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In Media-Land, 'Civility' Is Always A One-Way Street
In Media-Land, 'Civility' Is Always A One-Way Street
By Karoli Kuns
6/25/18 2:07pm
Today's meme o' the day is civility, or lack thereof. Of course, this theme only applies to those of us on the left, who are supposed to meekly accept blatant lies, threats, taunts, and harm done to little children because we might be in danger of being considered angry liberals, which might exact a political cost.
Perish the thought. Watch this stupid panel convened on MSNBC's KasieDC yak show yesterday. Please, someone give them all a string of pearls to clutch as they have the vapors over how uncivil everyone is because someone deprived Sarah Huckabee Lying Liar All The Time Sanders of her damned cheese plate.
Video at link~
Here's Kevin McLaughlin scolding "the left" as Villagers are wont to do:
"I do think that one of the things that's frustrating is, you know, if we want to stop and we want to raise the civility is people need to stop celebrating like on the left, they need to stop celebrating people like Robert DeNiro what he said at the Tonys. Stop cheering what people are doing in restaurants. It's outrageous. It needs to be treated the same way people treat what President Trump says that people see as incitement.
We need to have a balance. We need to find it, I don't know how. somebody has to put a pin in the balloon. the balloon is about to burst. It's terrifying. It feels like a powder keg."
We need to have a balance. We need to find it, I don't know how. somebody has to put a pin in the balloon. the balloon is about to burst. It's terrifying. It feels like a powder keg."
Hey Kev, you know what MAGAts say to you? "Fck your feelings." That's what you think is civil? Oh, right. It's only "the left" who needs to be civil. Whatever those fascists on the other side do is just fine because they're allowed. Really?
Uncivil Things: Separating children as young as three months away from their parents at the border and putting them in baby jails.
Uncivil Things: Executing abortion doctors and then raising money for their executioners.
Uncivil Things: Suppressing the vote and stripping people of color of their voice.
Uncivil Things: Threatening lawmakers for speaking their minds.
Uncivil Things: Lying every single day in the name of our government to the press and to the people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders does every time she opens her mouth on camera.
Uncivil Things: Celebrating Russian interference in our elections.
Uncivil Things: Standing next to dictators and praising them when you are the president of the largest "democracy" in the world. (See Kim Jong-un, et al)
Uncivil Things: Telling people with pre-existing conditions to die and die quickly and celebrating that in public.
Those are only a few uncivil things coming from Trump and his gang of right-wing Nazis. So fck you Villagers and your civility scoldings to the left. Fck every last one of you. And fck Donald Fcking Trump and his fcking administration full of truly evil fcking swamp monsters.
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https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/cable-yakkers-you-can-shove-your-calls
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Very good point!! 
