A band of racists outnumbered by the police officers who are there to protect their free speech rights. https://t.co/Qd5MWzQGcZ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 12, 2018
Never have so may protected so few who have accomplished so little. https://t.co/6f3hyqFOtf
— WhiteAnxietyHat (@Popehat) August 13, 2018
Local news in the Washington Post, “White-supremacist rally near White House dwarfed by thousands of anti-hate protesters”:
White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.
Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of last year’s violent and deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, wanted to hold an anniversary demonstration there, but the city wouldn’t let him. So he brought his show to Washington, where he hoped 400 supporters would join him for a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Fewer than 40 turned out.
The group was met by thousands of protesters who filled their half of the leafy, seven-acre park chanting “Go home, Nazis!” “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!” and “Black lives matter!” They drowned out whatever message Kessler and his small band of followers had hoped to deliver — and that was their goal.
For opponents, the day felt like a victory, albeit an often tense and angry one…
how was the big incel unity rally?
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) August 12, 2018
At the site where the march is supposed to begin, and the cops are so bored that they’re tossing a ball with a police dog
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) August 12, 2018
The counter protest deserved the attention. A city, with no representation in Congress, coming together to reject murderous fascism with an energy and spontaneity the President is utterly incapable of. https://t.co/bqYh4vD9B1
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 12, 2018
Large anti-Nazi crowd already gathered at Freedom Plaza. pic.twitter.com/MkCk0wm8WK
— Matt Ford (@fordm) August 12, 2018
And since they'd have to rely on the cops for protection that meant they weren't gonna get to do any Crusader LARPing.
Just mill about in blazing August humidity as an entire, beautifully unified city yells at you and takes pics to show your employers.
Have fun, dickweeds.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 12, 2018
Jason Kessler says his group is small because supporters are scared after what happened in Charlottesville. He also says as soon as he got to Vienna Metro the police told him they had to get on the train. He says supporters may have been left behind. pic.twitter.com/pXt00Lirlg
— Paul Wagner (@Fox5Wagner) August 12, 2018
The face tattoos are what every employer is looking for. https://t.co/BMC5DZwa50
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 12, 2018
A lot of people pointing out there aren’t many racists marching today but you have to keep in mind most of them are pretty busy right now running their campaigns as GOP candidates https://t.co/c6QlOb00z1
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) August 12, 2018
I’ll have my HD footage of everything that went down online later, but in the meantime: something that stood out to me was the enormous police protection for #UTR2 at every point.
See the moment they first faced counterprotesters in DC: pic.twitter.com/N9jakstmwg
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) August 12, 2018
The "kessler run" is "discreetly fleeing by police van into a metro station a few blocks away."
No one brags about it.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) August 12, 2018
It is weird and funny but also annoying and dumb that the attitude of our serious newsmen toward leftwing protesters is always that of a disappointed dad pic.twitter.com/EPwECSf7Bm
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) August 13, 2018
Well I was in favor of protesting against Nazis but now I see from several rightie sites that the protesters said mean things about cops in America and that's just disgraceful so now I have to withhold my support.
— WhiteAnxietyHat (@Popehat) August 12, 2018
Gosh, it’s almost like confrontational antifascism works and all of the concern trolls continue to be completely wrong https://t.co/KPAT6oZDFB
— John Carl Baker (@johncarlbaker) August 12, 2018
Jason Kessler had to disclose his backers in court in order to get the #UniteTheRight2 permit-they include a church pastor sympathetic to his racist cause who was willing to donate a charter bus. #ShutItDownDC #LafayettePark #FreedomPlaza #AllOutDC https://t.co/HDd1IBY481
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 12, 2018
This guy is trying to convince a cop that an Antifa protester assaulted him. “No he did not, I witnessed it,” the cop said “He did not assault you” pic.twitter.com/1qM7HtsECM
— Carol Schaeffer (@thencarolsaid) August 12, 2018
Update: he just pitched his invention- an air conditioned police vest – to secret service
— Amber (@herrle_amber) August 12, 2018
Baud
Let’s outnumber them in the voting booth too.
different-church-lady
Oh, like they even have employers?
Of course, I don’t have to go looking to know this is being played on racist-web as LOOK AT ALL THE COPS THEY NEEDED TO PROTECT US FROM HATEFUL ANTIFA!!!!
Corner Stone
My son and I were in DC on 8-6 and went to the WH area to view the Rosie + Broadway peeps protest. We got there about the time Kristin Mink (sp?) started speaking in between some songs. Maybe 200 people there in support of the protest or just interested? That was a lot of fun.
Jay Noble
Intersting to notice the diversity of the cops.
Something occured to me the other night. If these twits want to cosplay as Nazis, why don’t the good guys on our side dress as WWII armed forces Army, Navy Wacs Wavs and so on. If not comfortable with the uniforms, how about poster size pictures of family members who served against the Nazis? No confrontations no Yelling. Just stand there and represent.
Major Major Major Major
Antifa Twitter is totally convinced that this rally sucking represents proof that antifa is the only viable way to address fascists and also this somehow represents the failure of neoliberalism.
That was when I closed twitter for the day lol.
Pogonip
Also on the subject of pets, how difficult is it to keep finches alive and happy? They sure are cute liitle birds.
What I really want is a DOG, preferably a vicious little chihuahua that will reduce to bloody shreds the ankles of the person or persons who stole our lawn ornaments, but the autistic family member is terrified of dogs.
Lapassionara
@Baud: Ditto. I know I am getting old when I wonder why the people marching against fascists are labeled “antifa.”
Jay
@Major Major Major Major:
Most Antifia “twitter” accounts are snorks, grumpkins, lutzers and Russians.
Pogonip
Does tattooing 14 on your face have some political significance?
raven
@Lapassionara: antifascists.
Major Major Major Major
@Jay: from where i sit it looks mostly like cosplayers and Russians.
raven
@Pogonip
different-church-lady
@Jay: [Writes note to self to look up snorks, grumpkins, and lutzers.]
[Looks at note, tears it up, throws it away.]
Corner Stone
@Lapassionara: Because they have to cover their faces due to being tear gassed by LEO. If they weren’t labeled “antifa” then they would have to call them Steve or Bob or the guy who cuts your hair who doesn’t agree with Nazis marching in his town. And we can’t have that.
lamh36
Amir Khalid
That video clip of the racist Kessler marching to his rally with his very few supporters, behind the policemen of colour protecting them, is telling.
TenguPhule
@Pogonip: 14 words.
Jay
@Lapassionara:
antifia = Anti Facists
Because the US Media has to bothsides the hell out of it to normalize Nazi’s and the alt-Reich,
and the Nazi’s, alt-Reich and ReThug need a scary boogyman,
White Flour Clowns and Librarians Against Hate = scary Antifia
different-church-lady
The fourteen words are: “I eat my poop and I recommend all right-thinking people do the same.”
different-church-lady
@Jay: Why can’t we call them Fa Fighters?
Lapassionara
@raven: Thank you.
jl
I heard an apparently amused reporter on the news yesterday say that one of the white supremacists told her they were going home early because the weather was inclement. (why did the reporter reveal her amusement on air? More Deep State treachery, I guess). Anyway, I thought that was pretty weak excuse for the master race.
The report also said the antifa crowd (who were strong enough to brave the supposedly bad weather) hung around and a few of them tried to draw the police into a confrontation, but looks like, thankfully, that didn’t work.
raven
@Jay: They are some nasty motherfuckers. They want people to get hurt to move their cause forward. I saw the same stupid assholes in the 60’s-70’s. Some are probably agents provocateurs but not all.
different-church-lady
@raven: This is just the “black bloc” rebranded, yes?
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: they self identify as ‘antifa’ because they’re trying to emulate European antifa, which has an actual history.
Platonailedit
Ah, tapper the tool, never fails.
Jay
@different-church-lady:
Snorks and grumpkins are the scary monsters under a small childs bed,
Lutzer’s are online cosplayers who’s online “game” is to offend and spark outrage for shits and giggles.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: Well Dave Grohl has an actual history too, you know.
lamh36
Oooh…Omarosa is going there…saying out loud what many have pondered on…
Chump sure ain’t gon like that!
POPCORN GIF!!!
https://twitter.com/itgurl_29/status/1029179858356764681
Lapassionara
@Jay: not to mention retired people like me, who would have been there if I had been in the DC area. This sucks, this dismissing of a resistance against fascism.
different-church-lady
@Jay: Thank you. But I THREW THE NOTE AWAY FOR A REASON.
YetAnotherJay formerly (Jay S)
@Pogonip: yes, or what @raven: said, who got in before my snark.
Jay
@different-church-lady:
You can call them anything you want. I call them friends, family and neighbors.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
Gee, and I was thinking that 14 was the collective mental age of these neo-Nazis.
Anne Laurie
@different-church-lady:
As I understand it, the “black bloc” is a subset of the antifa, the ones who believe that state violence can only be exposed by anti-fascist ‘retaliatory in advance’ violence.
Whether the Black Bloc should be classified as our revolutionary vanguard or a few bad apples seems to depend on the speaker and/or the latest media-boosted incident…
different-church-lady
@Anne Laurie: I thought the revolutionary vanguard was the Bernie Bloc.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: From your mouth to ceiling cat’s ears. तुम्हारे मुँहमे घी शक्कर.
Lapassionara
@raven: “they” are the alt right or antifa?
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Which is the only thing that matters right now.
YetAnotherJay formerly (Jay S)
@different-church-lady: But you failed to eat it.
lamh36
Dude…so you needed someone else to confirm you never used the word…ugh
Omarosa def has gotten under his skin.
Adam L Silverman
Apparently Jews will replace them…
Dan B
@different-church-lady: Wins interwebs!
Here’s your trophy. Sorry I snorted on it.. wipes mouth, cat peeks out from behind door.
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie: out in the Bay Area “Black bloc” has long been the ‘anarchists’ who show up to everything wearing all black and covering their faces and smashing windows.
Adam L Silverman
Apparently the Twink for Trump has some deep seated, unresolved issues. Also, like Stephen Miller, someone else who doesn’t quite realize that the people he’s playing footsie with only see gay when they look at him, not white.
Jay
@raven:
YMMV.
There are groups of anarchists ( the Black Block) who show up uninvited, to pretty much every protest, to stir shit up. They are a minority.
Still, to bothsides the shit out of it, Everybody who shows up to protest the Nazi’s and alt-Reich is being labeled by the press as scary Antifia.
Antifia simply means antifacist.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: Mostly because they enjoy those activities.
Corner Stone
@lamh36: Burnett needs a really low tumbrel number when it all goes down.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major:
You neo-liberal sell out!//
Adam L Silverman
@Pogonip:
Stands for Adolf Hitler. A is the first letter of the alphabet. H is the eighth.Never mind, disregard. My Fingers got ahead of my reading comprehension. Some of these knuckleheads do have 18 tattoos where the 1 stands for the A in Adolf and the 8 stands for the H in Hitler. That is obviously not the case here as the tattoo was of a 14, which stands for the 14 words previously referenced.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: “I believe he covets his own daughter.”
I believe that, also. I clicked the link – I had never seen the expression “spilling the tea” before. Something like spilling the beans, but more than that because it’s something juicy?
P.S. I hope Omarosa spills all the tea.
different-church-lady
@lamh36: Because Burnett sat down and watched all the tapes in the last 24 hours?
A Ghost To Most
@Lapassionara:
Agreed. There is more than one way to resist. I’m thinking part of the poor showing by the nazis is because they were pissing their pants about antifa. Good. At least some folks on our side have some huevos.
lamh36
@Corner Stone:
lamh36
@lamh36:
zhena gogolia
I love Aretha Franklin so much.
Bobby Thomson
Oh cry me a fucking river. He gets a whites fucking only train and he has the gall to complain about timing? The ACLU probably would have gotten a TRO if they had left when they were supposed to.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: I thought we’d decided Jack Dorsey was the neoliberal sellout. It’s so hard to keep these things straight.
different-church-lady
@lamh36: Burnett called him to say that there were no tapes of him not saying the word. Suck it, libtard.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: These guys never learn. When they say I NEVER said that or did that, that’s how they really piss people off and they come out of the woodwork to say “oh yes you did, and here’s when” And where. And oh yeah, I have you on tape.
Am I the only one who is wondering if Robert Mueller might be interested in Omarosa’s tapes?
Also, I tried to type Mueller and it kept changing to Bueller. I never connected those names before…
Elizabelle
@lamh36: I wish Aretha all the best. She is a force of nature. Enjoyed the youtube you posted this morning.
Hospice is good. Rest be to a phenomenal voice and spirit.
Dan B
@Amir Khalid: That is an insult to 14 year olds!
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Has anyone ever seen you and Jack Dorsey together in the same place?
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: I mean it seems statistically likely.
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: I iz innumerate. How does that follow?
japa21
We were driving the last leg of our 18 day, 5200 mile round trip to the left coast and back yesterday. We kept listening to MSNBC and they were sounding almost disappointed at how there wasn’t anything really happening. It was so boring we turned on 50’s music, then 60’s music and then 40’s.
Jay
@A Ghost To Most:
That’s the excuse they are using to blame the poor showing and the media is deliberately echoing it to promote the idea that “both sides” and only violent people are against Nazi’s.
The matching White Pride Demo in Toronto had 3 people show up and 500 counter protestors.
It was heartwarming to watch Toronto Cops attacking nonviolent protestors to defend Facists.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: See raven at #12. Oh hell, here’s the copy & paste.
:: waves hello ::
NotMax
Been off attending to stuff which could be put of no longer, so no idea if any or all of this has already been mentioned. Things which caught the eye during the daily whiparound of some frequently visited sites:
IOKIYAR, indeed.
Sooprize, sooprize.
How do you say “maybe mañana” in Paleoltilhic patois?
WaterGirl
@japa21: Holy shit that’s a lot of driving. Welcome home.
lamh36
Soledad O’Brien bringing the heat to her former employer…CNN in response to their Chump admin headline…
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: Never mind, I got ahead of my reading comprehension. I screwed that up. Some of these folks have 18 tattoos where the 1 stands for the A in Adolf and the 8 stands for the H as in Hitler. I I’ll go back and remove that one. My bad.
Anne Laurie
@different-church-lady: That’s the revanchist vanguard. There is nothing revolutionary about That Guy, or any of his followers.
Amir Khalid
@Dan B:
I know. (Hangs head in shame.) I’m sorry.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Yippee! Gogol’s wife (dating myself with that) is back!
Gin & Tonic
@lamh36: Let’s say there’s tape, Trump saying it 100 times, and it comes out tomorrow. Nothing will change. There isn’t a person in America who will actually be surprised, and everyone who hates him today will continue to hate him tomorrow, while everyone who loves him today will hear their own selves in the tape and will love him all the more for saying the “politically incorrect” thing. This speculation is a total waste of time and effort.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I never made the connection, so thanks for that. That’s why I hate when people change their nyms.
edit: speaking of which, does anyone know who SIA became?
Anne Laurie
@lamh36:
As Ms. Manigault-Newman has been saying: The man is so far in mental decompensation, he can’t remember what slurs he might’ve thrown around this weekend, much less during “reality show” filming a decade ago!
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: Waving back. Hello you.
Belafon
I disagree with John Bakers assessment. These Nazis were hoping for Antifa to fight them. It’s the language they understand. What scares all of these people were the larger counterprotest crowds that show up. I guarantee you that all those white supremacists in Boston last year, sitting in the gazebo being surrounded by thousands of good people were scared shitless.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Per Omarosa’s interview with Tweety
Notice she said…
AGAIN…
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: What speculation? I am 100% sure that Trump said it and that it’s on tape.
I am, however, very glad that Omarosa said what she said about Trump and his daughter.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
That’s sick.
Platonailedit
@Amir Khalid: More like their collective IQ.
japa21
@WaterGirl: Thank you. Longest single day was 616 miles. Most of which was across Kansas. Mrs Japa and I decided to drive out to my siblings reunion south of San Francisco this year instead of flying like we usually do. Decided we are getting up there age wise and there is a lot of this country we haven’t seen. The beauty that is available to witness in this country is amazing. Of course, much of the driving was in red states so we keep pretty quiet when we were in restaurants and such.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36:
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I wonder if she blew them off the last time?
Love your popcorn guy. Not quite as much as your lawn chair guy. Of course, my real love is saved for Idris Elba. You weren’t here the night we were talking about Idris being on the super-short-list for Bond. Unless you came after I closed up for the night.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
What did you expect Neo-Sultan Erdogan? It’s Trump. Being an untrustworthy, unstable asshole that stabs people in the back when convenient is kind of his thing.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I love that!
JoeyJoeJoe
@jl:
I was right behind some of them at about 4:45. I overheard them talking about how to move around and get up right next to the nazis
Platonailedit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Exactly. The proof is in the
puddingtapes.NotMax
@WaterGirl
IIRC, it was a change forced by FYWP’s sudden decision that nyms containing an apostrophe were cyberpersonae non grata.
WaterGirl
@japa21:
And here I always thought it just SEEMED like driving through Kansas took forever.
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Why is it sick? That’s the normal way to boil a lobster.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: SIA?
lamh36
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
in other news, the rolling grift rolls on
remember pay-to-play? and that probably doesn’t count stuff like the Saudi prince who pushed the hotel in NYC into the black, or the doubled membership fees at Mar-A-Lago, or….
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: And not kosher. But also delicious if served with melted butter!
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Shouldn’t that be personae non gratae?
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: SIA was a former commenter (or possibly a current one and I just don’t know the connection). SIA stood for Screaming in Atlanta. I always liked SIA.
I also wonder about AWS sometimes. That stood for Arguing With Signposts. Good guy, very interesting. Awesome cat photos, you would have liked him.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Please please please someone release tapes of Jared and Ivanka saying bad things about daddy.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: All I can think of is “stuck in active”, which is not a good thing if you’re a BGP admin.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: I missed that thread, but ya already know, I heard about that news. Remains to be seen if it comes to pass, but I’m on record saying I love Idris no matter what, but Bond needs Idris more than Idris needs Bond.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: hmm, now that second one seems familiar. But ??♂️
lamh36
She says she’ll be updating with more excerpts about Reince, Spicer, the family and Melania!
She’ll read it, so we don’t have to
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Au gratin.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Where we find out that Ivanka’s porn star voice is fake and Jared’s “I haven’t gone through puberty yet” voice is real.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
???
Kay
I love the leader in the suit, striding purposefully with the rest of the losers fanning out alongside.
I think the same thing of these people I used to think about birthers- their grandchildren will see these photos. God, I’d die of shame. “What were you DOING grandma?”
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
You speaking from experience? : p
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Me, too. I love Idris, though I have to say there’s some lust in there, too. You’re right about Bond and Idris. They would be nuts not to do it. And money-wise, I’m sure box office would be over the moon.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Also too PurpleGirl, who vanished without a cybertrace a couple of years ago.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Sort of. I can’t get through losing A. Franklin without some company.
Procopius
@raven: Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter complaining about “totally unacceptable” behavior by a protester. Reading between the lines, I guess they shoved a camera in her face and she pushed it away. Just shows how deeply they are in denial about how many people hate them, not just Trumpists.
Major Major Major Major
Oof there is always a tweet
danielx
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Actually it sounds pretty normal by the standards of the Gateway Pundit. But yes, Lucian Baxter Wintrich IV is a sick little fuck.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: Yep… I saw that too. Like who DIDN’T she record…seems to me she was very strategic with who she recorded…hmm
A Ghost To Most
@Gin & Tonic:
Thanks for the tip about clcboats. That could be just the ticket, although I would use a much beefier trailer frame. Did you say you built your boat?
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
I disagree. I think actually hearing him say it would have an effect on people who’ve been whistling past the graveyard.
Ken
@WaterGirl: I remember driving across Kansas and seeing signs for some roadside attraction – “500 miles to the World’s Largest Fiberglass Gopher” or some such nonsense. I decided to stop and see the thing, because what else are you going to do crossing Kansas? 400 miles, 200 miles, 100 miles, 50 miles, finally “Gopher next exit!” Joy!
Then at the exit, the sign said “Gopher 20 miles >>> Take County Road CC north”.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Love that emoji. Might be my favorite.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kay:
“I was fighting to secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children you ungrateful race traitor!”
Kay
@Adam L Silverman:
How stupid are these people? It didn’t occur to any of them that one of the grifters they surround themselves with would record their gross conversations? Of course she did. She’s not the only one, I’d bet.
Cohen recorded too. They all probably do it. They don’t even stay bought, these people. They got paid AND they’re selling the Trumps out.
chopper
@different-church-lady:
that’s just rich, buttery win right there.
Chetan Murthy
@lamh36: Between John Luther and Stringer Bell, he could play *both* the supervillain *and* the secret agent, ha!
zhena gogolia
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
It is, but although I don’t eat lobster I’m considering naming one DJT . . . .
Gin & Tonic
@A Ghost To Most: Yes, I did (both say that and actually do it.)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gin & Tonic:
The lobsters named after his enemies part is what disturbed me.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: I’ll settle for a recording of Ivanka saying how she cringes when her dad touches her or looks at her. Or maybe she does flirt with him. Eeww.
lamh36
Hm…this explains why there hasn’t been any Burnett interviews…
chopper
@lamh36:
translation: “tapes will be coming out soon”
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: Like who DIDN’T she record…seems to me she was very strategic with who she recorded…hmm for maximum effect at disclosure maybe?
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Oh, God, you’re right. I wonder what happened.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
“Show me on the doll where the president touched you.”
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: There is always a tweet:
chopper
@Major Major Major Major:
same on the east coast. i ran with those guys back in the day in DC.
WaterGirl
@Ken: Is that when you started banging your head against the windshield?
I’ve never stopped at any of those tourist places – hard to believe I was able to pass up the world’s biggest ball of twine!
BruceFromOhio
@Ken: way to spot the con, there, Ken.
Adam L Silverman
Platonailedit
@Kay:
Apparently the racist ratfucks hired a professional black MC (you can see him at the end of the clip) for the event and that pissed off the other racist ratfucks.
WaterGirl
@Chetan Murthy: I never knew until the discussion the other night that Idris was in The Wire. Reason 101 for me to finally watch The Wire. I can only imagine what he looked like when he was a young pup.
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Yep.
lamh36
Sad news about Aretha Franklin…
If you are so inclined…check out this twitter thread from this music journo I follow. She creates twitter thread where she weaves in facts and performance clips from well known legendary artist.
Even before the sad news, she did a thread on the Queen of Soul. It’s pretty great…so check it out…you won’t regret it.
ETA: Really, check out her thread..the clips she finds are GOLDEN!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
Check out Inspector Lynley, Written in Blood.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@NotMax:
We’re all doomed to vanish into the either some day. The scary thing about eternity is that eventually even historical figures like Gaius Julius Caesar, George Washington, Adolf Hitler, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, and MLK will be forgotten.
/existentialist dread. Also too, fuck all the Chris McCandless hagiography.
Kay
Glenn Thrush
Verified account
Just a reminder that while Omarosa is fun to sneer at, the respectable Trump hires are much bigger scumbags.
People will get brutally ripped off and be poor in their old age because of the respectable Trump hires. Omarosa harms only the rich and powerful Trumpsters, they all richly deserve it. She’s fucking Robin Hood compared to the rest of these people.
Matt
Here in Canada I’m hearing some of the stories of Saudi graduate students being forced by their government to leave.
Some are told the day before that a bus will show up and take them to the US, where a university there has agreed to take them.
Even those who are paying their own way are leaving, the leverage presumably being the threat to their family back home.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: @Kay: Apparently White House staff are very worried she used one of those digital audio recording pens as that wouldn’t set of the sensor system throughout the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building the way a cellphone would. And no one would think twice about someone having a pen with them at all times.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Still, 4 out of 10 people approve of him. That’s fucked up.
Also, 5% have no opinion. I guess they live in a cave.
BruceFromOhio
@WaterGirl: Want forever from an interstate perspective? I-10, Texas. It’s the Sahara with gas stations.
debbie
@Kay:
It’s his own damn fault. He refused to leave his phone at home and he refused to stop using it in the Oval Office. If not for that, security would have prevented something like this from happening.
A Ghost To Most
@Gin & Tonic:
It looks like a good way to get a light yet strong shell. I watched the videos the Waterlust guy made. They were very good. His only complaint was it needs insulation for cold weather use.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kay:
Is Discover Student Loans a predatory lender? Because I got a loan with them recently. Fixed rate and I’m paying off the interest. It’s only for two years and only borrowing for tuition.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Geh. Blech. I was about to say something important until you made me throw up in my mouth a bit.
rikyrah
I really didn’t understand why Aretha Franklin was ARETHA until this song. In the middle of the song, I felt like the Spirit moved me
https://youtu.be/WzRA9UzuU8c
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Thanks! I went to Netflix to search for it, no go. Looks like it’s on Amazon, which I hate. But for Idris Elba, I might have to get over that.
I HATE the Netflix starts autoplaying videos now, the second I load their page. Ugh.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman:
smh..there always is isn’t there
Kay
@Platonailedit:
We could have a photo montage of racist gatherings collected over the last ten years. All these individuals, captured forever for posterity. Remember the lady screaming that Obama had a fake birth certificate at one of those town halls? She had her own in a baggy like it was some kind of magic scroll? Her face all contorted with rage? This has been going on for years. There are hundreds of photographs. These people work and have families- they’re behind you at the check out counter. Just fucking seething – for years.
A Ghost To Most
@BruceFromOhio: Kanz-ass is little better, nor is Nebraska. Drive-over country.
Platonailedit
@Kay: Wingnut froth brewed by pox news.
A Ghost To Most
@Kay:
Decades.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m sorry about that.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kay:
I wish I could have been there to grab her birth certificate and light it on fire
Dan B
@Amir Khalid: You are forgiven…….NOT! Said in snarky 14 yo voice..
Kay
@Adam L Silverman:
Why are they so worried Adam? Why don’t the Trump hires want anyone to hear what they say in the White House?
It’s not their personal lives. They’re supposed to be working. WTF are they saying in there on a daily basis that they all freak out when they find out they’re being recorded? You can record most people at work. It won’t end their careers, because they’re working at work, not reciting racist rants or planning criminal activity.
She wasn’t bugging their bedrooms. How exactly do they behave at work, anyway? I guess we’re going to find out!
Gin & Tonic
@A Ghost To Most: I don’t know about the trailer shell, but the kayaks typically use 3mm and 4mm plywood, so yeah, you definitely don’t have any natural insulation there.
NotMax
@BrucefromOhio
I-90 across Montana, a state which still has entire counties with a population under 1000.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: I do not want to actually imagine it given what we know about this crowd.
WaterGirl
@Kay: If Omarosa brings Trump down, it will be reminiscent of the National Enquirer breaking the story that brought down John Edwards. x1000
These are vile people, can’t wait for them all to be shown to be what they are – in some undeniable way.
Steve in the ATL
Idris Elba as James Bond in a remake of “Live and Let Die”?
danielx
Why do I get all these notifications (continuously) about googleapis.com and such down in the lower left corner of the browser screen? No wonder the server has a hard time…..
Shell
Watched the first season of The Good Place on Netflix and enjoyed it very much, thank you. Then was bummed to find the second season wasn’t available yet. Aaaargh!
Dan B
@JoeyJoeJoe: This belief that you must fight proves a lack of awareness of the way the world works. It goes against the principles of organizing and misses the techniques that minorities need to influence society at large. They nearly derailed the WTO demonstrations in Seattle.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Shell: I liked it too, and season 2 is one of the reasons I’m thinking of signing up for Hulu.
And if you liked The Good Place, you should check out Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life, I think it was big inspiration to TGP’s creators
Martin
@raven:
Well, my son considered joining an antifa group. He is fully in support of turning to the police or state, but when the state is a bunch of overt white supremacists and the police all too often shoots black people for the sin of existing, it’s hard to argue that conventional approaches are working.
Mnemosyne
@Shell:
I think the 2nd season is still on Hulu. That may change once season 3 starts in a few weeks.
Platonailedit
@Martin:
A traitorous thug is at the helm with help of foreign powers and complicit racist party is proof enough that the conventional approaches are not working.
NotMax
@Shell
2nd season arrives on Netflix August 28.
List of August arrrivals.
The Midnight Lurker
We are eat up with these assholes down here. The problem is, they’re not as easy to spot as these costumed jackasses. Some of them are professional people and business leaders who wouldn’t be caught dead at a Alt-right or KKK rally. But they share the same views and ideals as Kessler, Miller, and Trump. And there’s a shitload of them.
It keeps me up at night.
Mnemosyne
@Shell:
Also, too, if you were not aware, there is now an official “Good Place” podcast, hosted by Mark Evan Jackson (he plays Shawn ?). His guests are a really good mix of the actors, writers, and technicians, so you get to hear about costume design and how to do a location shoot in addition to the usual stuff. It’s really good and should be available for free on any podcasting platform. Each episode is 40-60 minutes, so it’s not a huge time commitment.
Mathguy
@Pogonip: Zebra finches are great for a beginner. They are fairly easy to keep. I’ve had fire finches, which are beautiful, but a bit trickier. A of zebra finches will be entertaining, given the proper cage and environment.
The Midnight Lurker
@Kay: I often canvass rich, white neighborhoods. When we were working on the Obama’s second mid-term (God, that seems like a million years ago), I can remember talking to republicans back then. Sure, some of them would yell at you, slam a door in your face, etc. But a lot of them were nice.
One lady reminded me of Zaza Gabor when she came to the door. She was all decked out, wearing her jewelry at 11:00 in the morning. She listened politely before saying, “Oh, darling! I’m a republican! I would never vote for a democrat. But would you like a lemonade before you go?” I liked her immediately.
Another elderly republican couple invited me into their home. We had coffee and talked for a hour and a half about the strengths and weaknesses of both the Bush and Obama administrations. They were very intelligent and made some salient points. To my mind, that was the last intelligent conversation I had with republicans.
That’s all changed. Now, if they come to the door at all, the best you can hope for is clenched teeth and bulging veins before they slam the door. A lot of them start screaming, enraged.
I’ve been called a pediphile more times than I can count. One lady chased me down the street, yelling, “I bet you eat at Ping Pong Pizza everyday!” I wanted to yell back, “Sure do! I take the bullet train to Maryland through the secret tunnel under the abandoned Wal-mart. One more punch on my card and the next infant is half-off!” But I just ran away instead. What a hero.
This summer, I’ve had the cops called on me more times than a black man at Starbucks. Usually, the cops are very polite and understand what’s going on, although they often suggest I canvass in another area. One time, a couple of hammerheads jacked me up for almost an hour. They had me put my hands on the black hood of their car in 100 degree heat while they went through every piece of ID I had in my wallet. I’m sure it was a big show for the neighborhood. Good thing they didn’t look in the trunk. That’s where I stash the bones of the infants I feast on when my wife is too lazy to pack me a lunch.
They’re so enraged. I often feel like I’m somewhere between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 28 Days Later.
All this rage… it has to go somewhere.
NotMax
@The Midnight Lurker
Maybe leave the NAMBLA T-shirt at home?
Although technically, I guess, a pediphile is someone with an especially robust foot fetish.
:)²
The Midnight Lurker
I always try to wear a suit and tie, you know, dress like a republican. But I’m an ape of a man with a ponytail, so they probably think I’m there to repossess the Mercedes. And yes, mis-spel-chek will be the death of me.
Mnemosyne
@The Midnight Lurker:
IMO, they’re enraged for the same reason certain family members get enraged when you talk back to Drunk Abusive Daddy at Thanksgiving — your refusal to knuckle under to preserve the peace makes them uncomfortably aware that they’re complicit in letting Drunk Abusive Daddy continue abusing everyone, and they would rather let him continue screaming and hitting than have to admit that there’s something terribly wrong with the family.
If you’ve ever watched an alcoholic or mentally ill family member’s family continually cover up and make excuses for that person, that’s the mentality here. Admitting that something is wrong means that they’re part of the problem, and they will go to almost any length to avoid having to admit that.
So that’s where we are: Drunk Daddy Trump is passed out facedown on the turkey platter, and the rest of the family is trying to pass the plates around and pretend that everything’s fine. You are the person at the table who points put that they’re passing around plates full of Drunk Daddy’s vomit, and they don’t want to hear it. Eat your Thanksgiving dinner, or you’re gonna get a whupping, mister!
The Midnight Lurker
@Mnemosyne: I get what you’re saying. But I think this is bigger than Trump. Deeper, darker. Their heads explode. I never mention Trump. I talk about health care, international relations, etc. I try to stay positive and on message. I keep smiling and always thank them for their time. Unless I’m being detained by the police or running down the street for my life.
It really is like 28 Days Later. It’s like a sickness. A disease.
Jay
@Martin:
The Anarchist’s ( Black Bloc) are pro violence, all violence,…..
The Spartacists, Socialists and Communists use violence defensively,….
SOAR, (Skins) have come a long way. Now they use violence defensively, but back in the day, when the Nazi’s could only organize in Clubs, they used to hunt Nazi’s down in their holes.
The rest of the Antifia use words, presence, shaming and mocking.
Mnemosyne
@The Midnight Lurker:
You are threat to white supremacy, and they know it. That’s why they hate you. Stay safe — white civil rights workers in the 1960s got murdered, too.
The Midnight Lurker
@Mnemosyne: Ugh! Thanks for the comparison but A.) I’m not worthy of that kind of praise. I’m just trying to get Beto! and a shitload of others elected. And B.) Getting shot is a hot topic down at HQ, but one I dare not breathe a word of at home. My wife and kids want me to quit. I would be lying if I said it hadn’t crossed my mind… every ten minutes.
But thank you for your concern. It helps.
Chetan Murthy
@The Midnight Lurker: Damn! You’re doing that in Texas Goddamn! Respect, man. Respect. I grew up there, and I couldn’t do that, nosirree. Don’t they send you out in pairs at least? I have a relative who’s canvassing, and she -assured- me they sent ’em out in pairs. Which didn’t reassure me enough, but then, she’s an adult, whatamigonnado?
jl
@The Midnight Lurker: Thanks for telling your story. I phoned for the 2016 election and got the same rage from a lot of older people, and some younger ones. Completely unhinged mindless rage. I am sure my experience over the phone was safer and easier to deal with.
I haven’t done any work since. I have to travel over 100 miles to get out of deep blue. I can easily imagine it is worse now. Especially bigots who, whether they are willing to admit to themselves or not, have been forced to witness that Obama was a top ten or fifteen president, and their great white hope Trump is a miserable failure.
I think best thing to do for your peace of mind and safety is to waste as little time on them as possible. ” And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. ” as the Good Book says. Spend time with those who can be saved from mindless hatred, rage and despair.
joel hanes
@The Midnight Lurker:
They’re so enraged
Sorest winners ever seen.
They have all three branches of the US government and still they feeling oppressed and discriminated-against.
Jay
@The Midnight Lurker:
Rage and resentment is all they’ve got left.
ReThug’s havn’t built anything for Americans since Nixon. All the ReThugs do is tear another piece of America down. Everything nice they have, came from a Democrat, worse yet, an N word President. The Wars can’t be won, life is getting short, nasty and opoided,
And they swim for hours in a stew of Wingnut hate, racism, desentment, lies and hate for hours and hours everyday.
It’s all that remains of American Conservatism.
Adam L Silverman
@The Midnight Lurker:
How do these people know you’ve got a thing for feet?
Viva BrisVegas
@NotMax:
I’ve driven the I-90 across Montana. I thought it was a bit crowded, towns everywhere.
If you want lonely, try the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor or the Stuart Highway across the Centre.
sukabi
@different-church-lady: or Donald called him to ask him to burn all the tapes…or more likely trump is lying like he always does…
otmar
@Gin & Tonic: sheesh. I used to run my employer’s network including our presence at an IXP. I know what you mean.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: I call Bullshit. Trump and or Kelley had the sensors turned off so The Mad Twatter could bring his unsecured phones with him without setting them off all the fucking time.
A Ghost To Most
@Mnemosyne:
So you’ve met my family? That is spot on.