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Atticus Basilhoff's avatar

Imagine the same announcement regarding Obama or any Democrat. The Marxist media and all the mouth breathers would lose their minds for months.

BradK (Tuckered out)'s avatar

As with everything, it's different when they do it.

Principles vs Tribes's avatar

That's not a clever observation. It's their ideology, straightforwardly stated.

Principles - rules that apply the same to everyone - are just one ideological option. These people do not have principles; they have tribes. They view the idea of having the same rules for everyone like the idea of passing the ball to your opponents as readily as your teammates.

Every time someone calls them a hypocrite, they react as if you've told them to score a goal for the other team. It sounds crazy to them.

https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/about

Joewrite's avatar

Hey, go easy on the mouth breathers. There are bad allergies out there.

Andrew Dolgin's avatar

I imagine if it happened it would be celebrated by all the people bitching about it now. Nobody actually opposes calls to violence, they only clutch their pearls when “their” side is the target.

Admiral Glorp Golp's avatar

The “both sides” argument has no teeth anymore. The”right” always comes out in unison to admonish wrong doers and the violence is only coming from one side.

Andrew Dolgin's avatar

This isn’t even remotely true but enjoy believing whatever

Atticus Basilhoff's avatar

Provide some examples of conservative groups organizing simultaneous marches and mayhem in 50 or 60 urban areas. Name the conservative billionaires funding groups like SPL, antifa, BLM, SPLC, CAIR, Code Pink, etc. Name comparable right wing groups in the news or streets as often as the aforementioned list. Name a school shooter who wasn’t a leftist, mentally ill, or tranny. Name a presidential assassin or wannabe who wasn’t a leftist. Provide any data that refutes any of the above or provides details proving balance of instigators.

We’ll wait.

bhs66's avatar

“Nobody actually opposes calls to violence”. Hey buddy maybe you’ve been trolling around too long on left wing social media! Get serious!

eduquest's avatar

Nobody, Andrew Dolgin, really? Is this what you tell yourself? Sad.

Andrew Dolgin's avatar

I’m saying both sides are hypocritical in this issue. Not literally nobody.

Infidel's avatar

You, sir, are dense…

Ronda Ross's avatar

It becomes more difficult each day to determine which stories originate at the Babylon Bee and which stories are real news.

Elizabeth Montana's avatar

I live in Wisconsin and have been to this establishment before Kirk took it over. It used to be the best restaurant in Minocquoa (pronounced Min-naw-qua btw). Kirk and his supporters are a shameful embarrassment to our great state which is known for our kindness. Nothing Trump or anyone else is doing makes them deserving of their death.

michele burns's avatar

I read Kirk Bangstad had problems with the law before Trump was ever an issue. Same for Wisconsin’s other flaming nut Bill Penzey of Penzey Spices. Sad.

Jeanne Walsh's avatar

Penzey is a lunatic. I was a great customer but refuse to keep that place in business with his constant vitriol on every page of his ads.

Andrew Dolgin's avatar

War criminals were literally put to death for their crimes against humanity in WW2 and Trump is certainly a war criminal who committed crimes against humanity. As well as Obama. As well as most presidents.

The only reason they don’t get executed is they never face a trial.

WI Patriot's avatar

Sadly our state is turning more liberal blue everyday. I call them the Blue State Refugees that are moving here from all over the country. Kirk is a FIB, just FYI. The welcome mat that says 'Be Kind' is starting to wear thin. Wish you well Elizabeth.

Admiral Glorp Golp's avatar

I thought you were talking about Charlie Kirk for a second 😂

Sam Horton's avatar

So there’s a business model supporting brown shirts?

MRT's avatar

Yep, hallmarks of the early Nazi movement in Germany; Propaganda, assination, and riotious violence.

Sam Horton's avatar

Funny how our media doesn’t notice, doesn’t care, or supports it. I’m no expert, but I think cowardice is behind that.

BildvonGott's avatar

I mean, what if I offered free pretzels to anyone that offed the tavern owner?

Danno's avatar

I'd like to see his reaction when he found out.

mhj's avatar
May 12Edited

Maybe some are cowards by pretending it doesn't exist, but many if not most simply agree but are cowards for not saying it out loud.

So, some cowardice but not in the direction you might think.

Sam Horton's avatar

Interesting idea. The stupid or a liar axiom, basically. Say you’re right. What’s the goal? Employment and riches by selling clicks while it happens? I guess they simply don’t know they’re first to go.

BildvonGott's avatar

How is this not incitement to commit murder?

BradK (Tuckered out)'s avatar

Offering "free" anything to entitled Leftards is always a reliable business model. Assassinating a U.S. President is simply icing on the (free) cake.

Cecilia Buschmeier's avatar

What a mess our nation is in.

Joewrite's avatar

What legally will happen to Kirk Bangstad, owner of Minocqua Brewing Company? I hope his bar ceases to exist, legally, by people becoming non-patrons.

Paul Clayton's avatar

There are a lot of people who hold these views now. Mostly young, shit-for-brains college kids and Prozac-addled seniors. But people should ask them if this is really where we want to go as a nation. Do we want elections by assassination? Do we want to trash what ee have for mob rule? The Right wants to preserve, conserve, what we have, and bring it back to original intent where it's been worn away by the democrat/communists. But the Right, if pushed too hard for too long will fight.

The result could be civil war. Everyone would lose, but I believe the Left would get the worst of it, if the Army sat on the sidelines.

Anyway, that bar owner, the jolly fool calling for the death of the President... he should be glad people on the other side are not calling for his assassination.

Admiral Glorp Golp's avatar

It’s mostly older boomers.

Cranky Frankie's avatar

Minoqua is in Wisconsin's hunting and fishing paradise near Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Depends on tourism. I imagine. Otherwise it's a town of 5,000 in the middle of nowhere. Lakes all around.

I can't imagine the tavern keeper's opinion aligns with very many who live or travel through the area. Check in a year from now to see if his bar is still open.

He's running for governor. Hard to picture it as a serious candacy but he has probably figured out that he can raise funds from crazies all across the nation. This was surely an effort to engage that small dollar fundraising. Lotsa money from people who cannot vote for him. Based on the Instagram comments, many cannot spell or form a complete sentence either.

https://www.wpr.org/news/bangstad-kirk-minocqua-brewing-liberal-activist-wisconsin-governor

His mouth has gotten him in trouble before,

https://www.wpr.org/justice/minocqua-brewing-company-owner-guilty-defamation-lakeland-times

Bill Lacey's avatar

Where does a small business owner in a small town get $750,000 in order to pay a defamation suit?

Sounds like he's a looney trust fund baby doing is best to squander his money.

Cranky Frankie's avatar

It eventually settled for a reported $588k. But your thesis probably is correct.

Mike's avatar

If you can openly critique the fascist leadership, without going to the gulag, you don't have one.

Mark Kennedy's avatar

What can one say? We've always known some people are more susceptible to propaganda than others; and there's no denying the information commons is saturated with propaganda. Some shrug it off as an annoyance they've learned to live with, like ads cluttering up YouTube videos. Others are easily manipulated by even its crudest, least plausible forms.

Mike Gajda's avatar

How about getting back to writing about real issues rather than these click bait distractions that just feed the nothing burger monster that the deep staters are just so happy to have you oblige them with?

Years ago this would have just been some National Inquirer sensational out-there story to pay a nickel for off the magazine rack to joke about.

Now it's become the serious reality of a country full of people who spend their lives arguing with each other on screens about nothing of real importance, and then take their loud fluff out into the streets as if they're Thomas Paine or Nelson Mandela.

Screen porn for the juvenile mind is the new norm that has dug its heels in so deep at this point that I wonder if there's any escape possible.

It's beyond ridiculous anymore.

But so it goes.

Thank God that I still have a pretty good collection of books and music and that there's still writers and thinkers out there who write and speak about things of moral and spiritual and therefore political and personal consequence.

And that I still have peaceful trails in the woods to walk along with my dogs.

None of which has anything to do with this stupid story.

Which makes me happy.

Have a nice day in your bubble world of frivolous blubbery.

Doesn't this stuff ever get boring for you all?

Anne McKinney's avatar

Yes, as there seems to be so little resolution on so many levels. Enjoy your retreats from it all!

James's avatar

Have you noticed that these TDS sufferers are attacking Trump for the war with Iran while trying to start a civil war here in the US?

Anne McKinney's avatar

YES, for years! Starting w Tom Hayden & crew & then working in the same realm for a close up -- very angry person! ✌🏻LOL

Jan's avatar

Ford missed this one, too:

Chicago teen takeover mob rams police cruiser backward, swarms car as onlookers cheer

Odd

Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

How can this possibly be legal? It's almost a public murder-for-hire. It's certainly at least incitement to assassinate.

I remember, way back when, in the 90's, a protester was arrested in Washington during some event featuring President Clinton, for holding a rather innocuous sign that said something about Monica. The rationale for this was that the sign could be construed as incitement to assassinate Clinton. Essentially that any public criticism of the president contained an implicit "go do something about it" message to it. Although some Republicans complained about this a little, there was no outrage from the Free Speech crowd. It was mostly, yeah that makes sense, have to protect the president. I don't know what actually happened to the guy. I presume they let him go after a few days and didn't actually charge him with anything. But they still arrested him and prevented him from displaying his message. If the president is a Democrat, then it's perfectly acceptable to remove and arrest someone for simply holding a normal sign on a parade route. But we can have the entire Democrat ecosystem loudly and explicitly calling for assassinating Trump, and with at least three attempts to do so already in the public record, and that's protected speech that can't be interfered with. We have a very serious double standard problem here.

Andrew Dolgin's avatar

Murder for beer? Lmao

You people are so unserious

Anne McKinney's avatar

Hopefully, you don't die laughing from it all 😁

Elisheva Levin's avatar

The parents of these brownshirts ought to be ashamed that they did not teach their children to respect the lives of every person. Wow.