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In reply to the discussion: Do you think Dem leadership realizes how demoralizing situations like this are for their base? [View all]Ol Janx Spirit
(1,097 posts)20. It's baffling. They don't even need to mention Kirk's name, but start the drum beat of...
...where the hell was all of this outrage when x, y, or z school shooting happened? When a school is attacked it is always the lone shooter's responsibility--not gun culture, assault rifles, or anything else; but a lone shooter kills a conservative commentator and all Democrats should be jailed immediately?
Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak!
Stand up and shout it Democratic leaders!
And that's only one approach. There are many that still allow you to take the highroad and point out the rank hypocrisy.
Where are you???
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Do you think Dem leadership realizes how demoralizing situations like this are for their base? [View all]
senseandsensibility
Sep 2025
OP
YES. I expect them to organize a sustained defense of all of US . Be Like Lech Wałęsa!!!
Bread and Circuses
Sep 2025
#54
It's baffling. They don't even need to mention Kirk's name, but start the drum beat of...
Ol Janx Spirit
Sep 2025
#20
OMG, yer kool now! But that means you have to marry "Dem leadership" and spend all day nagging them
betsuni
Sep 2025
#39
Allowing, remaining silent. "Mommy, why don't mean old Dems stop allowing Republicans!" Everything's always their fault!
betsuni
Sep 2025
#37
The problem is... the Right Wing content producers online are AMPLIFYING the Celebration.
WarGamer
Sep 2025
#43
I'd like to hear vocal pushback on the idea that the left are domestic extremists
LearnedHand
Sep 2025
#48