There’s plenty of stuff a person with no moral code can get away with, as long as the ‘nice people’ around them are willing to look away. But when those actions are exposed in a larger forum, well… let a thousand Watergates bloom...
Jean Carroll today filed a suit against @realDonaldTrump, alleging he raped her. Trump has argued he can't be prosecuted for *anything* while president. But remember how GOPers pursued Bill Clinton for alleged pre-POTUS sexual harassment? Here's the first page of her complaint. pic.twitter.com/HUh8FB23n8
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 4, 2019
The House Has Begun Releasing Transcripts From The Trump Impeachment Inquiry. Read Them Here. https://t.co/KVn5pRS7uT via @BuzzFeedNews
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 4, 2019
Meanwhile, there’s been developments in the ongoing public feud between a couple of the more prominent ‘alt-right activists’; Milo Yiannopoulous ‘leaked’ a tape of ‘dapper Nazi’ Richard Spencer reacting to the murder in Charlottesville. [Shock warning: Spencer uses racist, anti-semitic language.]
Today's a good time to remember that Trump's "very fine people" line was aimed at saving the likes of Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler from their desperate hubris of having invited every aging skinhead, Klansman and swastika-waving Neo-Nazi they invited to CVille.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 4, 2019
It's a narrative that peaked in 2016 right up until Inauguration Day. When suddenly Richard Spencer became a meme. Going from the dapper white nationalist to Nazi Punch remix guy. pic.twitter.com/6M1CeMOrYs
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 4, 2019
That brings us to Charlottesville. In a hail mary play to up their numbers, Kessler et al publicly embraced the full spectrum of white supremacist groups, from David Duke to League of the South to NSM. "Unite the Right" was born.
We all saw the results.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 4, 2019
In those hours and days after everyone, including civility-obsessed elites, knew what was obvious. The alt-right was indistinguishable from the forces that have murdered and terrorized the country for generations. And Trumpworld had played an instrumental role in elevating them.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 4, 2019
…it was a young MAGA memer in a polo and khakis responsible for the most heinous act of terrorism that day.
Trump was bailing them out. Trying to save his loyal fanbase from their own PR disaster. So that they could keep being his trusty, fanatical overton shifters.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 4, 2019
Splitting Image
I think you mean “trigger warning”. It’s… not much of a shock really.
Mary G
Cracks me up that Milo released it. He misses being on TV and thinks the liberal shows will have him on now.
Searcher
Basket. Of. Deplorables.
Roger Moore
@Searcher:
Hillary’s big mistake was in estimating that only half of Trump’s supporters were in that basket.
RAVEN
@Mary G: Try this wedding stomp vid.
zhena gogolia
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The WB (at least who they think is the WB) has already been named on RW twitter, Jim Hoft and I think maybe twitchy. I’m a bit puzzled by the fact that trump and others keep calling for the media to publish the name and they won’t. Would they be liable to a civil suit? I can’t imagine they’re worried about Barr
Patricia Kayden
Mary G
Jim, Foolish Literalist
does anyone know what Anderson Cooper has to do with our trade relationship with China?
also, too:
I’m glad he’s talking about health care
Jeffro
Fuck all the RWNJs, the neo-Nazis, the trumpublicans, the white supremacists…but I repeat myself.
Everything people need to make a decision, whether it’s about the GOP’s/trumpov’s support for the blessed fascist “alt-right”, or the way Putin pulls trumpov’s strings, or the unending dark-money-funded corruption of every GOP official from trumpov to the town dogcatcher, is right out there in the open. Hell, for about 4-5 years now, it has ALL been out in the open.
Everything. If he weren’t such an incredible narcissistic freak show fuck-up, surrounded by completely inept dolts, we would be a HUGE world of hurt.
clay
@Mary G: Never not an asshole.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
Did anyone not see that coming?
Mandalay
@Mary G:
I’m fairly confident Bill Maher will have him back on in a heartbeat, just so they can whine together about “liberal snowflakes” being opposed to the public exchange of ideas.
Actually Maher would probably be happy to have Spencer on as well.
Mary G
Sebastian
@zhena gogolia:
The walls are closing in. The tax return ruling must drive him insane.
Good.
different-church-lady
@Mary G: Since Twiitter seems to have decided as of today that all of my tech is too obsolete to see pictures, I need to ask what is on page 216.
JR
@Searcher: Part of the reason why that term sunk Hillary is that even the phrasing sounds elitist/awkward.
All she really needed to say is that Trump runs with a bunch of scumbags.
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia:
Well, they’ve said for years people want a president who’s like themselves…
Sebastian
@Mnemosyne:
Just wait for next Black History Month. By the rate he is falling apart he will celebrate White Heritage Month.
Amir Khalid
Did you mean anti-Semitic?
cain
@Sebastian:
You can bet that is exactly what it will be. It will be something that kind of alludes to it. He hates blacks and the native americans. He’s despicable.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid: speaking of which…
Several Facebook accounts.
Sebastian
@cain:
He is a racist shitstain but he also uses racist statements as distraction from his scandals (see lynching comment recently).
February is going to be a doozy.
Mnemosyne
@Sebastian:
His very first Christmas message as President was basically hahahahahahaha SUCK IT, LIBS!, so I’m usually surprised when he shows any decorum at all, no matter how small.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid:
Sigh. Thank you…. (Why did auto-correct not catch that, when it still bugs me every time I use ‘bleg’ or ‘grift’?)
Sebastian
@Mnemosyne:
I really think we should introduce the Rev Wright Index or something. Every pundit and politician who was concerned about Obama and doesn’t comment/make a speech about Trump gets labeled as racist and can’t be on TV anymore.
Mary G
@different-church-lady: Rep. Zeldin’s (R) withering cross-examination:
It was funnier before I typed it all out, but I just imagine Hillary going through 11 hours of these idiots without screaming at them and I admire her even more.
Honus
Im disgusted that Spencer is a UVA alum. But I’m very proud that Sean Doolittle is.
Jay
Jay
Frankensteinbeck
Or the simpler explanation is that Trump is a white supremacist and he hates saying white supremacy is bad and even when he tries ends up betraying himself.
Cacti
@Patricia Kayden:
And then there’s the fact that he’s never held a higher office than Mayor of a medium sized city.
cmorenc
@Honus:
Every top university has graduated some vile scumbags.
Harvard – Jared Kushner – Mark Zuckerberg went there but dropped out (but they gave him an honorary degree in 2017)
Princeton – Ted Cruz
Dartmouth – Dinesh D’Souza
etc.
Jacel
@JR: But the only reason Hillary brought up the “Basket of Deplorables” in that private speech to supporters was to speak at greater length about the other basket of Trump supporters.
At the time, and ever since, this part of what Hillary said has rarely been noted.
patrick II
She says she has proof. I seem to remember there was a coat with some stains that has been hanging in her closet and never worn or washed since that day.
Msb
@ Jacel
I remember that, too. Thanks for giving the whole quote.
As to Spencer, how is the tape a reaction to Heather Heyer’s murder? Looked like general racist ranting to me. (Did not listen. Read subtitles.)
pinacacci
@Jay: thank you for this. Needed good news.