Posted on 09/09/2024 3:22:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The assassination attempt has pitted Democrats and Republicans against each other in a way that one historian calls “outright frightening.”
BUTLER, Pa. — One of the city’s most famous artists has created a 400-pound sculpture of Donald Trump raising his fist in the air, capturing the moment that split this Pennsylvania community in two. Digital billboards blaming Democrats and the media for the assassination attempt still flash around town. And supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris say they’re routinely heckled.
The long-simmering tensions in Butler that erupted after a gunman shot Trump in the ear at a rally have yet to cool nearly two months later. The former president’s infamous words after being hit — “fight, fight, fight” — have in some ways been adopted as the city’s motto as both sides dig in and try to ensure that their candidate wins enough votes here to capture a key battleground state.
“The statue and ‘fight, fight, fight’ resonates with everybody,” said Bob Oesterling, a local businessman and Trump supporter. “Everyone knows you got to ‘fight, fight, fight’ or we are done as the United States of America.”
Trump won 65 percent of the vote in Butler County in 2020 and needs to win here by a large margin again to carry Pennsylvania, motivating both Republicans and Democrats to get out the vote. But in the process, divisions are withering the backbone of a community that has historically prided itself on not letting politics get in the way of relationships.
“People that come in are very afraid and very angry,” said Barbara Davidson, a manager for United Republicans of Butler County, which runs...
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Boo effing hoo, WP.
I look forward to the day when your crowd is as afraid to go outside as the Jews that you openly hate. Live it, as those in your putrid cities have had to do.
Journalism - when a studies major is too hard.
“But in the process, divisions are withering the backbone of a community that has historically prided itself on not letting politics get in the way of relationships.”
That is one of the most tortured mixed mate phones I’ve seen in a long time
Afraid is what EVERY democrat should be.
The Rat reaction to the historic assassination attempt is reprehensible. The Rats are less than dirt and do not deserve the liberties they’re using to establish a Marxist state.
The statue needs some work.
These WP stooges parrot the same word salad as their hero Kamala.
When heckled, they should try the line, "I'm talking right now!"
So, in other words...
The Washington Post says it’s divisive to fight terrorism.
That event never happened. It’s been wiped from the news cycle.
Butler County had about 110,000 voters in 2020. Trump won by almost a 2-1 margin. No matter how well he does there it can’t guarantee a win in Pennsylvania given the cheating that will go on in some of the larger counties.
The former president’s infamous words after being hit — “fight, fight, fight” — “
Infamous? Lol. You’ve just been shot , in all likelihood by the same government people that have been attacking you in every way humanly possible for the past eight years and this tough inspiring resilient response is infamous? One of the inspirations for me and a heck of a lot of others was as an original song title. For a very short while the search engines showed them as they were uploaded but that ended fast. Now you don’t see any at all. For my contribution to this effort see my sig.
As you know, this isn't about Butler. It's the effect, everywhere else, of what happened there. It quietly embarrassed even shameless Communist dorks who had been praying for his death for years.
So I would say pressing the advantage of that window of reality is critical for winning over the electorate as a whole.
Mixed Metaphors?
Seeing how it galvanized his base when he got shot, it just kind of scared me and I thought, ‘This isn’t good’,” Priest said. “So, I have been trying to do what I can, locally, with the little influence I have.”
These vicious duplicitous disingenuous scumbags have the gall to play victim in the shooting of Trump!? They truly amaze. One of them who is devoid of any sense of irony is pictured wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Y’all means ALL.” It didn’t mean that when we were called deplorable. Nazis. White supremacists an existential threat to America. Evil. This article exists because the right are beginning to fight the war that the left have been fighting I plain sight since the fifties and they’re getting worried. They’re not used to pushback.
In real life flowers, branches, roots, etc can “wither.” In real life “Backbones” can break or crack, but they don’t wither. When you put two word pictures together that if literally true can’t go together, that’s a mixed metaphor. It’s pretentious but lazy writing that should be picked up and corrected by any editor worth his salt
For a very short while the search engines showed them as they were uploaded but that ended fast. Now you don’t see any at all.
Just sayin': It must be hard to stamp out. Just now, the following popped up immediately on DuckDuckGo:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=song+%22fight+fight+fight%22+trump&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSFLcvSNuOB4
Checked out your contribution as well. Awesome!
“Angry” “Divisive”
The left is still sore that their guy missed.
I guarantee that historian has been outright frightened ever since getting hung off a locker by his BVD's in high school.
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