It is really terrifying to confront that kind of madness and hate. I saw it as a democrat during Trump's first term and as I began to confront it and push back I became a target and it just got worse over time. The cure for it is humanizing their enemies, which they could do if the legacy media would focus on them, show them who they are. That might help shake them out of it. As it is, ICE officers are being sent out on their operations facing down the inevitable next step of that kind of hate. There is only one step left - violence. No one is really dealing with it, or addressing it. The Democrats just pander to it. Thank you for writing this. It matters.
You know - those people who get shot to death for helping a woman up off the ground after a masked goon crossed the street to shove her down.. the violent lefties who work at VA hospitals.
So were Reta Phyllis Mays, Sabrina D. Harman and Kristen Gilbert. FAFO Babbitt was a violent criminal attempting to get at US Senators for ... reasons.Trying to lunge at the police officer pointing s gun at her.
Anyone claiming she was somehow wronged is depraved, gaslighting trash.
Ashli Babbitt was climbing through a broken window in an attempt to forcibly stop our votes from being counted. She died fighting for her child, and all of ours, to live under a dictatorship. That's an act of attempted violence against generations of Americans.
Babbitt asked to be shot by trying to crawl through a window so she could unlock the door and left the rioters in. Good wasn’t as reckless as Babbitt, just careless and negligent in driving her car into an ICE agent while trying to evade arrest.
What team do you think I picked? You say all lives matter, but it’s also true that the facts matter. So let’s look at the facts. Was Babbitt trying to escape? What was her purpose in trying to crawl through that window? To play a game of gin rummy with the federal LEOs holding the line against an assault by a violent mob? Please. Good was certainly a radical, whose goal was to obstruct federal immigration enforcement, but at the moment she was shot, she was trying to escape. She apparently negligently sideswiped a federal LEO in the process, which prompted him to shoot her. Those are the facts.
That's what's known as "whataboutism"; rather than seek to counter the fact that the violent radical left is exactly that (physical attacks on ICE agents were up 1300% in 2025 as compared to 2024, not to mention all the online and in person threats), one asks,
"Well, what about X?", as if that changes the indisputable truth of the original charge. Also, the jerk in question was unemployed at the time and started a fight with federal law enforcement while armed.
Do you honestly believe it is only on the left? Listen to the adminisration's voices. According to Vance Pretti was an assassin. Rennee was a "domestic terrorist". When the subject came up with my trump worshipping sister she said they deserved it. In 2016 I was member of my local GOP and campaigned for Trump. In 2020 and 2024 I voted for him. I have heard republicans say we need a dictator and demonstrators should be shot, unless of course they were January 6 "demonstrators: and if they attacked police it was because the police attacked first. So please don't me about the "left" until you talk to the fascists and violent in your own side.
False. It is the left which has spent a decade calling Trump the Austrian painter and his voters Nazis in the hopes of provoking political violence against them, Leftists have openly advocated for his assassination, called ICE Gestapo, said how much they want to genocide everyone who disagrees with them politically, etc. The Left is hate, because leftists are ruled by emotion rather than logic and reason.
Too bad about the slings and arrows.. but maybe you need to look a bit more deeply at the substance that prompts them. It might be that your positioning actually is, well, reprehensible. Your whole post seems to be more whine than analysis - sort of a mirror image, actually, of people you label just as they label you.
What prompts such hateful comments is that he dares to disagree with the Left. The party of "tolerance and compassion" has neither for anyone who doesn't agree with them 100%, as J.K. Rowling discovered to her sorrow. Furthermore, he analyzed the hate directed against him and it is ridiculous to call the article a "Mirror image" of the hatred and obscenity directed at him, when he didn't fling any virulent insults.
No reasonable person with any level of discernment can continue to defend Trump.
Sorry, not sorry, the D in TDS is Delusion, for all the personality cult tricks and the cynical shills who are collaborating with this systematic teardown of the US Constitution.
Realize that creates some cognitive dissonance for you, but you're defending a pedo, who is, if not an outright asset, at minimum a useful idiot for our #1 kinetic and cyber enemy.
If you can't see the pattern match between Project 2025 and the NSDAP 1920 25 Point Program, you're blind. No, it's not just his kayfabe act.
All of that said, yeah, your critics should have better manners ... but then again, they're just emulating the flacks on your side of the aisle, including the old felon himself.
Pedo? Good grief Charlie Brown .. not even Epstein himself was ever accused of being a "pedo". I only hold out hope you are just a Russian based AI bot .. spitting out cartoon versions of Democrat straw man arguments .. real Democrats are not quite that delusional .. at least not those who know how to read and spell. So .. bot alert.
Clearly no sense is involved here from the OP. 1. Trump is not a pedo. No Epstein victim has ever accused him and the Epstein files would have been illegally leaked to the media before the election if they implicated him. 2. Lol, Trump is obeying the Constitution; it is the other side who constantly attacks the 1st and 2nd Amendments. 3. Tinfoil hat territory. Trump has been opposing China from the start, in virtually every way possible. If by chance you meant Russia, which is neither our primary kinetic or cyber enemy, Trump has hurt Putin by taking down Putin ally Maduro, having told Europe years ago not to buy Russian oil, by trying to make Europe spend more on defense, etc. 4. Nope, not emulating, being far worse; Trump never called anyone the Austrian painter or openly wished for their murder.
I was shocked by your appearance on PBS. You basically agreed with their approach and said they were putting away dangerous criminals and protesters should just stop. I live in upstate NY snd the raids here have not been conducted quite like they have in MN, but the way they assault people, haul them away in secret and pull people on thei way to hearings id shameful. I thought conservatives believed in the Constitution and the rule of law. ICE are acting like thugs.
Plenty of violence towards ICE agents at these non-peaceful protests. When illegals resist and attacks on ICE agents are up 1,300%, it is indeed necessary to engage in self-defense. What is shameful is those obstructing justice and opposing enforcement of the laws democratically passed under our Constitution.
Nothing I wrote is a lie, as a five second Google search will confirm. Physical attacks on ICE agents were up 1300% in 2025 compared to 2024, plenty of illegals physically resist, and it is shameful that people oppose enforcing the federal immigration laws democratically passed under our Constitution. To leftists, their feelings are always more important than the rule of law and the Constitution.
First, lower courts rule, and they have ruled against ICE many times. It takes a long time to reach the Supreme Court when you've been whisked away to an overcrowded detention center without being able to contact family or a lawyer. I think ICE has gotten better. The point is, ICE bad tactics came first, protests came after.
To the Left, anyone to the right of Chaiman Mao is a "Nazi". To paraphrase what a wise man once said, they don't call us Nazis because they think it is true, for if it were true they would all be gone already. They call us Nazis as an excuse to murder us.
See the first line of my above post. Aside from the subject of tariffs, the U.S. right hasn't substantially changed its platform in half a century. It's the Left who went off the edge and so now regards center-right as "far right".
Of course, anyone who uses that malignant, narcissist idiot Marx as his symbol is further off the edge than most; talk about an extremist!
MUCH worse, given Communists mass-murdered 100 million of their own people for the crime of politically disagreeing with them during the 20th century alone. Everywhere Communism has been seriously tried, every single time it has been tried, it has resulted in a mass-murdering tyranny. That's because Marx was a lazy, entitled person who didn't understand human nature at all.
OH my gosh Gary.. such hateful hearts.. Sorry you got bombarded with that crap! Love hearing from you, watching you & reading your logical important info..When I disagree & I do sometimes I certainly don’t go crazy like some of those writers.. Keep on, keeping on Gary!
Gary, it’s really simple. We Americans who have a moral compass, some appreciation for the constitution, and a pulse are thoroughly disgusted by anyone who supports what this anti-American administration run by an incompetent criminal is doing. Some of us are really, really angry at you people. You’ll just have to get used to it if you want to keep supporting this anti-American administration that’s shredding the constitution. And be forewarned we won’t forget what you supported.
Americans who have a moral compass would support enforcing our democratically passed laws by deporting illegals. Furthermore, they would not celebrate the murder of an insurance executive, nor a man using his 1st Amendment rights to peacefully debate the other side. Lastly, they would not call Trump the Austrian painter, who mass-murdered 11 million people. How many has Trump mass-murdered again?
Oh, you don't have to remind us that the Leftists hat anyone who politically disagrees with them and want revenge. Believe me, we know that already, especially after far-leftists mass-murdered 100 million during the 20th century for disagreeing with them politically. Know what the Left has learned from that tragedy? Nothing.
Thanks for proving my point with that obscene ad hominem. Leftists in general operate on hate rather than any rational framework of facts; that's why their only reply is ad hominem when someone presents indisputable facts.
. . . At long last, sir, have you no sense of proportion?
♫ F-bombs and other words will never hurt you . . . but sticks break bones, and pepper balls blind, and tear gas harms the lungs. ♫ And Lugers kill.
Noem and Bondi and Patel wish to criminalize citizens' "disrespect" toward ICE agents, by transmogrifying it into "obstruction". Homan weeps for his battle-armored legions who have to endure a daily, steady stream of curses and abuse.
[Imagine picture of crocodile tears here]
This, unabashedly, in a nation besmirched by the coarse and vile man who inspired a movement enamored of such rallying cries as "Fuck your feelings". A "man" who calls women pigs and dogs, and a female reporter "Piggy". Who belittles prominent critics or journalists, who've simply been voicing their opinions, or asking reasonable questions – and who, by the way, happen to be people of color – as "low IQ".
And now Mr. Abernathy – unaware of, or indifferent to, how insupportably forgiving is his attitude toward all that is objectionable about Donald Trump – devotes an unseemly number of column inches to decrying the nastiness that's filled his inbox. Well, OK. Gary likes to raise straw men, so let's knock this one down. Yes, the examples he's shared are clearly the product of inarticulate, and perhaps in some cases, dangerous yahoos. Hotheads. Assholes. But they don't speak for me. And they don't speak for the thousands of likewise non-leftist, non-socialist, non-revolutionary citizens who have risen up to be seen and heard in response to Trump's very obvious, and very obviously unlawful, excesses. The energy and concern expended on bemoaning the cursing, insulting few is a case of not seeing the fascist forest for the swearing trees.
Mr. Trump – who once engaged Roy Cohn as his business attorney, was more recently heard to say, "Where's my Roy Cohn?" Well, Cohn is embodied in and channeled by the likes of Mr. Abernathy and the other of Trump's excuse-makers, albeit in acceptably kind and gentle guise. When really pressed, Abernathy concedes that Herr Drumpf can sometimes be, um, "counterproductive". Despite having a presumably broad vocabulary befitting a professional commentator, his go-to words are the lazy, party-line slogans used to dismiss, with a broad, lazy brush, all Trump critics: He, like his lazy fellows circling the wagons alongside him, says that we all suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (reduced, per the laziness and cuteness characteristic of Trump and his camp, to "TDS"). Here's social scholar and amateur psychiatrist Abernathy, on "the all-consuming hatred that some people hold for Donald Trump":
"They wake up hating Trump. They eat lunch hating Trump. They go to work hating Trump. They walk the streets hating Trump. They go to bed hating Trump. They live and breathe Trump-hate. You know that notion of someone living rent-free in someone’s head? That’s obviously true of Trump’s haters. They cannot shake him. Their hatred of him consumes them entirely. It’s a sad thing to witness."
Allow me to correct the, um, counterproductive inaccuracies in the above:
We wake up hearing about Trump. We eat lunch hearing from Trump, crazily and ad nauseum. We go to work learning about his impulsive, undisciplined, ill-conceived, childish and mercurial whims that whipsaw financial markets and wipe out retirement savings, jettison decades of valuable "soft power" assets in our foreign policy, and shatter crucial alliances and our national credibility. We walk our streets conscious of fellow citizens who, lawfully occupying their own streets and sidewalks in large numbers (but, regrettably, sometimes sharing space with a tiny few who indulge in violence), who are there to witness and protest a quasi military force indulging in truly violent apprehensions of, and excessive and sometimes deadly force toward, scores of fellow citizens and legal residents alike, among whom only the most self-deceived and shameful could say that there have been very many of "the worst of the worst". We go to bed still painfully aware of a cherished White House disfigured by a wrecking ball at the behest of a real estate huckster for whom public service is nothing more than an opportunity for self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement. Painfully aware of public buildings and institutions now forcibly displaying the name of a still-living egomaniac, as if we were in Stalin's 1930s. And no, we cannot shake the steady drumbeat, even from the "liberal", "biased" media – who dutifully report to us every verbatim syllable of Mr. Trump's thoughts and edicts, both official and, oh, not so much – consisting of fantasies about land acquisition; delusions about wars "stopped" and peace prizes deserved; capo-like hints at war that might be justified because of a peace prize withheld; tirades against wind turbines and shower heads; musings about whether 'tis better to die by shark or by electrocution; instructions for DOJ to target critics, opponents and officers of the law with baseless investigations and prosecutions; relentlessly hurling baseless and childish personal insults at a Fed chief who insists on doing his job as he's obligated to do it; denouncing as false and corrupt economic indicators that displease him, and firing those who've reported them; threatening to deprive citizens of programs, and deprive the states that they reside in of lawfully appropriated funds, when those states are led by Democrats.
Oh, there's derangement, all right. No doubt about that.
I generally avoid ad hominem attacks, unless someone has earned them; instead, I primarily rely upon my own [JD-fortified] words and persuasiveness to make my point. I will simply close by saying that the ordinary, law abiding, church- and mosque- and synagogue-going, kids and moms and dads and grandfolks who've been out in the Minneapolis streets, in cold that would probably cause Gary's puny dick to fall off after 10 minutes, cannot be minimized, or wished away or insulted away, by him or by his sometimes "counterproductive" president.
Now tell me the gatherings where Trump supporters repetitively chanted these slogans. I haven't seen any myself, but I have seen innumerable protests where leftists keep chanting the same thing over and over again.
Sorry Gary but the invective is no different on the right (see any comments on Hot Air, Redstate, etc. to a different point of view). Regarding just your comment on immigration reform and change the law, now who was it that single-handedly blew up a compromise bill possibility? TDS is real because there is no diversity in the Republican Party to anything but what he wants.
Takes a lot of projection to claim there is no diversity in the Republican party, given all of the supporters including me who criticized him for shooting his mouth off about Canada, not releasing the Epstein files sooner, and his HB1 visa position.
By contrast, the party of "tolerance and compassion" has neither for anyone who disagrees with them about anything. Look at J.K. Rowling, who agrees with 99% of the Left's political positions, but that single disagreement, the affirmation of biological reality, won her a tsunami of hate. Know what we conservatives call someone who agrees with us on 99% of the issues? A conservative.
It is really terrifying to confront that kind of madness and hate. I saw it as a democrat during Trump's first term and as I began to confront it and push back I became a target and it just got worse over time. The cure for it is humanizing their enemies, which they could do if the legacy media would focus on them, show them who they are. That might help shake them out of it. As it is, ICE officers are being sent out on their operations facing down the inevitable next step of that kind of hate. There is only one step left - violence. No one is really dealing with it, or addressing it. The Democrats just pander to it. Thank you for writing this. It matters.
"the violent radical left"
You know - those people who get shot to death for helping a woman up off the ground after a masked goon crossed the street to shove her down.. the violent lefties who work at VA hospitals.
Ashli Babbitt was a politically engaged combat zone veteran, mother and small business owner. What is your point?
So were Reta Phyllis Mays, Sabrina D. Harman and Kristen Gilbert. FAFO Babbitt was a violent criminal attempting to get at US Senators for ... reasons.Trying to lunge at the police officer pointing s gun at her.
Anyone claiming she was somehow wronged is depraved, gaslighting trash.
Ashli Babbitt was climbing through a broken window in an attempt to forcibly stop our votes from being counted. She died fighting for her child, and all of ours, to live under a dictatorship. That's an act of attempted violence against generations of Americans.
I know you are not this stupid, or partisan. Why do you post this stuff?
What did I say that was untrue?
Babbitt asked to be shot by trying to crawl through a window so she could unlock the door and left the rioters in. Good wasn’t as reckless as Babbitt, just careless and negligent in driving her car into an ICE agent while trying to evade arrest.
Good was FAR more dangerous, and went there with intent and a pattern of harassment. You are simply picking a team. Not cool. All lives matter.
What team do you think I picked? You say all lives matter, but it’s also true that the facts matter. So let’s look at the facts. Was Babbitt trying to escape? What was her purpose in trying to crawl through that window? To play a game of gin rummy with the federal LEOs holding the line against an assault by a violent mob? Please. Good was certainly a radical, whose goal was to obstruct federal immigration enforcement, but at the moment she was shot, she was trying to escape. She apparently negligently sideswiped a federal LEO in the process, which prompted him to shoot her. Those are the facts.
That's what's known as "whataboutism"; rather than seek to counter the fact that the violent radical left is exactly that (physical attacks on ICE agents were up 1300% in 2025 as compared to 2024, not to mention all the online and in person threats), one asks,
"Well, what about X?", as if that changes the indisputable truth of the original charge. Also, the jerk in question was unemployed at the time and started a fight with federal law enforcement while armed.
Many thanks for braving the slings and arrows to bring the conservative perspective to PBS.
Do you honestly believe it is only on the left? Listen to the adminisration's voices. According to Vance Pretti was an assassin. Rennee was a "domestic terrorist". When the subject came up with my trump worshipping sister she said they deserved it. In 2016 I was member of my local GOP and campaigned for Trump. In 2020 and 2024 I voted for him. I have heard republicans say we need a dictator and demonstrators should be shot, unless of course they were January 6 "demonstrators: and if they attacked police it was because the police attacked first. So please don't me about the "left" until you talk to the fascists and violent in your own side.
This is magaworld, softcore-flavored. Check out "John Soriano's" comment below;
"I'll take your word about Capehart being nice. His rhetoric is filled with vitriolic mendacity and hatred."
Capehart just uses SAT words. Vitriolic mendacity and hatred IS maga.
False. It is the left which has spent a decade calling Trump the Austrian painter and his voters Nazis in the hopes of provoking political violence against them, Leftists have openly advocated for his assassination, called ICE Gestapo, said how much they want to genocide everyone who disagrees with them politically, etc. The Left is hate, because leftists are ruled by emotion rather than logic and reason.
Super sensitive there. Nuuh uhhh!
Lady Adam doth protest too much, methinks"
As I've written earlier, if Leftists didn't have ad hominem, they'd literally have nothing to say!
Where did the author ever say, in any forum, that foaming-on-the-mouth-insanity was only found on the left?
Quiet piggy
Too bad about the slings and arrows.. but maybe you need to look a bit more deeply at the substance that prompts them. It might be that your positioning actually is, well, reprehensible. Your whole post seems to be more whine than analysis - sort of a mirror image, actually, of people you label just as they label you.
What prompts such hateful comments is that he dares to disagree with the Left. The party of "tolerance and compassion" has neither for anyone who doesn't agree with them 100%, as J.K. Rowling discovered to her sorrow. Furthermore, he analyzed the hate directed against him and it is ridiculous to call the article a "Mirror image" of the hatred and obscenity directed at him, when he didn't fling any virulent insults.
No reasonable person with any level of discernment can continue to defend Trump.
Sorry, not sorry, the D in TDS is Delusion, for all the personality cult tricks and the cynical shills who are collaborating with this systematic teardown of the US Constitution.
Realize that creates some cognitive dissonance for you, but you're defending a pedo, who is, if not an outright asset, at minimum a useful idiot for our #1 kinetic and cyber enemy.
If you can't see the pattern match between Project 2025 and the NSDAP 1920 25 Point Program, you're blind. No, it's not just his kayfabe act.
All of that said, yeah, your critics should have better manners ... but then again, they're just emulating the flacks on your side of the aisle, including the old felon himself.
Don't be so sensitive
Pedo? Good grief Charlie Brown .. not even Epstein himself was ever accused of being a "pedo". I only hold out hope you are just a Russian based AI bot .. spitting out cartoon versions of Democrat straw man arguments .. real Democrats are not quite that delusional .. at least not those who know how to read and spell. So .. bot alert.
Okay - "hebephile" - Feel better? Pussy-grabber bought and operated Miss Teen USA just to ogle the young pussies. Prove that he never grabbed a few.
So guilty until proven innocent. Got it. What color is the sky in your alternate world?
Clearly no sense is involved here from the OP. 1. Trump is not a pedo. No Epstein victim has ever accused him and the Epstein files would have been illegally leaked to the media before the election if they implicated him. 2. Lol, Trump is obeying the Constitution; it is the other side who constantly attacks the 1st and 2nd Amendments. 3. Tinfoil hat territory. Trump has been opposing China from the start, in virtually every way possible. If by chance you meant Russia, which is neither our primary kinetic or cyber enemy, Trump has hurt Putin by taking down Putin ally Maduro, having told Europe years ago not to buy Russian oil, by trying to make Europe spend more on defense, etc. 4. Nope, not emulating, being far worse; Trump never called anyone the Austrian painter or openly wished for their murder.
You should know.
I was shocked by your appearance on PBS. You basically agreed with their approach and said they were putting away dangerous criminals and protesters should just stop. I live in upstate NY snd the raids here have not been conducted quite like they have in MN, but the way they assault people, haul them away in secret and pull people on thei way to hearings id shameful. I thought conservatives believed in the Constitution and the rule of law. ICE are acting like thugs.
Plenty of violence towards ICE agents at these non-peaceful protests. When illegals resist and attacks on ICE agents are up 1,300%, it is indeed necessary to engage in self-defense. What is shameful is those obstructing justice and opposing enforcement of the laws democratically passed under our Constitution.
Stop pushing lies.
Nothing I wrote is a lie, as a five second Google search will confirm. Physical attacks on ICE agents were up 1300% in 2025 compared to 2024, plenty of illegals physically resist, and it is shameful that people oppose enforcing the federal immigration laws democratically passed under our Constitution. To leftists, their feelings are always more important than the rule of law and the Constitution.
Justice includes due process.
The Supreme Court rules on what constitutes due process for deporting illegals.
First, lower courts rule, and they have ruled against ICE many times. It takes a long time to reach the Supreme Court when you've been whisked away to an overcrowded detention center without being able to contact family or a lawyer. I think ICE has gotten better. The point is, ICE bad tactics came first, protests came after.
Nazi apologists are also nazis.
To the Left, anyone to the right of Chaiman Mao is a "Nazi". To paraphrase what a wise man once said, they don't call us Nazis because they think it is true, for if it were true they would all be gone already. They call us Nazis as an excuse to murder us.
Far right extremists are very much deserving of your defense. You're doing great.
See the first line of my above post. Aside from the subject of tariffs, the U.S. right hasn't substantially changed its platform in half a century. It's the Left who went off the edge and so now regards center-right as "far right".
Of course, anyone who uses that malignant, narcissist idiot Marx as his symbol is further off the edge than most; talk about an extremist!
I'm an actual communist, not some left-curious Bernie bro.
MUCH worse, given Communists mass-murdered 100 million of their own people for the crime of politically disagreeing with them during the 20th century alone. Everywhere Communism has been seriously tried, every single time it has been tried, it has resulted in a mass-murdering tyranny. That's because Marx was a lazy, entitled person who didn't understand human nature at all.
Enjoy the koolaid, buddy. See you at the gulag
What is wrong with you. I mean seriously - unless you are just an 11 year old who just discovered an Internet linked keyboard.
OH my gosh Gary.. such hateful hearts.. Sorry you got bombarded with that crap! Love hearing from you, watching you & reading your logical important info..When I disagree & I do sometimes I certainly don’t go crazy like some of those writers.. Keep on, keeping on Gary!
Gary, it’s really simple. We Americans who have a moral compass, some appreciation for the constitution, and a pulse are thoroughly disgusted by anyone who supports what this anti-American administration run by an incompetent criminal is doing. Some of us are really, really angry at you people. You’ll just have to get used to it if you want to keep supporting this anti-American administration that’s shredding the constitution. And be forewarned we won’t forget what you supported.
Americans who have a moral compass would support enforcing our democratically passed laws by deporting illegals. Furthermore, they would not celebrate the murder of an insurance executive, nor a man using his 1st Amendment rights to peacefully debate the other side. Lastly, they would not call Trump the Austrian painter, who mass-murdered 11 million people. How many has Trump mass-murdered again?
Oh, you don't have to remind us that the Leftists hat anyone who politically disagrees with them and want revenge. Believe me, we know that already, especially after far-leftists mass-murdered 100 million during the 20th century for disagreeing with them politically. Know what the Left has learned from that tragedy? Nothing.
Fucking clown.
Thanks for proving my point with that obscene ad hominem. Leftists in general operate on hate rather than any rational framework of facts; that's why their only reply is ad hominem when someone presents indisputable facts.
Oh, Mr. Abernathy, . . .
[Imagine picture of Joseph Welch here]
. . . At long last, sir, have you no sense of proportion?
♫ F-bombs and other words will never hurt you . . . but sticks break bones, and pepper balls blind, and tear gas harms the lungs. ♫ And Lugers kill.
Noem and Bondi and Patel wish to criminalize citizens' "disrespect" toward ICE agents, by transmogrifying it into "obstruction". Homan weeps for his battle-armored legions who have to endure a daily, steady stream of curses and abuse.
[Imagine picture of crocodile tears here]
This, unabashedly, in a nation besmirched by the coarse and vile man who inspired a movement enamored of such rallying cries as "Fuck your feelings". A "man" who calls women pigs and dogs, and a female reporter "Piggy". Who belittles prominent critics or journalists, who've simply been voicing their opinions, or asking reasonable questions – and who, by the way, happen to be people of color – as "low IQ".
And now Mr. Abernathy – unaware of, or indifferent to, how insupportably forgiving is his attitude toward all that is objectionable about Donald Trump – devotes an unseemly number of column inches to decrying the nastiness that's filled his inbox. Well, OK. Gary likes to raise straw men, so let's knock this one down. Yes, the examples he's shared are clearly the product of inarticulate, and perhaps in some cases, dangerous yahoos. Hotheads. Assholes. But they don't speak for me. And they don't speak for the thousands of likewise non-leftist, non-socialist, non-revolutionary citizens who have risen up to be seen and heard in response to Trump's very obvious, and very obviously unlawful, excesses. The energy and concern expended on bemoaning the cursing, insulting few is a case of not seeing the fascist forest for the swearing trees.
Mr. Trump – who once engaged Roy Cohn as his business attorney, was more recently heard to say, "Where's my Roy Cohn?" Well, Cohn is embodied in and channeled by the likes of Mr. Abernathy and the other of Trump's excuse-makers, albeit in acceptably kind and gentle guise. When really pressed, Abernathy concedes that Herr Drumpf can sometimes be, um, "counterproductive". Despite having a presumably broad vocabulary befitting a professional commentator, his go-to words are the lazy, party-line slogans used to dismiss, with a broad, lazy brush, all Trump critics: He, like his lazy fellows circling the wagons alongside him, says that we all suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (reduced, per the laziness and cuteness characteristic of Trump and his camp, to "TDS"). Here's social scholar and amateur psychiatrist Abernathy, on "the all-consuming hatred that some people hold for Donald Trump":
"They wake up hating Trump. They eat lunch hating Trump. They go to work hating Trump. They walk the streets hating Trump. They go to bed hating Trump. They live and breathe Trump-hate. You know that notion of someone living rent-free in someone’s head? That’s obviously true of Trump’s haters. They cannot shake him. Their hatred of him consumes them entirely. It’s a sad thing to witness."
Allow me to correct the, um, counterproductive inaccuracies in the above:
We wake up hearing about Trump. We eat lunch hearing from Trump, crazily and ad nauseum. We go to work learning about his impulsive, undisciplined, ill-conceived, childish and mercurial whims that whipsaw financial markets and wipe out retirement savings, jettison decades of valuable "soft power" assets in our foreign policy, and shatter crucial alliances and our national credibility. We walk our streets conscious of fellow citizens who, lawfully occupying their own streets and sidewalks in large numbers (but, regrettably, sometimes sharing space with a tiny few who indulge in violence), who are there to witness and protest a quasi military force indulging in truly violent apprehensions of, and excessive and sometimes deadly force toward, scores of fellow citizens and legal residents alike, among whom only the most self-deceived and shameful could say that there have been very many of "the worst of the worst". We go to bed still painfully aware of a cherished White House disfigured by a wrecking ball at the behest of a real estate huckster for whom public service is nothing more than an opportunity for self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement. Painfully aware of public buildings and institutions now forcibly displaying the name of a still-living egomaniac, as if we were in Stalin's 1930s. And no, we cannot shake the steady drumbeat, even from the "liberal", "biased" media – who dutifully report to us every verbatim syllable of Mr. Trump's thoughts and edicts, both official and, oh, not so much – consisting of fantasies about land acquisition; delusions about wars "stopped" and peace prizes deserved; capo-like hints at war that might be justified because of a peace prize withheld; tirades against wind turbines and shower heads; musings about whether 'tis better to die by shark or by electrocution; instructions for DOJ to target critics, opponents and officers of the law with baseless investigations and prosecutions; relentlessly hurling baseless and childish personal insults at a Fed chief who insists on doing his job as he's obligated to do it; denouncing as false and corrupt economic indicators that displease him, and firing those who've reported them; threatening to deprive citizens of programs, and deprive the states that they reside in of lawfully appropriated funds, when those states are led by Democrats.
Oh, there's derangement, all right. No doubt about that.
I generally avoid ad hominem attacks, unless someone has earned them; instead, I primarily rely upon my own [JD-fortified] words and persuasiveness to make my point. I will simply close by saying that the ordinary, law abiding, church- and mosque- and synagogue-going, kids and moms and dads and grandfolks who've been out in the Minneapolis streets, in cold that would probably cause Gary's puny dick to fall off after 10 minutes, cannot be minimized, or wished away or insulted away, by him or by his sometimes "counterproductive" president.
And EFF his feelings about that.
"I wept because I had no answers,
until I met a man who had no clue."
I will always think Joe Blow, promise.
Interesting. Just received the same message from someone using a different name. We're not sharing are we?
Something from their playbook. Copy, cut, paste, distribute widely. Originality of thought is not one of their tools.
True. Notice, for example, how much they love repetitive chanting. Personally, I find it annoying when I have to repeat what I've already said.
Notice -
Make America Great Again
Build the wall
Lock her up (still 10 years later)
Drain the swamp
Stop the steal
Send her back
Finish the wall
America First
Trump Won (🤣 😂)
Fight for Trump
Secure the border
Stop the invasion
No more lockdowns
End the witch hunt
Stand with Trump
Protect our elections
We the people
Take our country back
Now tell me the gatherings where Trump supporters repetitively chanted these slogans. I haven't seen any myself, but I have seen innumerable protests where leftists keep chanting the same thing over and over again.
tl dr
I agree with Sue, Caroline and Roxanne. I look forward to seeing you again on the NewsHour.
If it walks like a duck etc.
Quit whining, fag.
Sorry Gary but the invective is no different on the right (see any comments on Hot Air, Redstate, etc. to a different point of view). Regarding just your comment on immigration reform and change the law, now who was it that single-handedly blew up a compromise bill possibility? TDS is real because there is no diversity in the Republican Party to anything but what he wants.
Takes a lot of projection to claim there is no diversity in the Republican party, given all of the supporters including me who criticized him for shooting his mouth off about Canada, not releasing the Epstein files sooner, and his HB1 visa position.
By contrast, the party of "tolerance and compassion" has neither for anyone who disagrees with them about anything. Look at J.K. Rowling, who agrees with 99% of the Left's political positions, but that single disagreement, the affirmation of biological reality, won her a tsunami of hate. Know what we conservatives call someone who agrees with us on 99% of the issues? A conservative.