Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt: Michigan Protesters ‘Brown-Shirted Stormtroopers’
Breitbart ^ | 30 April 2020 | Pam Key

Posted on 04/30/2020 7:25:21 PM PDT by KC_Lion

MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, compared the lockdown protestors in Michigan to the Nazi Party’s original wing.

..

Melber said, “You have Michigan state Senator Dayna Polehanki, ‘Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bulletproof vests are wearing them. I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today.’ Your view of this, Steve?”

Schmidt said, “This is appalling. Someone needs to explain to me what the difference is between those guys and a bunch of brown-shirted Stormtroopers in 1925 is. I’m very serious about this. This is about the Second Amendment. This isn’t about gun ownership. These are temples of democracy, these buildings, where we with test the premise each generation, whether we retain the capacity to govern ourselves. Free speech is important in this country. They are not protesters. When you show up in tactical gear carrying a tactical weapon an AR-15, an M-4, an AK-47, you’re there to intimidate. You’re assaulting the tenants of our system, which is a system that exists to preserve the rule of law, that is the oldest constitutional republic in the world. We should not think for a second, as we’re at the dawn of a new moment in history, that because extremism didn’t rise in a way that was able to take over the country in the past that it’s not still here and it still doesn’t pose a threat. Nobody should be comforted by those images whether you’re a Trump supporter, whether you’re a Biden supporter, whether you’re not going to vote at all. We don’t do that in this country. That is an appalling image, and it makes us look like a basket case as they are beamed out around the world to our allies and to our enemies.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2008election; 2020election; 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; boog; boogaloo; brownshirts; civilwar2; cnbc; coronavirus; covid19; daynapolehanki; deepstate; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; electricboogaloo; gretchenwhitmer; johnmccain; martiallaw; mediawingofthednc; michigan; michiganprotesters; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; nra; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; projection; putz; schmidt; secondamendment; sicsempertyrannis; smearmachine; steveschmidt; stormtroopers; wretchedgretchen
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-108 next last
To: KC_Lion

That sends a chill down every would be tyrant’s spine. How beautiful that is.


41 posted on 04/30/2020 7:58:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: marktwain

Re-elected in 2019, first elected in 2018, according to Ballotpedia.


42 posted on 04/30/2020 7:59:31 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Karl Spooner

Gosh I Love this Country :)


43 posted on 04/30/2020 8:00:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion (We honestly need a separation of Media and State.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
What you're doing is more likely to cause delays in getting your country open again. Regardless of what you believe, the virus is contagious. Gatherings, where grown 'men(?)' are shouting in the face of police officers, like an angry grizzly bear, are practically guaranteed to be the source of new outbreaks. The photos are absolutely certain to be used in leftist propaganda, and Dem election ads. If you cannot be trusted to act responsibly, expect to be treated like the spoiled little brats you're acting like.

You have the best President you've had in a long time, and he's working overtime to get the country opened up again. What you and the yahoos at such demonstrations are doing is completely counter-productive. Keep it up, and you will ruin everything.

Just telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.

44 posted on 04/30/2020 8:10:33 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion
a bunch of brown-shirted Stormtroopers in 1925

To millenials, Stormtroopers wear all white gear with helmets that wouldn't protect against a bb gun. Schmidt is going to have to updfate his similes.
45 posted on 04/30/2020 8:13:11 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

Schmidt should get cv...l


46 posted on 04/30/2020 8:17:06 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

That’s the type creative/original thinking that helped McCain blow the election.


47 posted on 04/30/2020 8:17:09 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Yeah wow. They see only what they want to.

And they see everything wrong.


48 posted on 04/30/2020 8:25:34 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dloont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

Psychological Projection

Psychological projection is a defense mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a bully may project their own feelings of vulnerability onto the target. It incorporates blame shifting and can manifest as shame dumping.


49 posted on 04/30/2020 8:26:48 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

That is idiotic. It was a peaceful protest and if you are scared of it, then good.

How do you feel with gay right demonstrators are out? Do you not think countries around the world look to those as the worst of perverted decadence as think the US is the “Great Satan” from such things?

Really, how much worse can the rest of the world think of us?

I don’t see it as a problem. Go hug a Chinese bat eater or a Russian mobster.


50 posted on 04/30/2020 8:27:31 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Lurker
Good to see that we made Steve Schmidt take a break from his overloaded work schedule at Man's Country in your fine state.

At his age, it's got to be hard on the knees...

51 posted on 04/30/2020 8:29:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

Those guys and their rifles did us all a great service. Their demonstration was needed. Thank you, people.


52 posted on 04/30/2020 8:33:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

LOL.

Good one.

L


53 posted on 04/30/2020 8:34:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

It says a lot about McCain for having hired such a low character terrible person as his campaign advisor. That a**hole hated Sarah Palin.


54 posted on 04/30/2020 8:37:10 PM PDT by winner3000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“... are practically guaranteed to be the source of new outbreaks.”

It’s not clear that’s true. A study of open polling in a recent Wisconsin election showed no or only negligible transmission of the virus.


55 posted on 04/30/2020 8:39:15 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

I thought brown shirted storm troopers were used by the government to control the people. My mistake.


56 posted on 04/30/2020 8:46:23 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
What you're doing is more likely to cause delays in getting your country open again.

I got this info from the WA State Dept of Health website...covid deaths % by age.

0-19 0%

20-39 1%

40-59 8%

60-79 38%

80+ 53%

I think that speaks for itself.

I suspect our state swamp has listed deaths in this way to cloud the issue. I suspect each of those age groups, especially 40-59 skew heavily toward the top end of the range. More than half the deaths were in the 80+ range. Another 40% is 60+. Why are we locking down an entire country for a virus that affects 60+ at a 91% rate...and 40+ at a 99% rate?

57 posted on 04/30/2020 8:48:12 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: KC_Lion

Herr Schmidt is projeckting again.

Is he the one who suggested that John McCain should call TEA Party patriots “hobbits” and wacky birds?


58 posted on 04/30/2020 8:58:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gogeo

Are you saying your grandmother’s life isn’t worth much?


59 posted on 04/30/2020 9:00:27 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Our POTUS wants the country open NOW the Dem governors are treating their citizens like children I KNOW I live in CA. our numbers are EXTREMELY LOW for the population of 40 million YET our governor won’t budge on opening, people are losing their life long businesses, expletive NEED to feed their families and want to get back to work there is not a damn reason for CA. t be closed NONE!!!


60 posted on 04/30/2020 9:04:50 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-108 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson