How to incite a moral panic in 3 easy steps

[kpete]

[DENVERPOPS]

1. Sounds very familiar

with Gas Stove panic, doesn't it????????

Or even more so, the: Obama and Dems are...... Coming To Take Your Guns away.....

[peppertree]

5. 'And yer Hamberders'

Republicans are deathly afraid some Democrat will "outlaw" those.

No. We just don't think there should be larvae in them - something Repugs seem to have no problem with.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Larvae won't kill you

E Coli will.................

[keithbvadu2]

2. 'Gawd has forgiven me' when a hatless person molests/kills children.

The moral crowd:::

'Gawd has forgiven me' when a hatless person molests/kills children.

[liberalla]

3. This cartoon brings the recent post on DU about the Onion to mind:

The Onion just NAILED the NY Times for its transphobia

Necessary and excellent reading. For me, the tie-in is the NYT.
(funny, too)

This cartoon is good, too.

[jayschool2013]

4. First, they came for the bowlers

First, they came for the bowlers.
And I did not speak out — because I didn't wear a bowler.

Next they came for the Stetsons.
And I did not speak out — because I didn't wear a Stetson.

Next they came for the tams.
And I did not speak out — because I didn't wear a tam.

Then they came for my beret — and there was nothing left to cover my pate.

Martin Nie-milliner

[paleotn]

6. You've got. Perfectly.

[infullview]

7. Keith Olbermann said it best

Because..... Maggie Haberman

[live love laugh]

9. The majority of mass media is Republican-Owned and a near majority of the legislature. No surprise.

[Trueblue Texan]

10. Yesterday at the liquor store...

I saw this guy all tatted up, long, scraggly beard, sort of muscular, loping into the liquor store to get his friend. The front of his tee-shirt said, "Pedophile hunter"; the back of the shirt said, "Leave the F^%&king Kids Alone!" The guy's friend was a short little man nearing his 70s unkempt, raggedy looking, buying a bottle of booze. I didn't look for a Trump sign on their vehicle, but they made quite a pair. I'd never let my children get near either of them, especially not the self-appointed pedo hunter. He would have fit right in with Jan 6 rioters.

[yardwork]

12. I'm more interested in why his friend has to be retrieved from the liquor store!

Did he get lost?!

[area51]

13. Somehow I don't think that guy w/"pedo hunter"

on his shirt would go after Gaetz.

[yardwork]

11. That's about right.