By David Futrelle
So Trump delivered a real barn cross-burner of a speech last night in Phoenix. Then police fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades at a crowd of protesters that was just standing around outside. And then other things happened. Let’s go to the Tweets.
No mention of Heather Heyer
Passing mention of troops he just deployed
Deep lamentation for the plight of "poor Jeffery Lord"
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/900205465279356928
Richard Spencer: Trump will never denounce the "alt-right" https://t.co/WccXXJruit pic.twitter.com/3Q0bg0bhBI
— The Hill (@thehill) August 23, 2017
Trump falsely says media turning off the cameras. “CNN does not want its falling viewership to watch what I’m saying," he says—live on CNN. pic.twitter.com/br3KOh21WE
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) August 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/900189159100260356
IM CRYING LAUGHING RN pic.twitter.com/Dfq8wx6i8o
— paco (@AllaireMatt) August 22, 2017
Here's the full crowd as #TrumpinAZ finishes up. pic.twitter.com/iUGVUmppGZ
— David Catanese (@davecatanese) August 23, 2017
Here's an angle from the opposite side of the room. #TrumpinPhx pic.twitter.com/xg0G34eJ7r
— David Catanese (@davecatanese) August 23, 2017
Meanwhile, outside:
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/900212655142699008
Police firing flash bangs at protesters outside Phoenix Convention Center. There was no order for dispersal prior to this. pic.twitter.com/dy7POLO636
— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) August 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheAnonJournal/status/900209000901423105
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/900214469699227648
https://twitter.com/TheAnonJournal/status/900211103241818112
Hello, this is literally on the front page of Breitbart right now. pic.twitter.com/hVCW8BiQZU
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) August 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/900197112868216832
In other news:
https://twitter.com/jo_bouk/status/900064357882646528
https://twitter.com/AndrewBeatty/status/900404802001268737
Daily Mail reports the State Dept. spent $100,000+ on car rentals during Tiffany Trump's recent Italy vacation.https://t.co/lzRZIGwAzT
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 22, 2017
And now … the animals!
https://twitter.com/OhMyCorgi/status/900179541225766915
https://twitter.com/Slennon_/status/900264355891228672
😽🎈😸🎈😻🎈😽🎈😸🎈😻🎈
🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/wgQH7hoTnA— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) August 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/MeetAnimals/status/900276684800368640
Imagine being a this all your life pic.twitter.com/u9cUpZu3Pz
— Todd in the Shadows (@ShadowTodd) August 23, 2017
Corgis make everything better.
Seeing the size of these Trump crowds, i’m amazed at how little the money of the Kochs, the Mercer’s and other fascists will buy.
I know these people want to be the modern day Lannisters, but fascism looks like an ideology of terrified and perpetually malevolent people.
@Dan Kasteray In all fairness to the Kochs (and I detest them, even having grown up in their lair city of Wichita), they backed away from their usual GOP Presidential support when Trump won the primaries. Naturally, they’re not doing much of anything to correct the problem, and they’re still supporting Randroids wherever they can, but it turns out they’re also smart enough to realize what a horrible Monkey’s Paw of a candidate Trump would be before other mega-donors, and unlike them, never decided to go all-in anyway.
QUERY:
Now that it’s been made clear we’re living under the Javanka Regime, why aren’t leftists celebrating? DJT’s alpha male machismo is refreshing when contrasted with most politicians. But he’s not the hero so many in the manosphere imagined him to be. I knew this all along. So it doesn’t surprise me. But why the continued Trump hate from the Left? He’s pretty much one of yours. Is this just about driving turnout for 2018? Still butthurt about Hillary losing?
Yeah, good old President von Clownstick said there were 15,000 people in attendance, when that venue only holds 5,000…and it was half empty…how this man can continue to lie to himself (let alone think that the entire country believes him) is beyond me. Maybe he included the protesters?
And wtf, police? As far as I could tell, the only violence was perpetrated by you guys…
TEENY TEENY ITTY WIDDLE CORGIS. WANT.
Oh, yeah, there was some other stuff, right?
When will we know we’ve hit bottom? I really, really, hope the old cliche “It’s always darkest just before dawn” applies here.
Off-topic: I have a spayed, one year old Purring Jew who’s been pooping outside her litterbox. Not all the time, but often enough. Her boxes are clean, and there’s at least one box on each story of my house. So, she’s got a choice of at least 3 boxes at all times. Why is she doing this. She seems to be healthy and content, otherwise.
Ahh, to be fair to the police, a guy threw an empty disposable water bottle towards them. It landed several yards away from them but still, all that riot gear just pales in comparison to that kind of firepower. You know the constant state of terror police are in whenever they’re faced with unarmed civilians, we’re lucky they didn’t use their real bullets.
re: undue force
Fuckin’ Christ. It just gets worse every time…why am I slowly being reminded of Jet Set Radio without graffiti or skates? I wish I could skate.
But yeah. Are all the riot cops in the US, like…more USian, most often white versions of Captain Onishima nowadays?
re: last animal tweet
I know the person tweeting that! He does pop music reviews. Haven’t seen his stuff in a while, but he was generally pretty good about things. And he loves that dog. Always too small.
I know it’s not the biggest thing about Trump’s speech, but does he actually think ‘clean coal’ means you take coal and you clean it? That’s just weird.
Hey, Todd in the Shadows! I forgot he has a Twitter account, and I don’t know why. Gonna try to ignore the ambulatory pile of rotten orange gelatin for a moment and find that list of Tweets Todd did about the 2014 Superbowl (Denver Broncos vs Seattle Seahawks).
@Troubelle
He’s one of the two people I still follow from Channel Awesome (the other being Linkara). Though admittedly, I haven’t watched his stuff in a while, either.
Kali is definitely too small.
@Ms Merkel
You must do better than this. Bush league stuff. Take some pride in your trolling. You’ll never get good at it if you take shortcuts. Smh…
@BGHilton
Yes, he literally does. I mean, somebody’s probably taken him aside by now, but what are the chances it stuck?
@Troubelle
No magnetic skates, no kickass music, no awesome graffiti, yet we have riot-geared police throwing tear gas at unarmed protesters. This is the worst possible future.
Because people aren’t quite as stupid as you think, Mel, old boy.
Holy shit, is this the newest way to blame people who voted against him for von Clownstick’s being elected? How goddamned idiotic. Own your bullshit, sonny.
Spam your bullshit Youtube videos elsewhere, okay? Go back to your RealDoll.
@Ms. Merkel, Tear Down These Sugar Walls!
Don’t push this baby
In our general direction.
Own your damn tyrant.
Hey Big D-bag, Ms Merkel, Turd-flinging Monkey, whatever the hell you’re calling yourself today. I didn’t miss you. Your user name links to a video titled “Trump is a Feminist”. That statement is unworthy of refutation. If Trumpy is a feminist, then I’m the Queen of England.
Also, I don’t find Trumpy’s machismo “refreshing” at all. I find it rather abhorrent. Jingoistic strong-man leaders are a staple of fascism, after all.
Is Melvinturd trying to disguise that he’s a sock puppet and just really bad at it? I can’t even tell. I’m curious to know how Trump is one of ours though. I can usually speak troll pretty well, but this one is a real stumper.
@weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee
If he was wouldn’t he change avatars?
Oh, I don’t think Trojo is trying to hide his trolling.
He just sucks at it.
You’d think. But this one doesn’t seem too part.
I also for the life of me can’t remember what nonsense he was spewing the other day. Just that he was here and that he ran away when he couldn’t back his shit up. Something about “females.”
I suppose I could look it up?
http://i.imgur.com/NZUbRCF.gif
@WWTH
My best guess is that it means Trump is a puppet of the International Jewish Conspiracy™, based on the ‘Javanka regime’ bit, which I finally parsed out to a portmanteau of Jared (Kushner) and Invanka.
Ha ha ha ha ha – Cantwell turned himself in.
@PeeVee
I was just about to post the same thing. Apparently he’s being charged with ” two counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious bodily injuries”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-supremacist-chris-cantwell-turns-article-1.3437446?cid=bitly
I’m really glad he turned himself in. I was worried that he’d go on a shooting spree.
I’m neither hiding nor trolling. And how am I a sock puppet? None of those charges make sense to me. At least not as I understand those words. My question was genuine. Trump is many things, but he’s no right winger. His family and his closest friends and advisers are all Democrats or liberal/centrist Republicans. The government isn’t going to be downsized. Entitlement programs won’t be cut. To the extent he has a guiding political philosophy (which isn’t much) it’s a form of progressivism. The Alt-Right stuff is just silly. He used those people. Like so many others. His administration (as well as, again, his friends and family) includes several Jews. And when it comes to social conservatism, the sexual revolution, and the sorts of things feminists would (presumably?) care most about, he’s basically a New York City version of Hugh Hefner. He’s a second wave feminist. He’s tossed a few bones to the Religious Right. But almost nothing substantive. And the few things that are can easily be reversed. For example, the so-called Mexico City Policy regarding international abortion funding is something that flips back and forth whenever a D replaces an R or vice versa. And he’s no threat to the gynocentric system that both Left and Right uphold. So, seriously, is the rage contrived for political purposes? Is it just for shits and giggles? Is it because he deprived you of the chance to celebrate a female President?
@PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
@Tov01
http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/laughing-anime-gif-15.gif
A coward to the very end. I hope he gets his just deserts
@Ms. Merkel, Tear Down These Sugar Walls!
Doesn’t change avatar between accounts
Wonders why people call him a sock puppet
Wait these images still work
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http://i37.tinypic.com/znr8so.jpg