The right-wing is hellbent on painting the domestic terrorist, Robert Dear, who shot up a Planned Parenthood over the weekend as a mentally disturbed individual, rather than the extremist “baby parts” mentioning criminal that he is. To continue with the same talking points, Paul Ryan chimed in via Twitter, saying:
Because somehow it’s more dangerous and a bigger threat when individuals from other countries attack the U.S. — but homegrown extremists who walk into American organizations and kill don’t fit into Ryan’s big picture? Is it just a little picture then?
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Are the people who were shot and killed by an American not just as dead as those shot and killed by “worldwide terrorists”?
As Charles Topher pointed out on Addicting Info:
Never mind that your party has embraced doctored videos of atrocities that didn’t happen or the false narrative that Planned Parenthood does nothing but abort third trimester babies, creating bands of zealots who are willing to harm others to save zygotes. Let’s forget about that completely and instead sell the fear of “real” terrorists who are just itching to walk through the door.
Twitter users weren’t going to let him get away with it, though. They responded to the speaker beautifully.
We shouldn’t have to take our politicians to task when they manipulate situations this way because this manipulation shouldn’t happen. But, there it is and here we are.
A tragedy occurred because words have meaning — they carry weight. The right-wing political leaders have latched on to a farcical outrage perpetuated by duped videos and a misogynistic viewpoint that has now fueled the flames of the most radical of their followers — and people died because of it.
Yet, they offer not a drop of water to extinguish flames they themselves fanned with such fervor.
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unfortunately not making in a dent in the thick skulls of the fanatics … and as long as the Dem base keeps a low turnout , those nut cases will carry the day. They are doing a good job state to state sweeping the floor of common sense. You cannot argue facts against mythology to a closed mind.
Can’t agree with you more. It’s like Homer Simpson’s X-ray, where the brain is so small that it is insulated from the ears. Welcome back to the Dark Ages
What he’s not saying aloud is, “With Trump and Cruz in the white house and me as the speaker of the house, you’ll come to know just what ‘domestic terrorism’ really means.”
I am surprised he didn’t take a bow for the killings.
No No Carly Fiorina take that bow.This is her baby she owns it.
A roach is, a roach is, a roach, until it becomes a Ryan.
Elizabeth,
Yes, we have domestic terrorists. But, most are psychotic people struggling to deal with the world around them. We used to just call them ‘crazy,’ can I still use that word?
Unlike other terrorists around the world, our crazies are not part of a larger, organized, terror group.
Wayne, Luvsiesous
They are not psychotic they are just pure and simple Evil. Lets starts calling it what it is Evil perpetrated by Evil Toxic Rhetoric by the GOP and also evangelical preachers. The GOP knows they caused this that is their aim.
This deranged evil terrorist killed people, but you spend more time attacking GOP instead of him?
I do not like Republicans, BUT, Bush is out of office, now Progressives control US.
Wayne
No they do not.
You really think Trump will save US from the Progressives?
I’m sure that makes all the difference in the world to the people who are killed by them.
Probably, but I know it makes all the difference to those of US who survive.
How do we survive? As a fractured culture on the verge of another un-Civil-War?
Would that make a good difference in your opinion?
Wayne