Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Monday, December 25, 2023

News bits: DJT incites holy war; American democracy comments; Radical leftism?

A Christmas gift from DJT to the human species is an incitement to a holy war based on lies. Newsweek reports:
Donald Trump Warns Americans of Undercover Spies Being Sent by the FBI to persecute Christians.

On Thursday night, the former president posted a video to his Truth Social account with the caption “Stopping the Persecution of Christians!” His post says the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) have adopted an anti-Christian bias and are sending agents to churches as part of that alleged “bigotry.”

“Under crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted like nothing this nation has ever seen before,” Trump said in the video.

He went on: “Catholics, in particular, are being targeted and evangelicals are surely on the watch list as well. Over the past three years, the Biden administration has sent SWAT teams to arrest pro-life activists. The FBI has been caught profiling devout Catholics as possible domestic terrorists and planning to send undercover spies into Catholic churches, just like in the old days of the Soviet Union.”
And that nicely exemplifies the corrupt, lying, treasonous monster that tens of millions of Americans are proudly supporting. He even has the arrogant, hypocritical gall to call Biden a crook. If we lose our democracy, we deserve the oppression, corruption and brutal tyranny we are definitely going to get.
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The WaPo published a gerrymandering map and commentary about changes needed for American democracy. It is interesting.




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A favorite American radical right authoritarian propaganda tactic is lying coupled with double standards and hypocrisy. The radical dictator mob falsely accuses political opposition and the left generally of doing what the radicals are doing themselves. The Hill reports about a current example:
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined the growing chorus of GOP critics of Colorado’s ruling disqualifying former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot, arguing “radical leftism” has “infiltrated” every institution in the U.S.

Asked on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo for his view on the Colorado ruling, Johnson said, “Well, radical leftism has infiltrated every institution in this country, our courts, our education system, government agencies. It’s a real problem.”

The Colorado Supreme Court handed down a bombshell ruling last week saying Trump engaged in an insurrection through his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. 
Q: Is a court holding that DJT is disqualified from running for office because he engaged in an insurrection on 1/6 radical leftism, or is it within the realm of what a reasonably unbiased court could determine?

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