Tell the truth and shame the devil. https://t.co/dE5M7RKjTj
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 12, 2016
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What’s on the agenda?
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Tell the truth and shame the devil. https://t.co/dE5M7RKjTj
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 12, 2016
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What’s on the agenda?
Saturday Night Open Thread: “What It Means”Post + Comments (254)
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Clinton: "This election is incredibly painful." Via pooler @thomaskaplan pic.twitter.com/B1V4L0MeMs
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 15, 2016
Yeah, it’s (mostly) not about “economic anxiety”, but some 27% of our fellow citizens seem to be wandering around in a toxic haze. And they’ll still be here after (Goddess grant) the Democrats win the Oval Office and both houses of Congress, come November…
.@mcottle on the tragedy that lies ahead for Trump voters: https://t.co/WvRGuML884 pic.twitter.com/0pravUMT8R
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) October 14, 2016
A lot of people seem to mistakenly believe that policy outcomes are driven by politicians’ psychic energies rather than by their policies.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 14, 2016
Clinton will give the white working class more concrete economic resources; she won’t validate their fear of diversity and social change.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 14, 2016
Trump, by contrast, will validate their fear of diversity and social change and will give an enormous tax cut to multi-millionaires.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 14, 2016
Contrast, for example, Clinton's job-training $ for coal counties versus Trump promising to undo energy trends https://t.co/Ci1Is3dhOi
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 14, 2016
Worth reading professional political organizer Dana Houle’s whole thread here (click on any invidual tweet):
1/Fundamental flaw RE “Trump voters earn more than you think” He has almost nobody under 30 i.e. those earning least https://t.co/8vUF2ZTArg
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016
18/I’m the first person in my family to graduate high school. I grew up in an archetypal white working class community. I have no problem…
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016
20/…assholes are having to deal with their grandson’s Mexican wife, or the Arab-Americans who live next door & are good neighbors. It’s…
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016
22/ [misnumbered 21 as duplicate 20]…are still bad. But even there, younger whites are less Repub/Trump/racist than older whites.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016
24/…if we beat that racist orange fuck, as I’ve been certain all along we will. It’s going to be uglier for a few yrs, but it’ll get better
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016
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Trump crowd yelling "lock her up" about the People magazine writer really gives away what that chant is all about, doesn't it?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 14, 2016
Donald Trump — terrible human being, tremendous target.
Apart from mocking Lord Smallgloves Shitgibbon, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Trump had been scheduled to come here today, to kiss defenseless babies and pose next to pumpkins and haystacks at Wisconsin congressman and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s annual “GOP Fall Fest.”
Heh.
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.@SpeakerRyan says the Democrats' ideology "is not about freeing you. It is about limiting you." https://t.co/vGLIpxeGRN pic.twitter.com/GVui4vbmTQ
— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) October 14, 2016
You and your puppetmasters painstakingly built this monster, Ryan — too late to claim you had no idea…
Speaker Ryan's calm, reasoned speech is reminder that no, the entire GOP has not been taken over by Donald Trump and his supporters.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) October 14, 2016
@Philip_Elliott Who is Paul Ryan supporting in the election?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 14, 2016
The fact that Ryan thinks his political survival depends supporting a racist misogynistic demagogue proves that the opposite is true https://t.co/tiz5ITpK2p
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) October 14, 2016
"Maybe I'd take Paul Ryan seriously if he hadn't supported Donald Trump for president" is what most people will say about him forever.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) October 14, 2016
At least the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver still has one defender among the Media Village Idiots. Chris “Mad Bitcher” Cillizza:
Paul Ryan is already planning for what the Republican party will look like when Trump loses https://t.co/yp17HjX6rU pic.twitter.com/GhM0MvqIQ7
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) October 14, 2016
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by Adam L Silverman| 271 Comments
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Today we have several examples of hashtag (stochastic) violence and terrorism and leaderless resistance. First up is a thwarted militia plot from Kansas. Three Kansan militia men were arrested today by the FBI and are now in the Sedgewick County Jail awaiting arraignment for plotting to attack an apartment complex housing Somali refugee families and a mosque in Garden City, KS on 9 November (h/t: Charles Johnson at LGF).
JUST IN: Officials confirm the arrest of three militia planning to attack housing complex & mosque in Garden City, Kansas.
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) October 14, 2016
Next up, from yesterday actually, we have two fine, upstanding Trump supporters that decided to demonstrate that support by standing in front of Jane Dittmer’s campaign office in Palmyra, VA for 12 hours while legally open carrying handguns. Daniel Parks, who organized this two man protest, had this to say:
I’m just trying to provide a voice for someone who might be closet supporters of Trump. Other people that are a little worried to speak out because of possible persecution. We’re not a threat to anybody, the only threat is ignorance, and ignorance will breed fear.
Su Wolff who was onsite at the time volunteering in Ditmmer’s campaign office said:
He turned sideways to be sure that we would see that he has an open carry gun, which is legal, it’s fine, but it’s intimidating,” she said of one protester. “If he wants to support his candidate that’s fine, but don’t come here and stare into the office all day.
It is important to note that Virginia is a legal open carry state. That said, Mr. Parks remarks about the “only threat is ignorance and ignorance will breed fear” is part of the open carry argument of gun normalization. Gun normalization is the argument (belief?) that if open carry is legal, people will see open carriers open carrying and when they don’t see open carriers do anything threatening or illegal or anything bad happen, then they will stop being afraid of guns and the people that carry them – openly or otherwise.
Finally, we get to Trump’s own rally in Greensboro, NC where a couple of his supporters in attendance decided to rough up a protestor that displayed the American flag upside down, which is the classic symbol for distress.
Trump was interrupted by a protester in Greensboro and this happened: pic.twitter.com/Hzc2Z82gNu
— Holly Bailey (@hollybdc) October 14, 2016
Only 26 days to go… Stay frosty!
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CLINTON
To women: You can do anythingTRUMP
To women, you can do anything— Rebecca Piazza (@heybecks) October 13, 2016
Apart from placing odds on the contents of today’s Trump trash dump, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?
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Intriguing that Obama is arguing Trump is a true reflection of the GOP rather than an anomaly, contra Clinton in her Aug. alt right speech.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 14, 2016
This speech will make it harder for Republican pols to distance from Trump. "Oh, so you're with Obama?"
This is his objective.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 14, 2016
I think approach is HRC/BO gave politicians benefit of doubt to show reasonable R voters they’d stand up to Trump/deplorables, R pols failed https://t.co/V4UiCG4eC1
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 14, 2016