I wanted to write something tonight about this news that Donald “trade wars are good and easy to win” Trump was going to be asking the American taxpayers to pony up $12 billion to help offset the losses of the American soybean and dairy farmers who got totally fucked by his bright idea to jack up trade tariffs without first either laying the diplomatic groundwork or thinking through the consequences. [Just as people predicted, the rest of the world pushed back hard, completely crushing farmers in red states, forcing Trump to pay them off with our tax dollars in advance of the midterm elections.]
As I’m really tired, though, I’m going to have to leave you to work through it on your own. Here, though, is the general outline.
Our President is essentially buying the votes of red state farmers to keep himself from being impeached. And, perhaps worse yet, he’s not doing it because these farmers suddenly became aware that he’s a draft-dodging, child-abducting, pussy-grabbing, puppet of Vladimir Putin, but because he hastily announced dramatic changes to U.S. foreign trade policy without first thinking through the ramifications, essentially putting himself in a position where he has to raid the U.S. Treasury in order to avoid being forced by a Democratic majority to face responsibility for his actions. How fucked up is that? And how is it possible that we aren’t in the street right now?
OK, with that, I bid you good night.
Oh, before I go, there’s one more thing that I wanted to share… Probably the best Donald Trump quote of the entire summer. I just couldn’t allow myself to drift off to sleep without sharing it first. I think it speaks volumes as to just how far through the looking glass we’ve now traveled.
"Just remember: what you’re seeing and what you're reading is not what’s happening." pic.twitter.com/T0XQopBwBD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 24, 2018
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note to self: May a MM.com header with the phrase “Just remember: what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
It kind of reminds me of this quote in the Wizard of Oz.
Ramp up tariffs against our trade partners…
Didn’t they ramp up tariffs against us a long time ago?
As the prophet Orwell predicted, ““The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
It is good to see that HW is a loyal party member.
Will Trump also bail out the employees of Whirlpool here in Michigan?
“Whirlpool shares plunged 14.5% today, the U.S. company’s worst day since October 1987, as tariffs wreak havoc with costs and suppliers.”
“Global steel cost has risen substantially and, particularly in the U.S., they have reached unexplainable levels.”
https://trib.al/G69T9at
“Real average hourly compensation actually fell in the first quarter after the tax reform was passed…Official data for the second quarter isn’t available yet, but private data isn’t looking encouraging. PayScale’s index of real wages shows a dramatic deterioration in the period:Since the tax cuts passed, companies have been using buybacks to return record amounts of cash to shareholders — more than $700 billion in the first two quarters. That naturally raises the possibility that companies don’t have good projects to invest in. If companies pass their tax windfall on to shareholders, those investors can choose to react by increasing consumption — meaning more of society’s resources go to the wealthy.”
Short term pain, long term gain
But you assured us all that we would see immediate results in worker wages and take home pay, HW. It’s not happening.
“Just remember: what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
Ironically, I wish this were true …
Woooahhhhh phuuuuuckkk what I’m seeing IS NOT WHAT I’M SEEING phuuuckkk heavy shit dude
Like, is that a tree? NOOOOman, that’s a BURRITO 420danktrump4eversaidso phuuuuuuckkkkk
The Flakey Flakes is “waiting for the facts” until he passes judgement on Mr. Trump’s statement that the reality we are seeing is not really reality.
Remember this is going to hurt the red states the most and they all deserve it for voting for Trump (or as in Michigan’s case, having enough Jill Stein voters to affect the outcome in Trump’s favor). This is going to really hurt people in Michigan. The steel tariffs already are. Now he is talking about tariffs on foreign cars *and* foreign car parts. (for those who don’t know, the most “American” car has around 1/3 foreign parts).
And those farm subsidies aren’t really going to help much. What happens when China finds an alternate source for their soybeans? What happens when Mexico starts buying their beans from somewhere else? Will they come back all of a sudden if the tariffs end? Those subsidies will in no way make up for the damage he is doing to that market.
“And those farm subsidies aren’t really going to help much.”
Yeah, they are, when someone tries to take them away.
It is like Iron Lung believes making political judgments should be as easy as identifying the bad guys while watching an episode of Star Wars.
In the Wizard of Oz book, anyone inside of the Emerald City was required to wear green tinted glasses. We wear the tinted techincolor glasses willingly.
From wikipedia:
“In the first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), the walls are green, but the city itself is not. However, when they enter, everyone in the Emerald City is made to wear green-tinted eyeglasses; this is explained as an effort to protect their eyes from the “brightness and glory” of the city, but in effect makes everything appear green when it is, in fact, “no more green than any other city”. This is yet another “humbug” created by the Wizard.”
“It is like Iron Lung believes making political judgments should be as easy as identifying the bad guys while watching an episode of Star Wars.”
I do.
Does the Flakey Flakes o you believe that Germany should have “waited for the facts” before passing judgement on Hitler? Probably, which is why he would let it happen.
I don’t think that one should wait to pass judgement on white supremacists and would be dictators. They are pretty easy to spot.
I would like for the next President to understand economics.
I know judgments about other people’s motivations and intentions comes very very easy to you, which is why I said that about you. It is easy to spot an Iron Lung.
I am sorry it bothers you that I sometimes ask for your reasons and point out when you are just making stuff up. I could be wrong but I have a feeling #becausehitler is not the type of foundational reasoning that will convince a lot of people to join your type of thinking and political-being. I think you might be having the opposite effect on people. Imagine that…
“I am sorry it bothers you that I sometimes ask for your reasons”
you overstate your relevance. I do not care what you think of me.
however, I find your weak kneed approach to pressing threats to democracy to be intensely troubling. I find it troubling because there are so many of you out there.
So odd that the Flakey Flakes will question me, but seems to accept everything that the 420 Bongolian Kushlord and the Republican Party says without question.
Very odd.
You are getting it twisted, again, IL. I KNOW you do not care what I think of you. It is nothing personal. I do think your hatred to be asked for your reasons and evidence is almost as strong as your love for just making stuff up. I also wonder why you wrongly assume that I think there is a “personal” factor in our interaction, while simultaneously, you go out of your way to TRY to make it personal. Is there, for you, a convenience factor built into those two tactics/mechanisms? Maybe something to think about IL?
Just to point out that it’s not possible to make personal attacks against anonymous posters.
JCP2. I have never followed your reasoning on this one.
1) Personal attacks in the sense of fallacious reasoning are not only possible with anonymity, anonymity can facilitate the use and exploitation of that type of fallacious reasoning.
2) You are assuming, because someone is “anonymous” to you, so to speak, that same person is also “anonymous” to others.
3)Define “person”.
4) The term “anonymous” indicates “without name”. It is an obvious misnomer to say some poster with a name is “without name”.
FF– Maybe IL is trolling you for a reason. I would not assume that his tone is not intentional. I would also not assume he’s spending a whole lot of time worrying about whether you get what he is saying. Or that his posts re you represent his full understanding of, well, anything. There’s really nothing better than when you guys decide to tell us how we should engage you with your lessons in civility. And yet you will freely use very civil language to defend the indefensible.
Oops, I should have said:
1) personal attacks, as a type of fallacious reasoning, are not only possible against an “anonymous” person, the recipient’s status as “anonymous”, can act to facilitate the use and exploitation of that type of fallacious reasoning.
“Our President is essentially buying the votes of red state farmers to keep himself from being impeached. And, perhaps worse yet, he’s not doing it because these farmers suddenly became aware that he’s a draft-dodging, child-abducting, pussy-grabbing, puppet of Vladimir Putin, but because he hastily announced dramatic changes to U.S. foreign trade policy without first thinking through the ramifications, essentially putting himself in a position where he has to raid the U.S. Treasury in order to avoid being forced by a Democratic majority to face responsibility for his actions. How fucked up is that? And how is it possible that we aren’t in the street right now?”
Well said.
Flakey Flakes never addresses the issues, he is more concerned with how people refer to him than in the greater issues that his indifference to how our Democracy is being threatened by a President who ran on a platform of white supremacy and how tells us that he is the sole authority on “reality.”
Could if be that the Flakey Flakes is too afraid to face the fact that he willingly white supremacists? That he himself might have to face the possibility that he himself holds white supremacist ideals? Or that he might be outed for it? Or that he might simply think it doesn’t affect him directly so… who cares.
Very hard to tell what his intentions are, but I’m thinking all of the above.
Now, the Flakes isn”t alone, there is plenty of historical precedent for the type of person he represents in 1930s era Germany, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Stalinist Russia, apartheid era South Africa and the United States…. the list is immense.
Yeah, except none of that stuff is true. Listen, your best friend on mm.com just admitted you are at least a part-time troll, who, if I understand her correctly, believes you have your reasons for not being reasonable. Ok. You don’t think it is, or should be, an issue/ made an issue when someone, such as yourself, habitually makes stuff up?
The arbitrary placing of persons into categories for bad/arbitrary reasons is the logic of bigotry. You my friend have a bigot brain. Bigotry is not an issue in your opinion? Do you want me stop talking about bigotry? Why?
“Yeah, except none of that stuff is true.”
Is it? Seems like the Flakey Flakes has no trouble at all with a President who ran on a platform of white supremacy.
He has no problem at all with a candidate who had the full support of David Duke.
Did I make that up?
Flakey Flakes has no problem with a candidate who ran on a platform of white supremacy.
He has no problem at all with a President who ran on a platform designed to inflame and get support from a racist base.
Flakey Flakes might just have no ideology at all. He can’t think that far.
He is still “waiting for the facts.”
it’s kinda funny how frequently mark has been bringing up things like ‘getting in the streets’ or ‘general strike!’ even going so far as talking about building guillotines, lol. who in their right mind can imagine folks (atomized and largely absent any sort of organization whatsoever) taking to the streets in support of…..“Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act” to protecc the Mueller investigation”? or most of this other stuff where the post ends with “how are we NOT in the fucking streets right now?”
i am all for direct action and stuff but i can’t see how most of the topics covered here would spark some sort of uprising. what would success look like if people took to the streets? and what would happen afterward?
Flakey Flakes says “it’s not true!” yet fails to come out and say “I have a real problem with a President who ran on a platform of white supremacy.”
Because he really has no problem with it, obviously.
Now, he will claim that Mr. Trump did not run on a platform of white supremacy, yet white supremacists say he did, so who are we to argue with the experts.
Flakey Flakes has no problem with a President who has the full support of David Duke and the readership of Stormfront.
He is cool with white supremacy, because, well, white male power and everything, because why fuck up a good thing?
Right, Flakey?
I think I just found Iron Lung’s Eharmony profile online….
Pet Peave: #Hitler
Favorite Movie: #Starwars
Favorite insult: “You lack any ideology at all.”
See, no response at all from the Flakey Flakes.
Clearly he has no problem at all with enabling white supremacy.
Which, of course, makes him a white supremacist, or at least, a flake.
“Pet Peave: #Hitler’
I think that racism and genocide are horrid.
Clearly, Flakey Flakes doesn’t. He’s ok with it as long as it doesn’t cut into his retirement account.
I heard this quote on the radio yesterday and it seems we have moved into a completely new reality, crossed a new boundary…maybe it’s because we live in another country and I’m not used to how things are here now but it sounds Orwellian to me. Perhaps this is just Tuesday now.
Flakey Flakes, still “waiting for the facts” on the Holocaust.
Still “waiting for the facts” on Jim Crow.
Hell, he might still be “waiting for the facts” on Nixon or even Bill Clinton’s sex life in the White House.
Maybe he is still “waiting for the facts” on Santa Claus or HIV.
In any case, the Flakey Flakes doesn’t have an opinion on anything except for his retirement account and maybe occasionally the next property tax millage.
I think I just found Flakey’s Eharmony profile online….
Pet Peave: #human rights
Favorite Movie: #Birth of a Nation
Favorite insult: “troll”
We have a 2 party system. A bad and notable public person, who votes, is often going to endorse the person he likes better. Can you tell me what exactly hinges upon the David Duke endorsement of Trump in your mind? If Richard Spencer ran against Trump and received Duke’s endorsement over Trump does that change how we should think of Trump? Spencer?
If David Duke was part of the mm.com community I would probably spend most of my time asking him for his reasons for saying stupid shit; rather than spending time judging Mark for how it reflects on him that David Duke comments and “supports” the existence of his blog. I do not judge Mark when you endorses some of Mark’s ideas. Similarly, Hitler is not in the comments section here so I am mostly left to shine a light on Iron Lung’s employment of obvious distortions, attempts at sophistry, and chronic use of the logic of bigotry.
See, once again, the Flakey Flakes run away…. says nothing at all. ….. like a bland outer shell with nothing inside.
Clearly, he has not problem with white supremacy in the US, and no problem at all with a President who actively courted racist voters.
Flaaaakkeeeey flaaaaakes.
“We have a 2 party system. ”
lol
You don’t vote for the guy David Duke is behind unless you don’t have a problem with white supremacists.
You could have voted for anyone else. Or not at all.
Flaaaaaky flaaaaake white like a sheet empty as air
Flakey flakes thought a personal tax break was justification enough to vote for a guy who ran on a platform of white supremacy.
Typical white America middle of the road behavior.
White as a sheet empty as air, what’s good for me is good, fuck everyone else.
The funny thing IL is I have only called someone a “troll” once in my life. I used the term “troll” on mm.com when I sarcastically called myself a “troll” in a conversation with JC. Other than the fact that everything you say is based on untrue assertions you have made up, I think you are really making a great case that I love Hitler.
“Other than the fact that everything you say is based on untrue assertions you have made up, I think you are really making a great case that I love Hitler.”
I have not made up the following, but rather concluded them based on your posts. You are free to dispute them:
1. You have no problem with a President who ran on a platform of white supremacy, or a least received the enthusiastic endorsement of white supremacists.
2. You prioritize issues of your own financial well being over the welfare of society.
To me, 1) is an endorsement of white supremacist values and 2) means that you are just a self interested flake.
This all good stuff. I am so close to finally realizing “I love Hitler” I just need for you to say one thing that is actually true. Man, we are almost there. You can do it buddy! Never give up!
Nick, my personal threshold of taking to the streets is 1) firing of Mueller 2) apparent fraud in midterm elections. I think the plan is the subsequent noon at the Federal Building.
“a President who ran on a platform of white supremacy, or a least received the enthusiastic endorsement of white supremacists.”
Two very different things but a monkey on crack won’t discern the difference.
Billionaire Clare Bronfman gave Hillary Clinton money and now she is in trouble for what? Oh, yeah – what you have been mocking like a fucking moron for how long now? Human trafficking. So while you lie about DJT Clinton voters support real human trafficking.
Darth Vader: (Heavy mechanical breathing) Search your feelings, Iron Lung. You know it to be true. I am your father.
Iron Lung: NOoooooooooooo! It’s not true.
Then I am correct.
The Flakey Flakes does not have a problem with a President who as a candidate who ran on a platform of white supremacy.
This, to me, is an passive endorsement of white supremacy.
Similarly, the 420 Bongolian Kushlord had not problem with child sexual exploitation when it served his political position.
Then I am correct.
Iron Lung is Dark Vadar’s son.
Interesting, he doesn’t deny it.
Flakey Flakes supports white supremacy. He does not find it troubling at all that the President of the United States unashamedly ran on a platform of white supremacy.
Clearly, he doesn’t take racism in the United States seriously. He simply mocks the assertion that it even exists.
A sad, sad and hollow man.
I had not choice but to vote for a white supremacist. Our two party system demanded it.
A falsehood does not become true with repetition. Unfortunately most Americans don’t have enough intelligence to understand that concept. However, there are still sizeable number of persons who haven’t forgotten the real crimes that were committed and have yet to be prosecuted. We haven’t been swayed by the dog and pony show of the MSM.
“The tariffs are hurting, but [we’ve] got to experience some pain to bring about change.”
Come on, Iron Lung, surely you can see Frosted Flakes has a valid point. Would it be fair to call a German a Nazi just because he supported Hitler? Conversely, is it fair to call Hitler an anti-Semite just because he ran on a platform popular with anti-Semites? President Trump recognizes there are some very fine people in America who still support what Hitler stands for. Unlike Democrats, who pretend they’re tolerant and welcome diversity, Trump is respectful of under-served white supremacists and is willing to represent them. Why do you mock my cousin and Frosted Flakes because of Trump’s tolerance and respect for all white Americans, is it because you’re a racist?
“A falsehood does not become true with repetition. Unfortunately most Americans don’t have enough intelligence to understand that concept. However, there are still sizeable number of persons who haven’t forgotten the real crimes that were committed and have yet to be prosecuted. We haven’t been swayed by the dog and pony show of the MSM.”
Amen, brother. Fake news, witch hunt, no collusion, lock her up!
And the right wing faction of this blog assembled together to fight!
lol
The holy trinity
lol
Hyperian Warlock,
It seems you have failed to understand the criticism.
Jerry Springer: we have the paternity test results The results of the paternity test show that you ,Joseph Goebbels, and you, Joseph McCarthy are Iron Lung’s true fathers.
Iron Lung: Nooooooooooo! It’s not true.
Goebbels: He has your tactics.
McCarthy: He has your logic.
Goebbels: No, he has OUR logic.
McCarthy: (smiles) and your eyes.
The Flakes is more concerned about what some insignificant people say about his anonymous persona on a small blog than issues of racism, threats to democracy and a retrograde culture.
Because, you know, white male power and his 401k.
But maybe he is still just “waiting for the facts.”
Principles and ideals matter. The Mr. Flakey Flakes only cares about “the facts” because he has no principles and no ideals.
Onion skin outside with nothing in the center, white skin, empty morality.
Hey Flakes, you appear to have better insight on conservatives politics than many on here, certainly more so than Warlord’s and Warlock’s. What is your opinion why Trump is so popular with white supremacists?
“What is your opinion why Trump is so popular with white supremacists?”
yeah, what is all that about?
You must be a pedo, Iron Lung. You try to slander me with insinuation about such things which is a horrible and dangerous thing to do but using your logic you support the real pedos. Clinton Global Initiative associated charity against sex abuse arrested recently for attempting to have sex with infants.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/us/columbia-student-arrested-child-porn-sex-crimes-trnd/index.html
Phuuuuuckkkk duuuuude I’m like protectingkidzfrom the LIZARD PEOPLE adrenocrhomesexwithbaiesyo phuck dank
So you don’t deny it! There you go: confirmation Iron Lung is in fact a pedo.
I do not like children at all.
LIZARD PEOPLE DO THOUGH 420 bongoloian sativalord will saaaave the kidddzwithCBDyo
Oh, looky here. Hillary Clinton’s lil buddy organization focuses on Kenya, where apparently Western perverts are desperately needed. Iron Lung would know all about that, being a pedophile who travelled to Kenya to “help” the local population.
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/press/press-releases/international-campaign-to-stop-rape-and-gender-violence-in-conflict-launches.html?print=t
“The Campaign launches with four target countries where immediate attention is needed: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Burma, and Colombia.”
The Bongolian Kushlord doesn’t mind it when Donald Trump pals around with pedophiles.
It is good that man was caught. He deserves to be in prison for a long time.
“I do not like children at all.”
So you are the worst kind who shows no mercy while you are raping them? Sadistic psychopath.
DJT helped to prosecute Epstein so that’s bullshit. The Clintons love organizations that send pedos to Kenya where Iron Lung likes to go too when he can.
““I do not like children at all.”
So you are the worst kind who shows no mercy while you are raping them? Sadistic psychopath.”
lol
“DJT helped to prosecute Epstein so that’s bullshit. The Clintons love organizations that send pedos to Kenya where Iron Lung likes to go too when he can.”
lollolol
You will not be laughing when the video comes out of Hillary Clinton taking her reptilian form and sitting down to dine on a meal of toddler faces.
There must be a lot of orphans in that part of Africa with all the conflict there. Easy pickin’s for pedos like Joel Davis and the worst kind of monsters like Iron Lung who inflict sexual abuse on children out of sheer hatred.
“There must be a lot of orphans in that part of Africa with all the conflict there. Easy pickin’s for pedos like Joel Davis and the worst kind of monsters like Iron Lung who inflict sexual abuse on children out of sheer hatred.”
lol
Going to Haiti next to “help out” some of those poor children, IL? I hear the Clinton Foundation luuuvs protecting traffickers of Haitian children like Laura Silsby so it should be no problem for you to “hook up” down there.
“Going to Haiti next to “help out” some of those poor children, IL? I hear the Clinton Foundation luuuvs protecting traffickers of Haitian children like Laura Silsby so it should be no problem for you to “hook up” down there.”
lol
The 420 Kushlord is sooooooo maaaaaad phuuuuck ICPyodankweeed savin the worldfrom the childskinmaskwearing HILLARY CLINTOOOONNNNNN
The psychopath laughs.
“The psychopath laughs.”
PSYCHOPATHIC RECORDS DUDE phuuuuuck
DJT helped bust Epstein. Clintons enjoyed his favors over and over and over but Iron Lung says I excuse pedo behavior because I support Trump. The piece of dung doth protest way too much.
The non-right wing members who post here get together on Friday nights and eat babies. Hillary Clinton sends money for the snacks of aborted fetae and blood sodas.
Sometimes she sends a box filled with childrens faces we wear as masks.
That must be quite an honor to you! Special care package from mommy.
We eat babies in the name of Satan while the 420 Kushlord turns a blind eye.
My eyes are wide open. I see you you degenerate 98 pound sack o’ shit.
If the 420 Kushlord would only seek out our Satanic meeting place in the basement of a local pizza house, so many babies would be saved and many kids would still have faces.
You can’t joke your way out of it. It’s well established now you are a pedo.
The 420 Kushlord came here to be friends, but discovered a deep Satanic child sex ring located in the heart of Ypsilanti.
What will he do?
Lucky Pierre,
See my response about Duke’s endorsement.
See my question to IL asking: What exactly hinges, in his mind, on the Duke endorsement of Trump, and whether or not we should/would think of Trump differently if there was a candidate running against Trump (like Spencer) who white supremacists preferred to vote for.
I think it is safe to say, White Supemasists tend to strongly hold onto a variety of conservative views they deem important to them, so they are likely to vote conservative. “Maybe they are just conservative” was a response I was given, by a mm.com regular, when asked why so many Hispanics voted for Trump. The more to the point questions are: Does trump lend support in words and policy to the white supremacists? What examples in the Trump platform show that Trump ran on a white supremacist platform.
The very odd thing is, and you would know it if you followed this conversation back a few weeks, is, I am curious about these questions. I offered to compile a list of such information, with IL’s help, and IL reacted like I murdered his pet hamster while he was taking nap-time.
Why?
Because THE FACTS are not strong with this one, Luke-y.
Compiling a list of dog whistles will not be useful. I do not understand what the Flakey Flakes aims to achieve aside from using it to discredit the idea that Donald Trump ran on a platform of white supremacy and actively courted voters with racist sensibilities.
Probably the Flakey Flakes does not take racism seriously.
“whether or not we should/would think of Trump differently if there was a candidate running against Trump (like Spencer) who white supremacists preferred to vote for.”
If Spencer had run so what? Would that have changed the nature of Trump’s racist campaign? I say not. He found that talking about Mexican rapists and cleaning up “inner cities” worked well with a rural racist base, just as Reagan found that kicking off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS worked with Southern voters.
Flakey Flakes would just offer that it was mere coincidence that Reagan did that because Flakey Flakes has no problem with racism in politics, because white male power and his onion skin empty shell.
Lee Atwater’s strategy was quite smart. Bigots can used coded language to be able to deny culpability in pushing for racist policies. It has influenced the way that the entire Republican Party has done politics for decades following.
The Flakey Flakes is either too dumb to realize this, is simply following a tried and true conservative strategy or has internalized the coded language so much that he actually believes that there are no hidden meanings when Donald Trump say “inner cities.”
Hard to tell which.
“If Spencer had run so what? Would that have changed the nature of Trump’s racist campaign?”
I agree, Iron Lung.
The apt questions, for our discussion, are those questions that give us insight into the actual nature of the Trump campaign, as you now just said. Which is why I asked you what “hinges” on the Duke endorsement.
Is it not strange you are now saying the answers to your own questions do not matter; and yet you not only asked the meaningless questions; but you argued that a failure to answer those same meaningless questions (by your own admission) was, in your view, a piece of evidence that I hold some horribly aweful political views.
Do you see how one might not find your lines of reasoning super duper solid?
Given we both agree that the actual nature of Trump’s campaign is the sought after insight. Is it not odd that when I offer to compile a list of examples, with your help, that might shed light on the nature of Trump’s campaign you say such a “list of dog whistles will not be useful” and go on to further express that you beleive I would actually use a list of examples, of your choosing, that exemplify the darker sides of the Trump campaign to discredit the claims you have made about the nature of the Trump campaign.
Your reasoning falls short of the standards required to even be called “circular reasoning”.
“I hold some horribly aweful political views.”
Why would I come up with such an inane list when others have already done it? You know what would be on such a list already.
Do you want a link to a list? It will, of course, come from a “biased” source…. so what would be the point?
What you want to do is discredit each one by one as “not being ground in facts” when the fact is that dog whistles have been used in right wing politics for decades. Trump was actually clearer than most, which was a calculated attempt to gain support from a racist base and it worked.
It is astounding that you deny this but then you are still “waiting for the facts.”
What is horrid about you is that you don’t admit how you and people like you enable racism in this country. You may not consider yourself a racist but you clearly have no problem with racism in campaign politics outside of a brief mention of the “darker sides of the Trump campaign” as if were just an accident or worthy of disregard. From here, that’s what won him the seat.
So, if you voted for Mr. Trump, you enabled racists in gaining power in this country. People who voted for Trump voted for white supremacy whether that was their intention or not. In practice, a vote for Trump was a vote for white supremacy.
Clearly, Americans value a tax break more than this despise racism.
I have no idea whether Flakey Flakes “holds horrible political views.” That isn’t the point. Honestly, it appears he has no political views (always “waiting for the facts”)
The point is that Flakey Flakes has no problem in enabling the people who do have horrible political views and is spineless in confronting those who do.
In that record, Flakey Flakes is like a lot of Americans, and that”s what I find so distasteful.
It is unbelievable that Flakey Flakes has yet to understand that.
You have no problem aiding pedos. Using your own logic (but better than you) you are a pedo.
Phuuuck dude so haaai gonna put a babys face on my face be babyface yooo
Went out to get a pizza
asked for some mozzarella
Lady came out with a baby
Pulled off its face,
made me a salad
Cheeze stick and chicken fingers
But these were baby fingers
Looked up and talked to the lady
She was like a demon lady
Turned out it was Hillary Clinton
So put on the mask and prayed to SATAN
Yo 420 yo eatin babies every day
DNC gonna have its way
Unborn gonna be lunch
Donald Trump gettin Epstein out of jail
Full pardon without fail
Just like Joe Arapaio
Showing the brownies what they know
Pizza kids adrenochrome high
It’s like a chicken don’t make me lie
Dongolian Kushlord gonna expose the conspiracy
In the local town of Ypsilanti
Takin out the chicken place
DNC hideaway
Like a snake. Yo
420 kushlordbakingupaCBDbomb yooo…
Yeah, put a 60 cycle hum on it really loud and release another record nobody wants.
I hope you record that one, IL. It could be great.
HW, how many records have you released?
Iron Lung 2: “Went out to get a pizza…”
In my impartial opinion, this is the best comment I’ve read here all year. Or is it possible to have an impartial opinion about poetry? I may have to change my name to Interested Observer.
“What is your opinion why Trump is so popular with white supremacists?”
LP, this is what Ronald Reagan Jr thinks (more broadly about Trump’s base):
“They really aren’t in touch with reality. The most important thing to them [is that Trump] seems to hate the same people that they hate,” Ron Reagan told Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Thursday. “That’s the real Trump derangement syndrome.”
I think there’s a lot to that explanation. Prime example: why is “Hillary Clinton!” the answer to criticism of Trump? But good luck getting a Trump supporter to self reflect on that.
FF, I have to agree with IL that it’s disingenuous to ask him for evidence that Trump panders to white supremacists. You listen to Trump’s own words and read his tweets? They don’t require analysis. Aren’t you the guy who scoured 8 hours of amateur video of Charlottesville, and insisted everyone here do so too, to “prove” that both sides were at fault? If you’re still “waiting for the facts” on Trump there’s no point to what you ask of IL.
Ahahahaha! Fuck you and your entire ontological orientation, you nihilist pinhead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhTwxoxWBY
I think I am being annoying not disingenuous and I apologize to the mm.com for my part in adding to all of your daily annoyance but I am not the only one to blame and in the end I do think it is important to discuss this stuff…
Anyway, SH, I am being “Disingenuous” toward what end do you think?
I thought it would be good for IL to make his reasons explicit. I didn’t demand reasons, I asked. When he was silent I tried to assemble a list of reasons and even offered some Trump campaign quotes, I gathered from the Internet, in an attempt to gain feedback from IL regarding his approval /disapproval; but IL said he did not want to even offer his opinion on whether or not the examples I gave him were good examples of evidence. He further said, if he were to reveal his reasons for his truth claim,I would just use his reasons to discredit his truth claim.
I thought we used reasons to attempt to give explicit validity to our truth claims. If a “reason” discredits a specific truth claim then it never was a reason for that truth claim and why should anyone care? I am very open to hearing IL’s reasons. That is why I asked you:” disingenuous toward what end”?
Stupid, your line of thinking is moronic. The first thing I saw that day when I turned on the protest stream was antifa goons whipping ROCKS at militia members with their backs against a wall, people who counted medics among them who tended anyone with injuries no matter what “side” they were on.
Tell me where are all these “emboldened” white supremacists now that we are well into the Trump era? What happened to them since that protest organized by LIBERAL Jason whatshisname? Not too much going on in their corner or antifa for that matter; little bit here and there on the antifa side, mostly in Portland but not that much. Teeny squawk by the slimy Spencer who was used to smear Trump by false association… You have been played by people who want to tear the USA apart.
If DJT is racist why are all groups doing well in this economy? Why does the President brag about African American, Latino, Asian and female employment?
SH, I don’t understand why you mentioned Charlottesville and the mm.com conversation around Charlottesville. Did I do something you object to in that thread? Like you said, I did spend a lot of time gathering footage and documenting the pertinent time stamps of that footage. Is that bad? I remember asking the mm.com community and Wobblie, more specifically, to give a report of what they saw. My efforts were met with almost 100% silence, which is ok , but I am just wondering if you thought there was something I did wrong in the Charlottesville thread? I thought I did a good job. Wasn’t I, in a neutral way, offering video evidence around the events that people on MM.com were actively making truth claims about?
FF’s understanding of his own supposed neutrality amuses me. He is Switzerland. Or Czech Republic pre WW2? or the Danes?
Hard to know but his idea of neutrality (aka moral relativism) is fascinating when dealing with actual fascists.
Moral relativism, like calls for civility, protects most the status quo and all hierarchies therein.
“Neutrality (aka moral relativism)”
Moral relativism has a neutral component. However, not even in a galaxy far far away does “neutrality” imply “moral relativism”.
Analogies properly used are a sign of intelligence. I don’t think your analogies are very intelligent. What are they then?
I very much hope we can explore the charge of “moral relativism”.
I don’t mean this as a deterrent but I am going to be asking for evidence [gulp] that backs up your claims.
I know. It sounds like a scary experience awaits.
FF— Please note that I said “[your] idea of neutrality (aka moral relativism).” I don’t think they are the same thing. It seems to me that what you position as neutrality is moral relativism however. Glad to know you see a difference. Rather than get into a discussion where terms are defined differently between the parties, please tell me what you see as the distinction, and how you would frame your position.
As for your inference that I’m an idiot (however civil your tone), I’m prepared to accept that characterization on your behalf. What’s more idiotic (and human) than jumping to a conclusion that confirms ones narrative based on a poor reading of someone else’s point?
No Jean. I don’t think you are an idiot. Nor was I trying to imply you are an idiot. Your “analogies” here strike me as so dumb that they are not even analogies. I might even say your “analogies” have a cleverly deceitful intent but that bit of cleverness does not an analogy make. The question was not ‘what is Jean’? The question was: ‘What are they’?” It was/is a real question. Analogies are great because the give us an additional avenue toward the Truth. Did your “analogies” do that? If your opinion is ‘yes’, then let us see your evidence. Because I believe we all understand the implication when, via the outward appearance of the empty form of an analogy, you claimed that my position is potentially: 1) as immoral as a country that wouId house money for Hitler that was stolen from the people he murdered; and/or 2) as weak as a country that would make concessions to Hitler in the selfish hopes that Hitler would not invade them.
So, given we all probably understand what the complicit-Nazi-collaborator side of your analogy means. The question really is: Where, on mm.com, has my political/philosophical positions been analogous with those immoral/ amoral/ self-interested positions of those nations you offered up and claimed to be grounded loosely in moral relativism?
My use of term “neutral” , when speaking to SH, was intended to the convey the impartial approach I took toward gathering video evidence around very specific c-ville events, which members of the mm.com, were making truth claims about. Do you find something wrong with gathering evidence in an impartial way or do you reject the idea that I was gathering evidence impartially? I ask because there is a pretty large gap between 1) gathering evidence in a bias way (if that is what you think I am guilty of) and 2) being like someone who is passively-indirectly-complicit of genocide aided by their own convenient moral relativism. I don’t even need you to bridge the huge fucking gap. Can you even give your evidence of #1, please?
FF– I see many patterns in human behavior, some (many) of which produce human horrors. Most of the time those same behaviors are benign. When a society is under the kind of stress we are under today, with Trump as President as evidence, then those behaviors take on a different color, because the context makes them more risky.
Normally, your ‘neutrality’ would not bother me one bit. But I don’t believe that neutrality with regards to Trump is reasonable. I actually think I feel more empathy for his misguided supporters than those who believe he is so insignificant a force as to think neutrality is a reasonable response and one which will produce a more civil society.
I dont think you are a nazi. I think, as IL stated, that in the context of the run up to WW2 and the Holocaust, you would have likely been neutral and complicit. Many many many people were. There is absolutely nothing exceptional about your position. Becoming complicit in horror is just a risk of it. That risk is elevated in these times.
I also dont think you are a journalist, or meet journalistic standards of objectivity. I have pointed out at least a dozen times the double standards you apply in your supposedly neutral, fact based approach. You position yourself as neutral and fact based to mask your apparent bias. Your ‘neutrality’ relies on amorality in that it ignores bias of all kinds, especially your own. It’s that simple.
I have no intention of going back through past posts to find the places where I pointed up a double standard on your part. You can do that work if you seek those answers. I spoke up about a quarter of the time when I observed it. You have had plenty of opportunity to take my points seriously and chose not to. Asking me to do work to prove points I’ve already proven to my satisfaction is yet another means of deflection on your part. I’m not that much of a fool to go chasing after these things you already ignored repeatedly. I wish you well FF. I’m glad I dont have to deal with you IRL.
Heavy on judgments. Light on evidence.
What could go wrong?
FF—Ditto. back at you.
As I said, the evidence is in the record. I point them up as they occur.
Nice try deflecting though.
Clearly you are the voice of reason.
I owe you an apology, Jean. I truly am light on evidence as you suggested. My only flimsy piece of evidence that substantiates my claim that you have not given evidence is your failure (and promise) to not give any evidence. I am sure, there is a ton of evidence, showing that I am the type of person who would use an amoral, immoral, or morally relativistic stance to profit from, or at least be passively complicit in Hitler’s genocide. I apologize for asking you for evidence because in my asking you to reveal your evidence, I am guilty of implying, that such evidence does not actually exist “in the record”. I apologize for being so presumptuous.
I will try not to fall out of line in the future.
Lockstep from now on. I promise.
It’s because she’s a woman, isn’t it FF?
Yes, iRobert, but also because I, for a moment, forgot to remember: what I am seeing and what I am reading is not what is actually happening.
Juan Cole by Proxi
https://www.juancole.com/2018/07/released-palestinian-activist.html
iRobert–the double standard to which I was referring was that FF gives HW and EOS batshit crazy counter factual statements a pass, while nit picking at those coming form the left. This is his idea of neutrality. He does it to men and women. It has nothing to do with gender.
FF demands facts to support opinions, which is reasonable and are often provided. But then insists that the opinions must be facts themselves, which quite obviously they are not, or they are wrong. He even insists that analogies be facts or be wrong. It’s logical fallacy masking as reason. But only applied to the left. It makes my brain hurt.
FF–“What you are seeing” is inherently biased by your own perspective. Your perspective is not the same thing as fact. Your perspective, as anyone’s, distorts facts.
Jean is right. I should have never asked for evidence. I should have just accepted the judgment as true–that I am the type of person who would use an amoral/ morally relativistic stance to enable Hitler genocide. Further, I should have never gone rogue. In the future I will follow Jean’s lead with regard to who I engage with on mm.com and the nature of my engagement. My engagement with Jean and Iron Lung do not stand alone. My failure to engage with EOS and HW, in the approved way, at the approved rate, obviously negates any insights that may have come about in my interactions with Jean and IL.
Gleichshaltung.
@Jean,
You are so clueless, that what you call my bat shit crazy ideas are the actual truth. If I ever wrote something that wasn’t true, I’m sure FF would call me out on it.
Jean, nothing you say pans out. It’s all wrong and I show you why with reasoning you don’t have an answer to. How can you of all people say I am crazy? You are every extreme thing you rail against: bigoted, racist, sexist, eugenicist. All things which I am very far from. Your entire “argument” consists of circular logic: Trump is supported by racists therefore Trump is racist therefore Trump supporters are racist confirming Trump is a racist. Great stuff there.
Holy shit the comment section has become dull due to GOP hostile takeover…
FF, In your words,“Disingenuous” toward what end? I don’t know, I can’t read your mind, but for some reason you act like you can’t detect that Trump openly encourages racists. I use the word disingenuous because it doesn’t seem to me like you’re naive. I assume you listen to Trump’s own words and read his own tweets.
And so it is with Charlottesville. Your reaction puzzled me. Something motivated you to pore over hours of amateur video of a single POV of a white supremacist rally. What was so compelling? What was so important for you to prove or disprove? Did something outrage you? You don’t have to answer here, I’m just asking you to self reflect for your own benefit. In return, I will self reflect on what compels me to respond to futile “discourse” in the comments of this blog.
HW, I’m sure my response is futile, because I perceive you really are lost in your faith in Trump. God bless you and help you.
“Tell me where are all these “emboldened” white supremacists now that we are well into the Trump era?”
Naturally, they are marching against Trump because he’s bragging about Black and Hispanic employment rates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-white-supremacists-split-a-quiet-rust-belt-town/2018/07/28
An excerpt:
The traffic sign that greets visitors on the south side of Ulysses, a tiny town in rural far north-central Pennsylvania, is suitably quaint — a silhouette of a horse-drawn cart reminding drivers that the Amish use the roads, too. But on the north side of town, along the main thoroughfare, is a far different display: a home dedicated to Adolf Hitler, where star-spangled banners and Nazi flags flutter side by side and wooden swastikas stand on poles.
White supremacy has had a continuous presence in Ulysses and surrounding Potter County since the Ku Klux Klan arrived a century ago, giving the town — with a population today of about 650 — improbable national significance. In the mid-2000s, it hosted the World Aryan Congress, a gathering of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Klan members.
This year, after a sting operation, federal prosecutors charged six members of an Aryan Strike Force cell with weapons and drug offenses, contending that they had plotted a suicide attack at an anti-racism protest. A terminally ill member was willing to hide a bomb in his oxygen tank and blow himself up, prosecutors said. The group had met and conducted weapons training in Ulysses.
Neo-Nazis and their opponents here say that white extremists have grown more confident — and confrontational — since the rise of Donald Trump. Two months before the 2016 presidential election, the KKK established a “24 hour Klan Line” and sent goody bags containing lollipops and fliers to hundreds of homes. “You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake,” the message read. A regional newspaper ran Klan advertisements saying, “God bless the KKK.”
Local police said the group had not openly recruited in years.
Two weeks later, the area’s two neo-Nazi groups, the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and Aryan Strike Force, held a “white unity meeting” in Ulysses to discuss their response to Trump and plan joint action. One organizer would not say when the groups had last met, simply commenting: “It’s just a good time.”
Potter County is staunchly Republican and has voted Democratic once since 1888; Trump received 80 percent of the vote, tying with Herbert Hoover for the highest percentage won.
“I can tell you with certainty that since November 2016, activity has doubled, whether it’s feet on the street or money orders or people helping out,” said Daniel Burnside, 43, a woodcarver who owns the Nazi-themed home and directs the state chapter of the National Socialist Movement, a far-right group that was founded in Detroit in the mid-1970s. It has a presence in many states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, and the NSM was among the groups taking part in the violent August 2017 rally in defense of Confederate statues in Charlottesville.
“We have meetings every 30 days,” he said. “ There’s more collaboration.”
Burnside, who declined to say how many local residents were involved in his group, was born in Ulysses and raised there by a grandfather who he said was a Nazi sympathizer who fought in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. Burnside said his beloved grandfather drank himself to death because of the war’s impact on him.
The younger Burnside said he joined the NSM four years ago but has long harbored anti-Semitic views and is a practicing Odinist — the pagan religion Odinism is popular among some neo-Nazis. Burnside does not see Trump as a leader of the NSM cause but as a politician who amplified long-standing white-nationalist views at the right time.
“Personally, I don’t know about Trump,” he said. “You won’t necessarily see MAGA hats at an NSM meeting. We’re anti-Semitic. Something’s off about Trump with the Jews. That said, we’re strategically aligned. When Trump says something that aligns with us — close the borders, build the wall, look after your own — that’s good: We’ve been saying this for 25 years, but he has made it mainstream.”
“We’re still a white nation, and I respect that he supports that,” Burnside added. “He’s also highlighted social problems. The kids who go to bed hungry, people who can’t pay their bills, the damage being done to society.”
Joe Leschner, 38, a white restaurant manager, fled the county this year because of what he said was abuse aimed at him and his wife, Sashena, who is black, after Trump’s election.
After he discovered a KKK leaflet outside their home, Leschner organized an anti-racism gathering in Ulysses. “And these guys drove by us and gave the gun signal, like they’re going to shoot us,” he said.
One of those who Leschner said made a pistol gesture had previously been jailed for 10 years for an aggravated assault on a black man. This year he was convicted of possession of firearms he was not legally allowed to own and intent to sell drugs.
Photographs of the Leschners were circulated on VK, a Russian-run social media site, with users posting death threats, he said.
“A guy came up to us in a restaurant and said, ‘You have got to be kidding me.’ I wanted to say something, but just couldn’t. This was where I grew up, at the restaurant where I got my first job. My wife was almost in tears,” he recalled.
“We had to leave,” said Leschner, who now runs a restaurant in Frederick, Md. “Most people aren’t racist, but there are enough that are and enough who let it happen.”
EOS: “You are so clueless, that what you call my bat shit crazy ideas are the actual truth. If I ever wrote something that wasn’t true, I’m sure FF would call me out on it.”
Are you sure you don’t view FF as impartial and credible because he hasn’t called you out on your batshit crazy ideas? Hypothetically, of course. I’m not actually saying you’re batshit crazy (but would you view me as impartial and credible if I said you were)?
Iron Lung 2: “Went out to get a pizza…”
I agree with Disinterested Observer, this is the kind of inspired content that Mark Maynard’s readers deserve more of. Please set it to nyatiti “bar punk rock” music and make a YouTube video. I’ll contribute to a Kickstarter.
SH,
I think it would be great to assemble a list of best examples we have that Trump ran on a white supremacy platform. I still do. I am not a member of any social media whatsoever, so I have probably read less tweets than you think. I have looked at some list from websites but I have not found them very convincing against Trump mainly because there was a lot of paraphrasing going on….I thought it would be important for IL and I to build the list together because he and Jean had already accused me of being biased in favor of Trump.
Charlottesville was a disaster. I feel proud of my efforts collecting info primarily off the “Duerst is the Worst” video. It does not seem like it would be hard but there were some 5 second interactions that took me 30-40 minutes to figure the ordering of physical attacks and responses by going frame by frame. It wasn’t like I was cherry picking events either. I was following the truth claims made by mm.com about specific interactions and then I was investigating those truth claims. I invite anyone who is willing to invest an hour of their time to follow the Charlottesville thread and look at the video very closely following my instructions and let us know what you see. Why the effort? I want to know the truth. End of story.
Fliers and lollipops oh my! It’s all Donald Trump’s doing!
I just checked. The POV “Duerst the Worst” video, Which I offered the relevant time stamps to, seems to still be available on YouTube.
“Holy shit the comment section has become dull due to GOP hostile takeover…”
Landmines versus Lichtung. Hard to say which is more beneficial.
I may have misunderstood him. What skills was John Brown urging us to work on?
It seems to me like this belongs here.