1704

Nope. Obama.

1705

Wasn’t it Dick Cheney who liked to be compared to Darth Vader? So this must be an extremely clever way of saying that he’s been purged by establishment Republicans but will be back to haunt them. It’s gotta be 3-dimensional chess. I mean, it’s not like White House staff would be so juvenile as to get in cat fights with each other and then quote Star Wars movies about it.

1706

Did he? I thought the Cheney-Vader reference emerged from places like Talkning Points Memo and Crooks and Liars and not by Cheney himself. Hell, I bet he’s never seen a Star Wars movie to begin with.

1707

He didn’t start it, but he embraced the comparison eventually. He quipped at the Radio and TV correspondents dinner one year that when he asked his wife if it bothered her that people made that comparison, she replied, “it humanizes you.”

1708

The idea that people can be more powerful outside of the White House is insane, but that’s what insane people say when they get fired.

1709

My theory is that Gorka is actually a deeply committed method actor for a James Bond villain, who got so deep into the role he ended up in the Trump administration. I’m glad that, even now, he refuses to drop character.

1710

“Some very fine people.”

Well before a white nationalist “Unite the Right” demonstration turned deadly in Charlottesville this month, attendees were planning for violence, according to leaked online chats. In private chat channels, they shared advice on weaponry and tactics, including repeatedly broaching the idea of driving vehicles through opposition crowds. After the vehicular attack which killed counterprotestor Heather Heyer, users of the channel celebrated the event.

1711

Let’s call things by their proper names here. Arpaio is, of course, a white supremacist. But he’s more than that. There’s a word for political regimes that round up members of minority groups and send them to concentration camps, while rejecting the rule of law: What Arpaio brought to Maricopa, and what the president of the United States has just endorsed, was fascism, American style.

So how did we get to this point?

1712

For another, the pardon is a signal to those who might be tempted to make deals with the special investigator as the Russia probe closes in on the White House: Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.

This is exactly what it does. The fact that it plays to his crazy-ass base and adds to his ego because Arpaio always endorsed him is icing on the cake.

1713

So, after thinking about it over the weekend, I’ve figured out the unstated goal of the Alt-Right (and Trumpists):

Affirmative Action for Whites.

1714

Well and the clear signal that all Trump cares about is personal loyalty. He doesn’t even care about accomplishing policy, since the only policy Trump cares about is getting more for Trump. It really is mind boggling conservatives think this guy is one of them.

1715

Especially after the first question from the first primary debate was “Are you one of us?” And Trump was like, “Nope, not necessarily.”

1716

Alpha AF.

1717

I honestly don’t know what’s gonna come out of this… Trump is so addle brained that I could see him doing really idiotic stuff, just because he was needled by breitbart.

1718

They also looked at video from a nearby sporting goods store, which showed Witt buying a small knife minutes before the alleged attack.

Last Thursday, police re-interviewed Witt.

“Where he was confronted with the all the information listed above. Mr. Witt subsequently admitted to accidentally cutting himself with the knife while parked in his car in front of the sporting goods store and admitted making up the story about being attacked,” Sheridan police said in their statement.

1719

What is a ‘globalist’ anyway? Is there some coherent concept of what it means? Like someone who thinks the UN maybe shouldn’t be disbanded, or that the U.S. maybe shouldn’t swing its dick around without any consideration for the other 6.7 billion people in the world? Or does it go straight into New World Order/Protocols of the Elders of Zion/Illuminati batshitland?

1720

It’s just like, the opposite of nationalist.

The way these guys use it, they don’t really know what words mean, so it’s basically interchangable with crap like “Cuck”.

1721

Goodbye!

1722

This article breaks down “globalist.” Basically, it refers to non-isolationists and/or Jews.

1723

“Jew.”

But in theory it’s people who are anti-nationalist and pro-globalization, usually for business reasons.