Good Morning! We’re still in the drizzly phase. It’ll be damp until Sunday, in the mid-50s. It’s not hang-out-oustide weather, but you won’t totally hate waiting for the bus.
Wanna start with a headline that’ll make you want to smash things? Here’s one: “Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show.” This is a real headline in the Daily Beast, followed by a real story about how she’s working with the producer of Duck Dynasty to pitch a reality TV show called The American, where contestants would ride around the country, competing in regionally-specific contests like log rolling or rocket building (??). At the end, the winner gets sworn in on the steps of the Capitol, and the losers go home with some super-American prizes like airline miles, a Starbucks gift card, or a lifetime supply of gasoline. “Along the way, we will be reminded what it means to be American—through the eyes of the people who want it most,” the producer wrote in a 35-page pitch. The Department of Homeland Security is still vetting the proposal, but they HAVEN’T. SAID. NO.
Assuming you weren’t able to keep your breakfast down during that first one, let’s have a quick palate cleanser. The Point Defiance Zoo welcomed a new Malayan tapir calf. He’s cute, he’s striped, and he hasn’t heard about our rapid decline into fascism yet. Just look at him for a little while.
Canada’s Getting Sick of Our Shit: Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) has started stacking bonus checkpoints near the Peace Arch at the Canadian border, slowing the crossing down to two and a half hours, and pissing off any remaining Canadians in British Columbia that didn’t hate us already. (At the same time, the Trump administration has launched a program to track the biometrics of every person who leaves the country by car.) Canada’s pissed, and so are the border towns that count on their tourism dollars.
Even the Supreme Court Is Skeptical: Washington AG Nick Brown was in the Supreme Court chambers yesterday morning as states, including Washington, threw down against the DOJ, while Trump’s lawyers answered hours of questions from justices about their attempt to overturn birthright citizenship. “I really think today was an unraveling of the absurdity of some of the arguments the Trump administration is making,” Brown told the Seattle Times. He said several of the justices said “pretty explicitly” that they thought the Trump administration arguments “violated 150 years of precedent.” At least someone around here remembers how laws work. The question is, will Trump care?
Seattle Judge Forgets to Be a Human, Walks Back Refugee Ruling: Earlier this month, Seattle-based US District Judge Jamal Whitehead had shown some basic decency and ordered the Trump administration to allow the 12,000 refugees into the US who had “arranged and confirmable” travel plans to enter the US before January 20, when Trump took office and suspended our refugee admissions program. But yesterday, he lost track of that humanity and walked the order back, saying the US should admit just 160 refugees who had plans to resettle in the US within two weeks of inauguration day. The rest? They have to go through a case-by-case assessment by a “special master.” Nothing screams liberty and democracy like the words “special master.”
Kilmar Is Still in El Salvador: Today, DOJ lawyers will be in court to defend their refusal to disclose details about Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation, including the diplomatic steps that officials have taken in the past few weeks to get Abrego Garcia released (none), and the information about the deal between the White House and the Salvadoran government to house deported immigrants in its notoriously dangerous jails. Marco Rubio claims that sharing any of that information “could be expected to cause significant harm to the foreign relations and national security interests of the United States.” Abrego Garcia’s lawyers pointed out the absurdity that the government’s (absolutely lack of) efforts to free him from El Salvador could be considered a state secret, especially given that they’ve plastered his face on their social media for weeks.
Talking Around It: I want to take a moment on one line in the New York Times story about Abrego Garcia: “[The Trump administration’s] public statements have raised significant questions about whether the administration is openly defying the Supreme Court’s instructions—and what, if anything, might be done about that.” Trump has openly defied instructions from the Supreme Court—an absolute violation of our system of checks and balances that maintains our experiment in democracy—and doing nothing about that is accepting that we now have a dictator. Let’s keep saying that out loud.
It’s SIFF Season: Seattle’s very own film festival kicked off last night, and it runs until May 25. This year, we returned to our tradition of attempting to watch every single SIFF film, and, as Stranger Arts Editor Emily Nokes wrote, we “are proud/exhausted to say that we made it through every single screener that was made available to us, so that you, dear reader, could be a little more informed about what rules, what sucks, what is beautiful, and what is incomprehensibly boring.” We wrote up every damn film in the lineup, and we are thrilled to report that we loved 32 of them, and there are an additional 18 that we think you absolutely shouldn’t miss. If you want a little extra fun, we made a SIFF bingo card in our new print issue, with Easter eggs from all of the films we watched. Bonus points if you can figure out which film has a scene where a cop gets hit in the head with an 18-inch used dildo.
Stop Cyber Bullying Our Libraries: This time, a cyber attack hit the Pierce County library system, and most of its services are frozen. The branches are still open, with free public internet access, and the library collections are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you have books from the library right now, don’t worry about it. They say to hold onto them for now—they don’t charge fees for late returns anyway.
What happens to kids when the US deports their parents? Good question. Since we haven’t figured out a functional system for states to body block ICE agents yet, both Oregon and Washington are pulling together teams to discuss how they should handle actual children left parentless by ICE. We’re almost four months into the Trump administration, and no one appears to have a clear plan yet.
Still shaking off the rage from that first blurb (and everything after it)? This might help. Juno Birch is coming to town on Sunday with her Probed tour. Get your butt to the Neptune and lose yourself in a little gay joy for a night.
It would be a better display of journalism to actually cite the reasons for the judge rescinding an order instead of playing the emotion card of “But yesterday, he lost track of that humanity and walked the order back…” You know, actual “reporting.”
Do you realize that judges cite the reasons for their orders, opinions, judgements, right? Or are you just trying to inflame emotions without describing the “why?” If it was a bad decision, tell us from a legal perspective “why?” But I suppose that’s not the Stranger’s M.O., is it?
It’s possible it was a bad decision from a legal perspective but how would anyone know when all you did was say “we don’t like the decision so judge is bad man!!!!”
I suppose we should just rely on the Times to get the facts.
Everyone should promote the 86-47 meme to drown out the faux outrage over James Comey’s Instagram post.
Kinda surprised that zoos have not fallen out of favor more – especially on the left. Animals in cages, expansive as they may be, outside of their habitat will always be incongruous to me. And the “scientific purposes” excuse seems overused and outdated – imho.
@2. Can you believe these snowflakes? Disgraceful shitbags.
Expanding on @1, Judge Whitehead explained* that a May 9th order from the Ninth Circuit, which he is of course bound to follow, “narrows the scope of refugees who remain protected by this Court’s preliminary injunction.” That’s why he rescinded the prior order: he is applying new binding precedent.
He even dropped a footnote complaining about having to use the term “special master.”
*https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.344495/gov.uscourts.wawd.344495.126.0.pdf
@1. Go back to Breitbart, fascist turd.
@2: Zoological gardens would probably fall out of favor with the public and the scientific community if habitat destruction would fall out of favor with capitalists. However unnatural the animals may seem in cages, many of them would look extinct if just left alone in the wild.
Perhaps I’m just at the wrong stage of grief, but I found it vaguely reassuring that Noem wasn’t pitching an elimination ceremony that involved choosing a random country’s hellhole prison for the loser, or a death-match.
…yet.
@1, yes, you should rely on the outlet who did the reporting if you want the full scoop, you fucking cheapskate
“This is a real headline in the Daily Beast, followed by a real story about how she’s working with the producer of Duck Dynasty to pitch a reality TV show called The American,”
Instead of yelling about how awful this is, why not determine if American citizenship can be legally granted by lottery, which is kind of what this would be. If it cannot, then this is DOA anyway. (You also might want to note the person to whom they’re pitching this achieved his only financial success as a television game-show host, which is definitely what this would be.)
@5, @8: It’s so far over the top to ask the Stranger’s writers to do even a tiny bit of research (e.g. as was quickly done by @4), that personal attack is warranted upon someone merely for asking? Ditto for asking the Stranger to consider maybe actual legal reasons exist for a legal ruling, rather than (as @1 noted) simply write an emotional attack, denying the judge’s very humanity?
How are we supposed to fight back against this administration’s excesses, if we don’t even know if a given act of theirs is excessive, or not?
Yeah, why can’t you guys painstakingly research everything you post on the free blog that you write in an hour every morning for a free newspaper website? Where am I supposed to get my news from? Actual news sites?!?
Yes, I think it deserves a personal insult. Journalism isn’t free but a lot of people are just coddled i guess and have no shame in complaining that the free-to-them labor is not good enough. It’s tacky.
Also, lottery is one of a handful of ways people can earn citizenship. Not sure how this knowledge changes the dystopian vulgarity of their plans to turn it into a competitive tv show, or whether its legality would have any bearing their plans to go through with it, seeing as it’s arguably the least vulgar law-breaking this administration has committed so far. But you should be able to piece together the information in the headline with everything else happening in this administration and figure it out for yourself.
@11, @12: We can have civic dialog over whether a ruling is just, and/or if it follows established law and precedent. An ill-informed, emotional appeal, about how the judge has supposedly lost his humanity, serves what purpose, exactly?
In the 20+ years I’ve been reading the slog, the morning news roundups have never contained anything more than a cursory summary of the items being reported (as well as perhaps a snarky editorial quip from the writer.) That’s the whole reason they link to more detailed reporting. In this case, there are dozens if not hundreds of free and much more detailed analyses of these cases available from people with actual law degrees, and why anyone who is genuinely interested in the issue would prefer something offered by a Stranger writer to one of these sources is beyond me.
The post contains a link to a media outlet who funded the reporting. You’re expected to click on it and support the work if you care this much about it. Instead you want to complain that people you do not even respect aren’t stealing enough of it to serve it to you for free. You come across like you care more about nursing petty grudges than fighting back against the administration.
@13: “Also, lottery is one of a handful of ways people can earn citizenship.”
You didn’t provide any support for this statement, but a quick search shows there is a lottery program for Green Cards (i.e. permanent residence, not citizenship), ironically in the name of diversity: “The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes immigrant visas available to natives of countries with low immigration rates.” The chances of this administration attacking such a program would seem very high indeed, which would seem to undermine their case for a contest-based system for citizenship.
(https://www.usa.gov/dv-lottery-eligibility)
“Not sure how this knowledge changes the dystopian vulgarity of their plans to turn it into a competitive tv show, or whether its legality would have any bearing their plans to go through with it,”
As there seems to be no program for citizenship lottery, and a lottery-based system for Green Cards implies the final judgement is random across all qualified applicants, the administration would need to provide legal basis for a contest-based program for actual citizenship. That’s two conceptual barriers to overcome, either/both of which would be a great basis for a court challenge (and to appeal to voters’ sense of fairness).
@6: Thank you for that insight – so depressing.
@4: Ha ha ha, that’s an amazing footnote about the special master! Egg on the Stranger’s face for missing that even as they were bitching about that very term!
@12: lol sorry but @4 showed that digging into this stuff just isn’t that hard. 😛 If you’re going to call yourself a journalist then you have to do some journalism, even if it takes a little more work … by which I mean the tiniest amount of googling. 😃
@16: Well, the complaint, starting with the one you attacked personally @1, starts with the emotional basis for the Stranger’s piece, instead of a factual basis. @4 went to another free, publicly-available source for the facts, and I rather doubt that commenter receives payment from Noisy Creek. (Also, I didn’t accuse anyone of “stealing,” you did.)
“Instead you want to complain that people you do not even respect…”
That sounds an awful lot like what you’re doing here.
@20, Wow nothing gets past you does it. The key difference is I’m not demanding that you tap dance for me when I insult you for being an entitled jerk, and I’m not feigning that my petty sniping is in service of some lofty goal. I’m just calling out your obnoxious behavior.
Kristi Noem = Creepy Gnome
@21: “Wow nothing gets past you does it.”
Heat, kitchen, etc.
“The key difference…”
Speaking only for myself, I fail to see any significant difference between nominally-diverse progressives agreeing with emotional statements from the Stranger, and a bunch of old white guys in MAGA hats agreeing with emotional statements from Fox News. (Except, perhaps, that they’re getting what they wanted and voted for, and you’re not.)
You’re assuming way too much and seriously overestimating the impact of this janky little blog if you think it’s on par with fox news. Speaking mostly for myself but people come here to vent and joke around, not to lavish praise on bloggers for aggregating a handful of morning news items, but feel free to keep flattering yourself by thinking you’re doing the lord’s work when you’re complaining that you’re not getting enough free labor from people whose work you don’t respect.
Well put, barth.
Thank you.
our resident genocide justifier
self-proclaimed seeker of ‘reasonable’
dialogue, denier of inconvenient factuals
twister of meanings to suit his agenda of darwinian
‘free’ aka unbridled enterprise seen here in a
desperate attempt at redeeming himself
when all’s he Wants is the Demise
of All things Progressive Inclu-
ding derr Schlogg and tS.
here’s CDizzle’s most
Excellent takedown.
you want those
URLs? look ’em
up & fuck off:
“Hey bro,
maybe YOU
should have spent
any and all of your posts
attacking Trump instead of always
ignoring the problem to attack Progressives.
Your posturing fools nobody,
and above all [you] are an accessory
to genocide from deflecting from real
actual criticism to pain[t] all Progressives
as extremists who support Hamas instead
of demand that their tax dollars are spent re-
esponsibly in line with international law.” –@CD,
Well put, Barth. Thank you, our resident genocide. Justifier. Self-proclaimed seeker of reasonable dialogue. Denier of inconvenient factuals. Twister of meanings. To suit his agenda of Darwinian free, aka unabridged. Enterprise, seen here in a desperate attempt at redeeming himself, when all he wants is the demise of all things progressive, including the Schlogg and TS. Here’s CDizzle’s most excellent takedown. You want those URLs? Look them up. And fuck off. Hey bro. Maybe you should have spent any and all of your posts attacking Trump. Instead of always ignoring the problem, to attack progressives. Your posturing fools nobody. And above all, you are an accessory to genocide from deflecting from real, actual criticism to paint. All progressive as extremists who support Hamas instead of demand that their tax dollars are spent responsibly. In line with international law, CD.
White “progressives” and liberals, especially Seattle ones, are so hilariously naive.
“The discourse is over. We have sat. We have talked. We have pondered. The discourse is over…the war has begun. You’re not talking to Nazis anymore. You’re not talking to people that want to entertain the notion of being a Nazi anymore. You don’t want to talk to people that want to circumscribe the concept of Nazism within a fucking Socratic dialectic about goddamn whether Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi. They’re fucking Nazis. It’s the bedrock of humanity. It’s so low that the worst people in the world find it, and that’s where they rally. And it’s so low we have gotten so bad, that a 1/3 of our country has gotten there! 29% of the people are fucking Nazis! Let’s face it. That’s a minority. We can beat them! We have to say, ‘I’m NOT A NAZI’ though!”
2/3 of the country doesn’t want to be political. It’s not politics to say you’re not a Nazi! It’s like taking a shit. You just do it or you explode! You die if you don’t shit and you die if you don’t say you’re not a Nazi. Fascism is a fucking cancer, it will eat your country unless your country kills it.
Here’s what happens when you get cancer: NOTHING GOOD. NOTHING. There is no way out of it. I’m your country’s doctor. You’ve got cancer. You have fascism. You are going to suffer. You are going to fight. You are going to feel pain. You are not getting out of this. We have fascism. It is happening. We’re fucking dead maybe, or maybe they’re dead. That’s about it. There’s not a continuum. It’s not a grey area. It’s not a fad. Fascism doesn’t pop up and then recede when it finds out no one’s into it. It doesn’t respond to love. It doesn’t respond to hate. It doesn’t respond to ignoring it. It doesn’t respond to timeouts. It doesn’t respond to attention. It doesn’t respond to lack of attention.
You stab it. You cut it out. You bombard it with poison or you die. And in any case, you will probably die. Don’t die talking to cancer! Don’t die hanging out with it. Don’t die arguing with it on Twitter. It’s fucking fascism. ENOUGH! Team up. Stop bitching about Bernie Sanders. I don’t care what flavor you want your democracy to be. It’s democracy versus motherfucking fascism!”
Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon sharing the wisdom we need to stop engaging with fascist apologists who want to surreptitiously and insidiously normalize this shit.
Slog is so sNaRkY
“Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon”
bElIeVe aLl wOmEn!!!
@24: “You’re assuming way too much and seriously overestimating the impact of this janky little blog if you think it’s on par with fox news.”
That was implied with the only noticeable difference between the two sets of satisfied customers, yes.
“Speaking mostly for myself but people come here to vent…”
By this point in this thread, your specifying that was really not any longer necessary, but I do agree with your statement, yes. (It’s telling what your response to @1’s “vent” was, though.)
“…but feel free to keep flattering yourself by thinking you’re doing the lord’s work…”
I don’t recall anything in the Bible about the virtue of civic dialog, but I do prefer we’d actually examine in detail what’s happening, and what we might do about it, instead of just throwing emotional reactions at it (and at anyone who questions such throwing).
“… you’re complaining that you’re not getting enough free labor…”
I performed some free labor, specifically discovering a statement which you made as fact @13 seems to be false, so I can see why you might have a problem with such labor. 😉 @4 was also able to contribute facts to the dialog, without much in the way of apparent effort, so perhaps supplying a little free labor here isn’t the outrageously offensive expectation you keep implying it to be?
“…from people whose work you don’t respect.”
I’m not seeing much appreciation from you for @4’s efforts, either, even though it ties directly into one of the Stranger’s stated complaints.
@25: “…our resident genocide justifier…”
I’m hardly alone here in questioning your use of the term, “genocide,” and we who do, make no apologies for agreeing with Bernie and AOC on use of that term. (You’re free to call those elected officials “genocide justifiers” if you like, though.)
As for the rest of your tedious, second-hand attacks, well, at least you’ve put absolutely no original research of any kind whatsoever into them, thus apparently satisfying barth’s excruciatingly narrow limits on what should appear here. 😉
Hard to believe 150 years of precedent will stand at the SCOTUS when there are judges on the court who, under oath, said Roe v Wade was settled jurisprudence and then overturned it.
Dan Harmon? The guy that got canceled after simulating the rape of a baby on Twitter/X back in 2009? Or his co-creator/friend Justin Roiland who in 2023 was canceled for texting/messaging/grooming underage kids?
Great guy to quote.
@33. Sure, discredit the guy with apocryphal pedo shit while voting for a rapist felon who was nominating Matt Gaetz to be AG, lmao. What he says matters! I’m not a Nazi, are you?
wormmy’s
the Worst kinda Troll:
insidiously droning on and on
andon and on and on and on and
he’s Still justifying the unjustifyable
clinging to any Shred of support from
Sanders, whom the Wormtongue utterly
DESPISES, but’ll never Hesitate to use him
if he thinks it’ll
Help his pro-corporate
Far right-wing narrative~shame-
less wormmy cannot Be shamed.
here he comes
back again telling
us why he’s a Victim.
so much Talent
so little Intro-
spection
Elevator Operator.
@28, Let the civil war begin.
@37. You’re one of those weirdos Alfred mentions in The Dark Knight who just wants to watch the world burn.
@15: You missed the point completely. As @1 noted, the Stranger did, in fact, go beyond the reporting it quoted from the original source. Instead of finding an explanation by doing research of any kind whatsoever (as @4 quickly demonstrated was actually very easy), the Stranger simply made up out of nothing its own explanation, “Seattle Judge Forgets to Be a Human…” which contributes in malice what it lacks in valid information.
You and barth make a big show of clutching your pearls at the very thought of the Stranger actually doing real research and reporting, and then bitterly criticize anyone who dares expects this of the Stranger, but the reality is the Stranger already does make an effort to go beyond merely quoting from other sources. In this case, it fabricated a cheap, lazy, personal attack. You, barth, and some other commenters here are apparently very happy with the Stranger making cheap, lazy, personal attacks instead of doing actual research, but that’s merely your preference. Commenters who want better can do better, as @4 nicely demonstrated.
@39
“You . . . are ap-
parently very happy
with the Stranger making
cheap, lazy, personal attacks…”
@The
Wormtongue:
NEVER One to make a
Cheap, Lazy, nor Personal attack
Now doing Standup
Comedy @tS!
get your tickets
whilst you
can
@34: “I’m not a Nazi, are you?”
You kind of are, though? 😛
https://youtu.be/L4SUv__2-gk?
@28: Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. Don’t you think the word is overused at all?
@38, “You stab it. You cut it out. You bombard it with poison or you die.”
Your metaphor. You wrote it.
If the discussion is over, what’s left? Fighting or acquiescing.
As you correctly state, one side or the other prevails. There is no middle ground.
@43. Not at all.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-law-trump-hitler-00132427
@44. I didn’t write it dumbass, it’s a quote from Dan Harmon. I prefer to use “fascist,” but using that word makes some people uncomfortable too because they refuse to face reality.
@39,
Hannah suggested the act was inhumane. @1 provided context showing that there was clear and legal justification for the act. Can you think of any other periods in history in which Americans treated people inhumanely, but some people justified such treatment on legal grounds?
@43
when it Becomes
a Badge will
you Wear
it Well?
Remember: Si-
lence is Com-
plicity, Fal-
licia.
@43 Not while Trump is trying to replace American democracy with an authoritarian state he rules as loong as he wants.
@47 — Brilliant query. gird up for
notification for an Elaborate
Edification, a justification
sans Reperations cum
Compassionation &
and topped of with
a little character
Assassination:
ol’ wormmy he Loves him
them Poly-syl-lab-ic
vile Projections &
nonsensical
Tomes.
@47: The comment @1 explicitly allowed for the possibility the decision was not a good one. That was not the objection. The objection was the headline post provided absolutely no evidence which would allow the reader to decide:
‘It’s possible it was a bad decision from a legal perspective but how would anyone know when all you did was say “we don’t like the decision so judge is bad man!!!!”‘
I’m really beginning to wonder if you and barth even understood @1’s objection before you loudly rejected it.
@35 kristofarian and @38 CDizzle: +2 For the WIN!!!!
@38 CDizzle: @29 & @30 Pos (formerly logged in as WereBackBaby until his account finally got yanked) and his equally brainless, dateless trollmate, @37 Mr Magoo sure do have a lot of raw sewage to spew for having so little to say, don’t they?
Although I would prefer to see these and all other caged animals in their natural habitats roaming freely, I love the photos of the Malaysian tapir at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo. Thank you for sharing, Hannah.
Jesus fucking CHRIST! How long before the rest of the world says ENOUGH, ALREADY! and aims all weapons at U$? There is no way in hell Canada, our neighboring country to the north with ten provinces, will ever stupidly say yes to Mu$k’s and his Mein Trumpf’s idiotic attempt to “make Canada the 51st State”. The UK and the rest of our former allies will bomb the White Trash House first before that happens.
No robbing the 99% to coddle corrupt billionaires! No insane federal cuts!!
@22 fluxum: +1 Agreed.
@25 kristofarian (and CDizzle): +2 Spot ON!!
speaking of oh, “it Ain’t
Really “genocide” till
we’re ALL in Lock-
step Agree-
ment”:
wonder what ‘the Left’ thinks?
from The Chris Hedges Report:
The New Dark Age
The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.
CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical supplies, tarps and fuel.
The trucks idle under the scorching sun
with temperatures climbing into the high 90s.
A few miles away in Gaza, dozens of men, women and children, living in crude tents or damaged buildings amid the rubble, are being butchered daily from bullets, bombs, missile strikes, tank shells, infectious diseases and that most ancient weapon of siege warfare — starvation.
One
in five people
are facing starvation
after nearly three months of
Israel’s blockade of food and humanitarian aid.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has launched a new offensive that is killing upwards of 100 people a day, has declared that nothing will impede this final assault, named Operation Gideon’s Chariots.
There will be “no way,” Israel will stop the war, he announced, even if the remaining Israeli hostages are returned. Israel is “destroying more and more houses” in Gaza.
The Palestinians “have nowhere to return.”
“[The] only inevitable outcome will be the wish of Gazans to emigrate outside of the Gaza Strip,” he told lawmakers at a leaked closed-door meeting. “But our main problem is finding countries to take them in.”
–Chris Hedges; May 17
oodles, More:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-new-dark-age
those who’d
argue, “But it’s
NOT ‘genocide’!” seek to
Distract from The Nut of the Matter:
“The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.”
THIS is what we De-
cry when we express
our Horror at $upporting
this fucking Madness, for it IS
Madness, and We’re all Complciit
Unless
We Stand Up
Against the Madness.
@52 & @54:
Thanks, auntie Gee!
@55:
‘speaking of oh, “it Ain’t
Really “genocide” till
we’re ALL in Lock-
step Agree-
ment”:’
Ber-
nie
&&
AOC
don’t ag-
ree with it!
R they yer dred-
ed Genocide En-
Ablers, 2?
Do.
Tell.
@57
missed a Spot:
“The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.”
THIS is what we De-
cry when we express
our Horror at $upporting
this fucking Madness, for it IS
Madness, and We’re all Complciit
Unless
We Stand Up
AGAINST This Madness.
‘r’ you In,
wormmy?
or ‘r’ ‘U’ w/
The Fascists?
re: @5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, (26?), 27, 29, 31, and @39 (“and then bitterly criticize anyone who dares [sik] expects this of the Stranger”) [oh, the Bitterness] [(oh, the Victimhood)]:
@51 [Oh, the Volume]:
and
Yet no
claims of
Victory of
Moral Super-
iority of the Infer-
iority of your Betters?
damn,
wormmy,
you be Slippin’.
@58, @59, etc.:
It’s fun, watching you go from obsessively serving up Bernie copypasta, to your obediently silent refusal even to admit Bernie’s very clear position against calling Gaza a “genocide.”
It’s like you’re helplessly controlled by a very large switch, and I can simply flip it whenever I want. (And, best of all, there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop me!)
Dance, puppet, dance… we’re all pointing and laughing at your strings.
so
much
“Winning”
you Are, wormmy!
so much
“winning.”
Can’t remember if it was Barth or Boatgeek talking about how Seattle Public Schools should retain property not needed for the shrinking enrollment of SPS because they can lease it commercially to support operations.
Apparently SPS can’t even do that competently.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amid-94m-deficit-sps-leasing-land-across-seattle-at-1980s-style-rates/
@46, But you chose to endorse it by posting it.
So you must agree with it.
So your call to let the civil war begin is noted.
@60
@wormmy
ad Vomitas:
“Narcissistic
Psychopaths
Never Answer to
Facts; they Always
Attack the Messenger,
Criticizer, or Accountant.”
–narceducator.bsky.social
@narceducator.bsky.social
looks like narceducator’s
got YOUR number,
Wormtongue.
so
much
‘winning.’
so Much
Whining.
pull my
string.
@63. That is incorrect, I am saying to stop engaging with fascist/Nazi apologists who want to “circumscribe in a fucking Socratic dialectic.” because they can’t be reasoned with and only want to push talking points in bad faith. It’s not worth the energy or effort to try to convince them otherwise and normalizing it is equivalent to endorsing white supremacy and authoritarianism.
“So your call to let the civil war begin is noted.”
No, you are the only one who is falsely extrapolating that message and putting it in my mouth. I endorse no civil war like your psychotic bastard ass who is always looking for some Helter Skelter electric boogaloo bullshit because you have sick fantasies of violence and murder.
@65, What is the alternative to winning a majority, or biggest plurality, to decide what happens in society, by rhetorical means?
Winning by force or threat of force.
@65: lol, it’s a thoughtless rant by a creepy dude. Maybe you all are overanalyzing? 😂
@67 – speaking of projections:
“a thoughtless rant
by a creepy dude.’
your ai’s
showing,
wormmy.
@37: And may it entirely wipe out the rabid, batshit crazy MAGA and RWNJ populations once and for all.
You’re welcome.
@60: …Said the typical MAGA troll programmed to parrot raindrop’s cue cards
until his microchip finally conks out.
@68 kristofarian: “your ai’s
showing,
wormmy.”
B-I-N-G-O!
That’s teenieweenie for ya—shooting his fool mouth off
to cover up something else obviously lacking.
B-b-but–!! Where are teenie’s new CLOTHES?
Are teenie’s fellow Mu$k’$ Mein Trumpfi$t$ organizing
a GOP loyalist nudist colony at Mal-a-Tardo headquarter$?
EWWW! Too small—throw it back!!
@67 magathumper: Maybe you’re overtrolling?
Go outside for some fresh air. It’ll do you good.
@56 kristofarian: You are most welcome. Keep on rocking the house and telling it like it is. 😉
@63: Bored much?
I’d love to see Kristi Noem strapped inside a dunk tank full of shit at a fundraiser for sheltered dogs and cats.
For $1, dunk Kristi and all proceeds go to save abused, homeless animals.