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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Adam Ruins Everything: How the fine art market is a scam.

Stephen: Eric Bolling is FAUX News’ disgraced employee of the month

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Трамп Tries Trashing the World:

Jim Jefferies does Bill Burr.

Late Show: War in Guam! Wait, where is that again?


Bill Maher: New Rule—rename GOP “The Troll Party”.
Minute Physics: Will batteries power the world?

Why you need special glasses to view the eclipse.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Very interesting, a pre-dawn raid, for a white collar suspect, and a no-knock warrant at that ?

  2. 2

    You won’t have to look very hard to find a lots of video and images of people at the Charlottesville ‘unite the right’ rally wearing Nazi, Hitler and various white supremacist gear. German Battle helmets and ‘Heil’ chants too.

    Republican voters this is your coalition. They’ve always been among you. This is no longer in the shadows. Trump has brought them into the open. These are the people you’re you’ve aligned for victory.

    Tell me again how I should be polite to you and not hurt
    Your feelings and maybe you’ll vote with us someday. You’re all complicit, all disgusting.

  3. 3

    2,
    Democrats have their faults and foibles of course. But the modern era Democratic Party has not made a treasonous pact with Russian dictators and oligarchs and shored up their political base with domestic terrorists and church bombers.

    It is not for Democrats to make concessions to these monsters and their enablers. We owe them nothing. All they have ever done is tear things down or blow them up. It is up to the “moderate” EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE to recognize their folly, own up to their biggest ever mistake, and make the needed concessions to pluralism and modernity. Time’s up. Fifty years was all they were ever going to get. It’s now or never. Their phony wet dream of the “pro-machine-gun”, “anti-uterus” Bubba-crat is dead and burred behind the treller under the Dough-Boy pool and the trampoline.

  5. 5

    Whatever we do, we’d just better not call this “deplorable”.

    Musn’t hurt the tender fee-fees of the white male EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE suffering from “economic anxiety”. After all, who among us hasn’t, from time to time, been compelled by “economic anxiety” to race their hot rod into a crowd of dirty hippies.

  8. 8

    1 dead, 19 injured, after a terrorist drove a car into a crowd. The terrorist fled and hasn’t been identified yet, so we don’t know whether this was a terrorist of the right or left, but the dead and injured are counterprotestors, which may furnish a clue as to who the police investigation may lead to.

  12. 12

    @10 Yeah, I figured he’d get caught. He wasn’t smart enough to cover his license plate before plowing into a crowd equipped with about 5,000 cellphones with video cameras. My guess is he’s a hillbilly dumbfuck. If I were his lawyer, I’d argue he doesn’t have the brains to form a criminal intent.

  13. 13

    12,
    Maybe.
    But I’ll bet he could manage to single-click on the Post Comment button.

  14. 14

    @13 Waddya wanna bet the target of that jibe is too stoopid to figure out that’s a jibe and he’s the target of it?

  15. 15

    14,
    He’ll never see it. Today is invisible sky-daddy goat day. He’s probably got a dozen pre-loaded posts already cued up on separate open tabs waiting for sundown to hit the post button.
    Twice, of course.

  16. 16

    Charlottesville toll now up to 3 killed, CNN reports, although it’s not clear whether all 3 were killed by the car assault.

  17. 17

    ABC reports 2 killed in helicopter crash “near Charlottesville.” Not sure if those are the 2 additional deaths reported by CNN.

  18. 18

    17,
    Perhaps. VA state police, in reporting the aircraft crash, linked it to the “rally”, but not specifically to the #TrumpCar right wing terrorist attack.
    Who knows? Maybe Richard Spencer is dead. A girl can dream.

  19. 19

    NBC says the crashed helicopter belonged to the state patrol and two state troopers were killed. Seattle Times says the flight was “linked” to the rally, but no indication from any source that the crash was anything other than a tragic accident.

  21. 21

    Tell you what, by tomorrow’s Sunday Shitshows the corporate shills had better be ready to “Both Sides” the shit out of #TrumpCar.

    Because when all is said and done if the very important people who warned us over and over again about “those worrisome emails” are going to keep their giant salaries, it must be made absolutely crystal clear that
    this
    is absolutely 100% precisely the same as
    this.

  22. 22

    The driver of #TrumpCar has been doxed in only a few hours, thanks to his lic plates and good ol’ LexisNexis.

    His FB is suspended, and he supposedly is claiming he was attacked. See, it’s just like I thought. Already feeling “economically threatened” because, um, ISIS(?), when he saw all those antifa shoes flying around poor ol’ #TrumpCar he just went into reaction mode and reversed over the bleeding bodies of his victims, ditched #TrumpCar and ran for it.
    Bond him out quickly, so, you know, the “healing” can begin.

  23. 23

    According to the 4chan loons, the C’ville police are feeling sympathy for the driver and the Hillbilly-Traitor Party is very hopeful that he can be acquitted. But most of them probably haven’t yet seen all the dozens of videos and still photos.
    Thing I keep noticing whenever I click on #TrumpCar is that although the brake lights of the pickup in the curb lane are lit, #TrumpCar’s are not. Nope. Not lit at all.

  24. 24

    What an incredible piece of shit.

    “Many Sides.” Like Nazi White Supremacists LITERALLY carrying Nazi flags and NOT Nazis. Those are indeed sides.

    ‘Cherish our heritage’ wink wink. Yeah, the ones who took up arms against the United States to keep their darkies economic properties and traditions. Cherish their legacy. They’re heroes.

    And the kicker, the only time he stops reading right from the cue cards is to brag about the economy “Hey, Obama brought you sustained hiring, lower unemployment and an environment where even I couldn’t step in and fuck it up. So I brought you Nazis? People are making money so what’s racial/political motivated terrorism compared to my fantastic economy?”

  25. 25

    As anyone can see by the look of his struggling community of suburban Maumee, Ohio The Obama Nightmare is still ongoing for poor ol’ #TrumpCar driver. Almost a half mile of treacherous paved creekside walking path to the nearest country club. A half mile in the opposite direction to the nearest “thug” infested food ghetto at “The Shops at Fallen Timbers” where his only options for spending his EBT gubmit money are PF Changs, Red Robin, and Granite City Brewery, while strolling beside the artfully landscaped duck ponds and multiple water features. It’s a credit to these people that they can manage to contain so much pent up rage.

  27. 27

    Hillbilly Traitor Murderers are alive and well and tweeting like noisy shitbirds. But it all amounts to the same treason and murder. And only one monster speaks for the Hillbilly-Traitor-Murder Party today. And he says it’s all somebody else’s fault. Maybe Obama. Because something, something, birfer.

  28. 28

    In some ways this #TrumpCar right wing terrorist attack provides a good case study in how Fake News is created and disseminated so quickly by the Hillbilly-Traitor-Murderers.

    Within minutes of photos and videos of the #TrumpCar attack being posted all over social media, Hillbilly-Traitor-Murderers were deploying thousands of curated and robotic accounts to spread disinformation about the right wing terrorist attack. Trending themes are:
    -innocent and sadly fatal car accident caused by rioting antifas;
    -National Guard deployed with water cannons to disperse antifas interfering with EMTs trying to aid car accident victims;
    -innocent motorist set upon by rioting antifas flees for his life and is taken into protective police custody;
    -antifa false flag operation goes awry resulting in multiple injuries;
    -antifa crisis actors stage fake accident to discredit Fuckface.

    The ferment around these themes and others like them is enormous right now. On a global scale feeds, inboxes, and messaging queues are overflowing with this stuff at this very second. It’s basically all about mass and volume in service to political objectives. The alt-Right reality being created out of aspiration and intention with absolutely no tethering to verifiable reality.

  29. 29

    Sheriff Arpaio states that many many people around the country are saying Trump should pardon him.

    “Many people. There’s me, there’s my wife um, there’s my barber, and that guy enthusiastically showing me that finger salute I’m sure that was a number one…that lovely lady at Starbucks is super sweet and told me, ‘Have a nice day’ and a pardon would make a nice day…”

  33. 33

    Speaking of terrorists and trolls, the loon will soon be back and his exploding head is gonna be full of hate. So watch out!

  34. 34

    @33 I can just visualize him showing up in Charlottesville and trying to demonstrate with the white supremacists. That would have been interesting.

  36. 36

    31,

    They aren’t trolls, we actually have domestic terrorism going on and we’ve spent months, if not years, laughing them off. And that just can’t happen, it can’t continue to happen, it shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but what I’ve seen today just proves to me that it’s not a joke. These terrorists aren’t trolls ― they’re terrorists ― they’re bad people.

    They’re the other major political party. They control both houses of Congress, most state legislatures, most state governorships, and their Supreme Shitlord controls the nuclear launch codes. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Such a funny, funny joke! Ha ha!

  37. 37

    35,
    best way I can think of to encourage kids to strap bombs to themselves is to rob them of their homes and lands, occupy their communities with soldiers imprisoning them for 50 years, and then take away every single other means they might have to recover their rights, freedom, and property.

  38. 38

    Please don’t poke the snowflake’s feels (Twitter is awful edition)

    Humble Forever @kidboston

    They’re not nazis, just disaffected young white men asserting themselves. But this type of name calling pushes lots of us farther right

    DUUUUUUDE…they were carrying Nazi flags. They had swastika tattoos. They were wearing shirts with Hitler quotes. They were wearing surplus WWII Herman Infantry Helmets with the white polo shirt and Khakis that the president at least had the sense to change out of before making a statement.

    Why the fuck can’t we call them Nazis?

    And if calling actual real live Nazis Nazis makes one sympathetic to the Nazis then you were never ever going to vote for a Democrat anyway so no, I won’t spare your feelings you imbecile.

  39. 39

    @38 Interesting that the same people who accuse Obama of appeasing Kim Jong Un think we should appease them.

  40. 40

    38,
    If you look into who these people actually are* (as opposed to the characters they play), both alt-right and alt-lite, it quickly becomes very clear that they have absolutely no right to consider themselves “disaffected”. That term is merely more coded language. Being white males from fairly affluent backgrounds, they know it would be preposterous to claim they are “disadvantaged”. Like most white males from stable, racially and economically uniform communities they grew up being called upon and listened to in school, granted lots of opportunities to learn and experience beyond the classroom, consoled, coached, and excused when they misbehaved, and perhaps most importantly treated as the default normal set in each and every social situation. As millennials (and please pardon me for the stereotype, but honestly) they were raised in a near constant embrace of praise, approval, and ratification. For most of them their ideological transformation (red pilled, woke, swole) began during adolescence and accelerated in early adulthood as they were confronted with social norms of wider, pluralistic society in conflict with the expectations inculcated in their upbringing. Whether passed over for some social recognition in favor of those they consider inferior, awkwardly rejected sexually, or simply compelled to wait their turn or listen and learn before declaring their expertise, they began to grapple with the frustration of being occasionally denied the privileged status they had been brought up to expect. Through the magical bubble forming influences of internet self-affiliation this denial of special privilege in wider social settings, although they do not recognize it as such, became the animating feature of their adult identities. Their movement is a population-scale case study in what David Foster Wallace called “a banal platitude” – that the most obvious important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. At the risk of being trite, they are fish, denying the existence of water.

    *I very highly recommend this to anyone over the age of 40. These people and their ideas have infiltrated into a wide range of social, cultural, government, and private positions of influence and authority. They are not a whacko fringe. They will not be going away any time soon.

  41. 41

    Please accept my apologies for not being presently available to defend, excuse, explain, or deflect from the violent terrorism at the ideological base of my political movement right now. In a totally weird and absolutely random coincidence, I’m just really otherwise preoccupied with some very cool shit that’s much more important than how I spend nearly every single other waking moment of every day. Meh.

    Rest assured that if I were available my commentary would reliably fall into the following categories:
    -That’s not us;
    -Even if it were us, it’s no different than (fill in blank);
    -Maybe it is us, but it’s still your fault because (fill in blank);
    -You started it;
    -Emails (tsk-tsk).

    I’ll do my best to resume my destructive commentary just as soon as the coast is clear I complete whatever totally coincidental yet extremely important and very cool thing it is I’m currently doing. All my best.

  42. 42

    @41. Thanks for the PSA. I was getting a little concerned about the deathly silence.

  43. 43

    @40 Maybe it’s simpler. Maybe they’re just dumb sheep.

    @41 Thanks. We all needed that.

  45. 45

    @41

    You forgot, “Show me where I said Nazis were bad. I never said that. Ask the senile…”

    And

    “Look how the violent left chased the rally organizer from his press conference. They’re so intolerant.”

  46. 46

    @45 “Look how the violent left chased the rally organizer from his press conference. They’re so intolerant.”

    Gee, Nazis and Klansmen are unpopular, imagine that.

  47. 47

    This is what I learned from trump subreddit this morning

    That wasn’t us
    it was faked
    It was the liberal’s fault, they caused this
    Cops are against us
    Mainstream media is against us
    Drudge is against us because he critized us
    Liberal politicans are against us
    Remember [number] years ago when something bad was done by a not conservative?
    Something terrible happened half a world away, where is the liberal outrage?
    I’m afraid to speak up, afraid the liberals punish me
    Celebrate guns

  48. 48

    46,
    “Gee, Nazis and Klansmen mainstream conservatives are unpopular, imagine that.”
    ftfy

    There’s a very precise reason the leader of The Republican Party refused, repeatedly, to condemn or even directly criticize Nazis and KKK following their terrorist attacks in Charlottesville. This is the base of their support. This is who they are. It’s why Fuckface can tweet for days criticizing and attacking the Republican Senate Majority Leader and his own AG demanding that they quit, but he can’t say shit about some violent racist suburban terrorist piece of shit who runs the local College Republicans and burns crosses on the weekend for fun. They are okay with this. Really.

  49. 49

    From Andrew Anglin at the Daily Stormer:

    “She was Fat and a Drain on Society. Despite feigned outrage by the media, most people are glad she is dead, as she is the definition of uselessness. A 32-year-old woman without children is a burden on society and has no value.
    Due to female privilege, and the fact that they do virtually nothing their entire lives, women live an average of 5 years longer than men. The average female lifespan is 81 years. That means for 49 more years, this fat slob would have been leeching off of men’s work.

    Childless women are black hole vortexes of public money and energy.

    Had she not died yesterday, hundreds of thousands of dollars would have been spent on propping-up this gross creature who had failed to do her most basic duty – her only real duty, in fact – and reproduce.

    Having no children at that age, it can be assumed that she had multiple abortions, and was thus herself a child murderer.”

    There it is. The Republican Party in 2017.

    Thank you, Fat Donny.

    The first Amendment give them the right to speak, not anyone the right to counter their speech.

    The Second Amendment gives them the right to use whatever means they believe necessary to defend themselves from the hordes of non-European savages invading their country. It gives them permission to murder. It does not grant permission to those hordes to use weapons under any circumstances.

    Any Amendment to the Constitution after the 10th, was written by communists so they don’t count.

    Young, disaffected while males indeed.

    Odd thing; Several of the older men identified as attackers who were photographed or videoed attacking the counter-protesters are convicted felons who are not allowed to own firearms. One of them who was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon at the protests, was convicted and did hard Federal time for stealing rifles, handguns, ammunition and other military equipment from a National Guard Armory, and handing it over to a KKK faction in Florida.

    If that is the scandal I recall from the mid-90s, most of those weapons were never recovered and are still out there somewhere. They included M40 grenade launchers, several M2 heavy machine guns and thousands of rounds of .50 caliber ammunition.

    I’ve met several people over the last few years who have openly boasted of having similar stashes of ammunition and such in the hills around here. One guy, who I assume is really just full of shit but I’m not really sure about that, talked about hoarding bags of ammonium nitrate and claimed to have built up a stash of several tons of it.

    The GOP is now just a terrorist organization.

  50. 50

    A little mind excercise.

    “The Left needs to understand they have a problem in their ranks. When the anarchists show up at a rally they need to be called out.”

    Mainstream media, mainstream conservatives, conservative punditry, Fox News

    “Not all conservatives. They were mostly disaffected white men who went to a rally to support Donald Trump and Conservative values. When the Nazi flag waving Nazis showed up there was nothing they could do. It’s not their fault.”

    Mainstream media, mainstream conservatives, conservative punditry, Fox News

  51. 51

    Here’s something else to ponder.

    When Trump came out and his first thoughts were, “violence from Many Sides, Many sides.”

    He hunkered down for several hours before making comments. This should not have been off the cuff. He was constantly looking down at cue cards so this was a prepared statement.

    His entire team was either so concerned about NOT denouncing American Neo-Nazis that they put “Many Sides” right up front or as a collective group they didn’t realize, “Hey by many sides does it seem like we’re defending open racists and the American Nazis? Maybe we should cut that line, at least for today?” Or both. One faction wanted to dog whistle to the Nazis (cherish our heritage, later in the remarks) and the other are a roomful of white people who are the manifestation of white privilege so it would never occur to them that the phrase is a problem.

    @realdonaldTrump
    More Condolences to the family of the young woman killed today, and best regards to all of those injured, in Charlottesville, Virginia. So sad!

    Best regards? He really has lived a life of such isolation an that he doesn’t understand how any of this works.

  52. 52

    Merck’s CEO quit the Fuckface Manuf Council this morning because of the GOP refusal to take a stand against Nazi/KKK terrorism. Fuckface responded with “Good riddance”.

    Less marching and more of this. Merck now puts other CEOs on the spot. If they do nothing they are seen as endorsing Republican support for Nazi/KKK terrorists. Dominos will fall.

  53. 53

    51,
    My take is the comments about “many sides” were extemporaneous. Under the circumstances I would presume that Kelly had final approval (would insist) of prepareds going to the Fuckface desk for his review, and steered the comments brief and neutral. But nobody puts man-baby in a corner! So Fuckface gets out his red crayola and marks up the sheet with margin comments – “many sides”, “not Fuckface”, etc. – underlines passages for emphasis, circles the big words so Heather can look them up for him, draws a sad clown face and a few dick pics before folding it up and shoving it into his pocket.

  54. 54

    49,
    Also worth noting, The Website Which Shall Not Be Named lost their host this morning after the host company was deluged with thousands of accounts threatening to move (including my own, as well as dozens of others I’m affiliated with) if they continued to service the Nazi terrorists.

    Again, more of this. And it has to go beyond the Nazi/KKK terrorists.
    Tee shirts, signs, and marches are nice. And I truly hope the victims and families are comforted by the thousands of candlelight vigils last night. But we need to recognize that turning out to counter-protest conservative racist terrorists is adding fuel to their fire. This fighting and murder is what they want. Actually, given the relatively small numbers and low status of childless single males who habitually masturbate to anime porn actually willing to don batting helmets and SS uniforms and lose their retail clerking and trucking jobs in the process, the violence is what they need. It feeds their movement in both numbers and in cash.

    We have to step up and confront this shit more directly but also more intelligently. Do a little basic research. Learn exactly who you are doing business with. Fire that employee with the Odin cross tat, or racist FB page. Do it now. Post-document the file if you need to. But guess what? You won’t. These people are not members of protected classes. They can be terminated at will for any reason at all, or most importantly no reason. Go with no reason. That’s the safe bet. Cancel vendor contracts with the companies that support racist domestic terrorism. There really are good alternatives to Uline. Get with it. Our goal should be to make a fashy haircut or a Fuckface tee shirt a career killer. Honestly, at this point you should be ashamed to lend your lawn mower to a Republican voting neighbor. Seriously. And if all this feels “a bit too personal”, tell it to her.

  55. 55

    @53

    “Draws a few dick pics…”. Choked on my coffee little bit. Thanks for that image.

  58. 58

    This is what it takes.

    If this father can sever all family ties to his racist Nazi Fuckface voter son, then you and I can probably manage to stop getting our pool cleaned by that guy with the Fuckface bumper sticker on his van.

  59. 59

    @58

    But, but, Chick-Fil-A is delicious (it’s really just OK there was one at the mall where I grew up and it was, meh. Good waffle fries) and I’m only spending a couple bucks…

    I’ve been using a phrase the last couple days.

    You can’t be a good conservative who didn’t know anymore.

    No one believed you didn’t know before and now you just sound like the most ignorant fool ever to pull a voting lever. It takes work but those people among your party must be confronted.

  61. 61

    @50 Well, there’s an interesting question about who’s responsible for calling out anarchists, because they’re really an extreme form of anti-governmentalism, the philosophy championed by Ronald Reagan.

    “Anarchism is a left-wing philosophy but when referring to American Politics, it is like an extreme form of Libertarianism making it more towards the right.”

    http://anarchy101.org/13646/is.....t-or-right

    They’re certainly not liberals or progressives. They bear no resemble to us. Nor do we endorse their violence (that’s more of a rightwing thing). But certainly someone should call them out. Maybe we all should.

  62. 62

    It’s interesting that Trump calls out the CEO of a major corporation for criticizing hate, but refuses to call out white nationalists for committing hate.

  63. 63

    @52 “Dominos will fall.”

    Or corporate checkbooks will snap shut when GOP candidates come calling, which would be more consequential.

  64. 64

    @49 “One guy, who I assume is really just full of shit but I’m not really sure about that, talked about hoarding bags of ammonium nitrate and claimed to have built up a stash of several tons of it..”

    If he’s NOT talking shit, it’s just a matter of time before he’ll need a new tool shed, because that stuff doesn’t age well. Ask the Texas City Fertilizer Co. about that.

  65. 65

    “Well, there’s an interesting question about who’s responsible for calling out anarchists”

    If they’re showing up at peaceful progressive protests as an element of antifa, then they’re a problem. Ostracizing the Nazi/white supremacist/alt-right crowd is a no brainer. But I think antifa needs closer examination.

  66. 66

    @65 I really don’t think they’re aligned with anyone. They’re independent operators doing their own thing.

  67. 67

    Hey Doc and Puddy, this looks like one of your boys:

    “An Oklahoma man was arrested early Saturday after he attempted to detonate what he thought was an explosives-laden van next to an Oklahoma City bank, federal prosecutors say. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Western District of Oklahoma yesterday, the FBI arrested 23-year-old Jerry Drake Varnell of Sayre after he attempted to detonate the device, which was actually inert.

    “The complaint says Varnell initially wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C., with a device similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, because he was upset with the government. Varnell allegedly claimed to embrace the ‘Three Percenter’ ideology, referring to a far-right anti-government group.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb.....operation/

  68. 68

    Jeremy Roenick‏Verified account @Jeremy_Roenick

    Now this is a man I want on my team! Too bad bad we have to sit around and watch disrespectful athletes sit on coolers!! Disgraceful! 👎👎

    “Let me just say, anyone on my team sitting for the Anthem better be in a wheelchair” Pittsburgh Steelers James Harrison

    NHL/TEAM USA hockey player Jeremy Roenick is a true patriot. Maybe someone should tell him that James Harrison once beat his girlfriend and smashed her cell phone while she was trying to call 9-11. While his girlfriend’s child was in the room. He admitted it in interviews but was not charged because after the fact the girlfriend declined to press charges as so many battered women do.

    Not all heroes wear capes, eh Jeremy?

  69. 69

    @68 This is a tough one for me. Burning the American flag was a form of protest against the Vietnam war. I opposed the war, but I served under that flag in Vietnam, and I have relatives who served under it in Korea and WW2. On the other hand, free speech and dissent are among the freedoms we fought to defend.

    Flags, of course, are all about symbolism. Likewise national anthems. Even though our country isn’t perfect, and our society needs more improving, I’d rather live under this flag than any other flag, and I’d rather stand for “The Star Spangled Banner” than any other anthem (although “Le Marseilles” is a lovely, catchy tune; it has a foreign appeal in the same way that French pastry and Italian pasta does).

    Dealing with this conundrum is made somewhat easier by the sheer hypocrisy of some who claim to stick up for the flag. E.g., Michelle Manhart comes to mind. Kicked out of the Air Force, took money for posing with American flag wrapped around her nude body, etc., she is in no position to lecture others about “patriotism” and respecting the flag as a symbol of our country.

    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/35747390768855430

    When people like her pretending to stick up for the flag actually serve under the flag, instead of merely exploiting it (cf. draft dodgers who later wrap themselves in it and claim to be patriots), I might take them more seriously, although I’ll never be willing to give up the right of dissent. I won’t burn the flag, or stomp it, but I’ll defend to the death the right of others express themselves in this fashion, even though I wish they’d find some other mode of trying to improve our society.

    One thing to remember, though, is that just because someone won’t stand for our national anthem doesn’t mean they’re standing for some other anthem. That would be a horse of a different color.*

    * Hey, if they want to give their allegiance to Britain, France, or Italy — no problem. But I do have a problem with people who parade around with swastika flags calling themselves “Americans” and “patriots.” There’s an incongruence there I can’t reconcile with the sacrifices of my veteran relatives.

  70. 70

    The GOP is now just a terrorist organization.

    There are exceptions like 3 in the U.S. Senate who allowed 20 some million people keep decent health insurance.

    Oh and some just raised taxes in Kansas so like kids could stay in school a full academic calendar.

    No they’re not perfect but still.

  71. 71

    “Too little, too late.” That’s what people are saying about Trump’s statement today condemning white supremacists. He shouldn’t have to be told what to say. It shouldn’t take two days for him to say it. He isn’t America and doesn’t represent America. He should resign.

  72. 72

    @70 The GOP is at the brink. Some Republicans will step back. Others will go over the edge. I say defeat ’em all and let God sort ’em out.

  73. 73

    Now this:

    “President Trump says he’s considering pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was recently convicted of ignoring a U.S. court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/re.....oe-arpaio/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Although pardoning a contempt of court undermines the rule of law, I don’t care if Arpaio doesn’t go to jail. He’s old, he’s out of office, and he’s irrelevant. What I think of a pardon will depend on the rationale of the pardon. Of course, I don’t expect Trump to do it for the right reasons. He’ll pardon Arpaio as a reward for being a racist jerk, not for compassionate reasons. That’s what I would take issue with, not the pardon itself.

  74. 74

    70,
    Not interested in cheering a victory lap for a couple of Hillbilly/Traitors because they dug deeeeeeep down and found the inner strength to vote NO on killing sick children and disabled people.

    Given the disgraceful and despicable performance over the last dozen years, if anything Hillbilly/Traitors should be expected to clear a higher bar than anyone else.

  75. 75

    Nice guy …

    “The driver charged with killing a woman protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to police records released Monday. Samantha Bloom, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, repeatedly called police about her son ….”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ch.....ng-mother/

  76. 76

    I just realized the alt right is willing to kill rather than share status, money or power with anyone they deem “undeserving”. It’s like something out of fiction books.

  78. 78

    And the circle is complete.

    “The scenes at the right-wing extremist march were absolutely repulsive – naked racism, antisemitism and hate in their most evil form were on display.

    “Such images and chants are disgusting wherever they may be and they are diametrically opposed to the political goals of the Chancellor and the entire German government.”

    -Angela Merkel on Charlottesville

  79. 79

    @69

    My issue is that there were so many threats to players’ lives on twitter, threats to boycott the league, and the continued chest bumping over “American Values.”

    For people like Roenick, just be honest. Speaking your mind and demonstrating in a way that is “UnAmerican” is worse in your world than beating/raping women.

    That goes for every Steelers fan (Rothlesberger), Rams Fans (
    westbrooks), Jaguars (Sutka), Chiefs fan (Cox), Bears fan (McDonald) and on and on that said the NFL needed to act on Kaepernick. Kneeling might not be OK with you but I’d say it’s less offensive than beating a woman.

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