A deluge of violent messages: How a surge in threats to public officials could disrupt American demo

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    yep, it's like the mob, they don't outright say it, but the members of their cult get the message loud and clear

    they stand back and stand by, ready for their orders
     
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  2. Hey Now

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    It's constant dance with them to run away from the truth but they are quite willing to do the dance rather than to face that stark truth.
     
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    The only thing he promised was to treat them fairly, that irks the left.

    "Another thing we'll do, and so many people have been asking me about it, if I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly," Trump said to applause. "We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly."
     
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    You were doing OK until you turned it into a reason to hate Trump.
    From that moment on, I knew it was just another a gift-wrapped hate-turd.
     
  5. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Can you quote Trump encouraging terrorism?
     
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    balancing act Well-Known Member

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    You seem to be a thoughtful person, let me pose this question to you.
    If I were your across the street neighbor, and I knew you were the jealous type, and I kept telling you daily about how I see your next door neighbor sneaking over to your house and having relations with your wife, and then you lose your temper after some time and shoot your next door neighbor, do I have any responsibility for that?
     
  7. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Can you quote Trump encouraging terrorism?
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Can you quote Trump encouraging terrorism?
     
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  9. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can neither defend nor condemn until I know the facts.

    Can you quote Trump encouraging terrorism?
     
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    why keep asking? The Democrat talking points/lies is all you will get
     
  11. cd8ed

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    But but but Obama.

    Care to address trumps remarks or should we embark on a journey of whataboutism? Odd how you support one while condemning the other — I think they both suck but one doesn’t hold a candle to the other.
     
  12. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I would love to chase that, but Trump supporters are not known to commit violence. If they were, there would have been security in place beforehand.
     
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    You think they both suck but you only care about one.
     
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  14. cd8ed

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    So no — not going to address the topic or anything being said.

    How extremely typical. Carry on
     
  15. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You have been given several quotes.
    Just clinching your eyes doesn’t mean you are not being given what you are asking for.
     
  16. FatBack

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    You seem to have a problem with politicians saying anything that can be construed as encouraging violence so I figured you would have a real problem with a politician saying when they bring a gun we bring a knife and you have to get in their faces.

    But of course I should have known better because there are two sets of standards and you are displaying them perfectly.

    How extremely typical, carry on.
     
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  17. jcarlilesiu

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    Well that's all pretty telling.

    See, this is how our new left wing world works.

    If liberals don't like what you say, then it's rhetoric, and suddenly because they don't like it... they start to apply all these correlations and associations based on their feelings to attempt to shut down opposing views and beat their drum of collective sensitivity.

    And to add to the ridiculousness...

    “He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” ex-President Jimmy Carter said in 2019

    “He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” said Clinton, also three years later. She repeated this sentiment in 2020, telling The Atlantic the election “was not on the level,” - Hillary Clinton

    “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” - Hillary Clinton

    “I don’t see Trump as a legitimate president. … I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected.” - John Lewis Congressman



    And all of this is overlooked. Ignored. Dismissed.

    Isn't this newage Progressivism grand! If your political agenda is driven by your feelings and emotions, that is the problem.
     
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  18. balancing act

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    LOL! I could spend some time looking up examples and posting links, but I don't think it will do any good given your statement. Why did you not want to answer the question at hand?
     
  19. Doofenshmirtz

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    You could not defend that position on merit. The best you could do is a sweeping generalization fallacy. Even if you attempt to paint the entire group with a broad stroke, you would also have to accept that for the other party.
     
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    Exactly so. No Trump supporter ever hunted down Democrat congress people on a baseball field and opened fire.

    But progressive liberal Democrats completely ignore things like that. As well as all of the violence done to Trump supporters
     
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    If they bring a gun to a knife fight then it isn’t really calling for violence, it’s saying be better prepared than your opponent.

    Or are you saying you don’t believe people should be able to defend themselves? How odd.

    Saying you need to “fight or you will lose your country” doesn’t have this same logic available to it — which is why you are completely avoiding it.

    Repeating the only good democrat is a dead one even more so.

    Or it’s just basic comprehension. One or the other.

    I am glad you have deemed me consistently able to apply basic logic to the position.

    Let me know if you want to discuss what trump said, as per the op, otherwise feel free to have the last word that you so desperately desire for your off topic dodge.

    Cheers
     
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    " you have to get in their faces "~ Donald Trump

    ..... Oh wait..
     
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    Might want to talk to the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, apparently it is completely fine to call for the genocide of Jews (at least according to their sworn testimony to the US Congress).

    https://time.com/6344051/harvard-penn-presidents-antisemitism-congressional-hearing/

    The left is starting to confuse me. They seem to really really hate Jews and yet they still want to accuse people of hating the Jews. How does that make any sense?
     
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    When you see a 15 minute long video of democrat politicians calling for their constituents to fight like hell, do you assume they are all inciting the 550+ riots across the country and should therefore be punished?
     
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    But you don't have a problem when Trump talks trash.
     

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