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The new civil war talking point by the inforwars right is truly fascinating.what would be the objective?
Nobody thinks that, bud. There was just one really dumb rough ridin' meme about it. The only one actually acting on it right now is the left.
losing their living crap about Julius Caesar being anti-trump is incred
Quote from: steve dave on June 16, 2017, 09:56:03 PMlosing their living crap about Julius Caesar being anti-trump is incredit is pretty funny. Also, Julius Caesar would school 99.99% of all politicians if he lived today. Including Trump. In fact, I bet if Caesar was here he'd be the one boning both Ivanka and Melania on the reg. Not wussy betas like Kushner and Trump
Quote from: cfbandyman on June 16, 2017, 11:25:16 PMQuote from: steve dave on June 16, 2017, 09:56:03 PMlosing their living crap about Julius Caesar being anti-trump is incredit is pretty funny. Also, Julius Caesar would school 99.99% of all politicians if he lived today. Including Drumpf. In fact, I bet if Caesar was here he'd be the one boning both Ivanka and Melania on the reg. Not wussy betas like Kushner and DrumpfHow did J.C. fare when the knives were out?Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
Quote from: steve dave on June 16, 2017, 09:56:03 PMlosing their living crap about Julius Caesar being anti-trump is incredit is pretty funny. Also, Julius Caesar would school 99.99% of all politicians if he lived today. Including Drumpf. In fact, I bet if Caesar was here he'd be the one boning both Ivanka and Melania on the reg. Not wussy betas like Kushner and Drumpf
Quote from: Spracne on June 16, 2017, 11:28:14 PMQuote from: cfbandyman on June 16, 2017, 11:25:16 PMQuote from: steve dave on June 16, 2017, 09:56:03 PMlosing their living crap about Julius Caesar being anti-trump is incredit is pretty funny. Also, Julius Caesar would school 99.99% of all politicians if he lived today. Including Drumpf. In fact, I bet if Caesar was here he'd be the one boning both Ivanka and Melania on the reg. Not wussy betas like Kushner and DrumpfHow did J.C. fare when the knives were out?Sent from my SM-G955U using TapatalkOnly one of the stabs was fatal...
In the thread: ITT We Post Stories of Liberals Losing Their F'ing Minds Over TrumpThe resident libs are wringing their hands about politicizing an event. The resident libs are now in "let's talk it out" mode, while constantly referencing, agreeing with and laughing with the over-the-top, intolerant, hate-filled rhetoric that emanates from their movement. Sad
Haha, it is the same guy who planted a sign urging sexual violence against Melania Trump to smear anti-Trump protesters. The guy has energy.
THE first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual. By which I mean that, based on what we know, James Hodgkinson had surprisingly normal political beliefs. He hated Donald Trump, he liked Bernie Sanders, he wanted higher taxes on the wealthy. He was not a Communist or a paranoid knight on a shadowy crusade, but an ordinary Midwestern Democrat with far more rage but the same frustrations as many decent liberals.Where modern assassinations are concerned, such normal partisan motivations are more unusual than you might think. John F. Kennedy was hated passionately by many Republicans in Dallas, but Lee Harvey Oswald’s beliefs were Marxist, not right-wing. Nationalist movements, not partisanship, inspired Sirhan Sirhan and the Puerto Ricans who almost killed Harry Truman. George Wallace was shot by a man trying to make “a statement of my manhood for the world to see.” One of Gerald Ford’s two would-be assassins was a member of the Manson cult, the other a sympathizer with the Symbionese Liberation Army. John Hinckley famously shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster.And most recently — if a little less famously, because the media spent a long time assuming that he was Tea Party-inspired — Jared Lee Loughner shot Gabby Giffords because he was a lunatic obsessed with (among other things) the government’s control of grammar, and she had failed to answer his town hall question: “What is government if words have no meaning?”So Hodgkinson’s seeming normalcy, his angry but relatively mainstream Democratic views, might be a warning sign for the future of our politics. The turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s generated segregationist terrorism on the right and a revolutionary underground on the left, but it did not produce much partisan terrorism, violence inspired simply by fear and hatred of the opposition party. Now, though, we hate each other simply for being Democrats and Republicans more than ever — and violence inspired simply by the polarization of the major parties would be a unique and novel threat.The second thing to say is that a murderous attack on Republicans by an angry liberal should be an important reminder for our media-cultural establishment that societies can be pulled apart from the left as easily as from the right. Of course, network anchors and magazine editors and editorial boards know this on an intellectual level. But because our centrist elites are actually center-left there is a constant, involuntary tug toward emphasizing what’s wrong on the right-wing side of the spectrum and excusing what’s wrong on the other.There’s a great deal wrong on the right in the age of Donald Trump, and the scrutiny directed rightward is not at all misplaced. But as Trump proves more hapless than dangerous — or only dangerous because he’s hapless — the derangement that he inspires or amplifies among his critics also matters. And if America slides toward a rendezvous with 1968, the tendency of the establishment to only see one side’s dangers — to treat Marine Le Pen as uniquely terrifying but Jeremy Corbyn as merely dotty, to “remember” that Loughner was a Palin fan [see the horrible NYT editorial just days ago] or that right-wing hate killed J.F.K. — will make things more dangerous overall....
I've said it before and I'll say it again, K-State fans could have beheaded the entire KU team at midcourt, and K-State fans would be celebrating it this morning. They are the ISIS of Big 12 fanbases.
The Washington Post, which has adopted “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as its slogan, reports on the person who allegedly launched a violent daylight attack this morning on democratically-elected Members of Congress, their staffs and a security detail:The man suspected of firing dozens of rounds into an Alexandria baseball field Wednesday morning has been identified by federal law enforcement officials as James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Ill.A Facebook page believed to be his features pictures of Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and rhetoric against President Trump, including a recent post that reads: “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”Hodgkinson was among those taken to a hospital Wednesday, and President Trump announced that he had died from “his injuries.”The Facebook page believed to be Hodgkinson’s also featured a post critical of an energy pipeline and the following statement: “Democratic socialism explained in three words: We the People.” Recent attempts by this column to return to the page have resulted in a message from Facebook that the “content isn’t available right now.”*****Hodgkinson’s local newspaper, the Belleville News-Democrat, has published a series of letters it received from the alleged shooter, who was apparently obsessed with raising tax rates on high-income earners and making the IRS code much more complicated. Hodgkinson saw income inequality as a significant problem.Almost five years before he opened fire in Alexandria, Va and wounded Rep. Steve Scalise and four others, Hodgkinson railed in a letter to the editor:If the rich paid their fair share of taxes today, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. We need to vote all Republicans out of Congress. We need to demand Congress add 10 or more brackets to the existing tax code. We need 20 brackets to $20 million, and a 60 percent top marginal rate.We can get our country back if we all vote the right way.In other letters from 2012, Hodgkinson called for as many as 55 different tax brackets for individual income tax filers, up from seven under the current system, and wrote: “I hope the Obama administration raises the income tax rate for the rich to 70 percent or more.” Hodgkinson defended then-President Obama against critics of his economic policies:I can’t believe how many people are upset with our president. You’d think that the world was full of rich millionaires. Why else would these people talk badly about a guy who has their best interest at heart?I read the other day about a man blaming President Barack Obama for food stamp recipients going up from 26 million to 46 million. Anyone with a knowledge of the facts would know that this is because of former President George W. Bush, and his ruining our economy.*****Hodgkinson longed for a “more progressive tax system.” Readers of his various notes on the subject probably figured he was talking about mere policy debates when he lamented in 2012 that it was “a shame that Democrats won’t attack the Republicans.”
