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Begun, the Statue Wars have
Forgive the truncated tweet. You get the gist of the pith of his marrow.
Got it? Trump is waging a Statue Culture War. The people who topple anything that looks, y’know, old, and hence racist – that’s just, like, an expression of Real Feelings, and hence sanctified. If they tear down a symbol of Wisconsin Progress or an Elk or an actual Abolitionist, well, omelettes, broken eggs and all that.
That’s not war; that’s a way of starting a discussion.
If you don’t accept the premises and the direct action and the verdict of the topplers? You, not them , have decided to declare WAR. Prosecuting the people who tear down monuments is not a reaction to a culture war, it is starting a culture war. Proposing the creation of a national statuary center that celebrates the accomplishments of remarkable American individuals is waging a culture war.
The author of this tweet, according to Wikipedia: “Kenneth Paul Vogel is an American journalist and author who currently reports for The New York Times. From 2007 to 2017, he was the founding chief investigative reporter at Politico.”
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Piles of bodies. Roads over the bodies where the imprisoned workers had to build the roads. I’m sure there were a few other things.
Didn’t they actually make the proles (or whoever) build their own gulags?
Useless Light rail systems.
This is the United States, not Europe. I would love to hammer Antifa defendants and give them some significant incarceration time.
From your lips to God’s ears.
The Wikipedia entry is a good starting point, to state the obvious. ;) And thanks for the kind words! I’m no authority on this aspect of American culture, aside from noting the innumerable examples of dehumanization of Black Americans in commercial art.
You can’t use “dark” as a pejorative because …. Racist.
Then vote for Trump and Republicans in November.
Because if you vote for Biden and Democrats you will be putting them in power.
Thanks James.
You don’t win wars through defense. We are in a great struggle with the left for the future of our country.
Who made that rule? That happens all the time.
You don’t win until you gain and maintain the offensive and put the opponent on the defensive.
Again, says who? There are countless examples of attackers leaving because they can’t attack anymore. There are countless examples of attacks cancelled because a defense is too strong.
Basic military doctrine.
This is not a post on the relative merits of Trump and Biden.
When Biden is linked to the side that tears down the statues, it is.
I missed that. When did Biden commend mobs tearing down statutes?
Incorrigible.
Western Chauvinist
At this point, if you don’t oppose the Left with every fiber of your being, I don’t consider you a conservative or a patriot, and I want nothing to do with you.
This whole polarizing left/right dynamic is what dismays me about politics in general. Settling for the us vs them mindset would indicate a once open mind has closed. Labels are a sign that the mental process has opted for the path of least resistance, which is basic human nature. Our political system is a lamentable puppet show. In Europe and Japan, the concept of campaign funding is unthinkable. Imagine how all that money spent to push our bottoms so we will be compelled to contribute, could be better spent.
Original thought, by definition, defies labels. I oppose evil leftist puppetmasters, and feel sorrow for the looming trainwreck of their misguided, manipulated mignons
Trump’s a gift to the left who keeps on giving, but he’s right in this case.
You’re just making things up, aren’t you? I guess we wasted all that effort making forts for so many millenia.
Ugly statues.
Can’t answer can you?
@garyrobbins
The post is about “the Statue Wars“.
Trump has come out firmly against the mob tearing down statues.
Biden has in the past stated he was “understanding” of those who want to tear them down.
But mainly silence.
Meanwhile ANTIFA, and BLM both acting as militarized arms of the Democratic Party, with donations to BLM in many cases going to ACT BLUE, the massive Democrat fundraising Superpac that you have donated a nice chunk of money to, are busy destroying statues and defacing monuments all over the United States.
Admit it.
Come to grips with it. Your comment about wanting to prosecute them is rank hypocrisy .
For #NeverTrump people, they have to hold fast to the belief that not just Joe Biden is going to run the Democratic Party, as opposed to the Democratic Party running Joe Biden, but that the Joe Biden from 15, 25 or 35 years ago is going to run the Democratic Party, and not the Biden who has continuously moved to the left to accommodate the angry party activists dragging the Democrats in that direction (it’s the same mindset that powered Bill Kristol’s inane tweet on Sunday — they have to believe that Biden’s going to tell #BLM, Antifa and all the other woke Dems to commit an impossible sexual act once he gets elected, and that Joe will in the end pander to the #NeverTrump crowd and not to the angry SJWs).
Don’t kid yourself. Biden has never done anything in his long political career except to say what others have told him to say. This is why he has come down on so many sides of every issue over the years. He has no personal philosophical center and is a completely empty shell. That’s why he has never done well in a presidential primary before. And that’s why he supported by the machine now: He is expected to be pliable when in office.
And anytime Joe has spoken with conviction on an issue, he’s almost always on the wrong side of it. And yet, Donald Trump, who supposedly has no core, has come down on our side — America’s side — in everything he does.
KLAVAN: The Unbearable Rightness of Trump
I agree. But it’s in #NeverTrump’s interest to either believe — or pretend that they believe — Joe’s past political positions.