Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, talking about newly-installed President Donald Trump’s agenda:
“That’s not acceptable. We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.”
That is just one of the Democrat exhortations, telling their supporters to take to the streets. There are a good many others as well.
And their supporters are listening.
Excerpted from Karol Markowicz’s article in today’s New York Post:
How much longer will Democrats accept their supporters’ escalating calls for violence?
In New York, a man dressed up as Luigi of “Super Mario Bros.” to honor Luigi Mangione, the murderer of health-care executive Brian Thompson. He carried a sign calling for Trump to be “deposed” — that is, violently overthrown.
In Holland, Mich., Redmond, Ore., and elsewhere, grinning marchers wore shirts and carried placards emblazoned with the number “8647,” pairing the old slang term for murder with a 47 for Trump.
One 8647 protester stood right alongside Minnesota Attorney Gen. Keith Ellison in Minneapolis.
“Hands off or heads off,” read the message on a life-sized guillotine paraded about in Denver.
Protesters vandalized ICE and DHS vehicles in Washington, DC, defacing several and puncturing their tires — after weeks of viral videos of people keying, graffitiing or burning Teslas permeated social media.
It’s not just property either: Over the weekend, a man was arrested in Portland after he used a laser to attempt to blind a Tesla employee.
A leftist protester who blocked traffic at a “Hands Off” rally in Lafayette, Ind., head-butted a driver who confronted him, bloodying the driver’s nose, local police said.
On Thursday, conservative students hosting a speaker at the University of California-Davis were targeted by masked assailants who tore up literature and wrecked tents and tables.
That same day in Harlem, an angry leftist punched a pro-life activist in the face while she was conducting a live interview. She was left bloodied and needed stitches.
A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of left-leaning Americans say political violence is “acceptable” — with 55% of them seeing “some justification” for assassinating Trump.
It certainly feels like a powder keg, as violence is excused and celebrated online as never before.
I have a few questions for you:
-If a high-ranking political conservative, a right-wing counterpart of Hakeem Jeffries, called for people to fight in the streets, and the exact same series of violent events were then perpetrated by right wingers, what do you think our mainstream media would be saying about him? How heavily would they be condemning him?
-What would they be saying about that high-ranking political conservative?And the other right wingers who have made similar calls to take things to the streets?
-What would they be saying about the right/the conservatives in this country? How strongly would they tell us this behavior is inexcusable, indefensible? That it clearly defines today’s right wing?
Well, what are they saying about it now – when, not hypothetically, but actually, it is coming from the left?
Other than from a few conservative-leaning venues, do you see those condemnations? Those take-downs of the violent, lawless leftward elements performing these actions?
Now a few more questions:
-Where is Hakeem Jeffries on these actions? Why is he not publicly admonishing these people? Why is he not publicly making a statement telling them that this is NOT what he meant by taking things to the streets?
-Where are other Democrats in congress and in state and local government? Where are their condemnations? The silence is deafening.
That is today’s left. And those are most of today’s mainstream media.
Don’t forget it.
