Daily Beast Editor Calls For "Humiliation" And "Incarceration" For Trump Supporters Tyler Durden Tue, 12/01/2020 - 17:25
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
We have been discussing the rising threats against Trump supporters, lawyers, and officials in recent weeks from Democratic members are calling for blacklists to the Lincoln Project leading a a national effort to harass and abuse any lawyers representing the Republican party or President Trump. Others are calling for banning those “complicit” from college campuses while still others are demanding a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to “hold Trump and his enablers accountable for the crimes they have committed.”
Now, Daily Beast editor-at-large Rick Wilson has added his own call for “humiliation,” “incarceration” and even ritualistic suicides for Trump supporters in an unhinged, vulgar column. Wilson declared “[o]nly exposure, pain, humiliation, and (inshallah) incarceration will lead to a moment of reckoning for the GOP.”
Not surprisingly, Wilson is a key advisor to the Lincoln Project which was blocked recently on Twitter for abusive doxxing efforts directed at Republican lawyers. His column captures the level of hateful rhetoric fueled by the Lincoln Project, which is funded by thousands of lawyers despite its attacks on fellow members of the bar for their representation.
“Remember, the Trump GOP is shorn of all ideological and philosophical pretense, and even when Trump leaves office, it’s not over. ‘His cultists’ reign of terror will shape elected GOP members as long as he and his foul spawn walk the earth unpunished. Only exposure, pain, humiliation, and (inshallah) incarceration will lead to a moment of reckoning for the GOP. It should start at the top and work down from there.”
Wilson notes that he is not interested in the “reconciliation” part of “truth and reconciliation,” declaring a “hearty f— no” to people calling for reconciliation. Inside he called for the “motherf—ers” to consider “seppuku.”
Just as I recently criticized Trump counsel Joe diGenova for his rhetoric about drawing and quartering Chris Krebs, I will assume that Wilson is not seriously calling for ritualistic suicides. However, he is clearly calling for retaliation against Trump supporters as the Lincoln Project has carried out in its campaign.
Others like Elie Mystal, The Nation’s justice correspondent, have called for a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to investigate “[a]ll of these moral and ethical failures … and that’s before we get into the actual statutory crimes potentially committed by Trump, his administration, his enablers, and his family.”
The call for a commission to establish the truth of past controversies is ironic given Mystal’s abuse of teenager Nicholas Sandmann. We previously discussed the case and the example of one such segment involving “Above the Law” writer Joe Patrice in his interview with Mystal, where he attacked this 16 year old boy as a racist. Patrice agreed with Mystal’s objections to Sandmann wearing his “racist [MAGA] hat.” They also objected to Sandmann doing interviews trying to defend himself with Mystal deriding how this “17-year-old kid makes the George Zimmerman defense for why he was allowed to deny access to a person of color.” Putting aside the fact that Sandmann was not denying “access to a person of color,” Mystal and Patrice were comparing this high school student to a man who was accused of murdering an unarmed African American kid and even assailing his effort to clear his name as the media continued to label him a racist. Mystal continued to slam Sandmann in postings on “Above the Law.” In one such posting, Mystal derided Sandmann for filing for defamation. Various media outfits later apologized or settled with Sandmann for their false reporting.
What is most striking about these views is how disconnected they are to the actual election.
Instead a “blue wave” and the widely predicted Democratic takeover of both houses, Republicans picked up a sizable number of seats in the House where Democrats have been reduced to the thinnest margin since World War II. The Republicans may retain the Senate and won handily in many state races across the country. Roughly 74 million people voted for Trump. I was not one of them, but that is roughly half of this nation. Yet, these writers continue to write as if the nation is now unified in rejecting the policies and priorities of the Trump Administration. It is the distortive effect of existing entirely in siloed media spaces where an alternative reality can be maintained and fostered.
My greatest concern is how the media remain detached not only from roughly half of the country but from reality. It has decided that it will cater to literally one half of the country and foster openly biased narratives of what is still unfolding in this country. As I previously discussed, the loss is considerable since the public now has a deep and widening distrust for the media. The result is that our media is no longer viewed as a place for citizens to resolve questions over things like contested elections. There is only rage where reason once prevailed.
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Tesla Ordered By German Court To Stop Cutting Down A Forest To Make Space For Its German Gigafactory Tyler Durden Sat, 12/12/2020 - 08:45
Tesla, best known as the automaker that is supposedly saving the planet and/or mankind, depending on what type of Musk-cult-member you're talking to that day, has been officially ordered by a German court to stop cutting down trees on a site it is clearing for its first car plant in Germany.
Because, as we all know, you can't save the Earth without a little deforestation in the process.
The top administrative court in the Berlin-Brandenburg region issued a temporary ban to stop the cutting down of trees after two environmentalist groups appealed a lower court's decision to allow it, according to AP. We have been documenting the battle between these groups and Tesla for months.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously said of the forest: "This is not a natural forest — it was planted for use as cardboard & only a small part will be used for GF4."
The court has said that the ban would last until a decision is made on the appeal that has been filed by the groups. The groups have claimed that there are animals living in the forest that have not yet been safely resettled prior to Tesla's "clearing of trees" across 200 acres.
The groups are worried most about "sand lizards and smooth snakes", which are both protected species in Germany, they wrote in their appeal.
Meanwhile, Tesla has planned to open the factory next year at some point and the halt in land clearing could throw a wrench in the company's gears. With that being said, Tesla is no stranger to missing timelines (by a mile), so we're sure that even if the factory is delayed, no one will notice and the sell side will still find an excuse to upgrade the company's stock.
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NHS Commercial Terrifies Kids By Showing Santa Stricken With COVID Tyler Durden Sat, 12/12/2020 - 08:10
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
A television commercial for the NHS terrifies children by showing Santa Claus wheeled into hospital on the verge of dying from COVID.
Because frightening kids is definitely what the good guys do.
The advert “celebrates NHS staff and volunteers” by showing them nursing Father Christmas back to full health so he can deliver presents.
Entitled The Gift, the ad shows paramedics giving Santa oxygen as he looks to be at death’s door while being transported to a medical ward as one nurse asks, “Is he responding?”
The commercial then cuts to Santa waking up before he is slowly rehabilitated and subsequently receives a get well soon card from Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
After passing some children, Santa is then seen responding to letters from hopeful kids.
The commercial is backed by a soppy soundtrack throughout.
Respondents to the video didn’t find it heartwarming at all.
“Disgusting video and one any children should not be seeing. Totally politicising COVID with Santa. What were you thinking. Complained to Ofcom already,” said one.
“If anyone thinks that this ad is either clever or funny or poignant they are sadly deluded,” said another.
“Should have shown the reality: A nurse passing the infection to a patient, discharging a Covid POS patient to a care home,” commented another.
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George Soros Livid After Merkel 'Caves' To Hungary And Poland Tyler Durden Sat, 12/12/2020 - 07:35
George Soros is gunning for Angela Merkel, after the German chancellor "caved to Hungarian and Polish extortion." The two populist EU nations had been holding up a 1.8 trillion Euro ($2.2 trillion) budget and pandemic recovery fund over plans to link cash payouts 'to a country's respect for core European values.'
Budapest and Warsaw blocked the approval of a budget last month, accusing Brussels of "political blackmail" over the policy which would require that they adhere to the 'rule of law and democratic norms' - which include 'equal opportunities, combating discrimination, and the cohesion of society' across Europe.
Merkel, in response, struck a compromise - temporarily suspending the EU's mechanism to 'guarantee the rule of law' while Brussels goes back to the drawing board, while Poland and Hungary celebrate.
"We have a budget, together with the reconstruction fund, which means big funds for investment, big funds for supporting the development of Poland's economy, for new technologies, for many goals that need to be implemented, especially now that we want to quickly come out of the pandemic. That's important to us," said Poland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was similarly elated, saying "And we could say modestly, of course, that we saved the unity of the union. So don't forget that this dispute was not only about the rule of law, regulation, financial issues, it was about the future of European Union and the question of what is the power centre of the European Union, the European institutions like Parliament, Commission or the member states?"
"And today we delivered evidence that the European Union is nothing else, just the community and alliance of the nations and the states. And nobody can circumvent the intentions and the will of the elected governments of any nation neither the European Parliament nor the Commission, nobody, because [the] European Union is the unity of the nations."
And while European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the compromise "underlined indeed Europe's ability to come together and act" during the "worst crisis" the bloc has faced, Soros is pissed.
In a Thursday Op-Ed in Project Syndicate, Soros said Merkel's compromise "constitutes the worst of all possible worlds," and treats Hungary and Poland's challenge to EU values as a "legitimate political stance deserving of recognition" which will "only add – massively to the risks that the EU now faces."
Soros outlines three "fundamental flaws" in the deal. First, the compromise weakens the rule-of-law conditionality, altering "in substance and intent" the original agreement. Second, it defers the implementation of rule-of-law conditions until 2022, which would "be a true coup for Orbán, as it would delay any possible action until after the next scheduled Hungarian parliamentary elections." Third, Soros says the European Council is "acting beyond its authority" by constraining the European Commissions' ability to interpret and act on agreed EU legislation, according to a statement by Soros right-hand man Michael Vachon.
The Hungarian billionaire condedes that while the deal is "ugly and flouts the express wish of the European Parliament," that the European Parliament "may well approve it" due to the urgent need for COVID-19 relief funding.
Mr. Soros recognizes the “enormous pressures under which Chancellor Merkel has been laboring” and that “she does not want another country, Hungary, to announce its intention to the leave the EU on her watch”. However, the primary victims of the deal that Merkel has reportedly struck with Orbán will be the people of Hungary, Mr Soros argues. The reprieve gives Fidesz “more than a year” to change Hungarian laws and the constitution, and to continue to redefine “public funds” in Hungary in ways that enable him to “channel ill-gotten loot from public bodies into private foundations controlled by his cronies”.
Orbán was reportedly considering leaving the EU, writes Mr. Soros, because he “cannot afford to have the sheer scale of his regime’s corruption exposed”, which the EU’s “rule of law” conditionality on the disbursement of Union funds “would invariably have done”. According to Mr. Soros: “Orbán has stolen and misappropriated vast sums during his decade in power, including EU funds that should have gone to benefit the Hungarian people. He cannot afford to have a practical limit imposed on his personal and political corruption, because the illicit proceeds of are the grease that keeps the wheels of his regime running smoothly and his cronies in line”. -Michael Vachon
Meanwhile, EU law expert Alberty Alemanno tells Euronews that Merkel's compromise "killed a mechanism that is supposed to guarantee the rule of law" by turning it into an "instrument of last resort."
The 1.8 trillion package includes the EU's seven-year budget, worth just under 1.1 trillion Euros, as well as a 750 billion Euro COVID-19 recovery fund (aka Next Generation EU).
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