Posted on 06/04/2017 5:01:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m old enough to remember when “violent rhetoric” was the root of all our problems, and crosshairs on a website no one ever saw was the reason for mass murder.
Of course, those were different times, times in which the president had a (D) after his name, not an evil (R). Since that important change happened, everything flipped – over-the-top rhetoric is no longer the domain of the fringe; it’s the currency of the mainstream media. Worse, it’s turned from heated political disagreement to paranoia and pure hatred, and it’s going to get someone killed.
The people on the political left didn’t just lose an election last November, they lost their minds. And their leadership has been exploiting that for power and profit ever since.
Immediately after their loss, Democrats did not turn introspective and try to discover why, after eight years of a personally popular president, voters across the country had rejected them in record numbers at every level of government. No, they turned in anger at those who beat them, and no one has had more of that anger directed at them than President Trump.
He’s the accidental president, in their minds, someone unworthy of even the basic respect for the office that used to be the norm in politics.
Worse, they are stoking fears to the point that even the casual observer is left with the impression they’re hoping someone “corrects” that accident.
How else can one interpret the left’s continual equating of the president to Adolf Hitler? What is implied in saying the man’s actions on an otherwise insignificant international agreement “is a grave threat to our planet?”
That last part was tweeted by none other than Nancy Pelosi to her more than 1 million followers.
Billionaire liberal financier and green energy profiteer Tom Steyer said pulling the US out of the Paris accord would “be committing a traitorous act of war against the American people.”
Supposed journalists stripped clear all standards to proclaim their outrage. “Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Rick Perry & Steve Bannon walk into a bar & the bar is the earth & it overheats & we all die,” was but one example of their calm “analysis.”
Celebrities and politicians all pronounced the president to be an enemy of the planet, of the people; a threat to life itself.
The Huffington Post declared, “Trump To Planet: Drop Dead.”
All this was made more ironic by the fact this gaggle of pearl clutchers had, just a few years ago, accused Sarah Palin of inciting the deadly shooting in Tucson that gravely injured former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
HuffPo itself ran a piece entitled, “Words Have Consequences,” which preached on the dangers of over-the-top rhetoric. It read:
Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric. Those with a megaphone, whether provided by public office or a media outlet, have responsibilities. They cannot avoid the consequences of their blatant efforts to inflame, anger, and outrage. We all know that there are unstable and potentially dangerous people among us. To repeatedly appeal to their basest instincts is to invite and welcome their predictable violence.
Of course, we hadn’t “seen the results” of anything of the sort. The killer was a left-wing rabid hater of President George W. Bush who’d never seen the “crosshairs” on Palin’s website and most likely hated her just as much.
But if liberals believed what they were saying back then, what does it tell us about what they’re hoping for now? There’s really only one conclusion to draw: They want blood, literal blood.
Be it declaring the president a traitor, equating him with history’s greatest monster, or a danger to the continued existence of our species, the political left clearly wishes him and anyone who agrees with him on any issue to be a threat. And, in the mind of the unstable, threats, especially on that scale, must be eliminated.
Maybe they aren’t doing it consciously – though that I find somewhat difficult to believe given their insistence on the risk of heated rhetoric in the past. No, they want blood.
When Kathy Griffin made a sick video of her holding the fake severed head of President Trump, Secret Service agents didn’t reach out to her because they feared she was on the verge of scaling the White House gates to murder the president. They had to convey to her that her video could set off an unstable person believing it was a message to them, a call to arms.
After all, the head of the greatest threat to humanity, dripping with blood in a video straight out of the ISIS playbook, isn’t exactly a subtle message on its own. When marinated in the toxic media, rabid college campus and progressive political culture, it’s a dare. It’s a challenge. It’s a plea.
Leftists will say this is crazy, that their disagreements are genuine and their rhetoric is simply a reflection of the times and the president’s own words. That Trump ratcheted up the tone, not them. They have short memories for their own hypocrisy and their attempts to smear blood on their opponents’ hands after every tragedy. Or at least they hope the American people do.
Maybe they do. But that won’t absolve them if their chickens come home to roost.
It may not be an attack on the president they inspire. Maybe it’ll be a speaker on a college campus, or a member of Congress, or a local city council. Whatever the case, the hatred they’re stoking is boiling, and for the sake of fundraising and to appease their base, they’re more than happy to turn up the heat.
If they don’t mean for something awful to happen, let’s hope they find a piece of whatever conscience they have left and dial it down before someone gets hurt. That is, of course, dependent upon something awful happening not being part of their plan.
The left has a tradition of mass murder, serial killing, and Democide. Evil never rests.
The left has to cure itself. Friendly advice or ridicule from its opponents (this piece) have zero effect. Nada, none, waste of breath.
I don’t think they’ll rest, even after that.
If fact, I think they’ll be emboldened.
Do you really think they’re able to? I don’t.
The leftists advocate and promote the genocidal slaughter of children of the womb. So far the leftists have succeeded in helping to slaughter 55+ million children.
And so far not one prominent political or so-called religious leader has called for these leftists, be they politicians, judges, doctors, business or social leaders, to be brought to justice by trials.
[The Left Won’t Rest Until Someone Gets Killed]
SETH RICH
I am waiting for the first gun battle when the antifas descend on a proTrump demonstration with guns and start shooting. There will be return fire, perhaps heavy return fire much more skillfully delivered and a bunch of black masked thugs and college professors will fall down. Something like that has to happen sooner or later. If we don’t get a handle on this very soon it will happen and then escalate from there.
“After all, the head of the greatest threat to humanity, dripping with blood in a video straight out of the ISIS playbook, isn’t exactly a subtle message on its own. “
Actually, that’s kind of a nasty thing to say about ISIS. I cannot remember a single image produced by them ISIS showed a US president’s severed head. It is below their moral standards.
It is only when we stop these vicious attacks on Islam will the violence ceases. LOL.
My fear is that someone, probably false flag, will assassinate a high-profile Democrat—Pelosi, Schumer, perhaps either of the Clintons, or the Obamas—or even more effectively, some combination of the above—and that will be the catalyst for an all-out attack on conservatives, for the purposes of eradicating us from the planet we supposedly care so little about. Given the depth of the deep state, it could be easily planned and implemented—and don’t think it hasn’t crossed the mind of someone like Soros.
It’s been the MO of the left for,well over 100 years — extreme violence and anarchy. For a long while, they put that approach away while they took over “the institutions” after realizing the violent revolution wasn’t going to happen. No way that they own the institutions, but not the government, they ar ereturning to their roots, only this tim with far larger numbers. These idiots no nothing of totalitarianism having mostly been born after we won them Cold War. I agree with Hunter they are stoking violence and are going to do something soon. Attacking Trump supporters at rallies is simply not enough for them.
I think they are able, sure - but it cuts against their beliefs, they are unwilling. They see nothing wrong with their conduct, or their goals. They feel no pressure to change, and criticism from outsiders just feeds their determination.
See parallels BLM and faithful-Islam.
I do too. Completely agree with your remarks on this.
And the press will report self-defensive force as "attacks by Trump supporters."
It is an exceptional case when a violent leftist is held to account. See that bicycle lock wielding college professor.
As long as those being killed are not members of the ruling class, they do not care.
That is why they invite unscreenable terrorists to live among us, criminal trespassers to remain free and unrestricted violence by groups that support them (Antifas).
Day by day we get closer and closer to a really ugly outcome.
I don’t think the Left knows what that ugly outcome is going to look like. They aren’t going to like it.
"This cunning criminal is my "third term."
Liberals are 1933 Nazis. Their violence will escalate.
Yes +1.
Do sharks rest when they smell blood in the water?
At which point the three-sided civil war starts.
Don’t want that. Nope. Nope. Nope.
If fact, I think they’ll be emboldened.
I agree, they won't rest until it is one of their own killed.
It took 4 dead at Kent State years ago to finally slow the crazy left.
This time it may take a dozen Leftists dead to stop this.
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