The Angry Violent Right

[Guy Chamberlin]

Okay, Donald Trump actually has the perfect tack:

 

1) This wouldn't have happened if the synagogue had armed guards.

 

2)  We need to bring back the death penalty for monsters like this Pittsburgh Shooter guy. 

 

Lets you distance yourself from the perpetrator, distract from the issue, and throw fresh red meat at the base..

 

Bravo, d******d.

[knapplc]

 

[Danny Bateman]

50 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

I don't recognize any misdeed that didn't occur in a restaurant.

[Danny Bateman]

Pretty fair IMO.

 

 

[Redrover]

18 hours ago, commando said:

mosques also....right?

Of course Trump wouldn’t mention Mosques.  I can’t remember if he ever mentioned the heroes who were killed defending Muslims in Portland.

 

Like Temple Israel, the American Muslim Institute has armed security during major events.

 

 

 

[knapplc]

 

[Moiraine]

14 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

 

 

I hear late night comedians are also to blame for the Holocaust and 9/11

[knapplc]

Oh, you know, just the Republicans continuing to push the conspiracy theory that the press is the enemy of the people.  I'm sure that won't backfire.

 

 

Trumpster says there's "great anger" and that gets in the heads of his followers.  Look around this website and notice the posts from the people who openly admire him. Look at the angry tone they have now, all the time.  They've literally lost nothing, they're typically white males, and even though they face no discrimination or disadvantage, they're just furious about everything. 

 

When this is the kind of garbage they consume, of course they're going to spew garbage in return.

 

 

[commando]

there is more than a grain of truth to this

 

[knapplc]

 

[BigRedBuster]

Wonder when they will get down to me.

 

 

[commando]

does anyone remember when Donnie took the radical right extremists off the terror watch list?    how is that working out so far?

[Moiraine]

Obama must be talented. He’s able to be “divisive” and “divide” people but when Trump says stuff other people’s actions can’t possibly have anything to do with him.

 

Same goes with the media. Their words can cause violence but Trump’s words have nothing to do with it whatsoever.

 

Or so some board members like to argue.

[knapplc]

Evidence directly linking Trump's words with the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. 

 

 

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Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This

Before committing the Tree of Life massacre, the shooter, who blamed Jews for the caravan of “invaders” and who raged about it on social media, made it clear that he was furious at HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish group that helps resettle refugees in the United States. He shared posts on Gab, a social-media site popular with the alt-right, expressing alarm at the sight of “massive human caravans of young men from Honduras and El Salvador invading America thru our unsecured southern border.” And then he wrote, “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

 

The people killed on Saturday were killed for trying to make the world a better place, as their faith exhorts them to do. The history of the Jewish people is one of displacement, statelessness, and persecution. What groups like HIAS do in helping refugees, they do with the knowledge that comes from a history of being the targets of demagogues who persecute minorities in pursuit of power.

 

Ordinarily, a politician cannot be held responsible for the actions of a deranged follower. But ordinarily, politicians don’t praise supporters who have mercilessly beaten a Latino man as “very passionate.” Ordinarily, they don’t offer to pay supporters’ legal bills if they assault protesters on the other side. They don’t praise acts of violence against the media. They don’t defend neo-Nazi rioters as “fine people.” They don’t justify sending bombs to their critics by blaming the media for airing criticism. Ordinarily, there is no historic surge in anti-Semitism, much of it targeted at Jewish critics, coinciding with a politician’s rise. And ordinarily, presidents do not blatantly exploit their authority in an effort to terrify white Americans into voting for their party. For the past few decades, most American politicians, Republican and Democrat alike, have been careful not to urge their supporters to take matters into their own hands. Trump did everything he could to fan the flames, and nothing to restrain those who might take him at his word.

 

 

[RedDenver]

7 hours ago, commando said:

does anyone remember when Donnie took the radical right extremists off the terror watch list?    how is that working out so far?

Hugely important. This needs to be brought up every time one of these right-wing nutjobs espouses or commits violence.