Posts Tagged ‘Nina Turner’

Introducing: Democratic Donuts!

By mike flugennockWednesday - June 13th, 2018Categories: Party Animals, elections, media

If you’ve been involved as long as I have with the Dirtbag Left — or, as us old folks call it, the Left — you’re intimately familiar with the infamous Donut Incident at the DNC Galactic HQ on Capitol Hill:

…The grievances converge around a recent trip to deliver petitions to the party’s headquarters in Washington, where Turner and other progressives were greeted by barricades, security guards, and an offering of donuts and water, which she saw as an empty gesture indicative of an institution that isn’t “smart enough, humble enough, to say, ‘let’s take a step back and really listen to the people’.”

– Nina Turner, quoted on BuzzFeed, 08.09.17

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The Democrats’ “Donut” Meme, Annotated

By mike flugennockSaturday - August 12th, 2017Categories: 2016 Election, Party Animals, Russiagate, elections, media

This cartoon was inspired by the latest in a series of lame, insipid Democratic Party memes in the tradition of “covfefe” and the immortal “Love Trumps Hate”.

This week, The Nation magazine published a bombshell article that basically blew the Democrats’ Russian Hacker conspiracy wankery clean out of the water. According to a team of IT experts and digital forensics specialists, there was no Russian hack at all, but a good old-fashioned home-grown leak, an inside job by somebody with a thumb drive or other portable media who simply copied the data in question and just walked out with it.

And if that wasn’t worthy of a “woo hoo” from those of us who aren’t cracked out of our minds, this curt, elegant editors’ note from The Nation made it even more delightful. I felt a disturbance in The Farce — as if a million Liberals cried out, and then were silent.

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