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"The constant drumbeat of hate directed toward Donald Trump by liberal Democratic media, entertainers and politicians is yielding results," reader Thomas Murray wrote Monday. "The hysterical dog whistle to the demented has resulted in two assassination attempts ... so far. This is the real 'death of democracy!'"
Of course there is no "drumbeat of hate" directed at Trump. Maybe he means news reportage. Or moral horror at his swan dive into racism and white supremacy. Blaming the media for reflecting his vile statements is like blaming the mirror because you're ugly.
I can't speak for the entire media, but I made it clear almost half a dozen years ago that I absolutely do not hate Trump. How could you hate someone so broken and pathetic? No liberal wants Trump dead; we want him to live, be crushed by Kamala Harris Nov. 5, and then go to prison. He can't do that if he's killed. Frankly, I can't imagine a worse punishment that can be inflicted on Donald Trump than for him to wake up and be forced to be himself for another day.
No, Republicans just see the assassination attempts, even though both have been done by Trump supporters, as a way to ascribe something bad to people they don't like. It's strange. After an assassination attempt, they worry that calling Trump a would-be dictator, a liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor might trigger some disturbed individual with a gun. Otherwise, they don't seem to worry at all that he is being called a would-be dictator, liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor because he IS a would-be dictator, liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor. That doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest.
No, Republicans just see the assassination attempts, even though both have been done by Trump supporters, as a way to ascribe something bad to people they don't like. It's strange. After an assassination attempt, they worry that calling Trump a would-be dictator, a liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor might trigger some disturbed individual with a gun. Otherwise, they don't seem to worry at all that he is being called a would-be dictator, liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor because he IS a would-be dictator, liar, bully, fraud, felon and traitor. That doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest.
I was tempted to write Murray back, asking he pretend that instead of a disturbed Trump voter being discovered with a gun and never even getting a shot off — never even being within sight of Trump — it was half a dozen elementary school kids murdered. Then he could demand that nobody politicize the unavoidable tragedy, and I could mentally project my thoughts and prayers in his direction.
I agree that the fat traitor isn't smart enough to stage his own fake assassination attempts. But his insane followers, like Stephen Miller & Steven Bannon are smart enough & vile enough to do that, even though Bannon is currently in prison, he could've planned it months ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Sunday one especially, since an AK-47 isn't accurate enough at the distance he was from the fat traitor is a pathetic attempt. And this guy is wackier than the first one & about as competent an assassin as the fat traitor is at running casinos.
Well said Clark and Neil.
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ReplyDeleteSince, at the ripe old age of 69, I'm still figuring out what love is, I also wonder if I really do hate Dernold Drumpf? The thought of his fat ass rotting in prison gives me a perverse joy, that's fer shur!
"Blaming the media for reflecting that [his swan dive into racism and white supremacy] is like blaming the mirror because you're ugly." An apt and incisive simile that made my morning. Thank you, Neil!
ReplyDeleteHow do you have an open conversation with people who refuse to accept fact? How do you negotiate in good faith with a side that refuses to do so?
ReplyDeleteIs there, honestly, a way to move forward together? The only way's i see surviving this bizarre world we exist in is moving forward with those who are willing to do so, and actively avoiding (and leaving behind) those that do not, or cannot.
Is there a way?
Even if the old bastard is defeated and jailed as The Christian God should intend it won’t be anything more than as Winston Churchill said”the end of the beginning”. The wealthy oligarch and wannabes have been planning this for almost 50 years and are not going to think to themselves, well that idiot didn’t work out so let’s just quit and pay our taxes. They are going to try again and again. We cannot lessen the watchfulness and as needed fighting to keep at least what we have left. That means not just us old folks like me but children and teens have to be educated in what America and democracy really means. Failing to do that will mean failure down the road.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I would describe either recent attempt on Trump's life as "feeble," given that the first one was - let's face it - almost successful, if not for a last split-second turn of the head, and the second might have ended similarly if a sharp-eyed Secret Service man hadn't spotted the gun barrel just a few minutes in advance of Trump's arrival, after what was reported yesterday as possibly a 12-hour stakeout by the gunman.
ReplyDeleteHow many past assassinations, either attempted or successful, were really the product of elaborate planning, and not just some loner with an opportunity and a weapon? As the old saying goes, the security people need to get it right every time; the bad guy only needs to get it right once.
An even better idea than prison is to sentence him to a lifetime of shoveling shit in a slaughterhouse.
ReplyDeleteProbably to most disgusting job in this country. Or send him to India to clean out sewers with his bare hands while standing in 4 feet of shit while only wearing a ratty pair of shorts, the way the untouchable class do it there now!
You have a very descriptive way of expressing things. As for me, I'm over wanting to see him rot away for a few years before he finally dies. He's never going to go to prison. He's going to stall and delay and maneuver and pull every legal trick in the book and die a free man. I just want him to croak, preferably from a stroke or a heart attack. A bullet would only make him a martyr, an Orange Jesus.
DeleteIf it occurs in the next seven weeks, what would happen? There's no longer enough time to nominate a successor. Would they substitute Jethro V. Dance in his place? He would be annihilated in November. Hell, I just want to see Mr. Tangerine Man have his ass handed to him, yet again...and this time by a woman. A woman of color. And fall short in that goddamned Electoral College...which was the original cause of this whole mess.
Followed by so much personal humiliation and defeat...LOSER!...that he simply drops dead. Otherwise, he will continue to make noise, and be a pain in the ass, and his followers will do the same. So just die already. No, make that DDT...Drop Dead Twice.
Trouble is, even if he goes away, American fascism...which should more accurately be labeled Christian Fascism...will not be. The Obama presidency gave it new life, and the last decade has allowed it to kick open the door of its cage and roam free.
A younger fascist mouthpiece and wannabe dictator will inevitably replace Il Douche when he dies. Probably not Jethro, though. He's no Donaldo Trumpolini...more of a walking joke. Sofa king ridiculous. Maybe he'll wind up getting cat scratch fever...or being devoured by a dog.
That's a funny one, Grizz- Jethro indeed
DeleteI want him to suffer by whatever means. Losing is best. I am 80.Before I die, I just want to live is a world without Trump
ReplyDeleteTrump definitely has a knack for creating "made for television" moments and sound bites. After Assassination attempt #1 with the defiant raised fist, the perpetrator turned out to be a Trump supporter, so his sound bite was for unity. After Assassination Attempt #2, the perpetrator turned out to be a lapsed Trump supporter, so the sound bite switched to attacks on his opponent (and the 'incompetent' secret service'). Very quickly, I might add. I would like to see the Secret Service take charge and clearly spell out all the changes that will be necessary to keep Trump safe. The public doesn't need to know what these changes are, but Trump needs to know. And Trump needs to either agree to cooperate, or sign a waiver. His strategy for winning in November (or for overthrowing Democracy in January) is to further fuel the flames of divisiveness and hate, while others risk their lives protecting him. According to Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, the Secret Service told him "no" on January 6 when Trump wanted to join the mob attacking the Capitol, and Trump didn't handle it well when a limit was set. Nonetheless, I do believe limits must be set now. I definitely want Trump as the GOP candidate in November and I want to celebrate his defeat.
ReplyDeleteI don't know where you're getting that the two would be assassins were Trump supporters. Crooks was a registered Republican, but there was nothing in his dossier indicating any actual affinity for Trump. Routh apparently authored a book a few years ago that referenced some tepid past support for Trump, but has long since renounced.
ReplyDeleteBruno- I read that Routh had endorsed Trump in 2020 (last time Trump ran for president), but said he later came to regret it. Crooks was apparently tracking both Biden and Trump. Impossible to attribute motive in either case, especially with one now deceased and Routh seemingly mentally ill. I was focused more on Trump's rhetoric in the immediate aftermath.... a call for unity when the would-be assassin is a Republican, but far less so when the wild be assassin is not a fan.
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