Posts: 46647
Threads: 543
Joined: July 24, 2013
Reputation:
108
Help Me Understand This
January 7, 2022 at 6:27 am
Lindsey Graham has accused Joe Biden of using his recent speech to ‘politicize’ the January Insurrection.
How exactly do you politicize an event that is, by its very nature, political?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Posts: 17349
Threads: 463
Joined: March 29, 2015
Reputation:
30
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 7, 2022 at 7:13 am
It's probably because Graham played a part leading up to January 6 insurrection when he illegally tried to pressure GA election officials to toss out votes.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Posts: 1750
Threads: 0
Joined: December 11, 2019
Reputation:
9
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 7, 2022 at 9:26 am
A power-drunk ego maniac held him hostage. Lindsey had never been held like that before. Now, he holds Lindsey's heart.
Posts: 6112
Threads: 53
Joined: September 25, 2018
Reputation:
20
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 7, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Much of the mindless followers are too stupid to know how words work, so the Grahams, and the Greenes, and the Boeberts pepper their speech with frightening, dubious, controversial content to rile up the brain dead zombies.
Posts: 2087
Threads: 65
Joined: August 30, 2015
Reputation:
24
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 12, 2022 at 2:03 am
"Don't politicize ____" is just code for "No fair using this against us!"
Just take a look at the responses to 9/11 or any crime committed by undocumented immigrants. If an undocumented immigrant murders someone, Republicans are duty bound to blame border security on said measure within 5 minutes of the person's death. And in the case of 9/11, well you could basically complete any republican sentence for years with a noun, a verb, and 911. But if you mention that maybe we should have some gun laws, suddenly we need to 'let the bodies get cold' before we talk about that.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Posts: 1465
Threads: 31
Joined: November 29, 2020
Reputation:
8
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 12, 2022 at 9:23 am
It's just cheerleading for the base. The GOP base is the most gullible block of idiots in the world. If Trump shouted that all Democrats are lizards in disguise, they would cheer and scream in delight. No statement is too preposterous for them.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
Posts: 28520
Threads: 525
Joined: June 16, 2015
Reputation:
89
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 12, 2022 at 7:55 pm
(January 12, 2022 at 9:23 am)Spongebob Wrote: It's just cheerleading for the base. The GOP base is the most gullible block of idiots in the world. If Trump shouted that all Democrats are lizards in disguise, they would cheer and scream in delight. No statement is too preposterous for them.
Um..... no. Limit it to the far right GOP and I'd agree. Discounting the moderates and centrists in the GOP only displays your far left wing bias.
Victim mentality much?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
Posts: 31004
Threads: 204
Joined: July 19, 2011
Reputation:
141
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 12, 2022 at 10:49 pm
The far right GOP *is* the base.
Posts: 1465
Threads: 31
Joined: November 29, 2020
Reputation:
8
RE: Help Me Understand This
January 13, 2022 at 8:10 am
For some reason we see far more cheerleading from the far right and its fan base is eager to participate. I don't understand why there's a difference. Other than Bernie's campaign for president, there's not much similar activity that goes on for those on the left. Why is that?
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller