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RandySF

(58,799 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 12:32 AM Jun 2020

NC lawmaker blasts Black Lives Matter, calls protesters 'thugs' and 'vermin'

Frustrated by weeks of protests, a North Carolina lawmaker has lashed out at what he calls “gutless wonders in public office who are bowing down to Black Lives Matter.”

Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County called protesters “ignorant thugs,” “criminals,” “domestic terrorists” and “vermin.” If they resist and attack police, he said they should “shoot them.”

“This is war,” he wrote on Facebook Monday. “Our people have a right to expect our leaders to be on our side, not surrender to the lawless, godless mob.”

Pittman, 65, is running for his fifth term. He faces Democrat Gail Young in November.

His Facebook post came in response to the protests for racial justice that have swept the country following the police killing of George Floyd of Minneapolis.

“These vermin don’t care about George Floyd or any other individual, except maybe their financial sponsor, George Soros,” Pittman wrote. “They are bent on destroying our country and our way of life, and they will use any tragedy, any slogan, any excuse to convince clueless people that their radical injustice is justice.”



https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article243568942.html#storylink=cpy

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NC lawmaker blasts Black Lives Matter, calls protesters 'thugs' and 'vermin' (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2020 OP
Last paragraph says it all...more eloquent political comments by a racist goper Thekaspervote Jun 2020 #1
The lawless, godless vermin is in the White House dalton99a Jun 2020 #2
George Soros. 🤑 tRump is all those things especially a domestic terrorist. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2020 #3
I'm shocked to learn that he's a Christian pastor. Mariana Jun 2020 #4
Everything from Republicans is filled with projection. love_katz Jun 2020 #5
NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln struggle4progress Jun 2020 #6
Sons of Confederate Veterans funding political candidates in NC struggle4progress Jun 2020 #7
OMFG Skittles Jun 2020 #8
They had better hope George Soros lives to be 120 DFW Jun 2020 #9
Sounds like the old outside agitators coming down here Solly Mack Jun 2020 #10

love_katz

(2,579 posts)
5. Everything from Republicans is filled with projection.
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 01:23 AM
Jun 2020

THEY are the thugs, THEY are the vermin, THEY are the criminals and terrorists. THEY are the virus: racism, sexism, classism and greed, and complete contempt for our constitution, bill of rights, and our actual laws. THEY are the epitome of ignorance and hate. They just believe that if they shout lies long enough and loudly enough that people will swallow the poison they keep pumping out. May they experience nothing except overwhelming defeat!

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
6. NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 01:24 AM
Jun 2020

By Colin Campbell
APRIL 12, 2017 03:48 PM , UPDATED APRIL 13, 2017 01:58 PM

N.C. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Pittman was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and restore the state constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage. House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday that the bill is dead and won’t get a hearing.

A commenter reminded Pittman that the Supreme Court ruling settled the law on gay marriage and that the lawmaker should “get over it” ...

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
7. Sons of Confederate Veterans funding political candidates in NC
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 01:28 AM
Jun 2020

By Rebekah BarberDecember 18, 2019

... The N.C. Heritage PAC ... contributed .. $2,000 .. to .. Larry Pittman ...

https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/12/sons-confederate-veterans-funding-political-candidates-north-carolina

DFW

(54,370 posts)
9. They had better hope George Soros lives to be 120
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 04:01 AM
Jun 2020

They don't seem to have another Bogey Man in their inventory.

Solly Mack

(90,764 posts)
10. Sounds like the old outside agitators coming down here
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 04:58 AM
Jun 2020

and stirring up trouble for our people crap from the 60s.

Racist slogans never really change.

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