This is so delicious, you’ll want to watch it several times to get the full flavor of it all:
The guy in the red gingham shirt is Patrick Little, the neo-Nazi who (thankfully) lost his run for a Republican candidacy in California. He’s talking to Jason Kessler (on the phone), the organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” rally, the one where Heather Heyer was murdered by a Nazi who deliberately ran her and over a dozen others down with his car. Seems that Little Jason isn’t too thrilled about having to stay with his parents because he can’t afford a place of his own, thanks to the legal fees he’s paying because he’s being sued for his part in that vehicular homicide. And his dad is none to happy about the kid livestreaming from the parents’ bedroom. In fact, both of his parents are not impressed with this whole Nazi thing. He calls them “cucked”, but the truth of the matter is, he’s the cucked one, and he’s brought it all on himself.
Same goes for Little, who is broadcasting from a boat because he’s afraid his landlord (“Shlomo”; how stereotypey can an antisemite get?) is going to throw him out. And he’s gonna have to sell the boat to pay his own legal fees, or whatever. My question is, how does a Nazi get his hands on a boat in the first place? Those things aren’t cheap. Who are all the dumb cucks who spent money so he could buy one of those? Maybe he’ll have to sell it (at a loss, he stresses) to pay these suckers back.
Any way you slice it, it’s funny as hell. Both of these fascists aren’t looking so high and mighty now.
Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi turned antifascist author and deprogrammer, talks with David Pakman about racist and sexist garbage science, and how it serves as a point of entry into much more radical, outright fascist politics. He also tells what got him out of the Nazi cult — namely, having to sell more than “white power” records to make ends meet, and being forced to interact on a human level with the very people the Nazi cult had taught him to view as subhuman. His solution of choice? Better education…to get to alienated young people BEFORE they can turn into fascists. And “filling the potholes” in people’s social needs, too. In other words: Prevention is better than cure.
WASHINGTON — Metro closed down a gate at the Vienna station to the general public on Sunday for the “Unite the Right 2” rally participants to have police-escorted access onto a train car, drawing anger from Metro’s union, saying they were lied to.
A few weeks ago, Metro Board Chair Jack Evans said the agency was considering having special trains or cars to separate white nationalists from the public.
After union workers and Metro riders began to react to the controversial idea, Metro said in a statement that they would not offer separate trains for the rally.
Metro’s largest union, ATU Local 689, called out Metro on Twitter saying the agency lied to riders and the public with the decision to close down the gates to the general public after the agency had said that they would not offer separate trains for the rally.
The union said Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld lied to the public “when the truth was more convenient.”
The north entrance of the station was closed to the public and the gates were only opened for Unite the Right participants Sunday after noon between approximately 1:20 p.m. and 1:40 p.m.
One of WUSA9’s photographers was among those denied access to the station as rally organizer Jason Kessler and his group purchased SmarTrip cards and boarded the train bound for Foggy Bottom.
Many took to Twitter to ask Metro why the decision was made to close the gates.
According to Metro, the gates were temporarily closed for “crowd control.”
What a lie. The crowds were piled up outside the gates, so what “crowd control”?
The only way this bullshit makes any sense is if you look at what they were REALLY doing there, namely CODDLING THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS. Because those fragile snowflakes couldn’t bear to be challenged on their fraudulent, fascist bullshit. And because they sure as hell couldn’t be arsed to share their train car with those uppity black folks who refuse to sit in the back of the bus any longer. Why, they might even have to strike up a conversation with those people. Can you imagine? And then they’d have to find out that — gasp! — they’re not actually superior to those with more eumelanin in their hides.
And from there, it would logically follow that wanting a “white ethnostate” (translation: genocide of anyone who doesn’t at least outwardly pass as white) makes no sense at all. Because if black people are not so different from white people underneath it all, what would be the point of white supremacy — oh sorry, “separatism”? And what would be the point of their widdle (as it turned out, VERY widdle) “Unite the Right 2” rally, which was supposed to be a grand show of fascist force but turned out to be a downright piddling show of fascist farce?
I sure do hope that the expense of hiring extra security, and cordoning off a train car just for two dozen fashy haircuts, was worth it to DC Metro. And I sure do hope that it will still be worth it when the inevitable class-action lawsuits start to roll in on Metro management, the police, and anyone else behind this shitshow. Because that was taxpayer money — the people’s money — that went toward procuring a secure, separate train car for a bunch of wankers who don’t care about any people other than themselves. And who are, at bottom, determined to wipe all those other people out.
…you’re just a far-right ideologue and simpleton masquerading as a profound shaman of archetypal wisdom. Big fuckin’ difference, eh:
But sure, keep pretending you’re above the fray. Your loser-lobster followers will never catch on, because they’re all carapace and no brain, just like you.
The Nazis were nowhere in sight. Probably because different people all turned out to tell them to fuck off with their tiki torches and their bad haircuts. Long live the people of Charlottesville!
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I love how they put “huge announcement” in italics. That’s bigly impressive! Not as bigly impressive as the existing space force known as NASA, though.
A Washington Post video on Paul Manafort, the former kingmaker of Ukraine, turned kingmaker for Donnie Drumpf. It seems that this perennial campaign manager for predictable losers turned unexpected “winners” (note the quotes, there for a reason) has a taste for the high life. And thanks to it, he wound up with his dirty little fingers in an awful lot of messy, sticky pies. His campaign work was lucrative, but crooked, and now he’s looking at spending the rest of his life in the federal pen…unless he sings to Robert Mueller. In which case, it could spell a reduced sentence for him, and big trouble for his old pal Donnie.
The report by the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) goes above the head of the managing director, Christine Lagarde. It answers solely to the board of executive directors, and those from Asia and Latin America are clearly incensed at the way European Union insiders used the fund to rescue their own rich currency union and banking system.
The three main bailouts for Greece, Portugal and Ireland were unprecedented in scale and character. The trio were each allowed to borrow over 2,000% of their allocated quota – more than three times the normal limit – and accounted for 80% of all lending by the fund between 2011 and 2014.
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The report said the whole approach to the eurozone was characterised by “groupthink” and intellectual capture. They had no fall-back plans on how to tackle a systemic crisis in the eurozone – or how to deal with the politics of a multinational currency union – because they had ruled out any possibility that it could happen.
“Before the launch of the euro, the IMF’s public statements tended to emphasise the advantages of the common currency,” it said. Some staff members warned that the design of the euro was fundamentally flawed but they were overruled.
“After a heated internal debate, the view supportive of what was perceived to be Europe’s political project ultimately prevailed,” it said.
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At root was a failure to grasp the elemental point that currency unions with no treasury or political union to back them up are inherently vulnerable to debt crises. States facing a shock no longer have sovereign tools to defend themselves. Devaluation risk is switched into bankruptcy risk.
“In a monetary union, the basics of debt dynamics change as countries forgo monetary policy and exchange rate adjustment tools,” said the report. This would be amplified by a “vicious feedback between banks and sovereigns”, each taking the other down. That the IMF failed to anticipate any of this was a serious scientific and professional failure.
In Greece, the IMF violated its own cardinal rule by signing off on a bailout in 2010 even though it could offer no assurance that the package would bring the country’s debts under control or clear the way for recovery, and many suspected from the start that it was doomed.
The organisation got around this by slipping through a radical change in IMF rescue policy, allowing an exemption (since abolished) if there was a risk of systemic contagion. “The board was not consulted or informed,” it said. The directors discovered the bombshell “tucked into the text” of the Greek package, but by then it was a fait accompli.
There’s a lot more at the link, so go read it all. And for now, savor the rarity of this whole thing. Because some of us saw this coming, but hearing them actually admit this is like seeing a snowball fight going down on the Equator!
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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