The other day Joaquin Castro doxxed the constituents in his district who donated to Donald Trump. It amounted to a hit list. Castro claimed that he wanted people to “think twice” about donating to Trump
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/joaquin-castro-says-posted-private-citizens-info-wanted-people-think-twice-supporting-trump/
That was bullsh*t. Without any doubt he was hoping to visit at least economic harm and maybe more.
And he has drawn first blood.
For many businesses, a sudden deluge of phone calls might signal an influx of new customers. But most of the 25 calls Justin Herricks received before noon on Thursday were from people who wanted to tell him he was a white supremacist for donating money to President Trump.
“I’ve had people say, ‘Hey, we were going to use you for business, but we found out you’re a racist,’” Mr. Herricks, the owner of Precision Pipe Rentals, an oil and gas services company in San Antonio, said in an interview. “‘We hope that you burn in hell and your business will go with you.’”
One Trump donor Joaquin Castro targeted on Twitter received 25 phone calls before noon.
"We were gonna use you for business, but we found out you’re a racist. We hope that you burn in hell and your business will go with you."
Thanks @JoaquinCastrotx! Big public service here. pic.twitter.com/X5epowhFxh
— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) August 9, 2019
From the Michael Berry show
The mother to a friend of the show was one of the 44-private citizens who donated to the Trump campaign and had her name and employer tweeted out by Joaquin Castro. Here’s the vile voicemail she received.
Willie Geist squeezed Castro on this sordid action:
“What do you say to those people this morning who said, I made a campaign donation and now I’m gonna be harassed; I’m gonna have people protesting outside my business or perhaps even my home?” Geist asked Castro. “Do you want them to repent for their support for Donald Trump or, what do you want from them?”
“Well, the first thing is, I don’t want anybody harassed or targeted —”
“But they will be,” Geist interrupted, “because you put their names in public.”
“Look, that was not my intention,” Castro answered.
“But that’s what will happen,” the MSNBC host stated flatly.
And it’s done exactly that. Some of the victims aren’t taking it:
Hanrahan said he saw the interview and doesn’t buy Castro’s defense.
“He knows exactly what he’s doing,” said Hanrahan, adding that his father fought in World War II and he refuses to be “bullied with slurs of racism.”
“I and a lot of other people that support the president, we’re not gonna be called racist and the other slurs without fighting back,” said Hanrahan, explaining that supporting political candidates is a matter of free speech.
Castro managed to nail one of his own donors
In an exclusive Fox News interview, real estate developer Wayne Harwell said that in addition to supporting Trump, he also donated money to Castro’s congressional campaign in 2011. But he suggested that after Castro outed him in a bid to shame Trump supporters, he won’t be supporting Castro anymore.
“I was also on a list of people that gave to Castro and if he dislikes me enough that he wants to put my name out there against Trump, I’m not going to give money to him,” Harwell told Fox News. “Obviously Castro feels pretty strongly against me.”
If he does this to his own donors and constituents, imagine what he would do to you. Never, ever trust a country to someone named Castro.
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freedom of speech in who one will support. doesn’t this asshole under stand? wonder about the abuse of campaign funds?
Why vote for Trump?
Because the alternative is fascist, violent, and regressive.
Then there’s the Law of Unintended Consequences.
So, “Line Goes Around the Block” at Bill Miller BBQ after Democrat Castro Outs Owner on His Political Hit List.
Heh.
Shades of the Chick-Fil-A slam by progressives who thought they could starve that food place out of existence over their (late) founder’s backing of traditional marriage.
I just donated $50 to the Trump campaign.
Political contributions are public records. If someone doesn’t want the public to know they made donations to a particular candidate, they shouldn’t make those donations.
So voting records are public records.
Castro had them released with the expressed intent to intimidate; interfere with supporting candidates and voting.
He should be prosecuted fully to the extent the law allows, then drawn and quartered in the public square.
But of course, being a democrat, this scum bag is made of teflon
Of course Castro absolutely knew and intended for the names he published to be harassed. Those people knew who they donated to and why; they weren’t going to “reconsider” because of anything he said. He knew they would be harassed because that is on every page of the Democrat playbook. Democrats and media clowns promote and encourage it; it is incredible to believe Castro would actually believe otherwise.
The names of the donors may be available through research, none of these people suffered harassment until Castro published their names. Hopefully someone can take legal action and make this insect-looking POS pay dearly for his stupid and dangerous actions. Otherwise, it will continue… because it is what Democrats do.
Republicans can’t respond in kind because, aside from being a low-life, cowardly thing to do, Republicans do not react with violence and intimidation as Democrats do.
@Deplorable Me:
What law prevents publication of public records?
@NormB:
And voting registration records get published and sold every day. What’s your point?
@SkippingDog:He accompanied the information with false and incendiary accusations. If his action results in harm coming to anyone, he SHOULD be held accountable. Or, do you condone political violence?
@SkippingDog: No laws against it, it’s just in bad taste to collect these names and invite your constituency to harass and ruin them. That’s mob rule, not democracy. You’re instilling that those who don’t support your party should be scared and shamed into hiding. That’s tyranny.
If he shared everyone’s voting record and donations, it would be fair. To only share Trumps is to use fear and cowardice to affect an election, not win it on merit.
That’s wrong.
There’s been an “Official Boycott List” on Reddit of businesses Trump supporters are encouraged to boycott since 2016.
There’s been an “Official Boycott List” on Reddit of businesses Trump supporters are encouraged to boycott since 2016. Multiple lists, in fact. At least one has recently become so hostile that you encounter a Reditt warning page before you’re taken to it.
When asked, NONE of the Democrat candidates denounced ANTIFA. Political violence is vitally important to Democrats because they have NOTHING else.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mark-jennings/not-one-democratic-presidential-candidate-will-condemn-violence-riddled
@Deplorable Me: Antifa is a bogeyman for the fringe Right that embraces groups like Proud Boys, League of the South, and even less savory groups built on white pride and/or “heritage.”
@Deplorable Me: What false and accusatory claims were those?
@Greg:
Some years back, long before Donald Trump came on the scene, there was a website that promoted businesses owned by Democrat donors called BuyBlue. It lasted a very short time until they found out that those businesses were losing business. It was taken down.
The left has been boycotting businesses, radio and tv shows for a long time. So don’t act all butt hurt when the right does the same thing.
@SkippingDog:
What you are saying is that any organization based on “white” pride and/or heritage is wrong. So on the flip side of that coin, do you also content that any organization based on race or heritage is wrong like:
The New Black Panthers (who actually intimidated voters at the polls with clubs)
Black Lives Matter
NAACP
La Raza
LULAC
and lest we forget:
The Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Are you saying those groups are just “boogymen” for the fringe Right?
@retire05: When have white people in the U.S. been subjected to the same injustices as the people in the groups you list?
@SkippingDog:
I live in a state who’s Declaration of Independence was signed by whites AND Hispanics in the early 1800’s. I live in a state where people are treated equally, except for in the Democrat controlled major cities that have a high rate of povery (ghettos and barrios).
You want to live in the past. I don’t. I want to live in a nation dreamed of by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. where a person is judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin. I want to live in a nation where identity politics is a thing of the past.
But don’t rail on groups that you claim are constructed around race/heritage unless you rail on ALL groups constructed around race/heritage.
Since you want to live in the past, maybe you would like to discuss the purpose of the Buffalo Soldiers because I am fully aware of what their goal was.
@retire05: But you probably think the Native Americans are just a special interest group. Right?
BTW, have you ever read the Resolution of Secession by Texas? Take a look and be sure to tell me how much “equality” your state has had.
@SkippingDog: @SkippingDog:
Not sure what you mean. Explain.
Sure have. It was written when Texas was a state controlled by Democrats. Any more questions?
@retire05, #18:
Trump supporters should consider demonstrating their outrage with democratic candidates by boycotting the 2020 election.
@SkippingDog: ANTIFA is a fascist political violence gang that provides muscle for the Democrats, just as the Brownshirts did for the Nazis. The Democrats love it, use it, support it and promote it.
He said they were supporting a racist and white supremacist. Now, to avoid the waste of time in you coming back and making the same false accusation, no, that won’t work. Provide the PROOF Trump has done ANYTHING racist or white supremacist.
Well… how about NOW? However, who is oppressing or suppressing blacks now? Well, all eyes turn to the Democrats, who attack blacks that stray off their plantation of forced subservience to the agenda. Do you really think the racist policies of Democrats in the past justifies lies, intimidation and attacks on whites that had NOTHING to do with that today?
Democrats. Again. Also, the same ideology continued until the iron grip of Democrats was finally broken in the South in the ’70’s.
Tell me, if this was not doxxing with the intent to intimidate the donors, how often does Castro or any other Democrat publish lists of THEIR donors? Hmmmm?
@Greg:
What we will do is boycott voting for racist socialists.
@Nathan Blue: agreed
@Deplorable Me: ANTIFA is a loose and unorganized group opposing fascist policies and leaders. It has been in existence since the 1920’s in other areas of the world, and comprised a large portion of the Nazi and Fascist resistance movements during the lead up to WWII. That the same type of people now feel it necessary to confront the modern fringe Right in the U.S. should alarm all of us, but not about the ANTIFA members or group.
@SkippingDog:
Wow!
What troll farm do you work for?
@SkippingDog:
Uh..ok, let’s play that game:
Proud Boys, League of the South, and even less savory groups are bogeymen for the Mainstream Left that embraces groups like Antifa, Universities, and parts of the general populace that are attacking people wearing Maga Hats…and celebrities staging elaborate hoaxes to promote the idea that “white supremacy” is a thing for the explicit purpose of gaining political power and branding all enemies racists….like the Nazi’s did to Jews”
Try harder, junior.
I was liberal until being liberal meant a constant attack on “those other white people…not “me” white people” (because American Leftism is a culturally white thing)
Idiots like Greg, and my warward little troll dog Skip don’t understand how much the Dems and Leftism is promoting racism and exploiting “minorities” by continually framing things as “white people keeping you down”. That’s just not the world we live in.
Are there white supremacists? Yes. Are there black, and latino, and asian (wow, if only people would acknowledge how racist Asia is…and they just don’t care) racists? Of course. There always will be.
Highlighting the incredibly small number of white supremacists to make a bullsh*t bogeyman and say we have a problem is just another manufactured Dem crisis.
And little dog and Greg, some of you own candidates are calling for their party to get off the racism struff already.
You may want to be “progressive” and move forward. Right now, the Dem left is a party ruled by “regressives”.
According to the totals from Trump’s fundraiser last night, over $1 million was gained for the president’s re-election campaign following Castro’s decision to publicly shame donors.
Looks like people are as scared of soy boys and blue-haired hemales, who can’t even figure out which bathroom to use, as Castro thought they’d be.
@SkippingDog:
They ARE fascism and even if disorganized, they are organized and motivated by Democrat funds. Not surprising liberals look the other way as they poison discourse with violence.
@Nathan Blue: AND, take note that for the longest time, white supremacism was vanishing. The left revived it by acting the very stereotypical anti-American white supremacists have told us they opposed. Democrats and their adulation of racism breathed new life into white supremacy. Without the left, racism and white supremacy would have continued to vanish into obscurity.
@Deplorable Me: There is nothing fascist or supportive of fascist causes with ANTIFA. Perhaps if you actually knew what Fascism is, you’d look less foolish.
@SkippingDog: BECAUSE I know what fascism is I can make the comparison. Using violence to try and silence political opposition in the support of socialism is about as fascist as you can get, little doggie.
I suggest you read up on the rise of the Nazis and the Brownshirts. Your beloved ANTIFA used them as their model.
But, you CAN’T look less foolish; far too late for that. Bad dog. Bad.
@Deplorable Me: Okay, I’ll play. Please tell all of us what real fascism is.
@SkippingDog: I just did. Apparently, you are an OLD DOG, because you simply can’t learn.
@Deplorable Me: All you told me was something you saw on the History Channel. What is real fascism?
@SkippingDog: Well, no, that’s not what I did, but you could learn some things by watching the History Channel. Certainly more than you currently know.
Please explain fascism, as you understand it.
@SkippingDog: You know, you remind me of another fool named Michael that seemed blind to facts, reason and truth. Hmmm….
@Deplorable Me: Still waiting.
@SkippingDog: Waiting to read #34?
@Deplorable Me: @SkippingDog: Little dog, anyone can look it up on google. Such a weak way to wage an argument, waiting to parse words because you know Antifa behaves like the non-existent fascists they claim to combat.
That’s the point everyone is making, and it’s backed up by so much evidence you can’t rationally argue against it. It’s like telling someone the sky is green.
Antifa exhibits traits of what they accuse others of as they started using the term “fascist” in the colloquial sense.
The formal definition of fascism is a “radical, right-wing authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by dictatorial power” (Wikipedia)
Firstly, that movement doesn’t exist in America, not in any substantial way. To call Reps/Cons ‘fascist” is hyperbole and asinine.
Secondly, Antifa engages in the most iconic behavior of Fascism: forcible suppression of opposition.
Also from Wikipedia:
Antifa is a group of far-left militant nerds that have reached terrorist status. They are racist and homophobic, since they beat down Ngo (yup. the left gets to live by their own rules now…therefore, that’s racist/homophobic)
Everybody understands that far-right and far-left end up being the exact same: violent tyrannies that suppress freedom.
Don’t try to parse words, mutt. You’re a good boy for avoiding me.
@Nathan Blue: Perhaps he honestly cannot understand what he reads (assuming, since he can write, he can read).
@Deplorable Me: Pretty sure SkippingDog is “Michael” after I put a collar on him.
Just yank his chain, and he’ll sit like a good boy.
BTW, this is how paid trolls work: just argue things that are absurd in the hopes it will divide us further. It’s hard to me to believe Greg or s-dog/michael actually think what they are saying is true. It’s too contrived.
Rich is cool. I might not agree, but he’s a real person engaging in real dialogue. The rest? Not so much.
@SkippingDog:
If my succinct and cogent explanation didn’t do it, this will:
’nuff said.
@Nathan Blue: Michaeldog has had problems in the past following links. Unless he has learned new skills, he will return and demand you post the entire article of the link on your post.
@Nathan Blue: From Britannica, the same culture that had to confront Fascism the last time it emerged:
“Fascism, political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East. Europe’s first fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, took the name of his party from the Latin word fasces, which referred to a bundle of elm or birch rods (usually containing an ax) used as a symbol of penal authority in ancient Rome. Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation. At the end of World War II, the major European fascist parties were broken up, and in some countries (such as Italy and West Germany) they were officially banned. Beginning in the late 1940s, however, many fascist-oriented parties and movements were founded in Europe as well as in Latin America and South Africa. Although some European “neofascist” groups attracted large followings, especially in Italy and France, none were as influential as the major fascist parties of the interwar period.”
Sound familiar?
@SkippingDog:
Sure. Democrats and ANTIFA. Just like I’ve been saying.