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Donald Trump’s base is itching for a fight
The Chicago Sun Times ^ | November 23, 2018 | Gene Lyons

Posted on 11/23/2018 2:24:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As the Trump Dynasty stumbles into misrule and failure, how long before the first well-known journalist gets murdered?

With the president designating the news media as “enemies of the people,” unstable personalities like pipe-bomb mailer Cesar Sayoc and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter have been shaken loose from their moorings.

Imitators surely will follow.

Not that there’s anything new about it. Soreheads have been menacing journalists since the invention of newspapers. Recently, a man in Mountain Home, Arkansas, was charged with terroristic threatening after repeated phone calls targeting CNN’s Don Lemon.

I wondered if he was the same idiot who used to call my home 20 years ago threatening rape and mayhem. At age 39, he appears too young. But more about that to come.

Two things are different about the current menacing climate: One is that left-wing cranks have gotten involved. Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s wife was recently menaced by a crowd of “anti-fascist” protestors at their home. Activists affiliated with “Smash Racism D.C.” banged on the door, chanting, “We know where you sleep at night!”(continued)

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1 posted on 11/23/2018 2:24:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Republican Softball team shooting already happened. Uneducated journalist.


2 posted on 11/23/2018 2:30:03 PM PST by Shanty Shaker
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“As the Trump Dynasty stumbles into misrule and failure, how long before the first well-known journalist gets murdered?”

A Chicago media outlet is concerned with murder in the streets?

Since when?

3 posted on 11/23/2018 2:30:16 PM PST by jeffersondem
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Tricky part is commenting without getting a FRacation.


4 posted on 11/23/2018 2:31:09 PM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do they not realize they have been labeling us as nazis, racists, haters, etc., for years now? Did they think nothing would come of it? Kinda sucks when your BS is turned around on you.


5 posted on 11/23/2018 2:33:00 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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Two things are different about the current menacing climate: One is that left-wing cranks have gotten involved. Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s wife was recently menaced by a crowd of “anti-fascist” protestors at their home. Activists affiliated with “Smash Racism D.C.” banged on the door, chanting, “We know where you sleep at night!”

I'm surprised this idiot brought this up.

The only ones itching for a fight around here are leftists. And if they don't want a journalist getting killed, then they need to stop the violence they've started.

End of discussion.

6 posted on 11/23/2018 2:33:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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For the first time in a generation , 70 million red blooded patriots have a leader worth fighting for


7 posted on 11/23/2018 2:33:40 PM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President!)
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In other words, the deep state is going to murder a journalist, or several, and try to blame it on Trump.


8 posted on 11/23/2018 2:34:18 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history? The)
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Journalists get murdered all the time in Mexico. Maybe the Accoster should go to Mexico City and lobby on their behalf.


9 posted on 11/23/2018 2:36:07 PM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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Why don’t they investigate thoroughly the Clinton Murder accusations? I.e. Who killed Seth Rich? Go ahead impress us!


10 posted on 11/23/2018 2:37:07 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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If you think about it - the Deep State DID murder a journalist.

The Saudi Deep State murdered that Khashoggi guy. Yet all our gerbilists can do is whine that Trump didn’t do enough about it.


11 posted on 11/23/2018 2:38:43 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“As the Trump Dynasty stumbles into misrule and failure, how long before the first well-known journalist gets murdered?”

We are NOT the ones causing harm here, but the so-called journalist seems to want some sort of war.


12 posted on 11/23/2018 2:41:52 PM PST by madison10
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The media is absolutely full of people with big egos who want to ‘make a mark on the world’, and generally had no other venue or outlet in which to pursue this self-centered mission. They are often very cutthroat in this pursuit, and their behaviors are in stark contradiction to the ‘egalitarian’ ‘tolerant’ inclusive’ world view they so superficially embrace and virtue signal with.

The media have hurt many, many people in society, and both rationalize and justify their irresponsible and dangerous behaviors by invoking the first amendment - all the while trampling on the rights of others, ruining lives, and supporting suppression of the first amendment rights of those they disagree with.

They have propagated hatred against many, but now cry foul as they are criticized in society. No one is advocating for violence against journalists. Many are, however, advocating for a ‘redo’ of the media, with a focus on truth and neutrality. They have applauded the ‘reform’ of so many things and professions in society, but now balk when it has become irrefutably clear that it is way past time for reform of their vehicle for stature and relevancy.


13 posted on 11/23/2018 2:43:53 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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Donald Trump’s base is itching for a fight
Donald Trump’s enemies are itching for a martyr.
14 posted on 11/23/2018 2:45:41 PM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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We are winning. Why give the enemy a reason to stop us? The pipe bomber and Temple shooter were left wing fanatics. All of the rhetoric for war and violence is coming from the left. Go Fish SunTimes. You got nuthin.


15 posted on 11/23/2018 2:45:43 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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"Lyin" Gene Lyons is still alive?   thinking face

We haven't heard much from his old pal, Joe "Dead Eyes" Conason.

I just thought the lying old blowhard Lyons had cashed in his chips, being 10 years older than sociopath Conason.

16 posted on 11/23/2018 2:46:00 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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It’s not the journalists who want a war. It’s their deep state handlers.

They want to plant the idea in your mind that the journalists should be thought of as the targets of violence. Then they want to induce you to be violent.

What they don’t know, probably from simple stupidity, is Trump supporters don’t do that kind of thing.


17 posted on 11/23/2018 2:46:13 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history? The)
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No, you guys have been trying to get it started for a LONG time. When we finally respond, now WE are itching for a fight. Cowards. Always hiding behind the peanut gallery commentary.


18 posted on 11/23/2018 2:47:00 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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If Trump’s base were itching for a fight, and Trump’s base has most of the guns and ammo in the country, it would’ve been done and over already. We don’t want a fight, we just want our country back.

It’s the left that’s violent and rabble rousing.


19 posted on 11/23/2018 2:48:19 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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No raving lunatic bias from that journo, nope, none, every word straight down the middle.


20 posted on 11/23/2018 2:48:20 PM PST by JPG (MAGA!)
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