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As Donald Trump’s second inauguration approaches, an acrimonious controversy is splitting his defeated but still quite insane leftist opposition: should they behave civilly toward Trump and his supporters or continue to pretend that the incoming president and those who voted for him are fascists and insurrectionists who pose an imminent threat to what they unctuously and counterfactually insist upon calling “our democracy”?
The two sides are squaring off against each other now. Disgraced former CNN talking head Don Lemon has lined up loudly and unequivocally with the latter camp and is taking aim at MSNBC’s farther-than-far-left Joe Scarborough for daring to suggest that maybe everyone should just calm down and stop acting as if a Trump presidency meant the end of the world as we know it.
Fox News reported Monday that it all started with an exchange Scarborough had with former RNC chair Michael Steele, a diehard and squishy McCainite/Romneyite stooge of the left, “after the host praised former President Barack Obama for being friendly with President-elect Trump at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.” Steele shot back: “You like to say 78 million people voted for Donald Trump, well 82 million people voted for Joe Biden… civility is a two-way street.” Yeah, that’s right: Steele added a million extra phantoms to the ones who already voted for Old Joe.
Anyway, as to civility, sure, Mike, it is a two-way street. And so let’s remember what Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Absolut) said back in 2018, during Trump’s first administration: “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be.” That was not long before Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Get Trump) said this about Trump’s Cabinet members: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! And you tell them that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere.”
Then in June 2020, during the George Floyd riots, Kamala Harris, who had a great future ahead of her, said of the protests: “They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”
Can Steele produce quotes from three patriotic politicians appearing to call for violence against leftists? Of course, he cannot. Civility is indeed a two-way street, but the left is almost wholly responsible for its being so sorely lacking in American politics today.
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Joe Scott says
No such thing as a civil lefty, they’re all straitjacketed morons that love themselves balls deep…
Hoi Polloi says
From my chair, it seems there’s only this minor discussion because many leftists accepted the challenge issued by their decrepit leadership and then faced consequences due to increased exposure. X provided the opportunity to post videos of those inciting; something none of them expected. For years leftists hammered a theme of disruption on their own sites; fight with your crazy far right uncle over the Thanksgiving dinner table was one. Never mind that most of us love these very solid humans who happen to be our uncles. Lemon seemed even more ignorant and unhinged than usual in the referenced clip; maybe the crazy comes from inside the house? Something they’ll never consider.
If they were being honest, they’d say the dilemma they wrestle with is civil vs criminal lawfare against anyone not far left.
Billy says
Democrats and the Democrat Party are totalitarian and discriminatory against America as they side with Islam and its Muslims to help gain ultimate power and control. Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Organization. Specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran.
Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a Muslim war against unbelievers because Non-Muslims are criminals under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Islam promotes a terroristic war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise for acts of killing when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
Islam champions Muslim acts of slaughter against Non-Muslims for not becoming Muslims as Allah in Qur’an 8:12 says, “When your lord revealed to the angels: ‘I am with you so make firm those who believed[Muslims]. I will cast a terror into the hearts of those who became infidels[Non-Muslims]. So strike above their necks(decapitation), and strike off(chop off) every finger from them.’”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
We saw it at the Hegseth senate hearings today. Democrat after Democrat continuing to attack Hegseth on his personal life, as well as the 3 demonstrators who attacked Hegseth for his support to Israel (which is consistent w/ President Trump’s!). I don’t expect Dems to be civil once they’ve fully recovered from the shock of their loss
somehistory says
The FBI report on Mr. Hegseth was said to be “unremarkable.” as they couldn’t find anything with which to attack him.
somehistory says
I would like to question this idiot …. Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-senator-s-lies-and-stupidity-at-hegseth-hearing-roasted-on-social-media-clown-show/ar-BB1rrHCY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=dd60976496894a11b0b223a9cdc2186b&ei=53
tgusa says
Former (and current) democrat slave mad Maxine Waters wants some Americans to know that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere. Where have I heard that before?
Having lived among these leftists I have developed an ability to unhinge them. It isn’t that hard. You just engage them and counter their crazy rants with calm cool and collected counter points. They dont take that very well. When they have become unhinged you have to be careful. A smile or a smirk can drive them over the edge and they will begin contemplating violence against you. I dont recommend this to everyone as there is a good chance they will go berserk. They are not that hard to read and at that point I can tell that they are simultaneously thinking, should I go violent, is that a good idea? Fortunately for me I have a look that makes them wonder how I might respond to their aggression. For the most part I mind my own business and ignore them. I have to be “in the mood” before I decide to step up and antagonize them. If you are in the mood it can be fun but again, be careful.
James Lincoln says
tgusa says,
“You just engage them and counter their crazy rants with calm cool and collected counter points. They dont take that very well.”
No, they don’t take that very well.
I know it firsthand…