Posted on 03/05/2010 3:38:38 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Rick Wilson says live on MSNBC: “They’re going to have to put a bullet in Donald Trump” (2015)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700514/posts
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NBC’s Kate Snow: Here’s why we didn’t publish that story on Avenatti’s 2nd witness until now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3700551/posts
[Slow-walked vetting and decided it was ‘old news’ while activists were scratching at the court house doors.]
Facist Book-burning Conspiracy in Social Media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3700566/posts
[Informative link-fest.]
Possible new keyword: digital bonfire
Obama keeps stepping in it ...
Obama relates to gun control following Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700469/posts
[Some smart alec posted a few ‘Fast and Furious’ links.]
[I would like to add that there is a possible reason for 0’s anti-semite foreign policy — he once said that the most beautiful sound he ever heard was the muslim call to prayer.]
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Obama Says Politicians Lying Is Something ‘We Have Not Seen Before.’ Here Are Three Of His
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700436/posts
[Just three?]
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Obama endorses Congressional candidate whose grandfather was a terrorist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3700447/posts
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‘Nobody in my administration got indicted’: Obama rips Trump for ‘making stuff up’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700309/posts
Amazing what his goons got away with:
— Targeted IRS audits of the Tea Party.
— Corruption in Obama Stimulus [aka ‘Pork-ulus].
— Fast and Furious.
— The Clinton Foundation Scandals — most corrupt ‘charity’ foundation in world history.
— Russia’s purchase of US uranium mining rights.
— New Black Panthers get away with illegally intimidating voters.
— Hillary’s illegal email server.
— Obama’s illegal communications with Hillary’s server.
[And most of this thread — all kinds of scandals. The ‘legal’ moral turpitude was even more profound.]
Thug-o-crat dominance on parade:
California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700500/posts
Despite all the wealth in the state and the Democrat control of state government, California actually ranks as the poorest state in the country after costs of living are factored in. A whopping 19 percent of Californians live below the poverty line. While California represents just 12 percent of the nation’s population, Californians represent a third of all Americans on welfare. The average monthly cost of rent in the state is 43 percent higher than the national average. Nearly a third of Californians spend more than half of their earnings on housing. The situation is made worse by skyrocketing energy... [snip]
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Embattled Ellison launches counterattack on GOP opponent
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700295/posts
“Ellison is a woman-beating advocate of shariah law.” — sunkenciv
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RINO Thug-o-crat:
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: ‘Important’ That Dems Take Back Congress (Bush/McQueeg aide)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3700490/posts
Current hot thuggery update:
PITTSBURGH: Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers is Jew-hater and Trump-hater - Another Deranged Leftist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700413/posts
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[I was just beginning to wonder if I was actually wrong about something and then...]
?MAGA? Bomber Mystery Thickens ...
Cesar Sayoc: ‘MAGA Bomber’ Facebook Betrays Democrat Trump Infiltrator, Anti-GOP Posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700331/posts
My Space has a Cesar Sayoc - says he’s a Democrat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700112/posts
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People openly speculating that this has the markings of a CIA ‘false flag’ operation. Note next link:
Schumer: Intelligence Community May ‘Get Back At’ Trump For Tweets-VIDEO {Remember when!?!?!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700326/posts
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Reporter Has Details of Cesar Sayoc’s 2002 Chilling Bomb Threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700221/posts
[quote]
...threatened that something would happen to the FPL representative if they cut his electricity.
In another report from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office, Sayoc was upset about the amount he was being billed, and told the FPL customer service rep “FPL will get what they deserve and will be worse than 9/11.” He reportedly told the customer service rep that he “doesn’t make threats, he makes promises,” and stated that he was “going to blow her head off.”
[unquote]
[More updates above — including California being the poorest state in the US and ‘Obama keeps stepping in it’.]
Talk about ‘thug-o-crats’!
NBC Sat On Info That Undermined Kavanaugh Accusers...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700109/posts
FRAME-UP.
Conspiracy.
Against a Supreme Court Justice nominee.
They have done far worse than this, such as covering up China-gate and File-gate. But this example is clear-cut. Quick and easy to understand.
Rush Limbaugh said it best:
the DRIVE-BY MEDIA.
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Andrew Gillum Billed FBI Undercover Agent $4,386 For Fundraiser, Never Disclosed In Finance Reports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700281/posts
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House Dems urge Pompeo to condemn ‘Trump of the Tropics’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700404/posts
[Brazil wants gun rights. But thugs like to shoot innocent people at will without anyone shooting back.]
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Claire McCaskill’s husband invested in pro-veteran properties that tried to evict homeless vets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700059/posts
[More updates will be added below.]
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James T Hodgkinson—This guy used real bullets not fake bombs, let’s remind liberals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700148/posts?page=15#15
Post 15 is Sunkenciv’s latest Thugocrat research [long link list]
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Guatemalan Authorities Rescue Group of Minors from Human Smugglers in Caravan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3699947/posts
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Thugs Run Philadelphia:
“Gosnell” Movie Not Even Shown in Philadelphia Where Abortionist Ran His House of Horrors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700415/posts
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Palestinians, buddies of the thug-o-crats...
Palestinian teen icon Tamimi urges more assaults on Israeli troops
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700153/posts
— rejects two-state solution —
[To reject the two state solution is to demand that Israelis submit to Muslim law and Sharia law and Palestinian dominance/vengeance and pay tribute to the ‘superior faith’. Or it could mean driving the Israelis into the sea.]
Mexico Offers Asylum To Caravan – Their Response Speaks Volumes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700508/posts
Several thousand Central American migrants turned down a Mexican offer of benefits if they applied for refugee status and stayed in the country’s two southernmost states...
[They want to bring their flags here in ‘Evil Trump’ territory.]
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Social Media’s Thuggish Conspiracy Pieced Together
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3700831/posts
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Thug-0-crat updates
Caravan refuses housing, jobs in Mexico: ‘We want America’...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700508/posts
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Ann Coulter: Caravan Migrants Conveniently Coming to ‘Biggest Welfare State in the World’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700772/posts
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11-year-old raped in NYC public bathroom...
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/11-year-girl-raped-in-public-bathroom
[Did not load page and don’t need to — give transgender ‘self-identity’ more privileges and expect to see a lot more.]
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Special Thug-0-crat Update:
Antisemitism and Anti-Israel = Anti-Trump and Pro Soros.
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Differing ways of thinking about anti-semite massacre:
While Conservatives Pray the the thugs bray:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700789/posts
HORRIBLE! Raging, Screaming Leftists Interrupt Moment of Silence for Tree of Life Victims – Screaming Insults at Marsha Blackburn and Lindsey Graham (VIDEO)
Protesters trash Marsha Blackburn and Sen. Graham GOTV Rally [Video and Separate Article link]
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CNN host: ‘Direct line’ between Trump rhetoric on immigration and synagogue massacre
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700833/posts
“...agreed with Camerota that there is a relationship between Trump’s words against immigrants and the shooter’s motivation.”
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Robert Bowers named as Pittsburgh shooting suspect who ‘believes Donald Trump is controlled by Jews’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700742/posts
Fascists in FoxNews Kick Denounce Judicial Watch — ‘anti-semitic’ against a NAZI collaborator [Soros]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700650/posts
Fox Business on Sunday said it pulled an episode of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that contained what critics said was anti-Semitic sentiment just a day after a gunman killed 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
In the segment, Judicial Watch official Chris Farrell claimed a Central American migrant caravan moving towards the U.S. southern border is being funded by the “Soros-occupied State Department.” Farrell was referencing George Soros, a Jewish billionaire and political activist who routinely funds Democratic candidates and initiatives.
“We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight. This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings,” Fox Business senior vice president of programming Gary Schreier said in a statement.
A spokeswoman said Farrell “will no longer be booked on Fox Business Network or Fox News Channel.”
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Fascists in Washington Post use anti-Israel Jew as mouthpiece:
“Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700229/posts
[Any Jew who smears Trump is ‘anti-Irael’ — self-evident.]
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Tom Steyer, Non-Jew, Accuses Kevin McCarthy of Antisemitism for Criticizing Him
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700699/posts
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Trump mocks ‘crazed & stumbling lunatic’ Tom Steyer, after billionaire rips president’s rhetoric
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700705/posts
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The UN Wants to be Our World Government By 2030
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3700394/posts
[Just look at their ‘ethics’ committees — the UN is a pack of thugs.]
Bears repeating: NBC conspired to help frame a Supreme Court Nominee.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3700551/posts?page=41#41
Nutshell: NBC conspired to slow walk vetting. And then while frenzied leftists were scratching at the court house door NBC ‘decided’ it was ‘old news’.
[I linked to post 41 because sunkenciv summarizes with his latest Kavanaugh link-list [most likely his final one].
Thugs Lose Brazil — Jair Bolsonaro WINS and ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700768/posts
... Brazil regains gun rights and self respect and all the civility that goes with that.
Civilization returns to Brazil.
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Trump Congratulates Brazil’s Bolsonaro On Presidential Win
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700774/posts
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Wants to privatize state companies and open up other forms of free market revenue. Even I cringe, wondering what might happen to the Rain Forest — but that’s Brazil’s land, not ours:
Fireworks on Copacabana Beach...
https://apnews.com/d1a52960f0fe41ed877b37f87579533e
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Merkel out in Germany
https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-merkel-allies-threaten-quit-coalition-183733506.html
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US Universities Have Taken Over $614,000,000 From Saudi Arabia Since 2011
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700773/posts
“This explains a great deal, for it is not only true that “these gifts and contracts, in some instances, are intended to influence students’ and faculty experts’ views on the kingdom”; it is also true that these gifts and contracts are intended to influence students’ and faculty experts’ views on Islam, jihad and Sharia.”
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Drunk students overload ER, cause mayhem at University hospital...
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article220233790.html
FRiends — I’m feeling even more optimistic than before this weekend.
Rasmussen POLL: TRUMP APPROVAL 50%...
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_oct29
[After ALL they threw at us.]
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Thug-0-crat Research:
— Their ?-MAGA-? bomber claims are self-detonating. [post 231]
— Their absurd claims of ‘anti-semitism’ are about to self-detonate as well.
— Elmer Fudd could obliterate Obama’s absurd rants.
— NBC is now exposed as CONSPIRING to help frame a Supreme Court Justice.
— Brexit on the move in UK. Merkel is out in Germany. Brazil has dumped leftist thugs.
— Social Media is exposing itself to be utterly thuggish. They conspired secretly on this current ‘election plan’ which is being carried out.
After this election we will have significant leeway to straighten out the internet. [Finally!]
— Even FoxNews joins the Soros-Thug kabal.
— Cavavan ‘outs’ itself by refusing Mexico incentives.
— Ann Coulter: “Caravan [seeking] biggest welfare state in the world.”
— Saudi contributions to US ‘higher’ learning: $614,000,000 From Saudi Arabia Since 2011. — seeks to soften image of muslims as well as Saudi Royals. Dear dear, what a pickle for academe.
www.cnsnews.com
[part of web addrees mangled by google...]
judicial-watch-sues-obtain-anti-israel-boycott-records-obama
Roundup of Sunkenciv Pings [more or less]
New York Times headline Smears Trump Supporters as ‘White Nationalists’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701070/posts
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NYT tries to blame all of the violence on Trump’s resistance to caravan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701038/posts
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School Which Taught Only Muslims Saved on Noah’s Ark is First to be Fined for Opening Illegally
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3701057/posts
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US government punishes broadcaster for saying truth about Soros
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701072/posts
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Hillary’s team not backing her...
Team Clinton says there’s no way Hillary’s running again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701059/posts
[If she pulls out her blackmail file I suspect they have blackmail files of their own after Wikileaks.]
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Beto O’Rourke — the kind of swamp creature both sides hate.
Beto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700866/posts
“Mr. O’Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhoods,” said David Dorado Romo, a local historian who says the episode resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.
Barrio residents feared they would lose their homes through eminent domain, and a city-funded branding study suggested that the residents of El Paso were perceived as “dirty” and “lazy.’’
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Hillary Clinton: They (blacks) all look the same.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701048/posts
[They will be ‘cool’ with it. But then Step Two — what if Rush Limbaugh says the same thing? Heads would explode.]
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Fox News’ Shepard Smith on caravan of migrants: ‘There is no invasion’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701077/posts
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Half Of Americans Say Trump Has No Responsibility For Mail Bomber’s Actions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701101/posts
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WATCH: Leftist Claims Trump Has ‘Radicalized’ More People Than ISIS, Panel Explodes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3701036/posts
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GQ columnist apologizes for claim Trump radicalized ‘more people than ISIS ever did’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701052/posts
[More decent than most leftists]
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Trump says media is ‘Enemy’ after shooting, bomb plot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700834/posts
Trump tweeted: “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news.” He added that the media “must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.”
BOOM!
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NYT suddenly changes its tune ...
New York Times: Florida, Pittsburgh suspects ‘responsible for their own actions’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700996/posts
[Don’t blame the media for believing its lies.]
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Anti-Semitism of Never-Trumpers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700837/posts
“[What about] a former president shares the stage with and gives credibility to Louis Farrakhan, one of the most rabid anti-Semites in the US, as if that’s normal and OK[?]”
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Anti-Semitism in ‘Higher’ Learning
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700835/posts
NYU student Senator-at-Large Rose Asaf tweeted that student senators would propose a Boycott, Divest, and Sanction resolution (BDS) against the state of Israel at the university senate meeting on Nov. 1. [snip]
[Votes will be conveniently anonymous.]
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After They Put Up a Trump Yard Sign, Their HOA Targeted Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700827/posts
The development was new, with an HOA managed by a management company.
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Lindsey Graham: Radical Left can ‘kiss my ass’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3700983/posts
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43 Shot, Five Fatally, over Halloween Weekend in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3700965/posts
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Sunkensiv’s massive Brazil link list:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/3701084/posts?page=17#17
Cher Leads Hollywood Freakout over Brazil Election: Bolsonaro a ‘Pig’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701031/posts
[How dare the rubes arm themselves against our precious thugs?]
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China Panics over Bolsonaro: ‘Unthinkable’ for Brazil to Align with U.S. and Taiwan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701040/posts
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I posted a roundup of your latest pings. You are doing OUTSTANDING work!
Now for this morning’s digest:
TRUMP PLANS TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
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Painting of Jesus survives 7-alarm fire that burned Massachusetts church to the ground
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3701079/posts
[Said to be a miracle “completely unscathed”.]
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China military ordered to ‘prepare for war’ with west...
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Florida GOP headquarters hit with bullets in possible ‘drive-by shooting,’ party leader says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3701114/posts
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MS-13 INFLICTS “REIGN OF TERROR” IN CALIFORNIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701115/posts
How brutal murders and fear kept a town silent. MS-13 is like no other gang.” That may sound like President Trump at one of his rallies but it’s actually the headline of an October 19 Fresno Bee story by award-winning reporter Yesenia Amaro. “MS-13 carved out a reign of terror,” she writes ... [snip]
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Gen, O’Shaughnessy We Will Secure the Border (video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3701083/posts
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BORDER BATTLE: 750,000+ pending cases before U.S. immigration courts...
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SPLC Leads Soros-Funded Groups in ‘Orwellian’ Attempt to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ on Social Media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701109/posts
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Craziness: Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc And Stormy Daniels Worked at the Same Strip Club (VIDEO)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701088/posts
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LAUGHTER, JOKES ON FOXNEWS SEGMENT ABOUT TERROR FALLOUT?
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Ruh-roh — censorship in Brazil
New President to remove ads from ‘lying’ media outlets...
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New Brazil President To Close “Palestinian” Embassy: “You Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701116/posts
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GUNMAN SHOOTS OUT WINDOWS OF REPUBLICAN OFFICE IN FL...
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179 Trump death threats still live on TWITTER...
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/179-death-threats-against-president-trump-are-live-on-twitter/
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Mayor presumes that President’s presence would dishonor funerals...
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals not Trump’s visit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701087/posts
[Rabbi contradicts him 100%]
PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE RABBI: DONALD TRUMP ‘CERTAINLY WELCOME’ FOLLOWING TREE OF LIFE SHOOTING
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701117/posts
“I’m a citizen, he’s my president. He is certainly welcome.”
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Back in 2012
Pro-family group gets SWATted: Website shut down after LGBT activist threatens company
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701085/posts
(LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts pro-family organization MassResistance had its website shut down after a homosexual activist sent threatening e-mails to its webhost, including personal information such as the owner’s home address.
Thought I’d try something new — assume you are on sunkenciv’s ping list.
If not, post 235. Outstanding work.
Now for the morning digest [post 236]
TRUMP PLANS TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
Miracle: Painting of Jesus survives 7-alarm fire that burned Massachusetts church to the ground
China military ordered to ‘prepare for war’ with west...
Florida GOP headquarters hit with bullets in possible ‘drive-by shooting,’ party leader says
MS-13 INFLICTS “REIGN OF TERROR” IN CALIFORNIA [written by award-winning reporter aka ‘journalist’]
BORDER BATTLE: 750,000+ pending cases before U.S. immigration courts...
SPLC Leads Soros-Funded Groups in ‘Orwellian’ Attempt to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ on Social Media
Craziness: connection between ?MAGA? bomber and Stormy Daniels
Censorship Brazil post-election as well as toughness against Islam
Rabbi welcomes Trump while mayor insults him. Pittsburg
Now on Free Republic breaking news ...
Trump to terminate birthright citizenship
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701119/posts
Thanks for the ping.
A Brief History Of Leftist Political Violence This Year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3701453/posts
On September 9, Rudy Peters, the Republican running for Congress in the 15th District in California, was attacked by a knife-wielding man shouting, “F___ Trump”.
The attacker, Farzad Fazeli, an Iranian Clinton supporter, had previously posted, “Don Trump won’t clean his own house, so he’s too dirty to know right from wrong. Impeach/incarcerate him before more children die. P.S. complacency is worse than being the shooter.”
The next month, Shane Mekeland, a Republican running for the Minnesota House of Representatives, suffered a concussion after being punched in the face at a restaurant. “You f____g people don’t give a s___ about the middle class,” his assailant had shouted at him.
Mekeland is back on the campaign trail, while still recovering from the assault. “The media and the likes of Maxine Waters, Hillary, and Eric Holder as of late is driving this behavior,” he warned.
“If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, at a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Rep. Maxine Waters had urged an angry leftist mob.
Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general and a possible 2020 candidate, had urged, “When they go low, we kick them.” He had tweeted at Democrats, urging them to, “Use the rage.”
Hillary Clinton had told CNN, “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.”
Senator Hirono had refused to condemn the harassment of Republicans, telling CNN, “This is the kind of activism that occurs and people make their own decisions. If they violate the law, then they have to account for that.”
That same month, also in Minnesota, State Rep. Sarah Anderson, a Republican, was punched by a man when she tried to stop him from vandalizing her campaign signs.
Also in October, Kristin Davison, the campaign chief for Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for governor in Nevada, was left with pain and bruises after a confrontation with a Democrat operative. Her alleged assailant faces a charge of misdemeanor battery.
Three violent attacks on Republican political figures in just one month alone earned almost no coverage in the media.
Instead the media egged it on. Even the country’s leading leftist papers urged greater displays of rage.
October editorials, columns and op-eds in the New York Times included headlines such as, “Get Angry, and Get Involved,” “Tears, Fury or Action: How Do You Express Anger?”, “Fury Is a Political Weapon And Women Need to Wield It.”
The explosion of violence against Republicans in October was the culmination of a climate of crazed hatred, which lead to death threats, and when those were unaddressed, to actual physical violence.
In the two months from May to June, 30 Republican members of Congress were attacked or threatened.
These included, Christopher Michael McGowan who warned Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s staff, “I am not making a joke. I will kill him.” It included Steve Martan, a “pacifist”, who threatened to shoot Rep. Martha McSally.
E. Stanley Hoff was arrested for leaving a message for Rep. Steve Stivers warning the Ohio Republican, “We’re coming to get every g_____n one of you and your families. Maybe the next one taken down will be your daughter.”
Messages aimed at Rep. Tom Garrett threatened, “This is how we’re going to kill your wife”, and “This is what I’m going to do to your daughters.”
And Rep. David Kustoff was nearly run off the road.
In the middle of June, James Hodgkinson, a passionate Bernie Sanders supporter, opened fire at a Republican charity baseball practice, seriously wounding Rep. Steve Scalise, and Zack Barth, an aide to Rep. Roger Williams. Even though Hodgkinson had a hit list of conservative Republicans, Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Rep. Jim Jordan, Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith, the FBI denied that it was a political assassination.
In August, Carlos Bayon was arrested for threatening House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. “We are not going to feed them sandwiches, we are going to feed them lead,” he declared.
Law enforcement found bomb and assassination manuals in Bayon’s house.
Around the same time, DeReal Finklin, a registered Democrat, was charged for sending death threats to Rep. Christopher H. Smith. DeReal had also posted, “Anybody outside of my blood in Monmouth or Ocean County on my Facebook account, you are dead.”
In June, Laurence Wayne Key, a Democratic Party of Marin County volunteer, was arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Brian Mast’s three children.
“I’m going to find the Congressman’s kids and kill them. If you’re going to separate kids at the border, I’m going to kill his kids,” the Planned Parenthood supporter threatened.
In Florida, in June, Steve St. Felix was charged with threatening to kill Rep. Jose Felix Diaz.
“Ill kill your ass and you better not show up to the next rec meeting,” St. Felix, who can be seen grinning widely in his booking photo, warned.
In July, in Tennessee, Clifton Ward was indicted for threatening to kill Rep. Diane Black. In New York, Martin Astrof allegedly tried to run over one of Rep. Lee Zeldin’s campaign workers who had been recognized for feeding rescue workers at Ground Zero after 9/11.
Ian Nicholas Nix was arrested for threatening to kill South Carolina state Rep. Steven Long. Nix called Long “right-wing scum” and warned him, You’re a ____ dead man.”
Also in July, a man who threatened to chop up Senator Rand Paul and his family with an axe was arrested.
After months of this, the media did not relent. It poured more fuel on the fire. The death threats of summer then became the violent assaults of fall.
The media called this “activism”. It denounced Republicans for warning of “angry mobs”.
And now the very same media has suddenly decided that threatening and assaulting people whose politics you disagree with is wrong. As long as the political figures being assaulted are Democrats.
But it doesn’t work that way.
Democrats and their media allies have sanctioned violence against Republicans. They’ve defended harassment and even assaults as activism. They have embraced and celebrated hate groups. The mob culture they have brought forth is fundamentally changing the rules of American politics.
Once political terror is unleashed, it can’t be controlled or compartmentalized.
Leftists, who have written a bloody history of political terror from Europe to South America, from the Middle East and across Asia, and right back to America, ought to know that better than anyone else.
The Left has made it its mission to destroy America. This is what destroying a country looks like.
In academia, there is glib talk of overturning Western civilization. But without civilization, there is only savagery.
The mad toll of death threats and assaults, of shootings and harassment was unleashed by the Left. The hectoring media has made millions from it. Fortunes have poured into the war chests of radical Democrats. They can make it stop. Or they can go on feeding the beast while blaming conservatives.
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