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This List Of Attacks Against Conservatives Is Mind Blowing
2017-06-18
A wave of liberal rage has marked the last 11 months since the rise and subsequent election of President Donald Trump.

Antifa protestors [sic] clad in black masks shut down college campuses, destroy property and indiscriminately attack those they disagree with, whether women or the elderly. Meanwhile, CNN fires Kathy Griffin for taking photos with a bloody replica of the president’s decapitated head.

Amid this backdrop, The Huffington Post publishes an article calling for the execution of Trump and "everyone assisting his agenda."

Then, shots ring out as a man gorged on media hysteria attempts to slaughter Republican congressmen while they practice for a charity baseball game.

The aggression since Trump’s nomination is difficult to enumerate, but nevertheless, The Daily Caller News Foundation pored over media reports to compile a close but non-exhaustive list of violent acts against conservatives in months following the Republican National Convention.

In creating the list, The DCNF reviewed numerous articles detailing attacks against conservatives and Trump supporters. Only incidences of violence and threats of violence where the perpetrators were clear are included in the report, excluded are events where the instigator was difficult to ascertain.

List follows.

Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#7  Matt, perhaps I was exaggerating a bit - I can definitely understand why, after you've see that elections do matter, you (Americans) are not eager to jettison the entire system. On the other hand, I do not believe that civilized restraint in the face of murderous savages (whether they call themselves Muslims, BLM, or Antifa) is a virtue.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-18 14:45  

#6  #5 Grom, that's an interesting point. I think part of the explanation is that people on the right tend to be restrained by these things called "morals", which they learn from their parents and from their pastors (or rabbis). Being a-moral gives you a much broader range of options.

But the antifas shouldn't confuse moral restraint with lack of capability. An interesting place for a good leftist to visit not far from Congressman Scalise's district is this store, where you can watch fathers making sure that their daughters have just the right rifle for their first deer hunting trip. (Their sons are in the Marines and are using different types of hunting rifles.) There are teenage girls in Congressman Scalise's district who, properly motivated, could have shot every Congressman on that baseball field through the heart before anyone noticed an attack was underway. And field dressed them. But God help us if it comes to that.
Posted by: Matt   2017-06-18 14:18  

#5  What blows my mind is that where is no push-back.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-18 12:16  

#4  the Entitlement generation has come of age and if they dont get what they want they throw temper tantrums
Posted by: 746   2017-06-18 11:05  

#3  Indeed, GG. It has taken two generations.

Even Reagan - for whom I voted and still respect, because he was the right man for the times - was just another progressive, albeit the last one with a real conscience. The size of the public thugocracy grew even under his time.

If we could gather the entire mass of publicly employed and welfare recipients into a giant field and tell them, "Look to your the person to your left, then to the one on your your right. Two of the three of you need to lose your income stream and rejoin the private sector to save the country" - which is what is necessary - you'd have tens of millions of panicked madmen and madwomen, ready to burn down the universe at even the mention of the truth.

And that is precisely where we are at in 2017.
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-06-18 05:22  

#2  Oh, it took a lot more than 8 years, Chuckles.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-18 03:59  

#1  The national debt was doubled in only 8 short years to build a huge entitlement society. That society is unsustainable and will eventually die, taking everything down with it. To try to short circuit and terminate this massive beast only enrages it, like any animalistic beast its only recourse is to destroy its threats. These are very dangerous times.
Posted by: Chuckles Phineque3564   2017-06-18 03:39  

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