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Matt Damon, on _____’s ego:

“The deal was that if you wanted to shoot in one of his buildings, you had to write him in a part. [Director] Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman—and the whole crew was in on it. You have to waste an hour of your day with a bullshit shot: Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, ‘Hello, Mr. Trump!’—you had to call him by name—and then he exits. You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out. But I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in.”

If I were a filmmaker and _____ said I could use his property only if I put him in the film, I’d kindly turn and walk away.

Still, I imagine the number of cutting room floors he’s been found on is high-larious.

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Richard Spencer, newly confirmed Secretary of the Navy on _____’s transgender ban:

“We will process and take direction of a policy that is developed by the [Defense] secretary [with] direction from the president and march out smartly, [but] on a fundamental basis, any patriot that wants to serve and meets all the requirements should be able to serve in our military.”

I tend to put my faith in the men and women of the military and not the draft dodging little pissant in the White House.

But that’s just me.

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Joe Scarborough, of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, suggesting _____ is being blackmailed by Putin:

“Donald Trump, at some point in his life, has insulted everybody around him in the harshest of terms, including his own children, [but] there is only one exception to Trump’s bullying and belligerence. The only person that I certainly can think of that he has never insulted, that he has never attacked is Vladimir Putin, which, again, raises the question, and I will ask it again on TV: What does Vladimir Putin have on Donald Trump? Because whatever it is, it must be extraordinary.”

I doubt we’ll ever know, but just the suspicion should be enough to impeach.

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Kellyanne Conway, Minister of Propaganda, on Fox & Friends—because she knows that’s all her boss watches—kissing his ass:

“The president and first lady felt compelled to donate $1 million of their own money. They felt compelled to visit [Texas] twice, to really spend the time yesterday, engage people, look them in the eye. This is the Donald Trump that so many of us know and are privileged to work with and to know very close and personal. People are saying he missed an opportunity to unify the country. They are doing exactly that here. And also meeting their needs of food, water, and shelter at the same time.”

Have we seen the check?

Oh, and um, Kellyanne, you dumb bitch; they felt “compelled”? That’s what presidents do, you moron, they visit areas of the country that have been devastated.

And how does a man who says Mexicans are murderers, Muslims are terrorists, says trans Americans are unfit to serve, calls Nazis good people, unify any country?

Don’t answer; you can’t, your lips are glued to the Bigot-In-Chief’s sphincter.

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Joel Osteen, the so-called “Good Christian” who didn’t open the doors of his Houston mega-church to help flood victims until after Twitter shamed him, saying God would “pay back” victims for what they lost:

“We’re not going to understand everything that happens, but having a ‘poor old me’ mentality or ‘look what I lost’ or ‘why did this happen,’ you know that’s just going to pull you down. God won’t allow it unless he has a purpose for it. We may not see it at the time, but that’s what faith is all about. The reason it may seem like God is not waking up is not because he’s ignoring you, not because he’s uninterested, it’s because he knows you can handle it. Take it as a compliment.”

Sounds like Joel is making an excuse for why he ignored the flood victims and sat in his mansion while they suffered.

Ass.

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Colton Haynes, openly gay actor, on Hollywood  discriminating against openly gay actors:

“Hollywood is so fucked up. So much of the focus is on your personal life & has nothing to do with the talent you have to bring to the table…Thank god for Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, & Jeff Davis. They believe gay actors are more than just their personal lives…So disappointed in how Hollywood can’t understand that playing a character has nothing to do with how u live your personal life.”

It’s funny, because they don’t ask straight actors about their sex lives, and yet they bestow award after award on any straight actor who plays gay, like it’s some amazing feat to play a human being of a differing sexual orientation.

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John McCain, all out of f**ks, on _____:

“We can fight like hell for our ideas to prevail. But we have to respect each other or at least respect the fact that we need each other. That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct. We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities. We must, where we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We don’t answer to him. We answer to the American people. We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to serve as a check on his power. And we should value our identity as members of Congress more than our partisan affiliation.”

Too bad he wasn’t this strongly anti-_____ when the buffoon was running for office, but, still, it’s nice to see a Republican stand up against the Bigot-In-Chief.

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My Two Cents: Charlottesville, Free Speech, Hate and _____

As you may know, if you’ve been by here a few times, I am all about Free Speech; say what you want, but understand that there might be repercussions for your speech. And we saw that this past weekend during that White-Supremacist-KKK-Neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler and Unite the Right ... ironic, that, ‘the right’ ... organized the “pro white”  rally to protest the removal of a statute of Robert E. Lee—the man who led an armed rebellion against the United States to protect the institution of slavery—from a city park.

Need more irony? Many of those protestors waved American flags while demanding the city honor a man best known for his fight against the America, but then white supremacists, Klan members and Neo–Nazis aren’t the smartest tools in the shed ... just the loudest ...

“Fuck you, faggots.”

“White lives matter.”

“Jews will not replace us.”

“Blood and soil.”

That last one is a Nazi slogan about the bond between Aryan people and the German homeland.

But the protestors, those hate-filled racists and bigots, anti-Semites and homophobes, weren’t the only ones out this weekend. There were counter-protestors carrying Black Lives Matter signs, and LGBT Rights signs, practicing their rights to Free Speech, too.

The rally began Friday night when hundreds of racists, bigots, homophobes, anti-Semites, and asshats marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying tiki torches as though they were marching from the Home Depot to a luau-themed garden party. I mean, where were the manly-man wooden torches of old?

I digress ... I just find the image of the haters carrying tiki torches to be a bit too much.

That first night march was relatively safe; one person was arrested and there were a few reports of injuries, while the real hate was saved for Saturday ...

Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman, was killed, and nineteen more injured, when a car driven by James Alex Fields, plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters. As of now, Fields has been charged with second-degree murder.

Second degree? He got into his car and aimed it at a crowd and drove at a high speed into the crowd; and then reversed, hitting yet more people. That should be first degree murder, at the very least.

But, amazingly enough, it’s the bigots in charge of the Hate Fest that are crying foul and laying blame at what happened everywhere except their own feet ...

Richard Spencer, Alt-Right asshat, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, says he takes no responsibility for the violence and murder, and instead has accused state and local police of endangering lives in how they handled the rally.  Spencer says he “did not attempt to engage in any kind of violence”, other than, you know shouting hate-filled slogans while marching. And he claims he was pepper sprayed twice while marching.

So sad; a woman protesting bigots and racists was murdered but Spencer wants our tears for being pepper sprayed.

And Spencer’s cohort in hate, Jason Kessler also disavows the violence; he simply said that the person who drove a car into a group of counter-protesters “did the wrong thing.”

Um, Jason, the person who drove the car was there for you, for your cause, so let’s not act like it was some horrific accident; it was hate that became murder. And all of you who marched and shouted and threw bottles at counter-protestors are to blame.

But, like Spencer, Kessler also criticized law enforcement’s response to the event, saying they did a poor job controlling the chaos to allow free speech.

Free Speech. Hate Speech. Hate.

Michael Von Kotch, a self-proclaimed Nazi from Pennsylvania, said the rally made him “proud to be white.”

Let that sink in ... proud to be white, as though white people have had a hard time in this country. White people. I can’t .... Von Kotch says he’s been a white supremacist for a long time and that _____’s election has “emboldened” him and the members of his own Nazi group:

“We are assembled to defend our history, our heritage and to protect our race to the last man. We came here to stand up for the white race.”

Von Kotch said this while wearing a protective helmet and sporting a wooden shield and a broken pool cue to protect the white man ... from what?

So, while we lay blame at the feet of Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler and Michael Von Kotch, and their special brand of hate, let’s also take time to lay blame at the feet of that asshat in the White House, who ran a campaign based on hate ... against Mexicans, Muslims, and, as of the last couple of weeks, Transgender Americans.

When the man at the top spreads hate and discrimination, he has blood on his hands; especially when he stays silent for far too long and, then when he does speak, doesn’t condemn the white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazis ... perhaps because he doesn’t want to offend his base, and members of his team.

See, this rally, while an attempt to stop the removal of a statue, was also planned by the white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members to “take America back” and doesn’t that sound a little bit like “Make America Great Again;” a _____ slogan that seems to imply that we need to move backwards to a more racist time.

But _____, who Tweets every single time he gets his knickers twisted, was silent all morning long. It wasn’t until the afternoon, possibly after his nap after a round of golf, that he finally Tweeted:

“We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!”

Where was the condemnation of the white supremacists? The Nazis? The Klan? Even later, a late-afternoon news conference, this was his response:

“The hate and the division must stop and must stop right now.  We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.”

On many sides? I saw hate on one side, and protests against hate on the other.

But how do we expect a man who calls Mexicans rapists and murderers and Muslims terrorists and killers and Transgender Americans unfit to serve their country, and women just something to grab, to react? This is his mess; he ran on it; fed on it; campaigned on it; and was, sadly, elected on it.

Even one of his biggest supporters, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, acknowledged that this is a result of _____’s rhetoric:

“I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. This represents a turning point for the people of this country. We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald _____. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald _____, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”

And when a reporter at that news conference asked _____ about his support from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Klan members, many of whom wore red Make America Great Again hats during the riots, _____ did not respond ... so as not to offend his base.

And yet that’s not new, or even news; _____ has never directly condemned any movement, protest or statements of white supremacists, and you have to wonder why? I mean, those are the people who marched in hate ...

“Fuck you, faggots.”

“White lives matter.”

“Jews will not replace us.”

“Blood and soil.”

I think the NAACP put it best:

“Guess it's hard to disavow bigots and hate when they are amongst your key strategists.”

As I said before, Free Speech is a great thing; I’d never want to live in a world where my opinion, my voice, my thought, could get me arrested or jailed, or worse. And protests and marches are a huge part of our history; to paraphrase the bigot in the White House, those protests and marches are what truly make America great.

But what happened in Charlottesville is the ugly side of Free Speech; it’s hate; it’s terror; it’s terrorism. And what makes it all the more disgusting is not having our president denounce the hate for what it is; instead, he called for calm on both sides ... though it was just one side spreading hate, it was one side that sent a car driving into a crowd.

We needed to hear our president denounce this hatred ...

“Fuck you, faggots.”

 “White lives matter.”

“Jews will not replace us.”

“Blood and soil.”

And he did not.

So, where do we go from here? Well, we learn the lesson; our cities and towns learn that, if they wish to allow white supremacists and Nazis and Klan members the right to march—and, yes, they do have that right—then we need our police force out in force to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

We also need to ask our representatives to not only condemn this kind of violence, but condemn the president for his lack of a backbone, for his lack of compassion, for not denouncing the hatred of his base; it not “many sides,” it’s one side.

And we need to speak up when we hear the hate; stop it in  its tracks; denounce it. Tell anyone and everyone that you find this disgusting and that anyone who disagrees with you has blood on their hands, too.

Speak up against hate; vote against hate; demand that, while these groups have rights to their opinions, they cannot spread hate speech and call it free.

Heather Heyer wasn’t murdered for Free Speech; she was murdered by hate.

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White Supremacist Richard Spencer Toots His Own Horn

Richard Spencer, the white supremacist leader of that white supremacist group that calls itself Alt-Right—another name for hate, bigotry, intolerance, white supremacy, Nazism—is feeling mighty good about himself and his band of Junior Hitlers this year.

He sent an email out to his followers, both those with hoods and those without, to celebrate:

“A new identity politics—one with us as its vanguard—is coming into being.

There was a time when Christmas fundraisers were about the hope that “one day” our movement might make a major breakthrough.

Well, “one day” is today.

This Christmas, I’m not asking for a donation so that we might raise our profile. That’s already happened, in an amazing way.

The Alt Right and yours truly have become something like household names.

We’ve been denounced by Hillary Clinton . . . we’re even too hot for Donald Trump . . . I’ve been on the front page of the New York Times more than I can remember . . . hundreds of international journalists attend our press conferences . . . we’ve been parodied on Saturday Night Live . . . the L.A. Times called us “the first new philosophical competitor to liberalism since the fall of Communism” . . . on campus, I’m causing mass protests and rendering Rabbis speechless . . . three books (that I know) of are being written about the Alt Right phenomenon . . .

So much winning.

A year ago, if someone had told me all this happened, I never would have believed him.

The Left is permanently freaked out and can’t stop talking about us. The “conservatives,” who had denied our existence for four years, now recognize that we are displacing them. A new identity politics—one with us as its vanguard—is coming into being.

Yes, of course, so much of what has been said about the Alt Right and me has been negative, sometimes even slanderous. And believe me, the attacks have taken a personal toll.

But to view all this coverage as merely negative is to miss the point entirely.

We have been recognized. We are part of the conversation—indeed, we are driving it—and we will never return to the fringe. And attacks are the price that we must pay for making an impact.

Of course, the Alt Right is much bigger than me, NPI, and Radix; indeed, it would not have become a phenomenon if it were not a movement of many parts. But we are right at the center of everything that is happening, and I have emerged as the Alt Right’s chief representative.

The challenge now is to capitalize on our exposure and build lasting institutions.

2016 was our breakthrough year. It wasn’t just the year of Donald Trump; it was the year of the Alt Right.”

Yup, it’s Richard Spencer basically praising himself, and talking about himself, and asking for money so he can make himself more of a phenomenon. He even ends by building himself up as the chief white supremacist among white supremacist.

So, it isn't about a white supremacist movement at all; no, it's just like Hitler, a tiny disenfranchised man trying to boost his own ego and self-esteem by propagating hatred.

Alt-Right. White supremacy; they’re the same thing but Spencer changed the name to make it more palatable, but any way you slice it, hate is hate is hate.

So, let's resist the hate and make 2017 the end of white supremacist like Spencer; let’s have him crawl back into the darkness, with his borrowed Nazi salutes and Hitler youth haircut and self-importance like the dirty little cockroach he is.

We have no time to be bothered by hate.

Resist. Speak out, Fight hate, because, with people like Richard Spencer, they start with one group to demonize and then move on to every other group, so one day it might be you the white supremacists are coming after.

h/t to David Futrelle at We Hunted The Mammoth for the new logo for hate

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