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“BENGHAZI!” That’s what we hear, over and over again, every time a person who supports Donald Trump is asked what is to them a complicated question about politics. The hordes of Trumpateers who gather at rallies to shout out loud their every racist thought—when asked to compare and contrast the difference between federal debt and the annual deficit—their face becomes contorted and confused, as if a cartoonish twin of Homer Simpson. They only know what they want to know. They only know what they’re told to know. And when they regurgitate the predictable catch-phrase they’ve been trained to trumpet, they expose themselves as being uninformed and unfit to make an intelligent decision when voting.
Make no mistake about it, it was nothing short of tragic, the lives lost in Benghazi. But where were these Trumpateers prior to the attack, when the Republican-controlled Congress rejected the requested additional funding for security for those in Benghazi? They weren’t told to be outraged about it. Therefore–they were not outraged about it.
On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a van into the lobby of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. Ronald Reagan did nothing. Six months later, 241 American servicemen were killed on October 23, 1983. This was the biggest one-day death total for United States Marines since the battle of Iwo Jima. Ronald Reagan did nothing. Where was the outrage?
During the Bush administration, there were 13 embassy attacks resulting in 66 deaths. There was no outrage directed toward the President of the United States of America. Where was the outrage?
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The problem is, the Trumpateers aren’t even aware of these tragic attacks that happened on the watch of previous, conservative administrations. They have nothing by which to compare the Benghazi attack because they choose a ‘news’ source that spoon-feeds them the intentional bias they want to hear. The result is false outrage and threatening behavior that makes them a traitor to the United States of America.
Conservatives’ veins pop out of their skull when they start talking about Hillary Clinton’s “email scandal”. However, when there was an investigation into the unethical firing of eight U.S. Attorneys during the Bush administration, twenty-two million emails were deleted before they could be read and used against them. Not only that, the Bush-Cheney administration was illegally using a public email system that is easily hacked to access top secret information, not a private and secure email system. There was no outrage. Why was there no outrage? Why so much outrage over the Hillary Clinton e-mail “scandal”? Because the Trumpateers—and the Tea Party before them—are too lazy to learn history, and they aren’t able to put these situations in context and compare them to similar situations and better understand just how dangerous or overblown each scenario is.
Conservatives used to have a deep-seated hate for Russians, or “Commies” as they are better known in conservative circles. An actor of days gone by warned us all of the dangers of the U.S.S.R and its mission to take over the world. Fast-forward to current times and suddenly those same “Commies” are admired by Trumpateers. Why? Because he told them to. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and King Jong-un are free to circle jerk as often as they wish; there is no crime against doing so in the United States.
However, United States security is put at risk when Donald Trump encourages a foreign authoritarian ruler to hack United States government computers to try to dig up conspiracy-theory-driven secrets about Hillary Clinton. Can you imagine the reaction if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or President Barack Obama encouraged a foreign leader to hack United States government computers? When Trump does this, where is the outrage?
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The hypocrisy goes on and on. Trump and his Trumpateers blow their horn in protest over Bill Clinton’s infidelity, while they turn a blind eye to Donald Trump’s well-established record of cheating on his wives. Donald Trump criticizes U.S. companies for shipping jobs overseas; all the while his products are clearly labeled with ‘Made in China’. Donald Trump criticizes the Clinton Foundation, all the while using money from his own charity to purchase expensive personal items. Where is the outrage?
Donald Trump has insulted women, lesbians, and gays more times than we could ever count. His family values are non-existent. He says the prep school he attended was tougher training than military training. He told us that he knows more about military tactics than the men who have dedicated their lives to serve and protect this land. Donald Trump received four deferments from the draft because of a “foot thing.” He said that avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam. He said Senator John McCain isn’t a war hero because McCain was captured and tortured. Apparently Trump only likes the veterans who aren’t captured and tortured. He called soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder “weak”. Donald Trump insults the families of fallen military veterans when he says he has sacrificed more than they have.
The truth is, the Trumpateers—and the Tea Party before them—are uninformed voters who are being played like a harp…or a trumpet. They don’t take the time to learn about foreign or domestic policy. They don’t take the time to learn about the federal budget now, or at any point in the history of this nation. They only know what they’re told to know, and they eagerly jump on the bandwagon of any situation where false outrage can be expressed. Trumpateers don’t care about family values, if they did, they certainly would not idolize a guy like Donald Trump. They don’t care about the budget deficit. They don’t care about equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, or marriage equality or equal rights. The only thing a Trumpateer cares about is finding a leader who will feed their irrational fear of people who are different than them. They want a leader who will protect them from the boogeyman, also known as the immigrants and refugees, the blacks, Mexicans and Muslims and gays. Everything else is just false outrage.
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. In this age of information easily accessed at our fingertips, it’s unacceptable that people are too lazy to spend the time to understand these situations. There’s too much at stake to fall for these nonsense campaign-smears. Conservatives are ‘horrified’ about the 33k emails deleted, as if nothing like this has ever happened before. In fact, obviously, Bush/Cheney deleted 22 million emails when they were subpoenaed for an investigation regarding 7 ‘liberal’ judges being targeted and illegally removed from duty. Conservative voters didn’t blink an eye. They didn’t react with outrage because they weren’t told to react with outrage, and… Read more »
I find it funny that after this article GMP says “Do you want to be part of creating a kinder, more inclusive society? Join like-minded individuals in The Good Men Project Community.” Kind of funny. Everyone is entitled to their opinions; however, diverse thought used to be supported.
I think “like minded individuals” refers to people who share a common goal, not people who all think alike.
“United States security is put at risk when Donald Trump encourages a foreign authoritarian ruler to hack United States government computers to try to dig up conspiracy-theory-driven secrets about Hillary Clinton.”
Oh please! Trump didn’t encourage Putin to hack anything. He basically said, “You must have already hacked her server; any halfway competent intelligence-gather would have. So tell us what you found.”
Here are the direct quote: “They probably have her 33,000 emails, too. I hope they do, “he said, adding later: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” When Trump says that he hopes that a foreign power, who we’ve struggled to be on friendly terms with, has information that could only be obtained through espionage, yes, Trump is wishing that Putin hacked into the US. By inviting that, yes, Trump very much is encouraging a foreign power to be involved… Read more »
“Trump is wishing that Putin hacked into the US. By inviting that, yes, Trump very much is encouraging a foreign power to be involved in not just a USA presidential campaign but to be involved in our politics in an extremely dangerous and careless way.”
You can’t encourage something that already happened and didn’t Clinton call for the release of the e-mails anyway? At least all the e-mails her people weren’t able to destroy all Trump is asking for is that anyone who has access to those release them.
“Conservatives used to have a deep-seated hate for Russians, or “Commies” as they are better known in conservative circles. An actor of days gone by warned us all of the dangers of the U.S.S.R and its mission to take over the world. Fast-forward to current times and suddenly those same “Commies” are admired by Trumpateers.” I might add that it is amazing how the conservatives hated communists; however, they did not hesitate to do business with them: 1) The Koch brothers’ father had oil dealing with Stalin or the Ford Motor Company setting up an auto factory in Stalinist Russin… Read more »
Thank you. It has certainly generated some commentary. It’s a HOT topic, and that’s what bothers me, this race should never, ever be close
It’s about as interesting as liberals wanting to normalize relations with communist Cuba and wanting to understand and parlay with terrorist, but becoming friends with Russia, can’t happen. So, why don’t liberals want to be friends with Russia, but want us to “respect” the “backward” practices in the middle east. Oh, I forgot. You can’t be racist against white people no matter how much your actions would be deemed as racism if practice against someone not white.
Well it is interesting that the conservatives want to normalized relations with Communist China when Nixon was in charge; but if a Democrat had done it, the Republicans would have been screaming their heads off. Funny, we still had trade relations with Russia even during the Cold War for example, we sent them shipments of wheat to them. You still have the American companies making money off Russia from all the auto and oil factories that were built in during the Stalinist era
Uh huh. And the FBI not only gave immunity to the Clinton insiders but also agreed to destroy the hardware too. Wtf do you think is going on here but a full court press to keep the status quo on the political top elite. They’re closing ranks at the American Politburo to keep you even moreat bay than they ever did before. Glad you like it so far because you know how it’s gonna end. Ask Solzhenitsyn. A progressive activist within the system who didn’t realize what it had become. This is not trump but the totalitarian of the left.… Read more »
And thanks to 9/11, the Republicans created the totalitarian of the right where thanks to post 9/11 laws, anyone can be labeled a terrorist. In addition, police misconduct and brutality have been legalized due to these laws and have undermine our Constitution. .
@ Gggggg
Police brutality has never been legalized. The courts ruled that police must be given every benefit of the doubt because the job is so strenuous and why not? Wasn’t it progressives who said it was OK for a wife to murder her husband as he slept because she felt fear (battered women syndrome)?
Yes, police brutality has been legalized since 9/11. Police jobs being strenuous? So what? Being a doctor, teacher and nurses are strenous jobs these days. Being a police officer has not once made it into the 10 most dangerous/deadliest jobs in America. Yeah, and you had conservatives republican governors like Pete Wilson of California who refuse to let wives out of prison for killing their abusive husbands for fear of being soft on crime coupled with his lack of understanding around domestic violence, self-defense, plus trying to prove to the other governors that he was the meanest, toughest person when… Read more »
You should open a history book, and look at the open source U.S. response of bombing of Libya as ordered by Reagan, what our unit did is still classified though if that was on Hillary’s den room server ~ it too is probably up on Wikileaks. PS it is hard to be against Communism when y’all elected a self proclaimed Marxist and Lenin plagiarist to the Oval Office….twice. if you would like to rebut that, be sure you have read Obama’s biography and Lenin’s 1905-8 published works.
The bombings were before the embassy slaughters. After the killing of U.S. citizens, Reagan pulled out and quit
Brian, I have one word for you and an expletive: A-bleeping-Men. You are a voice of reason in a messy political landscape. Thank you for cutting through all the nonsense to deliver a nuanced, fact-based, entirely rational commentary.
Sme who support Trump have become very good at exploiting both women and minorities in their “debates” to further sell Trump’s ideology. They pretend to be a voice for women and minorities, by attacking Hillary; but go amazingly silent, defensive, or unconcerned with Trump’s massive racism and sexism problems.
I really enjoyed reading this.
Thank You Erin. We must have freedom of press, there is no doubt about it. The downside of freedom of press is what we see now, 24 hour news channels feeding the irrational fears of the bigots, and creating false ‘scandals’ to smear a legitimate candidate for President of the United States of America. We saw it with the outrageous and blatantly false attacks on the character of President Obama, and now we see it again with blatantly false scandals blamed on Hillary Clinton.
AGREED!
Tom, You might consider reading what I wrote, before commenting. I included significant detail to prove my point on that claim. – Conservatives scream in rage about the deaths in Benghazi, but said nothing about the 100s of embassy deaths during the Reagan and Bush administration years – Conservatives scream in rage over a so-called ’email scandal’ that investigations proved was never, ever a scandal at all. Where was the outrage when Bush/Cheney deleted as many as 22 million emails? – Conservatives Blow their Horn, always shouting that they’re ‘more Patriotic’, yet they stand by and do nothing as Bush/Cheney… Read more »
“Trumpateer cares about is finding a leader who will feed their irrational fear of people who are different than them.” Insulting at best and way off. This is no more then an “opinion” piece rehashing the same old same old. If ya want to bring up the past, then do it in a fair manner. Neither side is innocent. What many liberals don’t understand is that the conservatives have absolutely have no problem holding their own accountable. Try moving outside your box and look past the main stream media who have been dictating how and what people should think, maybe… Read more »
Conservatives have never held their own people accountable when you look at Watergate, Iran-Contra affair, the false conservatives lies that got us into Iraq twice, the various corporate scandals for the last 46 years..
B-b-b-but the conservatives did it first!
That’s not an excuse! Jail them all!
Yup … many SHOULD be in jail.
But that is not going to happen because we don’t take crimes committed by the political, social, and economic elites seriously compare to blue collar, street crime.
I agree
It would be nice to jail them all; however, you know full well that our political, social, and economic elites would never subject themselves to the very same laws that they expect the rest of us to follow and you know it.
“B-b-b-but the conservatives did it first!”
Yet, conservatives are always giving a pass no matter what kind of excuses they did.
You missed the point. Hello? The point was to show that in regards to deaths at embassies, use of secure email and other situations, this administration has done significantly better than the previous conservative administrations. And it’s not even close. There should be relief that we are doing better. The outrageous is either false, or shows a spectacular level of Ignorance regarding historical comparisons. When we examine the embassy deaths, etc., the conclusion is a resounding, “We’re getting better”, yet here we have conservatives blowing a fuse, horrified, as if nothing like this has ever, EVER happened before. In fact… Read more »
You’ve been noble in engaging these guys who post the same comment on every political article about Trump, no matter what it says or what the facts say.
I wish this site would allow us to ‘like’ a comment.
That’s because you still think and stay inside your liberal box. If you took a moment and moved out of it, you’d find that conservatives are very vocal. And that’s where I find it fascinating that the liberal media thinks they’re the only ones that critique the Republicans/conservatives.
What liberal media? The media is controlled by wealthy people and corporations. You need to get out your conservative box. If the conservatives were vocal, President Reagan, and Bush, Jr., would have been impeached by their fellow conservatives for what they did.