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Berkeley's campus Republican club sees surge of interest following Milo debacle
KTVU ^ | Feb 02 2017

Posted on 02/03/2017 10:05:52 AM PST by Lonely Bull

BERKELEY, Calif. .(KTVU) - U.C. Berkeley Police officers were standing by Thursday evening, for the weekly meeting of the Berkeley College Republicans.

It is the organization that invited alt-right firebrand Milo Yiannopolous to campus the night before.

His appearance was cancelled when organized agitators invaded a peaceful protest, setting fires and breaking windows at the Student Union venue.

"Milo had a right to speak, Milo should have been allowed to speak," declared club President Jose Diaz, to an overflow club meeting of some thirty students, some spilling into the hall.

UCB estimated the campus property damage at $100,000. But the club says it's doing better than ever.

"We're actually going to probably grow," exclaimed member Tom Tatum, "and that's the absolute irony of all this, that we're probably going to expand,"

Chimed in fellow club member Matt Ronnau: "Now it's national news. People all over know about it. So I think the protestor's plan backfired."

(Excerpt) Read more at ktvu.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: backfire; berkeley; california; college; collegerepublicans; gop; interest; milo; miloyiannopolous; republican; republicans; riot; ucberkeley; violence; yiannopolous
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1 posted on 02/03/2017 10:05:52 AM PST by Lonely Bull
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To: Lonely Bull

Very encouraging!

Word to the wise, Mr. Diaz: the University is going to try to pin the blame on you.


2 posted on 02/03/2017 10:09:01 AM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Lonely Bull

Fiscal conservatism is the new punk rock.


3 posted on 02/03/2017 10:09:04 AM PST by struggle (The)
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4 posted on 02/03/2017 10:11:01 AM PST by dragonblustar (I love to read Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: Lonely Bull

“If THAT’S the opposition, I’m sticking with Trump!”


5 posted on 02/03/2017 10:11:45 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lonely Bull

This is what the rent a mob doesn’t understand


6 posted on 02/03/2017 10:14:02 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dragonblustar

Note to Berkeley rioters: if you’re breaking glass at night because a Jew is speaking, you’re not protesting fascism. You are fascism. — Sean Davis


Repeating as easy-to-copy text.


7 posted on 02/03/2017 10:18:15 AM PST by samtheman (Trump won bigly. Trump governs bigly. His critics don't get bigly.)
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To: dragonblustar

I thought Milo was a Catholic. Seriously. I watched the video from the night before Bezerkly... He was wearing a crucifix. He has an entire speech on how Catholics are the best religion. I think he has a Jewish parent.


8 posted on 02/03/2017 10:19:00 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Lonely Bull

Sound like the far left has overplayed their cards. The moderate leftists aren’t joining in. The only ones following are the politicians and the press. Keep it up and the Dems will fade into the past.


9 posted on 02/03/2017 10:28:53 AM PST by dgbrown
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To: Lonely Bull

Be very careful of these new “members”. They may not be your friends. Watch them carefully and don’t hesitate to toss them on their ass if they’re infiltrators.


10 posted on 02/03/2017 10:30:39 AM PST by wrcase
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So membership in the Berkeley GOP club has surged from four to ten members-—a 250% increase.


11 posted on 02/03/2017 10:32:28 AM PST by huckfillary
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To: Lonely Bull

These rioters are the trained pit bulls of George Soros.

A pit doesn’t contemplate why he is told to “sit”, “stay”, ot “”attack”, he just reacts to a command he knows will lead him to a “reward”.

Most of these dogs of Soros don’t know why they riot, and destroy, just just want that “treat”. Most probably don’t realize that THEY are the “fascists” that THEY are protesting.

Haters, thugs, and pyromaniacs...it’s their vision of an exciting evening.


12 posted on 02/03/2017 10:40:31 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Mercat

I understood him to be half Jew, half Greek.


13 posted on 02/03/2017 10:43:34 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (:^)
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To: FrankR

Arson is among the worst of felonies. Anyone caught in the act who doesn’t immediately desist should be shot, just as would be an armed robber.


14 posted on 02/03/2017 10:58:08 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: Mercat

With a Greek last name, he’s maybe Orthodox


15 posted on 02/03/2017 11:05:12 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Mercat

With a Greek last name, he’s maybe Orthodox


16 posted on 02/03/2017 11:05:18 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Lonely Bull
I'm surprised...

That Cal Berkeley has a Republican Club...

17 posted on 02/03/2017 11:50:47 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: SMARTY

No. He’s Roman Catholic.


18 posted on 02/03/2017 11:59:29 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Steely Tom

If the cops had been authorized to gather and process, say, a hundred of these punks, they probably would have discovered three things. One, at least half weren’t students. Two, a fair percentage would have been from out of town, maybe out of state. Three, they were all organized by outside parties. This was a rent-a-mob.


19 posted on 02/03/2017 12:14:52 PM PST by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: Lonely Bull

Elsewhere: his advance book sales (on Amazon?) are up 12,700%. Pretty anemic, if you ask me.


20 posted on 02/03/2017 12:34:00 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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