Republicans pounce! Democrats say GOP shouldn't "politicize" latest attack on Trump | Hour 2

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I mean, because if the Democrats in media, but I repeat myself, if they are not looking out for Republicans political interest, really, who is you know? So this helpful advice from reporter Emily Koshinski at Politico headline after White House Correspondence dinner shooting Republicans blame Democrats for political rhetoric. Remember journalisming rule number two. When the scandal involves a Republican, then the story is the scandal. But when they when a scandal involves a Democrat, the story is the Republican response to that scandal. Okay, very important you keep these rules in mind, particularly this one, because this is that rule applies here. Okay, So here's how she begins. It's becoming a pattern, a possible threat to President Donald Trump's life, calls from both sides to turn down the temperature, and then a pivot. Guess who's doing the pivoting. Hm. Hm, take a guess. It's those pouncing Republicans. You guessed it. Yeah, Republicans on Sunday rushed to turn the shooting at the White House correspondent's dinner into a campaign cudgel, accusing Democrats of opening the door to political violence with dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric against the president. And they're leveraging the attempted security breach to try and break the congressional stalemate over Department of Homeland Security funding. Yeah, because the Secret Service hasn't been paid in over two months, right, So yes, I can see why that would be related. Why you would why you could point to that and say, look, guys, maybe we should fund DHS. Now, you know, so this Republicans are rushing to turn the event, you know, to their advantage. That's that's pouncing. Less than twenty four hours after calling on Americans to resolve our differences, Trump said in an interview with CBS's sixty Minutes that quote, I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats is very dangerous. Yes, it is, right, it obviously it is. You don't get a manifesto that reads like every poster board at an O King's rally, you know, you don't get that if there isn't somebody else amplifying those slogans, like the entire Democrat Party and the media. So yes. Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruders cast Saturday's incident as the inevitable result of a radicalized left that has normalized political violence. Yes, it has. There is a chunk of the Democrat base that is fine with political violence, and they are platforming people who are making this case. This guy last week, Hassan Piker, he's a Twitch streamer, twitches a platform. I don't think he actually twitches or is that what do you call it? Do you say that you're twitching if you're live streaming on Twitch? I don't know anyway. This guy is like NEPO baby silver spoon in the mouth and is a full blown comi And sits down in an interview with The New York Times last week and justifies the murder of the United Healthcare CEO because he called it social murder, and he quotes angles commy right, and this is who you're platforming. You're injecting this corruption directly into the New York Times readership. Good job, Eric Adams. He actually put out a tweet about this. He says, last night, another act of political violence shook the nation. At this point, no one should be surprised. And then he lists a bunch of quotes like the president is a fascist, Eat the rich, let the streets soak in capitalist's blood. That was a Hassan Piker quote, Globalize the Intifada by any means necessary. He says, this isn't fringe rhetoric anymore. It's been normalized, echoed on campaign trails and amplified on podcasts where politicians regularly appear. You don't get to indulge this language. Elevate those who use it and then act shocked when it turns into violence. We need to get back to sanity before we lose our country. Eric Adams, former mayor of New York City, is exactly right Back to the Politico article, Official GOP social media counts accused prominent battleground candidates of stoking political tensions. Quote. Democrats like Abdul l sayed, fuel this hate that came from the Senate campaign arm talking about the leftist candidate up in Michigan. In Maine, the group posted that Graham Platner, who's leading in the primary polling right now on the Democrat side, and Platner had said that violence with a gun was a necessary means to achieving social change. Yeah, because Platner had a whole bunch of old posts up on Reddit, which is a cesspool, a whole bunch of Reddit posts that he then deleted and then disavowed. Also here in North Carolina, an RNC account criticized Roy Cooper for not publicly condemning the attack while previously calling Trump a quote significant threat to our democracy. It's a playbook Republicans forged in the aftermath of the two assassinations attempts against Trump in twenty twenty four, which like, do you even hear what you just said there? Ms Kashinski the playbook that Republicans forged in the aftermath of two other assassination attempts, So like this is just a playbook, Like this is just a strategy we're using. Could it be like, hey, guys, you are inciting violence against our candidate. You need to stop saying these things because they're not true and you're inciting crazies. And her response is to then critique the strategy, like, oh, look at this tactic that they're using in response to two assassination attempts. We are now at up to four against this one guy. When early calls for unity gave way to accusations that Democrats had spent years stoking threats of violence against the President by casting him as a threat to democrase. Yes, correct, Yes, your actions, your speech has consequences. You used to say that about Trump. You guys actually made that argument in the wake of the assassination attempts. You guys said that he was bringing it on himself, that he was causing these attempts, not you him. Right, they've deployed it amid a surge in high profile incidents of political violence, including last year's killing of Charlie Kirk, when top Republicans from Trump down blamed the radical left for inciting political violence. Yes, because you're your rhetoric has not toned down even after Charlie Kirk was murdered. You guys, you keep doing it. You're not stopping. So yes, we're going to keep saying you need to stop. It's not really that much of a strategy. Really, it's just like be a decent person. You know. There's no evidence, she says that democrats rhetoric was behind either of the assassination attempts Donald Trump in. Twenty twenty four. That's it, No evidence that Democrat rhetoric had anything to do with that. Me. They just you know, wrote manifestos and stuff and posted online slogans that Democrats say and are chanted at the No Kings protests and all of that. But there's no evidence connecting. We may never know the motive in this case. Either. It's a brainbuster. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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Republicans are saying, guys, you can't keep calling President Trump hitler and a fascist and all of these things without inciting these kinds of attacks, So please stop. And the Democrats are saying, no, we're not going to stop. In fact, they can't. They can't tone it down. Their base demands that they fight harder, right. I mean, they've we've been covering the pulling on this for the last four years, Democrats. That's why the Democrat approval numbers are so low as a party. It's because a very large chunk of their own voters are mad at them because they think they're not fighting Trump hard enough, because we're going to lose the democracy. And they are constantly reinforced in this belief by media outlets and Democrat politicians that they believe are mainstream quote unquote here in America, said House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. Here in America, we can have strong disagreements, but it's important for us to agree to strongly disagree without being disagreeable with each other. And it is certainly the case that violence is never the answer, whether it's targeted at the right, the left, or the center. What she omits from the story is just last week Hakim Jeffries said we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time, maximum warfare with Republicans, and so people were pointing this out, and then he responded to the critics again on Twitter, saying America will not be lectured about civility by far right extremists in Congress, which I guess are all the Republicans see again, like you're they're not toning it down. They cannot. They're in a box, and they're only going to get more and more radical, particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January sixth. Don't actually believe that happened. But there will be ample time to vigorously debate the issues of the day. Now is the time to unify with these far right extremists. In Congress like this. It's just absurd, and they get away with it because you just saw the example in Politico. The reporter just lets him say what he says and puts it in quotes and moves on and I will omit the earlier reference to maximum warfare everywhere all the time. Do you think maybe that would be an example of, you know, ratcheting up the violent imagery. She goes on to say, then, it was not immediately clear what motivated Saturday's attack, though the man being held in connection with the incident reportedly criticized Trump administration policies. Is that what he was doing, He was just criticizing the policies because he was he called a pedophile and a rapist and a trader. I'm not sure those are policy prescriptions that he's disagreeing with, you know, I kind of feel like those might be a little. Bit more of the personal attack. You know. The Democrat running for Senate up in Michigan, l saied he was at a fighting the oligarchy rally last year and he said, when they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the ground and choke them out. Might that be an example of some violent imageries giving off serious Mo Davis vibes? Remembermo Davis ran for Congress against Madison Cawthorne out in the western part of the state here, and I surfaced a bunch of his old tweets where he was fantasizing, like in a creepy way, in great detail, fantasizing about stomping his political opponents into the pavement and then grinding their grinding his heel onto their necks until you could hear the snap of the bones. I mean, really graphic stuff. So yeah, kind of like that. Senate Republicans campaign Arms circulated that clip yesterday, and then in a statement in response, L. Saed criticized those attacks, saying there's never any excuse for political violence and calling on everyone regardless of party to bring the rhetoric down, but not me. It's sad to see the NRSC shamelessly politicize this awful act so quickly. Well, here's the thing, guys, Republicans believe what they're telling you. Republicans. I believe it. I believe that you guys have used increasingly violent imagery over the last fifteen years. You used to just like do videos where you kind of sort of got the impression that Paul Ryan was murdering an elderly woman, you know, tossing her over a cliff. Right, because they were he was gonna kill granny. Right. When you do that, when you start ratcheting that kind of imagery up. People respond to it, and the unstable people respond to it. This is what you told us too about Donald Trump. You were saying the very same thing. I was critical of Donald Trump's language and the way he would, you know, like telling people in the audience at that one event, remember like rough them up and all this, Like you shouldn't be doing any of that because you don't want to give any signal to any crazies that this is permitted. Because if you give them a signal that it's permitted, they're crazy. They're going to think it's permitted. Then it goes on to quote you know J six. Of course, Republicans have yet to put any significant cash behind a line of attack that was still taking shape on Sunday and playing out largely on social media and in public statements. Still Democrats called for them to back down. So just stop noticing, right, So the problem isn't that you are participating in ramping up the violence. That's not the problem. The problem is that Republicans notice the role that you are playing in this dangerous game. Anthony Abidis is a writer. He says the Libs are desperately trying to obfuscate the assassin's motivations because their social media histories mirror the assassin's manifesto. That's exactly right, Eric Ericsson, talk show host out of Atlanta. He says under a sub stack post, I believe this morning headline. They are not all right. He says, progressive seems split between them being false flags and upset that they failed on these multiple assassination attempts. If you go over to Blue Sky, which I do not recommend, it's toxic, there's a split in the way people are responding the way these progressives are responding, and like half of them think like this was all stage. This was a false flag in order to distract away from something whatever they want to fill in the blank on that one. But then they're also upset that it failed. That's the other camp. That's basically it. The He goes on to say, when right wing violence happens, the American press Corps and the Democrats combined to hold the right collectively responsible for any and all rhetoric that might have inspired the violence. The only time the left rejects collective responsibility is when a progressive opens fire. Then and only then is it just the individual and no one else has any responsibility, no connection to anything at all. After Charlie Kirk's assassination, progressives insisted that it had to be a right winger who fired the fatal shot. Heather Cox Richardson, the most widely read person on substack, gave her readers permission to believe someone from the right opened fire. Now there would be Trump assassin this time was also active on Blue Sky, which is an incubator for left wing insanity. He argued that anybody who voluntarily attended an event with Trump could be shot because no one should want to hang out with Trump. O. Wait, well, that that logic seemed pretty straightforward, right. The no good person would hang out with Trump is a common argument on the left these days. Cause you weren't aware. That's what a lot of folks talk about, and they say, you know, oh, I used to like this guy, but then he went and did something with Trump, and so now he's dead to me. Right. According to the Network Contagion Research Institute, fifty six percent of self described left wing voters justified the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, a significant number. You hear that fifty six percent justified the attempted murder of the president. A significant number of progressives also justify the murder of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Notably, Hassan Piker made this case. I mentioned earlier James Hodgkinson, who attempted the mass assassination of Republican members of Congress Member Floyd Lee Corkins. He attempted the mass murder of employees at the Family Research Council. Even as the left has become more and more violent, the rhetoric of the left inspiring the violence has not toned down. A fair press would hold the left accountable for that rhetoric, but we do not have a fair press. Instead, they will insist that Donald Trump is responsible. But it sure seems to me that the real threat to democracy is all the progressives trying to murder the guy who won the popular vote. That's Eric Erickson. This is from Christian Hines podcaster. I think it was chief of staff for former Virginia Delegate Nick Fretis. He's sometimes called the Oracle of Virginia Christian Hines. He says, your neighbor with a hate has no home here. Signed simultaneously thinks that all the assassination attempts against Trump have been staged, and that somebody needs to finally do it because hate has no home here, right Dan Dillon the CEO of Not the Bee, which is the sister outlet to the Babylon Bee that is run by Dan Dillon's brother, Seth Dylon. Dan Dillon, he says, one side of the political spectrum keeps trying to kill the other side. One side celebrates murdering babies, selling their body parts, chopping off kids genitals. One side continuously releases violent, repeat criminals that are preying on women and children while lying and saying that they support women and children. One side wants dudes to compete against our girls in sports, force them to change in the locker room together. One side willingly invites criminals and miscreants from the Third World to live among us with impunity, even going as far as to protest when sex offenders are shipped back home. One side gleefully riots and burns down cities when they don't get their way. He says, this isn't hyperbole. The Democratic Party is a party of depravity. The Party of Love really wants Trump dead. The Party of Diversity demands everybody think the same. The Party of Tolerance gets violent if you disagree with them. And Democrats who may be hearing this and thinking like, oh, this is just you know, stirring the pod or you're just you know, I don't know, just doing this for show and entertainment purposes. I can assure you there are a lot of people that do believe this. They do and they're not wrong. I mean, the evidence lines up, and you can play your what about game all you want, but it doesn't negate this stuff. Two months ago, a guy named Austin Tucker Martin. Do you remember that guy? He was shot dead by Secret Service because he breached security at Mar A Lago because he wanted to kill President Trump. He also called Trump a racist and a pedophile, and was obsessed with the Epstein list, just like Cole Allen. I would submit this is evidence. So when Politico writes the article and says there's no evidence that any of these things are connected to any rhetoric of the Democrats, I would submit this is evidence. There is evidence. From the actual attackers when they say the same thing. It's kind of like when you know, after three or four hundred guys are shouting a Loha snack bar or something that sounds like that, and you know, claiming allegiance to terrorist groups. I kind of feel like there's a connection there. I kind of feel like that's evidence. You know. The reason this is a fella name Dandolf. The reason the left thinks the assassination plots are fake are because they are ideologically captured. This is how it works in their worldview. The victim gets power due to power disparity. If at any point Trump becomes the victim, who they hold as an ultimate evil Trump, well then he gets legitimacy in their worldview. So that's why it has to be staged. He cannot be the victim of this thing because that would give him this elevated status and legitimacy. So in order to prevent this from occurring, they distort reality to believe what is required for this not to occur, So the idea that it was staged becomes more believable in their worldview in order to maintain ideological congruency that Trump is evil. This is how the mind actually works. They're kind of insane, Like, if you're saying it was staged, this is you have inverted reality. That's not real let me read some text massages. Mary says, these people doing these crazy crimes are unhinged. Mental health is also proved to be much worse. On the left. Yeah, politically speaking, that is correct. Nine to eight zero number says I now suspect the Southern Poverty Law Center may may have been involved in the J six fed surrection. It would not surprise me. Seven o four number says curious why the media is not playing defend or disavow with our Democrat representative. Well, that's only a game that they play with Republicans. Seems like a good time to put that out of the magic box. Also, have I missed your friend Mike Daisley or is he laying low out of an abundance of caution? I don't know. I don't know. Beth's favorite Russ says Pete. This article sounds like a lefty mad libs version of the pouncy cz template. The author just inserts all their favorite terms and off to print. It does it very much us? Joey says leftists are calling for blood like those behind the gee hottis, but they want others to do the dirty work. Stacy says something, but it's not loading let's go up there. It is Oh my gosh, this is a man. Okay, so my brilliant president and his brilliant, classy wife showed true elegance under fire. Trump called him a deranged individual. He called the entire episode, said he wanted to continue the event and ignore the sad deranged person. What a class act. We are not a democracy, we are a republic. No mob rule. Chris Murphy needs to be arrested for treason. All your listeners should call Disney Plus and say unless Jimmy Kimmel is off the air, they'll cancel subscriptions. Money talks. Kimmel had a show called The Man Show. His second wife worked for him. What a massagist? Okay, it's kind of a stream of it was written like a poem, just like a lot of short sentences. Here, Mark said, is how many assassination attempts were there? On Joe Biden? I lost track? Was the bicycle he fell off of? Conservative? Where the steps he tripped up? Conservative? Asking for a friend? We're just asking questions? Sorry, Mark, Yeah, that's it. No, there were none that I am aware of. That's not to say there there may have been some, you know, plots that were thwarted, but I'm not aware of them. Robbin says. Here in Huntersville, I passed some protesters last week. They are the same ones that didn't know oh that did the No King's protest, and there's about six people. One of the ladies was holding a sign that said, don't believe what you are told, believe what you see. I have no words. How do you get through to people that are so deeply embedded in lies? There's well, and this goes for any kind of ideology, there has to be essentially a deprogramming. It's very difficult. Getting people out of cults is very difficult. Three three six. Don't forget what came Jeffrey said last week, Yet we covered that. Trump hater says, So now you're saying that January sixth, they didn't beat police. Yeah, no, uh, I'm not aware of like the cops getting beaten. I know that there. I know that that's a lie that is told over on the progressive Internet. But you know there was there, There was pushing and shoving. There was there was no like beatdowns of cops. That. Yeah, but that that's my recollection of it. Military Dean breaking news. He says, Trump has just entered into ceasefire talks with the Democrat Party. That I'm amazed they even came to the table. John says, would Democrat violent rhetorics stop if there were assassination attempts on the people doing it? No, they would cite them as reasons to go hard against their political opponents, because that's what they did after Jay six. Right, Like like. You for like the Trump hater on the text line, like you can try and say these things, but like I'm it's very difficult to gaslight me, okay, and mainly because I just I keep up with all of these current events and I see the way different you know, media outlets handle the stories and what gets focused on very helpful website is ground News. They show you blind spots from the left and the right stories that are not getting covered in either direction. And it's a very helpful website. But the the people who are gaslighting me, it's like, you know, I remember the speech Joe Biden gave in Philadelphia. I remember that speech, like we played sound bites from it, we talked about it at great length because of the visual impression, you know, this black and red stage, dark mood, angry, Joe angry, you know, old man yelling at clouds kind of stuff, calling everybody Nazis and fascists and whatnot. So I remember all of That's that's the way the Democrats treat any kind of rhetoric that could you know, could be thrown into the you know, stochastic terrorism bucket. So no, I think it would. I don't think it would. It would help them tone down, Like I said earlier, they can't. They have a base that requires them, that demands that they fight harder and even take bullets, like some of their supporters have said that Democrat voters are like, they need to be willing to take a bullet to stop Trump. Kathy says, The left says we'll lose democracy, all the while referring to our republic as a democracy. That's not surprising considering the left believed Kamala Harris would be the best president. Yes, Eddie says, how is Hassan Piker not in jail for instigating violence and murder? I think you could probably try to make a case there. Hate has no home here translates to home of the haters from Jeff. Dana says, what is this hashtag ballroom? Why couldn't it be from the rhetoric that spews from Trump's mouth? Just asking he does say is some provoking things if you want to be honest about it, called Cruz's wife a pig with lipstick, not to mention other derogative things he has said about people in general. But again, you can justify anybody's actions if you want to see, again, there's the what about ism? Rather than Dana addressing the obvious linkage that we now have a pattern of with these would be assassins all, you know, spouting out the no King slogans, and Dana doesn't want to address that. Dana wants to what about Trump? Be for real? Dana says, Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green and others that didn't agree with Trump have been dismissed and ostracized. Yeah, have they been? Have they been targeted for assassination? I'm not aware of Trump telling anybody to do that, so there is that difference. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too. And tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.