Very suspicious how the Swedish girl looks Nordic. https://t.co/akzvxQYn53
— Je Suis Corn Pop (@agraybee) September 23, 2019
Someone on twitter – Kevin Kruse? — suggested that D’Sousa might not be as stupid as he comes off, but he assumes that his marks are every bit stupid enough to pay him for acting as though he is.
My personal feeling is that D’Sousa remains the emotionally stunted middle-school kid who once ate a bug on a dare in the playground. The attention he garnered, however negative, convinced him he had One Amazing Trick that he could always fall back on. So, whenever he needs a quick attention-fix (otherwise known as ‘earned media’ or ‘free publicity’), he sidles over to Political Twitter and asks ‘Wanna see me eat a bug?… ‘
Worst of it is… he’s not wrong that Thunberg gets more media attention than an equivalent activist who looked like, for instance, Andrea Dworkin. Not because climate crusaders are quasi-Nazis, but because mainstream media would rather look at “pretty” people than those who are merely educated. For instance:
— Occam's Rancor (@occamsrancor) September 23, 2019
cain
Sigh. Never mind the whole “Come and take it” on her t-shirt is just suggestive to the testosterone driven right wingers.
chopper
given how lousy FOX is with blonde white ladies, this whole ‘white blonde chicks are a symbol of naziism’ seems like an odd argument for him to make.
then again, he is an idiot.
cain
Also I would like to take away D’Souza’s Indian card. He makes all of us look bad.
chopper
@cain:
i love the bumper stickers with “come and take it”, or, as it goes in greek, “moron label”
jl
Hitler liked dogs. Obama and Biden own dogs. What more do you need?
Pathetic and vile.
Roger Moore
@chopper:
But everyone* knows Nazis were leftists, so we can safely assume there are none at Fox.
*Everyone dumb enough to believe Jonah Goldberg, at least.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: And Trump doesn’t have a dog, so not Hitler. QED!
Adam L Silverman
@cain: Also, she appears to have gotten bolt ons.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I’m curious as to your take on this. My impression of him is that he’s trying terribly hard, to the point of it is painful to watch, to pass and to be included by people that largely see him as just another brown person/person of color. His only path to acceptance with these folks is to outdo them in terms of their preferred ideological and theological and dogmatic preferences. And so the rest of us see him as pathetic because we recognize this performative attempt to be accepted by people that largely don’t have any use for people like him. Most likely the people he’s ingratiating himself with feel the same way, but for them it tickles the same neuroreceptors that are miswired so that cruelty is felt as pleasure.
joel hanes
@cain:
He makes all of us look bad.
Not supposed to be how it works.
But if we are judging groups by some members, I’ll use Ramanujan and Chandrasekhar and Bose and Gandhi.
And the literally hundreds of excellent computer engineers I worked with over the years.
Adam L Silverman
@chopper: Molson Labatts!
Someone should really explain to these folks that the Spartiates had socially and legally mandated and enforced bisexuality and cuckoldry as the basis of their society rooted in the Lycurgan Codes.
germy
Ben Cisco
In other news:
And what manner of jihadist was this, you ask?
Iwwonder if this story got any play on the teevee machine…
satby
And in answer to DiShithead’s tweet, that odious Republican Joey Saluda (or whatever his name is) made numerous comments about Greta’s autism. So I reported them, and I invite all my fellow jackal tweeters to do the same.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
She’s gonna get back pain later!
SiubhanDuinne
Curious. The image on the Dinesh D’Stupid tweet, an earnest young schoolgirl, is hidden from view (“We can’t show you everything! We automatically hide photos that might contain sensitive content.”) whereas the Occam’s Rancor image is shown in full bosomy, come-hither glory.
Twitter has an odd notion of what is, and isn’t, “sensitive content.”
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
Moron Label.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
I see him as a man who has gotten into a grift and enjoys making money from it. His white peers see him as a way to say “hey we accept everyone, it’s all about our ideology not racism!” He’s a repellent man, who manages to grift by saying outrageous things.
I’m sure you can apply this to other PoCs who in on the platform. But you know there is probably some trauma involved that lead to the whole thing.
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: They’re not hiding Greta. It’s the young Hitler youth girl with the swastikas which you can see by clicking on DD’s tweet.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
Twitter depends on user complaints to decide what to tag as sensitive content. It seems very likely that a bunch of people who don’t like Dinesh decided to report him to Twitter, while Occam’s Rancor didn’t attract enough of the right kind of attention to get the same treatment.
Keithly
@Adam L Silverman: Well, Dinette D’Setta (h/t James Wolcott at Vanity Fair) /is/ a Dartmouth grad. Jus’ sayin’.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: people are also reporting DiShithead for that tweet. “Offensive, Targeted harrasment” in case anyone wants to join me. We usually just mock and move on, but it’s time to work the refs like the reichtwing does.
Adam L Silverman
@Ben Cisco: I made sure it got play at the top of Army Training and Doctrine Command. If that helps.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: Lat pull downs, high and mid back rows, straight leg dead lifts and lower back extensions.
She’s also going to have trouble shouldering her AR pattern rifle now too.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I’m sure there is trauma involved somewhere. Most likely from dating both Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter.
mad citizen
@Ben Cisco: On the CBS evening news it was somewhere around the 4th story. They did not mention the “Beto” part, though.
The misinformation and obfuscation of trumpov is fairly unbelievable with this Ukraine/Biden thing. Again on the CBS story tonight, just before they played trumpov’s soundbite of “Biden/corruption”, the reporter voiceover was “there is no evidence for this”. It seems Corruption, Facts and Truth will be the central issues of the campaign, Dems need to hammer these things RELENTLESSLY.
Gin & Tonic
@satby: Done.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: @Roger Moore: For about two month’s after TaMara’s post with the Medusa sculpture in it, because Medusa was topless, if you went to Cole’s Twitter feed, which autopopulates and tweets out our posts, you got a mature content warning.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Man, that’s.. I don’t even know how to respond to that. It’s like three forms of pestilence meeting interacting with each other.
SiubhanDuinne
@chris:
Oh, I saw DD’s tweet yesterday, and know perfectly well what it looks like. But Nazi Girl — the identical image — is also in the Occam’s Rancor tweet, and shows up just fine, with no warning about “sensitive content.” So I think perhaps they are trying to hide Greta.
Ben Cisco
@Adam L Silverman: Many thanks.
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
chris
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
Ah, now THAT makes more sense. Thanks. Although I still don’t know what’s supposed to be so “sensitive” about the (hidden) image(s) as opposed to DD’s tweet text — which is not hidden.
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
There’s definitely a lot of reporting political tweets by people who want to silence them. It obviously works best if there’s some genuine reason the tweet might be objectionable, but there’s definitely a lot of pretextual reporting.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I think it’s a safe bet that Laura and Ann have different safe words they wanted him to use…
Adam L Silverman
@Ben Cisco: You’re welcome.
Jeffro
OT but wow: “national security Dems” (ie, those in tough swing districts) just came out with an op-ed in the Post calling for trumpov’s impeachment.
All systems go, Nancy Smash. Let’s GO.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
I mentioned that yesterday in whatever thread the DD tweet showed up in. I thought, and still think, it’s horribly offensive and that it should be taken down and DD banned from Twitter. I’m don’t have a Twitter account, or I would have joined you in reporting him.
Mary G
Seven of the holdout Reps just came off the fence in a WaPo editorial:
The dam is cracking! ETA: Jeffro beat me.
Ben Cisco
@mad citizen:
Indeed.
Patricia Kayden
Thankfully between D’Souza and Thunberg, only one will leave a positive, lasting legacy. And it won’t be the convicted felon.
scav
I’m really going to need a cheat-sheet.
Liberals, demoncrats and progressives are the real nazìs (it’s right in the very name boo-hiss-boo-hiss!) but Neo-Nazìs –even when running people down in cars — are just a few good men with a few good points.
And, is this blond little Nordic girl one of the mmigrants we’re supposed to be cheering and saying Hello to on school buses?
Jeffro
@Mary G: But only by 2 minutes! ;)
The dam is indeed cracking. With apologies to Dr. Strange, “we are in the endgame now”. Ok not really. But CLOSE to the endgame!
Better sack up, GOP – last one on the trumptanic gets a nice cool ride to the bottom, where there is no light, ever.
Mary G
If looks could kill: Greta Thunberg sees Trump walk by at UN
Her speech was en fuego.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: @Roger Moore: the rightwing choir is claiming that because she has autism Greta is mentally ill and being manipulated by the left wing, who are the REAL Nazis.
Uncle Cosmo
I particularly enjoyed Bill McKibben’s comeback:
D’Sleaza better hope there ain’t no reincarnation – he’d come back as the species of bug he ate.
Jeffro
Don’t go being all shrill, House Dems.
Ok, I take it back: SHRILL AWAY
Mary G
@Jeffro: I think that what got the Dem holdouts out was Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, even if it was just brow furrowing, dipping their toes in the water.
SiubhanDuinne
@chris:
How appalling and sickening. Good for the guy who called him out.
Apparently Greta is on the autism spectrum, very high-functioning to be sure. But how dare this horrible person conflate autism with “mental illness”? And even if she were mentally ill (a term which does a lot of heavy lifting), so the fuck what? Where does he come off attacking anybody with any kind of disability or disorder or difference — least of all a 16-year-old girl, a foreigner and guest in our country.
I’m practically spitting fire, I’m so angry about this.
Jeffro
@mad citizen: @Ben Cisco: it seems to me like there’s this one candidate whose campaign is centered on ‘fighting corruption’ and how most every issue/problem we’re dealing with these days ties back to corruption – especially the corruption that comes from big money, dark money, unaccountable money and power.
I wonder how she’s doing? =)
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
We call those non OEM parts.
Bolt ons really isn’t appropriate unless they were done by Dr. Frankenstein.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: See also: Miller, Stephen.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
You must have posted that while I was still typing my @SiubhanDuinne comment about the same thing. So vile and disgusting.
Jeffro
@Mary G: That, and/or “if not now/not for this kind of conduct…when?”
The kind of line-drawing trumpublicans could never comprehend, unless it’s imaginary lines crossed by Democrats.
Our thanks also to REPUBLICAN Bill Weld for both running against trumpov and most especially for calling what he did here ‘treason’. I’m still waiting for the news headlines of “Bipartisan accusations of treason and betrayal surround president* trumpov” but I won’t hold my breath.
Ladyraxterinok
@Ben Cisco: Hadn’t the OKC bomber been stationed at Fort Riley? At the time there were many reports that that post was radicalizing soldiers to RW causes.
Shana
@Adam L Silverman: That was my first thought seeing that picture of her too.
Mary G
@Jeffro: They’re moving right along:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Bolt-ons is a commonly used term in the Valley.
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: @Shana: Me three.
Uncle Jeffy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: As long as Trump has Mitch the Bitch, he doesn’t NEED a dog.
Ben Cisco
@Jeffro: She’s in my top two and I hope she keeps pounding on that theme.
schrodingers_cat
@cain: In the truly terrible Indian people sweepstakes, D^2 has nothing over Howdy Modi.
Ladyraxterinok
@cain: Wasn’t he part of the RW student group at Dartmouth at the same time Laura Ingraham was?
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: Hannah Arendt’s quote about Leo Strauss applies here:
dmsilev
@Uncle Jeffy: Yes, but has Trump ever strapped Romney to the roof of a car?
Millard Filmore
@Jeffro:
The current national GOP leadership will not crack. They are ALL* participating in Trump’s international crime spree. The ones that would qualify for a few months stay at Club Fed have all gone home. The current crew are at risk of years of hard time. They cannot let polls or GOP reputation or constituent screams relax their grip on the levers of power.
[*] OK, maybe Ben “short bus” Carson has been left out of the loop.
Ben Cisco
@Ladyraxterinok: Yes, he was. I don’t remember the post being lousy with RW radicalization, that’s more an Adam query perhaps.
Shana
@Keithly: Given the “illustriousness” of several of its alumni, and the fact that Animal House was supposedly based on Dartmouth, how is it that it’s considered an Ivy? I’ve never understood that.
Raoul
On the theme of Repub stupidity, the WaPo had put up analysis piece mid-day about House retirements.
Shot: “Publicly, Republicans rarely challenge or criticize Trump, showering him with chants of ‘four more years’ as he spoke to the House GOP at a policy retreat in Baltimore last week.”
Chaser: “‘Down ballot, for the Republicans, you are basically judged by whatever the president does, and not by what you do,’ said former congressman Ryan Costello (Pa.), a moderate Republican who retired in 2018.”
They aren’t much for self-awareness, are they?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Uncle Jeffy: Moscow Mitch, Trump’s Bitch?
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: The self-aware version of that belongs to Groucho Marx:
mad citizen
@Jeffro: She’s doing well so far for sure. I’m astounded how far America has come on the Idiocracy scale since the movie was made. Warren or whoever is our nominee (it had better be a woman, so only 3 real possibilities really), will need to teach America what corruption is, why it is a drag on us all, on fair markets, etc., and THEN go through the endless list of how the Trumplican party has engaged in it.
JAFD
@chopper: Or, as our President would say – if he knew Latin and classical Greek – Molon Labia
(When Ms. Water Girl gets new site finished, will have to learn how to write comments in Greek letters ;-) )
Kay
@Mary G:
Oooh. Exciting. Can’t go back now!
Do they have extra money for emergencies? Can they staff up? They need to create the equivalent of an investigative unit.
Ladyraxterinok
@Mary G: IIRC Spanberger replaced Brat who primaried Cantor from the Right. I believe she worked for the CIA
Jeffro
@Ben Cisco:
that theme is, how do they say, a “target-rich environment”, with ‘rich’ potentially being the understatement of the year/century/history of the Republic
Thanksgiving is going to be a BLAST this year! Hey RWNJ relatives, remember when I told you 36, 30, 24, 18, 12, and 6 months ago you were going to regret sticking by Orangmandias? No? That’s ok – here’s an entire binder* full of commentary along the way.
*with apologies (not really) to Mitt
*also yes, at this point it really would be an entire 3-ring binder
Adam L Silverman
@Ladyraxterinok: McVeigh was radicalized because of three things, which built on an emotionally messed up familial situation and childhood. The three items were: 1) McVeigh had to be medically washed out of the initial qualifying (Q) course for the Green Berets due to an injury. He started the course with either a bad cold or the flu and decided he’s just push through it, but because he was ill he wasn’t up to the grueling nature of the Q course and injured himself. He was offered the opportunity to recycle to a subsequent initial Q course once he was well, but for some reason chose not to. 2) The Army had screwed up his tax withholding, including during his Desert Storm/Desert Shield deployment, which led to this huge bill from the IRS. He made a request for assistance in repayment as it wasn’t his fault and, a significant chunk of the problem was because of his deployment pay and as he was deployed, he couldn’t really stop the operation, come home, and fix things. The IRS refused. Between the two, close in succession events, he’d had enough. Rather than reupping and recycling to the next initial Q course, he simply let his contract with the Army expire and moved on. He then, at some point, decided during the stand off to go down to Waco, where he observed the botched raid, which then crystalized his already growing resentment. Those were the three key drivers of his turn to anti-government extremism.
Adam L Silverman
@Shana: @Mary G: Kind of hard to miss, which is, I’m sure, the point. But, as I said in a previous comment, it is going to make it hard for her to properly shoulder her beloved AR pattern or any other rifle.
Duane
@satby: Im old enough to remember when children were off-limits. Conservatives are a contemptible bunch, with D’Lousa a perfect example.
Brachiator
I think that D’Sousa is exactly as stupid as he comes off. But his fans are equally dumb, and will see this truly stupid and nonsensical comparison as really giving it to Democrats. These dopes really believe that they are masters of the universe.
HumboldtBlue
With Russia dominating headlines alongside Dipshit Dinesh, it appears Russia is facing a ban from all international sporting events because they are stone-cold fucking cheaters.
dmsilev
@JAFD:
Hmm. Testing:
αβγδε
(Looks ok when typing the comment…)
Edit: Seems to work. On an iPad, go to Settings-General-Keyboard, select add new keyboard and pick Greek from the list. Then, in the comment box, tap the globe icon on the keyboard to switch back and forth.
Raoul
@Keithly: “Dinette D’Setta”
Oh, perfect, James Wolcott. Spot on.
Jeffro
@Millard Filmore: I think ‘Short Bus’ (LOL) has been left out of the more nefarious stuff…it was probably like “Ok Ben, just go over there and tell them they’re wrong and try to find ways to stop spending my billionaire bucks on losers, ok?”
True story (not sure if I shared this on BJ before): I was seated next to the good Dr. Carson on a flight home from CO this past summer. We gabbed for about a half hour (mostly about his family, zero politics). I think the fact that I clearly knew who he was, but didn’t go all fanboy over his work as a doc OR as a cabinet secretary, probably registered on some level with him. Always glad to give cabinet-level RWNJs food for thought! ;)
Ladyraxterinok
@Ladyraxterinok: A bit after the OKC bombing a former student dropped by to visit a bit. I was surprised to see that he was in the army.
He said he was at Fort Riley and that every negative thing published about the culture of the fort was true
Adam L Silverman
@Ladyraxterinok: Yes. He dated Ingraham and Coulter.
Raoul
@Duane: Children are imperiling the stripmining of our atmosphere for short term profit. Ergo, ‘fair game.’
Mary G
@Kay: I know Nadler’s been staffing up for months with heavy hitters, and I can’t see Schiff not having all his ducks in a row either. They’ve been issuing subpoenas and asking for testimony since January. Just because the media doesn’t report it doesn’t mean stuff hasn’t been happening. The fact that the WH has told them to fuck off so many times will end up working against Twitler, I hope.
cain
@schrodingers_cat:
My family was definitely not impressed by Modi. Called him a Trump ass kisser.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: well, my response on Twitter to Knowles was
Ladyraxterinok
@Adam L Silverman: Is Strauss the one all the people in the PNAC studied under/were mentored by?
Adam L Silverman
@Ladyraxterinok: She did.
Ben Cisco
@Jeffro: Man I am so glad to not have to deal with that – worst I had to deal with were a couple of Wilmer-curious cousins that were disillusioned enough to dump him before the election.
Adam L Silverman
@Ladyraxterinok: Yes. Or under his students.
Keithly
@Shana: Tis a puzzlement. Surely.
Ladyraxterinok
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks. Don’t remember that. I think OK media focussed on his stay at Fort Riley because it was close to OK
Uncle Jeffy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yowza!!!
Ruckus
Just saw on twitter a post that shows Louisiana running neck and neck for number one spot over Florida gal.
Woman bites camel’s testicles in bizarre truck stop showdown
SiubhanDuinne
@JAFD:
Μολον λαβια
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
Good for you. That’s perfect!
Frankensteinbeck
@Adam L Silverman:
…wait, what? I don’t remember hearing about THAT part of the Spartan code.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
trump is still president, doesn’t make that right either.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I would have stopped at “Fuck you.”
Adam L Silverman
@Frankensteinbeck: Spartiate women had no real de jure rights, but plenty of de facto rights. Because of the enforced bisexuality for the male Spartiates in the agogees, the Spartiate women were free to have lesbian affairs, but to also take men to their beds who weren’t their husbands. Especially to get them pregnant and produce heirs if it was done discreetly/without fanfare. This was especially common among Sparta’s queens and many commenters on the history of the Peloponnisian War have asserted that it is clear from Thucydides and other records of the time that Alciabides, who defected to Sparta and who was himself bisexual, had an affair with one of Sparta’s queens and that a pregnancy resulted.
TomatoQueen
@Shana: The Ivy League came about in 1954 as the NCAA athletic conference for Division I was formed. The encrustation of academic quality grew particularly at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth in the years prior to that, so the grouping was a natural outgrowth. Everybody knows, however, that with the exception of Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss), Dartmouth is for animals. I’m from New Haven.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Some people hear that so often that it has failed to have meaning. Either that or every time someone says that to them they just hear Hello. They need the explanation just so they actually get the message. They aren’t real bright.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: My thought was that the well thought-out explanation that followed would have simply gone in one ear and out the other.
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: Yea! The pressure builds.
From the WaPost op ed: Seven freshman Democrats: These allegations are a threat to all we have sworn to protect
September 23 at 9:00 PM
It’s short. I am going to put up the whole thing. And it deserves a thread, at some point.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Due to the primary line of business in the Valley, they know bolt-ons and back when Trump was in his first bankruptcy.
Duane
@Raoul: Since Trumpov came along there really is no bottom for these people. I have been made fully aware how much the character of a president matters.
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: Spanberger is truly a profile in courage and I have no doubt the rest are from the same mold.
“DEEP STATE!” all you want, trumpov. It won’t save you. We all know it’s just another way to say “the rule of law”
HalfAssedHomesteader
Dinesh D’Sousa, he’s a convicted felon, right? Just checking.
Jeffro
@Mary G: Great point – and now they have something to really swing at.
This isn’t about 2016, Hillary, emails, Mueller (unfortunately, although I hope the Dems add 10 counts of obstruction to the eventual impeachment proceedings), or even him giving away classified info to the Russians IN THE OVAL OFFICE or THE BLESSED HELSINKI MEETING (yet)
It’s him, using the powers of the office to try and bribe/extort/both a foreign president in order to damage Biden/help trumpov win the 2020 election. The whole country is fucking sick of this guy and here he is, doing everything we told them he would do. And I think most Republican officeholders see the writing on the wall for 2020 after the severe beating the party took in 2018, running on Fascism Lite.
I have zero doubt he’ll be calling for reprisals of some kind by the end of the month. Just add it to the list, Dems!
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
This is a good thing.
Jeffro
Btw here’s the ridiculous non-response response from my Congressman, Denver Riggleman (R-good luck with that) when I emailed him to push for impeachment:
Denver, I dunno…this is the kind of thing that gets a person’s wheels turning about a Spanberger-ish run for your seat. You dig?
Jeffro
Rampell is on fire in tomorrow’s column and at first I was offended, but she names all the right names, in the right order. And treats his presidency as more or less a done deal, too.
trumpov isn’t the only person responsible for the demise of American democracy:
(ok except for that last sentence, I agree)
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Probably right, nothing to stop it in the middle…….
Mai naem mobile
@cain: i think DinDin would love to have his Indian card taken away. IMHO hes a self hating Indian who wished he was born white. Hes the outsider who will never get inside because he has to be white to be in the club he wants to get into.