The Trump Double Standard: He’s the Least Persecuted Pol in America | Can you imagine the media’s reaction if Biden had tweeted an image of Trump hog-tied in the back of a pickup truck?
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They would lose their freaking minds.
They would simultaneously pitch a fit about Democrats being in league with Antifa and also scoff over the notion that Antifa would have the courage to do so, because there’d be a hundred patriots to protect Trump.
You misspelled POS..
Ask Kathy Griffin
Imagine Obama had done it to McCain……
Think of the outrage, and legal attention, directed at Kathy Griffin when she had the bloody Trump head in her act.
This is no different.
Maybe Biden should. I mean, fairs fair.
It’s one of the reasons the right tries so hard to fabricate equivalencies between what Trump does and what they say/construe/misrepresent/fabricate that Biden does. You’d think folks would see through that … but way too many can’t … or refuse to acknowledge that they do, but just don’t care.
Have to use velvet gloves with the extremely uneducated.
Revoke his bail.
Conservative propaganda has villainized the left for decades to the point that anything Trump does pales in comparison to the belief that liberals are God hating child rapists. Then add in the spin from Conservative sideshow media with all the protections that gives him, the guy is allowed to get away with anything he wants. It’s a war of misinformation with a side too gullible and blinded to be interested in the grifter leading them
I’m so sick of seeing his spiteful face. I just wish he would go away already. I don’t care where, I don’t care how.
Can you imagine the media reaction if it was the other way around? Possibly time to shelve this idea because it’s 100% irrelevant. I’m sorry to say this as an outsider, but I fear for US democracy right now and the effect its demise would have on other democracies. American Christo-Fascists are making rapid inroads in terms of changing laws at state level and are making an impact at a national level (including through SCOTUS) . There is still a real chance that this man can win and become dictator. He was an ignorant POS last time and he made a real mess. This time there are plenty of smarter people around him and they have Project 2025 as their Playbook. So he’s not a joke or an outrageous point of gossip and news story. He is an absolute menace and a danger to your nation. I know some will find this statement over-the-top and laughable, but how will American survive a second Trump administration?Especially when a number of his supporters are right now talking about dispensing with term limits if Trump gets in?
I would also not give a shit. Decorum left a while ago my dudeds.
The fetish the right has for violence towards those they disagree with is gross.
I know Biden is above it but honestly let’s do it and see the reaction. I’d love to see Fox News torque their brains into rubber band balls trying to come up with a way to justify being angry at Biden.
At this point, even if Trump loses the election (and Lordy please let him lose this election), he will have already done irreparable damage. He has made it undeniable that there is no Rule of Law in America. It is undeniable that the justice system cannot hold people like him to account. It is undeniable that the Supreme Court is corrupt.
It was laid bare to anyone who reads any kind of news that our system of govt is fundamentally broken at its core, that it does not serve the interests of the majority, and that elites can do what they want with a thin veneer of institutional legitimacy trying to hold it all together.
The only real question is: where do we go from here?
Comedian Kathy Griffin had her career ruined by posting a photo of Trump that he was offended by.
Kathy Griffin. We’ve already seen how they would react.
The media carries Trump’s water because his lunacy makes them money which is all they really care about.
“When Barack Obama was president, we endured years of Republicans—in Congress and state legislatures, along with numerous state party officials—making watermelon jokes and being slippery about whether Obama was born in America.”
hell … i remember right here in california (and elsewhere) – at the state capitol, no less, seeing so-called tea party protestors who had an effigy of the first black president with a noose around his neck (as though they had symbolically lynched the president of the united states)!
The media really is an enemy of the people, just not in the way everyone thought.
I’m convinced they actually want Trump back in the White House to increase ratings.
I don’t have to imagine it.
I remember how the right absolutely eviscerated Kathy Griffin for a magazine photo shoot.
Ask Kathy Griffina and Snoop Dogg.
Hilary said the word “deplorable” and the media skewered her for being divisive.
Trump gets away with it all, from day 1 he’s said the absolute worst inflammatory and derogatory comments and people love him for it and the media normalized it.
Oh yeah, we’ve all seen The Five (well, at least four of them) crying fake crocodile tears about how persecuted and beset poor Donald Trump is, and Trump himself claiming to be persecuted just like The Christ. And this comment will hurt some conservative Christian’s feelings, but it won’t bother them that Trump has literally referred to himself as a god, brags about sexually assaulting women, and even wishes child sex traffickers well, all in the name of the religion that they claim to practice and believe.
No, need. I remember when Kathy Griffin tweeted an equally violent pic of her holding a decapitated trump head and the entire country both republicans *and* democrats lost their f*cking mind
the silence from the right now is DEAFENING