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Our Führer

NCD — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:00:21 +0000

In reply to Moscow Mitch stole a SCOTUS

Our Führer

If the Führer calls and commands, each of us must obey without question, whatever he may say. With the Führer we are everything, without him we are nothing.

Hermann McConnell Göring

The highest that a man can reach on this earth is to give his name to an historic era, stamping it indelibly with his personality. That is true in the broadest sense of the Führer. The present world is unimaginable without him.

Dr. Joseph Hannity Goebbels. link

How bouts Rusky help swaying

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:50:00 +0000

In reply to The Diva of the Smart Set*

How bouts Rusky help swaying the election - you a friend of Ivan's? Like them Trump-Russia briefing sessions in Trump Tower, Manafort sharing data with Kilimnik? What's your thoughts re: Russia poisoning dissidents with Novichok in Salisbury? Constitutions need protecting, dontcha think? There are bad hombres out there who aren't progressives, right?

Moscow Mitch stole a SCOTUS

rmrd0000 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:04:38 +0000

In reply to The Diva of the Smart Set*

Moscow Mitch stole a SCOTUS seat and refuses to support legislation that would protect the voting system. Republicans openly support Trump’s racist rants, ignoring his slumlord son-in-law. Democrats openly disagree with other Democrats, Republicans who disagree with Trump are kicked out of the party like Amash. Republicans remind of Nazis with yells of “Lock her up” and “Send them back”. Like Moscow Mitch, Republicans are traitors. Like Donald Trump, Republicans are racists.

The Diva of the Smart Set*

Gerry K — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:35:06 +0000

In reply to "Spare Me the Purity Racket"

The Diva of the Smart Set* vs. Progressive Fanatics

“The progressives are the modern Puritans. … The politics of purism makes people stupid. And nasty.” – MoDo

Acid tongued, virulently anti-Trump Maureen Dowd is *correct* when advising her allies, the “progressive” zealots, that impeachment is a winner – but only for President Trump. However, MoDo is wrong concerning the motives of pro-impeachment fanatics.

“The progressive Puritans think we must honor the Constitution and go for it because it’s the right thing to do.” – MoDo

No, MoDo, “progressive Puritans” are blinded by pure, overwhelming fury, rage – just as when they shrieked and wept uncontrollably on election night. They, the anointed philosopher kings – the priestly caste, and they alone were entitled to win; the irredeemable deplorables had no business voting let alone winning.

It's that conceit, not a duty to “honor the Constitution,” which justifies their determination to steal an election.

* Mary Matalin knifed MoDo with that perfect epithet when they both appeared on “Meet the Press.”

FWIW, Laura Ingraham finds it

artappraiser — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:48:55 +0000

In reply to "Spare Me the Purity Racket"

FWIW, Laura Ingraham finds it all Trump genius that has brought "Christmas in July":

Christmas in July: Trump has successfully cleaved @AOC +3 AND @TheRevAl onto the 2020 field. https://t.co/xLqNc7Tcs3
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 29, 2019

Oh you inspire me by saying

artappraiser — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:57:01 +0000

In reply to I read this story several

Oh you inspire me by saying this People get scammed by Nigerian prince stories to hijack the thread to a different topic. I was amazed by this at the end of the article you posted Oprah, Is That You? On Social Media, the Answer Is Often No, that those guys have moved on and are on top of the latest developments, really on top, they've got Facebook battling them, they are expert at what they do:

Facebook is fighting much of this arms race against people in West Africa. People who report bogus accounts said they had tracked many of the internet protocol addresses connected to them to Nigeria or Ghana, where those behind the fake accounts call themselves Yahoo Boys.

One Nigerian man who advertises training for Yahoo Boys said in a phone interview that Facebook had gotten better at removing impostors but that Instagram had not. The man, who declined to be identified because his activity could be criminal, said he had run romance schemes by impersonating young female celebrities like Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice.

Those schemes were not as lucrative as pretending to be another kind of celebrity, though. “Porn star is better,” he said.

What is it about that culture that this is a particular part of it? Why isn't some anthropologist doing a thesis on it? I am so intrigued by that that I ended up following Remi Adekoya on twitter, he is a half Nigerian, half Polish foreign policy scholar who lives in the UK I believe. He writes on "our problem with Nigerian culture" all the time, a long series of articles and twitter threads, has lots of Nigerian fans who are incredibly concerned with how the scamming thing, in many different ways, hurts their country. It's like a major meme for them, it seems to be a big group where they are obsessed with purging a whole scam attitude from their culture and the cynicism that comes from it. Lest anyone say "people are the same allover", they would argue "no Europe is different, people don't have this flaw here." So it is not seen as the same thing as capitalism nor as what big corporations do. It is fascinating in a way, I supposed I wouldn't think so if it were my country.

I read this story several

ocean-kat — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:44:13 +0000

In reply to Last president, re-elected

I read this story several days ago. There's a third and possibly more prevalent explanation for the story Douthat cites. Perhaps it's not political at all. Perhaps there's not a liberal or a conservative view. People get scammed. It happens all the time. Very intelligent people get scammed. People with little education or intelligence get scammed. Liberals get scammed, moderates get scammed, conservatives get scammed. Sometimes the scams is sophisticated. Sometimes they're so ridiculous it leaves me incredulous that any one fell for it. Rich conservatives that are clever investors get scammed by Ponzi schemes by other rich conservatives like Madoff. Lonely widows get scammed by by men pretending to love them. People get scammed by Nigerian prince stories.

He got scammed. I feel sorry for the poor schmuck. There are people who read these stories of people getting scammed and are empathetic and people who are heartless and laugh about it with dozens of variations in between. I don't think empathy is a republican or a democratic trait in situations like this. I don't think there's a conservative or liberal version of this story about a guy that got scammed.

btw, Saturday he proudly

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:56:34 +0000

In reply to Last president, re-elected

btw, Saturday he proudly tweeted an op-ed @ WaPo, co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration:

I’ve always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration. But more than what we did, I’m proud of how they’re continuing to fight for an America that’s better. https://t.co/0cfDltjueP
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 27, 2019

One thing to ponder is that the op-ed wouldn't exist if he hadn't been elected and re-elected.

Last president, re-elected

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:48:20 +0000

In reply to Maureen Dowd is an idiot.

Last president, re-elected for a second term, recommends not Dowd's column from Sun., but Ross Douthat's:

Here’s a worthwhile Sunday read: “…nothing should temper partisanship more than an awareness that somewhere, on some issue, people with whom you disagree are telling a story that you really need to hear.” https://t.co/tpdMZ9hJoE
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 28, 2019

I didn't call them lefties.

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:45:08 +0000

In reply to Can you verify the identity

I didn't call them lefties. They chose to designate themselves #BlackTwitter.