All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[JCAll]

Stay classy Kansas City.

Fans at Arrowhead Stadium Boo During Pregame 'Moment of Unity'


A bunch of white men dressed as stereotypical Native Americans are angered by a showing of racial harmony. Shocking.

I keep telling people, you need to completely write off Missouri as a lost cause.

[Kal-El Summers]

Let's be real, you can do that with most of the South, too.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

500,000 Oregon Residents Evacuate Statewide Due To Wildfires

Over 10% of the state’s population had to flee as the wildfires grow. Meanwhile....

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Trump Hasn’t Said A Word About The West Coast Fires In Weeks

The last thing the president said about California’s catastrophic wildfires was in mid-August, when he blamed the state for not keeping its forest floors clean. Remember, Trump lost California to Hillary Clinton in 2016. He sure hasn't forgotten, thus his antagonism.

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Trump Reportedly Says He Protected Saudi Crown Prince After Khashoggi Murder: ‘I Saved His Ass’

According to Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, Trump was willing to overlook Jamal Khashoggi’s murder as long as Saudi Arabia kept the money flowing. Beyond repugnant.

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Trump Says He Lied About COVID-19 To Avoid ‘Panic.’ He Incites Panic All The Time.

Raising fears of boogeymen is the president’s modus operandi. Here are just some examples. Why reporters haven't mentioned that to Trump baffles me.

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Actually, Donald Trump Loves War

“God bless Boeing,” the president said in 2017, a year that saw him approve nearly twice as many arms deals as Barack Obama did in his final year in office. the fact Trump hasn't actually started a war amazes me greatly.

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Clip From ‘Unfit’ Documentary Explores Trump’s ‘Cognitive Decline’ Over Time

“We have someone who is really not functioning cognitively who has the capacity to launch the nuclear codes,” psychologist John Gartner warned.

[Robotman]

Clip From ‘Unfit’ Documentary Explores Trump’s ‘Cognitive Decline’ Over Time

“We have someone who is really not functioning cognitively who has the capacity to launch the nuclear codes,” psychologist John Gartner warned.

“His vocabulary is impoverished; he uses a lot of superlatives and filler words that we see in people who are reaching for language,” he said. “Quite often, he shows what we call tangential thinking, which is that he goes from one idea and then just sort of drifts in mid-sentence to another idea.”

Maybe there’s a correlation between his manner of speaking and his appeal to the Republican base. They like the fact that he sounds just like them. There was a similar appeal to George W. Bush. He doesn’t talk like some “coastal liberal elitist.” As sad as it seems, Trump’s mental decline has actually helped him connect to his audience.

[Gray Lensman]

“His vocabulary is impoverished; he uses a lot of superlatives and filler words that we see in people who are reaching for language,” he said. “Quite often, he shows what we call tangential thinking, which is that he goes from one idea and then just sort of drifts in mid-sentence to another idea.”

Maybe there’s a correlation between his manner of speaking and his appeal to the Republican base. They like the fact that he sounds just like them. There was a similar appeal to George W. Bush. He doesn’t talk like some “coastal liberal elitist.” As sad as it seems, Trump’s mental decline has actually helped him connect to his audience.

Dubya actually comes across as more intelligent when he isn't trying to sound like some Ivy educated elite - if he sticks to his Texas colloquailisms he does a better job speaking, strange as it may seem.

I'm not claiming he was a genius, but he wasn't quite as dumb as he came across since much of it was him trying to use language he wasn't comfortable with.

[Kuro no Shinigami]

A pro-Trump Black Republican is running against Maxine Waters for her seat in Congress. His name is Joe Collins. He has been accused of being Trump's puppet. I have seen some of his tweets on twitter. They are a bit too aggressive and too rabid. Do you think he will care for his constituents if he gets elected?

https://twitter.com/joecollins43rd

https://www.foxnews.com/media/navy-v...ne-waters-seat

[Kuro no Shinigami]

Let's be real, you can do that with most of the South, too.

All of the South except Florida. Florida has 29 electoral votes and is a swing state that voted for Obama twice but voted once for Trump.

[PaulBullion]

They're conspiracy theorists. They're also wrong, and crazy. Covid is a 5G coverup. The vaccine is for Bill Gates microchips. Etc etc ad nauseam.

Their core belief is that there is a huge, secret Hollywood cabal of child rapists and murderers, who use a hormone extracted from dead children to stay young. And that Trump, in spite of all the accusations of sexual misconduct against him and his public lusting for teenagers at beauty pageants, is somehow the superhero bringing all those Hollywood perv vampires to justice.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Their core belief is that there is a huge, secret Hollywood cabal of child rapists and murderers, who use a hormone extracted from dead children to stay young. And that Trump, in spite of all the accusations of sexual misconduct against him and his public lusting for teenagers at beauty pageants, is somehow the superhero bringing all those Hollywood perv vampires to justice.

And that he'll be bring them to justice any day now.

Any day now.

Soon.

Any minute...

[Gray Lensman]

And that he'll be bring them to justice any day now.

Any day now.

Soon.

Any minute...

Right after Infrastructure Week....

[The Cool Thatguy]

Right after Infrastructure Week....

And right before he replaces Obamacare

[Ragged Maw]

There's a controversy over the live-action remake of Mulan, mainly about whether Disney provided cover for horrendous actions by the Chinese government.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/9/9...ghurs-xinjiang



The film itself has some further problems.

Why couldn’t the antagonists just be Xiongnu like in the O.G. animated version? Weirdly enough, that’s CLOSER to actual history than the live-action one.

[Tami]

The Falling Man

n the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. He does not appear intimidated by gravity's divine suction or by what awaits him. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered. His left leg is bent at the knee, almost casually. His white shirt, or jacket, or frock, is billowing free of his black pants. His black high-tops are still on his feet. In all the other pictures, the people who did what he did—who jumped—appear to be struggling against horrific discrepancies of scale. They are made puny by the backdrop of the towers, which loom like colossi, and then by the event itself. Some of them are shirtless; their shoes fly off as they flail and fall; they look confused, as though trying to swim down the side of a mountain. The man in the picture, by contrast, is perfectly vertical, and so is in accord with the lines of the buildings behind him. He splits them, bisects them: Everything to the left of him in the picture is the North Tower; everything to the right, the South. Though oblivious to the geometric balance he has achieved, he is the essential element in the creation of a new flag, a banner composed entirely of steel bars shining in the sun.

9/11 - He accepted his fate with dignity. Those who have died so far this year, most have done the same. Those of us still left behind, let us try to live our lives with dignity. Dignity to do what we can to keep these kinds of mass deaths from happening over and over. It's hard to feel helpless, but sometimes you just have to try.

[Iron Maiden]

The Falling Man



9/11 - He accepted his fate with dignity. Those who have died so far this year, most have done the same. Those of us still left behind, let us try to live our lives with dignity. Dignity to do what we can to keep these kinds of mass deaths from happening over and over. It's hard to feel helpless, but sometimes you just have to try.

Thanks for posting this. I recall reading this several years ago and in a strange way it is comforting that someone did not die in that inferno in terror and alone. I remember after it became obvious that some people were desperately jumping because the fire was closing in and it was being caught on camera. Then the networks stopped pointing their cameras to them. As the article points out, those who chose to jump continued to do so right up until the towers fell. The horror they faced was unimaginable. May all the souls of all those who lost their lives that day at Ground Zero rest in peace

[Tami]

Thanks for posting this. I recall reading this several years ago and in a strange way it is comforting that someone did not die in that inferno in terror and alone. I remember after it became obvious that some people were desperately jumping because the fire was closing in and it was being caught on camera. Then the networks stopped pointing their cameras to them.

Maybe because we are in the grip of a new 9/11 with all that is going on this year, but this 9/11 is hitting me a bit harder than it has over the last 10 years or so. I didn't know anyone lost back then, but I knew the Twin Towers. I went there many times before 2001, as a visitor from the other side of the Hudson, to shop or to see the world from the top of the building, or just passing through on my way to other places.

I knew people who were in Manhatten at the time, though not in the downtown area. I remember seeing it on the news, at first thinking it couldn't be real, then quickly realizing that it was.

2020 is kind of like that. Not everyone knows someone who died from COVID-19, but here in the NE most know someone who had it. It's a different kind of terror, yet somewhat similar.

On 9/11 there were those who were on the ground floor or close enough to it to make a run for it. Then there were those who were trapped above the floors where the planes crashed, who knew they couldn't survive.

With COVID-19, you can see the threat, you can take precautions, but once you get it you are either on the ground floor or near the top.

Living here in the US, it's like the whole country is the Twin Towers. While Trump sits back and crows about how tall his buildings are, instead of stopping the planes from crashing.