Saturday, July 13, 2024

Trump Shooting

He actually said this regarding the shooting at Donald Trump:

If it isn't apparent enough who God wants to win. When you try and kill God's angels and saviors of the world it just makes them bigger.

-- Jake Paul

Our ability to conflate things is nothing short of astounding sometimes. I guess this is what you do when over 25 million people follow you on social media....

Even worse is when that conflation is simultaneously institutionalized and commercialized by a political party:

The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.

-- J.D. Vance 

If this isn't a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.  And, if the last 50 years has led to this, I am actually embarrassed that I was ever a Republican.  They can invoke Lincoln all they want, but their practices, especially related to cultural warfare, pretty much shows they really don't believe very much at all of what he was about.

The rhetoric represented in these two examples is revolting.