A memorandum calling for a 30 day review of the Military’s readiness for war.
This was your sign
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Author: NiteMayr
Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
The main thing that Trump supporters are excited about, now that he’s president? Is that finally, at LOOOOOONG LAST, all of the awful things they want to say, that used to lose them friends and jobs and marriages? They’re EXCITED about potentially getting to say them with ZERO repercussions. Just like Trump did. All the way into the White House. All the way into unlimited, forever power to spew any awful shit that comes to your head and no one dares correct you, rolls their eyes, or punches you in the nose.
Patton Oswalt
Trump has been saying things that I’ve been yelling about since 2000, the main one being illegal immigration. I resent illegals. We are negatively impacted by them taking our tax dollars. We are impacted by the two cultures – Mexican and Asian – and they don’t assimilate. Once Trump opened his mouth, it was like a trumpet sounding. A call to arms. It was like a banner. He woke people up.
Cathy O’Dell Town – Poster lady for “I’m not a racist but here are some racist things”
I support his face punching, and here’s why.
This vile man felt emboldened by the change of politics enough to publicly speak about his racist beliefs on camera. This wasn’t a closed door meeting. He was filmed at a closed door meeting and nothing happened to him. So he thought, fuck it, people support me. Side of the road. Live tv. He thought the social power was on his side enough to just speak his hate. And on live tv some hero stood up and proved that wasn’t true and effectively shut him down.
But not only did that hero shut down Spencer he visually took that man’s power away from him in front of his audience. It was a teaching moment that said, this rhetoric will not be tolerated and will be dealt with in the fastest and most painful way possible. And it was a message not just for the alt-right white power bros, it was a message that any average Joe can walk up to someone spouting Nazi garbage and shut that shit down.
Most of the people I see arguing that “violence is never okay” are not actually the targets of that oppression. So the impression they give is not that they are standing there peacefully as the blows rain down on them – but that they are standing there peacefully as the blows rain down on someone else.