What do you get when you cross tin foil with stupidity?
The Trump Chicago rally was a staged PR stunt. According to the Chicago PD, Trump was never there, and he didn’t bother to consult them before cancelling the rally. And they never advised him to cancel the event. Trump set this thing up with the expectation that he would get this kind of response, and that he could spend the weekend playing the victim and posing as a defender of free speech. Fox news tonight is nothing more than a Trump informercial (even more than usual).
That Trump guy is diabolical!
I should point out that implicit in this staged PR stunt theory is an admission that the optics of last night’s fascist riot are bad for Democrats. Expect to see claims that all the violence was committed by agents provocateurs working for Trump.
You can expect more attempts to shut down Trump rallies too. And expect Trump to keep being blamed for any and all violence. That is the official narrative for this election.
But for anybody watching, the truth is obvious.
The Crawdad Hole 
As of last night neither Hot Air nor Ace of Spades HQ had mentioned the fascist riot on their front pages.
After pushing #GrabbyGate for two days straight the GOPe sites ignore a clear-cut example of genuine fascist violence.
Timing wise, ace often doesn’t blog at all during weekends, so he can avoid this topic completely if he wants and not look like he is deliberately avoiding it.
Hot air is a different story.
Traffic at Hot Air has nose-dived since the beginning of the year. If you look at their blog stats, you can see a sharp drop. A lot of it can be attributed to the switch to FB commenting, but the folks who do comment are complaining about all of the anti-Trump writing. Allahpundit had an orgasm when he thought Romney was going to announce he was getting in the race. I think the switch to FB and the topics they cover and how they cover them show how out of touch with their followers the site has become. Maybe they’ll find a new audience, but I think they need to move quickly on that before they become irrelevant.
Just like the GOPe, Hot Air prefers to replace its base with a more compliant global population.
This is why I still go there to read Jazz Shaw. http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/12/conservatives-align-with-black-lives-matter-in-rush-to-find-blame-for-chicago-protests/
Well Ted blaming Trump for a LaRaza/BLM/Bernie/Soros riot and a video of Ted’s father speaking in tongues is a lot to handle in one day.
I missed all of this with Ted and certainly missed the video of his father. I guess I have to catch up today. Try as I might to stay awake, by Friday evening I’m exhausted and usually fall asleep quite early.
Last night I turned on the TV because I was seeing online that shit was going down. Bad move on my part…..riots or not, I was cutting zzzzz in about 20 minutes…..blush. Sitting in a recliner didn’t help.
Ted’s father has been an evangelical con man for a long time. It happens. I don’t believe in tarring the children with the parents unless the kids drag them along for the ride in a new con. Ted needs to make his father and Beck go home and shut up.
They seem to be channeling Elmer Gantry. Cruz may lose his support in Texas over this kind of double-dealing and hypocrisy.
I’m with you, Somebody. I fell asleep in the chair as well. Sadly, I woke up to go to bed, and could not get to sleep. What a disappointment.
And now, on Fridays, my son is picking up gbaby #1 and taking her to the park instead of coming home, so I’m there with “Calamity” until the mama comes home 10.5 hours after my shift starts in the a.m. At least yesterday, after a somewhat rocky middle, she took a longer nap. Sadly, my back issues flared up in dramatically new and different ways so I couldn’t sit or move without raging pain. I think that’s why I couldn’t sleep.
*My MDs are not in Thurs p.m. thru Monday a.m. 😦
Leslie, I’m so sorry your back flared up (((hugs))).
It was my feet and knees that were killing me. I truly regret putting hard wood floors in, but who knew I was going to be on my feet so much back when we put them in?
BTW……misery loves company, my day was 11.5 hours yesterday, my son had to work late fixing some technical issues. That’s his job, I can’t fault him for that. Bonus though, he plans to use him comp time to take off a little early next Friday……we’ll see if that actually happens, not holding my breath.
Long nap huh? Well that was a gift. I had the same gift, but only from one so it didn’t result in any kind of break for me. The middle one took a four and a half hour nap. I kept checking on her and checking on her, it was really starting to worry me, LOL! I finally woke her up, big mistake for 30 minutes she was a bear, but finally came around.
Plans to use HIS comp time not him comp time…….sheesh. I think I’m starting to develop a two year old’s vocabulary……..Calgon take me far, far away!!
11.5 hours! Oh, goodness. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you next Friday.
I know what it’s like to wake them up before they actually are ready. that happened yesterday, so I just let her go back to sleep. when her mom came home, I let her wake the little one up.
no one is happy when they have to get up before they’re ready. 😉
Mom says that when you get old what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.
I gotta ❤ your mom.
I only hope I can carry that thought with me until I can get all this cr*p fixed…………..
I had no idea of Cruz’s father’s video. I watched basketball and Bosch until I couldn’t stay awake.
I’m probably not going to their Denver gathering after the GOP convention this summer. When I signed up they said the GOP nominee will be invited. If it’s Trump, they’ll probably fuck him again. And after last night, I doubt if I could support a nominee like Cruz and Rubio. We’ll see, still have many months of this sh*t left to decide.
Even Camille Paglia admitted she was wrong about Trump, she gets him now.
What happened to being all about defending the Constitution?
So disappointing, Senator Cruz.
That is just his shtick. Remember that Obama is a “constitutional scholar” too. Globalism pays the Cruz bills.
Thank God for The Crawdad Hole ❤
Amen!
One of the very few sane places left.
You can say that again.
Yes. Thank God.
You guys have kept me sane(?) since at least 2009..
And Thank Goddess!!
Amen!
The choice is clear – which side are YOU on?
I replied to Ayers:
UNREPENTANT TERRORIST BOMBER BILLY AYERS TAKES CREDIT FOR CHICAGO RIOT AGAINST TRUMP
Thank you! Even when I was at my most anti-war (VN) in the 60’s, I loathed the Underground Weathermen and especially Bill Ayers. It’s too bad he wans’t more personally involved in the bombing that killed his girlfriend.
Ayers is the perfect poster boy for White Privilege Affluenza. Daddy was wealthy and connected.
He absolutely is White Privilege personified. and he is disgusting.
Not this guys’, one of Ayers’ “peaceful protester” friends:
https://twitter.com/CuevasNeunder/status/708629005474402305
I’m stealing that ❤
I’m watching the polls. This one I follow http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TR130/filters/PARTY_ID_:2 already showed an uptick after the last debate. If Battle of Chicago II backfired it will be known fairly quickly.
Just saw a yuge line that began hours ago for a Trump rally in Ohio. It hasn’t scared anyone away.
Media isn’t explaining civil disobedience and free speech zones very well. Protesters get arrested for “crossing the line”. Entering the venue itself is prohibited. Agitating and Provoking are not free speech rights like those idiots are thinking it is.
I just got a phone call from yet another super pac……American priorities or Americans for prosperity or something like that……I honestly don’t fully remember the name other than is had American and another word that started with a “P”.
They wanted to do a poll, if the election were held today which candidate would I vote for. I informed the guy I had already voted and he hung up on me???? WTF? Mind you I didn’t say which candidate I had voted for. You would think having a verified vote in their polling numbers would be gold, but apparently not. The fact that I already voted can easily be verified. They asked specifically for me, so they know who I am and which county I reside in.
I just came over to post this. GMTA
Former Chicago Police sgt. on FOX this morning. Said Chicago police were ready to protect the streets and Trump’s right to speak. Said it was the ones inside who advised him to cancel (state police, univ security, SS). That they were the ones who lost control, not Chicago police.
That’s too funny.
Do you think someone designed that just for her, you know, to mock her 😉?
LOL. The bib effect is highlighting her neck (Hill get a scarf!). The intent is to make her look “longer”. But it looks like an inverted arrowhead pointing to her tummy.
The trim on the pockets makes her hips look wider, too. Hillary hasn’t learned how to adapt her style as her figure has aged. MY BFF says Hillary has the “Alfred Dunner look”.
Awww I liked Captain Kangaroo when I was a kid. Wow just went to wiki… that show was on for 38 years!!
OMG that’s hilarious!
One of the things Bernie’s kids didn’t want to hear last night was another big winner (other than Trump) was Hillary Clinton. She gets to be the voice of reason in the Democratic Party. She’s already issued a statement about “talking” being the way to bring us all back together. While most of Bernie’s supporters might scoff at it, there is institutional memory about the 1968 Democratic convention. If I can remember it well, so can the party leaders. They’re all older than I am. They have to be wetting their pants this morning over what might happen when Bernie doesn’t get the nomination. I don’t think their response will be to give the nomination to Bernie to avoid it. More likely, they’ll maneuver to get the nomination locked down for her quickly before this “movement” gets any more steam. That will be good for Trump, too.
Bernie’s “kids” are all about talking. The listening part is what they don’t like.
I thought the same thing, the anarchists are using Bernie to stick it to the govt and Hillary. He also won MoveOn’s endorsement this year. Soros’ stinky hands are all over this.
One little goodie I learned last night, Putin has banned Soros from Russia, even has a warrant out for his arrest.
Trump needs to prosecute the asshole and all his associates as well.
Glenn Reynolds thinks Trump has a case against MoveOndotorg
I really do not think she will get the Dem nomination. If she does, she won’t win.
read John Kass:
Unless someone else steps into the race, she’ll win the nomination. There’s no way the DNC gives the nomination to Bernie after last night. The campaign ads with the “Democratic Socialists” mobbing a political rally waving banners, and stomping on the American flag write themselves.
I still think the DNC will draft Biden.
I saw people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh. I saw communist flags and Mexican flags being waved around. The only American flags I saw were on the ground, being walked on by protesters. Looks like anarchy to me.
I saw extreme filth mouths screaming with heavy accents. When asked why by the Fox reporter one said “I no want say” and a young guy just leered like a creep. Those two do not want a functioning INS.
No they do not. And there were more than just those two. Also looks like an invasion.
Next we’ll hear about some cartel kidnappings and/or pickpocket/robbery/groping/rapes by the “immigrants who are our future!” There are stories already about women being chased and assaulted in the parking garage as “fair game”.
Seriously, It looks like U of IL @Chicago. That is what the campus looks like all the time. BUT, I believe many of those demonstrators were brought in just like the people who were bussed into Iowa towns and cities in the 2008 caucuses.
A lot of filth was left on the streets too. Reeks of messy third world country morons.
It is worse than I feared. I thought we had one more presidential cycle before this happened. We are at a breaking point and it is truly scary. America has to decide NOW whether to be a capitalistic democracy run by the people or a socialist shit hole. It will be decided this year. And when Trump is elected we need to deport Cruz with the entirety of the BLM crew and those who prop them up under anti-traitor laws. Death or Deport their choice. Shame on him. Or shame on me for thinking he was one of us just with bad management.
I’m going to largely agree, but it’s the organizations pushing these pawns such as moveon and answr which should be prosecuted on RICO charges for promoting political violence. Most of the people actually on the street are just stupid kids being led around by the nose. These commie groups have been allowed to fester and in fact encouraged for the past 7 years under Obama. It’s time to get a grip on these assholes and put the organizers away.
Agree.
You’re right about moveon and answr. In addition to promoting political violence, they also teach civil disobedience – right on the UIC campus only a couple of blocks from the Pavilion where the action was last night. (At least they did when I was protesting the war.) Your’e probably right about the “stupid kids” on the street. But #BLM groups in Chicago are organized, active, and relentless. They are directed by the race-baiting folks and know the reasons for protesting than most of those on the streets. But they are also willing to join others when they think the BLM goals will be furthered.
I’ve run across information that muslim terrorist groups are involved in funding this shit too.
Wouldn’t surprise me. When I was a member of a local peace group, the most violent of the members (I mean really violent language and political and social positions) were Muslim. I thought it was because they were all displaced from their countries of origin rather than their religion.
Blaming Trump for last night’s rally is like blaming a video for Benghazi.
Boom!
That needs to tweet.
GMTA . . .
I thought I had already said that, but I must’ve refreshed TCH and lost my comment. 🙂
Tweet of the month!!!
And stealing!!!
Interesting conversation. 😦
https://twitter.com/ProgPoker/status/708519046740905984
“Pure” conservative means globalist. open border, TPP, etc. The only difference between them and prog billionaires and their flunkies is which lobbyist group gets paid to do the law/regulation writing.
It’s the only thing that’s made me smile today:
LOL !
Jazz Shaw:
Just replace Donald Trump with Ann Coulter. Or Dinesh D’Sousa, or about 100 other conservatives.
Ben Shapiro? They shut him down too.
Shapiro is a Rubio shill. Don’t know how anyone is attracted to such a phony, but there it is.
Milo (Last name I can’t remember much less know how to spell), a gay conservative runs into a lot of campus protesters because he hurts their fweelings. (@nero, one of the first victims of the twit police)
Milo Yiannopolous
Show off 😛
Prolly spelled it wrong, but u get the idea.
You may have see the photo of an older Trump supporter using a Nazi salute at the Chicago mob action last night. Well here’s the real story:
https://twitter.com/voxday/status/708639280722276352
A socialist doing the Nazi salute is extra funny, but I doubt she sees the humor.
Right??
Fuck Rubio. He’s a loser.
People’s true colors show with their political expediency.
I hope so. Having grown up in Cincinnati I know it has its issues and can sometimes be volatile but this is a real opportunity for them.
Good summer memories of the Cincy area (Hamilton, where family lived) as a kid, especially visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeSourdsville_Lake_Amusement_Park 🙂
Loved LeSourdsville as a kid! Loved growing up in Cincinnati…strong family roots.
Did I just hear Sheriff Clarke say Trump supporters must fight back at these rallies or the anarchists win? #WAR 😛
The Kardashians ?
😀
It really is hard to read through all of the bullshit and hateful posts this morning. What a sad state of affairs. I am becoming more and more convinced, however, that this country may really need someone with some backbone like Trump. It’s a whole new game. One of the most interesting posts I read today was this one:
“We see what is going on in Germany and European countries and ignoring it with justifying by saying it wont happen here. Obama and his minions are making it happen here. He has terrorist in our country waiting to enter when there is a vacuum created by George Soros’s moveon.org. A 501 tax exempt status org. for the political purpose of socialism. Obama does nothing to this unlawful group. He has allowed brain washing in colleges like Hitler did in Germany. He has kept our borders open to allow terrorist in. His dividing the country with his hate of whites has created this blacklives matter idiots. This is Obama’s plan going as he wants it to in order to destroy America. This is not an isolated incident. This is the beginning of the physical destruction to cause chaos and form the vacuum needed for Obama’s brotherhood to move in. Unless we all open our eyes to the truth and stand up for America, America is gone.”
The really terrifying thing is that it is going to get worse. I do, though, have a feeling that Trump is going to figure out a very unique way to deal with all of this this. I may be totally wrong on that because on the other side of my brain is this nagging notion that we actually will not have an election at all.
The thing to keep in mind is that Trump threatens people that have all the power in the world. People with near infinite power are under threat that they may lose some of that power. People used to running the show, and have for decades, probably aren’t taking this lying down.
The global traitor class is trying character assassination first.
And if that doesn’t work, I have no doubt they will accelerate the physical destruction. They will not give up willingly.
If the American people wanted the status quo candidate why are they supporting Trump? Despite all the attacks by the left, right and msm, he seems to be getting stronger.
Had to block an anti-Trumpster on FB today. She loved what the little fascists did to Trump in Chicago.
Last night while watching the protest coverage I gleefully committed a peaceful genocide(aka: unfollow twits) who agreed with the protesters and/or blamed Trump’s tone. I just hide the Libidiots on FB because I’m related to them 😉
Bless your heart. LOL. I didn’t really know the woman, and I’ve been wanting to block her for some time.
Dr. Ablow didn’t follow the narrative, ooops.
I’m so glad I stopped to listen to this. The man knows whereof he speaks. And, it appears, he is not afraid to share this understanding and knowledge.
Thank you, Dora.
^This^ Shared on my FB page.
If I were on FB, I’d have shared it as well. I’ll have to send it to my DD. (Who sent me a text last night to congratulate me for NOT going back to UIC – where I worked for the last 17 yrs – for the rally last night.)
Wow!
So trust me when I say that the people “protesting” last night reflect the composition of the campus. By the time I left, I had to choose my path to the elevated train carefully because it was no longer a safe place to walk.
I hear most hotair ppl went here. https://hotgas.net
Yup.
They have an Obama countdown clock to the second.
Well, then they are my kind of people.
Jack Welch: these people want to destroy our country and our way of life. It’s crazy. Media is having a party over what happened in Chicago. Bill Ayers didn’t come out because of something Trump said, he loves this stuff. (Welch supports Cruz).
Ayers is a god (small g) in the SJW movement which is sort of the equivalent of the Grand Pooh Bah of the KKK, only worse. Ayers hates this country.
But really Ayers is an asshole.
I like Jack Welch. He was the only 1% er to call BS on Obama’s unemployment numbers and he got attacked for it.
Trump in Vandalia OH. Carried on FOX.
More protestors.
Trump called what happened last night “A planned attack” and blamed MoveOn.org and Bernie Sanders
Meanwhile, Rubio, Cruz and Kasich endorsed MoveOn , the protesters, Ayers, Bernie and Hillary.
They sure did. Ratfuckers
They all doubled down this morning, must’ve polled well in their anti-trump focus groups 😉
Well, I hope Trump crushes them on Tuesday. The polling gawd Nate Silver has the numbahs that are favorable to Trump.
How cool is that???
Thanks, lyn.
It was a lovely ceremony. Ran into some twitter chatter that Hillary only attended for political purposes since she famously missed Pat Nixon’s when HRC was FLOTUS ?
I was surprised her casket was left out in the rain earlier.
Those beautiful flowers probably enjoyed it.
MoveOn.org will help set new monthly records for NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System).
This is just starting to come through now. Any other info on it?
http://defund.com/breaking-mitt-romney-has-filed-to-run-for-president/?utm_source=fnot2&utm_medium=facebook
He’d filed something back in October.
He re-activated campaign accounts last week also.
I don’t know if this is just Romney thinking he sees an opening or if the GOPe honestly thinks they can install Romney at the convention and everyone will fall in line???
Just saw this on twitter and wanted to share:
https://twitter.com/00_anabel/status/708695686531981312
Just had an incident at Trump rally, Secret Service had to jump on stage. Looks like someone threw something at him from behind.
Hope they catch whoever did it and punch him in the face.
Here is another. He did not duck or run. Continued speech. What a man, lol.
I’ve never seen the SS work that fast around Obama ? I think they really like Trump 😀
I do think they should be limiting access to him now. He gets too close to the crowds and pushy scrum of reporters.
It was bad enough last night seeing conservative pundits/writers siding with moveon.org. Now some of them are making jokes about what just happened in Ohio.
They never had to work that hard against Obama. No one was really trying to kill him, no matter how much Obama was whining about it.
😀
While Chicago burns, Sasha Obama wears a $20,000 dress.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/708662961531981824
I know. I nearly choked last night when I read the “Obama girls” attended their first formal WH event wearing $20,000 gowns. That was more than my salary my first 3 years of social work about 20+ years ago, Seriously.
I think they were loaners from the designer. Too bad they didn’t invite Justin Bieber to sit with them, they looked so bored.
They probably were loaners. But still, putting teenagers in $20,000 gowns?
But they did look lovely in those gowns. At least they did in the photos I saw.
I’d probably look good in a $20,000 gown too.
Maybe not.
😀
https://twitter.com/sustain05/status/708701426936123392
” Secret Service had to jump on stage…”
*****
“The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as H.R. 347, is a federal law in the United States allowing the Secret Service extra jurisdiction to make arrests and suppress protests in cases of trespass on restricted locations and intentional disruption of government functions.
H.R. 347 is a revision to section 1752 of title 18 US code.[1] Introduced by representative Thomas Rooney (FL-16), it makes punishable by up to 10 years jail time or fine any person who does “or conspires” enter any “restricted building or grounds” or within certain “proximity” without lawful authority to do so, attempts to disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business.
…….(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting..”
The ball is in the Secret Service court…
They were quick, there within seconds.
Trump will be in KC tonight.
There are some protesters at Trumps rally today, providing guaranteed coverage for every Trump rally. The media are more frenzied than than the VOTERS.
The protesters are once again mostly Bernouts. Sanders is going to have to address this eventually. And this especially does not bode well for Hillary and the Democratfuckers
Free advertising works for Trump.
Never let a crisis go to waste 😉
😀
Amen, be careful what you wish for.
Yep. I’ve never been a big Laura Ingraham fan, but I agree with her this time.
https://twitter.com/slone/status/708712795026620416
Did they pummel the protester?
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I’m checking out for a while. Enjoy your day, everyone. *waves bye, bye*
Once you start recognizing the social shaming tactics that the political herd employs to try to control you, and start ignoring them, it’s very freeing.
Brilliant response.
So the town where I grew up is devastated. When I was a kid I was related to every third person. Somebody died and the bereft were fed for weeks. Welfare took place, but it was short term. We had n words, spics, micks, pollocks,wops, degos, a think there was even a joo. My god parents are from Puerto Rico. Their home was so different than mine. Scents, decor voice level. So different. Not good or bad just different. I am inclined to believe most racial strife is fabrication. Same thing with gay. When the Matthew Sheppard stuff took place my friend worked on The Laramie Project. She was one of the writers. I saw the play and called bullshit. Elitists are racist against straight white men and women who do not see a drunken fuck as empowering. They demean at every chance. I love when my betters explain to me what my childhood was like. I never knew how badly I was oppressed until a rich white man hating girl told me. I was not even aware that I harbor racial hate towards my black cousins. AJ gets on my nerves. All mini people get on my nerves. I tell Shay everyday she bores me and I stopped listening to her at age 3. We bicker a lot. My goal is to make her think for herself.
Anywho the Catholic Diocese is selling the church I grew up attending for 75,000. A bunch of fireman wanted to buy it and rent it out for events. They offered 250,000. Place is huge and beautiful. They rejected the 250 and accepted 75. The woman who is trying to buy it her husband works for the correctional department. They want to convert into a halfway house. Biggest halfway house on the planet. Place is huge. This is not 1972. A shady deal could have been hid in former times. I went to school with the mayor. He had a town hall. Facebook and emails nonstop. My cousin lives five houses down from the church. She has lived there for 30 years. She is an lpn and her husband is a butcher. They put three kids through college. Very grounded people. I was getting drunk on Mykonos while she was making grocery lists. They did all the right stuff. Their home will be worth nothing if they put in a mega half way house five doors away. My heart breaks for them. We po peeps used to grow up with large extended families. My cousins were like siblings. We were always together. I had reckless fun while they obsessed over a one week vacation. Over the years most of my awful homophobic cousins visited the f a g in New York. They were so damned cute. Brand new clothes. They eat Tuna Helper because they care more about their kids than anything. Visits in New York you never eat in. I would watch my relatives try and slide a credit card to a waiter. Like I ever paid. I did a lot of events and promotions. To see their eyes after Les Miz and I say wanna go back stage. They’d act like they had won the lottery. . I could get tickets to any live tv show. Was not a big deal. I most likely slept with someone on every show ever filmed in NewYork. Not really I am pretty repressed. I did benefit from AIDS. Late 80’s people were afraid. My first job interview in Manhatten this guy was interviewing me to be a bartender. Phone rang and then he was on the floor crying. Another of his friends had died. He gave me his keys and left for a week. . I had no idea what I was doing. Led to so much. Peter Neufeld was a friend.
Anyhow my poor family was always worried they would embarrass me in NYC. My cousins have way more integrity than I. The people that want to open the half way conglomerate actually had the gall to cry racism. WTF. It is not open has not even been sold. You are a racist if you are not willing to see your property value plummet. Rich is mayor. He has some Palin spunk. He responds with I can’t even. My cousin has a three bedroom two bath house. It will be worthless if a halfway house is placed near by. 30 years they paid mortgage. Worked hard raised good kids. I so want to call myself that word which freaks women out. I am such a spoiled brat. I search for words in my tiny brain. I love my cousin she is going to see the largest investment of her life disappear. She is called racist. 30 years she paid her mortgage. Now she is a racist for blocking ahalf way home.