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Even on a good day the lot of a San Francisco police officer must not be a happy one, so it is easy to feel a special sympathy for the two patrolmen who came upon an elderly gentleman and his younger male companion, at least one and possibly both in nothing but their underpants, grappling at 2am for possession of a hammer. That may be what happened or maybe not, depending on whose account you choose to heed and with which US political party your sympathies reside. What might be true is the latest narrative (or perhaps tomorrow’s version or the day after’s) which has so far progressed via leaks and slight, successive and variously amended updates from the original report of a stranger intent on murder and torture smashing his way into a palatial San Francisco home. What can be stated with certainty, and this is the only thing about which we can be irrefutably sure, is that the 82-year-old now recovering from surgery to repair a fractured skull is the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pity the lot of those poor cops, who must by now be wishing they had plugged the alleged assailant when the opportunity presented itself. There is a lot less fuss and bother about reporting to the coroner than the ordeal by testimony, affidavit and, one guesses, the departmental pressure that likely awaits them, poor buggers.
American politics can plumb some bizarre depths even at the best of times and just now, six days before the midterm elections that will determine control of House and Senate, there is something in the air only those word-stacking Germans might be able to capture in contiguous syllables. Fear, yes indeed, on the part of Democrats, who need lose only six lower house seats to see Ms Pelosi replaced as Speaker. For Republicans, riding high on polls that suggest seats might turn from blue to red in record numbers, the big challenge is to maintain with straight faces that the outcome remains in doubt and only a massive turnout of the party faithful on November 8 can guarantee victory.
In the House, that a ‘red wave’ will crash down on Democrats is beyond dispute. Where goes the Senate is somewhat less certain, allowing for the impact of early voting and the usual chicanery involving vote harvesting, cemeteries, old folks’ homes and, a new wrinkle as of 2020, mail-out ballots. Pennsylvanians, who will decide one of the four key battleground states, began voting as long ago as mid-September and by the time the Senate contenders met for the their one and only debate last week more than a million ballots were already waiting to be counted. Those early votes will likely favour Democrats, most originating with the political machines of the big cities, where Democrat administrations oversee both the canvassing, the tallying and, that old Tammany Hall term, the “ward heeling“. That said, the GOP needs to pick up only one Senate seat to gain an absolute legislative majority, which the bookies reckon easily doable.
This is why Paul Pelosi’s wee-hours whack to the head is figuring so large on the stump in these final days. Simply put, the Democrats have nothing better to offer than fear, which they have been serving in heaped helpings for months.
In his infamous red-and-black address (above), the one that looked as if Leni Riefenstahl was responsible for the visuals, the President who came to office pledging he would “bring America together” delivered one of the most remarkable, indeed, deeply unsettling addresses ever presented by a Commander in Chief. “There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,” he began less than a minute into his speech. The only comparable moment in terms of naming America’s enemies would have to be FDR’s address to the nation after Pearl Harbour, such was the current President’s vitriol. Republicans, Biden continued, were set on fanning “the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.” No mention was made Trump supporters feeding puppies into woodchippers, but give the old fellow time and he’ll get there eventually.
That Philadelphia address, complete with armed Marines standing at attention in the background, its content and aggressive disparagement of all the evil, stupid and divisive folks who refuse to vote Democrat built in its turn upon the January 6 hearings, with all their partisan questioning, closed doors, toxic leaks, spurious hearsay and nakedly political agenda. Donald Trump, were you to believe one young lady’s turn at the witness table, had even wrestled with the driver for control of the First Limo so that he could join the ‘insurrectionists’ at the Capitol. Only an idiot child or a New York Times reporter could believe that one, so the tall tale received widespread ink, pixels and prime time minutes.
To hear Joe Biden tell it, or any other Democrat just now near a microphone, Paul Pelosi’s alleged assailant is another right-wing extremist, undoubtedly possessed by the demon spirit of Donald Trump, and therefore yet a further symptom of the illness that erupted 10 months ago beneath the Capitol’s dome. Strangely, when posses of shrieking feminists invaded the same building in 2018 to protest the slandered Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court, well that was widely interpreted by the Washington Post, NYT and other organs of the liberal establishment as an affirmation of American democracy’s ruddy good health. The 300-plus arrests that day? No longer worth mentioning and, for those who did, the mainstream media’s ‘fact-checkers’ were at their hair-splitting and jesuitical best in rejecting any valid point of comparison between then and Jan 6. With only two Republicans on the panel, each picked by Ms Pelosi on the strength of their ‘Never Trump’ credentials, there was no cross-examination of witnesses and ne’er a hint that sifting truth from testimony had ever been on the panel’s list of objectives.
Is it that the Democrats have mated stupidity with a desperate, anything-goes lunge to retain power. It would seem so, as one of those RINO (Republican in name only) panelists was Liz Cheney, who was not merely thumped in her Wyoming primary but electorally eviscerated. Did Democrat strategists notice that her alarums about Trump and his Deplorables weren’t winning hearts and minds? Surely they must, yet nevertheless decided, viz Biden in Philadelphia and since, that the us-versus-them strategy would work if only the volume were cranked up to 11.
What else was in the Democrats’ arsenal? Oh, yes, that’s right — abortion after the overturning of Roe v Wade. Except that didn’t fly because, just now, Americans have more on their minds than legal and constitutional abstractions, those “penumbras and emanations” discerned in the Constitution by previous Justices but scotched by the current majority. Abortion, just for the record and the benefit of ABC viewers, was not ‘banned’ by the Supremes; rather, as in Australia, the issue was handed back to the states and their voters to decide.
THERE was nothing abstract about the late-middle-aged woman waiting in line on Monday for her Subway sandwiches at a highway fuel stop on Interstate-80, in the rural depths of western Pennsylvania. The sign above the counter apologised in advance for slow service, blaming a post-COVID labour shortage for the failure to recruit enough counter jockeys, but that wasn’t what was on her mind. “He’ll be pissed when he gets inside,” she said of her husband, at that moment pumping diesel into their very large white pickup.
“Two hundred and ten bucks to fill the tank,” he began, then adding the further cost of four jerry cans, at five US gallons apiece, strapped into his truck’s tub. Total purchase just just shy of $300 but a smart move all the same because, at current estimates, the US has only 25 days’ of diesel fuel in reserve, which is why the price is $6 a gallon and rising. And it gets worse. Because of Pennsylvania’s key part in the early days of America’s late-nineteenth century oil boom, many homes in the northeast still depend on oil heating to keep the winter outside. There is a ‘strategic reserve’ but the worst estimate reckons it would be exhausted in a day; the more cheerful sees no more than an additional three days’ reprieve.
And then there is other ‘strategic reserve’, the one supposed to keep American cars on the road and in which, incidentally, Australia’s emergency oil reserves reside, courtesy of a 2020 decision by the Morrison government. Should the Albanese government believe those stored stocks will be needed it should get them to this side of the Pacific quick smart as the Biden administration has been making deep inroads into the reserve to increase supplies and lower prices. Amazing, isn’t it, how even the most market-averse governments suddenly appreciate the law of supply and demand when an election is in the offing and petrol costs between $3.80 and $5.50 a gallon, depending on the different states’ varying taxes.
Outside on the highway, eighteen-wheelers thundered past, their every mile adding further oomph to overhead costs, retail prices and, of course, inflation. Biden went cap in hand to the Saudis and came away not with more oil but less. Similar overtures to Venezuela met with no more success, hardly surprising given that the US has imposed sanctions on both countries.
So here we are, the Democrats staring into the abyss, with nothing to boast about and less than a week to go. Nothing for it but to keep cranking up the hate, and if that means depicting Paul Pelosi’s attacker, a drug-addled hippy nudist and all-round nut case as a typical Republican, so be it. Beyond that there’s only cheating, and there will be plenty of that too.
Roger Franklin has been travelling in the US and will be in Washington on election night
Thanks Roger. Terrific writing and reading, keep it up.
P.S. I need hardly add that if I was an American voter….. I’d be voting Republican big time.
If I had a hammer,,,
The hammer of Justice?
Light-hearted references to a vicious, violent
assault against Nancy Pelosi’s husband are distasteful and below what this publication should stand for.
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It’s even worse than the political exploitation of the issue by Joe Biden.
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both helped to split the US political establishment. Neither is totally blameless. But Joe Biden seems particularly hypocritical because he made such a specific claim about how he’d unite all the US. Donald Trump had been more about changing things and draining the swamp.
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However before Donald Trump the political establishment on both sides of politics was relatively united around policies that disenfranchised many from middle and lower income families. They were especially betrayed by the Democrats even though they were part of their traditional constituency. ( Shades of Labor here). Black voters had also been disenfranchised.
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It helps explain why Donald Trump was able to win the presidency in 2016, coming from virtually nowhere without the help of many prominent Republicans. Donald Trump was also supported by more black voters than any Republican presidential candidate had been in recent history.
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Before Donald Trump the US political establishment had also been relatively united around policies that had downplayed the threats coming from the countries which represent the two obvious threats for democracy in the world and risks to the world’s well being, economic and safety wise. It’s quite telling how those threats have increased so markedly during Donald Trump’s absence. Ukraine was invaded under Barrack Obama and now under Joe Biden.
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Also in the short time Joe Biden has been in office North Korea has started emerging as a more worrying threat again. It wasn’t totally neutralized by Donald Trump but was reduced as the threat that it had been under Barrack Obama.
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Fortunately for us Donald Trump’s influence against the biggest threat in our region has lingered on in Democrat policy. To do otherwise would have been very politically damaging for them because Donald Trump had permanently changed the perspectives of voters in the US on the issue.
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Donald Trump was eventually defeated – I’d argue largely because of covid and the establishment in all its guises seeking retribution. I think any incumbent US President would have been in trouble with covid because arguably the perspectives on the loss of any freedom by US citizens are totally different to European, Asian countries and Australia. Covid has now been defused as an issue. Cost of living pressures overshadow it completely.
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The polls have definitely turned far more favourable for the Republicans. And it’s not hard to see why.
But unlike in the US the left is completely in the ascendancy here.
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And it’s not hard to see why. It’s pretty easy when there’s absolutely no effective opposition.
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The opposition here is mainly a nodding, fence sitting farce – spending most of its time waiting for gotcha moments to pin on the government. And the polls clearly show the people are awake to them.
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These opposition times are valuable periods for the Coalition to be developing credible policies and holding the government to account like the oppositions of John Howard and Tony Abbott did.
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If the Coalition doesn’t wake up very soon it will become irrelevant for many years to come.
The only nodding, fence sitting farce here is # balanced observation whose contribution to this site during the height of Covid mania are an abject lesson in small minded flag waving me tooism of totalitarian overreach and scientific illiteracy masquerading as informed contributions which history has subsequently proved to be as worthless as those offered by BO above.
Citizen Kane
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Really so I’m now capable of “totalitarian overreach”?
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That’s just a little extreme isn’t it? I don’t have that sort of power. You’re overestimating my influence.
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I simply do what I can with argument.
I notice you aren’t though. You didn’t bother to debate what I said. You simply attacked me personally.
As is typical of a cherry picker, you neglect the bit prior to ‘totalitarian overreach’ which said ‘small minded, flag waving, me tooism…’ in other words – barracking. And I for one won’t forget your personal attack on a WA teacher who published on this site his objection to a mandatory and near useless jab with an experimental DNA / RNA manipulating drug. But hey claim the victim status if you like- it’s a good fit.
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You still haven’t bothered to debate the points I made here, preferring to refer to other articles. And you talk about me “cherry picking”.
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And just to put you straight. I think anyone reading my comments here will know I don’t make personal attacks on people. I debate with people.
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For a good example I invite people to look at the style of the comments you made about what I said and how I replied to them.
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My views on vaccination might have seemed like “totalitarian overreach” to you but they were pretty mainstream. Governments and the mainstream parties on both sides of politics had similar views.
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I know a lot of people got extremely angry over the vaccination debate and I was sorry to see it. It doesn’t help anyone. I found there were a few who seemed to get so incensed that it was impossible to carry on a civilized debate. (It can be a bit like that with with climate zealots). I don’t intend to open up a debate here with you over compulsory vaccination.
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You also claimed I was a “fence sitter” and at the same time guilty of “totalitarian overreach” and “narrow mindedness”. Do you realise how incongruous those remarks are?
‘I know a lot of people got extremely angry over the vaccination debate and I was sorry to see it.’ Do you mean your comments to the WA Teacher that you thought it appropriate that he lost his professional vocation of many decades because he refused to be vaccinated? I invite readers here to revisit those comments. Readers might also like to be reminded of your attacks on Emeritus Professor Clancy’s contributions on COVID therapeutics on this site through nothing more than pure ignorance and arrogance on your behalf.
‘My views on vaccination might have seemed like “totalitarian overreach” to you but they were pretty mainstream. Governments and the mainstream parties on both sides of politics had similar views.’ Like I said small minded, flag waving, me tooism.
Finally, I don’t waste my time debating ill informed, vacuous and pretentious commentary such as yours. Commentary that had a flawless record of being flawed throughout the Covid mania. Commentary that did not show the slightest concern for the harms that such inhuman, illiberal and draconian measures have caused. And to then have the hide to assume some moral high ground in regards to Roger Franklins observations here. You have once again demonstrated a complete lack of any capacity for self-reflection.
So, forgive me dear reader if I can’t help but voice my contempt for the likes of #Balanced Observation, an individual who is a poster child for the ‘I was happy to trample all over basic human freedoms and champion totalitarian overreach, but can’t we just forget about that and move on ‘ brigade. Never- or lessons will never be learned.
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Citizen Kane
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You still have completely avoided debating what I said here. You seem to be intent on introducing the debate on vaccination policy here when it was decided politically a long time ago.
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My views on vaccination were pretty mainstream – very similar to the views of all governments in Australia both Coalition and Labor.
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I do not attack people personally – I debate with them. I invite people to look at any of my comments in Quadrant to see that, including the articles you referred to elsewhere in Quadrant.
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I also especially ask people to look at the style of comments you’ve continued to make here on this article and how I’ve responded to them.
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You really seem to lack a sense of perspective when you assert that I’m “happy to trample all over basic human freedoms and champion totalitarian overreach” – because I happen to support the actions that our democratically elected governments of both sides of politics, Coalition and Labor, took on vaccination policy.
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You obviously don’t want to debate what I said here but would rather attack me personally for supporting what our democratically elected governments decided on vaccination. As I said before I’m not prepared to open up a debate here on what our governments did on vaccination.
In reference to Citizen Kane Above.
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I wish I’d recalled this earlier or gone back to the article Citizen Kane referred to earlier. It would have saved a lot of wasted time above.
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In a comment to me on that article a year ago Citizen Kane referred to me as less than a human being. I told him at the time I refuse to debate with someone who says I’m below a human being. And I stopped debating.
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So now that I’ve had my memory refreshed , you’ll know if you see a comment attacking me by Citizen Kane in future I won’t reply. No matter how easy it would be. And it’s pretty easy. Even if it were like shooting fish in a barrel – I won’t be replying. I simply don’t debate with people who use language like that. I find it’s a waste of time.
So alongside being a rank hypocrite – you commence your contribution here by attacking the author of the article – and your distinct lack of empathy you also defend your lack of capacity for critical thinking thus, ‘ because I happen to support the actions that our democratically elected governments’. Another one of Lenin’s useful idiots.
As you well know – my reference to you as inhuman was in response to your attacks on the WA teacher which were completely devoid of any empathy whatsoever. Why? Cause my guberment said so! When people wonder how Hitler managed to bring the German populace with him, look no further than the likes of BO.
No apology to me needed. I stopped reading BO after his WA teacher diatribe.
Indeed, a very balanced Observation, but given the gaping holes in Pelosi’s story it’s difficult not to make light of it.
Thanks for your comments 27Hugo27. I appreciate them.
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As I said Joe Biden appears to be exploiting the situation for political ends, and that is very concerning. He’s exploiting everything he can because things are going so wrong for the Democrats.
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There may be a number of differing stories about what happened but there is an 82 year old American in hospital with a fractured skull. I do think it’s distasteful to make light of it. I’m not suggesting you are though.
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I think making light of it makes it harder to hold Joe Biden to account for exploiting the situation by attempting to link it to Donald Trump and his supporters.
Referring to the two cops as “poor buggers” seems a little unfair.
“Unfortunate sons”, perhaps?
Whenever some unhinged young man drives a truck into, shoots up, or bombs a crowd of people in the name of Islam, the left ties itself up in knots trying to avoid laying the blame where it obviously lies, with the backward theocrats whose primitive ranting spurs these crazies on. How bizarre to see the same twisting and turning here. The blame for what this deranged man did lies with the foolish man-child Trump and his mendacious schtick about a stolen election.
Sindri, your own TDS slip is showing. How to connect this – more holes than Bonnie and Clyde’s last ride – story to Trump? Last time i looked, your girl Shrillary is in denial over 2016.
My girl? Hillary? How does that work?
Roger Franklin is perfectly entitled to make a pertinent comment that highlights just how much confusion and possible obfuscation lies behind the ‘hammer attack’ situation in which Speaker Pelosi’s husband found himself embroiled and, importantly, is now being used to make Democrat political capital.. Information on who called the police saying the man later termed an intruder was a named in the call as a friend, and why these two were in savage disagreement rather unclad, let alone how he gained entry to supposedly secure premises, all remains to be yet forthcoming. The mainstream Democratic media here in the US, where I am currently also experiencing the mid-terms, all run for cover and are crazy enough to try to paint the hammer-wielder as a right-wing lunatic; whereas he’s been found living in a derelict bus, a suspect paedophile, as part of a hippie commune with a range of itinerant Democrat-fanciers, whose political signage suggests Biden leanings.
If Mr. Pelosi’s privacy is to remain protected, then the Republicans are correct to wish him a speedy recovery, as they do, but also to say that Mr. Pelosi has just received a taste of the violence and mayhem that ordinary people in American cities have been experiencing due to Democrat border, welfare, homelessnes, policing and drug policies.
Yes Elizabeth, it’s almost impossible to take this story at face value. Add the Napa Valley crash where the passenger airbag went off, signifying 2 people in the car and one can’t have much sympathy for the man.
Thanks Roger, a terrific update from the trenches. Look forward to more. Re the German lexicon, a disturbed friend once included the term Schadenfreude in a text he sent me, composed by thumb, which confirmed my suspicions about his mental state.
Shades of coverup for Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned at Chappaquiddick 50 years ago, in a car driven by Democrat Ted Kennedy. The brutal, crude political spin at that time was new to me and many of my friends here in Oz, as we viewed on our new-fangled TV sets with horror at and disbelief of the special circumstances afforded to the politicians. Truth was redefined. Sympathies to the Kopechne family for such shoddy treatment – I hope that over decades they have survived the ugly lies that were spun.
This recent Pelosi affair with the hammer seems to be showing special circumstances again. Senior Democrats again. One unspoken version of the truth, another to feed to the chooks.
Cars and accidents. Special circumstances seemingly enforced when a cyclist met the government car driven by a lefty Premier’s wife a decade ago. Allegedly, normal police procedures like alcohol tests, drug tests, photography of tyre marks, might not have been conducted. (These are allegations abundant in the media, not my inventions.)
Who else is sick and tired of the dishonesty, the duplicity, the lawlessness of most of of the present political class here at home? Abroad, who cannot be astonished by the new PM of GB re-enforcing a fracking ban when the country is and will be short of much-needed gas for energy and heating, with deaths forecast from a lack of gas?
Relatedly, has anyone found out who told hopeful Treasurer-to-be Josh that there would be consequences if he did not agree to net zero by 2050 or whatever dribbly rubbish was being pushed? There used to be a more honest time when brute enforcers could be charged with illegality. There was a time when it was impolite for one in power in Country A to interfere with the politics of Country B.
It has been sad to see erosion of long-cherished notions like honesty, forgiveness, courtesy, manners, innocence, gentle conduct, concern for the wellbeing of others in my lovely Australia over my 80 years.
Thank you for reading my words. Geoff S
Well Geoff , I for one enjoy reading your posts . and just as Kopechne’s death didn’t hinder Teddy K , Sadly the media and police will cover for the Pelosi’s and business as usual is the default.- nothing’s changed in over 50 years !
The intruder has been charged with attempted murder. He is staring down decades, maybe the rest of his life, in jail. If he was Paul Pelosi’s rent boy he would have said so, for leverage, and in order to cause maximum embarrassment. Instead, he told police he wanted to smash Nancy Pelosi’s kneecaps and he wanted to do it to other democrats. He will of course have another opportunity to spill the beans at his trial. Does anyone look worried?
It’s all very well to encourage absurd conspiracy theories to avoid the obvious conclusion that this is a deranged man influenced by trump’s disreputable stolen election nonsense, but odd to see such conspiracies presented as respectable in Quadrant.
Sindri
Let’s wait for the judgement from the trial. Even then we may never know the full facts here.
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At the moment there’s far from an “obvious conclusion” to these events as you say there is.
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There is not, as you assert, an “obvious conclusion”, that this is a deranged man influenced by Donald Trump’s election claims.
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Confidently pushing your own theory, as if it were the “obvious conclusion”, tends to make your call condemning conspiracy theories ring a little hollow.
Balanced O, thanks. I think there are two things here. One is this nutter’s motivations and I agree that will become clear sooner rather than later. I have my suspicions and others have theirs. The other is this idea that he was there having a gay assignation with Paul Pelosi. It is curious how ready some conservatives are to engage in the pathetic, hysterical social media pile-ons that they rightly condemn when the left do it, based on a few disjointed alleged facts. Let’s assume for the sake of the argument that Pelosi did say that a “friend” was with him. He is an 82 year old man enduring the terrifying situation of having a much younger and obviously deranged man standing over him at 2.30 in the morning, possibly with a weapon of some kind in his hand. What’s he going to say? ‘There’s a maniac in my house! He’s threatening me! Get here quickly!” Perhaps when Depape has his say we’ll discover that he is Paul Pelosi’s toyboy. I doubt it somehow. Just consider, however, if the victim was Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchanan. Would that lowlife with his eye on his ratings, Tucker Carlson, have done his smarmy little job on Pelosi? Would Trump have jumped on the bandwagon? Of course not.
For now, I think the head of the SF PD is just possibly more credible than Tucker Carlson on the matter.
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Thanks for your reply.
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As I said we don’t fully know what went on and the motivations behind it. And may never fully know.
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Just to make myself clear, we differ on that. You imply we agree. You seem to think the motivations behind the attack will become clear. I’m not so sure of that. We may never know. But we should certainly wait for more evidence before jumping to conclusions.
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Trying to use the situation for political ends is unacceptable. Trying to link it indirectly to Donald Trump and his supporters is trying to exploit a terrible incident for political purposes.
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I disagree with these words in your first comment:
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“It’s all very well to encourage absurd conspiracy theories to avoid THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION that this is a deranged man influenced by trump’s disreputable stolen election nonsense …”.
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That is not THE obvious conclusion at all.
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Also I find it distasteful that some commentators would make light of the attack which ended up with an 82 year old in hospital with a fractured skull.
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Doing that arguably makes it harder to hold people to account who seem to be trying to link the attack indirectly to Donald Trump and his supporters – that Trump and his supporters somehow indirectly motivated this man. Trying to link this to Donald Trump and his supporters is unjustifiably trying to exploit this horrible incident for political purposes.
Balanced, I know you disagree with me and it’s good that we can disagree in a civil fashion!
Sindri, it is important that we can disagree and still remain civil. It’s how democracies work best. Personal attacks and unacceptable language don’t help debate at all.
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Debating with people who use personal attacks and unacceptable language can be a very unpleasant and nasty experience which achieves absolutely nothing and can lead to a protracted and very disagreeable waste of time.
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Good the two of us can agree to disagree!
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I enjoy debating on Quadrant articles. It is usually a very rewarding and positive experience to test my wits in a civilized way with people here, and I’m very grateful to Quadrant and contributors for providing this opportunity.
Many of the comments on Roger’s article are a complete change from what I’m used to reading here. Is Musk’s take-over of Twitter, sacking half the staff, talking about respect for free speech etc driving this change? I’m not on Twitter so I could be wrong – a lot of pounding of key-boards has been involved here – even though no one here can, or perhaps should not, vote in the US in the coming days.
US citizens, entitled to vote, are as entitled as you and I to subscribe to Quadrant and comment.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott: “There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Pelosi knew this man. As a matter of fact, the evidence indicates the exact opposite.”
But of course he would say that, wouldn’t he. He’s part of the deep state. That nice Tucker Carlson knows what really happened.