MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By artappraiser on Wed, 01/02/2019 - 9:33pm |I offer this just in the spirit of keeping up with the new memes that sell to a large targeted audience (I think it important to note that the chyron writer makes clear this audience does not consider itself "the ruling class") and the advertisers who court the same:
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https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1080633771525922816
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new usage for "snowflake", hopefully it will catch on:
and also, hopefully, after a while, all sides will stop using it.
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 9:14pm
Commie morons like Ricky know who the snowflakes are...
[blah fucking blah blah - deleted - here's Rick Wilson's bio, read it before you troll again - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wilson_(political_consultant) - try again, or perhaps just grow up - PP]
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 6:31pm
What Wilson is saying is that stupid bullshit meme you project onto us could just as easily be projected onto you. It's just like the Christian prophecy that the evangelicals project onto Trump as a gift from god. That same prophecy says that in the end times many of the faithful will be deceived by false prophets and Trump could just a easily fit that prophecy. The fact is all the Christian prophecies are bullshit so it doesn't matter whether they consider Trump a fulfillment of god's promise or a fulfillment of Satan's deception. It's all a lie. Just as there are no snowflakes, not on the liberal side nor as Wilson claims among the maga crowd. We're a predator species and both sides will stand at the barricades facing each other and draw blood if it comes down to it. The whole thing is a bullshit meme and a lie and you're a fucking moron for pushing it. So is Wilson.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 7:12pm
Funny that just now when I looked at my twitter feed first thing I saw was this gentler kindler version of the same point. Must be a spreading meme or somethin' :-)
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 9:23pm
Just so everyone's on the same page, Rick Willson's a cinservative Republican, with a rather lengthy distinguished career, which is why I linked his bio. Calling a Bush Sr. operative a "commie" is pretty silly stuff.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 1:22pm
Can go one better: he won prizes for his ads for Guiliani's 1997 race and campaigned for Guiliani for his 2000 Senate Race. He's basically king of the Never Trumpers now, having written the best-seller Everything Trump Touches Dies (published August 2018-here's the NPR review). He's also a very funny guy who is good with the repartee, whip smart and highly confident, hence all the Trumpies want a shot at him. He's still a Republican, unlike others he hasn't disavowed, wants his party back from Trump and Trump's Fox friends.
Even more clarification:
Also, Scott Winship, who I quoted above, works for Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, a Republican.
Also, David French, who I quoted above is a Senior Fellow, National Review Institute, Senior Writer at National Review, quite far from left wing publication, and an Iraq vet.
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 3:13pm
P.S. He just did a serious thread on the spam attack on him by the rubes.
I like point #3 of the thread best, echoing all of the above:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 5:09pm
What was it in the Conservative movement in the United States that opened the door for Trump?
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 6:28pm
Bannon type populism, anti-elite, anti-intellectual, nativist vs. globalist, same as elsewhere in the world. Pitchfork Pat Buchanan did some of that back in the day, but he was never taken seriously by other conservatives, he was a minority position, he did attract some Reagan Dem types and also some isolationist peaceniks, similar to like Rand Paul today. The Republican NeverTrumpers are for the most part still big Reagan fans, that is what they think conservatism should be: Reaganism.
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 6:43pm
Maybe we all communicate too much.
How was that play ended ? "The rest is silence."
More of that!
Help stamp out communication! My goal is Latest Comments space full of white space except for some
desolate entries from Peter non verified.
And me.
And MOAT.
by Flavius on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 7:45pm
I appreciate the Auden style in your response.
The small number of players in your proposal makes me nervous.
As my teacher in College said once (or maybe more than once),
I am not the best thing that ever to happened to me.
by moat on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 8:16pm
I think that the racism came much earlier
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/05/conservatives-self-delusion-race/?utm_term=.924dd255f59c
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 8:49pm
this strikes me as clarifying as to one thing most true conservatives believe, for good or ill:
What Romney Exposed About Late-Stage Trumpism
For some reason, Trump supporters get angry when critics discuss the president's character.
by Charlie Sykes @ The Bulwark.com, Jan. 6
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 1:18pm
This clown Wilson projects like a commie snowflake and is still in denial as to why the deplorables rejected him and his ilk for their elite arrogant globalist agendas. Many of these RINO's jumped in bed with the Red Queen when Trump voters humiliated them by choosing a real conservative leader over their chosen 'low energy' status quo quislings. It's telling that Wilson and others like him are adopting reactionary snowflake attacks on the messengers/voters because they are stuck in the permanent loser limbo with no power to influence anything.
Trump enjoys some strong support from some writers at Fox News but a careful reading there shows a growing undercurrent of #neverTrump bias and some people might recall that Fox was Trump's first media target for biased negative coverage during the primaries.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 12:02pm
Trump has 17 current investigations. That is before the Democrats settle in. He lost historic seats in the House. The midterm turnout for Democrats was unbelievable. The upcoming Senate races favor Democrats. His buddy Bolton does not back him up on Syria. No one is aware of former Presidents who support his ever changing plans for the wall. Fox called Huckabee Sanders a liar to her face.
Drip, drip, drip.............
But, he still has Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Ingraham, Falwell, and you.
Edit to add:
Mueller found so much crap on Individual-1 that the probe has to be extended.
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 12:25pm
Your screed is:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 12:52pm
p.s. really, I suspect you have the capability to eloquently defend some pro-populist Trumpist policies but instead you make yourself look ridiculous with these nonsensical rants. It makes no sense why you do that, it's curiously counterproductive, it's what makes you look like a robot troll. No one cares that you're angry and want to rant anonymously on the internet, it's a silly counterproductive exercise.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 1:30pm
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
The feedback you are referring to is a feature, not a flaw.
If x does y it means z. Fox started doing x so the rest follows.
There is nothing to contradict.
by moat on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 6:49pm
Thank you so much moat. I see "bingo", but the bingo I see in your link belongs definitely over here rather than on this thread. I even posted a video on this other NCD thread that has neatly compiled for a clear Dunning-Kruger diagnosis. Especially the effect is particularly dangerous when someone with influence or the means to do harm doesn’t have anyone who can speak honestly about their mistakes....“You get into a situation where people can be too deferential to the people in charge,” Dunning explained. “You have to have people around you that are willing to tell you you’re making an error.” Here, I think this is just plain ranting and wanting to act out in role play. Just like they get their steam off yelling at Rick Wilson on twitter. Acting out emotions doesn't tell you one damn thing about whether they get something or not. As to here, I don't think it applies as accurately as it does to Trump, as Dunning Kruger effect isn't about angry nonsensical rants, it's about claiming expertise. Sure, he doesn't seem to get that he's applying nonsensical labels, so no expertise there, but I just don't find it as spot on. While for Trump, it's so spot on.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 11:44pm
I doubt that. peter can write. He can string words together in a grammatically correct fashion and has a decent vocabulary. But to defend a policy one must have knowledge and facts and it never appears he has either. It's not an eloquent defense to use spin and lies to defend a policy, at least not here where so many of us have knowledge and facts.
When he tries to discuss issues he fails miserably. One example was his claim that the poor don't get Obamacare, they get Medicaid. That's just not true and a complete misunderstanding of what the ACA is. So I spent my time explaining what Obamacare is and what it does to someone who didn't read about it and only knows a few mostly incorrect talking points about it.
In some ways it's the same problem with lulu. One simply cannot have a discussion of the war in Yemen as it concerns Saudi Arabia and Iran if one doesn't know about the importance of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. lulu had no idea the strait even existed or what role it played in the war. And honestly, I have limited interest in spending a lot of time explaining the basic facts to people.
I'm not trying to claim some sort of superiority over the people here. There are things I know and things I don't. I find some threads interesting to read but never post a comment. For example the thread on the public domain. Interesting topic but I don't know enough about it to weigh in on the discussion.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 7:25pm
lulu had no idea the strait even existed or what role it played in the war.
You suggested that in a thread where you could not even keep it straight what the issue was. You made up the charge ["Be honest, before I mentioned the Bab al-Mandab Straits you had no idea they even existed even though most analysis of the situation cites the straits as the cause of Iran and SA entering the civil war"] out of thin air swirling somewhere in your angry, defensive, insecure little mind based on nothing you could possibly know. Now you declare it as an established fact based on, I suppose, the fact that you heard yourself say it and you are never wrong. Right? Bullshit is not supposed to convince the bullshitter. You were wrong then and you are spewing shit about it still. Get over yourself.
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 9:18pm
O Kat - you might want to read this from Psychology Today, on "How Authoritarians get Away with it".
On why facts you present don't help:
....(authoritarian followers) ....reason poorly. If they like the conclusion of an argument, they don’t pay much attention to whether the evidence is valid or the argument is consistent.
They are highly dogmatic. Because they have gotten their beliefs mainly from the authorities in their lives, rather than think things out for themselves, they have no real defense when facts or events indicate they are wrong....
by NCD on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 10:03pm
I don’t see any argument that can be made by Democrats to convert current Trump supporters. Those who focu# on race or abortion, have no reason to change. From what I have seen those who leave the HOP realize that being anti-abortion means that they support many other evils. The racists realize that Trump policies have negative effects personally. True Trump supporters only double down when challenged.
Peter’s responses are no different than the verbal contortions we see from Lindsay Graham or Susan Collins, although he does frequently enter Kellyanne Conway territory.
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 10:44pm
You seem as dimwitted as the other people who offer cover for the racist pissant occupying the White House. The picture of Republicans elected to Congress looked like a White Citizen’s Council meeting.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/06/2019 - 2:08am
"Victimhood populism"
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 1:25pm