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Rioting Only Makes Trump Stronger (lefties find their tactics backfire)
esquire.com ^ | MAY 25, 2016 | CHARLES P. PIERCE

Posted on 06/03/2016 7:10:43 AM PDT by Trumpinator

With that in mind, I would like to humbly suggest that those people who gather to protest the appearances of He, Trump kindly stop being such predictable tools for those really dark forces that are gathering around the presumptive Republican nominee.

Jesus H. Christ on a satellite feed, stop making it so easy for them.

What happened in Albuquerque Tuesday night not only was pointless, it was utterly stupid. It gave the campaign of He, Trump enough footage to create campaign ads all the way through his re-election campaign in 2020. It gave cable news a chance to monger some fear; by midnight, the CNN reporter on the scene was practically begging the cops to unleash hell on the people "who won't go home." It turned He, Trump into a victim. And, not least, throwing rocks at police horses is a dumb thing to do on its own merits.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchists; backfire; looneyleft; rentamob; trump
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I noticed a rash of "concerned" left wing writers declaring that the anti-Trump rioters are now hurting the cause. They don't decry the rioters because of their tactics but because it now is helping Trump. When the rioters and disruption first appeared the leftists and Ted Cruz all blamed Trump and not the rioters.

They thought this would make Trump less popular and intimidate Trump and his supporters. It backfired on the left.

1 posted on 06/03/2016 7:10:43 AM PDT by Trumpinator
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To: Trumpinator

Lefties are so dumb as to think rioting in the streets will push people away from Trump.

It will do exactly the opposite.

What it shows is the naked fear and desperation driving the Left.

If you want a President Trump in your future, by all means, keep on doing what you’ve been doing.


2 posted on 06/03/2016 7:15:02 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Trumpinator

lol I encourage the left to continue to protest!

specifically, block traffic, burn american flags and wave mexican ones!

Voters love it when you do these things!

ROFL


3 posted on 06/03/2016 7:16:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Trumpinator

If you have time to watch just one under 10 minute video today, please watch the video at the link below.

In it, you’ll see a reference to John F. Kennedy.  What possible connection could there be between Democrat JFK and Republican Trump?

JFK was one of the  last Democrats who, while he leaned somewhat to the left, LOVED AMERICA  — THE IDEA. (Yes, he and Bobby screwed up the immigration laws and several other things, but ALL these folks are mixed bags!) That love caused him to do two things that angered the oligarchs whose ideological progeny are today opposing Trump:  He signed an Executive Order authorizing the issue of United States Notes, a currency bypassing the Federal Reserve Notes the Fed creates from thin air and for which it charges us INTEREST for the privilege.  And, as a war veteran himself, Kennedy was preparing to pull us out of the quagmire called Vietnam, angering the Military-Industrial  Complex that 5 STAR GENERAL and PRESIDENT Eisenhower warned us in his Farewell Address!

I may be wrong, but all the indicators I’ve seen so far inform me that Trump “GETS IT” (understands the goal of the New World Order oligarchs) and he LOVES AMERICA — THE IDEA.   He wants our kids and grand kids to have the same opportunities we have enjoyed in a sovereign and independent America and a unique economic system that, warts and all, has provided more people more liberty and wealth than any other in the history of the world.

Cutting to the chase:  Trump has pissed off the same folks whose ancestors took out not only JFK but only God knows how many others who dared challenged the Utopian oligarchs who do not lightly tolerate such insolence!

Trump is literally betting his life that he can beat the bastards!  Join me in praying that he is right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NG_jAMgzSE
PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO!!


4 posted on 06/03/2016 7:17:34 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Trumpinator

Yep, and by all means keep waving those Mexican flags....


5 posted on 06/03/2016 7:18:04 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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6 posted on 06/03/2016 7:18:11 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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Listen to them when interviewed. Same words (”oppressive,” “racist,” “working man”, etc. etc.) totally contrived and likely paid for. Without that inducement and those words, there is nothing there. They can’t go stand silently..would not work. So they are left with either the violence or not showing up at all ( and missing a payday)


7 posted on 06/03/2016 7:18:50 AM PDT by yetidog
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I just read Josh Marshall picking up on this in Talking Points Memo. He writes this morning: "That's not protest; it's mob violence. The one saving grace of last night's free-for-all and earlier ones is the sheer prevalence of social media. We're seeing smartphone videos mainly from journalists who were on the scene. But if you look in the background of these videos, almost everyone who isn't hitting, getting hit or actively taunting is holding up a hand cam of some sort. Everyone involved is readily identifiable, from multiple angles. They should all be identified, tracked down and prosecuted, not primarily as punishment but as deterrence."

I think he gets it. While he can posture about Trump, he realizes these actions by Democrats--lets be clear, these are Democrats--is wrong.

"Local police authorities, perhaps with some federal coordination or encouragement, need to make clear that violence at political events will lead to prosecution and punishment. That's the only way to keep this genie, this bacillus in the bottle."

"Public violence is almost always wrong and criminal. But it's substantially worse when it crosses wires with the political process because then it creates not simply a danger of individual physical injuries but the dismemberment and breakdown of the political process itself. When norms buckle they need to be reinforced and backstopped by law enforcement. That is no more that the state and civil order defending itself."

His other BS, that Trump started it, is just that BS, political BS. At the end of the day, or in this case, the beginning, it is good that Josh sees the bad that Democrats are doing. Bet we'll see more of this once they see the results of people rallying around Trump, not around Democrats.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-the-san-jose-blow-up

8 posted on 06/03/2016 7:21:56 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Cruz can always flare up again. Treat with Trump.)
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To: Trumpinator

Let me get this straight....the leftists are brimming with hate and violence, but it is Trump that is backed by “dark forces”?


9 posted on 06/03/2016 7:23:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Trumpinator

So the message is:

Don’t engage in foolish, pointless, and destructive rioting...

NOT BECAUSE it’s foolish, pointless, and destructive ...

but because it winds up helping elect Trump.

So in other words, if it had the desired effect, then it would be perfectly okay ... it sure seems like that’s what’s implied now, isn’t it?


10 posted on 06/03/2016 7:24:11 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: Trumpinator
One must not blaspheme the Prophet Hillary.

Those doing so are mere gibbering animals and are not human.

Those who humiliate, destroy property, disrupt their evil deeds are justified in delivering the Supreme Mercy of the Prophet upon mankind, as if cutting a cancerous tumor from the body. Those doing so will be rewarded in Utopia.

May the Peace of the Prophet Hillary be upon you.

(Compare the Prophet Hillary's (& Burn-e's) supporters to the Jihad of Islam - many similarities)

11 posted on 06/03/2016 7:27:26 AM PDT by haffast (Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.)
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To: yetidog

I like how the leftist thugs claim to be for the “working man.” If they really were, they wouldn’t be rioting, they would be...working.

But then again, they are working in their chosen profession.


12 posted on 06/03/2016 7:28:37 AM PDT by henkster (Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
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To: Trumpinator

I get the feeling that the radical lefties are having a breakdown. Seriously.

For years they were used to being accommodated until someone finally stood up to them. Suddenly they’re confused — their old tactics of screaming & yelling like the spoiled children they are no longer work. I’ve seen this with people who are used to manipulating everyone around them, until they confronted someone who held up a mirror.

Ambivalent as I am toward Trump, I admire him for refusing to back down. Normally it’s wrong to be vengeful, but toward evil you show no mercy. It’s a pleasure to see the liberal establishment embarrassed.


13 posted on 06/03/2016 7:29:12 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: BenLurkin

Trump should use the video of the riots in his campaign ads with this voiceover: “These people are waving Mexican flags and burning Old Glory...they clearly don’t want to be Americans... why are they here in OUR country and why does the Democrat party support them... and not you?”


14 posted on 06/03/2016 7:29:23 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: All

These riots and “protests” all give excellent reasons why these people should be captured and deported...Send them back across the border and secure the border...


15 posted on 06/03/2016 7:29:57 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: henkster
I like how the leftist thugs claim to be for the “working man.” If they really were, they wouldn’t be rioting, they would be...working.

You're just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we've got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are

You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain?

Oingo Boingo - Capitalism

16 posted on 06/03/2016 7:30:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: zencycler
So in other words, if it had the desired effect, then it would be perfectly okay ... it sure seems like that’s what’s implied now, isn’t it?

BINGO!

17 posted on 06/03/2016 7:33:31 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Trumpinator

Time to post that Great Wall of Trump cartoon again!


18 posted on 06/03/2016 7:36:23 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Trumpinator

It gave the campaign of He,

one would think that someone as ‘intelligent’ as Charles Pierce should know that the word ‘of’ is a preposition, and thus places the clause in the objective case...should be ‘of Him’, not ‘of He’...


19 posted on 06/03/2016 7:39:34 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Trumpinator
of He, Trump

And you do not think you are part of the problem in stirring hate mobs?????

Seriously brain-dead. What did you think your and your fellow journalist and dem politicians propaganda riling up people who have rejected morals was going to do? You have the reaction you have programmed and now it is backfiring on you.

These are your voters and they are ugly, not a people a stable society is built on. They are not a group of people working Americans want to associate with or vote for a party that they support.

20 posted on 06/03/2016 7:44:48 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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