Posted on 08/14/2017 11:31:02 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
"Why won't President Obama use the term Islamic Terrorism? Isn't it now, after all of this time and so much death, about time!"
-- Trump, Twitter 11/14/2015
"When will President Obama issue the words RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM? He can't say it, and unless he will, the problem will not be solved!"
-- Trump, Twitter 11/15/2015
"Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn't he should immediately resign in disgrace!"
-- Trump, Twitter 6/12/2016
"By not calling it Radical Islamic Terrorism Obama is an 'Enabler!' His P.C. will kill US all!"
-- Trump, Twitter 6/12/2016
The concept “Radical Islamic Terror” is not the same as a label such as “BLM” “BAMN” “ANTIFA” “Occupy Wall Street” “Black Block”.
James O’Keefe nailed 0bama lackeys “ACORN”. The people behind ACORN melted away and regrouped under a different label.
Best to put the subvertive anarchists in jail
Exactly why it is pointless to name a specific group, such as ANTIFA or their soulmates the KKK.
The cockroach members scurry from one group to the other
. . . but then - as liberals mean it - liberal is a made-up word, too. The word existed, and was appreciated as a positive label, prior to 1920.If you read The Road to Serfdom (Readers Digest Condensed Version here), you will see that FA Hayek used the term liberal to denote people who today would be called conservatives in America. That is because Hayek, an Austrian, learned English in America before the meaning of liberal was essentially inverted, according to Safire's New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. And the meaning of liberal was not changed in Britain, where Hayek wrote Serfdom during WWII.
I have my own Newspeak-English dictionary:
- objective :
- reliably promoting the interests of Big Journalism. (usage: always applied to journalists who are members in good standing; never applied to anyone but a journalist)
- liberal :
- see "objective," except that the usage is reversed: (usage: never applied to any working journalist)
- progressive :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- moderate:
- see "liberal." (usage: same as for "liberal").
- centrist :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- conservative :
- antonym of objective"
- right-wing :
- see, "conservative."
That says more about YOU than about any objective assessment of the two Presidential statements.
When you've reached the point where your ideology prevents you from acknowledging empirical data, your credibility has vanished.
“When you’ve reached the point where your ideology prevents you from acknowledging empirical data, your credibility has vanished.”
Thanks so much Jake Tapper.
Fact of the matter is in the last 3 days we’ve seen the following:
CNN & MSM: President Trump didn’t specifically condemn the “white supremacists”
FR Never-trumpers & GOPe folks today: President Trump didn’t condemn Antifa & BLM
Neither have any credibility with me.
So which got specifically condemned?
It really is a shame when you are so devoid of intellectual integrity that you believe gratuitous (and demonstrably false) categorizations, and snark are sufficient to defend rank mendacity.
“It really is a shame when you are so devoid of intellectual integrity that you believe gratuitous (and demonstrably false) categorizations, and snark are sufficient to defend rank mendacity.”
Somehow I think I will survive your arrogance & judgmental nature.
#MAGA
More's the pity.
It was wise and fitting for him to say. He would be a fool to make too many assumptions.
If Trump were to mention Antifa or BLM now, it would be counterproductive. Let Sessions nail them.
If Sessions fails to do so...
The cops in Va. did NOTHING to stop things and some even herded one group into the other.
True, but then the name was resurrected in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s or so ( not exactly certain about the date and am guessing ) and became the same thing it is today, in Europe. The American version took longer to get up and active, but it too has been around for many, many, many decades.
Now, he has to send the CIA, FBI, and the DOJ on that group!
Slithered back under your slimy rock!
Kinda puts your little pouting session in perspective, doesn’t it?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3577451/posts
Many of them do.
He only needed to make one assumption...
The mainstream press, the Democratic Party, and 90% of federal government employees want to evict Trump from the White House and politically destroy Conservatives.
He could have said that - and then said he would not comment at all until objective Conservative analysis was performed on all the evidence.
The problem for Trump is that his political philosophy is center-left on most issues.
When cherished Conservative principles are under assault, he does not understand how to defend them, or how to anticipate, and prepare for, the threats before they arrive.
And he would be total laughingstock anyways, because it’s a pure fairytale to the MSM liars anyways.
Trump won’t use them. Not because he’s scared, but because Alt-left sounds more frightening than antifa and BLM. Just start using the term Alt-left, it triggers leftist to no end.
I disagree.
Trump cannot allow the MSM to set the agenda and set the terms of debate.
Trump's complete failure to make a spirited, coherent, and heart-felt defense of Conservative principles demoralizes Conservatives and allows the MSM to control the narrative.
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