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Some people live in a special bubble where 300 unarmed black people killed by police is not violence, but a car set on fire is.

And some people live in an alternative reality in which all violence is considered to be equal.

And too many people affiliated with the gop don't think ether is a problem until the police start dying from the very same violence they used on the 300 unarmed Black People and their police cars get set on fire. And the gop only has a problem with the police cars set on fire because they have to add the price of new ones to their already deficit spending.  

And some people don't seem to realize that there's a difference in that many of those black people killed...just as many of the white and Hispanic people...were criminals whereas the cops...they get killed doing their job.

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I'd be interested to hear why people who had no problem with the teabaggers spending the last eight years deliberately disrupting townhall meetings feel that they're entitled to complain about this stuff now that the shoes on the other foot. If it was Democrats coming out with this crap, I'd say it was barefaced hypocrisy, but apparently the GOP, its lobbyists, its backers and its supporters are incapable of that, and hypocrisy is purely a problem on the "left"...

The complaint isn't so much that it's happening, but that it's being made to happen. That is, it's not a grass roots occurrence, but an astroturf one. The TEA Partiers disrupting townhalls (were they really still doing that?) was more likely to be a grass roots occurrence. So, huge yuge difference.

Really? And there was me thinking that the term "astroturf movement" was first coined to describe the tea party's backers. The Koch brothers ran and funded the tea party, and were definitely encouraging them in disrupting townhalls. So no difference at all.

Yes, really. There was a TEA Party movement. It was several groups. Part of the problem was there was so many different groups, with different goals.

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The term "astroturf movement" was used by Dem's to disparage the TEA Party, but the first reference to astroturf as an opposite to grassroots was in 1985.

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The only town hall attendees that are definitely being paid are the Congressmen.
Paid by Big Pharma, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, Phillip Morris, The NRA, BP, Koch Brothers etc, etc.

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I'd be interested to hear why people who had no problem with the teabaggers spending the last eight years deliberately disrupting townhall meetings feel that they're entitled to complain about this stuff now that the shoes on the other foot. If it was Democrats coming out with this crap, I'd say it was barefaced hypocrisy, but apparently the GOP, its lobbyists, its backers and its supporters are incapable of that, and hypocrisy is purely a problem on the "left"...

The complaint isn't so much that it's happening, but that it's being made to happen. That is, it's not a grass roots occurrence, but an astroturf one. The TEA Partiers disrupting townhalls (were they really still doing that?) was more likely to be a grass roots occurrence. So, huge yuge difference.

Really? And there was me thinking that the term "astroturf movement" was first coined to describe the tea party's backers. The Koch brothers ran and funded the tea party, and were definitely encouraging them in disrupting townhalls. So no difference at all.

Yes, really. There was a TEA Party movement. It was several groups. Part of the problem was there was so many different groups, with different goals.

They all had one goal, and that was doing whatever the Kochs told them to.

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The term "astroturf movement" was used by Dem's to disparage the TEA Party, but the first reference to astroturf as an opposite to grassroots was in 1985.

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The term "astroturfing" was first coined in 1985 by then-US Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D–Texas) when he said, "a fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass roots and AstroTurf... this is generated mail".[12][39] Bentsen was describing a "mountain of cards and letters" sent to his office to promote insurance industry interests.

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The only town hall attendees that are definitely being paid are the Congressmen.
Paid by Big Pharma, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, Phillip Morris, The NRA, BP, Koch Brothers etc, etc.

Just in case anyone couldn't read what Hill posted. It's damn true.

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The only town hall attendees that are definitely being paid are the Congressmen.
Paid by Big Pharma, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, Phillip Morris, The NRA, BP, Koch Brothers etc, etc.

Just in case anyone couldn't read what Hill posted. It's damn true.

Because you and that idiot say so, or do you have any links to back up your wild-eyed craziness

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The only town hall attendees that are definitely being paid are the Congressmen.
Paid by Big Pharma, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, Phillip Morris, The NRA, BP, Koch Brothers etc, etc.

Just in case anyone couldn't read what Hill posted. It's damn true.

Because you and that idiot say so, or do you have any links to back up your wild-eyed craziness

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Leaked Audio Reveals Anti-Trump Forces Manufacturing Hostile Town Hall

Leaked audio from an anti-Trump protest group meeting reveals activists with anti-Trump group Indivisible plotting how to best manufacture a hostile environment at a town hall with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana on Friday.

The audio, obtained by local radio station KPEL, reveals a coordinated effort to create the public impression that Cassidy’s support for Trump is unpopular with his constituents. The activists, who describe themselves as liberals in the audio, can be heard strategizing how to best turn a local town hall into a political victory. (RELATED: Democrats Behind Mexico City Demonstration Against Tillerson)

The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with occupying “as many seats as we can” and an “outside team,” whose job was to “give [the media] the coverage they want” before joining the others inside. Activists were instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home “any signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in with constituents.

The leftist activists strategized how best to “dominate” the question-and-answer section of the town hall and keep anyone “sympathetic” to Cassidy from asking a question.

The audio also reveals the activists laughing about “the poor people of Breaux Bridge” — local constituents — who might get stuck behind them. Local news coverage of the town hall said that “many attendees were turned away” from the town hall due to “capacity restrictions.”

“Game plan number one is to fill as many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then tough luck for them,” said one organizer, identified by KPEL as James Proctor. His “poor people” comment drew laughs from the other activists.

“If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one sympathetic question–great. That only magnifies our impact,” Proctor said.

KPEL identified Proctor as the leader of Indivisible Acadiana, a local branch of the national Indivisible organization, which has organized hostile Republican town halls all around the country. (RELATED: Anti-Trump Protesters To Begin Soliciting Tax-Deductible Donations)

“The Indivisible Guide does say that when you start to lose the meeting, that’s when you boo and hiss,” one unidentified activist can be heard saying. “Right, I was going to say that,” another activist replied. Local news outlet The Advertiser reported that members of the crowd “frequently interrupted, expressing disagreement with some of Cassidy’s positions and shouting out their own questions.”

“The outside team will join the inside team in the hall after media coverage,” Proctor states at one point. “So what we’ll do is we’ll try to dominate enough, because–remember, the camera people especially are looking for some ‘b-roll’ and some quotes.”

“They’ve got three or four things to cover that day, this is just one of them,” Proctor said of media covering the town hall. “So we make sure we give them the coverage they want, and then everyone breaks and goes inside.”

Video from outside the event posted on YouTube shows protesters chanting, “Love not hate, that’s what makes America great.” One woman appears to be reading the chant from a script.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/27/leaked-audio-reveals-anti-trump-forces-manufacturing-hostile-town-hall/#ixzz4a5gAiLxP

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The only town hall attendees that are definitely being paid are the Congressmen.
Paid by Big Pharma, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, Phillip Morris, The NRA, BP, Koch Brothers etc, etc.

Just in case anyone couldn't read what Hill posted. It's damn true.

Because you and that idiot say so, or do you have any links to back up your wild-eyed craziness