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Don’t Get Played; Get Woke to the Outrage Scam
Townhall.com ^ | June 21, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/21/2018 5:04:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Ha! Emotional blackmail doesn’t work with me... otherwise I’d already BE a Liberal.


21 posted on 06/21/2018 5:35:46 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Lazamataz

Sometimes reasonable men have to do unreasonable things. Martin Heemeyer.


22 posted on 06/21/2018 5:36:24 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: marktwain

Oh, so which eggs will need to be put in front of the fir...er broken?


23 posted on 06/21/2018 5:36:35 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: wastoute

I think it’s the only reasonable, gentle option.


24 posted on 06/21/2018 5:38:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Lazamataz

The days of “gentle” are closing fast...


25 posted on 06/21/2018 5:39:17 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin
What outrages me is how much is it costing us to put these kids in cages? Or even worse as I heard on the news last night, flying them to some detention center in Maryland. Really? Enough, just send them back out into the desert.

BUILD THE FREAKING WALL!

26 posted on 06/21/2018 5:39:17 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Kaslin

Poor, poor children! Undoubtedly forced to use the whiteman style toilet and eat white bread!


27 posted on 06/21/2018 5:41:11 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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To: Tench_Coxe
My thoughts aren’t quite so vivid.

O! You have no idea.

Cinematic-quality, fountains of bright-red blood arcing across the sky, with the howling of millions of leftists in eternal pain, their skin shredded by automated picking machines, their eyeballs plucked out by corkscrew eye-removers.....

.... excuse me, I have to go, I'm getting aroused.

28 posted on 06/21/2018 5:41:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Kaslin

Yesterdays leftist outrage : Trump splitting families up
Its a lie that the law requires this,

Today leftist outrage : Trump keeping families together.
the law requires that they be split up


29 posted on 06/21/2018 5:41:54 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: Kaslin

This is a very important article, and as usual Kurt schlichter has it exactly right. Do we notice how four days ago no one was talking about kids in cages? Now every day, every article, every single news item is how Trump is such a evil bastard for putting children in cages and separating families. Two weeks ago it was Stormy Daniels. 2 weeks before that it was a 25th amendment and how some professor at MIT who is working on her thesis has remotely diagnosed Donald Trump with Dementia or some psychological disease. Two weeks before that it was Russian collusion. Two weeks before that it was Trumps abuse of women.

What has become clear is that the population of this country is so gullible, and so clearly unable to assess the situation in which they are being propagandized. A perfect example is that picture of the two year old girl on the border crying to her mother. We all know that in the history of humanity, no two year old girl has ever ever ever cried before, no, not before Donald Trump came along. No two year old girl has ever cried because she didn’t get a cookie. No two year old girl has ever cried because she has to pee or is hungry or is cold.

And we think that we are smart or I should say idiots think that they are smart, because they look at this picture they think that they know what the girl is thinking. Then we bring the photographer out who is looking to sell a book and he says “I was so moved by the little girl that I couldn’t help but take her picture over and over again” and they bring this guy on CNN. And then you read the comments from liberals, so. “ if I could just reach into the screen I would take this girl into my heart.” None of this of course ever happened before one week ago. No. That doesn’t mean that we can look at a picture and immediately know what is going on. It’s actually far more likely that we look at a picture and we must immediately stop to realize that we are probably being propagandized before seeing it on CNN. It’s completely disgusting, to me.


30 posted on 06/21/2018 5:46:41 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Envisioning
Yup. I agree. Quit mucking about. Nobody should get in this way. Asylum seekers go to consulate, not try to sneak across the border. Invaders get turned back — or imprisoned if they are wanted for crimes or have pulled this nonsense before. Fingerprint or dna-swab them, check if they're known criminals or if they are smuggling drugs (since they have presented the opportunity). If they are not the parent of any children in tow, lock them up for human trafficking. If they are clean, send them away.

Yes indeed, build the wall already!

31 posted on 06/21/2018 5:47:41 AM PDT by JustSurrounded
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To: Kaslin

Bookmarked.


32 posted on 06/21/2018 5:48:26 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Fair Paul
State of Fear by Michael Crichton has a similar theme and made me realize that the media is all about creating fear and crisis.

Learning about the Spanish-American War and Hearst should have done the trick, but I was slow. My awakening was many years ago when I stumbled across some editorials by H.L. Mencken that excoriated both the press (media) and - as Mencken termed him - King Roosevelt II for manipulating the voters through manufactured fear and mass hysteria.

33 posted on 06/21/2018 5:51:28 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77

Well, you woke up earlier than I did, lol. It’s been going on a long time.


34 posted on 06/21/2018 5:58:34 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

it’s selective outrage...selected by the FakeNewsMSM.

after all, where is the FakeNewsMSM when it comes to the ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE of the FBI/DOJ attempted subversion of a presidential election and the continuing attempted coup?

where is the FakeNewsMSM when it comes to the TOTAL OUTRAGE over the continuation of the Mueller “investigation” of phony Trump/Russia collusion - an investigation which exists only because it provided an “insurance policy” for the coup plotters?

the FakeNewsMSM decides whose outrage to report, inflate.

could it be the media’s choice of outrage - anything anti-Trump - is also the FakeNewsMSM’s own “insurance policy” to cover for the its complicity in attempting to subvert the 2016 presidential election?


35 posted on 06/21/2018 5:58:36 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Kaslin

They have all the propaganda vehicles, MSM, to create the outrage. The MSM is the greatest enemy of truth.The liberal mouthpiece.


36 posted on 06/21/2018 5:59:51 AM PDT by Lent
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To: Kaslin

What is today’s 2 Minute Hate?


37 posted on 06/21/2018 6:17:06 AM PDT by gasport
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What is today’s 2 Minute Hate?

I just saw it on the local news.

Apparently, Kevin McHale (or someone who looks like him) was spotted at the Trump Duluth rally yesterday. Now, SJWs took to Twitter demanding that McHale no longer be allowed to be associated with the NBA because Trump.

-PJ

38 posted on 06/21/2018 6:29:24 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Socon-Econ

Graham screwed the pooch on this one.

We’re done with him.


39 posted on 06/21/2018 6:36:00 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: MAGAthon

You’re right. There is nothing wrong with outrage per se. It is the choice of outrage that gets focused on.


40 posted on 06/21/2018 6:43:39 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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