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The left's big blame game after El Paso: Guns, Trump, white supremacy
americanthinker.com ^ | 8/4/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 08/04/2019 10:22:35 AM PDT by rktman

The left is trying to make political hay again over a mass shooting in El Paso and then another one in Dayton, blaming the whole thing on -- take your pick, guns, President Trump, or white supremacy. Just look at them go and this is hardly a comprehensive sampling of all versions of these same arguments out there:

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To: SunkenCiv

Has George P ever denounced Islamic terrorism?


41 posted on 08/04/2019 11:34:12 AM PDT by richardthelionheart
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To: rktman

42 posted on 08/04/2019 11:35:05 AM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: Crazieman

43 posted on 08/04/2019 11:36:04 AM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: richardthelionheart
He's another open-borders Bush nitwit, so, probably not.

44 posted on 08/04/2019 11:38:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bratch

/stealingit


45 posted on 08/04/2019 11:42:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rktman

The leftists always overreach, and this time won’t be different. It will backfire on them as usual.


46 posted on 08/04/2019 11:49:36 AM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“he left promotes white supremacists,”

The left are the white supremecists. When do republicans ever try to convince people that blacks are too stupid to function and all require white democrat assistance in the way a 10 year old requires assistance. Republicans do not carve out districts of minorities intended to be minority forever because they know dems will not vote for minorities then fill them with candidates of negative IQ that they can absolutely control with trinkets while their cities burn. Republicans do not cast violence and shame upon minorities who stray to the other side, and throw oreo cookies at them and hurl epithets at them, or beat them up for their headware choices. Republicans will vote for any candidate who believes in conservative values. Republicans want all of our fellow citizens to succeed. The republicans unlike the democrats believe in a bigger pie. Democrats believe the pie is one size and their little tribes must get as much of it as possible even sabotaging others to get it and preventing others from baking more pie.


47 posted on 08/04/2019 11:55:08 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: rktman

Troubling factors at play that cause isolation and further anti-social behavior.

1) War on whites - Progressives keep saying they are root of all problems in America. A complete falsehood. The non-stop drilling of this deliberate alienation will have an effect. This may be a backlash. (When BLM repeated white cops kill unarmed black men - 5 Dallas police officers were then murdered. They used lies to enrage an aggrieved subgroup that acted. So should we be surprised?)

2) White Males - need to feminize, stop being violent, shut up and will be picked last if at all. The constant berating of white males in every walk of life can cause a reaction that is not favorable. If any other sub group was attacked this relentlessly it would get very big news.

3) Blow up the rule of law, illegals given sanctuary - free to commit crimes. Free to vote, free school, free medical while citizens have to subsidize them. People lose respect for government institutions when they witness wholesale disregard for the law by those in power. The powerlessness is felt upon witnessing the abuse of the rule of law, and can cause people to react.

4) Constant denigration of US history as a racist criminal empire. Tears down ancient pillars of our nation to weaken faith and confidence in America. Creates confusion, anger, mistrust and further isolation and withdrawal. This denigration is now being taught in the schools and it is warped and dishonest.

5) Constant Climate fatalism - the Big Lie we have 12 years left, to destroy already fragile psyches with fear. A person has nothing left to live for. Add the pollution exaggerations that all food, water and air are thoroughly poisoned and a malevolent dystopia of hopelessness and fatalism becomes the norm, where kids turn to toxic drugs as an alternative.

6) The growing ability in the US not to have to work, to malinger for years and wander aimlessly from channel to channel on the basement sofa. This was very difficult if not impossible years ago, now seemingly millions get by without working. Without work, it already diminishes people who see they have no purpose, further reducing self esteem and demolishing the little meaning left in their lives.

7) Vast difference between skilled and unskilled labor - a significant economic gulf opening up in the new tech society of those who have skills and those who have none. There is little value for unskilled labor.

8) Lack of religious faith, and as it disappears, awful problems will fill the vacuum. (Pornography is one, and its cancerous growth has coarsened one of the gifts of human life. It detracts from human development and reduces respect for other humans.) People lack meaning in their lives and become aimless. They see no purpose and fall into depression and despondency. Many churches are being converted to yoga studios or nightclubs. Agnosticism and atheism are rising. People are lost. The destruction of religion can have very big consequences.

9) Reduction in marriage and children. Fewer are having children - which reduces their ties to the greater human community. Reckless behavior is more acceptable, greater risk taking is easier when no children are involved. Disregard for the future is also a derivative of this chosen barrenness.

10) America is a society that says it is okay to kill a baby at 40 weeks. That is a powerful testament to how sick this society has become and it is a message to the youth that violence is an acceptable solution to a social problem. Assisted suicide is also becoming the norm. These have cheapened human life, and it is another sledge hammer blow into the foundation of the West.

11) The loneliness and isolation of the internet - echo chambers increase the rage of the broken psyche. Negativity sells on the internet and in cable news, and people are in front of the screens for 10 hours a day. The power of the internet to broaden horizons is ironically plagued by the parochialism of hearing one’s own opinions repeated back. Even on the broader social media platforms it tends to become an electronic food fight which only serves to increase rage and entrench positions. The internet has become the bathroom walls of the universe, and horrible things are said with little accountability. It coarsens the spirit, and sprinkled on top of mental illness, it becomes a very bad catalyst for very bad actions. Fake news has also become a plague in its own right, and it serves as a sort of “non-think blame game”, since it is always tailor made to destroy a belief or an actual person. The internet is a glowing Petri dish for fake news as people are awash in lies that are spinning like lightning. The hopelessness comes from people just giving up and not believing the news.

12) The violence of video games - as millions of youth spend their waking hours playing these games only a fool would say it has no effect on the developing psyches of these kids. The violence is extreme, and it teaches that violence is the key to success and winning. Coarsens the mind, and it brings pleasure to pulling the trigger. Of course it is a game, but of course not everyone is normal, and not everyone can tell the difference between a game and reality.

13) Opioids and drugs seem to be growing, with large numbers of overdoses throughout the nation. Perhaps a symptom of all other problems but also a conclusion for lost souls and an eventual death sentence. Adds to the isolation, loneliness, and confinement of a troubled mind.


48 posted on 08/04/2019 12:10:02 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Bratch
Why yes, that is the cover. 😁
49 posted on 08/04/2019 12:24:48 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
Remember Paul Ryan rushing to the closest camera to assure the world that Republicans knew Democrats were NOT to blame for Gunman James Hodgkinson shooting up a bunch of conservatives practicing baseball?

And later that Bernie wasn't responsible either.

Nice to see Democrats have returned the courtesy... /s

50 posted on 08/04/2019 2:50:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (Every Democrat-run city is a paradise. Period. OR YOUR'RE A RACIST... - freeper Telepathic Intruder)
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To: scottinoc
Yes, I too listened to his You Tube this morning.

The DemonRats would kill us if they could. They just can't get away with it, thanks to the Second Amendment.

51 posted on 08/04/2019 3:32:29 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: wintertime

Scott Adsms is going wobbly on freedom. This is concerning. But ultimately Adams doesn’t have the answers to this country’s problems, nor does Trump. The 20-odd dems have nothing to offer but the same old politics. Only God can save this country.


52 posted on 08/04/2019 4:43:35 PM PDT by scottinoc
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