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This man’s entire political career has been about stoking anger, division, and violence, then playing the victim when he faces any consequences for his actions.
Sadly, this stuff isn’t going to stop until the GOP keeping losing at the ballot box. We have to show up and vote the shit out of office.
He's also not the most attacked person in history.
pretty sure it was Bush Junior that got a grenade chucked at him. Only reason he didn't get dead was the grenade was faulty. I'm also pretty sure he had more attempts in general.
Obama has had to deal with a ton of assassination threats and attempts. Crazy thing is, he’s STILL dealing with this crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama
yeah. Him too. Despite being an asshole who literally pisses everyone off with his narcissistic imbecility.... he's not the most attacked president (or candidate, or ex president).
This lines up with people being stunned but largely unsympathetic after the first attempt. It was a suprise, although not an unprecedented one, but also it was totally understandable.
You don't use violent and hateful rhetoric everyday for a decade to a national audience and expect nothing to ever happen to you, especially in a country with non existent gun laws.
The fact that so far it's been two nutty Republicans lines up because these are the people he's been preaching political violence to for 10 years. Of course some of them are going to sour on him, but still believe the violence he preached was the right answer.
Hopefully he's "traumatized" away from ever playing golf again. All that open space and unguarded perimeter makes you and your gold club a lightning rod for sudden death
I'm shocked his security detail even let him golf.
Like. the position of the holes are known. I don't want to give bad guys any ideas or how to's, but they gotta be freaking out every time he's on the links.
You know who is loving this? Putin. When people commit these kinds of political violence, Putin's score goes up.
Nice.
I've been threatening off and on all day to make this exact point and have even started a couple of posts to that purpose, but it never quite came together.
Now I don't need to - I can just agree.
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA...did anyone check with Billy Joel about this being definitive yet?
TFW your opponents start considering the "violence is the only solution" rhetoric you've been force-feeding your supporters for years and years 😱
It's not even his political opponents doing it; just people who are wildly unstable who think they can attain fame by shooting him as a result of Trump's own long history of implicitly promoting violence.
"get over it"
-trump
"Okay...." "Now I'm famous too!"
The stinky diaper dumpster fire.