What Trump and Vance are doing to Springfield, Ohio is a great example:
“Trump’s Strategy To Shut Down the 2024 Campaign”
“Former President Donald Trump is urging the US Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that removed him from that state’s ballot.
The brief submitted by Trump’s attorneys Thursday to the high court sets out their arguments for why the state court erred when it issued the unprecedented decision last month.
“The Court should reverse the Colorado decision because President Trump is not even subject to section 3, as the President is not an ‘officer of the United States’ under the Constitution. And even if President Trump were subject to section 3 he did not ‘engage in’ anything that qualifies as ‘insurrection,’” Trump’s attorneys argued.
The efforts, Trump team argues, “promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado’s lead and exclude the likely Republican presidential nominee from their ballots.”
The Colorado Supreme Court last month said Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run in 2024 because the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding office covers his conduct on January 6, 2021.
The US Supreme Court agreed earlier this month to hear the case, accepting an appeal brought by Trump. The justices are separately involved in other matters that could impact the federal criminal case against the former president.
Several Republicans told reporters they had been subject to a pressure campaign by supporters of Mr Jordan, who lost a second vote for the gavel on Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers say they have been targeted by intimidation tactics, including death threats, from allies of Jim Jordan as his bid for the US House of Representatives speakership falters.
Dangerous!
And someone messed around and found out
This is terrifying!
Why is this tweet still up?
I have asked @elonmusk @lindayacc and @TwitterSafety several times and have reported it to @Twitter @TwitterSupport
This sounds a lot like January 6!
They don’t even try to hide it now!
“”If you want to get to President Trump you’re going to have to go through me, and you’re going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card carrying members of the NRA. That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement,” she said, referring to the 74.2 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020.”
“Violent themes were becoming a staple of Republican campaign rhetoric well before the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search unleashed a fresh torrent of inciteful messaging.“
Joe Scarborough and others laughed at this in 2009:
“SCARBOROUGH KEEPS DIGGING…. Joe Scarborough’s on-air commentary is nearly always disheartening, but this morning was especially frustrating.
I can appreciate why the former far-right Republican congressman is feeling a little sheepish right now. Yesterday, Media Matters released a video showing reactions from conservative media personalities in April to a report from the Department of Homeland Security, warning law enforcement about the potential for violence from fringe radicals. The clip montage shows Scarborough not only dismissing the DHS report, but laughing hysterically at the very idea behind the report. He told his national television audience that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano “has gone nuts.”
Of course, in light of the recent killings at the hand of some of these right-wing extremists, Scarborough’s laughter and dismissive attitude appears especially misguided now.”
January 6, 2021 Joe Scarborough?
Alabama Representative Mike Rogers proves Violence works for the GOP:
“Experts in many fields — domestic violent extremism, civil conflict, democracy studies — are concerned about the likelihood that political violence will soon break out in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of Americans are concerned, too, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll conducted after the politically-motivated assault on Paul Pelosi.
Our group of clinicians and researchers approaches political violence as a public health problem. Like violence generally, political violence passes the Satcher test for health problems: It kills and injures people and has important adverse effects across entire populations.”
If you say enough ugly things about someone then perhaps someone may be motivated to do something to someone?
John Avlon called it:
This is BAD!
“Trump loyalists have reacted to the search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago residence with unhinged fury.”
Rhetoric inspires some to ACT,
“A social media account bearing Shiffer’s name appears to have referenced an attempt to storm an FBI office that day. It also made a “call to arms” — and called for violence against the agency — after the FBI executed a search warrant Monday at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. Authorities have not confirmed the account belongs to the suspect.”
Sad (He lost thank goodness!)
“YouTube said in an email Tuesday that Greiten’s video did not violate its policies.”
YouTube finally took the video down:
THIS:
This thread:
This is sad:
August?
October 31, 2020
April 17, 2020
May 1, 2020
October 8, 2020
“Fringe anti-government groups in Michigan have agitated for months against what they have claimed are illegal orders the state government put in place to contain the coronavirus. The groups got a boost in April when Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” which some online extremist movements at the time took as a call to arms.
Amy Cooter, a sociology professor and militia expert at Vanderbilt University, said Wolverine Watchmen is “a relatively new group that was spurred to action specifically by the pandemic and by Whitmer’s response to it.”
“I absolutely believe that Trump plays a role in encouraging actions like this, in calling individuals to be members of groups like this in the first place and encouraging folks to show up in person to protests — by stoking fears and making them feel like it is their responsibility to do something about it,” Cooter said.”
These stories have to STOP happening!
People Choke???
2016:
Now
Charlottesville (“Both Sides”)
Portland was Charlottesville without the torches
“A man was shot and killed after supporters of President Trump clashed with counterprotesters.”
This tweet is wrong on so many levels!
Others agree with me
There is lying and then there is LYING!
George is DEAD! He didn’t get to have this day.
“Mad Dog” is Mad!
Someone else agrees with Mattis
Current Secretary of Defense might be a former one by Friday night?
She lost an eye to a rubber bullet:
When you tweet “Enemy of the People” 60 times!
You get this:
WOW!
WOW!
Ya Think?
All for a Campaign Ad!
The Mayor of Washington, DC
Trump wants us to go back to 1932!
Some people listened now
1932
“On July 28, 1932, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stood on the Ellipse south of the White House in his uniform and stiff leather boots. As more than 200 cavalrymen, about 400 infantrymen and five tanks assembled nearby, he told Washington’s police chief that he would “break the back” of the enemy.”
https://www.npca.org/articles/1915-the-forgotten-march
Our military leaders know the law
If only Trump knew The Law?
And 1963! Dogs???
Where was the teargas when this happened?
This is well done!
You get THIS
When Trump keeps tweeting this:
39 TIMES!
“Enemy of the People” 54 Times!
So this happens
This HAS to stop happening!
We know @realDonaldTrump can never speak out about bigotry and hate, be it anti-Semitic (Soros! – they seem to forget Adelstein) or Muslims (Squad!) or Refugees (Dirtying up our cities! – Tucker Carlson) Has to keep that base of nativist bigots (Wall!)
Calling the Press the Enemy of the People is a Dangerous thing for Trump to say.
I am afraid someone is going to get hurt!
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The Brookings Cafeteria podcast last week discussed the role President Trump’s racist rhetoric has played in encouraging violence in America.
First, Donald Trump’s support in the 2016 campaign was clearly driven by racism, sexism, and xenophobia. While some observers have explained Trump’s success as a result of economic anxiety, the data demonstrate that
anti-immigrant sentiment, racism, and sexism are much more strongly related to support for Trump.Even more alarmingly, there is a clear correlation between Trump campaign events and incidents of prejudiced violence. FBI data show that since Trump’s election there has been
an anomalous spike in hate crimes concentrated in counties where Trump won by larger margins. It was the second-largest uptick in hate crimes in the 25 years for which data are available, second only to the spike after September 11, 2001.Though hate crimes are typically most frequent in the summer, in 2016 they peaked in the fourth quarter (October-December). This new, higher rate of hate crimes continued throughout 2017.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/
The association between Trump and hate crimes is not limited to the election itself. Another study, based on data collected by the Anti-Defamation League, shows that counties that hosted a Trump campaign rally in 2016 saw hate crime rates more than double compared to similar counties that did not host a rally.
The shining city on a hill is an ugly pile of rubble.
Even on this most tragic of weeks for so many families, Trump was obsessing on himself, on his crowd size compared with Beto, and on whether he was getting enough obeisance from Ohio pols.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/opinion/sunday/trump-picture-baby-el-paso.html
https://limbaugh2020.com/trump-is-a-racist/
He blamed Jews for helping migrant caravans
On his Gab.com account, Bowers claimed Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans. He shared a video that another Gab.com user posted, purportedly of a Jewish refugee advocacy group HIAS on the US-Mexico border. Another post that Bowers commented on described HIAS’ overall efforts as “sugar-coated evil.”
He called those in migrant caravans ‘invaders’
According to his posts, Bowers believed that those in the migrant caravans were violent because they were attempting to leave countries that had high levels of violence. And Bowers repeatedly called them “invaders” on his Gab posts. “I have noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’ that now say ‘invaders’,” read one post, six days before the shooting. “I like this.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/27/us/synagogue-attack-suspect-robert-bowers-profile/index.html
“We were safe until he started talking,” John Smith-Davis, 47, a retired Army veteran, said as he mourned with his friends at a memorial near the Walmart where a gunman opened fire Saturday. “He made us a target with his hateful rhetoric.”
Veronica Sanchez, a 23-year-old dental assistant, put it more succinctly: “He has said enough.”
El Paso, whose 680,000 people are mostly Latino and mostly Democrats, has long viewed Trump warily — and his most forceful statement since the massacre that has now claimed 22 lives there did little to change that.
“From my perspective, he is not welcome here,” Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, whose district includes a wide swath of the city, said Monday in an interview on MSNBC. “Words have consequences. The president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated.”
A string of officials in El Paso and across the nation have condemned Trump for his steady flow of racist rhetoric, including his repeated warnings about an immigrant “invasion”— the same term used in a manifesto posted to 8chan believed to be written by the shooter.
“We have a president right now who traffics in this hatred, who incites this violence, who calls Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, calls asylum seekers animals and an infestation,” Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate who represented El Paso in Congress, said Sunday at a vigil.
I wonder who “Feeds a Climate of Fear”?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748247221/reaction-to-trumps-remarks-on-two-mass-shootings
I wonder who spoke of an INFESTATION of INVADERS?
On July 3rd:
August 3rd:
Say something often enough and people start believing it.
Words have consequences @realDonaldTrump
In a sentencing memo filed last month, Sayoc’s attorneys said the 57-year-old former pizza deliverer became radicalized via a daily consumption of Trump’s tweets, Fox News, and conspiracy theories on the internet.
They said Sayoc sent the packages because he believed that “prominent Democrats were actively working to hurt him, other Trump supporters, and the country as a whole” — an idea that was reinforced by what he heard on Fox News and from the president himself.
When Trump announced he was running for president, Sayoc “enthusiastically supported him” and began watching Fox News religiously and planning his day around watching Fox & Friends in the morning and primetime host Sean Hannity in the evening, his attorneys said.
“We believe that the president’s rhetoric contributed to Mr. Sayoc’s actions in this offense,” Sayoc’s attorney Ian Howard Marcus Amelkin told the court Monday.
Trump's plan to deport millions of immigrants would cost hundreds of billions, CBS News analysis…
A must-read Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1847325683875238087 This is TERRIFYING: Vance would have asked for new electors…
2020 - Some dirty words (HBO) - Bill Maher NAILED IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIbipRpjJ4 https://twitter.com/PoliticsInsider/status/1580624810484600832?s=20&t=x3n_ywhFxmQ53J5Uv2qC8Q I predicted…
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1844360573028282399 Jon Stewart nails it! (Some dirty words but good stuff!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX-5jmQplIo Finally! Look! New…
https://twitter.com/michaelscherer/status/1850198794589155384 Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/HeidiReports/status/1848016347524891015 MUST-WATCH! MUST-SHARE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkK3W0lOKcc Great News: https://twitter.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1846695827063930967 https://twitter.com/MichaelSteele/status/1844779786608251085 Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/Dangledudedave/status/1844837544992948599 Michigan and…
Trump just lies and lies and lies! https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1844807832538923399 Two most recent events: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1844491699785171020 Must Read!…