Posted on 10/10/2012 4:54:51 PM PDT by Signalman
There are plenty of good reasons for making Barack Obama a one-term president, among them his adding of $5 trillion to the national deficit and presiding over the slowest recovery since World War II. But reason goes out the window along with common sense for dozens of Twitter followers who have posted threats to riot if Romney wins.
Twitchy offers up an assortment of tweets that center on this theme. The majority of them are in black “eye dialect. Here is a sampling:
I Heard Mitt Romney , Tryna Take Away Food Stamps , If He Do ."IMA START A RIOT , IMA START A RIOT" —@ThugPickles
If Romney win Imma start riot!— IG: Mocha_21 (@SpoilMe24_7) —@SpoilMe24_7
If Romney is elected president, its gon be a riot its gon be a riot. —PhillyB_2Insane
on b if romney become president im a start a riot on 11th in front of heb and subway. oh im a make the damn news. espn, kbtv, and kfdm.— You askin too much!! (@MyCup_OILY) —@MyCup_OILY
If ROMNEY GETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ...U MIGHT AS WELL KILL ME NOW .....CAUSE ITS GONNA BE A MOTHERF**KIN RIOT !!! —@J_freakyArtemis
Twitchy notes that a number of the tweets have since been deleted, and one poster has apologized for his tweet, claiming it was a “joke.” And an hilarious one at that.
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Yeah, maybe there will be, but are hippies actually a “race” and do middle-aged women riot anywhere but a major shopping frenzy?
Oh you mean minorities — or should I say majorities?
Sure, they will riot, but once they have burned down a few stores and looted them, probably the urge will subside. In fact they will conclude that a riot is about as effective as an Obama presidency for “gettin stuff.”
Well, if you’re a lumber dealer, how have plywood sales been lately?
One race will riot.
I will watch it on the news.
It is not too bad if you cast your own bullets and reload your own cartridges. The equipment pays for itself fairly quickly depending on how much you shoot. It costs about five cents a round to reload pistol brass with a cast bullet.
“Don’t know if they’ll riot, but on one of those threads, I saw one fellow say, ‘If Romney wins, I’m going out and taking out the first white I see!’”
And the proper authorities SHOULD make every effort to track down people who say these things and make an example out of them TODAY. It’s a threat, and there’s no reason to wait and see if people who talk like this act on their threats. Freedom of Expression does not give people the right to behave this way.
I have never been anti-mormon, I never will be and I have never been.
Either prove your charge with an actual example or STFU.
Hey I thought you had been zotted for lying and other nefarious things.
Obama can get his folks behind Romney then it will be ok.
Never happen..PS
Do not put ANYTHING past the Left..Obama will NOT go easily..ANYTHING..I repeat ANYTHING is possible between now and NOV
Sleep with one eye open. I’m sure the Marxist has on last desperate Mother of all Plans waiting in the wings.
Obama can get his folks behind Romney then it will be ok.
Never happen..PS
Do not put ANYTHING past the Left..Obama will NOT go easily..ANYTHING..I repeat ANYTHING is possible between now and NOV
Sleep with one eye open. I’m sure the Marxist have one last desperate Mother of all Plans waiting in the wings.
“It depends on Obama and how he concedes the election. If he is as cordial as McCain was (even though he sucked as a candidate, he was very gracious in his defeat). If Obama can get his folks behind Romney then it will be ok.”
When was the last time you saw communists do something like that?
I take it your post was in jest...
You are joking - right?
It doesn’t “stop” on 7 November. Just think about all the damage that can be done all the way up until inauguration. Martial law, disband congress, etc.
>> we’re no longer in a democracy but mob rule...
Uh, we’re not a democracy - we’re a republic. By definition, “democracy” IS mob rule. Our formation as a republic was designed to protect our liberty.
BTW, have you checked out the free online courses from Hillsdale College on this subject?
Oh, I’m aware we are technically a republic, not a democracy but democracy, in the current form of the word, is an orderly rule of the people. Mob rule is not. Mob rule is a subgroup exercising tyranny over the rest of us, which is what we are becoming.
Some of these pea brains would riot even if The Kenyan served eight years and was therefore not eligible to run again.
It depends on how many bodies you want around afterwards. The problem is that you would want to keep them well OFF your property line. At the later trial, what will you tell the jury, as your justification for shooting somebody a hundred yards away from your house?
During the Rodney King riots, the Korean store owners would fire at the ground near the feet of the rioters to convince them to back off, and to indicate the red line. Doing it that way, maybe one shot per minute, results in the expenditure of 600 rounds over the course of the night.
Then again, if it turns into general war, then the concept of trials go out the window. If there are thousands of dead, and thousands of shooters, there will be no trials. What there will in place of trials, of course, will be determined by whether Obama is still in charge, and who is willing to follow his orders.
As for me, I choose to have a lot of ammo available. A friend of mine once told me "You're going to run out of luck before you run out of ammo". That's how I like it.
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