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[Vanity] How Did We Get Here?
Me | September 3, 2024 | TBP

Posted on 09/03/2024 7:21:00 PM PDT by TBP

Yesterday I went to see Reagan. Excellent movie. Go see it.

There is a scene in the movie after President Reagan is shot where he gets a hospital visit from Tip O'Neill. They pray together.

Even as recently as a few years ago when a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to kill Republican Congressmen and injured Steve Scalise, members of both parties condemned the act and cheered Scaise's recovery.

A few months ago, when President Trump was shot, Democrats' responses largely fell into three groups: deny that it happened, claim that Trump staged it, or wish that the shooter had better aim,

What has happened to us? How did we get from the Democrat Speaker praying with the Republican President in his hospital room to a country where people try to dismiss, diminish, or fully support the shooting of the presidential nominee of one of our major parties?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: civility; culture; navelgazing; politics; shooting; society; vanity; wedeserveit; wedonotdeserveit
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What kind of people have we become?
1 posted on 09/03/2024 7:21:00 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Godless and soulless.


2 posted on 09/03/2024 7:22:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TBP

frankfurt school ...


3 posted on 09/03/2024 7:25:40 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: ifinnegan

Marxism and Communism have killed at least 100 million people and that’s a conservative estimate, so I don’t expect the current crop (aka Democrat Party) to be any different. The Party of Death.


5 posted on 09/03/2024 7:32:59 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: TBP
What has happened to us? How did we get from the Democrat Speaker praying with the Republican President in his hospital room to a country where people try to dismiss, diminish, or fully support the shooting of the presidential nominee of one of our major parties?

You should know the answer to this.

6 posted on 09/03/2024 7:37:31 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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“We” really haven’t, FRiend. What has happened is that the microphone has been seized by the worst of us, who have replaced discourse with hatred and gleeful hostility. The cost of this has, I am afraid, only been put off and may now be coming due.


7 posted on 09/03/2024 7:38:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Please tell us Obie one kanobe.


8 posted on 09/03/2024 7:39:57 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Levy78
Good men doing nothing.

^ this

9 posted on 09/03/2024 7:40:42 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: TBP
Please remember all the people in newsrooms who laughed and cheered when Reagan was shot.

They just feel more comfortable letting their demon faces show publicly now.

And why shouldn't they?

For decades people who pointed it out were told to shut up by their own side.

So now we just shrug and say, "told ya."

10 posted on 09/03/2024 7:41:26 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Fungi
Please tell us Obie one kanobe.

Anyone tuned into the world situation and American situation should have know what was happening - for years.

11 posted on 09/03/2024 7:43:58 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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Social media plays a part in this.

Many people are “fearless” when they can hide behind a posting and not actually say things to people’s faces.


12 posted on 09/03/2024 7:45:56 PM PDT by simpson96
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Divided is all. Keep to your best self and do what is the right thing in your mind and don’t look back,-)


13 posted on 09/03/2024 7:46:36 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: TBP

Tip O’Neill was born and became an adult before WWII. He was working class, Irish and educated thoroughly Catholic. Reagan’s background was roughly similar, although Reagan was from a more Evangelical Christian background.

This was before the DC deep-state and post WWII intel agencies took over Washington, and well before neo-Marxism corrupted new generations of Americans.

What happened is much of America came under the sway of deep-state control and woke neo-marxism.


14 posted on 09/03/2024 7:49:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: TBP

Hardening our hearts as we prepare for war.


15 posted on 09/03/2024 7:50:49 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: simpson96
Social media plays a part in this.

All of this was happening before social media. Marxists control our universities. And if you're in Hollywood, you're pretty much a Marxist. It's why Ronald Reagan became a Republican.

16 posted on 09/03/2024 7:52:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Levy78

The Bible says no man is good.


17 posted on 09/03/2024 7:53:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: TBP

Sublimation.

We feel posting is as powerful as in the streets protesting.


18 posted on 09/03/2024 7:54:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone ( Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: TBP

That is why I now DESPISE communist/dems. I don’t have one friend who is a dem/communist. Effum


19 posted on 09/03/2024 7:55:34 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: TBP

Did you find yourself living in a shotgun shack, in another part of the world, and behind the wheel of a large automobile before you thought of this question?

Did you find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife before you asked yourself that?


20 posted on 09/03/2024 7:56:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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