(06-30-2020, 12:42 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(06-30-2020, 12:16 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Did any of our Leftist posters here actually watch the video?

It's something everyone should see. Two geriatric groups who's only real difference is politics. The ones on the Right are parading in golf carts waving American flags and Trump campaign signs. They are being polite. The ones on the Left are shouting "F-you nazi" and other profanities.

The Left on the video are all full of hate and are willing to go to any extreme to promote their hate. That's the real story here.

Yet somehow the Leftist on this board defend their haters and make it all about one toss-away reply from a guy who was being bombarded with insults.

I was outraged at the murder of George Floyd. I have been outraged at the excesses the police sometimes go to. But after reading all of my Leftist posters who I considered friends here defending the rioting and the hatred being spewed, I'm through with it. No more sympathy for the George Floyds of the world from me.

Ok, time for a counterpoint.

I have swung way left over the last few months. Know why? Our racist, scumbag criminal of a do-nothing [BLEEP] President hasn't done himself any favors. People pulling their truck in front of a man so they could murder him and being defended for doing so didn't help keep me in the middle. A pig kneeling on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds didn't help. The riots? Riots are the language of those democracy has forgotten. The looting? [BLEEP] those guys. Looting is never excusable outside of the most extreme of situations. Ignoring a pandemic until (and after) it got here, then downplaying it and ignoring his own top advisers to the point where now we're at over 100,000 dead and counting? And empowering those who don't want to do the one simple [BLEEP] thing that can (and does) save lives, putting a [BLEEP] piece of cloth over your mouth and nose in public? Yeah, no one opposed to wearing a mask because...freedom?...is making the right look any more appealing. A President who's been presented with an unprecedented series of crises, the kind that great men step up to and cowards hide behind Twitter for, retweeting a video where in the first goddamned ten seconds someone is shouting "white power" and being unavailable to delete it because he had turned his phone off to go golfing?! All of this going on, now word of bounties from foreign powers against US assets, and the best he can do is Tweet, golf, gas peaceful protesters for a photo op, send the message that doing nothing is an acceptable response to a pandemic, glorify fat old dudes in golf carts who roll around shouting "white power" and send his clueless press secretary onstage to read prepared remarks that even she struggles to keep a straight face for half the time. That's the best we've got. Someone who seems to be actively interested in getting the elderly killed off (hey, they're you're voters dude), making sure that racial tensions never cool down, glorifying traitors and bringing an end to the America that the Founding Fathers created in favor of one under his total, unquestioned control. And there are people in the world defending this? [BLEEP] them. People on this board, people I had respected enjoyed talking with, defending white supremacy, defending police brutality, defending a Sgt. Schultz attitude towards all of it?

No. No more sympathy for right-wing points of view, no more respect to or deference for traitor sympathizers, and no more kid gloves when someone tries to defend a blatant act of police brutality, no more rationalizing racism and assuming good intentions, no more efforts to understand, and to anyone anywhere who has a shoe that fits this post, [BLEEP] you. Once again:

Very well said! Lately, I have been encouraged by the number of previous Trump supporters who have decided to "throw in the towel." To me, this is clearly not a situation of Republicans vs. Democrats. Most people have very deep-seated reasons regarding their political preferences and I have no right to judge them. When respected conservatives like George Will indicate their refusal to support Trump it gives me hope for the future. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Republican lawmakers have continued to support most of Trump's decisions out of the fear that they will be voted out of office. As things stand now, this reluctance to show any kind of integrity will likely backfire come election day. Most Republicans are good people and they would have eventually come to respect the courage of these politicians. It would not surprise me if Trump not only loses overwhelmingly, but brings down these senators with him. Hopefully this will be a lesson for future politicians who will show the courage to criticize the President when he/she is obviously wrong. Naturally, this applies equally to Democratic legislators.

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