Happy 2022, folks! A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
A stunning 34 percent of U.S. adults say citizens are justified in engaging in violence against the government, according to a new poll by the Washington Post and the University of Maryland, as the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection approaches this week.
So in other words one third of Americans are r/w nut jobs.
Take a moment & gaze into your imaginary crystal ball. What does your ball predict will happen in 2022?
All this because one empty souled loser couldn’t face the fact that he has been rejected.
To paraphrase the Beatles ‘treason can’t buy you love’.
Kevin: “partisan political weapon to further divide our country.”
and the insurrection was not a partisan political weapon to further divide our country???
A third of Americans sounds about right.
Best part of today’s morning memo: the news that the late great Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will lie in state at the Capitol. Absolutely appropriate for such a great American.
To be fair, McCarthy is a fricken moron.
When in the course of human events …
Not sure what I would have done had Trump pulled off his coup.
Also not sure about the democratic status of this country since 2000.
The insurrection was not intended to divide the country, but to take it over.
Michael Cohen called him “the dumbest motherfucker on capitol hill.”
And just look at all the competition he out-stupided.
About that poll where "a third of Americans think anti-government violence is justified, I’ll repeat what I said on a thread over the weekend. It’s bullshit. Just a reflection of how polling no longer reflects the actual feelings and intentions of people, in an era when Republicans treat answering a poll as performance art.
This is a “Let’s you and him fight” answer. The vast majority of Americans are far too comfortable in their lives to ransack City Hall or their State Capitol, and then face the consequences. The consequences have been made very clear with what’s happening to the 1/6 rioters.
Political violence from now on will be the Timothy McVeigh lone wolf type, not a repeat of 1/6. Lone wolfs have to be watched for, but a third of Americans are not going to run out in the street with guns and start shooting each other. Not when the latest Netflix show is premiering and the pizza delivery hasn’t arrived yet.
I counter this poll, with a poll that says 74% of Americans think TFG is responsible for January 6th.
And NOT in a good way.
More of this. And let us never forget there would have been no Trumpism without Bush the Lesser.
Feelings of “entitlement” have gone off the rails into madness.
And another poll says that belief in the Big Lie amongst Republicans has dropped from 82% to 62%.
Only 1/3rd?
Seems way too low, both the left and right are in broad agreement that fighting the Man is an essential and legitimate thing, just sometimes disagree on when it’s cool to do so.
The original question was “Do you think it is ever justified for citizens to take violent action against the government, or is it never justified?” This is incredibly broad, I’m surprised the response wasn’t even higher. I can imagine multiple scenarios where I would take violent action against the government.
Deplorable.
Mornin.