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MSNBC Spends an Entire Segment Talking About How Lockdown Protestors Are Racist Confederates
townhall.com ^ | 4/18/2020 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 04/19/2020 8:27:29 AM PDT by rktman

According to MSNBC's Joy Reid and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), if you're someone who wants to see the economy reopen and get back to work, you must be some sort of Confederate racist.

"Black people are being left in a situation where they're more vulnerable by default: less health care, jobs that are hourly, jobs where you're closer to people, stuck working near to each other," Reid said. "When you hear Donald Trump talking in this sort of faux-Confederate language about these lockdown orders – which are meant to save lives – and you see people with these instaprotests, paid for by activists for the super-rich, egging on this kind of activity that could get violent, what does that say to you?"

Ellison said Trump is willing to put his supporters' lives on the line "so that he can have advantages like re-election and things like that."

"He's literally willing to sacrifice the lives of Americans for personal gain and that's deeply disturbing to me. It's not new," Ellison explained. "How many people who fell on the Confederate side owned massive plantations? Not that many. They bought themselves out of having to fight for their slavocracy, that poor whites died for them and so, you know, it's not a new story, right? It's disturbing. It's sad. And I pray for those people because, even though I disagree absolutely with these protests, I think they're completely and entirely inappropriate, I know that they and their loved ones will pay an awful price."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ellison; hatespeech; keithellison; lyingliars; mediabias; racism; ufos
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To: rktman

The racists at MSNBC are projecting, once again.


21 posted on 04/19/2020 8:50:33 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: rktman

I guess people want the country and its citizens to go bankrupt before they die.


22 posted on 04/19/2020 8:52:44 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: alternatives?

If the public sector was laid off the problem would be solved in short order


23 posted on 04/19/2020 8:54:05 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: rktman

Well, he’s speaking on behalf of those who dislike working for a living in general, and want to make some sort of moral high ground out of it.


24 posted on 04/19/2020 8:54:26 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: rktman
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

This has nothing to with protecting lives or even flattening some curve.

Trump's massive rallies had to be stopped. The Left wants them quarantined in their homes, not getting food or engaging in social activities, so they can push their bull-s--t mail-in voting and think they can win.

25 posted on 04/19/2020 8:54:48 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: rktman
"Black people are ... more vulnerable by default: less health care, jobs that are hourly, jobs where you're closer to people, stuck working near to each other," Reid said.

As a melanin-deficient person, I can only say how happy I am that I never endured such horrific conditions.

26 posted on 04/19/2020 8:56:49 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

That would only work if the public sector was laid off with out pay.


27 posted on 04/19/2020 8:59:18 AM PDT by jimpick
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To: cld51860

Rebels maybe. Racist no. People of every race own small businesses in Michigan.

Gretchen is scared witless.


28 posted on 04/19/2020 9:00:21 AM PDT by madison10 (Wash your hands & say your prayers cause Jesus & germs are everywhere)
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To: rktman

Mrs. JimRed called the protestors “selfish”, stating that they care only for themselves and not for others they may infect.


29 posted on 04/19/2020 9:03:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rktman

When I was in college (many years ago) one of the left’s favorite slogans was, “Question authority!” In recent years, that has changed to, “Question authority, unless we are the ones in authority, in which case STFU!”


30 posted on 04/19/2020 9:05:18 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Texas Eagle
We have our own version of George Soros? Where do I sign up?

IIUC, Soros pays his agitators well. Who's our guy? I'll sign up in a minute; won't need to change a thing about my postings.

31 posted on 04/19/2020 9:06:04 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rktman

John 8:44.


32 posted on 04/19/2020 9:08:32 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: rktman

“What worries you, rules you.”

-John Locke


33 posted on 04/19/2020 9:09:34 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: cld51860
That was a lot of “racist confederates” protesting in Michigan the other day.

Considering that they are protesting tyranny and in favor of freedom one would think the Gadsden flag would be more appropriate than the Confederate flag. I guess most people just don't know about it.

34 posted on 04/19/2020 9:11:48 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: rktman
...and you see people with these instaprotests, paid for by activists for the super-rich, egging on this kind of activity that could get violent...

PROJECTION: It's not just for movie screens.



35 posted on 04/19/2020 9:13:04 AM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: rktman
MSNBC had better remember what happened to that mayor in California.

California Mayor Who Compared Trump Supporters to KKK Dies in Plane Crash

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3836717/posts

36 posted on 04/19/2020 9:14:31 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: JimRed
So, she's in 60% category then? 😷💉💊
37 posted on 04/19/2020 9:16:35 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

He’s as ignorant about history as he is wrong about everything today. Surprise Surprise, once again its Leftists who constantly spew PC Revisionist BS about the South/Confederacy.


38 posted on 04/19/2020 9:16:54 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rktman
MSNBC had better remember what happened to that mayor in California.

California Mayor Who Compared Trump Supporters to KKK Dies in Plane Crash

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3836717/posts

39 posted on 04/19/2020 9:17:22 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: DoodleDawg

Still haven’t seen the stars and bars pic.


40 posted on 04/19/2020 9:18:22 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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