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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:19:44 GMT
Sarah Palin's Attempt To Mock 'Literal Loser' Stacey Abrams Backfires On TwitterHuffPost Ed Mazza,HuffPost 19 hours ago
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attempted to mock Stacey Abrams as a “literal loser” on Tuesday.
It didn’t go well.
Abrams, a rising star in the Democratic Party after losing a closer-than-expected race in deep red Georgia, has been tapped to deliver the response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
But Palin ― the former Alaska governor who was on the literal losing ticket in 2008 when she ran on the Republican ticket alongside John McCain against Barack Obama― tweeted:
Palin’s tweet ― including the “literal loser” phrase ― was the headline to a story she was linking to, and not written by her.
But given the fact that she shared it without altering it, Palin was given a pretty blunt reminder of her own history:
www.yahoo.com/huffpost/sarah-palin-apos-attempt-mock-085158207.html This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:20:09 GMT
Once again the Deplorable In Chief is stirring up hatred and division which seems commonplace among today's conservative party.
Trump Supporter Attacks Cameraman At El Paso Rally
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:20:36 GMT
Jim Acosta on Trump rallies: Worse than they look
CNN Published on Feb 12, 2019 After a BBC cameraman was attacked during President Donald Trump's campaign speech in El Paso, Texas, CNN's Jim Acosta discusses what environment is like inside one of the President's rallies. #CNN #News
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:21:00 GMT
Trump's People - SNL
President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) meets with supporters (Mikey Day, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant) in Kentucky's Boone County.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:21:24 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:21:53 GMT
So what is it that Trump has in common with the Republican base and conservatives in general?
AGGRIEVEMENT
He has used aggrievment to get elected by using all the perfect dog whistles to engender emotional responses like fear, hate, misogyny and racism from people of all strata wealthy and poor alike. It got the aggrieved to the polls (even though voter suppression played a bigger part in the election results) and when an election is close it is easier to steal. And he is keeping their emotions going with daily tweets to engender some sort of sick loyalty and hope. The conservative/Republican aggrieved have nowhere else to go especially those on the lower end of the economic ladder. The world is changing. The color of our nation is changing. Our values are changing. And they are resisting, feeling victimized and unable to accept change.
The problem is that while Trump might be aggrieved, he is an elite aggrieved....a 1% elitist and has no sympathy for other aggrieved. Most wealthy have a whole nother mindset especially those who didn't work for their wealth. And feelings of elitism isn't just a "wealth" thing. We have Republican leadership that actually believe they were chosen by God as referenced by Jeff Sharlett's book The Family. Most people have no clue about that mentality coming from our current leadership.
So Trump has used the loyal peons to do his bidding and transfer the wealth of labor, the middle class and our nations resources to his often disloyal elitist comrades and fellow whiners.
abolitionjournal.org/aggrieved-whiteness-white-identity-politics-and-modern-american-racial-formation/
www.alternet.org/culture/santa-barbara-mass-shooting-elliot-rodger-and-aggrieved-white-male-entitlement-syndrome
www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/opinion/donald-trump-unfair.html
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:22:19 GMT
PHOTOGRAPHING THE DEAD STATE MENTALITY
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:22:43 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:23:54 GMT
Another tyranny of a minority is one that won't go down well here, but it nevertheless bothers me. It's the tyranny of transgenders as it relates to sports. Who needs doping when you can just put on a skirt, call yourself a girl and go beat up on women? And yeah, I know how you feel about Joe Rogan. But he knows sports, and he definitely knows MMA. To me this is completely unacceptable. I don't care if it ruffles some PC feathers, but this just isn't right no matter how you spin it.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:24:35 GMT
I was listening to the Glenn Beck Program (so you don't have to) and the first thing I heard was him state he prefers a small gun that can create a big hole in someone. Then he went on to condemn the hacker group Anonymous and their declaration of July 15th day of rage. Only thing is I couldn't find anything about it on the Anonymous websites. Last year the same thing happened with conservatives and Republicans posting the same bs that wasn't true. Then he went on to condemn Progressives by tying them into Lenin and Stalin, communists, etc. and started spouting all these characteristics that to no ones surprise are all things conservatives themselves do.
I swear these REPUBLICONS are trying so hard to create a RACE WAR. Anonymous 'Day of Rage' Protests
A rumor that the hacktivist collective Anonymous has called for nationwide 'Day of Rage' protests on 15 July 2016 is identical to a false rumor circulated in 2014. www.snopes.com/2016/07/11/anonymous-day-of-rage-protests-2016/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:25:08 GMT
I have seen this right wing technique of getting out in front of an argument in order to legitimize their future claims over and over again. This is one such argument. Found this excellent piece that critical thinkers will enjoy and should enlist for their arsenal against right wing propagandists. Liberals and Democrats play checkers, Conservatives and Republicans play chess. Grow up lefties. There is too much at stake to slack off now. shoqvalue.com/the-nazis-were-leftists-lieDebunking The “Nazis Were Leftists” Lie
Posted on 17 January 2011 by Shoq |
Nonsense is nonsense
…and it should be exposed as such; often and always. There are few right wing lies quite so annoying as "the Nazis were Leftists/Socialists/Communists" lie. The revisionist hooey whores like Jonah Goldberg have made it easier for this orchestrated stupidity to gain new traction with his "Liberal Fascism" screed. The left, as it is quite good at doing lately, has utterly failed to push back against this absurdity in any focused manner, so this too gains acceptance among those who think Obama was born in Kenya, the media is liberal, Canadians are overwhelming the U.S. health care system, and government can't create jobs.
Below I've put down a few good articles you can use to defuse this idiotic argument. It's not hard. I will update it as I have time. If you know of some brief or extended articles I should add here, please pass them along to me via Twitter or in comments below.
Please use the Tweet button below and help pass this along to friends, neighbors, and sane countrymen. Thanks!
Brief Debunkers
• Hitler, Nazis, Socialism, and Rightwing Propaganda www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/NazismSocialism.html
The basis of the conflation of nazism and socialism is the term "National Socialism," a self description of the Nazis. "National Socialism" includes the word "socialism", but it is just a word. Hitler and the Nazis outlawed socialism, and executed socialists and communists en masse, even before they started rounding up Jews. In 1933, the Dachau concentration camp held socialists and leftists exclusively. The Nazis arrested more than 11,000 Germans for "illegal socialist activity" in 1936. • Debunking GOP lies peoplesworld.org/debunking-gop-lies/
The GOP uses deception and fears to try to break the president and his agenda for change. Ultra-right broadcasters even lie about our World War II enemy. Their claims about health care, big business and "socialism" in Nazi Germany are not only untrue, but vicious and ignorant • The ‘Socialists Are Communists’ Myth
The Myth 1 — The Nazis were National Socialists and therefore Nazism is a form of socialism. The left-wing parties like Labour and the Greens are therefore similar to the Nazis politically.
The Truth 1 — Nope: a common mistake propagated by people who think that a name means what it says. Take the Democratic Republic of Congo, the German Democratic Republic or the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea). Any takers for claiming them as being democracies?
Extended Debunkers
• Myth: Hitler was a Leftist—by Steve Kangas www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm
To most people, Hitler's beliefs belong to the extreme far right. For example, most conservatives believe in patriotism and a strong military; carry these beliefs far enough, and you arrive at Hitler's warring nationalism. This association has long been something of an embarrassment to the far right. To deflect such criticism, conservatives have recently launched a counter-attack, claiming that Hitler was a socialist, and therefore belongs to the political left, not the right.
The primary basis for this claim is that Hitler was a National Socialist. The word "National" evokes the state, and the word "Socialist" openly identifies itself as such.
However, there is no academic controversy over the status of this term: it was a misnomer. Misnomers are quite common in the history of political labels • Readings on American Nazism from Southern Poverty Law Center
SPLC has some great articles in their archive that reveal just how many of the more vicious and ignorant Nazi myths have been morphed and migrated into American extremist's culture. Often with the tacit approval of many mainstream conservatives and Republicans.
The money shot
If you just don't have a lot of time, you can use Hitler's own words from Mein Kampf, where the Furhrer clearly illustrates his contempt for the "leftists," and had used their colors (not to mention their name) to annoying them:
Yes, how often did they not turn up in huge numbers, those supporters of the Red Flag, all previously instructed to smash up everything once and for all and put an end to these meetings. More often than not everything hung on a mere thread, and only the chairman’s ruthless determination and the rough handling by our ushers baffled our adversaries’ intentions. And indeed they had every reason for being irritated.
The fact that we had chosen red as the colour for our posters sufficed to attract them to our meetings. The ordinary bourgeoisie were very shocked to see that, we had also chosen the symbolic red of Bolshevism and they regarded this as something ambiguously significant.
The suspicion was whispered in German Nationalist circles that we also were merely another variety of Marxism, perhaps even Marxists suitably disguised, or better still, Socialists. The actual difference between Socialism and Marxism still remains a mystery to these people up to this day. The charge of Marxism was conclusively proved when it was discovered that at our meetings we deliberately substituted the words ‘Fellow-countrymen and Women’ for ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ and addressed each other as ‘Party Comrade’. We used to roar with laughter at these silly faint-hearted bourgeoisie and their efforts to puzzle out our origin, our intentions and our aims.
We chose red for our posters after particular and careful deliberation, our intention being to irritate the Left, so as to arouse their attention and tempt them to come to our meetings – if only in order to break them up – so that in this way we got a chance of talking to the people.
Why Did Fascists Like Hitler Encourage Conflating Ideologies?
This from David McGowan puts it fairly succinctly:
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:25:58 GMT
This is why the DEPLORABLE IN CHIEF is the DEPLORABLE IN CHIEF and why conservatism itself is so deplorable. Trump Encourages Violence From His Supporters. They’re Listening.HuffPost Sebastian Murdock,HuffPost Fri, Mar 15 11:30 AM MST www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-encourages-violence-supporters-listening-183004391.html
President Donald Trump this week issued a thinly veiled threat of violence against his opponents, saying that members of the police, military and biker gangs could “play it tough” if they “reach a certain point.”
It was a disturbing remark, but even more disturbing is the fact that it’s part of a long history of Trump encouraging his supporters to engage in violence. Largely unchecked by his party’s leadership, Trump’s rhetoric has become normalized despite its real-world ramifications.
“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of Bikers for Trump,” Trump told Breitbart in the interview, which he later tweeted. “I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
“I think it sounds very much to me like he’s encouraging them to engage in something that’s probably illegal such as assaulting people, you know behave in a dangerous way,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told MSNBC. “That sounds like a threat to me. I think it’s appalling.”
President Donald Trump regularly encourages violence from his supporters. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The president later deleted his tweet as news began to trickle in of a mass shooting in New Zealand that left at least 49 worshiping Muslims dead on Friday. While there are no signs that the suspect was a close follower of Trump, he did mention the U.S. president once in his rambling manifesto, calling Trump “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.” Trump has previously banned those from majority-Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., keeping families apart under a racist policy.
It’s impossible to ignore how Trump’s continued rhetoric of violence and fear of other ethnicities has inspired his supporters to carry out attacks. Pro-Trump extremists sought to slaughter Somali Muslim immigrants in Kansas before authorities managed to intervene. The men chose their targets after Trump called refugees “the greatest Trojan horse of all time,” according to court testimony.
The case is one of more than a dozen where apparent Trump supporters attacked or plotted to attack Muslims. Acts of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have surged during Trump’s presidency, with more than 150 instances of Trump-related taunts and attacks, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
But it’s not just hate speech the president gloms onto when encouraging violence. During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Trump continuously called for his supporters to commit violence against protestors.
“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?” Trump said at a 2016 rally in Iowa. “Seriously, OK. Just knock the hell — I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise.”
It worked. Videos taken at Trump rallies show his supporters lobbing punches at protestors.
In 2017, a gaggle of white supremacists committed acts of violence in Charlottesville, leading to the killing of anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer. It should have been a layup for the president to condemn the attack. He defended his racist supporters instead.
Merchandise for sale at a rally kicking off Trump's 2020 campaign. (Christopher Mathias / HuffPost )
“You have people who are very fine people on both sides,” Trump said.
GOP leaders have largely ignored Trump’s repeated calls for violence. After Trump claimed to have the might of the military on his side, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stayed quiet. Sens. McConnell and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) did not respond to HuffPost’s requests asking if they would condemn Trump’s latest remarks.
As the GOP fails to respond to Trumps’ threats, the violence continues. Last October, pipe bombs were mailed to the political enemies of Trump and to the New York offices of CNN, which Trump has consistently deemed the “enemy of the people.” The Florida suspect in that case drove a van plastered with images of the president, and had told coworkers he “wanted to go back to the Hitler days.”
Just days after authorities caught the pipe bomb suspect, another wave of terror hit when a man went into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people. Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers later met with the president to remind him that “hate speech leads to hateful actions.”
The rabbi’s words apparently fell on deaf ears.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:26:28 GMT
Bring it on Mr. King and let's see how far you get.White Nationalist Rep. Steve King Posts Violent Meme About New Civil WarHuffPost Ed Mazza,HuffPost 6 hours ago www.yahoo.com/news/white-nationalist-rep-steve-king-035301782.html
t.co/mJJ7hK1Rps>> -- Liz Young (@mnlizzy) March 18, 2019 Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who has a long history of touting white nationalism, has taken his meme game to a violent new level.
The disgraced lawmaker ― who was unceremoniously stripped of all his committee assignments earlier this year for previous white nationalist rhetoric ― shared a graphic that imagined “another civil war,” this time between red and blue states.
“One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use,” states the meme, shared on one of King’s verified Facebook pages.
“Wonder who would win...” added King, apparently not noticing that his home state was actually depicted on the losing side.
Twitter users called out King for sharing the meme:/photo/1 /photo/1 /photo/1
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 25, 2020 19:27:03 GMT
A dedication
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 4, 2020 8:12:51 GMT
Baboon Butt takes Michigan.'These are sick people’: Trump fires furious broadside at perceived enemies in Michigan rallyThe Independent Andrew Buncombe,The Independent 7 hours ago
'These are sick people’: Trump fires furious broadside at perceived enemies in Michigan rally Donald Trump has launched an emotional attack on his critics, accusing them of hurting the country by pursuing the Mueller investigation, in a raucous speech in front of supporters in Michigan.
In his first rally since Robert Mueller completed his probe and the president learned it had apparently cleared him of colluding with Russia, Mr Trump basked in constant applause as he lashed out at the media, Democratic politicians and the “deep state”.
“This has been an incredible couple of weeks for America,” he said, adding that Isis had been defeated and that the economy was growing.
Referring to the completion of Mr Mueller’s report, he said: “The collusion delusion is over. The Russia hoax is finally dead. ... This was nothing more than a sinister effort to undermine our historic election victory and to sabotage the will of the American people.”
Describing Democrat Adam Schiff‘s claims that there may indeed have been collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the president said: “Sick! Sick! These are sick people.”
In a fired-up appearance in the city of Grand Rapids, the location of his final appearance during the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr Trump indicated how he intended to campaign for 2020 – by attacking his critics, making grandiose and often false claims, and energising supporters by seizing on issues such as immigration.
During the course of the 90-minute speech, he claimed his election win over Hillary Clinton had been possibly the greatest in history, and that a wall on the Mexican border would be built.
“The wall is being built. We had to go down a somewhat different path,” he said to shrieks of delight. “It does not matter – national emergency.
“Robert Mueller was a god to Democrats, he was a god to them. Now they don’t like him much.
“The Democrats now have to decide if they want to keep defrauding the public with ridiculous bull**** and partisan investigations, or whether they will apologise to the American people and join us.”
Reports said that many of those packed into the Van Andel Arena had started lining up the night before, with some camping out.
Saundra Kiczenski, who was among the first in line, told the Associated Press she had never felt the same kind of enthusiasm from the crowd as she awaited her 25th Trump rally. She said he expected the president would take a chance to revel in the fact the Mueller investigation was over.
“He’s just going to be on fire,” she said.
Last weekend, attorney general William Barr sent to Congress a four-page summary of Mr Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s alleged interference and accusations it had been assisted by members of the Trump campaign.
The summary claimed that in his report, Mr Mueller said he had not found a direct link between Moscow’s efforts and the Trump campaign. On the issue of whether the president had obstructed efforts to investigate possible collusion, he set out the case for and against in regard to several incidents.
In turn, Mr Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, decided the president’s actions did not constitute a crime.
Before Mr Trump launched his attack against those he claimed had pushed for an investigation because they could not accept his 2016 victory, the crowd was warmed up by the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
“This week’s vindication of my father, of me, of our family: it’s not just our vindication, it’s your vindication,” said Mr Trump Jr, who is likely to play a leading role in his father’s re-election campaign next year.
“You own that with us. Because you stuck by us. You knew it was nonsense. You knew my father was fighting for all of you.”
Among those whom the president attacked on Thursday evening was Democratic congressman Mr Schiff. On Thursday, Republicans on the House of Representative’s intelligence committee called for his resignation, saying he had pushed a demonstrably false narrative by continuing to investigate the president’s ties to Russia.
Mr Schiff said: “My colleagues may think it’s okay that the Russians offered dirt on a Democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as part of the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign. ... You might say that’s just what you need to do to win. But I don’t think it’s okay.”
www.yahoo.com/news/apos-collusion-delusion-apos-trump-234900948.html
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