Branch Trumpvidians 2: The Basket of Deplorables

[wotdancer]

I saw one in the wild today. The sign says "proud to be white and legal". I couldn't decide whether to vomit or run him off the road...

 

[Cartmann99]

I stopped by Right Wing Watch to see if they had any good bits, and found this:

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So-called “firefighter prophet” and radical conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor appeared on Greg Hunter’s “USAWatchdog” program yesterday, where he insisted that the electoral “red tsunami” he had prophesied had come true but that people simply can’t see it because they do not operate in the prophetic spiritual sphere like he does.

Oh, so it's like Xgay Greg and Dede's super-long "pregnancy"! XGay Greg told us that Rufus made Dede's "pregnancy" disappear because the mockers and scoffers didn't believe enough to sustain the "pregnancy" .

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.Like fellow self-proclaimed “prophet” Kat Kerr, Taylor spent the weeks leading up to the midterm elections boldly proclaiming that Republicans were going to wipe out Democrats as a “red tsunami” swept across the nation:

“Go back to 2016 to the presidential election – all the fake news, the pundits, the polls were all wrong as we found out,” Taylor said. “It was just the exact opposite of what they were saying. So the same thing’s going to happen here.”

“There will be no ‘Blue Wave.’ A lot of people are talking about a ‘Red Wave,’ but it’s actually going to be a ‘Red Tsunami’ is what the Lord is showing me,” he continued.

“Because you’re seeing things right now; you’re seeing the resignations; you’re seeing the highest amount of resignations ever,” Taylor said. “You’re seeing people resign; people like Paul Ryan are saying they’re not running again.”

“So you’re gonna see this ‘Red Tsunami’ really take effect all the way across the country at state, local and federal levels,” he said.

Though the actual results did not match what he had prophesied, Taylor is nonetheless standing by his prophecy..

So, in other words, shit didn't happen the way he said it would, so here's some new shit to believe in! It's a good thing Mark's not living back when people would make popcorn and Smores, and then go stone false prophets to death.

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“What does it take to create a tsunami?” he asked. “It takes an earthquake. This is what God is saying: ‘The election is not over, this red tsunami has got to be started by an earthquake.’ We had the red wave; the earthquake was [Jeff] Sessions stepping aside. The delay is over. They are going after these people hard.”

Here comes the QAnon stuff!

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Taylor has been promising for years that President Trump would soon unleash a wave of arrests that will take down a massive global pedophile ring and will result in the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama being executed by military tribunals.

These looming arrests, Taylor is now claiming, are the “tsunami” that he prophesied.

“The tsunami is going to happen when the mass arrests take place,” he said. “That’s the red tsunami right there.”

That is obviously not what Taylor was predicting prior to the midterms, as he was clearly saying that Republicans were going to see massive gains in elections “all the way across the country at state, local and federal levels.” It is only now that his “red tsunami” prophecy turned out to be false that he has changed it from referring to the election results to referring to a supposed coming wave of arrests.

Or perhaps we simply can’t understand Taylor’s prophecy because we are using our “intellect” to look at the “facts” instead of simply relying on Taylor’s apparent supernatural ability to “see the full picture.”

If we all had lobotomies, Mark's crap would make perfect sense!

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“I am not going to back off this red tsunami thing because I know what God told me,” Taylor said, defensively. “I know the tsunami is coming. This is all part of it. So I am not going to apologize for something that God did. People want to sit there and they want to criticize, it’s like, you don’t understand what you’re talking about because you are not seeing the big picture right now. Any prophetic person will tell you that they live way out there on the edge and they’re constantly seeing the full picture and they’re over here trying to tell the people, ‘Hey, come over here, I need you to see this.’ When people attack you like this, it’s because they’re operating from a point of intellect. They’re not operating in the spirit. God does not operate in the natural. They’re prognosticating, they’re basing their facts on what they see in the natural with their natural eyes. That is not where God operates. God operates in the spiritual realm and that’s where people get it wrong.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-stands-by-his-red-tsunami-prophecy/

[Howl]

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So-called “firefighter prophet” and radical conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor appeared on Greg Hunter’s “USAWatchdog” program yesterday, where he insisted that the electoral “red tsunami” he had prophesied had come true but that people simply can’t see it because they do not operate in the prophetic spiritual sphere like he does.

He's got that right.....

[Alisamer]

LOL OMG. What a prophet. Do they truly believe there's some huge global ring of pedophiles? And that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - both wealthy, but nowhere near the wealth of the richest in the world - are somehow in charge of it? Was this guy dropped on his head as a child?

I think my tarot deck is a better prophet than that guy, and it's just paper and ink. My card for election day was The Tower. I think that's "republican control of the house" on the right, and Jeff Sessions on the left.

[Howl]

This all gets mashed up together with Q Anon. 

But the mass arrests? Hoping Mueller will drop a mass of indictments just for the entertainment value and mass scurrying that will ensue. 

Kellyanne Pennywise will be spinning her little heart out.  A girl can dream, right?  Anyway, I'd love to go back to the early days when Kellyanne was looking sleepless and haggard due to putting out brushfires and doing the spin, spin, spin. 

[onekidanddone]

On 11/10/2018 at 5:59 PM, wotdancer said:

I saw one in the wild today. The sign says "proud to be white and legal". I couldn't decide whether to vomit or run him off the road...

 

Run him off the road and them vomit on him.

[AmazonGrace]

On 11/12/2018 at 4:28 PM, Alisamer said:

LOL OMG. What a prophet. Do they truly believe there's some huge global ring of pedophiles? And that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - both wealthy, but nowhere near the wealth of the richest in the world - are somehow in charge of it? Was this guy dropped on his head as a child?

 

This crap is spreading. Someone I used to be good friends with got some sort of mental breakdown and runs with the far right crowd now. She frequently posts insane delusional crap like this. Apparently satanist talmudists run a pedophile murder ring and most Finnish politicians are in it. They love slaughtering cute Finnish blonde children in Britain. I haven't yet figured out how they manage to get all those kids abroad without anyone noticing they're missing. None of her RW friends challenge her, they just quietly delete the messages that could get her in trouble with the police. And she gets mad that her freedom of speech is being restricted. By her equally racist buddies.

[47of74]

 

So the BTs are now hawking crap for Christmas

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A self-proclaimed conservative gift expert is touting a timely toy for tots.

“We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new line of toys: MAGA building blocks!,” the homepage of KeepAndBear.com hypes in blood-red lettering. “This set comes with more than 100 pieces including President Trump in a MAGA hard hat!”

The $29.95 Lego knock-offs — emblazoned with 45’s “Build the Wall” mantra — are available for pre-order now from the home of “the best selection of Trump gifts anywhere!” Shipping starts Nov. 23.

 

[fraurosena]

8 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

 

So the BTs are now hawking crap for Christmas

 

Brainwash them young...

[AmazonGrace]

32 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

 

So the BTs are now hawking crap for Christmas

 

The Greatest Nation On Earth Copies Danish Toys

 

Do they have a Lock Her Up build-a-prison set?

 

 

[thoughtful]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

satanist talmudists

Well, now there's a new religious niche!  Great band name, though.

1 hour ago, 47of74 said:

MAGA building blocks!

I know we have a nice varied selection of reactions now, but sometimes the disgust face isn't quite right, and the WTF face implies that one is surprised -- these folks never surprise me.

I think we need an eyeroll reaction -- something that says "well, of course they did."

[onekidanddone]

Can we get Treason Barbie and OfIvanka action sit still and look vapid figures? 

[47of74]

25 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

Can we get Treason Barbie and OfIvanka action sit still and look vapid figures? 

Yeah but you'd also need an Orange Pervert action figure that's always trying to feel up the OfIvanka figure when people are looking and fornicate with her when they're not.

[fraurosena]

Disgusting.

Man shouts 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump' during intermission of Baltimore performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof'

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Aman shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night in an outburst that some audience members feared was the beginning of a shooting.

Audience member Rich Scherr said the outburst happened during intermission. The man, who had been seated in the balcony, began shouting “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump.” Immediately after that, “People started running,” Scherr said. “I’ll be honest, I was waiting to hear a gunshot. I thought, ‘Here we go.’ ”

The man was escorted out a few minutes later and the show continued. But Scherr, 49, said it was hard to focus on the play after that. “My heart was just racing. I didn’t even really pay attention to the second act.”

“Fiddler” tells the story of a Jewish family as it faces persecution in tsarist Russia. It’s based on “Tevye the Dairyman,” a fictional story originally written in Yiddish. The play opened Tuesday and runs through Sunday in Baltimore. A spokesman for the Hippodrome could not be reached late Wednesday.

Scherr, who is a contributing sportswriter for The Baltimore Sun, posted a video from after the incident onto Facebook.

The United States has seen a recent surge in anti-Jewish incidents, including a shooting last month at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people inside.

Anti-Jewish incidents reported to police in Maryland jumped 47 percent in 2017 to 78 incidents, according to a Baltimore Sun review of records. That was amid a 35 percent increase of overall hate or bias incidents reported to police statewide last year.

Earlier Wednesday, a swastika and anti-black graffiti were found in a bathroom at Goucher College in Towson.

 

[fraurosena]

No words needed.

 

[AmazonGrace]

America is cursed because they voted for godless Democrats: 

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/god-will-not-bless-america-texas-pastor-curses-nation-godless-democrats-win-midterms/#.W_C86JF2bss.twitter

[Howl]

Nailed it! 

 

[47of74]

3 hours ago, Howl said:

Nailed it! 

 

Yeah there are a lot of people like that where I live who would gladly vote for or support complete monsters as long as that person makes the correct noises about abortion.

I've called the whole reich to life movement a four flushing shell game not once but several times over the years.  Our late, unlamented old man mail harasser sent me hate mail after I called out the local reich to life one time. 

[fraurosena]

Well, they say there's one born every minute...

Trump Fans Sink Savings Into ‘Iraqi Dinar’ Scam

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Trump supporter Hayes Kotseos runs a North Carolina pool-maintenance company, but she’s got a side bet that she thinks might make her fabulously wealthy: the Iraqi dinar.

The currency is nearly worthless outside of Iraq, but Kotseos bought millions of dinars in April, after watching a video of President Trump at a 2017 press conference. In the clip, Trump says, with characteristic vagueness, that all currencies will soon “be on a level playing field.”

In reality, Trump was talking about trade imbalances with China. But like other Trump supporters who have fallen into the dinar investment scam, which has existed since at least 2012, Kotseos interpreted Trump’s rambling statement as proof that the Iraqi dinar would soon be worth as much or even more than the dollar, making anyone who had been smart enough to buy in early a millionaire.

“I love my president, and I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Kotseos told The Daily Beast.

The purchase, Kotseos said, cost her and her husband somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000, counting the cut to the company that sold them the dinars. Two of her adult children have bought millions more dinars, too.

Like other investors in the incredibly long-shot dinar scheme, Kotseos hopes that Trump and the Iraqi government will somehow “revalue” or “RV” the currency, boosting its current value of less than $0.001 to $3 or $4.

Dinar promoters have claimed that near-mythical event will occur for nearly a decade. But if it does it would theoretically make a millionaire of anyone with the foresight to put just a few thousand dollars into dinars.

“If it happens, it’ll be awesome and there’ll be a huge party at my house,” Kotseos said.

The rumored wealth surrounding the dinar dates back to its pre-Gulf War price, when each dinar was more than $3. But sanctions and years of war have pummeled its value to less than one-tenth of one U.S. penny.

Unfortunately for American investors, the long-awaited “RV” never seems to come.

The persistently low value has inspired warnings from state regulators and several indictments against dinar sellers accused of misleading investors about the currency’s prospects. But that hasn’t stopped dinar investors from buying and counting on the much-awaited “RV” to make them rich.

While it’s difficult to measure how many Americans have invested in the dinar, court papers related to dinar scams often mention millions of dollars worth of dinar purchases. Dinar holders regularly tweet at Trump and various Iraqi government Twitter accounts, demanding to know when they’ll finally enact the “RV” that will let the money flow in.

The dinar scam has become particularly Trump-centric since 2015, over rumors that Trump has personally invested in the dinar (there’s no evidence that he actually does). Search-engine searches related to Trump and the dinar have shot up, according to Google Trends, returning hoax articles claiming Trump has bought millions of dollars worth of dinars.

Trump supporters like Kotseos have also been drawn in by videos showing the “prophecy” of Kim Clement, a South African “prophet” whose fans believe predicted Trump’s election. Before his death in 2016, Clement also often mentioned a dinar revaluation.

“It was like, OK, well, God said the Iraqi dinar is going to revalue,” Kotseos told The Daily Beast.

Dinar-related threads on Twitter and YouTube fill up with Trump supporters asking the president to somehow force the revaluation.

“MR TRUMP. I really admire you….please help us with this RV,” wrote one Twitter user. Another asked Trump to increase the dinar’s value to “give us the financial tools we need to support your efforts.”

[tweets]

In a video on one of Clement’s prophecies about the dinar, a Trump supporter insisted in October that Trump was central to the whole plan.

“President Trump is KEY,” the commenter wrote. “Nobody thought he would win, he will trigger the IRAQ RV.”

Jay Addison, an attorney who follows financial scams, watched for six years as dinar believers’ hopes for a revaluation failed to materialize. After writing a 2012 blog post about why the dinar was a bad investment, Addison heard from dinar investors who insisted the RV was about to occur.

Six years later, it still hasn’t happened.

Addison, who calls the hype around the dinar a “study in stupidity,” said he’s personally encountered dinar investors who were otherwise savvy in business but became entranced by the prospect of instant riches.

“I’ve had a few clients fall for it,” Addison said. “They weren’t really the sharpest knives in the drawer.”

It’s not that the revaluation is totally impossible, according to Addison. It’s that companies that sell dinars and dinar “gurus” vastly exaggerate the likelihood of a revaluation.

“They’re basically told that it’s a sure thing. Nine out of 10,” Addison said. “When it’s actually one in a hundred billion.”

Kotseos, like other dinar holders, have found support in dinar communities online.

The investors, who call themselves “Dinarians,” gather on forums with names like Dinar Detective to dissect every news item for what, if anything, it could mean for their dinar. On another site, Dinar Vets, would-be posters have to verify or “dinar-ify” themselves by posting a picture of their dinars to prove that they are really committed to the cause.

Other fans post dinar “unboxing” videos on YouTube, filming themselves as they open envelopes filled with the dinars they hope will make them wealthy. On Facebook, some dinar groups are devoted to praying for the dinar revaluation to come sooner.

But the dinar-specific corners of the internet are also rife with manipulation. In October, the owners of a Georgia-based dinar reseller that made $600 million selling the dinar and other currencies were convicted of fraud for misleading investors about the dinar’s chances to gain value.

Their scheme, according to prosecutors, included paying off a dinar “guru” to tell his fans in chat rooms and conference calls that he had high-level sources in American and Iraqi government and international financial institutions who were sure a revaluation was imminent.

Dinar holders had what one of the accused sellers described as a “cult-like” devotion to their dinar guru’s news. But according to prosecutors, those government “sources” were entirely fictitious.

The most devoted dinar investors tend to become obsessed with the minute details of Iraqi politics, convincing themselves that a new director of the Iraqi central bank or a particular infrastructure program in Nineveh is all that stands between them and millions of dollars.

Kotseos herself has dived headfirst into the dinar internet, tweeting regularly about her RV theories. She’s also invested in the Vietnamese dong, a dinar rival that’s worth even less, and she has strong feelings about various Iraqi politicians.

“With what’s going on in Iraq right now, everything is so hopeful,” Kotseos said.

Kotseos also spends a portion of each day in a dinar chatroom, where dinar holders try to convince one another that their investment will eventually pay off. Instead, she tries to promote “hopium”—dinar-world slang for optimism about the currency.

“Some people get a little negative,” said Kotseos, who also tweets about the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. “You’ve gotta squish it fast. We just support each other.”

Kotseos said her family can afford to lose their dinar investments, if the currency never appreciates. But she’s convinced that she’ll be able to resell her dinar and at least recover a majority of her investment.

Those prospects are actually somewhat unclear. Many resellers will only buy back a portion of the dinars they sell, and they tend to sell them at already inflated prices.

But for now, Kotseos isn’t selling. She said she has seen ads offering to buy back dinar, but she ignores them.

“You’re not getting my dinar,” Kotseos said.  

 

[Howl]

#Sad.

[Cartmann99]

On 11/18/2018 at 10:08 PM, 47of74 said:

I've called the whole reich to life movement a four flushing shell game not once but several times over the years.  Our late, unlamented old man mail harasser sent me hate mail after I called out the local reich to life one time

If abortions were performed with guns, the so-called pro-life movement would largely dissappear. 

[47of74]

If abortions were performed with guns, the so-called pro-life movement would largely dissappear. 

If men - especially old white men - could get pregnant they would have the option to receive Eucharistic hosts with birth control mixed in. Abortion and birth control would be goddamn sacraments.

[Howl]

16 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

If men - especially old white men - could get pregnant they would have the option to receive Eucharistic hosts with birth control mixed in. Abortion and birth control would be goddamn sacraments.

THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE! 

[smittykins]

Was it Gloria Steinem who said "If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"?

[AmericanRose]

Well. I called my mom for Thanksgiving. We started out with religion (began with 'all books are trash' and my observation that the bible is a book) and then moved on to Trump when she told me not to worship celebrities or the sun/moon, and I said it was interesting she tells me not to worship idols when she worships Trump. So apparently she loves Trump and would love a chance to meet him because of all the good he's doing. We were all lied to, the Clintons have done something to Haiti (???), and I don't understand because I don't have a foot in the past. And 'the people' are tired of people breaking the law and they will be punished.

And then my grandmother told my mother to stop and said she didn't want any religion or politics at Christmas. To which I agreed! Hopefully my mom will listen to her mom.