{"id":34115,"date":"2018-10-26T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34115"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:43:32","slug":"friday-fun-remember-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/friday-fun-remember-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Remember When …?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This \u201cFriday Fun\u201d<\/em><\/strong> is going to be a little different than other ones I\u2019ve done.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to get up on my Soapbox and rant a little bit \u2013 so bear with me.<\/p>\n

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One of my pet peeves that really irritates me is that common ploy among pundits referred to as <\/span>\u201cBoth-Siderism\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 You know \u2013 the idea that BOTH sides are guilty of something when in our hearts we know that\u2019s not true.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we see it in full-bloom these days surrounding the issues of violence and civility.\u00a0 Pundits keep telling us that Democrats are just<\/u><\/em> as guilty as Rethuglicans.<\/p>\n

Being reality-oriented and interested in facts, I decided to actually do some research to see if it were true.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out those pundits were absolutely correct \u2013 and I can prove it!<\/p>\n

Remember when Pres. Obama<\/strong> called Mexicans coming across our border \u201cRapists\u201d<\/strong><\/em> and \u201cDrug Dealers\u201d<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n

Or when he called tiki-torch waving white supremacists, who held a rally for ethnic cleansing and drove a car into a crowd of protestors killing one of them, some \u201cVery fine people\u201d<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

And do you recall when Vice-President Biden\u2019s<\/strong> PAC put out an ad with gunsight crosshairs on Congressional Districts Democrats were \u201caiming for\u201d<\/em> \u2013 and then a representative from one of those Districts in Arizona was shot in the head?<\/p>\n

Or how about when Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)<\/strong> took offense at what a reporter asked him, so he picked him up and body-slammed him to the ground \u2013 and then Pres. Obama praised him for it and called him \u201cMy kinda guy\u201d<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Remember the time Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)<\/strong> promised to pay for the legal defense of one her supporters at a raucous rally when she told him to \u201cBeat the crap out of\u201d<\/em><\/strong> a protestor?<\/p>\n

And how about when Pres. Obama met with Putin<\/em><\/strong> and defended Putin\u2019s hacking in an effort to influence the outcome of our elections \u2013 and it worked?\u00a0 Or when he literally<\/u><\/em> said he \u201cFell in love\u201d<\/em><\/strong> with the despicable despot Kim Jong Un<\/em><\/strong> because of the letters they exchanged as \u201cpen pals\u201d?<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)<\/strong> who decided to start calling her colleagues offensive, demeaning, racist and misogynist names.<\/p>\n

What about when Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)<\/strong> got caught admitting to sexual assault when he said he could grab women by their genitals?<\/p>\n

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So, do you remember all those times Democrats behaved this way and said those things, thus documenting that, in truth, \u201cBoth Sides Do It\u201d<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

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Yeah \u2026 me neither!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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For the record, let\u2019s take a look at just a sampling of the times Twitler<\/em><\/strong> has literally encouraged violence \u2013 courtesy of no less a reputable source than Snopes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to punch him in the face\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he should have been roughed up\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the problem is no one wants to hurt each other anymore\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll do the fighting myself or if other people will\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe audience hit back. That\u2019s what we need a little bit more of\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do (hurt him), I\u2019ll defend you in court, don\u2019t worry about it\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll beat the crap out of you\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cKnock the crap out of him, would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Sarah Huckabee Sanders:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe president in no way, form, or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SNOPES – TRUMP INCITES VIOLENCE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

But since it’s Halloween Time<\/strong><\/span> – I think I should end on a happier note.<\/p>\n

So here’s a site with an interactive map that you can use to find out what the favorite Halloween candy is in your state:<\/p>\n

MAP: FAVORITE HALLOWEEN CANDY BY STATE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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This \u201cFriday Fun\u201d is going to be a little different than other ones I\u2019ve done.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to get up on my Soapbox and rant a little bit \u2013 so bear with me. One of my pet peeves that really irritates me is that common ploy among pundits referred to as \u201cBoth-Siderism\u201d.\u00a0 You know \u2013 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}