Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[Johnny Canuck3]

Deplorable loses DQ:

Ms. Ford took her two young children to a Dairy Queen in Zion, a small city north of Chicago, last week. When she opened her order, she says she found one item was missing and another was wrong, prompting her to return to the window. She first asked for her original order, but when the franchise owner, James Crichton, declined, she asked for a refund.

The situation then escalated, Ford says, with Mr. Crichton using racial slurs against her.

“He called me and my children n—–; he said I can go back to where I came from,” Ford told The Washington Post. “He took out his flip phone and he said he would take a picture and put it on Facebook because he wants to show the world what kind of n—— he has to deal with. Then he shut the window and walked away.”

She returned to her car with her children and called police, who responded to the scene. Upon speaking to Crichton, an officer confirmed that he had used the slur, and said Crichton continued to use the word freely to describe black customers, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Racism exposed: Rant leads to shuttering of Illinois Dairy Queen

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Deplorable:

Less than a week after the 2016 presidential election, a Trump supporter named Alan Beck tweeted two photographs of an anti-Trump protest in Washington, DC, in which a hooded figure held aloft a sign reading “Rape Melania.” The images went viral, and the sign — as well as Twitter — drew swift condemnation from news outlets both right and left.

Some Trump supporters took the sign as confirmation that the passionate national opposition to the president-elect was ultimately anarchic and violent. (Many of these supporters had drawn a similar conclusion about the Black Lives Matter movement.) “The current surge in the left’s propensity toward violence and mayhem should surprise no one,” wrote one InfoWars commenter. And to some Clinton supporters, the sign was a gutting refutation of Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” speech and a reminder that Trump rallies didn’t hold a monopoly on menace.

But, BuzzFeed News has learned, the “Rape Melania” sign was not the work of an anti-Trump protester at all. Instead, according to sources, it was the brainchild of a group of Trump supporters led by Jack Posobiec, one of the organizers of the controversial DeploraBall inauguration party and a prominent figure in the pro-Trump internet.

Furthermore, as shown by a series of Posobiec’s text messages obtained by BuzzFeed News and confirmed by a source who collaborated with Posobiec, the sign was the culmination of a disinformation campaign by Posobiec and others intended to paint the anti-Trump rallies as violent and out of control.

Inside The Alt-Right’s Campaign To Smear Trump Protesters As Anarchists

 

[Yossarian]

i tried a couple of other searches but while the principle was definitely there i can't find an earlier example of 'pms of support'. tbh the search function leaves something to be desired because you can't search by phrase. searching for 'pms support' then means that as long as the two words are in a post a result's returned, even when they aren't in any way adjacent.

From a 2004 "How to Win Online Arguments" feature, based on one from 1999:

Once the argument is in full swing, publicly thank all those people who have e-mailed you privately with their messages of support. Claim that you are too busy to reply to each of them personally at the moment, but promise to continue fighting on their behalf.

How To Win Online Arguments on bulletin boards, forums, usenet and newsgroups

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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[J Ed]

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[J Ed]

What the fuck are these people doing?

A-listers team up for Trump-era ‘I Will Survive’ video

 

[butchersapron]

Dignity

 

[Treacle Toes]

What the fuck are these people doing?

A-listers team up for Trump-era ‘I Will Survive’ video

Self promotion.

 

[J Ed]

Self promotion.

Honestly the commodification of everything is just so ingrained at this point that they may genuinely feel like this obvious self-promotion of their 'personal brands' genuinely represents 'resistance' to Trump. You have to consume the good product and not the bad product, and they are making the good product that the good people will buy.

 

[butchersapron]

Honestly the commodification of everything is just so ingrained at this point that they may genuinely feel like this obvious self-promotion of their 'personal brands' genuinely represents 'resistance' to Trump. You have to consume the good product and not the bad product, and they are making the good product that the good people will buy.

They're not making it - they are it. Their very existence.

 

[killer b]

There's a fine deployment of Now more than ever in the article. Now more than ever we need bland uplifting disco hits.

 

[CrabbedOne]

I suspect Trump is going to have no end of problems with the Pentagon over pandering to Russia.

 

[Pickman's model]

From a 2004 "How to Win Online Arguments" feature, based on one from 1999:



How To Win Online Arguments on bulletin boards, forums, usenet and newsgroups

Good call, I just searched the boards

 

[Pickman's model]

So, they invested a bit of time and a few rubles on the off chance that this idiot could end up having an influence on American politics, and hit the frigging jackpot?

We've all had the Russian gold, you're the only person here without a few ingots hidden away

 

[CrabbedOne]

I have a theory Trump is a fugitive Muammar Qaddafi hiding out in a fat suit.

 

[J Ed]

I have a theory Trump is a fugitive Muammar Qaddafi hiding out in a fat suit.

As is suggested in the comments on that tweet, do you really think that the Obama WH doesn't do similar? Then again the media are so deferential to him that perhaps he doesn't need to do that.

 

[CrabbedOne]

"The black people’s struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America." - Muammar Gaddafi 4 February 2009

Spooky!

 

[teqniq]

 

[CrabbedOne]

As is suggested in the comments on that tweet, do you really think that the Obama WH doesn't do similar? Then again the media are so deferential to him that perhaps he doesn't need to do that.

Well certainly at rallies; that's what they are for after all.

I can't recall any POTUS ever having a large clique brought in to applaud him and shout down the press at a formal Presser. The US Press Corps may be rather more deferential than most but doesn't usually applaud much either. They're at work scribbling after all not staging a spectacle.

But perhaps this is part of Trump's instinctive genius for stage craft. His supporters love the sight of him noisily trampling hapless journos attempting to hold the God Emperor to account. It's a winning move.

 

[Casually Red]

That was the FBI

It's still " the man " . Man .

 

[Casually Red]

I found 117 results for the whole phrase, and the one you linked to was the earliest.

I was just wondering who originally coined the phrase/used it seriously in a vain attempt to gain some credibility, but I guess the answer is now lost in time, like tears in the rain...

It was a chap by the name of Tobyjug iirc

 

[CrabbedOne]

In The Economist The president-elect’s perilous trade policy

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Mr Trump has consistently argued that globalisation gives America a poor deal. He reportedly wants to impose a tariff of 5% or more on all imports. To help him, he has assembled advisers with experience in the steel industry, which has a rich history of trade battles. Robert Lighthizer, his proposed trade negotiator, has spent much of his career as a lawyer protecting American steelmakers from foreign competition. Wilbur Ross, would-be commerce secretary, bought loss-making American steel mills just before George W. Bush increased tariffs on imported steel. Daniel DiMicco, an adviser, used to run Nucor, America’s biggest steel firm. Peter Navarro, an economist, author of books such as “Death by China” and now an adviser on trade, sees the decline of America’s steel industry as emblematic of how unfair competition from China has hurt America.
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Most countries protect their steel industry for traditional strategic reasons though the Beijing bewitched UK government recently lobbied against it within the EU. I can recall Reagan era Republicans mocking the practice as unfit for the new era dominated by the unleashed Lords of Finance yet it has continued in the US.

This article points out steel is a poor model for general trade policy yet it's that coddled industry Trump is gathering expertise from.

Forget the debatable effects on US jobs and remember the awful beauty of market volatility. It frightens the herd but that is a good thing for the apex predators who like to buy low and sell high in chaos as some of Team Trump did in the last crash. Pharma or Car industry shares tanking on a Trump tweet are a sign of rich pickings to come. The speculative opportunities created by an unpredictable Trump erecting tariff barriers for friendly vulture capitalists are potentially spectacular as in the Ross example above. As luxuriously swampy for these well placed critters as a siloviki packed Kremlin.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Casually Red]

It was doing the rounds at various media outlets, ones more serious than Buzzfeed like the NYT, months ago. Why not brief then?

I'd assume because Clinton was ahead in the dopey polls and the need to scrape the very bottom of the barrel wasn't as pressing as it was when the clown got elected . Panic set in .

As regards the " former " British spook who cobbled this shit together for Trumps enemies , it also seems he has a bit of form in regard to spreading wholly unsubstantiated , sensationalist smear stories involving sexual deviancy and perversion . As well as an all too obvious very personal grudge against the Kremlin . It appears he was Litivenkos handler. And that it was he who directed a series of outlandish sexual smears against Vladimir Putin some years ago utilising Litivenko as his mouthpiece. So it would appear there's both a track record for this type of barrel scraping , a very personal motivation in hitting back at the kremlin as well as a strong whiff of his particular lurid, sensationalist MO black arts being state sanctioned .

Christopher Steele felt the Kremlin broke the rules when they murdered Litvinenko. That could have clouded his judgement

 

[teqniq]

Still as VP says the best lies have a grain of truth at their heart and the best explanation of what may have actually have happened is the one provided by nbe on here.

 

[Casually Red]

Still as VP says the best lies have a grain of truth at their heart and the best explanation of what may have actually have happened is the one provided by nbe on here.

The grain of truth would appear to be little more than Trump was in Moscow . Which is admittedly more accurate than the clearly fabricated assertion his lawyer was in Prague .

 

[teqniq]

no it isn't

 

[andysays]

It was a chap by the name of Tobyjug iirc

I've heard of him - wasn't he the "boat happy" guy?

For one poster to contribute not one but two long-running urban catch-phrases is pretty good going, even if by all accounts he was something of a cunt.

 

[Casually Red]

So , we can now safely conclude that Trumps enemies who commissioned this filth knowingly approached someone who had previously directed the series of highly lurid , sensationalist sexual and financial smears against Vladimir Putin some years previously in his capacity as an Mi6 agent . Namely that Putin was a notorious well known pedophile , up to his neck with Colombian drug barons and Al Qaedas number one arms supplier . And in the knowledge that the agent he was running to front these smears, Litivenko, had been sensationally bumped off in London . Meaning that following his sock puppets well publicised demise Steele had a personal grudge .That the guy they were approaching had a solid track record in concocting the most lurid tales against Russian targets and could be fully relied upon to come up with and front exactly what they wanted .

that this tale of Moscow depravity and putins hand being behind everything bad in the world was made to order, pretty much .

 

[Casually Red]

no it isn't

What is it then ?

Or what isn't it ?