Pretty much the pattern I saw from right on social media too. It doesn’t entirely feel coordinated this time, which is a bit odd, but I suppose “lie and dissemble about your responsibility and also double-down on the slurs while making an appeal to decorum” is probably second nature for most of them.

It’ll be worse. There’s a difference between Trump winking at violent extremists and what Trump did in North Carolina, which is more unfiltered fascism. The former will influence less to act than the latter, though it’s likely in the latter case most violence will still non-lethal.

This ends with violence, period. There’s no way it doesn’t. The GOP and the right-wing media ecosystem are already cheering all this on. I just saw some spineless worm from Fox claim the chant is “awful” and then provide a way to promote the same racist smears with a more polite veneer, which tells you exactly what…

OANN is basically “some crazy nut from Twitter but with a TV network” so I’m actually not surprised. They traffic in that kind of meme misinformation pretty regularly. 

Who let this racist gutter-troll out of the greys? Seriously? This racist cretin deserves nothing but to be dismissed. Of bloody course he’d promote the racist conspiracy theory.

You know, I feel like this is a place where I can ask this and maybe actually get an answer, but can someone explain to me why JRPGs and animes more broadly seem to love using the Irish plural for cats, “cait”. I’ve noticed it at least three times, not pronounced the Irish way but spelled that way, but weirdly not…

He probably saw it on the Twitter timeline of “MAGAloveTrump#DEPORTTHEMALL!345758".

I suppose the guy sending nakedly racist mailers and defending that action repeatedly probably hoped he could get away with sullying the name of the Marines to boost his own pathetic credibility.

There’s a pretty near-zero chance it was the Houthis operating there. They’re a Yemeni group. You’d have a better shot at it being Hezbollah since they have more international experience. But it was most likely Iran. I doubt any of the GCC nations hostile to Iran could pull off the cover-up. 

None of that is an actual threat to the United States. They’re hostile actions, but intentionally low-level ones that have a very low risk of escalation.

There’s been a lot of chatter that Trump is tired of Bolton, but at the same time there’s a lot of that chatter for nearly everyone, even spineless types like Mulvaney, so it’s hard to say for certain. 

Busing was always the “this is a complicated and problematic policy but the best way after exhausting a thousand other options denied by white racism and their political allies” choice. It was not the primary choice. It did a good job, for a time, of desegregating schools. Eventually busing largely failed too, as the…

When they’re drummed out they just go back to lobbying or Heritage (or similarly useless ideological outfits). Most of the people who have left his administration, those who haven’t joined some PAC or campaign arm for him (which is how he rewards loyal followers who were forced out for scandals/corruption, a lot of…

There’s such a confluence of bigotries here. Misogyny, anti-immigrant hate, anti-Muslim bigotry, outright white nationalism, and in a few cases fairly unsubtle white supremacy. Every vile ideology of the far-right is now essentially the mainstream right, as shown by how few in the GOP are willing to speak even soft…

Seems like Republicans will confirm him, there will be some scandal either relating to his history as a right-wing ideologue or as a lobbyist, he’ll lose all real influence in the administration, and then a few weeks or months later Trump will give him the boot, like he always does.

I’ve seen some of that, my grandparents took one wondering if the family stories about Native American blood were true (the results weren’t super conclusive, my grandmother probably has a statistically significant amount but I don’t) or things like that, but I see a lot of people going into this blank and treating it…

Yeah, I think that’s a misread or a mistake. Looks to me like she’s praising her for not sugar-coating it. 

A few of them are outright supporting it. Perdue from Georgia was one. My rep, Andy Harris of MD was another. They’re terrified to contradict Trump because in right-wing media the slurs he’s using are effectively a daily occurrence. I think they know most people find it abhorrent, but they also know the rabid base…

This is smart, both in substance and in PR/optics. When the President screeches bigoted things about you it’s tempting to punch back, and sometimes probably the right response, but I think this time taking a more measured root, making broad appeals, undercuts his smears best. Racists will still think you’re…

Wasn’t a literal example, I didn’t want to discuss her results here. I’m fairly certain it was a sample problem anyway.