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MAGA trolls are out in full force with pitchforks in hand going after Gonzales on Twitter tonight.
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MAGA trolls are out in full force with pitchforks in hand going after Gonzales on Twitter tonight.
Gaetz is trash. He deserves to be dropped in a swamp and eaten alive by alligators (metaphorically). Still, I can't support the house launching an investigation based on going after people for getting high. It does set a bad precedent (I haven't found any cases of this happening before either).
Why metaphorically? HBO or Showtime could put that on PPV and rake in a fortune!
It's an ethics committee, their job is to ensure that the house members behave ethically, investrigating reports of drugs and sex parties is their business, the fact that it's GOP led looking at GOP member tells you a lot
Paying minors for sex while taking those drugs (and probably offering drugs to said minors also) not doing anything for you as an ethics issue?
The crazy thing is if she was somehow the republican nominee at least 80% would fall in line. Because a person who harrasses school shooting survivors and gets a train run on her after closing in her crossfit gym is a "straight shooter fighting for family values".She has been doing all she can to get it. Everything she has done from her pointless impeachment attempts and stupid relentless hearings where she asked the most.moronoc questions and watsed so much time and tax payers money. She's an absolute joke and an embarrassment..
But, Trump has just praised her and said not a lot of people know her qualities... Of course the old not a lot of people know line came out.... But you never know. He may go down the stupid route. It will be fun to watch it he does.
Oh wow.
I was trying to be subtle to not get the Caf in trouble haha
Personally, I'd like to get a point where personal drug use (and sex for that matter) is no business of an ethics committee. That's some old war on drugs conservative Christian bullshit
The tweet I replied to literally said ethics committee wants to know if Gaetz got high at parties. That is the level I oppose, no ethics committee should give two fecks about getting high parties.
By all means annihilate Gaetz for all the stuff with minors. If the tweet said what you said here I would have fully supported it. But I don't support a committee investigating drug use as the tweet said.
What is this?
During her divorce it came out that she was fecking a few dudes at her cross fit gym. I can't provide video evidence for you but I would be an eager investor in the porn parody.
Irt Gaetz and alligators, better be sure these are adult gators because he might try to feck the juvenile females.
We might be at an impasse then because no adult creature wants to put their mouth on Gaetz
Well, except this weird lady.
PIcture occasion chose b/c it's funny. I wonder if his MAGA cultists know he's a fan.
Well, except this weird lady.
PIcture occasion chose b/c it's funny. I wonder if his MAGA cultists know he's a fan.
IIRC he got a lot of smack from talking up Margot Robbie so much. As far as his wife, she probably wants her mouth on his family's millions more than him but there are always people with unexplainable taste in partners!
I think she’s from a very wealthy family??
I guess she's just a horrible human being then.
Almost certainly.
Yep. As much as we love to blame a number of men for being absolute pricks, there are also a number of women out there with zero sense of integrity or self-respect whatsoever.
She is a vile creature, on the same level as that [insert expletive here] Melania.
I mean yeah, and that became clear on 2016.
Trump, while not winning the majority of women voters in 16, did get around 40% of them, and a majority of white women, actually.
They just didn't care he admitted to committing sexual assault against women.
Women can be their own worst enemies.
She's apparently a troll from what I've seen elsewhere on Twitter.
sadly there are so many people like this now who just want to provoke someone into a reaction so they can sue, get money and get some clout
free palestine? guaranteed that person probably never once has stepped foot in that state let alone that region
Headline tomorrow: Anti-Palestine, geoncide-supporting Alec Baldwin violently assaults peaceful activist.
Just came across this. Is it really allowed from the official account of a US Governor?
Oh okay, nevermind then. I still think it’s weird, though.
she's still a normal person no different than some of these other folks who get on there having people literally watching them getting ready in the morning ....making coffee, putting on make up etc....
yes...it's all weird but it's the social media world we live in now
I mean, sure, social media is omnipresent. And politicians should of course be allowed on there.
I just think it’s wrong for them to use it to advertise when in office.
Firstly, because of the obvious conflict of interest it could potentially represent.
Secondly, because I think it demeans their position.
I mean, imagine Biden uploading a video of him driving a Chrysler with the caption “use promo code ‘Biden24’ to get 10% off”.
And then, 8 months later, someone loses a lawsuit against Chrysler for bad business practise or whatever. Regardless of validity, the optics are terrible.
I got done with work at 11 last night and then saw a statement from the NYU university president explaining that they got the NYPD to clear a camp because of "outside infiltration" and "anti-semitic chanting." On my way home I saw what remained of it - there was 3-4 police vehicles, 50 cops in dystopian all-black probably riot gear, a police drone, and 50 remaining protestors on the public pavement outside a university building. The chants that I remember were Hitlerian classics like "free Palestine", "the more you silence us the louder we shout", and "NYU your hands are red, there are 40 thousand dead." (A reference to the university's collaboration and investments in Israel - the object of these and other student protests has been university divestment from Israel).
Then came home and saw on twitter the denunciations of Columbia - the president, multiple senior members of the Democrat party, every level of state and city government. A senator compared it to a pogrom. I have a twitter mutual there who was posting frequent updates from inside the Nuremberg rally + Passover Seder collab on campus, and how the (definitionally antifa) NYPD is heroically trying to evict them with 24*7 helicopters and drones overhead. I saw a report from an NBC reporter who was inside that encampment about the lack of the Hitlerian behaviour and rehtoric, and how the big objectionable incident heard around the world actually took place outside the Columbia campus. Thankfully the published NBC News report was headlined "120 arrested at NYU protest; Columbia president urged to resign over campus ‘anarchy'", so that people were never in doubt about whom to hate. Finally I learnt that among the people arrested by NYU for being outsiders were faculty who were protecting their students within the encampment, the faculty have now released a detailed statement contradicting their university president.
I think I realised why this gaslighting gets to me so much. We have had student protests in India where the leaders were arrested and demonised nation-wide, one of them is still in jail pending trial for 5 years on a new case, another was beaten up by lawyers when he was released, and the entire media spectrum spread obvious rubbish about them and what they were saying. But in India being anti-right-wing is such a fringe position that almost everybody close to me immediately knew that those media reports aren't to be taken seriously. So there is a shared reality and reference frame to talk within.
In the US, on the other hand, liberalism and even mild leftism aren't as fringe. And the mainstream media caters to and is made up of people with these ideologies, at least to an extent. It is more difficult to dismiss them than with Indian media. So, to see them use exactly the same tactics as Chinese state media or Indian mainstream media when it comes to demonizing protestors is more infuriating, not because I expect better, but because there are other people with ostentsibly similar politics who will take this seriously.
Then came home and saw on twitter the denunciations of Columbia - the president, multiple senior members of the Democrat party, every level of state and city government. A senator compared it to a pogrom. I have a twitter mutual there who was posting frequent updates from inside the Nuremberg rally + Passover Seder collab on campus, and how the (definitionally antifa) NYPD is heroically trying to evict them with 24*7 helicopters and drones overhead. I saw a report from an NBC reporter who was inside that encampment about the lack of the Hitlerian behaviour and rehtoric, and how the big objectionable incident heard around the world actually took place outside the Columbia campus. Thankfully the published NBC News report was headlined "120 arrested at NYU protest; Columbia president urged to resign over campus ‘anarchy'", so that people were never in doubt about whom to hate. Finally I learnt that among the people arrested by NYU for being outsiders were faculty who were protecting their students within the encampment, the faculty have now released a detailed statement contradicting their university president.
I think I realised why this gaslighting gets to me so much. We have had student protests in India where the leaders were arrested and demonised nation-wide, one of them is still in jail pending trial for 5 years on a new case, another was beaten up by lawyers when he was released, and the entire media spectrum spread obvious rubbish about them and what they were saying. But in India being anti-right-wing is such a fringe position that almost everybody close to me immediately knew that those media reports aren't to be taken seriously. So there is a shared reality and reference frame to talk within.
In the US, on the other hand, liberalism and even mild leftism aren't as fringe. And the mainstream media caters to and is made up of people with these ideologies, at least to an extent. It is more difficult to dismiss them than with Indian media. So, to see them use exactly the same tactics as Chinese state media or Indian mainstream media when it comes to demonizing protestors is more infuriating, not because I expect better, but because there are other people with ostentsibly similar politics who will take this seriously.
Anyway having legitimised that nonsense, the west is welcome to legitimise this too
They've copied the language and they've already set up the same infrastructure (as groups like CAA). Enjoy!
They've copied the language and they've already set up the same infrastructure (as groups like CAA). Enjoy!
This made national news.
It was already known, when she was shopping this story around, that she is a writer for a shit-stirring outlet (Quilette). But of course they took her at face value.
It was already known, when she was shopping this story around, that she is a writer for a shit-stirring outlet (Quilette). But of course they took her at face value.
Scrolling through these pages feels like I'm looking at short cuts of a bad dystopian film.
Yep, congratulations. She had to put up with right-wingers, centrists, and AIPAC funding the campaign to unseat her.
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Are the protests massive. It is common to have this display of police forces or is amplified by the media in this occasion?