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.
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!
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:
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.
I got arrested for dropping a sarcastic comment. And it wasn’t even my first offence. I’ve also had a whole entire post removed for being sarcastic:
Now, anyone with a working pair of eyes could see that this was a positive story. I was snarking on a certain highly prevalent mindset that’s eating the United States of Amnesia (and Canada, too) alive. I have Muslim friends, none of whom complained about my comment. That’s because they know me. They know how I feel about racist asshats. They’re not dweebs. They understand sarcasm even when it’s not in Arabic.
Facebook, however, doesn’t understand it in any language.
You don’t understand SARCASM, do you? Or at least your idiot algorithm doesn’t. Meanwhile, I regret to inform you that actual Nazis, white supremacists, KKK, etc., are still using your site to recruit and brainwash thousands. With complete impunity.
Here’s hoping that there’s some human in there on the receiving end who will get the message, because their brain-dead racist algorithm certainly doesn’t.
Naturally, Cenk and Ana have no sympathy, and neither do I. Nor should you. After all, this is the kid who lives like a capitalist every day! He has no rights, under capitalism, to healthcare. He said so himself. He has no empathy for others, so no sympathy for him. You believe in choice in medicine, Chuckles? There you go. Now you have a choice: sleep on a park bench outside “disgrace” Cedars-Sinai Hospital, or just leave it up to God. Pity you don’t live in Venezuela or Cuba; there, you might actually get seen by a doctor! And a pity, too, that Bernie Sanders isn’t president right now, eh?
And DO doubt the PR statements put out by those racist little shits from Covington Catholic, because this is the longer video that you MUST see:
Yeah. That’s the part of the story they haven’t told you. This video doesn’t exonerate the kids; it actually makes them look even worse, if that’s possible.
As for the Black Hebrew Israelites, so-called, well…they may be provocateurs, kooks, and even hatemongers according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, but a broken clock is right for two seconds out of any given day. Those guys are broken clocks, and this was their two seconds. Those kids ARE crackers, practically by definition.
And here’s another part that the major media have yet to get to — the dignity of an indigenous elder who happens to share a name with Toronto’s first Jewish mayor:
All he was doing was trying to prevent a brawl between the so-called Israelites and the MAGAts. A fight which the cowardly MAGAt brats were clearly spoiling for, but didn’t have the guts to actually wade into.
But the little shits weren’t content to be sexist; no, they had to get all racist as well. They ridiculed Nathan Phillips with fake-Maori antics (in the form of the sloppiest fake haka ever) and appeared — nay, declared themselves — to be quite all right with land theft, as long as it was white men doing it to brown people. Which is all of a piece with their efforts to commandeer any and all bodies possessing uteri for the purposes of forced birth, as well. (And those efforts are all part of a larger scheme whose proper name is white supremacy.)
And the shitshow doesn’t stop there. They also slut-shamed a random woman on the street. Only later did she realize that the kids in the red hats who hollered rapey shit at others, as well as “slut” at her, were the same ones who did this. Apparently they harassed her BEFORE they did it to Mr. Phillips. Here’s what she had to say about that:
And of course, the little shits were rewarded for their egotism by a fellow egotist and narcissist, who undoubtedly felt compelled to do it because he shares their racism, as well as their terrible taste in hats. (That reward is now up in the air, since there’s been a huge backlash and further condemnation of the incident; their school was shut down all day Tuesday.)
But whether these juvenile delinquents (and the so-called adults who aided and abetted them instead of teaching them properly) get their White House rewards or not, one thing’s for certain: they are privileged little shits, and they know it. That’s where the smirk on that one punk’s face came from. That’s why they were so confident they would get away with this. Their school’s diocese, BTW, has paid out millions in settlements to sexually abused children. It’s clearly rolling in riches, and so are they, as the school is private, with tuition fees in the thousands per student. Who else has the means to hire PR flacks to spin things to make them look innocent when they so obviously aren’t?
Oh, and one last thing: Guess who “helped” with the failed PR initiative? None other than two notorious “alt-right” white supremacist thugs with a habit of popping up all over the internet — namely, Jack Posobiec and Mike “Juicebro” Cernovich:
In short: It’s all a perfect storm of ungodly white supremacism and neofascist thuggery. And it’s all blowing up spectacularly in the perpetrators’ faces.
Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next.
--Arthur Miller, "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'", The New Yorker, October 21, 1996
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