I see that there was a shooting in Jacksonville, Florida on the same day as Senator McCain’s demise.

Due to the diseased public policy of rewarding murderers with national attention by dipping the flag to half mast, millions of Americans will likely have no idea he is gone.

I doubt it, he's all over my FB feed.

How many are not on FB?

Millions.

Suppose you drive to work today and the flag is at half-staff. How will you know why?

Fox tongue

https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1033734570120605702

Hmmm...

Constitutional attorney Mark W. Smith, author of #Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland Shooting, and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back, observed, “‎I am sure the anti-gunners will yet again Blame the Gun, and then claim all law-abiding gun owners are to blame. Isn’t that interesting. When an Islamic Terrorist blows up something, we are told that not all Muslims are terrorists. When an illegal immigrant kills a young American student, we are told not all illegal immigrants from Mexico are killers. Yet when a crazy violent psycho shoots someone with a gun, then all gun owners and the NRA (and it’s members) are to blame and should be punished.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/26/mall-jacksonville-shooting-gun-free-zone/

This is a gorgeous pony

https://twitter.com/PrehistoricMojo/status/1033659653459197952

Due to the diseased public policy of rewarding murderers with national attention by dipping the flag to half mast, millions of Americans will likely have no idea he is gone. ~ Radwaste at August 26, 2018 10:48 PM

The news here is all about McCain. The events in Jacksonville barely merit a passing notice.

Shirt size up to 5XL? Yikes, you might as well cosplay as a Socialist Kool-aid man.

https://twitter.com/VoCommunism/status/1034088058805776384

Whatever could they be afraid of, if the California bar is fighting this tooth and nail?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/305888/

I'm sure this will work out well.

https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2018/08/26/you-think-the-sjw-war-on-engineering-is-a-joke/

You get your news from flag poles, Rad?

Wow...just wow. I have no other words.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bride-canceled-her-wedding-guests-133300785.html

That's gotta be fake. I mean people who have a kid out of wedlock and get married young and go to community college are not likely to be in social circles where 1,500 is petty cash.

Wanna know why the news media are generally held in contempt, read this Twitter string. He makes some good points.

Also, this tweet reminds us that 2018 is not all that bad.

NicoleK,

I have a cousin who tried to pull something similar. She is an out of wedlock kid and neither of her parents are wealthy. Most of us quietly ignored her invitations and her father finally talked with her about how that wasn't going to work.

Mad driving skills

https://twitter.com/_Hantori/status/1033356568169865216

FP:

From 2007 to 2014, China lent Venezuela $63 billion — 53 percent of all its lending to Latin America during this time. There was an important catch to this largesse; to guarantee repayment, Beijing insisted on being repaid in oil... [W]hen oil dropped to close to $30 a barrel in January 2016, this caused Venezuela’s price tag for serving its debt to explode. To repay Beijing today, Venezuela must now ship two barrels of oil for every one it originally agreed to.

A pattern emerges.

Perhaps they aren't as blind as they seem.

> How will you know why?

You (collectively) worried so much about truth —and were so certain that your insight was unprecedented— that you gave the matter a fashionable new name ("Fake news!") gladdening the hearts of despotic authoritarian censors across the globe. You put fresh wind in their sails. ' The People are complaining about the news! Something MUST be done!'

And then you (perhaps individually) worry that the information you regard as true isn't reaching them either, even if they simply choose not to know about it.

Millions! Millions of people are not on Facebook! HOW WILL THEY KNOW?!?!?!??!?!

…About the death of a typically scandalous Big Government politician who'd been famously sick with cancer for years?

Will you insist that people care?

I know how 8th-graders think, I remember those little fuckers. I think you will, given half a chance, insist.

Hey There Raddibles...

D'ya knowwut happens when you convince people that "Fake news!" is a new phenomenon that has to be dealt with?

You're tickled pinko, right?

Don't come cryin'.

> you gave the matter a fashionable new name ("Fake news!")

Nah, it was the mainstream media that gave it that name. Then others coopted the term, and used it against the media.

But fake news does have real consequences.

We got involved in a war in Iraq due to fake news, cause the loss of much life and money.

I've seen people lose their home because of fake news (real estate prices always go up and there is no bubble).

Intensely animated chart.

> Nah, it was the mainstream media

Master manipulators everywhere. You poor little dears.

Mad driving skills ~ Sixclaws at August 27, 2018 12:40 PM

Maybe Charlie Croker should have had him driving the bus instead of Big William.

I've seen people lose their home because of fake news (real estate prices always go up and there is no bubble). ~ Snoopy at August 27, 2018 2:09 PM

I don't know if that's fake news or just good ol' fashioned taking advantage of someone's greed and gullibility. The media, the same media we love to bash today, were full of warnings about a potential bubble.

A pattern emerges.

I wonder what China will do when those debtor nations tell them to go suck an egg. Or pull a page out of the Commie Handbook and simply nationalize any such assets in their country?

> Master manipulators everywhere. You poor little dears.

Until you're a victim of it, or someone close to you has been a victim of it, then you won't be so blase.

That's gotta be fake. I mean people who have a kid out of wedlock and get married young and go to community college are not likely to be in social circles where 1,500 is petty cash.

NicoleK at August 27, 2018 10:22 AM
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I SUSPECT it's fake, but even so, it's not so uncommon for young people to think that asking for gifts is perfectly polite (it's not, no matter how humble the requested gift is), OR that X amount of money is "too much for me to give to a friend, but not for my friend to give to ME." (Even if the friend is poorer.)

I suspect it all goes back to those childhood birthday parties where the parents were trying to keep up with the Joneses and so they either had outrageous parties/outings they couldn't afford - and sometimes tried to manipulate the parents of the guests into paying for the party. The other parents sometimes did the same thing, in revenge, when THEIR kids had birthdays. So, of course, the kids didn't learn that this is a rude thing to do!

"Master manipulators everywhere. You poor little dears."

But not you, right? Suuure.

Where 99% of ‘diversity is a strength’ tweets come from

https://twitter.com/huwhyte_1/status/1029185850750447617/photo/1

> But not you, right?

I made it three seconds: A TV show from the "Fox" collection of broadcast outlets, featuring high school graduates under union studio lighting.

By all means, let such people show you how it works.