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Old 08-06-2018, 11:53 AM   #1
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FAR LEFT MOBS RIOT In 3 Major US Cities — NOT ONE Mainstream Outlet Reports on the Widespread Leftist Violence

Far left violent Antifa mobs rioted in three Major US cities this past weekend.
Antifa mobs attacked police and conservatives in Portland, Providence and Berkeley.
Antifa cracked skulls and beat protesters and attacked grandmothers in Portland, Oregon on Saturday.


They still talk and distort Charlottesville, VA but mum's the word when their own are violent.
I've been reading about this for days. All the news outlets have been reporting on it.
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I've been reading about this for days. All the news outlets have been reporting on it.
The link didn't work for me, but I did see on the news about the antifa mob and the pro Trump mob facing off and that the antifa protest was in response to the Trump rally.
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The link didn't work for me, but I did see on the news about the antifa mob and the pro Trump mob facing off and that the antifa protest was in response to the Trump rally.
Do you support ANTIFA taking away the 1A rights of Trump supporters to rally?

Rap Sheet: ***544** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters

The evidence is overwhelming: To support the Progressive Left is to support violence and taking away our free speech rights.
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Do you support ANTIFA taking away the 1A rights of Trump supporters to rally?
No, why would you ask?
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This seems so Jesus like to me. These UUs seem to be real Christians:

Arizona clergy call activists to support migrants on border

Arizona clergy are calling activists to gather this weekend at the state’s border with Mexico and leave large jugs of water on remote trails for migrants who continue to cross the desert during the dangerously hot summer.

https://www.apnews.com/e9db10622f294...ants-on-border
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This seems so Jesus like to me. These UUs seem to be real Christians:

Arizona clergy call activists to support migrants on border

Arizona clergy are calling activists to gather this weekend at the state’s border with Mexico and leave large jugs of water on remote trails for migrants who continue to cross the desert during the dangerously hot summer.

https://www.apnews.com/e9db10622f294...ants-on-border
What if I left food and water on your property to entice trespassers and squatters, would you then consider me a "real" Christian?
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Democrat Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy: ‘Survival of Our Democracy’ Depends on Banning Conservative Websites From Social Media' because they "destroy our democracy."

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What if I left food and water on your property to entice trespassers and squatters, would you then consider me a "real" Christian?
If they were people, human beings, that needed help, YES! I don't know about subhumans. Are those coming in subhuman? What color are they?
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No, why would you ask?
Obviously that is the logical conclusion of one who reads your posts.
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Obviously that is the logical conclusion of one who reads your posts.
No problem, just direct me to any post that I wrote that would logically lead to that conclusion and I'll rectify that.
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Obviously that is the logical conclusion of one who reads your posts.

Again, I have not found a single post of mine that supports Antifa, so please help me out (there are over 5,000 posts), what post are you referring to?
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Do you support ANTIFA taking away the 1A rights of Trump supporters to rally?

Rap Sheet: ***544** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters

The evidence is overwhelming: To support the Progressive Left is to support violence and taking away our free speech rights.
History shows that in large scale political conflicts there are usually some on both sides that resort to violence. Who but a bias partisan would maintain that violence came only from his opposition?
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The link didn't work for me, but I did see on the news about the antifa mob and the pro Trump mob facing off and that the antifa protest was in response to the Trump rally.
Here you called the Trump rally a "mob" but referred to the real antifa mob -- now with hundreds of attacks on citizens in public eateries -- as protests, as if those are normal 1A actions.

Namcy Pelosi and Maxine Waters have incited their base to violent protest. The recent breakfast attack in Philly on Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk shows that the Left is now using orchestrated social media in all the major cities to target and harass conservatives.

Whether you like it or not, this culture war is forcing everyone to choose sides.
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Here you called the Trump rally a "mob" but referred to the real antifa mob -- now with hundreds of attacks on citizens in public eateries -- as protests, as if those are normal 1A actions.

Namcy Pelosi and Maxine Waters have incited their base to violent protest. The recent breakfast attack in Philly on Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk shows that the Left is now using orchestrated social media in all the major cities to target and harass conservatives.

Whether you like it or not, this culture war is forcing everyone to choose sides.
I see your error in logic here. Referring to a Trump "mob" does not logically equate to support for Antifa, though the mistake might have been understandable had the quote not also referred to the Antifa as a "mob" as well.

Logically speaking you cannot possibly be offended by the reference to the "Trump mob" and then at the same time logically equate my reference to the Antifa mob as support.

The definition of mob is -- a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.

Yes, it is fair to say that many of Trump's rallies do not fit that description, but you cannot possibly say that they all don't. Especially the ones with maniacs driving their car through the protesters.

Nor can you claim that they are simply "bad apples" that do not represent Trump when He is calling for people at his rallies to violently attack protesters with the promise of paying their legal bills.
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I see your error in logic here. Referring to a Trump "mob" does not logically equate to support for Antifa, though the mistake might have been understandable had the quote not also referred to the Antifa as a "mob" as well.

Logically speaking you cannot possibly be offended by the reference to the "Trump mob" and then at the same time logically equate my reference to the Antifa mob as support.

The definition of mob is -- a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.

Yes, it is fair to say that many of Trump's rallies do not fit that description, but you cannot possibly say that they all don't. Especially the ones with maniacs driving their car through the protesters.

Nor can you claim that they are simply "bad apples" that do not represent Trump when He is calling for people at his rallies to violently attack protesters with the promise of paying their legal bills.
It seems that the posters here cannot distinguish between a "Trump rally" and a "Trump mob." It's all playing with words.

Let me suggest that a "mob" will not be confined to a rally auditorium, rather will be on the streets often with masked men, weapons, and violence.
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It seems that the posters here cannot distinguish between a "Trump rally" and a "Trump mob." It's all playing with words.

Let me suggest that a "mob" will not be confined to a rally auditorium, rather will be on the streets often with masked men, weapons, and violence.
Takes for the lesson bro Ohio, but I was talking about the frenzy.
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Takes for the lesson bro Ohio, but I was talking about the frenzy.
Frenzy? Hardly!

Frenzy means "a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior." It's not just excitement, but uncontrolled excitement.

I have never seen a Trump rally reach the level of an NFL game. I went to one in 2010 and almost lost my life to some crazy drunks.

You obviously are persuaded by media biased reporting. They used to condemn Tea Party rallies as "frenzied, uncontrolled, dangerous, etc." yet when it was all over, there was even very little litter on the ground.
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It seems that the posters here cannot distinguish between a "Trump rally" and a "Trump mob." It's all playing with words.

Let me suggest that a "mob" will not be confined to a rally auditorium, rather will be on the streets often with masked men, weapons, and violence.
Fine, the white supremacist rallies for Trump and the KKK support for Trump would then fall under your definition for a "Trump mob". The post in question that you quoted was in fact based on that context. The pro Trump mob was outside, and involved a car running over protesters, unconfined, on the street, with weapons and violence.
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Fine, the white supremacist rallies for Trump and the KKK support for Trump would then fall under your definition for a "Trump mob". The post in question that you quoted was in fact based on that context. The pro Trump mob was outside, and involved a car running over protesters, unconfined, on the street, with weapons and violence.
I hate these neo-KKK types, but that city gave them a permit to protest.

Antifa showed up to fight. Should have just ignored the KKK's. Who were they hurting? If ANTIFA comes to fight, they bear the brunt of the responsibility and should not be endorsed by the Press or you.

Today, the biggest danger we have is not these KKK's, but the ANTIFA's. ANTIFA attacked the Portland Patriot Prayer rally. Once we allow ANTIFA to shutdown speakers on the Berkley campus or a Prayer in Portland rally, what good are our 1st Amendment rights to free speech?

No, my friend, the violence we have today is one-sided. Just look at who is wearing the masks.
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Here you called the Trump rally a "mob" but referred to the real antifa mob -- now with hundreds of attacks on citizens in public eateries -- as protests, as if those are normal 1A actions.

Namcy Pelosi and Maxine Waters have incited their base to violent protest. The recent breakfast attack in Philly on Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk shows that the Left is now using orchestrated social media in all the major cities to target and harass conservatives.

Whether you like it or not, this culture war is forcing everyone to choose sides.
I've only seen you condemn violence when it comes from the Left and condone it when it occurs on the Right. So it seems you have taken your own advise and chosen a side.
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I've only seen you condemn violence when it comes from the Left and condone it when it occurs on the Right. So it seems you have taken your own advise and chosen a side.
Hard to find violence on the right.

Violence on the campus from antifa shuts down conservatives -- as planned, violating 1A right to free speech -- so that nearly all universities now control the speech their students can hear.

Recent protests in Portland were leftist violence.

Maxine's call for public harassment continues in all major cities. The left has developed social media sites to gather forces whenever a conservative is seen in public.

Trump's cabinet and staff all require security due to continued threats of violence. Sarah Sanders' liberal in-laws were even accosted at a second restaurant even after she went home.

But I'm sure you can find a few conservatives who get out of control. You can then justify thousands of cases of harassment and violence against conservatives with that one loudmouth that got punched at a Trump rally.

Is it too hard for you to see the difference between Trump supporters at a Trump rally shouting at CNN's Acosta, and dozens of progressives throwing water and shouting thru bullhorns at Candace Owens eating in a Philly breakfast joint?
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I've only seen you condemn violence when it comes from the Left and condone it when it occurs on the Right. So it seems you have taken your own advise and chosen a side.
Plus, by taking a anti antifa position, means you're talking a pro-Alt-right position ... and they've got White Supremacists, nationalists, and the KKK and Neo-Nazi's.

I don't support violence on either side, but I also don't support the White Race thing.
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Namcy Pelosi and Maxine Waters have incited their base to violent protest. The recent breakfast attack in Philly on Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk shows that the Left is now using orchestrated social media in all the major cities to target and harass conservatives.

Whether you like it or not, this culture war is forcing everyone to choose sides.
I haven't chosen a side. I condemn Maxine Waters for her comments that were inflammatory and incendiary. I have condemned Antifa for acting like a mob and not standing on righteousness. I have condemned Trump for inciting his crowds to violence and promising to pay legal fees for people who attack protesters.

I do not agree that you fight fire with fire, nor do I agree that you fight fire with gasoline. Donald Trump uses gasoline, Maxine Waters stupidly tried to "fight fire with fire". Neither is standing on righteousness.
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I haven't chosen a side. I condemn Maxine Waters for her comments that were inflammatory and incendiary. I have condemned Antifa for acting like a mob and not standing on righteousness. I have condemned Trump for inciting his crowds to violence and promising to pay legal fees for people who attack protesters.

I do not agree that you fight fire with fire, nor do I agree that you fight fire with gasoline. Donald Trump uses gasoline, Maxine Waters stupidly tried to "fight fire with fire". Neither is standing on righteousness.
Good post. I agree with everything you said except that I don't condemn those people. I just oppose, and don't support or go along with their actions when they incite or participate in or act out violence.
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Good post. I agree with everything you said except that I don't condemn those people. I just oppose, and don't support or go along with their actions when they incite or participate in or act out violence.
Fair enough, condemn the action, not the person.
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I haven't chosen a side. I condemn Maxine Waters for her comments that were inflammatory and incendiary. I have condemned Antifa for acting like a mob and not standing on righteousness. I have condemned Trump for inciting his crowds to violence and promising to pay legal fees for people who attack protesters.

I do not agree that you fight fire with fire, nor do I agree that you fight fire with gasoline. Donald Trump uses gasoline, Maxine Waters stupidly tried to "fight fire with fire". Neither is standing on righteousness.
I too condemn Trump's comments in that one rally. But where did Trump "incite his crowds to violence?" Gross exaggerations are falsehoods too, eh?

How about we also compare the amount of violence on both sides.

We had one guy punched at a Trump rally. Isn't this almost expected? If I went to a Democratic rally shouting epithets at the speakers and the attendants, I would expect some to get upset with me. If I got hurt, it would be my own damn fault. Make sense?

We have hundreds of conservatives whose lives are now endangered. They are not at rallies, they are in public spaces. Conservatives need a security entourage to speak on universities.

I don't see how you can compare what is happening with "fairness."
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I too condemn Trump's comments in that one rally. But where did Trump "incite his crowds to violence?" Gross exaggerations are falsehoods too, eh?

How about we also compare the amount of violence on both sides.

We had one guy punched at a Trump rally. Isn't this almost expected? If I went to a Democratic rally shouting epithets at the speakers and the attendants, I would expect some to get upset with me. If I got hurt, it would be my own damn fault. Make sense?

We have hundreds of conservatives whose lives are now endangered. They are not at rallies, they are in public spaces. Conservatives need a security entourage to speak on universities.

I don't see how you can compare what is happening with "fairness."
You are right, which proves the point.
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