Posted on 06/20/2017 5:09:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
What would have happened if a Trump supporter had shot a Democratic congressman and other Democratic Washington officials?
The answer is obvious.
The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media and the Democratic Party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American life. It is not possible to understand the left -- and, therefore, the media and the current state of American life -- without understanding how the left uses and relies on hysteria. Hysteria is to the left as oxygen is to biological life.
From the moment Donald Trump was elected president, America has been drowning in left-wing hysteria, all fomented by the media and the Democratic Party.
The charge of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign is hysteria. The claim that the president engaged in obstruction of justice is hysteria. As I have pointed out, the charge of Trump's election unleashing hate and anti-Semitism, which dominated American media for months, was hysteria.
If Democrats had been shot by a Trump supporter, all you would be hearing and reading about is how much hate the Trump election has unleashed in America, how his election is threatening our democracy and how he is unleashing fascism.
But it was a not a Trump supporter who attempted to murder a Democratic congressman, Capitol Police officers, a House GOP aide and a lobbyist; it was a Trump-hating leftist who attempted to murder a Republican congressman and other Republican officials. And, for that reason, what would have been the dominant issue in America today is already a nonissue. The shooting took place on Wednesday. On Friday, the only article about it on The New York Times front page was about the "harmony" engulfing Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the shooting. By Saturday, there was nothing about the shooting on the front page.
The "harmony" issue is worth noting. As sure as the sun rises in the east, had a Trump-supporting fanatic shot Democratic officials, the Democrats would not have said a word about the need for "harmony," or the need to lower the temperature in American political discourse. On the contrary, they would have greatly raised the temperature of their already blistering rhetoric. They would have attributed the shooting entirely to Trump's "hateful" rhetoric having permeated conservative and Republican America.
But it was a leftist who attempted to slaughter Republicans, so it was Republicans who had to respond. And they did so by calling for harmony and lowering the temperature of political differences.
In other words, Republicans reacted with complete conciliation, whereas, the Democrats and their media would have gone ballistic against the right.
Now, why is that?
One reason is that Republicans have accepted the post-shooting narrative of there being some sort of moral equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. That they have reinforces my belief that the great majority of Republicans and conservatives, whether in politics or in the media, do not appreciate how rotten the left is (the left -- not traditional liberals). Many really believe that calls for "harmony" and "unity" with Democrats and the left are meaningful.
But the only reason Democrats talked about harmony for a few days after the shooting was one of theirs was the shooter.
Even during the three-day "harmony" period, the left was busy furthering the falsehood that there is quantitative and qualitative equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. As evidence, a New York Times editorial said: "Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl. At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin's political action committee circulated a map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs."
A Republican putting crosshairs on vulnerable Democrat districts is the worst the Times could come up with. And that is apparently equivalent to all the hate directed at President Trump: calling opposition to him "resistance," as if Democrats were the French resistance and Trump were a Nazi; Kathy Griffin holding President Trump's mock severed head with blood gushing out; Stephen Colbert saying on his TV show that Trump's mouth would make a good "c--- holster" for Russian President Vladimir Putin; and so much more unprecedented hate.
The difference between what has happened after these shootings and what would have happened had a right-winger shot Democratic officials is, in a nutshell, the moral difference between the left and the right; and between Democrats and Republicans.
A Democrat shot Republicans and they are STILL saying this.
While the militias train and whine, the democrats kill and kill.
No democrat need fear a Trumpsters, unless and until the President stands tall for the REPUBLIC instead of demeaning us and calling the USA a democracy.
But, by their history, Republicans have much to fear from democrats and RINOs.
I hate democrats, but I hate RINOs even more
2017...Democrat tries to slaughter GOP Congressmen
2016...Democrat kills 49 in Orlando
2015...Democrat kills 12 in San Bernardino
2013...Democrat kills 12 at Navy shipyard
2012...Democrat kills 26 in Sandy Hook school
2012...Democrat kills 7 in Minnesota
2011...Democrat kills 12 Aurora movie theater
2010...Democrat shoots Gabby Gifford & kills 12 in Arizona...
2007...Democrat kills 32 at Virginia Tech
2003...Democrat kills 7 at Lockheed-Martin Plant
2001...Democrat shoots at Bush White House
1999...Democrat kills 8 at Church Service
1995...Democrat kills 5 co-workers at Texas Lab
1991...Democrat kills 23 at Luby’s cafe, Killeen, Tx.
1990...Democrat kills 10 at GMAC office
1986...Democrat kills 15 at Oklahoma post office
1984...Democrat kills 22 at McDonald’s
1983...Democrat shoots Pres. Reagan
1975...Democrat shoots at Pres. Ford
1963...Socialist shoots Pres. Kennedy
1865...Democrat kills Pres. Lincoln
Yeah. Some turd in the media said that Scalise got shot and it was his own damn fault. “Because Republican” or something.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Dems are crafting their own plan to pay some “Trump supporter” to “attack” a Dem member....
From the moment Donald Trump was elected president, America has been drowning in left-wing hysteria, all fomented by the media and the Democratic Party. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Huge slap down is coming. Count on it.
One correction and one addition:
1963...A communist sympathizer kills president JFKennedy
1968...An Islamic extremist kills candidate RFKennedy
How about Julius Obama Caesar?
I’m waiting, waiting. It just art after all.
Repeat yourself often, Mr Prager? d;^)
Starting to see a pattern here.
Someone who is always hysterical needs to be in a straitjacket.
“..Starting to see a pattern here....”
Yeah. Violent insanity brought on by the mental disease of liberalism.
DEMOCRAT JIAHAD.
A rabid pundit on CNN went into an hysterical rant blaming Trump for the white guy in London doing that Infidel Jihad thingie. I am blasé about the Jihad thingie because I was told by Mayor Khan that these events “come part and parcel with living in the city”.
It’s almost like the ‘Rats are conducting a Jihad...
An at best hypocritical admission by the tarnished Dennis Prager, who (like some people on this very forum) was with the violent Nevertrump Movement when they attacked Trump’s Chicago rally (and blamed Trump for the violence) and has been left off in left field.
Go play with Glen Beck, Dennis.
And take Mark Levin with you.
You couldn’t identify a violent enemy months ago and it has taken you half a year to figure out who literally is a threat to the lives of Americans.
A lot of this hysteria would go away if the focus of it would learn to control his mouth and his tweets in a post-kofefe world given over to solemn deliberation and measured faithful execution of pre-election promises.
If a Trump supporter had shot a democrat congresscritter, it would have likely been from a distance with a scope from a well-concealed hide and he (or she) would have likely escaped.
To do that, the rats would have to start from scratch by taking one of their own dirt bags and grooming him/her/it/ze to pose at a Trump Supporter. You can't just find a real Trump Supporter who would get all unhinged for a fee.
STICK TO THE SUBJECT OR STHUP
GOT IT?
Besides he voted for President Trump in the general election which is what counts. and will most likely vote again for him in 2020.
Will you?
Scott Pelley would support the death penalty for the first time in his life.
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