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Trump Supporters on Reddit Are Mailing Salt to the New York Times
Breitbart ^ | 11/23/2016 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 11/23/2016 11:40:11 PM PST by NYRepublican72

Reddit users have begun a campaign titled #SendEmSalt where they send The New York Times offices large bags of salt, ridiculing the publication for their angry (or “salty”) reaction to the election of Donald Trump. Users in /r/The_Donald, Reddit’s largest Donald Trump supporting community, posted a thread three days ago titled, “#SendEmSalt: An attempt to deliver 1 ton of salt to the New York Times”. Within the thread, user /u/njmksr writes, “While I was viewing the frontpage today, I was inspired by one ‘Pede’s [a term short for centipede that refers to Trump supporters] act of sending the NYT 25 pounds of salt. So, I thought we could follow in this brave patriot’s footsteps and pool together to send the New York Times an entire literal ton of salt.”

The symbolic gesture of sending bags of salt appears to be a commentary on what many of Reddit’s President-elect Trump supporting community view as an angry reaction to the election by the New York Times. Donald Trump himself has claimed that of all publications, the NYT treated him “the roughest of all”. “ I have great respect for The New York Times. Tremendous respect. It’s very special,” said Trump in a meeting with the NYT,

“I think I’ve been treated very rough. It’s well out there that I’ve been treated extremely unfairly in a sense, in a true sense. I wouldn’t only complain about The Times. I would say The Times was about the roughest of all.”

According to /u/njmskr on Reddit, a total number of 105 twenty-five pound bags of salt have been sent, 16 more than was needed to make up the full ton of salt that users hoped to send to the New York Times offices.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: licktheirwounds; media; mediabias; msm; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; salty; trump
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That's quite salty. Hopefully, quite a few other news sources will pick up on this.
1 posted on 11/23/2016 11:40:11 PM PST by NYRepublican72
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To: NYRepublican72

Oh, we should be mailing something else to the Slimes that starts with “S” and ends with “T.”


2 posted on 11/23/2016 11:43:06 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: NYRepublican72

Instead of salt:
http://poopsenders.com


3 posted on 11/23/2016 11:46:04 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: fieldmarshaldj

but they are already full of it


4 posted on 11/23/2016 11:51:51 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: NYRepublican72

Here you go ...

5 posted on 11/23/2016 11:55:10 PM PST by Zakeet (I haven't seen Democrats this pissed off since the Republicans forced them to free their slaves)
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"I would say The Times was about the roughest of all."

B.S., The Washington Post made the election coverage from The New York Times look positively fair by comparison.

6 posted on 11/24/2016 12:10:09 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: NYRepublican72

I’ll send butthurt ointment.


7 posted on 11/24/2016 12:12:31 AM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Zakeet

Please call it lefty tears, or scare-quote the word “liberal.”

The modern “liberal” movement is a quite thoroughgoing hoax. A more illiberal phenomenon, one would be hard pressed to identify.


8 posted on 11/24/2016 12:36:30 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: NYRepublican72

excellent!


9 posted on 11/24/2016 1:08:48 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Abbie Hoffman, in his book, Steal this Book, suggested mailing a frozen fish - timed to arrive on Saturday - to corporate mail rooms. Never tried it, although I was tempted on occasion.
10 posted on 11/24/2016 1:25:15 AM PST by kitchen (If you are a violin bow maker or restorer please ping me.)
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I wonder if he ever considered we’d be contemplating using such tactics against his own fellow leftists once they got into power ?


11 posted on 11/24/2016 1:37:37 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t like calling these folks “liberals”, either. The left hijacked the phrase which they’ve perverted into the opposite of what classic liberalism stands for, which was the ideology of the Founding Fathers. It’s not tolerant, it’s totalitarian intolerance. It’s not progressive or forward-thinking, it’s regressive, destructive, backwards and fails every time it’s tried. It’s not good, it’s evil.


12 posted on 11/24/2016 1:41:47 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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I was hoping they would rub some on their wounds....


13 posted on 11/24/2016 2:01:54 AM PST by Battle Axe (Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
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To: NYRepublican72

Don’t waste your money. Send a thank you to DT instead.
And don’t buy those papers! MAGA!


14 posted on 11/24/2016 2:45:06 AM PST by FES0844 (Gv)
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To: NYRepublican72
Do not look at the NYT or you will be like Lot's wife.
15 posted on 11/24/2016 2:53:29 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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I’d be careful with this. Mailing unlabled “white powder” could be viewed as terrorism....should the Times decide to get nasty.

The envelopes should be clearly labled many times...both inside and out....with something like “salt for your crow.”


16 posted on 11/24/2016 4:40:19 AM PST by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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I can remember long ago mailing tea bags to Congressmen. It was noted, but nothing really changed.

This election, may actually bear fruit.

God Bless the US, again.


17 posted on 11/24/2016 5:17:41 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: NYRepublican72

Salty? I thought salty meant naughty, as in “salty stories”.


18 posted on 11/24/2016 5:34:11 AM PST by Zirondelle ("disce aut discede")
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I also like salt as a metaphor for both “rubbing salt in an open wound” and “salting the earth.”

One means torturing someone who’s injured — like the New York Times —and the other means the total destruction of one’s enemies.


19 posted on 11/24/2016 6:10:03 AM PST by IronJack
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To: NYRepublican72

114 Debunked Trump-Inspired Hate Crimes

by S. Noble • November 24, 2016

http://www.independentsentinel.com/114-debunked-trump-inspired-hate-crimes/


20 posted on 11/24/2016 6:10:47 AM PST by KeyLargo
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