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The Left in Pictures
This photo accompanied an AP article in the San Antonio Express-News this morning. I cropped it to the guy behind the two people in the foreground (attribution in the original).
I mean, this guy appears to me to be in the 65-75 age range. So, likely retired. Gets his orders from the local Democrat party, then goes down to the protest and picks up his professionally printed sign. Look at that outthrust chin. I’m somewhat surprised he is not wearing a mask.
This sort of pic is ripe for photoshopping new words onto the sign, but I just have a hard time imagining what this guy is doing. What is he protesting? He is outside the Fulton County jail, so if he is local, he should be happy. His elected DA indicted DJT. While it’s obvious to me that the prosecution of Trump is somewhere between a political stunt and a massive abuse of the justice system (or, more simply, a combination of the two), isn’t this guy already getting what he wanted?
Remember when Bush derangement syndrome seemed bad? We had no idea.
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His face is exposing his heart. It is curious…the hatefulness. Are Trump and his “thugs” trying to take any of this guy’s freedom?
I assume he is joining the not-miniscule number of people who insist that all Trump supporters should be jailed.
He’s been told that they are. Every day the media arm of the DNC said that Trump was an authoritarian, fascist, literally Hitler, etc. No evidence was ever given, but it was always asserted. During the Years of Stupidity, Trump left the decisions to the governors, but I think Georgia was near the top with Florida and South Dakota of not being stupid. If pressed, I bet the one thing the gentleman in the picture would go to is women losing the ability to kill their babies. Team Moloch is really upset about that one.
Why is this still a big problem in practice? Are there not plenty of proven methods so women almost never would need such ability?
I think you and I are too old to be experts on the subject!
Probably a lot of stupid going around.
[Sigh] Trump supporting thugs? Whatever gave them that idea?
Wasn’t former Defense Secretary Mark Esper the cabinet member who lied to Trump about troop levels in the Middle East being reduced?
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” he [Jim Jeffrey, the United States’ outgoing Special Representative to Syria] remarked. “When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out.”
Want me to deconstruct every one of the items in that article for you, or would you like to perform the exercise yourself, in order to build some of your own muscle?
What won’t be printed on a sign from an office funded by the Democrat party and handed out to “protestors” and sold as a spontaneous demonstration is that The Lightbringer used very similar language to Trump, in term of violence-calling, yet no chin-thrusted “protestors” showed up at Barry’s Place to condemn his savage rhetoric.
Granted, you have to catch a ferry to get to Barry, and navigate the drowning swamps that surround his
estatehouse, but those are the challenges democracy puts in front of you, to risk as you see see fit.The idea of “political foot soldiers” was that they were to be visible promoters of a political preference, not that they would be actual soldiers. But something’s got to give and I fear it won’t be pretty.
I truly don’t understand, either. There’s also that species of person who can’t let a moment pass without taking a shot at Trump. On the beach? Take a shot at Trump. Enjoying a nice walk? Take a shot at Trump? At a ski race? Oh you better believe we’re taking a shot at Trump. And they also love to wind every conversation to somewhere where they can delight us with their wordcraft by saying “Re-Trump-Licans” or some such.
It doesn’t annoy me anymore, though, because all of these Anti-Trump folks I encounter are oh-so witty and oh-so loud standing in the liberal bastions, surrounded by their liberal friends. Just like the guy in the picture.
I find they pucker up quite a lot when they are the only liberal in the room. I don’t recall hearing much from them when I was in South Dakota earlier this year.
Now, where it all ends, I don’t know. They can’t let Donald go, but I fear they’ll keep painting anyone who’s not them as a Nazi until long after I’m in the grave.
Agree. The women scream, “My body, my choice” and leave off that they had the choice to not have sex or use some form of protection. Yes, the methods of birth control aren’t perfect, but they are in the high nineties. The numbers of failures aren’t accounting for the large number of abortions. Neither are the cases of rape or incest.
That is your typical Republican living in Fulton country or the greater Atlanta metropolitan statistical area. Georgia, you have a problem.
Full disclosure: I live in Oconee Country. An hours drive away. But I work in Atlanta. And have met Republicans from Atlanta. This guy does fit the profile. (Of note, most Republicans in Atlanta of a certain age were previously Democrats). The real surprise is that Bryan Kemp and Brad Raffesperger were not standing next to him holding similar signs. Maybe you could blow the picture up a little more?
And, while the women insist on “choice” over being a mother, they insist men don’t get one in either direction.
From a recent meme post:
Yes, indeed, these are confusing times!
It takes a remarkable degree of deliberate blindness to express surprise or outrage at people “taking a shot” at Trump when the man himself scarcely lets a day go by without insulting and demeaning, often in vile and coarse terms, anyone who offends him. The list of his targets is long: judges, prosecutors, jurors, reporters, political opponents, fellow Republicans (he’s nominally a Republican despite his long history of contributing to Democrats), ex-employees, ex-supporters, porno actresses he’s betrayed his wives with, women he’s raped (this description blessed by a federal court), people suing him or his companies (relatives, vendors he’s stiffed, gullible consumers who signed up for Trump University), and so on. He’s famous for this behavior and it’s surely one of things his supporters most admire about him, but don’t revel in it and then complain when someone reciprocates.
One significant difference is that insulting a past co-worker etc doesn’t land you in prison, but apparently insulting an election just might. Or at least a sizeable number of people think it should.
I feel the same way. These people have gone in my estimation from gullible, to mindless. to neurotic, and I am coming to the point that I pass by their every comment. “Trump sits in his chair oblivious to the deep state and not even thinking about it!” Sure. EDOC! Hypnotized. And liking it.
Allow me to clarify: They can’t let any opportunity— when surrounded by a liberal crowd — to work in some disparaging reference to Trump. Like, it could be your wedding, a child’s baptism, you name it, and they have to make that kind of remark.
I can’t stand Trump, but I can let many a day go by without having to mention him. But I guess that’s deliberate blindness to you. Enjoy your life
I am really happy that Oliver Anthony and ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ got some play because the idiots who hate Trump try their very best to make everything appear to be about Trump’s personality and behavior or his own political incompetences, whatever those may be, while most Trump supporters know the hatred is not about Trump at all but about the potential for the MAGA movement to destroy the communist movement in America.
It is a really an odd thing to see ‘The Left in Pictures’ taking place in Georgia because the history of American Patriotism is a highlight of people in that state. The original settlers, many of Scots-Irish backgrounds and filled with fighting spirit, were prominent in the War for Independence and later Georgians in defending against fascism and communism in two world wars. Trump stands for that history.
Somehow, he reminds me of the old guy who was always telling me to get out of his yard…