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Same protester--InfoWars host Owen Shroyer,-- yelling 'Trump is innocent' at impeachment hearing called for Obama to be lynched https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/9/1904449/-Same-protestor-yelling-Trump-is-innocent-at-impeachment-hearing-called-for-Obama-to-be-lynched #TrumpImpeachmenthearing
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Same protester yelling 'Trump is innocent' at impeachment hearing called for Obama to be lynched
Monday December 09, 2019 · 9:11 AM CST
If youre wondering who the man was shouting before House Judiciary Committee members during Mondays presidential impeachment hearing, here you go: It was InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, the same man who called for former President Barack Obama to be lynched earlier this year.
Shroyer started his latest rant addressing House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler directly. "You're the one committing treason. America's done with this. America's sick of the treason," Shroyer shouted. "I'm not going to sit here and watch you run an impeachment scam and remove our vote. We voted for Donald Trump."
Wait a minute. Who voted for Trump? Last time I checked, the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but I digress. Shroyer went on to shout that Democrats are trying to remove Trump because they dont like him. "Americans are sick of your impeachment scam! Theyre sick of the Democratic treason, he said. Shroyer finished his speech with a final, Trump is innocent."
But wait, theres more. The frequent ranter in June had made even more violent remarks in discussing the far-right news site Breitbarts article Emails Show Obama's State Department's Role in Anti-Trump Coup Cabal," according to Newsweek. Shroyer suggested during his anti-Obama rant that the former president was "treasonous" and should be killed.
lunasun
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)PSPS
(13,584 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Jones was an opportunist and started out with some interesting, at the very least, views about twenty-years ago. He has morphed into a Limbaugh/Coulter-style carny barker who makes a damn good living off of distorting information, making things up and overlaying a conspiracy on whatever he can.
In his own camp-style of conspiracy, if anybody was a misinformation shill, Alex Jones represents it. Oh, there are conspiracies afoot, but they are not all that hard to see or figure out. The word, "conspiracy" is so vague and usually points to a nebulous "they", which really bothers me if people are seeking "truth" as these fringe groups suggest.
Any serious inquiry into what the powers that be are up to and how it affects us is literally made laughable by people who make the data fit their theory, (even that word is used improperly) rather than the theory fitting the facts. Rather than a theory or a even a hypothesis or a model, you get a wild, anything goes, get the clicks, Dunning-Kruger frenzy of imagination, (sometimes rather creative) mixed liberally sometimes with a few facts.
I think reading a good science fiction story like the Dune series, or any fiction, like Lord of the Rings, etc. is more useful than the current chronicles of Conspiracy Land, which may just be a venue for extreme paranoia and confusion. It reminds me of how religions may have gotten started, (not that I am anti-religious) and even religion is far more practical than wild speculation presented as fact.
SweepPicker
(266 posts)the Trump administration?