Funny thing about the Left

LOL. Rightwing Southerners have been talking secession for the entire Obama presidency. Many, many strings of posts here on that very topic.

I all for allowing New York and California to leave and form The People's Republics of NYC. We can even be magnanimous and let them to continue to fly over us by treaty.

Are you implying that the left is currently in the process of secceeding from the union? What action is the left currently taking that will facilitate their secession?



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When Obama was elected I do not recall...talk of secession

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Rightwing Southerners have been talking secession for the entire Obama presidency.

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Action and discussion are not the same thing

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When you get called out for making a bad argument, don't change your position and try to pin the error on the other guy for misunderstanding you.


EDIT AGAIN: Looks like OP and follow up post were different people. Missed that originally, my bad.

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When Obama was elected I do not recall all these racist, intolerant people protesting, talk of secession, demand recounts, crying about the election, talk of leaving the country, or wondering how tell their kids we have a black President-elect.

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While the left has been far more extreme this go around, it is incorrect to say there was none of it when Obama was elected. I distinctly remember internet petitions going around where people in Texas were talking about seceding.

And that's when the Tea party protests got going full-swing as well. Of course, the TP protests were nothing like the SJW protests. The TP people picked up trash after their events and usually got permits.

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really? You think the Right acted like adults for most of Obama's tenure?

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Pretty much. Remember the Tea Party stuff started when Bush bailed out the banks and the auto companies. Obama just doubled down.

We certainly didn't have complete mental breakdowns and need safe rooms with coloring books.

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You think the Right acted like adults for most of Obama's tenure?

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Trump isn't even president yet, and liberals have already surpassed conservatives in their overreaction to an election result.

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You think the Right acted like adults for most of Obama's tenure?

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What's your metric of evaluating that, and what is the behavioral spectrum?

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When Obama was elected I do not recall all these racist, intolerant people protesting, talk of secession, demand recounts, crying about the election,

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I guess you see what you choose to..

According to conservatives on social media, “Republicans have jobs and responsibilities” and therefore couldn’t engage in civil disobedience to voice their discontent with the 2008 and 2012 elections. With this perception of the Obama elections and subsequent claims of “ Republican acceptance,” Trump supporters are now demanding the same “fairness” for Donald J. Trump’s presidency, “We sat through do nothing politics for 8 years, the least they can do is go shut up and sit in the corner for 8 themselves,” on Trump supporter explained.
However, these perceptions do not reflect what actually followed the election of our country’s first black president, much less the difference between why people are protesting Donald J. Trump’s presidency as compared to Barack Obama’s presidency.

Obama’s election in 2008 was preceded and followed by violent attacks and property destruction targeted against minorities.

Kaylon Johnson, an African American campaign worker for Obama, was physically assaulted for wearing an Obama T-shirt in Louisiana following the 2008 election. The three white male attackers shouted “frick Obama!” and “**** president!” as they broke Johnson’s nose and fractured his eye-socket, requiring surgery.

More frequently, Obama’s presidency was marked by effigies of our first black president hanging from nooses across the country, for example in Kentucky, Washington State, and Maine, or being burned around the world. What Trump supporters fail to remember is that following Obama’s election, property was destroyed across the country, for example in Pennsylvania, Texas, and North Carolina, and a predominately black church was torched in Massachusetts.

In 2008, anti-Obama protesters lashed out against minorities because of their discontentment with a black man being voted into the office of president for the first time in our nation’s history. Conversely, in 2016, anti-Trump protesters are holding mostly peaceful demonstrations because of their discontentment with a man, who has ostracized minorities, being voted into the office of president.

And while anti-Trump protesters have engaged in mostly peaceful demonstrations against the president-elect, pro-Trump supporters have been responsible for a wave of attacks against Muslims, Latinos, blacks, and the LGBT community.

According to Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights group, there haven’t been “such a rash of hate crimes in the United States since Barack Obama was elected America’s first black president in 2008.” Muslim women are reporting having their hijabs ripped from their heads, while immigrant children are being bullied. Trump’s name and slogan, “Make America Great Again,” are being found alongside swastikas and anti-minority messages in graffiti around the nation.

Ultimately, demonstrators are not protesting Trump because he is Republican. They aren’t protesting him because he is a white male. These protests are because of the bigotry his campaign has emboldened and the fear of discrimination his presidency has the capacity to perpetuate.

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really? You think the Right acted like adults for most of Obama's tenure?

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You surely didn't see us rioting for 4 straight weeks. After all, we have to get up and go to work in the morning.

same as OP's. We're about to get our country back from that Kenyan, Muslim, socialist dicksucking coon, Obama and his count monkey man-wife, Moochelle. I'd like to personally congratulate everyone for how we've handled ourselves with grace and class in opposition to that tyrant for eight years.