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Home Front: Politix
Adam Schiff Event SHUT DOWN: Dems Don't Like Protesting When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot
2019-12-17
[PJMEDIA] Yelling and screaming and interrupting people while they eat dinner or try to have an event is the Democrats' favorite activity ‐ until it's used on them.

Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
(D-Calif.) hosted a town hall event celebrating a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide Saturday. His remarks came to a screeching halt when protesters began to jeer and chant "LIAR" and "you're going to jail!" at him. It was beautiful. Many people in the room seemed confused as to why people were protesting the shampeachment clown show. This is not surprising to anyone who only watches mainstream news, which makes it appear that Americans hate Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
. At least one protester made sure to point out several times that they were not there to protest the Armenian people being recognized but to protest Schiff and the impeachment of the people's president.

The interruption caused people in the crowd to turn on the protesters and members of the crowd attacked. You can see in the video at least one man was physically assaulting the Trump supporters without being retaliated against and the police refused to arrest him. The protesters can be seen and heard on camera asking the crowd to stop hitting and attacking them and stealing their signs and flags. Two elderly men fight over a Trump flag, falling to the ground. At one point, a woman with the protesters holding a camera is attacked by a man in the crowd. It's ugly.

Imagine the outrage there would be in the press if anyone attacked the left-wing protesters who chased Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant or if Tucker Carlson had assaulted protesters outside his house. We would never hear the end of the "violent right" in that scenario. (Example: the massive overreaction to Proud Boys scuffling with Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
in a street brawl. Somehow only the Proud Boys got blamed for the violence when Antifa pulls that crap all the time.) But what do we hear in the mainstream press about this event?

The Los Angeles Times said, "When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room." They did not identify who started the "scuffles" which should tip you off to who did it.

Posted by:Fred

#9  I've come to the conclusion that street protests do not work. Infiltrating events like this is a little better at rattling the object of the wrath.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2019-12-17 22:03  

#8  No pitchforks yet.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-17 14:03  

#7  #4, if they voted for Schiff they deserve it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-17 12:12  

#6  When you weaponize protest making "Peaceful Petition == Street Riots" you will inevitably reap the whirlwind. There is no way to persuade them to put down the club and the molotov cocktail except "a whiff of grapeshot" ... unfortunately.
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-17 12:09  

#5  Sow, reap.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-17 11:48  

#4  Does make me sad that the Armenian Genocide society was the event being disrupted.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-12-17 11:17  

#3  "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana-1905)

Keep stoking them fires. The interesting aspect of 'civil wars' is that they are very uncivil. Civility usually returns after large quantities of blood are spilled.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-17 06:32  

#2  Maybe the protesters should start wearing Antifa paraphernalia. The fallout would be interesting.
Posted by: gorb   2019-12-17 00:27  

#1  Payback. Good times.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-17 00:27  

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