Mike Lester for January 22, 2019

Meanwhile, immigrant children are still being separated from their parents! Meanwhile, thousands of Americans who work for the rest of us are undergoing unnecessary hardships!

[ Neither of which is newsworthy to Lester! ]

Also " Bombs mailed by Trump Supporter to everybody who criticized Trump" " Alt right rally murders woman/ fires guns into crowds" and all the time Trump called for direct violence against people who opposed him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-the-united-states-right-wing-violence-is-on-the-rise/2018/11/25/61f7f24a-deb4-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.fb41ed1b6a50

“…While the data show a decades-long drop-off in violence by left-wing groups, violence by white supremacists and other far-right attackers has been on the rise since Barack Obama’s presidency — and has surged since President Trump took office. …”

Next: “It never happened.” “Your news is false.” “Its ok when the right does it.”

When Eric Holder said “When they go low we kick them”, he followed up, clarifying that “we will not do anything illegal”. There was actual violence at Trump rallies. Please watch and read with the context.

You know, when all the rhetoric about the imagined dangers of immigrant “caravans” led to an actual mass murder at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Mike Lester was conspicuously silent. The same was true about the wave of bombing attempts on Trump critics. What loathsome hypocrisy. But he’s regularly more concerned with imagined dangers than with real ones.

@crgigoux — Tragically, some ‘conservatives’ consider themselves to be “compassionate!”

In Lester’s world Oklahoma city was perpetrated by Liberals. As well as abortion clinic bombings, the Las Vegas shooting and Newtown, Which may or may not have been an “false Flag Attack”

Coming from the trump camp, that is really week.

“I’d like to punch him in the face”. (That coward would never even try).

“Go ahead and punch him. I’ll pay your legal fees”. He is too cheap.There are plenty more. On tape.

Give it to Mikey, he’ll eat anything!

This is the deep end Mr. Lester is leaping over.

^ Some would consider “voter suppression” as intolerance. Now, do you wonder which political party has engaged and still engages in voter suppression?

Mike doesn’t seem to understand the significance of those headlines. Violence by the left is so rare, when it does occur it draws great attention. Violence on the right, however, is so common it’s hardly even noticed anymore.

“breitbart.com” – stopped reading there.

And without reading the link: I’m betting they namecheck Richard Spencer getting chinchecked. That was not a crime, sir. That was an act of public service.

Lyin’ Mike is at it again. That list of “violent” acts is mostly a list of rude behavior, jackassery and name-calling, leavened with an unhealthy dose of outright falsehoods. There are a batch of empty threats of violence listed, no worse than the sort of responses people who support him control regularly get from "2nd Amendment activists. "

The dishonesty of the list’s compiler is easy to see by checking the “sources” it cites. Item 102, for example, “‘New Yorker’ Kills Trump,” refers to a cartoon showing Trump taking a pratfall on an escalator, and surviving. Item 299, “‘Trump’ is stabbed to death in front of cheering audience in Central Park,” is cited to another Breitbart article which says nothing about a cheering audience, and which gets basic information about the Shakespeare play very badly wrong — Caesar is not murdered at the end of the play, as the Breitbart writer says, but at the beginning of Act III. Breitbart’s version makes no sense, since the heart of the play deals with the consequences of the assassination, which it presents as disastrous. No act of violence whatever here, but an argument against killing Trump.

And the Breitbart list is pretty neatly bookended by two acts of right wing mass murder, the Charleston church shooting and the Pittsburgh synagogue murders, each taking a greater toll than all that left-wing “violence” combined. But, hey, in Lesterworld all those deaths don’t outweigh rudeness to Sarah Sanders or Stephen Miller.

Because this is much more important than 800,000 Federal employees going without pay for a month thanks to the Shutdown that Trump was proud to take the blame for. Might want to stop looking through that straw mike.

Great cartoon, Mike!

Right on the mark. Those who accuse Trump supporters of hatred and incitement do these things for a living.

OH, WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE RACIST CHILDREN!!!?!

Ahh! Mikey plays the victim card. And no mention of all the right wing incitement that’s led to a spike in hate crimes across the country.