By some, perhaps. They’re also accepted by some on the right (like the speaker you refer to). Are you upset about that?
I’m sorry these things upset you.
Pesonally, I’m upset that the right are working with a foreign power to destroy democracy in America, and that such activities are not just accepted by the right but actively encouraged.
But the dinner thing is bad too.
Well lets face it. Neither group can control the actions of their extreme people.
But they dont need to encourage it either.
I agree. Were you upset that the right-wing guy on the radio was encouraging it?
Well its like during Bush 2 the left also did some extreme things and so when Obama was elected people on the right went after him and his followers.
Only in the case of Obama they could always pull out the race card.
Biden wont have that option.
What on Earth are you talking about, and what does this have to do with my question? Once again – are you upset by right wing advocates of extremism, like that speaker on the radio you referred to, or only left wing advocates?
Please, provide examples of these “extreme things” which justified McConnell blocking every initiative Obama proposed.
When the “extreme people” on the left get active, they’re mean to people at dinner.
When the “extreme people” on the right get active, they’re mean to people at dinner and murder dozens of minorities.
They can, because the right keep electing and appointing their extreme people to public office, which are actions they can control. The extreme people on the left don’t get elected or appointed to public office, so in essence the left are actually already controlling them to the extent they can.
Trump’s not going to stop, not while he has the ability to keep attacking our democracy and our society – Reports that he’s going to launch his 2024 bid for the presidency during Biden’s inauguration.
Good. It’ll become a money and energy sump for all the MAGAts out there. With a little luck it’ll be quashed by the more moderate Republicans and lead to nowhere.
With some more luck, the Pubs will push even deeper into the quagmire they’ve been marching into for a generation.
We’re neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on
I think that whole “CHAZ” thing and looting and setting fire to buildings and attacking police and innocent people is a bit more.
Also setting “free speech zones” in college yet not allowing free speech.
Did you even have a moment, maybe a fleeting thought, that comparing property damage to actual murder might not be the best argument to make? Did you think to yourself that maybe killing another (or many other) human being might be worse than setting a garbage can on fire? Or were you so wrapped up in the “liberals bad” part of your brain that those thoughts didn’t even occur to you?
Don’t get me wrong, the far right is more than capable of property damage (swastikas on graves and racists signs painted on houses) and attacking people (hitting protestors with cars), but they also murder at a much higher rate. It is stunning to me that you somehow want to pretend that murdering people and property damage are comparable. Plus the far right does it much more often:
"The report, published Thursday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, found that white supremacist groups were responsible for 41 of 61 “terrorist plots and attacks” in the first eight months of this year, or 67 percent.
The finding comes about two weeks after an annual assessment by the Department of Homeland Security warned that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland” and that white supremacists were the most deadly among domestic terrorists in recent years."
All true.
But what scares white suburbanites is the possibility that BLM “thugs” will torch their Starbucks because they know the white supremacist terrorists won’t be torching their Starbucks.
I’m sure you do think that, but then all those things were grossly exaggerated by the right-wing media.
On the other hand, politicians on the left condemned violence by left-wing protesters, whereas politicians on the right - including the President - praised and encouraged violence and lawlessness by right-wing protesters. The couple who illegally threatened protesters with guns were given a guest spot at the RNC, and the teenager who killed someone with a gun he wasn’t legally allowed to have has been praised by many on the right, some of whom have now paid his bail.
Of course, the right have also used actual LEOs to carry out widespread violence too, which I guess is fine.
Furthermore can you imagine what would happen if a bunch of Black activists with guns stormed the Texas state captitol? I’m pretty sure that the response wouldn’t have been to just let them carry out their protest and go home without charges filed.
Here’s a description of, and reaction to, what some of those on the “extreme right” are currently doing. I’m sure those who are concerned about what the extreme left are doing will also be keen to condemn these things.
(Also - not that it excuses illegal or violent behavior but it’s worth noting that what the extreme left are fighting against is “the police illegally and disproportionately targeting and killing black people”, whereas what the extreme right are fighting against is “voting, and counting those votes”.)
No, Gore was trying to get the election right. The difference was about 500 votes and in one state, where thousands of votes got screwed up due to hanging chads and other problems. The election was in very real doubt. No one was alleging "fraud’, just irregularities. I am not saying Gores case was right mind you, but it had valid legal points, it was heard by Scotus, not denied. " Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court.
In 2020 there is no real doubt. Biden won. trump and co are trying to overcome the known results of the election. They have no valid points at all. Their cases have been tossed out, not heard for the most part.
This is a attempted coup.
Sweet Jesus, how can you possibly believe such a ridiculous and illogical thing? If you do, it’s very disturbing.
Well, it’s like if I shoplift some perfume and you get hopped up on PCP and butcher everyone on your block…we’re both criminals and therefore equally bad people.
Except sometimes I’m equally bad because I might of thought about shoplifting the perfume and didn’t, but I might next time.