Re: Worse than the limousine liberal: 'Prius woke-sters' cheer chaos at personal risk

On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 7:45:38 PM UTC-4, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/prius-woke-sters-cheer-chaos-at-real-=20
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> In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival=
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> the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and=
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> his supporters as =E2=80=9Climousine liberals=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 people w=
ho, in the words of a=20
> Procaccino campaign memo, =E2=80=9Cpreach the politics of confrontation a=
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> condone violent upheaval in society because they are not touched by it an=
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> are protected by their courtiers, doormen and private police guards.=E2=
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> Procaccino=E2=80=99s sound bite immortalized one of the more enraging fig=
ures in=20
> modern US society =E2=80=94 the preachy, self-righteous, anti-capitalist =
but=20
> conveniently rich and socially prominent person who decries American=20
> injustice and gives lip service to the need for radical change without=20
> ever having to fear the consequences of the often-violent forces he=20
> supports.=20
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> Half a century later, in the midst of America=E2=80=99s latest urban uphe=
aval, we=20
> find a new American type =E2=80=94 more interesting, perhaps, than the li=
mousine=20
> liberal because she doesn=E2=80=99t really have doormen or private cops t=
o protect=20
> her from the threat to civil order she welcomes. We might call her the=20
> =E2=80=9CPrius wokester.=E2=80=9D=20
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> An astonishing article by The Washington Post=E2=80=99s Greg Jaffe this w=
eek tells=20
> the tale. The headline: =E2=80=9CAfter Killing of George Floyd, White Lib=
erals=20
> =C2=ADEmbrace Ideas That Once Seemed Radical.=E2=80=9D It offers a portra=
it of two=20
> Minneapolitans, Meredith Webb and Michelle Garvey, mothers of young kids,=
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> who live across the street from each other in a neighborhood called=20
> Hiawatha.=20
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> Jaffe details how the aftermath of the killing and the developments in th=
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> streets of their city led them to embrace the looting and =C2=ADdestructi=
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> around them.=20
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> When they learn of the complete trashing of a nearby Target, Michelle=20
> calls it =E2=80=9Ca perfectly warranted and justified response =E2=80=A6 =
an =C2=ADexpression of=20
> righteous rage.=E2=80=9D=20
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> For her part, Meredith, a standard-issue activist type who supported=20
> Elizabeth Warren=E2=80=99s presidential bid, is made uncomfortable by the=
 wanton=20
> criminality. But, she says, =E2=80=9CIt felt wrong to say we=E2=80=99re w=
ith you until you=20
> start looting.=E2=80=9D She castigates herself for the =C2=ADimpulse =E2=
=80=9Cto let myself=20
> default to the simplistic reaction of wanting this all to go away.=E2=80=
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> Despite Michelle=E2=80=99s positive feelings about looting a Target, owne=
d by a=20
> large corporation and therefore apparently deserving of destruction, they=
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> worry about spillover. A neighborhood watch is formed.=20
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> Jaffe writes: =E2=80=9CFor several days, [Meredith] and her husband, like=
 many of=20
> their neighbors, sat in their front lawns until well after 3 a.m. Garvey=
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> and neighbor gave chase to three white strangers she spotted in their=20
> neighborhood one evening.=E2=80=9D=20
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> Still, Meredith is out cheering her viciously anti-Semitic member of=20
> Congress, Ilhan Omar, soon after, when Omar declares: =E2=80=9CTo every s=
ingle=20
> person who has remained silent and been complicit .?.?. this is the time=
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> we step up and show the world what we=E2=80=99re made of!=E2=80=9D She co=
mes to support=20
> removing peace officers from local schools and defunding or abolishing th=
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> police.=20
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> =E2=80=9CI am trying to push myself to understand looting, and understand=
 that we=20
> have to go outside the law sometimes to make things happen,=E2=80=9D she =
tells=20
> Jaffe. Then she drives by a burned-out drugstore. =E2=80=9CDamn, the Walg=
reens,=E2=80=9D=20
> Webb tells Jaffe, then quickly adds: =E2=80=9CNot that I should be sad ab=
out a=20
> Walgreens.=E2=80=9D=20
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> That a pretty standard-issue left-liberal 30-something mom should so=20
> easily make the shift from indignation about police brutality to outright=
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> support for brazen, violent criminality and robbery doesn=E2=80=99t seem =
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> exception in these weeks.=20
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> Something horrifying is happening to the American moral sense =E2=80=94 t=
he plain=20
> evidence of one=E2=80=99s own eyes in the form of wanton destruction is o=
verlooked=20
> in favor of offering some kind of generalized support for the =E2=80=9Cca=
use.=E2=80=9D=20
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> The limousine liberal can buy himself out of the trouble he=E2=80=99s hap=
py to=20
> visit on others. That is what made him a peerless hypocrite. But the Priu=
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> wokester can=E2=80=99t. Meredith and her husband and her neighbors may fi=
nd=20
> themselves reaping the very whirlwind they have chosen, with such peculia=
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> blindness, to welcome.=20
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> [email protected]=20
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> No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.=20
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> Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in=
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> denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car=20
> parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump=
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> truck.=20
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> Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster=
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> of the Obama presidency.=20
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> Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the=
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> The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood=
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> queer liberal democrat donors.=20
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> President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,=20
> appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.=20
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> Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February=
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> 5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."
Why is this BS on this group?  Isn't it moderated to take this garbage off?