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Don’t Get Played; Get Woke to the Outrage Scam
Townhall.com ^ | June 21, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/21/2018 5:04:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Kurt, feel free to use my quick & handy outline - which I've used for years - to ID the respective players:

1. Believers
2. Haters
3. Jokers
4. Junkers
5. Nazis

Believers, of course, are those naive and clueless individuals that really, really think socialism will work this time around. We can put some % of academics in this category.

Haters are those like the BLM mobs that are envious and jealous about everything that made America, and are so filled with hate that they wish for nothing more than to bring it down, degrading the backbone of the country.

Jokers are the media/entertainers. Since they are actually in a commercial business, they need to generate revenues. Ad sales are supported by content, so the name of the game is the constant search for interesting content. Even if there wasn't a political slant, the media would have to engage in controversy just to keep their core audience.

Junkers are the GOPe - the US's version of aristocratic Germans that thought they could control Hitler. (Shirer noted it was a combination of the general staff & Junkers that allowed his rise.) Like the Germans, the GOPe goes along with the program because it's worth an incredible amount of $ money for them eg CoC.

And last, we have the true Nazis - the people/groups determined to game the system in order to achieve and wield power. These are psychopaths like Clinton, Obama, et al who view the constitutional system not as an fair, ordered whole, but a tool to leverage control.

Take an issue, any issue really, and I think you'll find the reference guide provides a handy means of shorthand to quickly ID the players, their roles, and typical behaviors/techniques.

41 posted on 06/21/2018 6:57:26 AM PDT by semantic
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To: Envisioning

“What outrages me is how much is it costing us to put these kids in cages?”

Laura Ingraham said on her show that the government was spending around 1/3 of million dollars per year per child. Boy, those cages Obama built must be expensive!

She made the point that there are millions of American children who don’t get anywhere near that amount spent on them, and the left doesn’t seem to care nearly as much about them as the children coming in illegally.


42 posted on 06/21/2018 7:09:43 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Guenevere

>>Why?

Because he fell for the fauxtrage scam of this week.


43 posted on 06/21/2018 7:11:04 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Lazamataz

>>We ought to give the left something to TRULY be outraged by.

My favorite reply to some breathless outraged Prog who is shouting about me or Trump being a fascist is, “I wish he was the Fascist you say he is.”

They sputter and then go into overload like one of Mudd’s Women.


44 posted on 06/21/2018 7:13:50 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Kaslin

This is an excellent article. This guy really gets what’s happening to a T.


45 posted on 06/21/2018 7:13:59 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Elsie

What in the hell is that?


46 posted on 06/21/2018 7:14:32 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (A moral wrong cannot be a Civil Right.)
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To: Kaslin
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47 posted on 06/21/2018 7:26:23 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin

I still say Trump fell for it too, he really didn’t have to do anything, but he reacted to the outrage and played right into their hands.


48 posted on 06/21/2018 7:27:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
These liberals don't give a hoot about those kids on the border.

Their only objective is to have an issue to win with that blames Trump.

"Trump is beating and jailing babies color in cages like rats in the desert heat" is a good enough narrative for them to hammer Trump and the Republicans in the mid-terms.

Now that he has signed an EO to stop the separation policy, it is still not good enough for the Left.

They want Trump to own an issue that the previous three administrations engaged in all the time, so they can blame him.

49 posted on 06/21/2018 7:36:31 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Lazamataz

Good ideas...but I wouldn’t be that cruel to my dog.


50 posted on 06/21/2018 7:50:40 AM PDT by PGalt
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51 posted on 06/21/2018 8:07:48 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: HotHunt

Yep! Offense/Cause du jour for liberals!


52 posted on 06/21/2018 8:09:52 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (boycott the)
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To: dfwgator

Good Lord. Pres Trump does not fall for anything. He calculates and decides what needs to be done to advance his goals. Pres Trump is not hampered by what the left might take comfort in because they will twist and turn whatever he does in order to discredit him. He stopped the faux outrage being pushed by the lying media by giving Chuck Schumer his EO and nothing has changed except now the children are sharing the same quarters as their illegal, law breaking, parents. Now it is on to the next horrible outrage that will surely take out the legally elected US Pres and immediately install puppet crooked Hillary Clinton on the commie, globalist, throne. Also the whole episode has stripped another layer of deceit from the leftist narrative of selective outrage. Trump marches on and works for the American people. God bless Pres Trump and protect him and his family from the evil that pervades the anti American left.


53 posted on 06/21/2018 8:58:59 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Thank you for summing up how ludicrous this entire thing is. People are so easily manipulated it makes me sick.


54 posted on 06/21/2018 9:58:25 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Kaslin

Where is the outrage for the American citizens hurt or killed by illegal aliens? These hypocritical POS need to have all the families harmed ask liberals why they are more concerned about illegal aliens than their own people.

Disgusting.


55 posted on 06/21/2018 10:11:28 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: EdnaMode

You’re quite welcome. Not only are people easily manipulated, but this the whole new “virtue signaling” industry has been built up into this glorified pedestal like an Olympic gold/silver/bronze stand. So, perversely yet inversely: in the same way it is possible to anonymously hurl inane teenage insults that would ordinarily get one’s face smashed in if they were stated in person; now you can anonymously proclaim your moral superiority (an absolutely fundamental tenet of liberalism) to the world. For free. Don’t have to actually do anything; just proclaim your heartfelt emotions and curse America. It’s in effect a contest that encourages people to show how completely stupid and gullible they are, as long as they have more stimulating emotions than the ones you have. It’s galling to me because I get to asking “how great a country can we really be if so many of the people are this dumb?” Never do they consider the emotional storm they get to go through over a picture that could have been taken anywhere.


56 posted on 06/21/2018 10:26:27 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Kaslin

Right on!


57 posted on 06/21/2018 3:02:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Socon-Econ

Yes. I was profoundly disappointed in him.


58 posted on 06/21/2018 3:06:02 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Kaslin

Donald Trump has this all figured out.


59 posted on 06/21/2018 3:09:00 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Envisioning
BUILD THE FREAKING WALL!

A wall 500 ft high, 50 ft deep and 10 ft wide will NOT stop THOUSANDS from showing up at the legal ports-of-entry and wanting sanctuary!

We will STILL let them in to escape the boogymen 'til they get 'processed'!

60 posted on 06/21/2018 5:31:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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