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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe morons at Wonkette are selling a tee shirt depicting HRC holding Trump's severed head
Yeah, yeah. It's a biblical reference- as if that makes it any easier to defend. And of course, the wingnuts have picked up this story and our reacting with predictable hypocritical outrage. T
It's still jaw droppingly stupid to be selling this.
http://wonkette.com/602757/oh-whoops-we-just-forced-you-to-buy-this-shirt-of-hillary-clinton-cutting-off-trumps-head
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)It's not that Trump supporters are going to see that as the hipsters at Wonkette having a laugh.
It's the fact that it will be seen as "Liberals"...that's right, every last one of them...are no better than ISIS.
I haven't read any of the blowback on this, but I know how their minds work. The pack mentality is going to run this one all the way up the ladder, and by the time they are finished, Hannity will be re-posting Brietbart articles on Facebook "exposing" how Clinton Photoshopped this personally.
I've never been a Wonkette fan...too much snark where there should be insight...but yeah, this is not a golden moment for them.
cali
(114,904 posts)particularly in the light of the two beheaded Canadians.
It's just moronic.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Not surprise since the Democratic party is what it is now.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, fine if you're just throwing something together in 15 minutes for shits and giggles, but to sell to people on shirts that they would actually consider wearing around?
I'll get around to the content, sure... eventually.
but right now I'm still trying to get my head around anyone paying for such a craptastic copy and paste job.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)I'm more annoyed by the attempt than I am anything else. They could've put more effort into it, for sure.
femmedem
(8,213 posts)and the murdered are in the wrong.
Politically, it's not smart. But I'm less concerned with the politics than I am with the trivialization of violence.
I know it's a joke, but I can't laugh at it.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,929 posts)glennward
(989 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)?itok=S4p3Nbdk
I think the market for this work are people who are professional snarksters, not necessarily Clinton fans.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)You really think the opposition doesn't notice?
Try this thread:
http://www.discussionist.com/1015860048
cali
(114,904 posts)duh.
And frankly, much as I think of Skinner- and I do, my estimation of him sadly went down when he decided to start a site where hate was the métier for lining his pockets.
Discussionist is vile and the hate comes from the right there.
As for hating Trump, I prefer to use the word despise. He is a proto hitler. Go read Shirer or Reck.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)I'm utterly dismayed!
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)a campaign built upon hate and fear (and I don't care what terms you use)
doesn't do anyone any good. For every nasty thing that is thrown at Trump, there's an equal an opposite reaction.
DU is becoming a bubble. Denying its own shortcomings by pointing outside.
We have met the enemy and....
MADem
(135,425 posts)THAT is what DU is--if you don't like it, no one is holding you hostage.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Another right wing talking point argument.
My way or the highway. Love it or leave it.
Lord, it's like 2002 all over again.
And look where that got us.
MADem
(135,425 posts)is NOT a "right wing talking point." And this has always been a PARTISAN site, so yeah, "Love it or leave it." Your choice--no one is holding any of us hostage.
In fact, people who bash and trash Democrats just might be shopping that very thing.
Not sure what you think happened here in 2002--I seem to recall a very peaceful, civil and unified DU back then. We had a common enemy (who was elected two years prior) and his name was Bush.
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Another right wing talking point argument.
My way or the highway. Love it or leave it.
Lord, it's like 2002 all over again.
And look where that got us.
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seabeckind
(1,957 posts)The democrats as a whole aren't using right wing talking points.
Many of those who voice sentiment or attitudes more indicative of right of center most definitely are.
Case in point.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Would you please elucidate?
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Sometimes the example precedes the observation.
Like this time....
My way or the highway. If you're not with me, you're against me, etc.
A little review of the rhetoric around the 2002 beating the drums of war would show them all over the place. I had it thrown against me when I demonstrated against it. Then and in the 70s.
Some people took the abuse and stood up to them. Some didn't.
Wasn't it something like 21 democratic senators (and 1 independent) who voted against the Iraq thing? The ones voting for it looked like a rogue's list of third wayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
oh wait... maybe too vague: This statement right here: if you don't like it, no one is holding you hostage.
(Translated) Love it or leave it.
MADem
(135,425 posts)(i.e. the clout) should he need it--their mistake was trusting him and his national security team to be reasonable with that blank check.
Of course, IWR or no, Bush would have gone ahead with his plans based on the resolutions that were voted on in the late nineties--the ones that some of those "against" voters voted FOR.
Bush's attitude was always "The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper" and he wasn't going to let Congress stop him once his mind was made up.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)seabeckind
(1,957 posts)A psychological defense to deny a mistake.
IOW, pretend it wasn't a mistake.
But empirical evidence proved that it was. And then you did a little contortion dance to exonerate the senators who stood with Bush.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Speaking of those "psychological defenses" and all.
But I guess that's a "little contortion dance" as well, wouldn't you say, Dr. Freud?
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Despite the utterly terrible photoshop.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)self indulgent with regular helpings of backhanded homophobia. This, a piece which is horrific in concept and botched in execution if you can pardon the pun, is definitive of both what they do and how they do it.
cali
(114,904 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)not a great couple of weeks in the world.....
PJMcK
(22,074 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)She used to frequently reference a sexual practice that wasn't conversed about in polite society, but I think you mistake homophobia in her crude remarks when she was actually referring to a method of virginity retention and birth control. She was rather equal opportunity in that regard.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)even if you do, why waste outrage on this rather lame product?
Seems the RWNJs are expending enough outrage for all of us. The clowns of DI are getting more apoplectic by the day.
cali
(114,904 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)but not nearly the nastiest in history. So far.
So I really don't see any reason to lose it over anyone's idiocy this early in the game.
emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)PJMcK
(22,074 posts)It's in poor taste, it isn't funny, it won't help Secretary Clinton and the Photoshop work is amateurish.
Thankfully, her campaign will continue on a much higher plane than Wonkette.
TacoD
(581 posts)tradition on DU.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)I'd EVER Endorse, and certainly not purchase.
This is wrong on so many levels and completely unnecessary.
L. Coyote
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Amishman
(5,559 posts)never thought I would type that sentence...
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)in any way.
We'd be outraged if a similar thing was out there with Trump holding Clinton's (or Sanders' or anyone's) head.
Poor taste to say the least.
MADem
(135,425 posts)of HRC. The rightwing loves that shit. It is what it is.
trumad
(41,692 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I just think that it's a really bad idea. That simple. No agenda. I want Hillary to beat Trump. No ifs ands or buts.
trumad
(41,692 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)The double standard of people who defend things like this when it's liberals, but would be up in arms if the right wing did this, is sickening.
FWIW, I think this is less bad than overt incitement to violence, but I'm still spectacularly unimpressed.
Seeking Serenity
(2,841 posts)If über-partisans, on both the left as well as the right, didn't have double standards, they'd likely have no standards at all.
"Hey, if a single standard is good, a double standard has to be twice as good, right?"
Feh
Trump's feels are hurt
ileus
(15,396 posts)After November we'll add their heads to the pike.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Beacool
(30,254 posts)aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)Just curious?