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Trump Fans Who Beat Up Mexican Immigrant Apparently Lived Illegally in Public Housing

Trump Fans Who Beat Up Mexican Immigrant Apparently Lived Illegally in Public Housing

The two brothers from Boston who were arrested early Wednesday for allegedly severely beating a homeless Hispanic man do not appear to exactly be law-abiding citizens. Steve and Scott Leader of South Boston are now being investigated under suspicion of living illegally in public housing. The Boston Globe explains:

"Rumsfeld showed up for military briefing in N Iraq & didn't know where neighbouring Iran was on map

"These plans drawn up in Washington were all wishful thinking," she said.

You may say I'm a dreamer, .....

Republican "logic"

There is an ugliness in the land.....

The Ugliness and the Unfolding Horrors
by Jaime O'Neill


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-oneill/63532/the-ugliness-and-the-unfolding-horrors
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When a right wing talk radio host in Iowa (the heartland), promotes the idea of enslaving Mexican farm workers who are here illegally, and when that notion is not met with condemnation by the entire population, you know the country is settling very deep into the muck, enmiring itself in the worst kind of ugliness, hungering for a police state even while the most vociferous supporters of government intrusion in our lives insist that they was for smaller government.

Meanwhile, our news media seems complicit in spreading the tale as the fascists want it to be told. Meanwhile, the liberals equivocate or remain silent, telling themselves, as they did in Germany, that such madness would surely be self-limiting, that the nation would, sooner or later, see where such hatred and fear mongering can lead. Meanwhile, the right wingers, emboldened, grew ever more extreme, ever more hateful, using their twisted interpretations of religion to justify the most ungodly things imaginable. Meanwhile, the “moderates” were seen rushing ever rightward, their status as people with moderate views distorting the very definition of moderation, pushing the national conversation into a kind of “newspeak” in which war equals peace and justice equals summary executions by out-of-control cops. Meanwhile, the corporatists, the industrialists, the wealthiest few, the shielded, entitled, and most privileged, threw their money and power behind the men who promised to ensure the advantages that had made them so rich and powerful in the first place.

And so, when a demagogue steps forward, a man with an odd way of arranging his hair and a promise to make the homeland great again, the most thuggish elements begin to scream “seig heil,” and ugliness is loosed upon the land.

I think of the first stanza of the William Butler Yeats’ poem, written in the immediate aftermath of World War I, as the seeds of resentment that would sprout Nazism were beginning to grow in Germany.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Foo Fighters rick rolls Westboro Baptist Church!!!!!!!!!

They decided the only appropriate response was a good, old-fashioned Rickroll. Yes, the Foo Fighters Rickrolled Westboro Baptist Church. As they started rolling down the street in their pickup truck, they blasted Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” from their speakers. All the while, they were holding signs up that said things like, “Keep it clean,” and “You got Rick Rolled (again).”

A m e r i c a , A m e r i c a . . . . .

YES - Foo Fighters Rick Roll Westboro Baptist Church!!!!!

They decided the only appropriate response was a good, old-fashioned Rickroll. Yes, the Foo Fighters Rickrolled Westboro Baptist Church. As they started rolling down the street in their pickup truck, they blasted Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” from their speakers. All the while, they were holding signs up that said things like, “Keep it clean,” and “You got Rick Rolled (again).”

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