Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated after the 2016 election, a so-called comedienne posted a picture of herself holding Trump’s severed, bloodied head. That apparently passes for comedy among Democrats.
What is so frustrating is that the Left's self-concept is that they are the "good people", the tolerant ones, the caring ones. Listening to their vitriol, watching their sadistic sense of humor, watching them promptly reframing the assassination attempts against Trump, and totally forgetting the Bernie Sanders'/Rachel Maddow fan who traveled to a baseball field in Virginia and nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, is astonishing. The Left bang on about January 6th on which 1000 unarmed people entered the US Capital, but studiously ignore the summer of 2020 in which more than 100 people died, and 2 billion dollars of damage was done as the Dem supported BLM rampaged through American cities, killing, looting and burning.
It's called Projection, Blaine! The mere fact that Camel-A is in that position is the real threat to democracy. Not counting that the dems LOVE censorship---as did Hitler and Stalin and....
As a follow-on to the insightful comment by The Honorable Mr. R. Reiss, I can only add that history is replete with precedents for what is transpiring today a la Trump and his opponents in both politics and the media. To illustrate, I shall simply quote from (of all things!) Wikipedia. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (spoken aloud; also expressed as "troublesome priest" or "meddlesome priest") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates. It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons." Clearly, when Wikipedia contains this bit of information, one may be assured that it is widely known by the contemporary Henry II's in the democrat party apparatus, as is their certain knowledge that such utterings will be repeated and amplified by their lickspittles in the media, all of which is intended--yes, intended--to result in the elimination, whether by ballot or bullet, it matters not to them, of their most effective opponent. Closer in time, we have the examples of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to name but a few dictators, who could effect the elimination of anyone presumed to be less than totally supportive by simply expressing a word or two of irritation in the presence of others whose loyalty to the regime was certain or who were trying to prove their loyalty. Say the word and Poof! problem solved. As Stalin famously said, "No man; no problem." The most troubling aspect of all this is that roughly half the population of this country seems either to support it or at least feel no pangs of hesitation in supporting the political party that so clearly has no qualms about this method of eliminating its opponents.
I am in the middle of reading Erik Larson’s latest historical novel “The Demon of Unrest” about the U.S. Civil War. It’s a snapshot from a relatively short time period of time, about five or six months from when Lincoln was elected in 1860 to the Confederate attack on U.S. Fort Sumter in Charleston some months later.
Honest to God … it doesn’t seem like the Democrats have changed much in past 160+ years!
Larson writes how the Southern gentry saw themselves as above everyone else, as an almost American nobility entitled to privilege, power and their sense of superiority over everyone else.
It sounds a lot like so many of the over-educated elitists that we have now who look down on the rest of America, red states, flyover country, working class, patriots, Christians, practicing Jews, Veterans, cops, plumbers, etc.
I think the main difference is that the Democrats of today have just flipped the script with a tweak … instead of holding down and abusing blacks like they did throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th century, they are now just doing the same thing to white Americans, and anyone else who doesn’t buy their latest racialist snake oil.
Oh … Larson tells the story of how the Pinkerton detectives and the then U.S. General of the Army convinced Lincoln to avoid Baltimore Maryland during his train trip to Washington City (now D.C.) due to real and credible assassination threats against the then Republican President-Elect.
Baltimore Maryland then, like now, was overwhelming controlled by Democrats and was a hotbed of secession, hatred and angst.
They say that history has a tendency to repeat itself. Maybe not exactly on the nose, but there are some eerie similarities between then and now.
I think this guy had a salient point …
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
2 performance artists and 2 goofballs in 7 years. I find it hard to parley that into the Dems want anything more than the Reps do. Their guy to win. Both parties have been poking the other side's candidates for years. The nut jobs are always out there. We just learned about one who laid in the bushes for 12 hours hoping he was right about Trump golfing on Sunday. Something he usually does when he's not on the campaign trail. The conspiracy theories are flying. Certainly the CIA can come up with better moles than Routh.
Speaking of moles (and padding my Alcoa stock), you're right. It's obvious that the patsy Routh jumped the gun and exposed himself before the real CIA assassin had the real target in sight...
What is so frustrating is that the Left's self-concept is that they are the "good people", the tolerant ones, the caring ones. Listening to their vitriol, watching their sadistic sense of humor, watching them promptly reframing the assassination attempts against Trump, and totally forgetting the Bernie Sanders'/Rachel Maddow fan who traveled to a baseball field in Virginia and nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, is astonishing. The Left bang on about January 6th on which 1000 unarmed people entered the US Capital, but studiously ignore the summer of 2020 in which more than 100 people died, and 2 billion dollars of damage was done as the Dem supported BLM rampaged through American cities, killing, looting and burning.
Evil-doers typically think they're the "good guys." Read "The Banality of Evil." Eichmann thought he was just a decent bureaucrat doing his job.
What separates them from other people is an utter lack of introspection. Today's Democrats share that trait with Eichmann and the Nazis.
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They’ve continually said Trump is “worse than Hitler” and he is a “threat to democracy.” Their inflammatory rhetoric is the cause of this insanity.
It's called Projection, Blaine! The mere fact that Camel-A is in that position is the real threat to democracy. Not counting that the dems LOVE censorship---as did Hitler and Stalin and....
As a follow-on to the insightful comment by The Honorable Mr. R. Reiss, I can only add that history is replete with precedents for what is transpiring today a la Trump and his opponents in both politics and the media. To illustrate, I shall simply quote from (of all things!) Wikipedia. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (spoken aloud; also expressed as "troublesome priest" or "meddlesome priest") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates. It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons." Clearly, when Wikipedia contains this bit of information, one may be assured that it is widely known by the contemporary Henry II's in the democrat party apparatus, as is their certain knowledge that such utterings will be repeated and amplified by their lickspittles in the media, all of which is intended--yes, intended--to result in the elimination, whether by ballot or bullet, it matters not to them, of their most effective opponent. Closer in time, we have the examples of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to name but a few dictators, who could effect the elimination of anyone presumed to be less than totally supportive by simply expressing a word or two of irritation in the presence of others whose loyalty to the regime was certain or who were trying to prove their loyalty. Say the word and Poof! problem solved. As Stalin famously said, "No man; no problem." The most troubling aspect of all this is that roughly half the population of this country seems either to support it or at least feel no pangs of hesitation in supporting the political party that so clearly has no qualms about this method of eliminating its opponents.
I am in the middle of reading Erik Larson’s latest historical novel “The Demon of Unrest” about the U.S. Civil War. It’s a snapshot from a relatively short time period of time, about five or six months from when Lincoln was elected in 1860 to the Confederate attack on U.S. Fort Sumter in Charleston some months later.
Honest to God … it doesn’t seem like the Democrats have changed much in past 160+ years!
Larson writes how the Southern gentry saw themselves as above everyone else, as an almost American nobility entitled to privilege, power and their sense of superiority over everyone else.
It sounds a lot like so many of the over-educated elitists that we have now who look down on the rest of America, red states, flyover country, working class, patriots, Christians, practicing Jews, Veterans, cops, plumbers, etc.
I think the main difference is that the Democrats of today have just flipped the script with a tweak … instead of holding down and abusing blacks like they did throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th century, they are now just doing the same thing to white Americans, and anyone else who doesn’t buy their latest racialist snake oil.
Oh … Larson tells the story of how the Pinkerton detectives and the then U.S. General of the Army convinced Lincoln to avoid Baltimore Maryland during his train trip to Washington City (now D.C.) due to real and credible assassination threats against the then Republican President-Elect.
Baltimore Maryland then, like now, was overwhelming controlled by Democrats and was a hotbed of secession, hatred and angst.
They say that history has a tendency to repeat itself. Maybe not exactly on the nose, but there are some eerie similarities between then and now.
I think this guy had a salient point …
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
See: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/258701
Also see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195608683-the-demon-of-unrest
G’day.
This from Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger: One time is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
2 performance artists and 2 goofballs in 7 years. I find it hard to parley that into the Dems want anything more than the Reps do. Their guy to win. Both parties have been poking the other side's candidates for years. The nut jobs are always out there. We just learned about one who laid in the bushes for 12 hours hoping he was right about Trump golfing on Sunday. Something he usually does when he's not on the campaign trail. The conspiracy theories are flying. Certainly the CIA can come up with better moles than Routh.
Speaking of moles (and padding my Alcoa stock), you're right. It's obvious that the patsy Routh jumped the gun and exposed himself before the real CIA assassin had the real target in sight...
LOL!