Why NOT to vote Republican

[iris lilies]

Your optimism is inspiring!

i’m just cranky about the BLM civil protesters who are really rioters who
burn buildings and killed a cop downtown.


The cop killer was just convicted two weeks ago. Surprisingly, our do-nothing city prosecutor had one of her prosecutors show up in court to prosecute and that is not a given for murderers here. One of them went free when city prosecution simply failed to show up.

I wish our city prosecutor I would be DeSantised, but that would be a different post.

[JaneV2.0]

I thought cop-killing was mostly a right-wing thing, as in January 6th and this latest nail-gun wielding whack job.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nat...196423174.html

From the article:
White supremacist and other far-right extremist groups have killed 51 police officers since 1990, according to a report published by the Anti-Defamation League last week. Left-wing extremist groups, including black nationalists, killed 11 during the same period.


I believe that we should have citizen review boards to keep officers honest, rather than just summarily executing them.

[LDAHL]

When you have people like Kevin McCarthy, Newt Gingrich, and Ron DeSantis screaming hatred for the rule of law by accusing the FBI of attacking political enemies it's not so much a fringe sort of aspect of the Republican party, it's more the entire shag carpet of the republican party that holds these views.

I think you have more in common with those people than you realize.

[iris lilies]

I thought cop-killing was mostly a right-wing thing, as in January 6th and this latest nail-gun wielding whack job.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nat...196423174.html

From the article:
White supremacist and other far-right extremist groups have killed 51 police officers since 1990, according to a report published by the Anti-Defamation League last week. Left-wing extremist groups, including black nationalists, killed 11 during the same period.


I believe that we should have citizen review boards to keep officers honest, rather than just summarily executing them.

I can’t read this because I have to subscribe. Do they list each incident? Do they list David Dorn in 2020 in St. Louis?

There might be “more “killings by right wingers” because the mainstream media likes to assign that label to nut jobs, and those nut jobs as labeled tend to be white people and there are a lot more white people than Black people in this country. I would want to look at specific incidents, tho to draw conclusions. And of course we cannot assign political leanings based on skin color either so that would be a problem.

[jp1]

I think you have more in common with those people than you realize.

That’s some serious projection you got going on there. Your Republican member card is definitely not at risk of being revoked.

[frugal-one]

I'm OK with hanging the thugs on both sides of the aisle.

Ditto

[JaneV2.0]

I can’t read this because I have to subscribe. Do they list each incident? Do they list David Dorn in 2020 in St. Louis?

There might be “more “killings by right wingers” because the mainstream media likes to assign that label to nut jobs, and those nut jobs as labeled tend to be white people and there are a lot more white people than Black people in this country. I would want to look at specific incidents, tho to draw conclusions. And of course we cannot assign political leanings based on skin color either so that would be a problem.

The article doesn't list specific cases, it discusses the phenomenon in general. Apparently Cannon was a garden-variety looter--one of those who infiltrate demonstrations to cause trouble, like the Proud boys on the other side.

[frugal-one]

True fringewittery requires a sort of closed mental system. They are violent, but we are peaceful (the violence attributed to us is really the doing of provocateurs). They hatch violent plots, but we are entrapped by FBI informants. They want to install an authoritarian regime, we merely want to get things done. They deface buildings, we just need to get our message across. They are racist, we are merely race-conscious. They are uniquely and historically evil, we are pure and so justified in any necessary action we must take.

To a fringewit, the truth is clear and simple and any contradiction can be dismissed as the lies of the opposition. There are only two possible sides in the Great Struggle. You are either with us or beyond the pale.

Fortunately, this thinking is limited to a tiny minority.

We and they. Which are you? It seems to me the people who vote for mega republicans (ie Ron Johnson and their ilk) are the ones who are following the provocateur DJT. The ones who were part of Jan 6th and have been put on trial were not peaceful. They were not entrapped?

[Alan]

That’s some serious projection you got going on there.

Says our very own king of projection, derision and half truths, LOL.

[frugal-one]

I think you have more in common with those people than you realize.

Haha.. look who is talking.