Posted on 09/18/2024 7:44:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I spent the day reading reactions to another attempt to kill Donald Trump. The usual parade of David Frum, Tom Nichols, Peter Baker, Jonathan Chait, Bill Kristol, and on and on, are developing a common theme in which assassination attempts directed against a person are proof that the person is very bad and it’s his fault. I’m sure David French will weigh in at some point, and then we’ll have another stain to wash off. My inclination for much of the day was to regard this message mostly as a manifestation of mental illness:
Speaking of sickness, the soulless husk of Hillary Clinton was on MSNBC on Monday, demanding in the wake of the second attempt to kill Trump that the news media be much more aggressive in framing the man as an evil creature who is dangerous to the entire world — and arguing that Americans should be “criminally charged” for posting messages “boosting Trump” on social media. For most of the day I was considering a boycott of this increasingly repulsive demoralization operation, and I think there’s a strong argument to be made for withdrawal and a deliberate silence. Convince me that I lose something important by not thinking about the existence of Tom Nichols anymore. At some point a fair response to the flow of sewage is to…get out of the sewer.
However.
Quasi-colonial administrators are isolated in the American Green Zone, scratching their heads about a country they govern and detest. It seems increasingly clear that this discourse about Trump and his evil MAGA supporters is a discourse of conquest in which the center regards itself as politically legitimate but regards the periphery as necessarily illegitimate in all of its political and cultural choices. Why are you people challenging our authority? More simply:
It seems increasingly like the American political and cultural “mainstream” is consciously or near-consciously conducting counterinsurgency operations against half the country.
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Are the leftists merely stirring up the radical street communists with their rhetoric or is there coordination going on. It looks a lot like there has to be coordination.
You make sense.
“You know, if Rev. Martin Luther King hadn’t been so confrontational, he never would have been assassinated.”
Had I known they’d be so uppity, I’d have picked my own cotton.
Well, if E. Jean Carroll wasn't dressed so provocatively, she still wouldn't have been accosted by anyone.
They should be arrested for inciting murder and violence.
Third assassination attempt possibly discovered this morning?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4265573/posts
Trump campaign has a pretty good list of ALL these people making threats and inciting violence.
I wonder just how many have had a “visit” from the FIB or USSF?
My guess would be somewhere around ZERO.
My guess is that the “only” visits from FIB or USSF would be to recruit/groom wackos to carry out the blatant threats THOSE people are making.
My guesses “could” be wrong.
Like putting pallets of bricks in towns primed to explode in Antifa violence?
“...who is dangerous to the entire world...”
At the early parts of the war, there were a number of attempts at killing Hitler. But when it became obvious that he was an egotistical idiot, and made so many mistakes on his own that were more of a deterent to his war than possitive, the external efforts to kill him stopped. He became an asset.
wy69
“...who is dangerous to the entire world...”
At the early parts of the war, there were a number of attempts at killing Hitler. But when it became obvious that he was an egotistical idiot, and made so many mistakes on his own that were more of a deterent to his war than possitive, the external efforts to kill him stopped. He became an asset.
wy69
He should have never questioned the Democrat Democracy.
Glad to see more people are also noticing. Its not really "Left vs Right" or "Republican vs. Democrat". Its more along the lines of what Angelo Codevilla described in The Ruling Class
It’s not his rhetoric. It’s his comments about what he’s gonna do when he gets elected. Democrats don’t like it and they are masters at political assassinations. They’ve turned it into an art, in my opinion.
BTTT
They are all calling for censorship. Have they forgotten the 1st Amendment? Do they even know it exists?!
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