Workin' guy voting GOP
Monday, October 16, 2017
Today's Tweet
Follow the whole thread (7 parts)
Right now, I'm feeling more terrified than at any point since the 2016 election. Why? It's time for some game theory! 1/— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 13, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Today's Tweet
There is wisdom in perspective.
Let's just cut out the middleman and force women to give birth to guns— Kelly BOOce 👻 (@lucekel) October 6, 2017
Today's This Ain't Normal
This doesn't "prove" Climate Change - we're not quite there yet - but when this kind of Extraordinary starts to lean toward Typical, we have to stop the foolishness and understand we've got a fucking problem.
Marshall Shepherd, Forbes
Don't worry. You are not losing it. Ireland is in the "cone" of uncertainty in that map below. Hurricane Ophelia is the 10th consecutive hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin this year. According to University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy, the last time ten consecutive storms became a hurricane was 1893. While a very interesting factoid, the "elephant in the room" is that Ophelia is headed to Ireland. It is rare, but not unprecedented.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Earn It
I'm not crazy about the goddie stuff at the end, but it's definitely relevant to a reasonable expectation for The Christian Right to start behaving like Christians, and actually doing - you know - what's right.
Today's Tweet
Tillerson calling 45* a fucking moron was a great example of how you can be absolutely right in what you said, and then completely wrong when the boss finds out.
Had a very great meeting with the President of the American Virgin islands. Great guy, very smart! #Trump #presidentofthevirginislands pic.twitter.com/NbGUrMDKah— Dogald J. Trump (@dogaldtrump) October 14, 2017
We Will Get Fooled Again
Fool you once - shame on them.
Fool you twice - shame on you.
Fool you repeatedly - you end up with President 45*.
Take lessons from Frank Luntz and Newt Gingrich for a few years - tune in to Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity regularly for the Hate Du Jour.
Filter it down to 12 or 15 key triggers - Sharia Law, Illegal Immigrants, Shall Not Be Infringed, Hillary Killed Vince Foster, Socialism, Leftwing Intolerance, Reverse Racism, FemiNazi, Sidney Blumenthal Started Birtherism, Black-On-Black Crime, etc.
Create fake accounts on Google and YouTube, and every social media platform you come across.
Set up your algorithms and your AdBots, and send 'em out with the shittiest memes you can think of.
Such as like for example, per The Guardian:
Police have identified Stephen Paddock as the suspect who opened fire from a high-rise hotel room, killing scores and injuring hundreds more. But before authorities named the 64-year-old Nevada man, some on the far right falsely identified the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history as Geary Danley. It’s unclear where exactly the hoax originated, but rightwing users aggressively promoted his name, seizing on evidence that he was a liberal.
On 4chan, the anonymous message board and a favorite platform of the “alt-right”, some noted that Danley was a registered Democrat. Soon after, Gateway Pundit, a conspiracy-laden blog that earned White House credentials under Trump, published an evidence-free story headlined, “Las Vegas Shooter Reportedly a Democrat Who Liked Rachel Maddow, MoveOn.org and Associated with Anti-Trump Army”. The piece was based on a review of Facebook “likes”.
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Some titilating titles at Snopes:
Democrat Principal Defecates In Front Of Students During Pledge Of Allegiance?
Was White Supremacist Who Killed Protester a Democrat Who Visited Obama in Oval Office?
And a few more interesting oddities:
I guess I could've shortened this post quite a lot with a simple reminder: Check your bias and your source.
And, especially in light of what we're learning, don't assume anything negative isn't coming from Moscow.
Friday, October 13, 2017
On Ryan Zinke
Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine:
As my grandmother and her sisters used to say, who the hell is this guy when he's at home? From The Washington Post:
A security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building. When the secretary goes home for the day or travels, the flag — a blue banner emblazoned with the agency’s bison seal flanked by seven white stars representing the Interior bureaus — comes down. In Zinke’s absence, the ritual is repeated to raise an equally obscure flag for Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt. Responding this week to questions from The Washington Post, a spokeswoman for Zinke, a former Navy SEAL commander, defended the Navy flag-flying tradition as “a major sign of transparency.”Oh, just shut up.
“Ryan Zinke is proud and honored to lead the Department of the Interior, and is restoring honor and tradition to the department, whether it’s flying the flag when he is in garrison or restoring traditional access to public lands,” press secretary Heather Swift said in an email.Tell your email to shut up, too.
Today's Tweet
I only wish I could believe this was a little farther from the truth
Trump: I said no kneeling during the anthem.— Dave Pell (@davepell) October 12, 2017
Me: I’m kneeling because I’m praying for the victims of the fire.
Trump: What fire?
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