Comments by "J Groovy" (@jgroovy1973) on "Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc's disturbing social media posts" video.
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Both sides have fringe elements. There's a difference between officials and non-officials inciting and perpetrating violence. Maxine Waters incited harassment, not violence, and it was wrong. Hillary used a poor choice of words in saying you can't respond to incivility with civility, but it's far from a call to violence. Eric Holder said, "When they go low, we kick 'em", and immediately clarified that it was a figure of speech akin to "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight", which is obviously figurative. Trump holds the highest office. He exploits the violent minded and unstable - ON PURPOSE, REPEATEDLY. "You 2nd Amendment people.., " was obviously a deliberate appeal to the unstable. He called for police brutality. He keeps calling the press "the enemy of the people", even after a nut threatened a newspaper with that phrase. 20 guns were found in his home. Trump continues after a US resident journalist was brutally killed by the Saudis. He praised a Republican politician who body slammed a reporter. He literally calls for violence at rallies, once telling the crowd to hit reporters and he'd pay their legal bills. There are a dozen more examples of Trump LITERALLY glorifying violence. You can't have it both ways, saying his words are figurative while Waters' aren't. A Republican candidate made an ad about stomping an opponent with golf spikes. Another talked about hunting illegal "aliens" with a gun. The "pizzagate" shooter was a right-winger. Members of the Trump camp pushed that crap online. The mail bomber is a Trump follower. All of the racial hate groups are on the right, and say Trump supports them. He has done little to denounce that support. All of the militias are right wing. The Proud Boys are right-wing. If you don't want to own them, don't say liberals own Antifa or the nut who shot-up the softball game. With 320 million people here, there will always be a fringe, but it's clearly the public figures on the right, especially the guy at the top, who exploit the violent minded. Trump even blamed the press for the political climate after the mail bombings. Ironic, since it was Democrats who were targeted by a Trump follower, and ironic that Republicans have Congress, the White House, and SCOTUS. Grievance turns out more voters than satisfaction, so it's pretty obvious why, after the Kavanaugh win, the Republicans employed a strategy of fear about the caravan and how males are being "falsely" targeted for sex crimes. Republicans "go low" as a matter of practice.
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Both sides have fringe elements. There's a difference between officials and non-officials inciting and perpetrating violence. Maxine Waters incited harassment, not violence, and it was wrong. Hillary used a poor choice of words in saying you can't respond to incivility with civility, but it's far from a call to violence. Eric Holder said, "When they go low, we kick 'em", and immediately clarified that it was a figure of speech akin to "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight", which is obviously figurative. Trump holds the highest office. He exploits the violent minded and unstable - ON PURPOSE, REPEATEDLY. "You 2nd Amendment people.., " was obviously a deliberate appeal to the unstable. He called for police brutality. He keeps calling the press "the enemy of the people", even after a nut threatened a newspaper with that phrase. 20 guns were found in his home. Trump continues after a US resident journalist was brutally killed by the Saudis. He praised a Republican politician who body slammed a reporter. He literally calls for violence at rallies, once telling the crowd to hit reporters and he'd pay their legal bills. There are a dozen more examples of Trump LITERALLY glorifying violence. You can't have it both ways, saying his words are figurative while Waters' aren't. A Republican candidate made an ad about stomping an opponent with golf spikes. Another talked about hunting illegal "aliens" with a gun. The "pizzagate" shooter was a right-winger. Members of the Trump camp pushed that crap online. The mail bomber is a Trump follower. All of the racial hate groups are on the right, and say Trump supports them. He has done little to denounce that support. All of the militias are right wing. The Proud Boys are right-wing. If you don't want to own them, don't say liberals own Antifa or the nut who shot-up the softball game. With 320 million people here, there will always be a fringe, but it's clearly the public figures on the right, especially the guy at the top, who exploit the violent minded. Trump even blamed the press for the political climate after the mail bombings. Ironic, since it was Democrats who were targeted by a Trump follower, and ironic that Republicans have Congress, the White House, and SCOTUS. Grievance turns out more voters than satisfaction, so it's pretty obvious why, after the Kavanaugh win, the Republicans employed a strategy of fear about the caravan and how males are being "falsely" targeted for sex crimes. Republicans "go low" as a matter of practice.
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