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What Has Changed In The Past Two Years

[ Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 – 15:47 UTC ]

Two years ago today, we were all glued to our television sets to find out who had won the 2020 presidential election. We didn't find out that night, of course, we had to wait days and days before the final results were in: Joe Biden had decisively beaten Donald Trump, with the exact same Electoral College split as happened in 2016 -- an election Trump had always liked to refer to as "a landslide."

Since then, Trump stopped merely previewing his Big Lie and instead made it his monomania -- because the one thing he cares more about than anything else in this life is that he is never called "a loser." If Biden had somehow won, that must have somehow meant "the election was rigged," because no other answer was acceptable to his planetary-sized ego.

And we have all paid the price for that narcissistic obsession ever since. It culminated (to date) with an insurrectionist takeover of the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 -- a date which will indeed live in infamy in American history. The violent mob wanted to hang the vice president for not somehow magically assuming powers he was not entitled to, in order to stop the official count of the Electoral College's votes and somehow hand the election to Trump -- even though he had clearly lost.

At the time, Republican leaders in Congress were aghast at the violence. They denounced it in no uncertain terms. Most memorable were the speeches given by Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, at least to me. They both castigated Trump for whipping the mob into a frenzy and for refusing to lift a finger to stop the attack for hours after it had begun. Since then, McConnell has remained somewhat firm in his stance, which has earned him threats from Trump that a Republican-led House should impeach him. Lindsey Graham has become a Trump lickspittle once again, as has almost every other member of the Republican Party in office (with only a handful of notable exceptions).

These Republicans tried to gaslight America into believing that the insurrection attempt was nothing more than a group of "tourists" at the Capitol. But we all saw what we saw with our own eyes. Some Republicans now even openly espouse violence against their political opponents. Others merely look the other way and refuse to denounce it -- or they have the unmitigated gall to even make jokes about it. This is very dangerous territory for any political party to enter into, it should go without saying.

But sadly, it doesn't go without saying. It needs to be said. This is the first America election I have ever lived through where I fear for the safety of both voters and elections officials on Election Day and beyond. That should be an unthinkable thought for an American to have, but it no longer is. Widespread violence is entirely possible, which truly is a shocking thing to admit.

President Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday about the threats to democracy America now faces. The New York Times wrote an editorial today titled: "American Can Have Democracy Or Political Violence. Not Both." In it, they dismantle the "both sides do it" argument many Republicans have been making, after the vicious and horrific attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband. They provide some truth about what has been going on (which is sadly missing from most media discussions of the subject):

The embrace of conspiratorial and violent ideology and rhetoric by many Republican politicians during and after the Trump presidency, anti-government anger related to the pandemic, disinformation, cultural polarization, the ubiquity of guns and radicalized internet culture have all led to the current moment, and none of those trends are in retreat. Donald Trump was the first American president to rouse an armed mob that stormed the Capitol and threatened lawmakers. Taken together, these factors form a social scaffolding that allows for the kind of endemic political violence that can undo a democracy. Ours would not be the first.

. . .

As the range of violence in recent years shows, the scourge of extremism in the United States is evident across the political spectrum. But the threat to the current order comes disproportionately from the right.

Of the more than 440 extremism-related murders committed in the past decade, more than 75 percent were committed by right-wing extremists, white supremacists or anti-government extremists. The remaining quarter stemmed from a range of other motivations, according to a study by the Anti-Defamation League. There were 29 extremist-related homicides last year: 26 committed by right-wing extremists, two by Black nationalists and one by an Islamic extremist. The Department of Homeland Security has warned again and again that domestic extremism motivated by white supremacist and other right-wing ideologies is the country's top terrorism threat.

Some of the most spectacular recent episodes of political terrorism are etched into the nation's collective memory: mass shootings in El Paso and Buffalo, bomb and arson attacks against mosques and synagogues, a plot by a paramilitary group to kidnap Michigan's governor, the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

There have been attacks on conservatives, too: a man was arrested outside Brett Kavanaugh's home after he said he wanted to kill a justice and in 2017, the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise at a baseball field. But the number and nature of the episodes aren't comparable, and no leading figures in the Democratic Party condone, mock or encourage violence in ways that politicians on the right and their supporters in the conservative media have done.

In addition to these high-profile events, the threat of violence has begun to have a corrosive effect on many aspects of public life: the hounding of election workers until they are forced into hiding, harassment of school board officials, threats to judges, armed demonstrations at multiple statehouses, attacks on abortion clinics and anti-abortion pregnancy centers, bomb threats against hospitals that offer care to transgender children, assaults on flight attendants who try to enforce Covid rules and the armed intimidation of librarians over the books and ideas they choose to share.

Librarians. Librarians are facing "armed intimidation," for Pete's sake! What has America become, that that sentence is now true? This is all downright disgusting and reprehensible, and as President Biden accurately put it, it is all completely un-American.

And it is overwhelmingly coming from one side of the aisle, and Republicans either condone it by their silence or are out there actively encouraging it. Some of them are making jokes about an 82-year-old man getting his skull fractured with a hammer, by a person who had been radicalized into violent behavior by online right-wing propaganda and conspiracy theories. Some Republicans then immediately spawned a whole bunch of new conspiracy theories around the attack (which are so vile they do not bear repeating here).

I am a political wonk and normally, with less than a week to go before a congressional election, I would be solely focused on the races themselves and wondering who would wind up in control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Two years ago today, I was biting my nails wondering who was going to win the presidency.

Next Tuesday, I am going to be biting my nails wondering whether someone is going to get killed on Election Day, or whether ballots are going to be hijacked by people armed with military-grade weapons. I am going to be wondering if all these threats of violence and intimidation are going to lead to an election night worthy of a banana republic... or even a totalitarian state.

And something is very, very wrong with that. Sadly, that is what has changed, in the past two years.

-- Chris Weigant

 

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41 Comments on “What Has Changed In The Past Two Years”

  1. [1] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    Some of them are making jokes about an 82-year-old man getting his skull fractured with a hammer

    . . . in this comment section.

  2. [2] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    Some Republicans then immediately spawned a whole bunch of new conspiracy theories around the attack (which are so vile they do not bear repeating here).

    Not to worry. You've just opened the door for them to be spammed to this comment section.

  3. [3] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    . . . but Rant Paul got tackled by the old man who lived next door to him!

  4. [4] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    BTW - I got some Rant Paul trash in the mail today. Things have gotten so bad that Postmaster Genital DeJoy's employee tore it in half before putting it in my mailbox. It was trash after all! It's easy to argue that Rant was asking for it.

  5. [5] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    In Louisville, the Democratic candidate for mayor was the target of an attempted assassination. It's astonishing that nobody got shot. That was before he was even nominated. It brought him instant name recognition.

  6. [6] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    Since then, McConnell has remained somewhat firm in his stance, which has earned him threats from Trump that a Republican-led House should impeach him.

    . . . not to mention the death threat that the orange imbecile made against Old Crow.

  7. [7] 
    ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

    Next Tuesday, I am going to be biting my nails wondering whether someone is going to get killed on Election Day, or whether ballots are going to be hijacked by people armed with military-grade weapons.

    Makes me so grateful to live in WA State with our mail-in ballot system! Seriously, we are spoiled with how easy it is to vote here.

    I remember the days when I had to change up my schedule to go vote in person when I was younger. There was a level of dread at the thought of having to find parking close enough to the school... especially if the weather was bad. And I am sure my memory of things is warped, but I swear it was always cold and raining on election day... and having to walk uphill, both ways, in the freezing snow barefoot!

    Now I sit on the sofa, fill out my ballot, sign it, put it in the security envelope and then in the return pre-paid mail envelope and drop in my mailbox and I have done my civic duty.

  8. [8] 
    ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

    United States Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently told a roomful of constituents that he wants former President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico to be completed because other historical barriers prevented people from crossing between neighboring nations.

    "When people say walls don’t work, ask the people that put up the Iron Curtain seventy years ago," he said, referring to the division between Western Europe and the communist Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall that split Germany was dismantled in 1989 when the USSR collapsed.

    Want anymore proof of the Russian influence over the GOP? Chucky wants us to follow the example of the Soviets and their "Iron Curtain". Quick history lesson, Chucky... the wall's purpose wasn't to keep out people as much as it was to keep people inside the wall from getting out! Communist stinkin' thinkin'!

  9. [9] 
    nypoet22 wrote:

    Welcome to gilead

  10. [10] 
    Kick wrote:

    We didn't find out that night, of course, we had to wait days and days before the final results were in...

    Oh, come on! Come clean that we pretty much knew Biden had won when NE-2 flipped and then...

    How many times had I mentioned Arizona that night?

    [45] Arizona maybe. [19:52]

    [52] Arizona... maybe. [20:28]

    [69] Arizona maybe. [21:25]

    [120] Yes, NE-2 could be big, and it's a flipper. That makes NE-2 the first flipper of the night, does it not?

    Arizona maybe will be the other flipper. Those combine to matter... assuming Nevada goes Blue. :) [23:33]

    *
    Come clean. Admit that we knew.

    Well, okay... we didn't know know until the votes (finally) got counted in Pennsylvania.

    Nevermind. ;)

  11. [11] 
    Kick wrote:

    Since then, McConnell has remained somewhat firm in his stance, which has earned him threats from Trump that a Republican-led House should impeach him.

    That time Trump attacked McConnell in an infantile rant he posted on Pravda Social:

    He has a DEATH WISH. Must immediately seek help and advise [sic] from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!

    *
    Trump cannot stop himself from:

    (1) inciting violence
    (2) displaying his juvenile intellect.

    Here's hoping that all those multiple Capitol Police officers suing his criminal ass for the injuries he helped cause are awarded a pile of cash and are able to take from him what he values most.

  12. [12] 
    Michale wrote:

    Oooo the pearl clutching..

    Quick.. Fetch the vapors... The snowflakes are getting light-headed... :^/

    What has changed in the last 2 years??

    I am glad you asked...

    Ya'all faint because of the explosion of violent crime??

    *HOW* do ya'all think that happened??

    Because DEMOCRATS mounted a HUGE DEFUND, DEMONIZE, DEMORALIZE THE POLICE campaign that was very VERY successful...

    Cops are leaving their jobs by the MILLIONS and the cops that stay don't do ANYTHING that might get them killed or get them criminally prosecuted. Which means that cops don't do ANYTHING. They park their patrol cars and sit their entire shift.. Or find a sub-station and do paperwork the entire shift.

    NO LEO wants to put in any effort because they know that Democrat political leaders and Democrat criminal mobs like BLM and AntiFa will destroy the LEOs..

    THAT is what has changed in the last few years..

    Democrats demonize and vilify and hate on LEOs and then get all indignant and even MORE hateful because LEOs don't want to go out and do their jobs..

    What did ya'all THINK would happen when Democrats organized a HUGE and SUCCESSFUL DEFUND DEMONIZE DEMORALIZE THE POLICE campaign???

    Welcome to the United States Of America 2022...

    Brought to you by today's Democrat Party.. Enjoy what your Democrats have wrought... :eyeroll:

    The Party's over in 3 days 20 hours.... That's the ONLY bright spot to look forward to..

    1/20

  13. [13] 
    Michale wrote:

    What else has happened in the last 2 years???

    The price of gas and electricity has sky-rocketed...

    The price of EVERYTHING has skyrocketed.. Americans are paying tons more for EVERYTHING than they were 2 years ago..

    A 12 pack of diet coke..

    Under President Trump.... $3.50

    Under Biden..... $7.50

    A ** 214 PERCENT ** increase!!!

    Americans are having to decide whether to put gas in their car to get to work or put food on their table to feed their family..

    THAT is what is happening now that wasn't happening 2 years ago....

    And ya'all wonder why Democrats are about to get shellacked in 3 days, 20 hours???

    REALLY?? Ya'all REALLY wonder why??? :^/

    Look no further than ya'all's Democrat Party... :^/

    2/20

  14. [14] 
    Michale wrote:

    Ya'all worried about violent crime???

    The people of Portland are as well...

    The problem is Portland barely has a police force of officers wanting to put themselves out there to be target practice for criminals and Democrats... I know.. Redundant..

    Where are the Cops? Frustrated Portland residents say police have ‘almost disappeared’

    'Where are the police?' Portland police response times hit slowest point in years as residents grow frustrated with increasing crime

    PORTLAND, Ore. – Violent crime is rising faster in Portland than other parts of the country, but some residents say it seems like police aren't around when they need them.

    Guzman owns Bison Coffee House in North Portland, which vandals targeted in early October after advertising Coffee with a Cop. Guzman said she decided to host the event because she heard complaints about safety in the city from her customers over the past couple of years.

    "A lot of people feel really unsafe," she said. "They’re angry, they’re sad, they’re mad. They feel helpless. They feel they don’t have a voice."
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/cops-frustrated-portland-residents-say-police-disappeared

    You mention serial DUI'er Paul Pelosi.. Cops have a direct line to camera's in the Pelosi mansion...

    But those cameras weren't being monitored because the Democrat DEFUNDING THE POLICE policies has caused police agencies to cut back on staffing..

    So, once again, Democrats are the cause of the explosion of violent crime...

    But never fear, people...

    When the GOP gets back into power after Uberly Nuclearly Biblically shellacking the Democrats, everything is going to be better...

    Just clutch your pearls and hold onto those smelling salts for just a little bit longer..

    Help is on the way...


    HANG ON.... HELP IS ON IT'S WAY

    :D

    3/20

  15. [15] 
    Michale wrote:

    And it is overwhelmingly coming from one side of the aisle, and Republicans either condone it by their silence or are out there actively encouraging it.

    Yesterday, I pointed out that the TOP Democrat had agreed with me.. The TOP Democrat agreed that SILENCE GIVES ASSENT...

    Now today, we have the moderator ALSO agreeing with me that SILENCE GIVES ASSENT...

    And yet, I *DISTINCTLY* remember a time in the not so distant past where SEVERAL people here virulently and emphatically stated that SILENCE != ASSENT... Stated that SILENCE *DOES NOT* give ASSENT...

    But, as usually happens.. The FACTS come out... And, as per the norm.. The facts are on my side.. :D

    So, I think we can put that to bed...

    Silence does, indeed, give assent...

    Democrats have spoken... :D

    4/20

  16. [16] 
    Kick wrote:

    Two years ago today, I was biting my nails wondering who was going to win the presidency.

    Oh, come on! Come clean that we pretty much already knew.

    [165] Chris Weigant wrote:

    AZ called for Biden by AP! That could be it!

    -CW

    [Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 at 00:57]

    *
    Admit it. Admit there is (archived) evidence that we already knew.

    Well, okay... the date stamp shows it was (technically) the following day.

    Nevermind. ;)

  17. [17] 
    Michale wrote:

    Americans are having to decide whether to put gas in their car to get to work or put food on their table to feed their family..

    I actually wrote THAT ^^^ before I read the article that says exactly that ^^^...

    Choosing between food and fuel leaves more Americans out in the cold

    Thanks to Biden, one in six US homes must make tough choices as winter nears

    Conversations around Sherri Bukovskey’s kitchen table are much like yours. A dental hygienist from Maine, Sherri remembers the days not long ago when she could keep her home toasty warm in the wintertime for half the price it would cost today. She remembers when no one in her neighborhood would even consider foregoing medication in order to afford their weekly grocery bill — a decision that recently only the poorest of America’s poor had to make, but that is becoming more and more common across America today.

    According to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, more than 20 million American households (1 in 6 American homes) are struggling to meet their home energy bills, the worst crisis the group has ever documented. The collective amount owed has doubled from the end of 2019 to now. Families struggling to put food on the table may not find those mean tweets quite so distasteful now as they wistfully recall the Trump-era policies that saved the average family of four $2,500 a year.

    But why are American families facing this energy-driven inflationary spiral? Well, prices have surged because President Joe Biden’s policies essentially guaranteed they would surge. When there is a shortage of a product in demand, the price of that product increases. Fossil fuels are clearly in high demand and limiting the supply of such fuels obviously increased the costs.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/choosing-between-food-fuel-leaves-more-americans-out-in-cold

    What's happened in the last 2 years??

    Democrat incompetence and Democrat pushing a Hate America agenda...

    THAT is what happened the last 2 years... :eyeroll:

    5/20

  18. [18] 
    Michale wrote:

    after the vicious and horrific attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband.

    Midterms horror as Republican candidate's daughters, three and five, are almost KILLED after gunman opens fire at North Carolina home - where Democrat rival filmed campaign ad - with bullet landing close to where they slept
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11387801/Shots-fired-Republican-candidate-Pat-Harrigans-North-Carolina-home.html

    As opposed to this shooting at a Republican's parents' house?? Where his KIDS were sleeping!! A house that the DEMOCRAT rival actually FILMED and used in a campaign commercial..

    A shooting that almost KILLED the Republican's 3yr old and 5yr old daughters!!??

    Where's the condemnation from Democrats and people here???

    {{{ccchhhiirrrrppppp}}} {{{ccchhhirrrrppppp}}}

    That's right...

    NON-EXISTENT... :^/

    So, pleeeze... Spare me ya'all's swooning and vapors and smelling salts drama over some serial DUI'er victim... If Paul Pelosi is laid up in a hospital, then the people of SF are safer on the roads...

    If Democrats have proven one thing, they have proven that they are PERFECTLY OK with political violence..

    As long as the RIGHT people are the victims of political violence, Democrats don't have a problem with it at all...

    :eyeroll:

    6/20

  19. [19] 
    Kick wrote:

    John From Censornati
    1|2

    Some of them are making jokes about an 82-year-old man getting his skull fractured with a hammer

    ~ Chris Weigant

    . . . in this comment section.

    But, John (not to be confused with the other John), what kind of sick, twisted, bloviating asshole would do such a thing?

    Some Republicans then immediately spawned a whole bunch of new conspiracy theories around the attack (which are so vile they do not bear repeating here).

    ~ Chris Weigant

    Not to worry. You've just opened the door for them to be spammed to this comment section.

    Yes, sir. Exactly what I was thinking. GMTA

    Also, I would wager you were thinking to yourself: He did write "two years," and for demonstrably stupid people with notable reading comprehension issues, that's like an invitation to puke up all manner of off-topic verbal diarrhea.

    I'd obviously have to agree with you there too, John.

  20. [20] 
    Kick wrote:

    John From Censornati
    3|4

    . . . but Rant Paul got tackled by the old man who lived next door to him!

    Yep... for 17 years... in 2017, and what letter of the alphabet is "Q"? Simple math.

    BTW - I got some Rant Paul trash in the mail today. Things have gotten so bad that Postmaster Genital DeJoy's employee tore it in half before putting it in my mailbox. It was trash after all! It's easy to argue that Rant was asking for it.

    I'd say that picture on it with that hair of his was reason enough.

  21. [21] 
    Kick wrote:

    Michale
    12

    Oooo the pearl clutching..

    Russ and I are always pleased to see you mimic our terms for you since it lets us know what hit the mark. Russ and I sincerely hope you don't injure your tiny little hands again.

    Quick.. Fetch the vapors... The snowflakes are getting light-headed... :^/

    We're definitely not fetching vapors for you, but we kindly advise you to extricate your head out from Donald Trump's ass where fresh air awaits you.

    What has changed in the last 2 years??

    I am glad you asked...

    And the off-topic verbal diarrhea arrives right on cue.

    Who could have seen that shit coming? :)

  22. [22] 
    Kick wrote:

    ListenWhenYouHear
    7

    Now I sit on the sofa, fill out my ballot, sign it, put it in the security envelope and then in the return pre-paid mail envelope and drop in my mailbox and I have done my civic duty.

    So you're saying you voted!? You know what this means, right?

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    This deserves a little ass.

    XOXOXO :)

  23. [23] 
    Michale wrote:

    Kick,

    And the off-topic verbal diarrhea arrives right on cue.

    "What Has Changed In The Past Two Years"
    -moderator

    Per the moderator's question, Michale explains what has happened in the last two years...

    Kick, who is obviously off her meds, whines and cries and stamps her foot that Michale's comments are "off topic" even though the comments are a direct response to what the moderator wrote.....

    There... Now everyone is up to speed..

    :eyeroll:

    JL... Liz.....

    Remember how ya'all said that, if I lower my comment count considerably, everything would be fine around here???

    Well.. Apparently... NOT.... :^/

    7/20 :D :D :D

  24. [24] 
    Kick wrote:

    nypoet22
    9

    Welcome to gilead

    Under His eye

  25. [25] 
    Kick wrote:

    Michale
    23

    Per the moderator's question, Michale explains what has happened in the last two years...

    I believe you believe you are proving a point, and you definitely are; you're just blissfully unaware that you're actually making my point... not that I needed any help, obviously.

    What the monotonous daft troll is incorrectly referring to as the "moderator's question" isn't a question at all but (in point of fact) is actually a statement and the title of the article regarding -- pay attention here --> Donald Trump losing the election, Trump's narcissism and pathetic ego spawning the Bie Lie and the resultant prolific violence permeating the GOP (screw that both sides BS) over the last two years. Discuss.

    * Not about BLM or any other group you repeatedly hate.

    * Not about the price of Diet Coke.

    * Not about the price of gas (not to be confused with natural gas).

    * Not about Sherri Bukovskey from Maine who should seriously move to the United Kingdom if she doesn't like the price of gas (not to be confused with gasoline).

    * Not about silence giving assent, which by the way, people who ignore a troll isn't the equivalent of agreeing with its drivel and shit, and also when anyone actually offers dissent, it mewls and whines and commences the victim routine.

    Kick, who is obviously off her meds,

    You do not speak for me... or Russ... EVER.

    whines and cries and stamps her foot that Michale's comments are "off topic" even though the comments are a direct response to what the moderator wrote.....

    Incorrect... but I definitely did see your shit coming because CW wrote "two years," and your ignorance and modus operandi are both so reliably predictable.

    And I thank you again for proving my point.

    There... Now everyone is up to speed..

    So you're saying you're on drugs. That doesn't surprise Russ and I and probably (I would wager) JFC.

    JL... Liz.....

    Translation: Help me, help me... Jean Luc and aunt EM!

    Somebody call the waaaaaaambulance. :)

  26. [26] 
    MtnCaddy wrote:

    [22]

    Kick, my only computer is a smartphone with a cracked screen and things don't display clearly. So I wonder, is that a Democratic Donkey?

  27. [27] 
    Kick wrote:

    MtnCaddy
    26

    I don't know what his Party affiliation is, but he's definitely a little ass. :)

  28. [28] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    Kick,

    "moderator's question"

    It does have a reading comprehension issue combined with confusion about question marks and what they're for.

    and probably (I would wager) JFC.

    Correct. I'm unsurprised by this latest reveal.

  29. [29] 
    John From Censornati wrote:

    Next Tuesday, I am going to be biting my nails wondering whether someone is going to get killed on Election Day . . .

    Not me. I would bet my bottom dollar on it since numerous people get shot every day thanks to the Republican project to flood our nation with guns.

    On the other hand, I am wondering how many high profile identities will be impersonated on King Twit's new toy on Tuesday. He's anxious to start selling his $8 Blue Checkmark "verified" sock puppet accounts on Monday for some reason.

  30. [30] 
    Michale wrote:

    This is the first America election I have ever lived through where I fear for the safety of both voters and elections officials on Election Day and beyond.

    Yer obviously not alone... :eyeroll:

    House Majority Whip: US 'on track to repeat' Nazi Germany, downplays inflation ahead of midterms

    House Majority Whip James Clyburn claims US will soon resemble Germany in the 1930s, pointing blame at far-right extremism
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-majority-whip-track-repeat-nazi-germany-downplays-inflation-ahead-midterms

    Democrats have gone full blown GODWIN.... :^/

    I guess when Democrats can't argue facts or accomplishments...

    They go with full on hysterical fear-mongering...

    :eyeroll:

    8/20 :D :D :D

  31. [31] 
    MtnCaddy wrote:

    [25]

    OMG -- stop it, you're killing me! ...too funny!

    I love when you eviscerate @m like that.

  32. [32] 
    Kick wrote:

    John From Censornati
    28

    Heh. :)

  33. [33] 
    Kick wrote:

    MtnCaddy
    31

    I love when you eviscerate @m like that.

    If the troll insists that "silence gives asset" to its demonstrable ignorance and off-topic knee-jerk phone-it-in monotony and unvarying drivel and spew, then who are we to sit here in silence versus register our vigorous objection?

    Except that it whines like a victim when we dissent.

  34. [34] 
    ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

    Cops are leaving their jobs by the MILLIONS and the cops that stay don't do ANYTHING that might get them killed or get them criminally prosecuted. Which means that cops don't do ANYTHING. They park their patrol cars and sit their entire shift.. Or find a sub-station and do paperwork the entire shift.

    Wow, by the MILLIONS? According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were over 665K police and sheriff's patrol officers in the US in 2021. So once again, you prove that your arguments have no basis in reality. And when did law enforcement not doing anything that could get them criminally prosecuted become a negative thing?

    And you think the police are doing nothing? Just sitting on their butts avoiding the public? Funny, you'd think we'd have heard the reports of 911 calls going unanswered if that was happening... but I haven't read of that happening across the country. I'm sure you have an article or two that makes these claims, but they ignore the difference between officers not being proactive in patrolling and officers completely refusing to do their jobs. I'd love to know when any article making these claims were written as well. I'm guessing that they were written while Trump was still the President and the George Floyd protests were ongoing.

    And since Biden has been President, Democrats passed four bills on supporting both police and crime victims. Republicans voted against these bills. No shock there.

  35. [35] 
    ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

    Kick [22]

    That is one FINE ass! I would love your input on something prior to my posting it. CantHelpButStare@me.com Thanks

    Russ

  36. [36] 
    Michale wrote:

    Russ,

    And since Biden has been President, Democrats passed four bills on supporting both police and crime victims.

    Not factually accurate..

    Democrats passed a bunch of Anti-America policies and crap that would make inflation WORSE and then tastelessly tacked on some minor pro LEO stuff to score bullshit political points...

    THIS is what actually happened..

    You can whine and cry and stamp your feet all you want Russ..

    But the simple FACT is, The Democrat Party is the COP HATE Party. The DEFUND DEMONIZE DEMORALIZE THE POLICE Party..

    I know it.. YOU know it.. Every American knows it..

    And THAT fact is a BIG part of why Democrats are going to have their asses handed to them on Tuesday.

    I know it.. YOU know it..

    And no amount of your America Hate, Cop Hate spin will change that FACT... :D

    Oh.. And I STILL laugh at you about that time you claimed that someone who suffers from Multi-Personality-Disorder can be charged with CONSPIRACY all by their lonesome...

    BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA

    That STILL cracks me up.. :D I tell all my cop buddies when we get together for poker about how some moron Democrat claims that a person suffering from MPD can be charged with conspiracy... They got a HUGE laugh out of that!!!!! :D

    9/20 :D :D :D

  37. [37] 
    Michale wrote:

    Goodnight all..

    See ya'all tomorrow for the big Friday Finale!!!!! :D

    10/20 :D :D :D

  38. [38] 
    ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

    Thanks for admitting that Republicans voted against pro LEO legislation that the Democrats introduced. Glad to finally see you being honest about something.

    And then you have to revert back to your old ways... I spoke too soon!

    That STILL cracks me up.. :D I tell all my cop buddies when we get together for poker about how some moron Democrat claims that a person suffering from MPD can be charged with conspiracy... They got a HUGE laugh out of that!!!!!

    Awwwww, someone is still pouting because they got snookered! Poor guy!

    You must travel a lot then, seeing how you yourself stated that you were never law enforcement in FL.

    You did, however, claim that you were law enforcement when you supposedly lived in CA; but the state has no record of you either. It's funny, did you know that most states do not even charge you for Public Record Requests that result in zero returns?

    So remind us all again in which of the more than a dozen states that you claim to have lived in did you work in law enforcement? You claimed to have graduated from FL's law enforcement academy, but that doesn't make you an LEO if no department wanted you. And if you didn't work in FL, and you did not graduate from an academy in any other state... you've run out of lies to tell I am afraid. Sad!

    Having laughs and playing poker with your imaginary friends that you worked with for over two decades in you imaginary job... sounds like ya'll have a wild time!! Dementia is a helluva disease!

  39. [39] 
    MtnCaddy wrote:

    [38]

    I know! For a moment I thought it was a real LEO. But his responses show he's a mall cop at best.*smh*

  40. [40] 
    Kick wrote:

    ListenWhenYouHear
    35

    Dodging tornadoes in Texas.

    I would love your input on something prior to my posting it.

    Bring it.

  41. [41] 
    nypoet22 wrote:

    I know, let's force women to give birth who don't want to, then flood the country with unregulated firearms. We'll have millions of unwanted, unloved teens with military grade weapons. What could possibly go wrong?

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