Although CNN isn't much better.
Posted on 09/25/2020 5:10:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's getting scary out there, people. Everywhere you turn, Trump haters are venting their wrath against Trump supporters, as if supporting President Trump is an unforgivable sin.
They're projecting and gaslighting -- blaming Trump and his supporters for everything they're doing. It's madness, but at long last, they might have awakened the sleeping giant they're trying to hunt down and destroy.
MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted, "Genuine question: what will be the relationship between the majority of Americans, and Trumpists after this long, national nightmare ends -- and it will eventually end -- do people anticipate simply letting bygones (be) bygones with people who joined the Trump personality cult?"
What bygones? Who's doing what to whom? What are we Trump supporters doing to you Trump haters, Joy? We are trying to mind our own business and stay safe. Are you and yours?
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch likened a Trump rally to a Hitler rally from the early '30s: "Well, basically you had a destruction of the belief in the free press. You had a blurring between the executive branch and the Justice Department. You have creating an other, whether it's Muslims, whether it's Mexicans, whether it's congressmen who weren't born in this country. And then you have the destruction of free elections. And we're here."
This is screaming insanity. Trump supporters aren't censoring people on social media. They aren't threatening their opponents' civil liberties. They aren't violating the separation of powers, which leftists routinely do, including through their activist courts and lawless executive orders (under former President Barack Obama). They're not demonizing other races, as you maliciously accuse. Quit belching that vicious slander. And they are not the ones threatening the integrity of the electoral process. The left, on the other hand, has promised to stack the Supreme Court; add territories to the union to increase its electoral prospects; circumvent the Electoral College; obliterate the integrity of the voting process through rampant unverifiable mail-in ballots and the elimination of voter ID rules; and lower the voting age to 16. Republicans aren't the ones threatening to lawlessly invoke impeachment to block Trump's lawful Supreme Court nominee.
Increasingly deranged, intolerant, hateful and unhinged actor-turned-artist Jim Carrey said, "Too many Americans support Trump because he appeals to their basest and most primitive urges." This is a direct indictment of millions of Trump supporters -- many of whom have been your fans. Tell me, Jim: What base and primitive urges do you mean? Our commitment to the Constitution, law and order, equal protection under the law for everyone, liberty, prosperity and a strong national defense? Protecting the borders to ensure orderly and legal immigration? Are these commitments racist and sexist to you, Jim? If you really believe that, you are obviously blinded into irrationality by your hatred and need of therapy and prayer. Please get the tree trunk out of your own eye. In the meantime, sketch a picture of your own dark heart.
And how about the now-famous Leo Guinan, who publicly bragged that he told his parents neither he nor his children would visit them because they had placed Trump signs in their yard. After receiving blowback for this self-indulgent and heartless act, he publicly apologized.
We have obnoxious leftist "protestors" in St. Petersburg, Florida, taking over peaceful diners' tables from restaurant to restaurant, ratcheting up the despicable practice they began a few years ago to harass Trump supporters.
And, once again, we have violent leftists rioting in the streets of Louisville, where two policemen were shot trying to keep the peace.
How can things be more surreal? I'll say it again: The left is projecting its own darkness onto Trump and his supporters. Countless leftists accuse Trump of inciting violence and hate while displaying their own intolerance and hatred and committing violence. Trump is trying to stop the violence, while Democratic governors and mayors are fanning the flames.
Fair-minded Democrats, please don't fool yourself into rationalizing that these things are happening equally on both sides of the aisle. It simply is not true. And don't fall into the insidious trap of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which now possesses large swaths of Americans because of the left's concerted effort to smear Trump and his supporters as racists for political gain.
How many Trump supporters are burning down cities, murdering cops, threatening mayhem if Joe Biden is elected, bullying Biden supporters out of restaurants, accosting people with Biden caps or yard signs, threatening to withhold their children from their Biden-supporting parents and stirring up racial disharmony throughout the nation? When have Republican lawmakers ever tried to destroy the character of a Democratic president's Supreme Court nominee?
Yes, Republicans say they're ready to defend themselves, but I know of none who are threatening to commit violence and mayhem if Trump loses.
I don't know how people can be so warped as to condemn Trump for allegedly inspiring violence simply because they don't like him, when they themselves are actually committing violence or enabling those who are. I don't know how they can rage against Trump as a dictator when he is doing nothing but exercising his lawful authority in office and appointing justices who will uphold the Constitution and rule of law, and when they are openly promising to thwart the Constitution in countless ways if they regain power. Notwithstanding the planted trick question, Trump will not resist the peaceable transition of power, but he might legally contest a stolen election. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats are promising not to accept a Trump victory -- just like they never accepted his 2016 victory.
No, Joy Reid, we Trump supporters are not part of a cult, no matter how much Trump haters have convinced themselves otherwise. But we do see him as the last best hope to restore America's greatness -- and that includes liberty, peace and security for all, not just for those who agree with us, unlike many on your side believe. We are relying on him to lawfully prevent the left's destruction of the nation, its violence and lawlessness, and its abolition of liberty.
God save the republic.
Gas lighting comes from a the movie where the husband tries to convince his wife that she’s crazy for being suspicious of him. Gas lighting is trying to make someone feel crazy for believing as they do.
Projection.
It’s what communists do.
It’s deeper than communism, it’s people who have lived their lives based on lies, and unfortunately have had the scaffolding to support those lies and now the facade has been exposed. Their true evil nature is then how they react to preserve and attempt to destroy their enemies - we who choose the Truth. And yes, Communism is one such type of societal scaffolding.
What makes Joy think that we’ll ever forgive the left for the chaos and anarchy they incited for the last four years? I think she fears reprisals. It could happen.
Oh I used to years ago, when what’s his name was still normal and hadn’t turned into a lunatic.
I think that wat you describe is accurate and another take on, “We’ll do communism better, this time.”
Although CNN isn't much better.
“...or attempt to find common ground with our adversaries...”
There IS no common ground with leftist psychopaths.
And it’s long past time to put them down like rabid animals.
The FIRST time they raised their hand against a person that disagreed with them, when they pulled people out of cars and beat them, when they burn down peoples’ businesses, cars, and homes... they lost any moral high ground they might have had... and that moral high ground was pretty slim at THAT point.
The GOP and McCain should never played the cross the aisle game it was a trap.
Nah...they aint.
I think Trump supporters in my area have gone stealth.
You see a fair number of Biden signs, placed there by union hacks and Democrat block captains. Very few Trump signs actually.
I think Trump supporters here are keeping their heads down and their powder dry. No use getting your house firebombed until CW 2.0 is on in earnest.
Hence the saying:
“The Flack is always heaviest when you are over the target”
The more the fear of losing another election comes to bare, the more psycho/unhinged they will become.
The problem is that most people do not want conflict in their lives. IF you are not willing to stand up for what is right against what is wrong you will lose your freedoms.
It is the definition of a Patriot.
I know people here in NH that call themselves conservatives, but they are afraid to put up a Trump sign in their yard. These people do not live in the city. They live in suburban/country neighborhoods. IF you are afraid. YOU are part of the problem.
Joy Reid: “Genuine question: what will be the relationship between the majority of Americans, and Trumpists after this long, national nightmare ends...?”
The majority of Americans ARE “Trumpists”..... I think we will get along with ourselves just fine.
As for the minority, who are Trump haters, there are two types:
Those who are contrite and who come to understand that they were brainwashed - they will find Trump supporters to be merciful and forgiving.
Those who continue to choose hate over reason will condemn themselves to a life of misery.
Everybody else has mentioned the movie and the plot, but the actual term ‘Gas Lighting’ was because the husband would leave the room and then manipulate the gas lights (in the days prior to electric) to dim. They would return to normal before he returned, and when she mentions it, he denies it happens and leads her into believing she’s hallucinating.
I could be wrong, so please grade on the curve.
Gaslighting is repeatedly telling someone their eyes are lying to them.
Jim Carrey? The guy who climbed out of a robot rhino’s ass for laughs has opinions on Trump appealing to his audience’s base urges?
We have a free press. What we don't have is anything close to a fair press. Nowadays, the press is almost completely "Let's hate Trump".
I can’t stand that guy, and I have never watched a movie he played in. He’s not funny at all.
The Leo Guinan incident was simply a public demonstration of things to come. This happens in all leftist countries. Family members turn on others of their family. There is no family, only the state. Anyone who thinks blood is thicker than party will pay the price.
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