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Back when kree8iv baby names were still a celebrity novelty, the joke was that a kid named ‘Chastity’ or ‘Purity’ was gonna end up on a stripper pole. Possibly the elder Winners should’ve picked a less Trickster-God-tempting name for their little girl…
Yikes: ABC reporting alleges Winner may have leaked to The Intercept because she wanted Greenwald to stop doubting Russian interference. https://t.co/ztTHUywmev
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 13, 2017
An Intercept podcast appears to have motivated Reality Winner to, allegedly, leak an NSA report on Russian hacking. https://t.co/PtjcQ3LZyi pic.twitter.com/JEsrUpM05I
— Charles Davis (@charliearchy) June 13, 2017
So Greenwald & the Intercepters bang on about no evidence. Winner shows them, gets jail. Wonder how soon Greenwald washes his hands of this.
— J Wood (@mxyzplx) June 13, 2017
Sure, he’ll always have the Jacobin broflakes to defend him, but when Ted Rall gives Greenwald the hairy eyeball… truly, these are apocalyptic times.
I think about young people who will come to understand what a president is and does under Trump and it makes me dizzy and sick and sad.
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) June 13, 2017
NotMax
Never much cared for his writing but he’s now shot way up on the reputation chart for me.
(Repeated from below.)
Aleta
Calouste
Terry Pratchett uses the joke about a girl called Chastity becoming a, as he calls it, lady of negotiable affections, in one of his books. She also has a few sisters with similar virtuous names and less than virtuous lives, and some brothers on the straight and narrow with names like Cruelty and Bestiality.
sukabi
@NotMax: Drumpf also blocked VoteVets on the tweeter today..
SC54HI
Griftwald’s explanation is that, despite being a co-founding editor of The Intercept, he wasn’t actually the editor when Winner sent the materials to them: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/874708705065009152
ETA: apologies for not being able to embed links!
Peter
@SC54HI: What a bunch of mealy-mouthed bullshit. Fuck Greenwald.
Morzer
@SC54HI:
How many footnotes did his multi-volume explanation require?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Some obscure castle in Germany scanned from a 110 slide taken in 1979.
EBT
Well, four days of writing yielded 2500 words, and a nice screenshot of the flow for it.
SC54HI
@Peter: Yep. Par for the course, I’d say.
SC54HI
@Morzer:
Probably not that many. GG says that people who don’t buy this “explanation” are too dumb to comprehend it.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Isn’t that Neuschwanstein? I think it is old Mad King Ludwig’s digs.
opiejeanne
Is it somehow surprising that Ted Rall is dissing GG? I don’t know that much about him.
Adam
@opiejeanne:
Ted Rall is an OG Alt-left crank (and 9/11 truther). If even he’s calling Greenwald out, just wow. . . .
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne:
Yup, I said obscure in my most snarky voice. ?
Yes, again; one of his many palaces. He built quite a few.
ETA: He was a builder, much like the descendant of one of his subjects claims to be.
Boussinesque
@opiejeanne: A quick look at the linked website turned up this gem of a quote:
So yeah, unreconstructed “Dems are the worst EVAH! And Julian Assange is totally worth taking at his word!” douchecanoe.
Morzer
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Oddly enough, Madame Morzer has just finished a jigsaw puzzle of that mighty edifice. Lots of white and blue and apparently undoable – and yet, three hours later she emerges triumphant. Complex and subtle critters, those wimmins, and far too clever for simple souls like me. I occasionally think about agitating for democracy in our household, but, after all, an efficient and relatively gentle tyranny has something to be said for it.
Boussinesque
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice picture!
Unfortunately, the closest I’ve ever gotten to anything similar was playing “The Castles of Mad King Ludwig” board game…
EBT
@Boussinesque: Gabriel Knight 2 for myself. Lot of very nice stage recreations of like five rooms of it.
Betty Cracker
I utterly despise Rall, but it is almost worth being reminded of his existence to learn that he’s attacking Greenwald as a tool of the Deep State.
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
One of those situations where rooting for injuries is almost a pleasure.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Boussinesque: Thanks, lets just say that I did some work on that picture. The sky was blown out on the slide so I darkened it and applied a blue filter. We got to see two of his palaces: Neuschwanstein, obviously, and Herrenchiemsee southeast of Munich.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: I believe you have decided wisely.
Morzer
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I have always been loyal to the Empress!
different-church-lady
@Morzer: I’m not rooting for injuries in this case. I’m rooting for the failure of the league.
Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.
“Back when kree8iv baby names were still a celebrity novelty…”
Lest you think Apple Martin* has it bad, at our kids’ daycare they put up a sign welcoming new kids on their first day. One morning ~2 years ago, we walk up and see:
“Welcome
ISIS”
Top that, celebrities!
* (a mere one letter from “Apple Martini”. Yikes.)
Uncle Cosmo
@opiejeanne:
FTFY, & I believe you are correct.
Uncle Cosmo
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Somewhat surprised you didn’t make it to Hohenschwangau, which is MKL’s only halfway-sane edifice; it’s not far from Neuschwanstein & tours out of Muenchen usually include both. Na ja, mir ist’s egal.
Uncle Cosmo
@different-church-lady: Not that Persimmon Punchmyface would have any experience with that sort of thing, oh nooooooo….
opiejeanne
@Adam: Thanks. I did not know that about him. Wow.
opiejeanne
@Boussinesque: Jesus Christ on a pogo stick!
workworkwork
@?BillinGlendaleCA: His dad’s place across the road looks like a split-level townhouse by comparison.
(We went there as part of a school trip back in high school.)
Woodrowfan
they’re not in bed with the SA, they’re in bed with the Russians!
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Is that one of Mad King Ludwig’s palaces? Looks more palace than war-like castle, the only castle I’ve ever toured was all arrow-slits with a cannonball embedded in the stone wall.
@Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.:
But remember Isis was a famous goddess in mythology before ISIS was the nym for a terroristic rape and murder club.