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Rep. Joe Kennedy Beautifully Calls Out Trumps MAGA Bombing Failure
JASON EASLEY at Politicus USA
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/10/26/rep-joe-kennedy-beautifully-calls-out-trumps-maga-bombing-failure.html
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I think we have seen throughout certainly American history and recent history acts of political violence are unfortunately have occurred. That obviously is nothing new. I do think that dehumanization of the other, of whether thats Democrats and Republicans and just people that dont believe in what your current political ideology might be is dangerous. Now, I think this goes well beyond questions about civility. Civility itself does not nice words dont excuse this type of action, and so there needs to be a robust response from law enforcement and, yes, every other institution that weve got to ensure that this is not okay. Look, lets be very clear.
The President Of The United States had an opportunity to try to bring the country together around this, and he chose to scapegoat the media, and thats disappointing. That is not surprising, but rather than taking this moment to recognize that while this the culture that we are in, the discussions that we have, the heated rhetoric is something that we all play a part in and doing had his part to pull it down, he missed that opportunity.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)" think we have seen throughout certainly American history" -
dameatball
(7,398 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)WTF...we are busy "bringing the country together" while the R assholes are blowing it up. I know that Democrats are civilized...but we need someone like Avenatti to blast their little fiefdoms to the political hell they came from. I've had it with being nice and understanding...tell it like it is...a racist, white suprematist, KKK political hit team is doing the Rs work. That's what we need to "come together on"...this is freaking assassination and domestic terrorism inspired by IQ45. Democrats and Moderate Republicans (if they exist anymore) stand up for The People.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Cha
(297,304 posts)applegrove
(118,683 posts)the Press and all the others are supposed to criticize him. That is their actual job. He takes it personally or doesn't want to be seen humanizing any of the victims of this terrorism. He's so selfish. Children could have been killed. The press should ask him about that. Ask him about Hillary's grandchildren or the Obama's kids who could have been home when the bombs went off. See if that wakes him up to his role as the leader of a large group of humans since he can't see the parents as human and doesn't want his base to see them as human beings with value either.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He is sending a coded message to his hate filled supporters that they need to double down. He wants them packing the polls. If everyone that think like us, even EVERY moral American don't see that and insure that the MAGATS are crushed on November 6, then we are truly lost as a society.
EleanorR
(2,393 posts)Vilifying immigrants allowed his followers to find it acceptable to snatch babies from their parents arms and put them in cages, never to see their parents again. And now its allowing them to find it acceptable to send bombs to Democrats.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I read a news article early tonight about a guy who dressed his son up as Adolph Hitler, while the dad dressed as a Waffen SS officer. It was all for a trick or treat event through the downtown business district. The dad claimed to have dressed himself and the kid as historical figures. Yet, he himself had a perfectly fitting Waffen SS uniform, something is wrong with that picture. The dad sounds like a Nazi sympathizer and was trying to pull a fast one at a public event. Then he was upset when the rest of the people at the event went apeshit over how he and his son were dressed.
Trump has invited all types of vile conduct into the open, Nazi sympathizers dressing like such in public, white supremacists openly marching and beating up people, teachers and principals saying openly racist or sexist things. The only good thing is that they are losing jobs and are likely not to find others unless they move and change their names.