[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 02 August 2022 - 07:51 AM, said:

Down the shitter in the great flush, on 28 July 2022 - 01:34 AM, said:

This one genuinely worries me.

Same, this is the logic that our government has been pushing for a long while now, namely that 'we don't need experts'. And then when things requiring expertise are needed, you end up with an advice-resistant population who think they are experts in a field. I have to deal with it at work pretty frequently. I'd imagine it impacts Gore more than me by quite a margin, though.

[Malankazooie]

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Malankazooie, on 05 August 2022 - 10:10 PM, said:

Not a real People headline (satire I guess?)... though it's tragicomic that I had to check.

'No such headline was published and although the image was likely intended as satirical, many were duped online into thinking that the image was authentic.

[...] "Virtue signaling losers! #feminismiscancer #GoWokeGoBroke"

[...]

@dempstermd
This is why we can't have nice things.'

Fact Check- Fabricated image purports to show People magazine headline on 'Choco Tacos'

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 06 August 2022 - 12:40 PM

[worry]

Not satire — disinformation.

[Malankazooie]

Yeah chief, that's why it was posted here and not to discussion thread. It's widely known it's fake, unless you live under a rock. The screen grab is from the Colbert Show where he says in the joke build up it's a fake headline. So yeah, maybe disperse with the gotcha games and just have some laughs?

[Malankazooie]

And in the spirit of more laughs, Dark Brandon is still sizzling.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump on His White House Doctor: "He Loved Looking at My Body"

"SO STRONG AND POWERFUL"

[...] at the Conservative Political Action Conference [CPAC ...] "He was a admiral, a doctor and now he's a congressman. [...] 'Which is the best if you had your choice?' And he sort of indicated doctor, because he loved looking at my body. It was so strong and powerful," [...] as Jackson grinned in the audience. "But he said I'm the healthiest president that's ever lived. I was the healthiest. I said 'I like this guy.'"

Trump on His White House Doctor: 'He Loved Looking at My Body'

'Trump at CPAC: [...] speech filled with "unapologetic fascism"

[...] "This is no time for complacency," Trump warned. "We have to seize this opportunity to deal with the radical left socialist lunatic fascists. We have to hit them very, very hard. It has to be a crippling defeat."

[...] Trump said Biden "surrendered our strength and our everything [...], they surrendered our dignity."

[...] Trump went on to call for a military takeover of San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Portland.

[...] "This might be most frightening speech I've ever heard. Full-on, unapologetic fascism. Trump has either been reading Mein Kampf or having someone read it to him."

[...] Former RNC official [...] "I know everyone in the DC GOP is just hoping Trump will die but it's impossible to watch this CPAC speech and not come to the conclusion that he's going to run and be very hard to beat in a primary. Sorry to be the bearer of bad weekend news."

[...] After his speech, Trump danced on stage to the song "Hold On I'm Coming"'

Trump at CPAC: 108 minutes in speech filled with 'unapologetic fascism'

'How a serial killer set the stage for the modern GOP

[...] Republican sabotage of a bill to provide healthcare to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan[...] after the bill was defeated Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley fist-bumped in celebration of screwing our vets.

How is it that Republicans can casually embrace such cruelty? [...]

It turns out this is not just politics; the roots of this brutal movement in today's GOP run from a 1927 child murderer, through a greedy real-estate lobbying group, to Ronald Reagan putting both of their philosophies into actual practice and bringing morbidly rich right-wing billionaires into the GOP fold.

[...] back in the 1940s, a real estate lobbying group came up with the idea of creating a new political party to justify deregulating the real estate and finance industries so they could make more money.

This new "Libertarian Party" would give an ideological and political cover to their goal of becoming government-free, and they developed an elaborate pretense of governing philosophy around it.

[...]

The child-killer who inspired a movement

[...] Trump [... said] his favorite book was Ayn Rand's raped-girl-decides-she-likes-it novel, "The Fountainhead."

"It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions," he told Powers. "That book relates to … everything."

[... Ayn] Rand, in her Journals, explained where she got her inspiration for Howard Roark and the leading male characters in so many of her other novels.

[...] Supremely confident that he would elude capture, Hickman signed his name on the ransom notes, "The Fox."

[...] "It was while I was fixing the blindfold that the urge to murder came upon me [...] I just couldn't help myself."

[...] Hickman didn't hold back on any of these details: he was proud of his cold-bloodedness.

[...] He even sewed open her eyelids to make it look like she was alive.

On the way, Hickman dumped body parts out of his car window [...]

[...] Young Ayn Rand saw in Hickman the "ideal man" she based The Fountainhead on, and used to ground her philosophy and her life's work. His greatest quality, she believed, was his unfeeling, pitiless selfishness.'

'[...] As Hickman's murder trial unfolded, Rand grew increasingly enraged at how the "mediocre" American masses had rushed to condemn her Superman.'

'Hickman's words were carefully recounted by Rand in her Journals. His statement that, "I am like the state: what is good for me is right," resonated deeply with her. It was the perfect articulation of her belief that if people pursued their own interests above all else — even above friends, family, or nation — the result would be utopian.

She wrote in her diary that those words of Hickman's were, "the best and strongest expression of a real man's psychology I ever heard."'

How a serial killer set the stage for the modern GOP

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 07 August 2022 - 02:13 PM

[Malankazooie]

Fuck around and find out, the musical.

https://twitter.com/...557890806644738

[Malankazooie]

https://twitter.com/...775245981356034

[worry]

That’s tight.

[Tiste Simeon]

Malankazooie, on 07 August 2022 - 07:39 PM, said:

Fuck around and find out, the musical.

https://twitter.com/...557890806644738

I made a mistake and went into the comments 😳

[Malankazooie]

^^ Don't do that. That includes comments anywhere on any platform or comments posted below any news item on any news site.
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About the Trump message in the above. He really is a piss poor marketing slogan in human form. He always has one on standby. The Russia Russia Russia in the above for example. If he makes it into older age and when dementia sets in, its going to be really pathetic and sad for his family and care takers. Drooling on himself and repeating "lock her up", "russia russia russa", "perfect call", "MAGA", , ,ad nauseam.

[Tsundoku]

https://www.theshove...ld-trumps-home/

The Shovel’s view on the Donald Trump FBI raid

"We are certainly no fans of Donald Trump – let’s make that clear from the outset. But yesterday’s raid by the FBI on the home of a former president sets a dangerous precedent.

A precedent which now means that anyone who evades taxes, attempts to undermine an election, sexually assaults women, manipulates the value of their assets, uses state resources to enrich themselves or aids and abets the overthrow of a democratically elected government will be subject to investigation.
Is that the world we want to live in? Where anyone accused of insurrection can be subject to questioning from law enforcement officers?

It’s a slippery slope. Before we know it, regular citizens accused of defrauding the government, concealing evidence, manipulating financial documents, tampering with witnesses or perverting the course of justice will also be held to account.

Or to put it another way, if we simply shrug our shoulders and fail to question the actions of the FBI, soon any old Joe Citizen who is suspected of ripping classified government documents into small pieces and flushing them down the toilet will be obliged to answer to law enforcement, as well as their plumber.

If we don’t ask the hard questions about the potential motives of the FBI now, soon any one of us who buries our ex-wife in a small grave at the side of their golf course in order to gain a tax concession will be treated with suspicion.

As Trump supporters put it so clearly yesterday, if this can happen to a President, it could happen to anyone who has committed insurrection, assault or fraud. That’s a chilling thought.

We are on new ground here. As Donald Trump himself made clear, this is the first time a former president’s home has been raided. Proof, if ever we needed it, that the FBI shamefully only targets people who it considers to have committed a crime. Who gave FBI director Chris Wray that authority?

As we made clear earlier, we’re certainly not Trump supporters. But in today’s partisan world, it would be easy to fall into the trap of cheering on the FBI’s actions, without taking a step back to look at the bigger picture. If Trump goes to jail, it opens the door for every lying, corrupt, perverted piece of shit to go to jail too. Is that what we want?"

[Tiste Simeon]

Haha that's an excellent article.

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