>>Normal people reacted with scorn or shock
How do desensitized people react?
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Posted on 06/04/2017 5:11:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
As we stumble into another outrageous attack on President Trump, we have finally said it is beyond the pale. People reacted with scorn and shock as Griffin stood there with an effigy of a bloody and beheaded Trump. Why were you shocked? Where did you think this was all heading (no pun intended)?
The unhinged attacks on Trump have been devolving since he secured the nomination of the Republican Party. Upon his election the fusillade of attacks has been escalating. Instead of someone from the political opposition standing up and saying enough is enough they keep feeding the “resistance”.
A fringe member of Congress, who is best known for her racially-slanted rants and questionable ethics for hiring her daughter and feathering the nest of her husband, has been turned into an Anti-Trump hero by calling for Trump’s impeachment from Day One of his presidency. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has turned -- as characterized by The Daily Beast -- from being the “Most Corrupt” to a “Resistance Hero.” Her constant drumbeat for Trump’s impeachment despite not once being able to establish the charges for his impeachment and admitting there is no proof of collusion with Russia continues to enrage citizens’ behavior and inflame the body politic.
Where is Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calling for more reasoned communication from her caucus? Nowhere. But shouldn’t she? When asked how Trump is different from other presidents she has worked with, Pelosi told the San Francisco Chronicle: 'it would be a long list. 'But how is he the same? I can't think of anything.” Anything. When leaders of Congress make wild statements like this, why would you expect any parameters on citizens’ behavior?
Why would the elected leaders rein in their rhetoric when the established press invigorates them by publishing statements that question the validity of Trump’s presidency? The New Republic was first published in 1914, and one of the beacons of free political thought in America has fueled that discussion. On February 17th they published a column that fed the beast on two fronts.
First, a column by physician Steven Beutler repeats the charges made by supposed medical personnel that President Trump has a mental disorder. He refers to an online petition that states he exhibits all the symptoms of the mental disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). That is despite the fact that not one of these so-called “professionals” ever personally examined Trump, and their own professional rules state they should not comment on someone’s medical condition without proper examination.
Beutler does not stop there. He states that Trump appears to be suffering from the medical symptoms of syphilis. He puts a proviso at the end of his column that he has not personally examined Trump, but he started the discussion and the questioning. Yet, the New Republic lowered itself to publishing this piffle. They knew what this would wrought, and people like Chelsea Handler used the New Republic’s now-diminished creditability to throw unsubstantiated accusations at a sitting president based on their irresponsible act. Why would we be shocked where this was heading?
The New York Times this week ran a front page column by one of their lead reporters entitled “A Constitutional Puzzle: Can the President Be Indicted?” This is supposedly the paper of record as they say. This is where the Left takes its lead. Based on what is in the NYT, the networks follow suit. You know every CNN and MSNBC host talked about the subject and had what they consider as a ‘heady’ discussion about indicting President Trump. They talked about possible this and possible that. Of course, nothing was verified nor attributed to an actual witness. Hard to obstruct justice when there is no underlying crime, but no matter when you want to get Trump.
What is the next jump off point when the leading lights of journalism are chattering about Trump either being mentally ill and/or a criminal? One may feel license to do anything when all the opinion leaders are talking about extraordinary times and contemptible actions. When congressional offices plot to impeach or may we say on this case overthrow a duly-elected president. But when you don’t feel he was fairly elected, it is all justified.
What is the natural extension of all this? Mob violence? We have already seen this. Why would the bloodied and decapitated head of Trump be out of line? Griffin obviously did not think so.
What is going on right now worries me -- seriously worries me. Sure Democrats point fingers at Republicans and said they did this or that in the past. But the level of hysteria, histrionics and hatred aimed toward our president are at a level I am not aware of ever happening in our history. If allowed to continue, not only will our government become totally dysfunctional (apparently their goal), it will create precedents to be replicated in the future. Will the next president ever be accepted as legitimate by the opposition party and why would they when the bar has been lowered to ground level?
Griffin’s actions have been universally condemned, but will it put a stop to the death spiral we are currently experiencing? I am afraid it will only be a momentary stall unless some grown-ups step up and say enough. So far that does not appear to be happening.
I read that headline and for moment I thought... nah..
Normal people reacted with scorn or shock, but many or even most democrats applauded Griffin. Watch and see, give it about a month, whatever gigs she gets will be maximum capacity crowds, wildly cheering democrats in every seat.
I think part of being a Liberal is a kind of head blindness that does not allow them to actually understand others point of view. They are completely unaware of how much Conservatives loathed BO and how difficult it was for us to watch him destroy the country for 8 years. They don’t understand how betrayed we felt that our countrymen had voted him in twice despite clear proofs of his hatred of America and traitorous and illegal actions.
Like young children they think they are the first to be disappointed in the Nation’s choice of a President and feel justified in any action to show their anger & vent their spleen. Their undisciplined, ungovernened, illogical characters are on display now front and center in a series of tantrums and violent acts. Its sad but its the nature of Liberals. I hope that the full force of the law rests its hand on their shoulders and that they may find enlightenment behind bars or once deported in the case of the illegal alien activists.
We are at war. Hatred for decency and happiness is rampant among democrats and their buddies the muslims.
Just one more stop on the democrats “Seething Ball of Hate Tour - 2017”.
All rhetoric - no substance.
"CNN exhumed Carl Bernstein, flaccid but imperishable, to try to lend credibility to this fatuous story ........."
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I guess the Eternal President---Obama----was too busy keeping track of his vast "federal inheritance" to be of any use to CNN.
They’re applauding Griffin, yet not so long ago the use of crosshairs symbols on a political map was denounced.
We sure are and you are 100 percent correct in everything you said.
I think Kathy Griffin is the canary in the mine shaft. She is, as you have said, an emblem, emotionally and literally, of the Left who have become more and more demented and ignorant as they have been egged on by Hil-liar-y and Obama.
Our DOJ should have put a stop to it immediately. Why was the DOJ silent? Kathy Griffin should have been arrested for defamation of character. To liken her to ISIS is not unreasonable as she has copy catted ISIS’ death methods. A copycat terrorist...and what she did was threaten Trump’s life. The jokes about Barron’s response were so repugnant, I wonder if all who said that stuff shouldn’t ‘compulsed’ to be infertile-ized?
We have laws in the US. Antisedition laws should have been invoked early on and in almost every case...yes, we have “freedom” of speech but not to invoke sedition, not to be treasonous, etc.
frankly, I am disgusted with our lack of legal action. If those people don’t like the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they should leave and we should provide the transportation to wherever they want to go BUT NOT the return trip.
I understand the Pledge of Allegiance is not longer recited in schools. I used to think about the”words” of civics and concepts when I was in school. It was meaningful. I thought about our lessons in history class, also no longer available to students and history was one of my favorite courses...history of anywhere. If we develop scholarly savages, ignorant as bricks, we ourselves are to be blamed.
Do you think we can bring back from a population of such ignorance a citizenry who knows what “sedition” means?
“Watch and see, give it about a month, whatever gigs she gets will be maximum capacity crowds, wildly cheering democrats in every seat.”
When Stewart Smiley, who plays Senator Al Franken in real life, ran for cover, I thought, “she’s done for.” It was a bridge too far and nobody wanted to die with her. Tim McVey’s Oklahoma bombing signaled the high water mark of the militia movement in the US and the end of the IRA’s bombing campaign. Kathy Griffin was trying to surf the anti-Trump wave to fame and fortune, but it backfired. She was the high water mark of anti-Trumpism. Like the militia movement, which was composed of ordinary people and the IRA, who generally called ahead to warn people of the bombs, one event went so far over the line that everybody who was cheering them on suddenly stopped. To continue cheering is to be associated, in the minds of people you would like on your side, with insanity. The anti-Trump movement won’t die in the hard core Left, but they will be very quiet about it. I doubt Kathy Griffin will ever work at the level she did before. She may find a venue now and again and may play to small, enthusiastic audiences, but likely, not even she will like the people who come to cheer her.
All that hate is going to erupt at some point — we are heading for something very much more ugly than some skank who has made a career crossing the line crossing one too many.
Undoubtedly, Kathy’s thrilled the bridge murders got her off the front pages.
>>Normal people reacted with scorn or shock
How do desensitized people react?
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I think the 2004 DemocRAT convention, when the convention as a body rejected any mention of God in their platform, and booed the mention of His Name; was the point where God wrote ICHABOD over them and cut them loose.
Maybe the fact that she ever worked at those levels at all was a warning, not just of her, but of her audience.
I only caught a few minutes of her act one time. Not funny at all. That anyone would spend time listening to her even for an hour’s entertainment, has always baffled me. The only explanation is her audience has always been comprised of bitter, angry people lacking discernment.
>>She was the high water mark of anti-Trumpism. Like the militia movement...
You underestimate the degree to which this strategic objective has been achieved:
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.
What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.
Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM&t=18m
There will be more like that. The left is insane and will do insane things.
The left will only stop when 20 million of them are dead.
That is where this is headed. The enemy will crave peace only when enough of them are dead.
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