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struggle4progress

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Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:37 PM Jun 2018

Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity


BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 25, 2018

... Wilkinson then took a vote on whether or not to serve Sanders. When the staff voted not to do so, she politely informed Sanders and her party that they would not be eating at the Red Hen that night. She even comped them the cheese plates they’d already ordered ... If there’s a more civil way of saying “no” to someone, I don’t know what it would be ...

... abortion providers have been stalked. Their children have been stalked. Their places of business have been vandalized. And, lest we forget, doctors who perform abortions have been fucking killed! They’ve been gunned down in their clinics, in their kitchens, and in their churches ... I’m no expert, but I’m fairly sure that a bullet in the head is far more uncivil than a complementary fucking cheese plate. What is wrong with these people? ...

... maybe if Elliott Abrams had been chased out of a few DC bistros in the 1980s, Archbishop Oscar Romero and four American nuns would still be alive.

This debate is stupid. It’s also dangerously beside the point. SarahHuck is the lying mouthpiece of a lying regime that is one step away from simply hauling people off in trucks. That she was politely told to take her business elsewhere is a small step towards assigning public responsibility to public officials that enable a perilous brand of politics. There are bigger steps to be taken, but everyone in official Washington is too damn timid to do what really needs to be done about this band of pirates ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/trump-slams-virginia-restaurant-for-being-filthy-but-inspectors-fou.html

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Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2018 OP
I liked one of those paragrahs so much I made a meme RandomAccess Jun 2018 #1
From my twitter feed Gothmog Jun 2018 #2
+1000 smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #3

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