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Tiny Jag pulls out of AfroFuture Fest after learning white people would be charged a different price to attend
Jillian Graham, aka Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag, pulled out of a local music festival this week because she disagreed with its pay model, in which...
Can someone translate this for me?
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Tiny Jag pulls out of AfroFuture Fest after learning white people would be charged a different price to attend
Jillian Graham, aka Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag, pulled out of a local music festival this week because she disagreed with its pay model, in which...m.metrotimes.com
Can someone translate this for me?
detroit is a shithole city full of poor shithole people
some people organized an event locally to help revitalize the local economy
organizers want to virtue signal so they charge white people higher attendance price
some people don't like this illegal discrimination and pull out
openly hating white people is cool
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Tiny Jag pulls out of AfroFuture Fest after learning white people would be charged a different price to attend
Jillian Graham, aka Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag, pulled out of a local music festival this week because she disagreed with its pay model, in which...
Can someone translate this for me?
Oh this whole thing is amazing...
"From the wakanda that is Detroit"
And this whole paragraph is a trainwreck from their website (the misspellings are exactly as they're published):
WHY DO WE HAVE POC(PEOPLE OF COLOR) AND NONPOC(WHITE PEOPLE) TICKETS? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED!
EQUALITY MEANS TREATING EVERYONE THE SAME
EQUITY IS INSURING EVERYONE HAS WHAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
OUR TICKET STRUCTURE WAS BUILT TO INSURE THAT THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES (PEOPLE OF COLOR) ARE PROVIDED WITH AN EQUITABLE CHANCE AT ENJOYING EVENTS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY (BLACK DETROIT).
AFFORDING JOY AND PLEASURE IS UNFORTUNATELY STILL A PRIVILEGE IN OUR SOCIETY FOR POC AND WE BELIEVE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO RECEIVING SUCH.
WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY TIMES ORGASMIC EVENTS HAPPENING IN DETROIT AND OTHER POC POPULATED CITIES AND WHAT CONSISTENTLY HAPPENS IS PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITING MOST FROM AFFORDABLE TICKET PRICES BECAUSE OF THEIR PROXIMITY TO WEALTH.
THIS CYCLE DISPROPORTIONATELY DISPLACES BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING ENTERTAINMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES.
AS AN AFROFUTURIST YOUTH LEAD INITIATIVE THE VOICES OF OUR YOUTH INFORM OUR RESISTANCE.
HERE'S WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY
" IF YOU DON'T SEE MY BLACKNESS, YOU DON'T SEE ME. PERIODT!"
AfroFuture FEST
2PM-7PM AFROFUTURE YOUTH FEST; ACTIVATING THE LAND WITH EYES OPEN TO METAPHYSICAL TRAVEL. A HOME FOR ARTS, HEALING AND ADORNMENT ACTIVATIONS. FEATURING A DAY PARADE, DRUM CIRCLE AND BONFIRE TO AWAKEN SPACE WITH SPIRITS. IN CO-CREATION WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS YOUTH WILL START THE DAY BY RESTORING...
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Since I can no longer make threads I'm gonna post this here.
A Melania Trump tree statue gets mixed reviews in her Slovenian hometown
Melania Trump has made a surprise reappearance near her Slovenian hometown of Sevnica, emerging from a tree stump in the form of a rustic wood statue.
While the sleepy town of 5,000 has profited from its most famous daughter -- placing itself firmly on the tourist trail, selling a range of Melania-themedproducts including honey, chocolate and cake -- the US first lady's latest reincarnation has divided opinion.
US artist Brad Downey commissioned the life-size statue from local chainsaw sculptor Ales Zupevc, better known as Maxi, who was born in the same year and same hospital as the first lady, but whose life took a very different path.
The creation of the sculpture forms part of a documentary filmed by Downey, which was presented as part of his latest exhibition, "Slow Motion Disasters," at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery in Berlin. The documentary will also be shown at his exhibition in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
For the film, Downey spent several months filming interviews with Maxi around the town, creating an intimate impression of the first lady's roots in the alpine country, and the life of an individual still living there, he told CNN.
"I don't know her personally, but she's my age," Maxi says in the film. "We were both born in April. All the more reason to make the statue. Being born the same year, the same month. She might come and see the thing. She might like it."
Maxi acknowledges the sharp divergence of his and Melania's lives, despite the fact they came from the same humble roots. "Let's face it, she owns half of America while I have nothing," he says.
Nadia Pilchowski, a curator at the gallery, notes that the film offers a "personal portrait of Maxi and his thoughts about Slovenia, the USA, Europe, immigration and class division."
"Through these interviews the film attempts to capture the spirit of Slovenia, which seems to be mirrored in Maxi's interactions with his family, environment and his feelings about art, God, love and country," she writes in a foreword to the exhibition."By focusing on one working class man's portrayal of a public and internationally known personality, the film offers insights on local and global problems and policies illuminated by the USA and Europe and beyond."
The sculpture was carved on a plinth of a linden tree in a field on the outskirts of Rozno, a village about five miles from Sevnica.
The work does not attempt to create an exact likeness of the American first lady, but rather hints at her appearance.
She has been carved wearing a pale blue wraparound outfit, mirroring the one she wore to the inauguration of her husband, President Donald Trump, in 2017.
Downey told CNN that he was inspired to create the piece due to what he calls the "anti-immigration narrative" coming out of the US and from Donald Trump in particular. He noted that it was a "blatant contradiction" to have a president, who has made halting immigration a cornerstone of his presidency, married to an immigrant whose first language is not English.
He also claimed that the work is the first monument in the world dedicated to this first lady.
Despite Downey's political message behind the work, the sculpture has received mixed reviews from locals.
"If the monument was meant to be a parody, then the artist has been successful," one individual told Agence France-Presse. "We in Sevnica can only laugh and, at the same time, hold our heads in our hands over their (the Trumps') catastrophic reputation."
Another individual wrote on Instagram: "So sad that you killed a beautiful, healthy, carbon-sequestering tree for selfish and self-serving reasons."
The project has nevertheless received positive responses from fans. "Brad, I think this is my favorite project of yours," one individual wrote on Instagram.
I for one love the new statue. I'm wondering what those white drip stains going down her dress are...
A Melania Trump tree statue gets mixed reviews in her Slovenian hometown
Melania Trump has made a surprise reappearance near her Slovenian hometown of Sevnica, emerging from a tree stump in the form of a rustic wood statue.
While the sleepy town of 5,000 has profited from its most famous daughter -- placing itself firmly on the tourist trail, selling a range of Melania-themedproducts including honey, chocolate and cake -- the US first lady's latest reincarnation has divided opinion.
US artist Brad Downey commissioned the life-size statue from local chainsaw sculptor Ales Zupevc, better known as Maxi, who was born in the same year and same hospital as the first lady, but whose life took a very different path.
The creation of the sculpture forms part of a documentary filmed by Downey, which was presented as part of his latest exhibition, "Slow Motion Disasters," at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery in Berlin. The documentary will also be shown at his exhibition in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
For the film, Downey spent several months filming interviews with Maxi around the town, creating an intimate impression of the first lady's roots in the alpine country, and the life of an individual still living there, he told CNN.
"I don't know her personally, but she's my age," Maxi says in the film. "We were both born in April. All the more reason to make the statue. Being born the same year, the same month. She might come and see the thing. She might like it."
Maxi acknowledges the sharp divergence of his and Melania's lives, despite the fact they came from the same humble roots. "Let's face it, she owns half of America while I have nothing," he says.
Nadia Pilchowski, a curator at the gallery, notes that the film offers a "personal portrait of Maxi and his thoughts about Slovenia, the USA, Europe, immigration and class division."
"Through these interviews the film attempts to capture the spirit of Slovenia, which seems to be mirrored in Maxi's interactions with his family, environment and his feelings about art, God, love and country," she writes in a foreword to the exhibition."By focusing on one working class man's portrayal of a public and internationally known personality, the film offers insights on local and global problems and policies illuminated by the USA and Europe and beyond."
The sculpture was carved on a plinth of a linden tree in a field on the outskirts of Rozno, a village about five miles from Sevnica.
The work does not attempt to create an exact likeness of the American first lady, but rather hints at her appearance.
She has been carved wearing a pale blue wraparound outfit, mirroring the one she wore to the inauguration of her husband, President Donald Trump, in 2017.
Downey told CNN that he was inspired to create the piece due to what he calls the "anti-immigration narrative" coming out of the US and from Donald Trump in particular. He noted that it was a "blatant contradiction" to have a president, who has made halting immigration a cornerstone of his presidency, married to an immigrant whose first language is not English.
He also claimed that the work is the first monument in the world dedicated to this first lady.
Despite Downey's political message behind the work, the sculpture has received mixed reviews from locals.
"If the monument was meant to be a parody, then the artist has been successful," one individual told Agence France-Presse. "We in Sevnica can only laugh and, at the same time, hold our heads in our hands over their (the Trumps') catastrophic reputation."
Another individual wrote on Instagram: "So sad that you killed a beautiful, healthy, carbon-sequestering tree for selfish and self-serving reasons."
The project has nevertheless received positive responses from fans. "Brad, I think this is my favorite project of yours," one individual wrote on Instagram.
I for one love the new statue. I'm wondering what those white drip stains going down her dress are...
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Haha, he won't admit he was trying to make a virgin mary statue and fucked up? I wonder if he's related to the lady behind this masterpiece:
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That guy discovered then Lucy wasn't in the sky with diamonds.
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Timcast have more on the table.
And attacking with pencil one commenter posted a sarcastic comment.
LSD-fueled rampage in California leaves 8 injured after man stabs others with pencil, lawn light: police
A man in California was shot by police on the Fourth of July after a drug-fueled rampage left eight people injured and a vehicle lodged in a rental home.
Timcast have more on the table.
And attacking with pencil one commenter posted a sarcastic comment.
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Rampage with a garden light?
Obviously a copycat of the 2011 Hindi film Singham, where the protagonist goes nuts with a street lamp.
Obviously a copycat of the 2011 Hindi film Singham, where the protagonist goes nuts with a street lamp.
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Florida man found dead with 100 dog bites after he took a shortcut home
Could pitbulls be Florida Man's kryptonite?
Could pitbulls be Florida Man's kryptonite?
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Hah, I can see the resemblance.
Being familiar with Brad Downey and his work I'm inclined to think it was done as a snarky tribute to the administration.
Chainsaw sculpture has the capacity to be quite amazing.
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Teenager free climbs The Shard. Feels ‘godlike’ standing on top. The shard, for those non Brits, is an extremely tall, very smooth building in London.
I think I’d just feel the warm trickle of terrified urine down the leg, but all power to him, that’s an impressive feat.
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I think I’d just feel the warm trickle of terrified urine down the leg, but all power to him, that’s an impressive feat.
Daredevil is spotted scaling the 1,000ft-tall Shard
Police rushed to the 1,017ft skyscraper overlooking London Bridge at 5.15am with witnesses claiming he managed to get to the 95th and final floor unchallenged.
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Two GERMAN rape gangs strike:
In Mallorca (the spanish media calls them "la manada alemana" -> "the german pack")...
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...and in Germany. The 2nd gang consists of 5 boys aged 12(!)-14. The police suggest that they should skip school until summer vacations start. Truly a brutal punishment.
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/...setzen-ueber-tat-in-muelheim_id_10904416.html (sorry, couldn't find an english source)
In Mallorca (the spanish media calls them "la manada alemana" -> "the german pack")...
German holidaymakers are accused of raping an 18-year-old tourist
The three men were pictured arriving at court today after they were arrested on Thursday at Mallorca's Palma airport. They are accused of raping an 18-year-old German woman.
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/...setzen-ueber-tat-in-muelheim_id_10904416.html (sorry, couldn't find an english source)
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Two GERMAN rape gangs strike:
In Mallorca (the spanish media calls them "la manada alemana" -> "the german pack")...
...and in Germany. The 2nd gang consists of 5 boys aged 12(!)-14. The police suggest that they should skip school until summer vacations start. Truly a brutal punishment.German holidaymakers are accused of raping an 18-year-old tourist
The three men were pictured arriving at court today after they were arrested on Thursday at Mallorca's Palma airport. They are accused of raping an 18-year-old German woman.
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/...setzen-ueber-tat-in-muelheim_id_10904416.html (sorry, couldn't find an english source)
Their punishment should be a rape royale. Participant who commits the least rapes against each other in the allotted time frame is executed.
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Disneyland Fight Aggressors Facing Possible Criminal Charges After Video Goes Viral
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Interestingly, the chief of police says that Germany should consider lowering the age that they can prosecute juveniles. How often has something like this happened for someone to even suggest that?!...and in Germany. The 2nd gang consists of 5 boys aged 12(!)-14. The police suggest that they should skip school until summer vacations start. Truly a brutal punishment.
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/...setzen-ueber-tat-in-muelheim_id_10904416.html (sorry, couldn't find an english source)
Also the kids are apparently Bulgarian.
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A literal dindu nuffin
The kid was just standing there and some recently released ex con stabbed him in the back and slit his throat commando style
Then the faggot had the nerve to tell the police that he was defending his community
Not even himself
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Police say man cut Arizona teen's throat because rap music made him feel threatened
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(CNN) — Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old in the throat at an Arizona convenience store told them he felt threatened because the teen had been listening to rap music.
The incident occurred in Peoria, Arizona, near Phoenix, early Thursday.
Witnesses told police that the man, who's been identified as Michael Paul Adams, 27, walked up behind the teen, grabbed him and stabbed him in the neck, according to a probable cause statement obtained by CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.
Family members said the teen, Elijah Al-Amin, had gotten off of work about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and had spent some time with his girlfriend before stopping at the store.
Police said a witness was trying to help Al-Amin by applying pressure to his neck when they arrived at 1:42 a.m. Police and fire personnel provided medical care and he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:05 a.m.
The witnesses told police that Al-Amin hadn't done or said anything to provoke the attack. One said Adams didn't say anything to the teen before stabbing him.
Police stopped Adams as he walked away from the store. He had blood on his left forearm, hand and foot, and officers found a pocket knife on him. He was taken into custody without incident.
Adams had been released from prison July 2, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Adams told a detective that he stabbed Al-Amin in the back and cut his throat, according to the statement.
He said Al-Amin didn't do anything threatening but that the youth had been listening to rap music in his car in the parking lot, according to the statement.
"Adams stated rap music makes him feel unsafe, because in the past he has been attacked by people (Blacks, Hispanics, and Native American) who listen to rap music. Adams further stated, people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community," the report said.
He told police that he felt threatened by the music, not by Al-Amin. Adams is white, and Al-Amin was black, white and Latino.
"Adams felt he needed to be 'Proactive rather than reactive' and protect himself and the community from the victim," the documents said.
Adams has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and is being held at the Maricopa County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Jacie Cotterell, who represented Adams at an initial court appearance but is no longer his attorney, said Adams has a history of mental illness, according to KPHO/KTVK.
The Department of Corrections said Adams wasn't designated as seriously mentally ill.
No public defender has been appointed.
'He loved music and working'
Al-Amin's mother told CNN she didn't understand how anyone could think he was a threat.
"My son is so special and so loved and everyone loved him," Serina Rides said. "He's so compassionate and caring, so caring about everyone."
She said he was going to be a senior in high school and was turning 18 on July 28.
He worked at Subway and Taco Bell and was hoping to get a third job.
"My son didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, party. He loved music and working. He was focused on his goals," she said.
"He started mowing lawns at 13 and saving money because he wanted to own his own business very young," she said. "He recruited other kids to work for him in the lawn business, and he was so good. I was so proud of him."
Rides was getting ready for her son's funeral on Monday.
"My son's not aggressive. My son's never been in any gang in any affiliation with anything," she said. "He's a good boy. He's a good baby. He's my baby, and I have to bury him. I'm on my way to bury him right now."
The kid was just standing there and some recently released ex con stabbed him in the back and slit his throat commando style
Then the faggot had the nerve to tell the police that he was defending his community
Not even himself
Police say man cut Arizona teen's throat because rap music made him feel threatened
Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old in the throat at an Arizona convenience store told them he felt threatened because the teen had been listening to rap music.
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Police say man cut Arizona teen's throat because rap music made him feel threatened
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(CNN) — Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old in the throat at an Arizona convenience store told them he felt threatened because the teen had been listening to rap music.
The incident occurred in Peoria, Arizona, near Phoenix, early Thursday.
Witnesses told police that the man, who's been identified as Michael Paul Adams, 27, walked up behind the teen, grabbed him and stabbed him in the neck, according to a probable cause statement obtained by CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.
Family members said the teen, Elijah Al-Amin, had gotten off of work about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and had spent some time with his girlfriend before stopping at the store.
Police said a witness was trying to help Al-Amin by applying pressure to his neck when they arrived at 1:42 a.m. Police and fire personnel provided medical care and he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:05 a.m.
The witnesses told police that Al-Amin hadn't done or said anything to provoke the attack. One said Adams didn't say anything to the teen before stabbing him.
Police stopped Adams as he walked away from the store. He had blood on his left forearm, hand and foot, and officers found a pocket knife on him. He was taken into custody without incident.
Adams had been released from prison July 2, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Adams told a detective that he stabbed Al-Amin in the back and cut his throat, according to the statement.
He said Al-Amin didn't do anything threatening but that the youth had been listening to rap music in his car in the parking lot, according to the statement.
"Adams stated rap music makes him feel unsafe, because in the past he has been attacked by people (Blacks, Hispanics, and Native American) who listen to rap music. Adams further stated, people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community," the report said.
He told police that he felt threatened by the music, not by Al-Amin. Adams is white, and Al-Amin was black, white and Latino.
"Adams felt he needed to be 'Proactive rather than reactive' and protect himself and the community from the victim," the documents said.
Adams has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and is being held at the Maricopa County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Jacie Cotterell, who represented Adams at an initial court appearance but is no longer his attorney, said Adams has a history of mental illness, according to KPHO/KTVK.
The Department of Corrections said Adams wasn't designated as seriously mentally ill.
No public defender has been appointed.
'He loved music and working'
Al-Amin's mother told CNN she didn't understand how anyone could think he was a threat.
"My son is so special and so loved and everyone loved him," Serina Rides said. "He's so compassionate and caring, so caring about everyone."
She said he was going to be a senior in high school and was turning 18 on July 28.
He worked at Subway and Taco Bell and was hoping to get a third job.
"My son didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, party. He loved music and working. He was focused on his goals," she said.
"He started mowing lawns at 13 and saving money because he wanted to own his own business very young," she said. "He recruited other kids to work for him in the lawn business, and he was so good. I was so proud of him."
Rides was getting ready for her son's funeral on Monday.
"My son's not aggressive. My son's never been in any gang in any affiliation with anything," she said. "He's a good boy. He's a good baby. He's my baby, and I have to bury him. I'm on my way to bury him right now."
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Donald Trump is liteRALLY ALEISTER CROWLEY
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This was one of the most hilarious things I've read in a long time.
The startling parallels between Donald Trump and occultist Aleister Crowley
The US president has been able to shape reality to his will until now. But the rule of law is starting to prove stronger than his magic act.
US president Donald Trump is more magician than politician. Reality is whatever he says it is. He casts a spell on supporters with exclamations and incantations, outrageous and outraged tweets and speeches, flights of fancy rather than fact. Trump isn’t hemmed in by pesky old-times notions, like rules. He does and says what he wants when he wants, acknowledging only what suits him.
In this sense, the US president resembles the early 20th century occultist Aleister Crowley, whose entire philosophy is summed up in this single commandment, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” The scandalous British “magick” practitioner was once considered “the wickedest man in the world.” He believed life’s primary principle is the pursuit of personal will, unconstrained by law, or conventional ethics, just like Trump.
On Aug. 21, it appeared that US law might prove stronger than Trump’s will, however, as his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, became convicted criminals, casting a pall on the presidency. Cohen, duringhis guilty plea to tax evasion and fraud, testified that the president directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women in order to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. And Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis suggested in a statement issued afterward that this made Trump a criminal too, asking, “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”
Usually vociferous and opinionated on Twitter, the president was strangely quiet about Cohen and kept his distance from Manafort, who was convicted of eight counts of criminal fraud and may face decades in prison. Trump attended a rally in Charleston, West Virginia, making just one comment about his former campaign manager ahead of the event. “I feel badly for Paul Manafort, I must tell you, he was a great man, he was with Ronald Reagan and many people over the years, and I feel very sad about that. It doesn’t involve me, but I still feel it is a very sad thing that happened,” Trump said. “This has nothing to do with Russian collusion,” he added, stating that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and associates’ Russian connections was a “witch hunt.”
The wording is poignant, given Trump’s own proclivity for sorcery. Whatever spell he long ago cast on his favorite media outlet, Fox News, must still be working, as reporters there either ignored or dismissed what was widely characterized elsewhere as the worst day of the Trump presidency (paywall). Fox spent most of the afternoon on another breaking story (paywall). It was not quite of the same national import but more along the lines of what Trump likes: the tale of an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, charged with killing 20-year-old student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa.
This morning (Aug. 22) Trump was back in fighting form. He pointed out on Twitter that 10 of 18 counts against Manafort weren’t agreed upon by jurors. He also repeated the witch hunt refrain because saying a thing often enough just might make it so.
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Additionally, he opined about Cohen’s counsel. Despite having retained him often enough, Trump advised others not to do so if in search of a good attorney.
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Trump likely hopes that if he keeps saying the word “hoax,” he can transform Mueller into a toad and make his investigation disappear. Until now, the president has had good reason to believe that if he just keeps on insulting, ignoring, and dismissing critics, things will go his way.
In this sense too, Trump resembles Crowley. Because his journey of “spiritual enlightenment” showed him he was “beyond the Gods,” Crowley relished the criticism that lent him his notoriety. He even encouraged it by referring to himself as “The Great Beast 666.” In 1923, at Crowley’s Sicilian compound—where he led followers of his religion premised on personal will “The Law of Thelema”—an Englishman died in a mysterious ritual involving cat blood. Crowley was expelled from Italy and castigated in the British press. Yet he persisted, continuing to write books, perform bizarre rituals, and attract followers.
The magician wrote a book of poems described by one contemporary critic as “the most disgusting piece of erotica in the English language.” It didn’t stop the writer from continuing to publish and even create his own religion. It certainly didn’t halt his erotic explorations. Like Trump, who has been widely accused of sexual misconduct, Crowley was unconstrained by conventional notions of relating, breaking societal taboos.
The one big difference between Crowley and Trump, however, is that one was an occultist and the other is responsible for a country. It will take some very powerful magic indeed for the commander-in-chief to retain his spell on the people if the rule of law keeps proving to be as strong as it showed itself yesterday.
In this sense, the US president resembles the early 20th century occultist Aleister Crowley, whose entire philosophy is summed up in this single commandment, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” The scandalous British “magick” practitioner was once considered “the wickedest man in the world.” He believed life’s primary principle is the pursuit of personal will, unconstrained by law, or conventional ethics, just like Trump.
On Aug. 21, it appeared that US law might prove stronger than Trump’s will, however, as his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, became convicted criminals, casting a pall on the presidency. Cohen, duringhis guilty plea to tax evasion and fraud, testified that the president directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women in order to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. And Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis suggested in a statement issued afterward that this made Trump a criminal too, asking, “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”
Usually vociferous and opinionated on Twitter, the president was strangely quiet about Cohen and kept his distance from Manafort, who was convicted of eight counts of criminal fraud and may face decades in prison. Trump attended a rally in Charleston, West Virginia, making just one comment about his former campaign manager ahead of the event. “I feel badly for Paul Manafort, I must tell you, he was a great man, he was with Ronald Reagan and many people over the years, and I feel very sad about that. It doesn’t involve me, but I still feel it is a very sad thing that happened,” Trump said. “This has nothing to do with Russian collusion,” he added, stating that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and associates’ Russian connections was a “witch hunt.”
The wording is poignant, given Trump’s own proclivity for sorcery. Whatever spell he long ago cast on his favorite media outlet, Fox News, must still be working, as reporters there either ignored or dismissed what was widely characterized elsewhere as the worst day of the Trump presidency (paywall). Fox spent most of the afternoon on another breaking story (paywall). It was not quite of the same national import but more along the lines of what Trump likes: the tale of an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, charged with killing 20-year-old student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa.
This morning (Aug. 22) Trump was back in fighting form. He pointed out on Twitter that 10 of 18 counts against Manafort weren’t agreed upon by jurors. He also repeated the witch hunt refrain because saying a thing often enough just might make it so.
Donald J. Trump
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A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!
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Additionally, he opined about Cohen’s counsel. Despite having retained him often enough, Trump advised others not to do so if in search of a good attorney.
Donald J. Trump
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If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!
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Trump likely hopes that if he keeps saying the word “hoax,” he can transform Mueller into a toad and make his investigation disappear. Until now, the president has had good reason to believe that if he just keeps on insulting, ignoring, and dismissing critics, things will go his way.
In this sense too, Trump resembles Crowley. Because his journey of “spiritual enlightenment” showed him he was “beyond the Gods,” Crowley relished the criticism that lent him his notoriety. He even encouraged it by referring to himself as “The Great Beast 666.” In 1923, at Crowley’s Sicilian compound—where he led followers of his religion premised on personal will “The Law of Thelema”—an Englishman died in a mysterious ritual involving cat blood. Crowley was expelled from Italy and castigated in the British press. Yet he persisted, continuing to write books, perform bizarre rituals, and attract followers.
The magician wrote a book of poems described by one contemporary critic as “the most disgusting piece of erotica in the English language.” It didn’t stop the writer from continuing to publish and even create his own religion. It certainly didn’t halt his erotic explorations. Like Trump, who has been widely accused of sexual misconduct, Crowley was unconstrained by conventional notions of relating, breaking societal taboos.
The one big difference between Crowley and Trump, however, is that one was an occultist and the other is responsible for a country. It will take some very powerful magic indeed for the commander-in-chief to retain his spell on the people if the rule of law keeps proving to be as strong as it showed itself yesterday.
This was one of the most hilarious things I've read in a long time.
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The startling parallels between Donald Trump and occultist Aleister Crowley
The US president has been able to shape reality to his will until now. But the rule of law is starting to prove stronger than his magic act.
US president Donald Trump is more magician than politician. Reality is whatever he says it is. He casts a spell on supporters with exclamations and incantations, outrageous and outraged tweets and speeches, flights of fancy rather than fact. Trump isn’t hemmed in by pesky old-times notions, like rules. He does and says what he wants when he wants, acknowledging only what suits him.
In this sense, the US president resembles the early 20th century occultist Aleister Crowley, whose entire philosophy is summed up in this single commandment, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” The scandalous British “magick” practitioner was once considered “the wickedest man in the world.” He believed life’s primary principle is the pursuit of personal will, unconstrained by law, or conventional ethics, just like Trump.
On Aug. 21, it appeared that US law might prove stronger than Trump’s will, however, as his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, became convicted criminals, casting a pall on the presidency. Cohen, duringhis guilty plea to tax evasion and fraud, testified that the president directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women in order to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. And Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis suggested in a statement issued afterward that this made Trump a criminal too, asking, “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”
Usually vociferous and opinionated on Twitter, the president was strangely quiet about Cohen and kept his distance from Manafort, who was convicted of eight counts of criminal fraud and may face decades in prison. Trump attended a rally in Charleston, West Virginia, making just one comment about his former campaign manager ahead of the event. “I feel badly for Paul Manafort, I must tell you, he was a great man, he was with Ronald Reagan and many people over the years, and I feel very sad about that. It doesn’t involve me, but I still feel it is a very sad thing that happened,” Trump said. “This has nothing to do with Russian collusion,” he added, stating that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and associates’ Russian connections was a “witch hunt.”
The wording is poignant, given Trump’s own proclivity for sorcery. Whatever spell he long ago cast on his favorite media outlet, Fox News, must still be working, as reporters there either ignored or dismissed what was widely characterized elsewhere as the worst day of the Trump presidency (paywall). Fox spent most of the afternoon on another breaking story (paywall). It was not quite of the same national import but more along the lines of what Trump likes: the tale of an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, charged with killing 20-year-old student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa.
This morning (Aug. 22) Trump was back in fighting form. He pointed out on Twitter that 10 of 18 counts against Manafort weren’t agreed upon by jurors. He also repeated the witch hunt refrain because saying a thing often enough just might make it so.
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Additionally, he opined about Cohen’s counsel. Despite having retained him often enough, Trump advised others not to do so if in search of a good attorney.
104K people are talking about this
Trump likely hopes that if he keeps saying the word “hoax,” he can transform Mueller into a toad and make his investigation disappear. Until now, the president has had good reason to believe that if he just keeps on insulting, ignoring, and dismissing critics, things will go his way.
In this sense too, Trump resembles Crowley. Because his journey of “spiritual enlightenment” showed him he was “beyond the Gods,” Crowley relished the criticism that lent him his notoriety. He even encouraged it by referring to himself as “The Great Beast 666.” In 1923, at Crowley’s Sicilian compound—where he led followers of his religion premised on personal will “The Law of Thelema”—an Englishman died in a mysterious ritual involving cat blood. Crowley was expelled from Italy and castigated in the British press. Yet he persisted, continuing to write books, perform bizarre rituals, and attract followers.
The magician wrote a book of poems described by one contemporary critic as “the most disgusting piece of erotica in the English language.” It didn’t stop the writer from continuing to publish and even create his own religion. It certainly didn’t halt his erotic explorations. Like Trump, who has been widely accused of sexual misconduct, Crowley was unconstrained by conventional notions of relating, breaking societal taboos.
The one big difference between Crowley and Trump, however, is that one was an occultist and the other is responsible for a country. It will take some very powerful magic indeed for the commander-in-chief to retain his spell on the people if the rule of law keeps proving to be as strong as it showed itself yesterday.
This was one of the most hilarious things I've read in a long time.
It reminds me of the videos who mentionned then Trump was time traveller John Titor.