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(12,697 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)What was that? lol I love Saxaphones!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Thank You!
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)They are abusing their power and rolling every civil right we have back to the fucking stone ages. They're destroying the economy. They're kidnapping and torturing children. They shot a pizza parlor over a baseless conspiracy theory. They are attacking freedom of the press.
And I'm supposed to be civil? Go shove your civility up your ass, assholes!
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)We can't back down
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)How civil will the tRump supporters be when they discover that all of this drama is just meant to divert attention away from the gutting of SS, Medicare and Medicare.
Cha
(297,655 posts)FAKE NEWS FUCK KICKED OUT.
Cha
(297,655 posts)the beginning of their Attempt at a FASCIST TAKEOVER of our Country and we're suppose to be Civil?
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I am too damn old to give up much fight and from what I see there isn't anybody that will. Times have changed dramatically. The guys that stood toe to toe and slugged it out with strike breaking company hired goons are a thing of the past. I don't believe that there is any one with the balls to actually challenge these bastards. Its lets all play and be nice and they bend over and get it shoved to them again. We saw what Obama got by trying to be civil. Republicans are the scum of the earth. They are the enemy. I sure am glad that I didn't have on of those turncoat bastards in the fox hole with me. They would sell you out for a buck.
You can see what being civil and respectful got the Jews. Nazis packed them up and sent them to the gas chambers. I think for a moment that these ghouls won't do the same if they are not challenged. Its about time someone challenged this bastard bully.
OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)that means that THREE SCOTUS seats have been stolen from the Democrats. Godfkingdamnit!!!
Cha
(297,655 posts)President Obama this century because of the massive GOTV!
Mahalo, OMGWTF
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)We must stand up for what is right and moral.
The Republicans have no morals.
Republicans can not distinguish between right and wrong.
They are EVIL FUCKING LIARS !!!!
Cha
(297,655 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)only serves to make worse the oppression.
They get off on behavior they view as weak. So if they kick you and you're the one that says "Excuse me", they'll smirk and kick you harder next time.
Oh, they'll whine about those who fight back and they'll hit harder for that too.
Point is, they will hit harder no matter what, so why bow down to them?
If I'm dead either way, I'm going out standing on my feet and fighting back.
Cha
(297,655 posts)while letting SFS eat peacefully in your restaurant is Bullshit!
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Yep - it's bullshit.
They want to harm everyone they can and then whine when people fight back.
Gee, I can't imagine where that sense of entitlement comes from....
Snort.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)n/t
Cha
(297,655 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Id like to welcome Dwonald Drumph, Sarah Phuckabee Sanders and all the deplorables to my new bistro, specializing in Atropa belladona apertif, cottage cheese ketchup soup, carrot okra cheeto salads, fried pidgeon Filet, cat kibble sauerkraut surprise, pimento tuna jello casserole and top off your evening with a slice chocolate ExLax tapioca pineapple date cake.
Or drive to the Chick Fil A where your bigot card gets you a 10 percent discount.
Cha
(297,655 posts)lambchopp. Don't forget to add borstrumputin for brainwashed foxIdiots to your menu.
Mahalo!
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Fraud's cult of Deplorables.
Mahalo, Thekaspervote
Leith
(7,813 posts)until some of us stopped being civil.
As long as the orange chump is tweeting, they don't have a leg to stand on when they whine about civility. Fuck all of them until they learn manners and apologize for the shit they threw at us for the past several decades.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Mahalo
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)trump is caging babies and taking away our rights.
Ain't gonna happen.
Mahalo, jrthin
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)This aint the time. And this aint the place. Trump and
everyone like him can bend over and kiss my ass.
Cha
(297,655 posts)This ain't no time or place for that "civility" that some in the M$M are calling for.. because.. poor SFS couldn't eat in peace.
Like trump has made it impossible for millions in the USA to not be able to eat in Peace knowing what he's doing to our Country.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Hmm. Like he's the paragon of civility. Worse yet...he can't even spell his nasty tweets. Not sure what makes me madder. I make mistakes...but...I didn't ask for the job or pres. He did. If he's going to insult people...please 'be better'.
Cha
(297,655 posts)of Rich Stupid Trash in power.. thanks to the Russians and their Enablers.
Speaker to the Yanks
(26 posts)Recommended.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)AnotherMother4Peace!
Fuck civility.
There comes a time when being civil is a weakness. When it does more harm than good.
This is that time. Fuck Civility...being "nice" doesn't work with this crowd.
You said it perfectly. I'm passing it on.
oasis
(49,407 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)My favorite!
Mahalo
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Substitute 1964 for 2018, and a single assassination to the wholesale disassembly of American decorum by this fascist administration.
We are in the shitrain, but good.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Monster in chief, Asshole of all Assholes, Not my president, Never, ever my president....I could go on all night but he's not worth using up brain cells....
Keep on keepin' on, Cha!
Cha
(297,655 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,752 posts)being passive or "nice." I think in a larger sense civility includes disobedience against immoral laws. Martin Luther King's tactics didnt include what I think of as incivility. He didnt denigrate or put down. But he didnt hesitate to confront immoral, unjust laws.
There are pragmatic reasons to not take the approach of asking someone to leave. It becomes a cudgel used against the one who did it, and it hardens the attitudes of those who could be allies. Bill K, David Frum, George Will, Steve Schmidt, and others show its possible. It also hardens the attitudes of the media, who will not let it be forgotten.
I personally believe this situation calls for massive protests, churches and others calling out the immorality of these policies, and a dialogue with individual Trumpistas with conveying the moral authority and passionate conviction about the unrighteous policies as the focus. It may not change their minds, but some of those who witness it may be changed.
MLKs approach changed many hearts and minds. The sit-ins and protests in the face of police dogs, fire hoses, and beatings by law enforcement carried on TV and brought into homes all over the country were powerful because they had right on their side.
I'm in my mid-60s and so my experience includes watching (and admiring) Martin Luther Kings leadership, and that of other civil rights leaders not all of whom believed in civil disobedience, Vietnam-era protests, the 68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Seattle G8 protests, and Occupy. Those experiences gave me a pretty good idea of the approaches that are most effective and ones that are counter-productive.
I fully expect with all the emotions running high to have my opinions savaged. I notice no one else has disagreed with the OP. I completely understand and sympathize with the emotions. But I have to disagree because I am convinced that following Maxine Water's urgings will be a terrible mistake and will be enormously counter-productive. I think violence is not beyond the realm of possible responses from Trump's cultists: violence, vandalism, threats. They may come anyway. But if people admire our restraint and sense the nobility of our cause, we are more effective in making our case than we could be if people think we brought it on ourselves and deserve what we get.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)Until we roll over them in November, we'd best be very, very vocal.
The Trump administration is guilty of crimes against humanity.
I'm feeling a bit Dutchy...as in, International Tribunal in the Hague. Trump and his minions would all look good in orange jumpsuits shaded by bars.
Cha
(297,655 posts)It's about the size of it.. Goebbels would be jealous of SFS I bet. The GasLighiting Sociopathic Fascists are having a sad. How dare the people upset them by asking them to leave their restaurant?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)whole SHS republican snowflake whining is! Perfect!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)The iconic pic for trump's baby-snatching from their Mamas and Papas. Need to get them back to their Las Familias
As for the stupid "fuck your feelings" duo.. right back at the Idiots Exponentially.
Good, they got all the times Fraud calls for Violence in a Vid(I can't watch) Who does that but a monster.. Is that another thing he picked from hitler's playbook?
Not Ready to Make Nice
Dixie Chicks
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting
I'm through with doubt
There's nothing left for me to figure out
I've paid a price, and I'll keep paying
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time
To go 'round and 'round and 'round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
I know you said
Why can't you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it
I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets, and I don't mind saying
It's a sad, sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
That she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how
Mahalo for The Dixie Chicks.. Natalie Maines has such a beautiful voice, working!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)the media comes down hard on the VICTIMS because we aren't being nice to our nazi/GOP overlords!
It's institutional, systemic, built in racism I believe. That and a deep hatred of the poor, the sick, the 'other' that infects this country.
From the so-called "liberal" MSM as well, not just Trump's state propaganda organ, Fox "news" and hate radio.
So they council us to once again bend over for the right wing and take our beatings with a polite smile.
F them, I will not stand by with a polite smile while these nazi bastards destroy this country and make war on PoC and BABIES FFS!
Who is the biggest monster? The head scumbag Trump, his minions that try to normalize evil every day like Hungry Sarah or the MSM that comes down hard on the victims for not taking their beatings with a smile like usual?
Cha
(297,655 posts)the WaPo board tell us to let SFS eat in peace. I thought they would know better than to pull that shite. Hope they can notice all the Blowback. They jumped the gun and fell flat on their collective face.
I think articles and Editorials like that have made real non-brainwashed people like ourselves even more determined
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Mahalo, working
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We must resist these evil bastards in every way possible, big and small, F the damn media that wants us to put on chains of fascism politely with a smile!!!
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)caldron of sycophants.
Mahalo, SunSeeker
ck4829
(35,091 posts)I don't want to be an enabler.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)They expect a doormat to lay down for fascism and worse. Civility is not the response to a fascist lunatic who is destroying the country. How much more of this insanity will be tolerated in the name of civility?
Cha
(297,655 posts)Congress who comply to every wish of the Fraud's.
#RESIST Mahalo, Meowmee
Im going to use this graphic
Cha
(297,655 posts)and have been passing it around.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Time for some to strap on a pair of these and get rough and tough.
VOX
(22,976 posts)There HAS to be some discipline and a full understanding of the stakes involved. This is it, probably our last best shot at saving democracy. And that is NOT hyperbole, but rather the sad truth.
VOTE DEMOCRATIC! Kong
Cha
(297,655 posts)who the enemy is.. hint.. it's NOT The Democratic Party.
Anyone who says they are gets it.
I know it's NOT Hyperbole, VOX.. Mahalo!
HAB911
(8,912 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,775 posts)This is not about a disagreement about taxes
This is not a qualm about getting roads fixed.
This is not a petty fight about climate change
This is not about a scrap over funding a cause
This is about an all out war on our democracy, about our rights that are disappearing as fast as a winter sunset. This is a war we are fighting to protect our way of life. This is a war we did not start but was thrust upon us. This is a war to preserve our Constitution. This is a war that has no rules, has no decency, has no morals. This is a war we have no idea how to wage but fight we must
This is a war for survival.
We have to remain as moral as we can, we should not allow ourselves to descend into the sticky morass of lies and deception to further our cause. We must remain vigilant in this war to uphold a certain measure of decency. But we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of being told we cannot hold our oppressors to, at very least, the same standards that we set for ourselves. We must be allowed to be able to call them out. If that action uses stronger words than we are used to, so be it. If it takes to using terms we may be a little uncomfortable using, so be it.
This is war and the usual rules of discourse should be amended.
Because Im not going to be civil to fucking Nazis or fucking Nazi enablers. This is not a difficult decision
Cha
(297,655 posts)to politely leave Stephanie Wilkinson's restaurant.. hers is the High Road.
Mahalo, ism
mcar
(42,372 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)when he stole the election.
I am Grateful to Stephanie Wilkinson for her bravery in asking SFS to leave her restaurant after her crew voted for it Democratically.
An international shot across the bow. If they don't like being asked to leave Morally Superior restaurants.. go to trump's grill.
Mahalo, mcar!
I suppose welcoming them in, then poisoning them, would be judged uncivil.
But not unjust. Trump & Cronies have been poisoning our government, our language, and our civil justice for months.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)exponentially more civil than what these fascists are doing in taking over our country.
Mahalo, BlueJac
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)R B Garr
(16,975 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)R B Garr
(16,975 posts)Great Tweets.
Bonx
(2,075 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)but I abhor opening any post and being subjected to a picture of DT... the tweet is good!
Cha
(297,655 posts)abhor it, too.. I have look at it every time I click on this OP.. I feel your pain!
Mahalo for the KR
nolabels
(13,133 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,442 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Fuck civility and fuck that ugly, evil looking face. I can't stand the sight of him. Seeing him just makes me feel all stabby.
Mahalo Cha!
Cha
(297,655 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)I know we're all just trying to keep our sanity here.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have been looking for comedy on You Tube lately. Let me know if you have any good suggestions!
ploppy
(2,162 posts)Thanks for the post, Cha.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)rec 150!
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)I am with Maxine!
K&R...Thanks Cha
Cha
(297,655 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)principles depend on what repugs do?
debsy
(530 posts)I say the same. Fuck Trump, his administration, the GOP, and all the MORONS who support them.
OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)mortal threat faced to the existence of germany, coming from their various enemies, who would stop at nothing to destroy them. "the end justifies the means" sound familiar to anybody? i'm skeptical when i hear it here as well.
hydrolastic
(488 posts)But since Trump has been elected He has insulted Me. He has pushed people to rise up that insult me. He has run the republican party in a way that intends to take away social programs this insults me. He has spoken poorly of my wife by showing disrespect for women this insults me. He has threatened to cut funding for disabled people and children. This insults me. He promoted the Tax reform bill and did the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in world history. This insulted me. He then bragged to his rich friends what he did. This insulted me. He went after the immigrants in a way that insults me. Writing this i can think of a lot more things i haven't even spoken about. Guns,tariffs or anything in the Steele dossier. Just waiting for the word from Indivisible to hit the streets and i intend on bringing several people from work and any friend i can get to go. Then i will protest everyday until he is gone. Maybe by then trump will be insulted.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)they continue to spew their GasLighing Filth.
Thanks, Goth.. I'm glad they're are peeps out there creating Truth Graphs like this.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)-TRUMP elected President
-Republican majority in House of Representatives
-Republican majority in Senate
-Neil Gorsuch on SCOTUS
-Racism and misogyny normalized in US society
-White supremacists rallying and killing
-And here in Wisconsin, 8 years of Scott Walker as Governor, a decimated public education and University of Wisconsin system, and destruction of both public and private sector unions.
So, yeah, pretty much fuck civility.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)We're outraged and justly so!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Bullies that they are.
Side note, tho
NY 14, Crowley, class act. He made me more proud. The Democratic Party in this case was real life wonderful.
The Democratic Party encompasses diversity and always has.