White Supremacist Group Says Alleged Florida Shooter Had Ties, Trump Urges Safer Schools, Court Rules Against Travel Ban: P.M. Links
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Xinhua/Sipa USA/Newscom A white supremacist group says that alleged school shooter Nikolas Cruz is a member of their organization and attended paramilitary training with them in Tallahassee, Florida. Here's what else is known about Cruz so far. A judge at his bail hearing today ordered him held without bond.
- President Donald Trump spoke on the shooting this morning, encouraging children to seek help from adults if they are confused or scared. He said he was going to discuss policies to keep schools safer with governors and attorneys general, so maybe expect some more security theater.
- Another federal appeals court has ruled against Trump's latest travel ban executive order targeting Muslim countries. The decision does not really mean that much as the Supreme Court has already agreed to weigh in on the issue.
- A Grand Rapids, Mich., school was evacuated when officials mistook a student's World War 1 project for Molotov cocktail bottles.
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Trump "feels strongly" that there should be a federal sales tax on internet purchases. This feud with Jeff Bezos and Amazon is getting out of hand.
- A United Nations report indicates that Afghan civilians are increasingly targeted for attacks by terrorists.
- A transgender woman in New York was successfully able to lactate and breast-feed a baby for six weeks.
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A white supremacist group says that alleged school shooter Nikolas Cruz is a member of their organization...
Probably a tea partier too?
So he WAS a White Hispanic.
I could be wrong, but I do think that was his adopted name.
*** rising intonation ***
What about the "de Jesus"?
Teen Mom 3? What about her?
"...Answer hate with love. Answer cruelty with kindness," he said.
From the linked article, from The Donald...
Oh, the same kind of love and kindness that The Donald has been showing to illegal humans?!?!?
"When humans are outlawed, only outlaws will be humans", is what I would like to see on my tombstone... If I thought that anyone would actually pay heed, that is...
(Otherwise, I think I will leave my inheritance to, ???, add some more iron oxides to the Deep Blue Sea, or other worthy endeavor that might actually MATTER, I think).
"Fine people" to Trump.
Hello.
"A United Nations report indicates that Afghan civilians are increasingly targeted for attacks by terrorists."
This has to be fake news. I mean, Afghan is a bastion of peace and stability, no?
Whatever else we do, obviously we need to start policing what people say and think, especially if they express their views online.
That isn't where we're headed, folks. That's where we are.
The white supeemacists have backed away from this as have the FIB
President Donald Trump spoke on the shooting this morning, encouraging children to seek help from adults if they are confused or scared.
In the Trump era, there are no adults left.
I guess Cruz is another one of those Florida White Hispanics. Man, I hate those guys.
I thought he was a registered Democrat.
They both can claim him! It's a tie!
ISIS hasn't claimed him yet?
I was just informed my quip is incorrect. My own private fake news!
Gosh, if you weren't a foreign national I could even report you to the Ministry of Truth!
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Trump "feels strongly" that there should be a federal sales tax on internet purchases.
Trump really wants the GOP to lose the midterms.
Billionaires wouldn't pay much of this federal sales tax, so it's an acceptable way for the GOP to raise taxes.
A Grand Rapids, Mich., school was evacuated when officials mistook a student's World War 1 project for Molotov cocktail bottles.
They were handed gas masks on the way out of the building and instructed to take cover in trenches.
A transgender woman in New York was successfully able to lactate and breast-feed a baby for six weeks.
Better than feeding the kid GMO formula or milk from antibioticized cattle!
Manly milk is the best type of milk.
"I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?"
Up there with the best quotes ever.
Apparently, the answer now is "yes". Given 3 years of hormone treatments.
Did anybody call CPS?
Time to impeach.
A transgender woman in New York was successfully able to lactate and breast-feed a baby for six weeks.
You know, I could never tell whether the gender after the word transgender is the birth gender or the identified gender. From context clues here, I'm going to say it must be the identified gender or it wouldn't be much of a story. Also, HOAX!
I could never tell whether the gender after the word transgender is the birth gender or the identified gender.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
I think it's identified gender. Though men can lactate so it's not that crazy
Exactly. It'll be a story when a man gives birth.
After she stopped, did she keep the boobs, I think is what we all want to know.
http://pjmedia.com/video/shary.....narrative/
Sharyl Attkisson gives a great despription of how the media operates and how the term "fake news' came into being.
But she noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media. That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the about the first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."
"On September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," Attkisson explained. "The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today's version of the alien baby story to a special internet oblivion."
She noted that a month later, then-President Obama chimed in.
He insisted in a speech that he too thought somebody needed to step in and curate information of this wild, wild West media environment," she said, pointing out that "nobody in the public had been clamoring for any such thing."
Yet suddenly the subject of fake news was dominating headlines all over America as if the media had received "its marching orders," she recounted. "Fake news, they insisted, was an imminent threat to American democracy."
Attkisson, who has studied the manipulative moneyed interests behind the media industry, said that "few themes arise in our environment organically." She noted that she always found it helpful to "follow the money."
"What if the whole anti-fake news campaign was an effort on somebody's part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?" Attkisson posited.
I recommend her book Stonewalled.
Attkisson, who has studied the manipulative moneyed interests behind the media industry, said that "few themes arise in our environment organically."
When I was a kid I sort of half-believed that there was a secret base somewhere in the desert where people came up with jokes and then distributed them to specially selected kids at schools across the country. I mean, how else could a "meme" (I didn't call it that at the time) spread if not through central planning?
Then I grew up, learned about emergent phenomena, read Hayek, and came to not only learn about, but love the beauty of decentralized order.
Of course there *could* be these manipulative moneyed interests operating behind the scenes, and maybe in this specific case there was (but I'm skeptical), but the assertion that "few themes arise in our environment organically" is just ludicrous.
I think it is more that the media is very adept and willing to repeat talking points. So you just get the right people to all say the same talking points and the rest fall in line. That is what the Journolist was. And you can see it all the time. There will be some talking point and about a dozen different journalists will repeat it in unison.
"What if the whole anti-fake news campaign was an effort on somebody's part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?" Attkisson posited.
*Puts on tinfoil hat*
The first modern record of the term "fake news" was a Nov 21st 2016 NYT article on pizzagate.
Actually, I don't' think that is correct, google lied to me again. When was the first time it was mentioned?
Glad you asked!
Although, that article comes from HuffPo, so make itself be fake news.
Also see:
It wasn't started by politics. Like most everything else on the internets, it was the lure of sweet, sweet money from credulous readers diverted to advertisements and spam sites.
Additionally, police on scene are applauding the student who followed the guidelines of, "if you see something, say something."
Are we turning into East Germany or something?
It's for your own good, Genosse. Why do you hate the Kinder?
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Trump "feels strongly" that there should be a federal sales tax on internet purchases.
In other Mnuchin news: Mnuchin calls on Congress to look into gun violence issue
"I urge Congress to look at these issues."
Maybe a federal sales tax on ammo purchases? I know -- Stop giving them ideas!
"I urge Congress to look at these issues."
Yes, that's the problem. They just haven't looked at the issue yet.
The decision does not really mean that much as the Supreme Court has already agreed to weigh in on the issue.
Thunder stealers.
He said he was going to discuss policies to keep schools safer with governors and attorneys general, so maybe expect some more security theater.
He's going to promise the walls built around the schools will be paid for by the shooters.
...and attended paramilitary training with them in Tallahassee, Florida.
I have a feeling this term is being applied very loosely.
They went to the local laser tag.
Yes. But then again he did manage to kill 17 people without himself being killed.
So... chalk one up for YouTube videos?
How difficult is that in a gun free zone?
A loner. Troubled. Depressed.
Round up all the troubled, depressed loners! We've got to do *something*, and we haven't tried *that* yet!
Is The Cure still touring? You could start there.
You just described everyone here.
My super model girl friend is in Paris doing a photo shoot, I told you that.
troubled, depressed loners should wear yellow stars
He wore a MAGA hat, too, which we need to start monitoring.
How are we supposed to have a civil society when people are going around putting pictures of themselves wearing MAGA hats online?
Those people wearing MAGA hats are literally committing genocide. That girl in the California-Riverside video said so. Literally genocide.
Dear Media
When your "source" is 'the ADL searching 4chan'...
...and their method of confirming "shit they read on 4chan" is "phoning up someone that 4chan provided a # for?"
You should be skeptical.
Because as soon as you all start repeating the shit like its news? that's when 4chan reminds you ITS FUCKING 4CHAN YOU IDIOTS
The same 'source' is now LOLing all over 4chan about how this is the best media-own since the "OK sign" was being reported as secret White Power hand signal.
I wonder if they were bummed out when they learned his name wasn't redneck.
The same 'source' is now LOLing all over 4chan about how this is the best media-own since the "OK sign" was being reported as secret White Power hand signal.
On the one hand, I wanna say, "Wow, epic troll!" on the other hand, I wanna say, "Fucking sensationalist news media, how can you possibly be so Charlie Brown consistent in your retardedness?"
There are literally zero standards for reporting things anymore.
They are so used to simply taking each other's word for shit that no one bothered to ask, "Is there really no source of information on this that doesn't originate DIRECTLY FROM 4CHAN?"
And is the fact that the ADL was the 'journalist' originating the story not something to give you pause?
Fuck you, media. You're whores and you think that some post-facto, 'sadly, with big stories there is a rush to fill demand for information'-handwaving is supposed to protect your credibility.
my personal favorite line today comes from The Week:
Of course, the writer of this article and its readers are a standard-deviation too fucking stupid to contemplate that maybe, just maybe.... some of those trolls, troll AS white supremacists.
its like they don't even understand their own statements.
"Here is a breaking piece of news which a partisan organization gleaned from a source that is totally and utterly unreliable and has a long track record of cooking up hoaxes"
The Popehat "Rule of Goats" applies.
What is the Dopehat Rule of Goats?
The polite version is that if you kiss goats, even if you're only kissing goats ironically, then you're a goat-kisser.
The issue here isn't the vileness of real or faked white-supremacists. They can be equally vile and it has nothing to do with the problem.
The problem is the idiots reprinting a story which THEY KNOW is sourced by nothing except
1) a partisan organization whose entire reason-for-being relies on "hate crimes"
2) who knowingly went into a hive of lies and pulled out some very sketchy unverified information
3) which no other organization can independently confirm (or is even trying)
perhaps #4 is, "and which authorities specifically say they can't confirm at all"
yes stormy, 4channers are *bad people*.
but that has nothing to do with the retarded culpability of the media.
So what? Calm down.
The Popehat "Rule of Goats" applies.
Layers deep as a matter of fact. 4chan rather freely admits they fuck goats on purpose. The ADL and others keep wading in their for some mysterious reason and wonder why they wind up looking like stupid goat fuckers.
wonder why they wind up looking like stupid goat fuckers
Or, at least, they and their peers wonder why they won't be taken seriously when juxtaposed against Trump.
I wonder if they'll ever be cognizant of the fact that living out a real life 'our pooled resource is stupidity' demotivational poster really works against the narrative of him as a hyperbolic caricature or moron and very much normalizes him.
On the one hand, I wanna say, "Wow, epic troll!"
Except that once this sort of thing gets reported, it never really gets unreported. So now you'll have a bunch of people who *know* that this guy was a white supremacist Trump supporter, which only makes it harder for those of us legitimately interested in defending first and second amendment rights. So who's really getting trolled here? Probably just about everybody.
Are you going to blame 4chan for other people's stupidity? Might as well shut down the whole internet.
No. Just saying that taking advantage of other people's stupidity sometimes comes back to bite other people in the ass.
People need to realize that one should never go /pol/. It's more of a garbage pit then the actual board /trash/.
If it wasn't all true, they wouldn't have put the story online.
It reads like a laundry list of SJW fears. Somehow, he's everything the SJWs want him to be.
The boogie man is real!
I realize this is just the PM links, but Reason also posted it as if it were true. Can we expect a correction, Scott?
He was an illegal alien
BUT WAT BOUT STORYMY DANIELS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
They call it Stormy Monday. Thursday's not the same.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Trump "feels strongly" that there should be a federal sales tax on internet purchases.
I hate this enough in Canada. In fact, that's partially why I sometimes opt to buy online from America when I can.
Another federal appeals court has ruled against Trump's latest travel ban executive order targeting Muslim countries.
I thought the PC term was "majority-Muslim".
And the Supreme Court will overrule it again. But appeals courts ignoring the law and the lawful actions of lawfully elected officials because they don't like it is totally okay. That rule of law thing is just so 20th Century and racist.
I thought the PC term was "majority-Muslim".
The open borders zealots seem to prefer 'distinctly-not-illegal people' or 'immigrant race'.
Just more of the federal government exercising its property rights over the border, as it is within its authority to do.
As a libertarian, I am happy to see someone finally ban friendship. The first step required for individualism.
In the one article linked, they've tied him to the ant-fa hater movement, the MRAs, the militia movement, and tied him to Donald Trump by way of his MAGA hat.
Is there any question but that we should have voted for Hillary anymore?
It would be awful enough if it were any one of those things, but when you stack all those associations up like that, you realize that they must all be true. Why'd they let the necrophiliacs off the hook?
If the anti-fa haters, the racist militias, the MRAs, and the Trump voters are all responsible for this shooting, how can it be acceptable to be anything but an antifa, LGBT, immigrant, Hillary voter anymore?
"how can it be acceptable to be anything but an antifa, LGBT, immigrant, Hillary voter anymore?"
Guess I better hide.
Update: "Local law enforcement has so far not found a connection between Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz & a Tallahassee-based paramilitary group. Leon County Sheriff's Office Lt. Jordan said investigative work Thursday did not yield any connections."
Local law enforcement: No ties between militia and school shooter
But lets run with the shit that was sourced to 4chan in the meantime. Fuck actual investigations.
Also, out-and-out men have historically and medically known to lactate since well before WWII but... NYT!!! Transgender!!!!
Fantastic threading fail.
It doesn't matter if it is true. They didn't print the story because it was true. They printed the story to get it out there and give various internet trolls talking points and to get their brain dead followers to believe it. The fact that it is not true and they will later give a quiet correction won't matter. It will be out there and people will believe it. Give it a year and it will be accepted fact. Get enough trolls to say the same talking points enough, and it will become something "everyone knows is true" and that questioning makes you a wingnut.
Well, we know who is going to win a "Fake News" award next year.
They put it out there for clicks. Agenda or not, they need revenue, and outrageous stories bring readers.
Ew.
Uh. So much for claiming tax cuts are the sine qua non for a growing economy.
Welcome to Trumpsilvannia.
""A United Nations report indicates that Afghan civilians are increasingly targeted for attacks by terrorists.""
Thank god for the UN.
I'd have never realized that just from the 17 years of nonstop reports of Afghan civilians being killed in terror attacks. This sounds like it might be a real problem now. Someone should consider doing something about that.
I'd have never realized that just from the 17 years of nonstop reports of Afghan civilians being killed in terror attacks.
Because, until Bush II, Afghanistan was the place you went to get away from terrorists?
Congress should look into it.
"Increasingly"-- implying a rate. I would hope the UN and other NGOs would be doing this work. Why is this important again?
Apparently this asshole was openly making violent threats well over a year ago and someone was concerned enough to report it to the FBI, and of course they completely ignored it. Why?
Oh yeah, that's right, I can't believe I almost forgot! They were too busy illegally spying on the Trump campaign on behalf of Hildog and Block Yomomma-Nixon.
Priorities!
Bitch, please.
God, I remember when this site was filled with outrage about the latest micro aggression Obama made towards entitled old White men and how you would bitch for days when Obama said something like bridges weren't made by rich people.
Now that you have a bonafide fascist idiot in office you guys can't stop bitching about the kids in college these days instead of the real enemy in DC. What a shame. How pathetic you've become.
Hear hear!
That's nice.
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/b.....ewer-says/
Reviewer says Black Panther is THE RACIST!! Jesus, you can't win with these assholes can you?
It's right behind the Ghostbusters remake on my must-see movies list.
Holy Shit how do these people's heads not split themselves open?
It was a total word salad.
Sure, I see it, something akin to Tubby's "Fellas" club.
Except that isolationism is not exclusive of the alt-right --see the Hermit Kingdom, a.k.a. North Korea.
The alt-right may be many things... Ok I can't finish that sentence. Few can define the alt-right specifically. But to say that Wakanda is like the alt-right's paradise is a stretch, especially when the p...y-grabbing and Racial Expert-in-chief would likely call it a "shithole".
Gee, that sounds familiar. I wonder where they got that idea?
Who is Black Panther?
Hahah I see what you did there.
The 'source' also takes umbrage at the suggestion he might be a 'fake' white nationalist (that should please you, stormy), and blames the confusion on (((jew media reporters))) asking questions which he was too sleepy to fully comprehend. Also, there are a few "nicks" in his cabal of a dozen loser nazi LARPers, so 'hey, honest mistake here yo'.
Again the fucking insane thing here is that anyone, anywhere, decided to take this "source" seriously for one fucking second without attempting to corroborate his claims.
Never settle for imitations! Only original trade-mark white supremacists should be considered!
the funny part is that he's getting this shit from other *real* white nationalists who are all like
"Fuck these kids, they're just a bunch of 4channers who bullshit the media. we're the real Nazis!"
the real-white-nationalists are probably more reliable sources than the one the media decided to run with.
You should see this new outfit called PropOrNot that got picked up by our nation's top news outlets.
right. this isn't the first time they've gone full retard.
yet they'll show charts revealing; "Media trust is collapsing" and go, DAMN YOU TRUMP!! THIS IS ALL YOUR DOING
Lol!
Maybe you're the one who's insane for thinking the ADL, the AP, Reason, the rest of the media and 100ks of thousands of twitter wouldn't take it seriously. Even if they know better they can't help but serve up some big juicy , wish-fulfilling,narrative confirming fake news.
The ADL is a hate group that was founded on a Big Lie. They're worse than the SPLC.
A white supremacist group says that alleged school shooter Nikolas Cruz is a member of their organization and attended paramilitary training with them in Tallahassee, Florida
What does this say about our White Supremacists when they'll let in someone named Cruz?
That's like a Nazi named Shapiro.
Illegal alien Cruz
Media:
"we are just souls whose intentions are good. We cannot be expected to actually 'vet' or 'validate' our sources? That requires work. and sadly, work is hard."
*and lest people misunderstand me
this shooter kid may very well turn out to be some 'right-wing, race-hating shitbird'
(who shot up a bunch of white people because he couldn't get laid/was crazy/etc)
he may well be. other people are actually doing reporting which may paint that picture.
the point is that 'actual, credible reporting' is the stuff you're supposed to print.
and media shouldn't be grasping at every single 'unconfirmed' detail, particularly ones sourced to shitholes like 4chan and sources like SPLC/ADL which obviously have an agenda they want to push.
Wasn't this supposed to be a temporary travel ban while we improved security? 90 days? It has been a year?
Patience is a virtue
That temporary ban is over.
Ban travel from Florida. I like the idea.