Green Eagle

In a previous post, I paid some attention to the graphics on the recent right wing terrorist's van.  I would like to focus on a single one of these graphics because it so fully displays the fictional looking glass world that Republicans live in.  Here it is: I would like to list the claims made in this illustration, and discuss them briefly.  And these are the claims made in this one illustration: (Democratic) Refusal to recognize radical Islamic terrorism  This is, of course, simply a total lie. The criticism of law enforcement As if it is an act of subversion to comment on the obvious out of control behavior of the nation's police forces. Fast & Furious  Gunrunning operation Blamed on Democrats, even though it was started by Republicans, and of course an almost nonexistent problem outside the fevered minds of rage-drunk Republicans. IRS scandal Again, it simply never existed, except as a Republican lie Race Baiting Yes, the Democrats...

Remember when violence in the runup to a national election was something that happened in Bolivia or Uganda or Pakistan?

I really don't have much to contribute to the discussion about the MAGAbomber at this point, for obvious reasons, but I thought people might like to see this.  Unfortunately, the original photo is not of very high resolution, so a lot of this is hard to read, but I opened the best picture of the bomber van in Photoshop, corrected the perspective and used the sharpen tools as well as I could.  As I say, not so successful, but here it is: Update:  Here, from the Washington Post, are much better images of all the van windows, with commentary on where these images come from.

Or specifically, those fifteen "tourists" who murdered Mr. Khashoggi.  I am labeling this a guess because I have absolutely no evidence to support my conclusion except a lifetime of experience watching people like this. Mohammed bin Salman obviously never had the slightest thought that he wouldn't get away with this brazen crime without anyone really giving a damn.  Well, things didn't work out that way; it turns out that to journalists, the death of one journalist is more important than the massacre of thousands of Yemenis or hundreds of thousands of Syrians.  So he got himself into a little bit of a jam.  What to do now? We hear that bin Salman has had eighteen people arrested in connection with this crime.  Not himself of course, but I will bet that the fifteen Saudi "tourists" in the Istanbul consulate are among the arrestees. Now, Green Eagle's big guess:  I will be stunned if it turns out that a single one of them is still alive.  I am virt...

Most of the time these days I am too sickened by what is on the right wing internet, but here's a little of the more fun stuff, with a couple of non-internet things here too, starting off with an opinion piece from the allegedly liberal Washington Post: Marc A. Theissen, Washington Post:  "Khashoggi’s disappearance is...a betrayal of President Trump. Really?  How so?  Is he disappointed he didn't have a chance to get in there with the bone saw?  No, he never does his own dirty work, he always uses some discardable sucker. "Many Democrats taking shots at the president as he tries to figure out a path forward need to check their hypocrisy. As my American Enterprise Institute colleague Danielle Pletka pointed out, “if you can’t restrain yourself from blaming Trump, spare a moment to blame [President Barack] Obama for the war in Syria" And for everything else on earth that right wingers don't like. I'm still blaming FDR for the Cleveland Indians los...

So, let me see if I have the facts right, now.  A middle aged reporter, successful enough in his career to write for the Washington Post and the Guardian, needs a piece of Saudi paperwork so he can marry his fiancee.  He is told that the paperwork is ready and can be picked up at the Saudi consulate in Ankara, Turkey, where he is currently staying.  He goes to the consulate with his fiancee, who he leaves outside, and enters to pick up this routine document. Meanwhile, fifteen Saudi men, who the Saudis describe as "tourists" fly to Ankara in a private jet apparently owned by the Saudi royal family (nice way to travel, I guess,) travelling with equipment designed to dismember a dead body (never seen that in a Brookstone next to the travel chargers, have you?)  They go immediately from the airport to the consulate.  Then, a few hours later, apparently satisfied with their experience of foreign culture, they return to the airport, carrying several black garbage b...

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