Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

What are the gobshites saying?

 

When you read this sort of nonsense, you have to ask yourself if Trumpers are actually living in the same country as the rest of us:


"The left is fueled by bile and rage."

And this: 

"The longer the left wallows in rage and purblind ignorance to reality, the more they lose the broad middle where the normals live."


Conservative writer, Max Boot:


 It “doesn’t take many extremists to cause mayhem in a country awash in firearms,” noted Boot, a fierce critic of Trump and his enablers. 

 With right-wing violence now a top domestic terrorism threat, Boot said “a responsible political party would damp down its incendiary rhetoric and urge its supporters to moderate their zeal.But Republicans just “continue to fan the flames of hatred, violence and division.”






Do we need to keep pointing out to Trumpers that it wasn't the Left that attacked the U.S. Capitol and the Capitol police, smeared feces all over the Capitol, screamed "HANG PENCE!" and hunted down Speaker Pelosi, looking to harm her, all in service to a BIG LIE, promoted by their idol, Trump, whom they continue to worship and refuse to separate from. It wasn't the Left that tweeted out a video that featured a U.S. Congressman killing one of his Democratic colleagues, and finally, it is the rabid Right who put a stupid young man, who killed two and permanently maimed one, on a pedestal and made him the face of the current GOP, because his lethal vigilantism is admired and promoted by the GOP leaders.

What on earth is that person writing about when he claims the Left is fueled by bile and rage? 

I have news for him and others who are projecting what is actually happening on the Right onto the Democrats: 

The broad middle where the norms live made a decision in November 2020 and did not want four more years of Trump's and the GOP's incompetence, bile, and rage. 

6 comments:

Dave Miller said...

But Shaw... the narrative from the right is that what happened on 1/6 was a false flag operation perpetrated by the "Deep State" or ANTIFA Leftists.

Which begs the question as to why on earth, they would be against investigating the events of that day and exposing what they believe to be true. Why oppose an investigation of what you believe to be ANTIFA and a lefty false flag operation? Wouldn't that investigation prove their points?

Because they wouldn't lie would they?

Dave Miller said...

I saw where someone wondered why when white people drive into people it's about white supremacy and domestic terrorism but it's not when a black person drives into crowds of people.

Perhaps the answer is this... when a white person drives into a mob of people yelling racial slurs and in defense of protestors celebrating Nazi beliefs, that indeed is white supremacy. When a black career criminal, upon release from jail, drives into a multiracial crowd with no apparent racial motive, that's a crime, not terrorism.

Why is this stuff so hard to understand?

Dave Dubya said...

Trump and his party are increasingly calling democrats "communists". Violent and threatening messages demonizing democrats are multiplying.

It's not hard to imagine a future one-party rule under Republicans. They will do their utmost to outlaw and ban opposition as "communists", "terrorists", and even "fascists". This will trigger the crackdown. And it will be "legal".

Remember, everything the German Nazis did was "legal", too. Will we see a Republican version of the "Enabling Act" in our lifetimes? I can't rule it out. Madness, lies and hate are steering our country down the road to fascism.

The lessons from the past go unlearned.

Mike said...

The left is fueled by confusion as to why anyone would be a republican these days.

Les Carpenter said...

The naratives are finely drawn and deeply entrenched in both parties. Truth is the lions have been released from their dens (both parties) and on the hunt. The battle ready rhetoric is percolating and soon will become war crys. With swords drawn and and automatic rifles at the ready the political warriors in red and blue will dismantle that which was.

When the dust settles it will be interesting to observe the depth of the destruction.

And to think that believing that America was a righteous and honorable nation was once actually believable. But after actually observing reality as it really is, and reading truthful history, it becomes very clear that America has never been as righteous or as honorable as it has always passed itself off as being. Fact is we've managed to f**k as much as not.

I like sunsets. But there is no enjoying the growimg sunset happening on America

Howard Brazee said...

The main characteristic of the Right is the feeling that they are so picked on. Everybody else is selfish and cheating and responsible for all of the bad things in the world.