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maybe i just talk to, read, follow the right people, but that's definitely not the message i'm seeing from the left.

 

In Trump Follow Up, Jimmy Fallon Wears Surgical Mask For Hillary Clinton | Huffington Post

 

Maybe? I really think literally every liberal talking head I've seen has made it a clarification that they're ok with or support the protest partly because it isn't against the military.
And I'm not sure what you mean by "the left" exactly, there are many on the left who don't care for the military, but Hillary supporters (and I mean people that even supported her in the primaries) must be supportive of military intervention. That's an undeniably large part of her record.

 

lol. you sure moved the goal posts there.

 

Oh ok.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but jawstheme said liberals instead of left for a reason I assume?

 

Maybe the next president should get TWO Noble Peace prizes. I don't think one quite does it.

 

Do talking heads on T.V. speak for everyone who identifies as liberal?

 

Sorry I didn't poll every liberal. Who speaks for the liberals maybe I can ask them before making a general observation? Maybe president Obama? Wait he already said he supports it but also had veiled criticism because it could be interpreted as a military protest, that's right.

 

I follow a lot of "liberal" writers. I do not see anywhere close to this generalized or unified stance. I also barely watch TV. So I have no idea what they're doing on there.

 

I miss Margaret Sullivan at the Times.

With public trust in the media at an abysmal low, it’s time — long past time — for TV news outlets to stop playing the stooge for Trump. The paradox, of course, is that Trump expresses nothing but contempt for the very people in the media who have made his candidacy viable.

Even if the turning point comes far too late, when billions of dollars of free media have promoted a candidacy like never before, it must come now.

Indignation in the immediate moment should turn to soul-searching in the boardroom and the newsroom.

This can’t happen again.

 

How Internet Trolls Won the 2016 Presidential Election

You can’t understand this stuff without trying to grasp the Chanterculture. That’s the term coined by Joe Bernstein, the BuzzFeed reporter who explained late last year that 4chan, 8chan, and other anonymous and pseudonymous online communities traditionally peopled mostly (but by no means entirely) by frustrated young white men appear to be in the midst of a reactionary upheaval geared at fighting back against the culture of inclusion and diversity that has — in their view — infected mainstream life.

Specifically, they’ve reacted in a rather batshit manner: by acting as ostentatiously racist and hateful as possible. This has included everything from a ginned-up online campaign to “protest” John Boyega’s role in the new Star Wars trilogy, since he’s black, to a comic called “the Adventures of Christ Chan” in which the titular protagonist fights to keep her hometown of “New Bethlehem free of blacks, gays, atheists, and the fearsome Jew King. Her weapon is a katana; her insignia, the swastika.” The Chanterculture predates the rise of Trump by years (Gamergate was obviously a big moment for it), but suffice it to say that the emergence of Trump, a larger-than-life walking middle finger to political correctness, hit this subculture like a mainlined bottle of Mountain Dew — Trump is their hero, and like so much else in their online world they have rendered him in cartoonish, superhero hues.

 

I get jealous every time Rembert writes.

 

Someone is gonna have to steal his phone in November or it's going to be pandemonium.

 

UN security council to hold emergency meeting on US air strikes in Syria

This could get ugly.

 

Trump's Behavior Similar To Male Chimpanzee, Says Jane Goodall | Huffington Post

 

Explosion in New York.
Chelsea.

 

i don't watch a lot of TV these days, but i'm watching college football on Fox, a prime time game, and there was just an NRA commercial. i've never seen an NRA commercial in my life, and i used to watch a lot of TV. wasn't "for" Trump outright, but yeah, it really, really was. weird.

 

As soon as I saw the story about the explosion I wondered how long it would take for Trump to exploit it. Only took 45 minutes.

 

Hope all Manhattan chorus peeps are safe.

 

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