Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 402

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/the-strange-story-of-that-blacks-for-trump-guy-standing-behind-potus-at-his-phoenix-rally/?utm_term=.3f97f7439f06

And I’ve linked to his site before, but if you missed it last time and are needing some more crazy in your life…

http://gods2.com/

The Real K K K Slave Masters Revealed, 2Thess.2:1-11 & they
are CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians). The reason GOD​
YAHWEH chose TRUMP to be President is to be the White & Black
Man’s DELIVERER from the Babylon, like the Gentile King CYRUS,
Isa.45:1-6!

ISIS & HILLARY RACE WAR PLOT TO KILL ALL BLACK &
WHITE WOMAN OF AMERICA WITH MS-13 REV. 12:1-10.
Cherokee Democrats & Cherokee Republicans Like Flake & McCain Block Trump 2Thess.2:1-5 says must be revealed and voted out of the way. Make Cherokees & the Indians Pay Taxes & Save America economically because Deut. 21:17-19 says if you harm someone you help them get back on their feet. Now their back on their feet make them pay taxes.

Republican Senators blocking Trump are Cherokees & Mormons & are infiltraters in the Rep. Senate like McCain to block Trump & Muller are coming down with Great Wrath because their wicked time to block good policy is short, Rev.12:10 & Dan.8:25!

Slave are different from Slovenians. Slavs are White Canaanites & can’t Suntan & Slovenians are white European Gentiles the children of God Slavic people who can Suntan

​​TRUMP PROTESTERS ARE SONS OF PERDITION (ISHMAEL) THE LOSER WHO MUST BE REVEALED FOR BLACK & WHITE TO UNITE 2Thess. 2:1-11! THE PROTESTERS ARE PHONEY Black people & are really east Indians acting black

Hahahahaha.

https://store.breitbart.com/collections/collectibles/products/steve-bannon-fidget-spinner

I know, right? Who wants to fidget with Steve Bannon’s head all day?

Ok, even I think this is going too far.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/robert-lee-university-virginia-charlottesville.html

ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country.

The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis flooded into Charlottesville, marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee.

After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him to work on a different game that Saturday, a network spokesman said.

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue.”

Fun rundown of all the batshit crazy and/or just plain wrong things Trump said last night, complete with Arrested Development announcer references.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-arizona/index.html

My favorite has to be #54.

54. “But Kim Jong Un, I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us. I respect that fact very much. Respect that fact.”

Trump respects himself for believing something, and he respects the fact that he respects himself for believing something…I think. Well, at least it’s (probably) not a lie.

chyron8472 said:

Regarding the statues in the South, I have a feeling that there has been a certain romanticism attached to the Confederacy and/or the prominent characters involved. Similar to how pirates or cowboys are romanticized. Much of the reality has been lost and replaced with fictional motivations or made romantic with notions of “southern pride” or rebelling against The Man.

I don’t think the present-day South understands what the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia (aka the Confederate Flag) actually stood for back in the day, but rather attaches a romantic quality to it in ignorance of the reality it came from.

This is very true. I witnessed it firsthand, and at that time didn’t even recognize its fallaciousness. To Southerners, it isn’t always about slavery and racism. Yes, I remember a racist shop where they sold KKK paraphernalia and Confederate flags. However, to the majority, they see Confederate leaders as modern knights, overlooking their ideology the way we overlook the evils of, well, as to said, pirates and cowboys and such. John Wayne and Johnny Depp never raped or murdered anyone!

darth_ender said:

John Wayne and Johnny Depp never raped or murdered anyone!

Citation needed.

TV’s Frink said:

Ok, even I think this is going too far.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/robert-lee-university-virginia-charlottesville.html

ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country.

The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis flooded into Charlottesville, marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee.

After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him to work on a different game that Saturday, a network spokesman said.

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue.”

There definitely had to be a limit. People can’t always get worked up over such things!

True story: there was another missionary in my mission whose last name was Coon. Elder Coon was told he was being transferred to inner Atlanta. He was afraid of the offense his missionary name tag might cause and that he might get injured! (Nothing happened)

darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

Ok, even I think this is going too far.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/robert-lee-university-virginia-charlottesville.html

ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country.

The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis flooded into Charlottesville, marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee.

After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him to work on a different game that Saturday, a network spokesman said.

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue.”

There definitely had to be a limit. People can’t always get worked up over such things!

Which explains why you’ve chosen a user name honoring a mass-murderer?

TV’s Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

That’s probably a first for one of my threads.

ITFY

How dare you ITFY me? I have some very strong feelings about this incident, if only I could find a gif to express them.

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

Ok, even I think this is going too far.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/robert-lee-university-virginia-charlottesville.html

ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country.

The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis flooded into Charlottesville, marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee.

After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him to work on a different game that Saturday, a network spokesman said.

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue.”

There definitely had to be a limit. People can’t always get worked up over such things!

Which explains why you’ve chosen a user name honoring a mass-murderer?

Two, if we’re being precise!

I should’ve gone with my initial impulse: darth_ender_adolf_stalin_mao_hannibal_bane_esquire.

JEDIT: Why didn’t I include Baron Harkonnen?

Ryan McAvoy said:

TV’s Frink said:

I know, right? Who wants to fidget with Steve Bannon’s head all day?

Baron Harkonnen’s face Doctor?

Lol!

TV’s Frink said:

How dare you ITFM?

ITFY

CatBus said:

the Dukes of Hazzard was a grossly oversimplified tale

Does not compute.

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

I feel like not everyone understands what makes something white privilege.

For example, whining about the possible connotations of “thug” has nothing to do with one’s accomplishments or how homeless one is.

I still don’t understand how thug has racial connotations.

Despite everyone’s desperate attempts to explain it to you.

I just don’t understand why it is wrong for me to call some violent criminal, no matter the person’s skin color, a thug.

Maybe in 20 years it will be racist to use the word criminal.

If it is, I’m sure you’ll be here to tell us how it didn’t used to be that way and how unfortunate it is that you can’t use it anymore.

Frank your Majesty said:

Warbler said:

true, but it happens sometimes in society (Germany 1930s and the South of the USA) that ideas from the Nazis/KKK are more popular then the ideas of MLK. In order to make sure MLK’s freedom of Speech is protected in such an era, we protect the Nazis/KKK(unless they become violent and/or break the law).

You seem to think that the Nazis would respect your freedom of speech as much as you respect theirs.

Oh hell no.

Was MLK’s freedom of speech protected in 1940s Germany? No, they abolished freedom of speech as soon as they could.

I know. My point is, I don’t want to be like the Nazis. Therefore, I am against censorship of speech that I disagree with/find offensive.

SilverWook said:

I find it fascinating this thread cracked 10k today. Warbler being #10,000. It’s only been around since January.

Yes! I got the ten thousandth post!

yhwx said:

NeverarGreat said:

Also, I find it heartening that everything has recently been quite sedate and civil on balance, despite the current state of the (inter?)national discourse.

I’m not sure about that, especially with all the middle fingers thrown around.

for pity sake, it happened once! once!

Possessed said:

Yes let’s bring that up in the name of civility. Not like it was weeks ago and the person apologized repeatedly or anything.

thankyou.