Posted by Tina
If you thought the Democrat Party might consider moderating in this election year better think again. Keith Ellison, one of the original contenders to lead the DNC, has absolutely embraced the violent ANTIFA movement:
Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison endorsed Antifa on Wednesday, tweeting a picture of himself smiling with an Antifa handbook.
Ellison posted a picture with “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook” and asserted that the book would “strike fear in the heart” of President Donald Trump.
This guy thinks this is a winning move?
The lefty Southern Poverty Law Center “condemns” ANTIFA, but does not include them in their list of “hate groups.” The absurdity of this becomes ever more obvious when their Hate Tracker webpage “includes the following social media hashtags: #christmas, #merrychristmas” and “#Jesus.”
Don’t worry though, the SPLC has an explanation:
“Hate Tracker” webpage doesn’t actually track hate; it just tracks what is being tweeted by supposedly hateful people. (emphasis mine)
Question, will the SPLC also “condemn” Keith Ellison?
ANTIFA is an arrogant radical left group that uses violence to stop others from peacefully assembling and expressing their views. They believe they alone (forget the Constitution) have the right to decide what speech will be allowed, or not, and believe they are justified to use violence against anyone they label as right wing (fascist) and “hateful.”
Violence is now an acknowledged acceptable form of speech according to the Democrat Party leadership. Do not buy it when Democrats pretend to condemn violence this year…they embrace it. 2018 is bound to be another year of violent protest as Republicans campaign across the nation.
(I also anticipate that law and order will prevail under our current leadership.)
Gateway Pundit, “Antifa Website Posts Directions for Sabotaging ATMs After Anarchists ‘Wreck’ Nearly 20 in Portland”
Hateful?
Violent?
How about criminal!
Timing is everything…and Keith chose today?
The face of the new Demwit party. All that remains is to have them wear brownshirts and swastika armbands . . . . .
I keep seeing videos of former democrats who have become Trump supporters. Seeing them gives me hope that enough will realize the DNC is no longer the party of JFK. Most of the videos are of young people to young to know the JFK years and young enough to reject the Obama’s.
Are we living another awakening? Time will tell. Here’s a couple of those videos. You decide.
Check out the number to Twitter followers and their comments.
https://twitter.com/YoungDems4Trump
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20160927/5602930/Former-Democrats-support-Donald-Trump.htm
The best video.
https://www.facebook.com/TheNewRevolutionII/videos/1564083873681652/
The absurdity of this becomes ever more obvious when their Hate Tracker webpage “includes the following social media hashtags: #christmas, #merrychristmas” and “#Jesus.”
Don’t worry though, the SPLC has an explanation:
“Hate Tracker” webpage doesn’t actually track hate; it just tracks what is being tweeted by supposedly hateful people. (emphasis mine)
This is true. Their hate tracker page today lists the hashtags #cartoons and #obama. I find it unlikely that they believe either of those hashtags are inherently hateful; the purpose is to monitor what hate groups are tweeting about.
Antifa is garbage and Keith Ellison is wrong to support them.
Since the SPLC decides what groups are designated as hate groups, and by who knows what biased measuring stick, the exercise is misleading at it’s core. What is the purpose, Chris? What do they want to accomplish? What does this contribute that could be considered positive?
They tell you exactly what measuring stick they use on their website.
The purpose is to know what groups out there are promoting bigotry. Lots of people want to know that; it’s OK if you don’t. Antifa should be on their list.
Defining hate in terms of a difference of opinion is ridiculous. Teaching young people and minorities that Christians, for instance are “haters,” just because they see things differently than some others do, is irresponsible as well. Furthering the notion that the word conservative is equal to the word Nazi is irresponsible and yet that is exactly what they, and your party, do.
Your are a bunch of liars.
As you and I both wrote, the tracker does not identify the “hater,” only the subjects their notion of “haters’ is discussing. I repeat, what is the point?
Antifa is not on their list of haters.
Nor is Answer as far as I know: “Stand with All Immigrants, Muslims and People of Color! Shut Down White Supremacy! Spread the word. Organize everyone you can and get them to this very important protest. Everywhere Trump goes he and his racist mob must be shut down by the people!”
Belief that Trump and his followers are racist doesn’t make them racist and there in lies a huge problem. They emotionally set themselves up as the arbiters of hate…and then run out to do hateful things, like screaming invited speakers off the stage.
This behavior isn’t civil much less aligned with the free speech and assembly principles of our founding.
Josh Goldstein of TownHall wrote an article titled, “Southern Poverty Law Center Is a Hate Group”
The man has a valid point. The organization strayed from it’s original mission and became an activist arm of the redefined, divide and slander, Democrat Party.
We’ve been through this before. SPLC does not label groups hate groups because they have a “difference of opinion,” and no matter how many times you repeat that it won’t magically become true.
A little more background on the individual who was elected Vice Chair by the Demwits . . . .
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/04/the-radical-skeletons-in-keith-ellisons-closet/
Peggy and J it’s difficult to find a single thing Democrats stand for today that isn’t based on division, control, or hate.
They had a lot of years to accomplish positive things and totally missed the boat.
This is an activist party now and by nature it survives by pitting groups against each other. The nation has been awash in race and gender activism…respect and rights flowed only in one direction under Obama. The economy and jobs were sacrificed to further the party’s activist interests. Even the healthcare bill they passed was a sham that did not serve the “common good” but gave the party more control and activist discretion. That is nothing like the JFK Dem party…it’s gone baby gone! The replacement is ugly, malicious and more like a third world dictatorship than America.
Glad to hear young people are opening up to something else…Trump’s vision for America.
Listening to the awesome stock market and jobs reports. Another record hit for the stock market and 1.84 million new jobs since Trump took office. Black unemployment rate at it’s lowest ever since tracking began in the early 70s at 6.8% for a 45 year low. Yahoo!
More good news is Trump has eliminated 16,000 gov’t jobs in DC by cutting and reducing duplicate and nonessential positions. Reducing the size of gov’t is always good unless it comes to our national security.
There’s a lot of very positive news.
Daily Herald
CNS News, “1,788,000 More People Employed Since December 2016; 148,000 Jobs Added Last Month”
Real Clear Politics, “Manufacturers Intend to Deliver on Tax Reform’s Promise”
TownHall, “It’s Happening: Health Insurance Will Soon Be Sold Across State Lines”
Fox News, “Food stamp recipients down 2M under Trump, USDA figures show”
Love hearing every day more good news about our economy and job market improving. Nothing better than hard working taxpayers being able to keep more of their OWN money instead of the gov’t taking it from them. Do not understand why Democrats think the gov’t can spend their hard-earned salary better than they can.
I hadn’t heard about ComEd seeking a rate reduction. That’s awesome. If one does it I’m sure others will follow. Don’t remember this ever happening in my life time.
The the record breaking falling unemployment rates along with the rising labor force participation just doesn’t get any better and it’s only been a year. Lowest black unemployment since records kept 45 years ago.
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 6.8 percent unemployment rate for black workers in December, the lowest in the 45 years the data has been tracked.
Unemployment overall was 4.1 percent.”
The Hispanic rate is really good too with a 17 year low. Hate repeating myself but, Cesar Chavez and the Kennedys understood American workers first when it came to jobs. Chavez’s hunger strikes and forming the UFW to protect higher salaries for US citizens and legal resident from illegals willing to work for less pay was worth fighting for and even putting his life on the line to obtain.
“The Hispanic unemployment rate fell to 4.7% last month, down from 4.8%. Overall U.S. unemployment remained at 4.1%, a 17-year low. ”
The BEST news for me personally was going online and using one of the new tax calculators to find out my federal tax will be cut in half. I will no longer be forced to pay estimated taxes, which I had not done before ObamaCare but was forced to write a check out every three months four times a year. I lost thousands the gov’t took and now I get to keep again my OWN money.
Bet all of those students who have been paying the higher 1.5% loan rate because of ObamaCare would like to get out from under their contracts and go to a lower rate. Hopefully, congress will help them out with a new repeal law or regulation change.
The only bad news is the media is only giving Trump a 5% positive reporting time. All of the people watching the biased network and cable news don’t know they’re being lied to. The democrats did the same with Reagan and Bush. Thank God Reagan was strong enough to deal with them, Bush not so much. Time will tell if Trump will.
Today’s good news story. Trump cut 16,000 of the 188,000 federal jobs Obama added. Wonder if five of the highest income counties located around DC will remain so by 2020. It’s time for the DC bubble to burst and those who live in it live in the real world like the rest of us.
CUTTING THE FAT: THOUSANDS OF GOVERNMENT JOBS ELIMINATED UNDER TRUMP:
“Cleaning out Barack Obama’s embedded Deep State loyalists and creating a less than favorable climate for K-Street lobbyists weren’t the only things that could be interpreted as draining the swamp.
As his one-year anniversary draws near, President Trump has accomplished much in the way of peeling the leeches off of the backs of taxpayers by presiding over a period when thousands of unnecessary and redundant government jobs have been eliminated.
According to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the federal government has lost 16,000 jobs since Obama left office – this is really, really good news for opponents of big government.
State governments employed 19,000 fewer people in December 2017 than they did in December 2016.
However, overall government employment in the United States increased by a net 42,000 during 2017 because of the 77,000 jobs added by local governments from December 2016 to December 2017.
The federal government in December 2016 employed 2,819,000 people, according to BLS. By December 2016, that had dropped to 2,803,000—a decrease of 16,000.”
https://downtrend.com/cutting-the-fat-thousands-of-government-jobs-eliminated-under-trump/
“…SPLC does not label groups hate groups because they have a ‘difference of opinion,’ and no matter how many times you repeat that it won’t magically become true.”
This is a group that promotes “tolerance” but does not tolerate the “opinions” that life begins at conception and babies in the womb should be protected or that marriage is an institution devised by God involving one man and one woman. These opiions have NOTHING to do with hate…NOTHING!!! But the SPLC designates groups that believe in those basic ideas as hate groups.
N matter how may times YOU repeat that they hate it won;t “magically” make it true.
I suggest you who scream hate need to step back and look in the mirror…you seem filled with both hate and intolerance for those who hold different OPINIONS from those you hold.
This is a group that promotes “tolerance” but does not tolerate the “opinions” that life begins at conception and babies in the womb should be protected or that marriage is an institution devised by God involving one man and one woman. These opiions have NOTHING to do with hate…NOTHING!!! But the SPLC designates groups that believe in those basic ideas as hate groups.
Still wrong. That is not why the SPLC labels them hate groups, and those beliefs are not sufficient for a group to be labeled a hate group; this is proven by the fact that many high-profile organizations with these opinions are not called hate groups by the SPLC.
But keep misrepresenting them.
Answering Genesis, “Are Christian Organizations “Hate Groups”?
If you believe this isn’t true then please explain your version of why these groups were so labeled!
We’ve had this discussion before. More than once. If you don’t have the courtesy to recall the many times I’ve cited SPLC’s explicitly stated reasons for labeling groups like FRC as hate groups for their hateful rhetoric, you are free to look at the SPLC’s website yourself and read their explanations.
Answering Genesis is simply lying when it says that it applies the label to organizations “because each takes a biblical position on marriage,” but that’s what Answering Genesis does.
Here’s some great news:
Breitbart:
Long overdue!
“If you don’t have the courtesy to recall the many times I’ve cited SPLC’s explicitly stated reasons for labeling groups like FRC as hate groups … (blah blah blah!)
Interesting POV Chris. It’s very basic, speak as we think you should speak or be labeled a hater.
Since when does that fit into American ideas about freedom of thought and speech?
The SPLC acts irresponsibly inciting hatred, division, and even violence unnecessarily.
Time to come clean and admit that the LGBT community leadership and many of it’s organizations is interested in indoctrination to the point of being tyrannical:
Achievement or genius is not a result of sexual preference or gender identity.
When will these activist groups finally choose to join the human race and exercise a bit of tolerance themselves!
And what is so difficult about just accepting the fact that some people believe differently than you and the SPLC about certain subjects and that they have a right to talk about their beliefs?