MistaP

so far their reaction is entirely heavy-handed and unsubtle: low-grade McCarthyism (or even further, like Chris Cuomo saying reading emails is illegal), 70something Senators who don’t know the first thing about the internet taking the axe to Facebook because of $46,000 of political ads (and puppies!) by someone not tied to the Kremlin at all,…[Read more]

ironically that’s what made “Reaganism” so popular, he could work a crowd, make Gorby laugh, say entirely opposite things from one day to the next and be applauded by D and R voters alike: even if he was dead to the Bushites 1987-92, his pre-Alzheimer’s “image” could be recycled while any dubious details stayed off the radar–itself very…[Read more]

does this mean Joe Biden gets hit by a truly enormous quantity of Canada geese? that’d be actually rather unfortunate to see and raise his polls for a week

she’s the classmate in 7th-10th grade we all remember, who you really really wanted to like, but everything about their actions and social interactions made that impossible

his superpower, in D&D terms, is pure Drain Wisdom: Jeb! brought up 9/11 really thinking that was the end for all the other R McNuggets in the room that second; had Strzok not chickened out at a place literally called the J Edgar Hoover Building, Her Herness would’ve been indictable at Philly when the DNCleaks hit–Brazile was looking for any…[Read more]

reminds me of the intro to Darkness at Noon I just read, where the CPSU officials simply were so isolated after the Revolution, metaphorically pushing buttons and pulling levers that weren’t connected to anything in the actual government, that they had absolutely no idea what Stalin and his NKVD were up to–when they were arrested and “tried” they…[Read more]

doesn’t explain those counties that voted Obama twice, then went to Trump …

they should make a show based on Shattered—Veep‘s writers got scared because they’d have Selina fuck up something and then Clinton would fuck up the same way a few weeks later

Mormon tactics

it’s called “autoethnography,” where you put yourself and your activities and life history under anthropological inspection (it’s an academic scam, basially)

well, do white people support him either?

well, technically in France everyone must dress according to the official cult

A citizens’ committee was formed to work towards her dismissal.<sup id=”cite_ref-Robbins1996np_12-3″ class=”reference”>[12]</sup> Though it now seems apparent that the true reason behind the anger in the community was a backlash against integration, at the time even the city leaders and commission realized that Brown could not be fired because of…

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interesting where they massaged the head-to-heads 2016 but not the individuals

https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-democratic-primary

https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating

https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/bernie-sanders-favorable-rating

hard to say they’re neo-Nazis, the SS had to yank these guys’ chains 1942-5 because they didn’t want things to be too obvious: Germany let the Red Cross visit some of these sites

she also wrote this infamous “there is NO barb wire at Jonestown!!!” piece

https://www.lennyletter.com/story/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president

(though that’s unfair to Rebecca Moore who was a victim, she’s more a Larry Layton type)

the first time I heard the smear that Jews were behind the slave trade was from the Clintonistas