CPAC scrambles to control damage after attendees wave Russian flags

[Beet]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/cpac-scrambles-to-control-damage-after-attendees-wave-russian-flags-during-trump-speech/

In addition to the attendees waving Russian flags, journalist Sarah Posner reports at least one attendee was spotted wearing a “Make Russia Great Again” t-shirt.

https://twitter.com/AliABCNews/status/835162310591283200/photo/1

[Dr. Arch]

So do these kinds of conservatives = Russian loyalists? Do they not care about our country anymore?

[Cashew]

Anti Trump Ryan Clayton was trolling. Fake News.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Sing to our Motherland, Free and Undying,
Bulwark of Peoples in Happiness Strong!
Flag of the Soviets, Flag of the people,
From Victory to Victory lead us on!

[Dr. Arch]

Sing to our Motherland, Free and Undying,
Bulwark of Peoples in Happiness Strong!
Flag of the Soviets, Flag of the people,
From Victory to Victory lead us on!

You forgot the part where being gay gets you persecuted and possibly killed

[Angel of Death]

Wait, those weren't opponents of Trump intending to make him look bad?!? Is this real life?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

So do these kinds of conservatives = Russian loyalists? Do they not care about our country anymore?

They never did. They've always hated America and what it stood for. (They liked the slave-owning aristocracy of the Confederacy just fine though.)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Wait, those weren't opponents of Trump intending to make him look bad?!? Is this real life?

It's just Trump's fantasy.
He didn't get a landslide,
but there's no escape from reality.

[EnglishPete]

The source of the problem has been idetified

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http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/24/shady-left-wing-operative-kicked-out-of-cpac-for-handing-out-russian-flags/

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I might by a Russian flag soon. If we get a Clintonite in the White House in 2020, I want to welcome Putin's liberators rolling down Tennessee Street. Assuming the radiation from the mushroom clouds over Atlanta and Jacksonville don't kill me first.

[RINO Tom]

So do these kinds of conservatives = Russian loyalists? Do they not care about our country anymore?

They never did. They've always hated America and what it stood for. (They liked the slave-owning aristocracy of the Confederacy just fine though.)

LOL, yep, ZERO conservatives in the North supporting the Union.  Nailed it.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It's official: the GOP is the party of treason.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

By the way, while I welcome the rise of Russiaphilia, you guys do know this was a false flag (heh pun) right? This type of stuff goes on all the time.

Good example: During the Jeb Bush campaign in the leadup to the Iowa caucus, several of the people in the frontrow started heckling him and demanded they get paid "as promised by the flier." As it turned out, these were random students hired by a Rubio organizer and given fake fliers to make it seem as if Jeb had to pay people to fill his rallies. Though initially flustered because he's Jeb Bush and he's easily flustered, he eventually figured it out and turned the tables and exposed them. He was even telling the audience how
he had organized similar acts of sabotage against Reagan in 1980.

This is a garden variety dirty trick, one of the oldest in the book. It's not even that "dirty" to be honest. Good move on the part of whoever organized this. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted to do when I wanted to go into campaigns, and it's fun enough to drag me back in.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I might by a Russian flag soon. If we get a Clintonite in the White House in 2020, I want to welcome Putin's liberators rolling down Tennessee Street. Assuming the radiation from the mushroom clouds over Atlanta and Jacksonville don't kill me first.

What's the benefit of being allied with Russia? They're a backwords country with a shrinking and diseased population, failed economy (which will get worse as oil is phased out) which is about the size of South Korea, and dysfunctional political system.

So, a natural ally of GOP-dominated America?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

It's official: the GOP is the party of treason.

Using "official" a bit loosely, no?

[EnglishPete]

By the way, while I welcome the rise of Russiaphilia, you guys do know this was a false flag (heh pun) right? This type of stuff goes on all the time.

Good example: During the Jeb Bush campaign in the leadup to the Iowa caucus, several of the people in the frontrow started heckling him and demanded they get paid "as promised by the flier." As it turned out, these were random students hired by a Rubio organizer and given fake fliers to make it seem as if Jeb had to pay people to fill his rallies. Though initially flustered because he's Jeb Bush and he's easily flustered, he eventually figured it out and turned the tables and exposed them. He was even telling the audience how
he had organized similar acts of sabotage against Reagan in 1980.

This is a garden variety dirty trick, one of the oldest in the book. It's not even that "dirty" to be honest. Good move on the part of whoever organized this. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted to do when I wanted to go into campaigns, and it's fun enough to drag me back in.

[Santander]

You people realize these were anti-Trump and anti-Russia flags, right???

[Blue3]

No, they were pro-Trump... the people taking them were probably just ignorant

 

 

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

No, they were pro-Trump... the people taking them were probably just ignorant

 

 

Ok. Why am I wrong? What proof do you have that this isn't the type of scandal-mongering that routinely occurs at political events on both sides? This is trick is literally as old as democracy itself.

[Beet]

How do you explain the "Make Russia Great Again" t-shirt? That's unambiguous even if people didn't recognize the flag.

I remember seeing people with Trump/Putin '16 t-shirts at Trump rallies last year, and there are a ton of them for sale online. And our resident Trumpists like EHarding or Santander wouldn't be out of place unironically holding a flag. So while this may have been a prank, the premise is chillingly believable.

[Santander]

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Do you buffoons even read?

Also, how is branding Trump as a Putin stooge pro-Trump or pro-Russia? The people taking them were either ignorant (which describes a significant portion of CPAC attendees) or trolling.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

How do you explain the "Make Russia Great Again" t-shirt? That's unambiguous even if people didn't recognize the flag.

Oh so you've never heard the "Make America HATE again" slogan. You think Trump's slogan is only used amongst enthusiastic Trump backers? Trevor Noah makes a joke out of it everyday.

[EnglishPete]

By the way, while I welcome the rise of Russiaphilia, you guys do know this was a false flag (heh pun) right? This type of stuff goes on all the time.

Good example: During the Jeb Bush campaign in the leadup to the Iowa caucus, several of the people in the frontrow started heckling him and demanded they get paid "as promised by the flier." As it turned out, these were random students hired by a Rubio organizer and given fake fliers to make it seem as if Jeb had to pay people to fill his rallies. Though initially flustered because he's Jeb Bush and he's easily flustered, he eventually figured it out and turned the tables and exposed them. He was even telling the audience how
he had organized similar acts of sabotage against Reagan in 1980.

This is a garden variety dirty trick, one of the oldest in the book. It's not even that "dirty" to be honest. Good move on the part of whoever organized this. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted to do when I wanted to go into campaigns, and it's fun enough to drag me back in.

And here is one of the live action trolls in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o49aM47qlw

Watching this i have to say that's spectacularly obnoxious live action trolling, he's certainly working hard at the roll. Like you say this kind of thing has gone on since forever and is just part of how politics works.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

So do these kinds of conservatives = Russian loyalists? Do they not care about our country anymore?

They never did. They've always hated America and what it stood for. (They liked the slave-owning aristocracy of the Confederacy just fine though.)

LOL, yep, ZERO conservatives in the North supporting the Union.  Nailed it.

They have problems with reading comprehension, too.

[Blue3]

No, they were pro-Trump... the people taking them were probably just ignorant

 

 

Ok. Why am I wrong? What proof do you have that this isn't the type of scandal-mongering that routinely occurs at political events on both sides? This is trick is literally as old as democracy itself.

I was responding to this post:

You people realize these were anti-Trump and anti-Russia flags, right???

I don't know what your post was about, I didn't read it.