Mike Masnick: Just going to note, regarding "political violence" that three and a half years ago, Trump was encouraging a mob of people who wanted to hang his own VP.

Just going to note, regarding "political violence" that three and a half years ago, Trump was encouraging a mob of people who wanted to hang his own VP.

October 2020: Trump defends plot to murder Gov. Whitmer January 2021: Trump sends mob to kill his own VP and members of Congress November 2023: Trump cheers attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi March 2024: Trump posts video depicting abduction of Joe Biden

Only one reply troll blocked so far.

I recommend they fuck off to Twitter.

Pelosi's Twitter account put out a generous expression of sympathy for Trump this evening, and the top comments are all people mocking the attack on her husband

Thank you for providing the name of a troll to block. That's a real service there. And I don't block very often.

I blocked him too. His latest comment said, “if you’re going to shoot, don’t miss” Wtaf kind of thing is that to say?

How'd that dude miss what happened to Paul Pelosi?

A bunch of terrible people think it's funny to joke about the shattered skull of an elderly man they've never met.

There’s also this from 2016:

Trump calls for removing Clinton’s Secret Service detail to ‘see what happens'www.politico.com Trump called on Clinton’s security detail to disarm so we can “see what happens to her."

Plus the reference to "second amendment people". 😒

That does not make this event right. Violence is never the solution.

He is the one who thinks this kind of thing is right, and good. If he gets shot, if he dies, it will be in the center of the fires he stoked, the flames he fed, the destruction he brought upon himself. Right? Just? These are ideas he is opposed to. He has nobody to blame but himself.

So if you took out a concentration camp guard, is that violence justified?

Democrats want gun control. Republicans after every school shooting: "Thoughts and prayers and no gun control". If there had been strict gun control at that rally, the shooting would never have occurred.

I am very interested to see how certain folks react to the very natural observation that Trump himself has been pretty approving of political violence himself

But this lady being interviewed has no idea where the hate came from.

July 2024: Trump says "See!? I've just been fighting back the whole time!"

exactly it was never a question of IF but when. But this will just fuel their rage and the rhetoric will be even more inflammatory coming out of his rallies. The problem is it will never stop as long as Trump is alive and in this country. He will never stop inciting this kind of behavior.

So just another day that ends in a Y

a man with a family lost his life so no not just another day that ends with a Y. I suspect that the attendees have a clearer view of what children have been through when one of these mentally unbalanced people decide violence is the only way to handle a problem.

He seemed to love stoking violence abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

I don't think I've ever seen so much projection like I see from the other side everything they do all they say is either the left or Democrats in I'm sitting here scratching my head wondering what the hell is wrong with some of these people how did America get like this was never like this before

I'll give them this much...they stay bought.

Yeah I don’t need to hear the fascist right whining about how awful the violence they’ve stoked is.

July 2024: one of tRump's own disgruntled misses the kill shot because he only hires 'the best'.

If they talked about this on PBS News Hour tonight, I would stand up and clap.

Truth be told! And let’s not forget whose rhetoric kept it all going as president for 4 yrs & wanting it again for another 4!

Exactly, fuck him

He and many others joked and turned the Pelosi husband attack into a homophobic conspiracy theory.

And in one of his campaign speeches in 2016, he told attendees they might have to use the 2nd amendment to stop Hillary.

The people who mocked a man beaten with a hammer by an crazed intruder, very upset that people aren't treating this event very solemnly.

I abhor political violence, but I’m warming up to sepsis.

this made me laugh really hard and then feel bad

Pretty much exactly what I was going for, thank you!

Yeah, I don't want to see anyone get assassinated obviously, but there's definitely a "me sewing / me reaping" aspect in this particular case

Everyone to the left of Trump is gonna be lectured on the tenor of our political speech while he keeps talking about killing his opponents and rounding up a million people on day 1

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MSNBC just interviewed a Trump supporter who was at the rally and she said “There is too much hate” and we need to pray for the country. She is wearing a “Know Your Parasites” t-shirt. These people have no self awareness.

The first thing Trump and his political party did when he was president (2017): "Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump signs bill revoking Obama-era gun checks for mental illnesswww.nbcnews.com The new law nullifies an Obama-backed rule that added people with mental illnesses to the national background check database.

Was hearing reports he was yelling, "fight!", as he was resisting the Secret Service moving him off stage.

Oh, yes. You can see him, clearly making himself an even better target as the SS is trying, in vain, to cover him.

This is why I think it was a staged event!

Nah. He's just a sociopath.

Trump encouraged gun humpers to murder Hillary Clinton in 2016. Democrats want gun control, if there had been strict gun control at that rally this shooting would never have occurred. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Trump Says Maybe '2nd Amendment People' Can Stop Clinton's Supreme Court Picksabcnews.go.com Trump made these remarks today in North Carolina.

The shooter was only 150 yards away on a rooftop & security didn’t even check it! Somebody tell me, why did they leave such glaring opportunity open for someone! I bet you anything, it was staged!

Good piece on this fact amid the 2024 veepstakes from @mattgertz.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

The most important story about Trump’s VP is why he needs a new onewww.mediamatters.org

All I'm going to add is that I think it's grossly irresponsible for the media talk about an "escalation of political violence" over the past several years without being clear o which party has been consistently accelerating that violence, and which one has been consistently condemning it.

Guaranteed! And all his co-conspirators as well! Why didn’t the US court martial its Commander in Chief, & why is he allowed total freedom/immunity when it’s clear he has stolen top secret documents, & shared them?

Compare and contrast

Fuck yes!!!!

All I know is that it didn't take Biden 3 hours to condemn political violence.

"Mike deserves this," was Trump's quote according to Ty Cobb.

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