Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

robindch

silverharp wrote: »

but saying hed like his eggs white cant be interpreted any other way.

Yes, it's quite a good dog-whistle, isn't it?

silverharp wrote: »

I don't know much about Gab, but if he is defending it its on free speech terms I'd imagine so not sure there is much there.

As above, gab seems to be yet another website providing anti-semitic, white supremacist, racist hatred.

At a certain point, one does need to ask at what point the concept of responsibility enters the free-speech discussion.

silverharp wrote: »

Out of curiosity do you think Dr. Suess is racist?

No. Do you?

robindch

In a change from our usual programming, Rodriguez Aguilera, a candidate for Congress in Florida claims to have been abducted by aliens when she was seven years old and has communicated with them telepathically on various occasions since then.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html

Ms Aguilera is a member of the Republican Party.

Pherekydes

robindch wrote: »

In a change from our usual programming, Rodriguez Aguilera, a candidate for Congress in Florida claims to have been abducted by aliens when she was seven years old and has communicated with them telepathically on various occasions since then.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html

Ms Aguilera is a member of the Republican Party.

How can we be sure the aliens repatriated her? She might be an impostor.

smokingman

Pherekydes wrote: »

How can we be sure the aliens repatriated her? She might be an impostor.

....or a Skrull!

robindch

Pherekydes wrote: »

How can we be sure the aliens repatriated her? She might be an impostor.

Hardly matters, as either way, she should fit right in with the rest of the space cadets in the Republican Party.

MrPudding

robindch wrote: »

In a change from our usual programming, Rodriguez Aguilera, a candidate for Congress in Florida claims to have been abducted by aliens when she was seven years old and has communicated with them telepathically on various occasions since then.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html

Ms Aguilera is a member of the Republican Party.

I hope it wasn’t an illegal alien. Trump probably thinks she means Mexicans.

MrP

recedite

robindch wrote: »

In a change from our usual programming...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html

I can explain this....

Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old...

As most will already be aware, aliens often shapeshift to avoid causing alarm to people when visiting other planets. These aliens may have decided to appear in the form of Baywatch characters when visiting Miami beach, in order to blend in with the locals.

Among the things she said she found out from the aliens: There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Due to engine noise from the alien craft, she must have misheard this conversation. The aliens were actually discussing Neandertal skulls found in a cave in Gibraltar. This in the context of human evolution and the Neandertals that became extinct 30,000 years ago. Another cave discovered by a Munsterman version of Captain Hornblower, who is possibly now one of the crew members on board the alien vessel.

Peregrinus

And now we have a blond, big-bodied being in the White House!

QED, I think.

robindch

#45 takes a break from Twitter to tell everybody exactly how smart he is.

Hint - he's smarter than all of you lot.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/10/times-trump-bragged-about-intelligence-orig-alee.cnn

Peregrinus

He's not just smart, but humble with it. Though, of course, we're not smart enough to spot that, which means he has to overcome his natural humility to tell us how humble he is, and how we are unable to see it.

smacl

A clean brexit for Teresa May still looking very much like a search for the Holy Grail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvEp_B5Kq8

robindch

robindch wrote: »

Roy Moore, creationist, homophobe, hardline christian fundamentalist, Obama-birther, ten-commandment fetishist, and resident and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the great state of Alabama, is the unexpected Republican candidate for Senate after the defeat of Luther Strange, the choice of #45 and the rest of the Washington GOP elite.

Mr Moore's campaign has run into a spot of bother since a number of women have come out and accused him of assault and attempted rape. Some of the women were underage at the time but only a few senior party members have asked him to step aside. Mr Moore has said that he will not.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41973952

robindch

A press conference with Mr Moore yesterday ends in disorder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_5nczoyZo4

Hotblack Desiato

Tossers.

robindch

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Tossers.

If only they had been, there probably wouldn't have been any of this trouble.

robindch

The Washington Post reports on a sting attempt related to Roy Moore. Seems that the people involved didn't expect the WaPo to do any fact checking.

In Russia, this kind of attempted sting is a common state-level tactic called провокатция - provocation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html

robindch

^^^ Seems the attempt to infiltrate the WaPo went back months and may have included attempts to infiltrate other fact-based media outlets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/womans-effort-to-infiltrate-the-washington-post-dates-back-months/2017/11/29/ce95e01a-d51e-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html

Elswhere, opposition to, and support of, Roy Moore rumbles on - with one brave, and hopefully fireproof, billboard company finally agreeing to put up the following:

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/936012748944805893/photo/1

robindch

#45 says that Moore's the right man for the job. The GOP leadership, and his daughter, are unconvinced:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/politics/roy-moore-donald-trump.html

Delirium

https://twitter.com/WinkelerComics/status/938065283130036224

PopePalpatine

I honestly thought that was from a parody site like The Onion...or a sermon from one of Bannon's minions.

robindch

In a welcome defeat for Roy Moore and #45, whose GOP now has a majority of just one seat in the US Senate, exit polls have indicated that 80% of white christians voted for a man against whom plausible allegations of child molestation were made. Also, Moore picked up the votes of approximately 7% of black men and no less than 2% of black women.

More goodies here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.a6d685584bb7

Hotblack Desiato

I am reminded of the old music hall number...


#Don't F**k any more, Mr Moore#

jooksavage

robindch wrote: »

In a welcome defeat for Roy Moore and #45, whose GOP now has a majority of just one seat in the US Senate, exit polls have indicated that 80% of white christians voted for a man against whom plausible allegations of child molestation were made. Also, Moore picked up the votes of approximately 7% of black men and no less than 2% of black women.

More goodies here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.a6d685584bb7

I found it a bit odd that 7% of black men voted for Moore. I know that's less than 1 in 15 but still.... nearly 1 in 15 voted for a guy who harks back fondly to the slavery days...

PopePalpatine

Maybe they hate the LGBT and/or abortions more than they hate slavery and the Jim Crow laws? After all, under the 2-party system such dichotomies are bound to pop up.

Qs

jooksavage wrote: »

I found it a bit odd that 7% of black men voted for Moore. I know that's less than 1 in 15 but still.... nearly 1 in 15 voted for a guy who harks back fondly to the slavery days...

There was a stat from one of the polls with a crazy high number of people who voted for Moore and believe he's a child molester too. Tribalism in politics is a strange thing.

robindch

Qs wrote: »

Tribalism in politics is a strange thing.

Is it tribalism in the sense of unwavering support for a group regardless of the actions of the people who make up the group?

Or is it unwavering support for the policies/social understandings which the group claims to support? Seems more the latter for me - the main public policies being no abortion, random anti-LGBT policies, gun rights and to a much lesser extent, fiscal conservatism (despite the current tax bill constituting a giveaway to top taxpayers and fiscally irresponsible elsewhere).

In other news, tremulous GOP snowflakes have apparently banned seven words from appearing in any budget-related documents emanating from the Center for Disease Control. The words include "vulnerable", "entitlement", "diversity", "transgender", "fetus", "evidence-based" and "science-based":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html

The same instruction apparently recommends that "evidence-based" and "science-based" are replaced with text similar to the idea that "The CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes".

smacl

Was reading the above this morning, it appears that the lunatics have finally take over the asylum.

Peregrinus

"In consideration with community standards and wishes" is not even English. The administration is literally directing the CDC to issue gibberish.

robindch

Billy Graham, one of the first + most prominent televangelists, as well as public friend of many US presidents, has died, aged 99:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43142263

Unlike so many of the men who followed him into the business of the mass-marketing of hardline religion, Graham managed to avoid any career-limiting scandals.

Hotblack Desiato

From his NYT obit:

"The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, with more than 1,000 employees around the world, continues to organise crusades. ... A rapid response team deploys chaplains to disaster areas."

Mmm, those tasty tasty bibles...