"…those were all just jokes or hyperbole or taken out of context, according to his defenders. But seashells on a beach? That's clearly a call for murder!"
One thing we fail to acknowledge in these instances is that, as usual, every accusation is a confession from the right. I think one of the reasons the right gets so twisted up in finding and calling out the "hidden messages" and "calls to action" from random statements important people on the left make is precisely because they couch their own calls to action and violent rhetoric in dog whistles, "jokes", "hyperbole", or "it's just a metaphor" for the sake of plausible deniability, and so they assume that their opponents are too.
Feeding the grievance-industrial complex is only one goal. Giving themselves an excuse for the actual violence and imprisonment of political rivals they’ve been openly and explicitly calling for for 10 years is the other goal.
Remember that the day before the Nazis invaded Poland, they took a bunch of convicts, dressed them in German and Polish military uniforms, shot them and left their bodies near the border. Because it was important to say they were just protecting themselves against Polish aggression. Did I just Go There? Yes. Yes I did.
Anyway, I know what my sign at the next demonstration is going to say.
Other than mocking the ketchup/catsup maxi-pad stuck to his head, don't recall hearing many details about the first "assassination attempt" other than a bystander/fire-fighter got killed. The second "assassination attempt" said he was just LEGALLY open-carrying his legal weapons and was actually doing security for Donald in case any Lefty Libruls tried anything again; and that was the last I heard about that, other than Reichwingers insisting the were TWO!!! genuine "assassination attempts".
You'd have to go back to the last days of the Soviet Union to find these levels of cynicism and millions of careerists and party hacks all pretending to believe a thing they haven't believed in for years.
teapot tempests are usually distracting from something. Perhaps the fact that the Big Beautiful Bill is being pushed so fast that the CBO hasn't had time to analyze it?
"…those were all just jokes or hyperbole or taken out of context, according to his defenders. But seashells on a beach? That's clearly a call for murder!"
One thing we fail to acknowledge in these instances is that, as usual, every accusation is a confession from the right. I think one of the reasons the right gets so twisted up in finding and calling out the "hidden messages" and "calls to action" from random statements important people on the left make is precisely because they couch their own calls to action and violent rhetoric in dog whistles, "jokes", "hyperbole", or "it's just a metaphor" for the sake of plausible deniability, and so they assume that their opponents are too.
Feeding the grievance-industrial complex is only one goal. Giving themselves an excuse for the actual violence and imprisonment of political rivals they’ve been openly and explicitly calling for for 10 years is the other goal.
Remember that the day before the Nazis invaded Poland, they took a bunch of convicts, dressed them in German and Polish military uniforms, shot them and left their bodies near the border. Because it was important to say they were just protecting themselves against Polish aggression. Did I just Go There? Yes. Yes I did.
Anyway, I know what my sign at the next demonstration is going to say.
Yes the double standard is maddening. The right wing grievance machine is on steroids this time. We need to fight back against this any way we can.
The hypocrisy is the point! They're the people the law protects, not the ones that it binds.
Other than mocking the ketchup/catsup maxi-pad stuck to his head, don't recall hearing many details about the first "assassination attempt" other than a bystander/fire-fighter got killed. The second "assassination attempt" said he was just LEGALLY open-carrying his legal weapons and was actually doing security for Donald in case any Lefty Libruls tried anything again; and that was the last I heard about that, other than Reichwingers insisting the were TWO!!! genuine "assassination attempts".
And it is a machine, just turn the crank, NOBODY believes this shit any more, not even the assholes peddling it.
You'd have to go back to the last days of the Soviet Union to find these levels of cynicism and millions of careerists and party hacks all pretending to believe a thing they haven't believed in for years.
teapot tempests are usually distracting from something. Perhaps the fact that the Big Beautiful Bill is being pushed so fast that the CBO hasn't had time to analyze it?