Showing posts with label white nationalists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white nationalists. Show all posts

Monday, October 30, 2017

Vastly outnumbered by protesters, white nationalists cancel second rally.

Courtesy of CNN: 

White nationalists groups that rallied Saturday in Shelbyville, Tennessee, were met by a large police presence and dozens of shouting counterprotesters. Hours later, a second rally planned in nearby Murfreesboro was canceled. 

The demonstrations, which organizers called the "White Lives Matter" rally, were planned by The League of the South, a Southern nationalist group, according to Brad Griffin, the organization's public relations chief. Other extreme-right and neo-Nazi groups joined them in the protests wearing black and bearing helmets and shields. 

The groups had planned to start at Shelbyville and then head to Murfreesboro about 20 miles to the north, but the Murfreesboro rally was canceled, Griffin said. 

About 800 to 1,000 counterprotesters had gathered in Murfreesboro to oppose the demonstrations, Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh and Murfreesboro Interim Police Chief Michael Bowen said in a joint statement. 

Griffin announced the rally was canceled on Twitter saying that Murfreesboro was a "lawsuit trap" and that holding an event there was not worth the risk.

Just goes to show that showing up to protest DOES work. 

These were expected to be the largest white nationalist rallies since Charlootesville, and they were shut down by people who are sick and tired of seeing racists taking over their streets.

That is definitely one for the good guys.

People have every right to exercise their freedom of speech, even racist POS, however they should expect to be met by others who are also exercising their rights to freedom of speech.

And if they cannot take that kind of heat, they need to stay the fuck home.

Friday, August 25, 2017

White nationalist Christopher Cantwell is now in jail cell. Where he absolutely belongs.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he appeared in a widely viewed documentary remained held without bond on Thursday, one day after the police said he had turned himself in to the authorities in Virginia. 

The man, Christopher Cantwell, 36, was charged with two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance, the Albemarle County prosecutor, Robert Tracci, said in a statement. A preliminary hearing was set for Oct. 12. 

In a statement released late Wednesday, the university police said they had been notified that afternoon that Mr. Cantwell had turned himself in to the Lynchburg Police Department in Virginia. The brief statement did not say when Mr. Cantwell turned himself in. 

He was being held at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail in Lynchburg, Va., pending transport to Charlottesville, the university police said.

According to the Chicago Tribune this Cantwell guy is being held without bond, but he has a reason for why he pepper sprayed that counter protester:

He insisted he was defending himself, saying he did it "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth." He said he looked forward to his day in court.

Boy he sure talks tough doesn't he?

Sadly for him we know the truth.

Oh yeah, he's going to do great in prison. 

Thursday, August 24, 2017

White Nationalists in Kentucky plan super secret protest against the removal of Confederate statues.

Courtesy of the Lexington Herald-Leader: 

White nationalist groups might hold a flash demonstration in Lexington to protest moving two Confederate statues from the lawn of the former Fayette County courthouse instead of a publicly announced rally, according to an organizer. 

Matthew Heimbach, chairman of a white nationalist group called the Traditionalist Worker Party, told the Herald-Leader last week that his group and others were planning a rally in Lexington to oppose the removal of statues in downtown Lexington. When asked this week whether he had picked a date for the event, though, Heimbach said it probably will be a “flash demo.” 

He confirmed that that meant an event with no public announcement of the time or place. 

“As long as we don’t block the street, we should be OK,” Heimbach said. 

Heimbach's fear apparently is that if they publicize the protest that counter protesters will show up and say mean things about them until they get their little traitorous feelings hurt.

You may also remember that 37 pro-Trump rallies were called off over fear of conflicts.

Much like the confederate soldiers that they seem to emulate these men are clearly ready to wave the white flag before there is a chance of any real conflict.

I am not sure that these people in Kentucky clearly understand the purpose of a protest.

The whole idea is to draw attention, including media attention, to your cause.

I don't think that a super secret, over in a flash, rally has any real chance of accomplishing that.

You know these racists actually could just all stay home and then claim online that they HAD a rally, thousands showed up, and nobody got hurt. 

Just a thought.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Donald Trump defends White Nationalists and claims that the "Alt-Left" started the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

(The Nazi support starts around the 7:10 mark.)

 Courtesy of the New York Times:

President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend’s deadly racial unrest in Virginia, and at one point questioned whether the movement to pull down statues of Confederate leaders would escalate to the desecration of George Washington. 

In a long, combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the president repeatedly rejected a torrent of bipartisan criticism for waiting several days before naming the right-wing groups and placing blame on “many sides” for the violence on Saturday that ended with the death of a young woman after a car crashed into a crowd. 

He said that “before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.” 

And he criticized “alt-left” groups that he claimed were “very, very violent” when they sought to confront the nationalist and Nazi groups that had gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park. He said there is “blame on both sides.” 

“Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee,” Mr. Trump said. “This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington next? You have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” 

He noted that the first American president had owned slaves. 

Mr. Trump defended those gathered in the Charlottesville park to protest the statue’s removal, saying, “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.”

(Uh..that was a white nationalist protest march. Of course they were white nationalists.)


Again and again, Mr. Trump said that the portrayal of nationalist protesters in the city were not all Nazis or white supremacists, and he said it was unfair to suggest that they were. “Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. 

Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch,” he said, adding that blame for the violence in the city – which also took the lives of two Virginia state troopers when their helicopter crashed – should also be on people from “the left” who came to oppose the nationalist protesters. 

“You had a group on one side and the other, and they came at each other with clubs, and it was vicious and horrible. It was a horrible thing to watch,” the president said. “There is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. You have just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. You can say what you want. That’s the way it is.”

You know I often talk about watching Donald Trump speak with my jaw hanging on the floor in disbelief.

And that is certainly how I watched this.

Trump's attempts to blame the counter protesters and suggest that THEY were the ones who started the violence was, simply put, stunning.

He provided cover for the neo-Nazis, Klan members, and White Supremacists who beat peaceful protesters and murdered a young woman.
And clearly they both heard and appreciated that.

Monday, August 14, 2017

Mike Pence is angry at the press, because he feels they are angry at Trump, for not being angry enough at the White supremacist terrorists.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Speaking during a visit to the South American nation of Colombia, Pence said that it was appropriate to criticize not only the white supremacists behind the "Unite the Right" march but also counter-protesters on the scene.

"I will say I take issue with the fact that many in the national media spent more time criticizing the president’s words than they did criticizing those that perpetrated the violence to begin with," he said, speaking in a joint news conference with Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos. 

"We should be putting the attention where it belongs, and that is on those extremist groups that need to be pushed out of the public debate entirely and discredited for the hate groups and dangerous fringe groups that they are."

It should be pointed out that today Trump took to Twitter to attack the Democrats for being "obstructionists" and Ken Frazier  for leaving his Manufacturing Council (By the way he's a black guy who is quitting specifically BECAUSE of Trump's weak ass response to the violence in Virginia.) , but not a word about the murder in Charlottesville.

As for the press, virtually every single newscaster and commentator, who was not appearing on Fox News, has condemned the White Nationalists who beat protesters and murdered that young woman in the strongest terms.

These statements by Mike Pence, which also attempts to blame "both sides" for the violence, proves that he is almost as bad as his boss.

However he did at least say this: 

"We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK. These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms," he said.

This kind of forced Trump's hand so today he finally came out with this:
Damn talk about too late to the party.

But now the question is "What is he going to do about it?"

Under the leadership of Trump and Pence the focus has been taken off of homegrown hate groups like the KKK and Neo-Nazis, and they have clearly grown stronger  and prospered as a result.

If Mike Pence and Donald Trump really want to do something to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again they need to stop focusing all of their counter terrorism efforts on Islamic terrorists and recognize that White Nationalists pose as great, if not a greater threat to this country. 

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Alt-Right brags that Trump Administration is "giving them space to destroy."

Courtesy of Daily Kos.
Courtesy of Salon: 

“He’s going to give us space to destroy,” Michael Peinovich, the creator of The Right Stuff, an alt-right podcast network said during a Sunday guest appearance on “Fash the Nation,” the movement’s most popular web radio show.

“He’s going to give us space to operate, and frankly, it is space to destroy,” Peinovich continued. 

“Now is the time that we have to make hay while the sun shines . . . while these investigations of ‘domestic terrorist groups’ are not being funded by the government, they’re not being pushed by the Department of Homeland Security” argued one of the co-hosts of the program, an anonymous former Republican political staffer who calls himself Jazzhands McFeels. 

“We’d probably be facing fucking [racketeering] charges or some shit like that,” Peinovich said, discussing what he believed might have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election. 

“We have to use these four years to grow into something that can’t be defeated,” Peinovich said, referring to possible future investigations of neo-fascist groups. 

Some parts of the Trump administration actively want to encourage the growth of the alt-right, the former Hill staffer “Jazzhands McFeels” said, claiming that Trump’s top strategist Steve Bannon secretly was trying to enable the fringe movement. 

“They kind of expect us to be doing this. I’m not saying he’s our guy, but they want — at least Bannon, I would think — wants us to be able to operate in that space. So we should and we are,” he said. 

Both podcasters’ statements were met with agreement by guest Richard Spencer, an alt-right editor who operates a series of niche web publications and conferences catering to self-styled racist intellectuals who has since tried to rebrand himself as more of an activist.

You might remember Richard Spencer as a big Trump supporter who claimed that Trump was a white nationalist, whether he admitted it or not.

Whether Trump is as big of a racist as this Alt-Right crowd or not, the fact that he refuses to recognize any terrorism that does not come with a brown face and an Islamic background means it is open season for these clowns.

And that is very dangerous indeed.

Monday, June 05, 2017

Breitbart fires writer for making inflammatory tweet in response to London's attack. The catch? She has been making inflammatory tweets for years.

Courtesy of CNN Money: 

Katie McHugh, the Breitbart writer who tweeted a number of incendiary remarks in the immediate aftermath of the London terror attack, is no longer with the right-wing news site, four sources familiar with the situation told CNN. 

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow announced McHugh's departure internally Monday morning. After this article was initially published, McHugh herself confirmed she was out, tweeting, "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration" and posting a link to a fundraising page started to support her on the fringe right website WeSearchr. 

McHugh had ignited controversy on Saturday night when she wrote on Twitter that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there." 

"You're a real moron," actor Pej Vahdat replied. 

"You're an Indian," shot back McHugh, incorrectly identifying the ethnicity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.

Seems pretty cut and dried, right?

I mean after all Breitabart cannot defend having such an Islamophobic racist white nationalist on their payroll.

The problem is that this McHugh woman has been an Islamophobic, racist, white nationalist all along.

As demonstrated by her numerous inflammatory tweets:
Well she seems nice.

So the question to ask is since this McHugh woman's opinions were out there for everybody to see for themselves, what took Breitbart this long to be outraged? 

Or are they even outraged, or instead simply bending to public opinion?

Thursday, April 20, 2017

White Nationalist files counter suit against Donald Trump saying the candidate directed him to assault protesters.

Courtesy of Politico: 

A white nationalist leader accused of assaulting a young African-American woman at a Donald Trump campaign rally filed a countersuit on Monday claiming the president directed him and other supporters to remove protesters. 

Matthew Heimbach claims in his federal court filing that he “acted pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President” and that, if he’s found liable for damages, “any liability must be shifted to one or both of them.

”The legal fight stems from a March 2016 rally in Louisville, Kentucky, at which protesters were allegedly roughed up and ejected by Trump supporters after the then-candidate barked from the stage “get ’em out of here!”

I think it is perfectly reasonable to blame Trump for the violence at his rallies.

After all they blamed Hitler for the gas chambers didn't they?

By the way how delicious is it to see Trump getting sued by a white supremacist because he convinced the man to hurt black people?

(Here's some video of the event in question.)

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Members of the Alt Right meet in Washington DC to celebrate election of Donald Trump.

Courtesy of Politico: 

“Donald Trump’s campaign was the first step towards identity politics in the United States,” cheered Richard Spencer, the president of the National Policy Institute, an arm of the alt-right, at an afternoon press conference. “…I do think we have a psychic connection, a deeper connection with Donald Trump, in a way we simply do not have with most Republicans.”

The alt-right, a nationalist movement that embraces white identity politics and has been associated with racism and anti-Semitism, gathered over the weekend at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center downtown to regroup after the election and plot a path forward. 

Spencer made clear that he doesn’t think Trump is a member of the alt-right, and Trump himself has condemned bigoted attacks from his supporters. But the alt-right views his election as a validation of sorts, and in an hour-long press availability, Spencer and several other leaders of the movement said they expected Trump’s successful campaign to usher in a new era of populism, hardline immigration policy and a foreign policy that deemphasizes NATO and rebuilds strong ties with Russia.

Of course the Alt Right, or as they are better known the White Nationalists, are celebrating the election of Donald Trump.

After all when was a better time in recent history to be a straight white male racist?

Now these people can openly discriminate and denigrate, not only Muslims and African Americans, but also women and the LGBTQ community.

Let's face right now bigotry is as American as apple pie and burning crosses.

The only problem of course is that after these ignorant schmucks come down off their racist high they are going to realize that Trump simply cannot deliver on his promise to build the Great Wall of Texas, or deport millions of Mexicans, nor stop people from entering this country based on their religion.

And then they will have to confront those facts they have been evading this last year, which are that Donald Trump is a corpulent orange habitual liar who simply spouts whatever pops into his pea sized brain with no idea or plan to actually make it happen.

The letdown will be spectacular, but until it happens we are still stuck with rampant racist attacks and ever increasing hate crimes.

After all elections have consequences, and those who voted third party or voted against Hillary based on manipulations by Russia and the FBI are now learning that the hard way.

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Donald Trump's chief advisor Stephen Bannon openly emulates Satan and Dick Cheney.

Courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter:  

"Darkness is good," says Bannon, who amid the suits surrounding him at Trump Tower, looks like a graduate student in his T-shirt, open button-down and tatty blue blazer — albeit a 62-year-old graduate student. "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they" — I believe by "they" he means liberals and the media, already promoting calls for his ouster — "get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." 

Oh yeah, nothing troubling about this.

Bannon also claims that he is not a white nationalist: 

"I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist."

Let's see an "economic nationalist" who used his online news site to promote antisemitism,  Islamophobia, and racism. And whose audience was largely made up of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and the Alt-Right.

How is that different than a "white nationalist" again?

Monday, September 12, 2016

Prominent white nationalists gather to celebrate their favorite presidential candidate. Go ahead, guess which one.

NPI president Richard Spencer
Courtesy of Media Matters:  

Prominent white nationalists touted their growing media influence in the wake of Donald Trump’s rise to the Republican presidential nomination on a wave of bigoted rhetoric at a September 9 press conference titled “What Is The Alt-Right?” 

The press conference, organized by white nationalist “think tank” the National Policy Institute (NPI), aimed to explain how the “alt-right” -- a movement of fringe modern white supremacists -- had “become a force in American politics in such a short period of time.” The racist movement has garnered renewed interest from media outlets in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s August 25 speech decrying the Trump campaign’s cozy relationship with the movement, including the hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman and alt-right leader Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO. 

The press conference featured three prominent white nationalist speakers: NPI president Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right;” Jared Taylor, who publishes the white nationalist online magazine American Renaissance; and Peter Brimelow, who founded the white nationalist anti-immigration site VDare.com. 

The press conference came just hours before Clinton told supporters at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s supporters belonged to a “basket of deplorables” -- people who harbor "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” animus who have been “lifted … up” by the Republican nominee. Indeed, the white nationalist movement has provided Trump with some of his most fervent supporters and praised him for helping to grow their ranks.

Yeah Hillary Clinton should never have offered any regrets.

Her description was right on the money.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Just another glimpse into Donald Trump's America.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

In a video posted to Twitter by AJPlus, weekend warriors in Texas explain that they will be using bullets dipped in pigs blood or smeared with bacon’ grease when the time comes to stop the “Arab uprising” they believe will overrun their state. 

In the video, one unidentified militia member explains the importance of using pork-dipped bullets. 

“A lot of us here are using either pig’s blood or bacon grease on our bullets, ” he explains, adding, “So that when you shoot a Muslim they go straight to hell. That’s what they believe in their religion.” 

Added another militia member, “Don’t f*ck with white people,” before showing off his shooting prowess with a shotgun.

Putting pig's blood on bullets, now where would they get a ridiculous idea like that?

Oh yeah, that's right:

Presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday resurrected an apparent hoax story about Muslims being executed with bullets “dipped in pig’s blood.” 

What a bunch of redneck inbred douchenozzles.

In other news just yesterday Donald Trump's appearance in California, you know the same one that Sarah Palin dragged her Down syndrome child and still convalescing husband to, was met by a rather large crowd of very agitated protesters:

Those awaiting Donald Trump’s arrival in San Diego on Friday were mostly peaceful. But once he gave his speech and left, small fights broke out in the streets outside the Convention Center among crowds of supporters and protesters, and police in riot gear ended up massing to drive the crowds from the area. 

In one clash near Harbor Drive, thrown items hit people in the head, and several small street fights erupted in the same area, as the environment outdoors became tense when anti-Trump crowds started to mix with his supporters just before 5 p.m. 

San Diego police declared an unlawful assembly in the Gaslamp Quarter due to violence about 4:40 p.m., announcing in Spanish and English that people needed to disperse. Officers with riot gear were moving among the crowd. 

Several people were also throwing plastic bottles, some that hit police officers, near Petco Park on L Street between 5th and 6th avenues. Also nearby, someone grabbed a man's "Make America Great Again" hat and burned it.

So on the one side we have heavily armed dipshits practicing to kill Muslims in this country, and on the other side a much larger group of brown skinned Americans who see a Donald Trump presidency as a very real danger to their safety and the safety of their families.

I think at this point it is legitimate to ask if America has any hope of even surviving a Donald Trump presidency?

I think you know my answer.

Saturday, February 06, 2016

So white nationals are making robo-calls on behalf of Donald Trump in New Hampshire, so that should help.

Source
Courtesy of HuffPo:  

A white nationalist group that made robocalls on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Iowa is now targeting New Hampshire voters ahead of next week's primary. 

"We don't need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people," says one of the voices on the call. 

"I am a farmer and white nationalist," says another. "Support Donald Trump." 

As CNN first reported Friday, the robocalls are bankrolled by William Johnson, a California attorney, through the American National Super PAC. Johnson is chairman of the American Freedom Party, a group designed to "represent the interests and issues of European-Americans," according to its website. 

Johnson confirmed to The Huffington Post that he is responsible for the calls and said they went out to every landline number in New Hampshire. 

"Donald Trump has a unique combination, politically, of populism with nationalistic sentiment," Johnson said. "He's forthright and doesn't back down."

You know it's just so nice that the racists finally have a candidate that they can call their own.

Don't you think?

After all the base of the Republican party wants what it wants.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

White supremacist group leaves flyers around military base in attempt to recruit military personnel into their organization. Oh yeah, that's comforting.

Courtesy of the Army Times:  

White supremacists are recruiting at Fort Carson, Colorado. 

Law enforcement officials at the post are investigating after propaganda flyers for Northwest Front, a self-described white separatist organization, were found on post and turned over to authorities, according to post spokesperson Dani Johnson. 

The flyers, posted to Reddit early Tuesday, urge troops to join the group’s drive to create a “white nation” in the Pacific Northwest and “secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.” 

“Ever wonder if you are fighting for the right side?” says one flyer, which accuses the Pentagon of targeting white men and Christians. 

A Reddit user who describes himself as a paratrooper, jhb2wr, posted to Reddit saying he and some other paratroopers “found about a dozen sealed plastic bags blowing around Fort Carson with this flyer and a CD inside.” 

Reddit users responded, urging the soldier to turn the flyers over to authorities and not to put the CD into a computer for fear of computer viruses. 

Current and former members of the military have long been coveted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups for their tactical skills and ideological beliefs, and efforts to recruit them are nothing new, according to scholar Brian Levin.

You may remember that on Tuesday I reported that this was part of the plan laid out by the KKK to start training their members in military style combat techniques for the race war that they predict is on the way.

That is all we need. For the crazed 2nd Amendment assholes, the militia assholes, and the racist assholes to all get together as one giant group of assholes. Assuming of course that there has ever been much of a difference between them in the first place.

Well I think I know where they can find one of their first recruits.

Not only is he military trained, he worships the 2nd Amendment, and has been known to pal around with racists.

I really do think it is time for the Obama Administration to stop spending so much time on Islamic terrorism and start focusing on what is happening domestically.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

White nationalists upset that the Republican party keeps adopting their racist ideas without giving them credit. Oh that's gotta hurt!

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:  

The white nationalist website VDARE is once again demanding credit for an idea that it has been championing for years that has now gone mainstream in the GOP. 

Last year, we reported that VDARE writer John Derbyshire (formerly of the National Review) was annoyed that prominent Republicans were failing to credit racist VDARE writer Steve Sailer when they advocated a plan nearly identical to the ‘Sailer Strategy’: that is, the idea that the GOP can only survive by solidifying and growing its white base while alienating people of color. Sailer had been persistently advocating this tactic for over a decade when it suddenly came into vogue among conservatives who opposed the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform plan. 

Now, another VDARE writer is upset that more and more immigration reform opponents are pushing another VDARE argument without giving the white nationalists credit. This time, the argument is that steady or increased legal immigration – with or without a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrations – will ruin the Republican party because immigrants are inherently liberal. 

In a post on Friday, VDARE writer James Fulford highlights a recent study from the Center for Immigration Studies which argues that Republicans shouldn’t bother with immigration reform because immigrants will inevitably vote for Democrats. Fulford complains that neither the CIS report nor the conservative outlets covering it “manages to credit Peter Brimelow or VDARE.com for saying all this early and often, possibly because it they're scared of Media Matters and the SPLC.” As he notes, VDARE has been pushing the argument since as early as 2001. 

Don'tcha hate it when somebody steals all of your good ideas, and doesn't give you credit for them so that they won't be mocked for associating with you?

Of course even without the direct association it has been clear for quite some time that the GOP has become more and more racist as of late. Especially the Tea Party faction who might just as well attend sessions of Congress in white robes and pointy hats. 

By the way I happened to bop on over to the VDARE website just to take a look around, and the headline at the top of the page reads:

The Toxic Loves of Jeb Bush: Amnesty and Crony Capitalism

"Crony capitalism" now where I have been hearing that word bandied about for the last few years?

Yeah, but it probably doesn't mean anything though, right?