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A large percentage of the comment responses to all the news about Charlottesville, and Trump's royal pooch-screwing afterwards, has been, "But what about antifa????" That's where the spin is going to be, and where it will always be. "Oh, but the counter protesters were violent too, after 1000 people armed with clubs and shields and guns and torches came to town to intimidate the populace and chant literal Nazi slogans." Remember, for fascists, violence isn't a means to an end, violence is the end. They'll cry and moan and say they had to "defend themselves" because they "knew they would be attacked for peacefully protesting" but these fuckers came into town itching for a fight.
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In addition, it was "White House spokepeople" who said Don Cheeto denounced the white nationalists. No audio or video on that, natch. They were definitely ready for fighting. In a lot of shots there were guys in surplus helmets and body armor. And who sent out the khakis and polo shirts memo? It's an obvious "We're not just skinheads and rednecks anymore" ploy.
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Mister Facetious posted:How do you pronounce "Koch brothers"? Cock brothers.
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I'm really disappointed there isn't a man named Kent Fucks.
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MrUnderbridge posted:In addition, it was "White House spokepeople" who said Don Cheeto denounced the white nationalists. No audio or video on that, natch. I didn't make the connection that white polo + khakis was Trump's golfing uniform until I saw a side by side. Lol
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Crossposting here and crazy emails thread, since I haven't seen anyone post a straight text transcript of Trump's garbage "address" on Charlottesville. Both sources are from progressive outlets, but both include a straight transcript in their articles. Bustle & Vox. I'm sincerely not interested in watching any recording of him talking to triple-check it for accuracy, but it's obviously available on video as well. Donald F-ing Trump, the first modern president to be uncertain about Nazis and Klansmen posted:Thank you very much. As you know, this was a small press conference, but a very important one. And it was scheduled to talk about the great things that we're doing with the secretary on the veterans administration. And we will talk about that very much so in a little while. But I thought I should put out a comment as to what's going on in Charlottesville. So, again, I want to thank everybody for being here, in particular I want to thank our incredible veterans. And thank you, fellas. Let me shake your hand. It does not take a savvy political operator, or even a person of middling overall intelligence and education, to denounce Nazis and Klansmen. It's hard to see him recovering at all, or even bouncing back to even a position of neutral regard. Even if Gorka and Bannon are exiled soon and his staff manage to trick him into triangulating, Trump's still the president who reacted to overt white supremacist violence with "Golly, looks like all sides of the issue have some explaining to do!"
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I had a professor named Fuchs. Pronounced it Fyooks.
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I dunno man. To me it feels like the floodgates have really opened, poo poo is totally real and entirely happening and all bets are off. Like THIS is the time where everyone says "If I had been in Germany" or "if I had been a slave" only it really is NOW. It's the culmination of 30 years of RWM propaganda and a large segment of society buying into it all. I'm not going to fault anyone anymore for fighting back however they can.
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Zipperelli. posted:Hot take from a friends post about the protests: "I haven't read the article nor will I"  Conservatism.txt.
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I haven't read the Constitution nor will I. I haven't read the Amendments to the Constitution nor will I. I haven't read the Bible nor will I. That said, here is my considered and insurmountable wisdom based on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the word of God:
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Yeah Rush is going with the whole "the liberals wanted this!". I don't know why it's so hard to say that Nazis are bad. Or even not say anything at all.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I can't wait to see how some of these shitheads try to defend the Nazis in Charlottesville. I saw on Twitter someone said "Governor is sending in the DOJ, better lawyer up, liberals" So there ya go.
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Yeeeaaahhhhh, the Democratic governor is going to have the DOJ investigate the liberals... For blatant.... ?
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LOL Mcauliffe the guy that restored voting rights to a ton of felons is going to go after anti-nazi protesters.
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Radish posted:LOL Mcauliffe the guy that restored voting rights to a ton of felons is going to go after anti-nazi protesters. Sitting politicians already had that right though?
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Homo Depot posted:Yeah Rush is going with the whole "the liberals wanted this!". I don't know why it's so hard to say that Nazis are bad. Or even not say anything at all. It's projection and "they work just like we do." Nazis wanted a martyr REAL BAD so they could be right about the left. But whoops, the left got a victim.
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Homo Depot posted:Yeah Rush is going with the whole "the liberals wanted this!". I don't know why it's so hard to say that Nazis are bad. Or even not say anything at all. Gee, who would have guessed? I was gonna tune in today but realized I wouldn't be able to loving take it.
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Lester Shy posted:https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/897122634198024193 Isn't that the woman who did the totally-not-a-Nazi-salute at the GOP convention? Great timing if so, Drudge.
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Lester Shy posted:https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/897122634198024193 now that o'reilly's firing got the ball rolling fox will be an unending parade of right-wing personalities quickly felled by scandal
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Hannity's in full defense mode this afternoon, airing clips of Trump denouncing David Duke's endorsement. EDIT: Also, FOX NEWS has Trump's (2 days late) condemnation speech up on their front page now to let us know everything is cool. I swear to god, you give this RWM machine 24 hours and they have that loving spin NAILED DOWN. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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My home-town right-wing Christian radio talk program - VCY America, if anyone's keeping score - isn't even bothering with denouncing the Nazis at Charlottesville. Like, their position is seriously "These were patriots who love America, and were merely peacefully protesting before the leftists showed up". They do eventually admit "Well, there were maybe some white supremacists, but what about Louis Farrakhan? See, both sides are equally bad!" It's not exactly the most listened-to right wing media out there, but it's what I grew up with in my podunk Wisconsin home town. VCY stands for "The Voice of Christian Youth", but has a 60-year-old host that appeals purely to old, bitter Freeper types. The radio show has always had racial resentment bubbling under the surface, but usually they just shunted it off onto Muslims. I guess they've another outlet who have dropped all pretenses since Trump got elected.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:VCY America, if anyone's keeping score Thanks for the heads up on this network, always good to keep ahead on Christian right radio nuttiness from the mid-states. Here just west of the Washington DC area I get AFN Talk, probably just as nutty but not as regional a network.
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My boss at the restaurant I am currently bussing for keeps it on FNC. I look up long enough to see Sean saying something about Rev Wright. I could feel my goddamn blood pressure spike. gently caress this.
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Rush had possibly the absolute dumbest take on the whole removing Confederate monuments thing.quote:RUSH: That last caller was very quick on the uptake there. Okay, Mr. Snerdley is afraid that if I don’t explain this, the Drive-Bys will think that I was advocating that we scrub all African-Americans from American history, which is of course not my point. My point was to illustrate that what the people are protesting for, they would oppose if they got it. They want to take down the Robert E. Lee statues, right? Why? Because it’s a symbol of our horrid, racist, unfair, unequal, despicable past. Aha you dumb liberals, if we didn't have slaves then Martin Luther King wouldn't exist, checkmate.  Also you say you want to tear down monuments that glorify the horrible parts of history but want to keep the monuments that glorify the good parts of history? How hypocritical.
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STAC Goat posted:Rush sounds like he's totally lost it. He's pulling the Back to the Future defense with Confederate monuments? i liked that part of his defense of the prewar south was that southern men would dance with ladies and call them ma'am. none of that ever happened up north no sir
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What surprised me was that despite being full of hate and idiocy, I had always thought Rush was the more level-headed of the RWM radio hosts, staying away from the kind of conspiracy theories that Beck and Hannity love. But nope, Rush was on his program today talking about how George Soros was behind Charlottesville, which really surprised me. He must be losing listeners to dig into the crazy, or maybe he's gone crazy for a while and I only just now noticed.
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boner confessor posted:i liked that part of his defense of the prewar south was that southern men would dance with ladies and call them ma'am. none of that ever happened up north no sir also as if that meant anything
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Twelve by Pies posted:What surprised me was that despite being full of hate and idiocy, I had always thought Rush was the more level-headed of the RWM radio hosts, staying away from the kind of conspiracy theories that Beck and Hannity love. But nope, Rush was on his program today talking about how George Soros was behind Charlottesville, which really surprised me. He must be losing listeners to dig into the crazy, or maybe he's gone crazy for a while and I only just now noticed. I don't listen to him but just from this thread and other stuff I got the impression that he was against Trump for awhile for all the logical reasons and he was trying to steer his listeners away. Then he just couldn't stop it and Trump became an inevitability and his listeners kept fighting him on it so he just gave in and got a lot dumber to keep his audience. But I could be confusing him with Beck or that guy who sounds like Master Shake. Or he could just be an old drug addict with a melted brain. And of course he's the same fucker who got kicked off ESPN for being a racist so he's probably got a natural rooting interest in this one.
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I'm surprised I haven't heard the "You know who else was a slave-owning rebel general?" Line and then asked if George Aashington is next. That's my prediction. George aashington? Really autocorrect is the most leftist antifa of them all.
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TildeATH posted:I'm surprised I haven't heard the "You know who else was a slave-owning rebel general?" Line and then asked if George Aashington is next. That's my prediction. they really don't want to talk about how lee was a failed rebel and a slave owner
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The Hagedorn Temperature of hot takes.
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Moktaro posted:Sitting politicians already had that right though? He tried to do a blanket clemency order to which of course Republicans were opposed (they literally were complaining that it would result in too many Democratic votes). It got thrown out by the supreme court so McAuliffe just did it all individually to thousands via digital signing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...m=.f7f02b6a4aed Yeah THIS guy is really going to buy into the idiotic narrative that the Nazis who came armed with assault rifles and ran people down with a car were the victims here good luck with that.
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codenameFANGIO posted:So ... Snerdley's not a real person, right? My understanding is there are many Snerdley's based on who's running his boards/phones that day/week/month/year. It's just a lacky term I think he used. I could be wrong.
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Man, how do I know today is gonna suck worse than usual for RWM bullshit? They've had a couple days now to get their talking points straight and agree on their scapegoats. I tried to subject myself to some of it yesterday for the sake of the thread but my emotions are still too raw and I simply can't stand to listen to it. I bet Rush's ratings loving skyrocket when crap like this happens because non listeners tune in to see if he'll say something stupid, and that sick, fat gently caress has the nerve to say that "this what leftists want". He LOVES this poo poo.
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BiggerBoat posted:Man, how do I know today is gonna suck worse than usual for RWM bullshit? They've had a couple days now to get their talking points straight and agree on their scapegoats. I tried to subject myself to some of it yesterday for the sake of the thread but my emotions are still too raw and I simply can't stand to listen to it. People too dumb to think up their own false narratives also tune in to get told from the top what to believe as well.
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