In our just posted piece, 2016/10/big-government-force, we wrote that when you disagree with the Hillary tribe they have ready names for you, all negative, without ever having met or knowing anything about you.
A columnist in the Financial Times yesterday referred Trump as a vulgarian, indirectly suggesting that anyone who supports him is such. He went onto to label any residual of the Trump movement should Trump not win as "a nativist-populist rump dominated by Trumpians." Translation: nativist-populist asses. It's the British understatement way, politely call you an ass hole. Make no mistake about it, populist is a pejorative also. It's essentially anyone who differs with the status quo. There is no room for the merit of your position. It can't have any to these self-appointed, anointed members of the cognoscenti.
He later says, in his plea about bravery and the apparent demise of the Republican party he sees as having been hijacked--this from a guy who is calling 40 million people he's never met and knows nothing about, names from a distance--"to risk the ire of the Trumpian mob." No mention of the thugs on the other side.
No matter. They don't care. These are people who want what they want. End of sentence. And they obviously intend to stop at nothing to get it. Rigging an election is most likely the milder action they will take. Now we don't know the author of the piece below. We do know that he is a committed liberal and has now come out for Trump for his own well-explained reasons, something he is not by any means obligated to do, but is simply honest enough to do it. For that he apparently has received much grief. Bullies is his term. We prefer thugs.
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I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.
On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.
Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?
blog.dilbert.com/post/152293480726/the-bully-party
A columnist in the Financial Times yesterday referred Trump as a vulgarian, indirectly suggesting that anyone who supports him is such. He went onto to label any residual of the Trump movement should Trump not win as "a nativist-populist rump dominated by Trumpians." Translation: nativist-populist asses. It's the British understatement way, politely call you an ass hole. Make no mistake about it, populist is a pejorative also. It's essentially anyone who differs with the status quo. There is no room for the merit of your position. It can't have any to these self-appointed, anointed members of the cognoscenti.
No matter. They don't care. These are people who want what they want. End of sentence. And they obviously intend to stop at nothing to get it. Rigging an election is most likely the milder action they will take. Now we don't know the author of the piece below. We do know that he is a committed liberal and has now come out for Trump for his own well-explained reasons, something he is not by any means obligated to do, but is simply honest enough to do it. For that he apparently has received much grief. Bullies is his term. We prefer thugs.
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I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.
On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.
Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?
blog.dilbert.com/post/152293480726/the-bully-party
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