RE: The PR Wing Of The GOP
June 14, 2022 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2022 at 4:14 pm by Irreligious Atheist.)
(June 14, 2022 at 3:20 pm)Helios Wrote:Quote:There are levels to this shit though. I need to buy a clue because I'm not willing to say that some clowns breaking into a building and putting their feet up on desks and writing letters to Nancy Pelosi is not quite comparable to thousands of people dying? If you have nightmares of shirtless dudes in viking helmets coming for all of your rights like the Nazis did, then more power to you, but I just don't see it how you see it.Yes, you do because you fail to realize that a partisan mob felt emboldened enough to storm the capital building during the verification and tried to intimidate the house into changing the result of a federal election. Fascism didn't start with the death camps and everyone dismissed the Nazis as some clowns. No, you don't see it at all despite it being right in front of you.
I don't fail to realize that a partisan mob felt emboldened enough to storm the capitol building during the verification and tried to intimidate the house into changing the result of a federal election. It's been a crazy past few years. Rioting and or people wilding out on the streets and causing chaos was pretty much the norm for months on end. We saw it on the news weekly. A police station burned down. People attempting to set fire to courthouses. ICE detention centers being firebombed. So called autonomous zones like Chaz. Lockdowns, police misconduct, and Donald J caused the nation, and the world really, to go a bit wild. I've disavowed what the Trump nuts did at the Capitol, and I don't need to compare it to World War II to prove to anyone that I think January 6 was bad. It was bad, but there are ten thousand levels of bad, so if you just want to get a political zinger on the Repubs, feel free to keep comparing it to 9/11 and WWII.
As far as denying the results of elections, I don't like it, but I think censoring people online for denying the results of an election is not the answer. When VP Harris talked about the spread of misinformation during the anniversary of Jan 6, what she's saying is that only rubber stamped, authoritative misinformation coming from so called authoritative news outlets should be allowed. It's basically rules for thee, not for me. They want their misinformation to be the misinformation that has a monopoly, which is why I completely reject the narrative that "something needs to be done about the people spreading misinformation". Like Mika Brzezinski let slip out on MSNBC, it is the mainstream media's job to control exactly what people think. Let all the misinformation muck about, I say, and let it all stand.
Hillary Clinton told Biden to not concede under any circumstances. Of course she was not alone in that opinion. Many Democrat voters questioned Trump's election from the start, and did the whole "not my President" thing, and said Putin interfered so the results should be thrown out and there should be a do-over. I disavowed that. I disavow the questioning of Biden as the official POTUS. Yeah, America's been through some shit the past few years, but you've survived it. Of course it's a problem that people are questioning election results and you never want to see that, but I'm sorry if I'm not going to join you in thinking that the sky is falling and the Nazi party is at our doorstep, waiting in the wings for the right time to take its' rightful place in power. Q Anon doesn't particularly scare me.
Edit- Here's this old story I just remembered too. Celebrities call on the electoral college to vote against Donald Trump, even though he was rightly elected.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/celebrit...nald-trump