Tag Archives: alt-right

The Los Angeles Times reports: David Duke worked the Louisiana gun show like a preacher pursuing souls, cornering potential voters as they picked over firearms and ammo. The robes are gone and the rhetoric is softer than during his grand wizard days. But Duke has not shed his relentless proselytizing for the white race, even though voters have repeatedly rejected …

Yesterday afternoon it was revealed that tens of thousands of alt-right Trump supporters had successfully freeped over 70 post-debate online polls with bots and other techniques. That news apparently prompted a warning to Fox News’ on-air personalities. Via Business Insider: A Fox News executive sent a memo Tuesday afternoon reminding television producers and the politics team that unscientific online polls …

The Daily Dot has the details on what you already suspected: You may be getting trolled right now without even knowing it. Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night. The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald …

Earlier this month Skittles Trump tweeted the above image. Via (of course) Breitbart: Pepe the Frog has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate Symbol Database, where it currently sits alongside symbols such as the Nazi swastika, burning crosses, and SS lightning bolts. “In recent years, with the growth of the ‘alt right’ segment of the white supremacist movement, a …

Teabagger US House Rep. Steve King, whose relentless loonery (see below) is just a half-step behind Louis Gohmert, began the day by mocking the health of Hillary Clinton, just as White Jesus would want. Also getting attention today is King wishing luck to Frauke Petry, the chairwoman for Germany’s far-right and virulently anti-LGBT Alternative für Deutschland party, which currently holds …

Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo has published a column for the relentlessly racist Breitbart, whose CEO recently boasted is the nation’s leading “platform for the alt-right.” Angelo writes: Theocracy is antithetical to American ideals. It was not coincidental that the founding fathers of our country had the foresight to delineate the separation of Church and State in our Constitution; …

The Twitterverse has reacted very negatively to a profile of homocon flamethrower Milo Yiannopoulos published today by Out Magazine. See some reactions below. Now added to the top of the article is this editor’s note: It should not need saying that the views expressed by the subject of this piece in no way represent the opinions of this magazine, but …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Donald Trump’s campaign is defending a tweet from the Republican candidate’s son, who offended many on Monday night by comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles. The comparison was rejected by Democrats and even the company that manufactures Skittles. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people,” said a statement from Wrigley Americas. “We don’t feel it’s an …

The BBC reports: David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, UK, woke up to find an image he had posted to Flickr in January 2010 had become embroiled in a political controversy. “This was not done with my permission, I don’t support his politics and I would never take his money to use it,” Mr Kittos told the BBC. “In 1974, when …

Politico reports: Donald Trump Jr. has no idea what Pepe the Frog is, the eldest son of the Republican presidential nominee remarked Friday, as he also defended himself after some accused him of referring to the Holocaust using the term “gas chamber” in a radio interview earlier this week. Rejecting that he was making a Holocaust reference, Trump Jr. faced …

Politico reports: Donald Trump passed up yet another opportunity to say he accepts the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, promising to make a “major statement” on Friday morning in front of his latest hotel project and telling CNBC’s Mario Bartiromo, “We have to keep the suspense going, OK? But he also blamed his opponent …

The Washington Post reports: In the interview, conducted late Wednesday aboard his private plane as it idled on the tarmac here, Trump suggested he is not eager to change his pitch or his positions even as he works to reach out to minority voters, many of whom are deeply offended by his long-refuted suggestion that Obama is not a U.S. …

And of course Gab’s logo is a highly-stylized version of Pepe, the neo-Nazi frog mascot. Wired reports: Gab is less than a month old, so it may well flame out like Peach or Ello. But for now, the platform looks like an artifact from a dystopian universe where the alt-right completely took over Twitter. Gab has over 42,000 people on …

Trump surrogate Roger Stone this afternoon tweeted out the above image with this message: “I am so proud to be one of the deplorables.” Depicted in Stone’s image (from the left) are Stone, Dr. Stabby, Chris Christie, Eric Trump, Mike Pence, Donald Trump, white supremacist “mascot” Pepe, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr., Alex Jones, and homocon racist Milo Yiannopoulous. Earlier …

Vox reports: Appearing on CNN, former anchor Soledad O’Brien appeared to criticize the network and other news outlets for normalizing white supremacy through their coverage of Donald Trump. “Listen, I’ve seen on air white supremacists being interviewed because they are Trump delegates,” O’Brien said. “And they do a five-minute segment — the first minute or so talking about what they …

The interview didn’t go as Breitbart expected and they are very upset about it. They write: ABC’s Terry Moran launched a full scale attack on Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos as part of a feature for ABC Nightline, calling Milo an “idiot,” “revolting” and comparing him to a “13-year-old” child. The piece centered around the topic of trolling, with ABC …

On Wednesday night the person running the Twitter account for Breitbart called me a “normie” and although I track right wing sites all day, that term was new to me. As it turns out, the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer has a lengthy post titled A Normie’s Guide To The Alt-Right. And there we find this definition: “Normie” is a term …

And Donald Trump is the best friend the gays ever had. Via Buzzfeed: Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said during a 2011 radio interview that progressives vilify prominent women in the conservative movement because they are not “a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools.” Citing women like Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin, Bannon …

Via Right Wing Watch: Yesterday, Louisiana-based white nationalist and U.S. Senate candidate David Duke reacted to the news of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming speech about Donald Trump’s ties to the alt-right, a racist movement championed by Duke, by noting that Trump speaks just like alt-right leaders. Duke said that Clinton “is really concerned and really scared because she realizes that there’s …

TMZ reports: The FBI is now on the hunt for the hackers who violated SNL’s Leslie Jones … TMZ has learned. Sources familiar with the situation tell us, the FBI is developing a strategy for tracking down the person or people who hacked into her iCloud and cell phone and posted nude photos and personal information on her website. It’s …