Right-wing radio host pulled off the air after attacks on Tim Walz’s son
Right-wing radio host pulled off the air after attacks on Tim Walz’s son
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Right-wing radio host pulled off the air after attacks on Tim Walz’s son
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All conservatives seem to be anymore is 3rd grade schoolyard bullies. I guess they're just as weak and insecure. Such a shame that such a huge chuck of the population will never reach self actualization. What a pitiful existence - kinda makes me sad for them.
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Something President Obama said in his speech the other night - instead of making it about us and them, you try and find some common ground. And there's always something to agree on, even totally opposing sides. We're still people living our lives.
"That sense of mutual respect has to be part of our message. Our politics have become so polarized these days that all of us across the political spectrum seem so quick to assume the worst in others unless they agree with us on every single issue. We start thinking that the only way to win is to scold and shame and out-yell the other side. And after a while, regular folks just tune out, or they don’t bother to vote.
Now that approach may work for the politicians who just want attention and thrive on division, but it won’t work for us. To make progress on the things we care about, the things that really affect people’s lives, we need to remember that we’ve all got our blind spots and contradictions and prejudices. And that if we want to win over those who aren’t yet ready to support our candidates, we need to listen to their concerns and maybe learn something in the process. "
None of that is easy, and not everyone is going to change. But the other choice is to be like them, and that helps no one.
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if we want to win over those who aren’t yet ready to support our candidates, we need to listen to their concerns
dems have been trying to do this for years. YEARS. what do republicans do? vote against THEIR OWN bills, because they don't want anything to get accomplished while a democrat is potus.
i love obama, but unfortunately the only thing that seems to be starting to work is calling republicans weird couchfucking fascists who need to be defeated in a landslide just to keep the country from devolving into a christofascist dictatorship
the "lets play nice" approach gave us trump 2016 , a 6-3 corrupt conservative scotus, and not even a guarantee that it won't all happen all over again starting november
fuck trump, fuck trump voters, and fuck anyone who claims to still be "on the fence" about which choice is best for this country.
"undecided" doesn't mean undecided for this election. "undecided" means "i'm voting R, but don't want to say it out loud," because that person knows that they'll be--correctly--shat on for voting for the objectively wrong choice
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And that if we want to win over those who aren’t yet ready to support our candidates, we need to listen to their concerns and maybe learn something in the process. "
This take the high road attitude can fuck right off when the other side's concerns are irrational racist hatemongering bullshit.
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Obama was, and remains, shockingly naive in this way.
The entire republican mindset is being trained to abuse this kind of attempt at good faith engagement. Fascism thrives on that kind of naiveté.
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These are beautiful and healing words and also we're dealing with the white Taliban whose very identity is not to play along with that.
Obama's approach is more preventative, whereas we're in the cancer-killing phase of things. We're trying to get back to where we can do things that way safely, if we're doing things right.
And even the preventative approach has to be fucking ballsy and loud about not letting rich cocksuckers hijack civil conversations to justify robbing everybody blind while calling it "business as usual", which is what set the stage for all this in the first place.
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The sentiment only goes so far when right wing media is constantly going on about the communist antifa radical terrorist pedophile deep state Soros millennial immigrant rapist woke mob that comprises the Democratic voting base.
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Seems like a pretty normal kid to me. The Republican proving their weirdness yet again.
The most surprising part of this story is that what got the guy off the air was an appeal to advertisers, as if they didn't know the brand of hate these rage bait media personalities are selling on righty radio.
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I love how he said "I didn't know the kid was disabled", as if that makes any difference whatsoever to the fact that he sent an unprovoked abusive tweet out about a kid being happy. Jay, you're an absolute CUNT.
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That might be the best part of his apology :
"I didn't realize the kid was disabled, and have taken the post down. But, I've been challenging Walz on substance AND character ever since he was named as the VP candidate. He's a congenital liar who's destroyed Minn in a number of ways"
Basically a dickwad with the mental age of a five year old who can't own up to his mistakes. He even deleted his apology lol.
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Republicans can't resist attacking minors. It's like they have an obsession with them.
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Can't
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That's right they can't stop.
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Thank you
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They can indeed resist, they just don't wanna.
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They're cowards who feel big when punching down
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Chicken ass bitches
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Just being assholes in general. The juxtaposition between this kid and the hell spawn of Trump is so telling. Sweet endearing kinda goofy kid vs. Abject jackasses.
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Faux News and Alina Habba were pearl clutching at the thought of Trump's "boys" being prosecuted for their role in the organization's fraud, which was weird because they're in their 40s, but then an actual child gets mocked and the right wing nut jobs are okay with it. It's always hypocrisy with these motherfuckers
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As soon as I saw him react I knew these fucks would be childish about it.
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The attacks on Walzs son are just to mess with his dad’s head, it’s just part of political strategy. It shows how sociopathic Republicans are, nothing is off-limits for them because they have no class, morals, ethics or standards
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The kind of people who think "gay" is still an insult and haven't joined us in the 21st century yet.
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What a great example of free speech. A radio station has decided what they want aired and what they determine as appropriate and are allowed to take action to achieve that. They have the right to free speech and use that to hire and fire anyone they want as an exercise in that right. They won't be made to allow what they consider objectionable opinions to be broadcast on their platform. Free speech in action. (Inb4 "muh 1st ammemunt rites".)
Bob bless America.
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Downvoting because your sarcasm is obvious. You misconstrue free speech, with business. This is a business. They are free to not hire people who push content they find objectionable.
If this guy was out on the street in his own free time spouting this crap and NOT on the air and not in an official capacity, then I may agree that it's a free speech issue.
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I think they're just pointing out a corporation firing someone for what they said is not an infringement of the first amendment since that only applies to the government?
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I didn't take their comment as sarcasm, just a bit snarky...I think you're both on the same page here
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My sarcasm is obvious but you still missed the point. This is just as valid an argument as the knuckledraggers will come up with. That is to say, not valid. This has nothing to do with free speech or any amendment. This is as hollow a take as anything the bearded, athletic sunglasses wearing mouth breathers come up with as evidenced by my parenthetical comment. I'm going to upvote your comment because this isn't reddit and we should encourage discussion, not downvote opinions we don't agree with or understand.
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I would argue it's a freedom of association thing.
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I'm sure there are already dying memes in certain circles that spouted up before they realized this has nothing to do with politics. Let these assholes eat each other alive.
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STOP Making fun of Trump's Adult Children!
-Republicans making fun of an Autistic 17 Year Old!
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This is the best type of Schadenfreude. Delicious.
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I bet he wish his kid(s) loved him that much. Sucks to suck weirdo
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Hateful shitbags in the GOP.
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ahahahahhaahahahahahahahaha
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Note that everyone mentioned in the article only regretted their statements once they realized the kid was disabled... Maybe just don't make fun of people's kids in general? Is that so difficult? WTF do his kids have to do with his political campaign???
Everyone please take note:
Barron Trump has been 100% unmentioned by anyone except when he was going to speak at some gathering, as an adult. Then, when he decided not to do that, everyone stopped talking about him entirely.
That is how you do that. If an adult is getting invovled in politics, they're fair game, regardless of who they're related to. People who aren't involved in politics, you leave them the fuck out of it.
Barron Trump has been 100% unmentioned especially by his father, who doesn't want to be seen next to him because Barron is taller.
Yuup. Agreed. The last time I recall hearing of presidential kids being bullied was Obamas kids. Interesting.
The only times I've seen Barron being mentioned is when people said that they hope he won't turn out like his father.
Ditto, one could also comment on the use of a kid as a political prop while not making it personal about the kid.
A reporter commented something like "wow he's tall" and apparently Fox felt the need to call them out on that.
Maybe you're young and don't remember, but it was absolutely an issue. My recollection is that it was quickly squashed, but it certainly was not "100% unmentioned by anyone."
https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-says-it-fully-expects-the-press-to-leave-barron-trump-alone/
Barron is an adult now and well on his way to being a shitheel like the rest of his siblings and father. Fuck him.
Because the GOP have found that harassing random family members of their opponents is an effective strategy.
Think of how many people have exited politics because of threats to them or family members.. How many people, especially in the Trump years, who otherwise may have made good representatives, have decided that it's just not worth it? Think of the senators that refused to convict Trump during his impeachments because of threats to their families.
They do it because it works. Whether the kid had disabilities doesn't matter, outside of my belief that the more disabled the kid is, the more they're going to attack, simultaneously hoping to exploit a parent's desire to shield their child from harassment at any cost and the child's potential inability to defend themselves at all or even mentally process what's going on properly. They do it because it gets a rise out of their base, and also because of the sliver of a chance that maybe, just maybe Tim Walz will wake up in the morning and look for an exit because he's afraid he bit off more than he could chew.
They just don't know how to handle it when they realized that instead of backing off, he came back for another bite. So they're doing the only thing they know how to do. Attack. Punch down. Insult. Belittle. Make sure everybody knows you're better than "them", by any means necessary.
Exactly - who wouldn’t be emotional in a moment like that? Plenty of other people in the audience looked emotional, and it wasn’t even their dad on stage talking about how much he loves them.