Let’s take a crash course on how to overcome logic and fact by applying some simple labels.
Caution: You’re dealing with a double-edged sword here, sometimes your words may come back to bite you.
Edited for brevity and clarity, the instruction begins.
A Chronicle commentary by John McCroskey: “Whiners Should Remember a Simple Fact — Sometimes You Lose.” (Nov. 25, 2016).
“Now that the election is over, it didn’t take long for the hypocrisy of some liberals to come out.
Remember when ‘they’ went apoplectic when Donald Trump said he would have to wait and see before he’d decide to accept the outcome of the election? Of course, when Hillary didn’t win, that changed everything, including accepting the results. The bad behavior, including riots we’re witnessing on TV news, is what they claimed we’d do if Trump lost. We’ll never know for sure because he won, but we don’t have a record of rioting. Instead, we’d be deeply disappointed for a few hours or a few even days, but somehow we’d manage and move on.”
(“We’ll never know, because he won” meaning Trump will “never” lose? Well we certainly do know now: the 2020 election was declared “stolen” even before it was held and still no “moving on.”)
“Some claim these peaceful protests are just part of the “healing” process … But calls and emailed threats to electoral college members demanding they vote for someone other than Trump is really over the top.”
(Calls to governors to find votes are “perfect.” Threats to those that count the votes? Also “perfect.” Presenting Mike Pence with an alternate Electoral College, and erecting a gallows for him when he refused to play along was also “perfect.”)
“It’s not just the hypocrisy, but the hysterical claims being made about what is going to happen that has tuned me out.”
(“Tuned out:” that explains a lot about all “the hypocrisy and hysterical claims” being made for the last three years.)
“These are just crybabies and proof of something I’ve said for years: Participation trophies were a bad idea and telling kids everyone is a winner is, too.”
(You’re right about that, but telling us that all “participating” Republicans are winners is “perfect.”)
“Well … sometimes you do lose and it’s a good lesson … these protesting, temper tantrum-throwing liberals would benefit from …Their (future employers aren’t) likely to provide cry rooms, play dough, crayons, and time off, safe spaces or safety pins so you can pout all day. The phrase they may hear one day is “suck it up, cupcake … Today, too many 18-plus-year-old crybabies can’t function over an election that didn’t go their way. What a bunch of wimps and whiners we’ve become.”
(“We” covers a little more territory than I think you’re actually willing to include.)
Class dismissed. Do your homework.
Are we now willing to assign these labels — Pouting, tantrum throwing wimps, whiners, crybaby criminals and cupcakes that should “suck it up” — to those that have worked so hard to earn them?
I mean, now that all the facts are in.
Dennis Shain
Centralia
