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JONATHAN TURLEY: Nothing says 'Big Tent' like a good communist pogrom
Fox News ^ | 9 Aug, 2026 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 08/10/2026 5:51:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Piker demands moderates be purged as Democratic Socialists of America candidates flood the party's ranks.

Hasan Piker, a close ally of Abdul El-Sayed, is calling for "Marxist-Leninist" punishment for those who criticize Michigan’s Democratic Senatorial candidate. As radicals and antisemites like Piker flood the Democratic Party, establishment figures are struggling to justify their alliance with extremist candidates.

Ironically, Democrats are now fulfilling the false narrative that they used against President Donald Trump after the Charlottesville protests. They are maintaining that there are "many fine people" in the Democratic Socialists of America party, despite its leaders seeking to destroy our constitutional system, open our borders, defund the police and embrace virtual anarchy. Now, some of these fine people are calling for moderates to be purged as radicals take over the Democratic Party.

In 2017, the media manufactured a controversy by suggesting that Trump had praised neo-Nazis and Klansmen in 2017 as "fine people" in Charlottesville, Va. It was demonstrably false, but became the accepted truth in the media. In reality, Trump condemned the neo-Nazis, and the statement about "fine people on both sides" was in reference to the people on both sides of the debate over the removal of historic statues.

That narrative took on an added hypocrisy when some of the loudest voices later endorsed a candidate with an actual Nazi tattoo who allegedly assaulted women, mocked wounded veterans and praised terrorists. However, he promised to deliver Maine and bring figures like Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren back to power.

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1 posted on 08/10/2026 5:51:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The radical left loves their purges.


2 posted on 08/10/2026 5:52:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

5 stores in a city of 8.5 million...and folks can probably use their SNAP cards.


3 posted on 08/10/2026 5:55:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MtnClimber

“...The radical left loves their purges...”

They love their Purity Tests, too. Over the past few years, those have become accepted SOP. But, just like “optional” is almost always the larval stage of “mandatory”, so too are Purity Tests the larval stage of Purges and Pogroms.


4 posted on 08/10/2026 5:57:50 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: MtnClimber

And so it begins... This is ALWAYS how it starts.


5 posted on 08/10/2026 6:15:15 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: MtnClimber
Get ready for the executions...


6 posted on 08/10/2026 6:22:57 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: MtnClimber

I just realized that the Bible tells about Democrats.

Eccliastes 10:

1 As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.

3 Even as fools walk along the road,
they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are.


7 posted on 08/10/2026 6:28:32 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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...The older I get, the more I remember events from my childhood. Some of the memories are triggered by colors or smells. Other memories are triggered by something someone said.

Yesterday I switched from a nature channel to a news channel. The nature channel had a show on elephants. The news channel had a Democrat shill who said, “The Democrat Party is The Big Tent Party.” (The boldface is mine to show what I heard that triggered the memory:

When I was maybe 4 or 5, my godfather took me to the Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey Circus.” That circus was set up on a large open space outside the city. There was a big ten and several smaller tents with parking around the cluster of tents. After we toured the smaller tents, we went into the Big Tent for The Greatest Show on Earth. We went in early so we were able to sit up close to where the action would be. We sat between one of the large rings and the two smaller rings.

After what seemed like an eternity (an hour seems like an eternity to a young child), the ringmaster came out and began announcing acts. The acts in the smaller rings were acrobats, monkeys, trained dogs, trained seals, etc. They were interesting but I really wanted to see the lions and tigers and the ELEPHANTS. Those acts were in the big ring. After a second eternity of watching the circus’ version of the Ed Sullivan Show, the elephants were marched in with the trained dogs which herded and then rode on the elephants as the elephants pranced around the ring. Then it happened. One of the elephants stopped right in front of me and took a dump. I had never seen so much crap in one place before and it stuck worse that I had imagined crap could smell. Since that day, I have thought of The Big Tent as a place full of shit.

I have sort of always know that most Democrats are lunatics who are intellectually challenged. Touting their party as The Big Tent Party “where everyone is welcome” means the party gave up its core principles to become the We Welcome Everyone in The Big Tent Party since welcome everyone means anyone who enters does not have to subscribe to or at least accept the basic core principles. Now the Democrat Party seems to have been taken over by complete lunatics who believe America is inherently evil and want to convert the country into Russia 1917 to 1991 (or maybe into a Caliphate.) And I have long noticed that the Democrats are largely at bet semi-literate and many of them cannot spell. They seem to think the words shi’ite and shit are the same. But maybe they know something I don’t know as their Big Tent seems to be fill of shi’ites.


8 posted on 08/10/2026 6:38:30 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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...The older I get, the more I remember events from my childhood. Some of the memories are triggered by colors or smells. Other memories are triggered by something someone said.

Yesterday I switched from a nature channel to a news channel. The nature channel had a show on elephants. The news channel had a Democrat shill who said, “The Democrat Party is The Big Tent Party.” (The boldface is mine to show what I heard that triggered the memory:

When I was maybe 4 or 5, my godfather took me to the Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey Circus.” That circus was set up on a large open space outside the city. There was a big ten and several smaller tents with parking around the cluster of tents. After we toured the smaller tents, we went into the Big Tent for The Greatest Show on Earth. We went in early so we were able to sit up close to where the action would be. We sat between one of the large rings and the two smaller rings.

After what seemed like an eternity (an hour seems like an eternity to a young child), the ringmaster came out and began announcing acts. The acts in the smaller rings were acrobats, monkeys, trained dogs, trained seals, etc. They were interesting but I really wanted to see the lions and tigers and the ELEPHANTS. Those acts were in the big ring. After a second eternity of watching the circus’ version of the Ed Sullivan Show, the elephants were marched in with the trained dogs which herded and then rode on the elephants as the elephants pranced around the ring. Then it happened. One of the elephants stopped right in front of me and took a dump. I had never seen so much crap in one place before and it stuck worse that I had imagined crap could smell. Since that day, I have thought of The Big Tent as a place full of shit.

I have sort of always know that most Democrats are lunatics who are intellectually challenged. Touting their party as The Big Tent Party “where everyone is welcome” means the party gave up its core principles to become the We Welcome Everyone in The Big Tent Party since welcome everyone means anyone who enters does not have to subscribe to or at least accept the basic core principles. Now the Democrat Party seems to have been taken over by complete lunatics who believe America is inherently evil and want to convert the country into Russia 1917 to 1991 (or maybe into a Caliphate.) And I have long noticed that the Democrats are largely at bet semi-literate and many of them cannot spell. They seem to think the words shi’ite and shit are the same. But maybe they know something I don’t know as their Big Tent seems to be fill of shi’ites.


9 posted on 08/10/2026 6:38:30 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MtnClimber

Sure do.


10 posted on 08/10/2026 6:50:17 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber
The figures of victims of Leninism, from November 1917 to January 1924

More than a million people murdered for political or religious reasons.

well maybe it’s time to saddle up boys!

11 posted on 08/10/2026 6:52:48 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

So history repeats itself...

The Bolsheviks want to get rid of the Mensheviks.


12 posted on 08/10/2026 7:14:14 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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he news channel had a Democrat shill who said, “The Democrat Party is The Big Tent Party.”

Yea, it’s the Big Tent Party......but it’s a circus tent.


13 posted on 08/10/2026 8:17:57 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MtnClimber

My son showed me a video where this Piker thing said they were going to keep letting illegals in to “#### your daughters and wives.”


14 posted on 08/10/2026 8:34:11 AM PDT by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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To: MtnClimber

Has anyone in the MSM offered anything more than a mild questioning of Hasan Piker’s views and demeanor? Has there been even one vigorous denunciation of this virulent man-child?


15 posted on 08/10/2026 8:47:39 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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I think Reagan said that the only thing these people (communists) understand is force. The only thing that will stop them is a bullet in the head. It’s either their way or the highway. Compromise is just an increment to the end goal.


16 posted on 08/10/2026 8:48:12 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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“”I think Reagan said that the only thing these people (communists) understand is force. The only thing that will stop them is a bullet in the head. It’s either their way or the highway. Compromise is just an increment to the end goal.””

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Reagan was right. And if you think the vast majority of these rabid leftist Democrats wouldn’t put a bullet in your head if they ever get total control... think again. If you study history, you see just how violent they are. And they have proven how heartless they are via their Covid lockdowns, abortion stance, including partial birth abortions right up to 9 months old, and how violent they have already been during their paid protesting gigs (ask Kyle Rittenhouse). And that’s not all. Look at how violent the BLM movement has been against whites with the “knockout” game. How violent the illegals have been with the raping and murdering of legal, vulnerable citizens. They all vote Democrat, btw... if or when they can.


17 posted on 08/10/2026 8:58:47 AM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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18 posted on 08/10/2026 9:04:19 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (lolLOLLL)
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To: Danie_2023
If you study history, you see just how violent they are

Matches up pretty good with Islamic culture. They bring murder, rape, assassination, abuse, cruelty, intimidation, terror. It won't be better because it's in the US. Everywhere they migrate to in numbers, it turns into a sh-- hole.

19 posted on 08/10/2026 10:36:34 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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“”Everywhere they migrate to in numbers, it turns into a sh— hole.””

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Yeah, that’s one thing the Muslims have in common with the Democrats. Which explains why they seem to be joining up against the American right. It’s the olde ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ thing with the muzzies. With the rats, it’s just the usual ‘by any means necessary’ to destroy the US as founded.


20 posted on 08/10/2026 11:06:42 AM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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