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It pains me to say that we live in a time when national pride is fading fast. Now, I’m no stranger to people hating on the United States. I saw it every day at the U.N. Dictators and thugs loved to get in front of the camera and tell the world how bad America is, it’s their favorite pastime, and as far as I can tell, it’s now the main purpose of the United Nations. – Nikki Halley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I assume that with the very big Liz Cheney loss, far bigger than had ever been anticipated, the January 6th Committee of political Hacks and Thugs will quickly begin the beautiful process of DISSOLUTION? This was a referendum on the never ending Witch Hunt. The people have spoken! – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s time to put an end to the attacks and get tough on thugs who engage in violence, arson, and other means of destruction. – Josh Hawley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
When the police are ordered to stand down and the arrests aren't made for vandalism all the way up through arson and serious assaults, I don't think it helps, i think it sends the wrong signal… And I think that I wouldn't call them protests -- I think there were legitimate protesters, but I also think there were thugs who were out to intimidate people. – Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You can’t allow thugs like Maduro in Venezuela and the Ayatollah on a site and then not let a conservative in America on a site. – Rick Scott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s a heartless move that deeply saddens me and motivates me to want to do even more me to fight to bring democracy to Cuba. I hold the tyrannical thugs in power accountable for this decision and the wave of brutal suffering it will inflict on the Cuban people who only want to be free like you and I are as Americans. – Bella Thorne	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think it's hard to identify the leading thugs. Everybody in Albany can name them and most of the press corps can name them. They have never been shy about making the phone calls or doing it face-to-face, that's got to be done. And I think that a lot of it has to do with building up a good relationship with the legislature. – Kenneth Sherrill	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You see them thrown in rough. – President Trump	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We fully support law-abiding citizens and their right to defend themselves from violent Antifa thugs, kyle Rittenhouse was doing Kyle Rittenhouse best to protect business owners from losing their entire livelihoods when criminal actors instigated violence against Kyle Rittenhouse, Dudley Brown said. Unfortunately for them, Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 and their rocks, skateboards, and handguns stood no chance against Kyle Rittenhouse well-placed shots. – Dudley Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I am changing my mind about suing President Trump. Reconsidering. Im looking at it again, there is a long history to consider and I originally considered it, deciding not to pursue. But then President Trump ordered thugs in uniform onto our streets. President Trump idea. President Trump ordered it President Trump. This all DJT. – Neil Young	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Calling people thugs and calling on people to get shot stems from the same sort of attitude that resulted in the death of George Floyd. – Keith Ellison	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Venezuela's political parties came together in a resounding display of unity to support Juan Guaido's re-election, no regime thugs, no jail cells, and no bribery or intimidation can subvert the will of the Venezuelan people. – State Mike Pompeo on Sunday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What happened is a point of strength for us ... If the thugs come in bigger numbers, so will we, the tents that are broken can be rebuilt, easy. – Kamal Rida	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What credentials does he bring to that ? I mean, look, think of all the really solid people that were left -- that were -- started off in that administration. They've all left. They've all left. All the talent is gone. They've left. ... Or, like, great -- great Americans like Rudy Giuliani is still engaged, i mean -- I mean, what - - what's going on ? People see this. They're thugs. You know, Rudy Giuliani and the two guys who were helping Rudy Giuliani, they get arrested at the airport, trying to leave the count -- I mean, what -- what -- where has that happened in any other president's watch ? – Hunter Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs. – Fahrettin Altun	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's something wrong with Putin, Kim Jong Un, in my view, thugs, that The President chooses to believe. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is bizarre and flat-out wrong. The United States is not to blame. America wants a good relationship with the Russian people but Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin thugs are responsible for Soviet-style aggression, when The President plays these moral equivalence games, The President gives Vladimir Putin a propaganda win The President desperately needs. – Ben Sasse	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is bizarre and flat-out wrong. United States is not to blame. America wants a good relationship with the Russian people but Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin thugs are responsible for Soviet-style aggression, when the President plays these moral equivalence games, he gives Vladimir Putin a propaganda win he desperately needs. – Ben Sasse	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The result is that many gang members and other thugs and miscreants are allowed to remain in the county in defiance of immigration laws and causing problems like this, montgomery, like others that have absorbed a large number of the Central American youths, has experienced a noticeable uptick in violence that has been attributed to gangs like MS-13, and this has been especially acute in the high schools. – Jessica Vaughan	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
"Our Governor Sir, hardly does any day pass in Nigeria, without a report of a massacre of Nigerians by Nigerians or at least, coordinated by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the report of a major violent crime committed against Nigerians by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the story of how large sums of money are stolen by Nigerians who are in positions of trust. The revelations at the various probes by the National Assembly are heart breaking as billions of Naira meant for the improvement in the welfare and condition of living of ordinary Nigerians are brazenly stolen by those who they are entrusted in their care. All these are examples of violence against the people of Nigeria. The killings and maiming of Nigerians, whether by Boko Haram, Militants, cult groups, kidnappers, armed robbers, misguided youths, political thugs and other forms of societal vices by deviant groups under whatever guise, are all examples of direct violence. There is also structural violence, which is the violence that does not hurt or kill through fists or guns or bombs, but through social structures that produce poverty, death and enormous suffering such as: corruption, injustice and bad governance. The truth is that, no one will be able to properly address the problems of direct violence especially, those with ideological inclination without understanding the relationship between direct violence and structural violence. For instance, take a hypothetical example of a man who loses his land or fishing port to oil /gas exploitation because of unjust laws. His son loses her mother because of poverty and crumbling social infrastructure in the Niger Delta, his daughter cannot further her education because the surviving parent is poor. Yet, they live closer oil pipelines When she manages to go to school through community effort. She is told that there is no job for her. She becomes unemployed and frustrated. The community also becomes frustrated, and unable to sponsor others like her. They become abandoned and trapped in the heinous poverty circle while their God-given resources are carted away and used to fund a system of fiscal federalism that is a misnomer and unbecoming of any true federation. The fund is used to pay for the construction of the expensive city of Abuja, fund the huge corruption that we read daily in the newspapers, finance expatriate workers in the Oil and Gas Industry who enjoy highest condition of service, incomparable to any of their equivalent in the world, fund one of the most expensive National Assemblies in the world and provide for the lavish and hedonistic lifestyle of the privileged few Nigerians . Our Governor Sir, you will agree with us that hunger, neglect, frustration and deprivation of this magnitude IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY is a serious form of violence, capable of pushing ( indeed has pushed) the man and his community into direct violence. The story is also not different in Northern Nigeria, where years of deprivation, neglect, corruption and misrule by the ruling elites have led to the emergence and establishment of dynasties of poverty in the form of ‘Almajiris’, and now we all cry over the terror in the land, occasioned by the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgence. Let me quickly add that I am not by any chance providing any justification for criminal activities, I am only showing how one crime, for example corruption, leads to another. For example, the killings by ‘Boko Haram’ or militant/cult groups in the Niger Delta. This analysis in my view, is important if we must address the unacceptable violence, insecurity and wanton killings in Nigeria that is fast becoming a way of life in our beloved country." Exerpt from AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY COMRADE HYGINUS CHIKA ONUEGBU (JP, FCA) STATE CHAIRMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF NIGERIA (TUC) RIVERS STATE COUNCIL ON THE OCCASION OF 2012 MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN RIVERS STATE NIGERIA. – Chika Onuegbu	added by anonymous 7 years ago
We have to continually be learning and getting ahead of these thugs and criminals in order to prevent them doing what they did in Brussels. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America! – Saturday Trump	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They hired some thugs who came and were macheteing people. – Mohammed Bello	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are a bunch of thugs and cronies of Vladimir Putin, some of them are ex-KGB. – John McCain	Found on CNN 8 years ago

It pains me to say that we live in a time when national pride is fading fast. Now, I’m no stranger to people hating on the United States. I saw it every day at the U.N. Dictators and thugs loved to get in front of the camera and tell the world how bad America is, it’s their favorite pastime, and as far as I can tell, it’s now the main purpose of the United Nations.

– Nikki Halley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I assume that with the very big Liz Cheney loss, far bigger than had ever been anticipated, the January 6th Committee of political Hacks and Thugs will quickly begin the beautiful process of DISSOLUTION? This was a referendum on the never ending Witch Hunt. The people have spoken!

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s time to put an end to the attacks and get tough on thugs who engage in violence, arson, and other means of destruction.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When the police are ordered to stand down and the arrests aren't made for vandalism all the way up through arson and serious assaults, I don't think it helps, i think it sends the wrong signal… And I think that I wouldn't call them protests -- I think there were legitimate protesters, but I also think there were thugs who were out to intimidate people.

– Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can’t allow thugs like Maduro in Venezuela and the Ayatollah on a site and then not let a conservative in America on a site.

– Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a heartless move that deeply saddens me and motivates me to want to do even more me to fight to bring democracy to Cuba. I hold the tyrannical thugs in power accountable for this decision and the wave of brutal suffering it will inflict on the Cuban people who only want to be free like you and I are as Americans.

– Bella Thorne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think it's hard to identify the leading thugs. Everybody in Albany can name them and most of the press corps can name them. They have never been shy about making the phone calls or doing it face-to-face, that's got to be done. And I think that a lot of it has to do with building up a good relationship with the legislature.

– Kenneth Sherrill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You see them thrown in rough.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We fully support law-abiding citizens and their right to defend themselves from violent Antifa thugs, kyle Rittenhouse was doing Kyle Rittenhouse best to protect business owners from losing their entire livelihoods when criminal actors instigated violence against Kyle Rittenhouse, Dudley Brown said. Unfortunately for them, Kyle Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 and their rocks, skateboards, and handguns stood no chance against Kyle Rittenhouse well-placed shots.

– Dudley Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I am changing my mind about suing President Trump. Reconsidering. Im looking at it again, there is a long history to consider and I originally considered it, deciding not to pursue. But then President Trump ordered thugs in uniform onto our streets. President Trump idea. President Trump ordered it President Trump. This all DJT.

– Neil Young

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Calling people thugs and calling on people to get shot stems from the same sort of attitude that resulted in the death of George Floyd.

– Keith Ellison

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Venezuela's political parties came together in a resounding display of unity to support Juan Guaido's re-election, no regime thugs, no jail cells, and no bribery or intimidation can subvert the will of the Venezuelan people.

– State Mike Pompeo on Sunday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What happened is a point of strength for us ... If the thugs come in bigger numbers, so will we, the tents that are broken can be rebuilt, easy.

– Kamal Rida

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What credentials does he bring to that ? I mean, look, think of all the really solid people that were left -- that were -- started off in that administration. They've all left. They've all left. All the talent is gone. They've left. ... Or, like, great -- great Americans like Rudy Giuliani is still engaged, i mean -- I mean, what - - what's going on ? People see this. They're thugs. You know, Rudy Giuliani and the two guys who were helping Rudy Giuliani, they get arrested at the airport, trying to leave the count -- I mean, what -- what -- where has that happened in any other president's watch ?

– Hunter Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs.

– Fahrettin Altun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's something wrong with Putin, Kim Jong Un, in my view, thugs, that The President chooses to believe.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is bizarre and flat-out wrong. The United States is not to blame. America wants a good relationship with the Russian people but Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin thugs are responsible for Soviet-style aggression, when The President plays these moral equivalence games, The President gives Vladimir Putin a propaganda win The President desperately needs.

– Ben Sasse

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is bizarre and flat-out wrong. United States is not to blame. America wants a good relationship with the Russian people but Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin thugs are responsible for Soviet-style aggression, when the President plays these moral equivalence games, he gives Vladimir Putin a propaganda win he desperately needs.

– Ben Sasse

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The result is that many gang members and other thugs and miscreants are allowed to remain in the county in defiance of immigration laws and causing problems like this, montgomery, like others that have absorbed a large number of the Central American youths, has experienced a noticeable uptick in violence that has been attributed to gangs like MS-13, and this has been especially acute in the high schools.

– Jessica Vaughan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

"Our Governor Sir, hardly does any day pass in Nigeria, without a report of a massacre of Nigerians by Nigerians or at least, coordinated by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the report of a major violent crime committed against Nigerians by Nigerians. Hardly does a day pass, without the story of how large sums of money are stolen by Nigerians who are in positions of trust. The revelations at the various probes by the National Assembly are heart breaking as billions of Naira meant for the improvement in the welfare and condition of living of ordinary Nigerians are brazenly stolen by those who they are entrusted in their care. All these are examples of violence against the people of Nigeria. The killings and maiming of Nigerians, whether by Boko Haram, Militants, cult groups, kidnappers, armed robbers, misguided youths, political thugs and other forms of societal vices by deviant groups under whatever guise, are all examples of direct violence. There is also structural violence, which is the violence that does not hurt or kill through fists or guns or bombs, but through social structures that produce poverty, death and enormous suffering such as: corruption, injustice and bad governance. The truth is that, no one will be able to properly address the problems of direct violence especially, those with ideological inclination without understanding the relationship between direct violence and structural violence. For instance, take a hypothetical example of a man who loses his land or fishing port to oil /gas exploitation because of unjust laws. His son loses her mother because of poverty and crumbling social infrastructure in the Niger Delta, his daughter cannot further her education because the surviving parent is poor. Yet, they live closer oil pipelines When she manages to go to school through community effort. She is told that there is no job for her. She becomes unemployed and frustrated. The community also becomes frustrated, and unable to sponsor others like her. They become abandoned and trapped in the heinous poverty circle while their God-given resources are carted away and used to fund a system of fiscal federalism that is a misnomer and unbecoming of any true federation. The fund is used to pay for the construction of the expensive city of Abuja, fund the huge corruption that we read daily in the newspapers, finance expatriate workers in the Oil and Gas Industry who enjoy highest condition of service, incomparable to any of their equivalent in the world, fund one of the most expensive National Assemblies in the world and provide for the lavish and hedonistic lifestyle of the privileged few Nigerians . Our Governor Sir, you will agree with us that hunger, neglect, frustration and deprivation of this magnitude IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY is a serious form of violence, capable of pushing ( indeed has pushed) the man and his community into direct violence. The story is also not different in Northern Nigeria, where years of deprivation, neglect, corruption and misrule by the ruling elites have led to the emergence and establishment of dynasties of poverty in the form of ‘Almajiris’, and now we all cry over the terror in the land, occasioned by the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgence. Let me quickly add that I am not by any chance providing any justification for criminal activities, I am only showing how one crime, for example corruption, leads to another. For example, the killings by ‘Boko Haram’ or militant/cult groups in the Niger Delta. This analysis in my view, is important if we must address the unacceptable violence, insecurity and wanton killings in Nigeria that is fast becoming a way of life in our beloved country." Exerpt from AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY COMRADE HYGINUS CHIKA ONUEGBU (JP, FCA) STATE CHAIRMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF NIGERIA (TUC) RIVERS STATE COUNCIL ON THE OCCASION OF 2012 MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN RIVERS STATE NIGERIA.

– Chika Onuegbu

added by anonymous
7 years ago

We have to continually be learning and getting ahead of these thugs and criminals in order to prevent them doing what they did in Brussels.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!

– Saturday Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They hired some thugs who came and were macheteing people.

– Mohammed Bello

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are a bunch of thugs and cronies of Vladimir Putin, some of them are ex-KGB.

– John McCain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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