Many years back, I used to blog about a phenomenon called fascist shift. I borrowed the term from Naomi Wolf’s essential The End of America, but the concept was something I had been thinking about for many years. In brief, fascist shift asks, What… . . . → Read More: wmtc: fascist shift: donald trump in context
We spent our last day in Oregon poking around downtown Ashland, looking at scarves and jewelry and used books. We don’t shop much when we travel, but there were a few things I was looking for on this trip, and I found them all. We also picked up this v… . . . → Read More: wmtc: last day and home CNBC GOP Debate: The Sh*tshow Version Last night’s debate was a total sh*tshow. Posted by The Huffington Post on Thursday, October 29, 2015 I realized only after watching this edited video that the activity of the so-called Republican candidates’ debate was not simply the circus it seemed from the outset; it was actually a conspiracy. . . . → Read More: Scripturient: The Republican Conspiracy  Comments are closed   critical thinking, Debate, international politics, politics, Republicans, US politics, wingnuts From The Nation: Last night, Worker Center Watch – a new website dedicated to attacking labor-affiliated activist groups like OUR Walmart, Restaurant Opportunities Center, and Fast Food Forward – began sponsoring advertisements on Twitter to promote smears against the protests planned for Black Friday. In one video sponsored by the group, activists demanding a living wage and . . . → Read More: wmtc: former walmart executive leads covert smear campaign against activist workers: watch their hilariously awful video Uh oh. It looks like the Con convention has ended on a nightmare note for Stephen Harper. I warned him not inflame his Con base, and above all not to WATER themBut he didn't listen. He whipped them into a foaming frenzy with his ghastly keynote speech.And now the wingnuts are running WILD !!!! . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Day of the Wingnuts I haven’t been writing much lately, so it’s good to know loyal wmtc readers are still reading every post. Well, one is, anyway. Yes folks, a full seven years after first appearing in comments on this blog in the guise of a female fan, the freak we call Mags is still spewing his bile on . . . → Read More: wmtc: wmtc trolls are alive and as insane as ever In 2009, I wrote this brief history of trolls at wmtc. At that time, the sad man who calls himself magnolia_2000 had been reading and leaving comments on wmtc for about three years. Now it’s mid-2013, and Mags is still reading. It’s been six years. Six years!! None of his comments is ever put through moderation. . . . → Read More: wmtc: special update for long-time wmtc readers And how: h/t Digby Filed under: defence policy, US, wingnuts Tagged: Chris Hayes, Chuck Hagel, Hagel hearings, MSNBC Robert Fisk has a good piece in The Independent about the incivility (to put it mildly!) that is endemic in the comment sections of online news stories: “Anonymous trolls are as pathetic as the anonymous “sources” that contaminate the gutless journalism of the New York Times, BBC, and CNN”. Fisk wonders why newspapers that . . . → Read More: wmtc: it’s time we all starved the trolls: stop reading comments on mainstream news stories Apparently this is not a story from The Onion. From Reproductive Health Reality Check: There is a branch of anti-choice activists that will use pretty much anything as a medium for their message: newspaper ads, graphic signs displayed in front of schools, bus stop benches. You would think they would know well enough to leave . . . → Read More: wmtc: anti-choice group advertises on… hangers. yes, hangers. Wow. What an amazing night. It's hours after it ended and I still can't believe it.How Obama knocked Mitt Romney off his White Horse, and sent him back to Bain Capital riding backwards on a burro.For as even David Frum admitted "This isn&#… . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Obama and the Wailing of the Cons It must have seemed like a great idea eh? To a bigot as dumb as this one. Show how much you hate General Mills for supporting gay marriage. "We do not believe the proposed constitutional amendment is in the best interests of our employees or our state economy," the company's vice president for global . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: The Bigot, the Blowtorch, and the Flaming Cheerios Revolutionary Thought of the Day: the KFC Double Down is a plot against white America. The Negro Rioting Plan that’s been put in place is a terribly complicated strategy that has taken hundreds of thousands of Negroes to plan and thousands of years to come together. Sleeper agents, technological advances and an unwavering patience has . . . → Read More: wmtc: rtod: the how to guide for understanding rioting negroes Have you all seen this petition? The Honourable [sic] Jason Kenney asks us to sign a petition thanking none other than Jason Kenney. Macleans found it amusing, and the National Post has the Twitter talk. But it took Dan Murphy, cartoonist with The Province, to really do it justice. Please watch and share! Also, my . . . → Read More: wmtc: and the jason kenney award goes to… jason kenney Comments are closed Canadian Culture, Canadian Politics, Citizenship, Health Care, human rights, wingnuts Quick, get a dictionary and look up megalomaniac. See if it shows Stephen Harper’s picture. Then again, maybe Harper had none to spare. I missed it when Kady O’Malley and Elizabeth May broke this story, so I’m glad I saw this in the Ottawa Citizen. Emphasis mine. Harper gallery leaves MPs speechlessCitizens who really . . . → Read More: wmtc: national portrait gallery? no, it’s the national harper gallery! Combing through some old files, I found this lovely bit: a comment from “GarySTJ”, a former troll who was obsessed with me for a time. I used to delete his comments, then past them into posts so wmtc readers could have fun kicking him around. After being banned from wmtc, he started appearing at other . . . → Read More: wmtc: a trip down memory lane with wmtc Ok, so I know IOKIYAR is (and has been for ages) SOP in DC. Still, the manner in which the Village took Rosengate oh-so seriously (and turned it up TO ELEVEN) but is now suddenly backpeddling re: The Nuge’s semi-coherent call for Obama’s assassination (gosh, campaign surrogates sure do say the darndest things!*) is . . . → Read More: bastard.logic: IOKIYAR to Infinity. Comments are closed assassination, Barack Obama, Beltway, cut their heads off, Hilary Rosen, IOKIYAR, media, NRA, politics, stupid wingnut tricks, Ted Nugent, US, wingnuts, Wingnuttery, WTF?! A “conservative” speaks out about the controversial shooting of “gangsta hoodlum” Treyvon Martin. While it’s easy to dismiss the commenter given that he’s a 400 lb. redneck with a drawling southern accent, wearing denim overalls and a coonskin cap, the fact of the matter is that his opinions and convoluted rationalizations concerning the . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Different Messengers, Same Story During a campaign stop in Monroe, Louisiana, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum stopped at a shooting range for some target practice. Before aiming for his second target, a woman in the background can be heard to say, “Pretend it’s Obama,” then chuckle at her own amazing wit. Note: The comment is made at . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: “Pretend it’s Obama” Charlie Brooker’s rant about the Kony 2012 viral video, as seen on the British comedy program 10 O’Clock Live last week, including the round-table discussion that followed. Along with countless millions of others, I watched the “Kony 2012” video recently, but unlike most, was completely creeped out by it. In fact, I couldn’t even . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Charlie Brooker on “Kony 2012” Comments are closed 10 O’Clock Live, Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell, Films, humour, Jason Russell, Kony 2012, Pop Culture, wingnuts This short film by Alexandra Pelosi asks some regular folks in Mississippi why the poorest state in America is also the most conservative: . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: What’s the Matter With Mississippi? Sheesh! Who knew? Extrapolating on Rush Limbaugh’s demeaning 3-day long tirade last week against the female law student who had the audacity to testify recently before Congress about the role of contraceptives in women’s healthcare; on his nationally syndicated radio program, fellow right-wing blowhard Bryan Fischer ludicrously claims that misogyny is an almost exclusive . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Liberals Hate Women! Comments are closed American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, Islamists, Liberals, Lunatics, Right-Wing Haters, Right-Wing Radio, wingnuts Comedian Rush Limbaugh – who is, it seems these days, the virtual leader of the increasingly deranged Republican Party – did the Democrats a huge favour the other day with his offensive remarks directed at “college co-ed” (i.e., third-year law student) Susan Fluke. Whether deliberate or not, Limbaugh’s deeply misogynistic tirade analogizing the issue . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Is That All There Is? Comments are closed birth control, contraception, Peggy Lee, reproductive rights, Right-Wing Haters, rush limbaugh, Susan Fluke, US politics, War on Women, wingnuts El Rushbo pays tribute to Andrew (‘Stop Raping People!”) Brietbart, the muckraking right-wing activist and provocative web entrepreneur who abruptly died today at the age of 43. Of course, Libmbaugh’s somber eulogy turns out to be really nothing more than a convenient vehicle to attack supposedly hate-filled “leftists” (based on his nut-picking of . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Brietbart Dead of “Natural Causes” When asked at the end of this week’s GOP debate to describe themselves in a single word, Ron Paul chose “consistent” as being the most appropriate moniker. But here Lawrence O’Donnell points out a glaring inconsistency in the old coot’s supposedly “libertarian” philosophy when it comes the matter of sex: Of course, this is . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Ron Paul: “Fake” Libertarian? | ||
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