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Different Drummer

(7,621 posts)
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 04:49 PM Oct 2018

From a non-MAGA Facebook friend of mine regarding the events of today.

I definitely agree.


"The silence from conservatives is deafening. The same people who are incensed by football players kneeling and women speaking the truth have nothing to say about bombs being sent."

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From a non-MAGA Facebook friend of mine regarding the events of today. (Original Post) Different Drummer Oct 2018 OP
Are we supposed to be surprised? vlyons Oct 2018 #1
No DownriverDem Oct 2018 #23
They're probably having drinks and laughing it up as I type. BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #2
Sad! pazzyanne Oct 2018 #3
Oh, they have things to say hotrod0808 Oct 2018 #4
Anyone that could think a liberal would do this Harker Oct 2018 #17
or run of the mill republican. Merlot Oct 2018 #19
I turned on Faux Snooze for exactly one minute and what I heard was sickening. lark Oct 2018 #28
They totally freak out if someone disses them in a restaurant, makes national news, requires an Augiedog Oct 2018 #5
It's in their DNA Haiti2Quebec Oct 2018 #6
The "Forst Laydee" probably Scarsdale Oct 2018 #7
So TRUE! nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #8
K&R. n/t FSogol Oct 2018 #9
When Trump became a serious candidate... MountCleaners Oct 2018 #10
Some Rs don't ignore Trump's heinous encouragement of violence. DemocracyMouse Oct 2018 #13
Kick and Rec. nt backtoblue Oct 2018 #11
I unfriend three MAGATs the other day -- SMC22307 Oct 2018 #12
Sadly, it's who they really are and nothing is going to change them. allgood33 Oct 2018 #14
Indeed! Welcome to DU! Different Drummer Oct 2018 #15
Welcome to DU! flying_wahini Oct 2018 #24
Amen! Texin Oct 2018 #16
Brilliant Point.. Mahalo DD and Friend! Cha Oct 2018 #18
But they have plenty to say... BaronChocula Oct 2018 #20
This shouldn't be shocking to anyone duforsure Oct 2018 #21
My conservative friends 90-percent Oct 2018 #22
And if they do, it's to celebrate it OR call it a false flag ck4829 Oct 2018 #25
K&R 2naSalit Oct 2018 #26
My Facebook Timeline... Demwolv Oct 2018 #27
They aren't silent they're spreading all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories TNLib Oct 2018 #29
Republicans secretly love it. Nitram Oct 2018 #30
I currently only have 3 republicans friends on Facebook Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2018 #31
This certainly is not a false flag, but, watoos Oct 2018 #32

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
23. No
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 08:41 AM
Oct 2018

but I won't be silenced. That is what those bombs were meant to be. Like Stephen King said: Be Brave!

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
3. Sad!
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:18 PM
Oct 2018

Just SAD! And terrifying. Can we salvage our country before it is beyond repair? Our best hope is to GOTV in great numbers!

hotrod0808

(323 posts)
4. Oh, they have things to say
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:20 PM
Oct 2018

Things like "flase flag," or "Democrat bomber," or "not a real threat," or "they did it themselves for sympathy for the mid terms." These people are pure fucking evil and need to lose their power somehow.

Harker

(14,022 posts)
17. Anyone that could think a liberal would do this
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 11:24 PM
Oct 2018

would have to be a... oh... just a run of the mill fascist Trumpsky fanatic.

lark

(23,105 posts)
28. I turned on Faux Snooze for exactly one minute and what I heard was sickening.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:29 AM
Oct 2018

They were talking about how strongly drumpf condemned the bomber(s) and about how he will not tolerate this attack and that no one was blaming him or his followers after his super strong speech. I gagged and turned it off. I actually watched the speech later on (which I almost never do) and it was so extremely obvious he didn't mean one single thing and actually was irritated that he had to read someone elses' words from the teleprompter. He was just aching to blame the Dems and media but had been threatened into just reading the speech Kelly or Ivanka wrote. So this am he blames the media and threatens them. His bombs weren't doing enough so he had to make it more clear, he's still coming after them (and us, but the election is too soon so he didn't want to let that much truth out until afterwards).

Augiedog

(2,548 posts)
5. They totally freak out if someone disses them in a restaurant, makes national news, requires an
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:21 PM
Oct 2018

FBI investigation.

But Dems getting bombs in the mail, crickets.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
7. The "Forst Laydee" probably
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:12 PM
Oct 2018

wore her "I really Don't Care. Do U?" jacket. Her "Be Best" campaign must not have reached republicans yet.

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
10. When Trump became a serious candidate...
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:35 PM
Oct 2018

I immediately noticed the swarms of far-right lunatics flooding every thread on social media, posting awful things to comments sections...then there were the more mainstream conservatives in their midst. I confronted those people, telling them that they were morally obligated to call out and condemn such viewpoints. They always refused. These people are still in the comments sections and on Facebook thinking they're a normal conservative, and they purposely IGNORE all of the far-right posts.

They are all responsible for this. It's coming from their side, and the right from the bottom to the top has REFUSED to acknowledge the extremism and the dangers in the emotional rhetoric coming from Trump. They are guilty of these attacks as much as the perpetrator or perpetrators. There is no excuse for refusing to condemn the far right, especially since it's right in front of them.

And they also like to pretend that far-right groups like the Proud Boys and 4Channers don't support Trump.

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
13. Some Rs don't ignore Trump's heinous encouragement of violence.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:52 PM
Oct 2018

Some are even switching to Democrat.

THIS is the October surprise. Keep it in the news.

Thank goodness no one has been hurt (yet).

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
12. I unfriend three MAGATs the other day --
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:43 PM
Oct 2018

two former neighbors and a former coworker. I knew they were Republicans but had no idea they were so far 'round the bend. One of them posted a FUX article about the bomb targeting Soros and his little buddies yukked it up. I'm sure they high-fived each other over the bomb targeting the Clintons as well. Good riddance.

 

allgood33

(1,584 posts)
14. Sadly, it's who they really are and nothing is going to change them.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 07:57 PM
Oct 2018

Evil is real. Hate is a motivator. Racism is a cancer. Hope and love is a treatment but not a cure.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
21. This shouldn't be shocking to anyone
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 05:40 AM
Oct 2018

I mean these people already have normalized sexually assaulting women, normalized attempted rapist and possible gang rapists, and normalized corruption , lying , attacking women's rights, attacking our air and water, and attacking children putting them in cages and making them disappear somewhere to hurt them and their parents permanently with, and now calling themselves all white nationalists. If you look at what has happened elsewhere with these groups violence is always showing up. The gop is dead now, and they are all white nationalists now instead. They attack the truth their biggest enemy.

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
22. My conservative friends
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 07:57 AM
Oct 2018

My conservative friends are shopping the possibility this is a Democratic false flag operation. Their opinions are based on nothing more than their personal prejudices. And once again, it's bankrolled by Soros, like all the stuff they dont like.

-90% Jimmy

 

Demwolv

(88 posts)
27. My Facebook Timeline...
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:28 AM
Oct 2018

Is mindblowing to me. I have one woman who incessantly posted about how the women yelling at senators were going to turn violent... all she had to post yesterday was bullshit about the caravan. I want to tell her to grow up.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
29. They aren't silent they're spreading all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:45 AM
Oct 2018

on my local news comments section they're spouting out crazy crap like dems sent the bombs to themselves.

I swear I live in an area full of idiots.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
31. I currently only have 3 republicans friends on Facebook
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 12:17 PM
Oct 2018

None of them are die hard Trump fans. They are all women. One woman posted about how terrible yesterdays events were. She seemed bothered that some other people she knows of didn't seem to think the terrorist attacks were all that terrible. She was the only one of my Facebook friends to directly mention it in a personal post. I don't have many Facebook friends. She doesn't like Trump because she doesn't think he demonstrates good Christian values. The 2nd Republican friend clearly dislikes Trump because she stated it just a couple days ago. I saw she posted on a local news article about how she thinks Trump is hypocrite in response to his rally speech last night. She even posted she's taking a social media break because she can't stand all the nasty politics going on. I'm not seeing it. It's people she is friends with. The 3rd friend pretty much doesn't care about politics all that much. She never posts politics. Anyhow, two out the three republican friends actually spoke up about it. Some republicans are shitty than others. I've only kept the ones I could tolerate as friends.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
32. This certainly is not a false flag, but,
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 12:46 PM
Oct 2018

we better hope that this is not a Reichstag fire. Bombs sent by Trumpers and an innocent Lefty takes the fall, is killed in a firestorm of bullets and of course his house will have bomb making material in it. Where was Ghouliani these past 2 months?

These bastards are evil, I will not sleep well until this is over.

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