Posted on 11/15/2016 10:25:19 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
One out of every 40 people in America lives in New York City. The area's population is 8.4 million, more than in 39 other states. For every vote cast for Donald Trump in the city last Tuesday, more than four were cast for Hillary Clinton; she earned 79 percent of the vote.
In the wake of Trump's victory, thousands of protesters crowded the streets of Manhattan (where Trump got fewer votes than he did on Staten Island, where the population is a third smaller) outside Trump Tower. It's hard to know how many were there, but let's assume it was 5,000 people. That would mean that a fraction of a percent of the city took time to ride the train in and make their voices heard, assuming no one came in from anywhere else. Protests of thousands of people in New York really aren't that uncommon, which could have been a reasonable thing to point out if you wanted to brush the event away.
That's not the angle that Trump and his supporters took. Instead, the president-elect and his backers decided to dismiss the protests in New York and other cities cities that contain hundreds of thousands of people who mostly voted against Trump as being the work of paid protesters. In a tweet, Trump decided that the professional protesters, in his formulation, were also incited by the media, which doesn't make much sense.
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No need to apologize for posting the MSM’s crap. It’s done to keep tabs on the enemy and has been part of FR since inception.
“I feel I have to respond “
You are doing it for Your feeling when you already know she is not ready to listen or really consider what you say.
I got super liberals in my circle of loved ones too. it’s like any bad habit (of mind or body) they have to be ready and want to change their way of thinking, if not you are wasting your time talking about it.
If your family member is a liberal, you’re wasting your time sending them proof refuting this article.
Libs are immune to facts, logic, and reason. Its why they’re libs.
I stopped wasting my time arguing politics with liberal family members a long time ago. Its just not worth the grief. They know where I stand, and that I’m never going back to the plantation.
We show up and pretty much stay in place, voicing our opinions and desires.
We drink and eat, then clean the place up before we leave.
The other side is violent and are pigs.
i rememebr sendng a liberal loved one that picture post 2009 inauguration of all the garbage left all over the lawns. He told me to give Obama a chance LOL
I don’t know how it was after 2013 Inauguration..
waiting to see if they have pictures after 2017.
you truly can tell a lot by how people behave.
Thanks for that reassurance. I just felt “dirty” posting from this source. Glad it is understood.
Well, my liberal relative and I have not discussed politics at all during all the Obama years - because we both realized it was hopeless to try to “talk the other one out of what they believed”.
But when she said that I didn’t recognize the grief and fear that Trump’s opponents were experiencing, I just had to respond and it has led to going back and forth with links and stories. SIGH.
too many. The good news is that in this election, NC went for Trump!!!!! So, not a lot of the transplanted “yankees” have changed the Old North State into a liberal cesspool - yet.
Sounds like you might just want to disown the “liberal family member.” It would be a lot easier!
Well, she likely wants to disown me first..... :-)
The bus video is nonsense. How bout seeing protesters getting off of them. More than likely it was charter buses for an event at McCormick Place.
THAT is what we need - photos of protesters getting off or on the buses.
And the fact that those phone numbers tie back to Soro's funded organizations plus they way they are all operated the same and the fact that dumpster diving has produced documentation proving that Soros is funding them. There's a lot more evidence than that as well.
RevCom and Soros
It could be ponted out that we felt "grief and fear" in 2008 and 2012, when Obama was elected. So I think it's unfair for a liberal to assume that this is the first election in history to result in "grief and fear," or that their "grief and fear" is more valid than mine.
This tripe is not worth posting, reading, or responding to...
EXACTLY my first response to her - re: the grief and fear I felt (and millions of others like me felt) in 2008 and 2012 (and also going back to the Clinton elections). But we did not riot in the streets.
did you have fear of obama’s win 2008 and again 2012?
I sure did. if you did maybe help them see that, tell them the things you feared of him that he did do, from big things to all little (obama so ill prepared to be president, has Valerie Jarrett and other extreme muslim sympathizers in high positions in govt Muslim attacks in this country, he said muslim call to prayer most beautiful sound and yet he does;t seem to reverence our own nations traditions, bloating Govt jobs, destabilizing middle east, more countries hate us, border/illegals making our country less safe costing us more, huge debt Fed printing money to cover the fact, etc this is all under obama)
Maybe coming form the angle of you under stand fear of a new president with such differing views. If they are still freaked out, or they prefers globalization, not much else you can do but tell them you love them and you’ll keep in touch but prefer not to talk politics. Pray for them.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237 http://thefreethoughtproject.com/soros-trump-protests-revolution/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org
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