Fucking Olivia Nuzzi. Nothing was ever as key to understanding this human solid waste than that identical comment made by Ms. Nuzzi, oh God, a year and a half ago.
First, they speak for themselves. Then Learned Commentary.
Larry Laughlin
HAM LAKE, Minn. — One morning last week, Larry Laughlin, a retired business owner, opened his shiny black Dell laptop and scrolled through Facebook.
Most of the posts were ordinary news stories from conservative sites: Donald J. Trump’s deal with the Carrier company. The political tussle over the recount. But a few items were his guilty pleasures.
“I like this guy,” said Mr. Laughlin, looking at a post by the conservative commentator and author Mark Dice.
Mr. Dice has promoted conspiracy theories that the Jade Helm military training exercise last year was preparation for martial law and that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job.” But Mr. Laughlin likes him for what he said was his humorous political commentary and his sarcastic man-on-the-street interviews.
“I just like the satisfaction,” said Mr. Laughlin, who started his own business and lives in an affluent Twin Cities suburb. “It’s like a hockey game. Everyone’s got their goons. Their goons are pushing our guys around, and it’s great to see our goons push back.”
“Fake news is subjective,” Mr. Laughlin said. “It depends on who’s defining it. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
He feels alienated from the conventional news media for some of the same reasons. “It’s like an inside joke for people on the left, and we are the butt of the joke,” he said of one left-leaning website. “At some point, we stopped listening.”
First, they speak for themselves. Then Learned Commentary.
Larry Laughlin
HAM LAKE, Minn. — One morning last week, Larry Laughlin, a retired business owner, opened his shiny black Dell laptop and scrolled through Facebook.
Most of the posts were ordinary news stories from conservative sites: Donald J. Trump’s deal with the Carrier company. The political tussle over the recount. But a few items were his guilty pleasures.
“I like this guy,” said Mr. Laughlin, looking at a post by the conservative commentator and author Mark Dice.
Mr. Dice has promoted conspiracy theories that the Jade Helm military training exercise last year was preparation for martial law and that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job.” But Mr. Laughlin likes him for what he said was his humorous political commentary and his sarcastic man-on-the-street interviews.
“I just like the satisfaction,” said Mr. Laughlin, who started his own business and lives in an affluent Twin Cities suburb. “It’s like a hockey game. Everyone’s got their goons. Their goons are pushing our guys around, and it’s great to see our goons push back.”
“Fake news is subjective,” Mr. Laughlin said. “It depends on who’s defining it. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
For Mr. Laughlin, conservative sites are a balm for the soul in a liberal world whose narrative of America, he says, seems to diminish him and all that he has accomplished. He was his own legal guardian at 16, after his mother fled his alcoholic father. He built his metal finishing business from scratch after earning an associate degree from a community college. The company he owned employs about 17 people. He and his wife adopted three mixed-race children.
“My struggles in life are just dismissed,” he said, recalling being lectured by one of his children’s liberal friends at a party in his large home. “‘You have a nice house and got it made because you are a white guy.’ There are all of these preconceived notions that I’m a racist, idiot, a bigot, and oh, uneducated.”
“This is like our sweet release after the election,” Mr. Laughlin said.
He said he cringed when he heard about the incident in the pizza restaurant. “It adds to the stereotype that we’re all nutters,” he said. “We’ll all get lumped together with this guy.”
Okay, now learned commentary. The first thing is the isolation of that photograph. There he is, behind glass in his affluent home staring out at an unfriendly liberal world, "alienated." More on that in Larry Laughlin Part II immediately below. The second, related thing, which is repeated in Ann Marie Cosgrove's story at bottom is that because of "an alcoholic father," he was on his own from age 16.
Third, Goons R Us. Whatever man, you're a goon.
But Laughlin doesn't like to get "lumped together" with Trump "nutters," (because he knows he SHOULD be lumped with all Trump losers, see below.) as my own brother the racist did not! Refused to display any indicia of being a Trump supporter, no t-shirts, no bumper stickers. Was offended upon telling a neighbor that he planned on voting for Trump that she replied "I thought as much" and then walked off! The nerve of her! Ho-ho-ho.
But Laughlin doesn't like to get "lumped together" with Trump "nutters," (because he knows he SHOULD be lumped with all Trump losers, see below.) as my own brother the racist did not! Refused to display any indicia of being a Trump supporter, no t-shirts, no bumper stickers. Was offended upon telling a neighbor that he planned on voting for Trump that she replied "I thought as much" and then walked off! The nerve of her! Ho-ho-ho.
The Times, on a Liz Spayd mandate to TALK TO NORMAL TRUMP SUPPORTERS (sic) went back to Mr. Laughlin just today.
Larry Laughlin, a retired businessman from a Minneapolis suburb, compares Mr. Trump to a high school senior who could “walk up to the table with the jocks and the cheerleaders and put them in their place.” That is something that the “nerds and the losers, whose dads are unemployed and moms are working in the cafeteria,” could never do. Mr. Trump may be rich, he said, but actually belonged at the nerd table.
“The guys who wouldn’t like me wouldn’t like Trump. The guys who were condescending to him were condescending to me.
“I feel like I’m watching my uncle up there. Where me and Chuck Schumer — that’s like going to the dentist."
The isolation thing, back. Maybe in that December photo Larry was looking besieged because he had an appointment with Dr. Chuck Schumer, DMD and didn't want to go? (Why Chuck Schumer? This guy's from Minnesota. Whatever.)
And this is a lifelong isolation! I had to read that first paragraph a couple of times before understanding that Mr. Laughlin lumped himself with the "nerds and the losers, whose dads were unemployed and moms are working in the cafeteria." NOT at the table with the "jocks and cheerleaders," the "winners," the popular kids, in school. Laughlin is, from memory, 46 years old, so that telling anecdote dates back 28-30 years. Laughlin has had a lump in his chest and a chip on his shoulder ever since. Trump made Larry feel like a winner in life--for the first time in his life--and he revels in it, as do those on the header at a March4Trump this year taunting the "losers" who opposed Trump.
Gregory Kline, 46, a lawyer in Severna Park, Md., who is a Republican, said he did not vote for Mr. Trump but understands that part of the president’s support comes from fury at the left, particularly the media.
“It’s not that people are deaf and dumb and don’t see it,” he said of Mr. Trump’s sometimes erratic behavior. “It’s that they don’t care."
..
Ann Marie Cosgrove
The rest of that sign says "I Regret." "I Regret My Abortion." I regret her mother's lack of abortion.
Ann Marie Cosgrove, a 59-year-old educator and lifelong northeast Minneapolis resident, is tired of the near-constant protests directed at President Donald Trump. So on Saturday, she joined about 400 people who packed the Minnesota State Capitol rotunda to voice their support for the new president.
"I want to support him and show Minnesota that he has support here," Cosgrove said. "We're traditionally a blue state, but it's changing."
http://www.startribune.com/pro-trump-rally-underway-at-minnesota-state-capitol/415396004/#1
Why God, Was I Born Into This?
Ask your fucking mother. (We're beginning the learned commentary early).
My father drank most of his life. His drinking caused a lot of pain and suffering for my mother, my 5 siblings and me. When he drank he was more often then not very violent. And his put downs cut like a knife. His calling me a whore and a slut while still a virgin killed me...the shame I felt wounded me deeply. His favorite words for all of us were, "No good bastards, morons, sons of bitches, rats." Not necessarily in that order. For most of my life I hated him, I wanted him dead. When I was 20 years old someone I met while out on a night on the town said to me, "I just met your dad!" My reply the snide remark, "I’m Sorry” was met with him trying to tell me how he liked my dad; I tried not to show how ill I was feeling by just the mere mention of his encounter.
Over the years my life became a spiral down to the pit of Hell and pain i.e. drugs, drinking, sex, abortion, marriage and divorce, dating the wrong men again, my mother’s death...my mother’s death ahh my mother’s death, is what saved my life! At the moment of her death I began to live, slowly at first and then I realized I needed to hang on because I was beginning the most amazing journey I had ever been on. One of mystery, intrigue, wonder and spiritual awakening.
A journey so dark at times I thought I was loosing (sic, she's and educator) my mind; A journey that would bring me to my knees and back up over and over again, A journey that took me throughout my home state of Minnesota and both coasts of our nation talking about my abortion. Then in January of 2010 to a hotel room in Washington DC where the Holy Spirit led me to learn I needed to go to Canada on a retreat that would change my life forever. It was there I would find myself literally hanging onto the Cross, reaching up to touch the feet of Jesus, begging Him not to abandon me. In this place I was given the miracle of re-birth of my heart, soul, mind and body; receiving the Grace to love my dad with all of my heart, and I would love to share it with you.
Which she will be happy to do through cmgbooking.com below.
http://www.cmgbooking.com/catholic-speakers/ann-marie-cosgrove
There are a couple of different photos of Ann Marie as she's had a couple of different lives, a couple too many.
And then we have this. Ann Marie wants money, https://www.gofundme.com/2nvzrs, and if you don't book her through CMG, "THE Catholic Speakers Organization," you can contribute to this "FUNDRAISER BY ANN MARIE COSGROVE," "Help Me Defeat Late Stage Lyme Disease."
Your support will help me win the battle.
I was diagnosed in late February 2013 with Late Stage Neurology Lyme Disease after months of seeing specialists and 2 trips to the emergency room, all telling me I was a "medical mystery" and it was in my head.
Th nerve of those elitist "experts."
I heard from all of my doctors one way or another I was depressed and I my answer would always be, "I am not sick because I am depressed. I am depressed because I am sick."
Did you give them a FULL history Ann Marie, like you do when you speak for CMG?
One trip to the emergency room the doctor looked at me and said, "We can't fit you here. There is nothing we can do for you" and then went on to tell me my issue was psychosomatic.
Huh.
His demeanor was such I felt he was treating me as if I was a mentally ill homeless person who just crawled out from under the bridge.
Wow. See how these people have been put down all their lives.
(now I know how that feels and I didn't like and neither do they. Everyone deserved to be treated with dignity) I looked at him square in the face and said, "Look doc I'm not the one whose crazy here, but I am starting to think you are."
GOOD! Just because you're a mentally ill homeless person doesn't mean you're crazy!
My symptoms got worst;
WHICH symptoms.
to the point I was begging God to take my life.
He doesn't answer my prayers either.
I was confused and emotional. My face, hands and feet would go numb and tingly. My feet burned and ached. Patches of "electric currants" would run through my body. My heart was skipping beats and felt like it was going to give out any second. The buzzing sound in my ears was louder then (SIC!) the voices in my head.
:) "Voices in her head." Bitch was hearing VOICES IN HER HEAD!
My joints hurt. My speech was slurred and I was falling over. I had to use a cane to walk. My cognitive skills were gone. I couldn't say simple words [Nor spell them.] and my arms flung wildly by themselves. When friends came to visit they hardly recognized me, some thinking I was dying.
Looking back on my medical records I can see that I must have gotten bit by a tick in the fall of 2008 when months later my symptoms of being fatigued and having a sore throat brought me to the doctors office. Then the symptoms progressed in the years that fallowed as I went back for pain in my knees, then hands, then hips.
I never had the "bulls eye" rash
Which is pathognomonic of Lyme, is my understanding. COULD be wrong.
and I had been tested for Lyme Disease but the tests always came back negative.
So give me money anyway even though I don't have it.
Then in August of 2012 things started to take a big turn for the worst
My dear woman, WHO do you educate?
and by February I was not working. I was out of work for 3 months and during that 3 months I got the call from my principal because of budgets cuts I did not have my job for next school year.
What did you teach...Do not answer that.
By doing research on the internet I was able to diagnosed (s.i.c.) myself realizing I had Late Stage Lyme Disease.
Trust her research, her able to diagnosed herself realizing I had Late Stage Lyme Disease AND GIVE NOW!
I was then able to find someone who was a Lyme Literate Medical Practitioner.
Who, Trump?
Before all of this I was an outgoing, adventurous, independent, loving, giving woman.
LIAR, LIAR, YOU'RE UNDERPANTIES ARE IN FLAMES!
I enjoy helping others. I was active with hiking, biking, swimming, gardening and had a full social life. I have been told many times over how I had touched many peoples lives throughout the years. I feel blessed and honored to have people say that of me. My brother and I had started MaryRich
Brother named...don't tell me...Richard?
Gourmet Popcorn in November 2012. I am the market and sales department. This summer we were going to open a small store in Spooner, Wiconsin
Wiconsin, is that where the Wiccans is?
but I am too sick to do so.
I am is a very strong intelligent woman.
OH! Did that lightning bolt strike you? If so did it improve your "cognitive skills" any?
I am getting better but the battle is not won, it is just beginning. With Late Stage Lyme Disease it could take a year or more. I still have a long way to go and need financial help to achieve my personal goal of 100% healthy vibrant self. I am already fighting and advocating for others who are misunderstood and being treated poorly by doctors.
"Misunderstood, treated poorly by elites...In addition to florid mental illness, cognitive deficits, and life-long dysfunction traceable to an alcoholic father who made her feel like she sat at the table of the "nerds and losers."
I feel a personal responsibility to bring awareness about Lyme Disease and what it can cause if untreated.
I bet you do.
I want to be a voice so those who are too sick to speak will be heard.
Spoken voice, not written voice, correct?
Help me please to get back so I can give back.
No.
To find out more about Lyme Disease visit www.ilads.org
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
I don't care. You don't have it and if you did I would care less if that is possible.
Thank you for your prayers/your thoughts/your support!
No need to thank me.
Peace, Ann Marie
Fuck you, Ben
Larry Laughlin, a retired businessman from a Minneapolis suburb, compares Mr. Trump to a high school senior who could “walk up to the table with the jocks and the cheerleaders and put them in their place.” That is something that the “nerds and the losers, whose dads are unemployed and moms are working in the cafeteria,” could never do. Mr. Trump may be rich, he said, but actually belonged at the nerd table.
“The guys who wouldn’t like me wouldn’t like Trump. The guys who were condescending to him were condescending to me.
“I feel like I’m watching my uncle up there. Where me and Chuck Schumer — that’s like going to the dentist."
The isolation thing, back. Maybe in that December photo Larry was looking besieged because he had an appointment with Dr. Chuck Schumer, DMD and didn't want to go? (Why Chuck Schumer? This guy's from Minnesota. Whatever.)
And this is a lifelong isolation! I had to read that first paragraph a couple of times before understanding that Mr. Laughlin lumped himself with the "nerds and the losers, whose dads were unemployed and moms are working in the cafeteria." NOT at the table with the "jocks and cheerleaders," the "winners," the popular kids, in school. Laughlin is, from memory, 46 years old, so that telling anecdote dates back 28-30 years. Laughlin has had a lump in his chest and a chip on his shoulder ever since. Trump made Larry feel like a winner in life--for the first time in his life--and he revels in it, as do those on the header at a March4Trump this year taunting the "losers" who opposed Trump.
Gregory Kline, 46, a lawyer in Severna Park, Md., who is a Republican, said he did not vote for Mr. Trump but understands that part of the president’s support comes from fury at the left, particularly the media.
“It’s not that people are deaf and dumb and don’t see it,” he said of Mr. Trump’s sometimes erratic behavior. “It’s that they don’t care."
..
Ann Marie Cosgrove
Ann Marie Cosgrove, a 59-year-old educator and lifelong northeast Minneapolis resident, is tired of the near-constant protests directed at President Donald Trump. So on Saturday, she joined about 400 people who packed the Minnesota State Capitol rotunda to voice their support for the new president.
"I want to support him and show Minnesota that he has support here," Cosgrove said. "We're traditionally a blue state, but it's changing."
http://www.startribune.com/pro-trump-rally-underway-at-minnesota-state-capitol/415396004/#1
Why God, Was I Born Into This?
Ask your fucking mother. (We're beginning the learned commentary early).
My father drank most of his life. His drinking caused a lot of pain and suffering for my mother, my 5 siblings and me. When he drank he was more often then not very violent. And his put downs cut like a knife. His calling me a whore and a slut while still a virgin killed me...the shame I felt wounded me deeply. His favorite words for all of us were, "No good bastards, morons, sons of bitches, rats." Not necessarily in that order. For most of my life I hated him, I wanted him dead. When I was 20 years old someone I met while out on a night on the town said to me, "I just met your dad!" My reply the snide remark, "I’m Sorry” was met with him trying to tell me how he liked my dad; I tried not to show how ill I was feeling by just the mere mention of his encounter.
Over the years my life became a spiral down to the pit of Hell and pain i.e. drugs, drinking, sex, abortion, marriage and divorce, dating the wrong men again, my mother’s death...my mother’s death ahh my mother’s death, is what saved my life! At the moment of her death I began to live, slowly at first and then I realized I needed to hang on because I was beginning the most amazing journey I had ever been on. One of mystery, intrigue, wonder and spiritual awakening.
A journey so dark at times I thought I was loosing (sic, she's and educator) my mind; A journey that would bring me to my knees and back up over and over again, A journey that took me throughout my home state of Minnesota and both coasts of our nation talking about my abortion. Then in January of 2010 to a hotel room in Washington DC where the Holy Spirit led me to learn I needed to go to Canada on a retreat that would change my life forever. It was there I would find myself literally hanging onto the Cross, reaching up to touch the feet of Jesus, begging Him not to abandon me. In this place I was given the miracle of re-birth of my heart, soul, mind and body; receiving the Grace to love my dad with all of my heart, and I would love to share it with you.
Which she will be happy to do through cmgbooking.com below.
http://www.cmgbooking.com/catholic-speakers/ann-marie-cosgrove
There are a couple of different photos of Ann Marie as she's had a couple of different lives, a couple too many.
I did not recognize her! And that's from this year. And it is neither at a Holy Rollers convention nor a Trump rally, nor Woodstock, although closer to the latter I gather as the caption in the Duluth News Tribune reads:
Ann Marie Cosgrove from Minneapolis cheers on The Blind Boys from Alabama during their opening song on the main stage at the Bayfront Blues Festival
And then we have this. Ann Marie wants money, https://www.gofundme.com/2nvzrs, and if you don't book her through CMG, "THE Catholic Speakers Organization," you can contribute to this "FUNDRAISER BY ANN MARIE COSGROVE," "Help Me Defeat Late Stage Lyme Disease."
Your support will help me win the battle.
I was diagnosed in late February 2013 with Late Stage Neurology Lyme Disease after months of seeing specialists and 2 trips to the emergency room, all telling me I was a "medical mystery" and it was in my head.
Th nerve of those elitist "experts."
I heard from all of my doctors one way or another I was depressed and I my answer would always be, "I am not sick because I am depressed. I am depressed because I am sick."
Did you give them a FULL history Ann Marie, like you do when you speak for CMG?
One trip to the emergency room the doctor looked at me and said, "We can't fit you here. There is nothing we can do for you" and then went on to tell me my issue was psychosomatic.
Huh.
His demeanor was such I felt he was treating me as if I was a mentally ill homeless person who just crawled out from under the bridge.
Wow. See how these people have been put down all their lives.
(now I know how that feels and I didn't like and neither do they. Everyone deserved to be treated with dignity) I looked at him square in the face and said, "Look doc I'm not the one whose crazy here, but I am starting to think you are."
GOOD! Just because you're a mentally ill homeless person doesn't mean you're crazy!
My symptoms got worst;
WHICH symptoms.
to the point I was begging God to take my life.
He doesn't answer my prayers either.
I was confused and emotional. My face, hands and feet would go numb and tingly. My feet burned and ached. Patches of "electric currants" would run through my body. My heart was skipping beats and felt like it was going to give out any second. The buzzing sound in my ears was louder then (SIC!) the voices in my head.
:) "Voices in her head." Bitch was hearing VOICES IN HER HEAD!
My joints hurt. My speech was slurred and I was falling over. I had to use a cane to walk. My cognitive skills were gone. I couldn't say simple words [Nor spell them.] and my arms flung wildly by themselves. When friends came to visit they hardly recognized me, some thinking I was dying.
Looking back on my medical records I can see that I must have gotten bit by a tick in the fall of 2008 when months later my symptoms of being fatigued and having a sore throat brought me to the doctors office. Then the symptoms progressed in the years that fallowed as I went back for pain in my knees, then hands, then hips.
I never had the "bulls eye" rash
Which is pathognomonic of Lyme, is my understanding. COULD be wrong.
and I had been tested for Lyme Disease but the tests always came back negative.
So give me money anyway even though I don't have it.
Then in August of 2012 things started to take a big turn for the worst
My dear woman, WHO do you educate?
and by February I was not working. I was out of work for 3 months and during that 3 months I got the call from my principal because of budgets cuts I did not have my job for next school year.
What did you teach...Do not answer that.
By doing research on the internet I was able to diagnosed (s.i.c.) myself realizing I had Late Stage Lyme Disease.
Trust her research, her able to diagnosed herself realizing I had Late Stage Lyme Disease AND GIVE NOW!
I was then able to find someone who was a Lyme Literate Medical Practitioner.
Who, Trump?
Before all of this I was an outgoing, adventurous, independent, loving, giving woman.
LIAR, LIAR, YOU'RE UNDERPANTIES ARE IN FLAMES!
I enjoy helping others. I was active with hiking, biking, swimming, gardening and had a full social life. I have been told many times over how I had touched many peoples lives throughout the years. I feel blessed and honored to have people say that of me. My brother and I had started MaryRich
Brother named...don't tell me...Richard?
Gourmet Popcorn in November 2012. I am the market and sales department. This summer we were going to open a small store in Spooner, Wiconsin
Wiconsin, is that where the Wiccans is?
but I am too sick to do so.
I am is a very strong intelligent woman.
OH! Did that lightning bolt strike you? If so did it improve your "cognitive skills" any?
I am getting better but the battle is not won, it is just beginning. With Late Stage Lyme Disease it could take a year or more. I still have a long way to go and need financial help to achieve my personal goal of 100% healthy vibrant self. I am already fighting and advocating for others who are misunderstood and being treated poorly by doctors.
"Misunderstood, treated poorly by elites...In addition to florid mental illness, cognitive deficits, and life-long dysfunction traceable to an alcoholic father who made her feel like she sat at the table of the "nerds and losers."
I feel a personal responsibility to bring awareness about Lyme Disease and what it can cause if untreated.
I bet you do.
I want to be a voice so those who are too sick to speak will be heard.
Spoken voice, not written voice, correct?
Help me please to get back so I can give back.
No.
To find out more about Lyme Disease visit www.ilads.org
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
I don't care. You don't have it and if you did I would care less if that is possible.
Thank you for your prayers/your thoughts/your support!
No need to thank me.
Peace, Ann Marie
Fuck you, Ben
