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Not a big fan of Harvey Weinstein

By David Futrelle

Today seems to be a bit of a slow news day, at least for the Trump Era, though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.

But, hey, there are still many appalling things (and a few good ones) going on in the world. Let’s get to them!

https://twitter.com/HireMeImFunny/status/920368520164204549

Anthony Scaramucci has started his own lil media outlet. Things are not going well there.

https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/920276930842292224

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/920303213852504066

A non-apology Holocaust denial apology!

Some depressing polls:

Exciting new videos of Trump lying and acting like a complete creeper!

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/920038542851616768

Can you say “hostile work environment?”

But, hey, there’s some good news:

https://twitter.com/lawdavisito94/status/920421563832336385

I’m going to make up for the relative lack of news tweets today with MOAR KITTIES!

https://twitter.com/lordflaconegro/status/919622676574035968

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Bina
Bina
7 years ago

I was never in any other Miramax film.

Why no, Harvey Weinstein wasn’t at all a totally vindictive, petty sack-o-shite who took casting-couch refusals personally! Why do you ask?

Also, yay! The Scaramucci Post apologizes IF anyone was offended by its antisemitism! Give it up for the Conditional Apology, folks! (And for all the stupid fucking emojis, too!)

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
7 years ago

… though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.

Did you get my tweet?

Buttercup Q. Skullpants
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
7 years ago

We regret to inform you the Monty Python duck is a huge asshole.

IgnoreSandra
IgnoreSandra
7 years ago

Related note: Me, too is still going on. And it’s always dozens of women being harassed by three or four men saying we’re liars or that our trauma isn’t traumatic enough for their liking.

Godzilla Roberts
Godzilla Roberts
7 years ago

Shouldn’t they note that 48% of republicans is just about 1/8th of the population? <__< Of course they're the population in power now. le sigh

Shadowplay
7 years ago

though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.

He did. You’ve already seen it though. Scumbag.

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
7 years ago

He did. You’ve already seen it though. Scumbag.

Which makes two monstrous things in the past two hours. That’s what David gets for tempting fate like that. =P

(For the morbidly curious: This and this. Massive TW for the second one.)

Shadowplay
7 years ago

Oh good god. I hadn’t seen the second one you linked, only the first 🙁

Bina
Bina
7 years ago

@Sandra:

Related note: Me, too is still going on. And it’s always dozens of women being harassed by three or four men saying we’re liars or that our trauma isn’t traumatic enough for their liking.

As usual, the (antifeminist) male response to anything having to do with feminism is proof of why we need feminism.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NW8uF64650/UZC0Q3RgH9I/AAAAAAAAFe0/pQfbF6xQez8/s1600/headdesk.jpg

IgnoreSandra
IgnoreSandra
7 years ago

@Bina

As usual, the (antifeminist) male response to anything having to do with feminism is proof of why we need feminism.

Exactly! Like five dudes (Or four socks) came after me cause my story includes a time when a guy assaulted me without either drugging me or initiating physical violence (I read from his body language he’d hurt me if I didn’t screw him), and it escalated to, like, 240 comments and one of them trying to dox me and calling me a man and literally stealing a picture of mine and leaving threats on my profile.

Necessity for feminism: Amply demonstrated!

Mish of the Catlady Ascendancy
Mish of the Catlady Ascendancy
7 years ago

@IgnoreSandra,

Are you ok? That’s effing horrible. And so many women are reporting similar treatment 🙁

DMW
DMW
7 years ago

Y’know… even after almost a year, it’s still hard to process what you’re hearing every time the merciless void crabs open the facial port of their POTUS skinsuit and some other horribly cruel bullshit comes oozing out. How somebody can effortlessly display such a breathtaking lack of basic human empathy is continually staggering, even if it has ceased to be surprising.

I am, however, happy to report that spell check did not flag the word “skinsuit,” which I find amusing and slightly disturbing.

Bina
Bina
7 years ago

@Sandra:

Ugh, that is so awful that I can’t even begin to look for the words to describe how it made me feel.

And yeah, I’ve been assaulted without drugging or explicit violence, too…at least that’s what I’d call it, since one minute I was making out with a good-looking guy I thought was a friend, and the next, he’d suddenly climbed up over me so that his knees were on either side of my neck, his zipper was down, and he was inserting himself in my mouth without so much as a by-your-leave. But no, there wasn’t any violence! I guess permission isn’t necessary when you can do serious damage just by sitting your ass down on someone’s throat.

I suppose those same guys (or socks) would call me a slut. Fuck ’em, I’d call them rape apologists. And the guy who did that to me? Yup, I call him a rapist. A slick one, too, since he pulled that fast one on me with such blinding speed that only years later did I realize that he must have been a repeat offender. He’d clearly had a fair bit of practice, to get it to where he could do that and not hear me utter so much as a “WTF, dude”. Heaven only knows how many other women or girls he did it to before he did it to me…

Ugh.

Weatherwax
Weatherwax
7 years ago

@Sandra
@Bina

Hugs and kitties as required. I’m so sorry that happened to you.

misophistry
misophistry
7 years ago

Me too

Jesalin
Jesalin
7 years ago

@Sandra and @Bina

Hugs and:
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I’m so sorry that happened to you!

opposablethumbs
opposablethumbs
7 years ago

@Sandra, @Bine … fucking hell. I’m so sorry people have inflicted this violence and shit on you, and I hope you are ok.

Jesalin
Jesalin
7 years ago

And in other disgusting news:

‘Most of them didn’t make calls’: Trump on predecessors consoling fallen soldiers’ families

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/most-of-them-didn-t-make-calls-trump-on-predecessors-consoling-fallen-soldiers-families-1.3635814?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvnews%3Apost&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=59e6aea819694a0007c79e06&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Trump said in a news conference he had written letters to the families of four soldiers killed in an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger and planned to call them, crediting himself with taking extra steps in honouring the dead properly. “Most of them didn’t make calls,” he said of his predecessors. He said it’s possible that Obama “did sometimes” but “other presidents did not call.”

The record is plain that presidents reached out to families of the dead and to the wounded, often with their presence as well as by letter and phone. The path to Walter Reed and other military hospitals, as well as to the Dover, Delaware, Air Force Base where the remains of fallen soldiers are often brought, is a familiar one to Obama, George W. Bush and others.

Lying self-aggrandizing sack of pus.

Gussie Jives
Gussie Jives
7 years ago

@Sandra @Bina I second hugs and kitties!

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
7 years ago

@ Jesalin

Lying self-aggrandizing sack of pus.

I quite like Duffelblog’s take on this.

The White House said that Trump did not immediately tweet about the incident since it did not involve a Puerto Rican Mayor or the failing New York Times.

“President Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents ever. Freed the slaves. Remarkable man. Lincoln. Fantastic,” Trump said. “He never called the families of soldiers killed during the Civil War. But these fake news reporters won’t tell you that.”

Dan Hoan
7 years ago

As a historian, and as a fucking human being, the idea of “twitter polling” to determine how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust makes me so angry I can barely put together a full sentence.

Citizen Rat
Citizen Rat
7 years ago

Eff Terry Gilliam. Not just because of the horrible tweet defending Johnny Depp but also because of Lena Headey’s own account of how she was bullied by Gilliam while working on Brothers Grimm.

Iseult The Idle
Iseult The Idle
7 years ago
PeeVee the (Tired of the Militant Plasticfaced) Sarcastic
PeeVee the (Tired of the Militant Plasticfaced) Sarcastic
7 years ago

My heart goes out to you all.

?

Shadowplay
7 years ago

Trump’s full of shit.

Obama called every family. No exceptions, no one missed.
GWB not only called every family, he actually attended as many box flights as he could

– @Alan, if I’ve got your timeline right, you can back me on that.

NEITHER of them would be so stupid and callous as to say “He signed up for it.” to the fucking widow!

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