Right wing nuts thread (4 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[Optimus Prime]

How Ohio became a hotbed of white supremacism, spreading its tentacles globally | Stephen Starr

Rise of a resurgent American white supremacism is reaching around the globe, often with deadly consequences

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

What's the opposite of "Go Woke Go Broke"?
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An Australian cafe that opened in Sydney with a Donald Trump theme is closing its doors after mere weeks.

According to the New York Post, "Mark Da Costa opened Bueno Eatery in St. Peter’s in March after closing down his Waterloo cafe, Hale and Hearty, in 2020 after being involved in a series of internet controversies, in which he called a community member a homophobic slur. He also declared his cafe a 'Donald Trump safe zone,' which served pancakes with a 'side of racism.'"

When the restaurant first opened, Da Costa told news.com.au "about how he had grown up and had hoped to 'move on' from his Trump-laden controversies with his latest venue, situated at the end of Newtown’s renowned King Street."

However, after just six weeks, Da Costa announced the closure of the cafe, posting a photo of himself "in his Trump shirt, posting a photo of himself in a MAGA shirt and giving the finger to the camera."

Da Costa, who previously competed on Australian Idol, blamed "snowflakes" for the failure of his restaurant, which echoes how, after the failure of Hale and Hearty, he blamed the “left-wing fake vegan community” and told his critics to "go f--- yourself."

MAGA cafe that hawked pancakes with a 'side of racism' closes weeks after opening

An Australian cafe that opened in Sydney with a Donald Trump theme is closing its doors after mere weeks.According to the New York Post, "Mark Da Costa opened Bueno Eatery in St. Peter’s in March after closing down his Waterloo cafe, Hale and Hearty, in 2020 after being involved in a series of...

www.rawstory.com

 

[DaveXA]

What's the opposite of "Go Woke Go Broke"?
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An Australian cafe that opened in Sydney with a Donald Trump theme is closing its doors after mere weeks.

According to the New York Post, "Mark Da Costa opened Bueno Eatery in St. Peter’s in March after closing down his Waterloo cafe, Hale and Hearty, in 2020 after being involved in a series of internet controversies, in which he called a community member a homophobic slur. He also declared his cafe a 'Donald Trump safe zone,' which served pancakes with a 'side of racism.'"

When the restaurant first opened, Da Costa told news.com.au "about how he had grown up and had hoped to 'move on' from his Trump-laden controversies with his latest venue, situated at the end of Newtown’s renowned King Street."

However, after just six weeks, Da Costa announced the closure of the cafe, posting a photo of himself "in his Trump shirt, posting a photo of himself in a MAGA shirt and giving the finger to the camera."

Da Costa, who previously competed on Australian Idol, blamed "snowflakes" for the failure of his restaurant, which echoes how, after the failure of Hale and Hearty, he blamed the “left-wing fake vegan community” and told his critics to "go f--- yourself."

MAGA cafe that hawked pancakes with a 'side of racism' closes weeks after opening

An Australian cafe that opened in Sydney with a Donald Trump theme is closing its doors after mere weeks.According to the New York Post, "Mark Da Costa opened Bueno Eatery in St. Peter’s in March after closing down his Waterloo cafe, Hale and Hearty, in 2020 after being involved in a series of...

www.rawstory.com

The irony is delicious. Lmao.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A devoted Donald Trump fan was thrown out of a Crunch Fitness in Madison, Wisconsin, after cops said he “screamed and cursed” at other members trying to work out, but the aggrieved member – who is now suing the chain – believes his banishment stems from the Trump hat he sometimes donned while there.

Michael Green filed a federal lawsuit against Fitness Ventures, LLC, a Crunch franchisee with locations in 27 U.S. states, claiming he was discriminated against for being a Trump supporter – not for causing a disturbance, as a police report obtained by The Independentshows.

“I still don't understand exactly what happened, but I'm thinking someone at the gym had a perceived issue with me and decided to weaponize the police against me,” Green’s March 31 complaint states.

“I had been wearing a pro-Trump hat during prior gym visits but stopped due to the stares I would get from staff and members… Perhaps it was some kind of retaliation for being a Trump supporter, even worse a lack Trump supporter in Dane County.”

Green, 42, believes Crunch violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by “engaging in discriminatory practices” against him.

He is seeking $75,000 for his alleged troubles, writing in his self-filed complaint, “$75,000 is enough that may provide a deterrent from similar behavior in the future.”

Two weeks before filing suit against Crunch, Green sued another Madison health club over similar allegations, again representing himself pro se, claiming he had been discriminated against for “show[ing] my support of our president by wearing different types of Trump apparel such as hats, book bags, tee shirts, etc.”

He was also removed from that gym by police for allegedly harassing the manager, a Democrat, over her political leanings.

In a phone call on Wednesday, Green told The Independent that the hat in question at Crunch read: “Trump 2024.”

“I had stopped wearing it, but they had already pegged me as a Trump guy,” Green said.

Over the course of 40 minutes, Green, who said he voted for Trump in 2024, railed against DEIinitiatives, the transgender community, and the “liberals” he insisted were responsible for pushing him into the president’s arms.…….

Wisconsin gym-goer claims he was kicked out of Crunch for wearing ‘Trump 2024’ hat

Exclusive: Michael Green, 42, says his MAGA gear landed him in hot water, but police tell a different story

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

National Weather Service workers are on alert and have been advised to use a buddy system after threats to the agency's radars were made by a violent militia group that believes they are ‘weather weapons.’

According to emails from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the threats were allegedly made by Veterans on Patrol, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Centerhas designated as an anti-government militia organization.

The group’s bizarre views on the Doppler radars were highlighted in an internal NOAAemail sent to staff on Monday. CNN reporters have confirmed viewing the letter and reported its contents.


The NWS was also warned on May 1 of a non-specific threat, but the most recent email contains details about specific potential targets. The NOAA's security office reportedly is aware of "several encounters" — either in-person or virtually — with members of the militia group.…….

National Weather Service staff and facilities threatened by militia

Doppler radars bounce radio waves off of precipitation to provide scientists with data used in forecasting and predicting storm movements

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Six years after being booted from her high-profile gig at NBC News, which followed her departure as a Fox News primetime anchor, Megyn Kelly has firmly entrenched herself back near the top of the media industry as she now hosts one of the biggest podcasts in America.

According to new data from conservative media tracker The Righting, The Megyn Kelly Showhas grown to the third-largest right-wing podcast in the industry, surpassing other popular online shows hosted by conservative mainstays such as Glenn Beck and Matt Walsh.

Citing subscription growth on the Castbox platform, The Righting showed that Kelly’s podcast experienced year-over-year growth of 176 percent during the first quarter of this year, which is the most the site has seen since it began tracking right-wing podcasts in 2021.……..

Megyn Kelly has third-biggest right-wing podcast as subscriptions surge 176 percent

‘Since endorsing Donald Trump the night before the November 2024 election, the popularity of Megyn Kelly’s podcast has soared exponentially,’ The Righting president Howard Polskin said

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bird]

Very interesting stuff…

It goes to the rise of angry, white men and MAGA.

https://archive.li/cjHN7

 

[DaveXA]

Very interesting stuff…

It goes to the rise of angry, white men and MAGA.

https://archive.li/cjHN7

Those angry white men need to get a life. Sheesh. I'm a white man and I just don't get why they're so insecure. It's absurd.

 

[Optimus Prime]

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.”

“Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these mentally challenged shows where they’re screaming,” he said April 10 on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before he interrupted himself to go on a quick rant about the word.

“The word ‘mentally challenged’ is back, and it’s one of the great cultural victories that I think is spurred on, probably, by podcasts,” he added.

Rogan is right, at least to those in some circles.

Once relegated to the cultural dustbin, the so-called R-word has made a resurgence in recent months, used most commonly by people in right-leaning and anti-political correctness worlds, some of whom have tried for years to bring the slur from the social media undercurrents back into the mainstream.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk now frequently uses the word on X to disparage everyone from a Danish astronaut to Ben Stiller. In March, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, used it in questioning the mental capacity of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins, only to later issue an apology. The FX show “English Teacher” included a bit about how “the kids are not into being woke” and they’re “saying the ‘R-word’ again.” And a recent Netflix comedy special invoked the word repeatedly.

While its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has the word — and discussion of its return — become more normalized. That is fueled in no small part by a sense that the tide has turned both culturally and politically against those seeking to keep the word out of the popular lexicon. But the battle lines are not as clear as one might think, with even some on the left softening their stance on the slur’s rebrand while some on the right — most notably former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — decry its return.

Timothy Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics International, noted that the word is used across the political spectrum.

“People on the left and people on the right have treated people with intellectual disabilities in subhuman ways, historically,” Shriver said.

Still, there are some political dynamics at play. Kenneth Luna, a linguistics professor at California State University, Northridge, who teaches a course on forbidden language, said the word has emerged as a cultural signifier, used by people on the cultural and political right to reinforce a group allegiance — and create further division.

“There’s this term, the politics of cruelty,” Luna said. “It’s a political ploy to marginalize opponents. But it also reinforces, if you think about it, this kind of in group loyalty.”.............

The 'R-word,' embraced by Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, inches back into the mainstream

Many still consider the word a disability slur, and while its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has it — and discussion of its return — become more common.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[cuddlemonkey]

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.”

“Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these mentally challenged shows where they’re screaming,” he said April 10 on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before he interrupted himself to go on a quick rant about the word.

“The word ‘mentally challenged’ is back, and it’s one of the great cultural victories that I think is spurred on, probably, by podcasts,” he added.

Rogan is right, at least to those in some circles.

Once relegated to the cultural dustbin, the so-called R-word has made a resurgence in recent months, used most commonly by people in right-leaning and anti-political correctness worlds, some of whom have tried for years to bring the slur from the social media undercurrents back into the mainstream.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk now frequently uses the word on X to disparage everyone from a Danish astronaut to Ben Stiller. In March, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, used it in questioning the mental capacity of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins, only to later issue an apology. The FX show “English Teacher” included a bit about how “the kids are not into being woke” and they’re “saying the ‘R-word’ again.” And a recent Netflix comedy special invoked the word repeatedly.

While its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has the word — and discussion of its return — become more normalized. That is fueled in no small part by a sense that the tide has turned both culturally and politically against those seeking to keep the word out of the popular lexicon. But the battle lines are not as clear as one might think, with even some on the left softening their stance on the slur’s rebrand while some on the right — most notably former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — decry its return.

Timothy Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics International, noted that the word is used across the political spectrum.

“People on the left and people on the right have treated people with intellectual disabilities in subhuman ways, historically,” Shriver said.

Still, there are some political dynamics at play. Kenneth Luna, a linguistics professor at California State University, Northridge, who teaches a course on forbidden language, said the word has emerged as a cultural signifier, used by people on the cultural and political right to reinforce a group allegiance — and create further division.

“There’s this term, the politics of cruelty,” Luna said. “It’s a political ploy to marginalize opponents. But it also reinforces, if you think about it, this kind of in group loyalty.”.............

The 'R-word,' embraced by Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, inches back into the mainstream

Many still consider the word a disability slur, and while its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has it — and discussion of its return — become more common.

www.nbcnews.com

Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, and anyone else who uses that word can kiss my arse. fork all of them. I don't give a damn what your political leanings are, using that word is messed up.

 

[bird]

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.”

“Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these mentally challenged shows where they’re screaming,” he said April 10 on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before he interrupted himself to go on a quick rant about the word.

“The word ‘mentally challenged’ is back, and it’s one of the great cultural victories that I think is spurred on, probably, by podcasts,” he added.

Rogan is right, at least to those in some circles.

Once relegated to the cultural dustbin, the so-called R-word has made a resurgence in recent months, used most commonly by people in right-leaning and anti-political correctness worlds, some of whom have tried for years to bring the slur from the social media undercurrents back into the mainstream.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk now frequently uses the word on X to disparage everyone from a Danish astronaut to Ben Stiller. In March, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, used it in questioning the mental capacity of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins, only to later issue an apology. The FX show “English Teacher” included a bit about how “the kids are not into being woke” and they’re “saying the ‘R-word’ again.” And a recent Netflix comedy special invoked the word repeatedly.

While its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has the word — and discussion of its return — become more normalized. That is fueled in no small part by a sense that the tide has turned both culturally and politically against those seeking to keep the word out of the popular lexicon. But the battle lines are not as clear as one might think, with even some on the left softening their stance on the slur’s rebrand while some on the right — most notably former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — decry its return.

Timothy Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics International, noted that the word is used across the political spectrum.

“People on the left and people on the right have treated people with intellectual disabilities in subhuman ways, historically,” Shriver said.

Still, there are some political dynamics at play. Kenneth Luna, a linguistics professor at California State University, Northridge, who teaches a course on forbidden language, said the word has emerged as a cultural signifier, used by people on the cultural and political right to reinforce a group allegiance — and create further division.

“There’s this term, the politics of cruelty,” Luna said. “It’s a political ploy to marginalize opponents. But it also reinforces, if you think about it, this kind of in group loyalty.”.............

The 'R-word,' embraced by Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, inches back into the mainstream

Many still consider the word a disability slur, and while its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has it — and discussion of its return — become more common.

www.nbcnews.com

The door was open so I have to walk through

Rogan and Musk are both (insert R word).

They think, if that be what they actually do, that in some manner they have scored a “victory”. They have, instead, shown how childish they are.

In another article I read, I forget where, there is this issue of masculinity which seems to have devolved down to wanting to be able to act like a d**k with no repercussions. The problem is not society damaging or altering masculinity. The problem is men not being willing to stop being adolescents.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Of the innumerable insults directed at Donald Trump and his supporters, the one that seems to get under their skin the most is “woke right.” The epithet describes the Trump movement’s tendency to counter left-wing illiberalism with a mirror-image replica.

“The woke right,” my colleague Thomas Chatterton Williams explained earlier this year, “places identity grievance, ethnic consciousness, and tribal striving at the center of its behavior and thought.” Right-wing wokeness appropriates techniques of the illiberal left-wing variety—language policing, historical revisionism, expansive claims of ethnic oppression—but deploys them in the service of the MAGA coalition, above all white Christian males, rather than racial and sexual minorities.

Some embittered critics of wokeness have depicted this movement as an in-kind backlash, a “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” response to a decade of illiberalism. In fact, the woke right predates the woke left. I happened to find a textual source, perfectly preserved in time.

In 2011, Pat Buchanan published Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? (Checking in from the year 2025, I can report that the answer is a tentative yes.) Revisiting the book today is illuminating for two reasons. One is that Buchanan, as many analysts have noted, invented Trump’s shtick.

The right-wing populist ran two unsuccessful campaigns for the Republican nomination, followed by another as an independent candidate, on proto-Trumpian themes of protectionism, isolationism, and nativism—themes that are elaborated at length in Suicide of a Superpower. (Buchanan announced his retirement from political commentary last year.)

The other is that Buchanan’s manifesto precedes the emergence of the pejorative left-wing sense of wokeness, which began in about 2014. And so it shows very clearly that the woke right, while drawing strength from the backlash to wokeism, does not require the woke left’s existence as a rationale.

If you’re looking for identity grievance, ethnic consciousness, and tribal striving, Buchanan has 400 pages of it. His core argument is that white people should band together to hold off the rising tide of nonwhite people who threaten to outnumber them and use their voting power to redistribute resources downward. This belief inspires both Buchanan’s model of international relations and domestic politics. Globally, Buchanan argues for a rapprochement with Russia, which he praises for having “implored the white nations to unite.”

Domestically, he castigates George W. Bush–era Republicans for “pandering to liberal minorities,” whom he sees as incapable of social or economic equality with the white majority. Buchanan urges the party to use nativist themes and other conservative messages to draw in more white voters, a strategy Trump later employed.

In some ways, Suicide of a Superpower strikes notes similar to those found in generations of conservative screeds: fretting about the pace of social change, expressing affection for the good old days—“in 1952, a Coke cost a nickel as did a candy bar,” Buchanan recalls nostalgically—and worrying that the country might not survive. But the specific elements of Buchanan’s complaints reveal the nearly unrecognizable context in which he was writing, which preceded a decade and a half of dizzying cultural change.

“Woke” ideas about race and gender emerged at the end of the Obama era, partly in opposition to Barack Obama’s relatively staid liberal values. In 2011, when Buchanan was writing, the concepts that would come to be referred to as wokeism were still confined to the fringes of academia and left-wing activism, and they were so politically marginal that Suicide of a Superpower does not reference them...............

The Godfather of the Woke Right​

The Godfather of the Woke Right

A 2011 book by Pat Buchanan shows the deep roots of today’s right-wing illiberalism.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[cuddlemonkey]

The door was open so I have to walk through

Rogan and Musk are both (insert R word).

They think, if that be what they actually do, that in some manner they have scored a “victory”. They have, instead, shown how childish they are.

In another article I read, I forget where, there is this issue of masculinity which seems to have devolved down to wanting to be able to act like a d**k with no repercussions. The problem is not society damaging or altering masculinity. The problem is men not being willing to stop being adolescents.

Don't walk through it. Be better than those butt crevasses.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, and anyone else who uses that word can kiss my arse. fork all of them. I don't give a damn what your political leanings are, using that word is messed up.

I agree

I'll admit when i was younger (grade school through high school) I did use the word, never as an insult to anyone who was mentally challenged but as another way of calling someone an idiot or moron (which I later learned were also once official terms to describe mentally challenged people)

And like the word Oriental I didn't have an epiphany or incident or awakening about when or why I stopped saying it, I just stopped saying it

 

[Optimus Prime]

The door was open so I have to walk through

Rogan and Musk are both (insert R word).

They think, if that be what they actually do, that in some manner they have scored a “victory”. They have, instead, shown how childish they are.

In another article I read, I forget where, there is this issue of masculinity which seems to have devolved down to wanting to be able to act like a d**k with no repercussions. The problem is not society damaging or altering masculinity. The problem is men not being willing to stop being adolescents.

Read an article (possibly posted it here) that said the rise of that attitude and the 'manosphere' in general was a direct response and backlash to emo, metrosexuals and hipsters and all the emotional, well groomed dandies with their obscure fringe interests, likes and hobbies

Led to a return of "real men" meat and potatoes, domestic beer, my way or the highway, dirty, crass and grunty, better to fight than cry kind of men

 

[bird]

Read an article (possibly posted it here) that said the rise of that attitude and the 'manosphere' in general was a direct response and backlash to emo, metrosexuals and hipsters and all the emotional, well groomed dandies with their obscure fringe interests, likes and hobbies

Led to a return of "real men" meat and potatoes, domestic beer, my way or the highway, dirty, crass and grunty, better to fight than cry kind of men

Real men are not what these poor fools are.

 

[bird]

Don't walk through it. Be better than those butt crevasses.

You’re right. They are azzhats.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Republican strategist and self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone has called for Democratic Senator Mark Kelly’s “execution” after the lawmaker accused President Donald Trump of “cashing in” on his cryptocurrency coins from a position of power in the White House.

Kelly slammed Trump’s cryptocurrency assets, the $TRUMP memecoin, as “corruption in broad daylight.”

Trump is actively promoting investment in the memecoin from the White House and is hosting a $1.5 million-a-head dinner for top investors in his coin later this month. Many of the investors are foreign, raising particular concerns among lawmakers that they may be seeking favors from the American president in exchange for lining his pockets that may not be in the nation’s interest.

“Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins. It’s corruption in broad daylight,” Kelly said in a post on X. The senator is co-sponsoring a billthat would make it illegal for the president, senior executive branch officials and members of Congress from issuing, endorsing, or sponsoring crypto assets while in office to avoid a conflict of interest.……

Roger Stone calls for senator’s ‘execution’ after blasting Trump’s crypto profits

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and Trump loyalist, accused Senator Mark Kelly of ‘treason’ for backing a law aimed at ending a crypto conflict of interest in the White House

www.independent.co.uk