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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Atlantic Declares ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Sexist, ‘Quiet Cruelty’
Humorless lefty decides cute movie has to offend her some way, finally finds a reason. Personally, I find most ideas pooped out by lefty deconstructionists offensive.
[BREITBART] So you thought that When Harry Met Sally ‐ the classic 80s rom-com which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a competition at Katz’s deli in New York to see who could do the best fake orgasm ‐ was a triumph for its writer Nora Ephron, its star Meg Ryan, and the depiction of rounded, female characters generally?
Think again, sexist bigot!

In fact ‐ so we learn from The Atlantic’s resident kill-joy movie analyst Megan Garber ‐ When Harry Met Sally set back the cause of feminism by years thanks to its crass invention of a term which has haunted womankind ever since: "High maintenance."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, 3rd wave feminists as defined by their personal hygiene, are not high maintenance.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/24/2019 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm so old I remember when The Atlantic was worth reading.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/24/2019 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The term "High maintenance" predates that movie by many many decades. It didn't invent the term, after all "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is essentially the same concept many decades before. Oh and my friends and I used to factor in "High maintenance" when dating in the 60s and 70s. I am sure our fathers and grandfathers did the same.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/24/2019 12:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Come to think of it. My floor RA in 1973 broke up with his GF after her father offered him $50K a year for life to marry her. He started watching her and quickly realized nothing he ever earned even with what was then a large subsidy could ever cover her costs...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/24/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||

#5  The only reason the term took off with Harry and Sally was because it applied so well to many.

One would think being a less difficult person would be more of priority over simply complaining about the term.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#6 
Sorry, Mr. McCoy. Yesterday, after only one day of being on your best behaviour, you decided you were entitled to be an ass. Clearly a one-day time out is not enough to nail home the idea that good manners are for every day, not just to get out of trouble. So today you don’t get to post, no matter how sensible your words.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 6:30 pm EDT
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 07/24/2019 16:17 Comments || Top||

#7  I have been reading a collection of Agatha Christie's Ms Marple novels, written before (in some cases long before) even Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend came out, and the concept was very much there, even if the words weren't. Some women have very expensive tastes, and a great many women require a great deal of attention, even if they don't necessarily need a lot of money.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 07/24/2019 17:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Turning the tide against campus kangaroo ‘rape’ courts
[NYPOST]
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred: maybe accompany this with a photo from the video in which the Aussie dog owner liberated his pooch from an attacking kangaroo, squared off with the marsupial, and then pops him in the snout?
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Kangaroo rape is not a crime in Australia, so we don't have courts for that. If you yanks think thats a bit backwards, then theres a few blokes I know who might be up for that sort of rough and tumble. Depends on how many beers they have had.
Posted by: Bunyip || 07/24/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  not a crime in Australia, so we don't have courts for that

If you did, would they be called kangaroo courts ? ☺
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  https://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/12/watch-this-guy-punch-a-kangaroo-in-the-face-to-save-his-dog/
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 13:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Upcoming Facebook changes to prep the battlespace for fighting Trump in the next election.
Why I don’t worry about artificial intelligence taking over the world.
[The AdminZone] Facebook groups are the future.
That is certainly one opinion. And certainly Mr. Wife curated the Cincinnati blues society’s Facebook page like the advertising outreach that it is. But nowadays I only open Facebook every few days, and I’m not nearly as interactive as I used to be when I’m on it. Why should Facebook’s shareholders make money off me, when they’ve been working against everything I believe in?
Facebook is focusing on privacy
Do let’s define privacy. Does that mean they’ll stop selling individual and group information to outsiders?
and making the user experience more intimate.
Let’s define intimate, too.
That’s what the algorithms are going to start catering to. If you don’t have a reader group, you should start one.

The things we post on Facebook should create meaningful interactions. If they don’t, your post is less likely to be seen and suppressed in the algorithms.
If the algorithms suppress it, it is no longer private...
Group Admins are responsible for all group activity. If content is posted in a group that goes against Facebook’s Terms of Service (TOS) or Community Standards, admins are at risk to lose their personal profile, their business page, and their group. Admins can be shut down with no recourse.
Definitely neither private nor intimate. Not to mention that Facebook’s standards are constantly evolving, generally without any notice whatsoever.
Negative ratings reflect poorly on the admin team. Negative ratings are the angry face, the sad face, member reported content, and the number of people who block you. These things also reflect poor ratings on groups and suppress reach.
So if viewers don't like something that happened in say the news or something some politician was quoted on in the post, it's a negative for the group because only BRAIN DEAD STUPID HAPPY PRAISE IS VALUABLE TO FRICK-BOOK
Facebook wants the user experience to be positive. Sad or angry face reactions tells Facebook that the user is having a bad experience, therefore diminishing your organic reach.
See? Artificial intelligence isn’t remotely intelligent.
Post approval process is a responsibility. Admins should have post approval turned on in groups to protect themselves from negative ratings. Questions should be asked for new joins. It’s the admins responsibility to monitor and know who they are allowing in their group.

Contest, giveaways, and free downloads are being suppressed by Facebook. If you are saying “get this free” or “enter this giveaway,” those posts are being suppressed by Facebook. This goes back to creating meaningful interactions. Authors need to stop using the traditional language and start getting creative on how they post contests, giveaways, and free books if they want their posts to be seen.
Making what should be easy harder. And to be fair, it used to be much easier on Facebook before they decided to improve it by controlling everything so tightly.
When members leave the group, they have the choice to take all of their content with them. This applies to admins as well. So if you had an admin that posted great content and then they leave the group, they have the ability to take their posts out of the group.

Teach readers to leave a reaction, not a LIKE. Liking a post means nothing to the Facebook algorithm. It does not qualify as an engagement. Readers need to LOVE it, react with SHOCK, or use the LAUGHING reaction. This shows positive user experience and will help your organic reach. Comments also boost your reach and GIF’s give you the highest ranking in the algorithm.
Ugh.
You CANNOT tell users how to react. In other words, you can’t say things like “Love this post and...” or “Comment below and…” Those phrases will suppress your reach because they are considered engagement baiting. What you should say is something like, “Leave me a heart and…” Engagement baiting includes words like COMMENT, VOTE, REACT, SHARE, TAG.

Sales posts on your page and in your group should be less than 20%. Facebook doesn’t want an abundance of “buy my books” posts because they don’t create meaningful interactions.
As a reader, I want to know when new books come out or old titles are discount priced. I’ll also check out authors and titles my favourite authors recommend, especially if the price is discounted.
Authors should reduce takeovers or change how they are phrased. The word TAKEOVER is being suppressed. Instead, have a PARTY, an AUTHOR GATHERING, or EVENING ENTERTAINMENT.

Reduce the number of admins in the group. Again, this goes back to admin
responsibility. The group admins should be you and only one or two other trusted sources.

Create Group Rules within Facebook (not just pinned in the announcements or written in the ‘about’ section of the group). They set the tone for the group and gives you something to point to if someone is not following the rules. It is your responsibility to make sure everyone is on the same page, or you risk losing your account with no recourse.

Link your group to your page. Facebook is going to be coming out with features that are specific to business pages that have groups.
Or don’t, depending on whether you want to have a private life or not.
Be a conversation starter in groups. Earn the badge. It shows you are creating meaningful conversations. Readers are like you. If you like to see something on Facebook, chances are that they will like it too.

Understand Facebook Community Standards and know that it’s a robot screening your content. It’s important to work within those rules in order to be present on social media. Understanding and following these standards will help boost you in the algorithms and help your ad approvals.

Newsfeed is shrinking. Stories are merging with the newsfeed. Messenger is being favored. Take the time to look through all the available options in Messenger. Messenger is soon going to be separated from the desktop, meaning it will be its own entity. WhatsApp and Messenger will be contained and can be used for direct selling. Remember, Facebook is moving to “the future is private.
They keep saying that. But I think it does’t mean what they say it means.
Ads are targeting new avenues. You can no longer have a small budget for Facebookads and expect it to be successful. You need to understand targeting or you’ll be wasting money. Start testing ads in other ways that are not on the newsfeed.

Going LIVE is no longer on Facebook’s radar as an organic algorithm piece. If you didn’t go live often before, this is good news for you. If you are one who utilized it a lot, you’ll need to find other ways to boost organic reach.
A direct attack on Trump speeches and Breitbart?
And anyone else they decide they don’t like. It’s much easier to control if posted afterward rather than evaluating while live-streaming.
Links in posts can be determined click-bait, or something that flags the Click Gap Signal. The Click Gap Signal is a measuring of inbound and outbound link patterns of a site that is being linked out from Facebook. Facebook will reduce the reach of a post if the number of clicks from Facebook is higher than it is in other areas of the internet. In other words, if more people are going to your website via Facebook versus an organic Google search, your post will be considered click-bait or spam. Facebook will suppress it and/or shut down your account. While that might not be true, that’s what the algorithm will see.
Artificial “intelligence”.
Facebook is tracking the link funnel. This means Facebook will follow where the link is going. This could also trigger the Click Gap Signal. Authors should send people to their newsletter or their website, as opposed to Amazon or iBooks. Here’s why: Your website is controlled by you. If a reader clicks on your Amazon link, they’ll find your books, your reviews, and your bio. You might think everything on your Amazon page is completely in line with Facebook’s Community Standards (no naked covers, no foul language, no erotica, etc). However, also-boughts and sponsored books leading to another book that DOES violate the Community Standards is also being analyzed. If the Click Gap Signal happens to fall on a page with questionable content, your reach is suppressed and your ads could be denied (even if you have no control over sponsored Amazon ads on your page). What’s more, the Click Gap Signal can flag you for the reviews on your books. If a reviewer uses negative keywords, bad language, etc, your reach will be suppressed.

Facebook now has the ability to scan images for content that violates Community Standards. Be careful with those erotic book covers and steamy teasers.
Remember the good old days when Puritan was considered an insult of stupidity, antithetical to everything a good liberal stands for?
Groups deemed harmful on Facebook will be shut down. As per the statement put out by Facebook “…we identify and remove harmful groups, whether they are public, closed or secret. We can now proactively detect many types of violating content posted in groups before anyone reports them and sometimes before few people, if any, even see them.” This is a reaction to the New Zealand Massacre. Unfortunately, some people in the romance book world are being targeted by this based on keywords found by bots. They are losing their groups and their accounts are being shut down. Hence the reason why authors need to monitor group content and understand the Community Standards.

Sharing is not caring. Sharing from your page to your timeline/newsfeed is against the Terms of Service. By dropping your page link in a Sharing is Caring post, you are putting yourself at risk to have your account shut down. Sharing posts made on a page you are the admin of is also a no-no. Facebook wants page content to stay on the page. However, if a reader (a non-admin of your page) shares a post from your page, the complete opposite happens. This boosts your ranking in the algorithms. Facebook views this as positive content because a reader cared enough about the post to share it. If someone comments on that readers shared post, you get an even higher boost.

Don’t limit yourself to one platform. Stories, groups, Messenger, and ads are where you need to be on Facebook, but you should also be on other platforms. Move readers away from Facebook to other areas. Spread out your reach. You shouldn’t build your entire business on one platform that you have no control over. Peer-to-peer networking is now bigger than ever. Authors should utilize each other.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  What a colossal waste of time, capital, attention.
Imagine what could have been accomplished with all the investment and effort and technical talent that was sucked up by a stupid timewaster.
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Somehow the republic survived several hundred years without the internet. I suspect it will without in the end. No power, no electricity, no internet. It's going to be interesting when a raging civil war shuts down so many things.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/24/2019 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  This may be old hat, but there was research on developing heuristic vernacular engines that can crawl through a text, and change the wordings to mean something else, inserting alternate perspectives on a subject such that the wording seems consistent with writing styles of the author. The original purpose of it was to create AI driven bots that can watch for and insinuate subtle alterations in medium sized bodies of text, like articles, statements and reports along the publishing pipeline, to assist in destabilization of police regimes and autocracies where an educated elite can be roused to activism, impeachment, revolt and coup. It would supplement efforts of real activists and journos while officials rushed about correcting and apologizing for their "hacked accounts" and over-zealousness.

Of course, the uses for such simple but computationally intensive software are many. Facebook was one of the tech giants that denigrated this research and cried "Fascists !" at the time. I wonder if they appropriated it or carried the idea further ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  TLDR. Too much gobbledygook and too many algorithms.

I like Fred's approach better. That is: you set up your own web site and maintain it yourself, or with the help of some friendly mods who use colors like periwinkle :). Oh, you might have to learn HTML but it isn't hard. If you're really into it, you can try some PERL or javascript. That's a little more intense but then you don't need to worry about Zuckerberg and his algorithms.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  And if HTML, PERL and javascript seem like too much trouble then may you should give some thought to whether your content is really worth it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't wanna fight a civil war over it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:14 Comments || Top||

#7  The source of the problem isn't the tech. It's the absurd giveaway from Congress that allowed stupid boy-men techies to create vast ad-supported publishing platforms and still claim they weren't publishers.

OF COURSE Facebook and Google are publishers.

If you make $$$$ from ads, you are a publisher.

You bear responsibility for the content of the stuff that your ads are placed next to. You cannot print willfully malicious lies: that's called libel. You cannot deliberately suppress content you disagree with: that's called violating the Fairness Rule. Etc etc.

Capitalism requires strong regulation in order not to destroy itself. A stupidly libertarian, Wild West approach to internet publishing is the root cause of this colossal mess.
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 13:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I won't weep when the Feds go after the big tech companies looking to split them up. In fact I might donate to the cause.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  If you look at a lot of the people working at these tech giants, you will see they are not Americans.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 || 07/24/2019 16:39 Comments || Top||


Cornel West: ‘Fascist Frankenstein’ Trump Becoming ‘American Version’ of ‘Hitler,’ ‘Mussolini’
[BREITBART] Cornel West believes President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
is becoming the "American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini" after Trump told members of the "Squad" to go back to their countries of origin even though three of them were born in the United States.

West called Trump a "fascist
...anybody who's not a leftist...
Frankenstein" and said this is a "very historic and pivotal moment in the history of this nation" because "this democratic experiment" could "come to an end."

"We have to be clear, though. This is not just a matter of Trump as racist, and I was sad to see the Democratic Party couldn’t just call him a racist but say his words are racist. This is weak for me, but Donald Trump, brother Trump is at this moment becoming the American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini," West told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday evening. "Republicans, across the board, they have adjusted themselves to a profoundly unjust, proto-fascist way of being in the world in terms of being lawless, hiding and concealing, rationalizing this kind of unadulterated raw hatred."

Trump’s late mother reportedly asked one of his ex-wives, "What sort of son have I created?"
Which one? Because Ivana still praises him to the skies, and nobody but her own daughter seems to like wife #2. Is there another ex-wife who somehow has managed to avoid the public eye?
"And we have to answer that question," West declared. "Is it the case the son she created becomes the American version of Hitler and Mussolini in the White House? In the Oval Office? That’s the question."

West said the country has had presidents who were slave holders, defenders of "American barbarism, called Jim Crow," and were "misogynists and homophobes and transphobes."

But he said "fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
is something else" because "fascism distracts the people, manipulates their emotions, gives them a sense of being a pure community that’s threatened by the impure, and he becomes the very agent that provides the rescue for those based on that fear."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently, this supposedly educated person has no idea who Hitler was or what he did. Until Trump kills millions based on ethnicity, until he starts a war in which 70 million or so die, he is no Hitler.
Posted by: Albemarle Gray4543 || 07/24/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  So West is reduced to lifting from Antifa agitprop - sad!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/24/2019 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  This goof is a professional buffoon. Prolonging his 15 minutes.
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 1:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Sky is blue. Sun rises in east. Commie cocksuckers gotta do what Commie cocksuckers do.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/24/2019 5:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Cornell West has it wrong. He must be thinking of the last administration.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/24/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Considering what a racist piece of shit Cornel West is, I am fairly confident Trump is none of those things now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/24/2019 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Who? Oh, wait. Wikipedia sez -

Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual

An intellectual! Now I should care what he says.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/24/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Cornel West reveals his ignorance. This guy wouldn't know a NAZI if he had one goose stepping on his butt. To him, the word is just a slur, every bit as offensive as the n-word, to be used against anyone who disagrees with him, designed to dehumanize political opponents the same as calling them cockroaches. West should apologize. I'd say it's politically incorrect but that's offensive too. Really, it's just stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Left loved the Nazi's until they turned on the Communists.
Left loved Trump until he turned on the Democrats.
Beyond that Hitler had a bad mustache and Trump has bad hair. What more proof do you need that Trump is just like Hitler?
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:21 Comments || Top||


Julian Castro: Trump Putting Out ‘Siren Song’ to ‘White America Only’ Crowd
[BREITBART] Presidential candidate Julian Castro (D) accused President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
of being the "biggest identity politician" who is putting out siren songs to those who believe "that this is a White America only."

"Well, this guy is the biggest identity politician out there. And what he’s trying to do is to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines, and I don’t think that there has been anybody who has been more successful at building his political career on dividing people on racial and ethnic lines as Donald Trump has," Castro said on CNN on Friday while discussing Trump’s "racist" remarks against the freshman "Squad." "And that’s what he’s trying to do with his attacks on these four congresswomen of color, trying to make them the other and putting out this siren song to people that might support the idea that really that this is a white America only. "
Sorry Hoolian, it's CNN, so nobody heard it outside airport waiting areas
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Momma Castro is La Raza, the premier Mexican racist, separatist organization in the US. A chip off the ole tamale.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/24/2019 5:33 Comments || Top||


Pete Buttigieg: White Nationalism the Most Deadly Form of Terrorism in the United States
[BREITBART] Mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
continues warning of the rising threat of white nationalism, telling voters in Iowa over the weekend he believed that it was the most deadly form of terrorism in the United States.

"White Nationalist violence has killed more people on American soil than any other source of terrorism," he told voters in Shenandoah, Iowa, on Saturday. "We got to name that, confront that and say that is not us."

The audience of Iowa Democrats applauded and cheered Buttigieg’s statement.

Buttigieg did not compare statistics between violent attacks from white nationalists in the United States and attacks conducted or inspired by radical Islamic holy warriors such as the 2,977 Americans killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the San Bernardino shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, or the shooting at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas.

The South Bend mayor frequently warns about the existential threat posed by white nationalists as he continues his run for president.

"It could be the lurking issue that ends this country in the future if we don’t wrangle it down in our time," he told ABC News on Saturday.

Buttigieg’s warnings about white nationalism frequently fit with his message of how Democrats will keep America more secure than Republicans.

In March, he accused President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
of failing to protect America from the threat of white nationalism in an interview with the Intercept.

"He is failing to protect us from the clear and present dangers that white nationalism poses," Buttigieg said, arguing that Trump was "probably sympathetic" to their ideology.

He also indicated in an interview with Buzzfeed in March that Trump supporters were "complicit" in the rise of the threat posed by white nationalists.

"I think the moment you come on board with a project like the Trump campaign or the Trump-Pence administration, you are at best complicit in the process that has given cover for the flourishing and the resurgence of white nationalism in our midst," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The race card is over its limit.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 07/24/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Butt terrorism has killed more than one million people in the US in just the last 40 years. Yet Buttigieg continues to celebrate and push it every chance possible.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/24/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Not to mention how it drains the American treasury year after year, like Islamic terrorism.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/24/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  "Racist" has been devalued, so they shifted to "white supremacist" and "white nationalist", but they apply all of these terms so broadly they're meaningless.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/24/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  His use of these terms is every bit as racist and offensive as anything Hitler ever said.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  "It could be the lurking issue that ends this country

"Trust me, I may not know my facts but I know all about lurking."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  In that case, kill yourself Buttplug. Save us poor ignorant plebs.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/24/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||

#8  time to update Godwin's Law
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 13:20 Comments || Top||


Cory Booker Says ‘My Testosterone Sometimes Makes Me Want to Punch Trump’
In which Spartacus wants to beat up a 72-year-old because he's such a tough guy. He probably learned all that from his friend T-bone.
His testosterone? Looking at that photo, it seems clear he needs to shave his head more often than his face...
[BREITBART] Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
(D-NJ) told Seth Meyers on Monday night, "My testosterone sometimes makes me want" to punch the "elderly out-of-shape" Trump.

"Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
is a guy who you understand he hurts you, and my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly out-of-shape man that he is if I did that ‐ this physically weak specimen," Booker said to hoots and hollers from the trained seal audience.

And what we have here is just one more example of Democrats fantasizing about committing an act of violence against President Trump, and using that fantasy to win applause, to win love from Late Night leftists, and to win votes.

The fiercely heterosexual Booker, who is running for president, then tried to use that fantasy to signal his own virtue. Just after he earned all that audience laughter and applause for describing his fantasy about punching the president of the United States and engaging in outright body-shaming and ageism, Booker quickly humble-bragged about how he keeps his oh-so manly testosterone in check:

But you see what I’m talking there? Even ‐ that’s his tactics. And you don’t beat a bully like him fighting him on his tactics, on his terms, using his turf. He’s the body-shamer, he’s the guy that shows ‐ tries to drag people in the gutter. And I ‐ and this is a moral moment in America. And to me, what we need from our next leader, especially after the time of moral vandalism that we’re in right now, is we need a leader that’s not going to call us to the worst of who we are, but call us the best of who we are.
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Booker cannot control his temper, then he should not be president! We don't need a person with anger issues in office.

Trump OTOH has shown remarkable restrains in dealing with people and countries having temper tantrums.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/24/2019 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/24/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Then Booker goes to his room to spank his T-bone.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/24/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Cory, is your testosterone in the room with us now? Can you see it?+
Posted by: Cesare || 07/24/2019 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Cory, do you like gladiator movies?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/24/2019 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  heh..hehhehheh..Ha.. AHHAAAAHAAH. Sparty, you just slay me.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/24/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Nothing says "manly stud" like talking about your own testosterone levels.
Posted by: charger || 07/24/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#8  fiercely heterosexual
Posted by: Frank G || 07/24/2019 10:24 Comments || Top||

#9  That photo reminds me of those sex dummies with awkward 'holes' where the mouth should be. It's creepy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Usually it is the ones that talk tough that are the biggest cowards and pussies.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/24/2019 11:05 Comments || Top||


Omar Accuses Trump of Harboring ‘Inherent Racism’ for Years
[BREITBART] Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
(D-MN) took shots at President Trump, accusing him of harboring "inherent racism" for years during a speech at the Moslem Collective for Equitable Democracy Tuesday.

Omar asserted that Trump’s critical remarks are rooted in racism and claimed that it is not a new development, as Trump ‐ she says ‐ has harbored racist sentiments throughout his entire life.

"Right now, even when we’re talking about the president, people will say, you know, his remarks are racist, and we’ll forget the inherent racism that has always been part of him," Omar explained.

She said Trump "always takes an opportunity to others to vilify them and destroy their existence and ability to access our justice system," adding that "racism can kill."

"Racism distracts, racism destroys and racism can kill," she continued. "And so we have to also confront that. So often, so many people walk around naive to the idea of how threatening this could be. And we see it creep into so many policies."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She must be looking in the mirror. Ethics complaint on Omar.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/24/2019 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't someone get through these thick skulls to let them know that the RACE CARDs have all been played out and have no meaning anymore?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/24/2019 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  She means his skin color. That racism is an 'inherent part of him'. Because if you're born white, your skin itself is a crime.

Your white flesh has been screaming racist rants at blacks nig Afri wakandans all through your life, even if it's a social predilection with you to fellatio them with tears in your eyes and say "Sorry" afterwards.

All the white apologies in the world will not quell their rage against white people. And these mores will continue to place officials and infiltrator 'representatives' like Omar in power.

If you really want to be rid of her, support Danielle Stella for the district in 2020.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Islamic Jihad. The Somali Version. America's new Comanches imported by the left.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/24/2019 13:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Just for grins -

racism
[ rey-siz-uh m ]

a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.

a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/24/2019 13:29 Comments || Top||


WaPo’s Robinson: The Alarm of a Nazi Uprise in America, Britain ‘Should Be at Full Volume’
[BREITBART] Tuesday, MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" discussed a column that compared Germany in the early 1930s to the United States and the United Kingdom now with President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
and soon to be Prime Minister Boris Johnson leading the two countries.

Host Joe Scarborough asked Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson when the time to "sound the alarm" on a Nazi uprise, to which Robinson replied that the time had already past and the alarm should now "be at full volume."

"[W]e look at this FT article and I’m wondering, Gene, when is the time to sound the alarm? When is the time to start saying, well, does this look like Germany in 1932? Does this look like Germany in 1933? Is now the time to start asking that question?" Scarborough posed.

"Well, the time to start sounding an alarm, a general alarm, was some time ago. And people should be screaming now. I mean, the alarm should be at full volume," Robinson responded. "You know, one thing most columnists wisely resolve, is don’t bring out the Hitler/Germany analogy, you know? You never use that. We’re getting close. I mean, we’re getting to the point where you need to start just looking at the historical precedent and understanding that, you know, history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes, but there are some awful, awful things happening in the great democracies that sort of uphold the western values and western order and have done so for decades, you know, the United States and Britannia. And this is crazy and it does not end well."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Morons. This just shows the illiteracy and ignorance of our political class.
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  It also shows how desperate the democrats are to retain relevancy.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/24/2019 2:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Is this the new plan? This will not end well.
Posted by: SR-71 || 07/24/2019 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  ..awful things happening in the great democracies that sort of uphold the western values

Seems totally blind who's leading the assault on Western Civilization, now dubbed 'white supremacy' in the lingo of the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/24/2019 7:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Evil totalitarian Nazi state? Why do millions of people risk life and limb to come here? What am I missing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/24/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#6  They've been told the west is their sudatenland.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/24/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Besoeker, they're coming for the lebensraum.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/24/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Does this look like Germany in 1933?

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 10:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Dron, that cartoon needs a slight amendment. The soyboi wannabe ninjas cover their ENTIRE faces now.

The last one who exposed his eyes and eyebrows was easily identified after he appeared in multiple videos clockjbg people with his U-shaped steel bike lock.
Posted by: Lex || 07/24/2019 13:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Report that race relations have gotten better under Trump and suddenly the usual suspects are yelling Hitler as a distraction.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:16 Comments || Top||

#11  HITLER HITLER HITLER

Lighten up, Francis........
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/24/2019 21:59 Comments || Top||


Beetle: Trump Taking America Down ‘the Road to Fascism and Tyranny’
[BREITBART] Tuesday on ABC’s "The View," 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
(D-TX) accused President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
of taking America down "the road to fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
and tyranny."

When asked about Trump’s criticisms of "The Squad," O’Rourke said, "I think it’s not just Democrats who are outraged. It’s Americans, especially Americans of good conscience because this is not an anomaly. A president who described Mexican immigrants colonists as rapists and criminals, who said that the Klan were very fine people, who sought to ban all Moslems, all people of one religion from this country, called the press the enemy of the people, this is the road to fascism and tyranny."

He continued, "243 years into this experiment that we could choose our leaders and the direction of this country has never been to imperiled or undermined as it is now. This is our defining moment of truth. I call upon Republicans and Independents and Democrats alike to stand up and to be counted for this country, not against Donald Trump necessarily but for the best traditions of this country and for a better future of this country. We’re going to reject that racism and that bigotry and that smallness and be defined by our ambitions."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm outraged the democrats are so stupid!

Really they are so out of touch with the real Americans (of all so called races.)
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/24/2019 2:26 Comments || Top||

#2  It ain't Trump running on an ideology for the concentration and centralization of power to direct its citizens in his programs, ie You exist to serve the state. That's the Left.

The Freudian Projection is deep and vocal on the Left these days.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/24/2019 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state nothing against the state.

Trump is cutting the state.
Obama massively increased regulatory size and complexity
Obama wanted to nationalise the american people. Got someone falsely arrested to deflect blame.
Used the state to harass political opponents and reward friends.
Ignored law breaking by the politically connected.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/24/2019 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Every accusation he made against Trump is a lie.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/24/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#5  They're all on the same page, aren't they?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/24/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  and be defined by our ambitions.

Probably the only thing these boys and girls bring to this marxist table full of vomit.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/24/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't remember Hitler pulling troops back from multiple wars, having improved race relations, and trying to keep people OUT of Germany with warnings and the hopes he'd be allowed to build a wall to stop them.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:16 Comments || Top||


The left smears a senator for calling out elite ideology
[NYPOST] Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley used a perfectly good word in its appropriate context ‐ and now he stands accused of dog-whistle bigotry.

At the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, last week, Hawley gave a keynote address that attacked the coastal elite for being out of touch and out of sympathy with the heartland. He called it "the cosmopolitan elite," described its beliefs as the "cosmopolitan consensus" and ­accused it of building a "cosmopolitan economy."

Even though there’s not a ­remotely plausible argument that Hawley was in any way targeting Jews, his use of the "c"-word alone was enough for critics to say he was making an anti-Semitic ­appeal.

"If you’re Jewish and the use of ’cosmopolitan’ doesn’t scare you, read some history," warned New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

op-ed writer Paul Krugman. A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opined, darkly, that Hawley "chose the word purposefully" (he had, just not in a sinister way). James Fallows of The Atlantic agreed that Hawley knew "exactly the implications of cosmopolitan."

There’s no doubt that the word has been abused for hideous ends. In 1946, Joseph Stalin gave a speech heralding the repression of Jews in the arts and literature that lamented, "The positive Soviet hero is derided and inferior before all things foreign, and cosmopolitanism that we all fought against from the time of Lenin, characteristic of the political leftovers, is many times applauded."

Yet, the connection between Hawley, the over-achieving 39-year-old former Supreme Court law clerk and attorney general of the state of Missouri, and the cruel, power-hungry Marxist-Leninist dictator who is one of history’s great monsters . . . is not obvious.

The word has also been used to target Jews by other anti-Semitic lowlifes and haters, although it’s a smear to mention Hawley, who gladly and forthrightly denounces anti-Semitism, in the same breath as these cretins.

Why resort to the word at all? The axis of the culture war in this country has shifted to national identity, immigration policy and citizenship and requires a new vocabulary. The welcome effort to rehabilitate the word "nationalism," one goal of the National Conservatism conference, is part of this re-orientation. But there also has to be a term for what the nationalists ­oppose, since Big Government and social liberalism aren’t apt.

Cosmopolitanism is the natural choice. Per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the word "has been used to describe a wide variety of important views in moral and socio-political philosophy. The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."

Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bath-house Barry used the same words describing the elite years ago.
I bet he always thought the trashing of his legacy would come from the right rather than those left of him. Ha!
Posted by: Warthog || 07/24/2019 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess he should have used the term urban instead....
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/24/2019 15:13 Comments || Top||



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