Sound The TRUMPets! A Thread for Presidential Pondering 2016-2020(?)

[Karl Henning]

What are these black people even doing in Donald Trump's America?!

The black women waiting for AAA said they could smell the alcohol on the breath of Susan Westwood, the slurring, unsteady white woman who had approached them in a dark parking lot in Charlotte. But Westwood had no trouble conveying a racially-tinged message straight out of the Jim Crow era.

She is white, she told the two black women, and a resident of the apartment complex in one of the city's most exclusive neighborhoods where they happened to be standing. She makes $125,000 a year and pays hefty rent, and her children attend Myers Park High School.

"This is Myers Park. What are you doing hanging out here on a Friday night?" she asked. "I am white and hot. So what are you doing here?'"

Mary Garris's night had started to sour even before Westwood sauntered up. She was visiting her sister, Leisa, on Oct. 19, but when she went to leave, her car would not start. They got on the phone with AAA, but the call was interrupted by Westwood's meandering tirade.

So instead, the sisters used the cellphone to record the moment when waiting for a tow truck became yet another thing you cannot do while black.

[Daverz]

We discussed the numbers for leftwing vs. rightwing violence earlier, but everybody loves maps:



h/t https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/an-invitation-to-carnage-by-bloggersrus.html

[Karl Henning]

We discussed the numbers for leftwing vs. rightwing violence earlier, but everybody loves maps:



h/t https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/an-invitation-to-carnage-by-bloggersrus.html

Just like zb said:  happens just as much from the Left . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Not everybody wants to be part of the Trump Stage Show ("Empty Compassion Is Better Than No Compassion!")

Victim's family, top officials shun Trump visit to Pittsburgh

[Karl Henning]

"Mr Sensitivity," they call me!

Just when you thought the White House couldn't get any more offensive

Perhaps there was some sort of twisted contest at the White House to see who could be most offensive after the massacre at Tree of Life synagogue.

First up was Kellyanne Conway, who sought to take the Judaism out of the worst anti-Semitic killing in American history. She insisted that what was really behind all this was those atheists in the media. "The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue and funny, to make fun of anybody of faith. To constantly be making fun of people who expresses religion," Conway said. "The late-night comedians. The unfunny people on TV shows. It's always anti-religious. And remember, these people were gunned down in their place of worship." She added: "This is no time to be driving God out of the public square. No time to be making fun of people."

Let's be blunt: This was about Jews. It was not about killing anyone of faith. Taking anti-Semitism out of the equation would be like leaving Jews out of the Holocaust. (Oh, wait. The White House did that one year in its International Holocaust Remembrance Day message.)

Then President Trump piped up. Surely he could top Conway! Ignoring the alleged gunman's own explanation — that he was going after the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) because, as he might have learned from Trump or his Fox News mouthpieces, Jewish billionaire George Soros was funding the "invasion" — Trump went right back to raising hysteria about a few thousand migrants (many of them women and children) about a thousand miles from the border [...]

It was time for another stunt and misuse of armed forces and taxpayer money: Trump decided to send 5,200 troops to the border. Nothing says "presidential leadership" like doubling down on the xenophobic lie that provoked the suspected shooter.

[71 dB]

the Bite House. 

[BasilValentine]

I've spent a lot of time in Squirrel Hill and have a number of friends there. It enrages me to know that despicable POS is in my hometown in the aftermath of a crime he helped to incite.

[BasilValentine]

Good news: The Governor of Pennsylvania, the Mayor of Pittsburgh and the Director of Allegheny County were all contacted by the White House. All of them, along with the rabbis, have declined to meet with Trump. There are large protests and marches in Squirrel Hill to tell him he is not welcome. Makes me proud.

[SimonNZ]

Trump vows executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts say would run afoul of the Constitution

"President Trump is planning to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children of noncitizens born on U.S. soil, he said in a television interview taped on Monday.

The move, which many legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution, would be the boldest yet by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration, an issue he has revived in advance of next week's midterm elections."

[...]

"The move would be certain to spark a constitutional debate about the meaning of the 14th Amendment. It reads: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

[SimonNZ]

Pharrell Williams Sends Trump Legal Threat Letter for Playing 'Happy' After Synagogue Shooting

"President Donald Trump on Saturday played Pharrell Williams' song "Happy" at a Midwest rally hours after the Tree of Life congregation shooting in Pittsburgh — and now the artist is expressing his anger over the decision through a cease and desist letter sent by his lawyer.

"On the day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged 'nationalist,' you played his song 'Happy' to a crowd at a political event in Indiana," writes attorney Howard King in the letter. "There was nothing 'happy' about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose."

King continues to say Williams has not and will not grant Trump permission to publicly perform or otherwise disseminate his music, and claims the use of "Happy" without his consent constitutes both copyright and trademark infringement.

Although the circumstances are gravely different here, this isn't the first time Trump has received a cease and desist from a musician. Steven Tyler has repeatedly protested Trump's use of Aerosmith's music at his events, and others who have made similar complaints include Prince's estate, R.E.M., Queen and the filmmakers of Air Force One."

[SimonNZ]

[71 dB]

Just like zb said:  happens just as much from the Left . . . .

zb will inform us that these maps are fakes manufactured by Soros.

[SimonNZ]

Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department

[Daverz]

zb will inform us that these maps are fakes manufactured by Soros.

I believe the current term of art is Soros-Occupied Government.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1056324117329297409

[SimonNZ]

Jacob Wohl and the incredibly shoddy plot to smear Robert Mueller, explained

[...]

Wohl may end up being the ultimate loser in this scenario, depending on what the FBI finds. But if the purpose of the scam was as much to troll journalists as to smear Mueller and the investigation, then in a way, he's already won.

Yes, Mueller's office commented on the allegations and "made news" by saying they'd referred the allegations to the FBI. Still, NBC News, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed News, the New York Times, and several other media outlets (including, now, Vox) wrote articles about this nonsense — if only to debunk Wohl's claims. By doing so, they devoted scarce journalistic resources to this topic rather than others, just days before the midterm elections.

[SimonNZ]

Veterans slam Trump for border 'stunt'

"Donald Trump thinks unarmed people who are fleeing horrors and are still 1,000 miles away are a national security threat a week before election day?" said Will Fischer, a former Marine who now works for the VoteVets, a progressive veteran's organization.

"I don't think so," Fischer said. "It's a political ploy to blow upon the embers of racism and nativism, and he is using the military again as a political prop to advance his own agenda"

Fischer and other veterans point to the unknown cost to taxpayers, given that much smaller deployments of National Guard to the border have cost hundreds of millions of dollars. They also question the cost the military will bear, as the operation pulls troops away from training, other missions and their families. And then, they say, there's the murky legality of the mission, its scope and its purpose."

[...]

"Despite Trump's unsubstantiated claim that the group of Central Americans includes "gang members and some very bad people," most of the migrants have reportedly indicated that they plan to apply for asylum once they arrive in the US.

"This is not a national security issue. ... We're seeing women, children and the elderly within this caravan fighting for their lives. We don't need more military there," according to Bishop Garrison, the interim executive director of the Truman National Security Project, a left-leaning organization focused on national security and veterans issues.
"We don't need to make a sensitive issue and situation all the more dramatic," said Garrison, a former Homeland Security and Pentagon official.

Both Fischer and a former military official, interviewed separately, raised the question of the rules of engagement for the troops. The former official, who worked at Central Command while Defense Secretary James Mattis was commander, asked, "what if something does happen and lethal force is deployed and you have the US military firing at unarmed civilians?"

"There are laws, there are regulations about how the military can and should be used," the official said. "As somebody that deployed and said good bye to my wife and kids multiple times, you want to be confident about the mission. Sending military troops to the border to defend against unarmed civilians is just nonsense."

[zamyrabyrd]

zb will inform us that these maps are fakes manufactured by Soros.

I looked up the Anti Defamation League and they are mainly concerned with anti-Semitic incidents that do come under the aegis of supremacist ideology. They leave plenty out that doesn't relate to them, also the number of victims and the amount of collateral damage. In other words, as I pointed out before, how many dinky white supremicist incidents equal 9/11 or the Boston Massacre? Whevever the subject of the KKK comes up, I point out that the first is for Blacks, the second for Jews and the third represents Katholics.

The ADL should not be confused with the JDL but it is worth mentioning that they had their own brand of extremism, similar to the Zealots of 2000 years ago:

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City in 1968, the JDL's self-described purpose was to protect Jews from local manifestations of antisemitism.[1][7] Its criticism of the Soviet Union increased support for the group, transforming it from a "vigilante club" into an organization with a stated membership numbering over 15,000 at one point.[8] The group took to bombing Arab and Soviet properties in the United States,[9] and targeting various alleged "enemies of the Jewish people", ranging from Arab-American political activists to neo-Nazis, for assassination.[10] A number of JDL members have been linked to violent, and sometimes deadly, attacks in the United States and in other countries, including the murder of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee regional director Alex Odeh in 1985, the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994, and a plot to assassinate Congressman Darrell Issa in 2001.[11] Several JDL members and leaders died violent deaths, including Kahane himself, who was assassinated by an Arab-American gunman.[12]

The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre or Hebron massacre,[1] was a shooting massacre carried out by American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, also a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement. On February 25, 1994, Goldstein opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs compound in Hebron, West Bank. It took place on February 25, 1994, during the overlapping religious holidays of both Jewish Purim and Muslim Ramadan.[2] The attack left 29 people dead, several as young as twelve, and 125 wounded.[3] Goldstein was overpowered, disarmed and then beaten to death by survivors.

Sorry to report, but Jewish settler extremists revere the grave of Baruch Goldstein today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

[SimonNZ]

None of that in an way addresses the race baiting and culture of hate of the current administration.

[zamyrabyrd]

None of that in an way addresses the race baiting and culture of hate of the current administration.

No, you are wrong. Nothing can compare with the race baiting and stirring the pot of Obama actually inciting riots with comments such as "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son", making prejudgements before all the facts were in. The culture of hate is directed against Trump and anything he does, so it is projection on steroids.

[SimonNZ]

Are you drunk? Don't bother answering. I'm going back to filtering you.