Baldy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:41 pm
UNI88 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:05 pm
Does that look like the White House in the background of the gallows photo?
They built the gallows and chanted "Hang Mike Pence" before they stormed the US Capitol building where Pence was presiding over the Constitutional transfer of power.
trump's alleged response was that "maybe our supporters have the right idea" and that Pence "deserves it".
Pence was in greater immediate danger that day then when an opposing political leader called trump a Nazi/Hitler.
My point is that it's hypocritical for trump and his MAQA yahoos (who frequently resort to name calling and incendiary rhetoric) to get upset when he gets called names.
It's the AP. they will post the most inflammatory picture as possible.
It's not just the name calling. Donks have been calling Conks Nazi and fascists for 25+ years. It is the threatening rhetoric and the sheer volume of it coming from the left after the simple name calling.
As the late great Andrew Breitbart said, Politics is downstream from culture." The Left owns the culture...Hollywood, TV, news, social media, etc. and the Left is pumping oceans of pure hate down that stream. "Threat to democracy", "hit them low and kick them when they're down, because they deserve it", "the threat must be stopped by any means necessary", etc. etc. etc.
The 'both sides' fallacy falls apart when you measure the massive volumes of pure hate being pumped through the culture from the Left. By comparison, the Right is the guy in the endzone seats trying to yell over the PA announcer at Ohio Stadium on game day.
That's a bullshit copout.
Fox News, OAN, etc. will also post the most inflammatory picture possible. Regardless of your opinion of the AP, that picture was a valid picture from that day and worthy of posting. If MAQA yahoos didn't want the AP (or any other news source) to post that picture then they shouldn't have built the gallows. Responsibility lies with the MAQA yahoos who built it not the news organization(s) that posted the photo.
Conks have been calling Donks socialists, communists, Marxists for 25+ years as well.
There are plenty of examples of trump and MAQA yahoos saying similar things ("if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore"). The right is just as "unhinged", "extremist", etc. as the left. trump has absolutely no room to complain about others' incendiary and derogatory rhetoric. MAQA yahoos call it owning/trolling the left when he does it but then get all butt hurt when it's used against them.
Culturally, it isn't the 20th century anymore. Podcasts, Twitter, and other forms of media have empowered the MAQA yahoo right and given them a voice (as well as echo chambers where their "unhinged" conspiracy theories are validated because a bunch of other irrational "extremists" accept them as truth).