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NanceGreggs

(27,815 posts)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 05:54 AM Jun 2022

Why aren't there ever any headlines that read ...

... "Crazed Democrat opens fire at shopping mall."

"School children massacred by liberal anti-gun advocate."

"Dozens dead after self-proclaimed progressive enters church armed with assault rifle."

"Gay nightclub burned to the ground by left-leaning Independent voter."

"Pro-choicer bombs anti-abortion headquarters."


We all know who the shooters, the arsonists, and the bombers are - and we all know which party encouraged them.

Can we as a nation - at the very least - stop pretending otherwise?

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Why aren't there ever any headlines that read ... (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jun 2022 OP
The MSM is owned and managed by domestic oligarchs, gab13by13 Jun 2022 #1
Of course not, the people that violent are mostly white and FBI/DOJ etc have JUST NOW this ... uponit7771 Jun 2022 #2
Exactly right! Call them for what they are. joshdawg Jun 2022 #3
Or "abortion rights activist kills 12 men in golf locker room" Walleye Jun 2022 #4
IT WAS BLM AND ANTIFA instead. czarjak Jun 2022 #5
I just realized bdamomma Jun 2022 #6
Christofascism multigraincracker Jun 2022 #7
Bravo! Maine Abu El Banat Jun 2022 #8
Bravo! Maine Abu El Banat Jun 2022 #9
Because the MSM couldn't play bothsiderism! Person of Interest Jun 2022 #10
Amen Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #11
I agree. Butterflylady Jun 2022 #12

gab13by13

(21,362 posts)
1. The MSM is owned and managed by domestic oligarchs,
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 06:38 AM
Jun 2022

they control the narrative.

Last week the CNN cable news anchors were told to not use the term the "Big Lie," any more. I don't watch much cable, but I have watched some this week and I have not heard 1 cable news anchor from CNN or MSNBC say, "the Big Lie."

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
2. Of course not, the people that violent are mostly white and FBI/DOJ etc have JUST NOW this ...
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 06:48 AM
Jun 2022

... year come out and said it.

Before it was always the non-whites they'd focus on a go to far in prosecuting.

joshdawg

(2,650 posts)
3. Exactly right! Call them for what they are.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:15 AM
Jun 2022

republicans!

Vote them out of office so that they can do no more damage to the country.

bdamomma

(63,883 posts)
6. I just realized
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 08:02 AM
Jun 2022

what we can call them, The American Taliban. Same principles and beliefs. Thrusting their beliefs on us.

multigraincracker

(32,690 posts)
7. Christofascism
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 08:13 AM
Jun 2022

Christofhttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ascism

Evangelical, semi-theocratical movement or temperment of Americans who stand against abortion, sexual education, homosexuality, science, anti-Zionism, and the separation of church and state.

Origins: In the mid-2000s, the Bush administration refined its broadly titled "War on Terror" campaign to the "Fight Against Islamofascism." This transfered the stigma of the 9/11 attacks and that carried by our enemies in the Middle East from tactics (e.g., terrorism) to policies (e.g., a Muslim caliphate). Since politically-active Evangelicals seek to at least partially theocratize America, the term "Christofascism" appeared to take advantage of the Republican rhetorical realignment.

One uses the term perjoratively when calling someone else a Christofascist. It inherently accuses its object of disloyalty to democracy; it attempts to evoke the feelings of hostility towards Middle Eastern terrorists and transfer them to Evangelicals.

more at link

Butterflylady

(3,544 posts)
12. I agree.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 08:36 AM
Jun 2022

So at election time this has to be stressed. If you want to live in that kind of America, an America that is filled with hate and violence, vote for republicans but if you want to live and raise your 👪 family in an America that abhors violence and destruction, an America that takes care of human life no matter who they are then you'll vote democrats. It's that simple.

And remind them that with republicans, inflation will be the least of their worries.

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