How the Left lost its mind

[FakeNews]

Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.

The only problem: It wasn’t true.

The precise origins of the rumor are difficult to pin down, but it had been ricocheting around social media for days before Markey’s interview. The story had no reliable sourcing, and not a single credible news outlet touched it—but it had been fervently championed by The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories, and by anti-Trump Twitter crusaders like Louise Mensch. Soon enough, prominent people with blue checkmarks by their names were amplifying it with “Big if true”-type Tweets. And by May 11, the story had migrated from the bowels of the internet to the mouth of a United States senator.

Meanwhile, old-school platforms like Reddit and Daily Kos continue to host freewheeling forums that attract the kind of occasionally enlightening, occasionally deranged conversations that tend to thrive in those environments. And the HuffPost contributor platform—an un-vetted, unedited section of the site that operates apart from its professional journalism—has been a vehicle for some of the most bizarre, and outright craziest, content to go viral on the left in recent years.

On the “about” page for The Palmer Report, the site thanks a range of well-known people and mainstream media outlets it claims have shared its (dubious) reporting —including Representative Ted Lieu, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, former DNC chair Howard Dean, the actors Mark Ruffalo and Debra Messing, Newsweek, The Oregonian, and an array of MSNBC contributors. Lawrence Tribe, the renowned Harvard scholar of constitutional law, has been an especially active booster for the site, routinely tweeting links to highly questionable, unverified news stories about Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Did you miss the point of the Atlantic article you linked to? That the extreme partisan left is losing its mind by following the same example that the extreme right has been setting for many years now.

There really isn't much in that story for you to be crowing about.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sorry Colonel, but the extreme right never display bloody heads or murdered President Obama on stage.


Since they don't control the press, they never engaged in false news to bring him down.


No one ever seriously proposed the idea that he should be impeached or removed via article 25.


Hollywood did not go on a rampage against Obama for anything her ever did. In fact, it was quite the opposite which implies that The Atlantic is answering the Bernstein call to arms.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And they have not so much lost their mind as they have lost their moral clarity.



They have turned into that which they used to rail against...

 

[nowisthetime]

Hey fakenews, the extreme right was out of their mind and have lost their ever fucking minds running this orange Fuhrer as president.

They have gone CRAY CRAY!

Why are right wingers so pressed, don't they hold the three branches of government right now? They aren't satisfied enough in creating havoc to the country?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Hillary just had penis reduction surgery. She donated the trimmings to Corporal Hogan and Grumpy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They didn't run him.


He ran him. He was fed up with both teams...




People just rallied to him because he offered something no one else was offering: the willingness to actually listen to them and adopt their concerns as his instead of lecturing to them about what their concerns should be. That's why every single person that you like better than Trump had their asses to him by this guy who you consider to be an ass.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hillary just had penis reduction surgery. She donated the trimmings to Corporal Hogan and Grumpy.

So now I have 11 inches???







I'm going to have to go into porn...

 

[Comshaw]

Did you miss the point of the Atlantic article you linked to? That the extreme partisan left is losing its mind by following the same example that the extreme right has been setting for many years now.

There really isn't much in that story for you to be crowing about.

Sure there is. He be like all extremist,"Listen to this, I are smart!"

https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-15-2015/GtqF8x.gif


Comshaw

 

[phrodeau]

Hey fakenews, the extreme right was out of their mind and have lost their ever fucking minds running this orange Fuhrer as president.

They have gone CRAY CRAY!

Why are right wingers so pressed, don't they hold the three branches of government right now? They aren't satisfied enough in creating havoc to the country?

You'd think that they'd be happy putting blackface on rodeo clowns and dangling golliwog dolls from tree branches with impunity for a few years.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Y'all ruined the rodeo clown...


Cathy, not so much. You praised her.


Domestic Liberal Terrorist: Excuse me. I drew a line and crossed it!

I can understand how it would offend some of those people.

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Don't forget, I am a victim of white men in all of this! The Trump Family is trying to destroy my career!

 

[adrina]

You'd think that they'd be happy putting blackface on rodeo clowns and dangling golliwog dolls from tree branches with impunity for a few years.

I know. But apparently that wasn't enough.

And that doesn't even take into account the delightful knee slapping hilarity of all those monkey memes.

 

[TheWhiteBull]

Did you miss the point of the Atlantic article you linked to? That the extreme partisan left is losing its mind by following the same example that the extreme right has been setting for many years now.

There really isn't much in that story for you to be crowing about.

Pretty much.

 

[TheWhiteBull]

Sorry Colonel, but the extreme right never display bloody heads or murdered President Obama on stage.


Since they don't control the press, they never engaged in false news to bring him down.


No one ever seriously proposed the idea that he should be impeached or removed via article 25.


Hollywood did not go on a rampage against Obama for anything her ever did. In fact, it was quite the opposite which implies that The Atlantic is answering the Bernstein call to arms.

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obama.png

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...h-president-obama-theyll-have-to-get-in-line/

 

[richard_daily]

Sorry Colonel, but the extreme right never display bloody heads or murdered President Obama on stage.

At this point, you're either willfully ignorant, or just a liar.

http://www.startribune.com/trump-th...-2012-obama-version-in-twin-cities/427990033/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I admire the attempt, but it's South Dakota and this clown had no audience, got no press and attracted no celebrities...



It's like blaming the OK bombing on r-w Ham radio operators living in the wilderness.



Clinton called and he wants his decade back...


The good old days of Waco,

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And Elian...

 

[TheWhiteBull]

I admire the attempt, but it's South Dakota and this clown had no audience, got no press and attracted no celebrities...

Fair enough about S Dakota, but I only put one attempt up so as not to demonstate the point. A quick google search will show many more.

I will agree that it was not serious because rates of the public desiring impeachment were comparable to most presidents, but still, that isnt what you claimed.

 

[FakeNews]

Did you miss the point of the Atlantic article you linked to? That the extreme partisan left is losing its mind by following the same example that the extreme right has been setting for many years now.

There really isn't much in that story for you to be crowing about.

I read the entire article.

I especially enjoyed the part about Markey & CNN.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Fair enough about S Dakota, but I only put one attempt up so as not to demonstate the point. A quick google search will show many more.

I will agree that it was not serious because rates of the public desiring impeachment were comparable to most presidents, but still, that isnt what you claimed.

Okay, maybe you are not getting the full point.

You are correct that you can find examples on the right that make the right look bad. But the press calls them out on it. Hollywood denounces it. Republicans rush to the microphone to say how appalled they are. That is past and present.

Conversely, what we have here is the press, Hollywood, the Democrats, and even establishment Republicans condoning the over-the-top hysteria aimed at Abu Ivanka al-Amriki in order to earn a "redo" of the election. We're talking about mainstream press coverage of all the protests, the stars, the politicians, etc., that are the exact opposite of what they did for President Obama which was defend, cover and explain his every misstep. we're even talking abut their willingness to advance fake news and water-cooler rumors that were just endorsed by Bernstein. Some people would say that is was because he was black, but I say that it was because he was the quintessential output of the lesser intellectuals who overtook education and produced 'children' that they could be proud of (since they refuse to have children of their own; and that's another conversation all on its own, the proclivity of the lesser intellectuals and educators not to have children so they prey upon the children of the middle class to infect them with their Nihilistic philosophies).

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Watch the reruns of the last Emmys, Oscars and the Country Music Awards and tell me that what I am saying is not true...





Only one team tries to politicize everything and treat the opposition as an enemy on the level of "Hitler."

 

[water505]

Hey fakenews, the extreme right was out of their mind and have lost their ever fucking minds running this orange Fuhrer as president.

They have gone CRAY CRAY!

Why are right wingers so pressed, don't they hold the three branches of government right now? They aren't satisfied enough in creating havoc to the country?

What does "pressed" mean?

What havoc?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What does "pressed" mean?

What havoc?

It clearly does not refer to the sharp creases of their pants...



The havoc is not doing what Democrats tell them to do. Who the fuck do they think they are? They didn't win the popular vote!

 

[adrina]

It clearly does not refer to the sharp creases of their pants...



The havoc is not doing what Democrats tell them to do. Who the fuck do they think they are? They didn't win the popular vote!

So which bit of science has confirmed that the democrats did not win the popular vote? Just checkin' here.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

So which bit of science has confirmed that the democrats did not win the popular vote? Just checkin' here.

How stupid do you want me to believe you are?

First off, I stated that the Democrats won the popular vote. This was based on overwhelming wins in a minority* of electoral distracts and it is the electoral college that elects Presidents, not the 'popular' vote.





* and by minority, we mean just a handful of locations that vote 100% Democrat.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Okay, maybe you are not getting the full point.

You are correct that you can find examples on the right that make the right look bad. But the press calls them out on it. Hollywood denounces it. Republicans rush to the microphone to say how appalled they are. That is past and present.

Conversely, what we have here is the press, Hollywood, the Democrats, and even establishment Republicans condoning the over-the-top hysteria aimed at Abu Ivanka al-Amriki in order to earn a "redo" of the election. We're talking about mainstream press coverage of all the protests, the stars, the politicians, etc., that are the exact opposite of what they did for President Obama which was defend, cover and explain his every misstep. we're even talking abut their willingness to advance fake news and water-cooler rumors that were just endorsed by Bernstein. Some people would say that is was because he was black, but I say that it was because he was the quintessential output of the lesser intellectuals who overtook education and produced 'children' that they could be proud of (since they refuse to have children of their own; and that's another conversation all on its own, the proclivity of the lesser intellectuals and educators not to have children so they prey upon the children of the middle class to infect them with their Nihilistic philosophies).

You're not getting the "full point," which is that blatant partisanship on BOTH the left and right is gravitating to such extremes that EITHER SIDE will do virtually anything to justify its actions or the actions of its political totems or hegemons of the moment, be it Barack Obama or Donald Trump. Each extreme has 20/20 vision with regard to the excesses, hatred, deception and surreptitious agendas of the opposition and is stone-cold blind to its own faults.

Let's return to why you and I BOTH did not vote for Donald Trump. Do those reasons still not exist? Aren't people who turn a blind eye to his nonsense and contemptible venom worthy of the same rebukes as we would give those who try to exaggerate and magnify every one of his stupid, self-serving tweets into a capital crime?

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't engage in a considered analysis of which behaviors might be worse. I'm simply saying that it should not be forgotten that those who are incarcerated for a sentence of, say, 18 months occupy the same cell as one who is sentenced to five years.

There is a pathological philosophical epidemic growing in this country that "all's fair in love, war and, most particularly politics." And were are hell bent on this course without the slightest concern about what "ALL" entails or the dangers that it implies.