I’m not entirely sure Trump knows that wrestling isn’t real. In his own mind he probably thinks he legitimately beat up Vince McMahon and everyone was amazed by how strong and powerful he was.
Anti-Trump hysteria is not an election strategy, and the Democrats need to develop one. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have expectations and call people out when lines are crossed.
You are deflecting. We were talking about people in this thread, now you are talking about CNN.
As CNN, or the media, I would take such a threat more seriously, as it is directed at them, not at me. I do not consider the clip as a general incitement to violence, but more of a threat to the media. His overall behavior and rhetoric I would say encourages violence amongst his followers, but this tweet was not that. It was just a threat, not an incitement.
Just out of curiosity, do you understand anything about context?
Would you consider a small child pointing his finger at you and saying “bang, bang” to be the same type of threat as a grown adult pointing a gun at your head, and saying “BANG! BANG!”?
If you do not understand the difference, then I guess I can understand why you cannot tell the difference between the actions of a comedian that no one has cared about for decades and that of the president that you voted for.
Exactly. Calling him out this kind of over the top behavior is not hysteria. Nor is it an election strategy. We like this country as much as the republicans do and we are trying to do what’s best for it. Calling out dangerous actions is part of that. And it’s the proper thing to do. Trump shouldn’t be allowed to bully people with impunity.
Each incident should be noted, if not dwelt upon, so those who’ve chained their necks to the anvil-in-chief are forced to exercise their “yeah but what about” skills to the point of exhaustion until the last square inch of the floe melts away.
Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.
The only problem: It wasn’t true.
The precise origins of the rumor are difficult to pin down, but it had been ricocheting around social media for days before Markey’s interview. The story had no reliable sourcing, and not a single credible news outlet touched it—but it had been fervently championed by The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories, and by anti-Trump Twitter crusaders like Louise Mensch. Soon enough, prominent people with blue checkmarks by their names were amplifying it with “Big if true”-type Tweets. And by May 11, the story had migrated from the bowels of the internet to the mouth of a United States senator.
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In recent months, some of the most irresponsible actors in this world have proven alarmingly adept at influencing venerated figures of the left—from public intellectuals, to world-famous celebrities, to elected officials.
So you don’t know where it came from. You’re relying on anonymous sources again.
If this was already on social media, how could he deliver it? It’s already known.
Thank you, Okrahoma. It is a troubling trend, and I’ve personally been very alarmed by the skyrocketing popularity and widespread influence of the Palmer Report and Louise Mensch on the Left ever since I first heard about them a few seconds ago when I read your post.
Were you aware that at least the last 5 presidents have also been cast as the Caesar character in productions of Julius Caesar over the last couple decades? Do you know what the play actually means?
Yes. You’re mistaking me for someone who thinks that the play incited murder. I don’t think it did. And I don’t think Trump’s joke was inciting violence. But if someone thinks that Trump’s tweet “incited violence” then logically they have to admit that the play incited murder.
