Our current progs/socialist/communist running dog fellow travelers have no knowledge of what Lenin – Stalin or other leaders of that type and what they do to their followers once the main fight ends. or even their hero Che did.
March 13, 2016 at 12:38 am
H_B
Nyet, comrade. Only Capitalists can be “running dogs”.
Back when I was young in the tail-end of the Cold War, “Capitalist/Imperialist Running Dogs” was my favorite Soviet/Communist/Terrorist (same thing those days) agitprop term for us. It just always struck me as over-the-top ridiculous.
March 13, 2016 at 1:15 am
Swansonic
Sounds like a great sports team name.
I still like the name I gave my volleyball team back in the day…
‘Miss-Communication’
March 13, 2016 at 4:23 am
H_B
The first place I heard “Imperialist Running Dogs” was in a G.I. Joe comic book from 1982.
March 13, 2016 at 8:40 am
eon
It was a favorite Red Chinese agitprop term for U.S. troops in Korea from 1950 on. Larry Hama, the creator of the G.I. Joe comic for Marvel & Hasbro, was an Army vet, so he probably was familiar with the term from that.
cheers
eon
March 13, 2016 at 11:36 am
H_B
Yeah. I especially liked the little snippets of military life he’d drop into the books. Like how everyone hated “Ham and Lima Beans” C-rations (confirmed by my father), or how the first pages of a book would be the team being trained in the arctic, then being deployed to southern Florida.
March 13, 2016 at 5:59 am
Bill G
What I consider the really sorry lack of learning from history is that the intellectuals who lead it off never look back to see what happened to the ones who led off the previous regimes.
As ‘Toly said, they die first, never understanding they set their own feet on the all too well-trod path to the wall.
March 13, 2016 at 8:40 am
MasterDiver
Ask the Viet Cong what happened after the NVA rolled into Saigon…if you can find any.
March 13, 2016 at 11:15 am
interventor
Even Doonesbury commented on that. Too late, of course.
March 13, 2016 at 1:37 pm
The 300
That’s because they think they’re too smart to let it happen to them.
This time it’ll be different!
March 13, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Cliff H
It is difficult to come up with a properly descriptive term for either political party just now, since they both seem to be in a major transformative stage, but:
troglodyte
1: a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves
2: a person characterized by reclusive habits or outmoded or reactionary attitudes
ProgLibyte
1: A member of the former Democrat party seeking to Balkanize the electorate into special interest groups in order to more easily use their personal prejudices to secure votes.
March 13, 2016 at 2:34 pm
B Woodman
Maybe, “ProgLibDyke”?
Think that will insult enough of them?
I really should work on setting the song “Ike for President” to something more akin to Shrillary: “Dyke for President!”
March 13, 2016 at 5:48 pm
xdcpd085
“I lick Dyke?”
March 13, 2016 at 12:13 am
Treadhead 2/69
I think they do, unfortunately. To make an omelet you got to break eggs. One death is a tragedy…a million is a statistic.
March 13, 2016 at 12:25 am
Kafiroon
Our govt. looks at our soldiers deaths as statistics. Check out all of the VA corruption. Benghazi. Also look at some videos of the Bernie supporters. They ave NO idea. Just free stuff.
March 13, 2016 at 12:44 am
Iconoclast
With any kind of luck at all, some of the BlackLoserMorons, illegals, jizzlamics & berned-out twits behaving in this manner will share, for however brief a time, that Rachel Corey bond.
Getting shitfaced, in the figurative rather than the literal, sounds pretty good.
March 13, 2016 at 12:56 am
B Woodman
After seeing the faces of the protesters in the photo in the news story, and their expressions, I just REALLY have to ask, WHO are the “haters”? Somehow I don’t think it’s the (s)Trumpets.
March 13, 2016 at 6:20 pm
John Greer
“Who are the Haters?” Would be a wonderful banner spread in front of Trump’s podium. 🙂
“Useful idiots.” And expendable. Simple tools of the various professional protest groups, organized, goaded, and supported from on high. This ain’t no grass roots, it is an intentional and calculated path to societal war.
Not unexpected of course. Nor is the complicity of the old right guard who for so long now have played by progressive rules that they are now indistinguishable…they are terrified that they are about to lose it all, and well they should be.
But. What is unexpected, and painful to me at least, is the immediate capitulation of those who would themselves lead the charge of the New Right…the angry, disillusioned, disappointed, and disaffected majority; what, for lack of a better term, is the Trump movement. Heretofore staunch defenders of the Constitution have for the sake of a few votes and an attaboy from the powers that they purport to despise, sold out the First Amendment. It is a costly choice, to me at least. It has changed my thoughts and feelings and loyalties as to what or who I think is capable of leading the charge in the war to defend what is left of the Republic to the degree that I do not know if I can be won back. And the only way I have here publicly and painfully to make my heartbreak known, is to say:
Trump/? ’16
March 13, 2016 at 4:29 am
H_B
*pat-pat*
If it helps, you’re not alone. Over the last 24 hrs Ted Cruz’s Twitter Followers have gone from 1.2 million to around 700k. I don’t know what the totals for his Facebook campaign page are, but I’ve heard anecdotes about 3,000 negative comments and repeated purges of them throughout the day.
March 13, 2016 at 11:03 am
Old Codger
But Cruz was entirely correct in his assertion. The clash was the result of disappointed Trumpites not being allowed an opportunity to worship their idol. Like little children they took out their disappointment on the anti-Trump demonstrators. It was entirely predictable.
We’ll see the deserved carnage inflicted on TC come Tuesday I expect. I take no pleasure in this; Ted was my best hope, with DT running interference. Emphasize WAS.
March 13, 2016 at 4:47 am
H_B
And to make it explicit: yeah, Cruz pretty much burned me as a supporter last night too.
March 13, 2016 at 11:04 am
Old Codger
Why? For telling the self-evident truth?
March 13, 2016 at 11:33 am
H_B
You heard it here folks. According to Old Codger, you got mugged because you were carrying a wallet, you got groped because you were “dressed that way”, and you were rightfully threatened and silenced because you expressed a differing opinion.
Glad we got that cleared up.
March 13, 2016 at 10:23 am
Pamela
There is a phrase I sometimes use.
“Piss me off and see what happens.”
American Citizens are PISSED OFF after all the excrement that has been force fed to US the last several years. We are running higher than a kite on emotional energy. It is draining. Those in and out of this Nation, who are watching from the sidelines, are waiting for us to crash.
Trump/Sanders/Clinton are feeding on that emotion like the vampire they are with some willingly giving them suck. Feed me Seymour. Feed Me.
Where is the Logic we should be utilizing?
Where is the Common Sense and Reason we should be utilizing?
Is it Stalwarts and Half-Breeds all over again?
Perchance we should be reminded of this instead:
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, ‘Be ye holy; for I am holy.'”
– 1 Peter 1:13-16
March 13, 2016 at 11:17 am
Old Codger
Pamela asked, “Where is the Common Sense and Reason we should be utilizing?”
Unfortunately, Pamela, sense, along with decency and courtesy is one of the least common qualities extant. Reason is something few today are either equipped or inclined to utilize. In today’s world it is entirely as the old pop song says, “Feelings; nothing more than feelings.” Listen to how the people around you express themselves. Few, if any, think or believe or suspect or any such intellectual activity. With very few exceptions, the common preface to their statements is “I FEEL. In a world of feelings, there is no room for ratiocination. Today it truly IS “Feelings; nothing more than feelings.”
With increasing regularity I find myself concluding that I have lived far too long.
March 13, 2016 at 11:18 am
interventor
Beware the anger of a patient man.
March 13, 2016 at 1:04 am
B Woodman
As for the Berners, they got away with it this time, because it was first time, and their home turf.
It’s a prime example of “Chicago way”.
“They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue.”
Again, the Berners got away with their shit once. Forewarned is fore armed. Just let them try that again in another venue, I think (no, I’m almost sure) that it will turn into a full out riot, and many Bernites will end up with lumps and breaks.
March 13, 2016 at 1:08 am
Malatrope
Welcome to the war, JTC.
March 13, 2016 at 1:15 am
B Woodman
Sorry, Sam, I have to disagree. Getting shitfaced CAN be fun. It all depends on the company you’re getting shitfaced with, and what you’re getting shitfaced on. When it’s all over, and you’re recovering from your hangover the next day, at least one of you should have some memory of what made that night memorable. Something to laugh about later, after the recovery.
March 13, 2016 at 1:41 am
NotYetInACamp
In my political time i have bested and shut down and shut up in open discussion Bill Ayers, various Dem and rep operatives and office holders, and the online birthright citizenship mafia. One must engage.
i applaud this ~26 year old Trump supporter enjoying the After Shutdown Party. His discussion opponents seem to consider uninformed to be an honor. This is some of what we are dealing with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3vcvGpALQ
The protesters fell in it
Trump is making the republicans the competitive party they could have been all along.
It is supporting responsibility compared to supporting lawlessness and theft from others with no responsibility foe oneself or others.
The protesters there are useful idiots until they no longer have a use.
And, Cruz is facing his own lies in Chicago, where he ranted that Trump was advocating violence and was responsible for the protests, when it has been shown that the protests were organized by the Left on Facebook. Cruz’s lies against Trump – and his siding with the Left – should be the death knell of his candidacy.
The DT in fact IS responsible for the protesters.
You go throwing lit matches into a fuel shed, you do NOT get to act surprised when the damned thing blows.
March 13, 2016 at 4:37 am
H_B
So, saying “no” to politically correct speech norms is “throwing a lit match into the fuel shed”. Sounds like you’ve already given up the argument before it’s even been joined.
March 13, 2016 at 6:40 am
GWB
Trump has done plenty of match-flinging. He has advocated violence against his opponents no less than 0bama has. His supporters have manhandled reporters and protesters (rather tame ones at that), and he has at times cheered that on.
While I might enjoy watching this destruction of the Republican party to some degree, it’s not being done by a true outsider – Trump is a member of the political class no less than Rubio or Romney or McCain. His membership is simply in the affiliate club of political businessmen.
The Culture Wars had to go from cold to hot at some point. Loads of people been throwing matches into the fuel shed. There just had to be enough fumes in there to ignite.
March 13, 2016 at 11:25 am
Valerie
Please supply a link to back up your comment that “Trump has advocated violence against his opponents.”
Here’s what he had to say in Kansas City, in the face of continued disruptions by Sanders and Clinton supporters.
This is the whole speech, but the part about the disruptions is during about the first ten minutes, so it’s not difficult to find.
Trump is notify favorite candidate, but he is not “advocating violence.” So, link or it didn’t happen.
March 13, 2016 at 11:25 am
H_B
That’s certainly the tack the media are taking about Trump these days. As to “manhandling a reporter”, well she goofed: there are cameras everywhere these days:
The story only remotely held water when there were only camera angles that showed her unseen for several seconds. Now people are rejecting Breitbart because of her. (Apparently this isn’t the first time she’s made up stories about being someone in authority “manhandling” her who couldn’t have done so/wasn’t there at the time, either.) Oops.
As to his supporters, there has been one (1) instance of a guy hitting a protester as he was walking out – said supporter was charged with assault. Meanwhile, many punches have been thrown by protesters into the crowd when they get shouted down – no charges for them so far as I’ve heard (of course the media haven’t made a big deal of those).
As to Trump’s “cheering them on”, I’ve been watching several of his rally livestreams over the past couple weeks. He doesn’t use a teleprompter and speaks off the cuff at every appearance, so each one is different rather than being the same, canned campaign speech. (Usually, once you’ve “seen the show” with a candidate, you’ve seen all they have to say.) This also means there’s lots more back-and-forth with the crowd and he’ll change subjects or shift to an anecdote if the crowd wants to hear it; as opposed to people standing there bored while they listen to someone monotone. (This, according to the media, is him “whipping up his supporters into a frenzy.” Well, only if you compare people sitting on their hands at a Clinton rally and looking like they’d rather be somewhere else as “normal”.)
He’s been consistent that whole time I’ve been watching with what he’s told his supporters in the crowd while a protester was being ejected: “Don’t hurt ’em.”
Now he has also complained each time that when he would be quiet calling for the police to remove someone shouting, he’d be labeled “going soft and no longer energetic” and when he’d be loud about it, then he’s “unhinged and enraged by a difference of opinion” according to the reporters. Then he’ll say things like “A decade or so ago, people wouldn’t have been treated like this” or “If I had said something like: (insert inflamatory remark)…”. Those remarks, literally out of context, are what are being snipped out and strung together by the news media as his “inciting his crowds to (racist, naturally!) violence”.
Instead, I’ve seen him be calm and unflappable when a guy tried to jump him from the back of the stage, continue with his talk rather than allow himself to be whisked away, thank the front-row crowd for shouting warnings to him as the guy was coming, and thank the police and Secret Service for their professionalism. But none of that fits the narrative…
(Oh, and if he was “part of the political class”, they wouldn’t be so unified in trying to stop him. Karl Rove and Tim Cook getting together for a strategy meeting? Jeb Bush meeting with Rubio, Kasich, and Cruz three days ago in Florida to make plans – right before Rubio starts telling Ohio supporters to vote for Kasich?)
Sometimes in politics as in nature, fire is curative and necessary to rebirth and growth. There’s a lot of dead wood and undergrowth needs burning in both. Lightnin’ is God’s match. Words, ideas, and convictions are ours.
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Our current progs/socialist/communist running dog fellow travelers have no knowledge of what Lenin – Stalin or other leaders of that type and what they do to their followers once the main fight ends. or even their hero Che did.
Nyet, comrade. Only Capitalists can be “running dogs”.
Back when I was young in the tail-end of the Cold War, “Capitalist/Imperialist Running Dogs” was my favorite Soviet/Communist/Terrorist (same thing those days) agitprop term for us. It just always struck me as over-the-top ridiculous.
Sounds like a great sports team name.
I still like the name I gave my volleyball team back in the day…
‘Miss-Communication’
The first place I heard “Imperialist Running Dogs” was in a G.I. Joe comic book from 1982.
It was a favorite Red Chinese agitprop term for U.S. troops in Korea from 1950 on. Larry Hama, the creator of the G.I. Joe comic for Marvel & Hasbro, was an Army vet, so he probably was familiar with the term from that.
cheers
eon
Yeah. I especially liked the little snippets of military life he’d drop into the books. Like how everyone hated “Ham and Lima Beans” C-rations (confirmed by my father), or how the first pages of a book would be the team being trained in the arctic, then being deployed to southern Florida.
What I consider the really sorry lack of learning from history is that the intellectuals who lead it off never look back to see what happened to the ones who led off the previous regimes.
As ‘Toly said, they die first, never understanding they set their own feet on the all too well-trod path to the wall.
Ask the Viet Cong what happened after the NVA rolled into Saigon…if you can find any.
Even Doonesbury commented on that. Too late, of course.
That’s because they think they’re too smart to let it happen to them.
This time it’ll be different!
It is difficult to come up with a properly descriptive term for either political party just now, since they both seem to be in a major transformative stage, but:
troglodyte
1: a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves
2: a person characterized by reclusive habits or outmoded or reactionary attitudes
ProgLibyte
1: A member of the former Democrat party seeking to Balkanize the electorate into special interest groups in order to more easily use their personal prejudices to secure votes.
Maybe, “ProgLibDyke”?
Think that will insult enough of them?
I really should work on setting the song “Ike for President” to something more akin to Shrillary: “Dyke for President!”
“I lick Dyke?”
I think they do, unfortunately. To make an omelet you got to break eggs. One death is a tragedy…a million is a statistic.
Our govt. looks at our soldiers deaths as statistics. Check out all of the VA corruption. Benghazi. Also look at some videos of the Bernie supporters. They ave NO idea. Just free stuff.
With any kind of luck at all, some of the BlackLoserMorons, illegals, jizzlamics & berned-out twits behaving in this manner will share, for however brief a time, that Rachel Corey bond.
Getting shitfaced, in the figurative rather than the literal, sounds pretty good.
After seeing the faces of the protesters in the photo in the news story, and their expressions, I just REALLY have to ask, WHO are the “haters”? Somehow I don’t think it’s the (s)Trumpets.
“Who are the Haters?” Would be a wonderful banner spread in front of Trump’s podium. 🙂
“Useful idiots.” And expendable. Simple tools of the various professional protest groups, organized, goaded, and supported from on high. This ain’t no grass roots, it is an intentional and calculated path to societal war.
Not unexpected of course. Nor is the complicity of the old right guard who for so long now have played by progressive rules that they are now indistinguishable…they are terrified that they are about to lose it all, and well they should be.
But. What is unexpected, and painful to me at least, is the immediate capitulation of those who would themselves lead the charge of the New Right…the angry, disillusioned, disappointed, and disaffected majority; what, for lack of a better term, is the Trump movement. Heretofore staunch defenders of the Constitution have for the sake of a few votes and an attaboy from the powers that they purport to despise, sold out the First Amendment. It is a costly choice, to me at least. It has changed my thoughts and feelings and loyalties as to what or who I think is capable of leading the charge in the war to defend what is left of the Republic to the degree that I do not know if I can be won back. And the only way I have here publicly and painfully to make my heartbreak known, is to say:
Trump/? ’16
*pat-pat*
If it helps, you’re not alone. Over the last 24 hrs Ted Cruz’s Twitter Followers have gone from 1.2 million to around 700k. I don’t know what the totals for his Facebook campaign page are, but I’ve heard anecdotes about 3,000 negative comments and repeated purges of them throughout the day.
But Cruz was entirely correct in his assertion. The clash was the result of disappointed Trumpites not being allowed an opportunity to worship their idol. Like little children they took out their disappointment on the anti-Trump demonstrators. It was entirely predictable.
Correct in that words beget and deserve violence? Well, he does have a lot of company in that position:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/11/opportunist-ted-cruz-donald-trump-is-responsible-for-organized-chicago-violence-video/
We’ll see the deserved carnage inflicted on TC come Tuesday I expect. I take no pleasure in this; Ted was my best hope, with DT running interference. Emphasize WAS.
And to make it explicit: yeah, Cruz pretty much burned me as a supporter last night too.
Why? For telling the self-evident truth?
You heard it here folks. According to Old Codger, you got mugged because you were carrying a wallet, you got groped because you were “dressed that way”, and you were rightfully threatened and silenced because you expressed a differing opinion.
Glad we got that cleared up.
There is a phrase I sometimes use.
“Piss me off and see what happens.”
American Citizens are PISSED OFF after all the excrement that has been force fed to US the last several years. We are running higher than a kite on emotional energy. It is draining. Those in and out of this Nation, who are watching from the sidelines, are waiting for us to crash.
Trump/Sanders/Clinton are feeding on that emotion like the vampire they are with some willingly giving them suck. Feed me Seymour. Feed Me.
Where is the Logic we should be utilizing?
Where is the Common Sense and Reason we should be utilizing?
Is it Stalwarts and Half-Breeds all over again?
Perchance we should be reminded of this instead:
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, ‘Be ye holy; for I am holy.'”
– 1 Peter 1:13-16
Pamela asked, “Where is the Common Sense and Reason we should be utilizing?”
Unfortunately, Pamela, sense, along with decency and courtesy is one of the least common qualities extant. Reason is something few today are either equipped or inclined to utilize. In today’s world it is entirely as the old pop song says, “Feelings; nothing more than feelings.” Listen to how the people around you express themselves. Few, if any, think or believe or suspect or any such intellectual activity. With very few exceptions, the common preface to their statements is “I FEEL. In a world of feelings, there is no room for ratiocination. Today it truly IS “Feelings; nothing more than feelings.”
With increasing regularity I find myself concluding that I have lived far too long.
Beware the anger of a patient man.
As for the Berners, they got away with it this time, because it was first time, and their home turf.
It’s a prime example of “Chicago way”.
“They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue.”
Again, the Berners got away with their shit once. Forewarned is fore armed. Just let them try that again in another venue, I think (no, I’m almost sure) that it will turn into a full out riot, and many Bernites will end up with lumps and breaks.
Welcome to the war, JTC.
Sorry, Sam, I have to disagree. Getting shitfaced CAN be fun. It all depends on the company you’re getting shitfaced with, and what you’re getting shitfaced on. When it’s all over, and you’re recovering from your hangover the next day, at least one of you should have some memory of what made that night memorable. Something to laugh about later, after the recovery.
In my political time i have bested and shut down and shut up in open discussion Bill Ayers, various Dem and rep operatives and office holders, and the online birthright citizenship mafia. One must engage.
i applaud this ~26 year old Trump supporter enjoying the After Shutdown Party. His discussion opponents seem to consider uninformed to be an honor. This is some of what we are dealing with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3vcvGpALQ
It was a large organized effort to shut down the event.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/how-bernie-sanders-supporters-shut-down-donald-trump-s-rally-n537191
The protesters fell in it
Trump is making the republicans the competitive party they could have been all along.
It is supporting responsibility compared to supporting lawlessness and theft from others with no responsibility foe oneself or others.
The protesters there are useful idiots until they no longer have a use.
Cruz might be useful to “them” until he is not.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/cruz-facing-trade-deal-headwinds-in-ohio/
And, Cruz is facing his own lies in Chicago, where he ranted that Trump was advocating violence and was responsible for the protests, when it has been shown that the protests were organized by the Left on Facebook. Cruz’s lies against Trump – and his siding with the Left – should be the death knell of his candidacy.
The DT in fact IS responsible for the protesters.
You go throwing lit matches into a fuel shed, you do NOT get to act surprised when the damned thing blows.
So, saying “no” to politically correct speech norms is “throwing a lit match into the fuel shed”. Sounds like you’ve already given up the argument before it’s even been joined.
Trump has done plenty of match-flinging. He has advocated violence against his opponents no less than 0bama has. His supporters have manhandled reporters and protesters (rather tame ones at that), and he has at times cheered that on.
While I might enjoy watching this destruction of the Republican party to some degree, it’s not being done by a true outsider – Trump is a member of the political class no less than Rubio or Romney or McCain. His membership is simply in the affiliate club of political businessmen.
The Culture Wars had to go from cold to hot at some point. Loads of people been throwing matches into the fuel shed. There just had to be enough fumes in there to ignite.
Please supply a link to back up your comment that “Trump has advocated violence against his opponents.”
Here’s what he had to say in Kansas City, in the face of continued disruptions by Sanders and Clinton supporters.
This is the whole speech, but the part about the disruptions is during about the first ten minutes, so it’s not difficult to find.
Trump is notify favorite candidate, but he is not “advocating violence.” So, link or it didn’t happen.
That’s certainly the tack the media are taking about Trump these days. As to “manhandling a reporter”, well she goofed: there are cameras everywhere these days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoMPxomjiw
The story only remotely held water when there were only camera angles that showed her unseen for several seconds. Now people are rejecting Breitbart because of her. (Apparently this isn’t the first time she’s made up stories about being someone in authority “manhandling” her who couldn’t have done so/wasn’t there at the time, either.) Oops.
As to his supporters, there has been one (1) instance of a guy hitting a protester as he was walking out – said supporter was charged with assault. Meanwhile, many punches have been thrown by protesters into the crowd when they get shouted down – no charges for them so far as I’ve heard (of course the media haven’t made a big deal of those).
As to Trump’s “cheering them on”, I’ve been watching several of his rally livestreams over the past couple weeks. He doesn’t use a teleprompter and speaks off the cuff at every appearance, so each one is different rather than being the same, canned campaign speech. (Usually, once you’ve “seen the show” with a candidate, you’ve seen all they have to say.) This also means there’s lots more back-and-forth with the crowd and he’ll change subjects or shift to an anecdote if the crowd wants to hear it; as opposed to people standing there bored while they listen to someone monotone. (This, according to the media, is him “whipping up his supporters into a frenzy.” Well, only if you compare people sitting on their hands at a Clinton rally and looking like they’d rather be somewhere else as “normal”.)
He’s been consistent that whole time I’ve been watching with what he’s told his supporters in the crowd while a protester was being ejected: “Don’t hurt ’em.”
Now he has also complained each time that when he would be quiet calling for the police to remove someone shouting, he’d be labeled “going soft and no longer energetic” and when he’d be loud about it, then he’s “unhinged and enraged by a difference of opinion” according to the reporters. Then he’ll say things like “A decade or so ago, people wouldn’t have been treated like this” or “If I had said something like: (insert inflamatory remark)…”. Those remarks, literally out of context, are what are being snipped out and strung together by the news media as his “inciting his crowds to (racist, naturally!) violence”.
Instead, I’ve seen him be calm and unflappable when a guy tried to jump him from the back of the stage, continue with his talk rather than allow himself to be whisked away, thank the front-row crowd for shouting warnings to him as the guy was coming, and thank the police and Secret Service for their professionalism. But none of that fits the narrative…
(Oh, and if he was “part of the political class”, they wouldn’t be so unified in trying to stop him. Karl Rove and Tim Cook getting together for a strategy meeting? Jeb Bush meeting with Rubio, Kasich, and Cruz three days ago in Florida to make plans – right before Rubio starts telling Ohio supporters to vote for Kasich?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-mNeY1_GsQ
Sometimes in politics as in nature, fire is curative and necessary to rebirth and growth. There’s a lot of dead wood and undergrowth needs burning in both. Lightnin’ is God’s match. Words, ideas, and convictions are ours.
The bern-ers are “useful idiots”.
The trumpsters are “useful idiots”.
…and to the ideologues they’re supporting, both view them as expendable – AFTER they’ve voted, of course.
It’s just a matter of which one gives the “Go” when it comes to the next “Night of the Long Knives”.
There are WAY too many historical parallels, here.
…to quote Oz from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “I’d call that a radical interpretation of the text, Willow…”
At some point the instigators of violence will no longer be able to shame their intended victims into not defending themselves. It won’t be pretty.
This.
Why is Sam patting her belly in the last frame?
YUUGE? Hmm. Truth will out.
Zed never struck me as being one of those little pinkie out guys.
Trump on the other hand…
Trump’s (short) pinkie you mean?
I dunno. He has fame, fortune, and power and I don’t think he’s a masochist. In it to win it? Yeah maybe, he’s damn sure a major egotist.
But a wuss? He’s damn sure putting himself into the line of fire, figuratively and literally, so sorry, no.
Pamela, Trump, like Zed (and explicitly unlike Obama), holds his own umbrella.
It is her lower belly, perhaps mons veneris, while saying Zed’s is better … just my not so humble opinion.
The “good” thing about collectivism is that it brings what most people deserve.
Oh, and “new USSA communist regime”?
Man that hurts. As the truth often does.
From the mouths of babes and those who’ve seen and lived the communist “dream”.