#FUCK low iq white america

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Genocide Joe is what he will be synonymous with trump supporters have nazi tendencies. They aren't decolonized on either side I don't blame them directly. I blame ignorant people, Bill. Aka also you. You know what the fuck you're synonymous with.

I'm an environmentalist. Which means you care about the environment. I want to connect with the sides you're too much of a pussy to touch. Cause in the environment of war, look at the ties you cut and severed with the people you are supposed to serve to further stay on your game. Not having good relationships with people based on religion is so typical white people behavior. Colonialist behavior. I said before and you know what the fuck I said on Ukraine bitch. I can't help what happened in my dreams. I once went to a water park in Germany called Myanmar. You let me know how the fuck that resonates if it does at all you musically deficient, shitty acoustics for a brain ass man. Anyways, in said water park, I was exposed to the German culture of no shame. The showers were open to the naked German moms with bodies of all shapes, little naked girls, and boys all washing off with no shame. So go wash off your fucking shame. Hit the showers bitch. You know what I said "every day you can find a time the government failed its people." Did you think I was only talking about MURIKA and Israel? I do not discriminate when it comes to every government failing at some point. You failed to understand yet again. Cause u have a low IQ and can't comprehend the abstract. AMERICA has established it doesn't fucking want my help. So boo fucking hoo if some other government would like to hear from me and how I can help their environment. You fucking Satanic suck up. You did nothing gave nothing and tbh this was fucking fun. Give me another one.

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History Summarized: The Maya, Aztec, and Inca

These are all Black Indigenous civilizations in the Americas, Mexico and all of the island regions of the so call new world.

There has to be something to make you rethink about slavery and Black Indigenous history as if Canada and Australia isn't enough.

Oceania, Asia, The South Pacific Islands should be enough for all Black People to see the link between Africa and the rest of our Black planet.

This isn't something that is made up because when we do our research on ancient indigenous people we find that they all have dark skin including Europe when even Europeans had Black skin.

So I ask you where in the fuck do white people come from? Why do everyone call translucent people white? There has to be some indoctrination shit going on because to find how white people became a race is so very easy to find the irrefutable answer to this question.

Scientific racism invented race based on skin colors and intelligence even though this is dubious science to invent this type of shit in the first place, this is one of many reasons I call Black Albinos or blancos shit people simply because they are all full of shit and don't do any type of fact checking when you challenge them, so fuck what they think and feel, because we don't care.

We only care about revealing the truth about who we Black Indigenous People worldwide are and to say fuck you to anyone who feels we are hateful or racist.

Please let me point out to you that for us to be racist we must believe in the idea of scientific racism which we do not. We see the entire human race on earth as Black People and for those who excludes themselves we are not responsible for their choices.

So now we hope you all get it? If you don't then we unapologetically say go fuck yourself and your low fucking IQ.

[yeahitsanalt-fuckdogpilers]

"dont bring up all "races have been enslaved argument" because its been disproven"

"sure white people have been enslaved"

Which one is it girly because you cant have both

And some white slaves were paid, does not make it not slavery if you ever bothered to look up everything slavery entails, but also some black slaves were also paid. And fucking lord do you hear yourself right now? " And most of the time it was willing" what fucking bullshit.

Also many white slaves were treated just as badly as black ones, they didnt just decide "oh your white so ill treat you better" mate they were fucking slaves. If they cared about them they wouldnt have fucking been slaves. And besides it doesnt matter if one is "more severe" than the other or not because its still fucking horrendous to own or be a slave. You dont get to dismiss other races experiences being slaves just because you're an ignorant fuck who thinks your somehow special.

If we are really going to play the "whos more of a victim" game then please tell me what you think of the holocaust. Go on. Tell me being put in gas chambers and experimented on and so much of the same shit you described is preferable.

Even my own great grandfather(or great great i cant remember) , a prisoner of war, was kept like a slave and treated the same as the jewish people he "lived" with. Does that mean I'm incapable of being racist just because my own ancestor was kept as a slave? No it fucking doesnt. I dont use the experiences of my ancestors as an excuse to have shitty behaviour and beliefs about people. Also my ancestors never owned slaves or were even a part of the transatlantic slave trade. Not even fucking close. We only came to america in the mid 1800s and even then my family showed no signs of blatant discrimination and prejudice against black people or even a desire to keep them as slaves and dehumanize them.

So if your excuse that you cant be racist towards white and pale people is that they kept your ancestors as slaves then you are an absolute ignorant piece of shit. Even if you dont believe my story, you cant deny that there was never and white or pale person who wasnt racist, who didnt support the slave trade. Or are you conveniently forgetting all the white people in history who risked their lives housing your ancestors and helping free you? The underground railroad would not have been successful without those people.

Also disproved by whom and where. Because damn near everything i see actually suggests otherwise. Its only hard to find because the search gets clogged up with mainly articles focusing on the transatlantic slave trade. But just doing fifteen actual minutes of research would give you plenty of results and examples.

Also just learning about any point in history will tell you about or mention the use of slaves.

Also i dont pay attention to what those websites do or believe. Even if their views are different from mine there is still merit to their words and shouldn't just be conveniently dismissed.

Regardless the sites i provided here literally just state the percentage of demographics in america and the world.

Also yes you can be racist against white people. The very thought that you cant, and therefore have every right to discriminate against them without repercussions, is in and of itself racism .

Also if you read my reblog reply to another person like i told you to, you would know that what i said isnt a definition but a quote of my own words.

What you are thinking of is "systemic racism" which is only one type of racism. Prejudice based on race is still under the umbrella term "racism" making your point moot either way.

And speaking of low IQ, i dont know if you just have that backwards of a way of thinking or your are projecting at this point. Because you obviously cannot read, do not have any reading comprehension whatsoever, and dont bother doing any research to support your claims.

You just hear whatever you think is convenient for you and makes you feel better and then parrot it back to other people

But hey y'know what don't take my word for all this. Maybe you'll listen to all the other black people who condemn blackwashing

Oh and be damn sure to read the comment sections in ALL of those

Being black and having a history of your ancestors being slaves doesn't exempt you from being racist and holding racist beliefs about other races. You arent fucking special.

After some thought i decided i wanted to make sure people can see this absolutely insane ignorant belief some people have.

Take a look at this these articles

You are a minority in america sure but not the whole damned world

The idea that black people cant be racist, especially towards pale people because they are a minority in america is really fucking stupid when you consider the fact that Africa as a whole and some other countries have a majority of black people. Can they also not be racist?

If not then how can you claim asians can be racist, or that mihoyo can be racist. Asians have an even smaller population in the US compared to black people.

"but they make up the majority of the world-"

AND BLACK PEOPLE MAKE UP THE MAJORITY OF FUCKING AFRICA AND NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS OTHER PLACES.

"Racism does not require the superiority in power or numbers that white people in America have. It is merely an attitude or belief, usually derogatory, about a race or ethnicity that is not true."

And if you fucking think black people are the only people to be made slaves, oppressed, and so much more purely on the color of their skin then you need to pick up a fucking history book. Especially since slavery still exists, and is extremely profitable, to this day. And even though slavery was abolished in america we both know damned well it still happens and you better fucking believe its not just white people doing it.

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things that get on my damn nerves about all the fucking political ideologies or whatever idk this is not an effortpost i'm just in a bad mood:

leftists with liberal arts degrees - uwu every problem is just social dynamics uwu!!! it's all just culture and if we reformed our culture all the problems would go away!!! what??? you say we still wouldn't be able to cure cancer because protein folding is an NP-hard problem??? well i'm a soft little delicate bean not an icky tech bro so i don't know what that means, but computers are a social construct anyway so if we all just believe the computers can solve protein folding faster they'll be able to and it'll all be fine!!!

middle aged years old white american liberals - boy gee howdy things are getting bad lately... i heard on the tv that people were being mean to minorities, and i said "whaaaaat? in america, land of the free, home of the brave? people being mean to minorities, i just don't believe that." but then the tv lady said it was all the fault those damn republicans and then it made sense. i hate those guys, always voting for the red team when i vote for the blue team! i think their wacky antics have corrupted the beautiful noble soul of this great nation *holds hand to chest and sheds tear*. i mean, it's gotten so bad that i had to see a homeless guy the other day ewwwwwwwww. but as long as we put some real americans in charge again i know they'll clap back against those meany republicans on the TV and everything will be ok

capital L Liberals who know their econ(TM) and run pseudonymous blogs elaborating on the virtues of rationality and so forth: well you see, what these low IQ protestors just don't understand is that the opportunity cost of radical social change is simply greater than the average expected marginal equilibrium dynamical risk profile of just ignoring all their concerns and telling them to fuck off. now, if you're low IQ not literate in the ways of rationality, it may seem like common sense why these people would be upset, given that within living memory it was both legal and highly encouraged to smack them with a large stick and insult their mother whenever you saw them in public. but thankfully we live in a more enlightened age now, so in fact all their protesting is actually very suboptimal equilibrium non-central fallacy coordination problem. i think it's our solemn duty as high IQ rational and thoughtful individuals to condescendingly discuss how very silly and un-chesterton's fency all their demands are and then go back to talking about AI or whatever

grungy aestheticblog christian fascists who are on their 700th twitblr account because they just get ip banned automatically after a couple days at this point: *all opinions delivered in the form of cryptic text photoshopped over blurry images of balkan paramilitary dudes standing around in the woods with zastava m21s or some shit* one day things will get better. one day the forces of evil will retreat and light will come back to the world. until then, i will hold out for my lord jesus christ and i will not yield. i will not eat their bugs. i will not say their woke incantations. i will not bow down to the forces of modernity. lord give me the power to do what kaczynski could not. until then i will wait with love and peace in my heart. *barrage of nazi occult symbols*

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Heavy Heavy Low Low - Courtside Seats to the Greatest Fuck of All Time⁠

⁠ @heavyheavylowlow38 #heavyheavylowlow #hhll #deathwish @deathwishinc⁠ ⁠ I’ve been lucky as hell recently to snag insider info on some killer reissues and this one is no exception. You all already know how much I love HHLL, especially Turtle Nipple…, and through serendipity I got connected with Robbie from the band a few months back. I got to hear about how they are coming back to life after some years focusing on other projects, growing up and growing out, and evolving as musicians and artists in the process. They’ve worked with Twelve Gauge Records to put Courtside Seats on vinyl for the very first time and after they announced it on their platforms and immediately sold it out, they’re pressing another batch that you and the HHLL lovers in your life can and should snag before that pressing sells out, too!⁠ ⁠ What’s even more exciting is that I got to pick Robbie’s brain in typical VE fashion and he’s indulged me with all sorts of info about what they’re up to, whether or not we can expect new music, and some feel-good stories about huffing air duster and ripping shit up in an old warehouse on the California coast. Here it is in its unedited glory, but first…head to the website to pre-order your copy and then head to Robbie’s Indiegogo campaign to learn more about his upcoming short firm that’s scored by Nick from Tera Melos! ⁠https://deathwishinc.com/products/heavy-heavy-low-low-courtside-seats https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/morning-deliveries-short-film#/

INTERVIEW

First and foremost, it’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Heavy Heavy Low Low and then out of nowhere you sprang back to life in 2019. What motivated you all to pick up this project again? I’m not sure what motivated it. We had always been trying to jumpstart the whole thing again for some time and I think that it might have been a case of everyone’s lives slowing down and examining that time with a weird reverence. I can only speak for myself. The boys are all in school or doing their own thing.

I imagine you’ve all been working on different projects since HHLL went on hiatus. Do you have anything that you or the rest of the band have worked on that you’d love us to know about? Danny has gotten pretty popular in the Kendama world. Chris is studying various forms of martial arts. Roo is endlessly going to school and currently scoring independent films. Chip is heavily involved in competitive fishing. I’ve been making short films when the situation and my wallet allow it. We’re all crazy excited about finally owning Courtside Seats on vinyl for the first time. Aside from bringing that album onto the vinyl medium, the pre-order page notes that there’s new artwork, too. What can we expect from that? When we made the CD we weren’t expecting to sell any really.. I did the art and Matthew printed them all at his job. Him and I folded every crease, glued the o-cards and vacuum sealed them all. I think it sold out almost completely at the record release show. We made the same amount of records as we did the original cd (500). The artwork for the original CD pressing was done on sketch paper without any comprehension of what could be done with drawn art and a scanner. Matthew was the computer wizard and back then, young and silly, it was all done on the cuff. The new art is a bit more modern and plays with mortality. Court-side Seats to The Greatest Fuck of All Time being a front seat view of a an ordinary, bumpy ride through life. I’m proud of it. What’s it like to bring back an album from the earliest parts of the band’s career? Do you still identify with the music? It is odd. It was a truly surreal time and place. We were out of our fucking minds. We recorded it in Mountain View, Ca in this giant warehouse that tapered into gutted office spaces. It was a weird white collar tomb on the outskirts of Silicon Valley right before the real tech boom. In the big part of the warehouse where we’d enter there were giant mounds of clothes meant to be donated to some third world country. We’d burrow tunnels in them and do huge dramatic flips from pike to pile. There was an aisle of outdated medical equipment waiting to be sent that we’d stalk through in the dark. It was a strangely magic place. Once you got through the warehouse you’d get to these office stations that had been fashioned into recording studios and that’s where we birthed this thing. We were so misguided. The amount of compressed air that we inhaled should have killed us. I contribute a significant drop in IQ to that shit. Smoking copious amounts of weed from gravity bongs. Recording with a hip hop producer, Deegan. Never a disagreement. It still feels like it was some strange purgatory of youth. I don’t miss it, but it was beautiful. Does this mean there’s hope of having Everything’s Watched, Everyone’s Watching on vinyl sometime, too? So, there was a guy who was very adamant about putting that record out on vinyl. We had a dialogue going for the better part of a year and apparently he had been in contact with Rhino Music and Warner, the two companies that hold the licensing to that album. He had received word that it’d cost an impressive amount of money, but he still wanted to shoulder it. Mind you, this dude didn’t have a label, he just wanted to put this thing out and apparently hadnt thought that all out. Time goes by, I’m waiting, not worrying one way or the other. One day I get a link from a friend, a Christian college website detailing that dude had been arrested for kidnapping and assault. Very sad situation. Dude seemed semi normal. Anyway, that was the last effort I’d seen put into that. I’d love to contribute new art to that release if any go-getter wants to try their luck. I’ve loved everything HHLL put out, but Turtle Nipple is in my top 10 list of favorite albums of all time. What was the writing the recording process for it like and how did the band feel about the new creative directions on it? EWEW was half previously recorded material re-recorded and half material written a year prior, kind of forced into a studio with producers we had no previous rapport with. Those producers/engineers were incredible human beings (RIP Tom Pfaffle! See you in the mindfog) but we were very young punk kids thrown into a foreign land where we had our agents visiting and there were platinum records on the wall and it was a total barrage of privilege and excess. It was beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t feel soul in that record. Turtle Nipple is a dense trip through time and the record I’m most proud of in our discography. I don’t remember how long we had to record it, I do remember that it was the only time we’d been given to experiment and layer our sensibilities in an environment that catered to them. Sam (Pura) was a perfect conduit to that vibe and time and space and it really came out just how it should have. I think about that album as a 70s exploitation directors filmography.. it veers violently from genre to genre and while most of the stories are fiction and far from personal testimony, theirs a peek into some shared insanity contained throughout. George Cosmatos wandering through a punk club on an edible. I think that that album is our bands true personality. Sam is a member of our band whether he’s playing with us or engineering for us. He gets us. I love the idea of an alternate reality where we had lasted a bit longer and did an album with Steve Albini. He’d probably hate us, but I love those ‘What If?’ Scenarios. I’ll ask the question EVERYONE has been asking so it’s on the record somewhere: Does this mean we can expect new material or a new album soon? Maybe even a tour? We have a new EP in the works. We have some of it recorded with Sam. We’ve posted a couple clips on Instagram. We’re incredibly busy and spread out in our personal lives. Chip in TX, Dan in FL, Roo in OR, Rob and Chris in CA. Adulthood is a bitter, pulpy drink! We are going to be playing again. We won’t be leaving the West Coast. We had our fill of middle America and the travel involved. We have talked to some of our buds from our early days of touring about playing alongside (opening for) them for a limited run in 2020. I think that qualifies as a tour. Also, if anyone wants to fly us to Europe to play a festival in 2020, we’d like that. It’ll be an interesting year. How does it feel to be welcomed back by so many adoring fans who still love your music and are hoping for more after a long hiatus? It’s incredibly humbling. I have heard from people throughout the years about how we had affected them and it was always just strange to me. I’m pretty self deprecating, so I just don’t understand how some shit I wrote could mean much to anyone. My mind is just a shotgun blast of panic. I guess all of ours are? I love my band mates and their talents, though. So I understand the sorta sirens draw to the greater extent. I think they only got to show themselves slightly, too. Weird existence. Give us a piece of band trivia you’ve never shared in an interview before! Gees. There is a step-in part to most 15 passenger vans. It is a black, hard plastic. It meets with where you close the sliding door. When we had no bottles to pee in, we would just piss in ‘the step’. This thing was a den of germicidal activity. Trash and piss I don’t think we ever truly cleaned that thing. What’s odd is that we so rarely got ill on tour. The Step kept us healthy on a steady diet of trash and piss and general scum. Finally, this isn’t a question but the hidden track on Turtle Nipple is a fucking masterpiece and I wanted you to know. Thank you! I think that may have been my idea to add some weird 70s funk into an old track of ours. I think it turned out cool, but I think it betrays our vibe on that album! I wish it’d have devolved into some weird, primitive Altered States shit.

[morlock-holmes]

Ever since I first heard about Hanania he has pissed me off. He's reinvented himself as a genteel, William F Buckley style racist because posting that shit about how cruel it is to tell the low IQ races that they're as good as the whites still gets people in trouble, thank God.

But this tweet:

That's something he published under his own name, this year.

Here's part of the blurb for his book on the Amazon listing:

"For those angry about wokeness and what it has done to American institutions, this book offers concrete suggestions regarding policies that can move us back to being a country that emphasizes merit, individual liberty, and color-blind governance."

Hanania has said that "color-blind governance" was a bad idea that needed to be challenged five months before he wrote that book. [EDIT: No! five months before the book was *published*! He'd probably already written his peaen to color-blind governance when he tweeted that]

He has this obnoxious attitude of "Gosh, all the rest of us understand that color-blind governance is best, so why does this small minority seem to think we should discriminate based on race? Isn't that crazy?"

No, man, *you think color-blind governance is a bad idea and you've said so multiple times*. You don't get to lecture me about the craziness of an idea you believe in.

I came off very angry which isn't entirely fair; not everyone knows who Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer are, I didn't until recently myself.

I've covered Hanania extensively, but I'm less aware of Sailer, just a vague sense that he runs in the kinds of circles that Hanania does.

I did find out that Steve Sailer's blog appears on the website of a Holocaust denier.

Sailer's personal blog runs on Unz.com, a website owned by Ron Unz.

Unz describes himself as, and I am quoting him directly, "extremely skeptical of the reality of the Holocaust". Here's the link:

In another article, Unz says,

"It might not be entirely correct to claim that the story of World War II was that Franklin Roosevelt sought to escape his domestic difficulties by orchestrating a major European war against the prosperous, peace-loving Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler. But I do think that picture is probably somewhat closer to the actual historical reality than the inverted image more commonly found in our textbooks."

That position is, I'm sorry, batshit crazy.

Oh, here's another good quote:

"Only International Jewry had remained intensely hostile to Hitler, outraged over his successful efforts to dislodge Germany’s 1% Jewish population from the stranglehold they had gained over German media and finance, and instead run the country in the best interests of the 99% German majority."

This is not just an attempt to tar Sailer for his association with a guy who thinks WWII was ginned up by "international Jewry" to stop the peace-loving Adolph Hitler from running German for the proper.

I also want to tar him by his association to the other anti-semites on Unz.com!

Look, if Steve fucking Sailer wants to lecture me about whether certain political groups are friendly to the Jews, maybe he should start with the group he has been a part of for more than a decade at this point.

Steve Sailer may not be antisemitic himself, I don't know. But he pals around with textbook antisemitic nuts. I'm not going to listen to him lecture other people about how dangerous it is to associate with antisemitic creeps.

You don't go around saying, "lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas" to other people when you've spent the last decade sleeping in a kennel.

"The problem for Jews is not that the ongoing “racial reckoning” is overtly anti-Semitic, it’s that it’s overtly antiwhite. And, for the crucial purpose of tabulating diversity numbers, virtually all Jews count as white."

[thesportssoundoff]

“Ugh, well I guess so” UFC TUF 28 Finale Preview

Joey

November 25th, 2018

Take a big long deep breath folks because we're about to delve ass deep into four major shows PLUS big time boxing all on the same week. UFC fans and Bellator fans will get to feast on events while Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury lurks as the big boy HW boxing clash we've been waiting some time for. The UFC's latest finale for its latest edition of TUF is up first on Friday and it's...well I don't know how to put it necessarily. I feel like it says a lot about THEIR confidence in the talent amassed that this TUF has 11 fights announced with one finale to go. The fights are UFC talents and not a lot of TUF talent so I think they may be aware that FWs and HWs were a stinky pairing. Beyond the two finales though, the proven name fights aren't that bad. RDA vs Kamaru Usman is your main event and I'm all smiles about that one as it's a competent solid headliner between two fighters who are top 10 at the very worst in their division. Joe Benavidez vs Alex Perez is a tremendous veteran vs prospect fight at 125 lbs (since that division still exists for a month or so) plus Bryan Caraway vs Pedro Munhoz is a "fun"-ish veteran vs veteran clash at 135 lbs. At the very least, we can have another long discussion about Pedro Munhoz's fight IQ. Some DWTCS prospects like Roosevelt Roberts, Antonina Shevchenko and Edmen Shabazyan take fights and the rest? Well the rest is the rest I guess.

Fights: 12 (?)

Debuts: Kevin Aguilar, Roosevelt Roberts, Edmen Shahbazyan, Antonina Shevchenko, Boston Salmon, Chris Guiterrez

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 3 (Gilbert Melendez OUT, Rick Glenn IN vs Arnold Allen/Arnold Allen OUT, Kevin Aguilar IN vs Rick Glenn/Ashlee Evans Smith OUT, Ji Yeon Kim IN vs Antonina Shevchenko)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC): 4 (Joe Benavidez, Kamaru Usman, Rafael Dos Anjos, Bryan Caraway)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC: (Tim Means)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC: (Kamaru Usman, Ji Yeon Kim, Alex Perez, Darren Stewart)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2016 (in the UFC):  19-10-1

Kamaru Usman- 6-0 Rafael Dos Anjos- 3-3 Bryan Caraway- 1-1 Pedro Munhoz- 5-1 Ji Yeon Kim- 2-2 Antonina Shevchenko- 0-0 Edmen Shahbazyan- 0-0 Darren Stewart- 2-3-1

Since this card has two finale fights on it, I went by the top four fights on Wiki, MMAJunkie AND the new UFC site.

Divisional Breakdown:

Bantamweight- 3 Middleweight- 2 Welterweight- 2 Lightweight- 1 Women's flyweight- 1 Flyweight- 1 Heavyweight- 1 Women's featherweight- 1

Too High Up- The TUF Finales

I know I know. The TUF finales have to be on the main card (otherwise why have the fucking finales, right?) but DO they? Are feelings going to get hurt if they're not on here? Is anybody going to write to their congressmen if the main card, likely to push the three hour range, has 30 minutes plus shedded off with the prelims having the finales? You're asking me to watch bad MMA (sorry but it is!) at like midnight. That hurts my feelings. It hurts everybody's feelings.

Too Low- Joseph Benavidez vs Alex Perez

If things stands as they are (and I'm betting they will change) then Alex Perez vs Joe Benavidez will be smack dab in the MIDDLE of the FS1 prelims. Not a prelim headliner mind you but in the middle of the prelims. That's too low. I understand the importance behind pushing fighters in divisions that are NOT falling apart (the Stewart/Shabaz fight and the TUF Finale fights) but this fight being in the middle of nowhere is just disrespectful to the highest degree. Alex Perez will probably do just fine at 135 lbs and Joe Benavidez, even if he's on a long slope decline, is still damn good. Let's not try to ruin this.

Stat Monitor for 2018:

Debuting Fighters (Current number: 32-40-1): Kevin Aguilar, Roosevelt Roberts, Edmen Shahbazyan, Antonina Shevchenko, Boston Salmon, Chris Guiterrez

Short Notice Fighters (Current number: 31-30):  Kevin Aguilar, Ji Yeon Kim

Second Fight (Current number: 39- 33-1):  Raoni Barcelos, Ricky Rainey, Khalid Taha

Cage Corrosion (Current number: 22-37):  0

Undefeated Fighters (Current number: 31-23-1):  Antonina Shevchenko, Roosevelt Roberts, Edmen Shahbazyan

Keeping An Eye On But Not Really; Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization:

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- It's a little wacky and dare I say gutsy that the UFC's big push on this TUF Finale card would be the three prospects (Roosevelt Roberts, Antonina Shevchenko and Edmen Shahbazyan) who were found off of DWTCS. The Contenders Series has basically become the TUF replacement of sorts; the spot where the real top unsigned talent heads off to find entry into the UFC. TUF is on his 28th US season with over 33 worldwide (three in Latin America, three in Brazil and one in China off the top of my head) so it's not a surprise it's lost some steam at this point. It just is a stark reminder of the power of a new idea in MMA; the TUF dudes who kill themselves for weeks to make weight and fight in an intense tournament style of a lesser interest than the Contender Series guys who exist to get the big thumbs up from Dana White. That's tough to consider but probably where things stand in MMA and will stand going forward.

2- So what happens with the next season of TUF? It was leaked that the new UFC production building will hold the Contender Series, live boxing and kickboxing (as well as other sports like Wushu and amateur wrestling)---but will also be the home for TUF. That is also the case apparently for the China PI as well. At this point the question becomes where TUF will air and not whether or not it'll continue. TUF 29 is coming in some form or fashion and all I hope is that they find a way to shake this format up a smidge. I'm basically dead to the idea that it won't happen and am accepting it. Just try to do SOMETHING with it besides "Here's the content, take it!"

3- I really really really really hope they just abandon the whole "Coaches fight each other!" set up and roll with using the spot as a way for old names to get a payday without fighting. There are plenty of legends out there they're on good terms with who can do some coaching. Use that power for good, man.

4- How badly does Kamaru Usman need a finish? Usman was the back up for Till vs Woodley and figures to be the sort of dude who lives in an eternal state of being just "One fight away" from a title shot. I like Usman a lot----but in some ways he's a victim of his own success more than anything else. He has one finish since the TUF finale that brought him into the UFC and while dominant wins over Demian Maia, Sergio Moraes, Emil Meek and  Warlley Alves are absolutely impressive; he's in a division where either big finishers or big talkers are ahead of him. Colby Covington vs Tyron Woodley probably stalls him up his chances of an immediate title shot while Usman has to be cognizant of the fact that Ben Askren lurks in the background assuming Woodley loses to Covington AND Santiago Ponzinibbio is streaking up the rankings. There's also a gooey middle of the pack featuring every action fighter under the sun putting on big finishes and scary performances. That's not counting some Nick Diaz/GSP/Conor McGregor fuckery. RDA is a tough out for any fighter but Usman needs to make a big time statement or risk being the next Tony Ferguson type who was always "One fight away" from the title, requiring a borderline act of God to sneak in and snag an interim title.

5- Did RDA basically burn his last renaissance run? After bad weight cuts and a genuine improvement in talent at 155 lbs, Dos Anjos found hay at 170 lbs with wins over Robbie Lawler, Neil Magny and Tarec Saffiedine. He had a good fight vs Colby Covington but got outworked and outhustled for the most part. Covington jabbed him with frequent regularity, kept RDA reaching on his strikes, gave him no space to breathe and just outhustled him in the clinch and on the feet. Usman is very similar to Colby except his striking is a lot better and his cardio is better too. This is a tough matchup to RDA and you gotta wonder if he's about to go from potential money fight recipient vs Conor McGregor to high level gatekeeper at 170 lbs.

6- The fight between Edmen Shahbazyan and Darren Stewart is an intriguing one. Darren Stewart was one of the better prospects out of Cage Warriors; a fun as shit action fighter who could brawl with the best of them, hit crazy hard and seemed to have the rare ever elusive "upside at 205 lbs" label. He struggled with four straight fights without a win in the UFC but basically saved his job with a FOTN loss to Julian Marquez. Since then he's gone 2-0 including knocking off Charles Byrd in a pretty big fight for him in September. Stewart might be rounding into form and even if his form is just "the guy at 185 lbs who has fun fights and scores the occasional nasty finish" then that's all fine and good to me. The UFC needs that as 185 lbs takes a turnaround. Edmen is a Ronda represented Edmund trained fighter who the UFC signed off a super quick knock out on Dana White's Tuesday Night Contenders Series. It was in many ways the sort of performance that catches the eyes of the UFC but his signing was obviously assisted by Dana's ties to Ronda. The fact he seems to be on the main card is only going to up the pressure.

7- Is Rick Glenn the worst 'good" featherweight on the roster? He's got a positive record in the UFC and has wins over Dennis Bermudez and Gavin Tucker.  He's facing short notice fighter Kevin Aguilar who is a really interesting signing. Few dudes bring the violence the way Aguilar has on repeated performances. The problem is Aguilar is up a weight class and has struggled at times with dudes like Glenn.

8- Gonna call Ji Yeon Kim upsetting Antonina Shevchenko. Might look stupid but you gotta call your shots in life!

9- Roosevelt Roberts vs Darrel Horcher feels like a set up for Roberts but I felt the same way about Madge vs Edwards so no chickens shall be counted before they hatch.

10- The bantamweight division is obviously loaded with talent on all levels but this figures to be a very intriguing step forward as two superb talents walk into the division. It took Raoni Barcelos a lot of time to get here but the 31 year old Brazilian made his UFC debut in July with a blow out win over Kurt Holobaugh. He's dropping down to 135 lbs where he'll draw debutante Chris Guiterrez on the prelims. The other big talent is Boston Salmon who will FINALLY make his UFC debut after being signed in July and then just sort of disappearing. Salmon is one of the rare talents to earn a deal despite not getting a finish and it has a lot to do with him just being an uber elite talent that the UFC had been scouting while he developed in LFA/RFA. He was supposed to face Khalid Taha who pulled out although wiki, the UFC site and MMAJunkie.com still has the fight up soooo....who knows?

11- Will any fighters besides the finalists appear on this card? Remember we're at 10 fights now with the finals getting added on Wednesday. Will this be the rare 14 fight card with both semi final fights?

12- Does this show end before 1:30 AM on the East Coast?

[americana-ultra]

Tell the horror stories for quotev :0

Well I’ll tell ya one I got on me right now. There was this person, we’ll protect their identity even though they’re a low key ass but we’ll call them Kanye hsjshsjs

So, this story contains mention of cancer/communism/faked suicide/and general dickery so be weary

Kanye was, who I thought, a smart and generally cool person. At this time, I was in the hetalia fandom role playing as APH America and they were rping APH Japan. When I first followed them I was like “:O !!! cool person dang!!!” and it was cool.And then the cancer PSAs appeared. They were telling us stuff like “hey!! gonna be inactive because I have to go to hospital because of cancer stuff, etc” and we were all very supportive and cherished them.One day they were at a low point as it seemed. They kept talking about how they wanted to jump out a window. We kept telling them not to but they stopped responding…AND THEN THEIR COUSIN APPEARED????? to tell us via Kanye’s account that their suicide attempt failed??? And their name was something so stupid like Fernando like that. And that’s when a lot of people were like…. 🤔🤔🤔 excuse me? And after some digging, screenshots, and a lot of evaluation, we discovered two important things:1. Kanye had lied about their suicide attempt2. They had also lied about their cancer and that was a HUGE shockwave in the group I was in and we were all shunning them because WHO DOES THAT?!?!and they were being dramatic about it, claiming they had compulsive lying disorder stuff, etc and everyone was like uhh shut up

However, later on.. maybe a month or two? Probably less lmao, people started forgiving Kanye and I was still EXTREMELY apprehensive but I could tell others were like “ur on thin fuckin ice” @ Kanye

Kanye also LOVED telling ANYONE that they were a communist AND that they were eleven and how their IQ was so fucking massive and eventually they had a small personal group of groomers/white knights that bend to his every need and if Kanye got a single hint of dislike from ANYONE they’d pour in like “hE’s OnLy ElEveN yOuRe A BuLlY!!!!” and honestly Kanye was a bigger bully than anyone I’ve ever met.

But that’s one of my stories. Kanye did something else that was a major HH but it’s morbid and probably a story for another day.Hope you enjoyed though haha

[mermaidfan76]

Homeless Autistic Girl

Hey guys... this really kills me to ask, however right now I’m homeless at the moment.

Technology, I’m living with a long time friend who is hounding me to find a job since she believes it’s just so damn easy and move out by The end of February. I’ve put out application after application and only maybe a couple have called back for an interview. Only for them to tell me the same exact thing over and over, “You don’t seem like you will do well for this job.” With out even giving me a garsh darn chance to show them I’m willing to work my butt off.

Yet, they hire people who are literally ALLERGIC to manual labor, and pay them twice the wage to appease them so they don’t get sued. It pisses me off. I have Autism and PTSD, I watched my mother and fathers beloved dog get run over by a car, I know these people have mommy and daddy’s that coddle them. My parents died on September 22, 2013. My sister’s threw me out in the cold and said I’m on own. I’m still here, sadly. Not one day goes by and I don’t think about giving up and killing myself. Love to give that bayberry (under a new name) Bitch and all the rest what they wanted in the first place! With heartless pieces off shit like them in this world, I definitely don’t feel it’s worth the aggravation!

You push, you kick, you fight, you bite, you bunch, but guess what you end up someone else’s lunch! It’s survival of the fittest and you’ve won the game if you have Money, Fame, and/or Power! Just 1 on these gives you the right to control poor peoples lives!

You can play the advocate for good all day, but turning a blind eye to the innocent people that are truly in pain by the very people you are advocating for. Who’s the real villain? Saying the people who did nothing deserve it because someone said its poetic revenge... read a book. Get your facts straight, you really think they would attack now? Why didn’t they attack back then? People don’t postpone revenge -_-...

(if I had a grudge against a person, I’d want to get them now, not expect my descendants to attack his descendants. 1. How do I know if they’ll follow through? 2. What if everything is patched up and my other descendants didn’t know that and still desire to take their revenge? (They don’t even know what the whole argument is about... could be about stealing the last slice of pizza) This is about taking over the world just like before! We stopped them once! They’re trying again, however they fooled you!)

So with politics, islamphopia (more like not wanting an ideology of woman haters who desire to take over any free country and turn it to a world of oppression and insanity), racism (a political term used when a white person doesn’t agree with you), feminist (because women are oppressed because they have tits and a vigina), fatphopia (because veggies don’t taste like cake, if they did we’d still become fat, why? Because we’d get sick of sweets and want savory tasting veggies that you only get from cake... oh the irony), LBGT without Q (Queers are just feminist men who are really flamboyant gays... and real gays try to avoid, ever heard the term, “Queer as a Clock work Mouse.” Man I miss my English mother! The LBG, The Les, The Bi, and The Gay, do as you wish... Hey I’m you Bi, I find shapely girls just Be A U Ti Ful to draw, have to get that full body motion. Gays, love ya, best guy friends and you give perfect fashion advice, Lesbians, you’re very easy going and easy to talk to, al yal are A O Kay in my book. Trans, um... look umm... I’m female... I have more of a male mind... we can find common ground here can’t we?) and that’s what I go through everyday. Half the words I’m called... how do they apply to me? Like racist? I judge by character, not by skin tone.

(All I see is another human being in front of me. If you act like you’re above a human being, than I’ll treat you the way you treat me. Not one human is above another. If you have earnt that privilege than you are granted that only by the people who gave you such power, however they have the power to take it away. That is the true purpose of the second Amendment! In short; “a president is a civil servant to the people of his/her country that he/she has sworn to protect! As such nothing is beneath them!”)

I really wish people would do their homework...

My friend I was talking about earlier; well she’s not only getting on my case about finding a job, but she’s also pissing me off about politics. Her plan is to be an American History Teacher. She wants to teach her class how America was founded on the “Socialistic” Principles we use today and that’s bullshit! We wouldn’t have many of our largest company products that I bet everyone of you see every single day, more than likely every minute of your day.

(For Starters:

Let’s start off with Ford, if America was a Socialistic Society, well then all of you who drive a Ford let alone a car in general, would walk everywhere. If it wasn’t for Ford’s Model T being a Successful test run clearing the way to Model A. Ford’s company could only up from there. (Btw: anyone who drives the VMW Bug- just a little trivia for you did you know that the original design was created by Adolf Hitler himself? Adolf Hitler was the original Designer for the shape of that car the VMW Bug, just a little tid pit I know from Graphic Design School, hope that doesn’t ruin your VMW driving experience:D)

Another one I’d like to point out: McDonald’s, that famous Golden Arches fast food places started as a ma and pa rest stop, now it’s one of the biggest fast food chains in the world! Mickey D’s started again in America! Again how is that possible in a Socialistic society?

Socialism is structured to where everyone is equal... equal pay... equal healthcare... equal quality of living... doesn’t count the politicians! In this system if you work you’re an idiot. Those who sit on their ass get everything handed to them, those who work their asses off barely survive. So why bother putting yourself through that much torture. Because:

No one working:

No power

No cable

No doctors

No teachers

No police

No food

No safety

No security...

Why? This would have been a good thing! This here proves Socialism doesn’t work!

If everyone decided to not work because they’re getting ripped off; than America shuts down! The government is screwed! And so are the moochers!)

Those are only two examples of capitalism being a good thing.

There is so much more... not to mention the feminist aspects like Susan B. Anthony: Voicing her “opinion” by voting for who she thought would be a good president. Of course the judge was going to let her off with a warning because “woman privilege” (woman today would be like okay and do it again), however she, Susan B. Anthony, A Real Feminist, (no Feminist is an insult to her, She a Real Woman, The Genuine Wonder Woman!) demanded she was sentenced to jail just like any man who broke the law! (Please oh please can we do that to these modern, pussies who call themselves women!) The first woman to fly a plane over the pacific Amelia, or the women who rose up against unjust treatment Rosa Parks, I mean come on. Worst of all is, she’s being taught tha John Wilkes Booth was Republican and Abraham Lincoln was Democrat... and it’s reversed. There’s a saying the liberals came up with: “if those damn n$&@€ must vote then they should only vote Democrat!”

My friend has become heartless and greedy, I’m in a fucked up spot because of a malicious brat who played innocent and didn’t understand what happens when you compromise. It’s not one side surrenders and the other gains, but what do I expects from the preppy college school type, (not all preppy girls are mean, I just have this personality that sends the wrong vibes and makes them more territorial)AKA mean girl type... however, this girl demanded everything goes her way or else. She’s from Georgia, yet she comes to higher elevation part and in the middle of the US, it’s winter yet she expects sunshine and beaches? All of us to be drinking out of a coconut? Yes, her hair is blonde at the roots, and she smokes pot in the apartment. Kind of gives you a clue on the person she is. Of and her Boy Toy is always there... when I stayed there. She blamed me for her messes, and her food she didn’t eat. Thing is I hate fish. Well another one to count she has a low IQ from the Mercury poisoning... and here I thought fish helped with brain development.

Anyway, it was hell, so my friend volunteered on the condition that I find a job and move out ASAP. I’m tryin as hard as I can here.

Being told no everywhere I go is very discouraging. I’ve made a gofund me campaign to maybe to maybe help a little... I don’t expect anyone to donate really... if anyone could click the link and share it to a friend they know and spread it around.

By February the only place I’ll be staying is my car on the side of the road... just sharing the story helps. Thank you.

<link>https://www.gofundme.com/homeless-autistic-girl<link>

[harrelltut]

卍 I’mma Meditatively + Academically [MA] EXPOSE [ME = U.S. Michael Harrell = TUT = JAH] low iq america on HARRELLTV® 卍

[frostbite883-archive]

DBM Bra hating

These comments won’t be in order. With that said..let’s do it to it.

Tregrenos

So, is it Hyukhyuks turn to eat a Senzu in the middle of the match?

#GetGudBra

Me:...I doubt that would happen seeing as that hulking monster never did carried senzu beans after it’s ‘birth’.

A Poverty-Stricken Antelope

@Tregrenos

Now I understand another reason why I hate Bra: she heals mid-match like a little bi***. She wouldn't last 10 seconds in a Dark Souls duel.

Me: So you say.

Itsarge (gamergater or former GGer) and snowflake exchanging some words with each other.

snowflake:

My view on Bra: She's an awkward character. Literally. She's an entitled princess of a Deity-God-Warrior and Bulma, so she's a overpowered brat with a genius level IQ, and obsessed with strength and being better than everyone, which makes her relationships very one-sided and binary. She literally divides the world up into people stronger than her and not stronger than her, and only acknowledges one person as legitimately stronger than her. No, seriously. It's a problem. Try writing like a tomboy teenage girl would talk, who's obsessed with beating everyone she comes across. At best it would come out as parody. It is hard to find that voice, and harder still to make it resonate with a predominately male audience, and yet harder STILL to do it within the confines of traditional shonen story-telling, from which DBZ is inspired. So Salagir took cues from cocky, pre-redemption Vegeta (not a bad idea). But I believe it only jarred the readers more. The gender-swap seemed obvious and artificial and distracted the reader from the story. The same problem occurs in superhero comics. Iron Man? Everyone accepts that a white dude of indeterminate age can be of genius level intellect, have his own company, and be a superhero/playboy in his copious spare time. Riri Williams? A 15 year old black girl who reverse-engineered Iron Man's tech? Whom he then decided to fund and sponsor? UNBELIEVABLE, according to the backlash. Not a real Iron Man/War Machine, it was obvious that the writers simply "made her up." X-23, Laura Kinney? Not a true Wolverine. "Just created as fan-service." Dr. Jane Foster? Not a real Thor. "Just a writer gimmick." This begs the question, why not? What dissolves the suspension of disbelief with these characters, while the suspension of disbelief is limitless with traditional characters? People claim they want new and interesting stories and challenging plots and characters, the same way they claim they want to lose weight. But they really don't. They want the old chestnuts, the familiar, the predictable. The sugar and the salt. If a story is predictable, you don't have to think about it too much. It won't upset you. People dislike being upset. Shonen style stories are the most predictable on the planet. Good always wins. Evil is punished. Virtue is rewarded, and sins are rebuked and/or reprimanded. Good guys and bad guys are obvious and look the part. So Salagir set himself up with challenge in U16 Bra: an unsympathetic, one-dimensional character who happens to be a girl whose cockiness and obsession with strength is/was rewarded, not punished. Her morality is questionable. It's a deliberate inversion of the typical shonen character. But plot-wise, U16 is integral to the story. So she had to wear Plot Armor from the beginning, as well. Also DBM is moving along, plot-wise, at the pace of Freeza's kitchen timer. And there's also a peanut gallery of readers dissecting everything you do every page? Uh-oh...

ltsarge:

Regarding their statement people could buy iron man cause he is a white male... You know I take issue when people bring this line of thinking up. I think their iron heart girl, being a 15 year old black girl is a total cash grab gimmick appealing to their xtreme social left. In the same way that female Thor was a giant feminist spectacle that literally went around beating up misogynists. I don't think it's unreasonable to call out this type of pandering where it's seen. If marvel really wanted a black female heroine to take up the reigns of them iron man, they could have gone with this character. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Knight It would be way more believable for an previously established in comics older black lady who has personally designed by tony stark tech, to take up the Ironman mantle than some 15 year old prodigy made up whole cloth. Same with female thor. If she - hulk or black widow went around welding his hammer (them latter which has occured), I would totally buy it. Having some super powered feminist be the new thor, and telling thor to check his privelege seems almost a parody of sjw influence in comics, yet it's played horribly straight. Sorry for the digression in this thread

snowflake:

But the entire superhero genre is pandering. Captain America punching Hitler? Meek and Mild-Mannered Clark Kent becoming Superman beating up anyone and anything with complete moral justification? Batman being the God-Damnned Batman? Itsarge - In the same way that female Thor was a giant feminist spectacle that literally went around beating up misogynists. That's a totally legitimate power-fantasy. It's just not aimed at you. At least you can console yourself it's likely to fail commercially. And just wait until the Enchantress gets her hands on her! As for Misty Knight, they were probably wanting to avoid anything smacking of blaxploitation. In fact, since Riri Williams looks like her exactly, she'll probably end up being a clone or something. Anyway, my point is that female superheroes are a challenge. They're a challenge to draw (how sexy is too sexy? how muscular is too muscular?). They're a challenge to write. They're challenging to present in an appealing light, and they're a challenge to plot for. And then there's the audience predisposed to hostility against such characters, and then there's the fact it's on the internet, which simply makes everything worse!

ltsarge:

1st up, female superheroes are not a challenge.  Just focus on making a good character, that happens to be female.  Black Widow, Ripley, Sarah Connor, Lara Croft, Rukia, Riza Hawkeye, Winry Rockbell, Bulma Fucking Briefs... (I can go on but you get my drift.) 2nd.  Anyone complaining about them being too sexy is either a prude or hypocrite, considering the over masculine features of male heroes which gives plenty of fanservice to people who like men.  And before anyone says any Anita Sarkeesian-esque excuse about how male superheros having amazing body appeal to the male power-fantasy, go do a cursory google image search on any male hero, ESPECIALLY if they anime, and take off your parental filters.  You will see endless fan art of male characters from Ichigo to wolverine to Raiden who are all in sexually explicit poses, if not flat out porn of them.  Probably the latter. Hell just look at fucking Twilight series if you want an entire series dedicated to the female gaze upon appealing strong masculine figures. The point is, if you're overly concerned about the sexual imagery of a female character, you're in either fear of the rabid feminist crow, or possibly the overly conservative crowd.  Considering their are female characters throughout comics and anime that are sexually appealing but renownly well written speaks volumes on how little an artist or writer should give a fuck about whether they are too muscular or sexy.   3rd.  Regarding superhero pandering like Captain America punching Hitler (or similar heroes punch insert political villain) in the face.  You may note that is something that is often mocked by comic book fans for how politically charged and nationalistic it was.  If that low bar is what we are setting as defense for female thor, than sure, well than I guess those examples of bad writing justifies absurd levels of feminist pandering.

4th.  Most of the arguments brought forth in the discussions regarding all this since the comment about "people are more willing to allow for a white male Iron man, but not Insert minority character" that have emerged as defense of bra, seem to be desperate attempts of justifications for an overall badly done character.  You don't need testicles or white pigmentation and blue irises to recognize the Bra for the most part has not jived with the fan base.  I've made a hefty list in this thread of why her character has problems, and none of them are because she has a vagina.  In fact, I have criticized many of Salagir's Original Characters for the same reasons, but Bra has either more or all of the flaws of the others such as Gast or King Cold. Let's be real.  If Bra was not a female character, people who defend her would not have certain cards in their arsenal.  If this character was Vegeta, and I was defending her, you wouldn't see me saying "Oh you vegeta haters dislike Vegeta because he's a male.  You are all sexist!"  or "its difficult to right an arrogant MALE character from space" I don't give a fuck that Bra is a strong female character.  I give a fuck that her blatant mary sue traits are not addressed, and in story she's not criticized for being a bratty person. Just because there is a lack of "strong female" characters in DBZ cannon (not complete absence, as there are still many in DB/DBZ), is not a good excuse for building a shitty one.  We don't need affirmative action in comics or fan comics.  If people want to make a strong female character, that's good, that's fine!  But if there is one that's made that has HUGE FLAWS, we shouldn't say "Well, there are no other strong female characters, so thank god for BRA."

snowflake:

Well, on the flip side, if Bra was male, I doubt we'd get as much demands for PUNISHMENT!1!11 or "Punch me harder, Daddy" jokes. At this point, we'll just agree to disagree. We're talking past each other. I have faith that all of your complaints with U16 Bra will be addressed in the story eventually. U18 and U16 have had limited interaction since the beginning of the story. There's a reason for that.

ltsarge:

I'd be happy to argue at length over female portrayals vs male, so if u'd like to merge some of this over to a new thread that be fine with me.

Me: Hopefully, they don’t do that. Not because I think they’ll lose any argument or whatever you’d have with them, but out of the fact that whenever they DO point out flaws in your arguments and show you evidence you’ll just conveniently ignore them. You’re def. not someone worth conversing with.

Me: And seriously, why would you liked their last post to you?

prphd and ltsarge like this

Me: I mean with the way you went after them, I’d rather they didn’t get a like from you let alone anything else (although, this could be your way of respecting your opponent or whatever you would refer to them as, still, it doesn’t make it any less awkward seeing as how antagonistic you had been towards that person, a stranger no less...who you try to inject your thoughts and feelings towards while replying to their post when it wasn’t warranted).

Me: And some Anti-SJWs wonder, bitterly, on why some social justice advocates don’t take them seriously. Let alone obligate themselves to even talk things out with them.

[resistancebed]

The IQ of a Sandfly and the Ethics of a Guttersnipe: Our International Standing is Fucked

I’m thrilled DJT’s approval ratings remain at historic lows, but each day he’s in office, the longer it will take to restore America’s standing on the international stage. 

Would you negotiate with us or listen to a damned thing we say, knowing a neo-Nazi white supremacist Jabba the Hutt lookalike sits on our National Security Council? That DJT and Scott Pruitt and, apparently, the entire GOP believe climate change is a hoax and that the U.S. should renege on the Paris Accord? That we’re relentlessly targeting over half our citizens?

The midterm elections are 20 months away and the GOP will get sunk by the Orange Albatross but, my god, look at the damage this administration has wrought at home and abroad in a mere 52 days.

Are we still a superpower? 

Will we ever be one again?

[ericfruits]

Donald Trump sacks Rex Tillerson

IT WAS announced, like so many of the president’s big decisions, in a tweet. “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job”, wrote Donald Trump on the morning of March 13th. “Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!” Mr Trump, who appears not to have warned Mr Tillerson of his impending removal, also announced that Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA would replace Mr Pompeo, becoming the first woman in that role. “Congratulations to all!”

What did for Mr Tillerson? In a subsequent press conference, the president said they “got along actually quite well. But we disagreed on things.” There had been a significant illustration of this the previous day, after Mr Tillerson strongly condemned the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain last week. The then secretary of state, like the British government, blamed the Kremlin. “It came from Russia,” he said on March 12th. “I cannot understand why anyone would take such an action. But this is a substance that is known to us and does not exist widely.” Mr Trump, in what seemed like a remarkable lack of support for one of America’s closest allies, had at that time said nothing on the attack.

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This was part of a longstanding pattern. Mr Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon-Mobil, had long seemed unimpressed by Mr Trump (he refused to deny reports that he had called him a “fucking moron”) and disagreed with most of his big foreign policy judgments. For example, Mr Tillerson had urged Mr Trump not to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, or to back Saudi Arabia’s campaign against Qatar, or to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, all of which Mr Trump has done. He had also argued against decertifying the Iran civil-nuclear agreement, which in his absence seems increasingly likely. But perhaps more damagingly to his relationship with Mr Trump, who prizes loyalty above all, Mr Tillerson also distanced himself from the president’s equivocating remarks on the white supremacists who protested in Charlottesville last August. Mr Trump said there were some “very fine people” among them. Mr Tillerson, when asked if he shared that viewed, said: the president “speaks for himself”.  

This might have made Mr Tillerson a hero to the establishment foreign policy types whose views he appeared largely to share. But unfortunately Mr Tillerson’s broadly sensible instincts on policy were not matched by his record as America’s chief diplomat. His diplomatic forays were leaden-footed; his personal efforts to broker an agreement between Qatar and its rivals was ill-prepared and a failure. His efforts as the state department’s chief executive were worse; Mr Tillerson accepted the administration’s demand for a massive cut in its budget (Congress did not) and launched a reorganisation of the department which appears to have succeeded mostly in driving out some of its top talent. Morale among America’s diplomats is at an all-time low. Mr Tillerson’s execution of his third main duty, as explainer-in-chief of American foreign policy, was even worse. He hated speaking to journalists and during his first year in the job, rarely did so.

He was not helped by the way Mr Trump repeatedly undermined him. The president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was permitted to claim some of the most important parts of his portfolio, including America’s relations with China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. And worse, Mr Trump was fond of issuing tweets about Mr Tillerson’s performance. After Mr Tillerson suggested he had a several lines of communication into North Korea—a basis, perhaps for opening negotiations—Mr Trump tweeted that he was “wasting his time”. After Mr Tillerson refused to issue an explicit denial of “morongate”, Mr Trump suggested the two men took IQ tests—“and I can tell you who’s going to win”. To be fair, it is arguable that Mr Trump undermined himself more in this case.

Mr Tillerson’s exit been expected for several months. In November the New York Times reported on a leaked plan to replace him with Mr Pompeo. Still, his sacking appears to have surprised Mr Tillerson. A state department spokesman said he had not been alerted to it beforehand and did not know why he had been fired. “The secretary had every intention of staying because of the critical progress made in national security,” he said in a surprisingly spiky statement. Officials at the White House told reporters that Mr Trump wanted Mr Tillerson gone in order to get a new team in place before talks with Kim Jong Un that the president hopes to hold by May.

Mr Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, seems to rub along with Mr Trump more successfully. As CIA director he was a frequent presence at the White House and seems to have made this one of his top priorities. Though he has disagreed with the president—notably, Mr Pompeo has maintained that Russia sought to influence the general election in 2016, though he was criticised for saying this had not altered its outcome—he is likely to be more supportive of Mr Trump’s “America First” view of the world than Mr Tillerson was. The two men “are almost always on the same wavelength”, the president said on March 13th. If that is even half-right, it is worrying.

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The list of prominent figures who have been sent pipe bombs this week expanded to include former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro on Thursday, intensifying the political firestorm around an ongoing federal investigation into who is responsible.

At least 10 suspicious packages containing explosive devices have been sent to well-known Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, former presidential candidate and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and prominent liberal critics of President Donald Trump. Many of the intended recipients also happen to be frequent targets of the president and his supporters.

None of the devices exploded and no one was injured, but a manhunt is currently underway for the suspect or suspects. Federal law enforcement officials said the devices were all sent in similar packaging, and most were intercepted by screeners or investigators before they reached their intended targets.

In response to the news, Trump urged unity in a statement on Wednesday and condemned “acts or threats” of political violence — but on Twitter the next day, he blamed the media for inciting anger.

Though the story is still developing, the incidents have called into focus the heated political rhetoric consuming the country as it prepares for the approaching 2018 midterm elections.

Here’s what you need to know to get caught up.

On Monday, an employee at the Westchester, New York, home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a major donor to Democratic causes and a frequent target of right-wing conspiracy theorists, discovered a suspicious package in Soros’s mailbox. Law enforcement officials later confirmed it was a bomb.

Two days later, the FBI confirmed that packages containing bombs were sent to the home of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York, and to the office of former President Barack Obama in Washington, DC.

Later that day, CNN’s offices in Manhattan were evacuated after a suspicious package was delivered to its studio. A dramatic scene played out as a fire alarm went off while the media outlet was broadcasting the news.

New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at a press conference on Wednesday that the package sent to CNN contained what appeared to be “a live explosive device.” Investigators also discovered white powder inside the package found at CNN, but assistant FBI Director William Sweeney said Thursday at a press conference that authorities determined it “did not present a biological threat.”

Adding to the confusion, FBI officials later confirmed that the package sent to CNN had been addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, who is a contributor to MSNBC and NBC. Brennan, whose security clearance was revoked by Trump in August, has been an outspoken critic of the president.

Another suspicious package was sent to Eric Holder, the US attorney general under Obama, but the parcel was misaddressed, and it was instead delivered to the office of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — whose name was listed as the return address on all the packages.

The FBI also confirmed that two packages containing bombs had been mailed to California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom Trump routinely attacks at his rallies. One was intercepted at a congressional mail sorting facility outside of Washington, DC, and the other was uncovered at a mail sorting facility in South Los Angeles.

On Thursday morning, New York police received a call that a suspicious package had been sent to the production offices of actor Robert De Niro in Tribeca. De Niro had delivered an anti-Trump speech at the Tony Awards ceremony in June, which he punctuated with the statement, “Fuck Trump.”

John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said Thursday at a press conference that a retired detective was watching the news and saw an image of one of the devices sent to other officials, and he realized that it resembled a package that had been received at De Niro’s office on Tuesday. The retired detective contacted the NYPD, which found that the package contained a suspected pipe bomb.

That same day, investigators intercepted two packages at a Delaware mail facility that were intended for former Vice President Joe Biden. At least one of the packages addressed to Biden was in the process of being rerouted to Schultz’s office in Florida, according to the New York Times. The packages discovered Thursday “appeared similar” to those found earlier in the week, the FBI said.

All of the packages sent to prominent figures this week consisted of yellow manila envelopes lined with bubble wrap and plastered with half a dozen “Forever” postage stamps.

The address and return labels were printed, and the Schultz’s office was listed as the return address on all of the packages, though her name was misspelled “DEBBIE WASSERMAN SHULTZ.”

The bomb delivered to CNN was adorned with a parody of the ISIS flag, which included the phrase “Get Er Done,” according to NBC News. It’s a right-wing meme that has circulated on the internet for several years.

An image on the explosive device sent to former CIA Dir. John Brennan appears to be a parody of an ISIS flag taken from a meme that has been circulating on right-wing corners of the internet since 2014. https://t.co/Jt3PCUcLQb

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 25, 2018

It’s not quite clear yet why the bombs did not explode; they could have been intended to go off but were intercepted, they could have malfunctioned, or they could have been dummies just sent as a threat. (The FBI has described the bombs as “potentially destructive devices.”)

All the packages will be analyzed for evidence in the FBI labs in Quantico, Virginia, and a national manhunt is on for the suspect or suspects. An unnamed federal law enforcement source told Reuters that the investigation is focusing on leads in Florida, but officials have not publicly confirmed.

The White House was quick to respond to early reports that suspicious packages had been sent to high-profile Democrats, including a former president and a former presidential candidate. Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, condemned the “attempted violent attacks” in a statement and called them “terrorizing acts” that are “despicable.”

Trump’s first comment on the packages came after Vice President Mike Pence issued a statement condemning the attempted attacks. Trump retweeted the veep’s statement with the comment, “I agree wholeheartedly!”

Later on Wednesday, at a signing for bipartisan opioid legislation at the White House, Trump addressed the incidents directly, calling for unity and saying that “acts of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.” He did not mention by name any of the people who had received packages, however.

Trump also had a rally scheduled in Wisconsin on Wednesday night, which he kicked off in an uncharacteristically staid manner. “Any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself,” he told the crowd. “No nation can succeed that tolerates violence or the threat of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion, or control.”

But it didn’t take long for Trump to veer back into campaign mode. After calling for unity, he unleashed an attack on the media. The press, he said, has a “responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories.”

Trump amplified his criticism Thursday morning with another, more pointed attack. He blamed journalists for fomenting anger and spreading “purposefully false” stories. “Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!” he tweeted.

A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

Many of the intended recipients of these bombs have been vocal opponents of the president. They’ve also featured prominently in Trump’s relentless attacks on Democrats.

Cheers of “lock her up” or “Crooked Hillary” can still be heard at most of Trump’s rallies (and even happened on Wednesday night). Trump frequently bashes Rep. Waters, saying she has a “low IQ.” And he has peddled conspiracy theories about Soros financing anti-Brett Kavanaugh protesters.

However, Sanders, speaking to reporters outside the White House on Thursday, pushed back on the idea that Trump’s rhetoric may have instigated these attempted attacks.

“The president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone, no more than Bernie Sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting up a Republican baseball field practice last year,” she said.

Meanwhile, some of Trump’s most ardent right-wing supporters have peddled a “false flag” conspiracy theory — that these attempted attacks were somehow orchestrated by Democrats to sway the public against Trump.

But most Republican and Democratic officials and lawmakers roundly condemned the attempted attacks, renewed calls for civility in political discourse, and credited law enforcement for their quick responses.

Republicans have so far largely avoided chastising Trump for his incendiary rhetoric, though some Democratic leaders have. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying that they held the president at least somewhat responsible. “Time and time again, the president has condoned physical violence and divided Americans with his words and his actions,” the statement said.

The attempted attacks, coming just two weeks before the midterm elections, have left politicians and the public on edge. How they will play in the elections, and how the president and politicians will respond, is still unclear — though unity seems far off.

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Omarosa says Trump is a racist who uses N-word – and claims there’s tape to prove it

Former Apprentice contestant and ex-White House adviser writes in new memoir that she witnessed ‘truly appalling things’

Former Apprentice contestant and ex-White House adviser writes in new memoir that she witnessed ‘truly appalling things’

Donald Trump is a “racist” who has used the “N-word” repeatedly, Omarosa Manigault Newman, once the most prominent African American in the White House, claims in a searing memoir.

The future US president was caught on mic uttering the taboo racial slur “multiple times” during the making of his reality TV show The Apprentice and there is a tape to prove it, according to Manigault Newman, citing three unnamed sources.

Trump has been haunted from around the time of his election in 2016 by allegations that outtakes from the reality TV show exist in which he is heard saying the N-word and using other offensive language.

In her book, Unhinged, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian ahead of its publication next week, the former Apprentice participant insists that the reports are true, although she does not say she heard him use the word herself.

She also claims that she personally witnessed Trump use racial epithets about the White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway, who is half Filipino. “Would you look at this George Conway article?” she quotes the president as saying. “F**ing FLIP! Disloyal! Fucking Goo-goo.”

Both flip and goo-goo are terms of racial abuse for Filipinos.

Critics have previously questioned Manigault Newman’s credibility and are likely to accuse her of seeking revenge against the administration after her abrupt dismissal last December.

At the time, she writes, she felt a “growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot and a misogynist. My certainty about the N-word tape and his frequent uses of that word were the top of a high mountain of truly appalling things I’d experienced with him, during the last two years in particular.”

Recalling her sudden and unceremonious departure, she writes: “It had finally sunk in that the person I’d thought I’d known so well for so long was actually a racist. Using the N-word was not just the way he talks but, more disturbing, it was how he thought of me and African Americans as a whole.”

Trump hosted NBC’s The Apprentice from 2004-2015 before running for the presidency and still likes to laud his high ratings.

His insurgent election campaign was rocked in October 2016 by the release of an Access Hollywood tape in which he bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy”. The media firestorm prompted Bill Pruitt, a producer on the first two seasons of The Apprentice, to tweet that there were “far worse” tapes of Trump behind the scenes of the show.

Further allegations emerged that Trump had used the N-word in the recordings. Then, following the New York property tycoon’s shocking victory over Hillary Clinton, the actor and comedian Tom Arnold claimed to have the video of Trump using racist language.

The White House staffer Kellyanne Conway and former aides Hope Hicks and Omarosa Manigault Newman at a press briefing last year. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

“I have the outtakes to The Apprentice where he says every bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever,” Arnold told the Seattle-based radio station KIRO. “It was him sitting in that chair saying the N-word, saying the C-word, calling his son a retard, just being so mean to his own children.”

But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which owns the rights to the reality TV show, and its British creator, Mark Burnett, have resisted pressure to release the footage because of “various contractual and legal requirements”.

Once close to Trump, Manigault Newman was among his most high-profile supporters during the election campaign and drew a top salary of $179,700 as director of communications for the White House office of public liaison. She held her April 2017 wedding at Trump’s luxury hotel, close to the White House.

Hers is the second memoir from a former Trump administration member, following that of the ex-press secretary Sean Spicer, but it was always expected to be less adulatory. This week the Daily Beast reported that she had secretly recorded conversations with the president and “leveraged” this while seeking a book deal. On Sunday she is due to appear on NBC’s flagship political show Meet the Press.

Some commentators have struck a note of scepticism about her book. Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent at CNN, wrote in an email newsletter: “Is former ‘Apprentice’ star Omarosa Manigault-Newmana reliable source of info about the Trump White House? Buckle up for debates about that in the coming week. Because she’s about to betray Trump in a new tell-all book.”

For its part, the White House has previously dismissed criticisms from her. In February the deputy press secretary, Raj Shah, said: “Omarosa was fired three times on The Apprentice and this was the fourth time we let her go. She had limited contact with the president while here. She has no contact now.”

In the book, she recalls how in late 2016 Trump’s team held a conference call and scrambled for how to respond to the tape but it never came out. Then a source from The Apprentice contacted her and claimed to be in possession of it. Trump was in office and Manigault Newman continued to investigate. Advertisement

She continues: “By that point, three sources in three separate conversations had described the contents of this tape. They all told me that President Trump hadn’t just dropped a single N-word bomb. He’d said it multiple times throughout the show’s taping during off-camera outtakes, particularly during the first season of The Apprentice.”

Recalling that she appeared on the first season, Manigault Newman reflects: “I would look like the biggest imbecile alive for supporting a man who used that word.” She says she confided in the former White House communications director Hope Hicks, who said, “I need to hear it for myself,” and continued to ask her frequently about what progress she was making.

She believes that Hicks told the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, that Omarosa was close to getting her hands on the tape, and this gave him cause to terminate her job, though he found a different pretext.

Four months after her departure, she spoke by phone to one of her Apprentice sources. “I was told exactly what Donald Trump said – yes, the N-word and others in a classic Trump-goes-nuclear rant – and when he’s said them. During production he was miked, and there is definitely an audio track.”

Manigault Newman also recalls her interactions with Trump during the filming of The Celebrity Apprentice in late 2007 – a time when the little known Democrat Barack Obama was in the ascendent. “During boardroom outtakes, Donald talked about Obama often. He hated him. He never explained why, but now I believe it was because Obama was black.”

In January, Trump was widely condemned for reportedly dismissing Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shitholes”. Manigault Newman describes a similar experience that appears to support that account. When she told Trump that she was going to Haiti, she writes, he demanded: “Why did you choose that shitty country as your first foreign trip?”

He added: “You should have waited until the confirmations were done and gone to Scotland and played golf at [his course] Turnberry.”

In another damning passage, she describes his “broken outlook” and how “the bricks in his racist wall kept getting higher”, wondering if he did “want to start a race war”. She adds: “The only other explanation was that his mental state was so deteriorated that the filter between the worst impulses of his mind and his mouth were completely gone.”

The book comes days after Trump faced renewed allegations of racism over his persistent descriptions of the congresswoman Maxine Waters as having a “low IQ” and CNN journalist Don Lemon as “the dumbest man on television”, as well as criticism of the basketball star LeBron James. This weekend marks the first anniversary of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted in deadly violence; the president claimed there were “very fine people on both sides”.

Elsewhere in Unhinged, published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Manigault Newman takes aim at Trump’s sexism. Recalling more outtakes from The Apprentice, she says he asked personal questions about female contestants such as “What do you think she’s like in bed?” and “Do you think she’s sexy?” He allegedly asked male contestants: “Who you think would be better in bed between the two of them?”

Asked about the allegations in Manigault Newman’s book, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said: “Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations.

“It’s sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks, and even worse that the media would now give her a platform, after not taking her seriously when she had only positive things to say about the president during her time in the administration.”

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