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[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

NATWEST has apologised after a customer was told ‘all vegans should be punched in the face’ before being turned down for a loan.

The woman called the high street bank to request money to pay for a £400 qualification in nutrition.

But the caller said the bank worker claimed vegan activists had drawn pictures of animals and written ‘friends not food’ in chalk on pavements near his home, before saying vegans should be punched — and then apparently rejecting the application.

NatWest apologises after customer told ‘all vegans should be punched in the face’

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

This is a whole LOT of WTF:

Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to 'clean out D.C.'

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Did he seriously say that former slaves "borrowed their former masters' robes and horses and rode through the night to frighten some evil doer"? Really? The bar for the stupidest thing I have ever heard is getting pretty high, but that's possibly a new record.

And a few years back, I did interviews in that area across the border in Mississippi with people connected to Freedom Summer and the Selma march. The Klan never stopped being active in that part of the South, ever.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

This is a whole LOT of WTF:

Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to 'clean out D.C.'

Gee, I wonder why he and those like him feel emboldened.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Did he seriously say that former slaves "borrowed their former masters' robes and horses and rode through the night to frighten some evil doer"? Really? The bar for the stupidest thing I have ever heard is getting pretty high, but that's possibly a new record.

Yeah it's supremely important to neo-Confederate historical revisionism to push this story about how blacks loved being slaves and had completely friendly, almost familial relationships with their former owners both while enslaved and after they were liberated.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Thing is, I did an internship at a Confederate museum (it was an accident). I have heard all the bullshit about body servants being essentially Confederate soldiers and the loyal slave mythology. I have heard pleanty of apologists for Nathan Bedford Forest and the early Klan. But I had never before heard the suggestion that African Americans had been night riders. Not even from people who think the War had nothing to do with slavery and that the Klan became too violent for the person who led the Fort Pillow massacre.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Yeah it's supremely important to neo-Confederate historical revisionism to push this story about how blacks loved being slaves and had completely friendly, almost familial relationships with their former owners both while enslaved and after they were liberated.

Yes, salve families were split apart and their children were torn from their arms and sold. Yeah, I'm sure they loved that . I agree with you, when I hear that kind of revisionist shit I want to punch them in the face (and sadly, in particularly North Florida, you hear it a lot).

Edited to say that actually reading the article made me want to lose my breakfast. That people still exist like him ....

 

[Free]

CNN Sarah Isgur Hire Is Symbol of Network's Emphasis on Conflict, Drama, Both Sides Over the Truth

Yes, the ex-communications principal for Donald Trump's former attorney general may show up on some of the hundreds of CNN Panels to come. But she won't just be a Rick Santorum-style "CNN contributor." CNN has hired her as a "political editor" who, according to Politico, "will coordinate political coverage for the 2020 campaign." That's right: a just-departed Trump administration communications operative will help coordinate a major news network's coverage of his re-election campaign—and those of his Democratic opponents.

And she has ZERO journalism experience. Well done, CNN!

 

[Free]

Christopher Hasson Hit List: Coast Guard LT Targeted Democrats, Media, Feds Say

A Coast Guard lieutenant who federal prosecutors have accused of being a “domestic terrorist” who wanted to carry out a “massive” attack had compiled a hit list of targets that included several top Democratic politicians and well-known members of the mainstream media. Christopher Hasson was arrested on February 15 on federal gun and drug charges. But prosecutors say that is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

Hasson, a 49-year-old resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, who has been based at the Coast Guard’s headquarters in Washington D.C. since 2016, was plotting to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” prosecutors said February 19 in a court filing asking a judge to keep Hasson behind bars. Hasson has not been charged with any terrorism-related offenses. He was arrested on a criminal complaint accusing him of possession of firearms and ammunition by an unlawful user or addict of controlled substances, and possession of tramadol, and remains in federal custody pending a February 20 detention hearing.

 

[Ellie]

Christopher Hasson Hit List: Coast Guard LT Targeted Democrats, Media, Feds Say

They used the "T" word and he's white? Color me shocked!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

possession of tramadol

WTF?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Does he have a permit?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

possession of tramadol

WTF?

According to the Washington Post, this is alleged to have been part of his preparations, along with stockpiling steroids, for emulating the Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer Anders Breivik

Heeding Breivik’s warning [in his "manifesto"] that conducting attacks would be physically grueling, Hasson stockpiled performance-enhancing drugs, as well as opioid pain medication. As far back as October 2016, the Maryland resident was acquiring Tramadol pills through overnight delivery “from an individual likely located in Mexico,” according to the court filing. He also appeared to have purchased synthetic urine to prepare for possible drug tests at work, prosecutors said.

It wasn’t clear whether authorities knew when he was planning to set out on his reported campaign of “focused violence,” or whether he even had a detailed plan.

The rule book he observed, however, recommended a six-week steroid cycle as part of preparations for an attack. At the beginning of this year, Hasson searched the word “steroids” in the 1,500-page manifesto, which brought him to a diary entry by the Norwegian terrorist in which he mused about the possibility of acquiring pills that would turn him into a “superhuman one-man-army for 2 hours.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/21/they-hate-white-males-norwegian-mass-murderer-inspired-coast-guard-officer-plotting-terror-feds-say/?utm_term=.9856b74f2104

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Does he have a permit?

In the video the father says, "Obviously, we are conservative and we have certain news stations on and he hears what we talk about at the table.... then later the mom says, "Somehow it has gotten skewed that we are teaching our son to hate..."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Volunteer volleyball coach accused of stealing underwear from female players

All I can say is... Eww!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Understandable mistake

 

[Ava Glasgow]

He Thought He Was a God Sent to Earth for Seduction

I think a lot of guys think that.

 

[danielravennest]

I think a lot of guys think that.

The common phrase is guys who think they are "God's gift to women". Not many think they are actually gods themselves.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]