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Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:12 PM Oct 2018

So, Now You Want Civility?

Civility?

That’s the card you’re pulling now, Trump supporters?
That’s where you’ve landed?
That’s your go-to play at this stage of the game?
Given your leader and your resume—
it’s a little late for you to roll that out at this point isn’t it?

After voting for a self-proclaimed genitalia-grabber.
After he suggested dissenters at his rallies should be beaten up.
After hearing him call violent nazis “fine people.”
After he bulldozed sacred Native American lands and turned frigid hoses on tribe elders.
After he ignored mass deaths in Puerto Rico and vilified their public servants.
After he began dismantling protections to our planet and shrinking our national parks.

---snip---

With all due respect—to hell with your phony civility.

No, you don’t get to play that card. That request is off the table for you.
You lost that moral high ground somewhere between excusing his mocking of a disabled reporter, his celebrating brown-skinned kids in cages, and his ridiculing of a sexual assault survivor.
Your lengthy, sickening body of work over the past two and a half years is the greatest witness of your fraudulence.

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So, Now You Want Civility? (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Oct 2018 OP
well, we are now a "mob" ya know. lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #1
Yup, which is why they are trying to make protesting more difficult, if not illegal. Behind the Aegis Oct 2018 #3
Civility is a code word for shut up and live with it. n/t BadMachines Oct 2018 #2
Hmmm... vercetti2021 Oct 2018 #4
Pretty much how I feel, too. Behind the Aegis Oct 2018 #5
Try this for civility... world wide wally Oct 2018 #6
Civility and politeness together are PC sanatanadharma Oct 2018 #7
And he said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. Toss in appalachiablue Oct 2018 #8
I just think of all the women trump has insulted, denigrated, mocked or dismissed Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #9
Kick dalton99a Oct 2018 #10
Its called projection ooky Oct 2018 #11

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
1. well, we are now a "mob" ya know.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:15 PM
Oct 2018

personally, if the 1% keeps brainwashing the other 35% of uneducated idiots...

Someday we really will show up at their gated communities with pitchforks and actual torches (no tiki torches for us!)

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
3. Yup, which is why they are trying to make protesting more difficult, if not illegal.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:23 PM
Oct 2018
Trump Administration Seeks to Stifle Protests Near White House and on National Mall

More and more, this misadministration chips away at democracy and is fast tracking us to a dictatorship!

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
5. Pretty much how I feel, too.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:30 PM
Oct 2018

As much as I admire and respect Michelle Obama, I have to go with Eric Holder's recommendation.

sanatanadharma

(3,639 posts)
7. Civility and politeness together are PC
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 05:15 PM
Oct 2018

The small team now known as trump and friends destroyed PC.
Now they want it back

Sorry! You are pucked celfs without merit or morality

appalachiablue

(41,055 posts)
8. And he said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. Toss in
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 07:34 PM
Oct 2018

the uncivil, right wing Tea Partiers with guns protesting the ACA and anything reasonable in the recent past.

K & R

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
9. I just think of all the women trump has insulted, denigrated, mocked or dismissed
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 11:42 PM
Oct 2018

Hillary Clinton
Michelle Obama
Dr. Blasey-Ford
Frederica Wilson (Congresswoman from FL)
Grieving widow of LaDavid Johnson (who STILL has not been told the truth of her husband's death)
Angela Merkel
Summer Zervos
Loretta Lynch
Susan Rice
Gloria Allred
Megyn Kelly
Katy Tur
Stormy Daniels
Theresa May (Prime Minister of UK)
Maxine Waters
Elizabeth Warren
Anna Wintour
Rosie O'Donnell
Mika Brzezinski
Maureen Dowd
Gail Collins
Heidi Klum
Arianna Huffington
Carmen Yulin Cruz (Mayor of San Juan)
Meryl Streep
Jennifer Lin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Cher
Maggie Haberman
Alicia Machado
Anne Hathaway
Kirsten Gillibrand
Heidi Cruz (Wife of Ted)
Sonia Sotomayor
Carly Fiorino (During the debates, "Look at that face. Who would vote for that ?)
Kristen Stewart
Natasya Stoynoff

There are more, but you understand where I am going here . . .

ooky

(8,887 posts)
11. Its called projection
Tue Oct 16, 2018, 01:46 AM
Oct 2018

Projecting their bad behavior to us. They prefer to talk about us having a mob mentality and us being "intolerant" (I heard at least 6 of their ads on that over the weekend) instead of their health care plan, their tax scam, social security, Medicare, their attmpts to gut Medicaid and so on.

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