Don't Start Nothin' Won't Be Nothin'

All right, I'm watching the news and reading articles and all I'm seeing and hearing are liberals freaking out about Pres Elect Trump "attacking" John Lewis, a "hero" of integration.(Though the use of the word 'attack' implies that the person the word is attached to is the initiator.) That Trump has "crossed the rubicon" according to one of them. The main stream outlets are in lock step condemning Trump for this dastardly deed. How could he possibly attack such a man who was beaten during the civil rights movement of the '60s? This is clearly proof of Trump's racist bonafides!

Accept.....didn't Trump attack Rosie O'Donnel? Pretty sure she's not black, oh wait a minute. Using the Sean King definition of black I guess she could be. And didn't he attack Penn Jillette? I'm pretty sure he's not black. As a matter of fact, a quick google search brought up a New York Times article that lists 289 people and groups that Donald Trump has "attacked". In perusing the list, it would appear that Donald Trump is an equal opportunity offender. Whites, blacks, men, women, indeterminate, it doesn't seem to matter.

Although, there does seem to be one common characteristic that all of these folks have in common.

They all seem to have made the first move!

In every case that I looked into, Donald Trump was responding to comments that were made concerning him. To characterize his responses as an attacks is disingenuous. They would be much better characterized as COUNTER attacks, but that doesn't feed the narrative the mainstream media is trying to build in the public perception. They would much prefer to gloss over the attack that precipitated the event and portray Trump as the initiator of hostilities. Because if they fairly report the facts, folks could plainly see that he is merely responding in kind. But it's hard to get folks to hate him if he's seen as defending himself.

Now a case could certainly be made that Trump should not descend into the depths and get in mud fights with every two bit yahoo who insults him. That it is not worthy of him to do so. But then again, GW Bush never responded to his denigrators and it let them totally control the narrative.

So as I hear all the winey leftists acting as if they are SOOOO offended I'm left with two possibilities to consider.

One, they aren't offended at all, but rather, they are following a plan. That plan is, offend Trump because they know he will respond and then play the victim and portray Trump as this evil person who attacks them for no reason (remember, the media is on their side and will downplay the real instigation). Thus continuing to build their psyops case to turn public opinion against him.

Or two, they really are the participation award snowflakes we've thought them to be and thus one can truly see why they would be supporters of the "toxic masculinity" craze that seems to be drowning liberal bastions at the moment. True believers of the post-truth era.

Position one is cynical and position two is depressing. Unfortunately, I believe this whole thing is being led by group one and supported by group two.

Listening to the left rant and rave brings to mind the famous Will Smith line from Men In Black as he is distracting the giant cockroach. "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'!"

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.