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Bill Maher: Trump Shooter ‘Has Done So Much Damage to the Left’
Breitbart ^ | 07/15/2024 | SIMON KENT

Posted on 07/15/2024 6:32:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Please stop and spare a thought for those on the political left. Bill Maher has affirmed he was appalled by the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump but qualified it by adding others have been metaphorically hurt as well.

He opened his Saturday comedy show by stating, “I unequivocally denounce [the shooting], I don’t care what you think about that. Not funny. I’m sure that there will be jokes that people will make because they hate him so much that they wished it went he other way. Not for me.”

Maher then continued that Trump may be the political winner at the ballot box but also was quick to point out the cost to his hard-left opponents who had the assumed “high moral ground” pulled out from under their saintly feet. Maher lamented:

Whoever did this, the shooter has done so much damage to the Left.

[The Left] has lost a lot moral high ground in the ‘you’re the violent people’ and the ‘liberals don’t shoot people, liberals don’t solve it that way.’

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; billmaher; damage; demagogue; hbo; maher; mealymouthedemeff; realtime; shooter; trump
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To: dfwgator

Yes. Exactly.

There have been calls for unity. It is impossible to unite with hatred so deep to want you dead. No President can do that.


41 posted on 07/15/2024 8:47:03 AM PDT by navymom1 (I am voting for President Trump and you should too!)
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To: traderrob6

It was Leon Czolgosz who assassinated Republican president McKinley, but yes he was a rabid leftist and anarchist.

The assassin of Republican president James Garfield was a Republican, but an odd one involved in a strange religious sect.

Overall, Republican presidents have been targeted far more often than Democrat ones.


42 posted on 07/15/2024 8:51:54 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He is a chameleon and will lie and fake any position of belief for his clapping seal audience.. he has been at the forefront of Trump hatred for years. All he cares about is “the damage” done. Not because Trump was nearly killed, not that democrats are frothing raving violent lunatics, not that we are ruled by insane commies, but because his party was “damaged.”

A smug, “republicans pounce.”


43 posted on 07/15/2024 8:53:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Just to add to your list: the person who shot George Wallace had originally stalked Richard Nixon in an effort to assassinate him, but decided that his security was too tight and turned his attention to Wallace instead.


44 posted on 07/15/2024 9:06:52 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: ClearCase_guy

Actually in 1960 Nixon was Leftier than JFK.


45 posted on 07/15/2024 9:19:28 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He is right.


46 posted on 07/15/2024 9:20:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
"The left never had any moral high ground. Zero morals, zero high ground."

The only high ground the left has is what the Secret Service ceded to them last weekend.

47 posted on 07/15/2024 9:24:16 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack

If it wasn’t for the double standard the left would have no standards at all.


48 posted on 07/15/2024 9:25:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

You’re right of course , I cut and pasted the wrong name.

Garfield’s assassin was a disgruntled associate who was pissed that he was passed over for, I believe, being named as a foreign minister.


49 posted on 07/15/2024 9:35:55 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s a sick putz


50 posted on 07/15/2024 9:39:24 AM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You left out Abraham Lincoln who was also killed by a Democrat.

I’m going to have to research the other Presidents who were assassinated.


51 posted on 07/15/2024 10:09:34 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mahar also told the women of The View some time back that he was NOT able to hate half the American people. The women of The View expected him to hate Trump AND all Trump’s supporters - like Hillary did with her ‘deplorables’ comment - and like most every sycophant and/or monster who works for MSNBC does... (yes, there are two or three decent people at MSNBC - and yeah that’s weird)

It was as if someone wanted us to hate George Soros - and while we’re at it to hate all Jews. That would be wrong. Maher knows where ethical lines need to be drawn. It’s OK for conservatives to ‘hate’ George Soros - but not OK to paint with the broad brush. He’s right on this.

Maher has no problem standing alone and not having the benefit or comfort of a tribe. That’s gotta be rough at times. But what a blessing for all of us that men like Maher exist - on both sides.


52 posted on 07/15/2024 11:56:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump was NOT Hitler last time. He won't be a dictator this time. Democrats and the MSM lie. )
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To: dfwgator; ransomnote; bitt; Lazamataz; SunkenCiv

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1812810259477504249/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1812810259477504249&currentTweetUser=catturd2

MUST WATCH from a retired US Special Forces sniper.


53 posted on 07/15/2024 12:27:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

linky no worky ....


54 posted on 07/15/2024 12:31:49 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bankwalker

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1812810259477504249


55 posted on 07/15/2024 12:37:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

thank you


56 posted on 07/15/2024 12:51:10 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: grey_whiskers

Thanks, but I get “Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.”


57 posted on 07/15/2024 3:38:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Sorry, new link post 55 same thread. BTW, see anything odd about the Secret Service Security Bubble?


58 posted on 07/15/2024 4:18:44 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Thx.


59 posted on 07/15/2024 8:04:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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