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Posted on 03/05/2016 8:24:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I watched a bit of Donald Trump's speech this morning, but eventually got bored and went to lunch. I had only tuned in to listen to him insult Mitt Romney, but every time he started up he immediately veered off into some random Trumpism (Mexico will pay for the wall, Obamacare is a trainwreck, etc.) and it took him a minute or two to get back on track. After half an hour he'd basically said that (a) Romney lost in 2012, and (b) Romney begged Trump for his endorsement. That was it. Oh, and Trump is a lot richer than Romney.
Within that half hour, though, I saw no fewer than four protesters start yelling, only to be hauled away by police or Trump security guards. Obviously, this is becoming a thing, a set piece bit of political theater that both sides welcome. But will it remain theater? David French doesn't phrase things quite the way I would (no surprise there), but he's got the right idea:
Two sets of political and cultural arsonists are on a collision course -- the angry fringe leftist who lives to disrupt versus the angry fringe Trump supporter who is begging for a fight. And when two sides are itching for a confrontation, they usually get it.
....It would be painfully easy for leftist activists to position themselves close to a group of strategically-chosen Trump supporters, initiate a disruption, and then resist the instant the crowd tried to push them out. A racially-charged brawl would be endlessly replayed on the nightly news, complete with injured, bleeding victims, and national tensions would start to boil over.
....So far, the far Left has trained most of its fire on its more moderate allies. That could soon change, and if it does...we could see the worst political violence since 1968.
I don't really buy the "worst since 1968" line, but there's not much question that both the protesters and Trump are eventually headed for violence. Trump wants it because it will make him look tough. His supporters want it because they hate the hippies. And the protesters want it in order to show just what a fascist Trump really is.
At this point, the game is to make sure the other side gets the blame when this happens. So the question is: who's going to show the most discipline? Because in the public eye, whoever throws the first punch will be the one who started the violence. This is a high-stakes media game that depends on a rotating cast of completely random actors--and that makes it potentially pretty scary.
And when it does, Trumps numbers will go through the roof.
Mother Jones...seriously?
One of these 35 year old, morbidly obese Black Lives Matter protesters is going to collapse and Trump will get blamed.
You’re the most sensitive little snowflakes, ain’t you?
Baa haa.
Some old hippie with a gray ponytail at Mother Jones dreaming of his glory days.
Kevin doesn’t get out much. The protesters are comic relief, Trump jokes about it and reminds the police to be gentle and not hurt them. One guy recently started yelling, Trump told him to shut up - and he did!
Not what you’d call a riotous mob.
You’re the most sensitive little snowflakes, ain’t you?
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You’re going to Mother Jones and Liberals like Kevin Drum for solace?
And you’re calling me the “sensitive little snowflake.” My how times have changed.
I bet you'd find that just as funny, wouldn't you?
Mother Jones is just certain that Trump is going to rev them up, hand out pitchforks and pine-tar torches, and the whole lot of them are going to head over to the other side of the tracks for an old fashioned you-know-what.
The way dem down-south Democratties used to do.
My thought also. Shouldn’t that be Grandma Jones.
Shouldn’t that be Grandma Jones.
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LOL! Yep!
Yep.
The guy you're writing to will respond once he's finished checking Pyongyang Daily, for any new attacks on Trump.
He must be dumb enough to think that Trump would handle this like the establishment, aka turn the other cheek.
If the PTB at FR doesn't want articles posted from a given site, they block it. They haven't blocked Mother Jones, so ...
Typical Jonesies hogwash.
I say we drop the vitriol against each other and against our leading candidates as of now. We're only serving to harden the hearts of our natural allies against us and from this point forward, the hit pieces will not change minds or votes, but will possibly feed the enemy propaganda machine.
Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3405593/posts
Only an idiot would pretend there’s any doubt about who will be blamed LOL!
It’ll be like the ‘Republican government shutdowns’.
But one reason Trump gets support is because the media always lie.
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