Random Pish-Posh And Dribblety-Poop #12

It's you accusing me of being a troll and then disappearing for awhile on the boards for a bit then me responding by say goodbye we don't all have a ton of free time like you appearently seem to. Granted I was wrong on you still being employed at at previous job you had mentioned.

The reason I consider you a trump supporter KN is that a) you've said you're voting for him and b) you stand up for him as recent as the last page saying that he isn't treated as fairly as Clinton... I don't consider myself a Clinton supporter because I refuse to vote for her and I also agree that she should at the very least step down from running... I keep hoping someone will nail her with something so that all these congressional hearings wouldn't be a waste of time and money...

Trump was never that low on credit or funds and a lot of the money he lost wasn't his...

Regardless running a business is nothing like running your own company...

What use of inflammatory rhetoric towards minority groups are you talking about?

There wasn't an implication, there are refugees that are raping and degrading women. It is part of their culture which clashes with ours. I'm not branding all refugees as rapist but the fact that there are some that are is worrisome.

There are definitely some things that neither candidate has released specifics of in their platform. I find that argument pretty weak.

What use of inflammatory rhetoric towards minority groups are you talking about?

You keep describing rape as an aspect of the culture based on... what exactly? Just stop.

I don't know where you're getting this millions figure. The most that Obama has committed to is 10k and we're way behind in that goal already.

There's no comparison between the two platforms. Trump has nothing other than vague ideas with no explanation on how they would be accomplished. (Mexico is paying for his wall why again?) Hillary has posted a lot of detailed info on her website with specifically stated steps and proposed legislation to make things happen.

Look up his comments on Mexicans. Look at how he's categorized Muslims. Look at how he attributes the Democratic black voter base to welfare dependence.

raping It is part of their culture

Why not give me quotes not pulled out of context or warped to prove a point? Every time I've heard these arguments it has either been:

A. Taken out of context.
B. Warped to fit a narrative
C. From several years ago
D. From an un-creditable source who is usually upset at Trump for some reasn or another.

I even linked an article that explained how most of these quotes are taken out of context or wrong. Has he said some terrible things? Yes and probably more then we know about, but do you really think Hillary doesn't say horrible things?

So you criticize others for coming to Hilary's rescue and making excuses for her then you come and making excuses for Donald and your best one is well he might say some bad things but you think Hillary doesn't either?

Where's Rav when you need him to call someone a hypocrite?!

Extremely ignorant statement.

So you criticize others for coming to Hilary's rescue and making excuses for her then you come and making excuses for Donald and your best one is well he might say some bad things but you think Hillary doesn't either?

Where's Rav when you need him to call someone a hypocrite?!

Did you even read it? It's laughable at best, it's not a plan. All this is going to do is cripple the american economy.

Raping is literally a part of some cultures. It isn't that hard to accept. Your statement is the ignorant one. You think all cultures share the same values as yours?

Did you even read it? It's laughable at best, it's not a plan. All this is going to do is cripple the american economy.

You think all cultures share the same values as yours?

You are so obsessed with being politically correct according to our culture that you completely ignore aspects of other cultures.

I don't consider a poorly formatted notepad document to be a plan. I have higher standards.

Matt Drudge, author of the conservative media site DrudgeReport.com, is being ridiculed over his tweets in advance of Hurricane Matthew's arrival in Florida.

Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning, the conservative firebrand took to Twitter to imply that the storm might not be as powerful as government officials say it is.

First he tweeted: "The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate."

Drudge was apparently referring to Hillary Clinton's description of some of Donald Trump's supporters as "deplorables."

Just a few minutes later, Drudge wrote: "Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?"

The National Hurricane Center is a division of the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

And in the wee hours of Friday morning, Drudge tweeted, "Don't Blame Mother Nature. Blame Mankind..." with an unflattering photo of a windswept Clinton and a link to an article on the website ClimateDepot.com. The Climate Depot article downplays a possible link between extreme weather and climate change.

As NPR has previously reported, officials have urged or ordered millions of Americans along the storm's path to head inland. In Haiti, where Matthew landed as a Category 4 storm, at least 280 people were killed, according to local officials.

Since Drudge's tweets questioning the severity of the storm and official warnings about it, he's drawn sharp rebuke. Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison tweeted, "So irresponsible. If you are in the path of Hurricane Matthew, do not listen to this man! Stay safe!"

Greg Fishel, chief meteorologist of WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., tweeted: "Whatever respect I had for Drudge, which was minimal to start with, was destroyed with this tweet. How insanely asinine can one be?"

Others on social media suggested Drudge go to Florida himself, to really find out just how dangerous Matthew might be.

Drudge's tweets tap into a sentiment held by some that climate change is not real, a view at odds with the overwhelming consensus of scientists. Trump, the Republican Party's nominee for president, has said several times that climate change is a hoax. Trump tweeted that it was a myth created by the Chinese, though later said he was joking. (As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reported, 2016 seems to have been a year full of conspiracy theories, and they've been very hard to shake.)

And at a campaign event Thursday night, Trump urged people to stay safe and praised Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott for his leadership as the storm nears. He even offered a sort of warning to those in its path, "It looks like it's a big one and it looks like it's going to be a bad one, it looks like. Hopefully it takes that right turn."

Maybe she forgot about fratboy culture they're super rapey

Shortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump’s business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it.

Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. It’s better controlled now than it has been during other parts of my life, but not completely—my neurologist tells me I have intractable epilepsy, meaning treatment will never bring the condition fully under control. I know how people—particularly children—with seizures suffer when uninformed idiots suggest they should impose limits of their lives or quell their aspirations. So when Fox News blowhard and college dropout Sean Hannity practically drooled in delight this election season as he falsely proclaimed that Hillary Clinton suffered from seizures based on her acting goofy in a short video clip, it infuriated me. I knew how his message would be heard—people with seizures look ridiculous, they should be afraid of others laughing at them, they should listen to the voices telling them they can’t do what they want (even be president). And so I raged at Hannity in the pages of Newsweek, on cable television news shows and on Twitter.

A couple of weeks later, after my article about how Trump’s business interests would create a conflict of unprecedented proportions, I received a tweet from someone with the twitter handle “Mike's Deplorable AF.” Like many Trump supporters, he has chosen to identify himself as deplorable to mock the label once used by Clinton to describe the racists, neo-Nazis, homophobes and like who have crawled out of the sewer to cheer for the Republican nominee. Mike, however, is indeed deplorable.

In his tweet, which has since been deleted, Mike made mention of my seizures and included a small video. It contained images of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has been identified by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol. I was carrying my iPad, looking at the still image on the video and, without thinking, touched the PLAY button.

The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. It’s what’s called epileptogenic—something that triggers seizures. Fortunately, since I was standing, I simply dropped my iPad to the ground the second I realized what Mike had done. It landed face down on the bathroom floor.

The deplorables are real. The deplorables are dangerous.

Because I have written critically about Trump, I have received innumerable death threats, sometimes just general invocations that I should die, sometimes more specific threats that I should be shot or “lynched,” as one Trump fan wrote. I have been called “kike,” “Jew” and “anti-American Zionist,” even though I’m Episcopalian with a Jewish father (as if that makes a difference). I have received video cartoons that look like they are from Nazi Germany of hook-nosed men dressed in Jewish garb rubbing their hands greedily over piles of money. I have been told to go back where I came from, whatever that means. I have been called “***,” “pedo,” and once—in an email that made no sense—“***-lover.” One Trump fan mentioned he knew which schools my children attended, and correctly named them. Topping it off, some Trump fans have even gone after one of my sons online, although he knew enough to immediately block them.

My family has been through this before—it is sometimes a consequence of writing about controversial topics—but this is the first time we have discussed whether I should continue investigating an issue. All of them agreed I should stay on this story— since Trump won’t release much information about himself, digging up everything that can be found before the election is important for the country. But why is this even a discussion? We do not live in a third-world nation where journalists who report unpleasant realities are in danger. While I believe that most of these threats—except for Mike’s—are from internet blowhards, why does my family even have to wonder about this? And why am I convinced that, just by writing this article, Mike will get lots of new Twitter followers and praise from profoundly evil people?

I am far from the only journalist exposed to the bottom-feeders among Trump supporters who traffic in violence, threats, racism and anti-Semitism. In a tweet, Charles Blow, an African-American columnist for The New York Times who has been harshly critical of Trump both in the newspaper and on television, told me he is bombarded with racist fury through email. Katy Tur of NBC reported in an article in Marie Claire that she had to be escorted out of a Trump rally in December by Secret Service to protect her from raging Trump supporters who had sicced on her by their candidate. She was also the primary subject of a death threat two weeks later on Twitter.

“MAYBE A FEW JOURNALISTS DO NEED TO BE WHACKED,” the tweet from someone with the handle GuyScott33 read. “MAYBE THEN THEYD STOP BEI[N]G BIASED HACKS. KILL EM ALL STARTING W/ KATY TUR.”

There are more. According to The Daily Beast, Bethany Mandel, a conservative essayist who has written about her opposition to Trump, had been so violently attacked on social media that she felt compelled to purchase a gun for protection. Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, received an email telling him he would be sent to “a camp” when Trump wins. After she published an article in GQ about Melania Trump, Julia Ioffe, a Jewish journalist, received death threats by phone and email, and tweets showing vile images such as an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jewish man on his knees being shot in the back of the head; she filed a police report. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of The New York Times, tweeted a link to a Washington Post opinion piece that was harshly critical of the Trump phenomenon. The vicious attacks on Weisman, who is Jewish, came quickly.

“Get used to it you *** kike,’’ tweeted one of the deplorables who goes by the handle “deplorable basket weave.” “You people will be made to pay for the violence and fraud you've committed against us.”

This is not an unavoidable consequence of a contentious political campaign. This is exceptional, a circumstance brought about by the gutter rants of Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn the racists, neo-Nazis and other deplorables who support him. That our country has reached this point, where the line between modern American political supporters and Hitler’s brownshirts is becoming thinner by the day, is unacceptable. That GOP candidates have stood by and allowed this ugliness to flourish without aggressively condemning their candidate for what he has set loose, simply because they are seeking re-election or fear losing their jobs at the mid-terms, will stain the Republican Party for decades.

I write this knowing that it will spur more vile and violent online attacks on me. I have warned my children and my wife to be extra careful. And now that I have revealed how easy it is to inflict an injury on me, until this election is over, I will not be pushing PLAY on any unsolicited video I receive. It’s simply too dangerous.

Maybe she forgot about fratboy culture they're super rapey

I insist you are very ignorant if you think rape is a problem of syrian culture.

A) Congratulations for discovering the quote feature.

B) He didn't say anything hypocritical.....

Once again you pull assumptions out of your ***. You really need to stop doing that.

This is a very stupid sentence that is not even correct.

I insist you are very ignorant if you think rape is a problem of syrian, or muslim culture. Are you aware that some people from other cultures tend to think it's the west that has a rape culture? It's a humanitarian global problem, a huge and diffused one too.

It's a humanitarian global problem, a huge and diffused one too.

HOW DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS

HOW DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS

Syrians are extra rapey? I've never heard that one...

Parroting now...when I thought the intellectual level of the posters here couldn't get any lower I find myself surprised once again.

Look at you taking little shots here even when you said you don't insult people earlier today...

If you think hes not being hypocritical then you probably don't understand what the word means... I thought Rav was the only one that didn't...