@jesron1269
BRO JUST STOP. What the fock is a libtard anyway? Is it what girls where
when they do ballet? All these sad sacks of crap are trying to start a civil
war in this country and take us back to the 1860's to the early 1900's.
It has always been a battle in the senate and house but since donald trump
came along it has been way way worse. No working together at all for
the betterment of american people. Just bickering and fighting and zero
compromise. Why the fock is Marjorie taylor greene even have a job
in DC? You can say the same about ocasio cortez. Laurie boebert.
Matt GAetz. Like WTF IS THIS BS? We are all americans and deserve
better!!
@sundance
So you don't know who the shooter was but you are already assuming
who it was? How TF did anyone get anything through super tight security?
Did someone not do there job? It's impossible to get any gun through
security that tight. Could it be a 3d plastic gun? Maybe but even so someone
aint do their job. There is so many variables here and we will have to wait and
see.
Also It says in the Bible death and life are in the power of the tongue. This man
speaks death every rally and every day. Preaching violence and hateful rhetoric
instead of bringing everyone together. It's so toxic out there at this point that
its unsafe for people governing this country and there lives are being put at
risk
Was it an AR variant? Imagine trying to snipe a former and future president, and choosing an AR variant. He wasn't that far so any rifle could make that shot but if I'm trying to take out the president, i'm running a different set up.
I mean, if i'm trying to snipe a former and future president, i'm running something like .338 Lapua. At least that way if you miss, people are like, "Damn, he meant business!" Instead, this kid died looking like a clown.
The guy lacked shooting proficiency skills.
He probably just borrowed his AR rifle from his dad that same day, with all the lax gun laws in the US.
Then just followed his right to bear arms to make a name for himself like every other crackpot.
Thank God the Supreme Court has given supremacy to the public’s right to bear arms over others’ right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I wonder if Clarence Thomas’ billionaire benefactor influenced him on his pro gun industry rulings?
When a madman hammered nearly to death the husband of then–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump jeered and mocked. One of Trump’s sons and other close Trump supporters avidly promoted false claims that Paul Pelosi had somehow brought the onslaught upon himself through a sexual misadventure.
After authorities apprehended a right-wing extremist plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Trump belittled the threat at a rally. He disparaged Whitmer as a political enemy. His supporters chanted “Lock her up.” Trump laughed and replied, “Lock them all up.”
Fascism feasts on violence. In the months since his own supporters attacked the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election—many of them threatening harm to Speaker Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence—Trump has championed the invaders and would-be kidnappers and would-be murderers as martyrs and hostages. He has vowed to pardon them if returned to office. His own staffers have testified to the glee with which Trump watched the mayhem on television.
Now the bloodshed that Trump has done so much to incite against others has touched him as well. The attempted murder of Trump—and the killing of a person nearby—is a horror and an outrage. More will be learned about the man who committed this appalling act, and who was killed by the Secret Service. Whatever his mania or motive, the only important thing about him is the law-enforcement mistake that allowed him to bring a deadly weapon so close to a campaign event and gain a sight line of the presidential candidate. His name should otherwise be erased and forgotten.
It is sadly incorrect to say, as so many have, that political violence “has no place” in American society. Assassinations, lynchings, riots, and pogroms have stained every page of American political history. That has remained true to the present day. In 2016, and even more in 2020, Trump supporters brought weapons to intimidate opponents and vote-counters. Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the election of 2024.
Fascist movements are secular religions. Like all religions, they offer martyrs as their proof of truth. The Mussolini movement in Italy built imposing monuments to its fallen comrades. The Trump movement now improves on that: the leader himself will be the martyr in chief, his own blood the basis for his bid for power and vengeance.
The 2024 election was already shaping up as a symbolic contest between an elderly and weakening liberalism too frail and uncertain to protect itself and an authoritarian, reactionary movement ready to burst every barrier and trash every institution. To date, Trump has led only a minority of U.S. voters, but that minority’s passion and audacity have offset what it lacks in numbers. After the shooting, Trump and his backers hope to use the iconography of a bloody ear and face, raised fist, and call to “Fight!” to summon waverers to their cause of installing Trump as an anti-constitutional ruler, exempted from ordinary law by his allies on the Supreme Court.
Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.
The Republican National Convention that opens this week will welcome to its stage apologists for Vladimir Putin’s Russia and its aggression against U.S. allies. Trump’s own infatuation with Russia and other dictatorships has not dimmed even slightly with age or experience. Yet all of these urgent and necessary truths must now be subdued to the ritual invocation of “thoughts and prayers” for someone who never gave a thought or uttered a prayer for any of the victims of his own many incitements to bloodshed. The president who used his office to champion the rights of dangerous people to own military-type weapons was grazed by a bullet from one such assault rifle.
- David Frum
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