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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#286651: Aug 5th 2019 at 5:29:18 PM

Looks like 8chan, The Daily Stormer and Gab have all been shut down for now because Epik, the company that provided hosting and DDoS protection for the later two and the former was moving to, rented out servers from another company, Voxility, and they pulled the plug.

Also, it seems Tucows, 8chan's domain name registrar has now decided not to provide services to them anymore.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286652: Aug 5th 2019 at 5:33:04 PM

[up]And nothing of value was lost.

There seems to be this weird assumption that Americans collectivtly are secretly progressive as we are.

Don't you think if America was as progressive as this forum, Republicans would have been made irrelevant like long, long, LONG ago?

Yeah, we have to remind ourselves from time to time that the Usonians among us aren't really representative of the USA or even the Democratic voter base as a whole.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#286653: Aug 5th 2019 at 6:10:18 PM

Speaking of Biden, part of the reason he's doing well likely has to do with his connection to Obama.

It really cannot be overstated how well-liked Obama is.

Amongst African-American Democrats, 99% hold a favorable view of him with 1% undecided.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#286654: Aug 5th 2019 at 6:38:27 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/08/05/day-928/

    Day 928: "Enabling white supremacy." 
1/ Trump "condemn[ed] racism, bigotry and white supremacy" following two mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH over the weekend that left 31 people dead. Trump, who spent the weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., stopped short of endorsing new gun control measures, and instead parroted Republican talking points about the "perils" of mental illness, violence in the media, and violent video games for fostering white nationalism and hatred. In El Paso, the shooter published a four-page "manifesto" on the online message board 8chan about 20 minutes before the attack, saying he wanted to stop the "Hispanic invasion of Texas." Trump failed to acknowledge his repeated use of the word "invasion" to describe asylum seekers and immigrants at the southern border. Trump also cited the threat of "racist hate" with no acknowledgment that his own anti-immigrant rhetoric. Reading from a teleprompter at the White House, Trump also incorrectly referred to Toledo, Ohio instead of Dayton, Ohio as the location of one of the killings. (New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / Associated Press / The Hill)

https://apnews.com/6d324c661d5f4a748c0990c8444efdb3

Dayton, Ohio: 9 people were killed and 27 others injured. The shooter used an assault-style rifle with high capacity magazines, wore body armor and a mask. He did not have a police record. (CBS News / Washington Post / Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/3b1b785f5b364d9da050bec3d0d48312

El Paso, Texas: 22 people were killed and 26 others injured. The shooter used an assault-style rifle. (CNN / New York Times / NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-reasonably-confident-texas-suspect-left-anti-immigrant-screed-tipped-n1039031

2/ Hours earlier, Trump called for "strong background checks" and suggested "marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform." Trump made a similar call to improve background checks after a shooting last year in Florida. Trump, however, threatened to veto a gun control bill that passed the House with bipartisan support in February that would require universal background checks. The bill has not been considered by the Senate, which is on recess until September. (CNN / New York Times)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/donald-trump-gun-control-immigration-reform-mass-shootings/index.html

3/ Trump dismissed accusations that his own racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has stoked racial hatred and helped to provoke would-be mass shooters. Instead, Trump tweeted – without evidence – that the news media is contributing "greatly to the anger and rage that has built up over many years." The manifesto of the shooter in Texas, however, echoes the same kind of anti-immigrant language that Trump has used at his rallies over the years, specifically stating that "this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." Portions of the 2,300-word essay, titled "The Inconvenient Truth," closely mirror Trump's rhetoric demonizing undocumented immigrants as "thugs" and "animals," and decrying Latino immigration as "an invasion of our country." (Reuters / New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shooting-idUSKCN1UV15C

A Republican lawmaker in Nebraska accused Trump and the GOP of "enabling white supremacy." John Mc Collister said that while he is "not suggesting that all Republicans are white supremacists," nor that the average Republican voter is a racist, "the Republican Party is COMPLICIT to obvious racist and immoral activity inside our party." Mc Collister continued by directly calling out Trump, who has downplayed the threat of white supremacy and white nationalism: "We have a Republican president who continually stokes racist fears in his base," Mc Collister tweeted. "He calls certain countries 'sh*tholes,' tells women of color to 'go back' to where they came from and lies more than he tells the truth." (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-state-lawmaker-in-nebraska-says-his-party-is-enabling-white-supremacy/2019/08/05/4fab3c74-b76b-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html

4/ Democrats called on Mitch Mc Connell to cancel the Senate's August recess so they can take up gun control legislation. The bill would create new background check requirements for gun transfers between unlicensed individuals. It passed the House in February 240-190. (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-pressure-mitch-mcconnell-cancel-senate-recess-gun-control-vote-n1039086

Mc Connell tripped on his patio and fractured his shoulder. The 77-year-old is recovering at his home in Kentucky. He is running for a seventh term in the Senate next year. (Politico / Washington Post)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/04/mitch-mcconnell-fractures-shoulder-1446434

5/ FBI Director Christopher Wray ordered the agency to conduct a new threat assessment in order to identify and stop potential future mass shootings. A command group in Washington, D.C. will oversee the effort, during which FBI field offices will actively work to identify threats that are similar to the attacks last week at a food festival and over the weekend in Texas and Ohio. In recent congressional testimony, senior FBI officials said they were conducting about 850 domestic terrorism investigations — down from a year earlier, when there were roughly 1,000. (CNN / Washington Post)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/fbi-mass-shooting-threats/index.html

    Notables. 
July was the hottest month that humans have ever recorded since record-keeping began more than a century ago, slightly eclipsing the previous record-holder, July 2016. The past five years have been the hottest on record. The 10 hottest years have all occurred in the past two decades. This year is on track to be in the top five hottest ever. (New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/08/05/heres-how-hottest-month-recorded-history-unfolded-around-globe/

Wall Street suffered its worst day of 2019 as China answered Trump's threat to add 10% tariffs on another $300 billion in Chinese imports by allowing its currency to slide to an 11-year low against the dollar. Trump accused China of manipulating its currency. The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq fell 2.9%, 3%, and 3.5%, respectively. (CNBC / Washington Post / New York Times / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/us-futures-amid-trade-turmoil-between-beijing-and-washington.html

The Treasury Department designated China as currency manipulator, a move that no White House had exercised since the Clinton administration. (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/us-treasury-designates-china-as-a-currency-manipulator.html

The Trump "superfan" who sent homemade pipe bombs to Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrats was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors had called for a life sentence for Cesar Sayoc, while his defense lawyers pushed for a 10-year sentence, saying that at the time of his arrest, Sayoc was allegedly suffering from an untreated mental illness, compounded by excessive steroid use, and that he had become increasingly obsessive, isolated and paranoid. (Washington Post / New York Times)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/cesar-sayoc-who-mailed-explosive-devices-to-trumps-critics-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison/2019/08/05/cf4b56e2-b79a-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html

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#286655: Aug 5th 2019 at 8:11:36 PM

[up][up]Obama is held in high regard as a black role model and hero in the same way MLK is, for good reason.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#286656: Aug 5th 2019 at 8:22:32 PM

It's kind of funny that the Presidency is something that should automatically make one a figure of great respect and reverence—and I used to think that.

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#286657: Aug 5th 2019 at 8:57:54 PM

Looks like 8chan, The Daily Stormer and Gab have all been shut down for now because Epik, the company that provided hosting and D Do S protection for the later two and the former was moving to, rented out servers from another company, Voxility, and they pulled the plug.

Also, it seems Tucows, 8chan's domain name registrar has now decided not to provide services to them anymore.

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#286658: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:02:35 PM

For now anyway.....like cockroaches, they always found their way back so far....

And it seems like they are still reachable via TOR.

Edited by Forenperser on Aug 5th 2019 at 6:03:15 PM

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#286659: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:34:45 PM

Y'know, my fondest wish in all this is for the shooters to understand that their actions directly resulted in 8chan and the Daily Stormer getting shut down. Because I cannot help but feel that they wouldn't have done it if they'd known ahead of time that that was what was gonna happen.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286660: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:48:17 PM

Nah, they'd just blame it on "libruls", like they do with everything else.

Edited by M84 on Aug 6th 2019 at 12:48:29 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#286662: Aug 6th 2019 at 12:24:38 AM

Yeah, in all their crooning about how "good" this is for their movement, they've completely neglected one possibility - that the rest of us will get so sick of these rampaging, murderous cretins that they lose their gathering places and get cracked down on.

And the longer Trump and the GOP stand by these life long losers, the worse they're gonna be doing electorally.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Aug 6th 2019 at 12:24:52 PM

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#286663: Aug 6th 2019 at 12:44:40 AM

How does Trump's administration compare in scandals to more infamous ones like Grant's or Harding's?

akanesarumara Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#286664: Aug 6th 2019 at 12:50:17 AM

[up] Hard to say because of social media and the fact that Trump is... very active on Twitter. Some have even requested his Twitter account to be considered official publications in the sense that he can be held accountable as president not just as a random user on twitter.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#286665: Aug 6th 2019 at 3:37:30 AM

Wow, McCollister has guts.

Something about most politicians on social media is deeply cringy to me

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286666: Aug 6th 2019 at 3:45:00 AM

Yeah, the idea of politicians trying to copy the strategies of social media stars doesn't sit well with me either.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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Knows-Many-Things
#286667: Aug 6th 2019 at 3:54:39 AM

[up]x4 I'm sure they'll stack up pretty evenly once we are awaken from this haze and start to think rationally again. The administration is a circus, if I didn't know all of this were happening I'd think it was a tv show gone wild.

I'm not a big follower of Presidential History but in 20 years, I have to imagine Trump will go down as one of the most unpopular and/or controversial presidents in history. The things he's done, been accused of and outright said on Twitter would've been unimaginable like 10 years ago. Especially the fact that he seems to be untouchable. Even Nixon and Clinton as popular as they were went down after their controversies, but it'd take an act of God for old Donny to actually be removed (step down, or impeached) from office.

Edited by Codafett on Aug 6th 2019 at 3:57:27 AM

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#286668: Aug 6th 2019 at 7:45:22 AM

One big difference between Trump's administration on one side and Grant and Harding on the other is that there's no evidence that Harding or Grant were personally corrupt

Trump delenda est
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#286669: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:27:37 AM

Well this is lovely - a group of McConnell volunteers (young white men sporting "Team Mitch" shirts) took a pic of them groping and choking a cutout of Ocasio-Cortez.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#286670: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:32:44 AM

It's kind of funny that the Presidency is something that should automatically make one a figure of great respect and reverence—and I used to think that.

I really don't think that's the sole reason they hold Obama in such esteem.

Beyond being the first black President he was just a good President, Trump's behavior as Presidency really throws that into sharp relief.

I think it makes perfect sense that people would hold Obama in high esteem, especially if they're African-American.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#286671: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:36:50 AM

@RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 The problem with Trump is that he's got a Controversy-Proof Image. Anyone who doesn't already want him gone is okay with whatever he does.

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#286672: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:45:40 AM

@BenGoldey

A woman is on Facebook Live, outside of Senator Mc Connell’s home in Louisville, saying she hopes someone “just stabs the mother f*cker in the heart, please.” #KY Sen

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#286673: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:47:17 AM

They'll have to find his heart, first. I think Trump keeps it in a box in his desk, along with McConnell's dick.

(Obviously, nobody should be advocating violence, on either side.)

Edited by Fighteer on Aug 6th 2019 at 12:49:16 PM

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#286674: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:48:20 AM

Mc Connells a Nobody. He doesn't have a heart....

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i'm tired, my friend
#286675: Aug 6th 2019 at 9:50:23 AM

"Kentucky, what color is my heart? *opens mouth*

"I don't see a heart, sir."

"Exactly."

i'm tired, my friend

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