Taichiliberal (05-17-2022)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
Taichiliberal (05-17-2022)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
Taichiliberal (05-17-2022)
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"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
Taichiliberal (05-17-2022)
How about a national ' Domestic Terrorism Day ' instead of spreading all these gun-related massacres over the year ?
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Disagreed; you were quoting the standard Democrat mantra on gun-control and I was reiterating the standard result of the Democratic agenda.
All of the mass shooters of note were known to be wackadoodles: Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Adam Lanzo, Nikolas Cruz and James Hodgkinson to name a few. Now add Payton Gendron to that list.
IIRC, a "mass shooting" is three or more people shot with a BB gun or larger so gang-bangers are included in the numbers, but it's shootings like this that cause a public outcry and which the Democrats use to push their gun control agenda. Why is banning guns their FIRST plan and not better mental health care?
Why are nutjobs like those listed above allowed to have firearms? Why were they not treated before they committed mass murder and ruined their own lives?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Agreed about unhappy society. Disagreed about "brink of anarchy".
A major part of the problem is how media and social media is fomenting unbridled hatred. Tucker Carlson blabbing about Replacement Theory several nights a week and forums where people discuss tactics for killing minorities and supporting those who do so are part of the problem.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...heory-n1295212
Tucker Carlson is the No. 1 champion of this leading far-right conspiracy
How Tucker Carlson revived and supercharged the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...cement-theory/
Nearly half of Republicans agree with ‘great replacement theory’
It was about a year ago when Fox News’s Tucker Carlson first eagerly ripped off the mask.
“I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest for the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” he said in April 2021. “But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually.”
This was an explicit evocation of a line of argument, once confined to the right-wing, white nationalist fringe, called “great replacement theory.” The idea, as Carlson makes clear, is not simply that immigration to the United States could reshape American politics but that some cadre of elites is intentionally encouraging that to happen. That there was a sinister plan to literally “replace” native-born Americans with immigrants.
Despite Carlson’s characteristic insistence about his own honesty, this is not what is happening. But the idea soon spread on the political right, first from one member of Congress — Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), one of Donald Trump’s allies in his bid to overturn the 2020 election — and then to Republicans more broadly. The idea that there was a plan to swap out native-born Americans with immigrants became increasingly taken for granted on the right.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Earl (05-16-2022)
Enjoy your FBI interview, Fredo. I'll be happy to entertain them any time.
The links prove you wrong. Here's more:
OCTOBER 7, 2021
https://www.thenation.com/article/po...on-fox-racism/
Tucker Carlson’s Nightly Toxicity Is Poisoning His Brain
His latest racist rant about the “Great Replacement theory” was particularly unhinged.
Oct 22, 2021
https://www.insider.com/tucker-carls...-trump-2021-10
A former leader of the KKK celebrated Tucker Carlson 'finally' sharing the white-supremacist 'great replacement' conspiracy theory
11/11/21
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-ri...acist-lexicon/
‘Legacy American’ is the latest catchphrase in the racist lexicon
Now Tucker Carlson has added a new term to the coded racism lexicon: “Legacy Americans.” In a September broadcast, Carlson accused President Biden of encouraging immigration of non-Europeans to dilute the voting power of Euro-Americans.
“In political terms,” he asserted, “this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries.” “The Great Replacement,” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that dark-skinned, non-European people are replacing those of European descent. Neo-Nazis expressed a version of this theory when they chanted “Jews will not replace us” during their tiki torch parade at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. The man who murdered 51 Muslims in Christ Church, New Zealand and the one, who killed 21 in an El Paso, Texas Walmart also subscribed to replacement theory.
While replacement theory is decades old, “legacy Americans” is a relatively new term. Carlson did not define it, but his meaning seems clear from the context. He is referring to white Americans whose ancestors have lived in the country for a long time, the people he and his followers consider “real Americans.”
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
You don’t get to decide whether we need more or less guns out there, Anchovies.
The Second Amendment has already decided that issue and “DC vs, Heller” codified it.
The far left Democrats own violence in America with their riots, looting, burning, assaults and murders.
Poor Anchovies.
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