Posted on 07/22/2020 8:59:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’d like to say I’m surprised by this being Townhall.com, but I’d hate to lie.
Peaceful protests
Heavy handed? These treasonous bums need to be taken out and stacked like cordwood.
Townhall morphed into Mother Jones so slowly I hardly noticed.
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. That’s the propaganda machine, for ya.
“...In response to largely peaceful demonstrations against police brutality....”
Clue to where the author is coming from. Left of Trotsky.
I'm going to need to see some examples of this. I think President Trump has been more than reasonable.
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Sullum is for a non-interventionist foreign policy and has defended then-presidential candidate Ron Paul stating that it is inaccurate to call him an isolationist.[5] Sullum has also made the case that Presidents, including current U.S. President Donald Trump, have been reckless with the lives of soldiers.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Sullum
I agree! I was very surprised they didn’t dig deeper and learn the Fed police didn’t search out and arrest protesters but rather they arrested rioters who had committed criminal acts against federal property. That is job they have a duty to perform.
Jacob Sullum - Reason.com
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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason and a nationally syndicated columnist.. Sullum is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004 ...
What is with Townhall? There have been two anti-Trump articles posted most recently.
This article brings up the specter of Richard Nixon?! Who gives a flip?
BLM is a Marxist sham. Everybody sees whats going on.
The chattering class is so out of touch.
They seemed very conservative in the late 90s. I've seen it happen with other publications, so it must be a communist tactic.
National Review and Reason magazine, for example.
“...largely peaceful demonstrations...”
“...aerial fireworks including mortars; high intensity lasers targeting officers’ eyes; (and) thrown rocks, bottles, and balloons filled with paint...”
“...United States Courthouse has been vandalized repeatedly...”
attacking a U.S. Marshals Service deputy with a hammer on July 11...”
“...
Wow this guy is a horrible anti-Trump propagandist. He says lots of things without any real back up. Like that Nixon reference. He seems to be for many things Trump is for. But always figures out how Trump can be wrong in being for the same things. This is of course a sneaky propagandist trick to separate Trump from his followers. The whole point of these guys on the right is to weaken the rights message.
He’s getting rightfully brutalized in the comments.
Looks like theres a fair amount of distance between the definitions of peaceful and largely peaceful.
I read two paragraphs. How in the world did this moron get onto Townhall? If anything, Trump has shown remarkable restraint with the Insurrection Act (military), but at the same time, has been actually DRAGGING HIS FEET with getting civilian federal agents into these places to both deal with people committing federal crimes (rioting, treason, etc.) and protecting federal properties.*
Heavy-handed??? Pffffft!
*I’ll admit I’m not sure how much the usual restrictions on federal action (getting permission from a sheriff — actually in the US code — or a governor) applies in this emergency.
Trump's heavy-handed response to protests against police brutality belies his promise of "law and order." https://t.co/mW3udjImA8— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) July 22, 2020
For Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, betraying Trump meant staying loyal to the law. https://t.co/A0mSkuXtdi— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) July 15, 2020
Why does Trump want to stop people from voting by mailand why does he think he has the power to do that? https://t.co/GR2NkK9N0U— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) May 21, 2020
It's not fake news: Trump did actually suggest that injecting bleach could be a cure for COVID-19. https://t.co/GanIaUp693— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) April 24, 2020
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