Steve Schmidt: "It looks like someone finally took Trump both literally and seriously."

[Miles Archer]

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Trump has stoked a cold civil war in this Country. His rallies brim with menace and he has labeled journalists as enemies of the people. That someone would seek to kill their political enemies is not aberrational but rather the inevitable consequence of Trumps incitement.

9:08 AM - 24 Oct 2018

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The targets are political not coincidental. Trump, the greatest demagogue in American history has celebrated violence over and over again. It looks like someone finally took Trump both literally and seriously. The WH will feign outrage when this obvious point is made.

9:08 AM - 24 Oct 2018

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No journalist or commentator should be intimidated from making this point. The stoking of hatred and sundering of the American people was always going to lead to terrible consequences. Chief amongst them would be the initiation of partisan or sectarian violence within our country

9:08 AM - 24 Oct 2018

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[beachbum bob]

1. The real violence will happen on Election Day as that is the last play

that can be done so we must prepare. Demanding local and state authorities to guarantee every voters right to safely vote. Not that hard to see where the trouble could happen.

Make no mistake, a real possibility.

[TwistOneUp]

14. Which is why, if you can, vote early or by mail.

And if you vote by mail, make sure your postal worker is a Dem, or walk the ballot to the post office. Do not use a return address, as votes with an address "in a Dem area" could go missing...

[True Blue American]

30. Already sent in. Almost everyone I know is voting early.

[True Blue American]

32. I always take mine to my Postoffice.

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They hate Republicans!because of the pension bill.

I sure goofed this post up.

[lagomorph777]

65. "They hate Dems because of the pension bill." - ???

The prefunding nonsense is a Republican mess. Why would that make them hate Dems? They've fallen for propaganda?

[True Blue American]

66. Big boo boo

On my part! Sorry! Upset today.

[CottonBear]

62. Do not vote by absentee mail in ballot in GA!

Even with the recent lawsuit and judge’s orders, there is no guarantee that mail in ballots will ever be counted.

Go to an early voting site in your city or county. Call your local BoE for locations and times.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. yup, and you can bet, if Trump thugs do cause injuries, polling closures..

They will then use that incident and describe it as Democrats, or Anti-Fa, or Planned Parenthood, Soros, who started it. And his poor white Christian American-loving Trump supporters were the victims. That it was Democrats that were trying to shut down democracy because a Republican was going to win.

[gratuitous]

2. Cue the civility police!

My word, how can that awful man go around making baseless accusations on twitter like that? So unseemly! That is a privilege reserved solely for the Emperor Trump. Mobilize the fainting couches, stat!

[smirkymonkey]

3. I lay the blame solely at Trump's feet.

He has been stoking this since the day he announce he was running. This has been his plan all along. To get his minions to enact revenge on HIS enemies. He is an out of control danger to this nation and to the world. Somebody - or many somebodies - have got to stop him now. This can only get worse.

[Martin Eden]

13. This has been many years in the making, long before Trump entered politics

The propaganda of the rightwing noise machine has been demonizing Democrats and the "liberal media" for decades.

Trump's more obvious and open dog whistles to racism and violence provided a catalyst and a Dear Leader at the very top to embody and focus all this latent fascism.

[DBoon]

29. I lay the blame at Newt Gingrinch's feet

He is responsible for the shift in the Republican Party during the 1990s, from viewing the Democrats as being honorable opponents with whom Republicans could negotiate to being enemies worthy of extermination

[True Blue American]

31. Newt started the hate fest

Republicans rioted in Florida. DeLay,Scarborough, the whole bunch became worse culmimating in Trump, Mitch,the Freedom caucus and all the rest. The sleazy Lindsey Grahams, Kennedy the whole bunch.

[DBoon]

33. and remember the new Department of Homeland Security being sent after Texas Democrats

Who refused to show up for a legislative vote in order to prevent a quorum.

Federal anti-terrorism police being sent after elected representative for a parliamentary maneuver.

[Pity Puddles]

59. The Killer D's

Bravest group i've ever seen defying the Texas House and Texas Senate.

[bdamomma]

46. That bastard

has he (tRump) said anything about these bombings??? fucking coward.

[Garrett78]

4. While the bomb mailings are extreme, this is hardly the first act of violence in the Trump era.

[Grasswire2]

5. As I've said -- he's the ringmaster in his theatrical extravaganza.

Shock and awe, baby.

It's going to get worse now.

Lay in some food and water.

[Gothmog]

6. Yep

[duforsure]

7. Could this all be from Putin ?

He also used others in Russia to carry out bombings of apartment building to promote himself with there in russia. Is he now doing this here using trump to do it with , and to create more chaos and fear just before this election?

[debsy]

10. I share this thought.

Put nothing past that monster.

[Hekate]

24. No. We have always had our home-grown terrorists: Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Tim McVeigh...

The list of white, male, native-born Americans with a grudge is long and persistent in our history. To keep passing them off as "lone wolves" is to miss the point completely: sometimes they have a support network like Rudolph, sometimes they play their part in stochastic terrorism, and sometimes they are certifiable like Kaczynski -- but they are terrorists and we need to start calling them that when we speak of their kind.

But to your point: all Putin needs to do is give them a nudge. They will do the rest on their own.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

52. Aka proud boys et.al

the Klan..etc. Republicans in general.
GOP= The Ugly Unamericans.

[Pity Puddles]

60. Call them the Vile Boys..

That's exactly what they are, CC

[bora13]

8. "Accidentally Like A Martyr"

[Paladin]

9. Steve Schmidt speaks for me.

Democrats: Quit minimizing the perilous circumstances we're faced with, at this very moment. Absent a profound and overwhelming anti-trump showing at the midterms, there is absolutely nothing to prevent things from getting worse and worse. Quit trashing the alarm-sounders---they're correct in their warnings.

[bronxiteforever]

11. Totally agree+1000

[durablend]

12. Thank you

The "it could never happen" bullshit is getting tiring.

[BigmanPigman]

16. I agree...This is real and will get worse.

[bdamomma]

47. they want

to instill FEAR big time. And their ring leader tRump is doing it.

[BigmanPigman]

49. I just read an interview with Anthony Bourdain and posted part of it...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12162861

[MontanaMama]

15. If you can, vote EARLY.

This may escalate near and or on Election Day in an effort to keep us from the polls.

[world wide wally]

17. Everybody knows Trump is ultimately responsible

[The Liberal Lion]

40. Not ultimately, but IS responsible.

[Ilsa]

18. Interesting, but I think this was already in the works:

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Interesting timing after Trump just declared himself a “Nationalist”. Was that a “GO” signal?

12:22 PM - Oct 24, 2018

[Haggis for Breakfast]

45. My only argument with Steve Schmidt

Would be that this is NOT a "cold" civil war.

The hatred of these people is white hot. And getting hotter every day. As we approach the election, it is becoming less and less civil, too.

I worry that when dems are elected this time around that there will be haters who will try to prevent them from taking office. By force.

[calimary]

19. YOU built this, GOP.

THIS is the logical and inevitable conclusion of all that hate-mongering and fear stirring on the far right over the years. Since the rise of hate radio and Pox Noise and the fire ‘n’ brimstone crap and “babykiller” crap and “death panels” crap and more - THIS is where that shit leads to.

[Scarsdale]

23. They know that.

Now the deplorables can chant "Blow her up" instead of "Lock her up" Disgusting acts of cowardice from the tRump followers. I thought the democratic side had all the angry mobs? That is what the gop keeps parroting from their perches. Strange how each one of them chants the same mantra.

[The Liberal Lion]

39. someday in history we will find that trump was far more in control than we want to admit

No, he's not in control of the daily minutiae involved with being a traditional president, but rather in total control of spreading terror throughout our land. He has no power unless we are terrified.

[aeromanKC]

20. Today's MAGAbomber is not alone

There is a an army out there of MAGAbomber's

They are unhinged and Trump stokes the flames everyday in his tweets and rallies.

[watoos]

22. You know what scares the shit out of me?

Something doesn't smell right. Gawd I hope I am wrong, I worry that this may be Trump's false flag operation. Some left wing kook is going to be blamed and he will get gunned down in a hail of bullets.

[DBoon]

28. like the Reichstag fire?

Where a mentally disabled Dutch Communist was blamed?

[uponit7771]

41. +1, I put nothing past those dumb bastards

[LuckyLib]

53. The October surprise! Why are we not surprised!

[zentrum]

25. They actually want a hot

....civil war.

[njhoneybadger]

26. They should be able to find the culprit in a few days

I hope they don't shoot him.

[bdamomma]

48. Culprits

not only one person.

[njhoneybadger]

54. Yes, seems like a group

[DBoon]

27. Trump has Balkanized us

quite literally

[lamp_shade]

35. He just added this....

"White nationalists received the message loud and clear. They have been mainstreamed as part of Trumps coalition of the vile. They are welcome at the party and they are ascendant. Delusion is not a virtue when the country edges closer and closer to political violence"

[pdsimdars]

36. Aren't there laws about inciting violence?

Oh, I forgot, if there were laws, he'd be above them.

[True Blue American]

37. CNN Receieved a Hate Email

Just as the news was breaking about the bomb,signed by Lara Trump, Eric’s wife!

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-campaign-sent-email-attacking-cnn-network-was-responding-bomb-its?src=newsletter1097330

[The Liberal Lion]

38. These incidents are not happening because of trump's speech but rather

are happening on direct order from the White House. These are actions meant to intimidate. I reiterate, these actions are not the result of trump's rhetoric, but rather the result of direct order.

[Cha]

42. Retweeted!

[hibbing]

43. It's a feature not a bug n/t

[xxqqqzme]

44. Plus king con

has been lukewarm in his response to the assassination of Khashoggi. It all adds up.

[Beartracks]

50. Republicans be like "Sorry, Not Sorry." n/ t

[FloridaBlues]

51. Best response of the day goes to Schmidt!

[ecstatic]

56. Not to mention the sexual assaults his rhetoric has encouraged

on planes and what not. How much longer will we be subjected to such a vile POS?

[luvallpeeps]

57. only a matter of time

He's been doing this since jump street. Remember his reaction to the violence in Charleston? His both sides do it bullshit. He has the audacity to call the media out on their viciousness? Talk about a snowflake. Every other president has had to answer to the American people through the media asking the pertinent questions. Then he pretends THEY'RE the problem! The guy is such a piece of work.

[Progressive Jones]

58. For safety's sake, I will be legally armed when I go to the polls. nt

[duforsure]

61. Is this the actions of putin

By using trump to weaponize the office of the President against us? He's used bombings before for political gains.

[UCmeNdc]

63. Fascism comes to the United States.

Trump is inciting killers to kill his political opposition.

[lagomorph777]

64. Red Menace: the Republican War On America is now kinetic.

Purge the pigs.