It’s a weird marketing campaign crammed with bullets and blame-shifting.
It’s additionally a marketing campaign full of gossip and unproven accusations, exaggerations and falsehoods.
Simply ask your canine or cat.
To have two tried assassinations towards a presidential nominee inside six weeks is completely chilling. There needs to be no debate in any way. Joe Biden, having made a pleasant call to Donald Trump – who stated he “couldn’t have been nicer” – ought to order the Secret Service to guard Trump as if he had been president now.
Which means the company would have shut down his West Palm Seashore golf course whereas he performed. This could occur instantly. Golf programs are inherently laborious to guard as a result of they’re massive, flat surfaces with virtually no place to take cowl. A Washington Post editorial agrees with me. Neglect the bureaucratic nuances, that is nuts. Had a sharp-eyed agent not noticed the barrel of a gun sticking by a chain-link fence, the shooter, who has a protracted legal report, may nicely have succeeded.
Trump could have 9 lives, however we don’t need him dropping any extra.
In contrast to his name to tone issues down after the near-miss in Butler – which didn’t final lengthy – Trump went on the offensive, telling Fox Digital that the Florida gunman “believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it. Their rhetoric is inflicting me to be shot at.”
It’s true that the Democrats have consistently described Trump as a hazard to democracy, a would-be dictator who tried to steal an election and would by no means enable one other one. The hostile media have performed a distinguished function right here, routinely likening Trump to Hitler or Mussolini.
Trump, for his half, has referred to as his opponents a hazard to democracy as nicely, saying they’ve weaponized legislation enforcement towards him for partisan causes.
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And Democrats have tried to flip the script, trotting out a protracted listing of inflammatory feedback by Trump since he began operating in 2015.
In my opinion, the media have moved on too rapidly from the second assassination try. However why waste time on a mindless seek for “motive,” aside from political speaking factors? Anybody who tries to kill a presidential candidate for the notoriety is by definition a loopy particular person.
JD Vance says that since no one has tried to kill Harris and Trump has survived two makes an attempt, “I’d say that’s fairly sturdy proof that the left must tone down the rhetoric, and wishes to chop this crap out.”
Vance has been vindicated in one other means. I don’t know why Trump introduced up the totally debunked story about “they’re consuming the canines, they’re consuming the cats” after an inflow of 15,000 authorized Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Even Republican Gov. Mike DeWine calls {that a} false “piece of rubbish.”
Trump’s operating mate has additionally unfold the story, and was accused of prompting the bomb threats which have shut faculties and different amenities there for days – one thing for which no public determine needs to be blamed.
Now we be taught that each one these calls got here from one other nation in an effort to spice up friction within the Ohio city.
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In the meantime, I had no intention of citing unsubstantiated on-line rumors towards Laura Loomer, the far-right conspiracist who thinks 9/11 was an inside job, as a result of I don’t suppose a self-described Islamophobe ought to get extra oxygen.
However now she’s hit again on her Rumble podcast:
“The media now could be accusing me of, you recognize, having an affair with Donald Trump. Such a salacious lie, so malicious, so disrespectful to Donald Trump and Melania Trump! They’ve taken it thus far!
“And, you recognize, if I used to be a leftist journalist, if I used to be a Democrat, my God, the media can be up in arms if the Republican media was doing this to a, you recognize, a left-wing journalist–
“My God, they’re misogynist. They’re bullying a girl. They’re attempting to, they’re attempting to Monica Lewinsky her!”
After which she smeared Kamala Harris, saying she had carried out oral intercourse on Willie Brown to get to the highest. This was earlier than Brown was San Francisco mayor and the 2 brazenly dated for a few years within the Nineteen Nineties, a decade after he had separated from his spouse.
A lot of our politics now activates prices and countercharges of misinformation and disinformation. So I discover the newest blast from Hillary Clinton virtually inexplicable.
Sure, she’s selling her fourth memoir, and in her first interview, with Rachel Maddow, the previous first girl, senator, secretary of state and presidential nominee attacked free speech.
She referred to as for legal prices and civil penalties towards People “engaged” in spreading “propaganda.”
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What? Who decides the place to attract the road between aggressive advocacy and propaganda? Do we wish one administration’s Justice Division to make these calls towards politicians, activists and journalists aligned with the opposite get together?
It should by no means move, however at the same time as a little bit of messaging, what an assault on the First Modification proper to free speech.