"The rapes were old-fashioned?"
Posted on 10/21/2020 5:36:57 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee unearthed a disturbing fact: Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party. This revelation came only two years into the I Love Lucy phenomenon that besotted Americans simply called "The Show." Now the future of The Show and Lucille Ball's hard-won career hung by a thread.
As it turns out, Lucy was no more Communist than you or I. As a young woman, she'd signed a Communist Party card to please her beloved grandfather who became a Communist after he lost his entire life's savings in a court battle after a freak accident left a neighbor child paralyzed. It was enough for the FBI to keep a file on her.
Still, The Show must go on. Desi Arnaz handled the situation beautifully. In the first I Love Lucy episode taped after Lucy's Communist link hit the headlines, he introduced her to the studio audience as, "And the only thing red about her is her hair, and that isn't even real." Lucy ran out on stage and bowed, ran to the other side of the stage and bowed. There was thunderous applause and Americans love Lucy to this day.
So why did I tell you that story?
Family and Friends
Because we all have family and friends who are voting the Biden/Harris ticket.
For Trump supporters, that is utterly unconscionable. Unthinkable. Illogical. Communist. Socialist. unAmerican. Bizarre. (Don't run out of adjectives, Dear!)
While I admit to purging my Facebook Friends List of vicious Trump haters I don't personally know, I kept all my friends who are loudly and proudly Biden/Harris supporters because I know them to be warm, kind, supportive, pleasant people in real life. Some of them have known me from infancy and were wonderful when my own family (Republicans all!) threatened to sue me for being the whistleblower who revealed decades of abuse within our family.
That leaves me in the same conundrum America felt about Lucille Ball's Communist connections.
I need to dig into the "why" behind the "wherefore" and try to understand my friends' reasoning to see if they're really, as M*A*S*H* 4077's Frank Burns would say, "Commie pinkos" or if they're about as Communist as Lucille Ball. This is me trying to respectfully figure out how the heck they can vote Biden/Harris.
The Survey
Each election year, I pose the same question to my Democrat Facebook friends: "Please explain the pro reasons you're voting Democrat. No anti-Republican reasons. Only pro-Democrat reasons."
It's a sad statement on American politics when both sides of the aisle consider their votes less for their own party's candidate and more against the other party's ticket. All that changed for Republicans when Trump ran as a Republican.
Here are all five of the pro-Biden answers to this year's survey.
{screenshots from Facebook}
Who Do You Believe?
As far as I can tell, my friends who are voting for Biden/Harris are just as America-loving as I am. They use all the same words to support Biden that I use to support Trump: liberty, freedom, patriotism, America.
The only difference is that they believe the Mainstream Media as fervently as you and I disbelieve the Mainstream Media. Frankly, if we Conservatives believed the MSM, we'd believe "Orange man, bad" too.
If we're being honest, Donald Trump has been accused of (almost) as many horrible things as Biden. Everything from adultery to statutory rape, from tax fraud to using his office for monetary gain, from homophobia to racism. You and I don't believe a word of it because his actions prove the opposite...just as Biden supporters don't believe a word of the allegations against Joe, Hunter and Kamala either because...because...yeah, I got nothin'.
The only difference is the Conservative media we believe has morals based on Judeo-Christian values and the Ten Commandments while, we believe, the Liberal media are atheists with no moral compass except power, money and winning, at all cost, by any means, fair or foul including bald faced lies. They can't all be sued for defamation!
Surprisingly to me, even Joe's blatant racism, plan to raise taxes, China and Ukraine connections and the revelations on Hunter Biden's laptop haven't changed anything for committed Biden/Harris supporters. In fact, it created the martyr affect. Secret Biden/Harris supporters are now being loud and proud, putting up yard signs, declaring their allegiance on Facebook. Frankly, that takes courage as Hunter's pedophilia becomes known and Biden/Harris supporters become more and more of a minority.
Or maybe they vote the Democrat ticket, regardless of who's on it, for the same reason Lucy joined the Communist Party in name only. "Grandpa did and he'd roll in his grave if I vote Republican." Or because they're union or farmers. Or because they're frightened and don't want to have to lie to their Liberal family. Or because they have a pet issue like, I dunno, welfare or abortion.
Before You Vote, Listen to This Guy
The wonderful thing about Americans is that we're all passionate about our beliefs and we're all Resolute Desk Jockeys. We're invested, we're informed and we're interested in our government. That's awesome!
All I hope is that you're sure you're being told the truth about your candidate. As the signs say: "F**k your feelings." This is about facts Not the same old debunked lies and allegations. Remember, we're not marrying the President! Just picking the Executive Branch of Government and Commander-In-Chief. "C'mon man!"
Donald Trump may be a lot of things but his record over the last four years backs up his words at each and every rally. He's telling the truth. He's a patriot. He serves for no pay. He's repeatedly demonstrated acceptance of every race, color, creed and sexual orientation. He loves America more than his own life. He does what he says he's going to do and we're all better off for it.
But I can't say it nearly as eloquently as the guy in this video so I'll end with, "What he said."
Link: https://youtu.be/WbozDBM67lY
LOL. So true. I didn’t enjoy trying to wiggle my way into their brains.
Oh, so that explains the foundations. And their selective amnesia of Biden’s blatant racism. The mind reels.
-- Some wise person
They are domestic enemies of the the Republic and at this point I have a higher regard for ISIS than I do them
I just blocked an old coworker today too. My Ballot Harvesting in Nursing Homes article offended her “to the bone.” But she’s pro-Ginsburg who voted AGAINST the ban on partial-birth abortion. Selective empathy.
They want their team to win this time and will do anything and spend a huge amount of money to win and get the power to RULE OVER THE LOSERS. Their team is being backed and played by the anarchist wanting the overthrow of America as we know it.
LOL. Good one!
Insanity is the destination for a normal person who goes down that path.
Silly me, I thought it had something to do with fair play, winning fair-and-square and being gracious losers, as the Conservatives have been time and time again.
The one thing they have is sticktoativeness in the face of a drowning defeat.
That's the answer right there.
More broadly, they think the Washington status quo was okay and didn't question it.
They think Trump is singularly bad, and don't see just how corrupt Washington really is.
Yes, and I've concluded that most people hate who the main media tells them to hate. It worked in Nazi Germany and it works here when CNN tells them to hate Trump, and so they hate Trump with little to no thought on their own.
“As far as I can tell, my friends who are voting for Biden/Harris are just as America-loving as I am“
Oooh. Careful. I did not ever say that. You meant your post to respond to someone else.
I would NEVER EVER say that. It is my peeve, in fact. I am a combat veteran, with multitudes of friends who are combat veterans, families of combat veterans and all the trappings. I am an American girl as in the one Tom Petty sang of, constantly in opposition to the lukewarm. Heck, Respond, when my friends say “eeeew trumps personality!”, “ what do you want? We’re fighting satanic level corruption. You don’t demand politeness from your divorce lawyer, your surgeon, your car mechanic. Get a grip!“
So, yeah, check the addressee
Nothing to figure out. They hate, therefore they are.
I noticed that too.
It is very unfortunate that even people on OUR SIDE are misinformed about Senator McCarthy.
Demonrat Stalinazism is a high, holy religion to them. It trumps everything else.
Hi Lenora, VERY WELL WRITTEN, thank you, so nice to have you with us! Better late than never, so happy you found the site!!
McCarthy was not on the house UN American activities committee. McCarthy had the names of all the Russian spies in the Truman Administration. We knew this because we had broken the Russian code. The Author is passing along the marxist bs used to discredit a truly good man.
Its all emotional therefore irrational.
I tend to always stop reading right there. SENATOR McCarthy never had a HOUSE committee.
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