Tiki Torch Nazis. A parody.
Posted by Sandy and Richard Riccardi on Thursday, August 17, 2017
Sandy and Richard Riccardi FTW
This made me happy. Some people are so damn talented.
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Tiki Torch Nazis. A parody.
Posted by Sandy and Richard Riccardi on Thursday, August 17, 2017
Sandy and Richard Riccardi FTW
This made me happy. Some people are so damn talented.
Open thread
This post is in: Dolt 45, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Open Threads, Popular Culture, Post-racial America, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, I Can't Believe We're Still Talking About Fucking Nazis
.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis. pic.twitter.com/HAbnejahtl
— ATTN: (@attn) August 17, 2017
(h/t commentor Jim, Foolish Literalist)
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Related…
For those just waking up, here's what happened in Baltimore: the city's dead-of-night removal of all four of its Confederate monuments. pic.twitter.com/gaquP2hlqN
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017
Let us be clear.
Putting the statues up in the first place was "sanitizing history."
What's going on now is fumigating history.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2017
Bob Marley playing as crews wrap up cover-up work at Confederate monument in downtown Birmingham #alpolitics pic.twitter.com/bVU9iEDPH9
— WVTM 13 (@WVTM13) August 16, 2017
Here's what Paraguayans did with a statue of dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89). It's an interesting compromise. pic.twitter.com/gEtUPLseDz
— Laurence Blair (@LABlair1492) August 16, 2017
Newt Gingrich: Mayors who take down Confederate statues are just pandering to a black audience https://t.co/bui8KsTbQ4
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 15, 2017
While the politicians who put them up originally were… HEY, LOOK OVER THERE
*runs away*https://t.co/mFfPbgdQN1
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 16, 2017
Open Thread: Elderly Austrian Immigrant Yells At Trump & Other Nazi SupportersPost + Comments (130)
This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Dolt 45, Excellent Links, Foreign Affairs, Russiagate
(Put this post together last weekend, but… stuff happened.)
Andrew Rice, at NYMag — “Felix Sater has cut deals with the FBI, Russian oligarchs, and Donald Trump. He’s also quite a talker”:
On June 19 in a courtroom in Downtown Brooklyn, a federal judge took up the enigmatic case of an individual known as John Doe. According to the heavily redacted court record, Doe was an expert money launderer, convicted in connection with a stock swindle almost 20 years ago. But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured. The courtroom was filled with investigative journalists from numerous outlets along with lawyers petitioning to unseal documents related to the prosecution. “This case,” argued John Langford, a First Amendment specialist from Yale Law School who represented a Forbes editor, implicates an “integrity interest of the highest order.” The public had a right to know more about Doe’s history, Langford argued, especially in light of “the relationship between the defendant in this case and the president of the United States.”
John Doe’s real name, everyone in the courtroom knew, was Felix Sater. Born in Moscow and raised in Brooklyn, Sater was Donald Trump’s original conduit to Russia. As a real-estate deal-maker, he was the moving force behind the Trump Soho tower, which was built by developers from the former Soviet Union a decade ago. Long before Donald Trump Jr. sat down to talk about kompromat with a group of Kremlin-connected Russians, Sater squired him and Ivanka around on their first business trip to Moscow. And long before their father struck up a bizarrely chummy relationship with Vladimir Putin, Sater was the one who introduced the future president to a byzantine world of oligarchs and mysterious money.
Sater was a canny operator and a colorful bullshitter, and there were always many rumors about his background: that he was a spy, that he was an FBI informant, that he was tied to organized crime. Like a lot of aspects of the stranger-than-fiction era of President Trump, these stories were both conspiratorial on their face and, it turns out, verifiably true. Langford read aloud from the transcript of a 2011 court hearing, only recently disclosed, in which the Justice Department acknowledged Sater’s assistance in investigations of the Mafia, the Russian mob, Al Qaeda, and unspecified “foreign governments.” A prosecutor once called Sater, in another secret proceeding, “the key to open a hundred different doors.” Many were wondering now whether he could unlock the truth about Trump and Russia.
In the universe of what the president has called, with telling self-centrism, his “satellite” associates, Sater spins in an unmapped orbit. The president has said under oath that he “really wouldn’t know what he looked like” if they were in the same room. (For the record, Sater is 51 years old and olive-complexioned, with heavy-lidded eyes.) Yet their paths have intersected frequently over the years. Most recently, in February, the Times reported that Sater had attempted to broker a pro-Russian peace deal in Ukraine, handing a proposal to Michael Cohen, the president’s personal attorney, to pass to Michael Flynn, who was then still the national-security adviser. Both Cohen and Flynn are now reported to be under scrutiny by the FBI, in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s election interference and Trump’s campaign.
If there really is a sinister explanation for the mutual affinity between Trump and Putin, it almost certainly traces back to money…
And if there is any kind of a logical explanation for Trump’s successful-so-far maneuvers to avoid actual pauperism / serious legal consequences, I’m guessing it rides along the murky confluences where the lures of big money intersect with the desire of “Great Powers” to influence and undermine each other. Like pilot fish and sharksuckers, crime lords and talented grifters are naturally attracted — and attractive — to the “intelligence” services, to a degree where sorting individual actors between legal and illicit becomes more of a timeline than a definition. The biggest barrier to getting honest answers may end up being that no one agency trusts any other (even, especially, its ‘partners’) to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Sure, they don’t want the criminals to escape… but even more important, they don’t want the other teams in the home league to get more credit and/or information. (She says, as someone living in Whitey Bulger’s and the Tsarnaev brothers’ stomping grounds.)
Interesting Read: “The Original Russia Connection”Post + Comments (115)
This post is in: Don't Agonize - Organize, Shitty Cops, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Clown car, I Can't Believe We're Still Talking About Fucking Nazis, Security Theatre
It’s sad (no lie!) that the New England Cosplay Association had to cancel a long-scheduled public gathering because some nitwit college kid got a permit to let Nazi wannabes swarm Boston Common. But this is serious:
An army of feral clowns descending upon DC was really more a question of 'when' not 'if' in 2017. ???? pic.twitter.com/Y03Fn7vja0
— Local Milk Steak (@ZeddRebel) August 17, 2017
Also: good luck doxxing a dude in facepaint. Holy shit this might work.
— Christopher Sebela (@xtop) August 17, 2017
Facepainted, faygo-soaked folks w/ hatchets & magnet-based weapons lines the horizon. A "whoop whoop" is heard as they storm the nazi hordes
— Christopher Sebela (@xtop) August 17, 2017
Okay, it’s time to talk about the Juggalo March On Washington. This is a real thing that is happening on September 16th.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
Juggalos are marching on Washington because the FBI classified juggalos as a gang.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
However, this gang classification has serious as impact for juggalos who tend to be poor and undereducated already.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
People have been dishonorably discharged from the military for gang tattoos.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
Juggalos who get arrested for non-violent offenses are treated as gang members and added to gang lists.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
Liberal s should get on board because it is a civil rights issue and conservatives should get on board because it’s government overreach.
— Nate Igor Smith (@drivenbyboredom) August 15, 2017
THE YEAR IS 2017
JUGGALOS AND FURRIES TAKE A STRONGER POSITION AGAINST NEONAZISM THAN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES— ????@Furrydelphia AA (@JUNIUS_64) August 16, 2017
????????? pic.twitter.com/Nffzz5lUCQ
— Connor Wroe Southard (@ConnorSouthard) August 17, 2017
Y’know, I’d have trouble picking Insane Clown Posse songs out of a general metal sound-off, but if the Very Serious Pundits could get past their bourgeois prejudices, the classic Juggalo is exactly the type of disadvantaged, Appalachian-heritage ‘Working Class White’ that they slobber over so endlessly. And it would probably cause at least one cardiac incident if this were pointed out to a roomful of Media Village Idiots…
It’s All Fun & Games, Until Somebody Loses Their KidPost + Comments (240)
by David Anderson| 66 Comments
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My little girl is getting bigger every day.
I just needed to share one of my prouder parenting moments as a momentary break from current event craziness:
Baby’s first keg stand from oh so long ago.
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I’ve been following the trials and tribulations of the Daily Stormer. First, GoDaddy nixed their domain. Then they moved to Google, which dropped them like a hot potato a short time after they registered. Then their site went down because CloudFlare (a caching system) puked them out like a bad clam. Then they registered themselves in Russia (of course). The Russians saw a moment for some good PR and shitcanned them this afternoon.
“Russian law has established a very strict regime for combatting any kind of extremism in the Internet,” said Aleksandr Zharov, head of the Roskomnadzor, the Russian government agency responsible for media and Internet regulation.
Don’t worry, the Nazi in charge says they’ll be up on “the darkweb” soon. Let’s face it – your average Nazi has enough problems with the “lightweb”, so I’m gonna guess that these assholes are going to lose a few readers. Not that it will make a big difference, but it’s nice to see them have to work for it.
This post is in: Because of wow., Cat Blogging, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Serenity Now!
Someone asked last night how we all cope. It’s worth considering that. Even Erick Son Of Erick tweeted that he doesn’t see how the country survives 3.5 more years of this. It’s hard on us individually, too. We need to think and act deliberately to maintain and protect our mental health. It’s different for everyone. Ric (at top) loves my orange and black caftan. Zooey likes at least partial enclosure.
As I walked out of the house to go shopping this morning, I had to stop and look at the sky and mountains and take a deep breath. I’m lucky to have great views, but there is usually something beautiful – the pattern of raindrops on asphalt or a flower peeking through cracks in concrete. I also listen to and play music – the Enigma Variations, which I posted a while back, are still in my car’s cd player, so I listened to them on the way to the store.
People are important too. I’m having lunch with a friend today, and I’ve got a bunch of connections going in different ways. The internet has been a boon to my interactions. The community here is comforting.
How do you cope?