[Malankazooie]

Cats are the bird murderers of the natural world. My family had a barn cat when I was a kid and she used to leave a dead bird or signs of a dead bird (e.g. feathers everywhere) in the garage almost every morning from about early March through the end of September.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Many have commented on the oddity of Donald Trump's huge and illegible signature. When Trump announced his candidacy, I was reminded of the time in about 1988 when his handwriting was analyzed by Felix Klein, a world-renowned graphologist, author and court-recognized document examiner. It was during a master-level seminar that I attended in NYC while pursuing my doctoral degree in clinical psychology. I had become interested in graphology several years earlier after reading that it was taught in European and Israeli graduate-level psychology programs and used clinically and for business personnel selection. Klein had presented our study group with a full page of Trump's adult handwriting, with only his gender, age (about 40) and handedness (right), but without his signature which might identify him. We were all taken aback, having not seen anything quite like it before, and we each took a turn analyzing it. After this exercise, Klein revealed who the writer was and showed us Trump's overly large, narcissistic signature (with which we are all too familiar now, as he loves to show it off when he signs bills). Klein began his analysis saying that Trump's writing revealed his immense insecurity, aggressiveness and rigid inability to think and perceive the world accurately. He said Trump was grandiose, extremely narcissistic and paranoid, so much so that he considered him delusional. Moreover, Trump was unable to relate to other humans with any degree of emotional attachment or consideration. People to him were objects, only useful to feed his insatiable need for adoration and attention. In looking specifically at his signature, Klein explained that Trump's rigidly angular letter connections formed what he called shark's teeth, which is indicative of rage and the capacity for extremely aggressive, acting out behaviors.

Now I should explain that Felix Klein was a very soft-spoken and mild-mannered gentleman in the old-school Viennese tradition. However, as he continued to speak, he became visibly upset and agitated which surprised me. Attempting to calm him, I said something to the effect that, since Trump was just a vulgar real estate developer, there was no need to get upset. He continued that Trump was a very dangerous individual, capable of all manner of criminal behavior and was a menace to society. He went on to say that Trump was hypomanic and determined to get whatever he wanted, describing him as a "screaming locomotive running down the tracks without breaks," adding, "and God help anyone who tries to stop him!" Once again I tried to talk him down without success, whereupon he stopped me in my tracks, with these unforgettable, exact next words: "I've probably examined well over 200,000 handwriting samples over more than 60 years, and Trump's writing is one of the worst I've ever seen. In fact, the only writing that comes to mind that is as bad is Charles Manson's."

[...] I believe Trump's writing triggered such a strong emotional reaction because of the year Klein had spent in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps where he was forced to "entertain" his captors by analyzing their handwriting at their parties.'

https://www.alternet...stic-signature/

'meta-analysis drawn from over 200 studies concludes that graphologists were generally unable to predict any kind of personality trait on any personality test. [...] "[i]t's very seductive because at a very crude level someone who is neat and well behaved tends to have neat handwriting"'

https://en.wikipedia...essional_status

Trump tweets today:

'Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election. COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order to change our great early election numbers.Should be an election law violation!'

https://twitter.com/...690788628598784

'The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!'

https://twitter.com/...711322284281862

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 26 October 2020 - 05:37 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'White House Boasts It Ended the Pandemic—a Day After 75K People Tested Positive

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy claimed "ending the COVID-19 pandemic" and "understanding our planet" as two of the Trump administration's first term accomplishments in a statement released Tuesday. [...] "understanding our planet," seems to euphemistically refer to climate change and environmental science, a massive field that, like all bodies of scientific research, is a constant work in progress with no clear-cut end goal.'

https://www.thedaily...sitive?ref=home

'Next time a man says women are fragile, show him this video of a man pulling a gun on some teens after a stranger splashed him with dirty water.

[...] He was claiming (to the police) that he thought it could have been acid, and cried self-defense. I heard him go from "spit in me" to "he threw chewing tobacco on me" to "it was poop" to "well it could have been acid" in the span of seconds.'

https://www.comicsan...KDboCiyeMFNI2CA

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 27 October 2020 - 10:38 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 27 October 2020 - 10:52 PM

[Malankazooie]

Sarah Cooper, Helen Mirren Mock Trump Access Hollywood Tape in Netflix Special

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) has said in all seriousness that she's never taken issue with anything President Trump has said or done. [...] When challenged to stand by that stance in light of the president's infamous Access Hollywood tape where he could be heard bragging about groping women without their consent, the Republican senator tried out a dumbfounded expression and furrowed her brow: "Look, what I agree with is the approach President Trump has taken since day one to put America first," she said. When a reporter interjected to clarify if that meant she was "still not disagreeing" with Trump—even his claim that a man who is famous can "do anything" to women, including "grab 'em by the pussy"—Loeffler said she was "not familiar with that."'

https://www.thedaily...d-tape?ref=home

'Coronavirus Doctor Touted by Trump: I Believe in "Demonic Spirits That Sleep With Women" Not "Demon Sperm"

A doctor who has warned the public about the dangers of alien DNA and sexually predatory night terrors defended her work ahead of a campaign event for President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Dr. Stella Immanuel said in comments to Vice: "They pulled up my sermon that I did on people that are having attacks from sexual perverted spirits. I was talking about demonic spirits that sleep with women at night…They just used 'demon sperm' to discredit me." [...]

[...] Immanuel has claimed that gynecological problems are caused by demons having sex with people while they sleep, that alien DNA is used in medical treatments, and that the government is run by "reptilians." Trump promoted Immanuel's rants against face masks and in favor of hydroxychloroquine at the height of his push for the drug to be used as a COVID-19 curative and praised her as a "very respected" doctor. The Food and Drug Administration did not approve the drug for treatment of the respiratory illness.'

https://www.thedaily...-sperm?ref=home

'It is a fundamental principle of judicial review that SCOTUS defers to a state court's reading of a state constitution. Alito wants to abolish this rule when a state court tries to protect voting rights under its state constitution. Instead of allowing the state to regulate elections as it sees fit, Alito would burst in, Kool-Aid Man style, to announce that the state courts can no longer interpret their own election laws.'

https://slate.com/ne...ourt-alito.html

'To counter his health officials, Trump touts Dr. Scott Atlas, a radiologist Trump has brought into the White House to spout anti-mask quackery. [...] Trump replied, "No … You have other people that disagree." He named Atlas. Guthrie pointed out that Atlas wasn't "an infectious disease expert." Trump shot back, falsely, "He's one of the great experts of the world."'

https://slate.com/ne...rus-deaths.html



'In a stunning and surprise turn of events, Tucker Carlson can't produce the huge cache of documents he says completely damns Hunter Biden as a criminal and implicates his father Joe Biden in some shadowy Ukrainian enterprise.

Carlson says the documents, which he apparently didn't make a copy of, were "lost in the mail."'

https://www.facebook...100840766618002

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 29 October 2020 - 02:38 AM

[Malankazooie]

Nice use of scenes of Midsommar.

BTW, if you haven't watched Midsommar, you really need to. It defies any expectations of what you think the movie will unfold before your eyes. Just prepare to wail out for mommy upon it's completion... if you make it that far.

[Tsundoku]

Just read the Wikipedia film summary for Midsommar.

Yeah, nah.

[Malankazooie]

Malankazooie, on 28 October 2020 - 07:45 PM, said:

Sarah Cooper, Helen Mirren Mock Trump Access Hollywood Tape in Netflix Special

Clip begins around the 3:45 mark.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmFrtYB7qT0

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'The Department of Health and Human Services vetted and excluded celebrities who have criticized [...] Trump from taking part in its multimillion-dollar public information blitz to everyday Americans about the novel coronavirus pandemic [...]

[...] According to the Post, the documents describe [Billie] Eilish as "not a Trump Supporter" who is "destroying our country and everything we care about."'

https://www.thedaily...hts-says-report

'[...] In March 1985, a group of parents brought a backhoe to the grounds of the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. [...]

[...] There were accusations of flying, of goat-men, of animal sacrifice and blood-drinking. Preschoolers were subjected to repeated interviews of dubious and coercive methodology, while adult prosecutors and psychologists eagerly encouraged them to come up with more and more accusations. They found themselves confronted with stories of decapitated infants, of preschool teachers dressed as witches. Among the most enduring myths of the McMartin preschool case—which captivated the nation as part of a broader moral panic about sexual abuse in preschools and day care centers—was the existence of tunnels beneath the school, in which molestation and ritual abuse had taken place. Hence the backhoe.

Nothing of consequence was found in the dig. Parents abandoned the backhoe and set to the earth with shovels. Fifty parents wound up pitching in. Eventually, someone found a turtle shell, buried deep in the earth. Was it just a dead turtle, or a confirmation of one set of accusations—that the teachers had ritually slaughtered animals in front of the children, part of their pact with demonic forces? [...]

And there are tunnels in 2020, too. In June, a viral claim that New York's Central Park was host to some 35,000 malnourished, caged children kept in underground tunnels spread over Facebook. The source of the claim was a man named Timothy Holmseth, who purports to be affiliated with the nonexistent "Pentagon Pedophile Task Force." Holmseth claims to be an integral part of the Trump administration. "There is ONE MAN between Timothy Holmseth and President Trump," reads Holmseth's bio on his website.

"Traumatized children, some of whom have never seen the light of day, pregnant preteens, deformed babies, piles of little corpses whose bodies were apparently used for organ harvesting, children locked in cages, electro-shocked and traumatized in order to harvest their blood—Adrenochrome for the elites to drink—were being carried out of the tunnels by Marines," went one anonymous summary of Holmseth's videos on the website BeforeItsNews.com.

All over social media, QAnon followers prayed for the mole children. They wrote them poetry. They were convinced the mole children were being treated in Central Park's coronavirus field hospital, or spirited away to the military hospital ship the USNS Comfort. No one with authority would admit they had known about the mole children, but the QAnon followers knew. The mole children had been rescued by the forces of good.'

https://newrepublic....SPWThhQzM72pPXE

'QAnon Is Supposed to Be All About Protecting Kids. Its Primary Enabler Appears to Have Hosted Child Porn Domains

[...] Watkins, who some experts believe has an active role in maintaining the QAnon account on 8kun, dismissed Mother Jones' questions about the domains as "an attempt to smear [his] name and print something awful," offering varying explanations why they were on N.T. Technology's servers.

[...] Watkins said that 8chan "had a lot of problems" with child sexual abuse content when he acquired the site, but claimed it was removed under him as "it became one of the strictest websites on the internet."

[...] lists Watkins as its administrator and names a separate holding company he owns, Is It Wet Yet Inc., as the administration organization. According to historical domain and web archive records, the domain has, over the years, been associated with dozens of subdomains—more specific and focused offshoots of the main domain—whose names combine terms like "preteen," "kidnap," and "rape." They include a comprehensive system of subdomains referencing age ranges as young as 10. When asked about the specific domain, Watkins said "I have really no idea about" it.

[...] listing Watkins as both the company's president and director.

[...] He said the domains with names suggestive of child pornography had no content when hosted by his company, but had been established for domain squatting, a practice where the domains' owners would profit once they found willing buyers for URLs referencing things like children's underwear and the sexual abuse of minors. In a subsequent conversation, he suggested the subdomains were created as part of a common turn-of- the-century search engine optimization tactic.

Watkins claimed not to know the domain whose metadata showed it hosting child sex abuse-related filenames and links, and said that if the domain actually hosted such material the domain itself would have been removed. "If there was ever a problem we removed and deleted and reported," he said. Watkins said that he did not vet clients nor take action to determine whether they used his services to commit illegal acts unless it was brought to his attention: "It's about the most un-American thing I can imagine, sir. That's what the Soviets would be doing, or the communist Chinese. And we don't have Soviets anymore. We defeated them."'

https://www.motherjo...graphy-domains/

'Kanye Gifts Kim Hologram of Her Dad That Calls Kanye Genius'

[... and says 'Vote for Trump in Jesu's name?']

https://www.thedaily...-kanye-a-genius

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 30 October 2020 - 06:08 AM

[Garak]

What did I just read?

[Macros]

Yeah.
I mean I do t understand half of what azath posts as there is generally no context given but that last one is complete gibberish with out a lead in

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Macros, on 30 October 2020 - 07:50 AM, said:

Yeah.
I mean I do t understand half of what azath posts as there is generally no context given but that last one is complete gibberish with out a lead in

You're probably lucky if you don't know who Kanye and Kim are.

Kanye West is a Black rapper and producer. When he appeared on Def Poetry Jam, he chose this as his most poetic song:



'West previously stated he would have voted for Trump had he voted. [...]West reiterated his support for Donald Trump in April 2018 in a text to Ebro Darden where he said "I love Donald Trump ... I love Donald Trump." West also posted a picture wearing a Make America Great Again hat alongside a series of tweets defending President Trump.[...]

Following his return to Twitter in April 2018, West tweeted "I love the way Candace Owens thinks." Owens, who promotes black conservatism, praised President Trump as the savior of the Free World and criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. The tweet was met with controversy among some of West's fans.

[...] West said in an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God that he had been asked by a friend "What makes George Bush any more racist than Trump?"[341] This was possibly alluding to his previous controversial condemnation of Bush as not caring about black people.[41] West said "racism isn't the deal-breaker for me. If that was the case, I wouldn't live in America."

[...] His support for Trump led to the creation of a "Donye" parody by famous artist Lushsux who painted Kanye with Trump's hair. [...] West and his wife visited the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, a noted Trump supporter

Trump praised West during his speech at the Young Black Leadership Summit, adding "I think Kanye may be the most powerful man in all of politics", referring to a story on West's effect on African-Americans.

[...] West was reported to have given his support to the Blexit movement, a campaign by Owens to encourage black Americans to abandon the Democratic Party and register as Republicans. Media reports suggested West had advised on the design of the campaign's logo, and branded merchandise, including T-shirts. However, West denied being the designer and disavowed the effort, tweeting "My eyes are now wide open and now realize I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!"

In January 2019, West re-affirmed his support for President Trump. In the same year, he expressed his opposition to abortion, and condemned those who wish to remove religion from the public square. In an interview with GQ in January 2020, West implied he would be voting for President Trump.

[...] In January 2019, West re-affirmed his Christian faith on Twitter. His wife Kim Kardashian described West's Christian new birth experience [... : "] He has had an amazing evolution of being born again and being saved by Christ." [...] West said with respect to his past, "When I was trying to serve multiple gods it drove me crazy" in reference to the "god of ego, god of money, god of pride, the god of fame", and that "I didn't even know what it meant to be saved" and that now "I love Jesus Christ. I love Christianity." [...] his album Jesus Is King, West was asked by Kimmel if he would consider himself to be a Christian music artist now that he had committed himself fully to Christianity, and he replied, "I'm just a Christian everything".'

https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Kanye_West



He's married to Kim Kardashian, an Armenian-American socialite who first rose to fame through the reality tv series 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians'.

'How Kim Kardashian broke the internet with her butt'



https://www.theguard...-paper-magazine

She has somehow parlayed that into a business empire, including an extremely popular smartphone game based on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. 'As of June 2020, Kim is estimated to be worth $900 million, according to Forbes'

https://www.harpersb...2450%20million.

'Kim Kardashian West breezed into a steakhouse in Washington, D.C., [...] wearing a bright white outfit with a giant fabric flower on the lapel. Technically, it was a pantsuit, but tighter and more fabulous than its Beltway cousins.

[...] her sizable entourage roamed around an area with a dozen tables. At the center of one, preset with plates of tuna tartar and salad to share, Kardashian West took a seat with two lawyers and three women who had been released from federal prison just two weeks before. They did their best to pretend the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" camera crew wasn't floating a boom mic above their appetizers.

At a nearby table sat goody bags from the White House, packed with MAGA hats and signed commutation papers. That morning, Kardashian West had accompanied her guests there so President Trump could meet the women whose sentences he reduced and convince him to let other people out of prison, too.'

https://www.nytimes....son-reform.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 30 October 2020 - 03:57 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

More enlightenment:

'Don't Let Kim Kardashian Off the Hook for Her 40th Birthday "Fuck You" to the Rest of Us

[...] Internet shaming is crass and typically useless and there's almost never a reason to do it. Lo, we have encountered the exception. Shame away!

[...] "I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time," she captioned one series of photos of guests partying, spawning a torrent of memes exposing the lunacy of such a statement in these times.

[...]

Kardashian knows the kind of response posting these pictures would get from people who are unemployed, unable to leave their homes because it's unsafe and they don't have access to testing, or because they otherwise have a fucking brain and know that this is egregious behavior. "But she also knows how cool the pics look and how many likes she'll get from posting," Bloom writes. "Critical thinking can't compete with the surge of dopamine."

This is how Kardashian makes a living; it is her brand. Posting about her life is what she does, so perhaps it's an overreaction to complain about it now. But that's giving her too much credit, especially when there is still actual danger in this instance.

[...]

We've performed a veritable Olympic gold medal-winning figure skating program over the years, doing complicated triple-jump combinations and spinning until we were dizzy to defend Kardashian as a worthy, legitimate public figure. You can't ignore and shouldn't dismiss, we've argued, someone who has actually changed the world.

[...] Thursday night, the party was joined by a hologram of Kardashian's late father—in case things weren't already surreal.

Anyway, Kim has six toes.'

https://www.thedaily...-of-us?ref=home

'Behold Trump's pre-election secret weapon: Nigel Farage, "king of Europe"

In the final, critical days of his campaign, who does the US president call on? The vestigial tail on Britain's body politic

[...] Trump gibbered to a crowd: "I'm glad I called him up." So is Nigel's agent.

Nigel was brought on stage in Arizona by Donald, where the latter introduced him as "the king of Europe". In fairness, he could just as easily have got away with passing Farage off as the duke of Ruritania or the sultan of Jupiter. Still, in for a penny, in for a pound, and Trump went on to hazard that Farage was "one of the most powerful men in Europe", even though Nigel's an unemployed radio DJ and has spent a good part of the past four years hanging round the old US-of-A hoping to get a 40-minute 6pm "dinner" invitationto eat a well-done steak with a self-confessed sex offender.

By way of recompense, Farage rubed his way on to the rally platform and took the microphone to declare Trump was "the single most resilient and bravest person I have ever met in my life". That is probably the only truthful thing to have been said on stage that night. Yes, Trump received five draft deferments – first for college, then for something called "heel spurs" – and once described the business of avoiding STDs in Manhattan during the 1980s as "my personal Vietnam". But you have to remember that Nigel is himself a wildly overemotional nervous Nellie who would have been interned for spreading panic during the second world war he self-owningly fetishes. There is no one more histrionic, more whiny, and – let's face it – more willing to make alliances with far-right German politicians. We simply couldn't have risked him failing to keep calm or carry on among the general populace.

[...] Later, Nigel justified his media credentials by explaining to Daily Telegraph readers that Trump had "what Americans call 'the big M' – momentum". Is that what Americans call momentum? [Edit: No.] We'll have to take this latterday Alistair Cooke's word for it, I suppose.

Then again, engaging with Farage on his own terms is like trying to debate a fart or conduct a symposium with cystitis. Though operationally pointless and redundant now, he somewhat horrifyingly endures – a vestigial tail on our body politic. It is increasingly accepted that Nigel will always be with us, like far-left antisemitism or a mutating respiratory virus.

[...] Johnson's government still fails to understand that there IS a special relationship, it's just that it's between the US and Ireland. So when Biden last month warned that the Good Friday agreement must not become "a casualty of Brexit", there was a very urgent need for the Conservative administration to do and say precisely nothing. As so often, alas, Iain Duncan Smith failed to get the memo, or certainly to understand the words crayoned on it, and consequently could be found across the airwaves honking that Biden shouldn't be lecturing the UK, but should be trying for "a peace deal in the US" to stop "the killing and rioting" in cities following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Quite what power Duncan Smith thought Biden would have at that point to strike a "peace deal" is unclear, but details aren't exactly Iain's strong point.

[...] Perhaps our chlorinated chickens will come home to roost.'

https://www.theguard...esident-britain

So Trump will solve the issue of Brexit negotiations by making Nigel Farage King of Europe. (Another Gordian knot chopped!)

It shall (most likely) be dubbed Euexit, as the EU exits the EU.

More realistically, Trump and Putin will install Farage as King of Western Europe... and Kim Jong Un as King of East Asia (not counting whatever parts Putin wants to rule explicitly...).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 30 October 2020 - 06:27 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Here's a hot take. Farage is a monumental frog faced hypocritical racist bellend.

No wonder he and trump get on well.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Sword-Wielding Trump Supporter Warns Driver They Have To Vote For Trump "Whether You Like It Or Not"

MAGA supporters were out in full force in Beverly Hills recently, using intimidation tactics to persuade people to vote for Donald Trump.

[...]

A driver filmed the grassroots roadside rally from inside the vehicle while passing through and had an encounter with a man who pointed a small sword with a Trump flag at its tip.

The Trump supporter wielding the sword – while holding the American flag in his other hand – told the driver:

"We got you now. Your mother voted for Trump."

He continued bellowing:

"Your mother loves Trump – I asked her. We got your plates – we got you."

At one point, the man went to the front of the moving vehicle and returned to the open passenger side window and threatened:

"We got your plates baby. We know who you are now. You're going to vote for Trump whether you like it or not. You got no choice!"

You cannot resist Trump. We got you. We f'kn' got you."'

https://percolately....NTfvzoX6H51beio




'The Trump campaign is now automatically checking a box to create recurring weekly donations from supporters until mid-December.

[...]

Predicting "FRAUD like you've never seen," the language on Mr. Trump's website opts contributors into making the weekly post-election donations "to ensure we have the resources to protect the results and keep fighting even after Election Day." Users must proactively click to avoid making multiple contributions.'

https://www.nytimes....-donations.html

'There's an asteroid in space worth $10 quintillion

A new study has given us a closer look at 16 Psyche, a rare metallic asteroid worth an estimated $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.'

https://www.dailyloc...00%2C000%2C000.

The economy's saved! No wonder He (in His infinite genius) was investing in Space Force....

'The most bizarre fact that sticks in my head is this: In 2015, Donald Trump was agonizing over whether to go for the role as the president in "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" or to run for the actual presidency.

How did we go from Abraham Lincoln to a "Sharknado" reject?'

https://www.nytimes....larization.html

'A "Sharknado" producer got tired of waiting for Trump — he was the second choice, after Sarah Palin turned down the gig — to sign his contract. So the role was offered to Mark Cuban and Trump's lawyer threatened to sue, the producer told The Hollywood Reporter.

Cuban ended up in the cinematic White House with the sharks circling, and Ann Coulter as his veep, and Trump ended up in the real White House with the sharks circling, and Ann Coulter as his frenemy.

[...]

Maybe deploying a shotgun and grenades to save the White House from a shower of sharks — while simultaneously starring on "Shark Tank" — gave Cuban the scent of chum in the Potomac. He [put] the odds that he [would] challenge his fellow loud billionaire, master salesman and reality TV star in 2020 at 10 percent — "maybe 11."'

https://www.nytimes....nald-trump.html



'Why Lil Wayne's Alliance With Trump Makes Perfect Sense

[...] Like every meme on the internet that eventually becomes a part of our increasingly strange reality, a domino effect of men in hip-hop publicly courting the Republican incumbent transpired over a short amount of time.

A week after the Ice Cube announcement, 50 Cent casually took to Instagram to tell his 26.2 million followers to vote for Trump due to Biden's proposed tax rates (he recently rescinded his endorsement). Lil Pump did the same, expressing his fiscal concerns with a lot more profanities and a Photoshopped image of him shaking Trump's hand. And most recently, on Thursday night, Lil Wayne tweeted out an uncharacteristically formal statement about his meeting with the president.

"Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus," he tweeted. "[...] the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done."

[...] several clips of Lil Wayne speaking apathetically about the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality began to re-circulate—[...] "I don't feel connected to a damn thing that ain't got nothing to do with me[...] You feeling connected to something that ain't got nothing to do with you? If it ain't got nothing to do with me, I ain't connected to it."

In the frenetic interview—that feels like a Saturday Night Live sketch—Lil Wayne goes on to say with a shameless grin on his face that because he's "rich" he "don't see none of that." Twitter users also pointed to an interview with Fox Sports from the same year in which he states he "never dealt with racism" and that it's not "real," pointing to his large white fanbase as evidence. The rapper also spoke [...] about the time a white officer allegedly saved his life after he accidentally shot himself at the age of 12, and how that framed his perspective of the police.

In a year when P. Diddy is creating his own political party weeks before a crucial election and Ice Cube is putting his faith in Republicans, wealthy men in hip-hop are letting us know loud and clear that they have nothing to lose besides money. Maybe the most striking thing about Trump's latest contact with a male rapper is how predictable it all is.'

https://www.thedaily...s-perfect-sense

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 01 November 2020 - 03:13 AM

[Tsundoku]

Trump would probably believe this is true:

https://www.theshove...or-us-election/

Iraq Sends Independent Observers To Monitor US Election

Iraq has sent thousands of independent observers to the US to help build public confidence in the struggling nation’s upcoming election.

Iraqi officials said there were some signs of democracy in the United States, but noted that the country still had a long way to go in its goal of running fair and safe elections.

“As America hopefully moves towards democracy, we want to help out in whatever way we can,” an Iraqi spokesperson said.

He said the nation of 320 million people has a long history of war, civil unrest, corruption and poverty, and that many groups had been excluded from voting for generations. “We know from experience that democracy can struggle in these environments”.

The observers will not be armed although it is expected that many of the voters will be.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump Campaign Roasted For Believing That An Arrest That Happened On "WWE Raw" Was Actually Real

[...]

This isn't the first time Donald Trump or those around him have been a bit confused about the reality of professional wrestling.

A 2007 storyline that culminated in Vince McMahon's limousine exploding led Trump to call and inquire about his friend's safety.

"[...]

Vince McMahon - Killed during limosine exposion on RAW 2007

[...]

Trump called after that explosion - he thought it was real"'

https://www.comicsan...2648585121.html

Combining the Bible with WWE, QAnon, and Russia's deepfake of immortal Cyber-Trump-Super-Jesus?...

'Structure Holding Up Massive American Flag Collapses At North Carolina Rally As Trump Speaks'

https://www.comicsan...2648588045.html

Sign from on high? Nah, must be antifa witchcraft....

'Protest-Related Exorcisms Are Up in the U.S.: Report

Exorcisms are back in vogue, according an Associated Press report. Two U.S. archbishops have conducted the purported demon-cleansing in recent months—an unusual move, according to scholars of religion. Both exorcisms had political overtones, and came in response to racial justice protests.

[...] A second exorcism that day, in San Francisco, sought to cleanse the area and "the hearts" of people who toppled the statue of an 18th Century priest, whom critics accuse of forcing Native Americans to convert to Catholicism.'

[What is your response to the Black Lives Matter protests? - We need to do more... exorcisms to get rid of the demons possessing the protestors.]

https://www.thedaily...e-us-ap-reports

'imagine that a bunch of dipshits tried to run a Trump bus off the road. Trump would be melting the fuck down on twitter. Fox News would be screaming bloody murder. Jeanine Pirro's head would explode in a spray of stale wine. and Joe Biden would be the first person to denounce it'

https://twitter.com/...910733294833664

'What I Learned From Training to Be a Right-Wing Poll Watcher

[...]

"Here's a tip that I almost hate to have to tell you, but: Do not accept coffee from the election judge or any of the clerks," he warns early in a training video for volunteer poll watchers. "We've had too many instances in the past where laxatives have been hidden inside coffee and our poll watchers end up spending the day in the restroom instead of in the polls watching what's going on."

This first rule of poll watching speaks to the bigger lesson I learned from sitting through hours of conservative poll watching training videos over the past several weeks: These programs are more about instilling paranoia in the Republican Party faithful than about actually teaching them to successfully suppress votes.

Vera's laxative lecture was part of a training I took from one of the country's most influential conservative vote-monitoring groups, True the Vote. [...]

True the Vote had planned to recruit Navy SEALs to watch the polls, as the Intercept reported, and there were fears that "Trump's army" of observers would be 50,000 strong. But the threat of intimidation has largely fizzled. The actual poll watching training programs themselves are infused with a constant sense of paranoia that borders more on ludicrous than frightening.

[...]

If Vera is Wile E. Coyote, then the training is an Acme Toolkit he is sharing with you. Hence the earnest warning in his prerecorded video that one of the biggest dangers to poll watchers is laxative-armed Democrats [...].

I emailed Vera multiple times to ask if he could provide any confirmed examples of Democratic Texas voting officials—who are elected—poisoning a True the Vote poll watcher or poll watcher from another group with which he is affiliated. As of press time, he had not responded. A Google search for laxative poisonings at the polls yielded a couple of examples from the 1880s, including poisoned sardines and crackers in a Mississippi county in 1880. The most recent mention of a laxative poisoning during the voting process I could find came in a 1962 issue of Life magazine, in which a Baltimore election official described officials being "slipped a mickey, usually a high-powered laxative, in his coffee so that he is indisposed several minutes at a time at frequent intervals."

[...] What other fraud should you be on the lookout for? "Every once in a while, you take a peek in the parking lot and see who's handing out sandwiches or dollars," he says, warning that Democratic voters may be bribed.

[...] the broader message of the True the Vote organization. In September, the group's founder[...] appeared in a six-figure ad campaign warning of violent Marxism looming in the United States. "Cambodian leaders killed a quarter of their population in four years," [she] warned. "Think this can't happen here? It can. In fact, I think it's already begun." That violent Marxism, she says, is evident when Democratic officials like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez try to make it easier to vote.'

https://slate.com/ne...r-training.html

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'Don Jr.'s Closing Argument for Dad's Re-Election: "Make Liberals Cry Again"

[...] At the president's Monday night rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Donald Trump Jr. took some shots at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden before making his closing pitch.

"We need you to get out and bring your friends to vote tomorrow, and when we do we cannot only keep making America great again, but we can make liberals cry again!" he shouted. "Get out there and do it, Wisconsin! Get out there and do it!"'

https://www.thedaily...=cheats&via=rss

'Russian state media is making a final push for Trump by airing excerpts of the so-called "Hunter Biden sex tapes" during primetime, almost daily.'

https://www.thedaily...videos?ref=home

'Scott Atlas, President Trump's favorite coronavirus adviser, has apologized for a Saturday night appearance on RT, the Kremlin-funded TV network. On Sunday, Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases, issued an apology via Twitter claiming he was unaware the network was a registered foreign agent.'

https://www.thedaily...f=home?ref=home

'Trump Plans to Hold an Election Night Party Inside White House With 400 Guests'

https://slate.com/ne...oronavirus.html

Should feature Melania's blood-red alien Christmas trees. (Theme obviously being Masque of the Red Death....)

Only 300 of them will be mercenaries (the rest will be FSB and/or prostitutes---rounds of golden showers all around, now he doesn't have to worry about reelection?...).

'In one meeting about the border wall, Mr. Trump called a person "who built a flagpole at one of his golf courses," said an official in attendance that day. Mr. Trump explained that because this person "got in a big fight about the size of the flagpole" and because it was "really big," "the president thought, of course, they would understand how to build a wall."

"Obviously," this official said, "it is not the same."

"We used to joke that it was like a phone-a-friend thing, a lifeline thing" from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," this person said. Soon, senior officials — frustrated that they couldn't seem to get a word in during briefings — adopted their own version of this technique. They'd ask an array of people — some Trump friends, some members of Congress, assorted notables — to call Mr. Trump and talk to him about key issues. The callers just couldn't let on that a senior official had put them up to it. Two of these senior officials compared the technique to the manipulations of "The Truman Show," in which the main character, played by Jim Carrey, does not know that his entire life is being orchestrated by a TV producer.'

https://www.nytimes....-officials.html

['Hey Vlad, what should I do? Kim Jong Un, any advice?... Need a life-line here....']

'Trump gave his usual speech, tearing into Biden, defending his response to "the Chinese plague," and promising manufacturing jobs to an area that suffered a devastating loss of manufacturing jobs in the '80s and '90s but has since had more than 20 years to adapt. The event left some attendees stuck in the cold, waiting for shuttles. Unlike a similar fiasco in Omaha, Nebraska, however, no one was hospitalized.

[...] Blane and Lex are residents of Butler (pop. 13,557), the small city at the center of the county.

Lex concurs that, "It's going to be a landslide." When asked how she can be sure, she points to the crowd, a mostly mask-less throng of MAGA hats and Trump T-shirts. "Do you see this?"

Because they think Trump has a majority not seen in the last century (not even Franklin D. Roosevelt earned 70 percent of the popular vote), a Biden win must be illegitimate.

[...] "I believe if it was a true and honest election, Trump would win by 80 percent," said Bradly Burnside, 31, [...] who came to the rally dressed as Heath Ledger's Joker. (It was Halloween.) "There's lots of fraud. Generally, the mechanisms are known."

Burnside said that once Trump surges ahead in votes, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would "call her nephew and have it fixed," though he couldn't name the nephew.

Seeming sober and serious, despite the outfit, he claimed Biden would then utilize a foreign army to "come for my guns." "You're going to be forced to wear masks, to stay in your cubicle," he said.

His girlfriend, Kyria Crawford, 31, bearing cat ears and face paint whiskers, did not have such a scenario mapped out, but shared Burnside's certainty that Trump will win. They have been to six Trump rallies. "There is just such positivity here," she said. "I don't see how he could lose."'

https://www.thedaily...-just-cant-lose
'Donald Trump's Final Pitch to the American People

"I will vanquish the vaccine."

"There will be no school, no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas, no Fourth of July, no Easter, no nothing."

"so we signed a deal, so they gave me a prize for that, they gave me a Nobel Prize for something else, they should give me a Nobel Prize for what I did in Syria"

"In California, you have a special mask. You cannot, under any circumstances, take it off."'




https://slate.com/ne...s-supercut.html

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