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Representative Steve King: Violence Appearing In Streets, ‘Coming From The Left’
Breitbart ^ | 6-14-2017 | Kristina Wong

Posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:16 PM PDT by blam

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) blasted the angry left on Wednesday at the scene of a shooting earlier in the day that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), an aide, and two Capitol Police. “America has been divided,” King said, according to the Washington Post. “And the center of America is disappearing, and the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left.”

Asked whether the shooting was politically motivated, he said he did not know why the gunman did what he did.

However, King pointed at anger and demonstrations against Trump, according to the Post:

King, in his remarks at the shooting scene, said it was impossible to separate the hyperpartisan climate in Washington — especially people protesting Trump — with Republican members of Congress being fired upon at a baseball practice.

“The divisions within the country, people that can’t accept the results of the election that are determined to try to take this country down, take this organization down,” he said. “This city was filled up with demonstrations the day after the inauguration, where you couldn’t drive down the streets. And we’ve had demonstrations every week since then, sometimes different topics.”

King added: “We do need to focus on what’s happening to the culture in this country.”

The shooter has been identified as James T. Hodgkinson III, 66, of Belleville, Ill. by law enforcement officials.

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KEYWORDS: democrats; leftists; shooting; violence
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Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The left has gone insane at their loss.
(They don't realize that this won't be their last loss.)

1 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:17 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

You cannot separate the end from the means. Thought becomes action. The Democrats colluding with the MSM has been fomenting pure hatred for the last 6 months. Not surprising that it sometimes turns into violence.


2 posted on 06/14/2017 4:59:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: blam

I got into a debate with someone on Facebook (I know -what was I thinking) who said “what about all the murders by the right wing conservatives?” I said name one and so they came back first the Gabby Gifford (I shot that one down) and then some guy in Quebec who evidently shot up a mosque and Dylann Root. Oh, and they claimed that the Oregon guy was right wing.


3 posted on 06/14/2017 5:00:19 PM PDT by Mercat (Everytime an old man farts, a butterfly dies.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Duh!


4 posted on 06/14/2017 5:00:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: blam

Nancy Pelosi has the temerity to say she prays for President Trump’s success when last week she fairly spat that she couldn’t say his name. She’s a hypocrite.

Nothing can or will change.

The battle lines are drawn.


5 posted on 06/14/2017 5:03:15 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: blam; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
[ “America has been divided,” ]




6 posted on 06/14/2017 5:04:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: blam

Yeah... Mr King, what are you willing to do about it?


7 posted on 06/14/2017 5:04:44 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: blam

Loretta Lynch did call for it and they are just obeying her marching orders.


8 posted on 06/14/2017 5:05:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: blam
Yet another layer of lies has been peeled from the ugly left. If anyone accepts the leftist lies of their being tolerant, inclusive, peaceful, and loving means they are suffering from a major delusional view of reality. Hate of any and all opposition has always been a hallmark of liberal ideology. All of these incidents simply mean they are dropping their masks because their hatred of Trump has pushed them over the edge of sanity. They don't care anymore about trying to put on a façade of decency and civility. All they have ever wanted was to kill their opponents and seize power by any means. It is just now being revealed for what it truly is. Hopefully, the decent people left in American will have the eyes and moral courage to see it.
9 posted on 06/14/2017 5:06:13 PM PDT by chimera
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Well for this reason at least ONE of the R people in Congress has enough guts to say it like it is!!!


10 posted on 06/14/2017 5:06:18 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: blam

For the first time in American history, we have not had a peaceful transfer of power at the Presidential level. The violence that happened today on a Virginia ball field has been building for more than a year. It got a good start in San Jose, CA last year when the police and city refused to protect Trump supporters coming out of a campaign rally. They were beaten, chased, spit upon, bullied and their cars damaged while the cops stood by doing nothing. Who can forget seeing that poor woman surrounded by a howling mob spitting on her, throwing things at her, all the while men inside the glass doors would not open them for her until her life was in danger. The San Jose Police did NOTHING. Then in Chicago, Trump had to cancel a rally because the city would not protect his supporters or the arena and in fact let the thug radicals into the arena after the event was cancelled causing fights all over the interior. Twice during the campaign, Trump speeches were interrupted by a man rushing the stage in Ohio and a gun incident at another event. In Berkley, Portland and Seattle, Democrat storm troopers have fought in the streets with Trump supporters, damaged property, screamed vulgar slogans and done so without police intervention until recently Since the election, Kathy Griffin showed up holding the severed head of Donald Trump as a “joke.” A female United States Senator addressed the California Democratic state convention and used the F word over and over when talking about President Trump. In Central Park, a NY theater company puts on a play on this very day showing the assassination of President Trump and gets a standing ovation from the audience. And every day the media pours gas on the leftist fire. In Congress, Senator after Senator and Rep after Rep accuse the President of every crime they can think of, stirring the pot every single day. These examples only skim the surface, there are so many more. So now one of their crazies has taken the bait and tried to commit mass murder on Republicans. There is blood on the hands of those who have continued to ratchet up the pressure every day and they are to blame for this happening. Not the slightest doubt in my mind.


11 posted on 06/14/2017 5:09:21 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Mercat

The left is losing the ability to critically think, while they have always lacked an ability to self analyze. A lack of morals in that climate will cause them to self destruct. Eventually they will be classified as terrorists, which is what they always were anyways.


12 posted on 06/14/2017 5:16:30 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: blam

....the center of America is disappearing, and the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left...

And it has been condoned and encouraged by the lefts leaders beginning in Berkeley. Tim Kane even told Democrats to “take the fight to the streets.”
This is a sickening attack on our way of life, our political system, and the Republic.


13 posted on 06/14/2017 5:19:30 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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To: HarleyLady27

“Well for this reason at least ONE of the R people in Congress has enough guts to say it like it is!!!”

His statement “Asked whether the shooting was politically motivated, he said he did not know why the gunman did what he did.” , tells me he is still missing the boat.


14 posted on 06/14/2017 5:19:40 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: Slyfox

Yes. And it is being funded by George Soros and the psychopathic sodomites (Deep State, who want to collapse America for the socialist, totalitarian NWO) who control the criminal elements in the NSA, TSA, CIA, FBI and Mossad, etc., etc., etc. All bought and controlled like the Common Core curricula in our indoctrination factories. (Get your children OUT!!!!).

We need the Swamp Drained months ago. It is getting really late for pulling the plug on these evil, lying socialist scum, including Ryan, who are part of the evil Ba’al worshipping cabal, where Slavery is Freedom, sodomy is a virtue, and Boys are Girls for the total emasculation and destruction of virtue of the American male, and elimination of all female Natural instincts, so baby-killing and Congressmen-killing becomes “natural” and “good” like it is becoming today with the communists.

Without virtue, there can be no freedom at all—no civil society. Virtue is non-existent in communists and socialists (group-(non)-thinkers). We used to “know” that truth, before truth was unconstitutionally banned in schools by the 60s and the public square.

It is time we brought back a true “Justice” system since all the Founders knew that “Just Law” only promotes public virtue (and that is ONLY Christian Virtues).


15 posted on 06/14/2017 5:22:41 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: blam

We didn’t do zhit like this eight years ago.


16 posted on 06/14/2017 5:24:23 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
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To: blam

I do not condone this act of aggression in any way whatsoever, and I hope that I do not appear crass for changing the basic thread topic, but the first thought that entered my mind when I became aware of the shooting was:
What in the hell are these Congressmen doing on a baseball field at 10:00 a.m. on a weekday-workday while most normal males are at work earning a living and paying Federal Income Taxes? Is there no congressional business to be conducted? How about healthcare reform? How about the budget deficit? How about tax reform? The hottest item for congressmen is to practice (during normal working hours for we commoners) for a challenge baseball game? This is supposed to be some type of charity exhibition game? I have a suggestion: practice on your own time after normal work hours. Then you can honestly call it a charitable effort on your behalf.


17 posted on 06/14/2017 5:28:25 PM PDT by OldeGoat
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To: blam

It is coming entirely from the left. And has been getting worse since Obama put the torch to Ferguson.


18 posted on 06/14/2017 5:28:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: blam

Also this: Ramadan is now in its third week as the hours of daylight increase. The Muzzies are getting extra cranky.


19 posted on 06/14/2017 5:36:21 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
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