Half of all Republican men refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19. You might think that this could be a good thing because it might cause an extinction event for supporters of Donald Trump, but unfortunately it is just as likely to kill the rest of us as well.
But the crazy thing are the excuses being given for refusing a jab or two:
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I’ve realized many have the incorrect mental model of the immune system: we conceive of it as a protective wall with a fixed height, and assume that vaccine efficacy represents that height. Wrong. I wrote a post explaining what trials do and don’t measure. https://t.co/m2D5sInuozpic.twitter.com/zXKrWKUSLA
I always thought a good analogy was “if you lower corporate taxes, it would be unfair to corporations who already paid taxes.” But this works too. https://t.co/32iNJ0uH4g
— National Security Counselors (@NatlSecCnslrs) April 5, 2021
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Important piece by @sidney_b about something we’ve all sensed: Being anti-media “has become a point of political identity among Republicans.”
Political scientist Taeku Lee says signaling media distrust is “much the same as wearing a red MAGA cap.” https://t.co/8HhBPUuYER
I’ve had my QAnon videos deleted from my youtube channel for just reporting on them. They’d been up for a year. I’ve had a channel for 14 years. One thing nobody’s talking about a guy at a Milwaukee Trump rally told me he got into Q through Guccifer 2.0 it’s a disinformation op
Ivanka Trump’s flagship policy project from her time in the Trump White House has been found by the GAO to have failed to properly target the very poor and women-owned businesses it intended to benefit. https://t.co/3flJQxbCI3
In May, 2015, the Trump Org was informed that it’s deal in Azerbaijan was likely part of a money-laundering operation run by Iran’s IRGC and, specifically, the part of the IRGC that seeks WMD.
Trump’s top lawyer acknowledged they learned this by 2015.
Though reporting suggests they knew, or should have, as early as 2011.
Ivanka ran the project.
They continued the project through the entire Presidential campaign and only canceled it in Dec., 2016. 2/
The Trump Org had the legal right to view the books of the entity they partnered with–ZQAN–and could have unlocked a scheme to kill Americans.
They did nothing. (Other than accept $ 5M in payment from the scheme). 3/
When I reported this in March, 2017, the Trump Org acknowledged it was all true.
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- They key Iranian partners in the scheme, the Darvishi brothers, were (and remain) loyal to Mohamed Bagher ghalibaf, who ran WMD-acquisition efforts for missile systems, among many other dangerous acts: ifmat.org/connected-enti… 6/
- Trump Org was not a bystander.
- Ivanka Trump asked the Mammadovs to clear adjacent land–filled with the homes of working people–to create a park.
- Anar Mammadov came to America in 2010 to buy respectability for his family. 7/
- He got nowhere, because he was comically corrupt and a fool. He spent millions seeking American partners to make his business seem respectable.
- He got nowhere. Except for Trump. Trump was the one businessman who agreed to work with him. 8/
- The central challenge of an IRGC-money laundering scheme is to make it appear like it’s NOT an IRGC-money laundering scheme. That was the service Trump org provided: a big, shiny gold name on a nakedly corrupt project. 9/
- This was a central business model for the Trump Org.
- Consider his deals with Hary Tanoe, Silk Road Group, and in Panama, Vancouver, Toronto, etc.
- They make no sense as real estate deals. But they make a lot of sense as $ -laundering schemes. 10/
- It seems clear that working with the worst was not accidental or because of sloppy oversight.
- The worst, least deal-with-able corrupt crooks are the ones willing to pay the most and to demand the least in actual services. 11/
- The basic economics of the Trump Org make no sense otherwise.
- Companies don’t flit from outerboro housing to lux hotels, to airlines and casinos, to TV and intl brands.
- The core staff of Trump Org remained in place with all these shifts. 12/
- They were expert at *something* even if that thing wasn’t the front business.
- In short, the Afghan bounty story is the opposite of an outlier. It’s the core story of Trump’s career.
- In economic terms, he sells a service. 13/
- That service is lending his “brand” to entities that can get no other legitimacy.
- The only puzzle is that it continues to work.
- Crucially: they don’t hide this. They are quite open about it all. 14/
- Just do the slightest bit of digging into what Trump, Jr., and Ivanka have said about their intl deals and the nature of intl law.
- THIS is the Kompromat.
- It’s not that Putin tricked Trump into some weird embarrassing episode. 15/
- It’s that the core business was money-laundering and supporting corruption.
- There are boring legal questions about what laws he did or didn’t break. 16/
- But in the case of Azerbaijan–as, it appears, Afghanistan–there should be no doubt. Trump made money by helping schemers who kill Americans. And he did that knowingly.
That this might not be illegal is a problem for another day. But it’s disqualifying for a President.
Fox News and Greg Gutfeld apparently believes he’s funny enough to go up against late night comedy programming. Because of the previous guy, the world might be safe for RW late night humor when ‘Pretentious Virtue Signaling’ can be an intelligible punch line. As if Dennis Miller on RT makes us feel better about conservative humor, there is likely a Trumpian audience awake after 11pm, even if such “libertarian” humor can only be… forced.
“Just because something has the cadence of a joke does not make it a joke,” formerNightly Showwriter Sasha Stewart added, before also referencing the tepid laughter that could be heard in the background. “I’m sorry for the five staffers who make up the laugh track. I know they’re staffers because it’s the kind of sharp, pained laugh of a person who’s barely getting paid enough to be there.”
Greg Gutfeld is taking hisFox News Channeltalk show from Saturdays to a high-profile weeknight perch, serving as a lighter, more satirical chaser for the cable network’s pugnacious opinion lineup.
In the process, “Gutfeld!,” a new name for a show that will feature some new elements, offers a more conservative alternative to the mix of late-night TV talk shows.
Libertarian-leaningGutfeld hopes the hourlong show (Monday, 11 EDT/8 PDT) can “draft” like a cyclist off the ratings of shows hosted by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
“I’m going to be living in their universe, talking about the same stuff but with different people and a different perspective and maybe a more subversive or surprising way of doing it,” Gutfeld says.
He will try to carve out his own late-night territory against hosts he says are fighting over liberal terrain.Then-President Donald Trumppraised Gutfeld in a tweet last May in which he criticized Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon andJimmy Kimmel, now the Fox News host’s competitors.
Conservatives resent liberals for a great many reasons, but it’s the stranglehold over culture and comedy that really drives them nuts. There are no “right-wing movies” that don’t go straight to DVD; right-wing comedy is stagnant and mostly consists of racist middle-aged men making trite, uncreative jokes about “safe spaces” and “participation trophies.”
The right-wing worldview seems simply are incapable of producing any cultural content that has any value or lasting meaning apart from mocking memes (see Neal McCoy’s now-infamous country single “Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won’t Take a Knee)“).
That axiom was once again proven correct with the debut of FOX host Greg Gutfeld’s new late-night comedy show, which opened with an absolutely cringe attempt to mock the “liberal” media outlets of CNN and MSNBC that landed like a rotten watermelon on the sidewalk.
Trying to make fun of MSNBC host Brian Williams for fudging the truth in his reporting about an Iraq War helicopter ride some eighteen years ago, Gutfeld’s bit consisted of Williams pretending he was on Mars. His second bit showed two CNN pundits arguing that the other one was racist.
Every time I see Greg Gutfeld mentioned on this site I think of the Russ Meyer documentary where they spelled his name wrong pic.twitter.com/vBWNHonuMl
Who needs Fox News when a lazy MSM amplifies Trumpian disinformation.
On April 4, two mainstream news outlets promoted a lie about President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure package that originated from a former Trump administration official.
The misleading claim, which wasfact-checked by The Washington Post, is that only 5-7% of the package is devoted to “real infrastructure,” that is roads, bridges, and ports. This claim rests on a false assumption that only a narrow slice of projects can be considered “real infrastructure” while an entire array of other projects, such as broadband or charging stations for electric vehicles, do not.
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A former top Trump official started a lie about Biden’s infrastructure bill. Two Sunday shows ran with it. https://t.co/seHQTUnj0J
The specific claim that only 5-7% of Biden’s infrastructure spending would go to such projects apparently originates with Russell Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration, on the April 1 edition of Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show.
In other acts of meta-criticism, a stone chair monument is being held for political ransom.
Pictures obtained by AL.com, however, point to a late-night heist a day earlier, on March 19. Those pictures, which appeared to show the $ 500,000 chair being smuggled out of the cemetery in the dark, were provided by a group calling itself “White Lies Matter.” The group also sent a picture of a ransom note, addressed to the group “United Daughters of the Confederacy,” (UDC) which owns the land around Confederate Circle.
“The Ladies of Selma presented the stone chair in memory of Jefferson Davis in 1893, over 20 years after he’d last visited the city,” that report stated.
“Like most Confederate monuments, (the chair) mostly exists to remind those who’s freedom had to be purchased in blood, that there still exists a portion of our country that is more than willing to continue to spill blood to avoid paying that debt down,” the White Lies Matter email states.
“We took their toy, and we don’t feel guilty about it. They never play with it anyway. They just want it there to remind us what they’ve done, what they are still willing to do. But the south won’t rise again. Not as the Confederacy. Because that coalition left out a large portion of its population. All that’s left of that nightmare is an obscenely heavy chair that’s a throne for a ghost whose greatest accomplishment was treason.”
Garret Miller is one of the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol building on January 6. Like many in the mob, he thoroughly documented his actions on social media. This included a selfie of himself after breaking in, along with a comment “Just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol.” He also bragged that he brought a gun with him.
Later, after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted “Impeach”, Miller tweeted back at her “Assassinate AOC”.
On Jan. 10, he posted about the Capitol police officer who shot and killed a woman rioter inside the Capitol, “He will swing. I had a rope in my bag on that day.” He also called the officer, who he thought was Black, a “prize to be taken.”
When Miller was arrested at his home in Dallas, he happened to be wearing a T-shirt that had a photo of Donald Trump, along with the words “Take America Back” and “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021.” Seriously.
But there’s more. His lawyer is asking for the release of Miller, saying he has expressed regret for his actions. But immediately after his arrest, on a recorded call to his mother, he had said “I don’t feel that I’ve done anything wrong.”
Multiple instances of him incriminating himself. No regret. Continues to threaten violence and to make it clear that he is a danger to others. Racist and delusional. In Texas, do they still throw people in jail and throw away the key?
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I’m a mom, that has worn many different hats in this life; from scout leader, camp craft teacher, parents group president, colorguard coach, member of the community band, stay-at-home-mom to full time worker, I’ve done it all– almost! I still love learning new things, especially creating and cooking. Most of all I love to laugh! Thanks for visiting – come back soon
Not a victory for cancellation as perhaps poorly vetted stereotypes best left for an era when Bruce Lee couldn’t be chosen for the lead of a TV series.
Dav Pilkey, whose Captain Underpants has its own issues but remains popular, agreed with the withdrawal of his latest ‘graphic novel’ by its publisher, one that concentrates on children’s education publications.
A focus group should have been deployed in a 21st Century editorial decision that could have incorporated martial arts in the narrative without indulging an anachronistic trope. As the accounting software advertisement says, “More Mercy”.
“Together, we recognize that this book perpetuates passive racism,” the company that publishes “Captain Underpants” said. “We are deeply sorry for this serious mistake.”
On March 25, 2021, Dav Pilkey announced on hisYouTubechannel stating that he andScholastichave removed the book from print due to someracialstereotypingharmful to Asians.[4][5]
According to the video, all money that Pilkey and his wife have made from the book will be donated to “charities that provide free books, art supplies, and theater for children in underserved communities; organizations that promote diversity in children’s books and publishing; and organizations designed to stop Asian hatred.”[5]
Sign the Petition Scholastic Needs to Apologize for Publishing a Children’s Book Filled with Racist Imagery change.org https://t.co/Q2kjI3GKTf?amp=1
In more active forms of racism, the kidnapping and assassinating of a United States Governor seems mayhemish. But that level of terrorism seems more ‘passive’ in the case of domestic terrorists planning to abduct and kill the Governor of Michigan.
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NEW: A judge has dismissed threat of terrorism charges against three men accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
“There has to be some form of intent here to incite mayhem,” the judge saidhttps://t.co/WUh95L2VG8
