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I got Jakobli Gyp

 

'Telephone terrorism' rattles 48 Jewish centers - CNN.com

 

But hey let's reason with fascists, I'm sure we could talk this whole "you want to kill everyone" thing out with a deep conversation...

 

Holy fucking shit. I was wondering why he reversed course on that.

 

She's been criticized several times by the left because she continues to write pieces that are apologetic with Milo's entourage. This thread was the night of the Berkeley thing:

fwiw I love most of her writing. She had a great piece about 50SoG a couple years ago. I unfollowed her a few days after the Berkeley thing, but just now I saw she also posted this in regards to the dumb essay from yesterday:

which...idk, I think she's a good writer, but personally that still feels like it undermines my identity. "Gender is something I perform" is a much harder statement to support if you've cried taking off nail polish so your parents don't know you're trans. Though from the flip side it's very much a performance when I purposefully don't cross my legs at work...so...yea. I think she is a writer and gets too caught up in the art of writing when her subject matter is sensitive and by extension also entertains ideologies without understanding the relationship between ideology and action.

 

"Many, perhaps most of us who live in coastal cities have found ourselves having criminal thoughts and violent fantasies since 9 November. Some involve Trump and Steve Bannon; others involve white supremacists like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos; still others involve the fabled white working class that is supposed to have voted for Trump (the reality is more complicated than that, I know), which most of us have found it easier to hate than persuade. (I’m as guilty as the next person.) These feelings provide a measure of psychological release, but they are also difficult to manage. Living with bile and rage is not pleasant; it eats away at the soul, when the adrenaline subsides...It might be useful to think about these fantasies in wider terms, as a way of trying to understand the citizens of other countries, particularly those whom Americans have for the most part refused to sympathise with. We might try, for example, to understand why Palestinians have carried out violent attacks against the people who have occupied them for (as of June this year) half a century. They have been under military rule, without recourse to elections or a fair legal system, much less citizenship, for roughly 600 times as long as we have been under Trump. Americans who think suicide bombs are shocking, or are evidence of cultural backwardness or a Muslim disposition towards violence, might do well to reflect on the fragile psychology of political violence, as we feel the fantasy, even the temptation of violence, rise up in ourselves."

Adam Shatz: The Deep State

 

Trump threatens ‘low-life leakers’ will be caught

lol @ Trump criticizing leakers. The guy who encouraged foreign interference in our election through hacking and leaking, and read leaked emails at his rallies verbatim. Like, just, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL you fucking spray tanned son of a bitch.

 

So everything that has leaked is true then...?

 

The Rust Belt Elevated Trump, But Its Electoral Power Is Dwindling

538's look at the shifting electoral votes. Wont mean anything in 2020 obviously, but I imagine the Dems are gonna wanna keep this in mind when they decide where to spend money and concentrate on ground game. Gonna be a balancing act to go after the mid-west votes in 2020 but continue the Clinton gains in the future battlegrounds of Texas, Georgia, and Arizona.

Regardless, Florida should be a top priority. God I hate Florida.

 

That first tweet that Mary is responding to is gross. And I don't even understand where they are coming from. Is that a common viewpoint of both people that currently live in ME and western reporters? The step farther to "no it's actually Christians persecuting Muslims" rather than just ignorance of Christians being persecuted is something that I've only ever seen on recruitment threads on 8chan.

 

Also, Colorado.....get that asshat Gardner out in 2020, plz, thanks.

 

The weird coalition of random pissed republicans at prez continues to grow, Paul Ryan mysteriously silent this whole time

 

Lock her up

 

Trump has to be threatening him with putting his full weight behind a primary challenger if Ryan crosses him.

 

I doubt he's threatening him, i would be more surprised if he was aware of him lol the thing people say is best about republicans is actually their downfall when they went across the aisle for the first time to a candidate they thought would never win and were then forced to endorse him. Dumb republicans, I thought you learned from the dems.

 

ok so u guys know how everything trump criticizes his opponents for is actually something he does/did/should be criticized for


well


do you also remember how he accused ted cruz's dad of being the zodiac killer

 

Lock him up