The New Civility ...
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This is anti-bullying month. Seriously.
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It’s almost like somebody told them to “get in their faces”
Me/rry/Christmas
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@lufins-dad said in The New Civility ...:
It’s almost like somebody told them to “get in their faces”
Steve Doocey asked Psaki, "Has anyone ever chased the president into a bathroom?"
She deflected, of course.
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It is very sad that no matte what one side says, the other side has to say the opposite.
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‘We’re going to make her life unpleasant’:
Our Revolution, the Bernie Sanders-inspired grassroots group, is joining Arizona union leaders, educators and other grassroots activists for a series of demonstrations outside of her Phoenix and Tucson offices over the next several days, according to a strategy outline first shared with POLITICO.
The planned demonstrations mark the next phase of an aggressive approach activists have taken to turn up the heat on Sinema, who has been a hold-out on the massive domestic spending plan that’s at the heart of Biden’s economic agenda.
Last week, the in-your-face tactic came to head when protesters followed Sinema into a bathroom and filmed her. On Monday, they followed her to Boston where she was to compete in the marathon before a foot injury kept her from participating.
Hopefully it will not be so unpleasant that a Bernie-Bro shoots her, requiring her to get a colostomy.
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If I was a pol, seems like these tactics would piss me off, not persuade me.
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Secondly...Time to issue a Secret Service detail to Senators or Congressmen upon request?
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The Washington Post is apoplectic that people don't like some politicians.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, one of Biden’s political superpowers was his sheer inoffensiveness, the way he often managed to embody — even to those who didn’t like him — the innocuous grandfather, the bumbling uncle, the leader who could make America calm, steady, even boring again after four years of Donald Trump.
But it’s clear that after nine months in office, Biden — or at least what he represents — is increasingly becoming an object of hatred to many Trump supporters.
Yet the anger also demonstrates how a political party or cause often needs an enemy, a target of vilification that can unite its adherents — and, in this case, one refracted through the harshness, norm-breaking and vulgarity of the Trump era.
Sigh...longing for the good old days of non-vulgarity.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in The New Civility ...:
harshness, norm-breaking and vulgarity of the Trump era.
In order to make political progress, norms must sometimes be broken. A sad fact of politics that progressives would understand, if any of them had grown up in a culture in which their preferences weren't already mainstream.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in The New Civility ...:
norms must sometimes be broken
Fucking Teabaggers.
Wait, who said that?
Yeah, President Obama.
Conservatives are pouncing on President Obama for using what they say is a pejorative expression for the Tea Party movement.
In a new book by Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Mr. Obama is quoted as saying that House Republicans' unanimous vote against the stimulus package "helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans."
Yeah, conservatives "pounced." What could be worse, "seizing?"
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The new normal. https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/terry-mcauliffes-daughter-flips-off-rival-glenn-youngkins-signs/
Really it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s sad that it’s no big deal.
Edit to add the F Joe a Biden stuff is sad as well.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@lufins-dad said in The New Civility ...:
The new normal. https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/terry-mcauliffes-daughter-flips-off-rival-glenn-youngkins-signs/
Really it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s sad that it’s no big deal.
Edit to add the F Joe a Biden stuff is sad as well.
Ted Cruz said one of the Brandon chant-alongs was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. And bear in mind that guy looks at himself naked in the mirror at least once a week.
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Arizona bride, mom plead with progressive anti-Sinema protesters to stop 'ruining' wedding
Link to videoAn Arizona bride and her mother pleaded with protesters outside of a wedding that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., officiated last weekend to stop disrupting the event, according to video of the demonstrators.
Sinema was officiating the wedding for her personal friend, according to Tucson.com, when protesters arrived outside the venue, chanting and carrying signs that read phrases including, "Sinema Betrays Democrats" and, "We voted for you — shouldn't you vote for us?" as seen in a video of the event posted to YouTube on Oct. 24
t one point, a woman who appears to be the bride confronts the demonstrators.
"Thanks for ruining my wedding. I really appreciate it," she can be heard saying sarcastically in the video. "It's just my wedding. I really wish I could enjoy my wedding without you ruining it."
A protester responds, "I know you do."
"It's my daughter's wedding. Just for an hour — just let her get married, please. This person is not my daughter," she can be heard telling demonstrators, referring to Sinema. The woman appears to plead with protesters to leave for an hour during the ceremony; some demonstrators agree to protest in silence, though one man continues to yell toward the venue.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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That's private property and I guarantee they had no permit for public property. The cops should have cleared them out and arrested anybody who resisted.
Bail should have been set at $100,000.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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Secondly, if that had happened at my nephew's wedding, with all the rednecks, cowboys and drunk coonasses, the protesters would be lucky not to have fertilized the cane field.
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@george-k said in The New Civility ...:
Arizona bride, mom plead with progressive anti-Sinema protesters to stop 'ruining' wedding
Link to videoAn Arizona bride and her mother pleaded with protesters outside of a wedding that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., officiated last weekend to stop disrupting the event, according to video of the demonstrators.
Sinema was officiating the wedding for her personal friend, according to Tucson.com, when protesters arrived outside the venue, chanting and carrying signs that read phrases including, "Sinema Betrays Democrats" and, "We voted for you — shouldn't you vote for us?" as seen in a video of the event posted to YouTube on Oct. 24
t one point, a woman who appears to be the bride confronts the demonstrators.
"Thanks for ruining my wedding. I really appreciate it," she can be heard saying sarcastically in the video. "It's just my wedding. I really wish I could enjoy my wedding without you ruining it."
A protester responds, "I know you do."
"It's my daughter's wedding. Just for an hour — just let her get married, please. This person is not my daughter," she can be heard telling demonstrators, referring to Sinema. The woman appears to plead with protesters to leave for an hour during the ceremony; some demonstrators agree to protest in silence, though one man continues to yell toward the venue.
I'm sure that immediately afterward, Sinema said "OMG! I've been wrong this whole time! Thank you for helping me realize the error of my ways!" Then rushed to DC to vote for the full package...
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@jolly said in The New Civility ...:
That's private property and I guarantee they had no permit for public property. The cops should have cleared them out and arrested anybody who resisted.
Bail should have been set at $100,000.
Agree. Like @LuFins-Dad sad, it really has become sad for both sides.
