Interesting juxtaposition in my tweetdeck feed: @yourauntemma and @ruthbenghiat are both right. Imagine a future where people with political and psychological knowledge have educated the press & the public about why voting for megalomaniacal demagogues is a bad idea. pic.twitter.com/Hku36R2Fzl— Carolyn Boyle 🌻 (@accidntlmystic) October 12, 2019
<not a serious post> The Endless Wars Must End!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2019 This reminds me of when I see my kids playing Final Fantasy 9 or whatever. It’s obviously not the FINAL fantasy, is it?
Walter Shaub. Former director of ethics. (Whatever they are) It didn't happen, the call was perfect. Ok, it happened, but it was a joke. Ok, not a joke, but no pressure. Ok, pressure, but no quid pro quo. OK, quid pro quo, but the good kind. — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub)October 13, 2019 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not quid or quo. What's quo? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a quid. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet https://t.co/ffbaro2i8M — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub)October 13, 2019
What is the Final Fantasy anyway? Im guessing Hef lived it on his deathbed. Several bunnys and an empty bottle of Viagra.
.....The Kurds and Turkey have been fighting for many years. Turkey considers the PKK the worst terrorists of all. Others may want to come in and fight for one side or the other. Let them! We are monitoring the situation closely. Endless Wars!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2019
Maybe I’m starting to understand his intent - he wants to end the endless wars by having one side completely destroy the other. In exterminating the enemy, the war will be over. In other words, he’s totally ok with ethnic cleansing because it will end a war. Such is the thought process of a sociopath.
This is, I believe, akin to the Trump policy vis-a-vis Israel-Palesitine: side completely with Israel so Palestine can only fight or acquiesce, but the need for negotiating a complex, unpopular-in-both-camps agreement is essentially over.
No one remembers this because it never happened. So, no. https://t.co/UzOi1gxN5V— Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) October 13, 2019 We should all stop worrying about the Kurds. Trump’s got this. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Turkey: "We've put them on warning. The president has authorized me to effectively shut down the entire Turkey economy and we can do that at a moments notice on his command" https://t.co/hRjtUkcvAV pic.twitter.com/cocSO1KnuE— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 13, 2019
Stoopid is as Stoopid does. Trump wishes ‘Happy Birthday to the US Navy’ — with a picture of a Russian battlecruiser Happy Birthday @usnavy! pic.twitter.com/H0lNgAdogV — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2019 That's the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy pic.twitter.com/FJKsRYU1g0 — Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) October 13, 2019
Outside the White House right now:Tons of protesters blowing whistles. pic.twitter.com/4mRne7yLVv— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) October 13, 2019
BREAKING: In a video shown at Trump’s resort to his supporters, Trump pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and “begins a graphic rampage. As the parishioners try to flee, the president fires at them. He shoots Black Lives Matter in the head...” https://t.co/pHqTjLXWvG— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 14, 2019
The US is so in denial about what is happening But please tell me more about Maddow, AOC and the evils of socialism
“Serial killers get more Due Process than the Democrats give to the President of the United States.” @marklevinshow— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019 It’s mordantly funny how the wing nuts are invoking the phrase ”due process,” but doing it so, so wrong.
This can’t just be the horror of the day with a new one the day after and the day after and in a week someone jokes “I’m old enough to remember when.” It can’t be added to the pile.It’s its own category.And yes, I’ve been paying fucking attention.https://t.co/42AG1Eh8Ea— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) October 14, 2019 NEW: The graphic video of Trump shooting people inside a church was posted by an account connected to Russian intelligence. The account posted a conspiracy theory video in 2016 about the DNC hack and then linked to "whatdoesitmean" - a suspected Russian intelligence front pic.twitter.com/OvuiuISHCJ— Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus) (@ScottMStedman) October 14, 2019
Starting the impeachment inquiry may have seemed risky, but when it leads to headlines like "Associates of president's personal lawyer arrested as they try to flee the country" you gotta say that prospects look pretty good.— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 10, 2019 lol Giuliani getting sucked into illegal Ukraine dealings while trying to defend Manafort’s illegal Ukraine dealings like some sort of moron quicksand— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) October 12, 2019 When you think of all the people Trump has betrayed in his presidency and his life including all of his wives, it’s all the more impressive that he has never betrayed Putin.— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) October 11, 2019 Because of course it was.
That video is from that Kingsman movie, the first one. Which is kind of a "working white class" fantasy, about a kid from the lower classes who gets shat on all his life until he gets drawn into a world of fantastic revenge and unlimited resources. Edit: the particular scene, complete with the "Freebird" soundtrack, is when, um, spoilers I guess: Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler the bad guy, played by Samuel L Jackson, has a ray that makes people ultra violent, he tests it on this church where the Colin Firth character, a superspy, murders everyone in super gory ways. I mean, this doesn't make the whole thing less disturbing, but it's more of an incel meme thing than a prediction of actual violence. Edit again: it's basically trolling - very serious media people go "that's next level ********ed up" and the troll assholes go "what, you didn't see Kingsman, can't you take a joke?" Which is why I hope President Warren suspends the Constitution and assigns death squads to go after trolls.
Some are pretending it didn't happen. The video appears to come from the account "TheGeekzTeam." The account is listed as a creator for Meme World, the site created by far-right figure Carpe Donktum. Donktum attended the White House social media summit & met with Trump.https://t.co/xnoiN2kpsyhttps://t.co/h1dXBLHAYm pic.twitter.com/BAVAWM290r— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) October 14, 2019 There’s a big empty room here with TVs and projectors playing videos by that “carpe donktum” guy pic.twitter.com/O87stQDfrc— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) October 11, 2019
Brian Kilmeade over at @foxandfriends got it all wrong. We are not going into another war between people who have been fighting with each other for 200 years. Europe had a chance to get their ISIS prisoners, but didn’t want the cost. “Let the USA pay,” they said...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019