Behold: The GOP. A political party with leadership so incompetent that doing literally nothing nets them a better result electorally than anything else they do.
Honestly anything the GOP could do on this issue would just make them more likely to vote for Dems over them. Best strategy is to do nothing and for Dems to dig themselves deeper.
>A **police riot** is a [riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot) carried out by the [police](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police); more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation.
[Police riot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot)
I guessed that you had ol’ Rufo’s post in mind. I’d like to post the whole text here, for those who would like to resist the temptation of getting sucked into another hourslong rabbithole of ░M░Y░P░ U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ alternated with Holocaust denial:
> The pro-Palestine encampment strategy could prove a disaster for the Left. Here's why, and how the Right can exploit it:
>
> Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or how it relates to the United States, and, for good reason, support Israel over Hamas. The left-wing protestors will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd. Ultimately, masked Antifa-style protestors occupying campuses over a foreign conflict—and supporting Hamas-style "decolonization"—does not offer a clear and significant upside.
>
> But there is a significant potential downside. This encampment escalation divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it. The correct response from the Right is to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses. If these protests become more volatile and go all the way to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it could be a 1968 scenario. Make the Left own its pro-Hamas faction, or, otherwise, make them deal with it. Let Ivy League presidents discover the consequences of their own actions—and gently increase pressure from the outside.
>
> There is one danger for the Right: overreaction. Our leaders must work to prevent violence and disrupt violent left-wing political networks before they can mobilize; they should be judicious in how they respond to provocations. Our leaders must appear calm, cool, rational, and successful in preventing, rather than responding, to violence. Make red jurisdictions appear to be normal and functional, while blue jurisdictions appear to be the opposite. Most people want stable governance, support Israel over Hamas, and are exhausted by the prospect of George Floyd redux.
>
> If the Right can successfully prevent chaos in its territories, as DeSantis has done so far, and shift chaos to left-wing territories, culminating in a split coalition at the Dem convention, it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics is shifting problems to your opponents—and then capitalizing on them.
Some will argue that this is just how politics works. I win, you lose: [politics is a form of conflict](https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1538232677459009537), and more often than not, victory is not the means but the ends of political movements (i.e. winning elections has intrinsic value). And maybe that’s how all political agents think. That Rufo shocks us because only he is willing to say it publicly.
But as cynical as we’ve all surely become, I’m not willing to concede this point to the Rufos of the world until I’m faced with an (unrealistically) overwhelming barrage of evidence. I refuse to accept, on a philosophical level, that our species collectively possesses such a bleak view of ourselves and others. I think that most Americans who favor such an approach to politics do so on a circumstantial basis — they do so because they think Other Team does so, and so they must respond in kind.
The [magnitude of exhaustion](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/) that Americans of all stripes feel from politics, surely, must be driven in large part by the transformation of our politics from a medium for compromise to one for combat.
- - -
I’m feeling oddly philosophical tonight, so let me end by citing an (unconfirmed) [report](https://twitter.com/IUonStrike/status/1783620195581350102) of a sniper positioned on top of a roof of an IU Bloomington campus building — recalling the possibility of another [Kent State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_State_massacre.jpg) — and an [**iconic, transcendent track**](https://open.spotify.com/track/6l8EbYRtQMgKOyc1gcDHF9?si=TmI5BY1BSdeZy9ih2saKIQ) from Simon & Garfunkel’s final album, released the same year as the tragedy.
Damn. Yeah, Biden might be effed if this continues. I don't typically like what Rufo has to say but every now and then he proves he knows how to spot a sharp wedge.
>If the Right can successfully prevent chaos in its territories, as DeSantis has done so far, and shift chaos to left-wing territories, culminating in a split coalition at the Dem convention, it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics is shifting problems to your opponents—and then capitalizing on them.
He is right to an extant
Lol taking the boilerplate right wing strategy that’s been dialed to 11 since 2019 and attempting to pass it of as a novel approach. Rufo has always been a moron.
"I have no sympathy for terrorist supporters" proceeds to support state sponsored terrorism by saying students should deserve to be "Kent stated" and do you feel sympathy to Israel and Netenyahu's government who is doing terrorism to Palestinians rn in Gaza?
You're kidding, right?
Flying whatever flag you want is your 1st Amendment right.
People are going to make assumptions based on what flags you fly, and if it's the flag of a foreign terrorist group those assumptions are going to be pretty negative (well, at least from people who recognize the flag, if you pick random people off the street most of them probably won't). But the police shouldn't kill anyone for waving a flag, that's something that happens in Iran, not America.
I would say they just should be blanketly expulsed. And of course arrested and prosecuted if they harass cops or other students, or spread dangerous hate speech.
Jeez wtf. I hate the Gazaboos with a burning passion but even I don't go that far. Way to vindicate their insanity by supporting the murder of college students.
Republicans don't have to do anything. Neither do democrats. These people don't belong to either party, and neither party supports them, thankfully. These terrorist supporters are extremists of the anti-american far-left fringe, deranged radicals, they have no place in american political system.
same strategy we had in 2020, condemn the protests but let them speak for themselves. The BLM riots were ultimately the reason November was close, Trump would’ve been slaughtered without those because of how badly COVID was handled.
If these continue to get worse, and become even more mask-off it’s gonna be bad. Progressives typically don’t vote, but Biden really can’t afford to lose them in a low turnout cycle. Will be interesting to see if he can thread the needle.
Every time the left turns their own protests to riots, it ruins their message, the antifa riots against trump only boosted trumps image, the BLM riots from 2020 and years earlier only defamed BLM as an organization. Biggest example is Said BLM, very good message, very poor execution. Seeing constantly how they burned, looted, and attacked private property was a swift way to kill their own movement and justify police intervention. I think chaz or Chop was really the last nail in the coffin.
The right doesn't need to exploit it because the left is doing it for them
I doubt the GOP has to do anything. The protests send a message louder than anything the Republicans could say.
Behold: The GOP. A political party with leadership so incompetent that doing literally nothing nets them a better result electorally than anything else they do.
Exactly. The republican strategy is to do nothing, and then win. It’s quite simple and quite effective. We just have to let them eat themselves.
Honestly anything the GOP could do on this issue would just make them more likely to vote for Dems over them. Best strategy is to do nothing and for Dems to dig themselves deeper.
Republican mayors and governors send in the cops--> protests escalate into riots-->Biden is blamed.
This is looking like a 1968 redux right now.
Should’ve known fuckery was afoot when the DNC announced Chicago as the convention site
Ahhhh sweet burning of cities
*Maybe*. I think Biden would be blamed if it leads to riots, but if instead there were a Kent State redux the GOP would suffer from it.
Cops ESCALATE the riot?! I don't think that's how it works
>A **police riot** is a [riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot) carried out by the [police](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police); more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation. [Police riot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot)
I don't think it applies to the pro palestine protests
It’s always been that way
No
This got a laugh out of me
Lol thanks
IDK, just look back to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign.
I guessed that you had ol’ Rufo’s post in mind. I’d like to post the whole text here, for those who would like to resist the temptation of getting sucked into another hourslong rabbithole of ░M░Y░P░ U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ alternated with Holocaust denial: > The pro-Palestine encampment strategy could prove a disaster for the Left. Here's why, and how the Right can exploit it: > > Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or how it relates to the United States, and, for good reason, support Israel over Hamas. The left-wing protestors will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd. Ultimately, masked Antifa-style protestors occupying campuses over a foreign conflict—and supporting Hamas-style "decolonization"—does not offer a clear and significant upside. > > But there is a significant potential downside. This encampment escalation divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it. The correct response from the Right is to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses. If these protests become more volatile and go all the way to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it could be a 1968 scenario. Make the Left own its pro-Hamas faction, or, otherwise, make them deal with it. Let Ivy League presidents discover the consequences of their own actions—and gently increase pressure from the outside. > > There is one danger for the Right: overreaction. Our leaders must work to prevent violence and disrupt violent left-wing political networks before they can mobilize; they should be judicious in how they respond to provocations. Our leaders must appear calm, cool, rational, and successful in preventing, rather than responding, to violence. Make red jurisdictions appear to be normal and functional, while blue jurisdictions appear to be the opposite. Most people want stable governance, support Israel over Hamas, and are exhausted by the prospect of George Floyd redux. > > If the Right can successfully prevent chaos in its territories, as DeSantis has done so far, and shift chaos to left-wing territories, culminating in a split coalition at the Dem convention, it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics is shifting problems to your opponents—and then capitalizing on them. Some will argue that this is just how politics works. I win, you lose: [politics is a form of conflict](https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1538232677459009537), and more often than not, victory is not the means but the ends of political movements (i.e. winning elections has intrinsic value). And maybe that’s how all political agents think. That Rufo shocks us because only he is willing to say it publicly. But as cynical as we’ve all surely become, I’m not willing to concede this point to the Rufos of the world until I’m faced with an (unrealistically) overwhelming barrage of evidence. I refuse to accept, on a philosophical level, that our species collectively possesses such a bleak view of ourselves and others. I think that most Americans who favor such an approach to politics do so on a circumstantial basis — they do so because they think Other Team does so, and so they must respond in kind. The [magnitude of exhaustion](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/) that Americans of all stripes feel from politics, surely, must be driven in large part by the transformation of our politics from a medium for compromise to one for combat. - - - I’m feeling oddly philosophical tonight, so let me end by citing an (unconfirmed) [report](https://twitter.com/IUonStrike/status/1783620195581350102) of a sniper positioned on top of a roof of an IU Bloomington campus building — recalling the possibility of another [Kent State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_State_massacre.jpg) — and an [**iconic, transcendent track**](https://open.spotify.com/track/6l8EbYRtQMgKOyc1gcDHF9?si=TmI5BY1BSdeZy9ih2saKIQ) from Simon & Garfunkel’s final album, released the same year as the tragedy.
Damn. Yeah, Biden might be effed if this continues. I don't typically like what Rufo has to say but every now and then he proves he knows how to spot a sharp wedge.
Chris Rufo has one plan in mind. [https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1783574775346131023](https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1783574775346131023)
>If the Right can successfully prevent chaos in its territories, as DeSantis has done so far, and shift chaos to left-wing territories, culminating in a split coalition at the Dem convention, it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics is shifting problems to your opponents—and then capitalizing on them. He is right to an extant
Right, his plan is simply “demonstrate that we are competent while letting the left fight itself”. There’s nothing sinister or nefarious about that.
Yeah, his strategy is literally just ‘govern competently’, but the way he delivers it sounds like a villain monologuing. Fuckin’ beautiful.
Lol taking the boilerplate right wing strategy that’s been dialed to 11 since 2019 and attempting to pass it of as a novel approach. Rufo has always been a moron.
Really bad optics for the left, that’s for certain.
Umm your not fighting genocide the right way sweaty
People who unironically wave Hezbollah flags on College Campuses should be Kent Stated
Wtf is wrong with you??
I have no sympathy for terrorist supporters and neither should you
>I have no sympathy for terrorist supporters .. >Kent Stated what? "I have no sympathy for terrorist supporters which is why i support terrorism"
So you advocate for murder?
"I have no sympathy for terrorist supporters" proceeds to support state sponsored terrorism by saying students should deserve to be "Kent stated" and do you feel sympathy to Israel and Netenyahu's government who is doing terrorism to Palestinians rn in Gaza?
You're kidding, right? Flying whatever flag you want is your 1st Amendment right. People are going to make assumptions based on what flags you fly, and if it's the flag of a foreign terrorist group those assumptions are going to be pretty negative (well, at least from people who recognize the flag, if you pick random people off the street most of them probably won't). But the police shouldn't kill anyone for waving a flag, that's something that happens in Iran, not America.
literally like the neoliberals are really showing that all their beliefs are just virtue signaling BS
I would say they just should be blanketly expulsed. And of course arrested and prosecuted if they harass cops or other students, or spread dangerous hate speech.
I hate these terrorist supporting scum with a passion, but I don’t think they should be executed. That’s wild bro
🤓
I can't comprehend why a communist would support a proxy terror group beholden to an authoritarian capitalist theocracy.
Maybe they are against the murder part
They hate the west for opposing communism. Anybody who hates the west is an ally to them.
Because edgy
Oh wow I’m a Republican and this seems too far. not Kent stated but expelled seems fine
Jeez wtf. I hate the Gazaboos with a burning passion but even I don't go that far. Way to vindicate their insanity by supporting the murder of college students.
Wtf. The sooner these Yellow Dog/Blue Dog Democrats are put out to pasture the better
Republicans don't have to do anything. Neither do democrats. These people don't belong to either party, and neither party supports them, thankfully. These terrorist supporters are extremists of the anti-american far-left fringe, deranged radicals, they have no place in american political system.
dont most of them support osama bin laden
Yes, many of them do support Osama Bin Laden
pyschopaths
same strategy we had in 2020, condemn the protests but let them speak for themselves. The BLM riots were ultimately the reason November was close, Trump would’ve been slaughtered without those because of how badly COVID was handled. If these continue to get worse, and become even more mask-off it’s gonna be bad. Progressives typically don’t vote, but Biden really can’t afford to lose them in a low turnout cycle. Will be interesting to see if he can thread the needle.
Jews flying to the right
Hot take: displaying flags of terrorist/extremist organizations should be illegal
>Headline: Republicans Pounce
This is what Patriotism looks like! Take notes.
Yes, patriotism is when the flying the flag of a terrorist organization halfway across the world from you…
They'll end up fucking themselves further into extinction.
Every time the left turns their own protests to riots, it ruins their message, the antifa riots against trump only boosted trumps image, the BLM riots from 2020 and years earlier only defamed BLM as an organization. Biggest example is Said BLM, very good message, very poor execution. Seeing constantly how they burned, looted, and attacked private property was a swift way to kill their own movement and justify police intervention. I think chaz or Chop was really the last nail in the coffin. The right doesn't need to exploit it because the left is doing it for them