A Trump adviser says it was disrespectful to Jews for President Obama to give a speech on Hanukah; he should have done it on Shabbat, instead. :smack:
It’s accurate to the source, however the source is very likely to be full of shit : it is one lone German source, by a monk who wasn’t there and wrote about it 20 years after the fact.
Still, historians tend to agree that while the quote itself is probably bogus ; the sentiment conveyed is more or less accurate. In reality Arnaud Amalric was only informed of the successful seizing of the city after the massacre had already begun (so he could hardly have ordered it himself at that point) ; however earlier in the day he’d warned the Catholics in town to leave post haste if they didn’t want to share the fate of the Cathars - meaning an indiscriminate massacre was already in the cards.
Wonder if we could start a fund to ship them all to the Middle East. I’d be happy to pay a share of their transport costs if it would get them away from here. 
Crazy gun lover Michele Fiore is back in the news. Just about a week after putting out her family Christmas card showingall of them totin’ guns, she comes out with this:
Good thing we don’t have any of them radicalized, gun-totin’, kill-em-all, Mooslem refugees running around.
Wow, that Xmas card is a blatant photoshop.
“We will be happy to finance your travel to Syria, and a big wad of ammo for use when you get there (they all look like Arabs, so please try to shoot the right ones). We will need some kind of collateral, though. Some way to know who this fund is on behalf of. Your passport should do nicely for that.”
This isn’t a stupid Republican idea of the day, more like of the past 5 or 6 decades.
The Political F word. When and how should we talk about Fascism.
It’s a long article but well worth the read IMO.
My parents had front row seats during the rise of Nazism and when they arrived in the USA back in 1960 they were appalled at the parallels even back then. This article perfectly sums up my long standing feelings of unease. Makes me wonder if the chickens are finally coming home to roost.
Somewhere in this speech he calls for censoring the internet.
It gets less and less farfetched to call him a fascist.
I’m having a good time with the mental picture of Michele Fiore hitting Paris with a busload of her pet wingnuts. What would they do? Where would they go? Why don’t these people understand English? Why is the bread so weird-looking? Where’s the nearest McDonald’s?
Another stupid Republican lie of the day: Ted Cruz Tells Fabricated Story About A Girl Threatened With Jail For Saying ‘Jesus’.
Christian publishing house publishes a tell-all book from a former White House chef for Dubya and Clinton. Turns out he was never a White House chef. Nor did he get knighted by the Queen for his food, nor does he have a degree from Cornell.
Pretty sure they’d be refused a visa on terrorism grounds.
“You people are insane, we’re Americans!”
I realize this thread is for moronic ideas by Republican leaders, not for the jabberings of idiots too incontinent for office. But some stupidities would be worth a laugh even if they came from the mouth of a speaking-bird or Eliza-bot with no comprehension.
And Starving Artist lacks the intellect to deserve his own Pit thread.
The following quote is strung out among three posts in a thread as I have summarized in this post.
[QUOTE=Starving Artist]
… show me black families that live by the values of people like the Clarence Thomases, the Herman Cains and the Ben Carsons, and I’ll show you black families … who are admired and welcomed by their white neighbors and business associates, and who don’t get hassled for “driving while black”.
… [But] celebrities [like Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Beyonce etc.] hold their positions by virtue of winning society’s lottery rather than earning them the way most people would be able to if they lived by correct values and applied themselves.
[/QUOTE]
Well, I guess on Planet Starving Artist, you’re only living by ‘correct values’ if you’re a registered Republican.
Kind of scary to think what Obama might have done if he had applied himself.
I still get the feeling that he’s only pretending to be a fascist, as that’s the way to get the most attention/votes.
But as Kurt Vonnegut said, you are what you pretend to be.
And therefore it is very, very important what you pretend to be.
I pretend to be rich, smart and good looking.
It doesn’t help much.