Friday, January 18, 2019

Spirit of Drancy 2

Just when you thought that Trump and his nazis couldn't sink any lower, they disprove any residual optimism.

A 16-year-old Syrian refugee who was disfigured in a bomb attack on her home has been refused a visa to get medical treatment in the US because of Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Guardian can reveal.
As long as we are in Syria let's note the Dumbo Trumpo said the USA should get out of the country because there is nothing there but "death and sand." I rather expected Trump's critics and the press to jump on that because everybody -- except perhaps Trump and his fellow graduates of the brat school his parents exiled him to -- is taught in school that Syria was part of the Fertile Crescent where agriculture was developed. Indeed, it has deserts, but it is also has had agriculture for longer than anyplace else in the world. It is a famous garden.

Trump, who because of his dyslexia and fundamental stupidity, is unable to read gets all of his information from movies, television and people talking to him. He is a perfect repository of the numbskull Americans' bottomless fund of misinformation.

And as long as we're talking about Baldy and his nazis, it was an explosion of navel gazing amongst the guardians of the press over the Steve King interview in the New York Times. Could responsible journalists simply refer to King is a racist and his syaements racist or did they have to find someone else to say so?

As a journalists I've been in the school of calling a spade a spade if you know it's a spade. Yes, King is a racist, he's always been a racist and is not known for anything else. Every supporter of his is also racist.

And as long as we are calling what they are, maybe we could stop calling the abduction of the immigrant children from their parents along the border "family separation" and start calling it what it really is, kidnapping.

40 comments:

  1. A 16-year-old Syrian refugee who was disfigured in a bomb attack on her home has been refused a visa to get medical treatment in the US ...

    Can the Guardian reveal why German or British medical care isn't good enough?

    As a journalist I've been in the school of calling a spade a spade ...

    Not so far as I have noticed.

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  2. As a journalists I've been in the school of calling a spade a spade if you know it's a spade.

    Like all those super serial journalists who defamed that poor Covington kid?

    They covered themselves in merde, then set it on fire.

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    1. After the first viral video, additional videos emerged that did, in fact, put the incident into a broader perspective. What they also showed, however, was that the specific "poor Covington kid" in question was doing caricature-Indian war whoops and tomahawk chops with the rest of his group up until Nathan Philips approached him.

      He's just a kid, and is therefore worth extending a bit of leeway, but that doesn't make his actions any less racist. His chaperones don't have that excuse, and any parent that allows their kid to wear a MAGA hat ought to be viewed with suspicion.

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    2. Everything about this showed how morally and professionally corrupt the media has become: a short clip satisfies all their narrative, and they run with it absent even a smidgen of actual journalism.

      And more progressive journalists pile on, encouraging physical violence against a 15 year old boy. Reading the comment threads at the Washington Post, to pick just one instance, reveals how unthinkingly vicious, and easily duped, progressives are.

      (To be completely fair, at least some conservative writers also fell prey to confirmation bias; groveling apologies were well earned at National Review.)

      As for your characterization of the video, I have too seen it, and you completely ignore the lies Phillips told, as well as the truly horrible behavior of the Black Israelite group. Nothing that actually happened bears any resemblance to the story the torch-and-pitchfork mob swallowed. Hook. Line. And sinker.

      What this boils down to is that progressives have created a new social felony: hatcrime.

      Oh, and before you use that word "racist" against that kid, please provide the dictionary definition, then explain exactly how what that kid did fits the definition.

      I am quite certain you won't be able to.

      [fill in the blank]ist, and [fill in another blank]phobia are two words progressives use to avoid having to examine their own shibboleths.

      Just like journalists do.

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    3. It's just not worth it to go further; suffice it to say that there are multiple videos, that no one was blameless (and no, no one is ignoring the genuine nuts in that scene, the "Black Israelites"), and that your knee-jerk defense of the white racist kids (who have the luxury of time to grow out of their MAGA idiocy, if they're allowed out of the bubble they're being raised in) is both predictable and telling.

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    4. ... your knee-jerk defense of the white racist kids ...

      Wow. Just wow. Trump has completely deranged you.

      By all means, please give us a detailed run down -- using actual facts, not the kind of rubbish that Journalists use to attack kids — of how Trumps actions and policies are racist.


      … and no, no one is ignoring the genuine nuts in that scene, the "Black Israelites" …

      No one except CNN, NYT WaPo, Vox …

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    5. CNN didn't ignore them:

      https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/maga-hat-teens-native-american-second-video/index.html

      "The group of black men, who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites, also shout racist slurs at participants of the Indigenous Peoples Rally and other passersby."

      It's only difficult to see this stuff when you have reasons to not want to.

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    6. As for Trump the racist, if the past two years haven't given you enough examples already, you're willfully blind.

      Explain Stephen Miller - one of the few non-familial senior advisors Trump has kept since his inauguration. Anyone voluntarily standing near the man needs to explain themselves. And if you try to tell me he's just a misunderstood anti-racist, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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  3. Why are so many people consumed by this less-than-trivial incident? Why was anyone obliged to have an opinion about it?

    The Hebrew Israelites had the number of all of them, didn't they?

    As for the hat, it is the present-day equivalent of a brown shirt in Germany in 1930. I would not expect a teen-ager to quite get that, but any adult wearing the hat is a) declaring a level of competence in politics; and b) allying himself with a vile regime that kidnaps children and puts the parents in concentration camps.

    More significant -- infinitely more significant than a stare-down at the memorial -- is the new policy of Making Venezuela Great Again. Why is no one -- and you are reading this for the first time -- debating this departure from America First?

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  4. Why are so many people consumed by this less-than-trivial incident? Why was anyone obliged to have an opinion about it?

    That would be the complete non-incident that Journalists, slothful, shamefully biased, hacks that they are turned into a massive self-inflicted wound when the facts (that the Journalists couldn't be fussed to find) came into view.

    The complete non-incident that Journalists used to smear a boy. That caused Journalists and the Progressive Vanguard to show their true characters.

    Ask them, although you should already know. You are, after all, a card carrying member.

    The Hebrew Israelites had the number of all of them, didn't they?

    You say plenty of disgusting things, routinely level nasty accusations, and regularly parade your virulent hate.

    But this, this right here, is peak Harry.

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  5. Not mine. I just said no one needed to express an opinion.

    It is, so far, unclear what happened, but somebody got in somebody's face. At least, unlike with your psycho hero Zimmerman, nobody was killed.

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  6. I just said no one needed to express an opinion.

    Well, your fellow progressives apparently didn't get your memo. And they sound exactly like you: bottomless, shameless, virulent hatred. So virulent that it is immune to reality.

    It is, so far, unclear what happened ...

    Au contraire, it is abundantly clear what happened.

    The "journalist's" pieces written and broadcast without a smidgen of due diligence.

    Fortunately for those boys, someone thought to put video cameras in cell phones -- I know, who knew? -- thereby exposing your people's negligence and reflexive hatred for all to see.

    That whole episode was a great example of taking a hated group of people, insisting that what they wore was "provocative", and with lies as a pretext unleashed a wave of hate upon them.

    You know who else did that? Nazis, to the Jews.

    My guess is that progressives, who see Nazis everywhere but in their own minds, don't get irony.

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  7. I don't have the link, but a FB friend reminded us how your friends derided the Parkland students as 'paid actors.'

    There wasn't even a misleading video to inspire that vileness.


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  8. I don't have the link, but a FB friend reminded us how your friends derided the Parkland students as 'paid actors.'

    I have an idea -- Find. The. Link.

    Second idea: point out where that, presuming it was actually said, gets anywhere close to the level of vile imagery directed at kids by adults.

    Reza Aslan tweeted “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?”

    A writer for Saturday Night Live offered oral sex for anyone who managed to punch one of the kids in the face.

    Trevor Noah let these school kids know that not only did “everyone” want to punch these boys out, but he did too.

    The violent rhetoric escalated, as violent rhetoric tends to do. The entertainment news website Vulture had to fire a writer after he wrote “I just want these people to die. Simple as that. Every single one of them.”

    Covington High School had to be temporarily closed as a result of death threats. From your people.

    Oh, and "misleading video"? Misleading only to crack journalists who already have their minds made up, and who can't be bothered to do any actual journalism stuff.

    Thank goodness other videos existed, or these kids lives would have been ruined.

    By your fascist friends.

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  9. [Harry Eagar:] The Hebrew Israelites had the number of all of them, didn't they?


    Your people.

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  10. Your pretense that you were not aware about the 'crisis actors' slime of the Parkland students makes all your other statements about this hollow.

    Your selective outrage is nothing at all, just farts in the wind.

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  11. [Harry:]
    Your pretense that you were not aware about the 'crisis actors' slime of the Parkland students makes all your other statements about this hollow.


    Point epically missed, Harry. Despite may making it clear as day:

    [Hey Skipper:] Second idea: point out where that, presuming it was actually said, gets anywhere close to the level of vile imagery directed at kids by adults.

    It is bad enough that your moral judgment is so completely blinkered that you equate what the media did to those Covington boys — gross accusations, encouraging violence against them, demanding that colleges refuse them en masse — with criticism of the Parkland students, who were instead of suffering any threats, were being valorized by the media.

    Providing a link would have forced you to confront what those criticisms actually were, rather than having to rely upon your "slime" accusation. But that is the way it is with you and your people. When called on your nastiness, you shift the goalposts, and then leave the realm of facts behind.

    Which is why I insisted you provide some basis for your completely ridiculous statement. I am completely aware of the "crisis actors" criticisms. That's how I know that, once again, you have covered yourself in merde, then set it on fire.

    [Harry Eagar:] The Hebrew Israelites had the number of all of them, didn't they?

    Wow. Just wow.

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  12. Your people, Harry.

    The stench of hypocrisy, from six time zones away, is overpowering.

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  13. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/florida-shooting-survivors-dinesh-dsouza-mock-cpac-conspiracy-theory-crisis-actors-social-media-a8220716.html

    That one doesn't mention the most powerful rightwing commntator or the death threats, but you get the idea -- or you could, but you won't

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  14. That one doesn't mention the most powerful rightwing commntator or the death threats, but you get the idea -- or you could, but you won't

    Thank you for that link, Harry, as it amply made my point. Which was:

    It is bad enough that your moral judgment is so completely blinkered that you equate what the media did to those Covington boys — gross accusations, encouraging violence against them, demanding that colleges refuse them en masse — with criticism of the Parkland students, who were instead of suffering any threats, were being valorized by the media.

    Yes, it is pretty stupid to claim any of those Parkland students were actors. And some of the other stuff was self-defeating. Fine.

    At the same time, the media was relentlessly valorizing them, and giving them ample platforms to air their views. Harvard accepted David Hogg, never mind that his academic record was completely uncompetitive.

    I'm struggling to find out why, other than to prove you have fully mastered the non sequitur, how this is in any way comparable to having all the major media outlets blasting full throated condemnations of the Covington boys. Condemnations uncontaminated by even an iota of actual journalism. "Journalists" who happily spread the accusations of a serial liar. Which, had they actually done any of that journalist stuff, they would have quickly found out.


    Instead, non-journalists had to do their job for them.

    As a consequence of the MSM's smug stupidity, these kids were the targets of threats of death and violence, demands they be expelled from school, demands that no colleges accept them. They were the targets of abuse heaped upon them by all the late night comedians. A Disney movie producer fantasized about feeding them into a wood chipper.

    Jessica Valenti.

    Kathy Griffin.

    Recent candidate for FL Governor and new CNN commentator, Andrew Gillum.

    And too many more moral cretins, like you, to count.

    Almost none of whom (NYT, WaPo, CNN, looking at you) with the journalistic or human ethics to retract their bullshit stories. And not one of whom has spent any time looking into Phillips.

    You know, just like you expect journalists to do.

    So, please, I'm all ears. Provide some reason why you even brought up the Parkland survivors. There is no similarity at all. None.

    You won't read this, but you should.

    Welcome to the lynch mob, Harry. I'm sure you will be right at home.

    They are your people, after all.

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  15. Oh, and thank goodness other evidence was available.

    Otherwise, you and your people would have happily trashed these boys lives.

    Well done. I'm sure you are proud of yourself.

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  16. It was your people that savaged the Parkland students. Own it.

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  17. It was your people that savaged ...

    Savaged? Wow. Astonishing. Even by your standards, abysmal as they are.

    Yes, these kids were survivors of a very horrible event. But it didn't stop there, did it? Some of them, David Hogg predominantly, used his unwanted prominence to very publicly promote political positions about which he gained no expertise from being a survivor of a very horrible event.

    Pro-tip: those who survive airplane crashes do not suddenly become air safety experts thereby.

    Yet in your typically obtuse way, you confuse criticism of their public advocacy with "savaging" them.

    Damn, if that isn't about the most morally cretinous argument I have ever heard.

    I have bookmarked this, so the next time I need to demonstrate what heedless, self-congratulatory, hateful people progressives are, I'll have this to hand.

    Question: Why are progressives so self-similar?

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  18. Maybe you should bookmark the bishop's statement. He ain't one of my people.

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  19. You mean the bishop's statement that came before "journalists" lies were exposed? Why, yes, it is that one.

    National Review also -- shamefully -- followed that stampede but at least they had the class to make it very clear they had screwed up. Unlike your people, who, as you, were perfectly happy to destroy these boys lives. And when caught, couldn't be fussed to admit their fascism.

    More of your people.

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  20. Before we absolve the Covington boys, let's ask what they were doing. Answer, in the service of the most evil organization man ever devised, which has been persecuting women for 1,900 years, they traveled hundreds of miles to persecute women.

    And you think to compare them to the Parkland students?

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  21. Before we absolve the Covington boys, let's ask what they were doing. Answer, in the service of the most evil organization man ever devised,

    More evil than than communism? Seriously? Shall we compare body counts?

    ... they traveled hundreds of miles to persecute women.

    The essence of clear thinking is to be able to cite the arguments of those with whom you disagree in a way they would find both fair and accurate.

    Harry, you are never in danger of clear thinking.

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  22. Much mire evil than communism, which adopted its techniques of repression from the Catholics.

    Catholics, among other unique achievements, managed 100% complete genocides.

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  23. ... they traveled hundreds of miles to persecute women.

    Just to be clear, that is bizarro-wrong. How about making a stab at why they said they were there.

    Much mire evil than communism, which adopted its techniques of repression from the Catholics.

    Catholics, among other unique achievements, managed 100% complete genocides.


    Communism's body count is ...?

    Catholicism's body count is ...?

    And, as usual, your hate-fueled rants aren't even wrong.

    But, as a journalist, that is apparently a professional obligation.

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  24. You can only kill everybody. Seen any Guanches lately? I thought not.

    I am listening to a report about what happened to the Parkland kids. I had not known that they were followed around Texas by gun nuts with semiauto rifles. S the behavior of the rightwingers was even worse than I knew or recorded.

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  25. You have allied yourself with malicious incompetents, liars, racists, and moral cretins. Despite having sufficient time to give their fascist toxicity a wide berth.

    I shall judge you by the company you keep. And I shall continue noting that you progressives are astonishingly self-similar.

    You can only kill everybody. Seen any Guanches lately? I thought not.

    As a journalist, you are immune to concepts. Yes, Spain is largely Catholic. No, Spain does not equal Catholicism. Only a fool would make that argument.

    I am listening to a report about what happened to the Parkland kids. I had not known that they were followed around Texas by gun nuts with semiauto rifles.

    I don't believe you.

    And I have absolutely no idea what all your shenanigans have to do with the mass media assault on teenage boys.

    Oh, wait, I know. Those boys are part of a hated group, and wore items of clothing progressives demonize.

    Like the Nazis with the Jews.

    Fascist. Wear the label proudly. You have earned it.

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  26. Legally and factually, Spain did equal Catholicism. It was not 'largely Catholic,' it was entirely catholic, it was illegal to be anything else and the monarchs styled themselves 'most Catholic majesty.'

    * * *


    'I don't believe you.'
    Typical of Trump's fascist fans. You don't like to deal wit reality

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  27. Legally and factually, Spain did equal Catholicism.

    No, it didn't. Spain as a country has interests and motivations that Catholicism does not. If the two were inseparable, then every Catholic country would act in concert, because they would all act the same way, because Catholicism=Catholicism. Germany and Austria and Switzerland and Italy and France and Spain would all be exactly the same because they are Catholic.

    Which is exactly why I assert only a fool would make your argument. QED.

    Your hatred blinds you to the obvious. Again.

    'I don't believe you.'
    Typical of Trump's fascist fans. You don't like to deal wit reality


    No, just a statement of fact. You are wrong so often that as a pure matter of odds, that believing the opposite of what you say is almost always the safer bet.

    Of course, you could make me a believer by providing evidence.

    Which you will not do.

    Just as you will not apologize for [Harry Eagar:] The Hebrew Israelites had the number of all of them, didn't they?

    It is amazing how self-similar progressives are.

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  28. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/15/joey-gibson-portland-police-relationship-cooperation-text-messages

    Your people.

    The world will be amazed to learn that Germany is a Catholic country. And you claim -- obviously falsely -- to have lived there.

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  29. The world will be amazed to learn that Germany is a Catholic country. And you claim -- obviously falsely -- to have lived there.

    What is it with you and tense?

    At the time of the Castilian Conquest*, in the 1400s, Germany was a Catholic country.

    *Of the Guanches, which is what you were talking about. And, which, inexplicably you somehow find worse than communism, which killed far more in a half-hearted day than the Spaniards did Guanches.

    And your assertion that the "genocide" was 100% is complete bollocks: A 2003 genetics research article by Nicole Maca-Meyer et al. published in the European Journal of Human Genetics compared aboriginal Guanche mtDNA (collected from Canarian archaeological sites) to that of today's Canarians and concluded that, "despite the continuous changes suffered by the population (Spanish colonisation, slave trade), aboriginal mtDNA (direct maternal) lineages constitute a considerable proportion (42 – 73%) of the Canarian gene pool.

    All of which, including your wholly unrelated link, have absolutely nothing to do with "journalists" and entertainers quickly leaping to foolish defamatory conclusions.

    Oh, and one other thing to note about your Guardian link: passive voice is an affront to clear writing, and is almost certainly used in that story because active voice would undercut it.

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