Those groups being ones that want to bribe his family.
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Let’s see them attack the father, these despicables. That would be grand!
I would not put it past them. Wont be surprised to see the right try to claim he was paid or something.
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So, according to donnie jr., immigrants come in to this country and break the law. His family proves the point.
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A pundit I saw on MSNBC the other day was saying that the GOP saw Mollie’s murder as the perfect issue for them to run on this year. It has all the makings of the sort of isolated tragedy that plays into the deepest, darkest fears of white America- a man of color brutalizing and murdering an innocent white girl. However, because the Tibbets’ family is pushing back mightily and will not let their daughter’s murder be used as the GOP 2018 platform, they look particularly bad trying to make it happen. You don’t get to be more Catholic than the Pope or more aggrieved than the victim’s parents without revealing yourself to have an agenda that has little to do with the victim.
All my love and respect to the Tibbets family for being such amazing people who refuse to succumb to the hate and anger with which the GOP would like build from Mollie’s death.
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This family is showing incredible courage as they grieve
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As someone who lost a love one recently, iam surprised at the level of restraint they are showing.
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A beautiful column, and tribute to Mollie Tibbetts. It’s time to take back our country from these vultures.
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I agree. And I don’t believe you are partaking in doomsdayism or all is lost thinking. WE DO need to recognize where we are really at. When Sandy Hook and Parkland victims are immediately targeted by the nationwide hate party, and now Mollie Tibbetts…they have proven who they are. Yes possibly 25% of our population actively lives this way now, and another 20% or so go along with it/or won’t speak against it or do anything about it. Another 10-15% aren’t even paying attention.
I am sure someone can say this more succinctly than me. But no human has any experience in running or living in a perfect society, let alone this overheated hellish modern condition which seems to be moving too fast for us all globally. Much like modern jet-fighters can be too complicated and demanding for one person to master…our society and global situation has moved beyond anything we were evolved to handle. Expecting decency and humanity and fairness isn’t realistic, it never existed in a stable form before. I don’t think humans are regressing, but we hit our limits of being able to cope and other forces are pushing society farther and faster now that regular folks lost their grip and ability to apply any brakes. How people act at this point is an ongoing experiment, and the early evidence is 40-45% abandon all decency and are so deluded they claim THE OTHERS are the one’s who are indecent.
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A beautiful piece from a father experiencing such a heart crushing loss. I am sad for our country that he felt the need to write it but grateful for his courage in doing so.
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I think we can count on death threats and tax audits…
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What strength. What grace. His decency is a n inspiration.
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If they want her murder to symbolize something, how about domestic violence or men’s violence against women. Men who feel entitled to a woman’s attention and get violent when told no.
That’s a much bigger issue than immigrant violence.
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Or something about addressing the issue with women being attacked while jogging as it is a far to common occurrence.
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Give it a few days. By Thursday, Lindsey Graham, Louis Gohmert, and the rest of the Teabaggerin’, Trump-licking Republicans will be screaming that Mollie Tibbets was killed by Hillary Clinton with the four soldiers in Benghazi.
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This is truly noble and, dare I say it, Christian of this family.
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The American Backcountry
The borderers entered America principally through the ports of Philadelphia and Newcastle. They moved quickly into the surrounding countryside, and in the words of one official, simply squatted wherever they found “a spot of vacant land.” The Quakers were not happy about this invasion. “Our people are in pain,” wrote Jonathan Dickinson in 1717, "From the north of Ireland many hundreds [have come]."27 The North Britons brought with them the ancient border habit of belligerence toward other ethnic groups. As early as 1730, Pennsylvania officials were complaining of their “audacious and disorderly manner.” One of them wrote, "I must own from my own experience in the land office that the settlement of five families from Ireland gives me more trouble than fifty of any other people. Before we were now broke in upon, ancient Friends and first settlers lived happily; but now the case is quite altered."28
Among Quakers there was talk of restricting immigration as early as 1718, by "laying a Duty of 5 pounds a head on some sorts and double on others."29 But this idea cut against the grain of William Penn’s holy experiment, and was not adopted. Instead, the Quakers decided to deal with the problem in a different way, by encouraging the borderers to settle in the “back parts” of the colony. In 1731, James Logan informed the Penns in England that he was deliberately planting the North Britons in the west, "as a frontier in case of any disturbance. " Logan argued that these people might usefully become a buffer population between the Indians and the Quakers. At the same time, he frankly hoped to rid the east of them.30
With much encouragement from Quaker leaders, the North Britons moved rapidly westward from Philadelphia into the rolling hills of the interior. Many drifted south and west along the mountains of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas. They gradually became the dominant English-speaking culture in a broad belt of territory that extended from the highlands of Appalachia through much of the Old Southwest. In the nineteenth century, they moved across the Mississippi River to Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. By the twentieth century, their influence would be felt as far west as New Mexico, Arizona and southern California.
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Yes. But I would include that in violence against women and men’s entitlement towards women.
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The racism of Donald Trump and his son and his government minions is a skidmark on the tighty-whities of American democracy.
(I may have partially cribbed that from something that Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, but I’m not sure.)
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A fine, upstanding, white - and probably Christian - American citizen killed his wife and two daughters, then buried his wife’s body and dumped the bodies of his two daughters into some oil tanks, and then tearfully went in front of the media to beg his wife, who he had already killed, to please bring back his already murdered daughters to him.
I do not seem to recall Donnie Jr. being outraged about this. I wonder why?
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