Ann Coulter and the Right, the New Voice for Peace and Non-Violence
I can't do this justice but I'll wing it anyway.
Violence, hate, war, etc., has been associated with the right, the conservatives, the right wing, the republicans. Bush and the neocons started the "New American Century" based on violence and war. The democrats were supposed to be the "left", the liberals and progressives and social justice warriors who pretend to care about people. That's all bullshit but anyway, it was the plot we were all supposed to follow. The republicans and the right don't give a shit about people, it's survival of the fittest, get a fucking job and pull your damn bootstraps up and go to war with anyone that has a smaller dick, which is pretty hard all things considered.
Now it seems reversed. But is it?
Ann Coulter:
"The explosion of violence against conservatives across the country is being intentionally ginned up by Democrats, reporters, TV hosts, late-night comedians and celebrities, who compete with one another to come up with the most vile epithets for Trump and his supporters.
They go right up to the line, trying not to cross it, by, for example, vamping with a realistic photo of a decapitated Trump or calling the president a "piece of s---" while hosting a show on CNN."
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-06-14.html
I've seen this on a number of right wing, conservative, republican sites, like Infowars and The Economic Collapse and Rense.com. They're complaining about the violent, warmongering left and how they're trying to hurt their boy, the Silver Spoon they call Trump. Like Coulter, it's a pathetic, ignorant attempt to belittle the "left" which makes her have to defend Trump. She has to defend Trump. They have to defend Trump. It's like, they have to defend Obama, they have to defend Clinton, they have to defend Sanders. Jesus.
I actually read Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse suggest that the right counter the violent left with a peace and antiwar movement. Sheeeeiit.
My take on this is:
There are two factions that are pointing the finger at each other while defending the establishment, the ruling class, the fuckers that rule over all of us. They are the republicans and the democrats. Relative to who is doing this, those that are telling each other how fucked up they are while being just as fucked up as each other, it's the twenty percenters. They're the ones that get the press, the attention, and they're the ones who steer the dialogue, the partisan republicans and democrats. The true bluers, the believers, the idiots who perpetuate this insane system of oligarchy and plutocracy.
Fuck them.
Dammit, this is starting to piss me off.
That's all I got. Sue me, it's the American way.
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What Ann Coulter doesn't
know is she isn't in the Club neither. She's just another 99%er.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
And when she figures it out....
And when she figures it out.... Katie bar the door!
[video:https://youtu.be/lP5Xv7QqXiM]
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Rats! I was hoping for "Werewolves of London." :-)
Ann Coulter pulls her garbage, gets the $$attention$$, and laughs all the way to the bank. Sure wish I had her gig! She's skinny and plain looking on top of it. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
She's skinny and plain looking
And her hair's far from perfect!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
She is not one of the 99%. Maybe 85% or 90%, but not 99%
http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/journalist/ann-coulter-net...
98th percentile for her age bracket.
https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-for-the-united-states/
She's in the 2%, easily.
Take away the age bracketing, and she's probably in the 1% quite easily.
Thanks!
Am I wrong,
but did nobody Except the shooter get killed? Because if so, wtf are these people complaining about? Are they scared They may get shot in the ass someday by a pathetic wretch whose ruin they cheered on and made happen by advocating(browbeating) for policies that decimate communities? If so, they might want to buckle up And pack a lunch, it's gonna be a Long Bumpy Ride!
peahfuckit
Edit to add; The Jacobin has a good piece up on this exact topic.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
All things considered,
the hypocritical level is off the charts. Which is pretty normal nowadays.
Hypocrisy you say???
Interesting how anytime someone shoots up an abortion clinic or masque or bombs an African American church, they're always some mentally unstable "lone wolf" and we're supposed to ignore that they were up to their eyebrows in right wing media which actually does advocate violence against others.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
That's absolutely the central point
Thanks for putting it in words. Was just now recalling some others:
Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped /
What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top /
You’re on the bottom.
Copyright © 1974 by Ram's Horn Music; renewed 2002
linkie, por favor?
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
It might be this article
Whose violence
~~snip~~
What part of her last paragraph was wrong? Anyone who wants to do the kind of damage to the people they are supposed to be representing, is very dangerous to them. Passing legislation that will see millions of people die because of it is the definition of dangerous in my book. And the only reason for doing it is to make rich f'ckers even more rich. So Yamiche, E.S.A.D!!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
You mean the kind of damage leading to, "Assault On Wall St"?
I'm not condoning this by posting it.
But I sure as fuck could understand it.
Anyone know more about the shooter in DC, i.e. what his financial situation was/mental stability/media intake, etc? I've refused to indulge the media orgy on it (replete with grandstanding Rep congressman appearing for interview in his baseball uniform, which confirmed the worst for me. Imagine the conversation between the CNN/MSNBC/Fox flunky faux journalist/editorial team/show producer and the Congressman's "people": "Is he still in his uniform?" "We'll be right over; tell him to stay in it." Great TeeVee, right?)
The UPS shooter in San Francisco had told his bosses, who wanted him to keep working extensive overtime, that he could no longer do it. It's obvious he snapped. Where's the media reflection on what everyone on the street knows as the real story? Nowhere to be found, as far as I can see.
Think the economic crisis hasn't manifested, in a multitude of ways, in tens of thousands, if not millions, of personal crises sending too many people to the brink?
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
This shooting proves that anybody who supports Medicare for all
and an end to college debt and responding to the climate crisis and addressing oligarchy and wealth inequality is a dangerous sociopath.
/snark
Beware the bullshit factories.
Sorry keph,
I'm not techie enough for links but Snoop got it for us, Thank You Snoopy!
Someday I'll grow up to be computer literate, just not Today! I'll at least get author/title of articles from now on.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
How to do linkies in 4 easy steps.
Step 1:Type the text you want displayed for the link
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Step 3: Click the third box from the left under the word comment. It's the purple circle with the chain link at the bottom and paste the link into the top box and press Ok.
Step 4: Crack open a beer and celebrate your status as a linkmaster!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
@Alphalop lol!
lol!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
multo grazie!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Exactly. Those that wrought
it are getting some back. "did you assholes vote to dismantle FDR's safety net... ?"
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I think hell has frozen over
Ann Coulter is almost right. Since the election previously sane people have resorted to such bile - it is counterproductive, and combined with the Hillbot/DNC/Third Way/Democratic "leadership" program to deny legitimacy is quite possibly incendiary. The Democratic establishment is playing with fire, and I don't think they care.
But why now? The Rep… fascists have been playing this strategy for 40 years. Because the Democrats were a tempering force. People (incorrectly) believed that though the Rs were championing bigotry and greed at least there were the Ds, but Hillary ended that illusion, and now the Ds are calling for revolution - and I don't mean Bernie's revolution.
On to Biden since 1973
why now?
Why now?
Because now it's become obvious that there are no longer any democrats among the Democrats. They've all become the Rethugs, and the very worst of them at that. With the end of the comfortable illusion, we who have been cast out of any possibility of a reasonable livelihood become, in the words of Jackson Browne, the "people [who] can't take any more, so they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone".
Most emphatically not the way to run a country!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
And because people can see that the empire has no
clothes. We saw behind the curtain during the Obama administration, but Bernie tore their curtain all the way off and we realized how corrupt both sides of congress are.
After that, there's no going back.
Now we need to find a way to change the system and do something about it before climate change wipes us off the face of the planet.
And that's the problem, isn't it? What can we do about it? The first step is admitting what is wrong, the second is to.........
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Exactly
We can be critical of Bernie for a lot of things, but his great gift to the American people was this. He spoke in a way that was digestible for the average American.
This is why we are seeing things playing out publicly in ways that do not seem the norm. The establishment (both Republicans and Democrats) see their scam is falling apart and they are desperately trying to control the message and the masses. But the masses are now seeing not only just how screwed they have been, but exactly who has been doing the screwing.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
This !! as you often say
And all that makeup and those expensive clothes didn't help at all.
Bernie just a part
of the whole. Don't like his way there are plenty more out there. Several moving parts headed (mostly) in the same direction. He may not have started the fire, but Bernie at least provided the kindling.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
They had a look at the recent British elections
and after practicing for so long to be the coming stand-in here for the role May starred in over there -- including backing policies resulting in 30 to 80 or more people being burned to death -- are being stunned by Corbyn's inexplicable win instead, and are suffering some violent vertigo.
For a little sanity how about
listening to Oliver Stone's Putin Interviews?
Get them will they're available (there's 4). Here's first two for downloading
I've wanted to watch the Stone/Putin
interviews. Thanks for these links. Might you be posting the other two or know where we can retrieve them?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Here's parts 3 and 4
They may not last long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S6d3wHq5tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1LijdH7io
Thanks for the links, CB!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
On watching these now
The second link (fourth interview) is already "not available."
Keep searching. This one works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E68wDqTfHmg
You can get #4
I found the Stone/Putin interview #4 here. You might have to do some searching, but it's still out there.
Many thanks CB and traveler xxx
with silent cheers for Way out West.
Here's a pretty good piece from The Nation
on Stone and the making of the interviews:
https://www.thenation.com/article/oliver-stone-talks-to-the-nation-about...
CB, do you think these interviews will ever get into movie theaters, or just to individual screens?
Astonishing and important
So fortunate to be able to see these interviews here. Great thanks.
. . . "how to protect my children"
It's very important for Americans
to hear what Putin has to say, himself. His positions are in no way hostile or unreasonable. Yet our own government reacts first by hurling unfounded accusations at him, and then blocking its ears to his responses. Our msm are not providing people with a clear and accurate picture of either Putin, or of Russia.
native
The Republicans can now finish the job
The Democrat Party has moved so far to the the Right that they have left their left flank wide open. This is the Clinton/DLC/Third Way strategy. All the Republicans have to do is to rephrase their conservative philosophy in a way that looks Left-ish. The Democrat's biggest vulnerabilities are where they have moved farthest to the right. War is an obvious issue. But jobs as an issue is also huge. The Democrats literally gave away the farm, the factory, the small retail store, etc. etc. etc., busy kissing up to the oligarchs for a few million in support. PC is another issue, that can be rephrased in terms of freedom of speech.
I see enormous potential for the Republicans to establish a generation of domination over America. The Democrat Party can hardly be characterized as the Left, with the single exception of identity issues, which has very little interest in middle America, which could be cast as anti-First Amendment, and which is ripe for backlash. We have not yet learned the lesson that if you get out ahead of America you set yourself up for massive backlash. The Republican Party, self described Conservative, could make incredible gains by emphasizing just that. It would not be inconsistent to come around on the environment. Basically, if they are willing to dump the oligarchs in favor of fundamental conservatism they will be in power for a very long time.
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
"fundamental conservatism" is just another way of
writing/saying theocratic fascism. That is what runs this country now. It is definitely stupid. I don't know if it can be defeated this time.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I think America's trajectory
is being determined more by the interests of Big Money itself, than by any set of ideological beliefs. As the nation's major financial stakeholders become ever larger in size, and ever fewer in number, their political orientations become ever more ambiguous, and less relevant to what they are actually doing. Amazon, for one example, is about to swallow Whole Foods whole... in a gargantuan transaction that has virtually nothing to do with political ideology, but quite a bit to do with how and what people eat.
It seems to me that the most important decisions influencing the nation's trajectory are being made in corporate boardrooms, not in City Halls or in State Capitols, or even in Washington DC. And they are being made without regard to cultural or ideological values of any kind, whether of the Left or the Right. Corporate-style capitalism is a values-free process, not an ideology. It's a rapacious, merciless, cannibalistic process that follows one prime directive... Grow larger, or be subsumed.
The Republican Party has tended to openly champion this process and to idealize it, while the Democratic Party has sought merely to accommodate it, and to occasionally (and only very selectively) limit it. Neither Party has demonstrated any inclination to challenge, or even to criticize its fundamental dynamics. Two questions never asked: "Where is this process leading us?" and "What are we to become, if it continues?"
native
Now that these whores are the target instead of some
school in the US or child in Syria, they're worried about their safety. The lesson in here isn't that Bernie supporters are violent people. It is that people will turn violent against anyone or thing given enough provocation. The trick is know where the line in the sand is.
We all remember this warning.
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
The fat asses playing baseball on our dime and with health care paid for by us are also paid by the bllionaires that own them to be their target. People will remember the politician that screwed them and not the billionaire that paid him to. Given the GOP's love of gun deregulation, ak 47s, and concealed carry by everyone that isn't dead, they better worry. Some people get exactly what they ask for.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The Left is now scary toTPTB.
They worry that we will coalesce, something that nearly happened with Bernie. We are still on a learning curve and still need guidance as to where to push the hardest. And then wait for the next smackdown.
50% of internet traffic is bots, half of that is malevolent bots trolling. Assume any negative comment comes from a bot. It gets harder to read public opinion on anything with those irritants. The next flash point may be Trumpcare, to which he had no input. Except his meanness has encouraged the Rs.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I agree.
First, let's distinguish between Democratic politicians and leftist constituents.
Second, let's distinguish among time periods.
Third, remember that, thanks to both Democrats and Republicans, both "the left" and "liberals" are now understood to mean simply "Democrats." https://caucus99percent.com/content/liberals-must-not-say-liberal-left-p...
Let's sort this out a bit a bit.
Democratic politicians took us into the following wars: WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. And, since the DLC took over the Party, Democratic politicians have been as neocon as anyone and bots have supported them in that, as in everything else. Dem politicians voted for the Iraq and Afghan wars, for the WOT AUMF, and for the "surges." In 2016, Hillary ran more hawkish than Trump. See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Marshall
As far as rank and file, abolition of the draft greatly reduced peace demonstrators, as did Kent State and the WOT. Not that demonstrators are going to stop wars. However, to the diminished extent that there has been a peace movement, the left rank and file has comprised it.
IOW, the entire uniparty is pro-war and Trump supporters are misled or faking, much as your ESSAY SAYS.
Noami Klein "No is Not Enough"
I am listening to the audio version. I miss some parts because I am doing other stuff, but she is applying the issues of the Shock Doctrine and No Logo to present day circumstances and Trump. There are many historical references as well. The first part of the book is quite grim as she lays out how fucked we are. However, in the latter part of the book I am seeing hope and a way forward.
Hopefully someone else here will read it and write one of your wonderful insightful reviews.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
What's the problem?
Hey if Ann Coulter or any other rabid right wingers want to advocate for non-violence and an end to militarism, I'm all for it. Take your allies where you find them.
After all, it's a far cry from ten year ago when she was openly hoping for John Edwards to be assassinated. (won't link)
Personally I see Ann's 'conversion' as progress, although I know not everyone will agree.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Faux conversion.
Relative to Coulter. I don't trust anyone who makes their money off politics. But there are many from all of our manufactured group labels that would agree to end imperialism.
And as it has been made abundantly clear, it certainly won't come from democrats, the democratic party, and most of the so called left.
It'll last until the winds change direction,
and we'll be right back where we were. Let's see Coulter take the lead and apologize for her own hateful, violent speech, and not continue doing it, and then we can talk about about a conversion.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Here's Ted Nugent saying he';s going to tone it down.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ted-nugent-swears-off-hateful-rhetor...
Another from the grifter class
using this latest to get publicity. Sure he'll tone it down, until his listeners all stop making him money, then he'll ramp it right up again. While I've never listened to that idiot, I imagine he'll find some target to hate on - probably illegals or Muslims, and we know he'll find a way to bash the Left, even it he isn't "violent" about it. What's the matter Ted, afraid of some lefty coming for you next?
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
If Democrats had been shot
would we still see this? I highly doubt it. If one of their loons had shot Obama, would we hear all their crying about how they don't deserve it? And Ann Fucking Coulter, I mean really? A woman who's not only espoused violent language and actions but actively encouraged it?
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
It's not the Left or Bernie,
It's the DNC "Democrats" & Hillary & Rachel Maddow & all the maniacs screaming Russia Russia Russia & treason, etc. Sanctions! More troops!
If you ever watch The Americans, at one point one of the undercover Russian spies, to another, arguing about what's going on when Reagan is shot & Haig makes his statement about being in control (are we going to blame Russia & attack?), says about us, "These are the people who dropped the atom bomb! Twice!"
And yet when a school is shot up....
"Bewhewhew false flag to tekk away r gunz!!!!!111!!!!111!" Fuck 'em. Those morons got a taste of what they've done to us through policy. These are the same people who practically ejaculated when the Bundy morons played militia in Nevada and Oregon for fuck's sake. Same thing when George Tiller, Trayvon Martin and Gabby Giffords were shot.
They get off on all the bombs we drop and the death squads they support world wide, and they wanna bitch when it comes back to bite them? Again, fuck 'em. Poetic justice doesn't even begin to cover it.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.