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The Soviet style poster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster
used by the Obama campaign always amazed me that they actually did that.
Not anything new really. They revise history, distort, and omit in order to put communists in a better light as a matter of practice.
As CW pointed out a few weeks ago, the fact that Stalin kicked off WW II in Europe in partnership with Hitler is forgotten.
How many HS or even College graduates know that Stalin and Mao killed far more of their own people with their purification programs than Hitler killed Gypsies, mentally incapacitate, and Jews?
Think that most college grads would have a clue what the Katyn massacre was? Would they know that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan killed far fewer than the firebomb raids? The list goes on and on. And it is an ever continuing effort.
I have actually had leftist argue with me about what US troops were doing in Lebanon in the 80’s when I was THERE and knew about it first hand. I have seen them argue about what US troops were doing on the ground in the Balkans with my compadres that had been there on the ground. During Desert Sabre what they hyped as “The Highway of Death” was actually just a line of burned out vehicles for the most part because the Iraqis in them knew damned well what was about to happen and ran away and abandoned those vehicles before they were taken out. They had to look long and hard to find a couple of burnt bodies to give the impression that it was a massacre.
And how many know that the IJA (Imperial Japanese Army), during the Rape of Nanking, killed several times as many people as did the atomic bombs, using sharp instruments (raping girls with bayonets, beheading contests, and simply mowing crowds down with machine guns) ?
I don’t think too many Poles have forgotten about Soviet-Nazi collusion in starting WW II, followed by the Katyn massacre. Twenty years earlier, the Soviets (better known as Bolsheviks) attempted to conquer Poland as a stepping stone to fomenting “liberation” wars across the rest of Europe (Polish–Soviet War of 1920). Their leading generals in this operation were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. (No honor among thieves; Stalin had Trotsky murdered in 1940, with a sharp instrument.)
Meanwhile, western libs were oblivious, and most supported the Bolshevik efforts against the effete Polish capitalist bourgeois, just as they supported Stalin using “food as a weapon” against Ukraine in 1931-33 (check out Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer prize winning apologetics in the New York Time).
And most people think that Nazism and Fascism is extreme right wing, when if one looks at their history, it will be seen that they are examples of extreme left wing politics.
So for example, Nazism finds its roots in The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which of course was left wing, not a right wing party. See Wikipedia:
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (German: About this sound Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (/ˈnɑːtsi/), was a political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920.
Fascism founds its roots in communism, viz
It is amazing how history is rewritten.
What really matters is the effect on the people and when it comes to that there is little distinction between Hitler and Stalin no matter what label is used to characterize their regimes.
Stolen from The People’s Cube, a great parody site:
The kids all look like perfect Aryans, from wholesome red states. Why no diversity?
Maybe they drowned all the deplorable ones?
You don’t recognize the fact this is from a parody site using old Nazi propaganda as its foundation?
It would be simple enough to change every child in there to a color of the rainbow and be accurate in that Obama screwed future generations more than they will ever realize … but that rather undermines the idea of PARODY.
I see an Uzbek and an Armenian in there, so even the Soviets succumbed to political correctness – which is ironic, since in early days the term was used against communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
Perhaps the others are Latvian and Russian – hey, they all look the same – but the handsome boy in the middle looks like I did a few years ago, so maybe he’s Polish (the Bolsheviks dreamed of making Poland a SSR, and even started a failed war to do so in 1920).
Seriously guys? The current administration is being taken apart in congressional hearings over ties to Russia that are not now, nor have ever been permitted by rules of state. The leader of Russia is a known former KGB operative who, if given the chance during your time in service RAH, you would have shot at. If you try to sweep all this under the rug as if it has no merit whatsoever, or basis in reality, while criticizing the use of former Soviet imagery by people deemed Leftist…you will be rightly criticized for looking disingenuous.
Serious mis-reporting of important science should be called out and corrected, but hooking you cart to a bloviating, silver spooner who has no actual record of serving anyone other than himself (i.e. the Donald) will only bring down the whole effort of making necessary corrections to the EPA and other agencies that have gone off the reservation. (Hello NASA and NOAA). I don’t think he’s long for the presidency…and not for nothin’.
While tens of thousands freeze to death because they can’t afford to turn on their heat, this is how the Donald spends his money:
http://celebritymozo.com/2016/03/10/donald-trumps-filthy-rich-life-in-21-photos/3/
I mean, who actually buys life-sized paintings of THEMSELVES to hang in their house?
Troll alert. Readers here aren’t stupid enough to fall for this type of BS.
Seriously? Believe it or not, I’m trying to help you. Disappointed. Genuinely.
Not to worry, I’ll leave the support group/echo chamber. Really disappointed. God.
The painting was purchased at a charity event, the proceeds went to a worthy cause, and it is said that the painting is at one of his golf courses. The painting was purchased with the proceeds of his book “The Art of the Deal”, and another 5.5 million of Trump’s money that he earmarked for charity
“While tens of thousands freeze to death because they can’t afford to turn on their heat…”
Please provide your sources. If there had been one such incident the MSM would have been all over it like stink on you know what.
A couple that I knew in Madrid Maine froze to death one winter. They were very poor and I don’t think they wanted anyone helping them. Poor people do freeze to death. I don’t think it was ever mentioned in the news.
Spot on. You don’t hear much from, or for those w/o a voice. Money talks and bs walks.
Yours truly almost froze to death. I still have problems with the fingers and toes.
And that is why I live in Newy.
Min overnight temps recorded is around 1.2C in June.
Still not pleasant to be outside without a jumper on, though.
AndyG,
That was one of the reasons I moved south. Cold weather really makes my toes and fingers ache if I am not active and keep the blood circulating.
I’m sorry Gail but you guys aren’t out of the woods yet as far as winter goes. Looks like next week you’ve got a chance for a little snow coming in NC.
Snow????
ACK!
While Florida is decently warm I plan to move to Mexico in July assuming the Trump wall will not be complete by then.
Somewhat astonished this is not know in this circle:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11382808/Winter-death-toll-to-exceed-40000.html
Obama has one in every room.
Poppycock. Ideological bias manifesting a defensive reaction. Donald doesn’t care for you. Sorry to break the news.
To the 3rd power: http://www.siggraph.org/discover/news/president-obama-lands-first-3d-presidential-portrait
McLovin’ says
“The current administration is being taken apart in congressional hearings over ties to Russia that are not now, nor have ever been permitted by rules of state. The leader of Russia is a known former KGB operative who, if given the chance during your time in service RAH, you would have shot at. If you try to sweep all this under the rug as if it has no merit whatsoever, or basis in reality, while criticizing the use of former Soviet imagery by people deemed Leftist…you will be rightly criticized for looking disingenuous. ”
I have not seen a speck of evidence of collusion of team Trump with the Russians, let alone anything that effected the outcome of the election. Produce that evidence here and now, or be recognized as a uber partisan liar every bit as bad as Putin.
I believe in a system that requires hard evidence to charge, let alone convict a person. What do YOU believe in? Tell me, even hypothetically, how could the Russians of possibly “hacked” the electoral system so that it changed the outcome of the election?
What I see is that there was not a peep about anything having to do with Team Trump colluding with the Russians until the democrat party lost the election and had to come up with an excuse for it.
I don’t have the evidence as I don’t work for the FBI. But I suspect we’ll all be hearing about or seeing it soon enough. And for the record, it’s nothing I’m excited about. I too want BS artists held to account…but I believe he’s one of them. What evidence have you that he’s lived a life of anything other than a rich kids son who’s life is spent in self addrandizement and self promotion? Simply because he insulted Obama? Is that all it really takes? I mean, if you truly can’t countenance the possibility of someone holding (at least somewhat) differing political ideas from your own while sharing some interests, how do you expect to actually LIVE in the world?
This isn’t about political ideas. This is about truth and justice. Your accepted the very premise of the charge before there has been a lick of hard evidence presented to support it. And you obviously justify that opinion by your hate of Trump. It’s all right there in your original post.
Thus your representative of part of the problem because your not even attempting to be objective. So your questioning of my values for supporting Trump means nothing to me.
Many great men have over the top egos. I don’t object to people having been born with a “silver spoon” in their mouth as long as that spoon was bought with wealth legally obtained. It is after all a product of what many parents strive to provide for their children. And Trump made the most of the opportunity given him. He did not get to where he is by being stupid and lazy. And when it gets down to it he has been a very generous with his wealth. Far more than his political detractors and opposition have been from what I have seen. Far more than the previous POTUS was or has been.
RAH,
A couple things. I never questioned yours, or anyone’s beliefs of values. Aside from suggesting that in the 1980s, while you were in service and given the chance, you would have (likely) shot at them man now in charge of Russia, while he was an active KGB agent.
Also:
I accept as objective fact, as I assume you also do, that the head of the FBI, James Comey and the director of the N.S.A., Adm. Michael S. Rogers were grilled for hours just this past week about all of this. That’s it — the full extent of my “claim.” It’s not controversial. Comey got around providing direct answers on numerous occasions by saying that he could not discuss anything that was part of an active investigation. Because there is an active investigation underway.
I’m not trying to be provocative here. If I’ve imagined what I just wrote, please let me know and I’ll make an appointment with a Neurologist right now and get checked out. But so far as I know, these events took place…recently…and will continue. And I reiterate that this is not an attack on anyone here, including you, your values, your beliefs, etc. Neither has been anything I’ve written, including my original post. Which btw…
Was written in the spirit of taking the partisanship out of this blog. I am an registered INDEP, always will be as I’ve NO intention of ever accepting a whole platform of conflated ideas, if some portion(s) of it it seem to me to be foolish…like Carbon taxes. I live in a very liberal area around Boston and I’ve been quietly talking with a few people whom I know to be thoughtful and smart. I’ve been making serious efforts, over time, to get them to review many CLIMATE AND SCIENCE issues that I see discussed here (usually thoughtfully). I want to be able to send them here. But just like you, me, or anyone else RAH, if they see partisan vitriol that either directly, or indirectly ostensibly insults THEIR values and/or beliefs, they too will have the same reaction as you. Then they’ll tune out, even good info – as we’re all prone to do. THAT is point of my original post. No more no less.
Tony mentioned an 81 year old that he’s been talking with who’s come around on these points. It took time. Maybe I’m wrong (given how I was received), but I’d be otherwise willing to bet he didn’t go up to this 81 year each time he saw him and tell him what a stupid, terrible person he was for voting, or thinking the way he did. I suspect he let the facts speak for themselves. If you have truth on your side, it eventually rises, like cream. No amount of shouting or insults will hold it down. And NEVER will shouting and insults enable you, Tony, or anyone else to reach a broader public with this CLIMATE related info. It’s been my understanding that this was the point of the blog and Tony’s work – to reach MORE people. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
Pres Trump has very low ratings (for right or wrong) as so many in politics seem to these days. He’s been a verbose, outspoken since before his presidency. Whether he’s been generous or not I can not say as I don’t know him. I’m guessing neither of us can say that with certainty. But we’re human and are succeptible to an in-built bias that predisposed up to seek out data points that support what we chose to believe (heck, this whole blog is sort of a psychological study in how this bias selection plays out in science and politics! It’s part of our species endowment…whatya gonna do?)
So for MY part – I made this initial post/suggestion so that I can share Tony’s work with a broader population that would not otherwise look it up. It’s a tight rope walk. If I send someone to this blog who’s politics tend to lean more left and they see this left-bashing, they’ll tune out…just like that feckin’ eejit in the Washington State Senate did when Tony presented to them back in Feb (and I emailed him to say that Washington voters should feel embarrassed about his behavior).
I guess that’s all. But no offense was intended and that’s the truth. I simply want to be able to bring people here w/o destroying my own groundwork on this issue. And if THAT makes me a troll, well, good luck getting this story out to those beyond the Pale.
Mc…the other choice was Clinton
I don’t follow.
Sorry. I get what you’re saying. Two crap choices. How’s that not as damning a statement as anything about the place we’ve reached nationally?
What about Hillary selling 20% of US uranium production to Russia in return for $$$ to the Clinton foundation and Podesta getting a slice of the pie in the shape of stock. Not to mention right after a Russian bank paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release
What about the Podesta Group being paid $170,000 in a six-month period in 2016 to represent Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, to end an Obama’s sanctions?
What about BP of Oil Spill fame hiring BP hiring the Podesta group to do its lobbying and PR => John and Tony Podesta own Podesta group => Podesta (john) owns Center for American Progress AND Climate Progress. (From 2010)
I’m not a Clinton fan either. Frankly, I spent months shaking my head and how we got to a point that we had two crap candidates to choose from. I’m still actually shaking from it!
I would add that any power seerker should be viewed cautiously. And any power achiever should be cavity searched, daily.
If these thoughts actually make of me a “troll” well…so bet it. (though I think that’s bullshit)
Gail, I am sorry that you had a painful experience with hypothermia and frostbite. I am 68, have lived in upstate NY my entire life, and genuinely sympathize with anyone who has suffered from exposure to the cold. Please be careful in the wintertime… we are, after all, a tropical species.
Wrt to the discussion thread started by my earlier comment in response to McLovin’s assertion that tens of thousands of people freeze to death, are we talking about the US, North America, the northern hemisphere, or the entire world? Are we talking about each year, the past decade, or since the dawn of time? I assumed our friend McLovin meant each year in the US, clearly an asinine statement.
I was saddened to hear about the couple in Madrid Maine that died of hypothermia. At the risk of sounding calloused and cynical, that leaves 9,998 to go before reaching our first documented 10,000 deaths attributable to cold weather in the US in recent years.
I’m beginning to understand why Tony Heller grits his teeth and occasionally flames inane comments.
The alarmist scum have tried to erase every warm period going back to the birth of civilization. The reasons why? The don’t want anyone to know that there were warmer times in the past with no human input, plus they don’t want anyone to know that humanity fared quite well during those warmer periods.
The want to keep it a deep, dark secret that the Vikings were able to grow crops and even wine in Greenland during the Middle Ages. But that is a tough sell, especially with the place having been named GREENland!
Andy is the Greenland wine true … I know the crops were quite varied etc but I don’t think I have ever heard of wine there.
I think it’s a load of made up rubbish. If Greenland is so warm today due to AGW can Andy DC show us a bottle of wine from their in his local Walmart? Picture please.
Andy
They were able to grow grains, such as barely. I’ve never heard of grapes being grown in Greenland by the Vikings either.
Romans did grapes in the SE of the UK back in the day but doing that in Greenland is a bit of a stretch.
Andy
Romans grew vines right through to the North of England, right up to the border country. Even though vines were far less hardy or specialised when compared to the vines of today.
Whether any vines grew further North, ie., North of the border in Scotland is moot. There does not appear to be Roman records of such, but the Romans had little presence North of Hadrian’s Wall.
Generally any ancient road named Vine Street, or the like, can trace its origin of naming back to a nearby vineyard of old.
Wines might not have been grown quite as far as the Northern Borders, and may have stopped more around the Yorkshire and Northamptonshire area.
From: http://www.greatenglishwines.co.uk/history-of-english-wine
Probably just a mix-up between wine and mead.
Mead was a staple Viking drink.
An interesting read of where the Vikings may have got wine from ..
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/viking-land-of-wine-pinpointed-in-canada-5370503.html
Grapes were growing in Vinland, not Greenland. That is modern day Nova Scotia and is today north of where grapes grow. The Viking that testified they were grapes had lived in France at one time, so they knew what grapes were.
And the Greenland Vikings were visiting and colonizing Canada.
There are two other possible sites also located.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vikings-uncovered-3-possible-sites-found-in-canada/
Yes, I meant Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia.
Nowadays they say grapes grow to about 45 degrees north. I have seen them at 44 N in sheltered locations. They are not abundant as the sagas report.
That makes more sense then.
http://devoniancoast.ca/services-view/a-grape-newfoundland-story/
Seems Carl Sparkes of Nova Scotia’s Devonian Coast wineries wants to grow grapes ‘On the Rock’ aka Newfoundland.
The Gulf Stream does flow past the area.
Andy, Viking Greenland beer from barley. Not wine.
In Skandinavien, the traditional range of the norsemen, the alcoholic drink not brewed was Honey Meade having nothing to do with grapes.
Nothing surprising,
as,
“The only thing we learn from the past is
that we learn nothing from the past”
In this special case you can not even expect people to learn,
as they have been fooled by the very same trick the elitist guy use.
When numbers,no matter how small
fit their narrative and are usefull for manipulation
they emotionalise people-
than even a supertiny number like 1/10000 man made co2 in our atmosphere
is the ultimate bringer of death ,the apocalypse.
When numbers are harmfull to them ,
than they either keep quiet as much as possible
or,after being exposed,
they intellectualise them
by turning this number into a statistic.
Therefore massmurdering communism after killing 150million++ people(=4*more than hitler&3* more than Dschingis Khan)
is still considered
a fantastic thing
(by the very same looneys who think that islam is a religion of peace)
As all these horrible crap is told us by philantropic experts,
most of us believe this shit.
As the communist revolution was sponsored by Wall Street and the city of London
by the Fathers of those bankers and big corporations
who own the big MSM who favour Obama and Sanders
the use of those images is logical.
((btw both “inventors” of communism((Karl Marx/Moses Hess))
worked for the two same Newspapers.
Just one of many many coincidencies you can discover when researching communism.
Trotzky lived in New York in a luxury Hotel+Limousine&Driver before starting “russian” revolution,
and many oligarchs who turned russia into a shithole in the 90ies went to the city of London(Marx beloved Exile)
after Putin kicked them out of Russia.
The very same London the very first Bolshewik-Oliver Cromwell-lived in.
Gooddoer Cromwell was the guy who did what Bolshewiks use to do:he killed(not the Tzars but) the King and after killing him
England was turned within few years into a massmurdering empire bringing war all over the world.
For centuries the Queens/Kings of England have to ask the mayor of the(autonomous) city of London for permission
if they want to enter the city,
while the other way around the lords of the city don’t have to ask.
I wonder who the really Lords of Britain are and have been for a long time.
The World is so incredibly small as soon as we follow the main storyline
of human history and stay in the main cities.
And you see:big money,mass killing & communism always walking hand in hand.
These people create(or rewrite) the future and past we live in and
tell us what is allowed to think,that’s why today we live in a totally perverted world where;
You can adore massmurdering communism and islam and be considered a good guy but be crucified for just criticizing them.
CAGWBS has already killed hundreds of millions of innocent humans, and the same way that Stalin did, by denying them food.
Stalin starved less than 5% of what the alarmists have starved over the past three decades.
Have you got any stats to prove it gator? Just thought I’d ask…..
I guess I am an alarmist in your books, ie not a right wing US based person with tin foil hat who worries AGW might steal a few cents out of the old wallet.
So how many people have I starved ? Some graphs would be good as a starting point.
Cheers
Andy
You could start here
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy
And its not just the price, massive areas of once food crop or old jungle in third world countries have been converted to the bio-fuel scam.
Andy, I wish you would once have an honest reason to ask a question here. You are not really interested in knowing how many people have starved, as you could have found out faster by simply turning to Google. You are here to cast doubt on facts that can be easily researched and shown.
Bad Andy.
And now for the truth.
About 21,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every four seconds, as you can see on this display. Sadly, it is children who die most often.
Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.
http://www.poverty.com/
That works out to 7,665,000 every year.
I guess a good and honest question would be, why isn’t Andy really concerned? What other motives might there be that drive Andy?
Because of the dictatorships it is difficult to get food to the ones that need it.
Agreed. But this is no excuse for starving millions annually.
Yes and the UN and the USA (controlled by the Central Banksters) make sure those dictators stay in power and those people starve.
Fabian John Maynard Keynes and Soviet Spy Harry Dexter White (working as senior U.S. Treasury department official) are the ones who saddled the world with the IMF and World Bank.
THE IMF: Mr. Budhoo’s Bombshell
WORLD BANK
The official mission for the Bank is:
Working for a world free of poverty
who has been pushing CAGW/carbon tax for all it is worth.
FP: How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
John Perkins: Economic Hit Man
Summary of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Stalin backed Trofim Lysenko who caused a catastrophe in soviet agriculture resulting in widespread crop failures and millions of deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/04/28/the-disgraceful-episode-of-lysenkoism-brings-us-global-warming-theory/#2ea0c70b7ac8
One might think that gross perversion of science can only happen under a brutal dictator such as Stalin but that is not the case:
https://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/countering-consensus-calculations/
OT but it is a little of the past that should be remembered and not forgotten.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/after-restoration-world-war-ii-vet-reunites-with-his-torpedo-boat/ar-BByHKPl?li=AAk6ORB&ocid=spartanntp
As far as I know, out of over 700 PT boats produced by the US during there are only 2 still on the water today. 100’s were burned at the end of the war in the Pacific. Most others that survived the war in the Atlantic were turned over to the navies of liberated European countries. They are labor intensive to keep up and with plywood hulls not made to last for decades.
Many have questioned if the efforts to produce and man them during WW II were worth it. IMO they certainly were and that is particularly true for the Pacific where they did fantastic work interdicting the Japanese supply efforts across the South Pacific right up to the Philippines. They did the same against the Germans and Italians in the Med. They were the perfect vessel for landing and retrieving clandestine agents on the European mainland and for escorting the vital mine sweepers as they worked to clear the lanes for amphibious operations. And though a lighter vessel than the German E-boats they proved to be more than a match for them.
As you say plywood is not the material to use if you want a ship to last. Steel is not much better.
If you want a ship to last the hull needs to be made of teak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trincomalee
If you Google “Oldest British Warship” you will get HMS Victory that is in dry dock in Portsmouth. This is a museum rather than a functional ship.
The Trincomalee was built in 1799 and was sunk soon after. A second Trincomalee was built in 1812 and remains in service to this day.
It depends on the steel. What most people don’t know is that ships hulls and superstructures during WW II were fabricated from plain hot roll steel. Hot roll steel leaves the “mill scale” on the surface of the metal. “Mill Scale” is the surface oxidization that occurs as a result of the hot rolled steel manufacturing process. The steel normally used for marine construction of hulls is Hot rolled”pickled & oiled” steel. Pickling is a process by which using mechanical means and/or an acid bath the mill scale is removed. Immediately after pickling an oil film is applied to the surface of the steel to prevent oxidation while the steel is stockpiled and transported.
This is the biggest reason why you find so few of the many of the 1,000s of ships produced during WW II still around. Without the pickling process the mill scale provides crannies for oxidation to start. This was not a problem for naval ships with huge crews who could be armed with chipping hammers and wire brushes to combat the rust. But for commercial uses where crews are kept to a minimum it is a big problem.
The reason why pickled & oiled wasn’t used during WW II was because the mills simply could not keep up with the orders despite the massive increase in output after the depression. Ship and vessel construction used more steel during the war than all other applications combined. Small wonder with Kaiser yards putting out Liberty Ships at such a prodigious rate and other yards putting out steel warships both big and small.
The “super frigate” USS Constitution launched in 1797 remains the oldest commissioned ship in the US Navy and still sails. Right now she is undergoing a total refit. She was built of higher quality woods than were generally available to the Brits by the 19th century in their home yards but most of the ship is not the original wood because of nearly countless refits. https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/restoration/
Saturday Trump rallies…
Some comments over at CTH that gave me a good laugh.
maggiemoowho says:
oldschool64 replies:
wheatietoo says:
I don’t think the delicate snowflakes want to meet the ladies on that twitter feed…
Comey/Hilderbeast has truly jumped the shark…
FBI Probing Breitbart, InfoWars In Russian Influence Investigation
Remember the Hilderbeast went after Breitbart and InfoWars before the election. Don’t forget, Fox news is owned by globalist Rupert Murdoch and his best buddy, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who also own the Wall Street Journal. — Can you say CONTROLLED OPPOSITION?
Hillary Campaign Vows To Destroy Opposition Website
Aug 18th, 2016
Seems they haven’t given up on that goal.
Thursday 2 February 2017 — Breitbart loses advertising deals with 935 companies due to grassroots campaign “The far-right news outlet is facing a backlash in recent months” —
(wwwDOT)independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breitbart-advertising-activists-campaign-petition-milo-yiannopoulos-a7559441.html
Saturday 25 February 2017 Another 100 companies pull advertising from Breitbart
Grassroots campaign encourages Twitter users to name and shame advertisers
…Audi, Visa, T Mobile and Lufthansa have joined the growing list of companies to withdraw, according to Sleeping Giants, the group behind the campaign, which claims that at least 1,250 advertisers no longer wish to be associated with it.
Campaigners have successfully encouraged Twitter users to name and shame companies who advertise on the site by posting screenshots of Breitbart ads.
A Donald Trump-hating Twitter user – who is too scared to reveal his true identity because he says he fears backlash from Trump supporters — – is attempting to destroy a leading conservative news site with a coordinated campaign attacking its advertisers and claiming it’s “racist.”
(wwwDOT)wnd.com/2016/12/47-u-s-companies-join-anti-trump-breitbart-blacklist/#XBh5Z5C835LEgEQL.99
GEE Sleeping Giant looks like Commie Black Lives Matters. So is probably Soros funded. This twitter account gives the International Corporate Globalists ‘cover’ for withdrawing ads. Don’t want the wittle Snowflakes to realize they are being had by the Corportists.
Sleeping Giants symbol:
BLACK LIVES MATTER BLACK POWER FIST (You would think they could at least do different art work…)
Remember this from the 1968 summer Olympics?
What is truly idiotic about the FBI hunting for Russians under the Breitbart and InfoWar beds is the ASSumption that NO American is smart enough to develop bots.
HEY, FBI did you miss the 4-Chan Autists capture the flag stunt??
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/weaponized-autism-stupid-shia-labeouf-livestreams-hwndu-flag-remote-tennessee-field-
Did you miss the Reddit Kids poring through the Pedesta files and senting the gems viral?
IFFfff — we manage to get a couple truly Conservative originalists Supreme Court justices I would like to see some real KICK ASS coming down on the leftist muzzling of free speech.
I wonder what happens if Chief Justice WAS blackmailed and reversed his original decision on Obummercare because of it? Especially if he resigns and owns up to being blackmailed.
Retrials After a Mistrial: Prosecutorial Misconduct
http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/trial-and-try-again-when-is-a-retrial-a-good-idea.html
There is no record of a Supreme Court Justice being impeached or of a Supreme Court retrial do to ‘undue influence.’
The FBI is looking everywhere but under their noses.
Seems the Deplorables are fighting back.
Good Article from the American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/obama_did_wiretap_trump_its_like_putting_together_a_russian_nesting_doll.html
Revise history, evidence and facts is simply what the Left do if that’s what’s needed to benefit their agenda or save their reputation. We’re seeing it right now in the UK regarding the (latest) London Westminster terror attack.
Reasonable observers would say the repeated use of vehicles as weapons, as practiced many times around Europe by followers of Islam and in London by one Khalid Masood, also an Islamic convert, may justify a hard question or two being asked of our Islamic friends. But not the political Left! Oh no, these jokers have spent the past 4 days revising this multi-murder into ‘an ordinary, random crime committed by a disturbed, lone wolf’.
Perish the very thought but it goes without saying that this mass killing was ‘Nothing To Do With Islam’.
I was going to say you couldn’t make it up but hey, that’s exactly what they did. It’s hard to believe their stupidity but I promise I’m not confecting this alibi for their own policies. They do exactly the same for climate change theory because their reputations and grants really are on the line. They’re simply professional liars.
UK Mirror: Secret text message ordered the ‘lone wolf’ to carry out London terror attack
Given UK libel/slander laws….
The Liberals are trotting out their usual tactics of yelling labels instead of dealing with the situation. (One of these ‘boys’ has an old deportation order already..)
Rockville School Superintendent Says Parents’ Response to Alleged Rape Is ‘Racist
They are claiming not rape but the sexual encounter was consensual between minors.
The idea is to claim an age difference of LESS THAN FOUR YEARS as well as claiming that the girl agreed (Statutory Rape):
I sure as heck hope the girl’s lawers demand age estimation on the men. Actually parent should demand ALL schools with ‘dreamers’ PROVE the ‘dreamers’ are under 18. If they are not then they are ILLEGALS unprotected by Obummers travesty.
Age estimation in youths and young adults. A summary of the needs for methodological research and development.
OH, and parent also should go after ALL officials who condone sheltering illegals.
Can a state/local judge, politician, law enforcement, etc. that pass and enforce “illegal sanctuary city” laws/ordinances be arrested for violate our existing federal laws when they aid and abet ILLEGAL ALIENS?
YES!
They mostly pick images that they think are cool.
Like a dimwit in a Che’ t-shirt.
They just think it’s a cool image.
They like the 1930’s agitprop stuff.
“Mid -century modern” they call it.
Too many re-runs of 50’s and 60’s TV.
Style goes ’round the world before substance gets out of bed.
Laughable historical appropriation is an old story.
There’s a giant heroic statue of Richard the Lionheart in London.
He only spoke French and hated England.