http://m.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/08/sarah-palin-interview-donald-trump
OMG, I predict this is going to be comedy gold.
OMG, I predict this is going to be comedy gold.
One America News? With an animated blowing flag in the background? Are we sure this isn't a fake news segment from some social commentary movie?Could we be seeing the beginnings of a Trump/Palin ticket? *shudder*
Sarah Palin and Donald Trump showered one another with compliments Friday night during . . . interview . . .
What...an odd mascot.Heh - the strangest things... my mother is a graduate of David Henry Hickman High School right there in Columbia. Go Kewpies!!
I dunno, it's just our former queen's birthday...Hey guys, it's the most important day in Belgium!
use our victim status from 14 years ago to do whatever we want to the world
I am fortunate to have not lost anyone directly (though it was fucking close, my friend stayed home from work that day because she felt sick, JFC), but from my perspective as a NYCer then and almost everyone I have talked to since, none taken whatsoever. Most of us were pretty fucking pissed that our tragedy got used as as tool to push us into a completely unrelated war while also making it somehow acceptable to replace our national character with pants-shitting terror thinly veiled by a veneer of bellicose militant grandstanding.No disrespect intended towards anyone who suffered or was affected by WTC attacks. The suffering of the people involved was real and trauma and pain can and do linger decades afterwards. I'm not minimizing their suffering or the size of the attack. I'm only mocking America's we're-the-one-huzzah-oh-my-god-someone-attacked-us-this-can't-be-rhetoric connected to this one attack on American soil. More presumed innocent civilians have died each month over the last years to terrorist attacks in Iraq than have been killed in the WTC.
May want to stay off tumblr too, lest you are besieged by ZOMG THIS IS WHY YOU'RE ALL FUCKING RACIST posts.In related news: I should not have started my day by visiting Facebook.
There have been a lot fewer airplanes hijacked since then.Is it bad form to admit that things did in fact change on that day?
The perspective I'm largely fond of is the one Garth Ennis put in The Boys (the whole series, really, but quoting #35 and #36 here).I will spend a good chunk of my day teaching 9/11 to my students, none of whom were alive before 2001. It's tricky, because many of them come in with a simple "terrorists are evil, we fight wars to stop evil" mindset. I have to find the right balance of teaching that this is the anniversary of a great tragedy, terrorists ARE evil, but that things are not so black and white when it comes to war, motivations, and international relations. It's hard. I'm trying to teach without preach, and I definitely want them to make up their own minds... But sometimes they have dumb ideas that need to be squashed.
The very fact that the iPhone (among scores of other things) exists is proof that in spite of all the rhetoric, we are very much NOT at war. Where is the sacrifice? Where is the reallocation of resources and manpower to prosecute said nonexistent war? We still make consumer goods out the wazoo and encourage the public to "go shopping" in the same breath that tells us we are "at war."I will spend a good chunk of my day teaching 9/11 to my students, none of whom were alive before 2001. It's tricky, because many of them come in with a simple "terrorists are evil, we fight wars to stop evil" mindset. I have to find the right balance of teaching that this is the anniversary of a great tragedy, terrorists ARE evil, but that things are not so black and white when it comes to war, motivations, and international relations. It's hard. I'm trying to teach without preach, and I definitely want them to make up their own minds... But sometimes they have dumb ideas that need to be squashed.
The poor guys have been at war so long, they have not heard about Amazon.
True. Now they just go missing on their own.There have been a lot fewer airplanes hijacked since then.
True. Now they just go missing on their own.
--Patrick
This this this this fucking this.I am fortunate to have not lost anyone directly (though it was fucking close, my friend stayed home from work that day because she felt sick, JFC), but from my perspective as a NYCer then and almost everyone I have talked to since, none taken whatsoever. Most of us were pretty fucking pissed that our tragedy got used as as tool to push us into a completely unrelated war while also making it somehow acceptable to replace our national character with pants-shitting terror thinly veiled by a veneer of bellicose militant grandstanding.
I still can't comprehend that functioning people were born after 9/11. I was only 9 when it happened, but its still something I will never forget. The concept of it being something you just hear about in history is bizzare. I suppose thats probably what people think about the fall of the berlin wall, the jfk assasination, pearl harbor, etc.I will spend a good chunk of my day teaching 9/11 to my students, none of whom were alive before 2001. It's tricky, because many of them come in with a simple "terrorists are evil, we fight wars to stop evil" mindset. I have to find the right balance of teaching that this is the anniversary of a great tragedy, terrorists ARE evil, but that things are not so black and white when it comes to war, motivations, and international relations. It's hard. I'm trying to teach without preach, and I definitely want them to make up their own minds... But sometimes they have dumb ideas that need to be squashed.
Is this fake? Because the title and content read like an Onion article and it's hilarious.
Sadly no. It's just a horrible horrible rag of a newspaper/magazine.Is this fake? Because the title and content read like an Onion article and it's hilarious.