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| 2017-03-04 |
| Back in Obama’s first months on the throne, Rick Santelli, a TV personality, was “reporting” from the floor of the stock exchange. He responded to a question about Obama’s housing plan with a rant about socialism, finishing it off with a call for a new Tea Party. Whether it was spontaneous or choreographed is hard to know, but at the time people took it to be entirely spontaneous. Santelli is a carny barker prone to getting carried away on the air and his rant had the feel of an old fashioned stem winder. Regardless of the intent or the execution, the rant went viral and the Tea Party Movement was born. Middle America was ready to be pissed off due to the terribleness of the Bush years, so Obama’s poor start put the normies in a fighting mood. Before long people were showing up at town hall meetings, dressed as Samuel Adams, giving their congressman the business about reckless government behavior that had made a hash of things. Since the Democrats were the majority, they got the brunt of the abuse. It did not take long for the moonbats to declare the whole thing a racist conspiracy cooked up by the twelfth invisible Hitler in league with the eternal cyclops of the KKK. This was when the fake hate crime stuff got its start as a daily phenomenon. It was also when it became apparent to a lot of people that the news is mostly fake. The increasingly deranged Nancy Pelosi, slurring about “Astroturf” was so weird, it begged a challenge, but the news people carried on like it was manifestly true. The claim that middle aged suburbanites, dressed in tricorne hats, were paid agents of a nefarious conspiracy was so nutty that the response from the press should have been laughter and then derision. After all, it has been known for decades that the Left uses rent-a-mobs. They pay people to show up and hold signs. Unions have been doing this since the days of Jimmy Hoffa. For the Democrats to clutch their pearls and call the Tea Party inauthentic should have been too much of a farce for even the very liberal press corp. I’ve often wondered if that was when a lot of people started to think the corruption in Washington was worse than they imagined. The corruption of the Tea Party by Conservative Inc surely turned a lot of people to the dark side, but the priming agent may well have been the AstroTurf stuff. It was so obvious that the media was coordinating their coverage with the Left, it was hard not to notice it. The game was rigged and nothing in the media was on the level. It was not just bias, it was collusion. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Understood your point AlanC - which is why I mentioned we need to identify the next 3 stages of how that violence builds. You asked the question "when" - how we prepare is to start gaming out the scenarios by which today's background violence becomes hot |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-03-04 11:14 |
| #5 No Rex, I'm not talking about this petty violence. I'm talking about the real lock & load kind where these bastards start trying to take over places by force on a wide scale. There's a long dissertation here waiting to be written about the way that the Federal system can compartmentalize this threat. That's one thing that Obastard and his brown-shirt buddies tried to remove from the government. We've still to see how well he succeeded. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-03-04 10:49 |
| #4 The violence is already there. A week doesn't go by without a report of attacks on Trump supporters. The 3 of incidents would appear small but one wonders how many slip by. Time to start thinking on what the next 3 phases look like |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-03-04 09:15 |
| #3 The unanswerable question that concerns me is "When/if does all this fake propaganda lead to violence on a societal level?" Who fires that first shot in the war on conspiracy X? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-03-04 08:09 |
| #2 It is about time someone tried to get a scientific label for all of them FAKE works well! |
| Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-03-04 08:02 |
| #1 Hillary should have been laughed at when she brought up that 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' crap when enabling her rapist husband. Instead it was treated as gospel. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-03-04 01:35 |