It’s Not Okay if He Doesn’t Mean It

Everybody was forwarding the Serwer piece around and it’s excellent, but this is the part I didn’t see anyone talking about yesterday:  Many of Trump’s defenders argue that his rhetoric is mere shtick—that his attacks, however cruel, aren’t taken 100 percent seriously by his supporters. But to make this argument is to concede that following Trump’s statements to their logical conclusion could lead to violence against his targets, and it is only because most do not take it that way that the political violence committed on Trump’s behalf is as limited as it currently is. Emphasis mine. THAT MAKES IT … Continue reading It’s Not Okay if He Doesn’t Mean It

Do Something Right Now

Well, who DOESN’T feel helpless this morning? Friend of Blog Jude points us to this fundraiser being held in Madison, Wis. for the Trans Law Help Center, a volunteer legal aid clinic helping people dealing with the Trump administration’s ever-erupting volcano of bullshit. If you can’t attend, I’ll match the first $100 in donations to the center, run through Community Justice Inc, just link to a pic of your receipt in the comments. Fuck the fascists. A. Continue reading Do Something Right Now

Kristallnacht In Broad Daylight

Writing for First Draft is one of my passions. It’s often my therapy. This has been one of those times. The MAGA Bomber’s failed attempt at mass assassination shook me to the core. Then, the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh left many of us questioning what it means to be an American in the Trump era. I am proud to be an American, but I am ashamed of our current leadership’s inability to respond with an ounce of human decency or a scintilla of empathy. As far as the president* is concerned, it’s an inconvenient interruption of … Continue reading Kristallnacht In Broad Daylight

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – letting your freak false flag fly edition

Good morning, all.

Well, it doesn’t take Carnac The Magnificent to figure out what the topic of the day is in Freeperville, so let’s get cracking!

Suspicious package sent to Obama intercepted by Secret Service
The Hill ^ | October 24, 2018 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 10/24/2018, 9:09:53 AM by EdnaMode

The Secret Service has intercepted a suspicious package addressed to former President Obama in Washington, D.C.

The Secret Service said in a statement that the package, and another sent to the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York, were identified as “potential explosive devices and appropriately handled as such.”

The statement said that the Obamas and Clintons did not receive the packages, and were not at risk of receiving them.

The package sent to the Clintons was reported earlier Wednesday and was intercepted late Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service.

“The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such,” the Secret Service said in a statement. “The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them.”

The Secret Service said it had initiated “a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible.”

NBC New York reported that the package sent to the Clintons is similar to the explosive device found at the home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Monday.

Well, I wonder what the first comment is going to be….

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Soros yesterday, The Clintons and Obama today. Right before midterms. Has to be a hoax.
1 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:09:53 AM by EdnaMode
Hey now – can’t you morons even wait until the first comment before going all Alex Jones on me?
To: EdnaMode

 

This hoax false flag is the Dems October Suprise.

7 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:12:34 AM by Democrats hate too much

This thread is gonna get repetitive REALLY fast.
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Come on, guys – at least use your imaginations.
To: EdnaMode

 

Theres nothing suspicious about it…

its Obamas monthly Fentanyl shipment from Mexico…

10 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:14:24 AM by Tennessee Nana

OK – maybe a little too much imagination on that one.

To: EdnaMode

As I said on the Clinton thread, this is not the MO for conservatives.

FEDERAL BUILDING

We enact change at the ballot box or if necessary the cartridge box.

Diddums

 

It is typical for the left to try to send bombs through mail because they have no problems with scaring people into compliance or killing them if the person disagrees with them.

15 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:15:50 AM by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified… 1 Corinthians 1:23)

Do tell.
At age 29, Rudolph was the perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics. He called the police, warning about the bomb before it detonated. The blast killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. Melih Uzunyol, a Turkish cameraman, who ran to the scene following the blast, died of a heart attack. Rudolph’s motive for the bombings, according to his April 13, 2005 statement, was political (…)

Rudolph has made it clear in his written statement and elsewhere that the purpose of the bombings was to fight against abortion and the “homosexual agenda.” He considered abortion to be murder, the product of a “rotten feast of materialism and self-indulgence”; accordingly, he believed that its perpetrators deserved death, and that the United States government had lost its legitimacy by sanctioning it. He also considered it essential to resist by force “the concerted effort to legitimize the practice of homosexuality” in order to protect “the integrity of American society” and “the very existence of our culture”, whose foundation is the “family hearth.”

After Rudolph’s arrest for the bombings, The Washington Post reported that the FBI considered Rudolph to have “had a long association with the Christian Identity movement, which asserts that Northern European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God’s chosen people.” Christian Identity is a white nationalist religion which holds the view that those who are not white Christians can not be saved. In the same article, the Post reported that some FBI investigators believed Rudolph may have written letters that claimed responsibility for the nightclub and abortion clinic bombings on behalf of the Army of God, a group that sanctions the use of force to combat abortions and is associated with Christian Identity.

DAMN those lefties!!

To: EdnaMode

 

Comey and his pals are busy today, three false flags in 24 hours, might be a Record.

19 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:17:08 AM by eyeamok

And even if it was a “rightie”, whose fault is this?

To: EdnaMode

I don’t care who is doing this, they need to be found, found fast, before anyone hurt. This violence is what comes from, or rather, an escalation and response of what Democrats have done, directly and through proxies like Antifa.

Thanks for clearing that up for us.

All need to be shut down. Immediately and completely. Good to see White House is out front on this. Make it across the board, no violence by anyone will be tolerated.

24 posted on 10/24/2018, 9:19:18 AM by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)

 

“White house is out front on this“??
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President Pence put the official statement out, and a day later The Darnold spewed some ghost-written poop that he IMMEDIATELY (the same night, at one of his pep rallies) blew out of the water with some cunning BSDI.
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Maybe I can find something original in the rest of the thread.
Read on.
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Our Ride’s Coming

I was driving through southeastern Wisconsin, past Walker and Steil and Vukmir signs, past “we back the badge” signs in front of subdivided former farmland, when I read the news about yesterday’s shooting. On top of the pipe bombs. On top of “lock her up” and “CNN sucks” and the mindset that anyone who supports the GOP is somehow under siege. I’ve been saying this for a while, and people keep deliberately not getting it: Wrong. I won’t be deterred by Trump-inspired terrorism. We will do what’s right for our country. If Donald Trump wants to foment violence in response, … Continue reading Our Ride’s Coming

Saturday Odds & Sods: Season Of The Witch

The Witch of Endor by William Blake

We’ve finally had some cool weather in New Orleans. I considered devising some sort of ceremony for turning off the AC, but I kept it simple. Besides, I didn’t want to scare the cats.

It’s been a difficult week, which is why I plan to keep this post on the short and sweet side. Make that short and snarky. I don’t want to ruin my well-deserved reputation as a curmudgeon.

This week’s theme song, Season of the Witch, was written in 1966 by Donovan Leitch and Shawn Phillips. It has been covered a bazillion times, which gave me many versions to choose from. I like choice, it’s cherce as Spencer Tracy said in Pat and Mike.

We have three versions for your listening pleasure: the Donovan original followed by a Richard Thompson cover that was recorded for the NBC show, Crossing Jordan. I recall watching the episode it appeared in and nearly falling off the couch in surprise at hearing RT on a network show. Finally, Lou Rawls brings some soul to the proceedings.

Now that we’ve gotten seasonal, it’s time to make like a witch, jump on a broomstick and fly to the break. I may not have magical powers but I have a broom.

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The MAGA Bomber’s Enemies List

As of this writing, here’s who the MAGA Bomber is telling to pipe down by mailing them a pipe bomb: George Soros The Clintons The Obamas Eric Holder John Brennan  Debbie Wasserman Schultz Maxine Waters Joe Biden Robert DeNiro Robert Fucking DeNiro? It’s a good thing that he’s not in his prime or he just might go Raging Bull or even Taxi Driver on someone’s ass.  I guess that makes him the Paul Newman of this dangerously crazy incident: the salad dressing mogul was on Nixon’s enemies list. Bobby D is in good company. Trump made a statement yesterday at the … Continue reading The MAGA Bomber’s Enemies List

Clockwork Creeps

The cries of “false flag” are already flying on the right after this bombtastic morning. Mercifully, no one has been hurt, but we know who has been inciting violence. It’s the creep I call the Kaiser of Chaos. He has called Democrats members of the “party of crime.” One of his idiot supporters has decided that it’s okay to bomb our past nominees and the “fake news enemies of the people” at CNN. Words have consequences. My friend the Scrabble Shark tweeted this right after the CNN story broke: The #MAGA bombers have started. Just say #MAGAbomber !!! — racymind (@racymind) … Continue reading Clockwork Creeps

Civility Rights

people need to stop doing this crap. personally harassing elected officials is wrong. not how politics should be conducted. if you want change, work/vote for change https://t.co/2plkKpfdJY — John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 20, 2018 Be polite while we kill you. Be polite while we erase you. Be polite while we cage you. Be polite while we shoot you. Be polite while we fire you. Be polite while you’re less than. Be polite while you’re ground under. Be polite while you let us walk all over you. Kiss the foot that kicks you. Thank us for our scorn. Be polite. Be … Continue reading Civility Rights

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Bone Saws and Gold Toilets edition

Bunch of Freeper sludge to go through this week, soooo…They lied to president Trump!

Saudi king dismisses top officials as it admits missing journalist was killed at consulate
The Hill ^ | 10/19/18 | JUSTIN WISE

Posted on 10/19/2018, 6:08:57 PM by yesthatjallen

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman reportedly dismissed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official the same day the country’s state-run media admitted that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

King Salman ordered for Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to be removed, according to the state-run Ikhbariya television, which was reported by Bloomberg News.

The news came as reports surfaced that the Saudis acknowledged that Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, died after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.

The Saudi government stated that 18 Saudi nationals have been arrested and are being interrogated in connection with the case, according to a press release translated by The New York Times.

1 posted on 10/19/2018, 6:08:57 PM by yesthatjallen
Just a reminder from last Monday :

The president said King Salman of Saudi Arabia strongly denied that the kingdom had any connection to the missing journalist, whose writings were often highly critical of the ruling royal family.

“He didn’t really know. Maybe I don’t want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers — I mean, who knows?”

Now, back to present day:

To: yesthatjallen

 

They said >1,000 times before this that he wasn’t killed there. They lied to Pres. Trump.

2 posted on 10/19/2018, 6:12:22 PM by Trumpisourlastchance

You left out: “And he was stupid enough to believe it”.

And, of course:

To: Trumpisourlastchance

 

The non-journalist was Osama’s BF, so why should anyone care?

4 posted on 10/19/2018, 6:15:38 PM by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)

Um – because murder and dismemberment is bad and evil, no matter who the victim is “friends” with?
I can’t imagine what’s keeping the 13th-dimensional chess/conspiracy theory brigade…
To: yesthatjallen

 

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done by people opposed to MBS. It was crude and obvious. The murder was meant to be discovered and made into an international crisis in order to remove MBS as future Saudi king.

14 posted on 10/19/2018, 6:34:54 PM by captain_dave

Ah – just like clockwork.
To: yesthatjallen

 

Supposedly, they gave the rest of the Embassy staff the day off for the “meating”…PURELY by coincidence.

18 posted on 10/19/2018, 6:44:47 PM by RouxStir (No peein’ allowed in the gene pool.)

CurleyConcidence
One more from the “so what?” brigade :
To: Trumpisourlastchance

 

So what??

Who cares

25 posted on 10/19/2018, 7:10:33 PM by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)

SURVEY SAYS….
To: Diogenesis
‘Cause it can make PJDT look bad.
29 posted on 10/19/2018, 7:21:07 PM by Eagles6
YaThinkNickCage
Also :
To: Diogenesis

 

Excusing an atrocity doesn’t play well with us little folk.

27 posted on  by grania (“You don’t give power to an angry left wing mob”)

More after the jump –

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Stupid Things that Make You Happy: GO!

Here’s one of mine: Incredibly earnest dissections of sillyass songs on Genius:  Soulja Boy would perform the “Crank That” Dance, so Soulja Boy is saying watch me crank that Soulja Boy Dance. On the phrase “up in this ho:”  Soulja Boy says the phrase is not to be taken literally because it is not about an actual “ho”. Okay then. Let’s move on to some Salt-n-Pepa:  Pepa is a confident woman and though some may think that she is a slut because she’s making the first move, asking the guy for his phone number, she’s letting them know that’s not … Continue reading Stupid Things that Make You Happy: GO!

Gonna Stop Putting These People on Your Shows Now? HAHAHAHAHA, Nope.

Haha, so funny:  BREAKING: Democrat party officials invite Hillary Clinton to cocktails and dinner at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 20, 2018 This is the kind of thing she says all the time:  “Is your tape recorder running? Turn it on! I got something to say…My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.” And after she said that, look what happened: “Is she serious, or just having fun?” Guys, I hate to break it to you, but she was serious. So was Rush, and Bernie Goldberg, and so were all … Continue reading Gonna Stop Putting These People on Your Shows Now? HAHAHAHAHA, Nope.

Saturday Odds & Sods: To Keep My Love Alive

The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey

The weird weather continues apace in New Orleans. Our fall tease lasted three whole days, followed by a warm-up and a mini-monsoon last Monday, Moday. No wonder John Phillips found that day untrustworthy. Dr. A drove us home  from a krewe meeting during the deluge and engaged in some nifty puddle avoidance. It’s not supposed to rain that much or that hard in October. Climate change? What climate change?

This week’s theme song was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1943 for a revival of their 1927 musical, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s CourtTo Keep My Love Alive is best described as a chipper murder ballad. Hart’s lyrics detail the manifold ways in which the protagonist bumped off her 15 husbands in order not to cheat on them. It was the last song Larry Hart wrote before his death later that year at the age of 48.

We have two versions for your listening pleasure: Ella Fitzgerald from the Rodgers and Hart Songbook and the preternaturally perky Blossom Dearie.

My favorite stanza is the final one:

Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide,
He killed his dad and that was patricide
One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side
To keep my love alive.
Larry Hart’s love of puns and word play is one reason why I prefer him to Rodgers’ other writing partner.  Hammerstein could never have written those lyrics. I do, however, love his first name: Oscar.
Now that we’ve compared and contrasted Hart and Hammerstein, it’s time to jump to the break. Be careful which mattress-side you land on.

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The High Priests Of The Cult Of Savvy

I’m with Charles Pierce on this. She is accused of “playing on Trump’s field.” So what? Only a child believes that there is one field on which an election is contested. And, truth be told, the elite political press has a great deal to do in defining what the “field” of play actually is. It was the elite political press that helped establish the “field” of play in 2016, even though they’d rather pull out their own fingernails than admit it. The way you win an election is that you beat the opponent on his field, on your field, and … Continue reading The High Priests Of The Cult Of Savvy