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If You Bought the Russia Hoax, Why Should I Trust You on Anything? Ever?
If you bought the Russia Collusion hoax, why should I ever trust you about anything? Of course, you believed it. That’s not the issue. The issue is why you believed it. You believed what you needed to believe in order to silence the cognitive dissonance (look it up, it’s more than a catchphrase) between two narratives. On the one hand, you had a healthy conservative distrust of most things government and, in particular, the Democrats’ stories about Republicans. On the other hand, you had this on-its-face ridiculous set of assertions being touted by the leftist media. The further left, the more they loved it, and you went right ahead and loved it too.
Everybody needs to live in their own space. If your wife is further left than you are, and stronger than you are, then you are likely to adopt increasingly leftist positions, to watch leftist news, to believe leftist stories, and to repeat the stories told by the left about the right. About us. How are you not simply a member of the left at that point, regardless of your personal (but unspeakable at home for fear of upsetting your wife), deeply-held, cherished beliefs about how you are a conservative?
There’s a difference between engaging in academic debate over tax rates and equivocating when confronted with a choice to make. You had a choice, and you blew it. Years down the road now, and the coup which you unbeknownst-like aided and abetted was successful. There’s no going back and there’s certainly no going forward — not for us. The Durham Report is out, and much like the Mueller Report and the Barr Report, “all it says” is that some things happened that shouldn’t have happened, and other things may not have happened.
This was a mutiny and a coup.
I try to keep my despair on a tight leash, but let me tell you, it is a powerful motivator. Nothing contributes to a sense of urgency like a desperate need for change. There’s a handy way to avoid making this sort of choice, however. Believe the ridiculous story told to you by Nancy Pelosi and Rachel Maddow, and accepted by your wife and her friends, or your coworkers, or your Reddit buddies, or the crowd of losers who follow you on your favorite loser social media conformity system.
With apologies to Churchill, you were given a choice between fighting and lying. You have chosen to lie, and now you will have to fight. Good luck with that. I already know that I can not trust you.
Who is Ray Epps? You are.
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Because they believed they had a say over whom the women could sleep with.
Or fell in love. Or just wanted to have sex.
You need to win first. You don’t get to tar and feather women until then.
What fun to browse thru those posters!
You have no skin in the society game beyond your own pleasure, and you do not understand what makes society work. Or not work. Enjoy yourself.
How to win the Culture War and tar and feather as many women as you want to:
Step 1: dismiss other people’s investment in society as of less worth than your own….
We’re not hosting a session on reasonableness here. Your efforts to let the perpetrators off the hook, to explain away the crime, to get us sympathize with the depraved on account a they’re deprived — are unwelcome.
That’s kinda the point of the post. Reasonable and forgiving, docile and compliant got us a mutiny and a coup by people who took their chances. They read it right. Republicans and decent people in general are insufficiently wrathful to survive. We’re losing our country without a fight.
This must change. There are worse things than becoming an angry mob.
The tolerance game is an exercise in limits, and a great number of us have figured it out.
Indeed, and we won’t win with an attitude eaten away by a derelict tolerance for being subverted.
Shaving and shaming, thank you. Tar and feathers are reserved for His Majesty’s tax agents, and judges who incentivize rapine and murder.
To strain the analogy even further, you’re welcome to open your own Whorehouse of the Damned and take in all the collaborators you wish. Don’t expect it to be popular or supported by this society.
Dude, I’m just saying we’re all human. I don’t see how being unreasonable about that helps anybody – you or them.
People should be angry. Furious, in fact. This is the moment. I’m not interested in your vacillations about our domestic enemies, some of whom nestle comfortably on “this side,” but through contemptible cowardice fail to arrive at the necessary conclusion until it’s too late. Those who prefer the “tranquility of servitude”.
I encourage holding these people in contempt.
Your folksy, aw-shucksy, just-saying-isms are rather more on the problem side of things than the solution.
Compare the treatment by corporate media the election interference 2016 vs 2020. Both acts intended to affect an election (Jan 06 vs Russian Collusion). The people who participated in in Jan 06 are in jail. Those who did Russian Collusion have a sweet gig on cable news.
Other than Erik Wipple, you won’t anyone in corporate media and the “principled conservatives” who hammered this narrative apologize and once again, the permanent bureaucracy will get away bad behavior.
From Wikipedia (TLDR bolded):
I looked it up, and I admit a twinge of disappointment that it was entirely safe for work.
Okay.
This only works for you if they care what you think.
They’re just less flattering than is comfortable. Flattery won’t lead you to a solution.
Ignoring unless you have something to contribute.
The thing is, I haven’t trust “them” on much of anything since the Zabruder film was shown on a college campus near me in 1975.
I cannot think of one official US policy narrative that I have believed in.
No one in politics ever apologizes. It is like all of them were schooled by Ray Cohen, former buddy and attorney of McCarthy during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950’s.
I often disagree with you, but I respect your equanimity and civility on this and other occasions.
Useful idiots are unlikely to discern that they are useful idiots. In fact, the sheeple would rather preserve their biases than admit they were duped.
I believe you are thinking of Roy Cohn.
Rachel Maddow has already come out to formally state that as much as she is aware that journalism is about presenting 2 sides of an issue, due to the evil that the side opposing hers is employing, she will only present news relating to positive developments for the side that she is on.
This most likely will not entail her doing anything differently going forward as she has done in her reporting since at least April 2016.