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To: knighthawk

But... but..Joe says he works for Main Street, not for Wall Street.


14 posted on 10/17/2020 2:43:03 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant
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To: Trump_Triumphant

Daily Beast - owned by Delaware-incorporated IAC - Barry Diller (Chairman and Senior Executive) - with Chelsea Clinton on the Board - clearly thinks the following glorification of violence is amusing, and fails to see the irony of OWS activisits backing Biden, who is heavily funded by Wall Street!

9 Sept: Daily Beast: Trumpkins Are Losing Their Mind Over Occupy Wall Street’s Faux Plans for a White House ‘Siege’
WHITE HOUSE DOWN
Among their solutions: to blockade the nation’s capital to ensure protesters can’t even get there.
by Will Sommer
As protests over racism roil the country, Trump supporters have found a new thing to be terrified of: a “siege” of the White House, straight from the organizers of Occupy Wall Street.
Set to start on Sept. 17 and run through the election, the “White House Siege” isn’t meant to be an actual blockade of the White House...

Now the coverage from the right has resulted in a wave of death threats towards Adbusters; it left Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn considering whether the “siege” language and related promotional materials—including a photo illustration of the White House engulfed in smoke—were too intense.
“We’ve sort of changed our mind a little bit, and now we are going for a more benign, sort of a ‘play jazz’ type of strategy,” Lasn said. “My dream actually is to have thousands of jazz musicians all over America turning up and playing jazz all over the country for the next 50 days.”...

Lasn and Adbusters conceived of the siege to create “some real, heavy-duty pushback” over concerns that Trump will refuse to leave the White House if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in November.
“A few months before the eviction, he’s sort of dicking around with the American mind,” Lasn, a Canadian-Estonian filmmaker and writer, said. “The American people are still somehow not rising up to the occasion, so we figured we’d try to catalyze something along the lines of Occupy Wall Street.”

It’s not clear how many people, if any, will answer Adbusters’ call and show up on Sept. 17...
“Maybe we’ll all try to surround the White House,” Lasn said...
While the siege has been promoted as non-violent, Lasn also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of at least property destruction — raising the possibility of Fox News-ready images of smashed windows and burning buildings outside the White House right before the election.
“There is going to be a violent fringe, and my own feeling has always been that I don’t like any violence against human beings, and I’m 100 percent against any of that stuff, and I condemn it with all of the guts that I have,” Lasn said. “But when it comes to violence against property, I’m not so sure that i’m 100 percent against that.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpkins-are-losing-their-mind-over-occupy-wall-streets-faux-plans-for-a-white-house-siege?ref=scroll

and the bottom line - not a peep out of Adbusters.


15 posted on 10/17/2020 3:32:25 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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