Ace:
This is the post I delayed because I didn’t know how to write it.
I won’t write it. I’ll just link the stories.
I will just repeat my urgent warning and threat: The rules you make for us are the rules you also make for yourselves. If you’re comfortable with that, then I suggest you begin making serious preparations for the hell you are determined to unleash on this once-peaceful country.
Leftist “Anti-Fascist” Criminals Threaten to Attack and Drag Off Any Republicans in Portland’s Annual Rose Parade; City Cancels Event. I don’t know if they’ll also be mounting a serious investigation into who made these threats and then prosecuting them to the worst the law will allow. I suspect they’ll do neither.
Here’s Althouse on it.
The New York Times previously blamed Milo and the rightwing for making the leftwing riot and physically attack people in Berkeley. They now do so again in the case of threats against the safety of author Ann Coulter.
Ms. Coulter, the acid-penned conservative writer, canceled a planned appearance on Thursday after the political organizations that invited her rescinded their support over fears of violence. “It’s a sad day for free speech,” she said.
Howard Dean and Sarah Silverman are “acid-tongued.” (Not penned; they don’t write.) If rightwing criminals threatend to assault them over speech, would the New York Times be searching for what they have recently called “false equivalency” between the two competing sides– one side that says they have the right to speak without fear of assault, and another side that says if they speak they’ll be physically attacked?
Jim Ruttenberg specifically called for an end of this practice of seeking “balance” were there was none — in the New York Times itself. Of course, he meant that in the sense of not giving “balance” to conservative claims when leftist claims were so obviously the truth and All Conservatives Are Liars.
Notice they’ve gone back to seeking “balance” when the obvious malefactors are their fellow violent, fascist progressives.
But across the country, conservatives like her are eagerly throwing themselves into volatile situations like the one in Berkeley, emboldened by a backlash over what many Americans see as excessive political correctness, a president who has gleefully taken up their fight, and liberals they accuse of trying to censor any idea they disagree with.
The situation adds up to a striking reversal in the culture wars, with the left now often demanding that offensive content be excised from public discourse and those who promote it boycotted and shunned.
A striking reversal? “Now”?
The left has been doing this with increasing militancy since the 1980s.
How fucking old and out of touch do you have to be to call this “striking reversal” as happening “now”?
It has happened and happened and grown worse every year precisely because the alleged “responsible voices” of the left, who could be expected to chastise their misbehaving correligionists and tell them to stop, have in fact covered up for them every step of the way, thereby tacitly approving of them and encouraging them to go further.
Remember the “Climate of Hate,” where it was posited that somehow Sarah Palin had inspired a deranged man obsessed with the mind-control patterns of regular English grammar to shoot a Representative who didn’t take his theories about grammar seriously?
If you believe in a “Climate of Hate” encouraging violence from more excitable members of a political cult, then you must also believe that the left’s endless justification and excuse-making for violence — when not openly calling for it– creates a Climate of Hate on the left for visiting violence on the right.
You can’t deny that. It’s non-deniable.
What the Times and the left are doing, therefore, is simply supporting the Climate of Hate, and hoping to cause violence. So long as it’s directed against the right people.
The rest of the article (so far as I could read) is less egregious than that opening — claiming the victim provoked the attacker — but that rhetorical excuse for political violence is quite enough.
I’m pretty sure that if Rush Limbaugh defended, justified, and make excuses for right wing gang violence the Times would not say the left “provoked” them by “throwing themselves” into “volatile situations” (like state-funded college campuses).
The mayor of Berkeley — who liked a By Any Means Necessary Facebook posts (BAMN being one of the violent groups, as their name would imply), and who has ordered police to stand down and let BAMN and antifa attack citizens at random — says that both antifa and the right which baits people into assaulting them are mutually to blame, and Mother Jones, naturally enough, agrees.
Keep your eye open for when Mother Jones speaks in the passive voice — no human actor specified — and when it gets suddenly specific about a human actor involved in an outcome.
Dirty no good filthy leftists brownshirts they need to be total banished from america let them go live in the Amazon lets see some masked radical leftists become dinner for some piranahs
Antifa doesn’t have the numbers they thought they should have.
LOL.
New game at Berkely for masked Antifa’ers:
Pull the Mask.
Take a Pic.
Post online.
Today most of Ann Coulter’s speech was read by various pro-free speech people.
And last, but not least, Eric Clanton, the bike lock assaulter, has got no money on his GoFundMe account.
I know that it is fun to mock the little fascist snots shutting down free speech. But this is actually disturbing, there is now a serious conversation about what speech we should allow. The left wants to define hate peech and forbid it. Hate speech is protected speech. The left insists that their actual hateful speech be protected.
Once again, who’s the thug you see here?
Is this question too difficult? Nobody around here has answered it yet. As the video demonstrates, the problem is not one sided. This isn’t an act intended to support freedom of speech.
The liberals who vehemently denounce this true fascism are few and far between. They all fully appreciate that though the means may actually be onerous to them, the ends are that some people they don’t want other people to hear from are shut down.
There is now a solid line from Communism to Fascism to National Socialism and to the Democrat Party. They all depend on the same tactics to beat down individual freedoms. The effort will prove far more difficult (and bloody) in the United States.
@Greg:
What you conveniently “forget” is that the left – the ACTUAL fascists who are suppressing free speech – are the ones initiating the violence, then hypocritically shrieking about their opponents defend themselves when attacked by the actual fascists.
What the left is doing is exactly the same as every other bullying bunch of totalitarian cowards, as they make excuses for initiating violence then decry their victims standing up to the leftist assaults.
But still no comment about the video?
I guess it’s one glaring bit of evidence that’s just too inconsistent with your delusional construct to consider.
@Greg: I see Moldy Locks with a weighted glove illegal in California turn and grab the guy who punched her, a guy big enough hospitalize her had he continued his attack. watch your “evidence” again she goes at him before being hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWMYmZMiQLk
Her social media account said she was going for scalps, she was photographed throwing bottles, why were not the Antifa disarmed by the cops? How do bricks and bottles get to the event but you posted a long list of things they took from the people with a permit to be there?
You must look at both sides of the media before you defend the hairy p0rn queen.
@Greg: As I have written (and possibly you read), the violent behavior of your leftist fascists is going to elicit a violent response. We saw it happen inside Trump rallies where your leftists would provoke and intimidate to the point where someone would defend themselves, at which point your leftist media would focus on and condemn the person reacting.
This is not Israel and you are not the UN. This chickenshit tactic of provoking a response, then blaming the respondent for instigating the violence won’t fly. Your merry band of leftist crybabies are likely to suffer an ass-beating and it will be their own fault.
I don’t know how you can rationalize a right wing thug punching a rather petite young woman in the face. Apparently this revision of reality requires no small measure of gullibility, suggestibility, and a large helping of delusional thinking. The slowed-down bit of video up above supposedly showing her striking him moments earlier—a vicious attack from which he apparently had to defend his dainty, pacifistic self—actually shows no such thing. “There! Did you see it?” asks the narrator. No, I didn’t see it—not after watching the slowed-down clip half-a-dozen times at an even slower frame rate—because it isn’t effing there. The light-blue-clad arm with the ham fist at the end of it belongs to Nathan Damigo, racist right-wing f-ckwad, and is the only punch that gets thrown. He’s probably punching a slip-of-a-girl weighing 50 pounds less than himself in the face to compensate for his 1-inch penis. He’s the alpha-monkey, damn it!
Many people cannot see or will not accept what’s right in front of their faces. If they don’t snap the hell out of it, we’re headed for serious trouble.
Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
Trump: My first 100 days ‘just about the most successful’ ever
@Greg: You will not see it, perhaps this little girl shouldnt go to protests that by recent history have proven to be violent. Her hands not up in self defense but at the punchers throat, and it seems it was only a single punch not a beat down. being masked and with a hat how do you tell its a girl? Well her mask came off and the guy did not hit her again, stomp or kick her.
@Greg:
If some bitch is swinging a heavy wine bottle at me, I’m not likely to be much of a gentleman. What do you think is worse; a man defending himself by striking a woman or a woman that is relying on the protection of her gender as she assails people? Perhaps they are both reprehensible, but there is context.
However, for leftist, fascist thugs to attack people doing nothing more that acknowledging their political views is indefensible… yet here you are, defending it.
Are you sure she didn’t have an ax?
The still photo showing a wine bottle wasn’t taken from a video frame. There’s no bottle in her hand in any of the video frames, and her hands are visible. Note the sharp, dark outline around the shoulders and collar of the guy’s blue shirt in the still, and the blurred side of his face. The still photo has been digitally edited. They didn’t even get the bottle right. The shadows are wrong, and angles of the label and bottle neck don’t match. What is this, a bent bottle? What was she doing? Holding a thousand-dollar camera in one hand while swinging a bottle with the other?
White supremacist who punched woman in Berkeley has military, criminal ties to San Diego County
Nice guy. He spent 4 years in prison for armed robbery.
@Greg: Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference idiots at Yale cant even have a good hunger strike.
Keep trying. they all suffer Trump Unacceptance and Resistance Disorder better known as TURDs, We shall snicker and then ignore them.
@Greg: Well, the video YOU provided showed her with a bottle; and she didn’t have just one. Maybe she was headed to collect the deposits on the bottles to donate to charity or maybe she was another fascist liberal that want the accolades of her fellow thugs for conking some unsuspecting bystander with thick end of a 750ml glass bottle… then scurry away, like the roach she is.
See, idiots like her don’t HAVE an opinion; they are just there to deny others THEIRS.
The “guy” is a Marine vet that had PTSD at the time of his violation. If he served in our military fighting terrorism, yeah… nice guy indeed. But, just the type liberals hate.
“White supremacist”? Your evidence of that is that he read a book.
But the most laughable-out-loud statement in your biased little article?
No, the “university” has zero tolerance for anything not liberal.
I suggest you teach your left wing fascists some social manners if you don’t want them punched in the face for that is EXACTLY what the majority of them need.
@kitt: Keep in mind that liberals regard patriotism, wanting benefits to spread across all social strata and believing in the Constitution are mental illnesses.
@Greg: As always, make a note of what the trolls respond to on FA. Rather quiet on the other posts, but this one…oh my. Greg’s programming/intention is very clear.
The Left has free reign to takeover…like so many violent groups before it.
Proof-texting videos is all he has now.
No Greg, a free society is more important than your group’s vision. The violence and suppression by the Left far exceeds any thing on the so called “Right”, which is more of a manufactured straw-man the Left continues to perpetuate.
You’ll never have the guts, boy. Run on home…
The liberals only have one playbook, when they dont get their way they make sure to make it as uncomfortable for everyone as they can.
When the government shut down Obama the vindictive lil prick shut down memorials that honored WW2 vets were coming to see, none of this happened under 4 shut downs during Reagan. the sanctuary cites are threatening to cut services to the poorest, no pay cuts or shortened work weeks for their fat a$$es.
Obama could send billions to terrorists but couldnt find a dime to help Americans with Democrat caused lead in their water. Where Trump found a few bucks to send them, no doubt they will burn it and demand more.
Why is it ok to cut funding to states when they dont let men into the ladies room,(just an executive order) but not ok to cut funds when a city is not complying with a federal law? This is the sort of stuff the conservatives look at and say enough you spoiled children, life as you know it is OVER.
@kitt:
That’s just it… it IS OK to cut funding to outlaw sanctuary cities. And cut funding they will. If San Francisco, LA, NY or Dallas cuts funding that assists citizens in poverty, that is THEIR choice.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #17:
Have you personally punched any assertive young women in their faced lately?
You’re not reading the writing on the wall. The right’s b.s. is going to catch up with it at the ballot box in 2018.
@Greg: There are not enough of you in the country all you can do is California and NY not enough tweety-pie, just because the media is based in those 2 states and is resisting its all you hear, the rest of us are looking at what is being done maybe we can get some real conservatives in to replace dopes like McCain, Ryan and McConnel. Pelosi, Warren and Schumer you are stuck with them going further left and driving more moderate Dems to our side. Venezuela could not have happened at a better time they were sucked in with freebies now cant buy milk and eggs.
Have any more quotes from Fox?
Democrats Can Retake the House in 2018 Without Converting a Single Trump Voter
Have a look at the chart at the bottom of the article. There are more than enough democrats to reverse the current republican hold on the House quite easily. There are also more than enough to take back the presidency in 2020. It would only have taken a few thousand more votes in a handful of states in 2016. We already had a popular majority of nearly 3 million, with the democratic base less than enthusiastic and republicans highly energized. That last factor is shifting very rapidly.
@Greg: Who ya gonna run? You don’t like anybody but Obama.
Donald Trump just invited Rodrigo Duterte, President of Philippines, who is responsible for the extra-judicial killing of nearly 6,000 people, to visit the White House. In Duterte’s Philippines, if you get accused, you get gunned down. Somebody points a finger and you’re dead, no further questions asked.
This is a person we want as a guest of our nation to the White House?
Another 18 months of this sort of bullshit, and I’ll probably be ready vote for just about anybody who isn’t a Trump supporter.
@Greg: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718143/Obamas-monsters-ball-How-White-House-opened-doors-Africas-evil-dictators-homophobes-turned-blind-eye-human-rights-record.html
No problem then, huh? Why don’t you just stop your incessant crying? Trump won, legally, fair and square and he is doing a job 100 times better than Obama EVER did.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #26:
They came to Washington collectively, to attend a US–Africa summit meeting. You cannot hold a US–Africa summit meeting without inviting African leaders.
An equivalent to Trump’s individual invitation to Duterte would have been an individual invitation from Obama to Robert Mugabe—who wasn’t even invited to attend the African summit meeting.
So Trump tells you, again and again. Why do you suppose he feels a need to keep saying that?
Why does he tell you repeatedly that Obamacare is a total disaster? The disaster is the republican plan to repeal and replace. They’ve done everything in their power to break Obamacare, but had no acceptable replacement. The “simpler and better” secret plan didn’t exist. It was just another campaign lie.
File under The GOP has More Loose Screws than a Studebaker:
Greg Gianforte just made a massive error on the final night of the Montana special election
…followed by the most ridiculous alternate account of an incident in history.
It doesn’t quite correspond to the audio tape. It’s called a microphone, Mr. Gianforte.
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@Greg: #28 didnt age too well, news flash he won.@Greg:
#30 if you hold up a sign declaring your an illegal alien, you should be escorted out of the country. If threatened, you can certainly give warning you will defend yourself with deadly force if need be.
If that hurts your feelings tough.
#31 yes there are mentally ill people on both sides, like the professor that used a U lock. At least the nutz on our side wasnt instructing young minds at a university.
Yep. He won. He also apologized to the reporter, which is much to his credit.
A reality check might be in order. Nobody who heard the audio tape or the account of eye witnesses really believes the reporter attacked him. The reporter annoyed him.
Gianforte sentenced to anger management, community service for assault of reporter
…after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault charges.
The judge might really be onto something, sentencing elected officials to perform community service.