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Tag: politics

  • #StableGenuis trends on Twitterland

    #StableGenuis trends on Twitterland

    FROM DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF.

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    AND WITH THAT!? #StableGenuis trends on Twitter as the masses mock the leader..

  • ROY MOORE ACCUSER’S HOME BURNS!

    ROY MOORE ACCUSER’S HOME BURNS!

    DEVELOPING..

    Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson lost her home Wednesday in a fire that is now under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force.

     Tina Johnson, who first came to public notice for accusing Senate candidate Roy Moore of grabbing her in his office in the early 1990s, said her home on Lake Mary Louise Road in Gadsden caught fire Tuesday morning.

    After neighbors and some utility workers called 911 shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Lookout Mountain Fire Department responded to the scene. By the time the flames were extinguished, Johnson and her family had lost everything they owned.

    MORE.. 

  • 2018 goes 1984: The creepy factor

    2018 goes 1984: The creepy factor

    At the January 4 2018 White House Sarah Huckabee Sanders press briefing, the floor was turned immediately over to the President. Trump was beamed onto giant television screens next to Sanders ..he spoke about corporations’ patriotism in giving bonuses to employees after the 2017 tax cuts were passed late December..

    The moment was surprisingly surreal, with Sanders expressionless face suddenly becoming seemingly motivated by the creepiness of it. Her lips turned down, her eyes gleamed with awareness… the press was quiet as they watched the President on the screens. 
    The moment was captured in this photo.. 

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9307528a) Sarah Huckabee Sanders White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds a news conference at the White House, Washington, USA – 04 Jan 2018 White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stands beside monitors showing US President Donald J. Trump delivering a statement on the economy, at the beginning of a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 04 January 2018.

    The President has been faced with a horrid week.. A book out called FIRE AND FURY has solidified that.. claims in the book have shaken the White House.. too voluminous to mention, but including tales that Melania wept election night, that Trump tries to bed friends’ wives, that most in the inner circle believe Trump is not capable of putting sentences together, and that they had three television sets installed in the White House … and that he retires to his bedroom around 6:30 to eat cheeseburgers and watch the TVs while perusing his Twitter account on this phone.  Insanity ..
    Add to the mix? Giant screens of the President speaking to the masses.
    Very 1984.
  • BALDWIN MELTDOWN ON TWITTER! Polanski meltdown! insanity over abuse allegations! Baldwins bids ‘Au revoir’

    BALDWIN MELTDOWN ON TWITTER! Polanski meltdown! insanity over abuse allegations! Baldwins bids ‘Au revoir’


    The DAILY BEAST sums up what is occurring on Twitter right now like this:


    First, McGowan tweeted out a link to the video interview with the message, “Told you everyone knew. No one cared. Men ran the show. Women toed the line. No more. #ROSEARMY.” Then, Asia Argento, who also accused Weinstein of raping her, tweeted a link to the video with her own, more pointed message: “Hey @AlecBaldwin you’re either a complete moron or providing cover for your pals and saving your rep. Maybe all three.” This missive caused Baldwin to fire back, tweeting, “If you paint every man w the same brush, you’re gonna run out of paint or men @AsiaArgento.”

    The argument continued with others involved..

    Baldwin struck back:

    First, McGowan tweeted out a link to the video interview with the message, “Told you everyone knew. No one cared. Men ran the show. Women toed the line. No more. #ROSEARMY.” Then, Asia Argento, who also accused Weinstein of raping her, tweeted a link to the video with her own, more pointed message: “Hey @AlecBaldwin you’re either a complete moron or providing cover for your pals and saving your rep. Maybe all three.” This missive caused Baldwin to fire back, tweeting, “If you paint every man w the same brush, you’re gonna run out of paint or men @AsiaArgento.”

    Rita Panahi, an Iranian-Australian columnist for the Herald Sun, tweeted a screenshot of the Argento-Baldwin exchange with the message: “But it was AFTER Polanski had fled justice AFTER drugging & anally raping a child. Get in the bin, @AlecBaldwin. Stay strong, @AsiaArgento.”..

    And the highg school-ish exchange escalated.. continued.. Tweetstorms arose.

    Then Baldwin said bye:

    Baldwin responded to the online backlash by tweeting out a six-part apology, writing, “it is w some degree of sadness that I will suspend posting on this a TWITTER account for a period of and in the current climate…It was never my intention, in my public statements, to ‘blame the victim’ in the many sexual assault cases that have emerged recently…I simply posited that the settlement of such cases certainly delayed justice, though I am fully aware that those settlements were entered into w understanding that settlement is wise, intimidated into believing so. My heart goes out to all such victims. My goal is to do better in all things related to gender equality. Au revoir.”

  • A very merry Trump Halloween

    A very merry Trump Halloween

    Pictured here is a very real photograph of the White House during their Halloween event yesterday–the first Halloween of the Trump administration..
    While politics may not necessarily be the forte of this website, we do occasionally mention it because of how so often the paranormal coincides with the politics.. As Clyde Lewis coined, the ‘para-political.’ 
    So when I saw this image of the White House adorned with horrific and ghastly spiders and cobwebs, it was interesting to note how the same day–Halloween time in D.C.–Robert Mueller decided to file the first charges against officials with the Trump Administration concerning the Russian/2016 election connection.
    The White House could not have looked better for the occasion….
  • A President Tweets after a storm. And causes a Category 5 storm of Tweets.

    A President Tweets after a storm. And causes a Category 5 storm of Tweets.

    In an 11-hour period beginning at 7:19 a.m. and ending at 6:46 p.m. Saturday, the President of the United States ripped off 18 — yes, 18! — tweets dealing with the dire situation in Puerto Rico following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria.

    None of them were good.. it has created a monster of a problem for the President..
    In the aftermath of a storm that ground Puerto Rico to a halt and turned off power for just about 100% of the people, the leader of the free world decided to blame Puerto Rico.. 
    He attacked San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz.. 
    “They want everything to be done for them” he Tweeted at one point.. 
    Then he slammed news organizations for being critical of him not responding to the crisis in Puerto Rico..
    The entire fight became the focal point of the cold opening of last night’s SNL ..

    The season premiere of Saturday Night Live was hosted by Ryan Gosling with Jay-Z as the musical guest.

    (by the way.. SNL is stale stale stale stale… stale)

    18 tweets in 11 hours..
    It has not even been one full year yet since the election.. only 9 months of the presidency.. And the year’s tension is at the highest level yet. Football is not a diversion but just another reason to get angry..
    Storms? Weather? All political.
    This is where we are now..
    THIS IS THE TWEETED VERSION OF THE PRESIDENCY.
  • NFL water cooler talk isn’t cool today

    NFL water cooler talk isn’t cool today

    The numbers are in..

    In metered market numbers, the primetime match-up between the 27-10 winning Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders snared an 11.6/20.

    The worst SNF has performed this season so far, that’s an 8% dip from the early numbers of last week’s Atlanta Falcon’s 34-23 win over the Green Bay Packers. Gaining cheers and boos from fans at FedEx Field in Maryland last night, the third week of SNF for the 2017-2018 season declined 10% from early numbers of the comparable game of last year on September 25, 2016.

    The outcome to the weekend is what I expected. Facebook and Twitter are filled with memes and jersey burnings, controversy and “I stand” logos overtop of people’s profile photos… I have literally witnessed “virtual” online friendships ending this morning due to the kneeling controversy …

    Someone I know wrote a long post about how she will stay off of Facebook due to the debate. Perhaps I will do the same, only lurking from a safe distance.

    This whole debacle about kneeling during the National Anthem has reminded me a little of the ‘freedom fries’ battle of the early 2000s. Back then France decided it would not support the United States war in Iraq. The Capitol cafeteria renamed French fries ‘freedom fries’ in a strange Orwellian protest. Some others in the nation followed with the same name…  

    It was quite the hot topic then.

    Cue now: 3 million without power in Puerto Rico, Houston still devasted, fires along the West Coast, Florida with many locations recovering, and a new hurricane looming in the Atlantic.. that coupled with some of the weirdest and most bizarre weather in a long time. North Korea threatening to shoot down a US plane.  Terrorist threats being made against soft targets… Crises abound.

    And we? In America? We are busy. People are kneeling during a song.

    We will get to those issues later…..

  • Sunday night knees

    Sunday night knees

    Suddenly America’s past time has divided the nation–or the President talking about it..

    This past week, Donald Trump loudly stated that players who take needs during national anthems should be FIIIIIIRRREEEDDDD!…..

    And this weekend? Many NFL players locked arms or kneeled in solidarity against the President, causing a new national fervor about the biggest game in the United States..

    I wrote before that I suspected some odd conspiracy–ratings were down and now … most likely up.

    This is how the AFP reports it:

    A wave of protests swept across the National Football League on Sunday as President Donald Trump escalated his feud with players who kneel during the US national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice.
    Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism after comments on Friday in which he described NFL players who chose to take a knee through renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as “sons of bitches” who should be fired.
    The US leader doubled down on those remarks early Sunday, urging fans to boycott the NFL as long as the protests continued.
    “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
    Yet players throughout America’s most popular sport took a defiant stance on Sunday, in the largest such demonstration since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the protests in 2016.

    Trump was forced back into the issue tonight (and he LOVED every minute of it) …

    Trump, speaking to reporters on a New Jersey tarmac before boarding Air Force One, was asked for a reaction to the statement by New England Patriots owner (and Trump supporter) Robert Kraft about being “disappointed” by Trump’s recent comments.

    “I like Bob very much, we’re friends — he gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago, right? — so he’s a good friend of mine, and I want him to do what he wants to do, but we have a great country, we have great people representing our country, especially our soldiers, our first responders, and they should be treated with respect, and when you get on your knee and you don’t respect the American flag or the anthem, that’s not being treated with respect.”

    Asked a reporter: “Are you inflaming racial tensions, sir?”

    “This has nothing to do with race,” Trump said. “I never said anything about race. This has nothing to do with race or anything else. This has to do with respect for our country and respect for our flag.”

    The new ‘freedom fries’ of Monday water cooler chat will center around Donald Trump and the new national sensation.
    Meanwhile? …. lots of tiny players and older ones too have brains rattling around their heads and futures filled with head injuries. 
    But ratings were down.
    So to Twitter we went.
  • ICE CUBE TO APPEAR ON ‘REAL TIME’

    ICE CUBE TO APPEAR ON ‘REAL TIME’

    The rapper was already scheduled to appear on the June 9 episode of HBO’s “Real Talk With Bill Maher” and has no intention of backing out now.

    “Ice Cube will still appear on Bill Maher this Friday as scheduled to talk about the release of ‘Death Certificate: 25th Anniversary edition,’ an album that was recorded in the wake of the Rodney King beating in 1991, which sadly, speaks to many of the same race issues that we as a society are still dealing with today,” a representative for Ice Cube told The Times in a statement Tuesday morning.

  • Finding your best defense with someone else’s worst offense..

    Finding your best defense with someone else’s worst offense..

    Early in the week Kathy Griffin thought it would be humorous to be showcased in a photo shoot raising the severed head of Donald Trump.

    Later in the week.. Bill Maher uttered the N word during his HBO REAL TIME live broadcast..

    Anger online!

    Twitter repudiates!

    This morning, Bill Maher is facing widespread calls that he should be fired for his joke!

    Maher was talking to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) about the senator’s book, “The Vanishing American Adult,” which explores why today’s young people are unable to survive in a competitive global economy. The conversation drifted to Halloween and how dressing up is no longer just a children’s tradition. Sasse said adults don’t do that quite as much in his state because it’s frowned upon. In response, Maher said he should visit Nebraska more.

    “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us,” Sasse said.

    “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house n—–,” Maher said, raising both of his hands up. “No it’s — it’s a joke.”

    At this time, there has not been a public response from Bill Maher. It will undoubtedly come.

    But we did have a response from Griffin, who late in the week blamed Donald Trump and family for attempting to take her career down.

    At this time, people including Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and Jack Posobiec, a Trump supporter who writes for the right-wing site Rebel Media, have called for Maher to be fired. #FireBillMaher is circulating on Twitter.

    The rest.. rest.. the rest may be history.

    This has been an awful year for fake outrage over things that don’t matter. Like when the Late Show host Colbert had a nasty joke about Trump.. Or when people wanted Sean Hannity fired for being political opposed to them.. or when Steve Martin had to say sorry for calling Carrie Fisher beautiful shortly after she passed away.

    This is tiring.. This is getting to be a drag on freedom of speech. And unfortunately, as the whole mess of 2017 continues, this nonsensical tripe will most likely keep occurring.

    Should Kathy Griffin say sorry? Sure if she wants to. Same for Bill Maher. But should they be fired? ….I suppose the private companies who employ them can only decide after reading the tea leaves.. But my God.. my God.. jokes are over. In the new age, everyone can take offense at what they choose..demand repercussions for their agony.. and then at the end of the day still demand the termination of whatever person said something to offend them.

    Conservative.. Red states.

    Blue state liberals.. All the same.

    In the end, the middle of the roaders–all of us–have been forced into a giant mess of madness.

    Welcome to the modern age. Pop culture may have to slice and dice the MIC in favor of the duct tape. Over the mouth. Not a word to be uttered in the 21st century breakdown.