The Trump Presidency Ocho :: It Can't Go On. A.K.A. We All Gotta Duck / When The Shit Hits the Fan

"Look Mommy - the taoiseach brought his roommate to Washington"

Leo Varadkar taking his boyfriend to the White House to meet Mike Pence is the pick me up we all needed today pic.twitter.com/BYUNVOHuDE

— James🏳️‍🌈 (@jamesbrinning) March 14, 2019

 

This'll warm yer black hearts:

Rudy Giuliani is fuming over his fractious divorce court clash with estranged wife Judith Nathan, claiming she’s trying to “extort” him for millions with a “vindictive . . . campaign of hate.”

Hissing Hizzoner was enraged after Wednesday’s divorce hearing, at which Nathan’s attorney, Bernard Clair, repeatedly needled himby dropping the name of Giuliani’s friend Maria Ryan, who is married. Giuliani — who has repeatedly said his relationship with Ryan is platonic — hit back at Nathan outside of court on Thursday, alleging that his wife of 15 years is shamelessly striving to shake him down.

President Trump’s lawyer says Nathan greedily demanded $67,000 a month in spousal support, including $25,000 for designer clothes. He accuses her of keeping $7 million he gave her during their marriage while simultaneously scheming to squeeze millions more out of him.

https://pagesix.com/2019/03/14/rudy...rr5Ga7Km8ucAmNPHA_lJ2vRwWWpCDjRSmNkukbY4pJWXh

 

Well of course. To know Rudy is to hate him. Pretty much true of any Republican voters' heroes. The only decent ones, personally, are the politicians that the voters turned their back on, for example McCain, or W.

 

Is this his second wife?

 

Third.

 

"We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history."

“People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is.”

Two quotes about immigrants in the past 24 hours. One from the US president, one from a document justifying a white supremacist terror attack.

— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) March 15, 2019

 

Correct. Cousin, news lady & now failed marriage #3

 

The dude is racist / white supremacist. Pundits are tiptoeing around this but it is time to call a spade a spade.

 

Phrasing!

 

I've only seen AA pundits on tv openly calling him a racist. Whitelandian talking heads think that's going too far. He has "alternate facts" on race relations to them I guess. Can't admit we voted one for president in the 21st century.

About the only Whitelandian I've seen call Trump a racist is Michael Cohen.

 

Just finished reading this article and even the writer is hesitant about directly calling the quotes from Gohmert and King what it is.... hate speech.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-...e-gohmert-rhetoric_n_5c8bf2e4e4b0db7da9f3213c

 

From the article:

"Gohmert and King have denounced the shooting, and there’s no reason to doubt they genuinely are saddened by this massacre."

What? There is EVERY reason to doubt they are genuinely saddened by this massacre. EVERY reason! Why do we treat these pathetic a-holes with kid gloves?

 

Inexperienced young white males of only 55+?

 

They're like "with high capacity clips he could've easily gotten 100 hajis"

 

You don't bounce on your tail? Damn, that's such a letdown.

 

We have an entire thread on why.
https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/another-study-finds-conservative-media-bias.958435/

 

That article if f*cking devastating.
That was a great job by Matt Fuller.

He should have left out the commentary about how those Congressman "genuinely are saddened" as there is no support for such as statement and just stuck to the actual statements.

The rest is terrific.

 

He does, just not in public!

 

I do and that's why I get more freeTuna sandwiches than you do!

 

I mean,I took those comments as ironic.

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...aints-immigration_us_58b75206e4b0284854b3dc03

A two year old article linked in the article about King and Gohmart. Thanks to it, today I learned that there is a French "literary" equivalent of The Turner Diaries called The Camp of the Saints which, unsurprisingly, Steve Bannon is a fan of.

The plot of The Camp of the Saints {by Jean Raspail} follows a poor Indian demagogue, named “the turd-eater” because he literally eats shit, and the deformed, apparently psychic child who sits on his shoulders. Together, they lead an “armada” of 800,000 impoverished Indians sailing to France. Dithering European politicians, bureaucrats and religious leaders, including a liberal pope from Latin America, debate whether to let the ships land and accept the Indians or to do the right thing — in the book’s vision — by recognizing the threat the migrants pose and killing them all.

The non-white people of Earth, meanwhile, wait silently for the Indians to reach shore. The landing will be the signal for them to rise up everywhere and overthrow white Western society.

The French government eventually gives the order to repel the armada by force, but by then the military has lost the will to fight. Troops battle among themselves as the Indians stream on shore, trampling to death the left-wing radicals who came to welcome them. Poor black and brown people literally overrun Western civilization. Chinese people pour into Russia; the queen of England is forced to marry her son to a Pakistani woman; the mayor of New York must house an African-American family at Gracie Mansion. Raspail’s rogue heroes, the defenders of white Christian supremacy, attempt to defend their civilization with guns blazing but are killed in the process.

Calgues, the obvious Raspail stand-in, is one of those taking up arms against the migrants and their culturally “cuckolded” white supporters. Just before killing a radical hippie, Calgues compares his own actions to past heroic, sometimes mythical defenses of European Christendom. He harkens back to famous battles that fit the clash-of-civilizations narrative — the defense of Rhodes against the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Constantinople to the same — and glorifies colonial wars of conquest and the formation of the Ku Klux Klan.

Only white Europeans like Calgues are portrayed as truly human in The Camp of the Saints. The Indian armada brings “thousands of wretched creatures” whose very bodies arouse disgust: “Scraggy branches, brown and black … All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms.” Poor brown children are spoiled fruit “starting to rot, all wormy inside, or turned so you can’t see the mold.”
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I'm sure with Ayesha and many other POC at NPR, it had a lot more to do with the producers and people in-house not allowing certain things to be said. This process has been described on shows like Code Switch a few times along with explanatory commas.

 

@Auriaprottu and @appoo I had this discussion with a Jewish guy in the rugby chatroom. I wanted to share my thoughts as to why there is a more anti-Israel mood.

 

My latest lunch thing is Panera tuna sammys. Good stuff