Heather MacDonald: "
Trump’s Exit" - "
Encouraging a mob to target his own allies and disrupt the rule of law, the president has ended his tenure disgracefully—and emboldened the Left." (HT:
Maggie's Farm).
I thought maybe there was a chance that Trump would resign, in the spirit of "you can't fire me, I quit." Instead it looks like we have to endure ten more days.
19 comments:
"We have to endure ten more days"?
Yes, indeed. Ten more days of disgraceful political grandstanding by the Democrats and the talking heads on TV, screeching about Trump's supposed 'incitement to rioting' (I read the transcripts & I didn't see anything of the sort) after explicitly inciting riots themselves all summer long.
"If you strike at the king, you must kill him."
Pelosi, Schumer, et al are about to find out what happens when (1) you fail to kill the king but leave him pissed off in a bigly way, and (2) you leave him with absolutely nothing left to lose.
I understand the frustration at the double standard, but I just can't make the equivalence between the BLM/Antifa riots and the President of the United States calling on his supporters to march on Congress and "stop the steal."
But say you believe that, as Trump said, he wanted them to "peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard." When it all spun out of control, Law and Order Trump was slow to respond, resisted deploying the National Guard, tweeted "we love you and you're special" to the rioters, then put out that hostage video where he read robotically from a teleprompter.
We condemned the destruction of property and the killing of David Dorn from rioters. I can't get behind the excuse that "well they did it too."
Eric - You're right, there is no equivalence. The BLM/Antifa riots were far, far worse (remember burning building in the background with 'peaceful-protest chyrons'?), and the Dems were far more explicit in fomenting their brand of violence. I mentioned Kamela and Pelosi in an earlier post; do you really want me to post a few quotes from Ihlan, Pressley, or Waters? Or talk about the Kavenaugh hearings & protests?
Trump was slow to respond? Was Trump responsible for calling out the National Guard? You seem to be forgetting that the the Democrats, the media and the Deep State (including Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok & even Biden) kept Trump handcuffed for the last four years while they poked him with sharp sticks, refused to report on anything positive he accomplished (5 Middle East peace treaties?) and told numerous lies about him (how many times are they going to tell the Charlottesville lie?). And Liz Warren is still fomenting racial hatred by tweeting that Michael Brown was "murdered by a white police officer". I'm not playing what-about-ism - I'm saying 'put things in context'.
And who is "We" in "We condemned the destruction of property and the killing of David Dorn from rioters?" You yourself? Was there ANYBODY of some significance who condemned his murder? Or who mentioned that it was mostly black businesses & neighborhoods that burned during this summer's riots? Or that defunding the police will disproportionately affect inner-city neighborhoods? Or points out that tearing down statues and renaming buildings and banning books does nothing to deliver so-called racial justice? OR WAS THAT ALL POLITICAL THEATER?
It hurts to have no moral authority and civic credibility, doesn't it?
Final note to Eric: take a deep breath, please, take a step back, and look at what's happening right now.
Everybody's jumping in and piling on. They're taking advantage of the situation and going full-on cancel-culture; Twitter & Facebook are banning all conservative points of view, and if you yourself don't think you're not next, let's just say they have your name on a list somewhere, Biden's call's for unity notwithstanding. Your reward will be that they'll eat you last.
And you yourself are getting caught up in the moment and piling on yourself.
Emphasis on 'caught up in the moment'.
Read my earlier posts on how this so-called 'riot' is being treated way-differently by the FBI, and ask yourself why? You talk about Trump reading his speech robotically, but did you hear any incitement to riot in there? Can you imagine anybody going through what Trump has gone through these last four years - calls to impeach him before he even was sworn in, outright filthy lies (Charlottsville) being told every day, questions of the "did you stop beating your wife" sort every single day, and now this?
You already know how the media distorts the truth when it reports on Trump; do you think they maybe over-reported some details of this protest and ignored some other important details in the same way, for instance, they never interviewed Jacob Blake's victims, or never report on police shooting of white criminals?
Eric - you're reacting exactly how they want you to react. That thought alone should give you pause.
(signed) MrJimm
Dude, I understand your frustration. Believe me, I do. For months, the mainstream media (looking at you Slate and the Atlantic) were happy to write articles about how violent protests were part of the American character. Fredo asked where it says in the Constitution that protests need to be peaceful (uh, right there in the text).
As for the aftermath of the riots, I believe I wrote a post about how I never want to hear any more complaints about "food deserts" after supermarkets and Targets and Walmarts were systematically cleaned out for big screen TVs.
If Baltimore and New York and California voters want to continue the same policies that keep them in chains, then they should have that, good and hard.
But in the attack on Congress, people died and there was untold damage. As I told my friend afterwards, it's useless to complain that the media doesn't use the same standards for both sides. It's futile. They have one set of standards for Ralph "Coonman" Northam and another for any Republican who might have thought "Hidden Figures" was just OK. One for the freedom fighters firebombing federal buildings in Portland and another for Tea Party protesters. Republicans should set a better example and avoid feeding in to the prevailing narrative. Yes it's an unfair situation but it's the only game in town.
MrJimm:
You talk about Trump reading his speech robotically, but did you hear any incitement to riot in there?
You're confusing two Trump speeches. The robotic speech came after Trump's months of incitement and the domestic terror attack.
Know this: Everything that has happened, everything that is happening, and everything that's about to happen, you did to yourselves.
But at least you got the exact same slate of judges that President Rubio or President Kasich would have delivered, so Trump was... worth it?
Pace yourself. You're going to get a lot of use out of those victimhood buzzwords in the many weeks to come.
Mr Jimm - I was typing the comment above when your came in, but let me respond. As I noted, the Republicans will never get a fair shake from the media. Why do we even complain about it anymore? It will never happen, not anymore. Look at the political gap here:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrustful-mass-media.aspx
Republicans should just assume that any statement they make will be twisted beyond recognition. And even though Trump urged protesters to make their voices heard "peacefully and patriotically", every other word he said that might be viewed as inciting will be amplified and repeated.
The media and the Democrats (I repeat myself) have been calling Trump an unhinged fascist for 4 years. It took the last two weeks of his Presidency to put meat on that bone and now it's the only thing they'll remember about his Administration.
This is what Trump said, in his speech to the protesters, about the group marching to the Capitol:
We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.
...
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
...
So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
This was clearly an incitement to sedition and violence, just as Twitter clearly had no choice but to suspend him permanently after his tweeted attempt at even more incitement: "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th."
Eric - I've been reading your blog for many years now (an impressive effort for one person with a full-time job, a long commute and (I think?) a family, too) and I'm just reacting to your sudden change of heart, getting caught up in the moment and piling on. In a sense you're no different than a peaceful protestor last weekend getting spurred on by an Antifa sympathizer and smashing a few windows yourself.
Except that instead of 'Antifa sympathizer' you should insert the equally-valid words media-talking-head, or Pelosi, or Schumer or everybody else who are taking advantage of the chaos to literally loot the Constitution of the freedoms that made American great.
Got that? I'm upset with you because your recent posts seem to indicate that you're caught up in the frenzy, spurred on by...(and these last words are crucially important) people who are taking advantage of the chaos to literally loot the Constitution of the freedoms that made American great.
Please stop blaming Trump for the protests. You're helping them. As the meme goes, "They're not after Trump, they're after you. Trump's just in the way".
Other than that, we seem to agree on a lot, you write well, you find interesting points of view that I never considered before.
Perhaps Eric could do his readers a service and state exactly what words Trump said to the protesters, which made him responsible for the violence committed by a small number of them. I mean actual words. Quotes. Not a wuss-out like "the penumbra of his tone."
Insurrection and sedition are serious charges to accuse a president of, and you'd better be able to back them up.
Keep fighting and alibi-ing and denying for Donald Trump.
After all, he loves you.
Anonymous @ 10:49 (or should I address you as Mr. Troll?)
and who loves you? Who would you fight for? Would you fight for America? What do you think made America great?
Are you the one who posted @ 9:36 abut me getting used to victimhood status? Oh boy! Where on the victimhood status pole are we going to sit, under or over Muslim lesbian quadriplegics with 6 toes?
MrJimm
Victimm Jimm: What do you think made America great?
Hurting tyrants and fascists.
Seems like we're about to enter another period of greatness.
Trump pushed back against the lefty take over of America. Would "low energy" Jeb done better? Are you now saying that Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi are cool and will do better than Trump for America? Also, are you saying absolutely there was not election fraud in 2020? You are not making things clear to me and I love your site. Please elaborate if you will. It would help to see where you are in all this.
We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.
...
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
...
So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
So he never actually called for riots or violence, did he? Thanks for playing!
John Whitehouse
@existentialfish
Amazing that they've settled on "failing in your putsch is its own punishment" and expect anyone to buy it
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