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Whatever Happened To The Populist Left?
American Conservative ^ | 1/22/2021 | Jeff Groom

Posted on 01/22/2021 10:57:09 AM PST by Onthebrink

Against the surreal backdrop of sometimes violent nationwide protests, one alarming story as reported by The New York Times seems to have slipped under the radar. Law enforcement arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man on suspicion of firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House. Several days prior to the arrest, the Secret Service had responded to reports of shots fired near the National Mall and pursued a vehicle departing the area on Constitution Avenue. They found the vehicle abandoned with an AK-47 and spent casings inside, and soon afterward extracted several bullets that had struck the White House. The suspect’s relatives told investigators he appeared to have a “fixation” on the White House and the president.

This really did happen, but it wasn’t during the chaotic “Stop the Steal” rally earlier this month, or even any of the fiery demonstrations across the country last summer. It was on Wednesday, November 16, 2011, during the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; banglist; democrats; donaldtrump; populism

1 posted on 01/22/2021 10:57:09 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

They are in full mode. They are attacking the dnc headquarters in portland.


2 posted on 01/22/2021 10:59:03 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: Onthebrink

Indoctrination. We let it happen.


3 posted on 01/22/2021 11:00:50 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: patriot torch
They are in full mode. They are attacking the dnc headquarters in portland.

That was my first reaction, too. They're breaking windows of government buildings in Portland and Seattle just like they have been for over a year.

4 posted on 01/22/2021 11:01:05 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: Onthebrink

The mask is off...

There was never any such thing as a “populist left”...
The communists are masters at hiding political truths...


5 posted on 01/22/2021 11:12:46 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Onthebrink

In 1992, Barbara Jordan (of Houston and pretty much the ‘mother of today’s black caucus’) went on the warpath against ‘illegal aliens’ - her term. Back then, the Democrats fought for the votes of the ‘workers’.

Then Bush Jr. and his open borders, and the California experience where they signed up millions of Hispanics, legal or otherwise, and instantly turned the state solid blue (it used to be toss-up, if not leaning Republican). The Dems saw that, jettisoned the ‘workers’, and went all-in on immigrants (all types).

So the ‘workers’ (some 40% of the country) were cut loose by the Democrats and the Republican leadership, being a bunch of TOTAL IDIOTS, ignored them, totally - until Trump.

Now they stuck with Trump, and cannot do a damn thing about him, since 95% of the base, including the ‘workers’, side with him over the pathetics.


6 posted on 01/22/2021 11:14:08 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: SSS Two

I’m pulling for the “insurectionists”

Burn baby burn:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4UjxAGL8Y


7 posted on 01/22/2021 11:14:49 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: Onthebrink

Yesterday I did a search on my phone for “expanded metal.” That’s a type of mesh used on some construction projects. Previous to my welder buddy asking me for some, I had never heard the term. Today, as I browse the internet on my laptop, not my phone, I am inundated with ads for expanded metal. Why am I mentioning this here? My phone somehow shared my search for expanded metal with the internet which has responded with a blizzard of focused ads.

Back when I first got my phone I apparently clicked on something that said I’d do reviews. As I drove around town my phone would chirp asking me to review each place I passed; Winn-Dixie, Walmart, a massage parlor...etc.

I say this to mention that probably every one of those rioters is carrying a phone. The government knows who they are. Anyone who carries a phone while committing a crime is an idiot. I fully expect a lot of very quiet arrests at homes and apartments, not at riots. These people will sit in jail for a long time, probably being moved around so lawyers can’t get to them. Then, they will be receive an offer to go home if they never riot or say anything bad about Biden again. We will probably never know what happened except the riots stopped.


8 posted on 01/22/2021 11:17:08 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Onthebrink

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”

Case in point - John Sullivan at the Capitol protest. HE incited the move into the building, NOT President Trump.

We need to learn these lessons and use them to our advantage.
They don’t think we can do it, because we’re the hard-working, law-abiding soul of America.

They are wrong. We can do it and we must.


9 posted on 01/22/2021 11:40:06 AM PST by doragsda
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To: Onthebrink

Jimmy Dore, interesting hard left guy, but he loathes the democrats probably more than the republicans.
Check out this video, some food for thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OP5OLBauCg


10 posted on 01/22/2021 11:44:28 AM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: SSS Two

I can tell you thT if the rioters try their bs in the eastern part of Oregon they will be like n for rude awakening. Those ranchers and farmers over there won’t put up with any artifa bull.


11 posted on 01/22/2021 12:00:31 PM PST by Usawatcher
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To: Onthebrink

Sam Nunn, Patsy Schroeder. and Ed Koch, ain’t your democrat party no more. I just see crazy people bent on destruction of anything or anyone who tugs on their feelings. One does not govern on feelings.


12 posted on 01/22/2021 12:03:32 PM PST by blackdog (It's a good day to go Ceaucescu. )
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To: Onthebrink
"Whatever Happened To The Populist Left?"

The same thing that happened to many on what is called the populist right: further brain damage from drugs. Look at the conspiracy theories, compulsive lying, cults, bizarre crimes, recidivism, misdirecting the blame for their own failures, violent outbursts triggered by stinking thinking, etc. That's what is hidden under the surface of the weird changes we've seen.

The few drug-free politicians know it and are trying to control them accordingly and get their votes with crazy talk.

13 posted on 01/22/2021 12:04:14 PM PST by familyop
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To: Gen.Blather

Good post.

LEO often uses “parallel construction” to make their cases.

They illegally (or sometimes legally) monitor the phone activity.

Then they use that information to generate the bread crumbs they can legally use in court.

The court never knows about the initial phone monitoring.

The cell phone has eyes and ears and is a snitch.

Enough said on that...


14 posted on 01/22/2021 12:16:31 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: blackdog

Ed Koch, Pat Caddell, and Zell Miller. Those were my kind of Democrats.


15 posted on 01/22/2021 1:23:18 PM PST by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: SuperLuminal

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Amen but yet some here still call them liberals lol


16 posted on 01/23/2021 2:21:35 AM PST by snarkytart
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