394,000 in March, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the social-media giants. By comparison, Twitter has some 326 million monthly active users, including 67 million in the US, and Facebook has some 2.2 billion users a month around the world, including 185 million in the US and Canada. Gab's run into trouble before. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, which threatened to kick Gab off its Azure service in August. ANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY In August, Microsoft threatened to kick Gab off of its Azure cloud computing service for hosting posts that advocated genocide against Jews. The author of the posts later deleted them. Gab ran into a similar problem last year, when its domain registrar, responding to anti-Semitic threats, threatened to seize its domain if it didn't find a new host. In 2016, Apple blocked Gab from its App store, citing pornographic content and hate speech. Google also blocked the app from its Google Play store for hate speech. After the Pittsburgh shooting, PayPal announced it was dropping the company. Gab.com/Twitter Shortly after, payment processing company Stripe and the cloud hosting service Joyent informed Gab they were also suspending Gab's accounts. Gab's Twitter account was defensive after the shooting, posting dozens of tweets about free speech and responding directly to critics. Gab.com/Twitter In another tweet, Gab seemed to brag that it was getting "1 million hits an hour all day", then took issue with a Twitter user describing the tweet as "bragging." Gab also posted an official statement condemning "all acts of terrorism and violence" and said it was cooperating with authorities. The site posted an official statement on the shooting: "Gab.com's policy on terrorism and violence have always been very clear: we a have zero tolerance for it. Gab unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. This has always been our policy. We are saddened and disgusted by the news of violence in Pittsburgh and are keeping the families and friends of all victims in our thoughts and prayers. "We refuse to be defined by the media's narratives about Gab and our community. Gab's mission is very simple: to defend free expression and individual liberty online for all people. Social media often brings out the best and the worst of humanity." www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-gab-2018-10?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral#torba-launched-gab-as-an-alternative-to-facebook-and-twitter-3
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:47:21 GMT
By CAITLIN O'KANE CBS NEWS November 2, 2018, 3:28 PM "Insensitive and inappropriate": Teachers dress up like border wall, Mexican stereotypes for Halloween CBS affiliate KBOI obtained photos of Middleton School District teachers wearing Halloween costumes the superintendent called "clearly insensitive and inappropriate." One group dressed like a border wall, the other like Mexican stereotypes. KBOI
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Photos of Idaho school teachers dressed as a border wall and Mexican stereotypes are going viral online. Middleton School District staff is under fire for their offensive costumes, and the photos have prompted an investigation by the school district, CBS Boise affiliate KBOI reports.
Several photos of teachers' Halloween costumes were shared on the Middleton School District Facebook page. One photo showed six teachers behind fake brick walls, wearing patriotic outfits, with President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan written across the wall. Another photo showed teachers in sombreros with fake mustaches and maracas. These photos have since been deleted from the school district's Facebook after many took offense to the outfits. KBOI obtained screenshots of the photos in question.
Superintendent Dr. Josh Middleton addressed the costumes in a Facebook Live video Friday. "Last night, a parent contacted me expressing concern of staff costumes worn here on Halloween," Middleton said. "I'm deeply troubled by the decision by our staff members to wear those costumes that are clearly insensitive and inappropriate ... We are better than this."
Friday's live-stream was fully dedicated to addressing the costume controversy. "We already have district administration looking into the matter first thing this morning," Middleton said. He stressed that the school districts embraces all students. "Do I think there was a malicious intent in these poor decisions? No, I don't. Was there a poor judgement involved? Absolutely."
KBOI says the station has received several emails and phone calls from upset residents. "Unfortunately, this is the environment that children are going to school in," one parent wrote. "As a mother to a minority child, I would be mortified if this were my child's teacher. They should be fired."
It is unclear which school the teachers in each group work in.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:47:50 GMT
I guess she should've stayed in Romania.Kim Davis Loses Her Re-Election Bid For Kentucky County ClerkshipNovember 6, 20189:35 PM ET
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Kim Davis, seen in September 2015, during the height of the controversy around her decision to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples. On Tuesday, Davis lost her clerkship in Rowan County, Ky.
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Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk whose refusal to sign marriage certificates for same-sex couples grabbed national headlines in 2015, has lost her bid for re-election to the Rowan County clerkship. The Republican lost to Democrat Elwood Caudill Jr., 54 percent to 46 percent.
With all 19 precincts reporting, preliminary results show Caudill earned 4,210 votes to Davis' 3,566.
It was Davis' first time facing re-election since her fight against same-sex marriage landed her briefly in jail in 2015. She had defied the Supreme Court's ruling that year in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, explaining that distributing marriage licenses to such couples went against her beliefs as a member of the Apostolic Church.
Her refusal quickly became a lightning rod of controversy, drawing support from social conservatives and anger from same-sex-marriage advocates. Held in contempt for declining to fulfill a key pillar of her duties as county clerk, Davis found herself thrown in jail for several days — and all the while, demonstrators across the political spectrum descended on the small county of some 23,000 people.
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When she was released in September 2015, a large rally of conservatives — including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — was there to greet her.
These days, her national profile has diminished, though she has retained enough cultural cachet to campaign against same-sex marriage beyond U.S. borders. Just last year, Davis flew to Romania to push for a change to the country's constitution that would define marriage as specifically between a man and a woman.
Now, back at home, Davis is out of a job.
Her victorious opponent, Caudill, inevitably got caught up in the swirling controversy around same-sex-marriage licenses as well. Caudill's rival in the Democratic primary earlier this year, David Ermold, was one of the men whom Davis had denied a license in 2015. Despite dramatically outraising Caudill, Ermold failed to win the nomination.
But after Ermold's loss, he refused to throw his support behind his fellow Democrat, asserting in a Facebook post this summer that Caudill was an anti-gay bigot.
www.npr.org/2018/11/06/664902786/kim-davis-loses-her-re-election-bid-for-kentucky-county-clerkship
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:48:20 GMT
Good to know Deplorables like Laura "Shut Up and Sing" Ingraham continue to be SORE WINNERS. And Colbert seems to be missing the point. More celebrities need to speak out politically and not be bullied by any of these deplorables. With a rigged political system it will take an overwhelming anti GOP majority to win even the lowliest red seat in congress.Laura Ingraham tells Taylor Swift to 'shake it off' after candidate she endorsed loses George Back 6 hours ago As results from the Tuesday midterm elections rolled in, so did the shade being thrown at pop star Taylor Swift. Back in October, Swift made a rare political statement on Instagram in which she encouraged fans to vote and said, “I will be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate.”
Unfortunately for Swift, Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn won the historically GOP-held Senate seat.
The hosts from Fox News couldn’t have been happier to rub the defeat in Swift’s face. Host Laura Ingraham tweeted, “Hey @taylorswift13, haters gonna hate. #shakeitoff“
Speaking of “haters gonna hate,” Laura probably isn’t thrilled that Democrats took control of the House from the Republicans. But still, even hard-core liberals like Stephen Colbert had to admit that Laura had a point. On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the comedian joked, “I guess Tay-Tay didn’t have that much sway-sway.”
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 on CBS.
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/laura-ingraham-tells-taylor-swift-shake-off-candidate-endorsed-loses-083251463.html
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:48:40 GMT
Maximize the screen for full effect....
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence (Trump's New America)
these people have always been among us...so why now?
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:49:08 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:49:35 GMT
so how did we get here? ....Hatred for Obama wrecked the Republican PartyBY MATTHEW R DRAYTON · OCTOBER 22, 2016 · 87 COMMENTS
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“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
When Senator Mitch McConnell publicly said those words after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, he started a sequence of events that culminated with this past weekends melt down for Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party.
I am sure politicians have felt the way McConnell did before, but I had never witnessed a Senate Majority Leader say so in public. You would think the single most important thing on Congress’s agenda back then would have been to fix the economy, but McConnell’s statement signaled to everyone that the Republicans did not respect Obama, and they didn’t care if the world knew it.
After McConnell and his Republican colleagues made it okay to openly disrespect the Office of the President of The United States, everyone from elected officials, to private citizens, and of course Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of disrespectful, hate filled insults, inappropriate racial comments and out right lies against Americas first black President.
During Obama’s first State of the Union Speech, Joe Wilson a Republican Congressman from South Carolina called the President a liar in front of the American people and the entire world. Wilson apologized, but the damage was already done. Then there was the birth of the TEA Party, a movement that began immediately after the inauguration of the nations first black President. I guess Republicans didn’t see a need for a TEA Party during the Carter or Clinton administrations.
The TEA Party had a major influence on the Republican Party, endorsing candidates who shut down the government in 2013 in an attempt to defund Obama Care, and who refused to support their own Speaker of The House, John Boehner. Boehner got so frustrated with TEA Party Republicans he resigned as Speaker, and from Congress in 2015. Opposition to Boehner’s leadership and increasing discord within the party prompted him to resign unexpectedly.
However the cruelest and most hurtful assault by the Republican Party against Barack Obama was the birther movement. There is no conceivable way Obama could have gotten through the Democratic primaries if he were not an American citizen. The Clinton campaign would have exposed him in a second if that were true. Despite this, Republicans in Congress stood by and said nothing as Donald Trump repeatedly called for Obama to produce proof of his American citizenship.
Even after Obama produced his birth certificate in 2011, Trump and many Americans still refused to believe it was authentic. Trump even called for Obama to release his college transcripts. Last week a Trump supporter being interviewed on TV in Florida was still calling for Obama to produce his birth certificate!
The birther movement was created solely to discredit and disqualify America’s first black President. The birther movement also impacted how other countries treated the President, viewed America, and was hurtful to black Americans. Donald Trump still has not apologized, and is now blaming the Clinton administration for starting the birther movement; he is also patting himself on the back for making Obama produce his birth certificate.
After the Access Hollywood video leaked this past weekend, and his performances in the two Presidential debates, it is very clear that Donald Trump is way in over his head. He has not laid out one strategy for his agenda. Trump has only attacked his opponent, and anyone else who disagrees with him, or asks him tough questions.
The ascension of Donald Trump to the top of the Republican Presidential ticket is a direct result of the vitriol Republicans have directed toward Obama over the past eight years. Now the Republican Party is in shambles with Republican leaders abandoning Trump in droves, and some Republicans in Congress are weighing rather to abandon Trump or stay with him. Their chickens have come home to roost.
Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues have turned the party of Lincoln into the party of hate. What would America be like now had Mitch McConnell said these words in 2009 instead “The American people have elected a President, and it is our duty as American’s to support him as best we can.” I guess we will never know.AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE PART THAT GOPTV FOX PROPAGANDA CHANNEL AND ITS AFFILIATED TALKING HEADS HAD IN CREATING THE DEPLORABLE NATION
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 11, 2020 9:50:00 GMT
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