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Are Leftists Stupid Or Liars?
Townhall.com ^ | April 5, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 04/05/2021 4:05:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

It’s a real headscratcher – are these people dumb, or do they think we’re dumb, or is it a little from Column A and a little from Column B?

Take Heidi Heitkamp – and you can take her since she’s not busy, the people of one of the Dakotas having fired her for being a crappy senator. This has-been was on with Bill Maher – his show is where C-list pols go to die – and they were talking about cancel culture and what happened next was illustrative. See, Heitkamp was supposed to be one of those moderate Dems from the Midwest, not some strange-o channeling the table talk in the faculty lounge at Gumbo State. And this alleged moderate then announced that Gina Carano is a Nazi.

Carano’s the MMA lady who was on that stupid kid’s space show playing a character named Puun Xeeeblefrok or some dumb thing. She got kicked off it by Disney because she would not genuflect to the various demigods of the pinko pantheon and probably fails to accept that men can menstruate. Now she’s working with Ben Shapiro’s outfit. I’m sure Ben will be shocked to know that he’s working with a Nazi; frankly, it seems off brand for both of them, but leftists are smart, right?

No. They are dumb, or they are liars who imagine we might fall for it. There’s not another option except some combo of the two. Just look at the Politico guy working hard to get us to buy, right before ignoring the latest leftist cop killer completely, the notion that Farrakhan is a Trump guy.

Is he stupid, or does he think we are?

Let’s explore the slander part further, but first let me explain why you can’t sue over this. Actually, you can – anyone can sue for anything with a printer and a filing fee – but you won’t win. To defame someone, you essentially have to assert factual allegations as opposed to mere opinion (let’s not even go down the New York Times v. Sullivan rathole of “actual malice” and “public figures”), and claims like “She’s a Nazi!” have been so degraded they are essentially meaningless. No one sane actually that Gina Carano is a member of the National Socialist Worker’s Party, or that she bears a swastika tramp stamp, or that she has the remotest shred of sympathy for actual Nazis. So, no one, at least no one reasonable (which is the operative word), thinks it’s a factual statement. The same with Heitkamp’s backtrack – even Maher thought she was being ridiculous – to accusing Carano of merely cavorting with “white supremacists.” No one thinks that’s a statement of fact either – the left had defined these deviancies down into essential meaninglessness. When videos of black thugs beating up Asians get chalked up by SJWs to “white supremacy,” the term has lost all meaning.

And Heitkamp clearly knows it too, putting her in the “liar” camp. Watch her as she labels Carano a Nazi, then starts giggling like the world’s crustiest schoolgirl. She knows it’s all crap, but she gets off on the trained seals in the audience slapping their fins for her so she tosses them a fish.

But this phenomenon of labeling opponents with vile smears either because the smearers are stupid, or think we are, is more sinister than just another aging political bit player looking for props to remind her of what it was like back when she sort of mattered. This is a symptom of our gooey establishment totally rejecting the notion of reason and argument – because they can’t prevail using them – in favor of crude lies about the opposition. Unless they are stupid – which some are – they know it’s a lie, and some of their audience does too, and neither care. The act of lying becomes a shared ritual of solidarity between them, substituting a perverted faith in their socialist dogma for facts and evidence. It’s a relief for them to abandon reason – after all, it’s hard work defending an ideology that butchered 100 million people over the last century.

But then there are the stupid people, the unreasonable ones who actually believe this bullSchiff. Some of the idiots are the tellers, other idiots are the told. Out there, somewhere, are people nodding their empty heads thinking, “Yes, Gina Carano is a Nazi because the cackling crone on the TV said so.” They believe it, because they are stupid. The law discounts that they believe it since believing it is so transcendently stupid – the law is always focused on what a “reasonable man” would think or do – so these mouth-breathers’ delusions do not render silly claims like this actionable under law.

Unfortunately, the stupid people who believe garbage like the trash talked by Heitkamp take action out on baseball diamonds. If you keep calling people who disagree with you politically “Nazis,” even if it’s with a wink, nod, and titter, to the good seats that it’s all performative baloney, some of the dullards in the cheap seats are going to buy it. And even the ones who know it’s crap are going to get dragged along with the twisted logic of it.

If your political opponents are not merely wrong but evil, and not merely evil but literally Hitler, then that sort of compels drastic measures. When your catspaws like Antifa or BLM attacks them and hurts them, well, they’re Nazis, right? And when they kill your opponents, well, too bad for the Nazis who are nothing of the sort.

But the problem is that the status quo cannot remain static – the idea that the victims of this gross slander and the resulting hatred, oppression, and violence will not react is absurd. And the thing is, the pampered clowns like Heitkamp are the least prepared to deal with a paradigm where violence supplants reason. It’s probably a bad idea to normalize hate when your forces consist of gender studies students, diversity consultants, and failed senators, plus maybe some blue falcon cops and soldiers who put pensions first. Meanwhile, the fuse the morons/liars lit burns down toward the powder.

But they keep it up anyway. This makes them both stupid and liars.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; ginacarano; heidiheitcamp; leftist; thepinkopantheon; woke
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

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41 posted on 04/06/2021 6:33:55 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules/Academia -> The Farm team, for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: SMARTY

The liberal media has been doing this fpr decades. It just took President Trump for them to do it in our faces and there are still dullards who can’t see it.


42 posted on 04/19/2021 2:43:52 PM PDT by bcr100 (ht)
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To: bcr100

Right-With Trump, I think the genie is out of the bottle. No REAL ‘Republican’ can continue in their inert thrall to our MSM.

In many ways whether or not he returns to office, Trump has set a new benchmark for Republican leadership.

From now on, they can’t continue in their cozy set-up with with DC and US Liberals. So-called ‘Republicans’ really pushed their luck when they openly supported Liberals’ anti-American agenda. No Conservative hopefuls can succeed if they kick the s*#t in our faces again.


43 posted on 04/20/2021 5:43:15 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: Kaslin

How ‘bout both

For certain, unequivocally they are liars. The war on Trump is a magnificent lie. The primary weapon was the big lie. Everybody told it and the miserable poverty stricken peon minions believed it

The stupidity was revealed early on with the selection of Biden over all the other candidates and persisting in the farce of a primary. It became apparent that to win, to get rid of Trump it was necessary to mount an enormous election fraud. In the process, many Democrat controlled cities were trashed and there was uncountable coats in real $$, lost business and disgust

The stupidity is now apparent as the old man they elected is not functional. He can’t be counted on to get on an airplane. God forbid the catastrophe of a fall from half way down Air Force 1 stairs. The fruits of the stupidity are yet to completely manifest themselves.

He can’t be counted on to speak in public. There is literally no telling what he will say. The whole world knows it

The stupidity will Trump the lie.


44 posted on 04/20/2021 5:56:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: SMARTY

Some are still asleep but many are seeing through the BS. The GOP way was to hold hearings which never amounted to anything but plated people showing they were supposedly doing something. No more.


45 posted on 04/20/2021 8:11:53 AM PDT by bcr100 (ht)
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