Every time Trump tweets " AMERICA FIRST" just remember where he got that slogan from. pic.twitter.com/Wu09pZjWpW— Dominique Hamilton (@Underrated_Dom) January 28, 2018
Jan 28, 2018
Today's Tweet
Jan 27, 2018
Today's GIF
Nothing is as it seems - welcome to the Post-Truth Unfettered Market World of the modern GOP.
Today's Tweet
Steve Wynn's turn - and his stock price took a beating too.
To everyone who posted the picture of Hillary Clinton and Weinstein, please post this too. I'll wait. #SteveWynn #TimesUp pic.twitter.com/N72sWW7glf— Carol Ann Leif (@carolannleif) January 26, 2018
ProLeft Podcast
It's not a football game. We can take no pleasure in bringing down a president, because what we're doing is some pretty serious business.
But holy fuck, it's going to be cause for a feeling of great satisfaction when 45* - and hopefully, the bulk of the Radical GOP - are stomped back into the dung heap "conservatives" have been sprouting from for a solid 30 years.
And I fully intend to celebrate to a near-blackout kind of excess.
Not because "Blue Team Wins", but because we're done with the first thing on a very long list.
Like the man said: It's not the beginning of the end - we still have a very long way to go - but maybe we can think of it as the end of the beginning.
Jan 26, 2018
The Buzz Man
You've heard it before, and here it is again:
Of all the wealth generated in the world last year, 82% of it went to the Top 1%.
None of it - NONE OF IT - went to the bottom 50%.
And there's a very good rundown of what's been happening in the Mueller investigation, and the bit about the use of bots and American social media.*
Buzz Burbank - News & Comment:
*BTW -
Why Fake News Targeted Trump Supporters - The Atlantic from last year.
‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests - NYT this month
(I think this guy's conclusions are a bit silly, because we know that moving even a low percentage of voters makes a huge difference)
Here's the study
Abstract:
Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tenden- cies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the factually dubious articles known as “fake news.” Using unique data combining survey responses with individual-level web tra c histories, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7-November 14, 2016. Trump supporters visited the most fake news web- sites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump. However, fake news consumption was heavily concentrated among a small group — almost 6 in 10 visits to fake news web- sites came from the 10% of people with the most conservative online information diets. We also find that Facebook was a key vector of exposure to fake news and that fact-checks of fake news almost never reached its consumers.
Happy Friday!
Here's the study
Abstract:
Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tenden- cies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the factually dubious articles known as “fake news.” Using unique data combining survey responses with individual-level web tra c histories, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7-November 14, 2016. Trump supporters visited the most fake news web- sites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump. However, fake news consumption was heavily concentrated among a small group — almost 6 in 10 visits to fake news web- sites came from the 10% of people with the most conservative online information diets. We also find that Facebook was a key vector of exposure to fake news and that fact-checks of fake news almost never reached its consumers.
Happy Friday!
Jan 25, 2018
Today's Tweet
Never stop expecting 45* to play the Smarm Space - where there's a loophole, there's a way to weasel out.
The only question I have is "Will Mueller charge Trump as an adult?"— Luisa Haynes (@wokeluisa) January 25, 2018
Vox On Fox
They could just be hedging their bets, but when DumFux News almost directly countervails their own prime time commentators, I have to think there's something more to it than that. Like maybe they understand how wacky they've made some of their viewers, and how dangerous it is to throw just a few too many signals out to the Lone Wolf cray-zoids - like the freak who threatened CNN.
.@DonLemon: There's "nothing random" about the arrest of a Michigan man who threatened to kill CNN employees. "This is what happens when the President of the United States repeatedly attacks members of the press simply for reporting facts he does not like" https://t.co/b7oXT900iO— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) January 24, 2018
Vox:
Fox News just published a story that directly cuts against a conspiracy theory being pushed by the network’s television hosts, congressional Republicans, and the president himself.
Yes, that Fox News.
For the past few days, Fox News has been featuring wall-to-wall coverage of an unknown number of text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page that had disappeared from FBI server records. Previous Strzok and Page messages had included a number of vitriolic comments about President Trump — even a reference to an “insurance policy” against his election.
So the missing texts were taken by the White House, pro-Trump Republicans in Congress, and many in the conservative media as proof that the FBI was covering up a vast anti-Trump conspiracy at the bureau.
“This is like Watergate but far worse,” Sean Hannity said on his Monday night Fox show. “This reeks of law-breaking, it reeks of conspiracy, and it reeks of obstruction of justice.”
Yet on Wednesday afternoon, Fox published an article on its website by reporter Jake Gibson, saying this theory was flatly wrong. Gibson writes, citing “federal law enforcement officials,” that the messages were deleted by a technical error, not malice — one that had affected not just Strzok and Page’s phones, but “thousands” of Bureau-issued devices between the dates of December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.
“The gap in records covered a crucial period, raising suspicion among GOP lawmakers as to how those messages disappeared,” Gibson writes. “But Fox News is told that the glitch affected the phones of ‘nearly’ 10 percent of the FBI’s 35,000 employees.”
So either one of two things is happening here: Fox News has gotten a huge story wrong in a way that deeply undercuts the president, or its big-name talk show hosts like Hannity have been peddling a narrative that has absolutely zero basis in fact — but dovetails directly with a broader attack on the FBI aimed at undercutting special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
We report, you decide.
Or maybe we could call it Fox-on-Fox Violence(?)
Anyway, it's another very strong indication that we've got some serious Daddy State bullshit goin' on - and maybe the Press Poodles in legitimate media are finally wising up and taking it to heart.
But also too, 45* still approaches this like it's all part of the show. He phonies up a villain; he stages a confrontation; he waits to see how the audience reacts; then he adjusts the script (which includes changing facts and flat-out making shit up) to maintain the tension - and to tease whatever cliff-hanger he's ginned up this time around - so the hero (him, of course) always comes out on top.
It's axiomatic that if you stay in it long enough, show biz will make you crazy - fingers in your mouth, jumping up and down crazy.
45*'s trick is that he's using everything at his disposal to make us think we're the crazy ones (standard gaslighting tactics) - and more than that - he's convinced his "base" that they're the only sane ones, and that they can only stay sane by going along with whatever weird shit he comes up with next.
Cult45 - and that kinda explains why the Evangelicals feel so much at home with his malarkey, don't it.
Stay focused
Stay busy
Stay mad
Stay together
Get shit done
Jan 24, 2018
America 8th!
Well now - that don't scan for shit, does it?
The Hill:
A Gallup poll recently found that global approval of U.S. leadership sank to its lowest point in nearly two decades during President Trump’s first year in office.
The U.S. has also dropped significantly in the U.S. News rankings of trustworthiness and political stability. The greatest U.S. decline was in rankings of countries having open travel policies, likely related to Trump’s attempts to block visitors to the U.S. via the travel ban.
Just To Be Clear
They're not Christians - they're Christianists. Right Radical TheoCons.
They care for nothing but their Daddy State political agenda of gaining the power to Control & Oppress.
Politico:
Evangelical Christians, says Perkins, “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”
What happened to turning the other cheek? I ask.
“You know, you only have two cheeks,” Perkins says. “Look, Christianity is not all about being a welcome mat which people can just stomp their feet on.”
Matthew 15:8-9 The Message
3-9: But Jesus put it right back on them. “Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God’s commands? God clearly says, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel around that by saying, ‘Whoever wants to, can say to father and mother, What I owed to you I’ve given to God.’ That can hardly be called respecting a parent. You cancel God’s command by your rules. Frauds! Isaiah’s prophecy of you hit the bull’s-eye:
These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their heart isn’t in it.
They act like they’re worshiping me,
but they don’t mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy.”
They care for nothing but their Daddy State political agenda of gaining the power to Control & Oppress.
Politico:
Evangelical Christians, says Perkins, “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”
What happened to turning the other cheek? I ask.
“You know, you only have two cheeks,” Perkins says. “Look, Christianity is not all about being a welcome mat which people can just stomp their feet on.”
Matthew 15:8-9 The Message
3-9: But Jesus put it right back on them. “Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God’s commands? God clearly says, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel around that by saying, ‘Whoever wants to, can say to father and mother, What I owed to you I’ve given to God.’ That can hardly be called respecting a parent. You cancel God’s command by your rules. Frauds! Isaiah’s prophecy of you hit the bull’s-eye:
These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their heart isn’t in it.
They act like they’re worshiping me,
but they don’t mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy.”
Today's Tweet
It's the new American dream - which is pretty much the same old dream of aristocracies everywhere.
If you don't like income inequality, stop whining & buy yourself some Senators.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018
Today's Tweet(s)
#ThingsThatAreProbablyTrueAboutMikePence
#ThingsThatAreProbablyTrueAboutMikePence— EdgarOfTheMoors (@EdgarOfTheMoors) January 22, 2018
Mike Pence plucks his chest hair out in penance for having ever become a grown man with manish needs in the first place.
#ThingsThatAreProbablyTrueAboutMikePence— EdgarOfTheMoors (@EdgarOfTheMoors) January 22, 2018
Mike calls his wife "Mother."
She calls Mike Pence "Unfuckable."
— WhyzGuy (@_WhyzGuy_) January 22, 2018
#ThingsThatAreProbablyTrueAboutMikePence— EdgarOfTheMoors (@EdgarOfTheMoors) January 22, 2018
Mike Pence avoids all kitchens because he can't see basic cooking utensils as anything other than sex toys begging him silently to be played with.
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