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New Website Doxxes Trump Campaign Contributors
Allow me to introduce you to a cute little website: Donald Trump Watch.
It’s a website designed to name, shame, intimidate, and target those who have made reportable contributions to the official Trump-Pence campaign account.
I’m on that website.
As a federal campaign election veteran, I knew full well when I made my two contributions that they would be publicly disclosed. I knew the risk that I was taking in doing so. I was also smart enough to list a Post Office Box as my address.
There are no known such sites designed to name, shame, and target Biden supporters, nor should there be. But please disclose it to me if you find one. I am not interested in targeting Biden supporters. This is a free country (for now, at least), and the Supreme Court has long determined that political contributions are speech protected by the First Amendment.
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to realize the intent. We have seen reports from Kansas City and New Hampshire of warning letters being left on homes of people who have been identified as Trump supporters and warned to make sure their home insurance policies protect them against fire damage.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a story from National Review: Worth your time. And my friend Matt Schlapp has posted threatening fliers (see photo) distributed in a Kansas City neighborhood to those ‘identified’ as Trump supporters. You don’t have to be a contributor to be a target of threatened violence. You just need a yard sign. And people wonder why so many are “silent Trump supporters.”
And people whine about “right-wing” groups threatening violence. Maybe, but the preponderance of evidence seems to point elsewhere.
I’m OK with this. I’m active in politics. I know what it’s like to be a target of doxxing and related threats. I’m at peace, trained, and prepared.
It is not the first time this sleazy tactic has been employed. Democratic US Rep. Joaquin Castro doxxed Trump contributors from his home city of San Antonio in 2019. It has become a common tactic of The Left.
This is evil. And sadly, this is where we are in America right now. Do not be intimidated. Be “wise as serpents,” because that’s what we’re up against.
Plus maybe the vehicle they used…
If they did.
Philo, whatever it is you have going with Gary, you ought to take it to the Pit or take it up somewhere outside of Ricochet. Your language is inflammatory and near slanderous.
Back off just a bit and everything will be copacetic.
If mods are watching, maybe the “conspiracy theory” part of the CoC that apparently was used before against posts that turned out to be actually true, could be turned to Gary’s repetition of things like the Charlottesville Lie?
I love how Gary can turn a thread about a Democrat technique and use it to bash Ricochet with it. Thread twisting at its finest. I love you Gary, my Democrat brother.
Neither has mine
Hey, now, the PIT is a very friendly place. We don’t need any knock-down drag-out arguments there.
I meant the Pit of Death, a secret no-holds-barred, mixed martial arts combat venue in an underground arena in the Texas Panhandle.
Oh, well, yeah, that would be fine.
I think you mean threatening politicians.
This, absolutely. If Gary Robbins had never used his real name (let’s say he was known as Reaganite or Reagan Republican), and someone posted his real name, I would delete the posts immediately and be calling for a ban on the doxxer.
You see, doxxing is about revealing confidential personal information. Anything made public and tied to the name you use in public is legit. It’s why I use a constant pseudonym. Gary has posted lots of deeply personal information on Ricochet, and regularly included his full name and picture. It’s no different than looking up someone who was on the news.
That said, personal addresses are not cool even if you supposedly found it online. Those records can be out of date, and can get people killed.
Fake John Galt and iWe both get on my nerves, and I would never consider doxxing them. Right now, it could be risking their lives and the lives of their families. It’s one of the worst things you can do on the internet, and is criminal in some cases.
Since I wouldn’t be surprised, if Trump wins, to see op-eds in The New York Times and screeds on CNN and MSNBC questioning whether or not we should continue to have the secret ballot — since it’s so obvious everyone was for Biden, but the vote results are showing otherwise — the idea that the left would attempt to use campaign finance disclosure laws as a way to doxx and intimidate Trump supporters prior to Nov. 3 is no surprise.
Hey, that site is pretty helpful to find our comrades in arms.
Annnnddd on a similar note, Twitchy has a post up this morning of nuns who attended a Trump rally on Saturday being visually doxxed by an angry Biden supporter (i.e. — he doesn’t give them names, but tells everyone where they live and circles their faces, to others will know which nuns to single out).
I want to use this to find new neighborhood friends!
I think this really does demonstrate why it is that the left so desperately wants to end the Second Amendment.
If I had it to do over again, I would not have used my real name. However, I never dreamed that a fellow Ricochetti would have engaged in posting my campaign contributions.
Likewise, I would never dream of checking out the campaign contributions of of Ricochetti who use their real names, let alone check out the variety of “public“ information such as lawsuits, criminal charges and bankruptcies. I believe that that is beyond the pale and wholly inconsistent with Ricochet being a forum for respectful center-right conversations.
I do have a question for the mods. If, at this late date, I change my name to “Reagan Republican” would I be entitled to privacy from doxxing?
I don’t know that the county where I live now has many people donating to either side, it doesn’t really seem to be within most of their budgets. But the county went 75% for Trump in 2016, should be even higher this time. So the odds are good that anyone I meet will be a friend. :-)
I participate and comment, and delete comments before posting, under my own name because it helps me to comply with the COC. Nicer people don’t need to do this. But, I don’t expect confidentiality. I only expect the effort towards decorum as a goal of the COC.
You don’t have a right to confidentiality in this instance. I’m sorry you were exposed, but you publicly claimed ‘x’ and publicly did ‘y’ and someone checked out your claims. It’s not against the law; in fact it is absolutely within the law. You’re a lawyer and you know this which is why you are claiming a right to privacy that doesn’t exist.
Is there a link to the Rico comment where your voting record is posted?
Gary has made several comments over time as to his political donations and voting record. They fade rather quickly into the past. The best thing he could probably do would be to stop bringing it up.
That is false. I am a Reagan Republican who gave money to Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians. There is nothing false or misleading about that.
I decline to promote that slur.
How much money do you have to have given to be listed under reportable contributions to the official Trump-Pence campaign account ?
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You complain about people posting it, but then in other conversations you bring up the fact that you donated to Democrats yourself.
If you’ve voluntarily disclosed the information yourself, it isn’t doxxing. If it’s publicly available information, it’s not doxxing.
Yup. And they had best bring along a couple of friends, maybe more, because I am pretty sure I can handle three of ’em. Even if I lose they will know they were in a fight…
He knows that. It has been explained to him over and over again. He also knows it wasn’t a “slur.” He is just throwing a tantrum and trying to get attention by obtusely sticking to his intentional misuse of the language. “Good faith” my arse.
Trolls gotta troll.
For the intellectually curious, here again is how Solzhenitsyn described interacting with this type of “loyalist” / stool pigeon types:
A pointless game of endless non sequiturs and quick exits when he starts to get boxed in. Sound familiar?