Posted on 10/24/2021 7:33:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
But it seems none of them want to run.
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The personal consequences often discourage them from running. Hard to blame them for not wanting to endue the trashing.
Recall how the GOP treated the Tea Party. They would do it all over again. The GOP despised the Tea Party because it highlighted it’s failures and weakness.
“He asserts that the rioters on January 6, 2021, were authoritarians of the right. That is, they sought to overthrow the constitutional means by which we pass power peacefully from one president and party to the next. But those authoritarians, he says, were checked by other members of the political right — Vice President Mike Pence most conspicuously.”
“overthrow”???!!!!
The mob thought they were protesting.
Pence did not stop the mob, he stopped the Constitutional mandated state legislatures who were trying to stop the steal.
Shapiro is trying to conform media and democrat talking points into a matter of record.
Poor Ben, unable to see the true force behind the authoritarian evil ... the father of lies, a murderer from the start. So, unable to see whom it is that is whispering in his ear, Shapiro serves the lies.
“ he stopped the Constitutional mandated state legislatures who were trying to stop the steal”
Ben Shapiro is an evil little weasel BUT no State Legislature - NOT ONE - took any legal or constitutional action - WHICH THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY ENTITLED TO DO - to stop the steal.
“Shapiro doesn’t name names just innuendo.”
Probably because most of them have a very similar ring to them, Soros, Zuckerberg, Zucker, Oppenheim, Goldberg, Reuben, on and on.
His HQ is there. I know someone on his staff. She’s the daughter of a co-worker. She thinks Ben is right wing.
The only difference between Shapiro and Never-Trumpers like Jonah Goldberg is Shapiro has figured out that attacking Trump 24/7 is bad for business.
But his Never-Trumpism still slips thru from time to time.
I know that. I live here
He was supposed to move here too but flaked out for more Jewish lands like south Florida
We have six temples
It’s not like we’re some Al Fatah outpost lol
Shapiro would have been a democrat in the 70s
A neocon neocon neocon
He can’t help it
That comment bothered me too.
Did he even talk to any of those
patriots about why they did what they did?
Correct. As the leftists always say, "we must read the signs of the times"
They had better pray we don't do so.
I don’t think that this problem is Trump’s alone. SCOTUS jurists often branch out in unexpected ways.
My daughter, 24, moved to Seattle 2 years ago for work.
I wouldn't say she was a liberal. She was one of those people who lived her own life very conservatively and didn't mind OKing destructive liberal policies for other's lives, if that makes sense.
And I am sure, there was a dose of just old fashioned rebellion and exhaustion from living with her N*** mother who was on her soapbox all her life.
Well, I will tell ya, two years of having her car windows bashed in, city block after city block taken over by tent cities, parks being partitioned off because the homeless have taken them over, needles and junkies everywhere, BLM, etc. etc. ---I honestly think she'd silently go into a voting booth and vote for *insert any right wing authoritarian* if he promised to restore society.
Not that voting is gonna solve this, we both know we are long past that.
Yeah, I can't listen half as fast as Ben Shapiro talks.
It takes a certain type to want to be one of 435 or even one of 100, or one of two. Mostly sociopaths.
Yes, I think what Shapiro posits here is an interesting thought experiment. But he is missing some things. Everyone knew there was going to be a political rally that day. Everyone knew the country had been through a very rough and violent period preceding it. They did nothing to secure the Capitol and some reports are that those who tried to secure it were ordered to stand down, or ignored.
Shapiro definitely knows what the Reichstag fire was all about. And when you see the videos it is obvious that the first ones through the glass doors, smashing them, were in all black. Antifa, maybe. FBI infiltrators, maybe. Certainly not regular protestors. The regular crowd that comes in behind those who smashed the glass were just milling about in the hallway. A couple of hooligans too of course but sitting in the speakers chair and hanging from the rafters is criminal but not insurrection. The Jan 6 commission is simply in place to confirm the story they want to portray and cover up any complicity by Congress, the Capitol police, and the FBI among others.
I despise Shapiro for many of the reasons given already but I can understand him not being too nice to Malkin considering that she has cozied up with people who seem to be part of the “If only Hitler had finished the job” crowd. She has gone to the dark side.
Paranoia, liberal paranoia about anything Trump is definitely behind totalitarianism. Nothing like this kind of hate deiven douchebaggery to help elect actual terrorists.
Indeed
Ben is an assistant authoritarian.
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