Republican lawmaker loses job for saying running over protesters 'is a movement we can all support'

[workinclasszero]

Republican lawmaker loses job for saying running over protesters ‘is a movement we can all support’
She posted a Facebook meme with the hashtag #alllivessplatter.
AARON RUPAR SEP 20, 2017, 2:51 PM

The House Majority Whip in the South Dakota legislature has offered a measured apology for posting a meme on Facebook suggesting she supports running over protesters who block roads.

Earlier this month, over an illustration that showed a truck driving into protesters, South Dakota Rep. Lynne DiSanto (R) posted, “I think this is a movement we can all support. #alllivessplatter.”

“Nobody cares about your protest,” the post says. “Keep your ass out of the road.”



DiSanto published that post, which has since been deleted, less than a month after an alleged neo-Nazi used his vehicle to murder a counter-protester and injure 19 others during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The tactic has also been used by militant groups like ISIS.

https://thinkprogress.org/lynne-disanto-south-dakota-loses-real-estate-job-for-posting-meme-encouraging-running-over-protesters-c81e74aede0a/

[safeinOhio]

1. This can backfire, as

I can see a bunch of teabag protesters getting run over. Then watch for a change in what these short sighted idiots say.

[Demsrule86]

3. Right...if you run someone over, too bad.

you deserve to be prosecuted.

[bpj62]

2. Real Estate Agent

She worked for a nationally known realty company and they will not put up with those statements. She also in one of those RWNJ that is demanding drug testing for unemployment benefits. She wants the applicant to pay for it as well. DiSanto stated that as far as she knew most employers already required drug testing. I am in the real estate business and I have never been drug tested.

[riversedge]

6. Says OK if elected official of keep lawmaking job but private industry gives her the boot. Very

telling to say the least. The fish rots from the head down.

[workinclasszero]

12. You got that right!

[Trueblue Texan]

4. what a hateful person!

She apologizes for others perceptions of her post, not for her behavior. The arrogance in the Republican party is taking it DOWN, just like it is in the Trump admin. Disgusting pigs.

[mgardener]

5. 1st amendment of the Constitution of the United States

"Or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances ".
When she took her oath of office in South Dakota she swore to uphold the Constitution of the US.
She is a deplorable.

[workinclasszero]

13. Apparently the republicans think that only applies to

nazi/kkk protesters.

[Botany]

7. South Dakota Rep. Lynne DiSanto

[BBG]

8. Subtly Aimed Left?

But then I think too much.

[riversedge]

9. " ...As recently as August 15, Fox News website was home to a page glorifying running over protest

...As recently as August 15, Fox News’ website was home to a page glorifying running over protesters. A video on the page, which was republished from the conservative Daily Caller, was headlined, “Here’s A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying To Block The Road.”


CREDIT: VIDEO SCREENGRAB
Fox News website features story glorifying running over liberal protesters with cars

“Here’s a compilation of liberal protesters getting pushed out of the way by cars and trucks. Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years,” said the page, which was taken down days after the murder of 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.

Both DiSanto and Bernstine are supporters of President Trump.

[LovingA2andMI]

10. In South Dakota....

Enough said.....

[mreilly]

11. It's not about "protesters blocking the road."

That's what they want you to think, that the problem is not the protest but the blocking of the road.

No, the problem is with the protest. They want to normalize this shit and then I guarantee you will gravitate towards running over or killing protesters, period - on the sidewalk, on the grass, anywhere they might be. Anywhere at all. No matter whether they're "blocking" or impeding anything.

It's about using the threat of violence to stifle any and all dissent, of any type.

[Initech]

14. Why fight a war on terror when the real terrorists are home grown?

[workinclasszero]

16. The republicans even use the same tactics as ISIS terrorists now

[Initech]

17. That's fucking scary.

Trump can't say "on many sides" when there's only one side who's actively and openly fantasized about driving their huge trucks into protests and killing people.

[Orrex]

15. A shithead in Pennsylvania made pretty much the same declaration

And my idiot fellow citizens are having a collective orgasm over it.

"He tells it like it is," they swoon.

"He's not afraid to say what he thinks," they ejaculate.


Idiots, every one of them.