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Conservatives forget history in discrediting Trump protesters
The Hill ^ | November 12, 2016 | Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco

Posted on 11/17/2016 11:39:25 AM PST by Maceman

Edited on 11/17/2016 2:18:03 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: Maceman

I’m not complaining about the protestors s__tting where they eat. Best to ignore them.

When the Facebook and Google buses get interrupted bringing people from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, then this will end.


41 posted on 11/17/2016 12:20:27 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: Maceman

Lies and exaggerations. Hallmarks of the liberal “defense.”


42 posted on 11/17/2016 12:27:27 PM PST by IronJack
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Trump is lowering taxes, so I’m not sure what you are addressing.

Corporations are getting big tax breaks. The middle income on down are getting tax breaks. I have yet to see a figure on the top brackets.

The other day Trump said everyone was going to get a tax break, so I can’t say yet what is going on with the upper bracket.

Putting people back to work increases government receipts. Part of those receipts will probably wind up in the hands of Paul, but who is being stolen from?

It is reasoned for there to be taxation. As long as it is moderate, I’m certainly not complaining.

We need to pay down the debt. He plans on it. That is Conservative.

I do agree that in some ways these moves may hearken back to a better time in the Democrat party, but that was so long ago that it becomes rather disrespectful to avoid calling it Conservatism now to deflect to a period most folks do not remember or fully understand.

Trump is a good man and he deserves 100% of the credit due him for even proposing these things. And what’s more, he will follow through.

How long has it been since we could use that phrase?


43 posted on 11/17/2016 12:28:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Apparently the chocolate ration has been increased.


44 posted on 11/17/2016 12:29:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m addressing ideological conservatism which looks at the question solely from the standpoint of “what we WON’T do.”

However the Donald specifically said make America GREAT again.

Donald isn’t going for faux generosity — which situation is 100% compatible with the facts. The SOCIETY should have room to be generous, which means the GOVERNMENT should take only what it needs, sparingly.


45 posted on 11/17/2016 12:31:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoughtyOne

And what’s more, God — not Donald — deserves 100% of the credit. Donald, if he does not come out of this a humble man pointing to factors far larger than himself, will have failed in the end.


46 posted on 11/17/2016 12:33:33 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

While I can agree that we are somewhat defined by what we won’t do, there are a host of things that Trump is going to do that also define us.

He will:

Build up the military
Get our spending under control
Start paying down the dept
Reduce Taxation
Get our schools under control
Get our border under control
Send back illegal immigrants
Create a job rich environment
Rework our trade agreements and policies
Build a wall on our Southern Border
Define and promote a policy of safe reasoned and controlled immigration

These have been Conservative goals for a long time

Our government was behind the curve for at least half a century on part of this.


47 posted on 11/17/2016 12:42:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Donald deserves 100% of the credit.

That is not an insult to God.

None of this would have happened without Donald Trump.

I have long said that Trump may very well be the vehicle of God in this.

So our thanks does go to God, but without Trump this year, none of this would be happening.


48 posted on 11/17/2016 12:44:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: D Rider
That is my point.

It is like the Matthew Shepard myth.

He was killed by two other gays for drug money.

Somehow this became the fault of straight people.

I know the narrative is a lie but I do know the narrative because it has been push repeatedly. The reason it was pushed repeatedly is that in that case they had an actual body and police report.

If I don't know the narrative then that means there is absolutely NO evidence at all.

Real crimes against ( insert minority of your choice here ) because of who they are 98% of the time turn out to be total fakes.

The rest of the time the minority was either Jewish or Asian. And usually, in both cases, the perp was a minority themselves.

49 posted on 11/17/2016 12:49:24 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Maceman
...pro-Trump supporters have been responsible for a wave of attacks against Muslims, Latinos, blacks, and the LGBT community.

Bull crap.

50 posted on 11/17/2016 12:50:10 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Maceman
Obama’s election in 2008 was preceded and followed by violent attacks and property destruction targeted against minorities

It could be my age, but I don't remember that.

51 posted on 11/17/2016 12:51:35 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I did what I could to check it out.

Kaylon Johnson was beat up, and likely robbed. An arrest was made. I found nothing about any conviction.

Best bet: Johnson was robbed, and blamed it on racism.

If there had been a conviction, it would have been in the news for years.

http://www.ksla.com/story/9479629/update-longview-man-arrested-accused-of-beating-obama-supporter


52 posted on 11/17/2016 12:53:24 PM PST by marktwain
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To: bigdaddy45
"Wave of attacks? What wave of attacks???"

The couple of dozen incidents around the country - some already known to be false flags - in which anti-minority or anti-Muslim graffiti was scrawled by persons unknown.

To my knowledge, the number of pro-Trump people arrested for illegal harassment is hovering somewhere near zero, as compared with the couple of hundred anti-Trump demonstrators who've been arrested nationwide, not to mention the numerous death threats against Trump, several beatings of Trump supporters, and the CEO who was fired for threatening to kill Trump.

But the media have turned those facts and stats into the "wave of attacks by Trump supporters" theme. If thirty people in ONE anti-Trump demonstration are arrested, the demonstration was "mostly peaceful," but if maybe thirty people out of Trump's 62 million voters cause trouble, it is a "wave of attacks."
53 posted on 11/17/2016 12:56:56 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Maceman

These people have the heart of j goebbles


54 posted on 11/17/2016 12:57:31 PM PST by BRL
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To: euram
MSM thinking:

Hanging Obama in effigy: "a hate crime"

Smashing a Trump piñata with a baseball bat: "good clean fun . . . lighten up, it's just paper mache . . . " Or, perhaps more likely: silence, it never happened if we don't report it.
55 posted on 11/17/2016 1:02:54 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

The so called “incidents”, even if they were real (and they aren’t) wouldn’t constitute attacks. Graffiti isn’t an attack. Well, unless you’re a liberal.


56 posted on 11/17/2016 1:06:04 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Maceman

I see that the Libs are still living in an alternate universe.


57 posted on 11/17/2016 1:09:02 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Maceman; All
While I believe there are a high percentage of false flags or crying wolf I looked into to this one figuring on a dead end.

It wasn't hard to find. It appears Kaylon Johnson was attacked and injured as described. Here is the news story with pictures.

http://www.ksla.com/story/9479629/update-longview-man-arrested-accused-of-beating-obama-supporter

58 posted on 11/17/2016 1:10:52 PM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: Maceman

Even if this is true, what we have here is isolated incidents being compared with a coordinated campaign of subversion.


59 posted on 11/17/2016 1:11:44 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: marktwain
Sure he didn't just trip over his own feet?

There have been several cases of "lie"berals who fell down drunk and then blamed some mysterious bigot for their bruises.

You are right though. Nothing but that story. No court documents or anything.

60 posted on 11/17/2016 1:17:51 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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