"If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a dept. store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!" - Rep. Maxine Waters (D), 6/24/18 realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/…#ViolentRhetoric
"Michelle [Obama] always says ‘When they go low, we go high,'" [President Obama's Attorney General Eric] Holder told the crowd. "No. No. When they go low, we kick them." - 10/10/18 #ViolentRhetoricusatoday.com/story/news/pol…
“I hope Trump is assassinated.” - Missouri state senator Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D), 8/7/17 (2 months after the attempted assassination of Rep. Steve Scalise & other Republican members of Congress by a supporter of Senator Sanders) sacbee.com/latest-news/ar…#ViolentRhetoric
Sen. Hirono (D) ....refused to answer whether she thought harassing GOP senators in restaurants was taking things too far.-> “I think it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated about what is going on." #ViolentRhetoricdailycaller.com/2018/10/07/sen…
"Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor when we need him?" - Bette Midler, 2/8/18 #ViolentRhetoric
"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about." - Hillary Clinton, 10/9/18 cnn.com/2018/10/09/pol…#ViolentRhetoric
“It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.” -David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager, June 2016 nytimes.com/2016/08/04/us/…#ViolentRhetoric
'Here is Obama's former deputy SoS, Philippe Reines, excusing, and perhaps even promoting, attacking Mitch McConnell while he eats with his wife in a restaurant. McConnell "got away with murder" on Merrick Garland, so "this is fine."'
'Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party says it will suspend for one week a party official who wrote on Facebook that Republicans should be brought “to the guillotines” after Election Day.' - #ViolentRhetoricapnews.com/cd7c880bf8bb4d…
“Don't just interrupt a Senator's meal... Put your whole damn fingers in their salads. Take their [appetizers] & distribute them... Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility.” UM prof, campusreform.org/?ID=11416#ViolentRhetoric
“Look at thus chorus of [Senators] justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses & feed them to swine? Yes." #ViolentRhetoriccampusreform.org/?ID=11369
'On Saturday's edition of 'AM Joy' on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be harassed publicly as a "life sentence" for her role in promoting the Trump administration.' #ViolentRhetoricrealclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/…
"Let's make a deal with the Trump Administration. Reunite all these families immediately and you can go out to eat wherever the fuck you want." - John Legend
"We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will will stand up against the giant a--hole she is married to. " - Peter Fonda #ViolentRhetoriccnn.com/2018/06/20/pol…
"Sometimes I want to just see [Trump] impeached. Other times, quite honestly — I hope there are no FBI agents here — I wouldn’t mind seeing him dead." - Northeastern University political economy professor Barry Bluestone #ViolentRhetoric
One of the scarier aspects about the left & their #ViolentRhetoric is that these aren't juts "one-offs" - they want their political opposition, if not hurt or killed, to be punished for the *rest of their lives.* You shouldn't be able to work, live in the same neighborhoods, etc.
Also, according to the #ViolentRhetoric of the activist left, you shouldn't be able to own a business or even to walk peaceably down the street without being stalked, harassed, and vilified. For the rest of your life. Worse, still, is that much of this comes from ....
... "respectable leftists" -those who are journos, commentators, profs, "experts", rather than the stray far-leftist hunkered down in his bunker. The view that you should be punished for thinking differently is a MAINSTREAM belief of theirs, not fringe thinking. #ViolentRhetoric
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I'd like to alert ppl yet again to the duplicity & hypocrisy of the Charlotte @theobserver's editorial board. On Friday, they published a campaign ad for Gov. @RoyCooperNC's re-election campaign disguised as an informed critique/op-ed of his opponent @LtGovDanForest. #ncpol 1/
The @theobserver op-ed was written in the typical snide tone Republicans expect from them. Guess the ed. board hasn't considered the possibility that the reason they're begging ppl to buy $2/wk subscriptions is bc ppl are fed up w/ being talked down to, but I digress. #ncpol 2/
Back to the op-ed, it started w/ @theobserver using their go-to trick: falsely playing the race card against Republicans they don't like. They accused Forest of "dabbling publicly in white nationalism" while providing the very quote that shows the accusation is false. #ncpol 3/
Just some random thoughts about allegations of "fanning the flames of racism" that frequently get thrown around by the left. "The right" has been accused of racism for as long as I can remember, well before Trump, and oftentimes the only reason the accusation was made was ...
.. because the politician being criticized was black. Happen routinely during the Obama administration. There was literally NO criticism a Republican could make of him without a Democrat opportunistically accusing that critic of "racism." It happened over and over and over.
Fast fwd to Trump, where you have a president who has been called an anti-Semite and racist but who does things that anti-Semites and racists don't do, like the criminal justice reform bill and the strong alliance with Netanyahu.
I remember when Rashida Tlaib told Chelsea Clinton she deserved the harassment she got over speaking out against anti-Semitism yet Tlaib thinks the Squad should be insulated from criticism because they might be harassed? This woman is vile and dangerous.
This is one of many probs with "The Squad." They're supposed to be able to call you Nazis, child killers, etc but if you attempt to respond they'll tell you you're doing it bc they're WOC & you're putting their lives in danger so shut up. The Squad want to silence you. Period.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the firefighters in the MSM to call out this silencing tactic, though. They're too busy amplifying The Squad's silencing tactics, and @brianstelter is a perfect example of this.
Here's what the Judd Legums of the world, in all their "investigative reporting" about #NC09, won't tell you: That there have been complaints about ballot milling in counties in that district that pre-date 2018, and even 2016. Sit back for a bit let me tell you a story. #ncpol 1/
In the fall of 2010, Wilmington-based WWAY TV station did a series on "GOTV" activities in Bladen County - the county which is in the center of the *current* #NC09 storm. Here's the link to that story, which I'll be quoting from extensively: wwaytv3.com/2010/10/01/man…#ncpol 2/
From that 2010 story: 'We received a number of calls in response to [our series] saying we never mentioned the biggest player of all in the Bladen GOTV arena. It’s called the Bladen County Improvement Association, and it’s been operating for at least 30 years.' #NC09#ncpol 3/
I promised to post on the numbers I crunched earlier today along with some general observations about #NC09 in a tweet storm. Starting it now, will stop for dinner for a bit, then come back to it. Since this story has gone national, ppl want to know more so here goes. #ncpol 1/
First - some overall info: 282,717 ppl cast ballots in the #NC09 race between Harris (R) and McCready (D). As it stands now, the numbers are: 139,246 for Harris and 138,341 for McCready (a difference of 905 votes), and 5,130 for the Libertarian candidate Jeff Scott. #ncpol 2/
.@BowTiePolitics (Dr. Bitzer) did an in-depth analysis of the ABM percentages in #NC09, & my next series of posts relies on his percentages,tho most of the raw numbers from those I calculated myself, so if I get anything wrong, don't blame him :) oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2018/12/NCs-9t… 3/ #ncpol
When the Duke lacrosse rape allegations were made, they were presumed guilty bc they were "privileged" drunk white college boys. After charges were dropped & the DA disbarred, I'd hoped the MSM/leftists would have learned some lessons. 12.5 yrs later, sadly, that is not the case.
Obviously some of the particulars of the BK/CBF case are different, but the commonality is the "privileged white guy." I was taught growing up it's wrong to assume guilt based on race. The left is making it OK again -but it's not. Nor, in a civilized society, should it ever be.
The next time the left starts lecturing people about how they shouldn't use a person's race to determine their guilt, ask them on what basis did theydetermine Brett Kavanaugh's guilt, and then watch as they shut up or try to change the subject to avoid answering.