Elmo is looting Target https://t.co/QzvlbOprra
— The face toucher (@JonIsAwesomest) May 30, 2020
I thought I was joking! https://t.co/VSyxuHTWmy
— The face toucher (@JonIsAwesomest) May 31, 2020
I want a quiet word with whoever wished on the monkey's paw that coronavirus would stop being a front page story
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Trump has declared that he will declare ‘Antifa’ a terrorist organization. He will also declare ‘wind’ — he calls it ‘the nasty element, very bad, it kills many many birds and causes the windmill cancer’, even apart from its insolent treatment of strong important very manly hair arrangments — a terrorist element, with just as important an effect on tomorrow’s weather as trying to stamp out a mostly non-hierarchical movement by force will have on the anarchists…
nuclear testing https://t.co/f6cwHptO9Y
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 29, 2020
look all things considered we should probably hope he just spends the next week ragetweeting at jack https://t.co/HJR5lURzst
— Galar Regional Medical Director (@weedlewobble) May 29, 2020
tired: being a part of a major historical event
wired: being a part of several major historical events https://t.co/dYVTCKXHmh— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) May 30, 2020
Welcome to America, the best country ever, where one party is a hayseed death cult and their leader is jealous of a riot for taking attention away from him
— Erin insulin fan Ryan (@morninggloria) May 29, 2020
the beatings will continue until people stop protesting the beatings
— James "Stay In. Make Masks. Test People" Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) May 31, 2020
YouTube's homepage this week will feature a black ribbon of solidarity right above the recommended links to videos explaining how coronavirus is a conspiracy to dilute the aryan bloodlines
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 31, 2020
I hope the 2020 election is Transition to Competence.
— Steve Metz (@steven_metz) May 30, 2020
Krope, the Formerly Dope
YouTube’s homepage this week will feature a black ribbon of solidarity right above the recommended links to videos explaining how coronavirus is a conspiracy to dilute the aryan bloodlines
As awful as it is that hatred and misinformation thrive on social media, YouTube’s recommendations are based on what you have already been watching*. So what are you watching Pinboard?
*FTR: Mine mainly consists of videos about comics, video games, philosophy, vaguely lefty comedy, and video essays about the production of various forms of art.
Brachiator
Funny thing about that. From CNN
So for now, yeah, it’s pretty much like declaring wind a terrorist element.
Martin
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: Recommendation algorithms are designed to steer you to ever more engaging content – so it invariably steers people to ever more extreme content.
Starfish
@Krope, the Formerly Dope:
His point is that the platforms have a responsibility and that when they measure “engagement” as a positive thing without looking at what type of engagement “positive/negative/conspiracy theories,” it is a problem.
YouTube also said that it will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity.
Martin
@Brachiator: Can we paint ‘this machine kills fascists’ on all of the wind turbines now?
Geoboy
@Martin: “Can we paint ‘this machine kills fascists’ on all of the wind turbines now?” Please don’t. They’ve already got the most gullible of whack jobs blowing up cell towers because 5G spreads coronavirus, don’tcha know?
Omnes Omnibus
I’ve always disliked Elmo. It might be because I am the first generation of Sesame Street kids and Elmo is a comparative newcomer, but I like to think it’s because Elmo has always been the Muppet most likely to turn a protest into a looting. Never trusted that little fucker.
Martin
@Geoboy: That was my favorite until the 40% of Republicans believe that Bill Gates will implant microchips in them through the Covid vaccine. So, we’ll see how that goes.
Democrats really haven’t exploited republican gullibility enough. ‘Diesel engines cause bullet cancer’ might have solved climate change.
zzyzx
I’ll admit to conflating Antifa and Black Bloc a lot myself as they do seem to have a lot of overlap in Seattle and none of them have ID cards.
Regardless, I don’t think there’s anyone who goes to protests regularly who doesn’t have a scare anarchist story. Mine was the time I was counter protesting/being a protective buffer for Muslims during a stupid “OMG SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!” thing. It was going fine and there were like 20 of them and hundreds of us and so we were having interesting conversations and the like…
…and then some people wearing the Black Bloc uniform (back when masks were rare) figured out a way around the police buffer between the groups. Everyone merged and one of them pulled out a gun.
Thankfully it deescalated from there, but when you recruit 18 year old males who are itching for a fight, sometimes you get 18 year old males who are itching for a fight…
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Fair enough, but it isn’t all on YouTube. There has to be a willing audience for this material.
TheOtherHank
Two Things:
1) Grover is far superior to Elmo. Elmo taking up time that could be Grover’s is a crime against humanity
2) I’m so old I remember when we knew that fascists are bad which means we were all anti-fascist.
zzyzx
@Omnes Omnibus: The problem with Elmo is that he largely displaced Grover since they serve the same function within the show but Grover is clearly superior!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I wish I lived in precedented times.
NotMax
@Geoboy
As the perimeter of coverage for 5G from a single node is so much more limited, there’s a lot more towers.
;)
zzyzx
@TheOtherHank:
Damn, beat me to it!
TheOtherHank
@zzyzx:
Ha!
Baud
@Brachiator:
Fa opposes Antifa.
zhena gogolia
Eleven Films. I’m not sure if it’s new, but it’s damn good and needs to be watched by everyone.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Elmo is the Scrappy Doo of Sesame Street.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Those times are over.
Baud
Now I’m envisioning a Beyond Thunderdome flick featuring Elmo and Grover.
Chyron HR
Antifa: Someone who believes that no action is too extreme in combating fascism except voting for Democrats.
zhena gogolia
zzyzx
@Baud: Only one of those muppets has super powers. My money’s on Super Grover.
…but will we ever get beyond thunderdome?
SFAW
@Baud:
Doh!
zhena gogolia
@Chyron HR:
inorite?
SFAW
@zzyzx:
Shouldn’t that be “Sup ……………. er Grover”?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus:
I have always liked Elmo, but I truly wish this could become a rotating tag.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Who has howled that recently in the press?
Krope, the Formerly Dope
The press knows that what matters isn’t the truth, but the message.
Baud
@Chyron HR: Truth.
different-church-lady
“Christ, there’s no way this timeline can get any worse.”
[SEES PHOTO OF RIOTER WEARING BARNEY OUTFIT]
“Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff-uuuuuuuuuuuuuck……”
Baud
@different-church-lady: Real?
NotMax
@SFAW
Antidisestablishmentfarianism.
:)
Martin
@zzyzx: Yeah, dumb shit cancels out a lot of good intentions.
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for antifa. I could always count on them to help pull down the white supremacist recruiting materials that would pop up every week. They’d step up and give the Palestinian students a perimeter so they could speak. They’d push the rules pretty hard but we could generally count on them to not do damage.
different-church-lady
@Baud: I’ve seen an op-ed or two regurgitating that crap, but for the most part you’re right: it’s the unholy alliance of the GOP and Bernie dead-enders who are pushing that shit out.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Not yet — just provoking Rule 34.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Antidisestablishmentfarianism.
Say/write that three times fast.
[Please not that I do not have quotation marks around the word “that,” wiseguy. Well, not in the unbracketed sentence, that is.]
Brachiator
Shit. Los Angeles has announced a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am.
We’ve got lockdowns within lockdowns.
ETA. It’s also a bit unnerving to get the alert on my smartphone. But appropriate, I guess.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I don’t know, because I ignore the press. But one of my friends howled it recently.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
[Note to self: beer run before sundown.]
They cleared out the Midtown BevMo last night, making me sad. I wasn’t going to Macy’s in any case.
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia: Odd use of the word “friend”.
Brachiator
@Baud:
Can’t give you a who, but some pundits were chiding Biden about hiding in his basement, sending out news announcements from his basement. I heard some folks on various news channels talk about how the Lockdown had neutralized Biden, and wondered how being out of site would hinder his campaign, while also talking about how Trump was about to spring out of the White House and do his rallies again.
Local talk radio picked up on the theme of Where’s Biden?
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Cookie Monster and Animal. Yes, I have my type.
jl
Thanks for the OG Elmo slam dunk. He’s nailed. I’ve always had my eye on that character.
As for Trump, the more time he spends twitting on the tweeter machine, the better.
Note: I think confusing twitter and tweeter is a Rick Perry contribution to the English language. I’ve been stealing it. I apologize to all whom I have mislead, but it’s Perry’s fault, and it’s very unfair to me.
I haven’t been treated fairly.
Anya
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: Sometimes I get rightwing conspiracy videos whenever I watch anything tangentially connected to something that fascinates the wingnuts. Topics that lead me to wingnut/white supremacist channels include: Christchurch shooting, Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary Clinton, Josh Rogan and any conspiracy theory. But if you click on the vids and press “not interested” you will no longer recommended those videos.
Omnes Omnibus
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: The message will get out.
Baud
I’m surprised Oscar the Grouch isn’t more popular with this crew.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
People with nutty or ill-informed ideas need friends too. I have my fair share. And I give them what for every chance I get.
It’s good for such people to have someone to challenge them.
Umm…yes, exactly what I meant.
Baud
@Brachiator:
I remember it was a theme in the media a couple of months ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: “Now I’ve said ‘it.’ Ooh, I’ve said ‘it’ again.”
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Then I suppose I should just consider myself lucky I haven’t had the dubious pleasure of such recommendations. The nuttiest nutter on my recommendations is Bill Maher.
NotMax
@Baud
Grouchy primarily because he’s the one whom The Count feeds on. That metal container isn’t just protection from the rain.
:)
jl
@Anya:
” But if you click on the vids and press “not interested” you will no longer recommended those videos. ”
That actually works? I am so suspicious and cynical I just get rid of junk asap, never respond to any requests for info or reasons.
For some reason, I am getting a lot of Trumpster bait lately and libertarian pitches. Maybe because I read a lot of economics and finance stuff. I may be prejudiced but they mostly so stupid and childish and transparent, really amazed me anyone would respond to them.
Standard issue ‘get fit and shredded while eating potato chips and watching TV with this one weird trick’ ads are much more sophisticated at their social engineering.
Bill Arnold
@Geoboy:
That “conspiracy theory”? Viral marketing operation to sell these:
A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds – 5GBioShield uses “quantum nano-layer technology” to restructure reality itself. (JON BRODKIN – 5/28/2020)
Just saying. :-)
FelonyGovt
Did I just hear that Shitgibbon is being moved to an underground bunker? Can they leave him there?
My daughter has been with her girlfriend in West Hollywood and is now high tailing it home before the (just announced) 6 PM curfew.
different-church-lady
@FelonyGovt: OK, OK, somewhere in BJ’s past I put down a marker that Trump would be the first president to be dragged from the White House by a mob… now I just gotta find it…
japa21
@Baud: We have OH, why do we need Oscar?
Martin
@Chyron HR: Most of the antifa students I know their presidential preference aren’t any more to the left of the group. I mean, college student trend VERY heavily for Bernie, but there was a lot of support for Harris and Warren in there. Antifa isn’t particularly anticapitalist, in terms of what I’ve seen (I’m sure that varies a lot.) They mostly oppose white supremacy and state violence enough to risk getting arrested for throwing punches. Ideologically, they’re pretty much just Democrats from what I’ve seen. I think you’d be surprised which students are in antifa.
Now, the Black Bloc is a different story entirely.
Brachiator
@Baud:
There are some local talk radio personalities here who pretend to be neutral, but who pick this stuff up and then beat it to death.
different-church-lady
@Baud: He’s totally popular with me. It’s just that he doesn’t have Mini-Grouch bogarting up his spotlight.
trollhattan
@Bill Arnold:
Well, them guys and the 6G consortium. Looking ahead, you know.
Eural Joiner
Just came across this gem:
“While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime,” he said. “And I don’t think there’s anyone in any of those pictures … (who wouldn’t) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom.” – Donald Rumsfeld, 2003
different-church-lady
Ah, this is good: Trump’s finally trying to kill non-Americans:
Baud
@japa21: FTW!
Cameron
Trump tried to be fair. He wanted to put Uncle Fa on the terrorist list, too, but Jared told him it wouldn’t sell.
Brachiator
Ah, not just a Los Angeles city curfew. A Los Angeles county curfew. Twenty minutes to go, 6 pm to 6 am.
I’ve been lazy today, but it’s still odd to be going nowhere and then to get a message saying “don’t go anywhere.”
Cameron
@jl: Twitter, tweeter, tweaker, whatevs.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m looking at videos of Biden out on the street talking to protesters. Go Joe! Only they’re taking selfies standing shoulder to shoulder. 6 feet apart, Joe!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
You know what you did.
jl
@Martin: ‘ soft spot for antifa. I could always count on them to help pull down the white supremacist recruiting materials that would pop up every week. ‘
I read a twitter feed (sorry no time to find it right now) with screen shots of chat room exchanges, indicating that the black garbed window smashers are mostly from the anti-authoritarian internet troll set, and who do not have any coherent ideological or social agenda.
At first I was alarmed at the videos of these guys, in fear it was some organized LEO group or gun nuts. But via Josh Marshall’s twitter feed, saw a few videos of these goofoids who got surrounded by real protesters and tried to defend their bullshit. And, they talked like juvenile jackasses.
If all they do is wander around a quarter mile away from where the protest and riot action is, and smash a few windows in a robotic desultory manner and then run back to their bedrooms, they’ll just be a nuisance. Only a real problem for commercial property insurance industry.
Shows what happens if your entire life consists of being a fantasy keyboard warrior. That’s my opinion until I see evidence that they have a less inept and juvenile plan, or backed by more serious people
Edit: so from what I’ve seen, probably not antifa and probably not black bloc, who have shown evidence that they know how to make some real impact in the real world.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I was touched by one clip where the people were calling out to him, “Save us!” That’s how I feel.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
“Help us, Joebi Wan Kenobi!”
:)
Brachiator
@jl:
” But if you click on the vids and press “not interested” you will no longer recommended those videos. ”
Explicitly saying not interested tends to help refine the algorithm. At least with Google related stuff.
I know with spam advertising messages, saying not interested confirms that someone is there, and jerk spam merchants would try to be more persistent.
Procopius
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Yes. As a retired soldier I am in favor of boredom. Boredom is good. If you are being bored you are less likely to experience premature death, or injury. “Bored to death” is a figure of speech. Of course the romantic in me wants to join the protests.
jl
@Brachiator: OK, I’ll give it a shot on Google sites. Thanks.
Ohio Mom
My cousin just texted me photos of the demonstration happening right now in her adopted hometown of Great Falls, Montana. Hard to tell but over a hundred people easily. She reports lots of drivers honking their horns in support.
I find this very heartening. Beyond the agitators and troublemakers (and whatever their motivations), lots of us have our heads and hearts on the right place.
JWR
@FelonyGovt:
Yep, you sure did. They broke into the local news a few minutes ago to report that. Reminds me of the Brave, brave Sir Robin bit in the Python’s Holy Grail.
FelonyGovt
@JWR: Brave Sir Robin ran away…
japa21
@JWR: Is Eva, I mean Melania, with him?
NotMax
@JWR
Holy Führerbunker, Batman!
Brachiator
@different-church-lady:
Sending malaria pills is incredibly foolish, incredibly irresponsible. And the president of Brazil is an imbecile who will use this to hamper more effective treatments.
Trump is a madman. I cannot believe that there is an American president who deliberately causes worldwide harm as a cheap ego boost.
It’s like watching a carnival barker in chief push snake oil instead of the polio vaccine.
JWR
@FelonyGovt: “I did not! No, really. I didn’t.” ;)
Baud
So Biden’s out with the people and Trump is hiding in his bunker.
rikyrah
NotoriousJRT
@TheOtherHank: Fully agree re: Grover/Elmo.
Poe Larity
Don’t need elections under Martial Law.
JWR
@NotMax: Lol!
SFAW
@japa21:
From CNN.com: “It’s unclear if first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump were also taken down with him.”
Brave Sir Robin indeed.
But at least Steiner will be coming to save him. “Das war ein Befehl!!“
HumboldtBlue
Here’s Joe winning voters.
Here’s a horrible scene straight out of 1992. They pulled the driver from the truck but protestors protected him until police arrived.
And there is a lot of trouble in Los Angeles.
August West
David Roberts @drvox
We can’t manage contact tracing for a fucking pandemic, but protest state violence & they’ll figure out your social network real quick.
h/t https://twitter.com/drvox/status/1266857850195767296
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
UNTERGANG
Mike in NC
I vaguely recalled that Sesame Street had spoofed Fat Bastard but had to look it up: Ronald Grump, who builds a tower from garbage cans.
different-church-lady
For years we’ve been wondering what it would take to get people into the streets.
Looks like maybe the revolution is happening without Bernie.
FelonyGovt
@HumboldtBlue: I will be very nervous until my daughter makes it home.
SFAW
@Mike in NC:
“Spoof”?
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
What an empty, soulless SOB.
cain
What worries me about it is that Trump has his pet Supreme Court people and you know he’ll put an EO out there and his police supporters will act on it and specifically go after everyone that could be construed as “antifa” – which could be anybody. Since antifa is an ideology, there is no organization – it is just basically people showing up to punch some proud boys.
But this could be all the cover LEOs need to help their buddies – and go after them and fuck them up.
I think we need to realize that it doesn’t matter if there is no legal force behind it, there will be some way that it can be explained.. you have that asshole Stephen Miller going through everything with a fine tooth comb. We have a willing major political party ready to jump on board on this. I don’t think we should be laughing this off at all. We’ve already seeing our institutions being perverted in front of our eyes.
Kathleen
I hope I do this right: Gov Walz said DOS attack on state computers last night.
rikyrah
@Omnes Omnibus:
?????
SFAW
@FelonyGovt:
I would be too. Keeping my fingers crossed for her and you.
Brachiator
@Baud:
A very neat reversal.
Achrachno
@jl: “I haven’t been treated fairly”
Justice’ll be coming soon enough, Donnie. You and your whole family will get the fair treatment you deserve, in full, in a few months.
The Lodger
@SFAW: Well, aren’t we a little re of sunshine today.
HumboldtBlue
Grab your tissues
@FelonyGovt:
And now I am too.
jl
@August West: Law enforcement has done this for years. Have they ever called it ‘contract tracking’ before?
Futsy old contact tracking, used to be just for homeless sick people, drug addicts, Hepatitis C, TB, and measles, is really getting hip, huh?
Now it’s gone all LEO tactical and authoritarian. Maybe Trumpsters will take a shine to it, and we won’t have to worry about HepC and TB epidemics after covid-19 is under control.
SFAW
@Brachiator:
Not to mention depraved, usw.
What’s somewhat disconcerting is that, even if he were to pull a Greg Stillson, he’d still get 40 percent of the vote.
FelonyGovt
@SFAW: @HumboldtBlue: She just got home. So relieved. She passed military tanks near the Beverly Center
Anya
@jl: Yes. It works. I used to get a lot of recs for the View videos that mostly focused on Meghan McCain and once I pressed on few vids and clicked “not interested” I no longer get them.
SFAW
@The Lodger:
Who, mi?
Anne Laurie
Elmo was invented when PBS was being pushed to ‘monetize’ the Sesame Street brand with ‘kid-friendly’ merchandise, so your instincts were correct!
SFAW
@FelonyGovt:
Glad she’s OK. Not so glad about the tanks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@FelonyGovt:
Uh oh, my stepdaughter works near there.
Baud
According to my feed, despite everything going on right now, the NYT found space in the paper of record for a story about Tara Reid.
Burnspbesq
@jl:
Probably not. There’s a reason why God created reinsurance.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
He’s Poochie!
Felanius Kootea
What’s up with the guillotine pic from Ferguson, MO?
https://twitter.com/MelissaAGarriga/status/1266932366175592448?s=20
FelonyGovt
@SFAW: Thank you.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yikes. I hope she’s ok.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: keep us informed
Raven
@FelonyGovt: I suspect they are armored vehicles not tanks.
Burnspbesq
@Brachiator:
New Axis of Evil: Trump, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte.
Anya
@Baud: Ugh! I should definitely cancel my subscription.
FelonyGovt
@Raven: Could be, she probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Jinchi
This pretty much sums up the Trump presidency
What a #!%@ing coward.
NotMax
@Jinchi
“C’mon, kid, your father’s playing Hide ‘n’ Tweet.”
//
SFAW
@Baud:
Haven’t seen much of her since American Pie II – The Pie-ening.
ETA: Did they also have a “follow-up story” on Hitlary’s e-mails? That would be about par for their course.
cain
@Jinchi:
Wow, looks like his bonespurs must be acting up. It couldn’t be that he is scared of some protestors. Gosh golly…
Surprised the militia hasn’t shown up to intimidate anyone.
HumboldtBlue
@FelonyGovt:
Good news.
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Transfers concern from felonious RFD to here.
Mike in NC
@SFAW: I just laughed really loud and startled a cat.
Martin
For the many of us who have mentioned it, the odds of Trump DIAF have increased substantially in the last week.
Another Scott
As always, only Democrats have agency.
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I hope she is/will be OK.
noncarborundum
@Baud:
Tara Reade. Tara Reid’s someone else entirely.
Baud
@noncarborundum:
You know who I meant. The actress.
JWR
Listening to the local broadcast stations in SoCal, and the clueleesness on display is breathtaking. “Well, we got a brand new, ‘open’ PD headquarters in Downtown, and still we see this happening”. One station even brought in their AA weather guy to opine on how much has changed since we got rid of Daryl Gates, yada yada, and this shit is still happening. It went on and on and on.
Apparently, our news people don’t actually watch their own news, because minorities doing stuff while not being white is still very much a thing here in L.A. county. Buncha toads.
Martin
@Felanius Kootea: People are mad. Maybe madder than usual. There was one wheeled to the PR governor mansion a while back.
I mean, y’all wanted tumbrils and now you get squeamish when someone gets around to making them?
HumboldtBlue
Just a few bad apples.
FelonyGovt
@HumboldtBlue: Thank you, I really appreciate it.
SFAW
@Another Scott:
Ah, yes, Murc’s Law. I had always assumed that Murc coined it, a la cleek and his Law. But I was reading some of his comments at LGM today, and unless I completely misunderstood those comments — which is absolutely possible, because I was skimming — I’m wondering if others named that law for him, not as a sign of respect (because he originated it), but because that’s how a lot of his comments parse. I’m hoping I was/am mis-reading his intent.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@FelonyGovt:
@Baud: Don’t know if she’s working today, but the hospital she works in is across the street from the Beverly Center.
Martin
@SFAW: Yeah, probably were light armored vehicles. Tanks will generally destroy the roads, and lots of bridges can’t even support them. Not that it’s any less alarming to have not-quite-tanks rolling around.
raven
We’ve got dudes with guns wandering around downtown Athens and they claim to be supporting BLM.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
This unrest was inevitable after they took prayer out of school.
dexwood
That fucking Elmo.
tomtofa
@Jinchi:
I thought he said a couple of nights ago that MAGA was coming to protect him. They haven’t gotten there yet?
Miss Bianca
@Baud: Oscar was always one of my favorites.
JWR
@HumboldtBlue: Local News: “Sorry. We got LOOTERS to cover!”
cain
Tom Nichols apparently has seen a preview of Lincoln Project’s next ad drop and apparently it’s going to be bad ass.. he shrugged it off as saying “probably not going to be controversial” with a simulation of a nuclear blast that goes with it.
Apparently the target is not Trump.. looking forward to it tomorrow.
Martin
I like that a lot of NYC protesters bring their bike.
Anotherlurker
Full fledge riot here in Walnut Creek. Mayor said it is outside agitators.
HumboldtBlue
@JWR:
It’s fucking infuriating.
Miss Bianca
@different-church-lady: Yeah, not that I really want him out there, necessarily, but where the hell *is* Bernie right now? Not seeing any words of consolation, anger, hope, or…anything…from him lately.
And yet Joe Biden is the one who’s out of touch and doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the people. Huh.
Martin
@tomtofa: Well, white trash legolas had his car flipped and burned, so it’s gonna take him a while to get there on Megabus.
cain
oh yeah, my twitter timeline is now filled with cops taking the knee now. It seems like it is happening in a lot of cities. Good luck with that.. now they want to take a knee? Go fuck yourselves.
Miss Bianca
@cain: ??
Martin
@Anotherlurker: Nieman Marcus and Urban Outfitters? Yeah, mayor might be right on that one.
Suzanne
Scottsdale Fashion Square got looted. SNORT.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@cain: Next you can yell at Cole for voting for GW Bush twice.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: You spelled Needless Markup wrong.
HumboldtBlue
Trigger warning:
Joe Lockhart spent the month of May publishing 31 stories of the women who allege they were assaulted by Trump.
Here’s No. 31.
Martin
So, maybe others with a longer historical memory than me, but I don’t recall violent protests so close to the WH in my lifetime.
Anotherlurker
@Martin: The shit is about 3 blocks from me. I am a bit North of Downtown, mostly residential. I figure the proud Boyz or the boogaloos or whatever the Nazis are calling themselves will concentrate on the commercial area.
Sm*t Cl*de
All this makes it hard for the US to criticise Chinese suppression of protests in Hong Kong.
Mary G
In the FTFNYT, Maggie and Peter report:
Words fail.
We have had two protests here in my little town today supporting BLM, including lots of young white kids. The housemate was at Lowe’s and heard a bunch of old white guys fear mongering about property damage and saying they were going to counterprotest with the “White Lives Matter” slogan. Now there are helicopters overhead. This is unprecedented. I guess the protest in Santa Ana I wanted to go to yesterday was a major shit show. I feel like I should be out there, but I am afraid of catching the Rona.
JWR
@HumboldtBlue: I would really like to see all of these bystander videos put together in one looong loop so I can send them to all of our local stations, just in the very small (vanishingly tiny) hope that someone, anyone, there will begin to notice their inner, pro police, anti-protester, bias.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Jinchi:
Objection! You omitted the words “gutless” and “chickenshit”.
Martin
@Suzanne: Apparently jake Paul and his crew were there looting. Can’t throw a brick in his neighborhood and not hit a fellow youtuber so maybe he thought they’d find a degree of anonymity in AZ?
Dunno. He’s a dumb fuck.
Mary G
@cain: They had a poll on Twitter asking who the next target should be, and Moscow Mitch won by a landslide. Can’t wait to see it.
Kay
I think this would make a difference and you could do it immediately. Go back to normal uniforms. And stop with these names. Our local excessive force “elite” unit is called the MAN unit. Multi-area narcotics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: I saw a post here with the Moscow Mitch one.
WaterGirl
I thought the Trump Going to the Bunker stuff was a joke. Where’s the face palm emoji when I need it. He is not fit to flip burgers at McDonald’s and he is president. Face palm emoji again.
Jinchi
In response to WaterGirl’s call for Joe Biden ads,
Title Caption: “Which of these look better?”
Left side: Joe Biden standing with anti-violence demonstrators.
Right side: (No Image) just text (“Trump Hid From Protests In Underground Bunker“)
WaterGirl
@Kay: Take away their military outfits and their military toys.
MagdaInBlack
@JWR:
PZ has one over at “Pharyngula”
Subsole
@Martin: Nah. Their gullibility only extends to members of the tribe.
We are not of the body and a-priori not to be trusted.
Trollhattan
Shamelessly lifted from TBogg’s Twitter, because I don’t know how to imbed.
Kay
@Mary G:
The funniest part of the Trump Administration is how lazy they all are- they never do any work. I don’t think any of them have done a single bit of work on the virus since the virus press conferences ended, which is probably because the only work they were doing were the press conferences.
WaterGirl
@Jinchi: I just added that to last week’s post.
J R in WV
@HumboldtBlue:
Well, thanks for posting that link — the most disgusting thing I’ve seen out of this since Mr Floyd’s murder. At least it was corrected asap, two cops fired, 3 set to desk duty, two kids, students, released without being charged.
Hard to make a curfew announced after it started, while stuck in traffic like that. Motionless vehicle attacked, vandalized, tires slashed, windows broken. Hope they get a settlement large enough to take care of their PTSD and their tuition as long as they want to go to school, somewhere else.
Unfortunately, don’t know where to recommend they go to escape the hateful bigotry of America, from Minnesota to Los Angeles, to Atlanta — and it looks like everywhere in between. Dirty cops, crazed attack. All on film.
Now I’m gonna have a late dessert and go to bed and read silly SF fiction and try to forget all this tragic news.
JWR
@MagdaInBlack: Ooo. Thanks for that!
For anybody who hasn’t seen it/them:
Subsole
@Baud: What, like Hell Comes to Frogtown?
‘Cause I’m down for that.
“Greetings from the Gonzungus!”
Kay
@WaterGirl:
Social workers should train cops, not military instructors. 90% of their work is social work. Maybe they don’t want that job and it’s partly our fault because we have so few safety nets a lot falls to them that probably doesn’t belong with them, but that is the job. In reality.
HumboldtBlue
@Trollhattan:
I saw that too and you’ll find a like from me because that’s classic TBogg.
For some reason, I am always a little bit surprised that Doug Jones was the prosecutor of the vicious racists who killed four little black girls in 1963.
Every time I go “that’s right”.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: Oh my god. There’s a violent mob alright, but it’s the cops.
What was that even about? They were sitting in their car, not doing anything?????
Subsole
@zzyzx:
“One day you’re the frog of the walk, the next, a flycatcher.
Play something sad, Animal.”
Subsole
@different-church-lady:
Thank you for that visual. My night terrors weren’t surreal enough already, or anything…
zhena gogolia
@cain:
He just put this up 11 min. ago —
Kay
Today’s Trump tweets made me laugh, essentially “someone do something about all the PROBLEMS in this country!”
Unfuckingbelievable. He’s basically screaming “help me! I have no idea how to do this job!”
batguano
Not to pile on, but hurricane season seems to be getting an early start.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: I love Doug Jones. I hope he doesn’t get hurt at that rally. I hope no one gets hurt.
Martin
Looks like a building in Lafayette Park is on fire. Things definitely not de-escalating.
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
They did that one the other day. It’s good. But I think he’s probably referring to the Confederate flag one.
Mary G
New Lincoln Project ad about the Confederate flag:
It ends up with it’s a time of choosing – America… or Trump? Very primal and hard hitting
@zhena gogolia:You’re right. I can’t keep up with everything these days.
Spadizzly
What, vlad putin was not invited? Very unfair. Look for Polonium in someone’s diet soda as trump continues to head up the Anus of Evil.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Wowser. That’s a great ad. Maybe the tide is turning.
I loved seeing the hashtag in the comments:
#bunkerbitch
Man, I hope that one sticks.
Subsole
@Anya:
Hell, click on Star Wars clips and you’ll get videos about Feminazi Socjew conditioning.
Click on anything at all and you WILL get at least a couple BEN SHAPIRO BREAKS FEMTARD LIBSHIT ON THE WHEEL OF LOGIC reccs.
God help you if you ever watched Contrapoints or Shaun or Hbomb.
SFAW
@Kay:
My daughter, the relatively-newly-minted social worker, says the same thing; I’m gratified to see it from you as well.
Subsole
@Baud: Hey, I like the grumpy trash hobo. He’s a righteous dude.
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
I can’t either. I’m getting all my news from BJ. I’m afraid to look anywhere else.
Subsole
@Omnes Omnibus: STOP SAYING THE WORD
Jinchi
@WaterGirl: It’s horrifying to look at that list and realize that Trump keeps managing top his last scandal. The worst of Trump from a week ago (coronavirus, 100,000 dead, economic collapse) barely even merit a headline today.
Subsole
@Bill Arnold:
Are…
Are you fucking kidding me?
Krope, the Formerly Dope
See, I watch all those channels and manage to avoid the weird right winger recommendations.
Also saw in a previous thread you mentioned that we’re bringing disco back. We are. And we’re doing it better than we did the first time.
SFAW
@Krope, the Formerly Dope:
That’s kinda like saying “George W. Bush was a better president than Trump.”
mvr
Hell, even Lincoln Nebraska, where I live, has an 8PM curfew due to vandalism that started late at a protest last night and the night before. I had unplugged from the internet and did some appropriately socially distanced fishing only to return to this. Am now trying to figure out WTF is going on. I’m thinking the vandalism was unfortunate and perhaps either sabotage of the protests of a sort or a kind of bad opportunistic macho boundary pushing. That as opposed to a groundswell of violence as opposed to a groundswell of protest. The photos I’ve seen sort of support that theory. But I wasn’t there to see it and the reporting is sketchy. I’m worried that this is what the Trumpers want.
Subsole
@jl: These are recruitment vids, aimed at teens and tweens and college freshmen. How sophisticated do they need to be before they become self-defeating?
Detail is the enemy of Truthiness.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
@SFAW: Well…
Martin
@Subsole: Yeah, you get some doozies off of contrapoints.
HumboldtBlue
@Mary G:
That’s very good. Not completely sold on the narrator, but that’s an impactful ad.
Next, we take away the traitors’ names from our military installations.
Kay
@SFAW:
Oh, good for her. I love social workers. We don’t pay them enough. Our good ones leave and become probation officers because the pay is so much better. They’re also the better probation officers, come to think of it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Just recalling – 2014-17, I was earning good money and having a blast. Ate out a bunch, enjoyed my Downtown, could afford new cars, traveled to Mexico, the Caribbean, did multiple dive trips, went to China, went to Italy. Wife did India, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bhutan.
Trump happened. Everything has gone down since. We did a declining number of neat things after – now, we can’t go anywhere.
Subsole
@Brachiator: Worse. Dumping lead powder into the baby formula and selling it as a sweetener.
Princess Leia
@Mary G: I live in Santa Ana, and today’s has been less of a shit show. But the night is young, and curfew doesn’t start til 10. Was good to see the local kids marching.
Villago Delenda Est
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: My nym. Again and again. The cancer of Broderism must be eradicated, by scalpel or chemo.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: I believe most of the Project Lincoln people, the ones I see on my TeeVee and on twitter, are sincere in their disgust with trump and many of the people they helped get elected, but I do wonder how many of them would’ve called the treason flag what it is ten years ago. (Wilson, Conway, Schmidt, John Weaver… the last two at least were McCain people, I’m trying to remember McCain’s stances and when he took them. I believe he came around to taking it down after his presidential run?)
Also, honestly, I wonder about the effectiveness of that ad: Who’s the target audience?
MisterForkbeard
@Kay:
They should just add to the acronym. Maybe “Wide Operation Multi Area Narcotics”. Perfect name, I bet they’ll love it.
Subsole
@Baud:
NYT editorial flowchart:
1. Is there a nazi ass? <y/n>
<y>
2a. Apply suction. Goto 2a.
<n>
2b. Locate nazi ass. Goto 2a.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: My car died the day after Trump took office.
Yutsano
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: One would think after the libel against his daughter that Grandpa Walnuts would have denounced that shit. Yet I don’t recall anything like that. And one would think Megan Mccai n, daughter of John Sidney McCain III (did you know he was a POW?) would mention her Bangladeshi sister more, but that never seems to cross her brain. Curious, that.
Subsole
@Raven:
MRAPs and humvees, maybe.
Though I have heard stories of departments with some old M113s.
Which, y’know. Why?
MisterForkbeard
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My daughter was born the day Trump got elected.
So at least one great thing happened that day.
SFAW
@Kay:
Completely agree, especially considering the shit they have to deal with on a daily basis. She works in a supermax, and although it’s probably safer for her there, than in a medium-security facility, I still worry.
rekoob
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Many of us jackals lived vicariously through your descriptions and photos of that time. More recently, reading about your wife’s devastation over the damage at Kangaroo Island in the Australian wildfires was especially poignant.
Here’s hoping for better sailing ahead.
NotMax
@Subsole
“It’s plumbdillyicious!”
//
Subsole
@Martin: Hope not.
I want that whole fucking crime syndicate locked.the fuck.up.
I want them to forget there was ever a world without walls and bars.
Villago Delenda Est
@Sm*t Cl*de: And “draft-dodging”.
Subsole
@Anotherlurker:
Isn’t that a kind of upscale neighborhood?
Subsole
@Martin: LOL I am stealing white trash legolas, good sir. Tip o’ the hat to ye.
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: In plain non Rethuglican English: “Stop waving the banner of treason, the Dixie Swastika.”
Ksmiami
@Achrachno: I want the crowds to pull him out of his bunker…
Villago Delenda Est
@Subsole: I’ve heard about M114s, too. Military surplus is military surplus, I guess.
Subsole
@Martin:
Yeah. I saw that. Him and Logan seem to just take turns being WORST PAUL.
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: Try Wonkette. Same general slant as BJ, but with lots of dick jokes, references to canned clams, and mommyblogging.
Villago Delenda Est
@Subsole: The formerly Virgin Ben can’t even break wind properly.
Subsole
@Krope, the Formerly Dope:
Scissor Sisters for the fuckin’ win!
Also, maybe I’m just not curating my feeds correctly, because I have never gotten a Maher recc. And, while not even close to my flavor, he would be more in line with my viewing habits than frigging Prager U.
Or Epoch times. That one weirded me out bigtime.
Subsole
@Villago Delenda Est: I guess. But, it’s an aluminum box that is mostly proof against rifle rounds on the glacis (not sure on the sides or top). Tears up streets. Can’t take it into tight environments. I mean, for recruitment I guess I can see it, somewhat. But honestly you’d get more punch for less dollars from a couple of armored vans with water cannons.
Which is why I will never work in procurement, I guess.
Subsole
@NotMax: I shouldn’t have laughed at that.
Matt McIrvin
@zhena gogolia: I believe they used to call that “waving the bloody shirt”, back when the Republican Party meant something interesting.
Another Scott
@Kay: I’m reminded of a clip I saw on the BBC (that I’ve mentioned before). A couple of cops in the UK were telling someone who had COVID-19 and was told to stay home and isolate that he should go back home. “Go Home! You’re Killing People!” Police over here used to do that – cajole people to do the right thing – in the Joe Friday days, but not so much any more…
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
@Subsole: I was in the 9th ID when it was the High Tech Testbed. Procurement was in open warfare against troops breaking the toys by being troops and offering suggestions on how to make the toys more robust and useful.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: I’d love for “#bunkerpunk” to go viral. He’s been the Cowardly Yam to me for months.
The dedicated Magats believe he’s going to restore America’s manhood.
They are sadly mistaken. Trump can only deflate America.
bjacques
Is posting a pic of Mussolini upside-down a terrorist threat?
Asking for a friend…
WaterGirl
@Dan B:
“#bunkerpunk” is probably better than #bunkerbitch, that I originally liked because I thought it would be most upsetting to Trump, but “bitch” is surely not the best choice.
#bunkerpunk, however, has a nice ring to it. I think I’m settling on #bunkerboy because I’m sure that’s how Trump thinks of black men in his head, so maybe that one would be most troublesome to the most troublesome of presidents.