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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:49 PM Oct 2018

You Have The Right to Remain Silent

Yes, Republicans, you certainly have that right – and it’s a right you have exercised with impunity.

You remained silent when the traitor you put in the White House handed classified information over to Russian operatives in a “closed meeting” in the Oval Office.

You remained silent day-after-day as your “pResident” told lie-after-lie to your fellow citizens.

You remained silent when your “pResident” insulted our allies, publicly praised our enemies, and locked traumatized children in cages.

You remained silent when your “pResident” persisted in demonizing his critics, even threatening to have them imprisoned.

You remained silent when your “pResident” sided with Putin instead of his own country, and his own intelligence community.

You remained silent when your “pResident” encouraged violence, and offered to pay the legal fees of those who engage in it.

You remained silent when your “pResident” specifically targeted the evil Democrats and fake news outlets – the very people who have received pipe-bombs.

So the question is Are you going to remain silent NOW?

Are you going to continue to maintain your ignorant, self-serving silence as the violent behaviour your “pResident” continues to encourage escalates – as it assuredly will?

Are you going to continue to sit on your hands, closed-mouth and cowering, as your “pResident” persists in spewing the hateful rhetoric that pits citizen against citizen, and divides us as a nation?

Are you going to continue to invoke your right to remain silent as civil discourse continues to be eroded by a “pResident” who is so obviously incapable of civility?

Are you going to continue to clasp your hands over your mouths as your “pResident” spreads paranoia and fear over a “caravan of migrants” instead of the present danger posed by a serial bomber?

Are you going to continue to keep your mouths firmly shut – only to open them in defence of a “pResident” who is ignoring the clear threat to those who have been targeted with pipe-bombs, and is instead posing as the pitiable victim of negative media publicity?

”You have the right to remain silent”. And yes, you still do. Just keep in mind that invoking that right is often not only a sign of guilt, it is a sign of unspeakable cowardice.

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You Have The Right to Remain Silent (Original Post) NanceGreggs Oct 2018 OP
Only until it no longer matters ... Vote Midterms !!! libdem4life Oct 2018 #1
Agree gademocrat7 Oct 2018 #2
Latin: qui tacet consentire videtur, "he who is silent is taken to agree" RestoreAmerica2020 Oct 2018 #3
they will remain silent for power and money Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2018 #4
EXCELLENT POST !!! Iggo Oct 2018 #5
I couldn't agree more. Good job. Firestorm49 Oct 2018 #6
But, but equivalency! lunatica Oct 2018 #7
K&R Scurrilous Oct 2018 #8
Kick dalton99a Oct 2018 #9
They WILL remain silent DFW Oct 2018 #10

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,347 posts)
4. they will remain silent for power and money
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 02:05 AM
Oct 2018

The Gangsters Of Putin will do anything to feed their greed, including selling out our country.

DFW

(54,387 posts)
10. They WILL remain silent
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 01:00 PM
Oct 2018

If they open their mouths, they know that the garbage that spews out will quickly be taken apart by the serious press and the late night talk show hosts.

They dislike the press showing their lies for what they are, but they have Fox Noise to cover their asses for this.

On the other hand, high IQ talk show hosts making them the objects of ridicule and laughter is something against which they have no defense, and THAT drives them to the point of insanity.

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