Reading List

Send tips/stories to tips@lotuseaters.com

CNN: A kinder, gentler Taliban - CNN

State Department calls on the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative government.” - Twitter

The Taliban "want an Afghanistan that is inclusive for all" - Twitter - Sky News

Taliban to set up inclusive government - AFP News - Twitter

Chivalry, Taliban style - ITV

Taliban mock US

The image on the right is from the successful invasion by Americans of the Japanese island Iwo Jima on 23rf of February, 1945, at the summit of Mount Suribachi.

The Taliban satirise the event in Afghanistan. Joe Biden's humiliation is complete. pic.twitter.com/dzfwbeMS2v
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) August 22, 2021

Taliban knows Iranians better than themselves - Twitter

Taliban enforce anime

THE TALIBAN APPROVES OF ANIME pic.twitter.com/1lwKWFv7Q8
— Cute girls doing cute things (@loliKonvictw) August 20, 2021

Taliban imam flanked by gunmen in Kabul mosque appeals to Afghans to stay in country - ITV

Taliban black face

According to @AlinejadMasih, Taliban militants paraded a captured alleged thief in public and put him in black face for further humiliation. pic.twitter.com/Lzcv7ECRez
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 21, 2021

Taliban storm a TV station - Daily Mail

Stonings and worse - Daily Mail

Sky news admit Kubal migrant crisis is thanks to the west stupid migrant quota

"Thousands of Afghans who have no right to come here, but are coming anyway." https://t.co/Od1F4KglRn
— Secretary of Akkad (@AkkadSecretary) August 22, 2021

Causing people to die

Biden has managed to cause the exact same border crisis at both the U.S. southern border and at the perimeter of the international airport in Afghanistan, by saying virtually the same thing. https://t.co/WAodDf1zwr
— Mario Loyola (@Mario_A_Loyola) August 20, 2021

Ex CIA head compares Trump flag convoy to Taliban

Head of the CIA pic.twitter.com/Z6BLQlYJ8k
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 22, 2021

A person from Afghanistan on the UK’s no fly watchlist has been flown into Birmingham as part of the British evacuation operation in a potential security breach, Sky News can reveal.

Exclusive with me and @haynesdeborah

A person from Afghanistan on the UK’s no fly watchlist has been flown into Birmingham as part of the British evacuation operation in a potential security breach, Sky News can reveal.
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) August 23, 2021

Recall explained - AP News

Polling isn’t good for Newsom - Five Thirty Eight

Why is Newsome struggling? Gavin Newsom, unlikeable asshole - LA Times

CLIP NEWSOME Gavin Newsom, American Psycho - Cernovitch - Twitter

Democrat smear machine - PJ Media

Dems acting like a privileged aristocracy

Democrats aren’t worried about coronavirus pic.twitter.com/ZGHFpcxVFJ
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 22, 2021

How the republicans are doing - LA Times

The sage of south central - Larry Elder

Larry Elder, white supremacist

In today’s LA Times.
You’ve got to be real scared and desperate to play the race card against the brother from South Central. pic.twitter.com/pqZIujKxPD
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 20, 2021

Full article - LA Times - Archive

Communist scum

A columnist for the LA Times said “Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy”.

But the LA Times called murderous communist dictator Fidel Castro a “charismatic icon”. pic.twitter.com/jDCwutsjnm
— Senator Melissa Melendez (@senatormelendez) August 22, 2021

Ladies steal ballots

🚨 Valley Village, CA: 2 women caught on camera opening a mailbox and stealing stack of California Gov. recall election ballots.

(Video from Police Frequency Telegram channel)pic.twitter.com/C7HrgL6r70
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 19, 2021

Voting starts today

Voting has begun. If you’ve received your ballot in the mail, vote YES on Question 1 to #RecallGavinNewsom

Vote for me, Larry Elder, on Question 2, because #WeveGotAStateToSave!

Get info on voting: https://t.co/VRmCllMSHy pic.twitter.com/qRdFFz9v1O
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 24, 2021

"FBI finds scant evidence US Capitol attack was coordinated."

After @Reuters shameless biased reporting of the 6th Jan 2021 riots I checked out Associated Press' @ap report.

It's also blatantly anti-Trump whose name is mentioned 16 times in the report.

"FBI finds scant evidence US Capitol attack was coordinated."https://t.co/0548ihG34R pic.twitter.com/Ec46XeMYw4
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) August 21, 2021

Trump summoned supporters to "wild" protest, and told them to fight. They did - Reuters

1 winner and 5 losers from Trump’s second impeachment trial - Vox

WATCH: Trump using the word 'peacefully' not a defense for other incendiary speech, Democrats argue - Video (PBS NewsHour)

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources - Reuters

DeSantis top donor invests in COVID drug governor promotes - AP

UPDATE: the journalist spreading misinformation is changing the story but not the headline. He says his boss’s boss insisted the anti-DeSantis innuendo stays in the headline. He flat out refused to give me the name of that decision maker. In a NEWS ORGANIZATION. No accountability
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 18, 2021

"Hey @bsfarrington . Sad to see this cheap political innuendo from AP. Should be 'DeSantis & Biden Agree Monoclonals Save Lives.'"

By the way, what I do know about the supposed “boss’s boss” — who supposedly forced @bsfarrington to write this non-story that he knows full well is total BS — is that his first name is Robbie and he works at AP in Atlanta. Would love to chat with him!
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 18, 2021

I sent him the thread debunking the Regeneron conspiracy theory pic.twitter.com/NReM1op9VF
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 18, 2021

Who’s his boss’s boss?

Pretty sure it’s @ravinessman, though @bsfarrington refused to tell me that. Ravi, why do you force your journalists to politicize lifesaving COVID treatment? Farrington knows this story is nonsense. Yet he, you, and Ian are feeding the BlueAnon conspiracy fodder anyway. Shameful https://t.co/wM8dognYUR
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 18, 2021

Response

The @AssociatedPress is writing @GovRonDeSantis today re: his press secretary, @ChristinaPushaw, and her "direct effort to activate an online mob to attack" a @FLPressCorps reporter. "We call on you to eliminate this attack strategy from your press office," the AP's exec VP asks. pic.twitter.com/ghyK7Lwy2K
— Troy Kinsey (@TroyKinsey) August 20, 2021

DeSantis sends a letter to the AP

DeSantis sends a letter to the AP. It's pretty savage. Read it. pic.twitter.com/XZjLG7QzkZ
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 23, 2021

Was it worth it?

Hey @AP:

“Was it worth it?”

- @GovRonDeSantis pic.twitter.com/b8cG8GN4w7
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 23, 2021

"This is the very definition of bullying."

This is a man whose wife, @FLCaseyDeSantis, makes it the #1 priority of her public life to raise awareness re mental health.

Yet here is @GovRonDeSantis condoning the bullying & harassment of a reporter who has publicly struggled with mental health issues during the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/lIWaTfH0G5
— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) August 23, 2021

.@GovRonDeSantis @ChristinaPushaw @TarynFenske are certainly entitled to 'push back' on reporting, but once the reporter said he was receiving death threats, cooler heads should have prevailed.

Ron DeSantis should have set an example, not added fuel to the fire.
— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) August 23, 2021

.@GovRonDeSantis's Office & @ChristinaPushaw are highlighting many of the stories about them beating their chests.

I guess they raised hell.

But no previous Governor would have done this.

I imagine @JebBush would have invited all involved to the Governor's Mansion. #BeBest
— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) August 23, 2021

New office decoration

In other news, I have a new decoration for my office pic.twitter.com/bSYQb4TwA3
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 23, 2021

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #204

Listen to the Audio Version

Comments