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   From: orange-dog@1.2   
      
   In  someone wrote:   
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   > On 3/24/25 16:26, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   >> https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/03/22/is-the-left-   
   >> delusional-or-just-stupid-n2654271   
   >>   
   >> I'm pretty sure that even living under a rock, you've heard about what's   
   >> been going on with Teslas. The company is, overall, fine though the stock   
   >> price is tumbling slightly. Dealerships and ownership, however, have been   
   >> taking a hit. The source is that leftists are firebombing and shooting up   
   >> dealerships and vandalizing people's cars, sometimes in the most   
   >> disgusting way possible.   
   >   
   > Interesting.   
      
   Yes, the "party of peace".   
      
   >> And that's just one of many ways things are ugly.   
   >>   
   >> But what's telling from the left isn't that they're just shrugging off the   
   >> violent nature of some of these attacks, nor the destruction of private   
   >> property. Anyone who remembers the first Trump presidency should have   
   >> known there'd be something along those lines.   
   >>   
   >> No, what's telling is just how they're trying to gaslight us into   
   >> disbelieving what's plain as day.   
   >>   
   >> Former Republican congressman turned leftist lapdog Adam Kinzinger summed   
   >> up the gaslighting perfectly in a video he posted on X.   
   >>   
   >> He, and others on the left, keep making light of what's happening and   
   >> saying conservatives are upset over the boycott and are just snowflakes   
   >> because they can't handle a taste of their own medicine after the right   
   >> boycotted Bud Light, Target, and others. This is a fairly common talking   
   >> point from what I've seen.   
   >>   
   >> That would be a valid point except for one important thing: No one cares   
   >> about the supposed boycott.   
   >>   
   >> Look, I didn't boycott Bud Light because I never drank it. You can't   
   >> boycott something you never buy. Likewise, most of the people "boycotting"   
   >> weren't likely to buy a Tesla. They might have wanted to considering the   
   >> left's love of electric vehicles, but most of them couldn't afford it.   
   >> Those who could may instead decide to buy something else, but then folks   
   >> on the right are inclined to buy Teslas and since more of us have jobs,   
   >> well, we can see how that will go.   
   >>   
   >> No, people are upset because this isn't a boycott. This is a brutal,   
   >> violent attack on an American-owned business that builds cars here in the   
   >> United States. It's domestic terrorism, plain and simple.   
   >>   
   >> So that leads to the question of whether they're stupid or delusional.   
   >>   
   >> It might be easy to just say they think we're stupid, but even that   
   >> requires one of those two conditions to exist. The burning dealerships   
   >> have been all over the news and social media. The vandalism of people's   
   >> cars has been as well. It's almost impossible to ignore, even if you   
   >> tried.   
   >>   
   >> I'm tempted to attribute it to outright evil on their part, which seems to   
   >> increase in likelihood every second that passes, but even evil people   
   >> should recognize how ineffective this nonsense would be. The Nazis may   
   >> have been big on repeating a lie enough that people accept it as the   
   >> truth, but that's a whole lot harder to do when you don't control the flow   
   >> of information proving it to be a lie.   
   >>   
   >> So again, are they delusional or just stupid?   
      
   Because they have defective parents.   
      
   >> Stupidity would mean they either ignored the evidence or seem to think   
   >> they can gaslight us into believing there's no such evidence at all, which   
   >> would be idiotic to such a degree that I'd have questions about how they   
   >> manage enough brainpower to breathe.   
   >>   
   >> Delusional, on the other hand, would fit with so much else we see from the   
   >> left. Why wouldn't they demand girls change clothes in front of a boy in a   
   >> school locker room when they can't seem to think about it rationally? Why   
   >> wouldn't they see DOGE and Elon Musk attacking government waste, fraud,   
   >> and abuse as anything but an attack on their institutions? Why else would   
   >> they be unable to understand why straight, white men aren't particularly   
   >> fond of voting for the party that routinely demonizes them and seeks to   
   >> push them out of society as a whole?   
   >>   
      
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