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Title: Menacing Invective Against Trump Creates Dangerous Climate
Source:
Town Hall
URL Source: https://townhall.com/columnists/vic ... tes-dangerous-climate-n2550963
Published: Aug 1, 2019
Author: Victor Daivd Hanson
Post Date: 2019-08-01 08:23:58 by IbJensen
Keywords: None
Views: 994
Comments: 4
Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Biden huffed, "They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, 'If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him." Biden's tough-guy braggadocio was apparently no slip. A year later, he doubled down on his physical threats. "The idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump? ... He's the bully that I've always stood up to. He's the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I'd smack him in the mouth." Had former Vice President Dick Cheney ever dared to say something similar of President Obama, what would the media reaction have been? Recently, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), another presidential candidate, took up where Biden left off: "Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you, and my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly, out-of-shape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen." One trait of the Democratic field of presidential candidates is always to sound further to the left than any of their primary rivals. Apparently, a similar habit is to see who can most effectively imagine beating up the president. For now, Booker seems to be in first place. The current candidates are just channeling three years of sick showboating by Hollywood celebrities. Actor Robert De Niro has repeatedly expressed a desire to physically assault trump. A month before Trump was elected, De Niro said of him, "I'd like to punch him in the face." Later, De Niro doubled down with a series of "F--- Trump" outbursts. This is especially dangerous in the aftermath of progressive zealot and Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson's 2017 attempt to assassinate Republican congressmen at a practice for a charity baseball game. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was shot and nearly killed. Three other people were also shot and wounded. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), just hours after she was sworn in, said at a rally that she had promised her young son that "we're going to impeach the motherf----r." Donald Trump is a controversial president, no doubt. He replies to his critics with strong, often inflammatory invective. Yet the continued litany of threats to physically assault or kill a president is lowering the bar of assassination, and it will haunt the country long after Trump is gone. On the day Trump was inaugurated, the pop music star Madonna told a large crowd outside the White House that she had thought of blowing it up. A few months later, comedian Kathy Griffin issued a video where she held up a bloody facsimile of a decapitated Trump head Since then, Hollywood and the entertainment industry have been in constant competition to imagine the most gruesome way of killing off Trump -- stabbing, blowing up, burning, shooting, suffocating, decapitating or beating. Celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, George Lopez, Moby, Rosie O'Donnell, Mickey Rourke and Larry Wilmore seem to relish the media attention as they discuss or demonstrate what they consider to be creative ways to kill the president. It is hard to determine whether their tweets and outbursts are designed to restore sagging careers, are heartfelt expressions of pure hatred, or both. We saw something similar to the current climate of threatened violence during the re-election campaign and second presidential term of George W. Bush. A few columnists, documentary filmmakers and novelists went well beyond the boilerplate invective of calling Bush a fascist, racist, Nazi and war criminal, and imagined his assassination in a variety of ways. But we are now well beyond even that rhetorical violence. Trump and his critics often go at it relentlessly in interviews, in Twitter wars, and on television and radio. No insult seems too petty for Trump to ignore. Yet progressives like Biden and Booker seem to think that by bragging of wanting to do violence to the president, they will rev up their base and win attention, as if physical violence is justified by Trump's unorthodox presidency. Nonetheless, the current climate is becoming scary. Those who brag of wanting to violently attack the president should worry about where their boasts will finally lead if any of the thousands of James Hodgkinsons in America take such threats seriously and act upon them.
Poster Comment: Long past time to take the gloves off and beat the hell out of the Democrat Communist Party liars! When do insults become fighting words? What Democrats hate more than anything else is someone fighting back ferociously. They don't know how to handle it because Republicans for too long have been " noble ". Well, RINOS, you can keep your pinkies up while they slip the noose around your necks. As for me, I'll back the guy who's willing to go down swinging when especially now that our republic may cease after it is handed over to Godless, baby killing, homosexual assholes.
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
Add Jeff Daniels who said the Democrats must nominate a candidate who can take President Trump head on and "punch him in the face" in order to defeat him in 2020.
So how many guys did Biden actually beat up in high school? I'd like to know the names and the circumstances of Vigilante Joe giving a beating to these kids in his high school. Maybe Joe was just a bully himself. He's lied about so many other things, nothing can be taken at face value. Is there any basis to this? It sounds entirely phony, about like George Washington actually chopping down a cherry tree.
Joe was a Scranton, PA guy who infamously traveled back to the town of his childhood and nobody knew who the hell he was.
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
I'd love to see more exposes of Biden. I think he's a liar and always has been. Not sure how much mileage that would get any of his opponents though. I suppose all the Dems already know he's a liar as well as a groper of women and young girls. Ahem...that pic might be Fake News.
Celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, George Lopez, Moby, Rosie O'Donnell, Mickey Rourke and Larry Wilmore seem to relish the media attention as they discuss or demonstrate what they consider to be creative ways to kill the president.
#2. To: IbJensen (#0)
In March 2018, Biden huffed, "They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, 'If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him."
"The idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump? ... He's the bully that I've always stood up to. He's the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I'd smack him in the mouth."
#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)
#4. To: IbJensen (#3)
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Joe was a Scranton, PA guy who infamously traveled back to the town of his childhood and nobody knew who the hell he was.
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