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I was never impressed. Just another intolerant liberal, exacerbating rather than healing. I'm watching Fox News, with Vice President Pence and others saying "Ohh, such a great colleague, even when we disagreed, he'll be missed..." This, of a guy who was a hyperpartisan, and part of the cancel-culture Democrat hit squad. I'll forever remember him by this: In a January 2016 interview, Lewis compared Donald Trump, then the Republican front-runner, to former Governor George Wallace. "I've been around a while and Trump reminds me so much of a lot of the things that George Wallace said and did. I think demagogues are pretty dangerous, really... We shouldn't divide people, we shouldn't separate people."[105]
On January 13, 2017, during an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd for Meet the Press, Lewis stated: "I don't see the president-elect as a legitimate president."[106] He added, "I think the Russians participated in having this man get elected, and they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. I don't plan to attend the Inauguration. I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians, and others, that helped him get elected. That's not right. That's not fair. That's not the open, democratic process."[107] Trump replied on Twitter the following day, suggesting that Lewis should "spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to [...] mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results," and accusing Lewis of being "All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Sad!"[108] Trump's statement about Lewis' district was rated as "Mostly False" by PolitiFact,[109] and he was criticized for attacking a civil rights leader such as John Lewis, especially one who was brutally beaten for the cause, and especially on Martin Luther King weekend.[110][111][112] Senator John McCain acknowledged Lewis as "an American hero" but criticized him, saying: "this is not the first time that Congressman Lewis has taken a very extreme stand and condemned without any shred of evidence for doing so an incoming president of the United States. This is a stain on Congressman Lewis' reputation – no one else’s."[113] The New York Post noted that Lewis used the "same unfounded, cookie-cutter personal attacks against Republican after Republican".[114]
A few days later, Lewis said that he would not attend Trump's inauguration because he did not believe that Trump was the true elected president. "It will be the first (inauguration) that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right," he said. Lewis had failed to attend George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001 because he believed that he too was not a legitimately elected president. Lewis' statement was rated as "Pants on Fire" by PolitiFact.[115][116][117]
Yeah, what a great guy, what a peacemaker and uniter...  Part of the Democrat-Bolshevik mob is more like it.
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I think maybe we can agree that pence was being insincere. As Trump’s vp it’s a requirement.
I’m truly sad about a truly great man passing.
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I think maybe we can agree that pence was being insincere. As Trump’s vp it’s a requirement.
I’m truly sad about a truly great man passing. V P Pence was endeavoring to be polite. And I understand that, at least until recently, House and Senate members were friendly toward each other, even though they disagreed politically. The current level of hatred and uncivility is completely a circumstance caused by the Democrats, despite the best efforts of Republicans, Trump included, to reach out, whether in cordial gesture, or for purposes of attempting bipartisan legislation on behalf of the American people. Attempts slapped away by House and Senate Democrats, despite Republicans' best efforts.
- from Do Racists have lower IQ's...
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
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Pence in the 90’s worked to convince companies not to hire gay people. Lewis on the other hand was fighting for rights decades prior to that. I think your posts speak for themselves when it comes to partisan hatred.
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In This Thread: A silent explanation of why John Lewis was an incalculably better human being than Wondy will ever be, and why he's already missed incalculably more than Wondy would ever be. Hurling shitbird fashie insults at a civil-rights icon in a post announcing said icon's death? Get fucked.
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In This Thread: A silent explanation of why John Lewis was an incalculably better human being than Wondy will ever be, and why he's already missed incalculably more than Wondy would ever be. Hurling shitbird fashie insults at a civil-rights icon in a post announcing said icon's death? Get fucked. Always a pleasure, Sammitch. It's a simple fact that Lewis partisanly boycotted the inaugurations of both presidents W. Bush and Trump, and was part of the kneejerk liberal slander tactic and cancel culture to brand their conservative opposition racists and white supremacists at every turn, for decades, to advance themselves by dividing the nation with identity politics. Show me what I cited (quoted from leftist Newspeak best-possible-spin at Wikipedia, no less) that is incorrect. Those are the facts. Facts that have to be glossed over to sell the narrative that Lewis was a peacemaker, rather than the vicious partisan he truly was. I even gave Lewis the out of saying that maybe in earlier days he was a more noble man, before he became a partisan cornerstone of the Democrat Party of Hate. Ironically, they are the ones who truly are consumed with hate, as they endlessly slander good people as racists and bigots, for decades, just to leverage a political win, and to advance their Cultural Marxist cause. Lewis will be missed as a weapon of that cancel culture, and those who mourn him will go on for a few decades burning and looting and blacklisting in his name. Until we go the way of the Soviet Union and Maoist China, and Cuba and Nicaraagua and Venezuela. Those are the kind of people I don't want to be mourned by, and weaponized by. So you can take your sanctimony and go straight to hell.
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. I was recently reading an article where black civil rights acivist Julian Bond was mentioned. I refreshed myself on what he was about, a black civil rights activist from 1959 forward. He started his activist career visiting Cuba immediately after Castro's revolution, and speaking glowingly about how starstruck by by the charisma of Castro and his revolutionaries, and the wonderful society they had built in Cuba, a praise of Cuba that Julian Bond never renounced, even when the arocities were clear over the last 60 years. It's hilarious how benevolently Julian Bond is portrayed in his Wikipedia listing, where it doesn't even mention he was a lifelong member of Students for a Democratic Society, Communist Party USA, and other Soviet Union-funded communist front groups for 40 years, or Bond's undermining the United States and deliberately fomenting division and revolution in the United States over all rhe decades of his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_BondThen I went over to his DiscoverTheNetworks listing, that says the quiet part out loud, what Julian Bond was really about : https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/julian-bond/Among the things listed is that Julian Bond was elected to and held local and state political offices in Georgia, but when he ran for office as a Georgia U.S. Representative, he was beaten in that election by... John Lewis, another leftist activist, with a similar radical leftist history deeply rooted in communist groups, that has likewise been glossed over, by an American Left that writes their own softer version of the actual facts : https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/john-lewis/- RADICAL AND COMMUNIST TIES :
In 1963 Lewis was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
From 1962-64, Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCAHUAC). He also served as a vice chairman for the “Southern Region” of NCAHUAC’s successor organization, the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation.
In 1964 Lewis paid tribute to Norman Thomas, a six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality.”
At a 1965 banquet in Terre Haute, Indiana, Lewis was the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America. That same year, Lewis wrote an article lauding Paul Robeson, who had been a CPUSA member and a devoted admirer of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, as an “Inspirer of Youth,” for the CPUSA propaganda magazine Freedomways. And at a gala event celebrating Robeson’s 67th birthday in April 1965, Lewis stated that “we of SNCC are Paul Robeson’s spiritual children” because “we too have rejected gradualism and moderation.”
In 1966 Lewis was replaced as SNCC chairman by Stokely Carmichael.
When the U.S. Attorney General in 1966 sought to require the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America to register as a Communist-front organization under the terms of the Internal Security Act of 1950, Lewis protested stridently.
In their 1969 book Left of Liberal, Anthony Bouscaren and Daniel Lyons characterized Lewis as a “Marxist revolutionary” who “before turning over the chairmanship of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael helped author that organization’s infamous call for draft evasion.”
Circa 1969 as well, Lewis served as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization dominated by the Socialist Workers Party.
In May 1973 Lewis was listed as a sponsor of “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a CPUSA front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis.
In 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies, a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies. Additional founders included Julian Bond, Marcus Raskin, and others.
In 1996, the Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee endorsed Lewis’s congressional campaign.
In August 2003 Lewis contributed an article to the CPUSA newspaper People’s Weekly World, titled “An Open letter to my Colleagues in Congress: Remembering the Legacy of Martin Luther King.”
In November 2007 Lewis was a special guest at the Democratic Socialists of America’s national conference in Atlanta, where he introduced Bernie Sanders to those in attendance.
On August 24, 2012, Lewis attended Women’s Action for New Directions‘ celebration of the 10th anniversary of its “Stand for Peace,” which had called for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reductions in U.S. military spending, and increased expenditures on social welfare programs and environmental initiatives. Several Democratic Socialists of America members were present at this anniversary event.
In 2013 Lewis received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Midwest Academy. In 2014 and 2015, he served on the Gala Host Committee at the Midwest Academy Awards Ceremonies.
In March 2015, Massachusetts CPUSA leader Gary Dotterman described Lewis as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend.”
That's one hell of a lot of communist radicalism for Wikipedia to just sweep under the rug and not even mention. Over 50 years of Comrade Lewis' dedication to the Marxist cause. Amazing how when the Democrat/Left writes history, they just sweep away all those Soviet/Communist front group associations, and outright Stalinism, and all the subversive revolutionary stuff they openly orchestrated, for decades. To rely just on leftist historians and the mainstream media, one would actually believe these two guys to be patron saints and great men of peace, instead of the America-hating Bolshevik revolutionaries they truly were.
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