Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Rich Lock,
You forgot to mention that former candidate Ben Carson has attempted to ‘two-degrees-of-separation’ Hilary Clinton with Lucifer. As best I can make out, because she wrote her thesis on Saul Alinsky, and because Saul Alinsky’s book ‘rules for radicals’ acknowledges Lucifer, that clearly makes her a witch.
Yes, there's a little preface where Alinsky makes a wry reference to Lucifer as "the original radical", but that was enough for Dr Ben. It was hilarious – and also easy enough to find tweets from people who lapped it up.
I can never reconcile Carson's status as a skilled and innovative neurosurgeon with the palpable stupidity of his thoughts on most other things.
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The story of today was Cruz’s coded (but very obvious to the faithful) encouragement for people to “vote your conscience” (i.e.: not Trump). He was jeered off the stage and the crowd seemed surly thereafter. The Trump camp then went through a variety of responses, first claiming that they knew what he was going to say, then that it was an outrage, then that it was no big deal.
The rest of Cruz’s speech was unremittingly vile and deceitful. I genuinely can’t tell whether these people actually believe what they’re saying (the part about Obama letting in refugees who were Isis terrorists was a particularly nasty falsehood), but the rubes lap it all up. It’s clearly dangerous. But, then, Christie’s witch-trial routine yesterday was probably worse. It just seems like a real lowering of the bar on what’s acceptable.
Trump’s VP pick, Mike Pence, later gave the most coherent speech of the convention, steering clear of his creepy views on abortion, science and the like. (This is a man who signed a law requiring that funerals be held for miscarried and aborted foetuses.)
Ironically, Trump had left the building.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to simon g,
One exploded with excitement, the other barely noticed the story.
Paddy actually wrote a hot take demanding that Trump must now resign or be dumped. Bless.
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I feel I should quote Trump's Razor in full:
"Ascertain the stupidest possible scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts"
I really think Josh has captured something here.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Or possibly, she's real and an "Alan Smithee". Loyal employee and all that.
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Okay the Facebook page is dated six hours ago, the same time as the Trump statement was released. Quick fake, imo.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
If I’m following correctly it went something like this:
You missed one step – the NY Times report, which named Matthew Scully and John McConnell as the original speechwriters:
This account of how a speech written by professionals was transformed into the problematic version delivered on Monday night at the Quicken Loans Arena is based on interviews with more than a dozen people involved in and close to the Trump campaign. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose details that were supposed to remain confidential.
It reinforces dominant themes of Mr. Trump’s campaign that still linger from the primary, which his team has struggled to change: a deliberately bare-bones campaign structure, a slapdash style and a reliance on the instincts of the candidate over the judgments of experienced political experts, like Mr. Scully and Mr. McConnell.
The two original speechwriters were not aware of how significantly the speech had been changed until they saw Ms. Trump deliver it on television Monday night, along with the rest of the country.
We're still left with the unlikely proposition that McIver, having had Michele Obama's speech read to her over the phone, reproduced chunks of it verbatim in in her substitute speech. Would a professional writer really do that?
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From Piers Morgan's Twitter:
Yes, I have had numerous email exchanges with her since March 2013, Her title on emails: 'Staff Writer, Media.'
And:
For clarity's sake she's emailed me for 3 years on behalf of Donald Trump, including 5 minutes ago.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to nzlemming,
It’s useful but not omniscient. Also, many sites put up a robot.txt file prohibiting it crawling them.
Not the site in question though, which has been crawled for 14 years. The now-deleted McIver profile is the only one I could find which has been archived only once, yesterday. Would a spike in general searches for her name prompt the Wayback machine to crawl a page on the site it had previously ignored? I'm puzzled about why it would ignore her profile given the many mentions of her name in relation to Trump's books.
I guess another explanation is that both the Facebook page and the speaker profile were created by fast-moving trolls. Which doesn't explain why the Facebook page seems to have been created before the explanation was published.
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