Long ago I was in my then girlfriend's car in Japan, and she or me was flicking radio stations and it landed on FEN - Far East Network, part of American Forces Radio.
And this bombastic guy comes on... ranting about women and some political thing that had happened, and a woman calls in to say "it's not that they're women - it's that they're liberal women". And he says "no it's because they're women!" and then goes off with the most poisonous Right wing horseshit I had ever heard up to that time. Never heard anything like it (the internet was in its infancy then and I wasn't online). It really sounded like he was saying women shouldn't be allowed to have a say.
That was Rush Limbaugh, I would come to find out. Spewing bile over the airwaves across the world to make US personnel posted overseas feel a bit more like they're home.
Other than Trump, Rush apparently was first in their hearts. Just fucking wow.
It's no fun casting a statue of a deposed dictator. But if I was dictator I would commission a major artist. I would take the traditional slightly younger, yet fiercely mature, more handsome, heroic and athletic version of my physique and visage. And stick to bronze for crying out loud.
The woman in this picture, equipped with the weapons and ammunition shown, was found outside a National guard base. She is apparently a big Glenn Beck fan, and believed that the base was a FEMA concentration camp. Think she's the only one out there? You just know this sort of thing is not going to end well.
And nobody hears it, is it really running for President at all? First of all, a note about my absence lately: My wife got me to sign up for an account at Threads, which is sort of like X without the assholes. I've spent a little time establishing myself there, and I have to say, I do like the relatively immediate exchange of views, but I don't mean to give up my blog- there are still so many things that can't be dealt with in a couple hundred words, so, perhaps to your dismay, I am back. So, what motivated the above question is the fact that the Sunday New York Times today had seven articles about Trump, and absolutely zero about Kamala Harris. The Republicans have a problem with Harris, in that virtually everyone who sees her likes her and immediately understands how qualified she is to be President. They have tried mightily the last month to find some way to smear her, but have been spectacularly unsuccessful- the tactics of character assassination ...
How can you look like a decrepit old geezer and an out of control two year old at the same time? I thought it might be nice to look in on wingnut world to see how they are taking yesterday's $83 million dollar Trump legal loss. You kind of know that they will decide it shouldn't affect their opinion of him in any way, but it might be helpful to see just how the Republican party has trained them to reject any fact they don't like. Not that surprisingly, a lot of the usual wingnut suspects didn't touch this loss at all, preferring to just ignore anything that interferes with their hateful daydreams, but here are a few excerpts from an article at Gateway Pundit, along with a sample of the hundreds of comments it received. Enjoy. Or not. "Trump attorney Alina Habba WENT OFF after the crooked New York City court slapped President Trump with an $83 million judgment for speaking out against the disgusting lies of a crazed woman who said he lured her into a Bergdorf Go...
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And this bombastic guy comes on... ranting about women and some political thing that had happened, and a woman calls in to say "it's not that they're women - it's that they're liberal women".
And he says "no it's because they're women!"
and then goes off with the most poisonous Right wing horseshit I had ever heard up to that time. Never heard anything like it (the internet was in its infancy then and I wasn't online). It really sounded like he was saying women shouldn't be allowed to have a say.
That was Rush Limbaugh, I would come to find out. Spewing bile over the airwaves across the world to make US personnel posted overseas feel a bit more like they're home.
It's no fun casting a statue of a deposed dictator. But if I was dictator I would commission a major artist. I would take the traditional slightly younger, yet fiercely mature, more handsome, heroic and athletic version of my physique and visage. And stick to bronze for crying out loud.