Yea it is pathetic and disrespectful to his supporters. Trumps says he'll trade jail for free speech, then immediately has his booklicking douche canoes come and do the speaking, so Trump can avoid jail. Imagine how little self respect you have to have to see this and think "Yea, trumps my guy".
I'm still waiting for the Jordan Petersons of the world to be rounded up and hauled off to the compelled speech gulags after the last round of hysterical free speech panic.
Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts 'yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky'.
Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.
Obama's kids were used in ads by the NRA in 2013, before that they were invoked by school lunch advocates in 2008. Thanksgiving 2014 they went after them again. I'm probably not remembering more than that.
Didn't the bush kids get bothered about trying to buy a beer?
I first wrote that story out 10 or more years ago, so it feels like a product of my youth, a cartoonish caricature that's so on the nose I should be a little embarrassed I couldn't come up with something more subtle. I'm my own worst critic though.
False equivalencies are conservative bread and butter, make it look like your opponent does what you do because conservatives wont care, but liberals might.
Back when I had more energy for social media, when I would see stories like this I would tell a little story I made up to make the point.
A conservative drives to his opponents house in the middle of the night, taking a can of gasoline he dumps gas all over the front of his opponents house. Striking a match, he gleefully lights the house ablaze. Thankfully, the opponent is not home, and the police and firefighters respond quickly. The conservative is being arrested and put into the back of the police car just as his opponent turns up the driveway. The media circus turns their cameras to the car pulling up the lane, then back to the conservative who yells "see my opponent there, in that car, well he uses gas too " .
The chyron on Fox now reads: " Hypocrite liberal gets whats coming to him"
on CNN you have: "Gas controversy erupts in flames"
What I'm saying is, it doesn't matter how outlandish the equivalency is, you can be guaranteed conservatives will make it, and that the media will bothsides it for them.
Edit: Yes I do a bit of self-cringe when I reread that story.
They didn't have a majority on the ER committee. So should they have unilaterally ignored the majority report of the other parties and just ram through their own preference for STV? Or maybe abandon their grass roots party supporters and gone with PR, despite the fact STV was party policy, reaffirmed only a year or two before? How about the referendum the NDP supported by voting with the CPC in committee, should the LPC have ignored that and if ignore that, why not the whole thing? If they ran the referendum nothing would have gotten done before the next election anyway. This was honestly more complicated that I think a lot of people give it credit for, and the NDP Alliance with the CPC is no small part of that complication.
Until I get a chance to listen, I figured better not to comment.