Reminder: it's not just Trump who wants to silence all dissent.
Meanwhile, the people who want to stifle dissent quite happily lie to you about the media.
Reminder: our new CIA director is guilty of war crimes.
A gun in public is a threat. Nothing less.
Here's the inside story from the man who helped Steve Bannon weaponize Facebook.
Conservatives cannot endure even peaceful protests, as witness the steps a public school took to quash a student anti-gun protest.
If you want the freedom of speech to call for ethnic cleansing, we demand the freedom to call you out for the evil fascist asshole you are.
Reminder: Trump's foreign policy is completely incoherent. Those "resistors" in his Cabinet must be so proud.
Reminder: the old billionaires who claim to advocate freedom want to control higher education.
And this is the kind of rape-defender scum they're funding.
In my home state it is a legal defense to a murder rap to claim that your victim made a sexual advance on you.
Enough for now, I hope...
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Link Bundle #5
Onwards.
"What you’re looking at here is a directed campaign of information warfare." - True, and we now know a large part of that is a coordinated global destabilization campaign directed from Russia. But Russia is only one part, not even close to the main part, of a steady campaign of paranoia and conspiracy theory deliberately spread by the right in America. Limbaugh, Hannity and the like spread it. The Religious Right spreads it. Hell, this has been a thing since slaveowners claimed northern preachers were coming south to encourage violent slave revolts. There's a large part of America primed to believe in any conspiracy if the theory comes from the right source... and our president, as Mr. Wright points out, is one such person, easy for anybody to manipulate.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Republicans know Trump's racist, fascist followers are the true GOP base voters. That's why they're running scared.
Since this article ran, you can add a #7: all Republican incumbents (except Ted Cruz).
Trump leadership in action. (Bonus points for having Isaac "Girls Ruin Comics" Perlmutter as an advisor.)
More leadership in action. (Nothing seems to have come of this yet.)
One of many consequences of Trump's victory: a new FCC chair who seeks to dismantle Net Neutrality, remove all regulation from telecommunications, and prevent any effective enforcement of regulations not yet removed. Of course, he has allies in Congress.
We already know about Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Stephen Miller, (more on Miller) among others. Now meet Michael Anton, yet another racist and bigoted White House inner advisor. What does it say about Trump himself that he routinely and consistently gathers people like this to him? (To say nothing of his supporters, who are openly and shamelessly racist.)
Here was the first sign that the Trump administration didn't give a rat's ass about cybersecurity- especially not its own. Far from the last.
How Trump's America looks from outside the US and from the perspective of European history.
Yet another observation of a basic truth: back in the 1980s we had all sorts of dystopian futures warning us of the consequences of conservative economic policies. And the conservatives took those movies and books as HOW-TO guides.
Conservatives are cowards. Evidence. Evidence.
A very rare case of justice. (And this sort of thing is why Richard Spencer tells his lie that he advocates "non-violent" ethnic cleansing.)
Another rare case of justice. If Kennedy retires while Trump retains power, we can kiss this kind of justice goodbye in favor of Roberts and Gorsuch's white supremacy.
I've read many Democratic Party fans saying that Bernie Sanders is nothing but a glory hog, finding any pulpit he can to extend his fifteen minutes of fame. Possibly. But what he's doing, EVERY GODDAMN DEMOCRAT OUGHT TO BE DOING, here and here and elsewhere. A politician unwilling to fight for what he or she believes in is worthless.
And that's all for today.
"What you’re looking at here is a directed campaign of information warfare." - True, and we now know a large part of that is a coordinated global destabilization campaign directed from Russia. But Russia is only one part, not even close to the main part, of a steady campaign of paranoia and conspiracy theory deliberately spread by the right in America. Limbaugh, Hannity and the like spread it. The Religious Right spreads it. Hell, this has been a thing since slaveowners claimed northern preachers were coming south to encourage violent slave revolts. There's a large part of America primed to believe in any conspiracy if the theory comes from the right source... and our president, as Mr. Wright points out, is one such person, easy for anybody to manipulate.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Republicans know Trump's racist, fascist followers are the true GOP base voters. That's why they're running scared.
Since this article ran, you can add a #7: all Republican incumbents (except Ted Cruz).
Trump leadership in action. (Bonus points for having Isaac "Girls Ruin Comics" Perlmutter as an advisor.)
More leadership in action. (Nothing seems to have come of this yet.)
One of many consequences of Trump's victory: a new FCC chair who seeks to dismantle Net Neutrality, remove all regulation from telecommunications, and prevent any effective enforcement of regulations not yet removed. Of course, he has allies in Congress.
We already know about Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Stephen Miller, (more on Miller) among others. Now meet Michael Anton, yet another racist and bigoted White House inner advisor. What does it say about Trump himself that he routinely and consistently gathers people like this to him? (To say nothing of his supporters, who are openly and shamelessly racist.)
Here was the first sign that the Trump administration didn't give a rat's ass about cybersecurity- especially not its own. Far from the last.
How Trump's America looks from outside the US and from the perspective of European history.
Yet another observation of a basic truth: back in the 1980s we had all sorts of dystopian futures warning us of the consequences of conservative economic policies. And the conservatives took those movies and books as HOW-TO guides.
Conservatives are cowards. Evidence. Evidence.
A very rare case of justice. (And this sort of thing is why Richard Spencer tells his lie that he advocates "non-violent" ethnic cleansing.)
Another rare case of justice. If Kennedy retires while Trump retains power, we can kiss this kind of justice goodbye in favor of Roberts and Gorsuch's white supremacy.
I've read many Democratic Party fans saying that Bernie Sanders is nothing but a glory hog, finding any pulpit he can to extend his fifteen minutes of fame. Possibly. But what he's doing, EVERY GODDAMN DEMOCRAT OUGHT TO BE DOING, here and here and elsewhere. A politician unwilling to fight for what he or she believes in is worthless.
And that's all for today.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Link Bundle #4
A computer crash didn't lose all my tabs, so while I'm waiting for my replacement computer, here's me clearing out more tabs with the laptop...
Republicans, when they lose an election, do everything in their power to obstruct the winners. When they win an election, they demand that they be allowed to enact their full agenda without dissent.
Pro-Trump vandalism and terrorism, example Nth.
Charitable giving peaked in 2006. It was never sufficient to meet the needs of the poor and sick. It's even less so now.
One of the reasons Trump won: although Obamacare is better for some than what came before, it's still a crappy system with a LOT of people who lose out because of it. Here's one example.
Don't expect the Israeli peace process to advance one inch while Trump's in power, if this is the kind of diplomat he wants.
Remember: Republicans only support freedom of speech if it's the freedom of straight white Christians to persecute people not of their own kind.
Another example of Republicans eager to block free speech if it challenges white supremacy.
Seriously, Jeff Sessions is so blatant about it that he calls for free speech for conservatives while denouncing blacks attempting to use it... IN THE SAME SPEECH.
This article references Chuck Coulson, the Nixon aide who went to jail as part of Watergate, got religion, and then used his religion to advance the same politics he supported under Nixon. His foundation today is the principal funder of Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association and Bryan Fischer's American Family Radio, with their motto of "muscular Christianity." In the end it's all the same thing: using God's name to justify hate, bigotry, and fear.
Thesis for three books: the single greatest political disaster of America's 20th Century was the day Ford pardoned Nixon. Since then, accountability in high office has been a dead letter, and conservatives have felt no compunctions about breaking both the spirit and letter of the law ever since.
The free market creates poverty traps- in fact it ENCOURAGES poverty traps like, for example, mobile home parks. Only by people working together for a common good, and taking power away from unaccountable landlords, can they reclaim control of their own lives.
Republicans try this every year, because they believe women and children should be property. They also try things like this with much more success.
Tom Price, Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, wants to make it easier for medical corporations to bankrupt elderly Americans. He also wants to push people out of group employer plans and into more expensive, less comprehensive individual plans, because even voluntary, market-based collective action is intolerable to him when there's medical profits at stake.
Quote:
Yet another example of how useless the Democratic Party is, with a quarter of its members in Congress supporting Trump's ignorant nativism. These Congresspeople need to be thrown out.
This cartoon pretty much sums up the modern Democratic Party; ignore or stifle the little people until you need to fundraise.
Reminder: Trump is using the Presidency to add to his personal wealth.
Seriously, a lot. Probably illegally, but Trump and the Republicans control the machinery that would (or won't) prosecute.
After Trump refused to mention Jews in his Holocaust speech, Democrats tried to get Congress to pass a resolution correcting the matter. Republicans blocked it, because they know they need to obey the racists they've been encouraging for forty years.
This is the kind of thing that goes on when a mentally lazy person becomes President.
"Why don't they come here legally?" Because most of them CAN'T.
A reminder that, for all the logjams in Congress, Trump is still making a lot of major changes to America. This is the damage he did in his first two weeks.
OK, time to get back to work...
Republicans, when they lose an election, do everything in their power to obstruct the winners. When they win an election, they demand that they be allowed to enact their full agenda without dissent.
Pro-Trump vandalism and terrorism, example Nth.
Charitable giving peaked in 2006. It was never sufficient to meet the needs of the poor and sick. It's even less so now.
One of the reasons Trump won: although Obamacare is better for some than what came before, it's still a crappy system with a LOT of people who lose out because of it. Here's one example.
Don't expect the Israeli peace process to advance one inch while Trump's in power, if this is the kind of diplomat he wants.
Remember: Republicans only support freedom of speech if it's the freedom of straight white Christians to persecute people not of their own kind.
Another example of Republicans eager to block free speech if it challenges white supremacy.
Seriously, Jeff Sessions is so blatant about it that he calls for free speech for conservatives while denouncing blacks attempting to use it... IN THE SAME SPEECH.
This article references Chuck Coulson, the Nixon aide who went to jail as part of Watergate, got religion, and then used his religion to advance the same politics he supported under Nixon. His foundation today is the principal funder of Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association and Bryan Fischer's American Family Radio, with their motto of "muscular Christianity." In the end it's all the same thing: using God's name to justify hate, bigotry, and fear.
Thesis for three books: the single greatest political disaster of America's 20th Century was the day Ford pardoned Nixon. Since then, accountability in high office has been a dead letter, and conservatives have felt no compunctions about breaking both the spirit and letter of the law ever since.
The free market creates poverty traps- in fact it ENCOURAGES poverty traps like, for example, mobile home parks. Only by people working together for a common good, and taking power away from unaccountable landlords, can they reclaim control of their own lives.
Republicans try this every year, because they believe women and children should be property. They also try things like this with much more success.
Tom Price, Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, wants to make it easier for medical corporations to bankrupt elderly Americans. He also wants to push people out of group employer plans and into more expensive, less comprehensive individual plans, because even voluntary, market-based collective action is intolerable to him when there's medical profits at stake.
Quote:
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance,” she reflected in
1935. “He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He
always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated
National Will.” Applying the lesson to the U.S., she wrote, “When our
dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys,
and he will stand for everything traditionally American.”
Yet another example of how useless the Democratic Party is, with a quarter of its members in Congress supporting Trump's ignorant nativism. These Congresspeople need to be thrown out.
This cartoon pretty much sums up the modern Democratic Party; ignore or stifle the little people until you need to fundraise.
Reminder: Trump is using the Presidency to add to his personal wealth.
Seriously, a lot. Probably illegally, but Trump and the Republicans control the machinery that would (or won't) prosecute.
After Trump refused to mention Jews in his Holocaust speech, Democrats tried to get Congress to pass a resolution correcting the matter. Republicans blocked it, because they know they need to obey the racists they've been encouraging for forty years.
This is the kind of thing that goes on when a mentally lazy person becomes President.
"Why don't they come here legally?" Because most of them CAN'T.
A reminder that, for all the logjams in Congress, Trump is still making a lot of major changes to America. This is the damage he did in his first two weeks.
OK, time to get back to work...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
What kind of administration are we dealing with?
DONALD TRUMP - President of the United States
Investigated and prosecuted for refusing to rent or sell housing to non-whites from the 1970s clear up to the 1990s. Repeatedly reported as ordering black employees off the floors of his hotels and casinos when he came to visit so he wouldn't have to look at them. Father was a known member of the Ku Klux Klan.
STEVE BANNON - Chief political advisor to the President
Until recently publisher of Breitbart, and thus oversaw the publication of biased or outright false "news" stories presenting blacks, Jews, gays, feminists, Hispanics, and immigrants in general as violent criminals seeking to destroy white civilization. On record as saying his goal is to destroy the American government as we know it and to replace with the raw exercise of power. Records from his divorce proceedings show a history of anti-Semitic statements and domestic abuse.
STEPHEN MILLER - Senior policy advisor to the President
College classmate and close ally of alt-right neo-Nazi activist Richard Spenser, and co-organizer of white supremacist rallies and events with Spenser at Duke University. Overt white nationalist.
JEFF SESSIONS - U. S. Senator, nominee to become Attorney General of the United States, senior legal advisor to the President
Was rejected for a place on the federal judicial bench in the 1980s after statements of support for white supremacy and overt hostility to blacks were revealed in Congressional testimony. Fought (mostly successfully) to oppose desegregation and equal funding for public schools in his home state of Alabama. As state attorney general, only supported civil rights cases brought by white plaintiffs. A leading voice against racial, gender, and sexual equality throughout his political career. Advised other countries on efforts to enact white nationalism into law.
BETSY DeVOS - AmWay heiress, school privatization and desecularization advocate, nominee to become US Secretary of Education
Young earth Creationist and fundamentalist Christian. Sister of Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, a private mercenary force sent to Iraq by the Bush administration's Department of State ostensibly as bodyguards. Blackwater made no secret of their desire to be "crusaders" and to kill Muslims regardless of other considerations, leading to a scandal after secret reports of Blackwater massacring unarmed civilians became public knowledge. Blackwater relabeled itself as Xe after losing its federal contracts and shifted its focus to providing security for certain dictators.
There's probably- almost certainly- more names that could be listed here that I don't know about.
But this ought to be enough to make it crystal clear that the Trump administration is centered around the belief of white nationalism and white supremacy, and that persecution of non-whites, non-straights, non-males, and non-Christians will be official government policy throughout his term of office.
And if the Republican Party does not openly and strongly resist this policy, then it must also be regarded as a white supremacist organization- and treated accordingly.
Investigated and prosecuted for refusing to rent or sell housing to non-whites from the 1970s clear up to the 1990s. Repeatedly reported as ordering black employees off the floors of his hotels and casinos when he came to visit so he wouldn't have to look at them. Father was a known member of the Ku Klux Klan.
STEVE BANNON - Chief political advisor to the President
Until recently publisher of Breitbart, and thus oversaw the publication of biased or outright false "news" stories presenting blacks, Jews, gays, feminists, Hispanics, and immigrants in general as violent criminals seeking to destroy white civilization. On record as saying his goal is to destroy the American government as we know it and to replace with the raw exercise of power. Records from his divorce proceedings show a history of anti-Semitic statements and domestic abuse.
STEPHEN MILLER - Senior policy advisor to the President
College classmate and close ally of alt-right neo-Nazi activist Richard Spenser, and co-organizer of white supremacist rallies and events with Spenser at Duke University. Overt white nationalist.
JEFF SESSIONS - U. S. Senator, nominee to become Attorney General of the United States, senior legal advisor to the President
Was rejected for a place on the federal judicial bench in the 1980s after statements of support for white supremacy and overt hostility to blacks were revealed in Congressional testimony. Fought (mostly successfully) to oppose desegregation and equal funding for public schools in his home state of Alabama. As state attorney general, only supported civil rights cases brought by white plaintiffs. A leading voice against racial, gender, and sexual equality throughout his political career. Advised other countries on efforts to enact white nationalism into law.
BETSY DeVOS - AmWay heiress, school privatization and desecularization advocate, nominee to become US Secretary of Education
Young earth Creationist and fundamentalist Christian. Sister of Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, a private mercenary force sent to Iraq by the Bush administration's Department of State ostensibly as bodyguards. Blackwater made no secret of their desire to be "crusaders" and to kill Muslims regardless of other considerations, leading to a scandal after secret reports of Blackwater massacring unarmed civilians became public knowledge. Blackwater relabeled itself as Xe after losing its federal contracts and shifted its focus to providing security for certain dictators.
There's probably- almost certainly- more names that could be listed here that I don't know about.
But this ought to be enough to make it crystal clear that the Trump administration is centered around the belief of white nationalism and white supremacy, and that persecution of non-whites, non-straights, non-males, and non-Christians will be official government policy throughout his term of office.
And if the Republican Party does not openly and strongly resist this policy, then it must also be regarded as a white supremacist organization- and treated accordingly.
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