Tombstone, Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- If you have seen any of President Biden’s recent speeches, especially his dystopian “unity” speech the other night in Philadelphia, you’re probably a bit incensed over the way gun owners and patriots are being portrayed by the President.
That’s the objective: To tick you off, and hopefully motivate some overzealous gun owner, Trump supporter, or patriot, into saying or doing something stupid.
Trolling has always been part of the human condition. Remember the kid in junior high who would pester someone and pester them until the victim lost his temper and took a swing? The teacher or Principal wasn’t interested in anything except “Who threw the first punch.” And the victim ended up being punished. The same thing happens in business, social circles, and, yes, in politics.
Recently, here in Arizona, a guy in a BLM T-shirt showed up at a Republican club function where Senate candidate Blake Masters was scheduled to speak. The guy had on his Joe Biden, Aviator sunglasses, and various buttons. All intended to “trigger” the Republicans in attendance – and he had a video camera running. His sole objective was to get the folks there riled up, hoping they would say or do something ugly or stupid, which he could then post on social media to prove that Republicans are hateful, violent bigots.
Unfortunately, the folks there jumped at the bait, badgering the guy about “All Lives Mattering,” killing babies, and the like. They demanded that he leave, threatened him with arrest, got in his face, and tried to block or grab his camera. Eventually, an older woman, reaching for the guy’s camera, made physical contact, and things turned into a scuffle, ending with the guy being tossed out on his keister. Regardless of the details of who did what, the video of the Republicans being belligerent and getting in the guy’s face put Republicans in general in a bad light. Someone trying to diffuse the situation at one point even asked one of the belligerent guys to back off, and the guy responded, “They do it. Why shouldn’t we?”
The proper answer to that question is “Because we’re better than that,” but almost as important is that this is exactly what the guy wants you to do.
He was a Troll in the current vernacular and was very successful in that instance. He got what he was looking for, and his video made the rounds, with Republicans getting the short end of the stick.
Today, we don’t have a President, we have a Troll in Chief.
Remember that Joe Biden is several cans short of a six-pack, and his speeches are being written by far-left acolytes of Saul Alinsky and his “Rules for Radicals.” His words and actions are intentionally geared to anger his political opponents, hoping to instigate some ugly or violent response. And there are too many people on the “right” who are more than willing to take the bait and provide “proof” that his disparaging characterizations were accurate.
I guarantee people are reading this right now and are berating me as a wimp, afraid to stand up for my beliefs, who have a whole litany of excuses and rationales that they believe justify “hitting back” and “returning tit-for-tat.”
Again, I say; This is exactly what Biden and his handlers are hoping for.
I firmly believe in taking the higher road, living by the Golden Rule, and following my mother’s advice that if I don’t have something nice to say, say nothing at all, or at least don’t say it in an ugly way. But all of that high road stuff aside, I also believe in not giving my opponent ammunition to use against me.
In the Comments section of articles on social media, we often see the phrase; “Don’t feed the Trolls,” but there’s almost always someone who will expend tons of time and energy writing endless rants in response to some Troll who’s sitting in his mom’s basement giggling at the rage he’s engendered.
Right now, the stakes are incredibly high. The Democrats have made gun control one of their core legislative objectives and one of their top campaign issues.
They believe that GunVoters are too divided and disorganized to be an effective voting block in this November’s elections, thanks to the dramatic decline of the NRA and betrayals of stupid Republicans who have backed some gun control efforts. They need as much evidence of “gun nuts” and “radical Republicans” behaving badly as they can get to scare the squishy middle over to their side, and they have the full support of the legacy media available to them to splash that bad behavior all over the news and social media.
Democrats desperately need to distract Americans away from rampant inflation, high gas and food prices, the destruction of US energy companies, unfathomable levels of government spending on idiotic and corrupt “investments,” [aka wars] the total collapse of our foreign policy, and the simple fact that the current President of the United States is clearly an idiot. They need distractions that will turn voters away from those things and instead focus their attention on synthesized bogeymen, imaginary enemies, and the former President’s foibles and failings. It’s working.
Two months ago, Republicans were expected to crash through the November elections like a tidal wave, and today those predictions are ringing hollow, as American voters are having their attention and energy sucked away from the real issues to instead focus on tertiary matters that should have no bearing on the coming elections. Just as Barack Obama once cautioned that one should never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to “F- things up,” I have warned never to underestimate Republicans’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Focusing on Donald Trump’s legal troubles is a huge mistake, regardless of how false or factual they may be or how unfair the double standards of the FBI and Justice Department are. It’s a distraction. So is righteous anger over Joe Biden’s characterizations of Trump voters, gun owners, and “right-wing” politicians as enemies of democracy.
All of that energy should be focused instead on turning the debate back to the real issues at hand, the absolute failure of Biden and the Democrats to do anything right.
Every Republican politician should deflect every question and comment about Trump and right-wing extremism by pointing out that this is all just an effort to distract attention away from the real issues. then follow that up with solid proposals to correct the disastrous policies of the current administration and Democrats in Congress.
The American people are hurting. Democrats like Senator Mark Kelly (Mr. Gabby Giffords) of Arizona are putting out ads bragging about how they are working for their constituents to lower inflation, strengthen the border, and reduce gas prices while they vote in lock-step with Biden and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on policies that do the exact opposite of their claims. This should be Republicans’ talking points, and voting records and videos of these politicians’ actual words should be the core of their campaign ads.
Biden and the Democrats are Trolling GunVoters and the “right.” Don’t take their bait. Don’t give them bad behavior in response to inflammatory rhetoric. Focus on the facts that really matter: The Economy, the Border, Foreign Policy, Profligate Spending, the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment.
Hold the line. Don’t Feed the Trolls.
About Jeff Knox:
Jeff Knox is a second-generation political activist and director of The Firearms Coalition. His father Neal Knox, led many of the early gun rights battles for your right to keep and bear arms. Read Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War.
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs, and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists through education, analysis of current issues, and a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition has offices in Buckeye, Arizona, and Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org.
If someone shows up in clothing and paraphernalia designed to trigger anger and “a scuffle”, then he has a partner or two in regular clothes with a camera.
The guy in the “Joe Biden is wonderful” tee shirt is the bait, the camera man (or even professional rioters) are the trap.
Am torn by today’s events…Often wonder when the Jews realized if they only would have fought back, what may have happened. Their forefathers did, so why not?
I guess if you keep turning the other cheek you won’t feel the chaffing of the slave chains on your wrists
I believe democrats end game is trying to bait the American people or MAGA Republicans to violence. Any excuse to declare Marshall Law and declare permanent democrat rule. Essentially anyone who opposes them will be targeted. This happened in the Philippines when Marcos became dictator after declaring Marshall law in 1973. Biden’s speech had no other reason but to admonish, label and divide Americans. MAGA Americans are enemies of his state.
correct, show some self-restraint. something the left does know or do. the left does things like this to take our attention off the worst economy since the carter administration, and it at times seems to be working. don’t let the talking heads, utoob, fakebook or the twit posters gaslight you, keep pointing out to them the worsening economy, increased inflation, belief you can change your gender, crime in blue cities and then laugh at them, because that really pisses them off. they will become unhinged and then are easily manipulated. and it is also somewhat fun. be better at it… Read more »
I disagree about discussing biden’s attacks on gun owners and republicans. It is important to point out to anyone willing to listen that desperate-failing leaders almost always pick scapegoats to attack, pretending that such group is a “threat to all of us.” This technique has been a major tool of tyrants including Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, and yes Hitler. This is exactly what biden is dong in his efforts to vilify guns, gun owners and republicans in general. Why not take advantage when opposition hands you victory on a silver platter? Don’t attack democrats in general, that just alienates democrats and… Read more »
“Fight back! Whenever you are
offered violence, fight back! The
aggressor does not fear the law, so
he must be taught to fear you.
Whatever the risk, and at whatever
the cost, fight back!”
Jeff Cooper
“don’t take the bait, we are better than that”
Look how far that has got us. The mobs of people that beat up people in the street and at restaurants and burned down buildings and torched cop cars are getting their way right now. There’s no rewards for cowardice, no wars have been won by complacency.
So when will it be time to fight back? As we’re being loaded on the cattle cars? Pacifism, Golden Rule and Turn the other cheek are all fine and dandy maxims from our Judeo-Christian upbringing, but 1930’s Germany had similar background (they were after all, at the root of the Reformation, even though Germany as a country did not yet exist). While we sit here, taking the High Road, our Rights, the pillars of that road, are being gnawed away by the futt bucking ugly Beavers of Progressive Fascism. I weary of the be patient and trust in God attitude.… Read more »
If we would just get the civil war started these cowards would go into hiding and be silenced . They keep stoking the flames and it will blow up in thier face . Remember how this country was started by opposing tyrants by force. Its coming soon to the streets of America .