US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

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plane crash in LA yesterday:

A plane crashed onto the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. https://t.co/L09NSqhq3k pic.twitter.com/dXHLoY4aKB

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 23, 2018

um

that plane tho

just a series of assassinations attempts on prominent democrats while nazi aircraft take to the skies over los angeles, let's be cool

There’s a great example of this in Fame is the Spur by howard spring, a novel about the early Labour Party in the UK. The protagonist pushing a old man to the polls nearly gets run down by the lord of the manor bussing Tory voters to the poll in his coach. There’s currently an 80sradio adaptation of this, starring Ian McKellan, streaming on the BBC right now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0121293

See also scenes in the the brensham trilogy by John Moore, beer or cash for votes.

Not sure why I’m derailing the thread with this but enjoy.

The film version was on Talking Pictures recently, but like the main portagonist, played by Michael Redgrave, I felt like I'd aged from 18 to 76 just watching it.

good mourning!

> brensham trilogy

further derail - my mum was from the village he lived in, kemerton. the book focuses on brensham (bredon) and elmbury (tewkesbury) iirc.

https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/17/this-donald-trump-waxwork-is-scarier-and-more-orange-than-the-real-thing-7006675/

Wheres the wax rotund?

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suspicious package to Robert de Niro

will, omg

If you're carrying out a white flag operation the actor Robert De Niro has got to be an obvious target.

A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

Remember when the Obama administration suggested the Benghazi attacks were a response to an anti-Muslim video and Republicans lost their fucking minds?

The mainstream media must stop inciting violence against CNN.

I’m afraid one of these bombs will go off honestly

It'll be the office postboy that ends up getting his hands blown off. And all because of the mainstream media. Sad.

Trump should get to the bottom of these bad vibes, stat.

Biden gets a bomb too

Fox News' undercoverage of this is expectedly grotesque. it's like the fourth story down on the website and refers to DeNiro as a "lefty acting legend."

Actually, he is most famous for playing righties.

Fahrenthold, rightfully, is covering the civil suit trial prompted by his investigations into Trump's 'charity' donations. Perfect timing, really.

Good morning from Courtroom 208 in NYC! I’m here to cover a lawsuit alleging @realDonaldTrump used a charity as his personal piggy bank. 1/ pic.twitter.com/FD3l0FG7Th

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 25, 2018

Sometimes it's all about understatement.

Update from court: @realDonaldTrump’s atty arguing it wasn’t illegal for Trump campaign to direct Trump Fdn’s donations. Judge skeptical.

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 25, 2018

Fuchs: "They say that the Foundation was a passive recipient of the transactions."

"To use the modern parlance, that's not a thing," she says.

(Laughter in the courtroom)

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 25, 2018

Just heard from a Hill staffer that Cannon House Office Building is being evacuated.

Nancy Pelosi's office is in Cannon.

— 👻low voter turnout💀 (@JordanUhl) October 25, 2018

the entire republican party is either
1) going with the story that the victims of these attacks brought it on themselves
2) saying nothing

everything is fine!

i assume that within a few weeks (if not sooner) Trump will be praising the bomber.
certainly by 2020.

"i like bombers who make bombs that go off, OK?"

Let me guess, next up there will be a mysterious fire in the US Capitol building, followed by crackdowns on Democrats and permanent martial law?

perhaps in order to deal with this tense situation, they'll have to delay the elections indefinitely.

"i like bombers who make bombs that go off, OK?"

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:18 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ummm

My first thought was that the bombs came from a Republican. Then I learned the bombs don't work.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 24, 2018

steven pinker, famous brain genious:

Steven Pinker
‏@sapinker

Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt.
11:56 PM - 24 Oct 2018

Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt. https://t.co/zXnBJXCqdB

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 25, 2018

steven pinker on migrant caravan :

. . .

it's incredible how stupid major cognitive scientists are when they step an inch outside their scholarly wheelhouse

i know drawing Dilbert is a complicated endeavor but....

that's true for most scientists ime

xp

Cannon Building has "all clear" - false alarm

what is Scott Adams saying there? that Republicans are better at constructing bombs?

yes

yep, the violent democratic mob is also less experienced at violence, somehow

He’s saying that “Democrats” are lazy and don’t like to work

berks county, PA republican party is sharing "false flag" conspiracy theories on social media.

see e.g.
https://ptpimg.me/m9reuh.jpg

i'm sure the same goes for many other official GOP pages, etc.

they probably tried to turn their Obamaphones into explosive devices

which, for this tedious dilbert asshole, a pretty solid zing

xposts

Trump’s response to yesterday’s bombings is to warn people that if they keep criticizing him they’ll be killed. https://t.co/PmVwDOAI0J

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 25, 2018

guys I'm sure that if Republicans had been the targets of mailbombs, the same people would think that was a false flag op too

this is a preview of the 2020 election btw
stochastic terrorism as campaign tactic

Rosenstein mailed da bombs