News of the Restless

James O’Keefe: not a journalist.

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Sabina Becker

So…what is this little shit? Watch and learn:

“Walking, living trolls”. That’s what he and “Project Veritas” (was ever a crapaganda organ more ironically named?) are. That’s all they ever were, and all they ever will be.

Oh yeah…and they’re now unmasked as violent fucking thugs, too. See the video here.

The most outrageous part about this, though, isn’t even the way they wrecked Ryan Clayton’s neck. It’s that James O’Fucking Keefe thinks he’s really a fucking journalist, and that one day he’ll be offered a Pulitzer for it…and that he’ll be in a position to turn it down.

Yeah, you up there in the Peanut Gallery…I hear you laughing. And I can’t blame you. Who would ever give a Pulitzer to a fake pimp who went to ACORN, a voter-rights organization, looking for “advice” on how to pimp a fake hooker? And did it looking like this?

And that’s not counting the time he tried to “seduce” a real journalist, from CNN, with a literal boatload of dildos. Or the way he lamely tried to defend that incident AND the fake-pimp one.

And it’s also not counting how one of his minions was recently caught offering bribes to what they thought were some agents provocateurs.

And of course, it’s definitely not counting the fact that Project Veritas should actually be called Project Fraud, because that’s all it is. Actions speak louder than words, and a lot louder than this thuggy little fake-news purveyor’s heavily doctored videos.

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Was/is Alex Bissonnette a Québécois dittohead?

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Today’s Washington Post pleasantly surprised me by going after an unlikely troublemaker. Namely, talk radio and all the trash that clutters up its airwaves:

Quebec City has developed the dubious reputation as Canada’s capital of shock jocks, online radio hosts who love to provoke with outrageous talk about women, homosexuals and Muslims.

As this city of 800,000 deals with the emotional aftermath of Sunday’s shooting at a local mosque that left six worshipers dead and several injured, the role of trash radio in spreading xenophobic attitudes is getting new attention. A 27-year-old local university student and follower of far-right causes was charged Monday with murder and attempted murder in connection with the massacre.

There is no indication that the man charged in the attack, Alexandre Bissonnette, was particularly influenced by trash radio, but members of the Muslim community were quick to complain about the corrosive impact of the anti-immigrant rhetoric heard on the city’s airwaves.

The local phrase for trash-talk radio is radio poubelle, literally meaning “garbage can radio”. It’s an apt term, considering what shit it fills its listeners’ heads with. And ethnic minorities, particularly Arab and African Muslims, are a frequent target for all the poo-flinging:

“Whenever you happen to listen to this trash radio, you hear clearly xenophobic language,” said Mohammed Ali Saidane, who has lived in Quebec for 30 years.

“What I reproach with these media is that they import problems from elsewhere, especially France. We don’t live in ghettos here. It’s not the same as France,” he told the Journal de Quebec newspaper.

France, as you may recall, is going through its own little xenophobic choke right now, what with burkini bans, forced unveilings of Muslim women, and an unholy flirtation with Marine Le Pen, the fascist who dares not speak her true name. So I’m not surprised to see that our most francophone province has been importing something from the old country besides the expected language and culture. Bigotry (that’s French too!) is flowing in from there like sewage. Only this kind of filth doesn’t need any terrestrial pipelines to ooze through; all it needs is a computer connected to the internet, or maybe a satellite radio.

Yesterday I wrote a bit about how crapaganda influences the “thinking” of online trolls, who further the spread of the mental garbage by regurgitating it, holus bolus, on forums and blogs, or in the comments sections of news articles. It gives me no pleasure to see that Québec is full of it too, and that they even have their own hate-mongering versions of Rush Limbaugh and the FUX Snooze “personalities” (note the quotes, there for a reason):

“The real danger of this kind of radio is that they play with the line between news, opinion and demagoguery,” said Louis-Philippe Lampron, who teaches human rights law at Laval University.

Lampron said four or five talk-show hosts dominate the market, moving among a handful of stations and constantly competing for listeners with outrageous talk, which is often right-wing and populist in tone.

“It’s very insidious and aggressive,” he told The Washington Post.

Jeff Fillion, one of the best-known hosts, was fired last spring by Bell Media, owner of Energie 98.9 FM, after he ridiculed a prominent local businessman who had publicly grieved his son’s suicide. But soon after, Fillion was back on the air at another station.

Let’s face it, the reason Jeff Fillion got hired again so quickly is because outrage draws listeners, and listeners spell beaucoup d’argent (that’s MOOLAH, kiddies) for the stations. If enough people flipped their radios off, or to other channels, when the trash-talkers came on, the station owners would soon see their bottom lines suffering, and take the hint. Likewise, boycotts help; Rush Limbaugh’s loss of sponsors and stations speaks for itself.

Until you do something about the slime dripping out of your radio, though, they don’t care whether you like the slimy talkers or hate them, as long as you’re listening and buying whatever the advertisers are selling.

And as long as someone’s listening to all that ugly talk, someone’s also bound to be influenced to do ugly things. Like, oh, say, grabbing a restricted weapon and shooting up a mosque during evening prayers.

It’s clear that trash-talk radio is not just a problem in Québec. It happened there on Sunday, but in the US, it happens all the time. Even just a cursory google for terms like shooter and talk radio will turn up hits galore, and connections between the two. There are countless mass shootings directly tied to hate-mongering on the radio. And yet the US does little or nothing to rein in its radio talkers who cross the line. Little wonder, then, that they hold the world record for home-grown terrorist shootings. Res ipsa loquitur, people.

It’s not much use to hope that the US brings in tighter media regulations under Drumpf (unless they’re the kind that restrict your right to speak ill of fascists, that is). But here in Canada, we can and MUST do better.

Kicking Radio Poubelle off the air would be a good start.

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Why I have no tolerance for white supremacists, right wingers, and trolls

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Two words, kiddies: THIS GUY.

This guy is why I closed my comments slots on this blog for the foreseeable future. This guy is why I refuse to engage with the other side. This guy is why even my friends can’t comment here right now. Because this guy is not just one guy, he’s a whole mob of them. And they’re fucking loathsome.

I already know how these guys think. So to learn that the Québec mosque terrorist, Alexandre Bissonnette, was a pro-Drumpf troll who hated Muslims and immigrants and women and gun control, doesn’t surprise me at all. Neither does the fact that this guy wasn’t exactly popular with his peers. Or that he wasn’t really interested in rational dialogue with anyone, but only in stirring shit.

You see, I already know so much about Alex Bissonnette, even though I’ve never met him. Because he’s not a lone individual, as he’s portrayed, but one of a whole long slew of ‘winger trolls.

I’ve met the likes of him all over the internet for more than two decades now. I’ve heard all their so-called opinions, and they’re all so tiresomely alike. They all sound like they’ve been churned out by the same half-dozen right-wing crapaganda mills, and they have. Every time one of them used the word “feminazi”, for example, I knew I was dealing with a head full of Rush Limbaugh’s sexist shit. If it was “Illuminati”, fluoride in the water, evil vaccines, and the kind of antisemitism that is afraid to just come right out and say Jews, I knew I was dealing with one of Alex Jones’s minions. If it was a racist fascist accusing everyone else of being a racist and a fascist, it had to be Glenn Beck. And every time one of them linked to FUX Snooze, citing its “Fair and Balanced” tagline as “proof” that it deserved taking seriously, all I could do was roll my eyes and mock the moron for being such an obvious, uncritical rube.

Some of them were so persistent (and insistent) with their right-wing talking points that I began to wonder if they were paid to spout them. Especially the ones with links to right-wing crapaganda mills built right into their profiles. I even got a few of those right here on this blog. Later I found out that paid right-wing trolls are, indeed, a thing.

Nowadays, I can’t be arsed to argue with them in forums anymore. Their bullshit is boring. They’re not interested in engaging, but in drowning out. I refuse to be drowned. And since this blog is mine, with no one but me to answer to, I’m not allowing their backtalk here. For how long? For however long I decide it’s necessary.

If you think my anti-troll stance is extreme, you might want to click on some of those links, and learn a thing or two. I’ve been dealing with too many Alex Bissonnettes in this online world for too damn long already. I’m tired.

And there’s a lot of work to be done for progress, which won’t GET done as long as the trolls are allowed to bog the process down.

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Music for a Sunday: This one’s for Drumpf…

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Sabina Becker

…and I think you’ll agree it’s fitting, given all the lunacy that’s literally flying around over Gringolocolandia:

It’s called “Maschine Brennt”, that is, “The Plane’s On Fire”. Here are the lyrics:

If it weren’t so bad, so incredibly sad,
you could laugh without end, no doubt.
I’d like to see anyone who still can laugh
when his pants are on fire. Yeah, yeah, check it out.
It’s not easy now to tell you where and how
but it happened to me just last year.
And if I were still living now,
I could tell you how it really was, so here:

We’re all aboard, first class already stowed,
And everybody’s on a comfort seat.
A madame with no mister spots me right away,
she says “Rap that to the beat!” So then
I soberly check out — without a hint of doubt —
if her nail polish color suits her hands;
it might’ve let me know the next step to go,
I could’ve made some other plans.
Or maybe not.

Whoa, stop, go back!
Hey, where’s my parachute?
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
(Oh oh oh)
Whoa, stop, hang on!
The last angel’s gone!
And that’s no wonder ’cause
The plane’s on fire!

Cap’n Air Rage, he’s charming to a fault,
what the steward tells him makes him mad,
but he avoids the stress, because the stewardess
says this as she takes him by his strong hand:
“I see it clear and true, the sky’s still nice and blue,
who knows how long this luck will hold out;
The only problem is for those with no parachute,
falling 11,000 metres out…”

Translation mine.

It’s pretty damn apt, nicht wahr?

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Aeromexico throws down the gauntlet

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Hey, Drumpf! Think your wall is gonna amount to anything? This airline doesn’t:

And it looks like they’ve got your number when it comes to bully tactics, too.

You will never divide the world.

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Wankers of the Week: Alt-Facts for the Alt-Right, Post-Truth Era!

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! And a really crappy Holocaust Remembrance Day to all my friends. Damn, it’s becoming especially meaningful this year, isn’t it? Yeah. And that’s really saying something, considering what a post-meaning world we’re now suddenly living in. Lies are now “alternative facts”, as pushed by the “alt-right” (same old Nazi shit, wussy new Internet gloss). And here are this week’s lying liars — oh sorry, ALTERNATIVE FACTS PURVEYORS — in no particular order:

1. Kellyanne Fucking Conway. Let’s just get this one out of the way, right away: “Alternative facts” are no facts at all. They are LIES. And they’re good for nothing except all kinds of jokes and memes this week…and rightly so. PS: What’s this? A ballroom brawl? How classy! PPS: And just for good measure, ha ha. PPPS: Oh yeah, and #CrookedKellyanne needs to become a meme NOW. Because guess who ALSO used a private server, against the law?

2. Sean Fucking Spicer. It really takes some kind of chutzpah to lie through one’s teeth as easily as Mr. Dippin’ Dots does. Or, as Dubya (remember him?) used to say, “catapult the propaganda”! PS: Unemployment is “just a feeling”? Let’s see how YOU feel when you’re no longer working as a professional manure spreader for DrumpfCo. PPS: Sign, sign, sign!

3. Milo Fucking Yiannopoulos. And speaking of chutzpah, how about Milo Yeah-Nope, lying through his teeth (while wearing a ‘60s toilet-seat cover around his neck!) about the Bernie Sanders supporter who was shot by one of Drumpf’s own thugs outside his venue? If there were ever a reason to choke off Milo’s bullshitting career (and revoke his book deal), surely an innocent guy fighting for his life after being shot by a fascist is it, no?

4. Vicki Fucking Yohe. Oh look, White Racist Jesus is on his way back to the White House…to consort with an adulterer, a liar, a thief and an abuser of wives and children! Meanwhile, this self-righteous nobody is casting stones at those who know that the man has no legitimate claim to Jesus at all, much less the White House.

5. Dathan Fucking Paterno. “Vagina screechers”? Assuming that the women who marched against Drumpf didn’t vote? A chronic adversarial relationship with the facts? Gee. I can’t imagine why this one was forced to quit his school board post in disgrace, he seems like such a Nice Guy™! And just think, this one’s a psychologist, too. Maybe he needs a little anger management counselling?

6. Andrew Fucking Anglin. Oh look, a Nazified variation on the old “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal” shit. Loverly.

7. Tony Fucking Tinderholt. Yes, HIM again. Jared Loughner’s Evil Twin! And this time, he has some ideas about what to do with Texan women who have abortions (yes, even rape and incest victims): Jail them! And take away their voting rights! That’ll larn the irresponsible bitches! Yeah, tell me it’s all about the babies, T-bone. Smells like slut-shaming to me. At this rate, you can expect nothing except an awful lot of coat-hanger deaths. Which one would hope would teach him something about personal responsibility in lawmaking, but he’s not smart enough to grasp that.

8. Mike Fucking Pence. Hey Mikey, if “over half” of the women’s march were Drumpf supporters, as you insist, WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY BE MARCHING AGAINST HIM? Is rank stupidity now a requirement for the job of the man who is just one death certificate away from the presidency? FYI, the estimated total of marchers (who were not only women, but men and children as well) is remarkably similar to the number of votes by which Hillary Clinton actually beat him in the popular vote! PS: How about a HELL NO, Mikey?

9. Tomi Fucking Lahren. Dear White Supremacist Cheerleader: Your routine use of the word “snowflake” is awfully ironic. That word, it does not mean what you think it means. Also, you’re a fucking piece of shit. You know what shit does when exposed to the air and the light and the weather, don’t you? It smells. It dries out. It CRUMBLES. And when enough snowflakes hit it, it washes away. And so will you, before you know it. Love, A Canadian Blizzard.

10. Lamar Fucking Smith. Get “unvarnished truth” from Der Drumpf himself? No thanks. That’s too much like buying raw sewage straight from the pig farm.

11. Bruce Fucking Jones. With Facebook “friends” like this useless oaf, who needs enemies? Certainly not the woman to whom he mansplained the March on Washington. And whom he gaslighted and called mentally ill because she couldn’t “recognize” that “equality is all around” her when in fact it’s NOT. Remember that in ’19, West Chester, Ohio folks (especially female folks), because this oaf is up for re-election then. And surely you do NOT want to see anything of him but his back, right?

12. Ken Fucking Kiriakos Fucking Panagopoulos. Why the double Fucking?

That’s why. Gee, Kenny, your Olive seems unhappy. Maybe she needs you to get a Fleshlight! Oh wait, I don’t think they make them in mosquito-dick size. No wonder you’re so testy!

13. Joel Fucking LaPierre. If you’re going to start talking about shipping people back to where you think they came from — go back to France, tas de merde!

14. Piers Fucking Morgan. How’s it feel to be smacked for your sexism by none less than Ewan McGregor, you snaggle-toothed lump of stale bean curd? He may be “just an actor”, but he’s a better man than you, who are paid to spout shite without even a script as pretext.

15. Chuck Fucking Schumer. Let’s play the Name Game! Ready? I’ll start: Chuck Chuck bo buck, banana fanna fo fuck, what rhymes with “useless schmuck”? CHU-UCK!

16. Steve Fucking Bannon. Finally! We have found evidence of illegal voting…and guess who’s guilty? Yup, Drumpf’s own neo-Nazi, woman-abusing, drunk-off-his-ass advisor! He’s registered in two states. Probably helped with the rigging in several others too. Betcha.

17. Gregg Fucking Phillips. Meanwhile, the author of Alex Fucking Jones’s favorite cockamamie conspiracy theory claims he has the names of the three — or is it FIVE? — million illegal voters. Funny how that number keeps growing, but actual proof of it doesn’t exist. Well? Ante the fuck up, you cowardly shitstain. Why didn’t you do that BEFORE the election? Oh yeah: YOU HAVE NOTHING. And you’re going to go to jail for false accusations and electoral fraud, too, eventually. PS: Ha, ha. Don’t even bother trying to fabricate your evidence!

18. Donna Fucking Hinderer. Talk about an apt surname, eh? This twatwaffle tried to arrange a bus breakdown so a few dozen women couldn’t get to the march in Washington. But she was also dumb enough to publicize her intent on her Facebook page, leading riders to realize that she was not safe to ride with. You had one job, lady: TO DRIVE THE FUCKING BUS. If you can’t do it because you’re a political idiot, just say so and let someone else take the wheel.

19. Bill Fucking Kintner. He used state computers to have “cybersex” (read: wanking online), and insinuated that women’s rights marchers are too ugly to rape by retweeting Larry Fucking Elder. He also thinks no one understands women, least of all themselves. Is anyone surprised to know he’s a Drumpfite? I’m frankly surprised that the fucker quit his post. It’s probably the only smart thing he’s ever done in his 56 years of life.

20. Mick Fucking Mulvaney. Being a nanny is a real job. Raising your three brats is real work. PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES, ASSHOLE.

21. Dean Fucking Lapierre. What are women protesting anyway, asks this gross slob? YOU, shithead. We’re protesting YOU. You’re just like Drumpf in every way except one: You don’t have his money, and you’re not an illegitimate POTUS. You’re some minor-league meathead who thinks he can tell others what to do, but shouldn’t be held accountable because of what a great guy he thinks he is. No, asshole…you SUCK. Now STFU and resign. And stuff your “if I offended anyone” nopologies right back up your unattractive ass.

22. Mark Fucking Rutte. Look who’s trying to out-Wilders Wilders. Is somebody scared that the bleach-haired Nazi is gonna take his job if he doesn’t act all Nazified, too? How embarrassing for Holland.

23. Michele Fucking Bachmann. Yes, she’s still around. Yes, she’s still babbling inanities. No, I don’t know how to make it stop. Has anyone tried rolled-up sweatsocks and duct tape yet?

24. Steve Fucking Bannon. The media should keep their mouths shut? Uh, that’s not their job. Their job is to see things and say things. And this is awfully rich coming from the former CEO of a crapaganda fake-news outlet. But you go right ahead and keep your own big yap flappin’, Ginblossoms McFathead. The sooner you’re humiliated and hounded out of office, the better. Even better if you’re dragged out in handcuffs. PS: Ha, ha. How’s it feel to be slapped by Jake Tapper?

25. Joyce Fucking Krawiec. Women’s brains are “like lard”? Uh, no. Just yours, dear. And since you’re apparently short on brain matter yourself, some thoughtful constituents have sent you some. Ha, ha.

26. Daniel Fucking Dropik. Once more, with feeling: THERE IS NO SUCH FUCKING THING AS “ANTI-WHITE RACISM”. RACISM WORKS ONE WAY ONLY, AND THAT’S IN FAVOR OF WHITES. Also, shouldn’t “alt-right” student groups be illegal, seeing as the term means FASCIST? In any free democratic country, they ought to be. Especially since this would-be founder of one is a two-time racially-motivated arsonist.

27. Jon Fucking Jafari. No, gamer neckbeard boy, “sexist” does not mean what you think it means. You do not get to define words by your own whims. And there’s more than one kind of sexist oppression in this world. Interestingly, women in hijabs do get oppressed for being female — over here. They also get oppressed for being Muslims. But don’t take my word for it; ask Linda Sarsour. Oh wait — for that, you’d have to come out of your game room first!

28. Kevin O’Fucking Leary. It’s a day ending in “day”, and the worst Dragon in the Den has decided to wank again. And this time, he got it all over his co-star, Arlene Dickinson…who always struck me as the most rational of all the Dragons. Which makes his calling her “emotional” all the more ironic, no? Especially given his habit of getting cockamamie notions and flying off the handle. He’s especially volatile where women are concerned. Maybe someone should slip him a Portuguese Midol.

29. James Fucking Wiedmann. Awww, look who else is emotional and needs a chill pill! A guy whom no woman wants, and whose semen is going staler by the hour, waxing all bitter about the women’s march, and projecting it (as usual) on the women marching against the likes of him. Wanna cookie, snookie?

30. Brian Fucking Pallister. Sure is easy to be a racist prick when you’re hiding out for the winter in Costa Rica. Alas, your stupidity follows you everywhere, and so does the outrage. And just think, you’re supposed to be the premier of Manitoba. Why aren’t you doing your job?

And finally, to all the deplorables who just NOW got buyers’ remorse. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Do you not even listen critically to your candidates before you pick one? Or are you all just so blinded with petty vengefulness, racism, sexism, LGBTphobia, and whatever other shit you call “political incorrectness”, that you’ll literally swallow any gross shit that comes out of Der Drumpfler’s schlong, only to be surprised when it all comes up immediately afterwards as vomit? Well, you wanted a change and you voted for a deranged man, so, like you’re so fond of saying to your opponents — suck it up, buttercup! He’s actually letting a neo-Nazi drunkard draft his executive orders and tell the media to shut up, for fucksakes. About the only things he’s not delivering are the actual improvements. But boy oh boy, is he gonna stick YOU with the bill…and you’ll deserve it. But your neighbors who voted against him won’t be thanking you for that, because they’re stuck with it too.

And oh yeah, a special dishonorable mention to all the hypocritical fake Christians who are insisting now that the whole world unite behind him and stop the hating. When he was so fucking divisive and hateful the whole fucking time, and you lapped it all up? Fuck out of here with that shit. Nobody’s listening to your imbecilic sermons anymore. Go hang your head in shame. And pray that you won’t be judged the way you’re insisting on judging others right now.

In short: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS, DEPLORABLES.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Hey, it’s a pertinent question!

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Maybe Alex Fucking Jones knows?

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Quotable: Robert Burns on women’s rights

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Sabina Becker

More relevant now than ever. Happy Robert Burns Night, all bards and Scotsfolks!

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This could be the answer to the US Dems’ woes…

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Sabina Becker

…but only if you listen, and decide to join:

And if you want the Dems to keep on losing, you just stick to the corporate party’s agenda, eh?

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Q. How do you spell sexist in Portuguese?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Sabina Becker

A. T-R-I-F-E-N-E. Like this:

“Meeting your ex on the street with his new girlfriend. There are pains only women know. Trifene 200 rapidly relieves pain.”

As my Portuguese friend Tomás says, considering the number of men who murder their partners out of jealousy, maybe it’s they who need to take a Midol.

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