Michael Tracey tweeted Maxine Waters "shoved" him. Here's the video. This is what he is calling a shove. pic.twitter.com/5LXc59eOcE
— Zachary Fedell ???? (@zatchry) June 3, 2017
Michael Tracey is a professional True Leftist, one of the guys encouraging others to vote for Donald Trump after St. Bernie was cruelly robbed of his presidential crown. Rep. Maxine Waters is a lady not known for her accommodating temper, currently leader-such-as-there-is of the IMPEACH TRUMP NAOW forces. Ergo, it was impossible for MT to resist getting up in MW’s grille…
Here's the full @MaxineWaters @mtracey interview. Sensitive viewers, you are warned. pic.twitter.com/gyU2pw6FdD
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) June 3, 2017
Alas, it turns out that getting the international talk-to-the-hand gesture from a lady twice his age and half his size scored poor Mr. Tracey zero martyrdom points…
Maxine Waters body slammed me and broke my glasses. Well, ok, she kind of brushed past me. But it hurt like hell. https://t.co/8I0AV9w5aG
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) June 3, 2017
Be kind, a 90-year-old grandmother of five also lightly brushed past him in the Duane Reade as he was buying painkillers for his injuries
— Sady Doyle (@sadydoyle) June 4, 2017
Shocking that a white dude would falsely claim the black person was violent. https://t.co/KuGYwuqJdN
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 3, 2017
One can only hope the ACA provides coverage for “ego damage via social media”…
Trump can unleash the full force of Fox, fringe, & fake news media on me all he wants. I'm not going anywhere! #getreadyforimpeachment
— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) June 3, 2017
Apart from cruel mockery, what’s on the agenda for the end of the weekend?
Corner Stone
That’s one of the things I am sad about re: the demise of the MHP show. Jelani Cobb doesn’t seem to make it on TV anymore. Wonder why?
Amanda in the South Bay
Lots of protesting going on here in Portland.
EBT
Anyone else been following the story of Noted White Supremacist Cassandra Fairbanks?
JPL
According to Gianforte, there’s a lack of civility on both sides.
SiubhanDuinne
Jeez, what a whiner. “I thought I asked fair questions.” WATB.
Corner Stone
That bloated white dude is 240 pounds if an ounce. I wish she had grabbed him by the balls and started twisting.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
He acted as though that’s exactly what she did.
dedc79
He is many other awful things as well. If the press had taken Tracey’s advice, there would’ve been no reporting on Trump/Kushner/Flynn/Sessions affinity for all things Russian (and their collective amnesia re meetings with Russians). His takes on these subjects as well as anti-semitism (denies it’s problem in the US) have rendered his twitter feed hard to distinguish from Richard Spencer’s.
efgoldman
That’s plenty for me. I find it entertaining and fulfilling.
But christ, what an asshole (not Maxine)
NotMax
Open Thread?
Looks to be slim pickings on Netflix this month (of course there are always things which show up unannounced, so hope springs eternal).
Shimmer Lake at first blush suggests it might offer up some Fargo-esque dark humor. Coming to the ‘flix on June 9.
For those with the service and who have never seen it, My Left Foot available this month.
Bobby Thomson
And I thought Trump was the biggest pussy in politics.
efgoldman
@dedc79:
So why does anybody pay any attention to him?
Time was, unless you went looking for their mimeographed newsletters, nobody paid attention to crackpots. Now, I guess, the fact that they’re on line and/or the tweetler means people have to pay attention, somehow? Life is too short.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
To be fair, an entire crowd of women gathered around to point and laugh at him, so he probably did feel like his tiny weenie had been cruelly cut off, or at least had forcefully retracted into his body in shame.
japa21
So Trump dropped another point in Gallup. Was 41% approval prior to his announcement about the Paris Accord. Now at 36%, just one point above his low water mark. And usually Sunday has him slightly up.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Did you catch Letterman’s brilliant commentary on Brief Encounter last night? [don’t know how to do sarcasm font]
I loved Dave’s show, but he knows sod-all about movies.
NotMax
@zhena goglia
Had to remind me, didn’t ya? :)
“I like the trains.”
Bostonian
It’s a good thing a light breeze didn’t come up at the same time! Little Michael Tracy might have ended up with a World Cup worthy knee injury.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
Don’t mock him too much over at the twit-you’ll draw a suspension like I did…
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Worth noting: IIRC Tracey actually supported Webb instead of Wilmer initially (he actually pushed for Webb way back in 2014) before going for Trump. Before this cycle he was a die-hard Paulite.
efgoldman
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes:
If he has to block a couple dozen or a couple hundred people, maybe he’ll get the message.
Naah. Never happen. What’s wrong with me even thinking such a thing.
Mike in NC
@NotMax: New season of ‘Orange is the New Black’ will be out on Netflix in a couple of days. We’re trying to figure out when they’re running new episodes of ‘Doc Martin’.
efgoldman
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
In other words, he can’t even spell “politics”, and wouldn’t know a ballot if you wallpapered it to his ass.
Just the guy to pay attention to.
NotMax
Dragging out the toolbox and multi-tester, as the beloved hassock fan (late 40s or early 1950s vintage) has given up the ghost. Fingers crossed that maybe the motor needs new brushes and can be resurrected.
Mnemosyne
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
You are only confirming a suspicion I already had about the die-hard Sanders bros. Nothing liberal about them.
Also, someone in Cole’s Twitter feed is trying to make #Broflake happen. I like it.
Bonnie
@dedc79: If Bernie Sanders had been the nominee, we would have found out for sure how anti-semitic this country is. American has not had a Jewish politician run for President in my lifetime. So, Bernie would have been the first; and, he would have lost, too. It is sad; but, true about America.
ThresherK
@Corner Stone: Couldn’t do that without holding his gut up, out of the way. That’s gonna take all the hands she has.
Mr Stagger Lee
@NotMax: May I suggest Shepards and Butchers, a South African trial drama about a guard charged with shooting members of a Black soccer team. It is a twist that put the Apartheid regime on trial.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
reposted from below because trump as “first responder”
Mike Allen of Axios, which he and Jim Van deHei started because Politico was not– judging from this– pathetic enough
if my house ever burns down, or the years of cured meats and potato chips catch up with me (I’ve reformed, a bit), I hope the firefighters/paramedics stop to check drudge
Because I always try to be fair here’s some more context. I don’t think it helps:
so he went, and the he goes, and those nasty critics were all, pouncing, very nasty
and because he learned in journalism school, or maybe from a bad movie about journalism, that one should always try to include ‘local color’, Mike used some British
efgoldman
@Bonnie:
Whoever it is, will have to be as skilled a politician as Obama (which Bernie, on his best days, is not). No ordinary shlub of a candidate will do.
hovercraft
@Mnemosyne:
Misogynistic man babies hate that more than anything else in the world. Just point and laugh at him, remind him that he’s inadequate. Calling him a WATB is an insult to babies. Fucking Asshole.
NotMax
@Bonnie
You just be very young. :)
Lieberman ran in the primaries in ’04.
efgoldman
@hovercraft:
Next time he interviews Maxine, I’m sure he’ll remember to bring a fresh can of Mace.
hovercraft
@Mnemosyne:
Me too, it’s the perfect description of them, that or #Assflake, it’s appropriately disgusting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: I had the same thought, but I think Bonnie meant as a major party, top-of-the-ticket nominee.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
@efgoldman:
I’d kind of like it to be Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. That would give me deep guffaws…
efgoldman
@NotMax:
Did he? He was as much a factor as Jim Webb, I guess, since Harold Stassen was already dead.
James Powell
@Bonnie:
There are people who believe that things like this don’t matter to the whole of America because it doesn’t matter to them or their friends. More people should do door-to-door campaigning in neighborhoods that are nothing like their own.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
Nah, I like Broflake. Makes it very clear that they are the delicate “snowflakes” they keep claiming everyone else is.
NotMax
@efgoldman
“Joementum.”
Bwahahahahahaha.
ThresherK
Study question: In the interest of taking down Maxine Waters, will PBS or Fox News be the first to examine this video, on air, like it was the Zapruder film?
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
That’s if he can find his balls and go back, she brushed his bullshit off, he got mocked by the inter tubes, and then she pawned him on twitter. If he’s smart, he’ll find an easier target next time.
Oops, I see the problem, smart………
efgoldman
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes:
“As skilled a politician as Obama…”
I don’t think so.
ThresherK
@NotMax: I think the popular term is Blowmentum.
Well, it’s popular in my house.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Holy god, Larry Fucking Sabato is calling out CNN for false equivalence
“naughty words”… this fucking country
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
What a fucking baby, he is
Baud
Now we see the violence inherent in the system.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@ThresherK:
Fox, I suspect. Tomorrow anticipate Rush weighing in, too. (And when he weighs in, he weighs in!)
efgoldman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Fuckem
Mnemosyne
@Bonnie:
I listened to an episode of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s new podcast, where he talks about the phenomenon of “moral licensing.” Short version is, if one minority is allowed to break through, it’s quite common for people to then decide that they don’t have to let go of their prejudices because, hey, this one woman/Black/brown/LGBT person got elected, so now misogyny/racism/homophobia is over and everyone has to shut up about it!
It’s a very interesting, if depressing, listen. For all of Gladwell’s faults (and he has many), he has always been sympathetic towards women.
Ian G.
Has Greenwald compared him to Nelson Mandela or Andrei Sahkarov yet? Actually, it would probably be the other way around, right? If. only Mandela were the brace fighter for human dignity that Tracy is.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@hovercraft:
Poor lil’ guy… did the scary black lady hurt your wittle feelings?
Bex
@Mnemosyne: Can’t wait for Luvvie’s take on “the shove.” And how did you like her Melania post?
efgoldman
@hovercraft:
Could have been worse, i suppose; he could have filed a complaint, and been laughed out of court, too.
germy
He’s a RW asshole masquerading as a LW asshole.
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Poppy Harlow is such a useless twit
J R in WV
He forced Ms Waters to walk through his obtrusive, abusively positioned microphone. She didn’t touch his lame ass other than perhaps his fingers holding that club in her face.
Big strong hero, getting beat up by an elderly frail looking lady who was far more polite that dude-bro deserved. Obviously attempting a set-up that failed. Takes a REAL He-Man to set up Ms Maxine Waters. And this guy is not that he-man~!!!
MomSense
Wussy. If he wants something to cry about, I volunteer to give him a proper ass kicking.
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I wish he had pointed out that Tom Perez is the fucking head of the DNC, fine, but Twitter is the head of not just the republican party, but supposedly the United States of America, and he swears at fucking rallies. Now if you can find an instance of a democratic LEADER, instigating, applauding or expressing admiration for violence than you can both sides this. Until then shut the fuck up and stop lying to the country, we are watching a boorish, insecure, narcissist stoke violence in this country, while the other “side” keeps trying to get him to stop and understand that he signed up for a job where he would be the MOST criticized person in the world even if he was a normal person, not the demented raccoon that is destroying our country and it’s reputation. Useless fucking media.
BlueDWarrior
The greatest problem the nation faces might very well be white men who can’t get over thier butthurt.
Sad.
germy
Big, proud, shit-eating grin on his face after the encounter. He reminds me of the Howard Stern fans who used to yell “Babba Booey!” just for the reaction.
zhena gogolia
I guess Ossoff has lost the election? At least that’s what all the subject lines on his e-mails say.
germy
After captain underpants pulled his stunt, didn’t his cameraman turn the camera on himself for more shits and giggles?
SFAW
@Bonnie:
What, was Kerry gehackte Leber?
ETA: Yes, I know his grandfather converted. Still …
Baud
It would be a tough fight, but I feel like I could take Maxine.
bystander
@hovercraft:
David Vitter paid for that kind of treatment, and this guy gets it for free. Another reason he should thank Waters. She was great on Joy Reid this morning.
Trump is really setting the trend for letting your inner WATB free.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
There are certain female U.S. representatives I wouldn’t advise you to fight.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
Sigh. What I was doing and where I was at this time just a week ago. Now I’m back to the firehose of shitty news.
germy
@zhena gogolia: did he debate Handel on CNN or was that canceled?
Baud
@zhena gogolia: I hate when Dems try the fear factor too. But I don’t know whether it is effective.
SFAW
@zhena gogolia:
Runoff is June 20. I’m guessing you were snarking?
zhena gogolia
@germy:
I have no idea.
Baud
@zhena gogolia: All of them, Katie.
zhena gogolia
@SFAW:
I guess I’m snarking. His e-mail subject lines are getting me down.
MomSense
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes:
Hey have a song.
poor man’s gold
I’m having a dance party/BBQ on the back porch with all the boys and a bunch of trump orphans.
SFAW
@Baud:
Me, too, but I couldn’t really afford as high-end a restaurant as she deserves. And I’m told she hates the salad bar at Applebee’s
raven
@germy: Cancelled, he declined in favor of a local one. Also, the local news just ran a piece about some really nasty anti-Handel flyers in a Cobb neighborhood.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
@MomSense:
That’s awesome!
Baud
@raven: Think it’s a false flag thing?
SFAW
@zhena gogolia:
Kind of what I figured. Let’s hope it all turns out OK, but I understand (having received more than a couple of those in the last year or so).
SiubhanDuinne
@Bex:
And how did you like her Melania post?
I really need to just subscribe to Luvvie. She is so wonderful.
Had not heard about any of the Melania gossip, but now I am just wallowing and luxuriating in it. This is my fave line so far:
efgoldman
@hovercraft:
What have you got against racoons, demented or otherwise?
Nicole
Tonight is cleaning the apartment, and probably rereading this:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/brovaries-true-danger-wonder-woman-movie/
Frankensteinbeck
@Bonnie:
The utterly pathetic and incompetent shit show that was Sanders’ campaign seems to have disappeared down the memory hole. People have been whining about questions of how many resources to devote where by Hillary, and forgotten Sanders having to fire people, the database break-ins, his own crowds ignoring him…
JPL
@germy: The campaign released a statement saying they wanted to do debates with local press. His campaign has been about how to help the sixth, so it sorta makes sense. She has refused a local debate, but of course, the media will concentrate on his refusal.
The son, dil and I voted yesterday, and I don’t mean to be crude, biased and awful, but it appeared that some folks were bused in from north Georgia. In fact I made a snide remark to my dil, that they looked like Ossoff supporters, and she said really, and then laughed?
Chris
@BlueDWarrior:
Oh good lord, yes. It’s not even a contest. Sure, there are a lot of problems that don’t originate with white male butthurt, but white male butthurt is almost uniformly the thing that keeps us from solving them.
efgoldman
@SFAW:
The blast fundraising emails I get do have alarmist – very alarmist – subject lines.
Straight to the spam folder.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
And you like being reminded of KellyAnne Conway?
raven
@Baud: ratfucking
Redshift
@hovercraft: I though he did pretty well for having to respond on his feet, but in my armchair quarterbacking, I wish he’d just said “Do you really think ‘naughty language’ and violence are equivalent?”
Baud
@raven: That’s what I meant.
raven
Redshift
@efgoldman: Yep. Both “one question survey” and “we’re panicking!!!” have become ubiquitous in the past year, and they all get deleted unread. I guess they must work on some people, but it just seems lazy.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Honestly, that’s a mental image I didn’t need. I’m sure you meant well and all, but….
JPL
@raven: Since I voted for the terrorist lover, hippie and Nancy Pelosi supporter, how bad could the flyer about Handel be?
Personally, I hate that he’s so careful about publicly attacking Trump, and hope that he can show a clear difference between him and Handel. There’s been strong absentee and early voting in DeKalb, and that was lacking last time. Hopefully, that’s a good sign.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: Gianforte needs to be slapped around a bit with a clue by four upside the haid so we can make his statement at least fractionally plausible.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Broderism. It’s everywhere. It must be eradicated, as we once eradicated polio and smallpox.
Redshift
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Interesting. Al Giordano had a thread about having met Tracey at CAP when he was just out of college, and says he did some good journalism for a few years after that, so he wasn’t always awful.
It’s always been my impression that a lot of the most cultish Wilmer fans were Paulites looking for their next Dear Leader.
Chyron HR
It baffles me that in less than a year “progressive” came to mean “shut up and let the white race reclaim its rightful glory.”
efgoldman
@Villago Delenda Est:
That trick never works.
Nothing works with those kkklowns.
I think they get their skulls lined with lead and concrete, to make sure nothing penetrates.
Scamp Dog
Here in Denver, I’m off to the summer’s first City Park Jazz concert. Will be taking my iPad and sketching the band. If it’s any good, I’ll put it up on my Tumblr page.
BlueDWarrior
@Chyron HR: It sounds like, for a given subset of white progressives, it was more important to have progressivism defined by them than anything else. I got hip to this latest iteration of it as certain people complained about certain types dominating Southern state primaries. Wasn’t dissimilar to the same types complaining about Prop 8 during the 2008 Election.
satby
@NotMax: I took your advice about the Dr. Blake Mysteries, thank you! Also catching up on Grace and Frankie and really appreciating Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston (“do you want me to distract [your mother] with my lanky Semitism”). So funny!
Ruckus
@BlueDWarrior:
I think it’s white men who have butt hurt in the first place.
WTF is wrong with them that first off they think they are perfect or better than anyone else? This old white man doesn’t understand how assholes with such inflated egos don’t all have to be tethered by their tiny balls out in the garage, lest they all float away on all their mouth farts.
Ruckus
@Baud:
Wouldn’t count on it. Odds are not in your favor.
MomSense
@satby:
I love Grace and Frankie. That’s one of my escape shows.
Have to put in a plug for Durrell’s in Corfu. Great story and well acted. Plus it’s Corfu.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
It’s also quite possible that there is nothing inside those blockheads other than some small furry animal running in place keeping just enough steam going so that they have what looks like lights on.
Woodrowfan
@ThresherK:
She shoved him back and to the left!
Woodrowfan
@efgoldman: might feel good to give it a try though….
Aleta
It wasn’t even about the physical brush off. He needed to be in control but she didn’t let him. Refusing to answer his questions, a strong black woman told him what the subject was instead.
An actual journalist could have shifted his mind to ask her about that. But instead he had to force dominance, so next he tried to control the physical space and make her answer. She didn’t let him.
So then he tried to control the interaction by changing his news story to “she didn’t conduct herself right.” (Calling it an interview although it wasn’t. And he already had an actual story, the quotes she gave him.)
As his story was rejected on twitter, he tried to keep control by defining her for hours: “erratic, intemperate, ridiculous, flailing, agitated, angrily, stormed off, shoved, pushed, swatted, no reason, unprofessional, extremely suspect, initiated physical contact, escalated physical contact, no justification.”
chris
Love this! the Bore of Babylon.
Don’t have the money but it’s a thing of beauty.
CZanne
@zhena gogolia: seriously. Who in the DNC thinks that depressing the donors is a good way to motivate us?
Juju
@efgoldman: you don’t remember Joementum?
efgoldman
@Juju:
I probably blocked it out. I can’t help confusing him with Droopy Dog, except Droopy has more interesting things to say, and is way more entertaining.
Camembert
@Frankensteinbeck:
Try to keep up; the current HRC line (which has the advantage of being correct) is that the DNC was legitimately utterly incompetent at IT and the databases they generated, protected, and maintained were full of bad data and poorly managed.
Incomptence really isn’t something you can harness. DWS was one of Obama’s several gifts to Tr45.
Uncle Ebeneezer
Can’t remember if I shared this here already: last weekend I went to a Memorial Day protest in Inglewood (pressing the Inglewood PD to release info on the killing of Kisha Michael and Marquintan Sandlis.) It was a Memorial Day event and I was there with WP4BL to support BLM.)
The one and only, Maxine Waters was the guest speaker. Our aim was to just stand there holding signs and not do anything disruptive. The leader of the event asked all current/former service members to stand so they could pass the mic around and let each person quickly tell where/when they served. Most of them were great. There was one guy, however, who got a bit froggy. White dude (of course) in camos, who said something like “Joe Bloe, US Army. I was called in during the LA Riots. When the police couldn’t stop them, the Army did.” He got a mix of muted applause and some disapproving groans. Anyways, we had a member of our group who was a veteran so our group urged her to get in the queue to speak. She put down her protest sign (still wearing a W4BL shirt) and did so. The mic passed around her a couple times and it became clear that the MC was purposefully avoiding giving the mic to her. This upset us so one protestor (a black man who is very active on police reform) walked up towards the front and started raising his voice asking why the group wasn’t letting this veteran speak. Organizers came over and started trying to usher him away but Maxine stepped in, told them to leave him alone and asked the protestor to come up onto the stage and had him sit next to her.
Finally our vet got to speak and said that in addition to all the people who have fallen in action/service, she was also hear to pay tribute to the two people killed by the Inglewood PD over a year ago and to demand answers and justice.
When Maxine spoke she started by saying that she appreciated our presence and hears our concerns. She said hugged our protestor and said “When I see him, I see my child. I see my family. I see our community. And they have a right to be angry.” She then promised to meet with BLM after her speech and to do everything she could to press the Mayor and PD on this issue.
She then gave her written speech which was a bit more boiler-plate freedom, service, country etc. But very good, funny, moving. Afterwards she closed by talking about the importance of activism and speaking up and pushing our officials. She asked everyone their to stand up and give applause to the protestors. Applause!!! (jaw drop.) Nearly everyone except for a handful (including white camo-dude, of course) stood and applauded. Afterwards she strolled over with BLM protestors to the shade of a jacaranda trees and talked with them for 20 minutes or so. She seemed sincerely interested in helping the cause and was friendly, warm, engaged with the group. It was quite sight to behold and a very inspiring experience.
Tim in SF
Explain something to me, Juicers:
Four of those five tweets do not have “@mtracey”. Doesn’t that mean he won’t see the tweet? I thought the only way a tweet shows up in your notifications is if your @handle is in it.