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10-05-2017 , 08:48 PM

#60901

goofyballer

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Originally Posted by 13ball

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephberns...bW5#.rcV0BV4xy

Amazing Buzzfeed article on how Breitbart, Bannon and Milo courted white nationalists.

Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Yup. A must read.

For the next time someone says Breitbart/Milo aren't racist:

Quote:

“Subtle truth bomb,” [white nationalist] Saucier responded via email to the sentence “Britain, like Israel and other high-IQ, high-skilled economies, will thrive on its own.” (IQ differences among races are a fixation of American Renaissance.)

“I’m easing everyone in gently,” Yiannopoulos responded.

“Probably beats my ‘bite the pillow, I’m going in dry’ strategy,” Saucier wrote back.

10-05-2017 , 08:50 PM

#60902

Paul D

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

LOL

I just read Pence wants to go to the moon. Conservatives asshats are the easiest to con.

10-05-2017 , 08:53 PM

#60903

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

For the next time someone says Breitbart/Milo aren't racist:

This is best summation of Breitbart's strategy

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Indeed, a major part of Yiannopoulos’s role within Breitbart was aggressively testing limits around racial and anti-Semitic discourse. As far as this went, his opaque organization-with-an-organization structure and crowdsourced ideation and writing processes served Breitbart’s purposes perfectly: They offered upper management a veil of plausible deniability — as long as no one saw the emails BuzzFeed News obtained. In August 2016, a Yiannopoulos staffer sent a “Milo” story by Bokhari directly to Bannon and Marlow for approval.

“Please don’t forward chains like that showing the sausage being made,” Yiannopoulos wrote back. “Everyone knows; but they don’t have to be reminded every time.”

By Yiannopoulos’s own admission, maintaining a sufficiently believable distance from overt racists and white nationalists was crucial to the machine he had helped Bannon build. As his profile rose, he attracted hordes of blazingly racist social media followers — the kind of people who harassed the black Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones so severely on Twitter that the platform banned Yiannopoulos for encouraging them.

“Protip on handling the endless tide of 1488 scum,” Curtis Yarvin, the neoreactionary thinker, wrote to Yiannopoulos in November 2015. (“1488” is a ubiquitous white supremacist slogan; “88” stands for “Heil Hitler.”) “Deal with them the way some perfectly tailored high-communist NYT reporter handles a herd of greasy anarchist hippies. Patronizing contempt. Your heart is in the right place, young lady, now get a shower and shave those pits. The liberal doesn’t purge the communist because he hates communism, he purges the communist because the communist is a public embarrassment to him. … It’s not that he sees enemies to the left, just that he sees losers to the left, and losers rub off.”

10-05-2017 , 09:28 PM

#60904

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PEE TAPES!

Robert Mueller's team met with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele

10-05-2017 , 09:34 PM

#60905

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Worth recalling Bannon's comments during his "hot mic" (not really) discussion with the left wing reporter for American Prospect. He referred to the white supremacists at Charlottesville in those exact terms.

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I asked Bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s reluctance to condemn it. Bannon, after all, was the architect of the strategy of using Breitbart to heat up white nationalism and then rely on the radical right as Trump’s base.

He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe element.I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.”

“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.

This wasn't Bannon's come to Jesus moment. He wasn't disavowing white supremacy. He was merely expressing distaste for this particular form of it, which he sees as a political liability. Put those same protesters in dress shirts (several at the same time, why not) and get them writing articles about how urban crime plays into the hands of the globalist media, and now you're speaking his language. He won't call you a loser then.

10-05-2017 , 09:34 PM

#60906

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(...) this summer

10-05-2017 , 09:45 PM

#60907

Namath12

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Originally Posted by zikzak

PEE TAPES!

Robert Mueller's team met with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele

Maybe this is what Dump was talking about at the photo op

10-05-2017 , 09:52 PM

#60908

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

PEE TAPES!

Robert Mueller's team met with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele

Would a pee tape even finish trump at this point? How is it worse than anything he's already done?

10-05-2017 , 10:09 PM

#60909

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it would

hes been screaming his lungs out for a year that russia is a HOAXXX

10-05-2017 , 10:14 PM

#60910

13ball

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There are so many nuggets in that Buzzfeed Milo piece, but even his passwords were inspired by Nazis:

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In an April 6 email, Allum Bokhari mentioned having had access to an account of Yiannopoulos’s with “a password that began with the word Kristall.” Kristallnacht, an infamous 1938 riot against German Jews carried out by the SA — the paramilitary organization that helped Hitler rise to power — is sometimes considered the beginning of the Holocaust. In a June 2016 email to an assistant, Yiannopoulos shared the password to his email, which began “LongKnives1290.” The Night of the Long Knives was the Nazi purge of the leadership of the SA. The purge famously included Ernst Röhm, the SA’s gay leader. 1290 is the year King Edward I expelled the Jews from England.

10-05-2017 , 10:17 PM

#60911

ScreaminAsian

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FEMA removes statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from website

10-05-2017 , 10:24 PM

#60912

Clovis8

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It would be so American for a pee tape to take down Trump. Sex shaming is the only thing that takes down American politicians.

10-05-2017 , 10:34 PM

#60913

master3004

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

What the **** is wrong with this piece of ****?

10-05-2017 , 10:41 PM

#60914

Max Cut

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

FEMA removes statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from website

FDT

10-05-2017 , 10:44 PM

#60915

Max Cut

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

What is that from? White, very white.

10-05-2017 , 10:53 PM

#60916

PoppaTMan

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

It would be so American for a pee tape to take down Trump. Sex shaming is the only thing that takes down American politicians.

10-05-2017 , 11:26 PM

#60917

AllTheCheese

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Not that it matters much, because it's clear in 2016 they're saying "Nothing will stop me voting for Donald Trump," but was the poll conducted before or after the Access Hollywood tape?

10-05-2017 , 11:47 PM

#60918

Loki

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Originally Posted by TiltedDonkey

Saying "lol took 14 years to become CEO of Exxon, not impressed hurr durr" is terrible.

Thankfully no one said that.

10-05-2017 , 11:56 PM

#60919

Lestat

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Originally Posted by PoppaTMan

That's because as long as politicians openly decry things like abortion and family values, they'll overlook the occasional act of adultery, and attempt to persuade a lover to get an abortion. Remember god put them there and is guiding them. So it's all good.

10-05-2017 , 11:57 PM

#60920

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Originally Posted by Clovis8

It would be so American for a pee tape to take down Trump. Sex shaming is the only thing that takes down American politicians.

I don't the pee tape would take down Trump BECAUSE it's a pee tape (though I think it would've during the campaign). I think it would take him down because it would basically prove to doubters that the rest of the dossier is true.

10-06-2017 , 12:00 AM

#60921

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It just baffles me that anyone thinks a pee tape would damage Trump. Have you guys not been paying attention?

Like, WTF, he raped his ex-wife and he brags about sexually assaulting women, but watching hookers doing degrading things is unacceptable to these people?

10-06-2017 , 12:05 AM

#60922

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I've already given up on humanity and all hope for any sort of future. I just want to see the pee tapes.

10-06-2017 , 12:06 AM

#60923

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Ray Rice in an elevator, barely anyone cared that he hit his wife. They only cared when they could actually see him hitting his wife, nothing matters to many unless they have visual proof.