Congressman Steve Scalise Shot. Fake News to Blame

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  1. Wehrwolfen

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    It's not up to me what that secret cabal of "The Left(TM)" that lives in your head does. If someone else wants to blame someone for something that isn't their fault, that makes them an ********. It doesn't mean I, or anyone else, have to agree with them.

    You, however, just want to fling **** at people.

    I don't give a **** what people say. Talk is cheap, it's actions that matter. You're not guilty of murder just because some guy who listened to you killed someone.
     
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    Hey look, another one completely taken in by the Trump rhetoric, lack of pragmatism, pugnacious foreign policy, making the wealthy
    more wealthy, lack of respect for our other branches of government, etc, etc.
     
  4. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    OK, sure, I understand. They weren't True Scotsmen. OOOOK

    Why weren't they? The guy in LA was known for conservative opinions on this board and Roof had contact with alt. right organizations
     
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    Wow, you can rattle off the BS talking points pretty good. Do you use index cards?

    Wait, wait, let me try:

    Ahem...

    "You're joking, right?"

    How'd I do?
     
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    The mass shooter in question John Russell Houser, was fully investigated and "investigators recovered a 39-page journal belonging to Houser, which contained the name of the theater and the time and date of the screening of 'Trainwreck', along with random notes and observations.[32][34] However, the journal did not provide a clear motive behind the shooting.[16] Investigators were also studying posts he made online to determine a motive for the shooting.[12]"
    It was further found that Houser was believed to be psychotic but released from the hospital two years before.
     
  7. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    So psychotics can't be conservative? and Roof was a liberal?

    The guy was nuts and his politics don't really matter, so was the guy yesterday. You bunch are all for arresting anyone without a MAGA hat as a dangerous assassin.
     
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    Disinformation from the media, while not ethical, is not incitement.

    Incitement is telling somone to attack someone else. I haven't seen or heard that yet. No one told this dipshit to go shoot a republican.

    I will always be against the suppression of speech, even if it is speech I hate and vehemently disagree with.
     
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    Lol...what are you considering "tribal seances"?

    While his qualifications to lead can be argued, Trump is no more his own worst enemy than Barak Obama was. The truth is that despite all the accusations that Trump is dangerous and racist for simply not being politically correct, this splitting of America started years ago under Obama.
     
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    Why would you associate alt. right with conservatism? They are not the same.
     
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    the hatred on both sides is sending both sides crazies over the edge... sad!
     
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    Evidently, you are referring to the logical fallacy known as "No True Scotsman." (Sometimes this is known, instead, as "No True Christian.")

    But if there is no good evidence that the person in question held to conservative ideology--and that he was embraced by most (or all) other conservatives--why would you describe him as a "conservative"?
     
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    Au contraire mon ami. We already have a list of past active members that have committed violence in the name of Progressive Marxism......
    • Nidal Hasan – Ft. Hood Shooter: Registered Democrat and Muslim.
    • Jared Loughner - was a known Progressive Leftist Marxist during his college days, what makes you think he ever changed?
    • James Holmes - was a Registered Democrat, staff worker on the Obama campaign, #Occupy Wall Street, Progressive liberal and hated Christians.
    • Aaron Alexis - Navy Yard shooter – black liberal/Obama voter
    • Amy Bishop - the rabid leftist, killed her colleagues in Alabama, Obama supporter
    • Andrew J. Stack - flew plane into IRS building in Texas – Leftist Democrat
    • Seung-Hui Cho – Virginia Tech shooter: Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff, registered Democrat.
    • Harris and Klebold - the Columbine Shooters – families registered Democrats and progressive Leftists.
    • Bill Ayers -, Weather Underground bomber – Leftist Democrat involved in bombing the federal building.
    • Kathy Boudin - involved in an armored car heist and the death of three guards
    • Lee Harvey Oswald - Self avowed Socialist, Communist and Democrat – killed Kennedy…
    [​IMG]
     
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    A) Didn't vote for him. B) Don't agree with him totally, for example I wouldn't have made the Muslim ban EO. I would've waited for Congress to bring a bill on domestic homeland security.

    C) Trump is not merely your employee. He is YOUR Commander in Chief. We think of it in the inverse because we want the "people" to have power in the system, but as a result the power is defragmented, and special interests have prevailed. The Authoritarian State has secured the people's rights more.
     
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    Boy, ain't that the TRUTH. The FOX supporting of the Tea Party, with free advertising, travelling to sites around the country, providing key-note speakers, etc; was nothing short of the most blatantly biased and unprofessional news reporting in history.
     
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    Seems like a stretch to me.
     
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    Un-American Trump actions:
    1. Lying repeatedly to the American people.
    2. Refusal to release recent tax forms (all recent Presidents have done this).
    3. Pathetic foreign policy, which has targeted and abused our allies in Mexico, Australia, Germany, and Great Britain.
    4. Alienation of foreign cultures, with hate rhetoric. An Indian Engineer was kill as a result of this hate rhetoric. Tourism to the US is down. US university enrollment by foreigners will be dropping sharply.
    5. Signalling out News organizations as "Fake News", because they report his "unpresidential" actions, such as lying about the bugging of the Trump Tower, etc, etc.
    6. On and on and on...
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    Too bad they don't vote Democrat there or the state would have far better medical coverage and there would be fewer right wing loonies like demented Loughner.
     
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    White supremacy is conservative ideology. Antisemitism and antiChristianity are both right wing as well. We see plenty of that on this forum as Trump supporters have engaged in much Jew hatred here recently and they have always supported Ayn Rand who was the political world's # 1 antichrist.
     
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    Don't need index cards for this one. It's out there for all to see. Open your eyes, and then tell me which of these facts is bullsht.
     
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    It started long before Obama, and Trump has taken it to a new level. The Cabinet, sitting around in a circle and drooling over
    King Trump, which was certainly not spontaneous, is sickening. What was the point? To show their loyalty? What? It was humorous to
    watch grown men grovel. Whose idea was this?
     
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    A lot of BS floats around on social media,

    I respect people who have more originality than to get their talking points from Fox/Breitbart/Infowars.

    But, most people (at PF) are well aware that I lean to the "Left".

    That said, I don't play favorites.

    I roll my eyes at people that give the kneejerk parrot response to every LW social media BS that circulates.

    Right/Left--have your OWN opinion.

    True respect is EARNED (and not given).

    Some of my BEST friends at PF are on the "other side".

    They know who they are,

    They know that I am not a kneejerk "Lefty".

    As always, I look forward to my interaction at PF.

    Right/Left. You have my respect. EARNED (but not blindly given).

    Best of Luck... :salute:
     
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    Propaganda is propaganda. Who it benefits is arbitrary.
     
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    How is anyone my 'commander' when I'm not in the military?
     
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    Nice cartoon, Good example of cherry picking though rather obvious. I could do the same but it's not worth the effort. My point stands. The guy was a nut, the fact that he was a leftist is utterly irrelevant. All you're trying to do is to smear all opposition to Trump as violent terrorism at this point
     

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