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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[barton]

 The poll I referenced was Gallup. But I made a typo. The actual increase was 17 per cent.

Got link?  In context,  we are talking about Trump approval rating since Kavanaugh's confirmation. 

[barton]

White conservative, eh?

https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/sur-de-la-florida/article220678745.html

No hablo,  Senor NinoCarter.

[REDSTATEWARD]

 The poll I referenced was Gallup. But I made a typo. The actual increase was 17 per cent.

Got link?  In context,  we are talking about Trump approval rating since Kavanaugh's confirmation.

Gallup is not hard to research.

[REDSTATEWARD]

I think it is in your ID.

Not that I had any plans of revisiting that conversational cul-de-sac, but that comment to Boz seems pretty enigmatic. 

Boz?

[josh]

[josh]

http://www.shakesville.com/2018/07/the-trump-regime-and-stochastic.html

Stochastic terrorism.

[josh]

http://www.shakesville.com/2018/07/the-trump-regime-and-stochastic.html

Stochastic terrorism.

1. The use of mass communication to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.

2. Remote-control murder by lone wolf.

[barton]

I think it is in your ID.

Not that I had any plans of revisiting that conversational cul-de-sac, but that comment to Boz seems pretty enigmatic. 

Boz?

Some call WP,  Boz.  This could reference a Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson or an early pen name of Charles Dickens or a well-known R&B/boogie musician, not sure which or if any of those.   

Still no Gallup link.   Thought not.   Only thing up 17% for Trump is his cheeseburger intake.   

[kiidcarter8]

51-48 pre-Kavanaugh
48-51 approval now (approve-disapprove)

per Rasmussen

[barton]

From off the AP wire....

Stacy Saccal, the general manager of the Ultra Gentlemen’s Club in West Palm Beach, said Sayoc had worked there for about two months, first as a floor bouncer and for the past month as a disc jockey — most recently on Thursday night, hours before his arrest Friday morning.

“I didn’t know this guy was mad crazy like this,” she said Friday. “Never once did he speak politics. This is a bar. We don’t talk politics or religion in a bar, you know?”

Florida voter records show Sayoc first registered in March 2016 as a Republican and cast a ballot in that November’s presidential election.

He has been an active Trump supporter, tweeting and posting Facebook videos that appear to show him at the president’s rallies.

Sayoc’s social media accounts are peppered with memes supporting Trump, and denigrating Democrats.

Sayoc lived in a white 2002 Dodge Ram van, which was plastered with stickers supporting Trump and criticizing media outlets that included CNN, which was also targeted by mail bombs.

The van was often parked outside an LA Fitness in Aventura, backed up in a parking space under the trees for shade. Patrons say they frequently saw him in the locker room.

“He’d just be walking straight to the shower and be in the shower forever,” said Edgar Lopez, who often exercises at the gym. “I never saw him working out.”

Other times, the van was seen parked at the beach in nearby Hollywood before dawn, with Sayoc stripping down to skin-tight shorts for an outdoor shower.

“I’ve seen the guy maybe 80 times and I never said a word to him because I had a feeling he was a little off,” said Marc Weiss, the superintendent of a building near where Sayoc frequently parked. “I assumed because he was showering at the beach that he was homeless.”

In 2015, he reported to police that his van was broken into outside of a gym in Oakland Park, Florida. He claimed that more than $40,000 worth of items were stolen, including $7,150 worth of Donald Trump-brand suits.

But often, Sayoc was on the other side of legal complaints.

In the 2002 bomb threat case, he had lashed out at a Florida utility representative because his electricity service was about to be cut off. The arrest report said Sayoc threatened in a phone call to blow up the utility’s offices and said that “It would be worse than September 11th.”

Sayoc was also convicted in 2014 for grand theft and in 2013 for battery. In 2004, he faced several felony charges for unlawful possession of a synthetic anabolic steroid often used to help build muscles. He also had several arrests going back to the 1990s for theft, obtaining fraudulent refunds and tampering with evidence.

Lowy said he recalled that Sayoc also had a run-in with authorities where he was charged with possessing a fake driver’s license after altering his birthdate to make him appear younger.

Sayoc displayed no political leanings at the time of the bombing charge, Lowy said, except for plastering his vehicle with Native American emblems. Sayoc told his lawyer his father was Native American.

More recently, Sayoc described himself on social media as being affiliated with the Seminole Warriors boxing club and being a member of the “Unconquered Seminole Tribe.”

Gary Bitner, a spokesman for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, said there is no evidence to show that Sayoc worked for the tribe or was a tribal member.

Altieri, his cousin, said Sayoc’s only connection to Native Americans was that he once dated a member of a tribe.

Sayoc was born in New York City. His mother was Italian and his biological father was Filipino, and his parents separated when he was a young boy, Altieri said. After his parents separated, Sayoc was “kind of rejected” by his family.

“When you get no love as a young kid, you get kind of out of whack,” he said.

He enrolled at Brevard College in North Carolina in 1980 and attended for three semesters, said Christie Cauble, the school’s interim director of communications. He then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, enrolling for the 1983-84 academic year. Buffie Stephens, director of media relations for the school, said Sayoc didn’t declare a major. He played a few games as a walk-on player for the university’s men’s soccer team. There is no indication he ever completed a degree.

He moved to the Miami suburbs in the late 1980s. He had serious financial problems in recent years, including losing his home in foreclosure in 2009 and filling for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2012.

In court records, Sayoc was described as having $4,175 in personal property and more than $21,000 in debts, mostly from unpaid credit cards. His monthly income at the time was $1,070.

“Debtor lives with mother, owns no furniture,” Sayoc’s lawyer indicated in a property list. Sayoc’s mother, Madeline, also filed for bankruptcy around the same time. She was not immediately available to respond to phone messages left with her by the AP.

Sayoc’s media diet appears to have consisted of a toxic mixture of conspiracy theory, parody accounts and right-wing news sites. One of Altieri’s most favored recent sources was a Twitter account that spread hoaxes about the Parkland High School shooting in Florida earlier this year.

He tweeted at least 40 times a screenshot of a meme featuring the transparently false claim that Parkland mass-shooting survivor David Hogg never went to Stoneman Douglas High School, occasionally including hostile captions such as “He is a George Soros paid protester.” Soros, the billionaire progressive political donor, was targeted this week by a package bomb.

Sayoc even seems to have stumbled across a Polish conspiracy news site, tweeting out a wildly false claim that Angela Merkel had been conceived using Adolf Hitler’s frozen sperm.

In June, he praised Trump in a birthday message saying, “Happy Birthday President Donald J. Trump the greatest result President ever.”

The best line of this dispatch is IMO:

" This is a bar. We don’t talk politics or religion in a bar, you know?”

[barton]

51-48 pre-Kavanaugh
48-51 approval now (approve-disapprove)

per Rasmussen

Red says it's not a 3% but a 17% spike.  So you and I apparently didn't do his "easy" research I guess.

Rasmussen sets its baseline too high,  due to a land-line skew.   

[REDSTATEWARD]

I think it is in your ID.

Not that I had any plans of revisiting that conversational cul-de-sac, but that comment to Boz seems pretty enigmatic. 

Boz?

Some call WP,  Boz.  This could reference a Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson or an early pen name of Charles Dickens or a well-known R&B/boogie musician, not sure which or if any of those.   

Still no Gallup link.   Thought not.   Only thing up 17% for Trump is his cheeseburger intake.

Gallup rose 17 per cent.
Maybe you need a five-year old to teach you how to use Google.
Or to define enigma.

[FlyingVProd]

Bono Wants Africa and the EU to Join Forces Against Trump and the US and 'Take Over the World'


http://humansarefree.com/2018/10/bono-wants-africa-and-eu-to-join-forces.html


---------------

I used to love Bono and U2, but now he has turned into a freak. I even defended them when they put a song on everyone's cell phones that they did not want. And I was born in the land of the Joshua Trees, in the Antelope Valley, and I loved their "Joshua Tree" album, and in my hometown the streets do not have names, the streets have letters and numbers, for instance I lived on M-8 and 50th Street West. Also, the Antelope Valley built and flew many of the top secret aircraft such as the U2. And Bono may have been at my Brother's wedding when my Brother married Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Granddaughter (Roy and Dale were there, and a few rich and famous people were there. And my Brother and his new bride flew off in a helicopter for their honeymoon on Catalina Island, it was cool). Bono can go kick rocks, he has lost his mind.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

I think it is in your ID.

Not that I had any plans of revisiting that conversational cul-de-sac, but that comment to Boz seems pretty enigmatic. 

Boz?

Some call WP,  Boz.  This could reference a Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson or an early pen name of Charles Dickens or a well-known R&B/boogie musician, not sure which or if any of those.   

Still no Gallup link.   Thought not.   Only thing up 17% for Trump is his cheeseburger intake.

Gallup rose 17 per cent.
Maybe you need a five-year old to teach you how to use Google.
Or to define enigma.

Red you need to check the side effects on those little blue pills you take.

Gallup has trump down 44-50 as of last week, prior to the this most recent culmination of his inciting terrorism. It will be worse again next week. Here's a link

http://news.gallup.com/poll/203207/trump-job-approval-weekly.aspx

Trump has never been above water. Never ever.

You may be thinking of the Galoot poll, or whatever they feed you cheese-dicks so you don’t have to confront how despised and scorned you’ve become.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Current Amazon Ad

Barack Obama Mask—Perfect for Halloween, Masquerade, Parties, Events, Festivals, Concerts—Jumbo Size Waterproof Laminated. . . . Only 3 left in stock—order soon.”


Copy and paste it into a search engine.

Notice there is no disclaimer that the buyer of the mask has to be of the same race as Obama.
Megyn Kelly admitted she should not have used the term blackface and apologized.
But her ratings were bad.

NBC seized the opportunity.