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[Kishkumen]

Olbermann’s move was stupid. It would have taken a second of reconsideration to realize that it would be a complete mistake to post what he did.

I am still waiting for Trump to apologize for calling his political opponents vermin. Surely, he will. It can't possibly be the case that he is a bigger attention-whore and sad loser than Olbermann! Tell me it ain't so!

[canpakes]

I will give ceeboo this: Olbermann is a blight in the media landscape. If he were to be suspended over this, that would be a good thing, in my view. I don't care for him or his methods. Of course, by that standard, FoxNews would have to winnow its contributors quite a bit, too. Brian Killmeade's call to euthanize America's homeless population was much, much worse by orders of magnitude than Olbermann's irresponsible comments, but I am sure I can find our resident MAGA folks' loud, impassioned criticisms of Killmeade's statement, right?

If anyone can help me find Ceeboo's and Whiskey's call to pull Brian Killmeade off the air or to arrest him, I would appreciate it.

Our resident MAGA fans apparently have no problem with Trump publicly calling ‘half of the country’ (to use their phrasing) vermin, or publicly proclaiming that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country, but they suddenly awaken to hate speech when a washed-up TV personality posts a stupid statement for several seconds on social media.

The existence of this thread - and its pearl-clutching - is not surprising.

[ceeboo]

Just saw this breaking news: A sniper in Dallas shooting at an ICE facility. Three people hit.


Where we are.

[Kishkumen]

Perhaps you could come up with a different strategy?

"No one is buying this "earth is a sphere" thing! No one is buying into this "earth ain't the center of the universe" crap! Wanna come up with a different strategy? After all, it isn't the truth that we are after. It is what people will buy into that's important."

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What are you fearing? And why do you attribute your fear to me?

Use your brain. I think it should be very easy to come up with reasons why non-MAGA people would live in fear right now.

And today, especially in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible, they'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.

The real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left, and it's growing every day, every single day. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within. Because if you have a capable, competent, smart, tough leader, Russia, China, North Korea, they're not going to want to play with us, and they didn't. Despite the hatred and anger of the radical left lunatics who want to destroy our country, we will make America great again.

But, you know, we do have an enemy from within. We have some very bad people, and those people are also very dangerous. They would like to take down our country. They'd like to have our country, be a nice communist country or fascist in any way they can. And we have to be careful of that, but they're the greatest con artists in law because soon as I said an enemy from within, they said, "Oh, he wants a-- oh, he's saying an enemy from within." These are sick puppies. I'm telling you.

And then he immediately get called by the New York Times or somebody because they're very -- I mean, they truly are the enemy of the people. They're the enemy of the people, those people right there. Not all of them, but about 91 percent. They're the enemy of the people.

I know many of them. It's just this amorphous group of people, but they're smart, and they're vicious, and we have to defeat them. And when I say the enemy from within, the other side goes crazy, becomes a sound. Oh, how can he say -- no, they've done very bad things to this country. They are indeed the enemy from within and -- but this is who we're fighting.

I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country. By the way, totally destroying our country. The towns, the villages, they're being inundated.

I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they're the -- and it should be very easily handled by -- if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can't let that happen.

These are vicious, horrible people. I call it the enemy from within.

We have an enemy from the outside and we have an enemy from within. And in my opinion, the enemy from within are radical left lunatics. And I think you have to fight back.

We're being destroyed in many ways. We're not respected in the -- outside of our country. I say we have the enemy in from within, and we have the enemy from the outside. . . . And I'm telling you, we are in more danger from the enemy from within with these lunatics, these fascists, these communists, and we're going to stop that also. But it was so interesting to get those questions because they all concerned the economy, inflation, and the border, and we're going to take care of it all.

[Kishkumen]

Our resident MAGA fans apparently have no problem with Trump publicly calling ‘half of the country’ (to use their phrasing) vermin, or publicly proclaiming that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country, but they suddenly awaken to hate speech when a washed-up TV personality posts a stupid statement for several seconds on social media.

The existence of this thread - and its pearl-clutching - is not surprising.

Yeah, the most horrible thing about all of this is that it is the president who has been stoking violence, using the language of genocide, and treating American cities like occupied foreign cities. His attack on his own citizenry is right out in the open, but our MAGA folk don't utter a peep in disagreement. Instead, they want to hold every person who disagrees with them on the internet more culpable than the irresponsible, incompetent fool they elected.

[Whiskey]

You're at the same place you were at 15 years ago (probably longer). No difference.

One thing I could mention on this thread as well as anywhere, is that I find the antics of our board right-w's pretty telling. Why so glum? The religious right is overtly overturning the constitution and moving us into a dictatorship, the only thing slowing it down is the courts are still more or less functional, and there's an inherent administrative inertia for a country this large and successful that doesn't get swatted away overnight.

The point is, our right-wingers couldn't ask for more in terms of a power grab and the outright injustice of their leadership, freedom of their own media to make direct calls for killing people, and yet our right-w's are the ones who are the most unhappy. You're winning. I'm living in fear -- thanks to you. Slightly less than as of a few months ago as the first major round of corruption missed its target. But otherwise, you should be dancing in the street.

By the way, the right seemed to celebrate Alex Jones calling Sandy Hook a staged event and then harassing and threating the families of shooting victims for years and years. This is who you are. There are so many other examples and just no incentive for me to continue. The face of evil is playing the victim in the opening post -- I hope nobody is confused about that.

Adding to all the subjects you don't know anything about -- you know nothing about criminal law.

(Whiskey, don't forget to hand out a participation award)

Here is your prize: Whatabout whatabout whatabout, whatabout, whatabout Whatabout.

I got thoughts on the alex jones sandy hook thing. But first, say sorry for lying or making crap up. K? Take your entire post, line by line, word by word, and say sorry for making janky assumptions and making crap up. Okay?

[Kishkumen]

Just saw this breaking news: A sniper in Dallas shooting at an ICE facility. Three people hit.


Where we are.

What do you make of the fact that not a single law enforcement officer was one of the victims, Ceeboo? Do you think that might have been a pertinent detail to include?

[Whiskey]

LMAO at the raging fever to defend Keith O. Can’t make this crap up. And for the record, je ne suis pas Keith. That MFer is a whackadoodle. Y’all Team Amazing Shot can have that guy.

[Whiskey]

Just saw this breaking news: A sniper in Dallas shooting at an ICE facility. Three people hit.


Where we are.

What do you make of the fact that not a single law enforcement officer was one of the victims, Ceeboo? Do you think that might have been a pertinent detail to include?

I will go on the record and say the sniper’s shots were not amazing.

[Kishkumen]

LMAO at the raging fever to defend Keith O. Can’t make this crap up. And for the record, je ne suis pas Keith. That MFer is a whackadoodle. Y’all Team Amazing Shot can have that guy.

Got a fever in yer pants for Keith O, Whiskey? That would be the only fever here. Keep your fever to yourself.