"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters" - Donald Trump in a 2016 campaign boast
"We're being told that because people are trying to kill Donald Trump, we've got to watch what we say now, that we've got to lower the tone, soften the criticism, and make nice. We're also being told that because no one has attempted to kill high profile Democrats (if you don't count the brutal attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband) that could only be because Democrats are the ones promoting violence. "Radical" Dems are being especially incendiary in their criticism of Donald Trump so these attempts to kill the son of a bitch are surely traceable to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Pelosi, too, for good measure. Maybe Schumer, too, or all the liberal haters on social media.
Who else has urged violence against anyone since Trump triumphed over sanity in 2016? Haven't Republicans shown moderation and restraint day in and day out, consistently behaving like gentlemen and gentlewomen while posing with weapons, campaigning on the retribution and payback, demonizing women, cat lovers, people of color and student protestors? Has anyone ever heard a Republican calling down contumely on "fake" news, or singling out reporters with hatred, or referring to the main stream press as the "enemy of the people"? Could that have been wrong? Hell no, that's just free speech, a fundamental right, like the god-given right for anyone who wants one to own an AR-15."- Jaime O'Neill, Permalink, 'The Puke Parade- With All Due Respect'
The nature of the deranged sociopath (and psychopath) Nazi-loving traitor called Trump has evidently turned the brains of his media supporters to mush. Such is the case with permanent WSJ Trump Troll and bootlicker Dan Henninger- who scribbled in his latest fishwrap ('Killing Trump' p. A11 today) that:
"The Democrats should answer for their role in the toxic politics of America....that's led to two assassination attempts on Trump."
Give me a freaking break, do! In fact, the orange scum himself, whose every word is laden with lies and vitriol, has been responsible for driving up polarized tensions in this country - to a boiling point. If anyone needs to answer for the toxic rhetoric permeating our political discourse it's Donald Trump. Only in the last week - since last Tuesday's debate with Kamala - he has reduced one American town (Springfield, OH) to lockdowns, shutdowns in the wake of 33 bomb threats. This was after the demented fuckface hurled out this barf during the debate:
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” he said.
It was a sound bite that would be endlessly repeated, memed and remixed.
Within days, half of Trump voters believed this dehumanizing story was true, a YouGov poll found. Security threats forced school evacuations and hospital lockdowns in Springfield.
The original (July) assassination attempt on Dotard Trump followed months in which Trump at his rallies had been spewing violent rhetoric. Trump had already been recorded as averring months ago that Gen. Mark Milley ought to be 'executed for treason" and demanded more recently Liz Cheney also face trial for treason - given her central role on the January 6th committee.
Lest readers forget, this orange reprobate urged supporters to beat up protesters at rallies in 2016, cheered a Republican congressman for body-slamming a reporter, and called for looters and shoplifters to be shot. He has also - the past year - called his political enemies ‘vermin,’ described some undocumented migrants as 'animals’ and warned of a ‘bloodbath’ if he fails to win in November. Meanwhile, he's vowed retribution on all those who properly brought legal cases - including Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg whose team brought the recent hush money case which saw 34 felony charges. Trump last April, e.g. even posted images of himself with a baseball bat aimed at Bragg's head e.g.
As noted in The Guardian from April 23, 2023:
"Trump had already signaled that he would go after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, weeks before the grand jury handed up an indictment against him on Thursday, saying in pugilistic posts on Truth Social that the prosecution was purely political and accusing Bragg of being a psychopath."
But the real psychopath is Trump, especially after his deranged outburst in the Sept. 10 debate. So if anyone needs to answer for the ongoing violence and chaos marring this 2024 campaign, it is the agent of chaos - Trump. As The WSJ noted (False Claim That Immigrants Are Eating Pets Stirs Chaos', p. A3, Sept. 14-15), Trump's vile words set off dozens of bomb threats leading to school shutdowns as well as hospital lockdowns - as officials try to regain control of their town.
Despite sowing such fear and chaos Trump (and Vance) doubled down on their toxic claptrap with Trump even vowing to target the Haitians in Springfield for early deportation if he gets back in. In that regard, Velshi (on MSNBC) Sunday noted on how the neo-Nazis cheered on their pet media site (GAB) while Trump was spewing his brain rot. To them the orange rat fucker had basically 'mainlined' their meme, their trope. As one of the imps wrote: "This is what real power looks like." Meanwhile, the Proud Boys assembled to march down Springfield's streets.
Make no mistake, Trump's love for Nazis and white supremacists is not aberrational for him, it's normal. Recall the imp applauded the white supremacists who carried their Tiki torches in August, 2017 at Charlottesville as "Some very fine people":
And with the equally misshapen and unhinged Proud Boys he told to "Stand back and stand by" in a 2020 debate. Well, they heeded his words too.
The havoc and chaos unleashed thus far, we may be sure, are but a minor portent of what's to come as Trump's desperation to grab power again grows. But given the Trump fascists are all about a power grab, even vowing (before the incident) that they plan to contest any election result before even called, gives a hint of the megabytes of disreputable bunkum still to come. Just bear in mind that Adolf Hitler used a similar ruse, in the wake of the Reichstag fire, to consolidate his own power before terminating Weimar democracy via the Enabling Act.
The Trump fist pump delivered as his sorry ass was escorted off the Butler Farm rally site on July 13th:
Said it all. And ought to be a warning that this roach of an insurrectionist isn't anywhere close to becoming a changeling. He even admitted in the wake of the event, "for five or six hours I thought of being nice" - then expelled the thought like regurgitated vomit. Nice isn't in his DNA, only rage and retribution. So in a way it wasn't surprising to see the Trump RNC speech veer from an initial pose of modest grace and restraint (and cognizance of his own mortality) to one of grievance, blustering, and reckless retribution claims.
Do millions of Americans really want this orange piece of criminal pus back fouling the White House again? I refuse to believe it. Let me rephrase that: I refuse to believe a majority of my countrymen are racist morons and slimeballs who'd willingly turn the nation over to this hateful Traitor Turd.
As for Dan Henninger, it might be time for him to pull his head out of Trump's ass long enough to see reality. He could start by grasping the most recent would-be assassin - Ryan Routh - had actually been a Trump voter, until he turned against Ukraine. The earlier guy - Crooks - was a registered Republican. At the very least Henny needs to get less reckless before he casts his blame stones.
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by Thom Hartmann | September 17, 2024 - 6:21am | permalink
With European antisemites from the Middle Ages right up through WWII, the blood libel was to claim that Jews were using the blood of Christian children to make their matzo bread for Passover. In 1890s America, east coast German and Dutch immigrants were slandered with claims they were making sausage from local pets; the assertion was even made into a then-well-known folk song. Chinese immigrants suffered the same sort of defamation with white Americans spreading rumors of pets being served in their restaurants from the 19th century through last year.
Now it’s Donald Trump and JD Vance turn telling the vicious, racist lie that legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are both here illegally (they’re not) and are eating the pets of local white people (also a lie). Most recently, Don Jr. has repeated his father’s frequent claim that Black people have lower IQs than white Americans:
“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world.”
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by Hank Kennedy | September 21, 2024 - 5:40am | permalink
Although the Michigan Republican Party experienced a severe cash shortage under ex-chair Kristina Karamo, that appears to have been solved for the time being. Karamo was removed as chair this year due to her poor fundraising ability. With current chair Pete Hoekstra, the state GOP found the money to begin flooding inboxes with campaign mailers.
Some houses in my neighborhood in Hazel Park received six pieces of campaign mail or more per week. Most of these mailers contain the standard accusations, that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is “failed, weak, and dangerously liberal.” Some showcase the logo of a political advocacy group called FAIR and a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, both anti-immigration groups with Michigan connections and ties to white nationalists.
FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) is quoted on these mailers alleging “Harris Hints Big Amnesty Bill on the Way.” The mailer summarizes an argument from the FAIR-affiliated think tank the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that amnesty for undocumented immigrants “would cost Social Security $1.3 trillion, destroying benefits for American seniors.” Part of this cost would come from immigrants who had been paying into the system through payroll taxes suddenly receiving citizenship. The CIS admits that many undocumented immigrants “are currently paying into the system without accruing any benefits in return...” Many publications have criticized the center’s methodologies and conclusions in previous reports, such as Snopes,Factcheck.org, and NBC News. Wiredran an article classifying the group as a “fake think tank.”
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by Joan McCarter | July 16, 2024 - 7:05am | permalink
In an interview Sunday with the Washington Examiner, Donald Trump said he is rewriting his upcoming acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention because of Saturday’s assassination attempt. He’ll be going for unity this time, he promised.
“This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago,” he said.
Before that, it “was going to be a humdinger” and “one of the most incredible speeches” against Biden and his policies ever. “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”
Sure, Donald. Here he is reacting to the dismissal of the classified documents case by district Judge Aileen Cannon.
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by Jeffrey C. Isaac | July 15, 2024 - 5:27am | permalink
It is now known that the man who shot Donald Trump on Saturday was a 20-year old registered Republican named Thomas Matthew Crooks. Whatever his motives, the rounds Crooks fired exploded into an already incendiary political situation, furnishing Trump and his MAGA supporters with further ammunition to attack the Democratic party and, by posing as innocent victims of nefarious enemies, liberal democracy itself.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), in the running for Trump's vice presidential pick, immediately took to X todeclare: "Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination." Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) went further: "The Republican District Attorney in Butler County, PA, should immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination," hewrote. And Republican Senator Mike Lee, has declaring that "we've got to take the political temperature down," has called on President Biden and the governors of Georgia and New York to immediately drop all criminal charges against Trump," reiterating the MAGA claim that such charges represent a "weaponization of justice" against Republicans. (Republicans Against Trumpresponded on X by posting that "Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks "to take the political temperature down.")
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by Thom Hartmann | July 16, 2024 - 6:47am | permalink
Historian Douglas Brinkley told the story on CNN Sunday morning about how after President Ronald Reagan was shot, when he woke up in the hospital, he told a friend nearby that the experience had transformed him, that he was now going to dedicate his life to peace.
Not only did he not once blame the shooting on Democrats; Reagan instead largely followed through on that promise, Brinkley said, spending the rest of his presidency trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons. He later worked with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev trying — successfully — to deescalate tensions between the US and the USSR.
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