Mike Pence lashes out at Joe Biden's anti-MAGA speech

a reply to: TheRedneck

It appears that the left have named themselves arbiters of definitions now.

Everyone on the left is busy with white-out and redefining Merriam-Webster.

Making America Great is racist, fascist, probably islamophobic.

Abandoning 800 Americans in Afghanistan is now considered a "success".

Opening borders actually means securing our borders.

And I guess we can add "semi-fascist" to the list that includes "deplorable" or patriotic.

Though "patriotic" also means obeying government and getting your 5th booster.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Pretty much.

I wouldn't mind so much except they redefine retroactively. I could say "I love green grass" and three days later realize it actually now means "I want to kill immigrants" as I am hauled into court for attempted murder.

No way to win in that environment... so as I said, I'm just surviving under the malevolent occupation I find myself living under. Might as well say whatever I want.

TheRedneck

a reply to: TheRedneck

Free speech only applies when you're trying to censor. . . .

a reply to: DBCowboy



An interesting little TED talk.

progressives should pay particular attention to the last several statements especially because that's the whole leftist schtick.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Potlatch

Mike still thinks he has a chance to become president. He needs to get all those "Hang Mike Pence" MAGA folks back though. He won't, on either count.

Shouldn't have accepted that coin eh?

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: DBCowboy

An interesting little TED talk.

progressives should pay particular attention to the last several statements especially because that's the whole leftist schtick.

"You guys" do serious transference. You really need to stand in front of a mirror when you say these things.

One reason the Right seems so cohesive is because their thinking and focus is narrow. Flag, Country, God.

Then when they get a charismatic ??leader?? -- they become even more cult like.

The Left -- is everyone else -- who are not narrow focused or cult like.

There are many groups. But, they're basically independent from the whole.

The Left is not Cult like.

a reply to: Annee

lol you must've felt personally attacked for that whole useless post haha.

"I'm not a cult you're a cult." - they say


As I keep doing me.

originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Annee

lol you must've felt personally attacked for that whole useless post haha.

Not at all.

"You guys" are just delusional thinking it's not YOU who are cultish.

a reply to: Annee

I really wish you leftists would stop telling me what I believe in.

I've taken two oaths in my life.

One to the Constitution, to protect and defend it.

The other, on my knee, to my wife.

That's the only time I've ever taken a knee outside of church.

My oaths are about preserving freedom, pushing back against government and devotion to my bride.

I almost feel sorry for you leftists. You'll never have or understand what freedom actually means.

a reply to: Annee

Hahahah! Donald Trump and charisma are two things that never belong in the same sentence together. Now Obama was a charismatic bastard. *I* even liked the man despite hating every single one of his policies.

Keep telling yourselves you're not cultish. I get a kick out of watching you all fall all over yourselves telling us that men can too get pregnant, but they can't have an opinion on abortion because that's only a women's issue, but women also have can penises ...

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Annee

lol you must've felt personally attacked for that whole useless post haha.

Not at all.

"You guys" are just delusional thinking it's not YOU who are cultish.

What cult am I in annee?

I didn't vote for the OJ man.

I just like watching ppl like you squirm.

ANNEE shouldve just posted:

RRREEEEEEEEEEEE

woulda had same effect.

a reply to: Potlatch

So I guess the LEFT/Democrats will throw darts at Mike Pence's photo this week.

Two weeks ago, the LEFT was speaking highly of Mike Pence.

Former A.G. William Barr mentally yanks them around like that too.

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Annee

lol you must've felt personally attacked for that whole useless post haha.

Not at all.

"You guys" are just delusional thinking it's not YOU who are cultish.

Yea...youre unique!


...just like everyone else.....

a reply to: JinMI

It's also funny how it's always the progressives that sever the relationship too. But, you know, I'm the cultish one.

a reply to: ketsuko

I guess I am as well.

I don't post much in these TDS threads anymore... it can be somewhat frustrating. But I do read most of them. Not only does it keep me informed on about how long it will be until the Gestapo comes for me (and yes, that will happen if the country stands as-is), but it is fascinating from a human nature standpoint to witness the mass hysteria.

One episode of American history that has always intrigued me was the Salem Witch Trials. The sheer number of people who suddenly believed that their neighbors, people whom they had known all their lives, were followers of evil, was simply astounding. I always wondered how it was that ordinary people of reasonable intellect could be so swayed as to ignore the reality they had lived in all their lives.

I never imagined I would see it happen first-hand... but here we are.

I even got some answers to my questions! I now know why people react so strongly to the MAGA logo: they are somehow convinced that making America great is the equivalent of making it horrible and vice versa! They want to live in poverty; they want to live in squalor; they want to live in fear and perpetual worry, because they have somehow been convinced anything else is evil.

I have watched people denounce others, then brag about how poorly their methodology has turned out. Pride in failure. Shame in success. Institutionalized self-loathing. To a logical mind, these things are nigh inconcievable, but they exist nonetheless.

I have recently tried to determine when this started. It took me completely by surprise, so I wasn't really aware it was happening at first. The earliest instance I can think of was quite a while back when someone told another "Have a good day." The response was something along the line of "How dare you! I will have whatever kind of day I like!" I was shocked at that response to a simple well-wish, but at the time I simply chalked it up to anger.

And maybe that's what this is all about. People do tend to do illogical things when angry. Maybe what we are witnessing is simply community-wide anger. Anger at what I do not know, but it is obvious people are overly angry. I've considered anger at life itself, anger at themselves, anger at society... and while all of these targets make some sense at some times, none of them by themselves make sense all the time.

I even see it in myself sometimes. The last few years, i have had episodes where I am just angry... I don't know what at or who at, but I also have little control over that anger. My response to it has been to try and withdraw until it passes; my conscious self is well aware that it is happening, but I simply cannot control it.

That makes me wonder if the real culprit is a type of poisoning. Emotions are the result of large releases of neurotransmitters in the brain; could we be ingesting something in our diets that is triggering such episodes? Or is something else happening? I wish I knew the answer to that.

Anyway, people like Annee have provided a great deal of insight into the mechanics of the phenomenon, if not the cause. I suppose she deserves something in the line of thanks for that small contribution to science.

TheRedneck

the amount of people cheerful over calling half the voting population fascists is truly disheartening.

FBI joining political witch-hunts, credit card companies identifying gun purchases, press attacking anyone that dares to think for themselves, federal govt mandating experimental medications or be fired from their job. none of this happened under trump, only one party is in control right now when all of this has been happening and it wasnt trump.

we are a hairs breath from going down a very dark road, and millions are cheering the direction we are going.

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee

Donald Trump and charisma are two things that never belong in the same sentence together. ..

I actually did think about that.

I was thinking more along the lines of Hitler.

To their followers, they were/are charismatic.

Agree with you on Obama.

a reply to: TheRedneck

Pretty much. They hyperventilate about how we talk about Civil War, but then you go to places like Quora and see questions wondering if eliminating us is the only way ... Well, why on earth would we be talking about Civil War in the face of rhetoric like that? It's like they think they're so clever we don't see it because we're that stupid. That we'd actually just sit there like baby seals watching come up to club us to death.

Of course not. We talk and we plan. When they bring it, we won't be caught flat-footed. If that's Civil War talk, then so be it.

a reply to: Annee

Sorry, but Hitler had more charisma than Trump. All the world admired Hitler and Mussolini both and though they were the new progressive way until the concentration camps and similar just could no longer be ignored.

I never saw anything like that about Trump.