9/11: Nineteen years [BUMPED UP: scroll down for newer posts]
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Nineteen years is a long time. And yet sometimes September 11, 2001 seems like a century ago.
I date that day as the day I woke up politically, although I didn’t realize it at the time. Nor did I realize that previously I’d been asleep. But I think that many of us were shocked that day into something that ultimately led us to a different sensibility. I think a lot of us have ended up facing grim truths that were present back then but somewhat hidden. I hope we don’t have to face too many more, but I fear we may.
On 9/11 we were attacked from without. That may happen again, but at the moment the attacks come mainly from within. I say “mainly,” because some of the funding and some of the impetus for the leftism and anarchism and sheer nihilism we see today is foreign, but much of it has been carefully nurtured for many decades in our own universities and other institutions. To see the Democratic Party and MSM so utterly complicit with it; to see their campaign so focused on hatred of Trump, the right, and even America; and to watch them all pretend that the geriatric, now-somewhat-addled but always corrupt and mediocre career politician Joe Biden is a worthy candidate, is the sort of thing I could not have imagined in 2001.
And yet here we are, nineteen years later.
On this anniversary, let us remember the bravery and sacrifice of that day, and say RIP to them all. And let us try to go forward with the resolve that this country and its people continue to “nobly save…the last best hope on earth.”
The continuing disaster that is the Democrat Party may be opening more eyes.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/disgust-as-allbuildingsmatter-trends-on-9-11-anniversary/
The prior sentence in Lincoln’s address is also more meaningful than ever.
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.”
True freedom for the descendants of slaves, the descendants of slave-owners, and the descendants of neither require that the freedom-destroying Democrats and Leftists be utterly demolished politically, legally, and socially.
It was incidentally one of the last times I willingly watched CNN. I was a liberal at the time, but was annoyed how CNN had people on who were seriously speculating that this was an “accident” or “pilot error” before the second plane hit. Even I could see that based on the eyewitness accounts that this was an act of terrorism, yet CNN’s immediate instinct was to dismiss that claim out of hand.
(I happened to watch it all unfold live, since I had worked overnight and flipped on the TV to eat something before going to sleep.)
I was not a “progressive” at the time, and I’m still not. But the event was my first real introduction to the ideology of political and radical Islam, as is true for many other Americans.
Rest in peace, all those innocents who died, and peace to their families. And special respect, always, for those who died trying to save people on that day, and for those who have died since because of their exposure to that toxic atmosphere.
Twitter told me half an hour ago, that this was the #1 trending hashtag:
“Anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked following 9/11, FBI data confirms
Trending with: Islamophobia”
Really?
Re: Lincoln…
neo, AesopFan: I keep coming back to Lincoln’s 1862 address:
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We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
–December 1, 1862: Closing Paragraph in Message to Congress
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There was a happier, more confident time when I thought Lincoln’s sentiment was noble, but over the top, and besides, we’re past that tricky patch of history.
Not anymore.
My husband had CNN Int on a while ago After droning on forever about corona virus and Bob Woodward, they finally mentioned 9/11. What they failed to mention were the police, firefighters and others who sacrificed so much. I guess they don’t want to anger de Blasio or the defund the police pols.
I would like Antifa to attack their buildings.
Well said Neo.
It is interesting to consider the similarities and differences between the two most devastating attacks on the United States.
The similarities are fairly simple. Both attacks came as a shock to the public. Both created confusion, fear, and ultimately anger.
The differences were fairly profound.. We could watch the horror of 9-11 unfold before our eyes; and the attacks took place so close to home. The sense of shock was nearly overwhelming.
On the other hand, the graphic images of Pearl Harbor were only available later; and were sanitized to an extent. As well, Hawaii seemed so remote. My wife who was five years old, says she recalls hearing the news of the bombing at Pearl, and was frightened. I do not recall at all.
Still, Pearl Harbor unified and focused the country as no other event has. Soon, the entire country was committed to the war effort; and the commitment did not waiver. It seems that much of the country moved on from 9-11 rather quickly. Maybe the divisions that subsequently developed over the Afghanistan and Iraq operations contributed to that.
The Republican hate the Democrats and Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi and those to the left just as much as the Democrats hate Trump and conservatives. Just as much.
Biden is elderly but he is not geriatric. That would refer to someone who needs special care. Trump is 73. If 73 is acceptable then 77 can be as well.
Americans of every political side should be able to come together when remembering 9/11. Some certainly do but many won’t, of course, because there is hatred on both sides that is frankly childish. Kurt Vonnegut said it well when he said society is nothing but a reflection of high school.
Montage (4:49 pm):
“The Republicans hate the Democrats and Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi and those to the left just as much as the Democrats hate Trump and conservatives. Just as much.”
Does the Republican side riot and loot and burn down businesses? Assault customers at still-standing businesses? The Democrat side does. (I know you know that.) That is worse, much worse, than “frankly childish”.
Montage said:
“Biden is elderly but he is not geriatric. That would refer to someone who needs special care.”
Well, fellow readers, if there was any doubt about Montage’s insincerity, there’s your proof right there.
Montage, to quote your guy, “Come on, man!” As much as I dislike Obama et al, I don’t hate them.
How many Republicans harass elderly couples trying to just have a meal? Keep that sort of behavior going, and it’s a short step to violence provoked by the Democrats. Not hate, just defense of one’s liberty.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1302807915519258624
I really don’t see anything in Neo’s post, or comments before Montage, to justify his “hate” focus. Look in the mirror, sir.
Looking back, I’m surprised how much my political opinions were intensified by the 9/11 attacks. If I were to make a list of my opinions after that day, they’d differ little from those I held before. It was the intensity that changed.
Where did that come from? Not from the acts of Islamists. It was caused by the incessant stream of weasel words coming from Democrats, Progressives, and Socialists. I hadn’t been one of them for quite a few years. As a classical liberal during the Clinton years, I’d drifted slowly towards small-government conservatism, but that was a quiet mutual separation from the Left.
The reaction, by Democrats, to 9/11 honestly shocked me. I was that naive. Now, I’m proud to be among the deplorables. I’m sure that there are millions of other Americans with pretty much the same story.
“Look in the mirror, sir.” – Kate to Montage
Our resident Leftist is a Looking-glass-mirror into the fantasy world of the Democrats, and, as such, serves a valuable function in reminding us, who are still in Alice’s drawing-room, that the other side really believes what Montage asserts.
And that they are impervious to evidence to the contrary.
Montage;
As someone who voted Dem from Carter through Obama and would have loved to vote for Tulsi, I am voting Republican all the way. The Dems have lost their way and the Wellstone’s are gone. What has emerged is an ugly, greedy, ignorant and hating Dem Party. They have become a joke and an embarrassment. Maybe now is a good time to read ‘1984’. Great book and well written. Much better then the so dumb ‘White Fragility’ and ‘In Defence of Looting’.
Also, comparing Biden to Trump is laughable. Biden is senile. Anyone can see it. Former staff of Biden’s see the difference from just a couple of years ago. The Dems had many, many candidates. They blew it. And if Biden wins? Well, you will K. Harris and her record. Unacceptable.
Apparently Montage doesn’t think Biden is getting special care because of problems relating to his advanced age, which is considerably older than any other presidential candidate ever.
And actually, Montage is confusing the adjective “geriatric” with the noun “geriatrics.” “Geriatrics” is this: “The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and the problems specific to aging.” Biden is older, and he is taking medication more common with aging, such as taking a blood thinner for AFib. He is also obviously experiencing some degree of cognitive decline, probably age-related, whether he is being treated for it or not.
However, I did not use the word “geriatrics.” I used the adjective “geriatric,” which means this:
Biden is an “aged person.”
Biden is elderly but he is not geriatric. That would refer to someone who needs special care. Trump is 73. If 73 is acceptable then 77 can be as well.
There’s a reason Biden’s press secretary went into a flurry of evasion when he was asked if the staff fed the candidate answers on a TelePrompTer when he was holding Q & A sessions with reporters or the public. There’s a reason his staff transported him 300 miles to give a speech at Carnegie-Mellon in a room bereft of people bar about a half-dozen technicians and a half-dozen reporters who had traveled with him.
The Republican hate the Democrats and Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi and those to the left just as much as the Democrats hate Trump and conservatives. Just as much.
We have plenty of street-level Democrats among our friends. They make scads of political posts, 99% of which are ill-informed, stupid, vicious, or are conclusions that could have been found in their premises; I’ve yet to see any one of them admit, explicitly, that Christine Blasey Ford was not to be taken seriously We have Republican friends, too. They post pictures of their grandchildren. One side of this fight is emotionally-invested and hardly coherent. The other is not.
And, of course, it’s perfectly reasonable to despise all four of these people.
Pelosi is a mediocre creature who has shepherded only trivial legislation through Congress and has what she has through politicking in the Democratic caucus. She’s a Capitol Hill creature. In her district, she was Sala Burton’s protegee; the local political class is so otiose and the voters so demobilized she has a lock on the seat. She’s 80 years old and has been in Congress for 33 years, refusing to retire. She’s deadweight.
Biden’s a deeply mediocre man who held elective office continuously for 46 years. He lies with abandon, even appropriating the family history of Neil Kinnock. (His actual ancestors were salesmen). His pre-political career consisted for four years as a suburban associate. His brother and his son have one utility: a talent for cashing in on connections (or, more, the appearance of connections). What Michael Kinsley said: the scandal is what’s legal. His son is rather ill-reared, and, yes, he and his wife are enablers.
As for the Clintons, you have a pairing of megalomania and sociopathy. Again, B. Clinton’s pre-political career consisted of three years on the faculty of the University of Arkansas. From the time he was hired, he was determined to get into public office. He was nearly elected to Congress in 1974. As for his wife, she worked as a legal aid lawyer for 2.5 years (one suspects) because of her shizzy work history. She was fired for cause at the end of 1974 from the staff of the House Judiciary Committee. The chief counsel to the committee said in 14 years on the job, he’d employed just three lawyers for whom he’d never give a reference and she was one of the three. Her husband gets elected attorney-general and then she lands a job with the largest firm in Little Rock. During her tenure there, she made a killing in the futures and options market one year, then gave up futures and options trading entirely. Hmmm. Her tenure in the White House was the first indication we had that the FBI was readily suborned, as they were willing to build a case against an innocent man (Billy R Dale) just to please her. After their decades long squat in government housing was over, they embarked on a life of buckraking and grift, hauling in nearly $200,000 a shot for 50 minutes of boilerplate courtesy trade association and higher ed officials manifesting principal-agent problems. And don’t forget their money-laundering operation, now run by their daughter.
As for Obama, for an empty suit, he’s remarkably well-compensated and continuously flattered. We know what you won’t acknowledge: he’s unscrupulous, secretive, and spiteful. You can see the results in Emmet Sullivan’s courtroom.
And, yet, all of his press secretaries are allowed to eat their dinner in peace. Funny that.
What I saw on September 11 from a half-mile away in Brooklyn Heights:
http://americandigest.org/saw-notes-made-september-11-2001-brooklyn-heights/
If 73 is acceptable then 77 can be as well.
Montage: How does that fly? And if 77 is acceptable, then 81 is too? And so on.
It’s all about specifics. Someone at 60 (sadly) can be out of it, while a 77 year-old may still be damn sharp. But Biden sure doesn’t seem so.
Unless we get some answers on Biden’s apparent inability to function without a teleprompter in the face what sure looks like mental impairment in multiple instances, the onus is on you and other Biden supporters.
Trump may be an obnoxious blowhard at times and one may disagree with his policies, but he is a high-functioning blowhard. I hope I have his stamina and acuity when I’m 73.
huxley (6:55 pm) said: “Unless we get some answers on Biden’s apparent inability to function without a teleprompter . . . .”
As I vividly recall, Barack H. Obama was superb with his teleprompter, smooth, charismatic, we remember well. Off teleprompter, his questions and answers were chock fill of ummmmms and ahhhhhs. Less smooth. Much less smooth.
Masters of illusions, these folks. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
“Masters of illusions” / SARC
(in case anyone wondered)
As painful as it is for me to say…I have serious doubts America remains the last best hope on earth. I don’t think the Democrats will beat Trump, but, if they do, any remaining hope I have in that regard will be extinguished.
Where is the “last, best hope?” Honestly, possibly portions of Eastern Europe. Hungary under Orban, in particular, provides a glimmer of hope…that somewhere someone with some amount of power still believes Western civilization is worth defending. Beyond that, Japan under Abe (who is soon to depart), Israel under Bibi, India under Modi….three VERY different nations, but each led by men who understand the importance of nationhood and are willing to resist the globalist blob.
All you need to know about the Left is that its response to the attack was to push “Islamophobia” as its contribution to the national dialogue.
Any number of memories One was from a week later. I needed to call a satellite office of Met Life. Got my business done and asked if they’d heard from New York. Had not.
That struck me as ominous. But then I reflected that we can keep on keeping on until things get fixed up. We’re not crippled.
Neo
There are 25 pages or so was not uncovred why?
Why those pages keept secret from the reset of the report?
Is the time US people and the world need to know whats info in those pages?
“there is hatred on both sides that is frankly childish.”
I prefer those who are at least open about their hatred to the phony smarmy gaslighters who pretend to be “centrist” while trolling their propaganda.
I recall back then how some college professor in Colorado somewhere said that those who got killed on 9-11 deserved it. He provided the usual leftist, hate-America-first rationale.
He should have been dragged into the streets and hanged from the nearest light post. But hey, if he is still living, their is still time !!!
Even Bill Ayers and his commie wife knew better and kept their mouth shut, though they most likely popped open that night the champagne bottles to celebrate , for them, the glorious events of that day. (Another two that should be hanging from light posts).
But no, he – that Colorado college prof. – is retired , living on his state (i.e., Colorado taxpayer) pension. And to the extent that university system receives federal funding, you and I are providing a portion of his retirement pension.
How fantastic.
What it is about academics and “intellectuals” in general, that they are attracted to Marxism like flies on s**t, to murderous tyrants (e.g. Stalin, Lenin, Castro, etc), to having a contempt for capitalism and for the “common” person??
Reminds me of certain lines I heard on “Poldark,” or “Downton Abbey” or other British period pieces in which the landowning patrician elites proclaim that it is their GOD given responsibility to maintain social order and structure (i.e., control the masses) , otherwise if left to their own devices, the “riff-raff” will self destruct along with all social order.
Every communist regime has placed its heel on the neck of the citizenry; one can only conclude that leftists, Marxists, socialists, at the most basic level, are motivated by hatred of the “unwashed masses.”
And this is no different really than the muslim religious fanatics who wish to control absolutely everything. (they are all for “the other guy” to be the suicide bomber; just don’t ask the imams and their most vocal / visible leaders to don that suicide vest).
For certain people, the idea that folks should be left alone is simply anathema.
JohnTyler
What it is about academics and “intellectuals” in general, that they are attracted to Marxism like flies on s**t, to murderous tyrants (e.g. Stalin, Lenin, Castro, etc), to having a contempt for capitalism and for the “common” person??
For all their lives it has been drummed into their heads that they are members of the elite- top grades, top board scores, top colleges. You think they didn’t had contempt for those doofuses with poor board scores or who didn’t go to college? They assume that they will also be members of the elite when the Commies come to power.
Fidel Castro is an interesting example. Georgie Ann Geyer, in Guerrilla Prince, her biography of Castro, points out Fidel’s ties with Fascists. As a teenager, Fascist stalwarts like Mussolini and Hitler were Fidel’s heroes. For brevity, I will leave out her descriptions of young Fascist Fidel, but point out that certain phrases from his speeches echoed Hitler and Mussolini.
Consider this famous Mussolini phrase. (not in Geyer’s book)
From Fidel:
The similarity here between Mussolini and Castro’s phrases very strongly suggests that Castro borrowed from Mussolini.
At his trial for his failed coup de-etat in 1954, Castro spoke these words, which later became famous.
Geyer points out that Adolf Hitler, another failed coupster, uttered rather similar words.
As Geyer points out, it is “no accident” that Castro’s phrasing is similar here to Hitler’s.
From the beginning, Fidel wanted power. In the 1950s he decided that Communism, not Fascism, would provide him the support for his desires for power.
Gringo;
Interesting.
History demonstrates that “losers” like Hitler and Castro oft times are able to resurrect themselves and attain power; these types just never give up. It’s no coincidence that leaders of radical movements are led by charismatic folks who have very good public oratorical skills.
Socialists / communists; they never, ever give up.
Maybe the lesson here is when “losers” like these two are initially captured, they should be executed on the spot.
Many great comments here. The psycho(socio)logy of totalitarians —both “leaders” and followers— is important and interesting. I recommend Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” and, very recently, Ryszard Legutko’s “The Demon In Democracy.” I am no scholar in the field but these books seem to me easily absorbed and replete with common sense. Of which God knows we need more.
“From the beginning, Fidel wanted power. In the 1950s he decided that Communism, not Fascism, would provide him the support for his desires for power.” – Gringo
“Socialists / communists; they never, ever give up.
Maybe the lesson here is when “losers” like these two are initially captured, they should be executed on the spot.” -JohnTyler
Thus we see that the righteous, being reluctant to kill even the evil, plant the seeds of their own destruction.
Which makes a good platitude, but the problem is really with the semi-righteous, the stealth-followers of evil, and the genuinely good-hearted who are unable to see down the road to the end result, and thus are more inclined to leniency with nascent tyrants like Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and Castro.
Read your Old Testament to see what God actually recommends for dealing with existential threats to the Community or Nation.
The Righteous will observe due process for the accused, but won’t shrink from the necessary corrections.
“Any and all terrorist organizations, foreign or domestic, must now be brought to a swift and complete halt no matter where they are located.” – Gerard’s post
We failed to do so at time.
That’s why we have Antifa in the streets today.
I believe we are edging into an age of slaughter.
It is Yin v. Yang, Good v. Evil, Right v. Wrong.
The evil ones must be put to the sword. If that is not done, the rest of us will be enslaved or slaughtered by the evil ones, aka Democrats.
It is very simple, really: If you are not for us, you are against us.
Manichean.
The choice has always and eternally been with us.
The attacks of 9/11 may, in fact, be continuing.
It seems to me that we are having an unusual number of forest fires.
And I posted on an earlier thread, I remembered that a couple of years back there were reports that Muslim Jihadis were urging their sympathizers here in the U.S. to set fires as a means of Jihad, and I wondered if that might be the cause of some of these fires.
Now, it seems as if that–political “permission” having been given by the rhetoric of the Left and Democrats–every nut job around has decided that now they can unleash the violence that was formerly suppressed by their fear of condemnation, if not incarceration–and perhaps start fires as well–perhaps believing that there is now some justification for such arson being some twisted sort of “political protest.”
Just today there are reports of several different people on the West coast having been arrested on suspicion of arson, with indications that there may have been more such people at work.
See Take a look at several stories today at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
Snow on Pine, I don’t see any evidence of Jihadi-set fires, but the antifa riots have certainly enabled sociopaths to go out and commit outrages. Fires in Oregon and in California are being investigated for arson.
Kate–Then, there is this information–https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/12/arson-arrests-being-made-across-the-west-coast-multiple-fires-identified-as-arson-27-people-killed-dozens-missing/#more-199464
It does seem a lifetime since 9/11/2001. Just like Pearl Harbor, I remember where I was when I first heard the news. I was driving to the gym when the radio program I was listening to broadcast a news bulletin that an airliner had hit a tall building in New York City. What, I thought? No way. I was eight years into my retirement from being an airline pilot. An airliner hitting a building in NYC just didn’t make any sense.
When I got tot the gym, I hopped onto a bicycle and road as I watched the TV on the wall wanting more info. The second airliner collided with the other tower, and I knew then that we were at war, but I didn’t know who we were at war with. As the news of the airplane hitting the Pentagon and then Flight 93 going down in Pennsylvania, I realized what had happened. Airline SOP for hijackers was to do as they asked. Take them wherever they wanted to go. No one dreamed the hijackers would be suicidal. No one imagined that they would kill the flight crew. No one imagined the idea of an airliner as a bomb. Well, maybe some of the CIA spooks had heard about such ideas, but discounted the probability that such a plot could be successful. Yet, here it was.
For a month I saw unity in the nation that I hadn’t seem since WWII, but it didn’t last. The left were soon hard at work trying to blunt the effort to go after the foe – radical Islamic jihadis. The security theater of the TSA was launched and air travel became a bigger pain in the b**t. My wife and I traveled frequently in those days and I consciously wore a stout leather belt with a heavy metal buckle along with a couple of ball point pens in my pocket – both acceptable to TSA, but weapons that can be used if you ended up on a rerun of Flight 93.
Some months after 9/11 I read the book, “Touching History,” by Lynn Spencer. It’s a running account of what happened at Air Traffic Control (ATC) on the ground and in the air from the time it became clear that the airliners were being weaponized. After ATC shut down all national air space and ordered all aircraft in the air to land immediately at the nearest possible airport, It was extraordinary that there weren’t any operational accidents. Made me proud of the airline industry and the ATC infrastructure that supports our air transportation.
I watched an interview yesterday with Bernard Kerik, who was NYPD Commissioner on 9/11. He spoke movingly of the courage and sacrifice of New York’s police and firefighters that day. It was truly above and beyond what anyone could expect. So sad that the city and her first responders are going through h*ll now, thanks to Comrade De Blasio and accomplices.
So much has happened since then that it seems long ago, and yet the memories are still etched in my brain.
Has anyone noticed that we haven’t heard much from the
radical Islamic jihadis in the last two years? They are apparently laying low and no doubt applauding BLM/ANTIFA. And maybe hoping for a Biden win?
A coworker from New Jersey shared a memory with us yesterday of many cars remaining in New Jersey commuter lots, waiting for owners that never showed up. I could sense what it might have felt like walking past them day after day, suspecting at first, then realizing.
Many cars.
Lizard – “Many cars.”
Such a simple thing, and yet that was what made me tear up today.
J.J. — Has anyone noticed that we haven’t heard much from the
radical Islamic jihadis in the last two years?
“When a man knows he could have a Hellfire missile dropped on him at any moment, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Apologies to Samuel Johnson
Exegesis or Total War. That’s the choice facing the Islamic community.
Until the concept/conceit that the Koran is the “literal word of God” is demolished, the rest of the world will be facing a continuous stream of Muslim terrorists,convinced that they are insuring their path to paradise by killing infidels.
Either that, or we kill them all.
Richard Saunders: When a man knows he could have a Hellfire missile dropped on him at any moment, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Obama used drone strikes extensively. It didn’t seem to have the same effect. Trump’s willingness to change the ROEs against ISIS and the Taliban may have concentrated minds somewhat more wonderfully.
Trump’s converted daughter Ivanka’s Jewish husband, Jared Kushner, helped get the UAE to have a peace agreement with Israel. So now there are direct telephone calls available. Obama’s gifts to Shiite Iranians are such an existential threat to Sunni Arabs that cooperating with tech geniuses in Israel seems a much better bet.
Trump far more deserves a Peace Prize for this, than Obama’s running away from Iraq to allow ISIS to grow.
Trump is pulling out. Doesn’t mean there will be immediate human rights respecting democracies with free markets — but allows locals to trend towards those advances. “Local warlords”, or other tribal power decision makers.
Thanks again to Montage for speaking the Leftist argument:
“The Republican hate the Democrats and Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi and those to the left just as much as the Democrats hate Trump and conservatives. ”
Christians are taught to hate the Sin, but love the Sinner. I was NeverHillary not from hating her as a person, but hating her support for abortion on demand, her enabling B. Clinton’s sexual predations, her lies about her path to riches, her Clinton (bribery) Foundation and the death of the Haitian man who opposed the corruption the Clinton folk in Haiti. I hate high taxes and high regulations. I hate her policies.
Her, I feel sorry for. Also feel sorry for Biden; even feel his wife and other staff are at the point of abusing him.
Even Trump doesn’t “hate” the people who attack him, who he then counter attacks with insults. Almost none of the conservatives who get paid for their reporting or opinions or teaching or entertainment, who are rich and/or famous, “hate” the various crooked Dems as people, but do hate the policies.
Lots of news folk, opinion writers, teachers and professors, and media stars, plus others who paid to talk about issues, lots of them “hate” Trump. Many also hated Sarah Palin; and they hated Bret Kavanaugh, perhaps the cleanest Boy Scout type person in politics in the last 20 years. They also hated Bush, when “Bush Derangement Syndrome” was first coined.
I think Reps should be calling it Democrat Derangement Syndrome. It was also shown under Reagan, and began under Nixon.
Top/ elite Republicans do NOT hate the Dems as people, tho they do hate Open Borders/ no immigration enforcement; huge trade imbalances with Red China and bad, un-free trade agreements.
It used to be Dems could hate the policies of Reps. Now they hate the Republicans as people. I hate that kind of hatred – and have friends who I think suffer Dem Derangement Syndrome who still are mostly nice, bright people.
Thanks to Trump, after 19 years the Middle East is getting more stable in some ways, and Democratic Israel’s right to exist is becoming acceptable to more Arab Muslim countries.
Thanks to leftist Dem Professors, America is suffering riots. Because there is no gov’t program that can achieve cosmic justice.
Life is unfair. But such unfairness as parents, genes, IQ, beauty, place of birth – nobody can make all such factors “fair”, nor even agree on what fair would mean.
Injustice is when people have made decisions. There has long been less racial injustice in America, but the results continue to have Blacks having more problems.
The real problem is systemic promiscuity. Too many Blacks have sex outside of marriage, and get pregnant outside of marriage, and either have an abortion (which often causes problems) or have a child outside of marriage. Over 70% of Blacks born last year did not have their mother married to their father.
Because of systemic promiscuity.
Not racism.
Wash.(Dem.)Governor: The fires consuming our state are climate change caused and, therefore, Trump’s fault!!
Calif.(Dem.)Governor: The fires consuming our state are climate change caused and, therefore, Trump’s fault!!
Montage: Really….? Seriously….?
Idiot, please read Dr.Thomas Sowell’s 2009 book “Intellectuals and Society”. Exposing your Lefty self to the unaccustomed torture of critical thinking
might be a nice change for’ya, Snowflake.
Now, back to baseball.