- Did anybody here think the MSM really meant all those editorials about how they were going to be more politically unbiased from now on? Here’s USA Today defining the entire alt-right movement as “espousing white nationalism.” And here’s Alan Dershowitz having to point out that Steve Bannon is no anti-Semite. I’m not fond of either the alt-right or Bannon. But get real, media. Get real. Your life depends on it.
- And they ask — they seriously ask! — “Will America Now Have a Pravda?” No, you willfully blind jackasses: America has had a Pravda and an Izvestia for many years now.
- And all those dictatorial powers the left loved so much when Obama wielded them? Yeah, not so smug about the imperial presidency now, are you?
- The 10 Commandments of the Second Amendment.
- AT&T: still trying to join the gov in ruling the world. Okay, only monitoring every, single drone ever launched.
- Uh oh. There’s now a simple USB device that can break into your password-locked computer and install a backdoor. Here’s more detail on this new thing called Poison Trap.
- Let me get this straight. It’s evil and wicked and hurtful and unsafe and non-inclusive to quote Thomas Jefferson. Because, you know, he didn’t behave like a twenty-first century man; therefore bad, evil, terrible, and down the memory hole with him. But it’s a-okay to take a nice, fat paycheck from a university he founded.
- The big New Zealand quake featured those mysterious “earthquake lights,” which scientists have previously not taken seriously (partly because their appearance is so inconsistent). Belatedly, scientists are noticing and asking questions.
- A pollster said he’d eat a bug if Trump won …
- In the nooz you can use department, here’s a Raspberry Pi-based weather station you (and maybe you and your kids) can build at home. And a solar dehydrator, too. (H/T MJ)
I read Alan Dershowitz’s article defending Steve Bannon, yesterday. It’s somewhat reassuring, but I’m still no fan of Bannon and I don’t like the direction he took Breitbart into.
Completely agreed, rv. What I’m against is the media continuing to characterize everybody it disagrees with as racist, anti-Semitic, hate-filled, violent, etc.
Whatever else Bannon is, calling him an anti-Semite is absurd — particularly when some of the people doing the mud-slinging (or at least many of their close friends) have recently been comparing Jews, at least Israeli Jews, to Nazis.
Maybe it is just me but I just naturally assumed that the plethora of “we well try to get it right from now on” articals was just cover. That what they really mean is that we are going to try and convince you that now, when we say that you are in the basket of deplorables, it is because you really deserve to be you dumb WASP.
That the left is now upset that the next guy that’s not one of them can do what their guy is doing is just poetic justice. Where were they when we were trying to say that all the special powers are just plan bad regardless of who is in control.
“Will America have a Pravda?” My god. Does this person suffer from a complete lack of self- and historical knowledge, or does he just assume everyone else has completely bought the bullshit and believes the press has no institutional bias?
If it’s that second thing, it’s really extremely insulting. But recent events suggest there is no basis for the writer to assume the second thing.
Methinks Jefferson would have this to say to President Sullivan about the free speech deniers & tyrants of UVA because he was a better (&smarter) person than they could ever hope to be;
“I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.”
I’m definitely rooting for the Hokies at the turkey bowl now!
Speaking of the complicit media trying to put one over on us … remember that adorable “chance encounter” between some random woman and Bill and Hillary on a hiking trail after the election? The one that showed Hillary at peace with her loss? The one that showed a rather suspicious lack of Secret Service presence/intervention?
Setup, of course. Total Pravda theater. The woman was a Hillary plant.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/was-womans-supposedly-chance-encounter-with-smiling-clinton-a-staged-event/
Huh. I had simply assumed from the start that the “chance encounter” was staged… what with SS details scouring the area around Clintons of the possibility of unfortunate chance encounters.
It’s pathological with both of the Clintons. They have to fake everything. They haven’t figured out that what worked for them pre-internet won’t fly now.
Video by Jared Taylor, representative of the alt-right, explaining the ideology behind the movement and disavows any relationship with the alt-right with either Steve Bannon or Donald Trump:
https://youtu.be/hhnDm7OxuU4
I do believe that there is way too much generalization going on about just about every group, because some people in a group feels one way does not always mean all the people in that group are like that (with the exception of members of the Gestapo, don’t ya know):
Here’s one man’s experience with some members of the alt right;
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4396/responding-alt-right-are-they-bigots-or-just-ben-shapiro
And Bannon when speaking of his media empire did say to a reporter at the RNC Convention “We’re the platform for the alt-right,” and as far as I know he has never denied that but again that does not necessary mean that he agrees with everybody who calls themselves alt right.
Good article, Comrade X. I’ve had a few brushes with alt-right types online and as Ben Shapiro described them, they are trolls who hide behind their anonymity. I’ve had extensive dealings with leftist trolls as well and to be honest, trolls are trolls, they’re birds of a feather.
Off on a complete tangent here.
I get protonmail notices of new posts by Kit Perez for the Patrick Henry Society, but over the last two or three days, I cannot access the site at all.
Wondering what weird net shenanigans is going on here, or if there is something else (tinfoil hat stuff) going on.
I saw the NYT mea culpa about their biased reporting, called out by one of their own reporters. Idk, biased liberal paper is what they are. I also can’t listen to NPR anymore while driving, with one of their top reporters shocked and puzzled when a caller described them as MSM.
I am totally embarrassed, despite years of cynicism and prepping, that I glossed over the Clinton encounter without instantly knowing it was a fraud. They’re the Clintons! Someone described them as unable to feel embarrassed, great definition of true narcissistic sociopaths. Unfortunately, a good description of the new President also.
A religious Jew who works with Bannon says he wishes him Shabbat Shalom when he leaves every Friday and has no qualms about his never working Saturdays. I don’t know much about the altright but looks like I won’t learn anything accurate about it from MSM yet again.
Coyote Hubbard — See today’s later post. You can remove your tinfoil hat now.
“A religious Jew who works with Bannon says he wishes him Shabbat Shalom when he leaves every Friday and has no qualms about his never working Saturdays. I don’t know much about the altright but looks like I won’t learn anything accurate about it from MSM yet again.”
I have no inside source on Bannon. But he appears to be more of a friend to Jews than many of the leftists now accusing him of being a Jew hater. “Anti-Semitism” just seems to be one of the new catch-all terms for smearing people on the right.
I have no doubt a lot of alt-right people are anti-Jewish. I’ve seen them on Gab.ai (and have “muted” them). But as rochester_veteran says, there are trolls on the left and trolls on the right and the thing they have in common is that they’re … TROLLS. But alas, the MSM turns its eye away from trolls on the left and considers trolls on the right to be the entirety of the alt-right movement.
“And Bannon when speaking of his media empire did say to a reporter at the RNC Convention “We’re the platform for the alt-right,” and as far as I know he has never denied that but again that does not necessary mean that he agrees with everybody who calls themselves alt right.”
Bingo. It’s like with people calling themselves III%ers. A huge portion of them are assholes who bear no resemblance to the kind of people Mike Vanderboegh described when he invented the concept. Are there jerks, racists, white nationalists, and various obnoxious or crazy people who identify as alt-right? Heck, yeah. Are there perfectly decent people who are simply fed up? Yeah, and a lot more of them than the other kind. Is Breitbart a platform for the alt-right? Yep. But that doesn’t mean it’s a platform for racist trolls; that’s merely the MSM view of the alt-right.
And I say this as somebody who has no particular sympathy for any “right wing” of any sort. The alt-right is being stereotyped very unfairly.
StevefromMA: I am totally embarrassed, despite years of cynicism and prepping, that I glossed over the Clinton encounter without instantly knowing it was a fraud.
There’s a really simple test:
1. When was the last time an extemporaneous situation made a Clinton look good?
2. Could this be the first?
Article in my local rag on my congresscritter, Louise Slaughter (defying her mother’s advice that “if you can’t say anything good about somebody, don’t say anything at all” 🙂 ), condemning Bannon because he’s a anti-Semitic, xenophobic, racist:
Slaughter joins call to rescind Bannon appointment
I stirred the pot in the comments! 🙂
WRT Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News)
When one considers the actual output of ‘ newspapers’ such as the WaPo, the HuffPo, and The NYT, I am reminded of the old Russian joke-
There is no isvestia in Pravda, or any pravda in Isvestia.
That has been pravda for a long time, and that is what happens when your culture gets subverted by Marxists……
Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/snoopers-charter-expansive-new-spying-powers-becomes-law/