These people are deranged. I don't mean that in a hyperbolic way. They are sick... and this isn't new!
We've been hearing the drumbeat of hatred for 9 years!
Posted on 09/17/2024 1:08:45 PM PDT by Heartlander
Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life on Sunday. Again. An armed gunman waited for him in the bushes. He brought a GoPro camera to record it. A Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of a gun through a fence and fired at the gunman. The gunman fled. He was caught. And now we slowly learn about him and his motive.
President Trump is my running mate and my friend, but more importantly, he is a father and grandfather to people who love him very much. I want him to have many more years with his family. (And selfishly, I’d like many more with my own.)
I admire President Trump for calling for peace and calm. The rhetoric is out of control. It nearly got Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other members of the House Republican caucus killed on a Northern Virginia baseball field a few years ago. It nearly got Donald Trump killed twice.
But I want to say something about Sunday’s news and how it illuminates the difference between vigorous debate and violent rhetoric.
Here is what we know so far: Kamala Harris has said that “democracy is on the line" in her race against President Trump. The gunman agreed and used the exact same phrase. He had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on his truck. He was obsessed with Ukraine’s “fight for democracy” and absorbed many unhinged views about the Russia-Ukraine war. His name is Ryan Routh, and he donated 19 times to Democratic Party causes and zero to Republican ones.
How do you think the Democrats and their media allies would respond if a 19-time Republican donor tried to kill the Democratic Party’s candidate for president? The question answers itself.
For years, Kamala Harris’ campaign surrogates have said things like “Trump has to be eliminated.” And how have their media allies responded to the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump in as many months?
NBC News called the attempted assassination a “golf club incident.” The Los Angeles Times told us "Trump Targeted at Golf Club." USA Today's top-of-the-fold headline on Monday was “Hope in America,” and the paper published a preposterous letter to the editor arguing that Trump “brings these assassination attempts on himself.” CNN's Dana Bash — who bizarrely accused me of inciting a bomb threat — said Monday that Harris campaign rhetoric didn’t motivate Routh even though he echoed that rhetoric explicitly.
The weekend news show on PBS perfectly illustrated the double standard of Kamala Harris' media friends. After spending 30 seconds on the second attempt on President Trump’s life, the show then focused on the real danger: Trump and me. According to the talking heads at PBS, we are personally responsible for bomb threats against residents of Springfield, Ohio. Never mind that I repeatedly condemned those threats. And subsequent reports suggest they came from a foreign country, not a deranged Trump fan as the media suggested.
The double standard is breathtaking. Donald Trump and I are, by their account, directly responsible for bomb threats from foreign countries. Why? Because we had the audacity to repeat what residents told us about the problems in their town. Meanwhile, Harris allies call for Trump to be eliminated as the media publishes arguments that he deserved to be shot.
While this seems like a double standard, at a deeper level, it is entirely consistent.
Consider Springfield. Citizens are telling us there are problems. These include the undeniable truths of more car accidents, unaffordable housing, evictions of residents, overcrowded hospitals, overstressed schools, and rising rates of disease. They also include the infamous pet stories — which, again, multiple people have spoken about (either on video or to me or my staff).
Kamala Harris’ first strategy was to ignore these people and their concerns. Yes, she had prevented the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, and some of them made their way to Springfield, a small town with no voice. Some of the local leadership even loved having the cheap labor. So the suffering of thousands of American citizens went ignored.
Her campaign’s next move has been to push censorship. In Springfield, a psychopath (or a foreign government) called in a bomb threat, so naturally they blame President Trump and me. The threat of violence is disgraceful, of course, yet the media seem to relish it. They cover a bomb threat, but not the rise in murders. They cover the threat, but not the increase in HIV cases. They cover the threat, not the schools overwhelmed with new kids who don’t speak English. They cover the threat, not rising insurance rates or the car accidents that caused them. They cover the threat, not the failures of Kamala Harris’ leadership.
The purpose is not to turn down the rhetoric. If anything, covering the bomb threats gives whoever makes them exactly what he wants: attention. The purpose is distraction and shame. How dare you talk about the problems associated with Haitian migration in Springfield? You’re endangering people, simply by discussing the consequences of Kamala Harris’ policies. It's a form of moral blackmail, designed not to make anyone safe but to shut everyone up.
Springfield is the most recent but hardly the most egregious example.
There was the Hunter Biden laptop story, censored by Big Tech. And who could forget that anyone who didn’t support Kamala Harris’ Ukraine policy was drenched in the blood of Ukrainian children? That last one appears to have had some effect on Routh, Trump’s most recent would-be assassin.
The message is always the same: Don’t you dare express an opinion about the public affairs of your nation. Just shut up.
This is the difference between debate — even aggressive debate — and censorship. It is one thing to attack Kamala Harris for “destroying the country” and quite another to say that Donald Trump should be “eliminated.” It is one thing to criticize overheated rhetoric and another to say that a former president has invited an assassination on himself. It is one thing to say that Trump’s arguments about the election of 2020 are wrong. It is another thing to attempt to remove him from the ballot over it.
It is one thing to argue that pets are not, in fact, being eaten. It’s another thing to say that anyone who disagrees is trying to murder people. Dissent, even vigorous dissent, is a great tradition of the United States. Censorship is not.
For the next seven weeks of this campaign, I will vigorously defend your right to speak your mind. I believe you have every right to criticize me and Donald J. Trump, even if you say terrible or untrue things about us. But when I ask you to “tone down the rhetoric,” it isn’t about being nice — Americans have every right to be mean, even if I don't like it — or empty platitudes.
Instead, I’m asking all of us to reject censorship. Reject the idea that you can control what other people think and say. Embrace persuasion of your fellow citizens over silencing them — either through the powers of Big Tech or through moral blackmail. I think this will make our public debate much better.
But there is something else. When you reject censorship, you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf.
The reason is simple. The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one sure way to silence a human being permanently: Put a bullet in his brain.
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As I posted to another thread:
It is appalling that the most recent amateur assassins were able to get as close as they did.
This tells me that a true professional would have had no issues.
I find myself wondering if I am dreaming and this is all a cheesy 80s movie script.
Now I am just waiting for the ninja
https://youtu.be/UeqyOan9eZs?t=422
The one at the golf course had Harris / Biden signs and bumper stickers, and a contributor to Democrat causes.
In 2018, when that guy sent the pipe bombs and it was discovered he had Trump bumper stickers, he was connected to every single Republican in the country running for office by the press and used it to negate the mobs of Leftists reeking havoc across the country and trying to beat down the doors of the Supreme Court to prevent Kavanaugh from being sworn in. Of course, there is no such treatment of the Democrats to associate this would-be assassin with all of their candidates like what was done in 2018.
Their take:
1. Barely grazed his ear
2. Never a shot fired
So, what’s the problem? Must be assault rifles are the problem.
May we chat please?
I don’t care what these people think of Trump. I don’t care what they think about anything. They have been “acting stupidly” for the last nine years, and I’m tired of hearing their lies.
Was the suspect in that pink shirt the entire 12 hours?
You would think by now people figured out why they are so desperate trying to get rid of him, but ignorant and stupid as they are they probably never will. Those who try to get rid of him are probably worried to death that he will blow that corrupt crime syndicate in DC sky high and I hope he will live long enough to do it.
Oh, and not to miss that had it been branDUHn or kuhmelinin attempts, they’d be trying to confiscate ARs right now.
Which makes you wonder if these amateurs were sent as dry runs for the professionals.
‘No One Is Even Trying to Assassinate Biden or Kamala’!
Another Trump assassination plot? The media’s double standard strikes again! JD Vance, September 17, 2024
Yes. The goal to disband the Managerial Class” is objective number one. It has metastasized beyond reason we do not need to replace a leftist elite with a New Right elite. But one thing at a time.
I hope it's not fear of being accused of incitement. That's coming no matter what he says at this point. The projectors project. It's what they do.
I’m right there with you. Crooks and Routh were/are manifestly amateurs who managed to get a few things right.
SS security at Butler was appalling bad. SS security at Mar-A-Lago was certainly lacking, but not the complete clown show seen at Butler.
According to news reports, Routh’s chosen location had been routinely used by the media and paps to get photos of Trump golfing, including when he was President. The SS had to know about it. Why was it not checked earlier? Or were they counting on checking it out “just in plenty of time”?
Thank heaven they accomplished the second, and Trump is safe and sound. But what if Routh has not been stupid enough to poke the muzzle through the fence where SS could easily spot it from where they were hanging out at that hole well before Trump could move into Routh’s line of sight and within range?
Perhaps they planned to walk over to that fence to check it, but saw him first. We don’t know whether that was their plan. Someone needs to ask about that.
I know security is not as tight when the protectee goes somewhere or does something unplanned. On the other hand, Trump is known for playing golf whenever he is at Mar-A-Lago. It doesn’t take a genius would-be assassin to figure that’s just what he’d be doing if the weather was nice.
What frightens me is just what you said: what happens if a real pro shows up, foreign or domestic, if these two amateurs came so close?
If Routh had had military training, President Trump might well be lying in state in the rotunda.
Brilliant article by, hopefully, our next Vice President JD Vance.
DJT owns several golf courses in South Florida, including the famous Doral. So how would Routh know which course to stake out? DJT had called some of his friends to invite them to golf with him that day, so although it was not on his schedule, the outing also was not entirely unplanned. Therefore it is entirely reasonable to ask: What if other Trump golf courses were staked out that morning and the bad guys just melted away when Routh was discovered and arrested?
There is a good chance that this second attempt on PDJT’s life will not be the last. A plausible explanation for these assassination attempts is simple to boil down: the political left cannot survive an almost total loss of power by the losing the House, Senate, and the Presidency. With the failure of character assassination and the failures of lawfare attempting to insure that PDJT is not elected to public office ever again, there remains only one sure-fire solution - politically motivated murder.
The political left has all the tools needed to take PDJT out permanently. These are the USSS, FBI, JustUs Department, and possibly the CIA. The only problem I see is that if PDJT is killed, it has to be done with a ‘scary’ assault rifle such as an AR15, AK47, or some such. This is a political constraint that is designed to provide support for anti-2A legislation that will surely follow.
But that presents a problem. These type of weapons are not accurate when longer distances are involved. They were not designed to be. So while the deep-state operatives assigned to eliminate PDJT can secure fanatical assets to actually perform the deed, the asset has to be placed close enough to the target such that he will be successful with a weapon that is a short range device. However if he is positioned close, there is a good chance that he will be discovered by any competent group doing a sweep of the area.
The last two attempts on PDJT’s life support this point. Two months ago the shooter was beyond the reliable range of his AR-style rifle and missed. A few days ago the alleged shooter was plenty close but was discovered and arrested. Should he become too talkative remember this: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
There will most likely be another attempt before the election. There is too much at stake for the left. The media will of course ‘ho-hum’ the event regardless of the outcome.
It’s not just the Lame Street Media but I believe the Deep State is the biggest problem.
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