The Trump Presidency

I’m actually very against the trend of harassing prominent Republicans during dinner and such, but it’s frankly absurd that we hear so much about it when **** like this is happening due to rhetoric from the right.
 
Now CNN’s NY HQ has been evacuated. So we have Soros, Clinton, Obama and CNN. Obviously it’s too early to speculate who is sending these packages, but it’s chilling that we live in an environment where the President has such violent rhetoric toward critics that you can almost guess where other suspicious packages might be headed, regardless of why it’s happening or who it’s from.
 
I'm trying to remember who on the left side of the aisle you guys blamed for the congressional baseball shootings, but I just can't recall it. Can someone remind me whose rhetoric caused that?
 
More on point, we would all be better off if we just call the crazies, crazy, and not try to pull them into the mainstream conversation in an effort to score points.
 
Jaw said:
More on point, we would all be better off if we just call the crazies, crazy, and not try to pull them into the mainstream conversation in an effort to score points.
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I agree with that. People are accountable for their actions. No matter the claims that they may have been "radicalized" by someone with supposed influence upon them.
 
Oklahomahawk said:
yep, sounds like a good idea. And these 2 gentlemen seem to agree with you as well.


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It's as if their livelihood is based on stirring up political animosity or something.

I have an extreme commute and tried listening to Hannity several years ago, during the McCain vs Obama election. I discovered fairly quickly that it made me a miserable person. I've been more of an audiobook fan ever since.
 
I listen to Rush sparingly when its kind of forced on me. My Dad listens to him religiously so I got a lot growing up. He even got my 12 year old niece a Limbaugh book for Chrismas one year. Anyways, Rush was downright comedy gold when he took phone calls. No matter how crazy the caller he wouldnt defend Obama. Perfect example that sticks with me is a woman complaining she was poor because of Obama. Between her and her husband they made 100k a year and Obama had designated under 150k as poor. I think this was for the purposes of some program like Obamacare. Rush stutters and stammers for a few seconds and you can tell he is flabbergasted by her stupidity but he has to run with it because he cant defend Obama on anything.
 
Yeaterday morning on a nationally-syndicated conservative talk radio show, the host opened the lines to callers as to what we should do about the Caravan of Doom. First caller: shoot them. Host hems and haws and doesn’t confront the caller, but issues a general disclaimer against shooting unarmed civilians. Second caller: I agree with the first guy.

I think we’re whistling past the graveyard if we’re not willing to ask ourselves some questions about this kind of thing.
 
Jaw said:
I'm trying to remember who on the left side of the aisle you guys blamed for the congressional baseball shootings, but I just can't recall it. Can someone remind me whose rhetoric caused that?
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I’m not *blaming* Trump for this, but it would be kind of nice to not have a President use such violent and divisive rhetoric that makes this seem inevitable.
 
mqt said:
I’m not *blaming* Trump for this, but it would be kind of nice to not have a President use such violent and divisive rhetoric that makes this seem inevitable.
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Not sure what’s richer in irony.

Yesterday Trump saying the Khashoggi murder is looking like the “worst coverup ever”.

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Today Trump saying “acts of political violence have no place in US”
 
Jaw said:
It's as if their livelihood is based on stirring up political animosity or something.

I have an extreme commute and tried listening to Hannity several years ago, during the McCain vs Obama election. I discovered fairly quickly that it made me a miserable person. I've been more of an audiobook fan ever since.
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First let me say bravo on your choice of audiobooks over talk radio. I'm not totally sure what you meant about it being their livelihood mattering on this particular discussion. I just remember the point being made about people who use violence and/or violent hate-filled rhetoric for political gain and it seemed to me that these 2 numb nuts sort of matched that description.

You also made a good point about how listening to Hannity made you feel, ie "miserable". Don't many hardcore drugs ie crack, meth, etc., have the same effect on the addicts who can't stop using them? So many people who are into the political extremists 24/7, left or right, are just about as addicted IMO as those other addicts I mentioned and don't they tend to feel "miserable" except when they're on that ever-increasingly temporary high from their "fix"?
 
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