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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Twitter sues government to stop unmasking of anti-Trump account
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/10/2017 11:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh... now they care about free speech after crushing conservative account after conservative account.

Fuck off assholes. There isn't a hell deep enough for you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/10/2017 20:45 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘Trump Must Hang,’ Republicans Should Be Executed For Each Immigrant Deported

[DAILYCALLER] A history professor at California State University, Fresno, appears to have advocated for the death of President Donald Trump on Twitter.

Tweets from an account purportedly operated by Professor Lars Maischak call for Trump to “hang” in order to “save American democracy,” and say the only “cure” for racist people is a bullet to their head. The account is not verified, although the bio and interactions between the user and other Twitter users indicate it belongs to the professor.

“To save American democracy, Trump must hang,” Professor Lars Maischak appears to have tweeted in February. “The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism.”

“Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?” the user wrote in another tweet a few days later, along with the hashtag “TheResistance.”

And in another: “#TheResistance #ethniccleansing Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.”

The user has also said “mercy towards racists” is a “fatal weakness” of Americans.

“#TheResistance Mercy towards racists was always the fatal weakness of good Americans,” he tweeted. “1865, 1965, they left too many of them alive.”

Other tweets include thoughts on “fascist” Trump supporters and the GOP.

“#WhenCaliforniaSecedes, You Fascist Trump-voting white trash scum can wallow in your filthy hell-holes of flyover states,” he tweeted. “Enjoy.”

“#TheResistance A democracy must not be tolerant of those who want to abolish democracy. It must vigorously defend itself. Ban the @GOP.”

The user also compared Trump to Hitler in other tweets.

The account has existed since June, 2013.

Maischak did not reply to multiple requests for comment.

A spokeswoman for CSU Fresno told The Daily Caller News Foundation Maischak’s comments on social media do not represent the university.

“Lars Maischak is employed as a lecturer at Fresno State,” Kathleen Schock told TheDCNF. “Statements made on his personal social media accounts are his alone and are not endorsed by or reflect the position of the University.”
Posted by: Fred || 04/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Statements made on his personal social media accounts are his alone and are not endorsed by or reflect the position of the University.”

Though pictures of a bare-breasted lecturer, or opinionated content from a pro-lifer will likely lead to their dismissal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/10/2017 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder what'd happen to a lecturer who quoted "The Bell Curve" on his personal account?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/10/2017 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  How many times can a guy get executed?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/10/2017 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Keep calling for violence numbnut.

You will get it back in spades.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/10/2017 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  These guys are really fascinated by violence.
Posted by: Matt || 04/10/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Real history (not to mention cause and effect) is hard for the Left. How'd the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand work out for Europe (and the World)? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/10/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  appears to have advocated for the death of President Donald Trump on Twitter.

Advocated? I hope this nutjob has had a visit from the Secret Service to explain things to him such as what are 1st Amendment rights and what is over the line.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/10/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  "Don't step in the Fresno."
Posted by: Thrinenter Peacock9812 || 04/10/2017 12:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Fresno State prof doubles down, suggests a ‘death sentence’ against Trump ‘inevitable’

[snip]
Earlier, we reported that Lars Maischak, a history teacher at Fresno State, issued a tweet in which he said that President Trump must be hanged to “save American democracy.” The Fresno Bee published a puff piece on Saturday wringing its collective hands that Breitbart.com published a report on his offensive tweet, which prompted Maishak to declare that he really doesn’t want Trump harmed or assassinated. But he wasn’t finished, suggesting that a death sentence against Trump is “inevitable” if “democracy prevails.”
[snip]
Posted by: Thrinenter Peacock9812 || 04/10/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Betcha this clown doesn't even know he lives in a Republic - not a Democracy.
Posted by: Hellfish || 04/10/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#11  And this guy teaches history?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/10/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#12  He teaches leftist history...i.e. what should have been based on my feelings not reality
Posted by: Warthog || 04/10/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Clown doesn't' even teach modern history so clearly he has minimal grasp. Found his professor page super-easily. I bet his inbox and phone are full of entertaining messages right about now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/10/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Putin masterminds chemical attack to help Trump' and other bizarre MSM conspiracy theories
[RT] British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has backed the Putin-done-it conspiracy theorists in an article published by The Sunday Times.
"By proxy, Russia is responsible for every civilian death last week," he wrote in reference to the alleged gas attack in Idlib which killed at least 58 people.

Fallon’s argument rests on one of the two competing conspiracy theories promulgated by MSM outlets about the attack.

The first theory is that Trump was baited by a false flag attack into a foreign war, while the second alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
himself ordered a chemical weapons attack in Syria to distract from the investigation into Russian ties with the Trump cabinet.

Commentators claim that calls for evidence to support such theories is actually part of some intricate geopolitical chess game.

Conspiracy theories used to be relegated to tinfoil hat-wearing basement dwellers, but now everyone from politicians of some of the world’s most powerful nations to MSM outlets have drunk the Kool-Aid, it seems.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter Friday to offer his own unique take on the Syria attack before elaborating further on his network television show later that night.

"Wouldn't it be nice, if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week -- so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he's picked up over the past 24 hours?" O’Donnell asked the audience of The Last Word Friday.

O’Donnell then drew comparisons with a similar false flag narrative that was spun by Republicans during Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
’s presidency which alleged that the embattled president launched missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 to distract from the ongoing Monica Lewinski sex scandal.

Obvious compairsons were drawn with the newly released film Wag the dog in which a White House advisor creates a fictitious war with Albania to distract the American people from an ongoing scandal.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
in the absence of any evidence to back up his claims, O’Donnell instead deftly retreated to one of two possible logical fallacies: an argument from ignorance or shifting the burden of proof. "You won't hear ... proof that the scenario I've just outlined is impossible," the host proudly stated, without a hint of self-awareness.

"It changes the conventional wisdom about the dynamic between President Trump and Vladimir Putin," O'Donnell added.

The blame game also extends to alternative media sources, in a further attempt to muddy the waters rather than focus on fact and evidence when covering or responding to a story.
Posted by: Fred || 04/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I believe I've a better one: "There was no chemical attack, or a Tomahawk attack either - it's all just videos on YouTube, to distract the American People for election hacking."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/10/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/10/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  "There was no chemical attack, or a Tomahawk attack either - it's all just videos on YouTube, to distract the American People for election hacking."

Yes. That way nobody gets hurt and the US government can get on with its business. I like it. I especially like the part where Scott Pelley and his MSM colleagues are no longer blathering every damn night about the Russians hacking our election in favor of Trump. It's such a relief. Now we have a new SCOTUS justice, we can pass a budget with tax relief, we can build a wall, etc. Good job, Vlad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/10/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  O’Donnell then drew comparisons with a similar false flag narrative that was spun by Republicans during Bill Clinton’s presidency which alleged that the embattled president launched missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 to distract from the ongoing Monica Lewinski sex scandal.

Well, Clinton was having an affair with Monica just down the hall from Hillary while in the WH at the time. These apparatchiks (read as Donk Party water carriers or hacks) just can't let go of this meme that "The Russians did it," despite a complete lack of evidence to support the meme. I'm gonna support the meme that the Donks have a lot to hide during the "O" and Hillary administration regarding links with Russia. I'll go with write-off as dissembling and distraction by the Donks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/10/2017 14:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Clinton was having an affair with Monica just down the hall from Hillary
An abuse of power, but under the circumstances (Hillary) I could overlook it. (Not the assaults or the lying, though.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/10/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Wasn't Bill technically Monica's boss at the time? Aren't there regulations about that?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/10/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#7  But Monica did "stalk" WJC according to SS agent Gary Byrne. I dunno, does stalking trump sexual harassment?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/10/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#8  I believe the Russians told the Syrians to do it in order to test the new President.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/10/2017 16:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Test for what?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/10/2017 17:11 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-04-10
  Man steers car into town hall in Germany, fire breaks out
Sun 2017-04-09
  Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 26
Sat 2017-04-08
  Iranian brigadier general killed by jihadist militants in northern Hama
Fri 2017-04-07
  U.S. launches cruise missiles against Assad's forces
Thu 2017-04-06
  Al-Qaeda assassinates prominent Free Syrian Army commander in Idlib
Wed 2017-04-05
  Global outcry over suspected Syria chemical attack
Tue 2017-04-04
  ISIS raid in Yemen leaves scores of Houthi troops dead on the battlefield
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  Reports of an explosion(3) in a metro station in central #StPetersburg, #Russia
Sun 2017-04-02
  IS second-in-command killed in airstrike: Iraqi State TV
Sat 2017-04-01
  South Carolina man charged with trying to join Islamic State
Fri 2017-03-31
  Mortars hit near Somali Presidential Palace, 2 hurt
Thu 2017-03-30
  503 militants surrender in Homs
Wed 2017-03-29
  Taliban commanders among 21 killed in Helmand airstrikes: MoD
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  33 ISIS troops die in Nangarhar airstrike
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  Leading member of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis killed in North Sinai raid: Egyptian army


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