Posted on 06/13/2025 7:18:05 AM PDT by texas booster
The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity.
The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam.
Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false.
The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington Kids myth were quickly exposed.
The Duke Lacrosse and Jussie Smollett melodramas were laughable.
Russian “collusion,” “laptop” disinformation, and Joe Biden “fit as a fiddle” gaslighting were utter lies.
But more recently, the hard left lost its mind championing a host of violent, unsavory characters.
The illegal alien and El Salvadorian national, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was portrayed as a victim of unfair deportation in the left’s larger, losing war for open borders.
Garcia became a “Maryland Man”: a supposed poor victim of Trump overreach.
He was constructed as a family man engaged in construction to feed his family, who somehow forgot to become “documented” and was deported.
In truth, Garcia is now facing felony indictments for human trafficking. He was a likely MS-13 gang member, a violent and bullying woman-beater, and rarely employed gainfully in construction.
Luigi Mangione was a rich, spoiled kid who dabbled in Jacobin politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Instantly, some on the left embraced Mangione as a revolutionary hero who delivered justice to a supposedly greedy corporate capitalist.
Mohamed Soliman, like Garcia, was a violent illegal alien. He bragged about his hatred of Jews in general and Israel in particular.
So Soliman made some Molotov cocktails and tried to incinerate Jewish marchers advocating on behalf of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.
Soliman’s wife and five children, to whom Soliman filmed a video explaining his dedication to violent jihad, were also illegal aliens.
Soliman may well have preferred to burn Jews to remind us of the fires of the Holocaust ovens.
In the mind of the mainstream liberal media, the Soliman family was cruelly detained by the evil Trump administration that was considering returning the illegal aliens to their Middle East homes. ...
The more the incoherent left claimed the protests were “peaceful” and damned the Trump administration for sending them help, the more the violence continued.
And the more the public was relieved that Trump was trying to stop the riots.
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The list of lies is long and will ALWAYS get longer. The leftist base includes the 30M Americans with an IQ <85. That is too dim for the Army to accept even as cannon fodder. Below 75 (the average IQ in the country of Haiti) there is no connection between action and consequences. My dogs understand that!
That is how the MSM continues to operate, keep telling lies to those that will not /cannot question.
The list of leftist lies, hoaxes and gaslighting attempts is endless and growing as we speak.
And even as they martyr the scum of the earth, they demonize innocent people they deem as “political opponents” (See: J6ers falsely imprisoned without due process for “parading or trespassing”).
Let’s face it. The Democrats now solidly represent America’s enemies without... which includes communists and jihadists and terrorists... as America’s enemy within. If America is to survive... there has to be a reckoning and a point where American patriots finally face that harsh reality....
and deal with it.
Good theory, but anybody with IQ < 70 is sure not interested in politics or watching news.
| The leftist base includes the 30M Americans with an IQ of less than 85. * * * Yes, it's a good point, bobbo666. People with low IQs will always be the "mind-numbed robots" Rush talked about. And look at the high-IQ Leftists at the many universities in Massachusetts and California. Not just in liberal arts colleges, but also in technical powerhouses like Stanford and MIT. A key issue is the power of conformity. Once a person gets hooked by Leftist views, other Leftists put enormous social pressure on them to stay inside the cult. It's not just the fear of speaking out freely, the cult will "excommunicate" a free thinker, shunning them and socially isolated them from their neighbors. Of course these are the same tactics used by the Mao Communists in their Orwellian "Cultural" Revolution. So we should be grateful true debate is alive on Free Republic. If FReepers were afraid to speak contrarian views, FR would become a dull place where everyone drinks the Purple Koolaid. Rush, in his later years, talked about the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading pundit of the mid-19th century. Here's a part of Emerson's famous comment on self-reliance and the need to break free from a cult:
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. |
‘ So we should be grateful true debate is alive on Free Republic. If FReepers were afraid to speak contrarian views, FR would become a dull place where everyone drinks the Purple Koolaid.’
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