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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-looters-rioters-anarchists-plane-antifa-laura-ingraham.html

Last night, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, President Trump made an astonishing charge. “We had people get on a plane from a certain city this weekend,” he said. “And in the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that. They’re on a plane —”

“Where?” asked Ingraham.

“Where — I’ll tell you sometime. But it’s under investigation right now. But they came from a certain city, and this person was coming to the Republican National Convention, and there were like seven people on the plane like this person, and then a lot of people were on the plane to do big damage … The money is coming from some very stupid, rich people.”

Speaking to reporters this morning, Trump elaborated. “A person was on a plane, said there were about six people like that person, more or less, and what happened is the entire plane filled up with the looters, the anarchists, the rioters, people that obviously were looking for trouble …” he divulged. “This was a firsthand account of a plane going from Washington to wherever.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/6956735/incel-violence-far-right-extremism-expert/

Clarke warns of a growing overlap between so-called incels and far-right extremism, like white supremacists, that is helping to indoctrinate young men online at an earlier age with a media diet of racist, misogynist and hateful propaganda.

He said the first six months of 2020 will be a “watershed” moment for these movements of angry young men as they are spending more time online amid lockdowns to fight the spread of the new coronavirus.

“More people than ever are online and more people than ever are accessing propaganda and white supremacist content,” he said. “We’re seeing kids as young as nine, 10, 11 years old that are engaging with white supremacists online. This is a huge concern.

Example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/01/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-QKW3XJKZ6FHJ3GYW6AHMBUEJXA

White House coronavirus adviser Anthony S. Fauci on Tuesday refuted online misinformation amplified by President Trump that the virus’s death toll has been vastly overstated in the United States.

The claim was shared by the far-right website Gateway Pundit and a follower of the baseless QAnon theory in Twitter posts that Trump retweeted Sunday, one of which was removed for violating the company’s coronavirus misinformation policy. It falsely claimed that only 6 percent of the nation’s 180,000 reported covid-19 deaths are legitimate, pointing to a statement on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website saying that 94 percent of deaths involved co-morbidities.

“If you look at the people who died of covid disease, the point that the CDC was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but just covid,” Fauci said during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of covid didn’t die of covid-19. They did.”

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/47929/1/straight-men-gay-for-pay-onlyfans-just-for-fans-masculinity

The popularity of the exclusive, X-rated content-hosting fan sites has seen a new generation of heterosexual men making soft porn accounts for gay audiences, and detoxifying masculinity on the way

In April 2018, 26-year-old Ryan Yule had a “fuck it sort of moment” and joined OnlyFans, the platform that allows him to charge people $15 a month for access to pornographic photos and videos of himself. He had left the military in February and was “tired of being skint”, so began to upload – among other things – videos of himself masturbating. He makes a strong business case for doing so: “I used to have a wank and wouldn’t get paid for it, and now, I get paid for it.”

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@eobox91103:

It can also suggest that they are intellectually deficient.

This is Donald J. Trump we're talking about.  I suppose it's impressive that he could pronounce the word "totalitarianism" but expecting him to understand what it means, etc. is unrealistic even so.

It is also his normal practice to criticize others for things that actually apply to him more than it does to them.  Whenever he says something negative about someone, I always chuckle because he doesn't realize that because irony is beyond him.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James eyes Eric Trump, Trump Organization in financial fraud investigation

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-tish-eric-trump-org-20200824-trwclknawzg4bbih4pbjfo4544-story.html

“(The Office of Attorney General) is currently investigating whether the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump … improperly inflated the value of Mr. Trump’s assets on annual financial statements in order to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits. One particular focus of this inquiry, as relevant here, is whether the Trump Organization and its agents improperly inflated, or caused to be improperly inflated, the value of the Seven Springs estate,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Colangelo wrote.

President Donald Trump in a recent speech at Mount Rushmore described “cancel culture” as “the very definition of totalitarianism,” and “completely alien to our culture and our values,” with “absolutely no place in the United States of America.” But he’s attempted to cancel so many people and businesses — since way before he became president — that the Washington Post’s Mehdi Hasan dubbed him “The King of cancel culture.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/30/cancel-culture-trump-mcenany/

Trump has a long history of calling for the firing or boycotting of anyone he doesn't like. Here are more than 50 examples:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3eyge/trump-called-cancel-culture-the-definition-of-totalitarianism-but-hes-tried-to-cancel-all-these-people-and-businesses

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-qanon-donald-trump-the-right

From QAnon to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Right is Sinking Deeper Into an Alternate Reality

The special instability and surreality of the pandemic is accelerating a kind of collective psychosis in a segment of the American right. This unraveling is being actively encouraged by mainstream right-wing leaders, who like caregivers with Munchausen syndrome by proxy are making their charges sick to keep them near.

As a result, a small but rapidly growing contingent of people believe that Trump is fighting a satanist-pedophile-deep state-Jewish-cannibal-Illuminati cabal. Meanwhile, vastly larger numbers of people believe a sanitized version of this story in which the forces of law and order are holding at bay those of BLM-antifa-Democrat-immigrant-transgender-Marxist darkness. Or, rather, they’re attempting to hold it at bay, but they need assistance, which the proud and brave will willingly provide.

In other words, they belong in the loony bin.

@scratcher71:

Jesus what even happened here.

@scratcher71:

Jesus what even happened here.

@gayaznboi22:

I get that it is seen by some as being a lifestyle and embracing the gayness, but why do some guys make a big show of being and sounding campy?  I know a couple people like that; one is naturally campy and does it without effort.  Another actually makes a conscious effort to sound campy in public but is totally different in public.

That's where my main gripe is; why do some make it a point to act campy when they naturally aren't?

Maybe you have it backwards and they are making a point of not acting gay or campy in some situations.  Most all people alter the way they present themselves depending on the situation and group.

For instance, language, posture, etc. will be usually more formal in a job interview as opposed to during a conversation with friends at home.  Even young children will speak one way in the classroom and differently on the playground.

It's perfectly normal and well-studied.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/

But the Military Times Polls, surveying active-duty troops in partnership with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, have seen a steady drop in troops’ opinion of the commander in chief since his election four years ago.

In the latest results — based on 1,018 active-duty troops surveyed in late July and early August — nearly half of respondents (49.9 percent) had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. Questions in the poll had a margin of error of up to 2 percent.

Among all survey participants, 42 percent said they “strongly” disapprove of Trump’s time in office.

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Ghislaine procured underaged girls for rich men to rape for decades.

Sometimes she raped them herself, too.

@eobox91103:

@ManHandler:

Let's just end it there. You put nothing into context whatsoever, and you don't put anything into your own words. You just copy and paste, and it's just nonsense. That's why everyone is leaving the Democratic Plantation and Democratic States like NY and CA en mass. It's literally happening en mass and you pretend it isn't.

Let's not leave it quite yet:  Since this thread started on a topic of "false or misleading" statements, one should note that people are not "leaving California en mass [sic]."  A quick look at https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/california-population (as well as other sites, including census.gov) shows that the population of California continues to increase.  If people are leaving en masse, even more are arriving.

This reminds me of a restaurant review some years back that said "that place is so crowded, nobody goes there any more."

New York has not lost population, either, it just hasn't gained very much as it was the most populous state for over 250 years, until the 1960s.  Most of the growth has been in NYC.