Posted on 05/31/2017 8:32:50 PM PDT by blam
One of the pillars of democracy erodes before our eyes. The ability to disagree with the politically different disintegrates under red and black flags, and hooded rioters obscuring their faces. It’s not Donald Trump’s secret police. It’s not something out of a dystopian novel. It’s the very real culture of permissive violence exploding from today’s left. Bit by bit, this sort of behavior becomes quickly normalized (in the parlance du jour) and escalated.
While there’s generally been blackout coverage of these “mostly peaceful” riots in the legacy media, every once in awhile something breaks through. Such is the case with the ever desperate Kathy Griffin’s latest sickening stunt. Griffin, who most people aren’t exactly sure why she is famous, posed for photos featuring the decapitated head of President Trump. Intended for an audience eager for more and more radical action, Griffin jumped over a big red line. Even CNN had to ask: did she commit a felony?
Her too little, too late apology simply said she went “too far” rather than understanding the underlying crassness and danger her precedent sets. Griffin, who must appear on almost everyone’s “Top 10 Annoying Noncriminal People” (although the latter may change) list, traded vulgar coarseness for attention to a dying career. She said she asked the photographer to “take down the image” — as if that’s possible in the age of the internet. The only thing genuine in her drab statement was that it “wasn’t funny.” Understatement of the year.
The real underlying question is why Griffin thought that such an odious action was acceptable in the first place. In the echo chamber of the modern left wing, it’s obvious. Where is the swift condemnation of the stunt by this “comedian?” Whataboutisms abounded, said one Twitter commentator with 217 followers —
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it’s time for them to fear
You’d think by now these leftards would have figured out that Trump is not Bush. Trump will not take and take and take their abuse. Bush was a gentleman to a fault. Trump is a BOSS.
They. Will. Pay.
....Bit by bit, this sort of behavior becomes quickly normalized (in the parlance du jour) and escalated....
Thats why CNN has become all Trump, all the time.
Fringe lunatic liberals are the target audience. They can’t get enough of this. It fuels their impeachment dreams and other delusions, and psychosis.
I was confusing Kathie Lee Gifford, (football’s widow)and this sorry excuse for a human.
Liberals and the MSM are fueling more hatred today than existed during the Civil War!!
That’s why America elected him. We saw a gentlemanly approach just doesn’t work with them and we elected a scrapper to bring it!
You are so right! And Trump’s attitude is infectious: he fights and he inspires US to fight, too. Bush was such a decent man in so many ways, but by never standing for himself, somehow he didn’t really inspire conservatives to kick liberal butt on his behalf.
Trump, on the other hand, motivated us to call USAA, for example, and cancel our accounts for yanking their Hannity sponsorship. And...USAA capitulated to US! CNN was so blasted by conservatives that they had no choice but to fire that piece of crap, Kathy Griffin. Trump has ignited the once-silent majority. I think he’s put a little “SCREW YOU!” in all of us...and it’s about dang time.
Good. No Marquis of Queensbury rules with these sicko creeps!
I couldn’t agree more. If anything, situations like the Kathy Griffin debacle should strengthen our resolve to resist the left. They have lost their moral compass.
I just hope America woke up and realized that we are in for a long struggle against evil and has given up on the idea that “making nice” will work. it won’t. We must stay strong, stay vigilant, and be ready to fight.
Bush was a conservative?
To liberals he was.
Same thing in Chicago.
Whatever medications she is taking, should now come with a warning, may cause barbaric and uncivilized acts.
To communist leftists Bush was a right-wing extremist. To the liberty wing of the Republican party Bush was a pretend conservative who sold out to the left when he got the opportunity. I think Both Bushes sold out and were no where near concervatives.
Yes, Bush is a conservative. A country club conservative. He won because people wanted something different than the Clinton scandals of the 1990s. He wanted to Renew America’s Purpose, but he failed.
He wanted to renew America’s purpose. He didn’t succeed.
Who said that?
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