How the left lost its mind

On Sunday, President Donald Trump — leader of the free world and guardian of the largest nuclear stockpile on Earth — decided to tweet a silly video of himself “punching” WWE chief Vince McMahon with a CNN logo imposed over McMahon’s face. The tweet was sent forth from Trump’s own @RealDonaldTrump account as well as the official @POTUS ensuring that future generations will be able to peruse it from the Donald Trump Presidential library.

Going beyond the insanity of the president’s overall behavior — hardly a fresh story — every storyline undergirding the tweet’s relevance to the national conversation has been painfully contrived.

Maybe it will incite violence, as Morning Joe regular Eddie Glaude Jr. suggested on MSNBC today? Maybe it will. But so might violent movies, Rap music, and Grand Theft Auto. Liberals who once abhorred such logic after the mass shooting at Columbine High School, seem all to ready to embrace the anti-free speech claptrap when it comes to a stupid joke by Trump.

And let’s be perfectly clear. It was a joke. It was not a particularly funny joke, or very “presidential,” as we once defined that word, but it was a joke.

And then there is the particularly outlandish trope that because the video appears to have originated with an anti-Semitic troll on Reddit, that somehow casts a shadow on Trump. Maybe Trump is even complicit by promoting anti-Semitic dog whistle. We’ve seen this argument in the past.

This too is laughable.

The video itself is carries no anti-Semitic content and unless you believe Trump found it from the original source and was deliberately trying to promote that source, it is a leap too far. Hitting Trump for promoting anti-Semitism with this tweet is akin to slamming vegetarians because guess what, Hitler was a vegetarian too!

Now, while I’m no Sherlock Holmes, what seems more likely to me is that the president saw a video online. He thought it was funny. He tweeted it. But maybe that’s wrong. Someone should ask Trump’s Jewish daughter, Ivanka, what she thinks.

LooseGoose wrote:Great illustration of your point.

LooseGoose wrote:Stuff like this will draw the votes in for the leftists.....

LooseGoose wrote:and now you have a Democrat convention delegate, frequent MSNBC guest and prominent Sanders supporter publicly calling for a Jihad against the White House.  

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LooseGoose wrote:and now you have a Democrat convention delegate, frequent MSNBC guest and prominent Sanders supporter publicly calling for a Jihad against the White House.

Linda Sarsour Asks Muslims To Form "Jihad" Against Trump, Not To Assimilate

LooseGoose wrote:Stuff like this will draw the votes in for the leftists.....

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Stuff like this will draw the votes in for the leftists.....

Again, not once have I heard any of my lefty friends say anything remotely close to that. Shaun King doesn't speak for me any more than Donnie Trump speaks for me. Only one of them is president. Sad!