News of the Restless

Music for a Sunday: Better not turn your back on a paradise

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Sabina Becker

She’s a lonely woman, quiet in her ways…

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Can Donnie even read? And if he can, DOES he?

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Sabina Becker

No, I don’t mean THIS Donnie…

…who clearly HAS read his assigned literature and comprehends it. I’m talking THIS Donnie:

…who seems to be about as literate as your average slug. And about a tenth as capable of comprehending anything.

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Alex Jones is losing it.

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Well, in a manner of speaking. If you ask me, he never had much of a grip on it in the first place. But this is bad enough that David Pakman thought it worth commenting on:

As for me, if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say he’s doing a lot of drugs. And that he’s about to get caught with his pants down in front of a 12-year-old. We already know that he doesn’t really give a damn about kids, because look at how he talks about the ones who died at Sandy Hook.

As for that “walnut sauce” babbling, it’s laughable even on the face of it. The pituitary gland is something you wouldn’t be able to just rip out of a corpse in a hurry and eat to get high…you’d need to saw through the entire skull, poke down to the very middle of the brain, and delicately remove with surgical tools, if you were going to get to it at all. It also doesn’t cause any kind of “high” if consumed. It’s only effective while the person is alive, and its job is to co-ordinate hormone production and, in immature persons, to stimulate growth. If eaten, it would only be a very small piece of meat with no effect on the eater.

But, all that being said, it tells you something as to where Alex’s head is at. And the answer is clear: it is firmly and irrevocably lodged up his ass. Just where it’s always been.

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Posted in Crapagandarati, Drrrrruuuugs, Fascism Without Swastikas, Guns, Guns, Guns, Men Who Just Don't Get It, She Blinded Me With Science, Sick Frickin' Bastards, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Bolsonaro’s son tied to the murder of Marielle Franco

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Yeah, Bolsovômito, point those finger guns while you still can. Just remember, though, that the finger of justice is pointing back at you…AND your vile fascist son:

The mother-in-law of the former captain of the Battalion of Special Operations (BOPE), Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, militia chief of Rio das Pedras, worked until November of last year in the cabinet of then state deputy Flávio Bolsonaro, the newspaper O Globo revealed. Adriano is one of two suspected of involvement in the murder of Marielle Franco (PSOL) and driver Anderson Gomes.

Adriano was a member of the “Escritório do Crime”, an armed branch of the militia which took part in land grabs in Rio das Pedras, specializing in hired assassinations. According to O Globo, he was accused more than a decade ago of involvement in homicides. There is a warrant out for his arrest, but he has not yet been located.

Adriano’s mother, Raimunda Veras Magalhães, and his wife, Danielle Mendonça da Costa da Nóbrega, worked for Flávio Bolsonaro, receiving 6,490.35 reis monthly. Both were exonerated on November 13, 2018.

The newspaper also found that Adriano was a friend of Fabrício Queiroz, Flavio’s ex-advisor, who was investigated by the Public Ministry under suspicion of collecting part of the salaries of the functionaries of the elected senator. According to Lauro Jardim’s column, Queiroz had spent some days hidden in the community of Rio das Pedras, where the Escritório do Crime operated.

Queiroz was responsible for recommending Adriano’s family members to the Bolsonaro family. As well, Globo points out that Raimunda was one of the functionaries who deposited money in Queiroz’s account — 4,600 reis. Adriano’s mother is partner in a restaurant located in front of the Banco Itaú agency in which the majority of the cash deposits were made to Queiroz’s account.

Translation mine.

It’s early days yet, but already we’re seeing that there ARE fascist death squads operating in Brazil…and they’re taking orders from the very top, however roundabout the route may seem.

Stay tuned to this channel, folks, it’s going to get a lot uglier out there before this bunch of thugs finally meets the fate they all deserve.

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Donnie Drumpf’s FUX Snooze honeymoon is OVER!

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Sabina Becker

How bad is the Polar Vortex? Well, so much so that hell may have just frozen over:

Yeah, that’s right. He dissed both the Coultergeist and FUX Snooze! And they both seem to have grown a little bit of self-awareness as a result. Coultergeist called herself a “stupid girl” (hey, stopped clock, two seconds!) while Brian Kilmeade grew some semblance of a brain.

And me? I found myself agreeing with all of them, for whatever THAT’s worth.

I know, I know. I can’t pony it either.

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Billionaire who hates paying taxes floats presidential run, gets ridiculed

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Sabina Becker

And how:

Love that heckler who keeps giving him hell. That alone was worth the price of admission. As is all the flak he’s getting on the tweeter. If only his coffee were as thoroughly roasted as his ass…

Ana thinks he’s just promoting his book, but I’m sure he’s actually serious about doing it, because he’s seen how that’s working out for Donnie, as a non-taxpaying, emoluments-clause-violating crook. How better to make sure that laws jacking your taxes don’t get passed, than by being the person who can exercise veto power over them at will?

Also, I can’t stop laughing at the idea that “centrists” are “outside the two-party system”. No, they are not. By definition, they are in the very middle of it. You know, the thick of things? Where the Rs bleed into the Ds, and vice versa?

And, let’s face it, billionaires are NOT independent. They answer to big money just as much as any bought-off mainstream politician in the US of Amnesia. The difference is, in their case, that it doesn’t have to come from industry lobbyists. They don’t have to rely on anyone else to finance their campaigns. They have, effectively, cut out the middlemen (and -women) and become their own industry lobby. They’ve replaced big-dollar donors with their own self-interest. It’s almost admirable how stupidly transparent this whole scheme is!

What a pity, then, that literally NOBODY asked this bozo to run. In fact, people are begging him NOT to. And those who aren’t begging, are ridiculing. And those too saddened to ridicule are sharing their “holy shit, this motherfucker is cheap” stories on the tweeter.

It’s almost like this guy is Donnie, minus the name recognition and the racism.

PS: Oooooo, things just got interesting. Here’s some more footage of the heroic heckler, and at the very end, Sam Seder throws down the gauntlet for the billionaire moron:

Do you think the moron will take him up on it?

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Posted in Der Drumpf, Economics for Dummies, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Good to Know, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Schadenfreude, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Inside the incel “movement” — a must-watch CBC documentary

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Sabina Becker

A humane, non-minimizing look at men suffering what could rightly be called a mass delusion, one that has already led to several instances of murder and terrorism. But what seems to be a psychopathology unto itself, is in fact a symptom of something much bigger and worse. It has become clear that incels who act out, as Alek Minassian did, are NOT lone wolves. Even if they each seem to be acting alone, there is a cultish collectivity behind them. And its tendency is far-right, racist, antisemitic, misogynous…in short, FASCIST.

Even worse, they tend to pull each other back into the cult, goading one another to become more extreme, in what’s known as the crab bucket effect — a tendency among cult members to keep each other in the cult, so no one has to face the admittedly frightening prospect of suddenly thinking for oneself and facing a seemingly hostile outside world alone. Their identity depends on them being “outcasts” together. At a terrible price — hating themselves and each other as much if not more than they hate others outside of their group — they “belong” somewhere, often for the first time in their lives. It’s a bleak existence, and it’s little wonder that suicide (often following a murder or string of murders) is the only sure way out for so many of them.

But there is one unexpectedly hopeful bit, at the very end: When the reporter, Mark Kelley, confronts one of them with the detrimental effect his hate-rap videos are having on his audience, he admits that he’s been having second thoughts about it all…and soon thereafter, he announces that he’s “going dark”, ceasing to live-stream his rants, and deleting his Twitter account. Maybe that’s what this dangerous cult needs: deprogrammers who can confront its members and turn them away from the mutually-destructive crab-bucket environment of the online incel forums.

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