Probably because the left saw what happened on J6 and they decided to skip all the fanfare that a riot would involve and just go and shoot the President directly.
White House Correspondents' Dinner 2026 shooting disruption
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TBH this thread just highlights how the issue isn't one-sided. We literally have someone in this thread generalizing that "liberals" decided to assassinate the president based on 2 people who have tried (the third IIRC had no proven liberal ideology).
Maybe its just that the internet has allowed us to dehumanize and radicalize one another. Would be interesting(or terrifying) to see what would have happened in the Obama years if the internet/general disregard for one another was in the same place as it is today.
Maybe its just that the internet has allowed us to dehumanize and radicalize one another. Would be interesting(or terrifying) to see what would have happened in the Obama years if the internet/general disregard for one another was in the same place as it is today.
I think the message has merit but so did some of the things David Duke and Louis Farrakhan said, too.
Let's look at it from the other side of the mirror:
Why hasn't one MAGA like Kari Lake, who wants to go all "the rhetoric needs to come down" ever say this to the Head Hatemonger Hat Wearer himself?
You and I both know why - because by tomorrow morning she'll be on the receiving end of a tweet about how she used to be a sex worker in college or something.
"Don't say mean stuff" doesn't mean anything from the people who:
a) were handed a favor by Mafia Don
b) absolutely refuse to say something when it's Mafia Don himself
Trump may be a whole lot more like Caligula than folks want to admit.
What's bizarre is our REAL problem is that we're bored because despite all the carping about (name the issue), nothing is as urgent any longer to be immediately addressed to a large group of people like during the Depression or WW2 or the civil rights era.
One thing I have said - Trump is a SYMPTOM, he's not the disease itself. That humanity is indescribably hypocritical, tribal, and loves to lie was probably covered in an ancient text or two. And despite evolving into better people (seemingly) and better times - maybe not.
George Carlin was right - the politicians we elect don't fall from the sky from another reality; they're raised right here in American churches/schools/businesses/etc.
Not to be a jerk, but Wallace was shot in 72 when Ford was mostly an unknown outside of Michigan.
Do you mean Nixon or one of the other candidates?
And while I don't want to victim blame here, pretty much all of the more "recent" victims such as RFK and Wallace had been warned, "Hey, you're getting into a situation where we can't totally protect you." I'm almost positive I read that about McKinley as well.
When Reagan was shot, he only had to take six steps from the Hilton to the limo - and it was still enough for Hinckley to hit him, albeit on a ricochet.
Could well be.
1. Both sides that commit politically-motivated violence have lost sight of the fact that their opponents are not inert. They have agency.
2. Trump's reaction to a third assassination attempt could be, "Man, some folks really hate me. I guess I better clean up my act before they find a competent assassin." Or is he more likely to use this as an excuse to ignore the Constitution more and go after his opponents harder than heretofore. The escalation in ways on one side breeds escalation on the other side.
Blanche: "Many people in this room have done it as well. They're just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, it shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place."
Stop saying mean things about Trump. He's a saint.
Nice straw man to double down on the idea “she was asking for it by what she was wearing…”
Keep reading the thread.
And while I find the response preposterous, the rioters didn’t kill anyone. The radical left is trying to kill people.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to respectfully disagree with this. There is an awful lot of unhinged on both sides, and I think it's pretty balanced.
Trump wasn't asking for it nor did he deserve it. Stop pretending that's what I meant.
There is no evidence that anything anyone has said to the press or in social media led to the shooting. These are nothing more than continuing efforts to shut down criticism of Trump.
I really think assaulting Capitol law officers with poles and other weapons was in fact trying to kill them.
There is. But in the last couple of years, the far left has taken the cake wrt devolving to violence (on the biggest stage).
SMH
I get it, and I’m not defending the capitol attack, but they didn’t bring firearms like the radical left has in recent years.
Intent can be pretty readily decided via the weapons of choice.
Much of this thread has sounded exactly like this. I was pondering this very thing all day yesterday as my wife and I were driving home from Mississippi. This sort of rationalization has always existed, of course. I wasn't surprised in the least. It's certainly more comforting than facing up to having contributed to this outcome. This will all blow over in a few days as the next outrage comes around the bend and we can all go about our lives having learned nothing.
You’ve made several posts that seemed to allude to this, thank you for clearing it up
If that’s your takeaway, then none of trump’s insane rhetoric means anything, either.
If morality is subjective, all moral outrage is ultimately pointless. Like you, I'd like to see both Trump and the Dem-Dems shut the hell up before they start a freaking street war.
Trump's insane rhetoric is indicative of his disturbed, narcissistic mind, but it's his many despicable and outright stupid actions as president that are truly destructive to our nation. YMMV, of course.
We should hold the media to a higher standard than President Trump is what he is really saying...
What he really wanted to say was our President is spoiled child and you trying to match him tantrum for tantrum is not helping but fuel his ego. We all know when a child throws a fit you ignore him. But he cant because he needs his paycheck and Federal pension.
This is impossible in the AI propaganda world and Trump knows it.
What he really wanted to say was our President is spoiled child and you trying to match him tantrum for tantrum is not helping but fuel his ego. We all know when a child throws a fit you ignore him. But he cant because he needs his paycheck and Federal pension.
This is impossible in the AI propaganda world and Trump knows it.
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