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Excuse me but isn't it the GOPers and MAGAs with all the guns? All the violent rhetoric? All the threats and itchy trigger fingers? Show me the Democrat who is pledging violence and violent overthrow of the government. Show me the Democrat all het up for assassinating the whiniest bitch on the face of the earth. No. I am utterly opposed to violence of any kind. I don't want Trump dead. I want him alive and well and dressed in an orange onesie getting 3 hots and a cot and getting his meals delivered between the jail cell bars. And I don't want to hear any Democrat salute this event. We know Trump will reglorify himself allll over again because he is the perpetual victim. And I am soooooo tired of that. Beat this bugger at the ballot box.

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Just in the last week or so, we've heard the head of the Heritage Foundation telling us that a 'second American revolution' is underway and will remain bloodless as long the left allows to be'.

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Yep, we're supposed to lay down, turn over so our soft underbelly is exposed and obey their every whim. Fuck 'em.

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Not this gal. Not ever.

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It’s pretty obvious which party has the adult leadership!

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Jul 14Liked by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

Thank you, Waj.

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Here! Here!

The Dems aren’t the ones calling for retribution, revenge, military tribunals.

TFG brought this upon himself and all other politicians in the limelight with the corrupted Supreme Court’s approval.

I wish my family and friends had the protections these lying, hypocritical, Magas have.

Can’t go to a store or anywhere for that matter, without worrying about some crazy, (given permission by radical republicans), carrying in a loaded gun.

Enough already.

Vote out every republican.

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Trumps whole campaign is based on retribution.

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Why is everyone saying a bullet grazed his ear? I read earlier today, the bullet shattered the teleprompter sending glass shards his way, that cut his ear. I am not a conspiracy theorist type, but, but part of me feels this 20yo man chose to be a martyr as well as make T one, to boost him in the poles, and change the narrative for ever.

No longer the convicted felon, no longer have stolen classified documents/state secrets, tried to steal the 2020 election in GA with election interference…the name on his stone when he leaves this earth plane will be, “awarded medal of valor for surviving assignation attempt 7/13/24”

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Jul 14·edited Jul 14

What is it Trump's *favorite book* says, "Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind"? Trump has been normalizing the use of violence for 9 years now. Earlier, if you go back to his days of calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5, who turned out to be innocent.

He's created a permission structure for using violence to get his way, and the entirety of elected republicans have gone along with it, including pretending the violence Trump incited on January 6th was no big deal.

I don't like Donald Trump, have no use for him, but I don't wish injury or death on anyone. That said, Trump has been playing with this fire for 9 years now, and he finally got burned.

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A precise account of where we are in politics today!

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My phrase for this is "stochastic terrorism has very bad aim." It is creates a virus that anyone can catch, no guarantees the the hearer will only act against the enemies you want them to.

MAGA is already shouting that merely criticizing trump and Project 2025 is creating an atmosphere of violence. We all know this is BS. Biden is criticizing policies; if doing that gets dragged into the realm of "inciting violence" we already know what the fate of dissent and debate will be under Trump 2.0.

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The response should be a renewed call for serious gun legislation. Let the Republicans oppose it, which we know they will do. That will place the onus for this continued violence in our society back where it belongs.

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“Ideally, I hope Trump could emerge from this tragedy and take ownership of his violent rhetoric, belligerence, and voracious appetite for the “ultraviolence.””

lol, brother you need to read up big time on psychopathy and how trump is a stone cold psychopath. He wants chaos and carnage, it’s exciting.

“Maybe he can see how Democrats and world leaders, like President Zelensky of Ukraine, responded with empathy and decency. I hope this would inspire him to apologize to Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, who survived an assassination attempt.”

2nd lol. Sorry.

Psychopaths never apologise and never take responsibility for their actions.

Add pathological lying, that is a disease of lying and you have trump all over.

“My fear is that this failed assassination attempt will only further fuel and escalate chaos and terror ahead of the election.”

Absolutely, I fear we will look back on this pre trump 2.0 time as a bliss filled peaceful sane time when it was only Palestinians being murdered on mass.

Check out the Hare Psychopath Checklist -

https://psychology-tools.com/test/pcl-22

Also check out Dr Bandy X Lee at -

https://substack.com/@bandyxlee?r=3pd49j&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

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If Congress does not do anything to remedy the concurrent issue the populations faces such as climate change, healthcare, wages, housing, job security, debt, and more, we will see an ever increasing hostility occur. This isn't rocket science, it's the social contract being forsaken and others realizing it in real time. There are sadly consequences to stagnating policy and fiery rhetoric and ever decreasing social conditions. It's bewildering to watch people with experts all around do nothing. Is the 170 day vacation not enough time to make plans? I am just not sure why we don't see that money politics has brought us here. "Thoughts and prayers" are getting insulting and becoming the new "Let them eat cake" while suffering occurs. I know DC has a higher percentage of psychopaths, but I really didn't think they wanted it to get this bad - maybe I assume wrong based on the talking after the event. This is an everyone problem.

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So to the point amidst the chaos. Sharing, sharing, sharing, and thank you, Waj!

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We read this over and over again after each shooting which of course never as benign as this little fun gun at the Republican Presidential Election Rally !

Biden says “sick sick over and above his own sickness, but he was a senator, a Vice President and President now, wasted plenty of time and yet the Gun Violence is on the increase with Fatal Shooting by Gunmen and Policemen is on the increase, in the USA and the wars sponsored and subsidized by us overseas is killing babies, children, parents, brothers and sisters and bystanders, Doctors, Nurses, Caregivers, Humanitarian Workers, … there is no end, Americans with Dual Citizenship and Passports are immediately going to take part where they feel more loyal to kill more in a Genocide scale reaching almost 200,000 according to British Medical Research Journal !

If gun violence is too excessive in America, there is Zionist run Human Hunting Camps for our Dual Citizens to go and Hunt.. until, well as long as you wish !

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FTR, Waj, law enforcement is reporting that Trump was hit by glass fragments, not grazed by a bullet. Most likely the shooter hit his teleprompter and the flying glass cut his ear.

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A Clockwork Orange, is truly frightening.

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