etuHad4 said:

Just normal behavior from liberals and DEMS.

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Burke Dennings said:

It’s really shaping up to look like he faked the whole thing.  I gotta say, if that’s the case, it’s pretty sickening.  He’s not only harmed the sociopolitical movement that he allegedly advocates, but he’s done severe damage to anyone who actually, honestly has suffered as a victim of a real hate crime.  These hoaxes just make everyone skeptical of everything they hear when someone claims to have been similarly victimized.  I have no idea why Smollett would think this was a good idea; my best guess is that he’s profoundly disturbed.  This is some serious mental illness shit.

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Burke Dennings said:

He’s not only harmed the sociopolitical movement that he allegedly advocates, but he’s done severe damage to anyone who actually, honestly has suffered as a victim of a real hate crime.  These hoaxes just make everyone skeptical of everything they hear when someone claims to have been similarly victimized.

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etuHad4 said:

Just normal behavior from liberals and DEMS.

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Viridis said:

I honestly hope he gets some jail time for this...
When you play stupid games you get stupid prizes.

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tyrannicalrex said:

The latest headline on MSN:
Testimony in Jussie Smollett case scrapped after "Hail Mary" phone call.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/testimony-in-jussie-smollett-case-scrapped-after-hail-mary-phone-call/ar-BBTQNmh?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

CBS News has learned that a last-minute phone call may have saved "Empire" star Jussie Smollett from potentially being indicted. Last month, the actor claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack as he walked home in the middle of the night. Two brothers have now told Chicago police Smollett paid them to stage the assault.

A source close to the investigation tells CBS News the brothers were set to appear in front of a grand jury Tuesday. But CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports those plans were abruptly scrapped after a "Hail Mary" call from Smollett's defense team.

CBS News has learned that Nigerian brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo were waiting outside the grand jury chambers, just minutes from testifying, when prosecutors got the call from Smollett's lawyers.

It's unclear what the defense said, but the Cook County state's attorney decided to postpone the brothers' testimony, which would have been the first step toward indicting the 36-year-old actor for filing a false police report.

Jussie Smollett attends the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 60th Anniversary Opening Night Gala Benefit at New York City Center on November 28, 2018 in New York City.
© Theo Wargo/Getty Images Jussie Smollett attends the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 60th Anniversary Opening Night Gala Benefit at New York City Center on November 28, 2018 in New York City.
Smollett has repeatedly denied staging the attack.

"I'm p---ed off. How do you not believe that?  It's the truth!" he said recently on "Good Morning America."

According to a source close to the investigation, after the brothers told police they conspired with Smollett, his lawyers told police he would not do a follow-up interview.

About a dozen search warrants have now been issued, including ones for Smollett's financial and phone records, and detectives are waiting for those records to come back.

The Osundairos told detectives they conspired with Smollett in the fake January 29 attack.

CBS Chicago reports the brothers now also claim Smollett was behind the threatening letter sent to him a week before the alleged assault.

On Tuesday, Smollett's brother and sister posted Instagram messages appearing to criticize media coverage of the case. "It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal," read a quote attributed to Malcolm X.

Two other siblings defended Smollett last week.

Jake Smollett said, "When one is affected, we are all affected. So it definitely was a time we came together. And we are a strong family."

Smollett has also denied involvement with the threatening letter.

On Tuesday, in response to reports his scenes in "Empire" were being cut, 20th Century Fox and Fox Entertainment said they were standing behind the actor.


Look at all those pretty people!Whether it's true or not it does raise some major issues. Maybe the brothers were paid to say it was staged, Who the fuck knows! It's all a bunch of hollywood distractions on what is really going on.

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CHeifM4sterDiezL said:

theres pedo rings all over the world yah. pizzagate is retarded.

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tyrannicalrex said:

"A source close to the investigation tells CBS News the brothers were set to appear in front of a grand jury Tuesday. But CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports those plans were abruptly scrapped after a "Hail Mary" call from Smollett's defense team.

CBS News has learned that Nigerian brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo were waiting outside the grand jury chambers, just minutes from testifying, when prosecutors got the call from Smollett's lawyers.

It's unclear what the defense said, but the Cook County state's attorney decided to postpone the brothers' testimony, which would have been the first step toward indicting the 36-year-old actor for filing a false police report."

What's all this then?

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Quote:

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has recused herself from the case, because she knows some of the potential witnesses.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/20/jussie-smollett-former-suspects-grand-jury-testimony-postponed/

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LogicaL Chaos said:

Its very strange. Its the first celebrity conspiracy that i am aware of: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25819090

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LogicaL Chaos said:

Maybe he was hired by someone, or threaten by someone to hoax this crime. Real interesting thou.....

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Seriously_trippin said:

When I first heard about this I immediately knew it was so stupid that I really didn't want to try nd learn anything bout it that's how big a Facepalm is.

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tyrannicalrex said:

I really don't care enough to read further than the front page of MSN when it pops up. Mildly interested at the most. It does raise other issues and crap surrounding celebrities and race etc...this is more interesting to me and more real than the hollywood pretty boys story.

Publisher Of An Alabama Newspaper Calls For The KKK To 'Clean Out' Washington

Once a celebrated investigative reporter, the publisher of a small Alabama newspaper achieved notoriety this week by saying the Ku Klux Klan should "clean out D.C."

Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, an old newspaper based in Linden, southwestern Alabama, told the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday that he had penned an incendiary editorial calling for white supremacists to "night ride again."

"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off," he said. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton added.

What The Ebbs And Flows Of The KKK Can Tell Us About White Supremacy Today
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According to the Advertiser, he said Klansmen "didn't kill but a few people." He added, "The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be."

He also compared the KKK, the oldest hate group in the United States, to the NAACP, a civil rights organization.

The editorial, published on Valentine's Day, did not appear online like the rest of the paper. But two students at Auburn University's school newspaper shared an image of the printed piece on Twitter, catapulting it into the digital sphere for scrutiny.

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Sutton wrote that "Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats" were hatching a plot to raise taxes in Alabama. "People who do not understand the constitution do not like to be responsible."

He said a "so what" attitude among Democrats led the Unites States into its biggest wars. "Seems like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there," he wrote.

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Sutton was born "only 100 feet or so" from where the Democrat-Reporter, bought by his father, delivered news to the community.

He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and was executive editor of the Student Printz, the school newspaper.

Sutton and his now-deceased wife, Jean, founded and owned numerous local newspapers, according to the university.

In the 1990s, "Ole Goodloe" exposed corruption in the Marengo County sheriff's department, receiving numerous awards for his investigative reporting, including a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine Award.

He told reporters that for the investigative work, he and his family faced the wrath of law enforcement — harassment, threats that drugs would be found in his home and rumors that he was an alcoholic with a philandering wife. "I was never scared, not one single minute, because I was doing the right thing," he told The Associated Press in 1998.

That tenacious reporting put him in the running for a Pulitzer Prize.

But over time, the newspaper began to disseminate content that was more discriminatory than investigative. Under an anonymous byline, a 2012 editorial read, "What will happen when the Ku Klux Klan is taken over by black people trying to run from the federal government?" A 2016 editorial called then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "a fat aft woman with a tubby tummy and jowls of a hog."

Neither Sutton nor the newspaper responded to calls and email requests for comment.

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The University of Southern Mississippi condemned Sutton's remarks in a statement, saying that his attempts to clarify the editorial "only reaffirm the misguided and dangerous nature of his comments." His place in the School of Communication's Hall of Fame have been removed, the school said.

Felicia Mason, executive director of the Alabama Press Association, told NPR in an email that the association's board of directors "voted today to censure Goodloe Sutton and suspend the association membership of The Democrat-Reporter."

"The members have a right under the bylaws to address the question of expulsion of the newspaper at our next membership meeting," she added.

Lawmakers have voiced their own condemnation of Sutton in the wake of his editorial and remarks.

"For the millions of people of color who have been terrorized by white supremacy, this kind of 'editorializing' about lynching is not a joke — it is a threat," said Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama's 7th Congressional District.

"What rock did this guy crawl out from under?" tweeted Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.). When he served as a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Jones tried and convicted two KKK members who were part of a 1963 church bombing that killed four girls.

He said the editorial is "absolutely disgusting" and called for Sutton's immediate resignation. "I have seen what happens when we stand by while people-especially those with influence- publish racist, hateful views," he said. "Words matter. Actions matter."

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"Mildly interested"

bodhisatta said:

immediately after stuff like this happens both sides try to pepper in their false narratives. The truth gets lost. What was first reported becomes "fact"

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tyrannicalrex said:

He is a little disrespectful privilaged prickface fucker though.

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What would that make the blacks and Native Americans that verbally assaulted the kids?  I get it though, smirking with a MEGA hat is the worse thing a person can do in 2019.

tyrannicalrex said:

He is a little disrespectful privilaged prickface fucker though.

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tyrannicalrex said:

He deserves a little respect for being in vietnam and being a native american maybe? I'm not here to argue semantics and peoples smartass shit, just point to it and make a point however silly or unimportant it may be to people. Like I said, all this shit is a distraction from real news or things going on. I just live and let live and have a good time.

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bodhisatta said:

Wasn't him being a nam vet a lie?

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To my comprehension, he was a veteran who served during the Vietnam period
which the media then conflated as him being a combat veteran who dragged his fellow soldiers to safety while suffering his own bullet wounds

It is a kind of interesting parallel with the thread topic
on one hand someone desperate for attention faked an attack to try and garner points with regards to perceived struggle for black and homosexual individuals
on the other hand, people still jerking off over the maga hats kid story are desperate for attention to try and garner points with regards to perceived struggle for straight cis white individuals

no matter what your identity is in this modern world, it's going to suck in some wing of it
and groups of people are going to be fucknuts because of it
but the people who act like society is holding them down and spend all their time complaining about the discrimination they go through
rather than just sucking it up and proving themselves to be the best instance of Identity-X they can be
are effectively holding the rest of us back with their bullshit back and forth arguments

for me, TERFs are among my main discriminators
and being that most of my interactions are in the sphere of a country where my healthcare in transitioning is covered
TERFs serve to be more of an objective threat to me than bigoted rednecks

but rather than throw constant tantrums about how radical feminists insist that transwomen are really just violent men trying to sneak into the female community
and how branches of modern feminism are causing more harm than good to vulnerable communities
it is more effective and appropriate for me to live my life just being myself and doing my best to be good to people
so they may have some experiential data to run counter to the TERF narrative

it can alleviate stress to talk about issues sometimes
but faking an attack to try and 'prove' discrimination
or vilifying a bunch of protestors and counter protestors for weeks after an encounter no one would care about if cameras had not been on
rapidly snowballs into idiocy

tyrannicalrex said:

Just the face he is making/expressing, and where he is privileged to go to school, and no telling what his parents taught him for him to act like that.

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tyrannicalrex said:

Just the face he is making/expressing, and where he is privileged to go to school, and no telling what his parents taught him for him to act like that.

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Quote:

Days after the Pittsburgh massacre, Trump supporters were blamed for Nazi vandalism at a Brooklyn synagogue & fires in a Jewish community. Turns out the perpetrator was a gay black man who had worked with city council on an initiative to fight hate crimes. https://t.co/6y8UvHVA90 ;   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2019


    In Nov 2016 a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana said two white racist Trump supporters brutally assaulted her, ripped off her hijab, & robbed her. The story went viral. It was a lie. Media never identified her by name after hoax was revealed. https://t.co/l3AcfROnMe ;   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2019

    In Dec 2016 a Muslim woman said she was attacked by 3 white Trump supporters in NYC on the subway. She said they tried to rip off her hijab. Yasmin Seweid lied. CAIR said Muslims are under tremendous “stress & pressure” resulting in incidents like this. https://t.co/gNRM58Qhai ;   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2019

    In Nov 2018 students at Goucher College demanded social justice training & safe spaces after racist, Nazi, & KKK graffiti was found on campus. Someone even wrote the names of black students. Trump was blamed. Fynn Arthur, a black student, was responsible. https://t.co/iErOd2M21e ; — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2019

    In Nov 2016 a Philadelphia neighborhood was rattled when property was vandalized with pro-Trump and anti-black messages. William Tucker was identified as the vandal through CCTV footage. https://t.co/g0fcGJFtJN pic.twitter.com/Rz4QTNp6K4    — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2019

    In Nov 2017 near @KState University, a black man's car was vandalized with racist messages. Class was cancelled & students held demonstrations. Dauntarius Williams later admitted to police that he did it himself. Police did not charge him. https://t.co/TJIh3JBrcj ;   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019

    .@UMich student Halley Bass told police a Trump supporter attacked her by scratching her face in Nov 2016. She said she was targeted for wearing a pin in support of UK Remain. As her story fell apart, she admitted to scratching herself. https://t.co/le9KEHF7s3 ;   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019

    2016: Muslim student at @UMich claimed she was attacked by a white man who threatened to burn her hijab. It never happened. CAIR said the attack is “just the latest anti-Muslim incident reported since the election of Donald Trump as president.” https://t.co/w57Xwsz0Tf #HateHoax    — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019

    On election night, Canadian Chris Ball said he was beaten by anti-gay Trump supporters in Santa Monica. His friend shared a photo on social media (notice the immaculate watch). Police said he never filed report & he didn't go to any hospitals in the area. https://t.co/Yud66ORMt4 pic.twitter.com/bTExPTHuFC    — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019

    Nov 2016: Students at @WilliamsCollege dumped fake blood on campus & wrote “AM KKK KILL." Campus police notified FBI & state police. Investigation found that perpetrators did it “to bring attention to the effects of the presidential election." https://t.co/n96EQ1VwnW #HateHoax  — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019

    Nov 2016 Chicago: Taylor Volk, a bisexual student at @NPU said she received hateful pro-Trump, anti-gay messages. "This is a countrywide epidemic all of a sudden,” she said at the time. The investigation found that she fabricated the story. https://t.co/EldYBPtfGH #HateHoax pic.twitter.com/h3o4YlMxov    — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2019



https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/18/hoax-hate-crimes-list/

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tomnl said:

tyrannicalrex said:

Just the face he is making/expressing, and where he is privileged to go to school, and no telling what his parents taught him for him to act like that.

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Yeah shame on him, a white kid, he can go to school, he smirks. He bad. Smirkkid baaaaaad

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