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[W:105]Two Minnesota Republican Candidates Assaulted

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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.

Two Republican candidates for state office in Minnesota have been physically assaulted in recent days...

Republican state representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm last week after confronting a man who was destroying yard signs promoting Republican candidates.

“It was just insane. He was charging at me, saying, ‘Why don’t you go kill yourself?'” Anderson told the Washington Free Beacon. “To have someone physically coming after you and attacking you is just disheartening.”

Shane Mekeland, a first-time Republican candidate for the state legislature, suffered a concussion over the weekend after he was sucker punched while meeting with constituents at a local restaurant....
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.

"Ya sure I did it but it is not my fault it is the fault of those people over there......THEY REALLY SUCK!"











BARF
 
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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.

The society is so hyper partisan, I am expecting more violence in the future. There are people on both sides are already engaging in violence as is, and accusing the other side of acting like Nazis. However, hyper partisanship is preventing most people from recognizing or admitting the facts, or realizing that they are not simply defending the real victims. Things are not looking good for America.
 
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The society is so hyper partisan, I am expecting more violence in the future. There are people on both sides are already engaging in violence as is, and accusing the other side of acting like Nazis. However, hyper partisanship is preventing most people from recognizing or admitting the facts, or realizing that they are not simply defending the real victims. Things are not looking good for America.

Yup. Tribal Politics is now our identity, our religious community, our source of meaning and hatred. And the incentive structure for politicians is to feed that for short term gain (Angry People Vote), despite the long-term damage to our body politic.
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.

Oh, good point.

Those folks, of course, including the guy who used a car to murder a woman, were just a reaction to the abuses of the AntiFa and Occupy movements, and are therefore totally justified because we are all children and incapable of controlling our emotional outbursts.....


:roll:
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.

That was over a year ago. Can't legitimately claim that this is a reaction to that when it happened that long ago.

Not to mention that these two people had NOTHING to do with what happened then. Hell, one wasn't even in office at the time and STILL isn't in office, just running for it.

And yeah...what Hawkeye10 said.

All in all your response to this was absolutely pathetic.
 
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Yup. Tribal Politics is now our identity, our religious community, our source of meaning and hatred. And the incentive structure for politicians is to feed that for short term gain (Angry People Vote), despite the long-term damage to our body politic.

The America you think you know..........Is Over...Blue State America will never accept trump and his goons
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.

Hmmm...

Maybe its just pure Liberal hatred.

I feel bad for Liberals. They've completely lost touch with anything that even remotely resembles reality.
Liberals used to believe in something. Now all they believe in is destroying nations and creating civil unrest.
"NAZIS!" they scream. Then...they run out and cold-**** a couple of those evil Conservatives, or piss in condoms and toss them at the police, or impose a speech ban on anyone who just might say something they...the great Liberal army...might take offense at. And this...this active destruction of free speech has even eaten its own by banning Bill friggin' Maher from appearing at a university.

Yes Liberalism is gone. Its been replaced by bald-faced hatred of anyone who dare to not openly and loudly proclaim their fealty to the utter destruction of the state, law and order, freedom. They are a radical gestapo of the very thing they claim to vehemently oppose...

FACSISM.


Americans...make sure you go vote in 3 weeks...and think before you make your mark. This time...its rather important.
 
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The America you think you know..........Is Over...Blue State America will never accept trump and his goons

That is right the demands of UTOPIA will be met, one way or another, regardless of what needs to be sacrificed along the way and regardless of the number of people who refuse to measure up and then must be tossed overboard along the way ("SHUT UP AND DIE!")
 
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Our sad new norm, division oriented politics so bad violence will become the expectation.
 
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Good to hear they have a suspect. Violence that is used to chill political speech needs to be punished harshly.
 
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Hmm, I seem to remember a Republican politician punching a reporter.

To claim the Left is violent without acknowledging Right wing violence is laughable.

That whole angry mob narrative is a pathetic attempt at fear mongering.
 
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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.


Last night in Nevada, the campaign manager for the GOP candidate for governor got assaulted ...

A Democratic operative was arrested Tuesday night after an alleged altercation with the campaign manager for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt.

Jail records show that 50-year-old Wilfred Michael Stark was arrested Tuesday night by Las Vegas city marshals.

Stark’s Twitter and LinkedIn pages identify him as working for the left-leaning Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, which describes itself as a “progressive research and communications organization committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions.” ..."


https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/...-manager-alleges-attack-by-democrat-activist/

(spit)
 
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Hmm, I seem to remember a Republican politician punching a reporter.

To claim the Left is violent without acknowledging Right wing violence is laughable.

That whole angry mob narrative is a pathetic attempt at fear mongering.

I'll take that one-dumb-politician-punching-a-reporter, and raise you a gunman trying to mow down a good chunk of the GOP caucus on a softball field.

Violence exists on both sides (certainly I spent much of 2015 and 2016 pointing it out on the Right), but they are not equivalent.
 
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Maybe it's a reaction to those fine tiki torch carrier people with the iron bars, so beloved of the sainted Trump.

I see... So the physical attacks were justified.

Thank you for your honesty... and please be sure to tell all your liberal friends to be just as honest... preferably, in front of TV cameras.
 
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I'll take that one-dumb-politician-punching-a-reporter, and raise you a gun man trying to mow down a good chunk of the GOP caucus on a softball field.

Violence exists on both sides (certainly I spent much of 2015 and 2016 pointing it out on the Right), but they are not equivalent.

And I will raise you one Nazi running over an innocent civilian.
 
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Good to hear they have a suspect. Violence that is used to chill political speech needs to be punished harshly.

I'll admit, I'm super suspicious of handing government more power, especially over things that flow from expression... but I'm increasingly in favor of heavy-handed responses to those who violate norms of basic non-aggression and civility.
 
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And I will raise you one Nazi running over an innocent civilian.

Yup.

That doesn't count as a "raise", tho, since you are still below the ante :)
 
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Hmmm...

Maybe its just pure Liberal hatred.

I feel bad for Liberals. They've completely lost touch with anything that even remotely resembles reality.
Liberals used to believe in something. Now all they believe in is destroying nations and creating civil unrest.
"NAZIS!" they scream. Then...they run out and cold-**** a couple of those evil Conservatives, or piss in condoms and toss them at the police, or impose a speech ban on anyone who just might say something they...the great Liberal army...might take offense at. And this...this active destruction of free speech has even eaten its own by banning Bill friggin' Maher from appearing at a university.

Yes Liberalism is gone. Its been replaced by bald-faced hatred of anyone who dare to not openly and loudly proclaim their fealty to the utter destruction of the state, law and order, freedom. They are a radical gestapo of the very thing they claim to vehemently oppose...

FACSISM.


Americans...make sure you go vote in 3 weeks...and think before you make your mark. This time...its rather important.

I think it is important to understand that there is a difference between many Liberals with an admittedly large fringe of radical progressives/socialists.

Many Liberal Democrats find themselves in the same place as moderate Republicans. That is a constituency without a party. Thus the large percent of folks that identify as independents.
 
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I'll admit, I'm super suspicious of handing government more power, especially over things that flow from expression... but I'm increasingly in favor of heavy-handed responses to those who violate norms of basic non-aggression and civility.

Well when both national and local government have been generally turning in such poor work for so many decades who would blame you?

OH YA, the followers of Lefty Dogma!










BARF



Edit: re your conclusion violence tends to birth more violence, plus with as bad as government has been you want THEM to be the ones to clamp down of freedom?


Maybe not!
 
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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.

Violence against politicians is unacceptable no matter what the political affiliations involved are.

But the "caution against inflammatory rhetoric" is silly. Especially when we've got a president who uses such rhetoric constantly.
 
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Violence against politicians is unacceptable no matter what the political affiliations involved are.

But the "caution against inflammatory rhetoric" is silly. Especially when we've got a president who uses such rhetoric constantly.

Actually, no. The fact that the President (for example) urged his supporters to punch people who protested him was wrong, and it is not silly at all to say so, as much as you want to try to excuse abuses on your own side now.
 
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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.

I also remember a certain Republican candidate that told his supporters at a rally that if they roughed up protestors he would Pay their legal bills. Seems you forgot and excuse such behavior.
 
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'Member way back when, when some folks said that giving people permission to become increasingly aggressive with politicians they disagree with was going to lead to violence?

I 'Member.

Regarding the first case as described in this article, it's unacceptable in my book to destroy other candidate's signs, or cover them with your own - if another candidate's sign is place to covers your candidate's sign, I'd support moving theirs, but not destroying it.
To escalate a confrontation over ****ery such as that to attacking the person confronting is just downright stupid.

That asshat should probably be charged with something, if possible.

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I want more information on the second case, but it sounds equally stupid.



I'm not sure I'd raise it to the level of "democrats are out to physically harm or kill republicans" though, it's likely just one or two idiot asshats.
 
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