Murphy: ‘This Is a Moment Where We Have to Be on the Streets All Over the Country’

[mystery-ak]

Murphy: ‘This Is a Moment Where We Have to Be on the Streets All Over the Country’

Jeff Poor 9 Jun 2025

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” while insisting to “keep it peaceful,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) called for more protests around the country as rioting is underway in Los Angeles tied to the Trump administration’s deportation effort.

The Connecticut Democrat lawmaker argued President Donald Trump was inciting behavior so he could invoke the Insurrection Act.

“I mean, my first message is to keep it peaceful,” Murphy declared. “I mean, obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening to our democracy. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country, and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets.”

He continued, “But you know, ultimately, I think the country sees what Donald Trump is trying to do here. He’s looking for a fight. There’s nothing in what he is doing that is about peace or about restoring order. He’s taking a protest that is relatively isolated. You know, people in Los Angeles over the weekend would tell you that 99% of them went about their day, and it was pretty normal because this is not an invasion that has taken over the entire city. And he’s trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation so that he might actually be able to invoke the Insurrection Act. That would be a defining story of the week if he were to do it, and I just don’t think — I think we have to make sure that we understand to not take him at his word. He’s looking for a fight. He’s not trying to calm tensions.”

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[GtHawk]

Hmmmm, keep it peaceful, eh? I remember democrats insisting some guy named Trump was responsible for violence at J6 even though he told his supporters to keep it peaceful. Somehow I don’t believe the vas majority of Americans or legal immigrants are going to be too happy with the democrats with all the rioting, violence, looting and destruction by illegal aliens waving foreign flags while doing it.

[mountaineer]

this is not an invasion that has taken over the entire city.

It's taken over the entire nation, fool.

[GtHawk]

It's taken over the entire nation, fool.

You know what would be Schadenfreude? The IOC pulling the Olympics, or publicly contemplating pulling them from LA over safety concerns.

[mystery-ak]

You know what would be Schadenfreude? The IOC pulling the Olympics, or publicly contemplating pulling them from LA over safety concerns.

I thought about that too...I hope it happens...

[Free Vulcan]

Woke Rats always think they can hop and dance on opposite sides of the line and be right both times. The guy supports insurrection and revolution but doesn't have the cajones to come out plain and stand on that then take his licks.

In other words subversion and sedition with plausible deniability.

[cato potatoe]

“I mean, my first message is to keep it peaceful,” Murphy declared. “I mean, obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening to our democracy. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country, and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets.”

It sure would be nice if our ruling class didn't communicate like smug 19 year olds. 

[mountaineer]

You know what would be Schadenfreude? The IOC pulling the Olympics, or publicly contemplating pulling them from LA over safety concerns.

Perfect.

[Cyber Liberty]

You know what would be Schadenfreude? The IOC pulling the Olympics, or publicly contemplating pulling them from LA over safety concerns.

I thought about that too...I hope it happens...

I think the IOC is already discussing that right now.

[mountaineer]

This congressional, mayoral and gubernatorial support for and encouragement of violence and lawlessness reminds me a little of the New Orleans massacre of 1866 that I just read about today while working my way through Ron Chernow's biography of U.S. Grant:

The New Orleans massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre.

 The violence erupted outside the Mechanics Institute, site of a reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention. According to the official report, a total of 38 were killed and 146 wounded, of whom 34 dead and 119 wounded were Black Freedmen. Unofficial estimates were higher. Gilles Vandal estimated 40 to 50 Black Americans were killed and more than 150 Black Americans wounded. Others have claimed nearly 200 were killed.[2] In addition, three white convention attendees were killed, as was one white protester. ...

The editorial department of Harper's Weekly held that President Johnson tacitly approved the massacre by signaling that he would not use federal power to interfere in ex-Confederate paramilitary action:

    The President knew, as every body else knew, the inflamed condition of the city of New Orleans. He had read, as we had all read, the fiery speeches of both parties. He knew, unless he had chosen willfully to ignore, the smothered hatred of the late rebels toward the Union men of every color. ...

Wikipedia

[IsailedawayfromFR]

What is needed is to have rioters burn down Murphy's house.

Then watch his tune afterwards.

[mountaineer]

They'd all be singing a different tune if the illegals and Antifa set up camp in their backyards.

[berdie]

What is needed is to have rioters burn down Murphy's house.

Then watch his tune afterwards.

GMTA! That's my thought exactly. These people are all big talkers...until it happens to them.

[Smokin Joe]

GMTA! That's my thought exactly. These people are all big talkers...until it happens to them.

It's no different from all of their other NIMBY BS.

Look at Martha's Vineyard. They cleaned that out in no time (and shuffled them off to someone else's back yard).