Posted on 10/26/2016 1:31:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
If you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.
On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.
Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?
Some Trump supporters online have suggested that people who intend to vote for Trump should wear their Trump hats on election day. That is a dangerous idea, and I strongly discourage it. There would be riots in the streets because we already know the bullies would attack. But on election day, inviting those attacks is an extra-dangerous idea. Violence is bad on any day, but on election day, Republicans are far more likely to unholster in an effort to protect their voting rights.
Things will get wet fast.
Yes, yes, I realize Trump supporters say bad things about Clinton supporters too. I don’t defend the bad apples on either side. I’ll just point out that Trump’s message is about uniting all Americans under one flag.
The Clinton message is that some Americans are good people and the other 40% are some form of deplorables, deserving of shame, vandalism, punishing taxation, and violence. She has literally turned Americans on each other. It is hard for me to imagine a worse thing for a presidential candidate to do.
I’ll say that again.
As far as I can tell, the worst thing a presidential candidate can do is turn Americans against each other. Clinton is doing that, intentionally.
Intentionally.
As I often say, I don’t know who has the best policies. I don’t know the best way to fight ISIS and I don’t know how to fix healthcare or trade deals. I don’t know which tax policies are best to lift the economy. I don’t know the best way to handle any of that stuff. (And neither do you.) But I do have a bad reaction to bullies. And I’ve reached my limit.
I hope you have too. Therefore…
I endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States because I oppose bullying in all its forms.
I don’t defend Trump’s personal life. Neither Trump nor Clinton are role models for our children. Let’s call that a tie, at worst.
The bullies are welcome to drown in their own bile while those of us who want a better world do what we’ve been doing for hundreds of years: Work to make it better while others complain about how we’re doing it.
Today I put Trump’s odds of winning in a landslide back to 98%. Remember, I told you a few weeks ago that Trump couldn’t win unless “something changed.”
Something just changed.
>>(And uhhh...what changed?)<<
I wondered that myself when I read that post yesterday. Then, today, he posted a followup that I think answers the question.
Essentially, he’s saying that Hillary is a bully (confirmed now by Wikileaks) and that her party’s voters perceive themselves to be very much against bullying. If they’re brought to realizing what’s going on, they might react by dropping their support for her.
With Wikileaks now verifying the bullying efforts against Trump supporters by the Clinton campaign it seems like Adams could very well be onto something here.
>>Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. .’<<
Which is exactly what’s happening.
And Adams is “reframing” the bullying by pointing out who is doing it, the leader of the party whose voters perceive themselves to be absolutely aghast at bullying anywhere, anytime. With that reframing, should Trump engage in it especially, many of Hillary’s voters realize what they’ve been caught up in and become too embarrassed to vote for her.
Maybe the videos that he sights in his piece.
People this election has been a real eye-opener we've had a lot of people that use we used to think of as our allies turn on us and a lot of people that we never thought of as our allies aligning with us ...so no matter what as we go into this final drive it's been pleasure
And for all us Trump supporter I think we should remember the words of John Paul Jones when he was asked to surrender ....."I have not yet begun to fight
When Joe Biden came out and said he wanted to "take Trump out behind the gym" he was channeling a high school bully. Just go to the White House's anti bullying site and see how perfectly he fits the definition.
Also, High School students are coming home and telling their parents how their teachers are saying how bad Trump and his supporters are. They are afraid to admit they support Trump in class.
When you see that Hillary and her minions were responsible for the rioting at Trump events that really shows that we aren't facing any typical kind of campaign, but a campaign oriented towards tyranny and turning Americans against each other.
Ok, cool
Thanks!
I recently bought Adams’ latest book, just to help make up for the way Clintonites have started attacking his livelihood.
Adams just ended his career. That took guts.
Expect “Dilbert” to be dropped off the funny pages. Not right away, but in a few months. I suspect he knows this.
Bullying... from the establishment, MSM and Uniparty cabal.
Americans are standing up and saying “NO”.
No one likes a bully. It isn’t hard to figure why Trump is gonna win - bigly.
He’s convinced me that a large part of the population is not rational. That’s the appeal of the Democrat party - join us, and by our definition, you are proven smart, rational, tolerant, moral just because you joined our tribe and we label ourselves such.
He already faced a total drop in speaking engagements after endorsing Trump several weeks ago, after a serious drop in them merely for speaking positively of Trump.
“Democratic Party”
It’s Democrat...
Democrat party.
Adams is set for life, so they can’t get at him that way.
Well, you're kind of splitting hairs there. I think they officially call themselves the Democratic Party.
Of course, either name is clearly inappropriate for today's party, so maybe it's more accurate to call them the DUMMYCRAP party!
I still bought his book to help him out.
I’m not very well versed when it comes to twitter. What is Shadowbanning?
I bought 2. ;-)
Shadowbanning seems to be when Twitter chooses to limit the usual reach of your tweets because they are too effective against Twitter’s liberal bias.
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