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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom a non-MAGA Facebook friend of mine regarding the events of today.
I definitely agree.
"The silence from conservatives is deafening. The same people who are incensed by football players kneeling and women speaking the truth have nothing to say about bombs being sent."
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Wait a minute, let me put on my act surprised face
but I won't be silenced. That is what those bombs were meant to be. Like Stephen King said: Be Brave!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Just SAD! And terrifying. Can we salvage our country before it is beyond repair? Our best hope is to GOTV in great numbers!
hotrod0808
(323 posts)Things like "flase flag," or "Democrat bomber," or "not a real threat," or "they did it themselves for sympathy for the mid terms." These people are pure fucking evil and need to lose their power somehow.
Harker
(14,024 posts)would have to be a... oh... just a run of the mill fascist Trumpsky fanatic.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)lark
(23,121 posts)They were talking about how strongly drumpf condemned the bomber(s) and about how he will not tolerate this attack and that no one was blaming him or his followers after his super strong speech. I gagged and turned it off. I actually watched the speech later on (which I almost never do) and it was so extremely obvious he didn't mean one single thing and actually was irritated that he had to read someone elses' words from the teleprompter. He was just aching to blame the Dems and media but had been threatened into just reading the speech Kelly or Ivanka wrote. So this am he blames the media and threatens them. His bombs weren't doing enough so he had to make it more clear, he's still coming after them (and us, but the election is too soon so he didn't want to let that much truth out until afterwards).
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)FBI investigation.
But Dems getting bombs in the mail, crickets.
Haiti2Quebec
(9 posts)Republicans= lack of empathy, lack of morality, lack of decency.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)wore her "I really Don't Care. Do U?" jacket. Her "Be Best" campaign must not have reached republicans yet.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)FSogol
(45,491 posts)MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)I immediately noticed the swarms of far-right lunatics flooding every thread on social media, posting awful things to comments sections...then there were the more mainstream conservatives in their midst. I confronted those people, telling them that they were morally obligated to call out and condemn such viewpoints. They always refused. These people are still in the comments sections and on Facebook thinking they're a normal conservative, and they purposely IGNORE all of the far-right posts.
They are all responsible for this. It's coming from their side, and the right from the bottom to the top has REFUSED to acknowledge the extremism and the dangers in the emotional rhetoric coming from Trump. They are guilty of these attacks as much as the perpetrator or perpetrators. There is no excuse for refusing to condemn the far right, especially since it's right in front of them.
And they also like to pretend that far-right groups like the Proud Boys and 4Channers don't support Trump.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Some are even switching to Democrat.
THIS is the October surprise. Keep it in the news.
Thank goodness no one has been hurt (yet).
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)two former neighbors and a former coworker. I knew they were Republicans but had no idea they were so far 'round the bend. One of them posted a FUX article about the bomb targeting Soros and his little buddies yukked it up. I'm sure they high-fived each other over the bomb targeting the Clintons as well. Good riddance.
allgood33
(1,584 posts)Evil is real. Hate is a motivator. Racism is a cancer. Hope and love is a treatment but not a cure.
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)flying_wahini
(6,608 posts)I think you're gonna like it here.
Texin
(2,596 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)BaronChocula
(1,559 posts)"The Democrats did it."
duforsure
(11,885 posts)I mean these people already have normalized sexually assaulting women, normalized attempted rapist and possible gang rapists, and normalized corruption , lying , attacking women's rights, attacking our air and water, and attacking children putting them in cages and making them disappear somewhere to hurt them and their parents permanently with, and now calling themselves all white nationalists. If you look at what has happened elsewhere with these groups violence is always showing up. The gop is dead now, and they are all white nationalists now instead. They attack the truth their biggest enemy.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)My conservative friends are shopping the possibility this is a Democratic false flag operation. Their opinions are based on nothing more than their personal prejudices. And once again, it's bankrolled by Soros, like all the stuff they dont like.
-90% Jimmy
ck4829
(35,077 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Demwolv
(88 posts)Is mindblowing to me. I have one woman who incessantly posted about how the women yelling at senators were going to turn violent... all she had to post yesterday was bullshit about the caravan. I want to tell her to grow up.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)on my local news comments section they're spouting out crazy crap like dems sent the bombs to themselves.
I swear I live in an area full of idiots.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)They would like to see us all silenced, killed or imprisoned.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)None of them are die hard Trump fans. They are all women. One woman posted about how terrible yesterdays events were. She seemed bothered that some other people she knows of didn't seem to think the terrorist attacks were all that terrible. She was the only one of my Facebook friends to directly mention it in a personal post. I don't have many Facebook friends. She doesn't like Trump because she doesn't think he demonstrates good Christian values. The 2nd Republican friend clearly dislikes Trump because she stated it just a couple days ago. I saw she posted on a local news article about how she thinks Trump is hypocrite in response to his rally speech last night. She even posted she's taking a social media break because she can't stand all the nasty politics going on. I'm not seeing it. It's people she is friends with. The 3rd friend pretty much doesn't care about politics all that much. She never posts politics. Anyhow, two out the three republican friends actually spoke up about it. Some republicans are shitty than others. I've only kept the ones I could tolerate as friends.
watoos
(7,142 posts)we better hope that this is not a Reichstag fire. Bombs sent by Trumpers and an innocent Lefty takes the fall, is killed in a firestorm of bullets and of course his house will have bomb making material in it. Where was Ghouliani these past 2 months?
These bastards are evil, I will not sleep well until this is over.