Neo Nazis and the Alt Right

Gordon_Cameron · June 18, 2018, 6:55pm

Ok, it doesn’t actually have to do with Nazis, but I would just like to say that in these troubled times, any headline about a “Bavarian Uprising” is a bit unsettling.

https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-races-to-quell-bavarian-uprising-horst-seehofer-migrants-refugees/

Gordon_Cameron · June 18, 2018, 6:57pm

Also, a bit of slightly encouraging news…

Menzo · June 18, 2018, 7:19pm

This shouldn’t be surprising. But just like those party affiliation charts that show the decline in people categorizing themselves as Republican, it’ll go back up in the run up to 2020.

Gordon_Cameron · June 18, 2018, 7:32pm

TranquilityBase · June 18, 2018, 10:16pm

Hey, remember when Hannity, O’Reilly, et al mocked Obama supporters for “worshipping their messiah”?

https://i.imgur.com/hiqvR7L.jpg

Ben Garrison:

Three years ago Trump glided down a golden escalator to announce his presidency.

I knew Trump as a billionaire real estate developer and a TV personality. I didn’t watch his TV shows, nor did I pay much attention to him.

I remember watching some lefty TV politicos discussing his candidacy and they all laughed. He was a joke and they dismissed him with a collective wave of their hands. They said it was just a publicity stunt and he had no chance. Their laughter quickly turned to anger when they realized they were wrong. They underestimated him because he was a political novice, but that didn’t mean he didn’t understand the political climate. He especially knew how to communicate. I first started to like Trump when he didn’t care about political correctness. He put America first and that had fallen out of fashion for far too long.

For a long time I’ve thought of him coming down that escalator. It was a well-calculated move on his part because it conjures up some powerful motifs such as Apollo coming down from Mount Olympus—or maybe Zarathustra coming down from his mountain. I thought of him as Moses coming down with the tablets, portending a change for the good. I’ve always thought the latter would make a good cartoon—here it is….and while I’m at it, why not draw Melania as an angel?

What’s really silly is the Trump Derangement Syndrome that is still pervasive in the leftist legacy media. Their blind hatred is so over the top that it’s counterproductive to their cause. Take Rob Rogers, for instance. He suffers a severe case of TDS, and as a result he was fired from his 25 year position as an editorial cartoonist for the liberal Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Instead of drawing the desired allotment of local cartoons, he concentrated almost exclusively on daily, heavy-handed attacks on President Trump. You know, the usual stuff—Trump is Hitler, the head of the KKK, a sexist and racist bigot, etc. The problem was, Rogers’ liberal editorial editor saw such repeated hysterics as overdone, pejorative, and not helpful to the cause. Rogers refused to dial it down a notch, so he was ‘let go.’ Now he’s whining about it as he competes for attention on the Internet with cartoonists like myself.

Rob Reiner had a similar reaction regarding that massive TDS sufferer, Robert De Niro. Reiner knows the ‘F’ Trump slurs only make the left appear crudely ignorant—and many are because of the constant anti-Trump brainwashing they receive.

I disagree with the president on some issues, but Trump may be our last, best hope to effect real change by draining the swamp and putting America first. Trump could have retired and lived the good life. Instead he cared enough about his country to spend a lot of time and money to right the course. In doing so, he knew he’d face a torrent of hate, death threats, investigations, as well as getting his personal life laid bare. He knew his flaws would be magnified to a fantastic degree. Yet he cared enough to run the gauntlet of ridicule and hatred.

bolding mine.

I like how they never just stop at mere projection, but amplify it by a factor of ten.

Also, RIP Melania

jpinard · June 20, 2018, 2:10am

These right-wing losers can’t even spell.

None · June 20, 2018, 3:12am

Clearly that’s a crisis vehicle? A truck actor?

Nesrie · June 20, 2018, 3:15am

I’m sure there are good people on both sides.

kerzain · June 20, 2018, 3:18am

Inside every lie there is a grain of truth. That is indeed a truck.

kerzain · June 20, 2018, 4:21am

Fuck this guy.

Pistolis belonged to a white supremacist group and was found bragging online about the violence he carried out during the August rally, at which one demonstrator died.

He has been sentenced to 28 days of confinement, a reduction of two ranks to E-1, and the forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay for a month.

Vasillios has seven days to submit a request for clemency to the convening officer, the Marines said.

But apparently he still gets to stay a Marine.

Two other Marines were arrested in May 2017 for flying a white supremacist banner at a pro-confederate rally in North Carolina, according to veterans news site Task & Purpose.

Marine Corps officials told Task & Purpose that one of those Marines, Sgt. Michael Chesny, has been administratively separated from the service, while the other, Staff Sgt. Joseph Manning, was discharged in December.

Good. But why can’t they kick out Pistolis too? If we’re going to have zero tolerance about stuff in this country, I’d like to start by having zero tolerance on ethnic intolerance.

Mark_Asher · June 20, 2018, 12:03pm

Yeah, they booted the cadet who supported communism but they let the racist who bragged about violence stay.

None · June 21, 2018, 6:52pm

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622144455/white-civil-rights-rally-approved-for-d-c-in-august?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180621

gruntled · June 21, 2018, 7:30pm

The Q on the man’s t-shirt refers to the right-wing conspiracy theory known as “The Storm” that has thousands of adherents online. The theory goes like this: President Trump is not actually under investigation for possible collusion with Russian officials in 2016, but rather he is secretly working overtime to dismantle a global network of Satanic pedophiles involving some of the most powerful global elites and to share information about this secret project.
And as crazy as all of that sounds, it apparently didn’t stop anyone on the Trump advance team from giving someone advertising this theory front-row VIP access at last night’s rally.
Followers of the conspiracy theory claimed that Trump gesturing to the cheering man wearing the QAnon shirt was irrefutable proof that the theory is real.

barstein · June 21, 2018, 8:17pm

Menzo · June 22, 2018, 1:03am

I forget, is this where we talked about Rosanne?

Gordon_Cameron · June 22, 2018, 4:45am

Wow they pulled a Hogan Family on her.

kerzain · June 22, 2018, 5:00am

Well, is she?!

Gordon_Cameron · June 22, 2018, 5:17am

There’s always Christopher Plummer.

Yeah, I know, I didn’t think of that joke first either…

kerzain · June 22, 2018, 5:30am

Fwiw, I wasn’t calling you out. I just want Sandy Duncan to get work.

Gordon_Cameron · June 22, 2018, 6:09am

A noble cause.