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A GOP Rep actually assaulted a reporter and was still elected so please stop with the whining.
Actually, from what I read of the incident, the reporter laid hands on the candidate, after entering a room where he was not invited (trespassing), after which the candidate shoved the reporter away, causing him to fall down (clumsy oaf? deliberate fall?), then the reporter claimed the candidate "Body slammed" him. IMO, and the opinion of many other Montana voters, the whole thing was a set-up to discredit the candidate. No, it did not work!
It's not just disagreeing with them, it's that what they are doing is so repugnant that they are being shunned.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is defending repulsive policies.
I don't care if their parents did commit a misdemeanor, kidnapping kids is against my deeply held spiritual believes.
Wrong is wrong.
It would be like serving dinner to Jeffrey Dahmer.
No, thank you.
This post and a lot of Tweets are very comfortable with the level of violence the left is ratcheting up. The general consensus seems to be hey, it's not our fault, it's all Trump’s fault and his ignorant voters.
A GOP Rep actually assaulted a reporter and was still elected so please stop with the whining.
Good luck on getting those on the right to stop their whining.
But the notion that those on the right don't harass others or threaten violence is malarky.
Sarah Palin, Republican candidate for Vice President constantly talked about "reloading," and "lock and load." Posted maps with Democrats targeted with crosshairs. Gabby Gifford, a Democratic Congresswoman targeted with one of the crosshairs, was shot.
Trump suggested the 2nd Amendment types might handle the problem of Clinton appointing a Supreme Court Justice.
Milo Yiannopoulos told at least two news outlets that he wanted vigilantes to start shooting journalists just days before five journalists were murdered.
Alex Jones of the right's InfoWars often calls for violence.
"Some very fine people" assaulted citizens in Charlottesville. Killed one. Unite-the-Whie folks are planning another rally in Washington DC on the anniversary of this mayhem.
"White supremacists committed the largest share of domestic-extremist related killings last year—highlighting the danger of racist rhetoric and hateful ideas."
As a foreigner, I well remember those pictures of Obama being burned in effigy with a noose around his neck Takes a special kind of hatred and bile to not consider recent history towards blacks making that especially outragious.
I also remember how many threats of him being killed before his inauguration. The world watched and shook their heads at the manifestation of displayed evil, racism and bigotry.
Short memories.
These sorts have one perspective and it ignores anything done by their "side".
There's enough hatred in America to keep you all yelling at each other for at least another century or two.
This post and a lot of Tweets are very comfortable with the level of violence the left is ratcheting up. The general consensus seems to be hey, it's not our fault, it's all Trump’s fault and his ignorant voters.
The general consenus is exactly the same from the other side. It's all good as long as it's happening to those dang "red-blue-right-left-black-white-con-lib-republican-democrats".
Sounds like a dangerous time for Rs to be out and about.
Why risk it?
thats what the second amendment and concealed carry is all about, protecting ones self in a legal manner from people wanting to do illegal things.
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Yeah well, too bad.
You guys were vicious to Obama all 8 of his years. Payback is a mutha.
we generally went after obama policies. but we didnt get in their faces and run them out of restaurants, bookstores, etc. we let them live their lives in general peace.
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The police DID act stupidly.
only in the minds of liberals who had their heads so far up obamas backside they were looking out his mouth. the cops acted properly, it was the professor that acted stupidly, and i suspect that you know that, but you wont admit it.
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Actually, from what I read of the incident, the reporter laid hands on the candidate, after entering a room where he was not invited (trespassing), after which the candidate shoved the reporter away, causing him to fall down (clumsy oaf? deliberate fall?), then the reporter claimed the candidate "Body slammed" him. IMO, and the opinion of many other Montana voters, the whole thing was a set-up to discredit the candidate. No, it did not work!
while i dont know much about the incident, other than something happened, it is very unlikely the reporters opinion of the incident is tainted by his want to smear a candidate he didnt agree with.
The Federalist? "Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray." Quote from their home page. I guess one would expect a slanted view from a right wing fray publication?
"Throughout the past couple of months, Republicans and government officials who work for President Trump have received death threats, been run out of restaurants and stores, and followed to their cars. The uptick in harassment coincides with increasingly aggressive rhetoric from leading Democrats.
Here are 14 times Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers have been threatened or run out of establishments recently...."
Let's be honest folks, we know where this is headed. Thugs like Maxine Waters are chumming the waters and inciting a Brown Shirt mob mentality among the none-to-stable left right now. And they're proud of their behavior! Read Twitter long enough and you begin to realize there are a lot of unstable people out there...Steve Scalise may have just been the appetizer.
And Conservatives are attacking Latinos, calling cops on black people for no reason, running people over with cars......
But yes, let's focus on someone not being able to eat their dinner.... You guys are simply pathetic.
Actually, from what I read of the incident, the reporter laid hands on the candidate, after entering a room where he was not invited (trespassing), after which the candidate shoved the reporter away, causing him to fall down (clumsy oaf? deliberate fall?), then the reporter claimed the candidate "Body slammed" him. IMO, and the opinion of many other Montana voters, the whole thing was a set-up to discredit the candidate. No, it did not work!
You need better sources of information.
Multiple witnesses contradicted Gianforte's account, and Gianforte pleaded guilty to assault.
"Records made public on Friday show that after body-slamming The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs, Montana’s Greg Gianforte "falsely told police that Jacobs had been the belligerent one."
Gianforte's account, "which had seemed absurd on its face, was disputed by eyewitnesses and definitely debunked when Jacobs released audio of the altercation."
"Gianforte pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and offered what seemed like a heartfelt apology to Jacobs, as well as a donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists."
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