You must like this Southern Poverty Law Center graphic.  See for how this product or service protects the neo-nazi or “incel” site from cyber-attacks, or simple lack of servicing.

Image used to represent the website service… a giant pile of poo.

Subtle, that SPLC.

Which is interesting, because in the Huffington Post story, we have the comparison to nazi guards.

In other news of this rough type — apparently four fewer Alex Jones videos are available on youtube.  They’re threading needles in the language of their speech constraints.  Nothing wrong with that per se — Alex Jones isn’t entitled to youtube’s platform for his content whose bottom line is as  vehicle to sell Survivalist Vitamin Boosters, just … should acknowledge that they’re threading those needles.  Yeah, well… in the future Alex Jones’s business model will be to make sure to get a few banned so he can direct attention to his website — “What THEY don’t want you to see.”  “Decide for yourself!”  Of course, the bulk of the material still needs to get on youtube, but… just slip in a something something for a few.  Maybe youtube can spell out what, exactly, so he can do that.

That weird bit of jujitsu where Trump lays out a tweet fretting about Russian meddling to help the Democrats, undercut as it is by a hack attempt against Claire McCaskill.  (And here I was just assuming we’d have some facebook page devoted to Satan versus Jesus arm-wrestling over Claire McCaskill’s senate seat.)

You do have to appreciate the logic of Trump’s line of attack.  Opposites’ Day.  You can’t work your way into the matter at hand, because you have a force field of denial that doesn’t deny as exonerate and accuse an opposite.

Then again, you have the current problem of the day for a political line calling itself (even prefaced by a hashtag) — The Resistance, echoing around such lines of radicalism.  Big fans of the Intelligence services.  FBI, CIA.  Things that, back in the day, would have been referred to as “The Man”.  Very countercultural yippy of everyone, eh?

I saw the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” — an idea which itself goes back to at least the 1990s with “Clinton Derangement Syndrome” and then on to “Bush Derangement Syndrome” —

— the latter perfectly mockable as psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer placed markable diagnoses to finger Howard Dean —

— and it may be possible that “Clinton Derangement Syndrome” as a term fingers past the election and war follies of Bush in partisan retribution–

just after the election.  And sure, a partisan chidement as different partisan groups find Trump incipient fascism and demands a response in kind,  and in fragmented geographical segments, where the big headline story at different media swerves over to “Green Haired Punk steals Crew Cut Teenagers’ MAGA cap; gloats about Resistance”.

Curiously, within the past week news reports came with the claim that the term had been “newly coined”.  A quick pursuance of am talk radio — and mind, I’m not going off of more than a couple snippets, but sometimes if you hear a couple hosts mouth the same thing at once it signifies the meme’s currency — indicates it’s unleashed from somewhere.

Apparently it was Trump who used, and so re-popularized, the term.  In reference to criticism on his partner in peace, Putin.  A little irritating.  At least “Bush Derangement Syndrome” didn’t come from Bush.

Curious to know, if in the most salacious part of the story — the “honeypot” part of the Russian Spy fixing herself into the NRA in part through one activists’s pants, if “The Spy Who Shagged Me” is trending as a mildly clever and obvious enough reference to toss out there.

Not a hashtag on twitter.  A few random twitter commenters cite it — all very hey hey hey!– in tweets that showcase her next to Republican politicos,  (You know, Rosalyn Carter met with Jim Jones.  And John Gacy.)  In the news, we’re focused in on the death of the actor who played Mini-me and rumors of a new Austin Power movie… so no one is there with a cutesy title blurb.

We await to see if the standbys of the late night talk shows — Stephen Colbert or Samantha Bee or Bill Maher or whoever it is who hosts The Daily Show these days — think to toss it out there.

All right.  So there’s a breakdown of media influencers.  Some dividing lines in the Conservative Media and Punditry — a few Trump supporters flake away and for various reasons — remembering their hawkish policy positioning for Freedom and perhaps even not able to make the gymnastic mental leaps to call out the leftist sore loser warmongers–

— and we note as acceptable enough if — as we’ve seen – to get there we need to position Trump’s double negative next to Clinton’s definition of the word “is”–

And then there’s the standbys.  Back from Finland, Trump stops over at Sean Hannity to take the load off.  Hannity offers praise for Team Trump, calls Trump “strong” — for his un-credited “Strength, not appeasement” treatment of the Russian president…

[Pause]

And then we run into Trump — and the specifics almost (but not quite) don’t matter —

“I thought President Putin was very, very strong,”

The script is off.  Sure, Obama and Clinton may meet with Putin — and may or may not put in a good performance doing so — as all the flip commenters in the bottom half of the Internet have it — to tackle various issues (START again?) , and confront various issues (I suppose the Dems may be more concerned than Trump over those anti-gay edicts), in, I guess, doing the bidding of the Deep State…

— But neither are going to come across as agog in wanting to view again the …

Riding shirtless on horses?

Reading a recent incredibly random commentary regarding the left wing polemicist / historian Howard Zinn, the conservative couldn’t help but place in a link to a magazine expose that the man was once a card carrying Communist.
Attempting to figure out the answer to some questions — and would it be surprising if he were at that point in time?– it’s hard to figure it mattering: the general “American Exceptionalism” (if a mirror image of what one generally thinks when they hear the phrase) tome of his big work can be pilloried or praised or half-of-each or quarter of some and three quarter of the other by itself.  But there is a thorough-line you have to work with, at least.

IF Stone gets blasted a bit more.  To say, Agent.  Implications and inferences are that he was a Soviet agent, coming as he did out of the Popular Front — that he emerged from a naive notion in the 1950s writing that the Soviet leadership are “not good people” doesn’t .   Apparently written in released Soviet documents is he was code named “Pancake”, and dined a time or two with some figure or other.  Retorting: yah, so did Walter Lippman.  Retort number two: better to suggest, we have a better candidate to suggest.  (See the wikipedia sub-artcile)  Suppositions move on that it really wouldn’t matter one way or the other — he would go on to publish some articles rejected by the New York Times from Herbert Matthews as “Censored work”,  after that time the New York Times decided he was just promulgating Fidel Castro’s propaganda.  That becomes what you have to put your hat on…

And surely it’s a conspiracy theory and a slide into a kind of Red Scare to now charge Trump as somehow or other… beholden…
It’s a mistake to indulge in grand conspiracy theorizing—Manchurian candidates! The Americans! Urinating sex workers!—to explain the president’s actions when mundane incompetence and egomania fit just as nicely.

Egomania, perhaps.  And we got your “Thank you note” works well enough.  Business transactions, surely more interesting than “pee tape”s– at this point, no one would much care anyway.  But what this is not is Kennedy …

So it is…  And I don’t know why the last word in this New Yorker quotation from Nina Khrushcheva was crossed out —

President Trump:   We have also seen the benefits of cooperation. In the last century, our nations fought alongside one another in the Second World War.  Even during the tensions of the Cold War, when the world looked much different than it does today, the United States and Russia were able to maintain a strong dialogue.
But our relationship has never been worse than it is now.
However, that changed, as of about four hours ago.

There’s two places to go with this one.  One: I need to see more bomb shelters being built to agree with the “relationship has never been worse” comment.  But then again, two:  apparently I won’t, as of four hours ago when Putin met Trump.

Putin:  I’d like to add something to this. After all, I was an intelligence officer myself and I do know how dossiers are made up. Just a second. That’s the first thing. Now the second thing.
I believe that Russia is a democratic state and I hope you’re not denying this right to your own country. You’re not denying that United States is a democracy. Do you believe the United States is a democracy?

(Tap tap tap.)
Yes.  He knows from intelligence dossiers.
[tap tap tap]
People’s Democratic Republic of…

Putin:  […]George Soros[…]

Had to sneak that one in there, huh.

Do you think that we tried to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them? Well, it’s difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale than this.
Well, please just disregard these issues and don’t think about this anymore again.

… Got that?  Do not think about it anymore… never again consider… pee tapes… or conjure up… pee tapes….

Trump:  I have great confidence in my intelligence people but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today and what he did is an incredible offer.

Incredible!

He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer. Ok? Thank you.

Incredible!

Partisan Commenting abounds.  We need to do the old “What about that guy?”  Obama once promised Medvedev on a hot mic “flexibility” after the election.  How the hawkish denunciations meets up against what we have right now, I do not know.

Har de har har.
Did you forget the FDR-Hirohito summit of 1942, when Hirohito’s insistence that Japan was not involved in Pearl Harbor convinced FDR this was just another example of “fake news,” and led to his denunciation of US intelligence, law enforcement, and the media?
When Washington sent Lafayette home because “we can get along with the British.” When Lincoln told Jeff Davis that revolting to protect slavery made sense. Or the time JFK said, “we can trust Khrushchev with missiles in Cuba. Its the last guy’s fault they are there anyway.”
“Mr. Gorbachev, what an amazing beautiful wall you have here!”
Oooh, good ones. How about that time LBJ said “I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party as your President, because I really want to hang out in Hanoi a little bit more and share some tactical secrets with Vo Nguyen Giap.”
Imean, Kennedy did have that one day during the CMC when he kept saying it could have just been some lone Romanian (possibly Guccifer 1.0) who moved missiles to Cuba, but I assume that was a few too many back pills talking.
What about that time Calvin Coolidge took Ecstasy at a roaring 20s rager?

Oh.  And by the way… the positive optimistic spin on things… a necessary fire leading to rebirth… sorry.

The confused jumble of our politics, sometime when Republicans were hawkish on the threat of Russia and apt to fault Obama for being a weak leader against, say, that sly annexation of the Ukraine…

… prophesied by Seinfeld, wasn’t it?

Though, some remain true to the old “We are all Georgians” script.

And thus staring at me in second run syndication, the tv series that was propped up mentioned when Roseanne relaunched as a companion show and something for networks to work on to tap that conservative Trump supporter in this here cultural war struggle… Tim Allen and Last Man Standing, which circa 2014 gave us… that.

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Here on the eve of an all too friendly meet and greet… and a strange NATO dealing…

Well, it dates that episode a tad, doesn’t it?