...but it's never gonna be nuthin' but a fuckin' skunk.
Nice try on that rebranding thing, fellas, but this
Nice try on that rebranding thing, fellas, but this
...is still this
Aug 19, 2017
Free Speech
Freedom ain't free. And the cost can be pretty heavy.
We always have to be a little careful in how we react to people expressing views we disagree with.
That said, it's important to remember Popper's Paradox:
We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid. Within 10 minutes we banned him for life.— OkCupid (@okcupid) August 17, 2017
We always have to be a little careful in how we react to people expressing views we disagree with.
That said, it's important to remember Popper's Paradox:
Arnold
.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis. pic.twitter.com/HAbnejahtl— ATTN: (@attn) August 17, 2017
Aug 18, 2017
Hey Hey - Goo-ood Bye
“No matter what happens, Steve is a honey badger,” said this person, who like others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. “Steve’s in a good place. He doesn’t care. He’s going to support the president and push the agenda, whether he’s on the inside or the outside.”
Bannon doesn't care.
First off, he knows he's insulated. He doesn't have to worry about the effects of shitty draconian policies on regular people cuz he's not regular people.
Guys at Bannon's level pretty much think they own the government anyway (or at least they think they should - 'course we haven't exactly been giving them whole big bunches of reasons to think otherwise). And there's always the probability that he just enjoys having the power, and the time, to dabble.
Wanting to prevent ridiculously rich and craven people from "governing" at their leisurely whim was kinda the whole point of 'The United States of America' in first place, wasn't it?
So lemme see - what might keep these assholes kinda reined in so they'd hafta spend more time minding their own goddamned business and less time fucking with the rest of us?
Anybody wanna talk Tax Reform? Be ready - cuz that's coming soon, but for now:
The Un-Poodling Of The Press
And thus it starts. Some of the Press Poodles have finally had enough, and they're actually calling some the liars on their lies - sometimes live, in real time, on the air.
Don Lemon smacks Jack Kingston:
Jake Tapper points out some of 45*'s malarkey:
And I'm hoping to be a little hopeful that maybe kinda sorta we're seeing the Poodles pushing back against the False Equivalence bullshit - bullshit, btw, that they've been pimping right along with assholes like 45* and his asshole acolytes like Jack Kingston.
Obviously, they're not there yet, but I'll give the 4th Estate a baby bulldog today instead of the usual rainbow poodle.
Way to go, guys.
We are trying to be not so fucked(?)
He Has No Soul
"He is the malevolent fury..."
Lawrence O'Donnell with Bill Moyers
Lawrence O'Donnell with Bill Moyers
And here are some of the art pieces Lawrence referred to:
hat tip = Walker Thornton
Monday, August 21, 2017
🇺🇸 ☀️ 🇸🇪— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) April 3, 2017
August 21, 2017:
Another dark day in the U.S. with a solar eclipse
But @stockholm_act starts that day 😀pic.twitter.com/IBI0enY3yP
Aug 17, 2017
Trumpy Bear
Like everybody else, I keep thinking it just can't get any weirder - and then it does.
I have no idea if this is a real thing, but here it is.
I have no idea if this is a real thing, but here it is.
The company peddling this thing is apparently real - looks that way anyway.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste or intelligence of the American consumer.
A Letter
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| Stonewall Jackson - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
From 2 direct descendants of Stonewall Jackson.
We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt symbols of racism and white supremacy, and the time is long overdue for them to depart from public display. Overnight, Baltimore has seen fit to take this action. Richmond should, too.
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Confederate monuments like the Jackson statue were never intended as benign symbols. Rather, they were the clearly articulated artwork of white supremacy. Among many examples, we can see this plainly if we look at the dedication of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina, in which a speaker proclaimed that the Confederate soldier “saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” Disturbingly, he went on to recount a tale of performing the “pleasing duty” of “horse whipping” a black woman in front of federal soldiers. All over the South, this grotesque message is conveyed by similar monuments. As importantly, this message is clear to today’s avowed white supremacists.
As is usually the case here in USAmerica Inc, we get hung up on the symbol itself - or we get too use to feeling comfortable with the hagiographic bullshit swirling around those symbols - and we forget about what the damned thing actually stands for.
Confederate monuments like the Jackson statue were never intended as benign symbols. Rather, they were the clearly articulated artwork of white supremacy. Among many examples, we can see this plainly if we look at the dedication of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina, in which a speaker proclaimed that the Confederate soldier “saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” Disturbingly, he went on to recount a tale of performing the “pleasing duty” of “horse whipping” a black woman in front of federal soldiers. All over the South, this grotesque message is conveyed by similar monuments. As importantly, this message is clear to today’s avowed white supremacists.
Participation Trophies.
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| Jefferson Davis - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
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| JEB Stuart - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
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| Robert E Lee - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
Today's Tweet
Learn sumpthin', bubba
Let us be clear.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2017
Putting the statues up in the first place was "sanitizing history."
What's going on now is fumigating history.
Aug 16, 2017
Hardening Evidence
So, this isn't fully baked yet - it has to be submitted for peer-review and then maybe we'll see it in the journals.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
- and (btw) -
Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
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