“READERS FORUM” MARCH 9, 2019

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14 COMMENTS

  1. Trump derangement syndrome = fake racist attacks and the deranged wacko left will try to defend it.
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    Jussie Smollett Indicted on 16 Felony Counts in Hate Hoax Attack

    Empire actor Jussie Smollett on Friday was indicted by a grand jury in Chicago on 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct in connection to filing a false report about an alleged hate crime against himself.

    The development comes after the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office approved a felony disorderly conduct charge against Smollett last month for allegedly filing a false police report on the January 29th incident. Smollett, who is African-American and gay, told police that he was assaulted while walking home from a downtown Chicago Subway sandwich shop. The actor claimed two masked individuals beat him, hurled racist and homophobic slurs, and doused him with an unknown chemical substance. Further, he alleged his assailants looped a thin rope around his neck and shouted “This is MAGA country” before fleeing the scene.

    According to a four-page court filing detailing the allegations against Smollett, prosecutors charge the actor hired brothers Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo to help carry out the attack, directing them to buy masks and a rope at a hardware store. The court documents said Smollet instructed Abel Osundairo to “not hurt him too badly and give him a chance to appear to fight back.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/03/08/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-in-hate-hoax-attack/

    • Joey, Joey, Joey, you right-wingers are all in a lather over this. But the sad and hilarious issue is that you are just proving why you are part of the problem

      I don’t regret believing Jussie Smollett and I won’t apologize, but I’ll admit if I was wrong. I will never regret believing Smollett, or any victim, and I have nothing to apologize for. I come from the school of always believing the victim, whether it be from sexual assault, violent hate crimes, hazing, or bullying, until proven that I shouldn’t. It’s the safest way to ensure we protect real victims

      The fact that Smollett faked the assault is despicable. But that doesn’t change the grim reality that real hate crimes are dramatically more common than hoaxes

      This means there’s a .001% chance that I might be wrong, but I will never let that outweigh the importance of supporting victims in their most vital time of need, especially victims who come from already marginalized groups like African Americans, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities

      The FBI and the Department of Justice released findings that show a 17% increase in hate crimes since Trump entered the race to become President. The data shows that the number of hate crimes had been dropping steadily since 2008 under President Obama, but made a sharp reversal upwards under Trump

      2015 – 5,850 hate crimes
      2016 – 6,121 hate crimes
      2017 – 7,175 hate crimes

      Data also shows there was an alarming 86% increase in anti-LGBTQ homicides from 2016-17

      52 people killed by anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in 2017
      71% were people of color
      52% were trans or gender nonconforming
      40% were trans women of color

      The above number of 52 does not even include the mass violence events like Pulse nightclub, and these numbers do not reflect the countless attacks that go unreported

      Trump and the right-wing live in glass houses and should be very careful to put on shoes before celebrating on top of so much broken glass and shards of hypocrisy. Trump MAGAt’s were giddy in their reaction to reports speculating about Jussie being a hoax. The GOP is making a grave error in treating this as validation that Trump supporters, not minorities, LGBTQ individuals, or other disadvantaged groups, are the people who are actually being persecuted

      The right-wing has always shown a dangerous tendency to doubt hate crimes and minimize their pervasiveness. Rather than try and find a solution to reduce and erase hate crimes, the GOP is always focusing the attention on the false cases instead of the ones that are real. Like the GOP obsession with fake rape allegations, the GOP obsession with fake hate crimes has the same result: discrediting the victims

      I was taught that if I was wrong I should admit it right away. I actually don’t find this difficult to do, but it’s not a common occurrence with Trump voters. While I will quickly admit if I misplaced my support, many of the Cheetolini backers still refuse to, despite mounds of evidence

      It’s simple statistics: The chance of a hate crime being real is exponentially higher (99.8% vs. 0.2%) than it being a hoax. But the right-wing, with their homophobia, racism, and bigotry, just continue to take their marching orders from Adolf Twittler as he perpetuates a dangerous worldview that the media is corrupt and the stories of racism and bigotry are better off not being believed

      Supporting Jussie and his initial story was because I stand in solidarity with the numerous victims of hate crimes and homicides (reported and unreported) around the world

      And I will not be shamed by the low-life hatred of you and those like you into turning my back on them

    • Gee, Joey, the right-wing is getting more ignorant by the second. After the resolution to say that only citizens can vote, maybe the right-wingers in Congress can waste more time by voting that water is wet, or the sun comes up in the East

    • Joey, the only brainwashed are the tens of thousands of right-wing MAGAt’s that are seeing their power disappear as kids are becoming involved in the political system.

      The days of the white supremacist GOP holding on to the reigns of power will be gone soon, and these fat cats will be replaced by the kids who have learned how American government works, and you and the rest of the Trumpsuckers will be thrown into the dustbin of history.

      LowBrowPolitics cannot handle that these young men and women are making a change and demanding that climate change is recognized as a global threat. The so-called “global elites” are terrified that their future in power will be gone real soon

      Frederick Douglass observed during the fight against slavery that “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”

      These young activists grasp what you and the rest of the old power structure apparently never learned and never will. The climate struggle is not about having the best science, the smartest arguments, or the most bipartisan talking points. It is about power, such as the decades of the punch-drunk influence of fossil-fuel industries that have corrupted governments and economies, and the willingness of fossil-fuels to use political money to enforce a business model guaranteed to fry the planet

      These young men and women have the moral urgency of youth and the self-preservation instinct of all living things, and these “Climate Kids” recognize that either the industry goes or they do. And they are not giving up without a fight

      So go ahead and bury your head in the sand, because that way when your butt sticks up in the air, these kids know where to plan their big left foot

        • Joey now gives us right-wing crackpot Tim Ball (who is clearly not on the ball)

          Ball claimed that he was the first person to receive a PhD in climatology in Canada, and that he had been a professor for 28 years. Yet professor of environmental science at the University of Lethbridge countered not only had Canada already had climatologist when Dr. Crackpot got his degree, that Ball had only been a professor for eight years rather than 28 as he had claimed

          The professor went on to state that Ball “did not show any evidence of research regarding climate and atmosphere, ignoring the fact Ball’s PhD thesis in 1983 was on climate and weather”

          So Dr. Crackpot sued and got whacked out of Court when the statement of defense was provided by the Calgary Herald which stated that Ball “never had a reputation in the scientific community as a noted climatologist and authority on global warming” and that he “is viewed as a paid promoter of the agenda of the oil and gas industry rather than as a practicing scientist”

          In Court Dr. Crackpot Ball acknowledged that he had only been a tenured professor for eight years, and that his doctorate was not in climatology but rather in the broader discipline of geography, and subsequently withdrew the lawsuit

          In another lawsuit a judge noted that Dr. Crackpot Ball’s words “lack a sufficient air of credibility to make them believable and therefore potentially defamatory” and concluded that the “article is poorly written and does not advance credible arguments in favour of Dr. Ball’s theory about the corruption of climate science. Simply put, a reasonably thoughtful and informed person who reads the article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr. Ball’s views”

          I wonder why Dr. Crackpot Ball defends climate change so much. Wonder if it is because he receives funding from the fossil fuel industry, especially through the organization Friends of Science, which Ball co-founded and whose scientific advisory board he sits upon since Friends of Science receiveds a third of its funding from the oil industry

          Where is Dr. Crackpot Ball’s evidence? He questions the mainstream science and data, but his own presentation of data is incredibly limited (which perhaps explains his paucity of recent peer-reviewed publications). A real skeptic makes his own case. Dr. Crackpot Ball never does

          Oh, Canada…

  2. Someday, the climate change leftists that claim your SUV and lawn mower are more responsible for weather than the sun, will be proven as wrong as the great global cooling scare of the 1970s.
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    Keep kids out of the climate debate – ‘School children are being needlessly frightened about the future’

    https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/03/07/keep-kids-out-of-the-climate-debate-school-children-are-being-needlessly-frightened-about-the-future/

    • Joey, Joey, Joey, using junk science by a right-winger with absolutely zero scientific backgrounds is pretty darn predictable

      ClimateDepot.com is the “work” of Marc Morano, a former Republican political aide who has a bachelor’s degree in political science and runs the website that disputes the scientific consensus on climate change

      He began his career working for Rush Limbaugh and then served as the director of communications for Senator Jim Inhofe, the village idiot in Congress who thought a snowball proved climate change was not real.

      Despite having ZERO formal education in the field of climate science, this right-wing brain surgeon founded and became “executive editor” of ClimateDepot.com, and was even given the dubious award of “Climate Change Misinformer of the Year”

      Gee, if you think a guy with a bachelors in political science know more about the science of climate change than the actual scientists, we guess you visit a plumber for your rectal exams?

      Yeah, a real genius you found in this loon

    • From the newscientist article you posted:

      “The calls for action to prevent further human-induced global warming, by contrast, are based on an enormous body of research by thousands of scientists over more than a century that has been subjected to intense – and sometimes ferocious – scrutiny. According to the latest IPCC report, it is more than 90% certain that the world is already warming as a result of human activity”

      Am I to understand that I’m only supposed to agree with parts of this article? Confused

    • You really are clueless and shameless in pushing your right-wing crap. Maybe if you actually read the articles you might learn something, especially since the last paragraph in this 12-year-old article states:

      Update: A survey of the scientific literature has found that between 1965 and 1979, 44 scientific papers predicted warming, 20 were neutral and just 7 predicted cooling. So while predictions of cooling got more media attention, THE MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS WERE PREDICTING WARMING EVEN THEN

      Laughable

    • You know I have always respected your opinions Joe even though you believe lard ass Trump and fat ass Limbaugh over NASA.

      And I realize you DO NOT sleep at night because of that Muslim Mexican throat cutting alien living under your bed.

      Now, since all of that is out of the way, this subject to me has to do with, “The Speed” of warming, not whether it is or isn’t.

      I’m a believer in our government servants Joe unless you have people like Mop Head, Shrub Jr., or Tricky Dick leading it. Then it goes Kaput!

      BUT, good news Joe, Trump doesn’t work at NASA. Not intelligent enough. Plus not honest enough.

      So close your eyes now Joe so you don’t have to put on a new Depends;
      https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/

      WALLA! Bull—-All gone.

      Thank God….

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