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

"it is just a mosaic" is on some "the core, the heart music" shit

he's trying to say there are no places where diversity is real, that instead there are only places where individual ethnic groups collide against each other with hard borders and no interaction, like a patchwork quilt or mosaic.

this line of thinking is why when he tries to think of examples of "diversity" a few sentences later, all he can come up with is "Mexican food, Chinese food, those things"

Teacher on one fo the courses I'm on was explaining the difference between multicultural and intercultural last week. Assume the latter is reasonably widespread.

In the evening, after the representatives returned to the Ritz, King asked a diplomat to arrange for a “Chinese masseuse” to be sent to his room, two U.S. officials said. One official with connections in Chinese circles was even asked to make inquiries about how to procure one, but declined.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/550616/rep-steve-king-reportedly-tried-order-chinese-masseuse-moscow-hotel

lakers in san antonio tonight and lebron is wearing a beto for senate hat pic.twitter.com/OGmFKTRCht

— Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) October 27, 2018

Hero

It would be a test of his sway and celebrity if he could make Beto hats a thing, a la sneakers or something.

Beto = Not A Bum

Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/directed by the "Soros-occupied State Department". pic.twitter.com/QBSong7uk1

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2018

What will it take to finally start a Fox News backlash? Will repeating a conspiracy theory, a few hours layer, also referenced by today's alleged gunman suffice?

gonna go out on a limb here: lol nope

as if antisemitism isn’t popular

oh, LeBron is playing for the Lakers this year?

Lou Dobbs, Grecian Formula believer!

Has the magabomber been pardoned yet?
I mean priorities in the lead up to an election and all.
Are republicans selling his tshirt as a comment on the great american values that inspire them. D.I.Y practise in the back of a live in van and all? As a sign of self reliance.

My one wish at this point is that when he is no longer president, whenever and however that comes about, that no one ever reports on a word he says ever again.

So the synagogue shooter directly cited the “Soros sent the caravan to bring terrorists into this country” theory that the fucking president spread over Twitter. This is 100% on Trump.

Well, he probably heard it on Fox.

i just got into a conversation with a friend of a friend on FB and she didn't even understand the motivations behind this shooting. She kept claiming it was because the shooter "hated Jews and Hated Trump." I said it was about HIAS and the caravan. She went off about how it's totally feasible terrorists could come over in this caravan. I said, "do you even understand what this shooting was about?" She clearly didn't; didn't know what HIAS was; didn't understand why any jewish organization would be helping the caravan; it was depressing. God knows where she gets her news. Curious if FOX is saying a single thing about HIAS and the caravan involvement in the shooting.

pic.twitter.com/FYUlFTcB9I

— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) October 27, 2018

saw that last night perfect metaphor for how he's going to leave everything when he inevitably leaves office, "someone else pick up my mess".

You'll find your fortune
Fallin' all over town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down

I thought I understood what hatred for a human being was before, but it turns out that I really didn't. It's so deep and consuming and multifaceted, and it's sometimes triggered by the simplest things. Like for example an umbrella carelessly left outside an airplane door. Such an utterly contemptible person, of no worth whatsoever and a complete burden on everyone.

^^^ this

^^^ this

a friend of mine, normally mild-mannered and not particularly political, posted something recently like, "i have never in my life wished as fervently and frequent for someone to die as i wish for donald trump to die."

good mourning!

that phrase feels even more acute today.

For me, timing is everything.

probably b/c this hit so close to home my ability to sustain sarcasm, or even to countenance it, has been wiped away the last 24 hours. even the usual left-wing efforts to snarkily observe right-wing hypocrisies, which i've partaken in my life, have just curdled for me.

For the sake of our sanity, let me offer advice: the news cycles of the last four days have dwelt obsessively with WHAT WILL TRUMP SAY NOW OMIGOD, therefore stop focusing on Trump and focus on the rotting garbage of neo-Confederates called the Grand Old Party.

As someone on Twitter pointed out, the logical endpoint of the president's statements is that it's time to give antifa guns.

For the sake of our sanity, let me offer advice: the news cycles of the last four days have dwelt obsessively with WHAT WILL TRUMP SAY NOW OMIGOD, therefore stop focusing on Trump and focus on the rotting garbage of neo-Confederates called the Grand Old Party.

― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, October 28, 2018 5:07 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is good advice, but the downside is that we might miss the headline when Trump is pulverized when he walks into the running engine of Air Force One.

The logical endpoint is civil war, but no one's going to *give* antifa guns. A fair fight isn't the plan. And there will be nothing sexy about that civil war.

It was a joke, stevie. (though there are a few lefty gun groups and I'm betting their ranks are swelling.)

this is good advice, but the downside is that we might miss the headline when Trump is pulverized when he walks into the running engine of Air Force One.

yes but feel for that poor plane!

I know someone who used to work in a photo lab who was taken off her machine one day because the accident investigators from Newark Airport had sent in photos of what happened when a runway crew member got distracted, backed up too far, and was sucked into a jet engine. Apparently it was as if someone had hurled several buckets of red paint into a high-speed fan, and the manager decided to process the images himself rather than make any of his employees do it.

over-sharing is a thing

Wow that’s a good boss

I've long believed that a good way to check it telekinesis is b.s. or not is to have 10 million people at a predetermined time all focus on having his heart seize up or directing him into a AF1 engine. Maybe 20, 30 million?

That’s a reverse Tinkerbell *or* how the Master got beat in series 3 of NuWho :-)))

a good, concise recounting of how trump and the GOP's demagoguery on the migrant caravan inspired the pittsburgh shooter:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/caravan-lie-sparked-massacre-american-jews/574213/

The apparent spark for the worst anti-Semitic massacre in American history was a racist hoax inflamed by a U.S. president seeking to help his party win a midterm election. There is no political gesture, no public statement, and no alteration in rhetoric or behavior that will change this fact. The shooter might have found a different reason to act on a different day. But he chose to act on Saturday, and he apparently chose to act in response to a political fiction that the president himself chose to spread, and that his followers chose to amplify.

As for those who aided the president in his propaganda campaign, who enabled him to prey on racist fears to fabricate a national emergency, those who said to themselves, “This is the play”? Every single one of them bears some responsibility for what followed. Their condemnations of antisemitism are meaningless. Their thoughts and prayers are worthless. Their condolences are irrelevant. They can never undo what they have done, and what they have done will never be forgotten.

Serwer's good.

Meanwhile Florida!

The #GillumSurge crowd from ruby red St. Johns County doesn’t even fit into a panoramic shot. pic.twitter.com/X6pKvp8Ceq

— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) October 28, 2018

Alfred you think Gillum's gonna do the thing or nah

couple polls showing him +1 to +5 but anything under +10 makes me nervous

he's consistently lead, by small and large margins, since winning the nomination in August

I won't deny that Florida electing its first Democratic governor since 1994 would exhilarate me more than anything since 2008, despite my lack of illusions.

if bolsonaro wins in brazil today, does anyone think that trump is NOT going to praise him as a strong leader?

re. trump, imagine the worst thing you can imagine him doing. he will do that, or worse.

I used to be the White House lawyer responsible for the Hatch Act. If any taxpayer funds were used to pay for this event, given what Trump said, that would be illegal. Press should demand to know if campaigns will reimburse taxpayers for this event. https://t.co/HK8vZRItLq

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) October 28, 2018

THIS will be the thing that brings trump down!

https://i.imgur.com/twsE1BF.gif