Mr. Scorpio
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Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 08/10/16
Jesse Williams: “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”
"I apologize if anyone was offended..."
That, my friends, is the hallmark of a bullshit, insincere apology.
It also calls into question the kind of people who were not only not offended by what he said, but had liked what he said.
And apologies are supposed to stand on their own. Pivoting to an attack on Bill and Hillary is nothing more than deflection on his part, and all he's doing is mitigating his own offensive behavior, furthermore attesting to his own insincerity.
He didn't fool anyone who doesn't want to be fooled. If anything, he's toast from here to Election Day.
The devolution of the GOPrs has been precipitous over the past couple of decades
As trending dictates, it won't get any better for them. They're way past the tipping point. They're taking the promotion of governmental incompetence, malfeasance and social regression to the lowest depths seen in the modern era. Unlike the past, the most remarkable aspect is the complete lack of intellectualism on the right and the absence of pretense.
They're not even pretending to be egalitarian and uplifting these days, unlike the facade of the Reagan era. The GOPr base is dancing around a dumpster fire in drunken reverie, no other excuse to show for it.
In this election, it's quite clear that Trump is not the cause of this fall from grace, he's the most glaring symptom of a collapse in our collective political sanity. If the center-right party loses its mind, it can only damage our politics in its entirety.
So far, we've held it together, in spite of the incredible amount of animosity that these right wing serial arsonists have launched against us and against our candidate. Clearly, to these people from their warped perspective, they're completely disoriented to the point where they're unable to cope with their own cognitive dissonance.
Reasoning with them is futile and giving them the benefit of the doubt is counterproductive. Instead, they need to be marginalized as much as possible and for as long as they choose to be irrational.
Rather than rehabilitating them, first they need to be politically de-powered. Standards of proper civil discourse are already defined. Until they adhere to these standards they ought not to be rewarded bad behavior, but only by positive reinforcement for good behavior.
The GOP needs to hit bottom. It needs to reassess itself and act accordingly. Until it does, it's only going to get worse for them and the rest of us as well. They need to purge themselves of their regressive ideology before they're considered for positions of responsibility. At this point, they're all bad.
They think that being bad is a good thing, in spite of the carnage that they've caused.
The only thing that we should do is set the good example. We need to be the adults in the room. We can't allow them to drag us all down into their muck. Because if we do, all will be lost.
Next time I'm driving around the area I'm going to count the number of houses with Trump signs
It ought to be interesting
Wingers who are so ignorant, they have no idea how ignorant they actually are
Hope'd you noticed that this nimrod was wearing a NRA tee shirt.
https://mic.com/articles/156021/samantha-bee-talks-to-trump-supporters-who-think-the-election-is-rigged-only-if-he-loses?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
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