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Trump isn't calling for "protests", he's calling for a Revolution [1]
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Date: 2023-03-18
A lot of people recognize this for exactly what it is.
x A reminder to those who are reporting on the definitely newsworthy detail that the FPOTUS expects to be arrested on Tuesday: He is attempting to incite violence. Don't HELP him by disseminating his incitement without breaking it up in some way. — emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 18, 2023
x It's the January 6 playbook all over again.
https://t.co/e6bOmIPmRT — George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) March 18, 2023
x Trump has issued a call for violence. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Republicans need to publicly rebuke this dangerous rhetoric immediately. — Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) March 18, 2023
x I’ll say it again: I don’t give a shit if this “rallies his base.”
I don’t care if Ma & Pa Maga fork over their life savings.
They would rally behind him if he boiled a baby bunny on live tv.
Not charging him would do FAR more damage to this country than indicting him ever could. — Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) March 18, 2023
x Trump doubles down on the big lie and defends the violence he incited.
So which Republicans--elected officials, other presidential candidates, donors, writers--will say that Trump cannot be president again? That they will not support him? That country comes first?
https://t.co/ZVS69fN7bO — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 18, 2023
The refrain that Biden is “Destroying our country” is something I see a lot. Obviously, it comes directly from Trump himself.
Let’s break this down piece by piece.
AMERICAN PATRIOTS ARE BEING ARRESTED & HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS
No, that would be violent Seditionists. Like this guy, Larry Brock:
x A Christmas Eve 2020 plan allegedly sketched out by Capitol riot defendant....
Per a Justice Dept Jan 6 sentencing memo in case of Larry Brock of Texas. His sentencing hearing begins at 11am pic.twitter.com/CPbJKlMnuj — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 17, 2023
More…
Larry Brock on Jan 6 Prosecutors have revealed that convicted Capitol rioter Larry Brock concocted a bloodthirsty plan to seize power on January 6th, 2021 that involved taking hostages, arresting journalists, and cutting off food and water to cities where Democratic voters lived. As flagged by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, prosecutors say that Brock wrote down his plan to overthrow the United States government on Christmas Eve, roughly two weeks before he and his fellow Trump supporters would storm the United States Capitol building. As part of the plan, Brock outlined a series of "key tasks" that included initiatives to "seize all Democratic politicians and Biden key staff and select Republicans (Thune and McConnell)," at which point they would "begin interrogations using measures we used on Al Queda (sic) to gain evidence on the coup." He then called for his fellow Trump supporters to "seize national media assets and key personnel," and then "eliminate them. As if this weren't enough, he then issued a directive to "let the Democratic cities burn" and "cut off power and food to all who oppose us."
This is the kind of person whom Trump would like to grant a pardon.
WHILE CRIMINALS & LEFTIST THUGS ARE ALLOWED TO ROAM THE STREETS
This is right-wing bullshit. Crime is generally Down, but gun murders in Red States are Up.
The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019 , before settling back to 43% in 2020.
, before settling back to 43% in 2020. Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
when all 21 years were combined. If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.
Then you had…
KILLING & BURNING WITH NO RETRIBUTION.
On Trump’s watch, 14,000 people were arrested for the various Floyd Riots. Hundreds of them were prosecuted for violence and arson.
Some reports have estimated insurance claims for damages related to the 2020 protests totaled about $2 billion. However, the post is wrong to claim protesters saw no consequences – in fact, over 10,000 protesters were arrested, most for low-level offenses. [...] Contrary to the claim in the post, many Black Lives Matter protesters did face consequences. Estimates vary, but news outlets reported thousands of protesters were arrested in the months following Floyd’s death in May 2020. A June 22, 2020, article from The Washington Post tallied over 14,000 arrests made since May 27. The Hill reported over 17,000 arrests had been made in the first two weeks of protests. Despite the large number of arrests, The Hill reported most of those protesters were booked not for violent crimes, but for low-level offenses such as violating curfews. Obstructing roadways and carrying open containers were other reasons for the arrests, as well as “failure to disperse.” Some more serious charges were filed as well, however. The Associated Press reported hundreds were charged with burglary and looting as of June 4, 2020. In October 2020, researchers writing for The Washington Post analyzed 7,305 protest events and found police made arrests at 5% of them. Only 3.7% of the events involved property damage or vandalism, according to the analysis. PolitiFact reported in June 2020 that, while protests in several major cities started with violence, most demonstrations across the country were largely peaceful.
Let’s again recall this all happened on Trump’s watch, if he didn't like it he could have done something about it at the time. He didn’t. Well, other than trying to send the Military against the protestors to “crack their skulls” and “shoot them in the legs.”
MILLIONS ARE FLOODING THROUGH OUR OPEN BOARDERS,
The Border is not “Open.” Border Patrol has been arresting and expelling a record number of migrants. For FY2021 and FY2022 over 1.8 Million were arrested and 2 Million migrants were Expelled.
Repeat: Expelled.
That means they didn’t “Come in” to the country, they were kept out. That means the border is Not. Open. It’s literally about as “closed” now as it’s ever been.
MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS.
That is simply a racist lie. Most of them are families escaping the drug cartels and gangs that are paid for by the drugs we consume. Maybe if we had universal healthcare including drug treatment, that wouldn’t be such a problem.
CRIME & INFLATION ARE DESTROYING OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE
Inflation has been going down for the last 6 months straight, and the US is actually ranked at #16 in the World because inflation has been a Worldwide problem brought on by the pandemic, not just something that only happened in the US because of anything Biden did.
NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE,
The News that the Grand Jury is about to reach a decision and make an indictment hasn’t come from the DA, it's been obvious from who has been testifying — like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels — who told the press themselves.
WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME
Yeah, about that:
Overall index crime in New York City decreased for the second straight month in December 2022, declining by 11.6% compared with December 2021 (10,164 v. 11,496). Five of the seven major index-crime categories saw decreases, driven by a 26.1% decrease in murder…
Then...
WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS
So what if he is? Soros funds lots of stuff. You’re funded by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Does anybody complain about what the Kochs, Murdochs, Mercers and Sheldon Adelson goes around funding? [Ok, yeah — a little bit]
WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN
Ask Michael Cohen about that, he served 3 years for that “non-crime.”
BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE,
You mean the interference that was perpetrated by Bill Barr.
William Barr attempted to undermine prosecutors in longtime Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen's case shortly after he was sworn in as attorney general, numerous sources told The New York Times. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax evasion and campaign finance violations after admitting to paying $130,000 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels at the direction of then-candidate Donald Trump, who was referred to as "Individual-1" in court documents. But Barr sought to intervene in the case right after he became attorney general, at which time Cohen had already been sentenced to three years in prison, according to The Times. Barr "spent weeks" last spring questioning prosecutors over their decision to charge Cohen with campaign finance violations. Barr argued, among other things, that the matter should have been brought to the Federal Election Commission instead.
Continued…
THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.
He may be the leading Republican candidate.
That’s just too damn bad.
As he has done repeatedly, Trump has concocted a typically false narrative of what is actually happening. He is using this phony story to enrage his fans, to get them “Riled Up" once again in order to attack the NYDA, or perhaps the police and/or anyone that gets in their way.
Just like when he did it before, here:
Again.
Here’s Rick Wilson pointing out that Trump and his GOP flock are intent on dragging us all into their Delusional Alternate Universe just as he attempts to do with this post.
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