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Rude One
1. Fuck you if you're watching the videos
of students from Covington Catholic School hooting and yelling and
chanting and dancing in their douchewear of MAGA hats and Trump shirts
and you think,
"Oh, this is totally innocent and not racist." And double fuck you in
your mouth and your ass if you look at images and videos of very white
Nick Sandmann standing and smirking in front of very Native American
Nathan Phillips and believe, as Sandmann's parents' hired guns
wrote for Sandmann, "I said a silent prayer that the situation would
not get out of hand." Bullshit. Anyone who has ever been around a group
of young white dipshit males has seen that fuckin' smirk, that face that
says, "You wouldn't touch me because I'm white and I got a group of
angry white boys around me who are pissed off that they missed the era
of lynching." Jesus, it must have been frightening to be surrounded by
those howling piss ants in their MAGA gang colors.
1a. The one thing I'll give the forensic videologists of the right is
that I never clearly heard the racist dipshit kids chant, "Build the
wall." They may have. They may not have. I'm just saying I didn't hear
it. Update: I watched another video,
the one where the kid (whose name is probably Squee) rips his shirt
off, and they are definitely chanting, "Donald Trump" for a couple of
moments.
1b. Don't fuckin' tell me to "Watch the video of the whole thing."
Motherfuckers, I did watch it. And it shows exactly what it looks like: a
bunch of privileged white Christian boys getting off first on
confronting some black people (the Hebrew Israelites are fuckin'
assholes) and then on confronting some Injuns. They likely thought
they'd finally get a hug from their MAGA fathers for doing it. Hell,
they were probably gonna circle jerk about how brave they were for
months after. Probably still will. While a Trump speech is playing on
their phones.
1c. Teenagers know that everything...every fucking thing...will be
recorded. They love it. They want it. They want to see how the stupid
shit they do gets major likes and hearts and whatever the fuck. That's
also what Sandmann was thinking standing there, knowing that his boys
were recording. "Holy shit, this is gonna be so sick on my Insta." The
old person argument of "I could do stupid things when I was a teenager
and no one would ever see it" is bullshit because today's kids expect to
be recorded. They do the stupid shit because they want it recorded.
2. As a liberal, I think the way that teenagers of color are treated by
our American justice system, our American culture, and our American
politicians is fucking disgusting. It is a savage fucking country that
arrests kids and tries them in court as adults
and talks about them like they are grown ups and not bundles of
hormones whose brains haven't fully developed. It's a savage fucking
country that lets kids live in abject poverty and does almost nothing to
help them get out and then punishes them when they step even a little
out of line, like acting up in school. All of this need to change, be reformed, overturned, anything. We have failed our kids miserably in so many ways.
2a. If you're conservative and you're pissed off at all the people on
the left who are condemning the Covington Catholic dipshits, saying that
they're just kids and are making stupid kid mistakes, I wonder how
you'd've reacted if it had been a group of African American teen boys
who just came from a Black Lives Matter march and were smirking at and
mocking a white minister singing, "Amazing Grace"? Fuck you. You know
what you would've said. You'd've been calling for them to be castrated
and sent to the fields. Yet now you act like the public outrage at the
dipshits makes them the moral equivalent of unarmed black teens shot by
the police.
2b. The right also viciously attacked the Parkland teens for daring to
speak out about gun control. When they planned a national school walkout
for students, conservatives lost their goddamned minds. "They're being manipulated
by adults," they said. "They're just being exploited." Yet somehow when
you arrange for groups of Catholic school kids to go march against
abortion rights, that's not exploitative. Weird, huh?
2c. If you're liberal and you want the racist dipshits treated like
non-white kids are treated in America, well, sorry, but that's just
fuckin' hypocritical. I don't want the racist dipshits gunned down by
cops or sent to prison for absurdly long sentences or anything like
that. I don't want that to happen to any teenagers. I do want the entire
goddamn country to get back to the idea that all kids are kids, and,
except in exceedingly rare cases, they should be treated as such. That's
not a way to excuse the racist dipshits from Kentucky. But it is to say
that our reaction to all teen dipshittery, criminal or not, should be
contextualized by the fact that they are still kids. (And if you think
sending death threats to the school or the kids is right, you can go
fuck yourself.)
2d. To get super-harsh here, when teens are gunned down in a school or
are the victims of some other crime, we are quick to label them as
"children." Well, why do teen victims get to be innocent children while
teen criminals get to be adults?
2e. Yeah, the dipshits deserve to be punished by their school and, if a
crime was committed, charged with it. Of course. That's obvious. But
punish them as kids, as we should all kids.
3. The dipshits have shitty parents, shitty teachers, and shitty
religious leaders. They all have failed. The chaperones on the trip
failed. The adults failed. They should be punished. They should be fired
if they are at the school. Too bad we can't fire parents. The adults
close to these kids are gonna fuck it all up. They already are.
4. Nathan Phillips has actually been incredibly insightful about the whole situation. In an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer,
he said, "I'm disappointed with [Sandmann's] statement. He didn't
accept any responsibility. That lack of responsibility, I don't accept
it." All he wants is for the dipshits to accept that they were dipshits.
That's where learning begins. "I'm just working for a better future for
all of our children," he said. "But, I can't work with liars and
thieves." And, in one of those so-wise-it's-almost-a-stereotype moments,
he added, "I live in the plains and I've watched a tornado come down.
It's very destructive. What I saw in front of me that day was
destruction from a terrible storm tearing apart the fabric of my America
and threatening the future of all our children." He now wants to meet
with the dipshits and try to teach them what they did was wrong, in case
they don't understand that simple fact. Maybe he can tell them what the
Indigenous Peoples March was for, too.
4a. Yeah, he's not a Vietnam War vet, although he did serve in the Marines. Well done, right-wing media. So? Does that mean Phillips deserves the treatment he received? Assholes.
5. Just shut the fuck up, David Brooks.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019
Hey Billionaires, NOBODY Wants You To Run For President!
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has made headlines all week after he
announced his interest in running for President, but the American
public isn’t too happy about it.
In fact, most people are sick and tired of billionaires like Schultz who want to take away our privileges and safety nets while hoarding billions of dollars in cash for themselves, but that is EXACTLY what Schultz’s platform is shaping up to be. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
In fact, most people are sick and tired of billionaires like Schultz who want to take away our privileges and safety nets while hoarding billions of dollars in cash for themselves, but that is EXACTLY what Schultz’s platform is shaping up to be. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Huckabee Sanders Says God Wanted Trump To Be President
During an interview with CBN, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders said that God actually chose Trump to be resident and that the
Almighty WANTED Trump to be resident of the United States.
This woman isn’t playing with a full deck, and her comments prove that. But there’s a lot of implications from her comment that she likely didn’t realize, and Farron Cousins explains those.
This woman isn’t playing with a full deck, and her comments prove that. But there’s a lot of implications from her comment that she likely didn’t realize, and Farron Cousins explains those.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Colorado Senator Lays Into Ted Cruz For His Shutdown Hypocrisy
By Karoli Kuns
This government shutdown is weighing on all of us. I'm sick of it, I'm sick of cable networks streaming Trump being a jerk, I'm sick of all the lies, and I'm heartbroken by all the horrible stories of what's happening to the people who work for the government.
I am not alone, apparently. Senator Michael Bennet went off on Ted Cruz, the shutdown, and his frustrations with the shutdown. Hard.
“I seldom rise on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side,” Bennet began. “I have worked very hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way with the presiding officer with my Republican colleagues, but these crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take.”
“When the senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded. It was under water. People were killed. People's houses were destroyed. Their small businesses were ruined forever. And because of the senator from Texas, this government was shut down for politics,” Bennet shouted, voice rising. He was referring to the 2013 Colorado floods, which devastated the state and killed 8 people.
He was just warming up. Watch the abridged version above, or the full version below.
This government shutdown is weighing on all of us. I'm sick of it, I'm sick of cable networks streaming Trump being a jerk, I'm sick of all the lies, and I'm heartbroken by all the horrible stories of what's happening to the people who work for the government.
I am not alone, apparently. Senator Michael Bennet went off on Ted Cruz, the shutdown, and his frustrations with the shutdown. Hard.
“I seldom rise on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side,” Bennet began. “I have worked very hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way with the presiding officer with my Republican colleagues, but these crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take.”
“When the senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded. It was under water. People were killed. People's houses were destroyed. Their small businesses were ruined forever. And because of the senator from Texas, this government was shut down for politics,” Bennet shouted, voice rising. He was referring to the 2013 Colorado floods, which devastated the state and killed 8 people.
He was just warming up. Watch the abridged version above, or the full version below.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Internet Roasts Trump For His Fast Food Hillbilly Buffet
The Internet lit up on Monday evening as photos of Donald Trump’s buffet
for the Clemson Tigers’ celebratory dinner made the rounds on social
media.
Trump greeted the National Champions with food from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King, with some pizza for good measure.
The dipping sauce packets were placed in beautiful silver bowls, and golden candles lined the table of this hillbilly buffet. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Trump greeted the National Champions with food from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King, with some pizza for good measure.
The dipping sauce packets were placed in beautiful silver bowls, and golden candles lined the table of this hillbilly buffet. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Russian Spy Traitor Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration
Trump did so after a
meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by
then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s
actions when a White House adviser and a senior State Department
official sought information from the interpreter beyond a readout shared
by Tillerson.
The constraints that Trump
imposed are part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his
communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even
high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what
he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
Jesse talks about the latest reporting from the New York Times and the Washington Post which reveals that not only has Donald Trump gone to great lengths to keep secret (even from the United States Intelligence community) the content of his private conversations with Vladimir Putin, but that in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey, the FBI opened a counter intelligence probe into Donald Trump to determine whether or not he was a witting/unwitting Russian intel asset.
Jesse talks about the latest reporting from the New York Times and the Washington Post which reveals that not only has Donald Trump gone to great lengths to keep secret (even from the United States Intelligence community) the content of his private conversations with Vladimir Putin, but that in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey, the FBI opened a counter intelligence probe into Donald Trump to determine whether or not he was a witting/unwitting Russian intel asset.
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Congressional Black Caucus Calls For White Supremacist Steve King To Face Consequences
CBC Chair Karen Bass called on Republicans to make clear the Iowa
congressman is “no longer welcomed in their party” after his repeated
racism.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-caucus-calls-for-white-supremacist-steve-king-to-face-consequences-for-his-racism_us_5c3a5ee3e4b0922a21d5642d
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-caucus-calls-for-white-supremacist-steve-king-to-face-consequences-for-his-racism_us_5c3a5ee3e4b0922a21d5642d
Did '50s TV show feature a con artist named Trump promising to build a wall?
By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE
It certainly sounds like an urban legend — an episode of a 1950's western TV series featured a snake oil salesman named Trump who claimed that only he could save a community from destruction by building a wall.
But the debunking site Snopes says the show, part of the "Trackdown" series starring Oakland native Robert Culp, did in fact air on CBS in 1958.
A clip from the episode was uploaded to YouTube, captioned "Predicted Donald Trump," in November 2016.
The "End of the World" show features actor Lawrence Dobkin as Walter Trump, a con man who predicts a firestorm would rain down on the Texas town of Talpa unless he intervenes to save it. Culp, playing Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, calls Trump's bluff and eventually arrests him for "stealing."
Trump sold the townspeople force-field umbrellas to deflect meteors.
Interestingly, the character's speech is so similar to theresident, it almost seems as if Donald Trump
borrowed some catchphrases from Walter Trump. A portion of the dialog
follows:
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared, "Politicians have used you and stolen your votes. They have given you nothing. I will give you everything. I will give you what you've been looking for for 50 years. I'm the only one."
On June 16, 2015, Trump said, "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively,"
https://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/Did-50s-TV-show-feature-a-con-artist-named-Trump-10848356.php
It certainly sounds like an urban legend — an episode of a 1950's western TV series featured a snake oil salesman named Trump who claimed that only he could save a community from destruction by building a wall.
But the debunking site Snopes says the show, part of the "Trackdown" series starring Oakland native Robert Culp, did in fact air on CBS in 1958.
A clip from the episode was uploaded to YouTube, captioned "Predicted Donald Trump," in November 2016.
The "End of the World" show features actor Lawrence Dobkin as Walter Trump, a con man who predicts a firestorm would rain down on the Texas town of Talpa unless he intervenes to save it. Culp, playing Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, calls Trump's bluff and eventually arrests him for "stealing."
Trump sold the townspeople force-field umbrellas to deflect meteors.
Interestingly, the character's speech is so similar to the
Narrator: Hoby had
checked the town. The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran
to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of
fraud.
Trump: I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing can penetrate.
Townperson: What do we do? How can we save ourselves?
Trump: You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I'm here to tell you.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared, "Politicians have used you and stolen your votes. They have given you nothing. I will give you everything. I will give you what you've been looking for for 50 years. I'm the only one."
On June 16, 2015, Trump said, "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively,"
https://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/Did-50s-TV-show-feature-a-con-artist-named-Trump-10848356.php
F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working On Behalf Of Russia
WASHINGTON — In the days after resident Trump fired James B. Comey
as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by
the resident’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had
been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according
to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the
investigation.
The inquiry carried
explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to
consider whether the resident’s own actions constituted a possible
threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr.
Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under
Moscow’s influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents
and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to
Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an
investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were
uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and
magnitude. But the resident’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s
firing in May 2017, particularly two instances
in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia
investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the
inquiry, the people said.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Trump tried to sell his wall on QVC last night like it was a mailorder frozen steak at Sharper Image
By Snake Plissken
And the only person who called in on the order line was someone wanting to know why Mexico isn't paying for it.
And the only person who called in on the order line was someone wanting to know why Mexico isn't paying for it.
Monday, January 7, 2019
The People VS Donald J. Trump
He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment.html
Opinion Columnist
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment.html
HE'S TOAST!!! Congress Is Getting Donald Trump's Tax Returns!
The incoming Democratic Congress looks like it's going to use its
majority to stand up for the American people and hold Donald Trump
accountable, starting with requesting his tax returns (as allowed by
U.S. Code › Title 26 › Subtitle F › Chapter 61 › Subchapter B › § 6103)
from the Secretary of the Treasury.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
GOP Congressman: Trump Is 'A Wealthy Man' & if He Wants A Wall He Should Fork Over Some Cash For It
By David Badash
. Rep. Walter Jones is calling onresident Trump
to put his money where his mouth is – at least where the wall is
concerned. The North Carolina Republican says it's "morally
irresponsible" to build the wall by increasing the debt, and wants Trump
to pay for at least part of it.
"As a wealthy man, theresident might consider pledging some of his own funds," Congressman Jones said in a statement on his government website, as Roll Call first reported. "Whatever it takes, just so long as we don’t add to the debt that is bankrupting our great country."
Jones says a "fiscally responsible plan to pay for" improved security on the southern border, and insists any compromise "should be paid for without adding to the deficit or the debt."
“America’s national debt is nearly $22 trillion. Next year our annual deficit is projected to top $1 trillion. We can’t afford to keep financing the provision of government services by borrowing more and more money. It’s morally irresponsible and it’s got to stop,” Jones added.
“If Mexico isn’t going to be made to pay for a wall, that means funds must be found internally.
Options could include cutting other wasteful federal spending. Foreign aid and the war in Afghanistan would be good places to start."
. Rep. Walter Jones is calling on
"As a wealthy man, the
Jones says a "fiscally responsible plan to pay for" improved security on the southern border, and insists any compromise "should be paid for without adding to the deficit or the debt."
“America’s national debt is nearly $22 trillion. Next year our annual deficit is projected to top $1 trillion. We can’t afford to keep financing the provision of government services by borrowing more and more money. It’s morally irresponsible and it’s got to stop,” Jones added.
“If Mexico isn’t going to be made to pay for a wall, that means funds must be found internally.
Options could include cutting other wasteful federal spending. Foreign aid and the war in Afghanistan would be good places to start."
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