1/ I can't believe, on the day Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked by a man with a hammer, a man who was looking to attack her, some mope on Fox News who makes a jaw-dropping sum of money for contributing nothing tried to downplay it: "A lot of people get attacked with hammers."
2/ Seriously? I mean I know we've definitely fallen this far, but...have we REALLY fallen this far. Did he sell his soul to a bridge troll in exchange for a dumb smile and a lucrative contract?
3/ I'm confident that if JFK was president now, Fox News' coverage of his assassination would include some hair-gel-addicted galute smiling like he just stole a kid's lollipop and saying, "I mean, people get shot in motorcades all the time, right? Grassy knolls are everywhere."
4/ That is the right's best, folks. "A lot of people get attacked with hammers." Murgle blurgle flarp. Let's go own some libs!
I'm exhausted from the yoga poses people put themselves in to both-sides this kind of crap. What happened is the fault of violent right-wing rhetoric.
I'm exhausted from the yoga poses people put themselves in to both-sides this kind of crap. What happened is the fault of violent right-wing rhetoric.
5/ There's no both-sides here. One side tried to overthrow the damn government, hurls the terms "pedophile" and "groomer" around like snacks to hungry toddlers and regularly makes political ads featuring dummies with big guns shooting and mounting off about liberal tyranny.
6/ The other side HAS NOT DONE those things. That, in and of itself, is enough to melt your both-sides argument into a puddle of dumb, because the side that didn't try to violently overthrow the government can pretty damn easily claim the moral high ground.
7/ Yes some Democrats along the way have made violent comments. And yes unstable liberals have resorted to or attempted acts of violence. But when that has happened, the party and the rest of us have condemned it. Hell, when there as a foiled assassination plot against...
8/ ...U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, liberals didn't just condemn it, they passed a law giving justices greater protection, and President Joe Biden signed it.
Democrats have not spent years putting their base on a war-like footing with the help of an entire network.
Democrats have not spent years putting their base on a war-like footing with the help of an entire network.
9/ They have not. To say otherwise is a lie, and a childish means of excusing the monster the right has created. And as we learned from Mr. "Lots of People Get Attacked with Hammers" - who could be outsmarted by a bag of hammers - they don't care about the monster. They like it.
10/ And because of that, we - the actual "we," as in all of us - are f*cking stuck with it. They're the only ones who can calm it or knock it down. They've shown no inclination to do so. That leaves us to deal with their damn violent monster, and that means what happened to...
11/ ...Pelosi's husband and the Pelosi family is going to happen again, to others. And it will again be both-sides and brushed-off, and then it will happen again. Because that is where we are, and that is what they want. And it's twisted and horrible and all manner of messed up.
12/ But it's the America they've created. We can win by voting - and we must. But even then, you think that violent rhetoric will settle down? Hell no. That beast is loose. And I don't have an answer, except to hope that good people will, little by little, grow weary of it all.
13/ I'd love to end with an upbeat, "So here's what we need to do!" But I don't have one. Things are bad, and they're all-but bound to get worse. At least as long as dumb asses get paid a king's ransom to look into a camera and drone on about the frequency of hammer attacks. END
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