Tweets Of The Day -- That Sinking Feeling

News item: “Multiple 911 calls have been made regarding boats being in distress, some sinking at the ‘Trump Boat Parade’ scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Lake Travis, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. TCSO confirmed with CBS Austin that multiple boats have been sinking and are in distress,” CBS Austin reported Saturday. “The sheriff’s office says calls have been made about boats along the entire route of the parade, some of the locations include: Paradise Cove, Emerald Point and West Beach.”

Bwahahahaha--

Siri show me a metaphor for the Trump campaign https://t.co/dW7UGUHEfl

— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) September 5, 2020

 

“Hello, I’d like to report an excessively on-the-nose metaphor in progress.” https://t.co/526kJJixZY

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 5, 2020

 

I don’t know who came up with the hashtag #Dumbkirk, but it’s pretty darn brilliant. https://t.co/nsFzMhZ5El

— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) September 5, 2020

HAPPENING NOW: CBS confirms multiple boats are in distress and sinking on Lake Travis for the "Trump Boat Parade". pic.twitter.com/kAZcINHtg7

— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) September 5, 2020

  

“Let’s now go live to Lake Travis. Scene of today’s Trump boat parade...” pic.twitter.com/kNvJsp6sJC

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 5, 2020

 

Blahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump boat parade at Lake Travis, Austin Texas today. Several boats in distress and sinking. Sounds like his Presidency. #BidenHarris2020 pic.twitter.com/xXmZKjRuZM

— ResistPresidentDumbDumb (@ResistThePres) September 5, 2020

 

conservative politics centers around doing something dumb in public, managing to humiliate yourself, and then blaming it on outside nefarious forces pic.twitter.com/1rKruT5AJW

— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) September 5, 2020

Such a metaphor rich event, but I'm going with drunk idiots who can afford the biggest boats not giving a damn about sinking the small ones.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2020

 

BONUS:  A first- hand account from a "survivor" (the hilarious Mr. Terhune) --

My boat sank in Lake Travis pic.twitter.com/EOsLk7sA9L

— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) September 5, 2020

(h/t Raw Story)

Twit Tweet, Thwap

Twit Tweet:

Sentencing memo for #GeneralMichaelFlynn remarkable for its lack of connection to @realDonaldTrump Nothing speaks to #RussianCollusion zip zero nada #CollusionIllusion wrap it up

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) December 5, 2018

Thwap:

So you can see under all that redaction?  You must have superpowers!

— Mary Ward (@shecycles1) December 5, 2018

This tweet is going to age very poorly.

— R Ducky (@rubberducky_123) December 5, 2018

That's not what the black bars mean, my mustachioed chap.

— D (@tai_nugget) December 5, 2018

Remember when Geraldo got punched in the nose? Good times. Good times.

— S.O.S. USA (@DeliaMacD1) December 5, 2018

I doubt Mueller is the type of clown who opens a vault only to find a couple of old wine bottles pic.twitter.com/NSZHPpUsmZ

— Teddy Hoteham (@tjb61) December 5, 2018

Yes! Let's have nineteen interviews about 3 ongoing investigations with 10 redacted pages wrapped up right away.

Imbecile 🙄

— Individual 1 (@1984Mikae) December 5, 2018

O'Keefe's Latest "Sting" Ends Up Stinging Him (Again) - UPDATED

In an attempt to discredit the Washington Post's reporting on serial child predator and Republican Senate candidate Roy "Teen Spirit" Moore (R- Shopping Mall), the scurvy operation run by  Republican amateur ratf*cker James "G. Gordon Diddy" O'Keefe -- ironically named "Project Veritas" -- got its short hairs caught in its zipper once again:

A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets. 

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public. 

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists. 

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.

The article is worth a read, if only to recap the lengths to which these amoral ratf*ckers will go in order to discredit the so- called "liberal media," in this case egregiously siding with a child predator simply because he's got "Republican" next to his name on the December 12 ballot in Alabama. Think about that and the fact that these assholes hired a woman to lie about a sexual encounter simply to discredit the 9 women who've spoken out against "Teen Spirit" Moore. Can't get much lower than that.

This morning, the Post also ran an article about what an incompetent "sting" operation these pinheads ran. It's also worth checking out.

Jonathan Chait explains why the frequent O'Keefe "stings" meant to expose media bias often go awry:

Another reason O’Keefe’s plot collapsed again is because it is premised on a ludicrously false worldview. The Washington Post does not, in fact, publish unverified accusations just because they’re against Republicans. His various attempts to prove rampant voter fraud have failed in part because voter fraud is not rampant. 

But this larger conceptual problem with O’Keefe’s enterprise creates a secondary problem, which is that the people who are dumb enough to believe these conspiracy theories are not generally smart enough to carry out a competent entrapment scheme. (our emphasis)

That sounds about right to us.

Obligatory musical accompaniment.

UPDATE:  The Onion has a hilarious take (h/t Silver Spring Bureau Chief Brian). Hey, even Fox "News" is mocking the caper.

(Photo: Vintage O'Keefe in his clever and totes believable disguise as a "pimp," with accessory "ho.")

Tweet And Video Of The Day - The Trump Voter (Cont.)

We're certain this group of 6 voters is a representative cross- section of people who supported neo- fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump.  This is CNN's Alisyn Camerota talking with them on the topic of voter fraud:

Trump supporter falsely argues that millions of people voted illegally with no evidence on CNN's @NewDay https://t.co/6lqMSTJNuj

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) December 1, 2016

What do you call these people? Nitwits? Morons? Dim bulbs? Pinwits? Chuckleheads? Dolts? Paste eaters? Marks? Patsies? Gullible fools? They're all that, and there are approximately 60 million more of them out there breathing the same air as the rest of us, and beating their little feet to the polls every two and four years.

We call them "why we can't have nice things in this country."

BONUS:  Steve M. has more exhibits.

Meet Your Dudebro Fake News Entrepreneurs

If you want to get an insight on what kind of bottom- dwelling slug produces the fake news that millions of low- information/ high- "economic anxiety" Americans take as The Truth, look no further than this profile of two 20- something dudebros in Long Beach, CA. Moral ciphers Paris Wade and Ben Goldman run a creepy site called LibertyWritersNews.com (please don't give them traffic!) that deals in the most hair afire, made up nonsense about progressives that you're likely to read (but, again, please don't). These two deplorables use social media platforms (notably Facebook) to generate revenue, and they don't much care how they do it because, well, it's so darn easy to fleece the rubes:

At a time of continuing discussion over the role that hyperpartisan websites, fake news and social media play in the divided America of 2016, LibertyWritersNews illustrates how websites can use Facebook to tap into a surging ideology, quickly go from nothing to influencing millions of people and make big profits in the process. Six months ago, Wade and his business partner, Ben Goldman, were unemployed restaurant workers. Now they’re at the helm of a website that gained 300,000 Facebook followers in October alone and say they are making so much money that they feel uncomfortable talking about it because they don’t want people to start asking for loans. (our emphasis)

"... they don't want people to start asking for loans." Or the I.R.S. asking for income taxes perhaps?

What follows in the article are some odious examples of the fake news sewage these two young hucksters like to gin up, but this exchange boils down their business model:

“All successful journalism has shock value,” Goldman says as he and Wade sit at their computers later that day.  

“There was once a lot more competition among newspapers,” Wade says. “It was like a race to see who could write the craziest s---.” 

“And whoever wrote the craziest s--- won,” Goldman says. 

“There used to be a joke that every single day a new world war started,” Wade says. “Because that’s what sold papers.”

In their world of living for clicks and page views, they write their fake news to attract the biggest audience possible, searching for those who are already disposed to accept the Alex Jones/ National Enquirer world view and style of "communication."  Thus, in their own words, they're in competition with the likes of those termites in the foundation of democracy to "see who could write the craziest s---."  And that pretty much sums up the product of their enterprise.

The kicker?

Raised in liberal homes, they both voted for Obama twice, but as they struggled to find better jobs, they began to doubt those votes, their college education and the progressive values with which they were raised.

It's all Obama's fault!

We'd have to say they may have been raised with those "progressive values," but they sure didn't stick very long.

(Image:  Writer for LibertyWritersNews.com)

Rep. Fleming: Can You Say "Satire?"

Some people are born morons, some people are self-made. We're not sure which category Rep. John Fleming (Rethug-LA) falls into, but he certainly is someone who lacks the ability to think critically. The Congressman (a doctor no less!) fell for an old story in the Onion, which most sentient people know is a satire web site, announcing Planned Parenthood's new "Abortionplex." Abortionplex. Really. He fell for that.

Perhaps in the future Rep. Fleming and like-"minded" right-wingers will stay away from sharp objects, such the Onion's humor.

(h/t Silver Spring Bureau Chief Brian)