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Gay sex and gun love: Oregon militia-inspired erotica reimagines grim standoff as fun-filled orgy

If we needed even more proof that Internet “rule 34,” which Urban Dictionary defines as “pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject,” we need look no further than the armed militia led by Ammon Bundy. The group, under the name Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, is currently occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, an unfolding story that, despite raising important issues about terrorism, race and extremism, is also clearly more than ready for some crowdsourced mockery. Perhaps it’s only fitting that such a bizarre story has now inspired some appropriately bizarre erotica. Last week, the Decemberists’ lead singer, Colin Meloy, took to Twitter with the hashtag #bundyeroticfanfic, in which he played up some of the more over-the-top elements of the story and took them in a decidedly sexual direction. Meloy’s most popular tweet so far? https://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status... What started with Meloy’s musings has now morphed into an ongoing public erotic storytelling, mixing satire, sex and social media to mock the sparse conditions and supposed patriotism and anti-government leanings of the group. https://twitter.com/11spygod11/status... https://twitter.com/nicholasmmorton/s... https://twitter.com/BundyMilitiaSpy/s... Users have even responded in real time to developments in the story, such as the release of a long list of supplies requested by the group, according to a Twitter posting by writer JJ MacNab, which includes Miracle Whip, hay, honey, French vanilla creamer, money and gaming supplies. https://twitter.com/beefpiebear/statu... Erotica author Leonard Delaney, who last year published Microsoft Word Clippy smut, has also gotten in on the current events erotica action with his e-book "Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt," in which hero Cap, dressed in a Captain America costume, stumbles across the militia, dressed in camouflage and led by “Aimon,” who are more than ready to stake their claim to good ole’ American values:

“Who are we?” The Bear shouted. “A group of people using terror, violence, and threats to intimidate for political purposes!” the crowd returned. “What do we call ourselves?”  “A militia!” they shouted in the best terror-inducing voices. “And what do we want?” The Bear said. “America! And something about land! And no more government! And the army killing jihadists and immigrants!” they shouted back.

Stephen Colbert has called the occupation a “sausage party,” and in Delaney’s version, which takes place at the Bill Maher Memorial Wildlife Refuge, this concept gets taken to its full homoerotic potential with passages like:

Each man looked much like the one before: pale-skinned, bearded, pudgy, and glassy-eyed. He probably wouldn’t remember many of their names, but there were a few that had neatly trimmed goatees and all their teeth, and he couldn’t keep his cock from shifting as they asserted dominance with bone-crushing handshakes.

But, fittingly, it’s gun love that takes center stage in both the Twitter fiction and Delaney’s version. https://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status... https://twitter.com/realDanaldGrump/s... https://twitter.com/JackieBojarski/st... https://twitter.com/TheBobKeen/status... And here’s Delaney, whose characters name their guns things like Madame Liberty and Little Miss Manifest Destiny, getting very hands-on with the man-on-gun action:

The Bear began jamming his pinky finger into the fleshy hole on top of the gun. It made a squilsh squilsh squilsh! sound.

As Cap looks on, the militia members prepare to join forces with their guns:

All three of them raised their assault rifles, standing the guns on their butts and kneeling behind them. The Bear’s gun became oily as he fingered it. A moment later, a monotone voice came from a speaker in the side of the gun. “I AM READY.”  “Hear that boys? Botsy’s all lubed up and ready to go!”

Followed by:

Each of them stuffed his penis inside his gun, then began writhing against it. Garnth reached around the jacked off the magazine and pistol grip at the same time. Aimon squealed with delight as he bent his rifle over and fucked it from above

Delaney adds a perfect clincher to a gun sex orgy with:

“My God Almighty,” Aimon said. “I never imagined how good cock could be. It’s like holding a gun for the first time.”

Even though Delaney starts the book off with a disclaimer that he’s just a Canadian looking to cash in on current events, he does close with a happy ending—both kinds, where everyone is sexually pleasured and the militia voluntarily decides to disperse. Whether or not the real life militia disperses, there will likely be a steady supply of dirty minds eroticizing it.

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Rock Against Drugs was Reagan’s answer to the hedonism of the ’80s

Rock 'n' roll without drugs is like country music without whiskey. The two go hand in hand, and have from the beginning. In the 1960s and '70s, dope-inflected rock and rockers were legion, from the acid-tinged psychedelia of West Coast rock to the amphetamine- and heroin-fueled drone of the Velvet Underground. But the 1980s brought the dark night of Ronald Reagan, and there was no place for such louche hedonism in Ronnie's world. Reagan intensified Richard Nixon's vote-winning war on drugs, and even opened up new battlefronts, including forays behind enemy lines in the culture wars. As Nancy Reagan was encouraging everyone—especially the youth—to just say no to drugs, there was a campaign to recruit rockers (or reasonable facsimiles thereof) to record anti-drug videos, which were played relentlessly as PSAs on MTV, which back then actually played music videos. That campaign, by record company executives, was a direct response to direct criticism of the music industry by the president and Mrs. Reagan. This was Rock Against Drugs, aiming to use the hipness of rockers to discourage their young fans from going down the slippery slope to drugged out doom. Except some of the rockers weren't so hip (Kiss' Gene Simmons), others were hardly known (Redd Kross' Jeff McDonald), and some were just obnoxious (Ted Nugent, and Gene Simmons probably deserves a mention here, too). Thanks to an obscure (5,047 YouTube views)  seven-minute montage of vintage PSAs, at times so weird you wonder if the rockers weren't on drugs when they made them, we can now get a taste of the anti-drug propaganda blasting the teenyboppers back in the late '80s. See Gene Simmons ham it up with monster make-up (surprise)! See Missing Persons' Patrick O'Hearn channel Luis Bunuel in a trippy bit involving a shirtless man in a cocoon in the desert. See Cinderalla backstage in sunglasses talking about how they don't need drugs. And see all that '80s hair. It's not all just silly and stupid. Aimee Mann is forthright and earnest, and former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, shown polishing his motorcycle, probably has the most effective pitch: “A good friend of mine, Sid Vicious, died from drugs. I nearly died from drugs. Drugs suck.” Of course, efforts like Rock Against Drug generated ridicule and criticism. Comedian Sam Kinison commented, "Rock Against Drugs. What a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ." But no one was more withering than  contemporary Texas comedian Bill Hicks. All those great albums you loved were made by musicians who were "re-a-a-a-a-al high," he noted. "And these other musicians today who don't do drugs, in fact speak out against them, boy, do they suck!" Hicks has quite a bit more to say about Rock Against Drugs, much of it not suitable for a family newspaper. You can hear the whole bit in a clip below, but first, here is Rock Against Drugs:   Phillip Smith is editor of the AlterNet Drug Reporter and author of the Drug War Chronicle.

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Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music

“I thought you died alone, a long, long time ago,” sings the nameless narrator to the title character in “The Man Who Sold the World,” one of the underappreciated mini-masterpieces of David Bowie’s career. (Kurt Cobain apparently agreed.) “Oh no, not me,” comes the response. “I never lost control.” Even in the context of 1970-whatever, that felt like a comment or a joke on Bowie’s endless aptitude, or endless hunger, for erasing himself and rewriting himself, his ability to walk the line between cynicism and idealism, between artistic detachment and pop passion, without being false to either. (Are there actually two characters in that song? Or is the man who sold the world talking to himself?) If David Bowie was the Man Who Sold the World, a secret agent or undercover operative within pop culture, he was also “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” a guileless alien seeking love or sustenance on a hostile planet. (That’s the title, and central character, of the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film in which Bowie made his peculiar acting debut.) Every article written about Bowie after his death was announced on Monday will describe him as a shape-shifter or a chameleon, and it does no good to steer around that inevitable cliché. He challenged us at every moment to consider the distance between the mask and the man, the persona and the personality, and to recognize that we never knew what that distance was or whether it existed. It was certainly not irrelevant that Bowie was a musical innovator and synthesizer of amazing facility and fluidity, one of a handful of genuine geniuses of what Casey Kasem used to call the “rock era.” But even his preternatural musical ability was only one part of a lifelong performance or presentation or work of art, that of being David Bowie. If Richard Wagner’s operas represented the grandest fusion of all art forms (or Gesamtkunstwerk) that was possible in the late 19th century, David Bowie’s career in music and fashion and videos and film and celebrity came as close to that as anyone could in the late 20th century. If he had lived forever — and I thought he would; we all did — perhaps Bowie would have gotten around to doing a version of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in which he played all the parts, in half an hour. Bowie was an inspirational figure and also a frustrating one, who spent his entire career either a step ahead of the rest of the culture or deliberately out of step with it. He was a hard rocker, a glam-rocker and a pop star, who worked in every musical genre from metal to disco. The guy in my freshman dorm who played “Diamond Dogs” every single day (in between playings of the first Van Halen album) would never have been caught dead listening to “Young Americans,” which came out less than a year later, or “Station to Station,” less than a year after that. This too is a cliché, but Bowie’s influences came from all possible directions. He had listened to Stravinsky and the Beach Boys and bebop and Aretha Franklin, all with the same avid attention. He modeled himself on Marlene Dietrich and Oscar Wilde and English music-hall performers and James Dean and, I don’t know, the antihero of some Strindberg play that existed only in his imagination. Bowie wore dresses and spangly-stretchy girl-boy pantsuits and bespoke suits from Hong Kong and leather jackets off the rack in Soho. He certainly did not invent male androgyny or “gender-bending,” but he pushed those signals further, and into more ambiguous territory, than anyone else in pop music. Although he asserted in later life that he had always been heterosexual, Bowie clearly understood that whom he did or did not have sex with was not the issue. He prefigured many ideas about the fluidity of gender identity and sexual orientation that would gradually leach into the mainstream; he helped invent the radical gender discourse that would later be called “queer.” He was Major Tom and the Thin White Duke and the doomed, desired and destructive Ziggy Stardust, the paradigmatic rock ‘n’ roll suicide. One reason we thought he might live forever is because there was something elfin about him, or even Elven, in the J.R.R. Tolkien sense. At some point he would tired of our world and sail off to distant shores from which no one returns, no doubt. But surely physical mortality was for the rest of us. For much of his career Bowie was the whitest art-rocker imaginable, yet he was also deeply steeped in African-American pop, and in 1975 became only the second white solo artist to appear on “Soul Train.” (Elton John had been on the show a few months earlier, doing “Bennie & the Jets,” and fair play to the producers for that one.) I love Bowie’s great Berlin albums and his great early glam-rock albums and the aforementioned “Man Who Sold the World.” But I am not one of those rock purists who sees “Let’s Dance,” the 1983 album produced by Nile Rodgers that became Bowie’s biggest hit, as an anomaly or a failed experiment or, for the love of God, a sellout. On the contrary, “Let’s Dance” is a great record and one of his signature accomplishments. Who else could have made a dance-pop classic, worthy of standing right next to “Thriller,” four years after the dense art-rock experiment of “Lodger,” which is just as good — just as important, if you like — in an entirely different direction? No one, that’s who. It’s as if Thomas Pynchon had followed up “Gravity’s Rainbow” by writing Stephen King’s “It,” or as if Arvo Pärt had taken a break from doleful Estonian choral music to crank out “Let’s Get Physical.” Possibly I did more cocaine in the 1980s because of “Let’s Dance” than I should have, but I imagine I would have found other excuses. David Bowie changed my life, and I can say with total confidence that the same is true not just for many people of my own generation, but for many people older and younger than me. It’s difficult to explain to younger people how amazing and how dangerous the Rolling Stones seemed in the 1970s, now that they’re a pack of rich, leathery geezers with some agreeable classic-rock hits buried in the past. You never have that feeling with David Bowie, whose best records and most striking iconography does not feel dated in the least. In the only conversation I have ever had (or hope to have) with Justin Timberlake, he talked about how much he loved Bowie’s records and how they had opened his ears to unknown possibilities. (In Timberlake's better moments as a recording artist, you can hear those lessons.) I first heard Bowie as a high school student in the late ‘70s, in the chaotic bohemian household of my oldest friend, who is also named Andrew. We sat around in his scarred Arts & Crafts living room, drinking booze his father supplied us and listening to Andrew’s older brother’s records. I was not cool enough to have heard any Bowie albums before “Low,” I think. Andrew played it for me and I didn’t get it at all. Then he played it again and then he played “Station to Station” and then he played “Ziggy Stardust,” and the next day I went out and bought as many used Bowie albums as I could find, including “The Man Who Sold the World.” I wrote to several old friends on Monday after hearing the news that Bowie had died, and Andrew wrote back right away. I had not suggested that he might be emotional or that we might have felt any moment of special connection, because we’ve never really done that too well. “I confess I’m not unaffected by this,” he wrote, which could not have been more perfect. We may get together and get drunk. David Bowie did not die alone, or a long, long time ago. He never lost control. It now appears that his haunting final album, “Blackstar,” and the single and video for the song “Lazarus,” were created as an orchestrated farewell, and that his death has brought that particular artistic project to its completion. After processing the shattering news on Monday, and the news that even people who knew Bowie well did not know how sick he was, I have begun to wonder whether his return to recording in 2013, after a decade away from music, was in itself a tactical or strategic decision, part of his long goodbye. Bowie died as he lived, and I don’t just mean that he finished an album and got it out just in time, although that was handled perfectly. I mean that he died weaving illusions that are not illusions, reminding us that you can stand at some analytical distance from things that will break your heart and that cannot be undone: Death, youth, love, rock ‘n’ roll. He told us this time what he has told us all along, which is that we can understand that beautiful things are artificial and manufactured, and that all meaning is conditional and transitory, and that all things will disappear and be forgotten — and we can do all that without surrendering our belief in the impossible. Bowie played Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige,” and I suspect that's the best and most perfect role of his erratic acting career (in one of Nolan’s better films). Tesla was a scientific genius and technological innovator who perceived no clear boundary between the realm of science and the realm of magic, and who thought they might be different words for the same thing. Bowie was a magician and a technician in that same sense, and one of the most important cultural figures of the last 50 years. What we sometimes call a postmodern consciousness, or a “meta-awareness” — a cognizance of the created-ness of things, of our endless ingenuity in emulating a God we no longer believe in — was not a joke or a game to David Bowie. Or if it was, it was the joke that explained everything, as miraculous as any gem or any flower, the game that connects our souls to the stars.

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Donald Trump’s despotic fantasies: Here’s what the world would look like if he were president

Back in August I wrote a piece here in Salon about Trump's authoritarian tendencies and how it was a mistake for liberals to laugh too much about them. At the time, we were mostly concerned with his signature plan to deport over 11 million people and build his "big beautiful wall" with a "big beautiful door" and have Mexico pay for it. His rhetoric was crude and demeaning, as he theatrically accused undocumented workers of being violent criminals constantly referring to the murder of "beautiful Kate" and the rape and sodomy of an elderly white women to illustrate the threat. He had also vividly shown his colors at that point with his daily evocation on the stump of Bowe Bergdahl, whom he called a "dirty, rotten, traitor" who would have been summarily executed back in the day "when we were strong." He promised to make our military so strong our heads would spin and he declared himself a big second amendment person. He promised to "renegotiate deals" with every country in the world to get a better result for America although he was vague about exactly what that meant beyond complaining about all the foreign cars he allegedly sees coming off of ships in American ports. From the beginning Trump has said that we "don't have time" to be politically correct anymore, that our problems are so severe that we have to do "whatever is necessary" to make America great again. He has not hidden his intentions. But now that he has been a national frontrunner for more than six months, perhaps it's time to revisit this subject and look at his agenda as he's unveiled it since last summer. First, on the deportation issue: When asked how he would go about it, he has said that he would have a "deportation force" to find, detain and repatriate suspected undocumented immigrants and their children, some of whom are Americans (but he'd fix that too.) When quizzed in the debates he had this to say to John Kasich's assertion that deporting all these millions of people is not a serious proposal:

All I can say is, you're lucky in Ohio that you struck oil. That's for one thing. Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president. People liked him. I like Ike, right, the expression, "I like Ike." Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. Moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again beyond the border. They came back. Didn't like it. Moved them way south. They never came back. Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president. People liked him. I like Ike, right, the expression, "I like Ike." Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. Moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again beyond the border. They came back. Didn't like it. Moved them way south. They never came back.

He, of course, plans to eventually build a wall so high that nobody can climb over it, apparently enlisting Jack and his magic beanstalk for engineering advice. But that comment was no joke. He's talking about the infamous Operation Wetback. And people never came back because they'd been left in the middle of the desert without water and died. After Paris and San Bernardino his authoritarianism took another dark turn. His famous statement that the U.S. should ban all Muslims from entering the country "until we find out what the hell is going on" was actually the culmination of a number of comments indicating that there could be a registry of Muslims and surveillance of mosques and other places where one might find American Muslims. (In other words, everywhere.) He reiterated the standard fatuous right wing bromide about arming everyone so that they could shoot down terrorists before they have a chance to explode their suicide vests. And he enthusiastically endorsed torture. and not just for interrogation purposes but as a punitive measure:

"Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would — in a heartbeat," Trump said to loud cheers during a rally at a convention center here Monday night that attracted thousands. "And I would approve more than that. Don't kid yourself, folks. It works, okay? It works. Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work." Trump said such techniques are needed to confront terrorists who "chop off our young people's heads" and "build these iron cages, and they'll put 20 people in them and they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later." "It works," Trump said over and over again. "Believe me, it works. And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing. It works."

When discussing what he would do with the families of suspected terrorists he was a bit more vague, but when you consider his other commentary the implication is clear:

I would certainly go after the wives who absolutely knew it was happening, and I guess your definition of what I’d do, I’m going to leave that to your imagination.

He has a fantasy about the wives of the 9/11 hijackers having foreknowledge of the attacks and tuning in on TV with their children to watch daddy fly into the World Trade Center. Except for the fact that the hijackers weren't married and had no kids, it would be an interesting tale. He has also blamed San Bernardino terrorist Sayed Farook's mother and sister, suggesting the government need to "get tough" to deal with them:

I think his mother knew what was going on. She went into the apartment. Anybody that went into that house or that apartment knew what was going on. They didn’t tell the authorities. They knew what was going on. The mother knew.

We better get a little tough, and a little smart, or we’re in trouble.”

And he's openly said he would commit war crimes and explicitly target the families of suspected ISIS terrorists:

"We’re fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing with the terrorists — you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families! They care about their lives, don’t kid yourselves. They say they don’t care about their lives. But you have to take out their families.”

On the domestic front, Trump has made it very, very clear that in addition to his "deportation force," he believes the country needs to allow the police agencies much more latitude:

"We’re going to get, you know, the gang members in Baltimore and in Chicago and these are some tough dudes. They’re going to be out so fast. One of the first thing I’m going to do is get rid of those gang members. We’re going to be – you know, you look at what’s going on with Baltimore, you look at what’s going on in Chicago and Ferguson and St. Louis the other night. We are going to get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin. You know, we can be very tough. I just met your cops outside. Those police are tough cookies. Those guys – we need law and order. We need law and order. I mean, they allowed – in one night, that first night in Baltimore – they allowed that city to be destroyed. And they set it back 35 years. One night. Because the police were not allowed to protect people. They weren’t allowed to protect people. We have incredible law enforcement in this country and we have to be – the head of the police in Chicago is a person I know. Originally from New York. He’s a phenomenal guy. He can stop things if they’re allowed to stop them. He can stop it. Believe me.

He has never explained exactly what he means when he says he plans to "get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin," but evoking his relationship close to Chicago's police chief might be a clue. He exhorts citizens to spy on each other and report activities to the authorities. And he made a solemn pledge to police everywhere:

“One of the first things I’d do in terms of executive order, if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that would go out to the country, out to the world, anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen.”

Considering the summary execution pantomime he does on the trail every day when he talks about Bowe Bergdahl it's fair to assume he has some ideas about how that might be handled. Finally, Trump has welcomed the approbation of Vladimir Putin, Russia's authoritarian-strongman leader, even going so far as to defend him against charges that he has killed journalists who challenged him. He has joked that he wouldn't kill any journalists himself --- well, probably:

I hate some of these people, I hate 'em," Trump told the crowd. "I would never kill them. I would never do that." Then he decided to reconsider. "Uh, let's see, uh?" he said aloud, his voice rising. "No, I would never do that." Trump's comments on journalists came after he spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin, who lavished Trump with praise last week. Claims that Putin ordered the killings of Russian journalists are well-documented, but Trump has argued that those deaths are disputed and without evidence. Trump did charge once again that some of the reporters in the back of the room are "such lying disgusting people," but as the crowd turned to angrily face those reporters, Trump pulled them back.

This past week Trump spoke admiringly of another despot --- North Korea's Kim Jong Un:

“You’ve got to give him credit: How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?” “Even though it is a culture, and it’s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he’s the boss. It’s incredible.” “I mean, it’s amazing that a young guy would go over and take over. You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died. “So he’s gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do."

He did say Kim was a "total nut job" but it's fairly obvious Trump doesn't see that as much of a problem. "He's the boss" and "he kept control" and that is what Trump sees as true leadership. He figures that just as he would get along well with Putin, he and Kim Jong Un could forge and understanding.  They all have a lot in common. And millions of freedom loving Republicans think that's just terrific. His poll numbers have never gone down since he threw his hat in the ring last June. They aren't backing him because he's promising to shrink the government or lower taxes or create jobs. He very rarely even brings such issues up. What he talks about on the stump is how popular he is, how much money he has, and how hard he will bring the hammer down on all the "bad people" who are making America not so great. And he will have so many victories they'll be coming out of your ears. He will do all this because all it takes is "being tough and smart" and having a proper disdain for "political correctness" -- formerly known as democracy, the constitution and the rule of law. Back in August I wrote a piece here in Salon about Trump's authoritarian tendencies and how it was a mistake for liberals to laugh too much about them. At the time, we were mostly concerned with his signature plan to deport over 11 million people and build his "big beautiful wall" with a "big beautiful door" and have Mexico pay for it. His rhetoric was crude and demeaning, as he theatrically accused undocumented workers of being violent criminals constantly referring to the murder of "beautiful Kate" and the rape and sodomy of an elderly white women to illustrate the threat. He had also vividly shown his colors at that point with his daily evocation on the stump of Bowe Bergdahl, whom he called a "dirty, rotten, traitor" who would have been summarily executed back in the day "when we were strong." He promised to make our military so strong our heads would spin and he declared himself a big second amendment person. He promised to "renegotiate deals" with every country in the world to get a better result for America although he was vague about exactly what that meant beyond complaining about all the foreign cars he allegedly sees coming off of ships in American ports. From the beginning Trump has said that we "don't have time" to be politically correct anymore, that our problems are so severe that we have to do "whatever is necessary" to make America great again. He has not hidden his intentions. But now that he has been a national frontrunner for more than six months, perhaps it's time to revisit this subject and look at his agenda as he's unveiled it since last summer. First, on the deportation issue: When asked how he would go about it, he has said that he would have a "deportation force" to find, detain and repatriate suspected undocumented immigrants and their children, some of whom are Americans (but he'd fix that too.) When quizzed in the debates he had this to say to John Kasich's assertion that deporting all these millions of people is not a serious proposal:

All I can say is, you're lucky in Ohio that you struck oil. That's for one thing. Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president. People liked him. I like Ike, right, the expression, "I like Ike." Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. Moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again beyond the border. They came back. Didn't like it. Moved them way south. They never came back. Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower, good president, great president. People liked him. I like Ike, right, the expression, "I like Ike." Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. Moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again beyond the border. They came back. Didn't like it. Moved them way south. They never came back.

He, of course, plans to eventually build a wall so high that nobody can climb over it, apparently enlisting Jack and his magic beanstalk for engineering advice. But that comment was no joke. He's talking about the infamous Operation Wetback. And people never came back because they'd been left in the middle of the desert without water and died. After Paris and San Bernardino his authoritarianism took another dark turn. His famous statement that the U.S. should ban all Muslims from entering the country "until we find out what the hell is going on" was actually the culmination of a number of comments indicating that there could be a registry of Muslims and surveillance of mosques and other places where one might find American Muslims. (In other words, everywhere.) He reiterated the standard fatuous right wing bromide about arming everyone so that they could shoot down terrorists before they have a chance to explode their suicide vests. And he enthusiastically endorsed torture. and not just for interrogation purposes but as a punitive measure:

"Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would — in a heartbeat," Trump said to loud cheers during a rally at a convention center here Monday night that attracted thousands. "And I would approve more than that. Don't kid yourself, folks. It works, okay? It works. Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work." Trump said such techniques are needed to confront terrorists who "chop off our young people's heads" and "build these iron cages, and they'll put 20 people in them and they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later." "It works," Trump said over and over again. "Believe me, it works. And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing. It works."

When discussing what he would do with the families of suspected terrorists he was a bit more vague, but when you consider his other commentary the implication is clear:

I would certainly go after the wives who absolutely knew it was happening, and I guess your definition of what I’d do, I’m going to leave that to your imagination.

He has a fantasy about the wives of the 9/11 hijackers having foreknowledge of the attacks and tuning in on TV with their children to watch daddy fly into the World Trade Center. Except for the fact that the hijackers weren't married and had no kids, it would be an interesting tale. He has also blamed San Bernardino terrorist Sayed Farook's mother and sister, suggesting the government need to "get tough" to deal with them:

I think his mother knew what was going on. She went into the apartment. Anybody that went into that house or that apartment knew what was going on. They didn’t tell the authorities. They knew what was going on. The mother knew.

We better get a little tough, and a little smart, or we’re in trouble.”

And he's openly said he would commit war crimes and explicitly target the families of suspected ISIS terrorists:

"We’re fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing with the terrorists — you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families! They care about their lives, don’t kid yourselves. They say they don’t care about their lives. But you have to take out their families.”

On the domestic front, Trump has made it very, very clear that in addition to his "deportation force," he believes the country needs to allow the police agencies much more latitude:

"We’re going to get, you know, the gang members in Baltimore and in Chicago and these are some tough dudes. They’re going to be out so fast. One of the first thing I’m going to do is get rid of those gang members. We’re going to be – you know, you look at what’s going on with Baltimore, you look at what’s going on in Chicago and Ferguson and St. Louis the other night. We are going to get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin. You know, we can be very tough. I just met your cops outside. Those police are tough cookies. Those guys – we need law and order. We need law and order. I mean, they allowed – in one night, that first night in Baltimore – they allowed that city to be destroyed. And they set it back 35 years. One night. Because the police were not allowed to protect people. They weren’t allowed to protect people. We have incredible law enforcement in this country and we have to be – the head of the police in Chicago is a person I know. Originally from New York. He’s a phenomenal guy. He can stop things if they’re allowed to stop them. He can stop it. Believe me.

He has never explained exactly what he means when he says he plans to "get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin," but evoking his relationship close to Chicago's police chief might be a clue. He exhorts citizens to spy on each other and report activities to the authorities. And he made a solemn pledge to police everywhere:

“One of the first things I’d do in terms of executive order, if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that would go out to the country, out to the world, anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen.”

Considering the summary execution pantomime he does on the trail every day when he talks about Bowe Bergdahl it's fair to assume he has some ideas about how that might be handled. Finally, Trump has welcomed the approbation of Vladimir Putin, Russia's authoritarian-strongman leader, even going so far as to defend him against charges that he has killed journalists who challenged him. He has joked that he wouldn't kill any journalists himself --- well, probably:

I hate some of these people, I hate 'em," Trump told the crowd. "I would never kill them. I would never do that." Then he decided to reconsider. "Uh, let's see, uh?" he said aloud, his voice rising. "No, I would never do that." Trump's comments on journalists came after he spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin, who lavished Trump with praise last week. Claims that Putin ordered the killings of Russian journalists are well-documented, but Trump has argued that those deaths are disputed and without evidence. Trump did charge once again that some of the reporters in the back of the room are "such lying disgusting people," but as the crowd turned to angrily face those reporters, Trump pulled them back.

This past week Trump spoke admiringly of another despot --- North Korea's Kim Jong Un:

“You’ve got to give him credit: How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?” “Even though it is a culture, and it’s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he’s the boss. It’s incredible.” “I mean, it’s amazing that a young guy would go over and take over. You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died. “So he’s gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do."

He did say Kim was a "total nut job" but it's fairly obvious Trump doesn't see that as much of a problem. "He's the boss" and "he kept control" and that is what Trump sees as true leadership. He figures that just as he would get along well with Putin, he and Kim Jong Un could forge and understanding.  They all have a lot in common. And millions of freedom loving Republicans think that's just terrific. His poll numbers have never gone down since he threw his hat in the ring last June. They aren't backing him because he's promising to shrink the government or lower taxes or create jobs. He very rarely even brings such issues up. What he talks about on the stump is how popular he is, how much money he has, and how hard he will bring the hammer down on all the "bad people" who are making America not so great. And he will have so many victories they'll be coming out of your ears. He will do all this because all it takes is "being tough and smart" and having a proper disdain for "political correctness" -- formerly known as democracy, the constitution and the rule of law.

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“The Revenant,” Taraji Henson, Jon Hamm, “The Martian”: Here’s your complete list of Golden Globes winners

The Golden Globes are nothing if not unpredictable, and tonight's awards were no exception. While the major film awards were unlikely to upset any brackets — "The Revenant" took home top honors for drama and a statue for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio, who will turn this win into a front-running spot in the upcoming Oscars race, while "The Martian" garnered wins for best motion picture comedy or musical and for star Matt Damon, and perennial favorites Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence also went home winners — TV was another story. Summertime breakout hit "Mr. Robot" took home best TV drama series and a win for supporting actor Christian Slater, while Lady Gaga beat out a heavy-hitting slate of veterans, including Kirsten Dunst, Queen Latifah and Felicity Huffman — to nab the limited series best actress award for her turn as a vampire in Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story: Hotel." And out of nowhere, Amazon's charming classical music comedy "Mozart in the Jungle" pulled the rug out from under darlings "Veep," fellow Amazon show "Transparent" and "Orange Is the New Black" to score big for best TV comedy series, along with a win for star Gael Garcia Bernal. Taraji P. Henson gave one of the most fun acceptance speeches of the evening for her best actress in a TV drama win, playing Cookie Lyon on "Empire," ("Cookies for everyone tonight!") and Jon Hamm closed the book on Don Draper with a final victory for "Mad Men." Here are all of tonight's winners: Best Motion Picture, Drama — “The Revenant” Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical — “The Martian” Best TV Series, Drama — “Mr. Robot” Best TV Series, Comedy — “Mozart in the Jungle” Best Animated Feature Film — “Inside Out” Best TV Movie or Limited-Series — “Wolf Hall” Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language  — “Son of Saul” Best Director, Motion Picture — Alejandro G. Iñárritu, “The Revenant” Best Screenplay, Motion Picture — Aaron Sorkin, “Steve Jobs” Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama — Brie Larson, “Room” Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama — Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant” Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy — Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy” Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical — Matt Damon, “The Martian” Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture — Sylvester Stallone, “Creed” Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama — Taraji P. Henson, “Empire” Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama — Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy — Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle” Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy — Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex Girlfriend” Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture — Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs” Best Actress in a Limited-Series or TV Movie — Lady Gaga, “American Horror Story: Hotel” Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited-Series, or TV Movie — Maura Tierney, “The Affair” Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited-Series or TV Movie — Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot” Best Actor in a Limited-Series or TV Movie — Oscar Isaac, “Show Me a Hero” Best Original Score — Ennio Morricone, “The Hateful Eight” Best Original Song — “Writing’s on the Wall” from “Spectre,” Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes

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Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Internet by advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples at Golden Globes

Denizens of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." DiCaprio spoke eloquently about the rights of indigenous peoples, and the Internet responded in kind: https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/sta... https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/sta... https://twitter.com/BossLadyTV/status... https://twitter.com/FLAREfashion/stat... https://twitter.com/MacNaismith/statu... https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/st... https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/statu... https://twitter.com/TonyBravoSF/statu... https://twitter.com/shereeny/status/6... of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." 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DiCaprio spoke eloquently about the rights of indigenous peoples, and the Internet responded in kind: https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/sta... https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/sta... https://twitter.com/BossLadyTV/status... https://twitter.com/FLAREfashion/stat... https://twitter.com/MacNaismith/statu... https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/st... https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/statu... https://twitter.com/TonyBravoSF/statu... https://twitter.com/shereeny/status/6... of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." 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DiCaprio spoke eloquently about the rights of indigenous peoples, and the Internet responded in kind: https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/sta... https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/sta... https://twitter.com/BossLadyTV/status... https://twitter.com/FLAREfashion/stat... https://twitter.com/MacNaismith/statu... https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/st... https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/statu... https://twitter.com/TonyBravoSF/statu... https://twitter.com/shereeny/status/6... of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." 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DiCaprio spoke eloquently about the rights of indigenous peoples, and the Internet responded in kind: https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/sta... https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/sta... https://twitter.com/BossLadyTV/status... https://twitter.com/FLAREfashion/stat... https://twitter.com/MacNaismith/statu... https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/st... https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/statu... https://twitter.com/TonyBravoSF/statu... https://twitter.com/shereeny/status/6... of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." DiCaprio spoke eloquently about the rights of indigenous peoples, and the Internet responded in kind: https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/sta... https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/sta... https://twitter.com/BossLadyTV/status... https://twitter.com/FLAREfashion/stat... https://twitter.com/MacNaismith/statu... https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/st... https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/statu... https://twitter.com/TonyBravoSF/statu... https://twitter.com/shereeny/status/6... of Twitter reacted very favorably to Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for best actor in a motion picture drama for "The Revenant." 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Ricky Gervais eviscerates Mel Gibson: The nicest thing he can say is “I’d rather have a drink with him in his hotel tonight than Bill Cosby”

Ricky Gervais keeps pushing. Joking about what a loon Mel Gibson is hardly rare in Hollywood circles, but Gervais decided to do it just as he was introducing him. “A few years ago I made a joke about Mel Gibson getting a bit drunk and saying a few unsavory things,” Gervais said. “We’ve all done it. I wasn’t judging him, but now I find myself in the awkward position to introduce him again. Listen I’m sure its embarrassing for both of us and I blame NBC for this terrible situation, Mel blames … well we know who Mel blames.” That’s right, Gervais was clearly calling out Gibson’s history of anti-semitism. “Listen, I still feel bad about it,” Gervais continued. “Mel’s forgotten all about it. That's what drinking does. I want to say something nice about Mel before he comes out: I'd rather have a drink with him in his hotel tonight than Bill Cosby.” When Gibson came out, it wasn’t clear if the two were going to embrace or start throwing punches. “I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy,” Gibson offered. Gervais returned to the stage, beer in hand. “Listen, can I ask you a question,” Gervais said, coming back out. “I think we all want the answer to this. What the f--k does sugart--s even mean?" Watch the awkward exchange below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhGGC...  

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Ricky Gervais takes a vicious shot at Trump’s immigration policy at Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais used the 73rd Annual Golden Globes much as you'd expect him to -- to say whatever he damn well pleased, which included taking a shot at "America's future president," Donald Trump. "Eva Longoria and America Ferrera aren't just two beautiful, talented actresses," he said, "they're also two people your future president, Donald Trump, can't wait to deport." Instead of taking offense at the remark, the actresses used the opportunity to discuss the representation of minorities in general, and Latinas and Latinos in particular, in the entertainment industry. Watch the entire clip below via Mediaite. Ricky Gervais used the 73rd Annual Golden Globes much as you'd expect him to -- to say whatever he damn well pleased, which included taking a shot at "America's future president," Donald Trump. "Eva Longoria and America Ferrera aren't just two beautiful, talented actresses," he said, "they're also two people your future president, Donald Trump, can't wait to deport." Instead of taking offense at the remark, the actresses used the opportunity to discuss the representation of minorities in general, and Latinas and Latinos in particular, in the entertainment industry. Watch the entire clip below via Mediaite. Ricky Gervais used the 73rd Annual Golden Globes much as you'd expect him to -- to say whatever he damn well pleased, which included taking a shot at "America's future president," Donald Trump. "Eva Longoria and America Ferrera aren't just two beautiful, talented actresses," he said, "they're also two people your future president, Donald Trump, can't wait to deport." Instead of taking offense at the remark, the actresses used the opportunity to discuss the representation of minorities in general, and Latinas and Latinos in particular, in the entertainment industry. Watch the entire clip below via Mediaite. Ricky Gervais used the 73rd Annual Golden Globes much as you'd expect him to -- to say whatever he damn well pleased, which included taking a shot at "America's future president," Donald Trump. "Eva Longoria and America Ferrera aren't just two beautiful, talented actresses," he said, "they're also two people your future president, Donald Trump, can't wait to deport." Instead of taking offense at the remark, the actresses used the opportunity to discuss the representation of minorities in general, and Latinas and Latinos in particular, in the entertainment industry. Watch the entire clip below via Mediaite.

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Tarantino’s “ghetto” gaffe: His Golden Globes Morricone speech does not impress

In his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” https://twitter.com/Ceee_Teee/status/... So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online. https://twitter.com/MattCullenSEM/sta... Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic. http://twitter.com/NubianQueeNAE/stat... This could have gotten ugly, but didn't. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage. Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDamN... his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” https://twitter.com/Ceee_Teee/status/... So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online. https://twitter.com/MattCullenSEM/sta... Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic. http://twitter.com/NubianQueeNAE/stat... This could have gotten ugly, but didn't. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage. Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDamN... his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” https://twitter.com/Ceee_Teee/status/... So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online. https://twitter.com/MattCullenSEM/sta... Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic. http://twitter.com/NubianQueeNAE/stat... This could have gotten ugly, but didn't. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage. Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDamN... his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” https://twitter.com/Ceee_Teee/status/... So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online. https://twitter.com/MattCullenSEM/sta... Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic. http://twitter.com/NubianQueeNAE/stat... This could have gotten ugly, but didn't. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage. Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDamN... his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” https://twitter.com/Ceee_Teee/status/... So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online. https://twitter.com/MattCullenSEM/sta... Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic. http://twitter.com/NubianQueeNAE/stat... This could have gotten ugly, but didn't. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage. Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDamN...

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Foul-mouthed Jonah Hill appears as the bear from “The Revenant” at the Golden Globes

Jonah Hill was one of the first people to appear on Sunday's Golden Globes telecast, appearing not as himself but as the bear from "The Revenant" -- and a foul-mouthed bear he was, dropping the f-bomb on multiple occasions. Watch the foul-mouthed Hill and Channing Tatum below via YouTube. Jonah Hill was one of the first people to appear on Sunday's Golden Globes telecast, appearing not as himself but as the bear from "The Revenant" -- and a foul-mouthed bear he was, dropping the f-bomb on multiple occasions. Watch the foul-mouthed Hill and Channing Tatum below via YouTube. Jonah Hill was one of the first people to appear on Sunday's Golden Globes telecast, appearing not as himself but as the bear from "The Revenant" -- and a foul-mouthed bear he was, dropping the f-bomb on multiple occasions. Watch the foul-mouthed Hill and Channing Tatum below via YouTube.

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