The Angry Violent Left

[knapplc]

43 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

 

All dictators hug flags? Or, all flag huggers are dictators? Which way was she going with that nonsensical tweet? 

 

Remember that line of questioning when you hear people comparing Venezuela to AOC's Green New Deal.

[B.B. Hemingway]

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

Remember that line of questioning when you hear people comparing Venezuela to AOC's Green New Deal.

 

Well, there's a little more to work with in the Green Book Report than someone hugging their country's flag.

[Moiraine]

54 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

Well, there's a little more to work with in the Green Book Report than someone hugging their country's flag.

 

 

That’s how most jokes work though. They exaggerate. And the Venezuela comparison started long before anyone had ever heard of AOC, any time a Democrat brought up universal healthcare or any other thing that tax money could potentially pay for.

[commando]

18 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

i wonder if trump had the flag sign a non disclosure agreement after that encounter?

[NM11046]

This is the second time he's "me-too'd" the flag on stage.  You'd think after the first time his handlers would have told him how stupid it looked and to never do it again.

 

edit, upon further research, this is actually at least the SIXTH time he's fondled the flag.

 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/19/trump-flag-hugging-moos-pkg-ebof.cnn

 

[Danny Bateman]

The flag thing is getting all the attention, but the speech he gave was pretty weird too.

 

Listen to all those true believers chuckling along...

 

 

[Moiraine]

12 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

The flag thing is getting all the attention, but the speech he gave was pretty weird too.

 

Listen to all those true believers chuckling along...

 

 

 

 

 

I mean... SNL didn't even have to do anything.

[commando]

2 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

 

I mean... SNL didn't even have to do anything.

well..they did add the laugh track.

[NM11046]

I have never strayed from SNL.  It's DVR'd every weekend and I watch it Sunday mornings.  There have been some rough years but last nights entire episode was really, really good.  Just goes to show how much is dependent on the host.

[Guy Chamberlin]

This is purely anecdotal, but my teenagers taking history in super liberal Marin County public schools studied Russia under Stalin and were made keenly aware of the brutality and death toll. The teachers weren't comparing Nazism to Communism, they were telling the story of history. Totalitarian rulers tend to dominate, and their political party is Totalitarianism. 

 

In middle school they read and discussed Orwell's Animal Farm, where the entire point was how Communism betrayed its own people. 

 

Sometimes conservative intellectuals get a persecution complex about the liberal elites quashing conservative voices. Sometimes they're right. But most of the time those liberal elites are just challenging guys like Dinesh D'Souza on their interpretation of history and political science, which ranges from dubious cherry-picking to downright falsehoods. 

 

And you can't have this conversation without discussing the Texas Schoolbook industry. Can't wait for that video on Prager U. 

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

This is purely anecdotal, but my teenagers taking history in super liberal Marin County public schools studied Russia under Stalin and were made keenly aware of the brutality and death toll. The teachers weren't comparing Nazism to Communism, they were telling the story of history. Totalitarian rulers tend to dominate, and their political party is Totalitarianism. 

 

In middle school they read and discussed Orwell's Animal Farm, where the entire point was how Communism betrayed its own people. 

 

Sometimes conservative intellectuals get a persecution complex about the liberal elites quashing conservative voices. Sometimes they're right. But most of the time those liberal elites are just challenging guys like Dinesh D'Souza on their interpretation of history and political science, which ranges from dubious cherry-picking to downright falsehoods. 

 

And you can't have this conversation without discussing the Texas Schoolbook industry. Can't wait for that video on Prager U. 

But.....that’s not the right narrative. 

[Archy1221]

 

[knapplc]

Please merge this with the existing thread. @Enhance @BIGREDIOWAN @Mavric

 

 

[JJ Husker]

Necro thread reboot?

[Archy1221]

No reason for this to happen.  McConnell should work to have a bill come up that addresses all three points he wants to make, but vandalizing a home is truly disgusting behavior.