Top 10 Conservative Idiots #35: Wheel O’Corruption VI: Out Of The Shadows Edition

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #35: Wheel O’Corruption VI: Out Of The Shadows Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! So we’re doing double duty this week and next week with Sunday and Wednesday editions for the RNC, which as Bill Maher called it a “category 5 shit storm” and if the protestors in Cleveland get their way, it most likely will be. So these have been some really shitty times we are living in. You know ever since Sandy Hook we’ve had just one shitty event after another shitty event. You know since I’ve been covering these, we’ve had San Bernardino, we’ve had the Planned Parenthood attack in Colorado, the massacre at the Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris, the massacre in Orlando, and now the massacre in Dallas. So yeah… like I said, complete shit storm. Let’s try and make light of these events shall we? But first John Oliver is off on a ridiculously long absence and while he was off, he posted this video in which he talks about the scourge of the internet: YouTube Comments:

So where do we begin this week? With all the shitty news lately, we’re going to dust off the Wheel O’Corruption which has been laying dormant for a while. You know the Dallas shooting has been the most recent in a long, long ridiculously long list of mass shootings in the last 4 years. So we are going to recap all the events in the first two entries while the second will talk about what went down at the memorial – how a president should handle it, and of course how a former president should not. In the number 3 slot, that is being dedicated Republican Empathy (3) which came out in droves during the Dallas memorial. And no one was more empathetic than Rudy Giuliani and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. The fourth slot, Chik-Fil-A (4) came out with tribute to the Dallas PD that’s almost as in poor taste as their sandwiches are. In the fifth slot, our returning champion Donald J. Trump (5, 6) takes up not just the fifth slot but also the sixth slot. In the fifth slot, Donald Trump champions himself as the “law and order candidate”, while the sixth slot will talk about what Bernie supporters are in for if they vote for Trump over Hillary. In the 7th slot is the Bathroom Police (7). So with the GOP convention now just a mere week away, the GOP has laid out their platform – and it does *NOT* favor the LGBT community, though surprisingly they are becoming more and more lax on marriage. Taking slot #8 this week, we’re going down the worm hole on the Fox News (8) scandal involving Roger Ailes that we talked about last edition. In the number 9 slot (NEIN!!!), by now you’ve heard of Nintendo’s insanely popular new app Pokemon Go. And when something becomes that popular people are going to toy with it. But no one whined as much about it as the Westboro Baptist Church (9), yes, *THAT* Westboro Baptist Church. So we will tell you what went down when their attempt to fight trolls hilariously backfired on them. Finally this week – we’re going to talk about a controversy in the movie world. Specifically Star Trek. Do you guys and gals like Star Trek? I know I do! Well the third film in the rebooted series, Star Trek: Beyond, drops this next weekend, and writer Simon Pegg has dropped a bombshell that Sulu will be revealed to be the first openly gay character in the entire series. But not everyone is happy about that including Sulu himself, the great George Takei. And in his words – OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!


[font size="8"]Dallas Shooting Recap[/font]


Come on everybody say it with me – it’s time for the: WHEEL OF CORRUPTION!!!!!

And of course if we had a bigger budget we’d have our own graphics and theme music. The wheel is back everybody!! And yes just like last time I’ll talk about whatever the wheel lands on. But remember that if it lands on the Guacamole option that it costs $1.50 extra. So this week the items on the wheel will be:
- Gun Nuts
- Donald Trump
- Go Directly To Jail
- Clip Without Context
- Guacamole
- 5,000
- Poison
- Farting
- Promotional Items
- Bankrupt
- Satan
- Buy A Vowel
- Pokemon
- Food
- Whammy
- A Recent Study
- Good Guys With Guns
- Guns
- VR Headset
- Inception Study
- Get Out Of Jail Free
- People Who Somehow Got Elected
- 10,000
- Celebrity Look Alikes
- Fox News
- Double Whammy
- 15,000
- Star Trek
- Party Unity
- Memorials
- Sex Scandals
- Racism
- Something random in the news
- ??? (Mystery)
- Florida (Obviously)
- Infowars
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin

So folks in light of some dark, deeply disturbing news this week we’re going to liven it up by bringing back the Wheel Of Corruption. Which is normally stored in an abandoned Nevada warehouse somewhere next to the Ark Of The Covenant.

So let’s get this going. Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy stop!!! A recent study. People are we ever going to learn? There’s been five mass shootings since I started the Top 10. Five!!! FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had Planned Parenthood, San Bernardino, the Eagles Of Death Metal concert in Paris, Orlando, and now Dallas. Things are getting worse than ever when it comes to American gun control or a complete lack there of. So before we get into what’s going on in Dallas, let’s first divulge the details of a recent study.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cops-killed-white-men-conservatives-silent-article-1.2632965

Would it shock you to learn that the number of police who've been shot and killed in 2016 is up an astounding 59% from where it was this same date last year? Seventeen police officers have already been shot and killed in 2016, by mid-May. Only 10 had suffered that fate by May 10th, 2015.

The drastic increase shocked the hell out of me. While I primarily track, study and report the number of people killed by police, I still follow police fatalities closely. Contrary to popular belief, despising police brutality does not mean I despise police officers. I appreciate all public servants and have both a police officer and a longtime Secret Service member in my family. They are amazing, kind-hearted men who do great work. I also despise gun violence and loathe every single fatality suffered because of it.

Something's afoot, though, on why we're not hearing much about this shocking increase in the number of officers who've been shot and killed so far in 2016. Sadly, I think I have the answer.

So with that in mind let’s get into Dallas shall we?

One of the gunmen who opened fire on police in Dallas said he wanted to kill white police officers and expressed anger at a recent spate of shootings by police before he was killed, it was revealed Friday morning.

The suspect, who has not been named, was cornered for several hours by officers and was killed by an explosive device deployed by a police bomb robot after extensive negotiations failed, said Dallas police chief David Brown.

Brown told reporters at an early morning news conference that “The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter,” during negotiations. “He said he was upset about the recent shootings, he was upset at white people. The suspect said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/08/dallas-police-shooting-gunman-kill-white-officers

So if you notice this was planned several months in advance by a crazy guy who should not have had access to firearms. Much like San Bernardino last year where the attack was planned several months in advance by a crazy guy who should not have had access to firearms. Or Orlando, where the the attack was planned several months in advance by a crazy guy who should not have had access to firearms. Hey I’m not seeing a pattern here!

So what else went down in Dallas? It was pretty much a gigantic cluster fuck that ended extremely poorly. So of course Dallas sent in the killer police robots:

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force. Early Friday morning, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device on its manipulator arm to kill a suspect after five police officers were murdered and seven others wounded.

“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” Dallas police chief David Brown told reporters.

Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation who writes about the technology of warfare, said he believed this was a first. “There may be some story that comes along, but I’d think I’d have heard of it,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bomb-robot-explosive-killed-suspect-dallas

So you’ve got police bombs, tear gas, and now a “killer police robot”. Which is probably the first time in history this has ever happened. And that is something that you never want to be first for. Much like you never want to be the first person to get arrested for public urination, or you never want to be the first person to win a Rocky Mountain Oyster eating contest. That’s disgusting, John, quit showing us that medal! Put it away!

And of course Mike Huckabee immediately blames Obama for what went down in Dallas:

http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/07/08/mike-huckabee-goes-full-stupid-after-dallas-shooting-who-he-blames-will-make-you-angry-details/

Friday on “Fox and Friends,” Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas said that he feels President Barack Obama should have reacted to the attacks on police officers in Dallas the same way that former president Ronald Reagan did in 1986 after the Challenger disaster. This is after Thursday evening’s sniper attacks that left five police officers dead and another seven injured.

The former presidential candidate responded to the question of what he would do in Obama’s place:
‘I think this is a time when real leaders bring people together. he doesn’t split them apart.’...

Oh, but the conservative Governor took issue with that statement and said:
‘He doesn’t need to inject the divisive arguments like gun control at a time of great grief for the nation. And he ought to do for us what Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster. That’s remind us of what we have in common, not what separates us. And that’s why I’m always so frustrated. Barack Obama has such great potential to be a leader.

And yes there is tape of this:

[font size="8"]Dallas Pt. 2: The Memorial[/font]


Spin it! Memorials. Folks we here at the Top 10 will never use our powers (or lack thereof) to speak ill of the dead, in any way shape or form. So this entry will discuss the memorial for the Dallas PD officers who lost their lives over the weekend, and we won’t use any funny memes, graphics or videos as a sign of respect. But somebody who did not show any sign of respect toward the fallen officers? I give you former president George W. Bush:

http://news.groopspeak.com/george-w-bush-says-something-appalling-in-response-to-dallas-shooting/

George W. and Laura Bush live in Dallas and thus have a close, personal connection to the horrific attacks that occurred last night which left five law enforcement officers dead and seven others wounded.

Bush released a statement this morning which, at first glance, looks pretty standard and innocuous. The former President and First Lady are “heartbroken by the heinous acts of violence. They “have seen firsthand the dedication, professionalism, and courage of the Dallas Police Department,” and of course they “pray for the wounded officers to recover fully and quickly.”

But here’s the phrase that caught my eye:
Murdering the innocent is always evil, never more so than when the lives taken belong to those who protect our families and communities.

Wait a minute – are you telling me the President and his wife witnessed the carnage first hand? Are you serious?

But what’s the aftermath of this? We’ve seen shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting. And nothing has changed. Not a god damned thing. Or will it? Here’s what one police department in Minneapolis said in response:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach.

Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests.

After days of peaceful protests in St. Paul, officers in riot gear met protesters who blocked Interstate 94 late Saturday in the biggest confrontation between police and demonstrators since an officer fatally shot a black man during a suburban Twin Cities traffic stop last week. About 100 people were arrested — half during the highway standoff and the other half early Sunday in another part of St. Paul — and 21 St. Paul police officers and six state troopers were hurt. Police Chief Todd Axtell called the pelting of officers with rocks, bottles, firecrackers and other objects "a disgrace."
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Police-may-change-tactics-at-protests-after-8350946.php

And what else went down at Dallas and at the memorial?

Nixon explained that he had to regain his humanity after the bullets started flying.

“You start to think it’s me against the world. And with that type of mentality, we’ll implode as a people,” he said. “We’ll implode not as ethnicity as a people, but as a people, period. We’re all one race at the end of the day. If we get a ‘me against the world’ mentality ― last night I was thinking, maybe it’s not black lives matter or all lives matter, maybe it’s just my life matters. Maybe it’s just my family’s life matters. I had to recover from that spiritually.”

“I had to be reminded that love conquers all,” he added. “If I let that mentality overwhelm me, then who can I help?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellon-nixon-msnbc_us_577ff5a0e4b0344d514f3ae7?section=politics

Well said.

And here’s what else conservatives had to say about Dallas. Bet you didn’t think it was going to be him did you? :

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump said Monday he believes relations between police and the nation's African-American community are "far worse" than people think, predicting that protests against police violence that followed last week's slaying of five police officers in Dallas "might be just the beginning for this summer."

In an interview with The Associated Press, the presumptive GOP nominee struck a balance between the law-and-order rhetoric he has espoused during his campaign and an appreciation for the concerns held by African-Americans nationwide about the conduct of police. Trump suggested that a lack of training for officers might be at least partially to blame for the two police shootings that led to last Thursday's protest in Dallas, where a lone gunman killed five in an act of vengeance against white officers. At the same time,Trump denounced the name of the Black Lives Matter movement as "a very divisive term."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-black-lives-matter-divisive

Really Trump? Says the guy who has no idea who David Duke is, besides the fact that the former KKK Grand Wizard has been head over heels in love with Trumpenfuror’s campaign?


[font size="8"]Republican Empathy[/font]


Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy stop! And it lands on Inception Study. So you know with all the uptick in violence lately, naturally people are going to study it to determine the cause and effect of said violence. So first let's show the Harvard Study On Police Violence:

This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces, but cannot fully explain, these disparities. On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of officer-involved shootings.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399

And then there's the New York Times critique of the Harvard Study On Police Violence:

A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.

But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.

“It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard. The study examined more than 1,000 shootings in 10 major police departments, in Texas, Florida and California.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html?_r=0

And then there's the critique of the critique of the New York Times Study On Police Violence:

Today, amid nationwide protests over state violence against black people, The New York Times chose to publish an article headlined: “Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings.”
The article’s authors, Quoctrung Bui and Amanda Cox, quote Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard economics professor and the study’s author, who says: “It is the most surprising result of my career.”
But once you look at the context of data cited by the Times, it’s not so much the “evidence” (contested here) that’s surprising, as the way the Times chooses to frame it. Here’s why.
<snip>
Fryer is “not afraid of controversial questions.” It might be more accurate to say that he actively seeks out questions that could challenge conventional wisdom, given that his interests have included “considering the possibility” of genetically lower intelligence in black people than whites.
<snip>
http://theinfluence.org/three-problems-with-how-the-ny-times-highlights-a-non-peer-reviewed-study-allegedly-showing-no-racial-bias-in-police-shootings/

You know.... this is kind of like that movie Inception. It's a study within a study within a study within a study.

Spin it again! Empathy. You know that thing that republicans are world renowned for. So you know with the Dallas shooting comes that good old fashioned republican empathy that they're famous for. You know a "compassionate conservative" point of view. Kind of like when Gordon Ramsey screams at a contestant on Hell's Kitchen because he didn't cook the meat the correct way. You should have turned the fire to 7, not 8 you dumbass!! That is not how you cook chicken rangoon!!!!

(Ed. Note: BTW a good friend of mine was the one getting rejected on Hell's Kitchen in that clip... )

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called protesters who ran away from the hail of bullets that rained down on Downtown Dallas on Thursday night "hypocrites" during an interview Friday on Fox News.

"All those protesters last night, they turned around and ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to protect them. What hypocrites!" an audibly emotional Patrick said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-calls-dallas-protesters-hypocrites-article-1.2704730

Yeah because the first thing you want to do when protesting something is run *INTO* the gunfire.



But no one knows empathy for a tragedy better than former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani argued Sunday, in addressing the two shootings in which police officers shot and killed two black men, that black families should teach their children to "be respectful to the police."

Giuliani commented on the shootings in Dallas where five police officers were shot, and the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile during an appearance on CBS' "Face The Nation." He said his "deep sympathy" goes out to the families of the victims in those shootings.

Then, he argued that there was "too much" violence in the black community and that there were some black men and boys who feared being confronted by the police given the recent shootings.

"If you want to deal with this on the black side, you've got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you've got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police, the real danger to them 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times are other black kids who are going to kill them," Giuliani said. "That's the way they're going to die."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/giuliani-black-families-respect-police

So to trace Guiliani's "logic" (or lack thereof), African Americans need to be taught to support the police because of "too much violence" so therefore the way to avoid death or prison time is... supporting "the man"? What the fuck is he smoking? Or is he watching too much Reno 911?

[font size="8"]Chik-Fil-A[/font]


Entering the spin zone!! And it lands on................ come on VR Headset.... Daddy wants an HTC Vive... wait for it.... Farting. Yes probably the most disgusting item on the wheel so far. And really Bernie supporters? Really??? Is this what we really need at the DNC this year? And who is this benefiting? Um........ nobody.

PHILADELPHIA - Some Bernie Sanders supporters are planning a protest that could be described as silent but non-violent.

A spokesperson for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign told U.S. News & World Report that her group is planning to stage a "fart-in" during Hillary Clinton's closing speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this month.

Cheri Honkala and other outspoken Sanders fans told the publication that despite Sanders's endorsement of Clinton earlier this week, they still plan to protest the presumptive nominee's big moment in Philly.

So how exactly would a "fart-in" work?

Honkala said her group has gathered a "stockpile" of various types of beans that will be cooked and fed to delegates, journalists and others who will be inside the Wells Fargo Center during Clinton's nomination acceptance speech at the DNC.

They hope to stink up the arena in a move will act as a symbolic gesture of the group's displeasure over Clinton's nomination.
http://www.wkbw.com/news/national/bernie-sanders-fans-stage-fart-in-protest-at-dnc

Silent but non violent... excuse me a minute!

Spin it again!! Food. And promotional items. With Dallas comes one of the more extremely poor taste and ill timed way of supporting the cops. See, Chik-Fil-A has had a long standing way of supporting pro-establishment policies. But this might be the weirdest promotion they have in their marketing arsenal:

ATLANTA, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Chick-fil-A® is issuing a cattle call! Mark your calendar for the 12th annual Cow Appreciation Day on Tuesday, July 12, 2016. On that day, Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide will offer a free entrée to any customer who visits a restaurant dressed as a cow.
Adult customers who dress in any type of cow attire, whether it's head-to-hoof or sporting a cow-spotted accessory, will be rewarded with a free Chick-fil-A entrée of their choice, such as an Original Chicken Sandwich, Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap or Chick-fil-A Chicken Biscuit. Children can receive a free Kid's Meal for dressing in a cow costume. The Cow Appreciation Day celebration will last from store opening through 7 p.m. local time (check local store listings for individual store opening hours).
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/save-the-date-chick-fil-a-offers-free-food-to-cow-clad-customers-on-cow-appreciation-day-july-12-300288795.html

So this raises a lot of questions – like what grown adult puts on a fucking cow costume just for a free sandwich? You know that cow suit you bought costs $50 or more, so congratulations you just purchased the most expensive chicken sandwich ever! Bravo well done! I mean for that kind of money you could buy 25 of these for $2 a piece, and just look, they’re guaranteed awesomeness!!!



But you know who did show up to Chik-Fil-A in a cow costume? You might want to put a splash guard on your monitor because this is too fucking good!

Sierra is the Duggar family’s party planner, and she’s appeared in a few episodes of 19 Kids and Counting and Jill & Jessa: Counting On. She’s helped organize gender reveal parties, weddings, baby showers, and birthday parties. However, the Duggars aren’t partying at Chick-fil-A in the photo above. As Fox News reports, yesterday was Cow Appreciation Day at the fast food chain, meaning that customers who dressed up like cows could score free entrees. Josh and Anna Duggar’s cow costumes seemingly consist of nothing more than white T-shirts with black splotches painted on them.

It’s no secret that the Duggars are fans of Chick-fil-A. As E! News reports, Jill Duggar loves her Chick-fil-A so much that she believes that the restaurant will exist in heaven. However, chicken nuggets and Polynesian sauce weren’t enough to lure Josh Duggar out of hiding for last year’s Cow Appreciation Day fast food giveaway. As The Inquisitr reported, Josh was noticeably absent in a photo that showed a heavily pregnant Anna Duggar and their kids posing with a giant inflatable Chick-fil-A cow. Josh likely stayed home because he feared facing the public’s wrath; he had recently confessed to sexually molesting four of his younger sisters, so was getting tons of negative press at the time.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3303327/josh-duggar-resurfaces-at-chick-fil-a-dressed-like-a-cow-scores-free-food-with-other-family-members/#SdHb2OfI2LLdorUc.99

But getting back to Chik-Fil-A and their pro-establishment policies, here’s how one franchise tried to support the Dallas PD but failed miserably because this isn’t the first time that Chik-Fil-A employees spouted “Back The Blue” shirts.

The tension between the police and the Black Lives Matter movement is currently more intense than the line outside of a Chick-fil-A on opening day, but that isn’t stopping one location of the chain in Texas from taking a stance. According to The Blaze, recent photos show staff members at Chick-fil-A in Conroe, Texas sporting t-shirts that say “Back the Blue” under the Chick-fil-A logo.

Customers are also apparently sporting t-shirts with the phrase “Go Blue or Go Home” on it. First We Feast called the location where an employee, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed that employees at the location were indeed wearing the shirts and have been “for a little while.”
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/11/chick-fil-a-police-lives-matter-back-the-blue-t-shirts

Or was it really? So look at what happened when Snopes got a hold of this and a ton of similar articles:

WHAT'S TRUE: In 2015, high school employees at a single Chick-fil-A in Texas created their own "Back the Blue" shirts.

WHAT'S FALSE: Chick-fil-A has not voiced support for either movement in question; "back the blue" is not tantamount to "a bomb on Black Lives Matters"; the shirts were not created or distributed by a franchise (much less the company); the shirts had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter protests in July 2016.
http://www.snopes.com/chick-fil-a-just-dropped-a-bomb-on-black-lives-matter/

[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]


Spin it to win it! Something random in the news!

Newman’s computer, actually a megaprocessor, takes up a whole room in his house in Great Shelford.

“I spent around three hours a night working on it and I’ve had to take all the books and shelves and sofas out of my lounge,” he told SWNS. “I’m lucky because it’s quite a big lounge but I’ve had to put everything else in my spare room.” In total, it cost more than $51,000 over a five-year period. “I didn’t plan on spending [that much money] at the start. It grew as time went by and I got a bit more ambitious,” he said.

He admits, “If I had a wife she’d probably have left me by now. ”What did he get for efforts? Not much. It’s a million times slower and has a million times less memory than a typical desktop, according to South West News Service. Oh, and you can only play Tetris on it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supercomputer-only-plays-tetris_us_577febe8e4b01edea78dcaf1?ir=Weird+News§ion=us_weird-news&utm_hp_ref=weird-news

But how many frames per second does it get on Counter Strike: Go? Or maybe he’s preparing for Tetris: The Movie.



Spin that shit again! Donald Trump. So Trumpenfuror provided what could quite possibly be the classiest response to the Dallas shooting yet:

During two separate discussions of Black Lives Matters protests on Tuesday, Donald Trump claimed that people have called for moments of silence for Micah Johnson, the gunman who killed five police officers in Dallas and injured nine others, without specifying who or where.

On an O’Reilly Factor segment filmed earlier in the day, Trump expressed disgust with the actions of the officers who shot Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and said it “could be” that police treat African-Americans differently, but criticized the Black Lives Matter movement as “dividing America.”

“I saw what they’ve said about police at various marches and rallies,” said Trump. “I’ve seen moments of silence called for for this horrible human being who shot the policemen.”
http://gawker.com/donald-trump-claims-hes-seen-people-calling-for-moments-1783561092

But this isn’t the only empathetic way Trumpenfuror has responded to the rally:

Republican Donald Trump presented himself as "the law-and-order candidate" with a compassionate heart on Monday, positioning himself as strong on security in response to a wave of anxiety among Americans after the Dallas police shootings. Trump's remarks in Virginia Beach, Virginia, showed how much the Dallas violence has shaken up the political conversation with both Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton devoting time to the topic.

"We must maintain law and order at the highest level, or we will cease to have a country — 100 percent," Trump said. "I am the law-and-order candidate."

Trump's remarks about safety and security were added to a speech devoted to reforming the troubled Veterans Administration. He also presented himself as a compassionate candidate and mentioned the two episodes that preceded the Dallas shootings: the killing of two African-American men by police, one in Minnesota and the other in Louisiana. "But you can't have true compassion without providing safety to the citizens of our country," Trump said. "Every kid in American should be able to securely walk the streets of their own neighborhood without harm.
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-law-order-vice-president-479527

“I am the law and order candidate! Nobody makes better laws than I do! I make the best laws, I bribe the best law enforcement officers, I hire the best judges… nobody hires better judges than I do. Oh wait did I say bribe? I meant “hire!”.“



In fact even the New York Times called Trumpenfuror “volatile” and “hostile” in the wake of Dallas:

In the wake of Dallas, Donald Trump is getting pummeled by the press.

In the wake of James Comey, Hillary Clinton is getting thumbs down from a majority of voters.

And these dynamics are unfolding at a crucial stretch of the campaign: Trump must settle on a running mate in the next couple of days, while Clinton needs to pick a running mate by next week.

Let’s start with Trump. It’s true, according to my sources, that his campaign had a daylong debate on how to respond to the murder of five police officers in Dallas, and took the cautious route. Trump gave no interviews and limited himself to a few comments on Twitter and a 90-second Instagram video. “Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country,” Trump tweeted.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/12/after-dallas-new-york-times-calls-trump-volatile-and-hotheaded.html

But oh no! According to recent inquiries, Trumpenfuror warns that it may be “just the beginning”:

"We are in a divided nation"

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday warned that the U.S. is a “divided nation” where the relationship between police officers and African-American communities is “far worse” than many people believe.

Trump’s comments, made in an interview with the Associated Press, served as a direct contradiction to President Barack Obama’s assessment of tension and division in the country. Speaking after the deadly shooting of police officers in Dallas, Obama said Saturday that the U.S. is “not as divided as some have suggested,” and he rejected the idea that history is repeating itself when it comes to racial tension.
http://time.com/4402724/donald-trump-dallas-violence-warning/

Well fucking duh!!! You’re running for president! Tell us something we don’t know already!

[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]


Spin it to win it! And it lands on………………… Party Unity! You know folks in the tradition of Stephen Colbert’s “Hungry For Power Games” it is down to two. Bernie officially announced his support for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” kind of way:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president.

“Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that,” Sanders said. “She will be the Democratic nominee for president and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.”

Sanders thanked those who voted for him during the Democratic primary ― especially the people of New Hampshire, where he got his first primary win, and his home state of Vermont. He also warned against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, arguing the business mogul would be bad for working families, calling Trump’s economic policies “reckless.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton_us_56e98f60e4b0b25c91841bdd

See folks that’s how it should be done! Spin it again…. And it lands on…. Wait for it… Donald Trump! While Bernie is showing people how it should be done, you know who’s not showing you how it should be done? Donald Trump. So while I was a Bernie Sanders supporter as was most of my family for this campaign, well, I kind of feel sorry for Bernie Sanders supporters who are pledging to vote for Donald Trump. I love Jessica Williams on the Daily Show, and for her final outing before starting her new gig, she filed this report about this very subject:

Now I say that, oh fellow Bernie enthusiasts, because this is what you get if you switch party affiliation and vote for Trumpenfuror. Where’s the whambulence? :

Donald Trump chided Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Tuesday interview with The New York Times after she gave multiple comments that were highly critical of his campaign.

“I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Trump told the Times by phone. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”

Ginsburg in recent days has ramped up her criticisms of Trump's campaign. She has said he's a "faker" who should release his tax returns, that she "can't imagine" a Trump presidency, and that "everything" would be up for grabs with him occupying the White House. Ginsburg's comments are unique in that a Supreme Court justice typically doesn't comment on presidential candidates during election season.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-slams-ruth-bader-ginsburg

But what else is Trumpenfuror up to? Well his son may be just as full of shit as his father if not more so:

Last week, Eric Trump said that his own charitable foundation had received "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in personal donations from his father. But on Monday, Eric Trump said he could not name a single instance when Donald Trump had given such a gift.

"I’m sure there have been but without going back through 10 years, I wouldn’t remember check for check off the top of my head," Eric Trump wrote in an email message to The Washington Post.

Eric Trump made those comments in response to follow-up questions from The Post — which has been seeking evidence for Donald Trump's assertion that he has given generously, but privately, to charities in recent years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eric-trump-said-his-charity-received-hundreds-of-thousands-from-his-father-now-hes-not-sure/2016/07/12/b31458be-88c6-4c12-b154-8c0a1e536f92_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

[font size="8"]The Bathroom Police[/font]


Let’s give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? And sweet! I win 15,000!!! Boom. Of what, we still don’t know what that is. Let’s spin it again. Buy A Vowel. OK I’ll buy an “O”. All right I got two. So I get a letter? How about a C? OK got one there. I’ll solve the puzzle. Top 10 Conservative Idiots. What? That’s wrong? What did I wager? 15,000? Nooooooooooo!!!!

Spin it again. Bathrooms. So the GOP recently rolled out their party platform prior to the convention. And I hate to break to my LGBT friends, and especially the T’s, this platform *DOES NOT* favor you in any way, shape or form. Let’s go through their platform line item by line item, shall we?

One of the most pressing issues for the party, according to a draft leaked to the New York Times, is the reversal of the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S. Previously, leaders called for a “marriage amendment” to the Constitution that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Now, however, the party is demanding a “reversal whether through judicial reconsideration or a constitutional amendment returning control over marriage to the states.”
http://fusion.net/story/323943/the-gop-is-debating-its-official-2016-platform-and-things-are-getting-totally-insane/

Now they’ve been chasing that one the way Wiley Coyote chases the Road Runner. They’re never going to catch it because the GOP has been losing the argument on gay marriage every single time. But they do it in hopes they might someday catch that delicious, delicious road runner.


Or how about education? Guess what the GOP is pushing for Bible-based education!

On the subject of religion, the delegates have reportedly included an amendment calling for the Bible to be taught in schools as part of “American history.” Maybe the Garden of Eden really is in Missouri, after all?

But here’s where the bathroom police come in, and they’re getting really scary out there.

Because the 1950s, the time when this battle was fought and lost already, were cool, so why not relive the glory?

GOP leaders also lent their support to the idea of conversion therapy, the notorious practice that sends LGBTQ children to “therapists” who try to “convert” them back into being straight. Mental health experts and human rights groups are almost universally opposed to conversion therapy.

Gee, what a surprise they would resort to conversion therapy? I mean remember that episode of South Park where Butters gets sent to a gay – straight rehab camp?

And here’s where the trans bashing comes in:

Bathroom choice

The Obama administration's rule advising schools to allow students to use the bathroom of their gender identity was condemned as "illegal and dangerous" and "alien to America's history and traditions."
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a46621/republican-party-platform-2016/

Never mind that a court rejected a school’s request to force a female – male trans student to use the girl’s bathroom:

A federal appeals court has denied a Virginia school board's request to allow it to prevent a transgender teen from using the boys' bathroom when he returns to school this September.

The Gloucester County School Board wants to delay an order forcing it to let Gavin Grimm to use the restroom matching his gender identity while it appeals. .
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-rejects-schools-request-transgender-bathroom-case-40546011

But oh no, this might be the weirdest thing to come out of the GOP platform for the 2016 election:

Porn

"The internet must not become a safe haven for predators. Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions. We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children's safety and well-being. We applaud the social networking sites that bar sex offenders from participation. We urge energetic prosecution of child pornography which closely linked to human trafficking."

Yup! They really hate them some porno, don’t they?



And of course for every time the bathroom police feel they need to harass trans people, like I have shown, I will always respond to their insanity by posting an actual sex crime committed by the uber-religious, and they did not leave me a shortage of material this week. And yes this is the guy who founded America’s border patrol wannabe gun slingers:

Co-founder of Minuteman vigilante group gets 19-year prison sentence for child molestation

The co-founder of the vigilante border patrol group known as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps was sentenced on Monday to 19 1/2 years in an Arizona prison for molesting a five-year-old girl who was the friend of his daughter, prosecutors said.

Christopher Allen Simcox, 55, who helped form the Minuteman militia group in 2005, received the sentence following a hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix stemming from his contact with the girl between April 2012 and May 2013. ....

Authorities said he molested the girl during parental visits with one of his daughters and showed the victim pornographic movies.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/co-founder-of-minuteman-vigilante-group-gets-19-year-prison-sentence-for-child-molestation/

[font size="8"]Fox News[/font]


Spin it to win it! What? Go directly to jail? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! And I don’t have a Get Out Of Jali Free card either!

So I have to give this entry from a jail cell. So I’ll just show John Oliver’s rant about for profit prisons:

I’m out. Spin it again! Fox News. You know speaking of the Republicans and sex crimes, Fox News has been on Defcon 5 the last week in the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s exit. In fact when she filed suit against Roger Ailes, the network that is the replacement for critical thought among the average republican has gone into overdrive. Let’s recap first and then discuss in further detail:

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the network's CEO Roger Ailes, alleging he fired her because she refused his sexual advances. The host of The Real Story was reportedly terminated on June 23, the final day of her contract, and she claims she was the victim of sexual harassment and retaliation for rebuffing his advances as well as questioning unequal treatment of women in the Fox News workplace.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/06/fox-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-roger-ailes-for-sexual-harassment.html

Holy shit! You know last week we discussed how Roger Ailes is the Zapp Branagin of TV News journalists. I seriously think he might be more Bill Cosby after reading this:

Attorneys for former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson were contacted by 10 women in the wake of their lawsuit against the network’s CEO, Roger Ailes, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported on Wednesday afternoon.

“I just spoke with one of the attorneys involved in Carlson’s suit,” Stelter said in video posted by Media Matters, adding that the women reached out “because they say they also have stories to share about treatment by Roger Ailes.”

Stelter did point out that the women have not joined the lawsuit filed by Carlson on Wednesday.

Carlson said in her lawsuit that she was fired in response to both denying Ailes’ sexual overtures and objecting to what she called “severe and pervasive harassment” during her 11-year career working for the conservative news network. Stelter pointed out that neither Fox nor Ailes have commented on the suit, and that the network has not covered Carlson’s allegations.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/gretchen-carlsons-lawyers-contacted-by-10-women-after-roger-ailes-suit-cnn/

10 different women! Is Roger Ailes a professional playboy who gets around or is he a creepy pervert? But now 6 more women have come forward against Ailes:

"You know if you want to play with the big boys, you have to lay with the big boys.”

Those were the words one woman, a former Republican National Committee field adviser, claims Fox News head Roger Ailes used on her one night in 1989 as she was attempting to land a contract with the RNC, reports New York magazine.

Like the case of Bill Cosby, sexual harassment allegations are beginning to flood in after one victim — former Fox host Gretchen Carlson — filed a sexual harassment lawsuit this week against the powerful conservative news executive.

According to Gabriel Sherman, who wrote a biography on Ailes in 2014, allegations of highly inappropriate sexual banter by Ailes come as no surprise, dating back to the 60’s when he was a producer on The Mike Douglas Show.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/6-more-women-accuse-fox-head-roger-ailes-of-sexual-harassment-including-one-who-was-16-at-the-time/

But now Carlson is accusing Fox News of continuous, verbal harassment! Holy shit! He really is Zapp Branagin!

“I just wanted to stand up for myself, first and foremost,” Carlson told The New York Times in a Tuesday interview at her lawyer Nancy Erika Smith’s New Jersey home. “And I wanted to stand up for other women who maybe faced similar circumstances.”

The former “Real Story” host stood by the allegations laid out in the lawsuit, claiming that Ailes made sexual advances towards her, oversaw a culture of sexual harassment at Fox News and fired her because she refused him and complained about her treatment at the network.

She told the Times that she kept quiet about the “continuous” offensive language she heard from Ailes because of the hierarchical structure of the network.

“Everyone knew how powerful Roger Ailes was,” she said. “I certainly felt intimidated by that.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gretchen-carlson-says-roger-ailes-harassment-continuous

Are they taking cues from Family Guy?

[font size="8"]Westboro Baptist Church[/font]


Spin that shit!!! And it lands on…. Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy stop!! Clip without context!

I’m still not tired of that!

Spin it again! And it lands on…………… Pokemon! Hit it!

So by now you’ve heard of Nintendo’s insanely popular new app Pokemon Go. This thing is insanely popular. I kind of wish I was a stock holder for Nintendo because it’s made the company something like $7 BILLION in profit. BILLION!! And it still has yet to be released in a lot of markets, so Nintendo could be even richer by the time this thing is rolled out world wide. So this thing has attracted a lot of attention – mostly positive, but also a lot negative. Like this:

Man's private home turned into Pokémon gym
Involuntarily, some people have seen their homes overtaken by Pokémon trainers.
Boon Sheridan, who lives with his family in an old church in Massachusetts, was surprised to find that his house has been marked as a Pokémon gym: A place where people can train their fictional creatures.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/tech/pokemon-go-crazy-events/

Or this:

Armed robbers used the game Pokémon Go to lure victims to an isolated trap in Missouri, police reported on Sunday.

At about 2am in O’Fallon, Missouri, officers responded to a robbery report that led them to four people, all local residents aged 16 to 18, in a black BMW in a CVS parking lot. The occupants tried to discard a handgun out of the car when an officer approached, said Sgt Bill Stringer. The officer then identified the four people as suspects of similar armed robberies described in St Louis and St Charles counties.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/10/pokemon-go-armed-robbers-dead-body

That’s right – you can have your homed turned into a Pokemon “gym” or you can be lured into an armed robbery and possibly murder.



But there’s no one out there more butthurt over the new Pokemon game than the Westboro Baptist Church. So let’s explain first before we crank up the whambulance:

If you haven’t noticed already, you’re about to. Suddenly everyone’s playing, Pokémon Go. Soon you’ll notice masses of people gathered in one spot, say a public park, holding their phones in the air. Pokémon Go is an app that demands its users collect Pokémon (short for pocket monsters) that are hanging out in real spots around the globe (in augmented reality).

In the game, certain locations are named as “gyms” where you can battle your Pokemon against another team’s Pokemon. The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas was designated as one such gym and a team has taken it over using a monster called a Clefairy. That Clefairy is named, appropriately, “LOVEISLOVE”.
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/07/pokemon-go-westboro/

That’s right – a pro LGBT group has trolled the Westboro Church. You know these people:



Yup. So now we can turn up the whambulance because here’s what they did this week in response to Pokemon Go:

The church responded to the stunt via Twitter, employing images from Pokémon to spread its anti-LGBTQ message.

“We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite loveislove Clefairy for us,” the WBC tweeted.

Church elder Steve Drain told USA Today that the church uses whatever tools they can to get their message across – even if that instrument may be a false idol.

“We try to speak whatever language is being spoken,” Drain said.

“This little church, as despised and vilified as we are, the location of this church will be memorialised throughout eternity,” he added. “We’re willing by God’s grace to say that homosexuality is wrong, and that’s what we’ve been known for, even though we preach the whole counsel of God.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pokemon-go-westboro-baptist-church-lgbtq-claims-clefairy-loveislove-a7131706.html

[font size="8"]Star Trek: The Search For Sulu's Sexual Orientation[/font]


Let’s spin the wheel one last time this week! And it lands on………………….. Star Trek! Hit it!

So by now you know that the latest film in the series – Star Trek Beyond beams into theaters on July 22nd. But with the new movie, news is coming fast and furious (ha!) after head screen writer & actor Simon Pegg, who portrays Montgomery Scott, revealed that U.S.S. Enterprise pilot Hikaru Sulu is actually gay, married, and has a daughter. So in order to juxatapose this argument I'm going to cross memes and clips from one of my favorite movies - Simon Pegg's amazing 2006 flick "Hot Fuzz" with some hilarious stuff from George Takei. Let’s discuss this:

It’s already been revealed that Hikaru Sulu will be shown as an out gay man in the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. But a new Korean trailer for the movie seems to give us a glimpse of the Enterprise helmsman’s husband and daughter.

As crowds of people run from an unknown threat, we see a quick shot of what reports are calling Sulu’s husband holding their young daughter. (The man is actually Beyond co-writer Doug Jung in a cameo role.)

Sulu’s daughter, Demora, has appeared as an adult in the film Star Trek Generations, so the scene could be bringing the Star Trek mythos full-circle.

George Takei, who played Sulu on the original TV series and subsequent films, said he was disappointed in the decision to have Sulu be gay because it wasn’t in line with creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision for the character.

http://logoonline.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:newnownext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sulufamily-1468416655.jpeg

http://www.newnownext.com/sulus-husband-and-daughter-appear-in-new-star-trek-beyond-trailer/07/2016/

So that happened. But not everyone is pleased with that including Sulu himself – the great George Takei. I actually went to a screening of Star Trek at the Hollywood Bowl last week with the LA Philharmonic playing the score, and Takei himself was in the audience. That was pretty cool. Oh my!!!

Simon Pegg has addressed speculation that he and original ‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei have had a falling out, over the sexuality of character Hikaru Sulu.

It was recently announced that in the upcoming film ‘Star Trek Beyond’, Sulu - played by George Takei in the original sci-fi series - would be coming out as gay.

However, George, who came out as gay in an interview with Frontier magazine in 2005, had a surprisingly displeased reaction to the news, calling it “unfortunate” and a “twist” to the sci-fi series’ creators’ original vision.

Simon - who was partly responsible for the decision, as one of the film’s co-writers - has now addressed George’s comments, telling BANG Showbiz: “We were emailing the other day, you know it’s discussion.
“We’re adults, we’re not catty fighters writing comments to each other on the Internet, we’re grown men.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/star-trek-simon-pegg-george-takei-sulu-gay_uk_578614e3e4b0f4bc594612a1

So George Takei himself has weighed in on the issue and it was more that he was upset about the ruining of Gene Roddenberry’s creation, not that it has anything to do with his or his character’s sexual orientation. It’s kind of like the NBA D League – it’s your favorite game, your favorite players, but the overall appeal is lacking some of the magic. But the rest of the cast including Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana are apparently fine with this:

While the original Mr. Sulu, George Takei, may disagree, this next generation of “Star Trek” actors is solidly in favor of going where no franchise screenplay has gone before by making the USS Enterprise’s helmsman an openly gay character, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in “Star Trek Beyond” and is openly gay, told the trade magazine Wednesday that it’s “definitely high time for an LGBT character to be included in the Star Trek universe.”

“We’ve been really excited by the response, particularly from young people, who have been inspired and motivated by this turn toward progress,” said Mr. Quinto, who was in London for the movie’s U.K. premiere.

Last week, Mr. Takei told reporters that while he was “delighted” to see an openly gay Star Trek character, “it’s a twisting” of creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision to make Sulu gay rather than come up with an original character who was openly gay all along.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/13/star-trek-beyond-actors-back-decision-make-sulu-ch/

But you know – going with Mr. Takei’s argument – why did Simon Pegg go against Mr. Takei’s argument and make an existing character gay rather than create a new one? Well Gene Roddenberry’s son weighs in on that argument:

Star Trek Beyond co-writer Simon Pegg, who also plays Scotty in the series, released a statement last week saying that he “respectfully disagrees” with Takei, and at the London premiere of Beyond on Tuesday, the cast and crew told the BBC that they’re all in support of Sulu being gay.

“The LGBT community has long advocated for representation in the Star Trek universe,” said Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the movie series and is himself openly gay. “We’ve been really excited by the response, particularly from young people, who have been inspired and motivated by this turn toward progress.”

Multiple cast members said they were surprised by the debate around the Sulu news, and Chris Pine told the BBC, “I’m a little stunned there’s been so much attention given to it.” As for Cho himself, he admitted that he was a little nervous about the revelation, but he’s extremely supportive of the news.

“I was worried because I knew [George] was a gay man who had played a straight character,” Cho added. “I know he felt a fair bit of ownership of that character, and legitimately so. I was also worried that it might be inferred that we were somehow suggesting that sexuality was a choice. But I don’t think anyone has inferred that, and we’re certainly not saying that.”
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/13/star-trek-beyond-cast-gene-roddenberry-son-sulu

Can’t wait for this movie.

See you next week!