Many Republicans and Democrats were offended by comedian Michelle
Wolf’s performance at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association
dinner. Professional liar Sean Spicer said it was a “disgrace.” New
York Times writer Maggie Haberman falsely accused Wolf “intense
criticism of [Sarah Huckabee Sander’s] physical appearance.
>Political satire in less troubled times exaggerates
existing facts, pointing out the absurdities inherent in all ideologies,
or playing up smaller disagreements and failures for bigger laughs. But
Trump is hard to exaggerate—it is enough, it seems, merely to mirror
him. But why does faithful portrayal of fact-based reality elicit
laughter in a country that has a free press and a healthy public sphere
in which, it seems, reality is robustly represented? What do late-night
comedians reclaim from the Times?
Wolf’s performance at the White House
Correspondents’ Association dinner suggests an answer. She called the
President a racist, a truth as self-evident as it has proved difficult
for mainstream journalists to state. Her humor was obscene: she joked
about the President’s affair with a porn star; about his “pulling out,”
as promised (of the Paris agreement); and about the G.O.P.’s former
deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy’s $1.6 million payoff to a former
mistress. She also made mincemeat of White House staff, House and Senate
Republican leaders, the Democrats, and journalists on the right and
left, in their presence or in that of their colleagues.
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Okay now what do I name her
O’sha.
Obviously
THAT’S PERFECT
I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR QUALITY WORKPLACE SAFETY REGULATION PUNS
That’s my goddess. 👍🏻
May O’sha bless you with earplugs that are comfortable and respirators that fit perfectly.
the only divinity where you don’t take your hat off in the temple – you put your hat ON.
Video by @renan_ozturk The mighty Milford Sound of New Zealand’s South Island. I’ve never experienced such a steep intersection of mountains and water anywhere in the world. Such pristine landscapes give me hope and I’m grateful to have such a platform to share it!
Dust, stars, and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by the Rosetta probe. (Source)
*kicks the front door in* DO YOU SEE HOW GODDAMN FUCKING COOL THIS SHIT IS
WE HAVE VIDEO. FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET. SENT BY A ROBOT.
ROSETTA PROBE YOU’RE AMAZING WE LOVE YOU
That cliff is a kilometer high. is Here’s what you’re actually looking at:
THANK YOU
i was wondering
Not only is this shit cool as hell but you gotta realize how unbelievably remarkable of a task this is and how hard it was to pull off.
Humans managed to send a tiny hunk of metal stuffed with electronics millions and millions and millions of miles away through this hostile, airless envionent to land (without breaking it!) on the equivalent of a dirty snowball shooting though outer space
That’s like shooting a bullet from LA to London and hitting a moving target that’s only one foot across, and having the bullet survive the ordeal unscathed.
Plus! We humans developed a way to videotape and transmit pictures from this snowball in space so we know what it’s like to stand the surface.
How America’s White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War
In Aug. 2017, many Americans were shocked to see neo-Nazis and members of the so called alt-right demonstrating in Charlottesville, Va. But author Kathleen Belew says the roots of the rally were actually decades in the making.
Belew, who has spent more than 10 years studying America’s White Power movement, traces the movement’s rise to the end of the Vietnam War, and the feeling among some “white power” veterans that the country had betrayed them.
“To be clear, I’m not arguing that this is at all representative of Vietnam veterans — this is a tiny, tiny percentage of returning veterans,” Belew says. “But it is a large and instrumental number of people within the White Power movement — and they play really important roles in changing the course of movement action.”
In her new book, Bring the War Home, Belew argues that as disparate racist groups came together, the movement’s goal shifted from one of “vigilante activism” to something more wide-reaching: “It’s aimed at unseating the federal government. … It’s aimed at undermining infrastructure and currency to foment race war.“
Photo: An undated photo shows a Ku Klux Klansman and Neo-Nazi demonstrator holding symbolic shields at a march in Palm Beach, Fla. In Bring the War Home, author Kathleen Belew argues that America’s disparate racists groups came together after the Vietnam War. Steven D Starr/Corbis via Getty Images
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