The most upsetting thing about the Charleston Church massacre is that more people know the name of the killer -- and have copied his absurd "bowl" hairstyle -- than remember the names of his victims.
When I saw his photos, I first thought he had the "Thousand-Yard Stare" of someone who has been in combat too much.
I was wrong...he has the glassy-eyed stare of someone who has imbibed too much drugs and alcohol.
Supposedly, he is not contesting the death penalty. I guess he hopes for martyrdom and that when the Bloated Yam comes to power, he will either:
1. Be pardoned and acclaimed as a national hero.
2. Die in prison and be acclaimed as a national hero.
Of course, if Biden is re-elected, he will merely die in prison. And nobody will acclaim him as a national hero. There will be no statues of this man and his haircut in the nation, and he will be buried under a number in his prison's "Boot Hill."
Losing confidence why? Republicans are often simply dumb people who when pressed to explain how Biden is “failing,” usually offer 3 wingnut buzzwords: economy, border (immigration) and war. The economy is actually fine, especially considering the global pandemic Biden inherited less than a year into it that disrupted every facet of trade and economic activity. The GOP promised us a recession the likes of which we haven’t seen since The Great Depression. Instead, jobs have flourished and the recession never really arrived. So, because gas isn’t a dollar and cigarettes are $8 a pack, they yell “economy!” Unemployment is low, Biden supports higher wages and debt forgiveness. He invested billions in infrastructure, which created jobs. What do they expect Trump to do? Send checks to voters bearing his name? Give everyone paper towels? Then the border crisis. It was a complex societal quandary during Trump’s years and remains so. The border isn’t “open,” and that idiotic claim is Exhibit A for why misinformation has made progress nearly impossible. Bad actors lie to people, and people don’t know what to believe. Biden’s only real difference in how he handles the issue is he believes in due process and isn’t cruel. And the third argument is just as dumb as the others, that Biden hasn’t managed to achieve world peace. I thought Jared was gonna fix the Middle East crisis. Oh, right, he just used his position to land $2 billion Saudi bucks. This election will be idiotic, and very likely won’t be about actual issues at all.
Those dickless coprophiliacs at the NYT are NEVAR going to let go of their narrative that King Donald the Mad is just a bit outspoken, while President Joe Biden is an old, unpopular loser presiding over a hair-on-fire BORDER CRISIS!!!!! and inflation and did we mention that he is old? So Donnie is trying to establish the divine right of king, just for himself, and demanding ALL to worship him, praise His name, and stop bothering him with evidence which proves that he was a singularly inept Chief Executive Officer, a corrupt, dictatorial rapist and dumb as a sack of hammers. So what? They think his bull-in-a-chinashop rampage through our checks and balances, his contempt for the Constitution and for anyone who denies him WHAT HE WANTS, NOW!!!! is admirable, shows his moxie. So Biden, who plays by the rules and does not fill the air around him with boasts about his own greatness that would startle Kim Jong Un, is a lesser man than that creep who goes around calling HIMSELF "your favorite President".
n.b. they also used to find Roodles the Clown and that funny little Austrian fella, Hitler by name, quite admirable, too.
The Times is now an electronic platform in need of clicks and paid subscribers and advertisers. They can’t sell stories with headlines like “Joe Biden steadily keeps America chugging along despite a global pandemic and destabilizing wars.” So, because they’d rather exist in a world with Trump as cruel dictator than be ignored by people disinterested in “another day our government doing its job,” they give every story an air of impending doom. “Trump Becomes Dictator for Life,” is a headline they welcome.
A wee bit o' my history (according to my memory which may be faulty): The confederate flag was still flying from the SC capital dome in 2000, although with a lot of controversy). The week before MLKJr Day, one of those "heritage" organizations (might have been League of the South) held a rally at the statehouse. Presumably about "heritage" but really about that flag. About 3k-6k people attended. The next week, MLKJr Day, there was a rally at the statehouse in support of removing the flag. MLKJr Day wasn't even a recognized state holiday at that point. Anyway, the MLKJr Day rally had 50k people in attendance. The result: in May of that year, MLKJr Day was declared a state holiday and the flag came down from the capitol dome (that's when it was moved to a flagpole on the grounds near some statue, I think) in July. This occurred under a Democratic governor, Jim Hodges. [My opinion - the new location looked kind of pathetic to me but I'm not Black, and it was at the foot of Main St. at the "front" of the capital building. So I get that my opinion is not relevant here.] More history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag scroll to "Display at the South Carolina State Capitol"
Meant to say that the "heritage" rally was on a Saturday, and the MLKJr Day was a day that (at many places of business) was NOT a day off. So the difference in the numbers was even more impressive.
I was unaware that Biden could declare a cease fire in another countries war. Also, too, these days I suspect that these protests are hired actors. No different than the school board bullies or the library bullies. They don't actually care about anything other than disruption and disunity. Probably organized by foreign agents.
NBC found 4 black voters who won't vote for Biden. I wonder how many they had to interview to find them? It's always men, 30ish, too. Why never women? Because we all likely bring up the herd of elephants in the room and that doesn't fit the narrative.
Gee, Stephen. Have you considered that maybe one reason 22% of Black voters have, as you put it, "lost their minds" is because the Biden campaign has really dropped the ball on the Gaza issue? To the point where it's burned off a significant part of the Dem coalition, to the point where - although everyone knows Trump would be much, much worse for Palestine - can no longer support Joe in good conscience?
A political campaign with humility would recognize these protests as feedback rather than an attack and adjust accordingly. The alternative is just looking around confused in November. I do note that none of these protests actually got hit with an old lady's crown.
So, precisely what can Biden use as weight to bear on Israel to make them do anything they don't want to do that Presidents over the last 60 years haven't had at their disposal?
Israel generally and Bibi specifically have rarely done simple things asked of them by the US. There are extreme exceptions that prove the wider point, but it's hilarious that anyone thinks Biden can just pick up the phone and say "please stop the bombing for awhile Bibi. Let's all take a breather."
If anyone thinks Biden wouldn't expend some political capital to stop the violence if he thought it had any chance of making a difference, then they are either naive or delusional.
Playing stupid games with the fate of the our nation because of a foreign policy problem that's existed forever is going to result in winning stupid prizes that will accomplish zero. You might as well just go full MAGA because there's no real reason to try and walk some nuanced thin line between Biden and PAB.
Yeah pretty ghoulish at the site of a church massacre, but sure co-opt those people to force that message. Utter clown behavior. But keep whining that I'm a conservative
Yes, it requires a FUNDAMENTAL misread of the Black community and our specific boundaries (esp. regarding the church) to think that you'd accomplish anything by heckling Biden in that venue.
It was a similar issue back in 2016 when people heckled Black Democratic leaders at the DNC. Respect is hard-fought and hard-won as a Black person in America so whenever disrespect is shown to us, that is very hard to forgive.
Lol I don't agree with anything you said. One may have been an "accident" while the other was done by a white supremacist. Again, Gaza stans beclown themselves
Thanks for clarifying that problem isn't whether the protest was "appropriate time and place", but because you don't agree with the subject of the protest at all.
Melania's mother died, and some commenter in the Post said Trump should be with her.
I said I doubted he'd much be much comfort.
By the way...
WHAR MELANIA?
The most upsetting thing about the Charleston Church massacre is that more people know the name of the killer -- and have copied his absurd "bowl" hairstyle -- than remember the names of his victims.
When I saw his photos, I first thought he had the "Thousand-Yard Stare" of someone who has been in combat too much.
I was wrong...he has the glassy-eyed stare of someone who has imbibed too much drugs and alcohol.
Supposedly, he is not contesting the death penalty. I guess he hopes for martyrdom and that when the Bloated Yam comes to power, he will either:
1. Be pardoned and acclaimed as a national hero.
2. Die in prison and be acclaimed as a national hero.
Of course, if Biden is re-elected, he will merely die in prison. And nobody will acclaim him as a national hero. There will be no statues of this man and his haircut in the nation, and he will be buried under a number in his prison's "Boot Hill."
Losing confidence why? Republicans are often simply dumb people who when pressed to explain how Biden is “failing,” usually offer 3 wingnut buzzwords: economy, border (immigration) and war. The economy is actually fine, especially considering the global pandemic Biden inherited less than a year into it that disrupted every facet of trade and economic activity. The GOP promised us a recession the likes of which we haven’t seen since The Great Depression. Instead, jobs have flourished and the recession never really arrived. So, because gas isn’t a dollar and cigarettes are $8 a pack, they yell “economy!” Unemployment is low, Biden supports higher wages and debt forgiveness. He invested billions in infrastructure, which created jobs. What do they expect Trump to do? Send checks to voters bearing his name? Give everyone paper towels? Then the border crisis. It was a complex societal quandary during Trump’s years and remains so. The border isn’t “open,” and that idiotic claim is Exhibit A for why misinformation has made progress nearly impossible. Bad actors lie to people, and people don’t know what to believe. Biden’s only real difference in how he handles the issue is he believes in due process and isn’t cruel. And the third argument is just as dumb as the others, that Biden hasn’t managed to achieve world peace. I thought Jared was gonna fix the Middle East crisis. Oh, right, he just used his position to land $2 billion Saudi bucks. This election will be idiotic, and very likely won’t be about actual issues at all.
Those dickless coprophiliacs at the NYT are NEVAR going to let go of their narrative that King Donald the Mad is just a bit outspoken, while President Joe Biden is an old, unpopular loser presiding over a hair-on-fire BORDER CRISIS!!!!! and inflation and did we mention that he is old? So Donnie is trying to establish the divine right of king, just for himself, and demanding ALL to worship him, praise His name, and stop bothering him with evidence which proves that he was a singularly inept Chief Executive Officer, a corrupt, dictatorial rapist and dumb as a sack of hammers. So what? They think his bull-in-a-chinashop rampage through our checks and balances, his contempt for the Constitution and for anyone who denies him WHAT HE WANTS, NOW!!!! is admirable, shows his moxie. So Biden, who plays by the rules and does not fill the air around him with boasts about his own greatness that would startle Kim Jong Un, is a lesser man than that creep who goes around calling HIMSELF "your favorite President".
n.b. they also used to find Roodles the Clown and that funny little Austrian fella, Hitler by name, quite admirable, too.
The New York Times needs to be required to register as an agent for the Trump election committee.
The Times is now an electronic platform in need of clicks and paid subscribers and advertisers. They can’t sell stories with headlines like “Joe Biden steadily keeps America chugging along despite a global pandemic and destabilizing wars.” So, because they’d rather exist in a world with Trump as cruel dictator than be ignored by people disinterested in “another day our government doing its job,” they give every story an air of impending doom. “Trump Becomes Dictator for Life,” is a headline they welcome.
A wee bit o' my history (according to my memory which may be faulty): The confederate flag was still flying from the SC capital dome in 2000, although with a lot of controversy). The week before MLKJr Day, one of those "heritage" organizations (might have been League of the South) held a rally at the statehouse. Presumably about "heritage" but really about that flag. About 3k-6k people attended. The next week, MLKJr Day, there was a rally at the statehouse in support of removing the flag. MLKJr Day wasn't even a recognized state holiday at that point. Anyway, the MLKJr Day rally had 50k people in attendance. The result: in May of that year, MLKJr Day was declared a state holiday and the flag came down from the capitol dome (that's when it was moved to a flagpole on the grounds near some statue, I think) in July. This occurred under a Democratic governor, Jim Hodges. [My opinion - the new location looked kind of pathetic to me but I'm not Black, and it was at the foot of Main St. at the "front" of the capital building. So I get that my opinion is not relevant here.] More history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag scroll to "Display at the South Carolina State Capitol"
Meant to say that the "heritage" rally was on a Saturday, and the MLKJr Day was a day that (at many places of business) was NOT a day off. So the difference in the numbers was even more impressive.
"He addressed Black people as Black people, and spoke to their collective concerns! That's so 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦!"
--Every Republican nitwit for at least the last 50 years
"...Nikki Haley, who keeps sticking her zip-a-dee in her doo-dah..."
Now THAT is a turn of phrase. Bravo, Steve.
"This is going to be one of those New York Times articles, isn’t it?"
Is there any other kind?
OFFS NYTimes! Will you ever stop fluffing Trump?
They can't help it, they like the taste of mushrooms.
"This weekend, he mocked dead war hero John McCain’s physical disability. (Still, again.) "
Donald Trump prefers his war heroes not to have been disabled when they are brutally beaten as prisoners by the enemy.
He prefers his war heroes to be brutally beaten by "tourists" in the Capitol.
He genuinely thinks anyone who didn't have a doctor lie about their bone spurs is a sucker and a loser.
I was unaware that Biden could declare a cease fire in another countries war. Also, too, these days I suspect that these protests are hired actors. No different than the school board bullies or the library bullies. They don't actually care about anything other than disruption and disunity. Probably organized by foreign agents.
those foreign agents are collectively known as republicans.
Democrat: "White supremacy is bad."
Republican: "WHY ARE YOU SO DIVISIVE!?"
This is LITERALLY what Nancy Mace was saying. Poe's Law is under pressure not seen since Godwin's Law was suspended in 2016.
NYTimes: Trump and Biden - tearing the country apart.
I'm Black and I'm not disaffected. Just putting that out there...
NBC found 4 black voters who won't vote for Biden. I wonder how many they had to interview to find them? It's always men, 30ish, too. Why never women? Because we all likely bring up the herd of elephants in the room and that doesn't fit the narrative.
No one from the 𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 polling outfit will contact you now.
Darn it!
"Peter Baker at the Times suggested Biden was simply trying to “rally disaffected Black supporters” "
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A politician running for office, trying to rally support among voters? Why, that's just crazy and unheard-of! No one else has done that in history!
They're going to deny this country's white nationalist neo-fascist problem until the bitter end.
Gee, Stephen. Have you considered that maybe one reason 22% of Black voters have, as you put it, "lost their minds" is because the Biden campaign has really dropped the ball on the Gaza issue? To the point where it's burned off a significant part of the Dem coalition, to the point where - although everyone knows Trump would be much, much worse for Palestine - can no longer support Joe in good conscience?
A political campaign with humility would recognize these protests as feedback rather than an attack and adjust accordingly. The alternative is just looking around confused in November. I do note that none of these protests actually got hit with an old lady's crown.
So, precisely what can Biden use as weight to bear on Israel to make them do anything they don't want to do that Presidents over the last 60 years haven't had at their disposal?
Israel generally and Bibi specifically have rarely done simple things asked of them by the US. There are extreme exceptions that prove the wider point, but it's hilarious that anyone thinks Biden can just pick up the phone and say "please stop the bombing for awhile Bibi. Let's all take a breather."
If anyone thinks Biden wouldn't expend some political capital to stop the violence if he thought it had any chance of making a difference, then they are either naive or delusional.
Playing stupid games with the fate of the our nation because of a foreign policy problem that's existed forever is going to result in winning stupid prizes that will accomplish zero. You might as well just go full MAGA because there's no real reason to try and walk some nuanced thin line between Biden and PAB.
Nah, picking that venue to whinge at the President was ghoulish and tasteless
It beclowns the ceasefire movement
"This was not the time or place for this protest" (without engaging with its content) is something I usually hear from conservatives.
I would say, not ghoulish, but absolutely appropriate given the call from Palestinian Christians in Gaza for solidarity from churches worldwide https://www.change.org/p/palestinian-christian-appeal-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza
Yeah pretty ghoulish at the site of a church massacre, but sure co-opt those people to force that message. Utter clown behavior. But keep whining that I'm a conservative
Yes, it requires a FUNDAMENTAL misread of the Black community and our specific boundaries (esp. regarding the church) to think that you'd accomplish anything by heckling Biden in that venue.
It was a similar issue back in 2016 when people heckled Black Democratic leaders at the DNC. Respect is hard-fought and hard-won as a Black person in America so whenever disrespect is shown to us, that is very hard to forgive.
A Black woman was one of the hecklers though?
And most were white. Your point, if there is one?
I'm glad we both agree that massacres in churches are bad things https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/20/we-were-baptised-here-and-we-will-die-here-gazas-oldest-church-bombed
Lol I don't agree with anything you said. One may have been an "accident" while the other was done by a white supremacist. Again, Gaza stans beclown themselves
Thanks for clarifying that problem isn't whether the protest was "appropriate time and place", but because you don't agree with the subject of the protest at all.