.@DineshDSouza Civilized! pic.twitter.com/EacaFYwkmq
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2015
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Trying to out-bigot Ann Coulter for Trump’s attention is a fool’s errand, Mr. D’Souza.
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.@DineshDSouza Civilized! pic.twitter.com/EacaFYwkmq
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2015
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Trying to out-bigot Ann Coulter for Trump’s attention is a fool’s errand, Mr. D’Souza.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
In a different part of the moral universe…
Sunday school as in tomorrow morning
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: Special advisor on pardons and clemency?
J R in WV
John,
I got these pages in about 4 seconds. But it is late at night. And we have a new web provider.
JR
Omnes Omnibus
Dartmouth should consider asking for its degree back.
Librarian
Well, if it’s a fool’s errand, then it’s a job he’s perfectly suited for.
Mike J
@efgoldman:
Opossums eating bananas.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: That will haunt my dreams for years.
Kropadope
I don’t know Dinesh, is it because the shooting didn’t highlight a major injustice being perpetrated upon a large and clearly definable portion of the American populace?
jl
@Kropadope: Well, it was just a question, after all. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, even if at this point he doesn’t deserve it.
The answer is ‘No’. I don’t do twitter. Maybe someone can help the guy out and send him a tweet on it.
dr. bloor
@Omnes Omnibus: Assholes like D’Nitwit are a Dartmouth specialty.
eemom
@efgoldman:
I like how you keep referring to him that way….although if I were an opossum myself, I might file a lawsuit.
danielx
@Mike J:
Oh. My. God.
I now have to take strong measures to be able to sleep tonight, and I’m still going to be afraid to close my eyes.
Kropadope
@eemom: Hey, a possum gotta make a living. It must be quite the nice life for a possum, indeed, living on Trump’s head. He gets the best food and the classiest female possums only.
danielx
@Kropadope:
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Ruckus
@eemom:
When I was a kid I had an opossum living in a tree outside my bedroom and that thing on top of t rumps ass doesn’t look like an opossum to me. I’m thinking ferret is a lot closer.
Kropadope
@danielx: I just tried to search for the source of that quote and the first link attacked my computer.
ETA: If you ever click on a link for something else and come up with flashing lights saying “You’re computer is infected, click here for the software to fix it,” don’t click.
EATA: Fuck Bing. I should’ve typed Google instead of using the search bar.
pacem appellant
I refresh this page ninety times a day. I know who D. D’S. is. But I do not get this joke. Can un-addled brains explain it to me?
NotMax
@Kropadope
The quote is from Walt Kelly’s classic Pogo comic strip, lo these many decades ago.
Someone actually uses Bing? Really?
Kropadope
@NotMax: I have Google set as my home page. Bing was my default search engine, apparently, because Microsoft. I just typed the phrase in the empty box and search results were from Bing. That didn’t bother me much at the time, so I clicked the first relevant-looking link I got BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTT!!!! and a message saying “Your computer is dying, trust me to fix it.”
And yes, thanks, I found the Pogo cartoon after carefully excising the offending tab, restarting my computer, and changing my default search engine to google; which helpfully displayed images of the cartoon, and several links; all of which were relevant and the one I used was even real, not a trap.
NotMax
@Kropadope
Here’s a pic.
NotMax
@https://balloon-juice.com/2015/08/29/saturday-night-horroshow-open-thread/#comment-5458615
If you’ve never used them, might want to check out DuckDuckGo and also Ixquick as alternatives to the Google.
NotMax
@NotMax
That ought to have read @Kropadope.
Publishitis prematuris. :)
NotMax
@efgoldman
Yes indeedy, and it did not always emanate from Pogo Possum’s mouth. Example.
Glidwrith
@pacem appellant: Looks like D’snoozer is engaging in outright bigotry by implying blacks rioting over the systemic killing of their people is uncivilized, obviously for no good reason because white folks didn’t riot when two white reporters were gunned down by a black man. The response by the other tweeter shows a white cop killer who is most decidedly uncivilized.
I don’t think D’snoozer is joking, just ugly, ugly, ugly.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
To be fair to Dinesh, white people only riot about important things, like college basketball games.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Maybe Dinesh will pick up a cue from Jindal and choose a Brady nickname.
I vote for Cindy.
srv
Rhetoric wins. Bank on it.
sharl
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Don’t forget that us white folk get all riled up about pumpkins too.
[If this early April story is still holding true, Keene NH won’t be holding their Pumpkin Festival this fall – lesson learned, BOOYAH!]
Adam
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Don’t forget about the Pumpkin festivals.
EDIT: crap someone beat me to it by a minute
NotMax
2 – count ’em, 2 – hurricanes, Ignacio and Jimena, in Hawaii’s very near future.
Neither is expected to make landfall but are expected to remain powerful. Both are currently category 4, but predicted to weaken as they get closer. Current track projections for Jimena have it coming closer than Ignacio, a scant few days after Ignacio breezes by.
SatanicPanic
@srv: only in right wing fever swamps is the idea that cops’ lives matter controversial. The rest of the world already agrees that they do. Now it’s just about getting the rest of the world to accept the same about black lives.
sharl
@Adam: We’ve all been there…
RK
Civilized white people in this country only kill thousands upon thousands in wars against nations that haven’t attacked us.
Tomtofa
@danielx:
I don’t know – based on how long it takes them to eat a damn banana, they don’t really seem too formidable.
But they never look happy, do they?
Steeplejack
Redacted because redundant.
Kropadope
@SatanicPanic: The only things they have left are strawmen and appeals to authority. Our supposed desire is such a passionate issue for them because it exists at the intersection of both.
jl
The Trumpification of the GOP primary continues. I like the bit that Christie admits he has no idea how to accomplish it. But, he knows good people!
I think I saw in another story on this that Christie would put the FedEx CEO on it, but can’t find it now. Maybe chip them. We chip our pets and it shows we love them, so therefore it would show we love immigrants. Or maybe the FedEx guy would make all the immigrants work for FedEx, and then they would damn be tracked if they wanted to get paid. Either way, right in line with the GOP outreach effort.
Republican Christie proposes tracking immigrants like FedEx packages
‘ Christie did not say specifically how the system he proposes would track people the same way packages are tracked by FedEx, which scans a bar code on the package at each step in the delivery process.
A FedEx spokeswoman declined to comment on Christie’s remarks. ‘
http://news.yahoo.com/republican-christie-proposes-tracking-immigrants-fedex-packages-233109536.html
Keith P.
@Omnes Omnibus: Has anyone actually *seen* his diploma? I mean the original, not a copy.
sharl
sharl
From last year in the Atlantic:
As I recall from that article (which I didn’t re-read before posting this), DD went with the option that pays better: throwing red meat to the snarling rubes.
I think he’s descended into the sewer depths below Coulter’s level, closer to where Debbie Schlussel festers. And even with his felony conviction, I think he’s been more successful than her. Perhaps it helps him that (maybe) he is not burdened with her vanity issues…dunno.
piratedan
well DD is a wingnut hero, someone of color who agrees with them who feels that certain laws do not apply to them… what’s not to like for a red blurded freedum luvvin Merkin?
I wish I understood why it’s a bridge to far to pay teachers well, fix bridges, roads and dams, update our power plants, and get Americans decent quality health care and that we’re going to use taxes to do so…
Amir Khalid
“Horroshow”? Tsk, tsk.
sm*t cl*de
Хорошо.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Interesting you should say that. I have recently started referring to the alleged Rhodes Scholar (has anyone seen proof?) what is Governor of LA as Marcia Marcia Marcia Jindal.
No reason D’Sleeza can’t use that name as well. Of course, given the state of his morality, perhaps it should be Marsha.
And being a convicted felon, has he lost the franchise? One would hope. That would make him (again) Coulter’s ideal fuck-buddy, since Coulter’s committed voter fraud. (Oh, wait, what was I thinking? Coulter’s a white wingnut, thus no fraud could have been committed.)
Patricia Kayden
@RK: So true — for European countries and the U.S.
Another Holocene Human
@efgoldman:
You nailed it. I had a friend who went to Dartmouth to get away from the school where she had a free ride because both of her parents were profs there. (It was also a Catholic school and she wasn’t, to be fair.) While the rest of us were emailing each other about normal stuff our first year, she was talking about freshman get togethers where they all drank until they passed out. This was 1997.
Another Holocene Human
@sm*t cl*de: lol
debbie
@efgoldman:
He ought to team up with George Zimmerman. The two of them would be perfect together.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@SFAW:
Uh, what?
SFAW
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Because “Swampa” is not a spelling variant of any of the Brady kids?
Hey, some of mine work, some don’t.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@SFAW:
Ah. Thought I was missing a reference that would be yet another reason for someone I know to be grateful she dumped that name years ago.
Frankensteinbeck
@piratedan:
The short answer is ‘it elevates black people closer to the status of white people.’ There are a lot more details involving allies gathered and cult beliefs formed out of that foundation. The end result is Cleek’s Law.
Chris
This obsession with whether or not black people are properly “civilized” has a long and rather ugly history –
The central question that emerges – and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal – is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race…
[…] If the majority wills what is socially atavistic, then to thwart the majority may be, though undemocratic, enlightened. It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
– William F. Buckley defending segregation in the National Review, 1957.
It goes without saying that similar arguments were deployed to defend colonialism all around the world, and are currently deployed to deprive gay people of their rights.
PaulW
slept in this morning having done a Rocky Horror Picture Show last night in Orlando. there’s a performance troupe The Rich Weirdoes http://www.richweirdoes.com/shows/rhps and last night they apparently had a large turnout of virgins, which may have dampened the shout-backs to the screen because it was a relatively quiet viewing. They had to card at the door, which hadn’t happened for me since… well… 1986.
Bobby Thomson
@sharl: I just remember D’ipshit always being an asshole.
Bobby Thomson
@sm*t cl*de: ftw
Mike E
It’s hard out there for a
pimpprostitutetroll.John M. Burt
I sent a reply to Dinesh’s post: “No.”
gogol's wife
@sm*t cl*de:
Is this an Anthony Burgess reference?
PaulW
@Mike E:
At some point the judge needs to revoke D’Troll’s probation and ship him back to jail for another round of contempt charges.
Joel
Any mention of DSouza requires the obligatory Colbert link.
http://crooksandliars.com/2007/01/17/colbert-nails-dinesh-dsouza
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: Bureau chief for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a new cabinet-level department. Oh wait, sorry – that would be for a Huckabee, Santorum or Walker [mal]administration…
boatboy_srq
No, Mr. D’Ouchenozzle, it’s because when white people get killed it’s a tragedy, but when POCs or LGBTs get killed it’s
pest controlbusiness as usualsadly typical response by white people to Others as existential threats.brantl
Can we have the tag Dinesh D’douchebag, please?