University of Virginia Assistant Professor Sethunya Mokoko took a break from teaching students to get the word out this week that the entire assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a staged event for suckers. Mokoko explained that it was just a ploy to get the votes of “idiots.” He, however, is available to offer sage-like clarity that the Secret Service, local police, and the Trump campaign conspired to fake the assassination, kill a bystander, and seriously wound others to get the sucker vote. He is not alone in this theory while others on the left are simply bemoaning that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.
In his tweet, Mokoko said that security ”ignored [Crooks] because trump & secrete service staged theatrics to win idiots’ vote.”
So let me get the conspiracy down. The Secret Service allowed a kid who flunked out of the high school shooting club as a bad shot to fire multiple rounds at the former president from a sloped roof at 130 yards in the hope that he would only wing him?
Mokoko previously taught at Clemson University, Gold West College, Long Beach City College and University of California, Long Beach, according to his Linkedin page.
His faculty bio states that Mokoko teaches “Race, Rhetoric, and Social Justice” and “Writing about Culture and Society.” His focus is “teaching students to appreciate and value social justice rhetorics across media; to become rhetorically listening writers, readers, and viewers; and to understand how global rhetorics shape and define agency and identification.”
He is not alone. Within minutes of the assassination attempt, the staging theory was going viral and has been picked up by many on the left. For example, actress Amanda Seales took to social media to claim that Trump used fake stage blood and sound effects to stage his assassination attempt.
“That sh** was more staged than a Tyler Perry production of Madea Runs for President. I lived in Harlem long enough to know that gunshots do not sound like making popcorn on the stove.”
She does not explain how local fireman Corey Comperatore died from the fake bullets.
Others fueled the stage conspiracy theory.
Tennessee state Rep. Antonio Parkinson posted a statement that “I certainly hope this is not a staged act. But.”
Colorado state Rep. Steve Woodrow, D-Denver, declared “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
Aberdeen, Wash., Mayor Douglas Orr declared “The shooter is dead so we will never know if this was staged. I hope I’m wrong, but because of his record of deceit, that’s the first thing that came to mind.”
Still others accepted that the shooting was real, but complain that Crooks should not have missed. Bellarmine University English instructor John James posted on Instagram: “If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss.”
Jack Black’s Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass made a wish while performing with Black that the next assassination would not miss. Various people joined in on regretting that the assassination was not successful.
This is the very face of the age of rage and shows how it is both addictive and contagious.
“trump & secrete service”? Lower-case and a misspelling? This is a university professor? (Acknowledging that that is likely an obtuse, even if rhetorical, question.)
The it-was-staged commentators have, so far, not claimed that Vladimir Putin was behind it: the actual shooter was a sharpshooter from the Russian Federation military, capable enough to hit Donald Trump’s ear – and Trump knew just when to turn – but hit Fireman Comperetore and the civilians, in a false-flag action to get the idiots to vote and get his buddy back into the Oval Office.
Never fear: Rachel Maddow, or someone at MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, etc, will figure it out, evidence notwithstanding.
Piers Morgan excerpt, regarding Biden’s interview w/ NBC’s Lester Holt two days after the shooting:
When asked for his first reaction to the shooting, Biden instantly went on his favorite Trump-bashing greatest-hits rant about January 6, Charlottesville, Nazis, both sides, etc. Think about that for a moment. Here is the president of the United States declining to even pretend to care that his immediate predecessor, and current rival for the forthcoming election, just came within an inch of being killed.
No, what was more important to “Mr. Nice Guy” Biden was that he score instant political points to imply that Trump had it coming. To his credit, Holt was having none of it, and pointed out that just days before the shooting, Biden declared Trump an “existential threat” to America and told donors: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” But even when confronted with his use of such obviously violent language, Biden scurried to avoid any responsibility for his shameful rhetoric.
“I didn’t say crosshairs!” he exclaimed, as if that made any tangible difference. They mean the same thing when used about human beings: Making someone a target. Biden then launched into another anti-Trump diatribe until Holt interjected to say: “But have you taken a step back and done a little soul-searching on things that you may have said that could incite people who are not balanced?”
It was a very pertinent question, to which Biden should have responded by saying, “Yes, I have. I regret the more inflammatory language that I, and other Democrats, have used about Donald Trump, and we must all, on both sides, dial it down to have more civilized political debate going forward.” That would have been the correct, respectful thing to say given the gravity of what happened on Saturday night. Not least when your side has spent eight years screaming that Trump is the new Adolf Hitler, and incessantly, hysterically branding him a “fascist” and “dictator” and “tyrant” and just about every other ludicrously exaggerated, offensive label they can hurl at him.
If you call someone that kind of thing often enough, and repeatedly state that they represent a clear and present danger to the country, eventually someone is going to act on it. . . . When it comes to Trump, all liberal rhetorical bets have been off for a long time — which is ironic given that the biggest problem most of his critics on the left have with him is his own incendiary rhetorical language and the way he speaks about people. Not that they would ever admit they’re part of the problem.
In response to Holt’s “soul-searching” question, Biden went on the attack against Trump again, even justifying the violent words he used about him while simultaneously denying he ever said them. “How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says?” he raged. “Do you just not say anything ’cause it may incite somebody? I have not engaged in that rhetoric … my opponent has engaged in that rhetoric.”
Yes, you damn well have engaged in it, Mr. President. Endlessly. How dare you try to pretend you haven’t. As fork-tongued Biden ranted, yet again, about January 6, and then about how Trump disgracefully mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband when he was hit with a hammer by an intruder, Holt intervened, again, to say what we were all thinking: “This doesn’t sound like you’re turning down the heat, though?” Entirely unsurprisingly, this merely prompted Biden to go off once more at Trump for election denial, packing the Supreme Court with conservatives, etc. Honestly, it was pathetic to watch.
Oldmanfromkansas,
Not only that, 2 days earlier, Biden stated that there was no place for this sort of thing in America, and said when he got to a phone he was gonna call Donald to make sure he was OK, and wish him well.
IMHO, Biden is an opportunist, a narcissist, lacks any soul, is a pathological liar, and has zero empathy – you can see that by how he treats his 7th granddaughter – refusing to publicly acknowledge her. I’d even go so far as to suggest Biden might actually be insane. Insane folks truly believe they’re in the right, and they are the “normal” ones, and everyone else is in the wrong, and abnormal. A truly sane, empathetic person would say, “Yeah, I bear responsibility for my words and actions, and, starting with me, I’ll work to tone things down.”
In an earlier post, I alluded to the story of the scorpion and the fox. Just like the scorpion, Biden simply can’t help himself, it’s in his nature.
2 people shot in the head 2 critically injured and 1 shot in her hand. Yeah seems staged to me. Was Sandy Hook staged too?
INCREDIBLE… University of Virginia Assistant Professor Sethunya Mokoko shouldn’t be given a platform to make such stupid remarks… speaking of idiots… Thanks Professor Turley for all you do…
“Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.
They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.
With Trump’s security detail understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits, Biden’s security regime diverted even more resources to a hastily planned Jill Biden event that just happened to be in the area.
Biden’s security regime then ordered the most obvious assassination perch in the entire area to remain outside the main security perimeter.
Furthermore, Biden’s Secret Service director ordered law enforcement and counter-snipers OFF the roof that the assassin used.
If that weren’t enough, Biden’s security regime also refused to block line of sight from the assasssin’s perch to Trump’s location.
When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin.
The assassin was so obviously a threat that bystanders at the event begged law enforcement to stop him, but nothing happened.
And even as snipers on the roof near Trump saw a gunman on the roof, Biden’s security regime refused to have agents immediately surround Trump and remove him from the stage to protect him from being shot.
Given the lies and nonsense from both Biden’s DHS secretary and his Secret Service director, it’s increasingly difficult to believe this was a just a series of independent mistakes. In contrast, when you look at the entire picture, what you see better resembles a deliberate plan to make Trump vulnerable but to appear at first glance to be just a couple of innocent mistakes.
And when you add in how little information we’ve been given about the about the shooter—apparently the only person on earth not on the Internet—you begin to wonder if maybe a group of people at a different three-letter agency might have been working on a parallel track to find and encourage people to take action against Trump at the very same time he was kept vulnerable by Biden’s regime.
We know this happens, because the FBI did it with Gretchen Whitmer: it recruited and urged disturbed individuals to buy weapons and put together a plan to kidnap her. In that case, the FBI wanted a story it could use to slime right-wingers. So it created the story itself.
What happens when an agency like that, or maybe even another three-letter agency, decides instead that it’s had enough of Trump? Some former FBI employees might even call it an “insurance policy.”
So who was the shooter talking to in the hours, days, and weeks ahead of the event? Who was he meeting with? Did anyone suggest or nudge or urge him to go to the Trump rally in Butler? Did anyone suggest or point out to him the building he eventually used? Was he told at any time to not worry about security?
The FBI told us almost immediately that while it couldn’t open the assassin’s phone, it knew he acted alone. That’s kind of strange, when you think about it. They told us almost immediately that they identified him by DNA, despite him having no criminal record. They also said they found explosives in his car.
Why didn’t they just identify him by his plates or registration or next of kin identification? That’s pretty weird, too.
At some point you just have to say enough with the lies. We saw what they did with the Russia hoax. We saw the Kavanaugh hoax. We saw the COVID origin hoax. We saw the Ukraine hoax, the stolen election, the J6 op, and then the armed Mar-a-Lago raid and the myriad illegal cases against Trump.
They called him Hitler. They said he was an existential threat. They said he would destroy democracy. They said he was the most dangerous person on earth.
Then the denied him security. The kept the rooftop open. They watched the shooter and did nothing. They kept Trump on that stage. And they didn’t do a damn thing until after he had been shot in the head.
And we’re all supposed to believe it was just an innocent oopsie?”
@seanmdav. Sean Davis
12:12 PM · Jul 16, 2024
“When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin.”
They had almost 30 minutes to get Trump off the stage, to wait until a potential suspicious person was checked.
The fact that no one thought to FIRST secure Trump is the tell. @KeenanPeachy
Trump will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a rally THIS Saturday with his VP running mate, JD Vance.
The man was just shot in the head a few days ago. He’s already conducted numerous press interviews, selected his VP, attended the RNC opening night in Milwaukee and now he’s off to his next rally. Astounding.
Where’s Joe Biden? At the beach again?
Stop saying he was shot in the head.
I dunno what the anatomy of the predominate life form on your planet is like, but my ears (and my eyes and nose) are part of my head.
“Trump rushed the nominating vote to preclude another assassination attempt with Vance now in line. The plan was to take out Trump, have chaos, then nominate Nick Knack Paddywhack Give a Uke a Bomb. Don’t think that some in the GOP Old Guard didn’t have their fingers in this.”
Anonymous,
Can’t disagree with what you’ve laid out here.
I hearken everyone here back to 1956. Under J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, a program, called “COINTELPRO”, was set in motion.
Originally, it was meant to go after communists. By the 1960s, though, it had morphed into something more insidious. Hoover was going after any group he considered subversive to America. In those days, that was the “New Left”. Not only did they go after them, but they also went after conservative groups which they deemed subversive.
The typical tactic was to pit the various groups against each other, fomenting violence and, in so doing, they aimed to discredit the various movements.
The whole thing finally was blown sky-high by a burglary in 1971. In 1974, the Church committee further exposed the extent to which the program went, and made recommendations for reforming the FBI.
Given everything which has come out about the FBI lately, none of this would surprise me in the least.
Also, notice this assassination attempt happened a mere 2 weeks after the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity? Biden had to decry the ruling in order to “inoculate” himself. What better way to deflect attention and build the wall of plausible deniability required for a covert op.
Combine this with the utter incompetence of this administration, and you’ve got the perfect setup. Throw in that the would-be assassin has no Internet footprint, supposedly, is a registered Republican, has no criminal record, etc, and now he’s dead and whatever he knew goes with him to the grave. What possibly could go wrong?
Republicans are the Hare, and the Democrats are the Tortoise. Slow and steady winds the race. They hate Trump so completely that they’ll keep on trying until they succeed.
Ron J. said: “it had morphed into something more insidious. Hoover was going after any group he considered subversive to America.”
And, since Hoover was a closet queen in denial with a heavy helping of paranoia on top, that was a lot of groups.
BTW I just saw a report that DHS has taken over communications between the House Subcommittee investigating the assassination attempt and the Secret Service, and has quashed scheduled appearances by SS Director and others for today that SS had already agreed to. I didn’t initially believe the attempt was a Deep State orchestrated action, but either DHS is just micromanaging out of habit, and is completely tone-deaf about how that action will be interpreted by a large part of the public, or it knows that there is something they very much need to hide.
From his UVA linked bio page
As an assistant professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Program, Mokoko will teach “Race, Rhetoric, and Social Justice” and “Writing about Culture and Society.”
There is a reason why people like Mokoko are hired to teach race and social justice. Calculus would have been beyond xis/xer/dem grasp. Any fool can learn Calculus but then again, Mokoko is a special kind of fool
Consider how calculus was taught in a textbook published in 1910
TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE PRELIMINARY TERRORS
The preliminary terror, which chokes off most fifth-form boys from even attempting to learn how to calculate, can be abolished once for all by simply stating what is the meaning – in common-sense terms – of the two principal symbols that are used in calculating.
These dreadful symbols are:
(1) d which merely means “a little bit of.”
Thus dx means a little bit of x; or du means a little bit of u. Ordinary mathematicians think it more polite to say “an element of,” instead of “a little bit of.” Just as you please. But you will find that these little bits (or elements) may be considered to be indefinitely small.
(2) ∫ which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) “the sum of.”
Thus ∫dx means the sum of all the little bits of x; or ∫dt means the sum of all the little bits of t. Ordinary mathematicians call this symbol “the integral of.” Now any fool can see that if x is considered as made up of a lot of little bits, each of which is called dx, if you add them all up together you get the sum of all the dx’s, (which is the same thing as the whole of x). The word “integral” simply means “the whole.” If you think of the duration of time for one hour, you may (if you like) think of it as cut up into 3600 little bits called seconds. The whole of the 3600 little bits added up together make one hour.
When you see an expression that begins with this terrifying symbol, you will henceforth know that it is put there merely to give you instructions that you are now to perform the operation (if you can) of totaling up all the little bits that are indicated by the symbols that follow.
That’s all.
http://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html
Elegant and simple; anyone can understand Calculus if they but apply a little effort. But then there is race and social justice.
I believe the d is for delta as in change dx/dt – a derivative
The change in x with respect to the change in time or dv/dt, the change in velocity with respect to the change in time also known as acceleration. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
Thanks to this column for identifying some of the awful and disgusting people who currently inhabit some elected offices! And for letting taxpayers, especially those in VA, know one fool who is being paid with their hard-earned $$ to “teach” others about storytelling. Perhaps this guy, with unwarranted advanced degrees, is hoping some lefty progressive leaning D will provide funding $$$ for producing his nonsensical words into some other medium.
A determined resolve to carry on undeterred is self-evident in the photo. What now remains to be seen from this moment forward is what Trump’s close encounter with death may mean for his character. While an attempted assassination does not itself dignify the victim nor necessarily render him a moral leader, the profound experience of being so nearly killed we might expect has significant consequences. A different and hopefully more sanguine Donald Trump may well emerge from what he has miraculously withstood, and only time will tell what it means for the nation.
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How is it that you expect it will change Trump ?
Quite often when the left says “character” – what they means is conformance to their political views.
Contra Left wing nuts they do not appear to be white supremecists Taking Trump’s words to heart and trying to assassinate people.
This should not be all too surprising as the ratcheting up of anxiety and depression are a self identified progressive problem and
it is people suffering from anxiey and depression that are most inclided to resolve problems through violence and most inclined to devalue their own life as well as others.
Regardless how do you expect Trump to change ?
Purportedly Trump has changed the tone of the GOP convention – from brutal (and deserved) attacks on Biden to a message of striving to unify the country.
That is a wise move. But it is also a strategic move. It is a change that someone who knows they have won makes. The election is over.
Trump is no longer trying to win the election – that has been accomplished. He is trying to win the future. Biden is no longer the obstacle.
I do not think that is a change in character.
I would note that Trump has been dynamic in his stratgey and tactics since he descended the escalator.
At the debate he let Biden fail on his own. The pundits misread how the debate would be measured – Trump did not.
He understood he did not have to win. That he could just step back and let Biden lose. And that is what he did.
The pundits set a low bar for Biden, while failing to grasp that – it is not the pundits that set the bar, it is voters.
Biden needed to demonstrate that the stories about him were false. He failed. To most of us he was not worse than normal.
People saw Biden as he has been for most of the past 8 years. He was not foaming at the mouth. He also was not competent.
He met the pundits low bar – but not the real bar.
But more important – Trump let Biden fail on his own. He did not try to help.
When your enemy is making a mistake – do not interfere.
Trump understood exactly what he had to do when he was shot. He immediately projected an image of strength.
His campaign needed that, his supporters needed that, the nation needed that, the world needed that.
In a few seconds he made it clear that Crooks had Failed and that the world would not have to deal with the disaterous Pres. Biden for 4 more years. He had likely won the election before that. But he owned the election in that moment.
JUst as Biden’s debate and interview and press conference did NOT dispell questions about his age and incompetence.
Trump rising through the Sercret Service to give a fist bump to supporters dispelled ALL questions about him.
John Say,
Having been clipped in the ear by a would be assassin Act Blue shooter, additional shots taken, tackled by SS agents, an innocent bystander killed, two others wounded, might change his out look on life.
Spending a year in Afghanistan changed mine.
It is all about perspective.
It is stunning that the shooter could place the bullet right at Trump’s head. Trump stated he turned his head to face the poster that showed the immigration data. Had he not, the bullet most certainly would have entered his brain. That the Secret Service Chief refuses to resign is appalling. The refusal to accept responsibility for their actions is a classic Leftist trait.
John Say, it is an opportune time for Trump to be able to create greater polling distance between himself and Biden. My sense is that undecided independents, republicans, and even democrats may well be moved by even the slightest changes in his demeanor. A poised, serene, and gracious Trump will assuredly not deter his base and very likely will attract those who until now have been unsure of his composure. As I watched him last night at the convention, I was encouraged with a modesty seldom if ever displayed before. He looked very much the part of someone who had experienced a defining moment in his life. If it is followed up with a constraint and humbleness in his rhetoric, we may yet have the uniter we have needed for too long now.
John Say, in case you missed it.
https://youtu.be/BylS7Izd_vg
Sen Menendez found guilty. Wait, he is a demo! Did the law fare department under Biden get confused?
Quick JT set us straight.
He WAS a democrat, he ran as an independent most recently.
So don’t fret, the dems still have the dems backs. Afterall, Schumer was friends with Menedez for decades – this verdict must be quite the shock to chucky.
Anonymous said: “He WAS a democrat, he ran as an independent most recently.”
Close, but no stogie. He served in the House from 1993 to 2006, and in the Senate from 2006 to the present, as a Democrat, and planned to run for re-election as one this year. After he was indicted, the party declined to nominate him, and he announced his INTENTION to run as an Independent. AFAIK, to date there was no substance behind that intention, and now none is likely to materialize. A real shame, because I had hopes that the prospect of Menendez splitting the blue vote might give GOP nominee Curtis Bashaw a fighting chance to win. Incidentally, Menendez has been obviously and openly corrupt for his entire Congressional career. There also have been credible allegations made in the past that he was regularly making flights to the Dominican Republic to diddle 12 yo girls. He was indicted on federal corruption charges in 2015 but benefited from a hung jury. Perhaps the fact that current NJ Governor Democrat Phil Murphy’s wife had her eye on running for Menendez’ Senate seat (she since changed here mind) resulted in a more diligent prosecution this time around? Yes, it was a Federal prosecution, but Murphy appears to have a lot of influence in those circles. Complete coincidence? You tell me.
corey booker will be the senior senator for NJ – lololol.
With all the talk of censorship of social media, and hollering “Fire!”, in a crowded theatre, here is a good story.
Floyd – In what sense is that story “good”? I found it depressing.
It is good in the sense that it fits into the censorship theme of so many articles. Plus, it is good in that it illustrates that inciting violence does actually incite violence on some occasions. Overall, as far as what happened, it is horrible.
muh re-puh-ray-shuns!
I find it fascinating that just seconds before the bullet grazed the right ear of Donald Trump, he was beginning to expound on displayed data regarding illegal immigration. In short he was discussing a key policy issue and naturally placing in poor light the Biden border policy. In contrast to that President Biden texted, June 28th, that “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.” In other settings he urged Democrats to put a bullseye on Donald Trump. In short President Biden was engaging in ad hominem attacks on Donald Trump. The shrillness of the Biden campaign seems to be intended to cover their scant accomplishments.
Looks like a clown, talks like a clown, has a clownish resume…
Another nail in the Northern Virginia Community College – Charlottesville’s coffin.
Go Terps!
Thanks Turley, I won a bet that I knew for sure that you would dig and find some nutjob that said something really stupid about the attempt on Trump’s life. And do you know why I knew you would move heaven and hell to find it? Because you ignore everything and anything crazy that the MAGA says. The list of batsh*t crazy that comes out of the MAGA cult mouths is to long to list.
I won a bet that you would come here and say something really stupid. The list of batsh*t crazy that comes out of the death cultists’ mouths is too long to list, but you do a reasonable job of keeping us abreast.
Go be an idiot with the other lefty idiots, they prefer a lack of intellectual diversity
Again, proving your willful ignorance everyday is not necessary it is well established.
Oooh that’s a good one Fishy. LOL.
Or how about lawfare? Melendez found guilty, isn’t he a democrat? Why would they commit lawfare against one of their own?
JT has gone full MAGA, I hope he has a good lawyer because the number of trump lawyers disbarred or sanctioned is quite high.
You do know this wasn’t Menendez first dance with accepting bribes right?
Tis YOU who are in the Cult, Fishy. The Party Above All. Lock step. Don’t you dare get out of line and have your own opinion, now, ya hear? Or Nancy & Chuck will take you out behind the barn to give you a good beat down. It’s the Democrat way.
FishWings, you are correct. Some nut commentator on MSNBC said “Somebody needs to put a Bulit in him.” Your nut job friends all over X are saying the same thing. We know you want to just whisk it away like it never happened but we all know exactly who you are.
Thinkitthrough,
Here’s something else to consider, which I’m sure FishWings hasn’t thought about.
This is a quote from Victor Davis Hanson on X: “By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”
This shows the abject hatred the left has for Trump, and falls right in line with the attempts to completely dehumanize him.
When we swat flies and mosquitos, spray termites, wasps, and hornets, when we employ bug zappers, etc, it’s because insects aren’t human. We see them as pests, annoyances, or downright dangerous to life and limb, and so we eliminate them in whatever way we can.
Sadly, so it is with people. In the Holocaust, Jews, and others were so utterly dehumanized that it gave people licens to round them up, like so many cattle, strip them naked, gas them, incinerate them, or push their bodies into mass graves. In the Pacific theater, the Japanese treated allied soldiers inhumanely, as they saw us as inhuman. In Nam, you saw the same thing.
Flash forward to today. Trump, and anyone who supports him, is viewed as les than human, and so, if a nut-job kills him, or a supporter, well, it’s OK, because, well, he and they a bug to be exterminated.
Pushing God out of the public square, 10.5 times more abortions than Jews killed in the Holocaust, etc, has only served to cheapen life, making it far easier to dehumanize those with whom you disagree, or just plain don’t like.
If we continue on this trajectory, I fear for our nation and the world.
Actually he pointed out several people that took unfortunate positions on the Attempted assassination. You might note that MSNBC pulled the Monday morning Joe show out of fear that someone on that show would say something stupid about the assassination.
You can leave your cult whenever you want. Amber Rose did:
Don’t have to look far fishdip. Jack Black and Mark Hammil both flapping their soup coolers. We already hearf Madonna, Kathy Griffin, Johnny Depp, yep those dang old MAGAts😵💫
I see MAGA as the second coming of the Sons of Liberty. I see Democrats as the second coming of the Torries, loyal to the crown. I f you think they are going to unite with us as fellow Americans, think again. They will never surrender power and will destroy the Nation and all her people first.
Loyal to the crown? Ask that of a Trump supporter. They will tell you all day how King Donald the1st is God’s plan.
Imagine how crappy your ideas must be if you are going to lose an election to someone telling you they will be a dictator.
Fish dip
I repeatedly say this, DJT is a figurehead. He’s had the wealth, persona and wherewithal to stand against what ALL the people that are behind him see. We see the destruction of our nation, we see the transformation of our country into something we don’t care for. We see what DC has delivered us, $34T in debt with a $2T deficit, Billions to countries that are not serving any interests to the citizens (other than Joe and Hunter), WOKE insanity, DEI insanity, on and on. It isn’t about DJT, it’s about righting a dysfunctional tyrannical government, the Don is the Orange cadillac delivering the first wave of patriots to drain the Swamp. Back to the smoker now fishy, let someone else cook your other side.
Fishstick, the idea of America First has been around for decades. Trump just was able to make it into a campaign slogan. The idea of MAGA will be around long after he is gone.
I dont agree with all the MAGA ideas, but a lot of them are just common sense.
I have more in common with MAGA than I do with the death cult that has become the Democrat party. You know, abortion up til the child is entering the birth canal. Pro-Hamas. Pro-forever wars.
Did anyone really think these people were going to tamp it down? I’m sure the lunacy, aspersion’s and “threats to democracy” will continue by the end of the week.
For years trump used violent rhetoric in his speeches. Then, one of his own shoots him. And now everyone is yelling at the Demos to cool the rhetoric?
And all these years Repos talk about how everyone should be able to get a gun. And what do you know, some idiot gets a gun and shoots the orange god.
Give me a break. Karma?
The best was when some on the right started circulating posts claiming that the guy who hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer was his gay lover. LOL. The left deserves every bit of this kind of stuff being shoved down their throats.
The attacker was a total lefty loon, not MAGA….but of course that didn’t stop Nancy Pelosi from hammering that Big Lie all over the media: a MAGA attacked Paul Pelosi! No, Nancy, that is another Big Lie you evil witch.
But it WAS his lover that hit him.
The shooter registered as Republican to vote in PA’s closed primary to hurt MAGA/Trump — just as tons of Democrat activists have been doing.
The enemies of Trump want to push out the media “narrative’ that the shooter was a “registered Republican.”
It’s all narrative and lies.
Then, one of his own shoots him.
Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds, that one of his own would shoot him? That plainly makes zero sense. And the shooter had contributed money to left-wing organizations. Your description that he was “one of Trump’s own” is evidently based on his party affiliation, which is meaningless as an indicator of ideology. Your comment is dishonest.
Statements like that from a professor reflect badly on the institution. He should be fired immediately.
Donald Trump did not invite his own assassination.
Nancy Pelosi probably did invite a riot.
Like most narcissists, Democrats think chaos is their friend.
Dear Mr. Turley, appreciate “thinkitthrough” @ 9:45. I remember the Harris statement quoted in their comment and wondered at that time why the media did not call her out on it. The Democrats and their media allies are witnessing all of their lies and exaggerations regarding Mr. Trump slip right through their fingers. Their world is crashing down around their ears, so now a new conspiracy regarding the assassination attempt. This does not surprise me. The Democrats need to take the advice Mr. Biden gave out to everyone on Saturday evening.
Anonymous,
Take the advice Mr. Biden gave out on Saturday evening? You’re kidding, right?
Have you ever paid attention to what Mr. Biden has said? All his railing against, “MAGA Republicans”? His comment about needing an F-15 to take on the government? His address, earlier this year, at that historically black college, in which he said America was nothing but a series of broken promises and that the black students of today haven’t a chance, whatsoever, to succeed? The same Biden who, back when Trump was convicted on all 34 counts, by a Manhattan jury, said the verdict was just, no one was above the law, and we needed to respect that verdict, only to say a month later, when SCOTUS handed down their immunity decision, that, for all intents and purposes Trump was now a king, who could do whatever he pleased, and categorically denounced the decision? That Biden’s advice?
Then there’s the media. How many times has trump been called Hitler? How many times have they said if Trump is elected, this will be the last election we ever have, that democracy will cease to exist, that gays and journalists will be “disappeared”? HOw many of them speculated, in the wake of the SCOTUS’ immunity ruling, could the President order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political rivals?
How many celebrities have suggested ways Trump should/could be killed? Victor Davis Hanson has a whole list of them.
Biden is a mean, nasty, pathological liar who, I sincerely believe, lacks empathy and compassion. He only said what he said because he’s covering his sorry ass.
As everything the radical left has hurled at Trump has bounced off, they’re becoming like cornered or wounded animals, desperate and dangerous and at this point, will stop at nothing to achieve their sick, demented ends.
Seriously, if Biden really wanted to “turn the temperature down”, he could lead by example. Also, he could pick up the phone, call the heads of all the media outlets, tell them to “knock it off”, and insist they clean house. We all know, though, he won’t.
Biden and his ilk remind me of the story of the scorpion and the fox. A scorpion met up with a fox in the woods and wanted to get across a stream, and asked the fox if he’d help. the fox agreed, but asked the scorpion if he’d sting him. the scorpion promised he wouldn’t, and climbed onto the fox’s back. Halfway across the stream, the scorpion stung the fox. As the scorpion and fox were on the verge of drowning, the fox asked the scorpion why he stung him. the scorpion’s reply, “Well, I couldn’t help myself, it’s in my nature.” And so it is with Biden and everyone on the fringe, radical left which, sad to say, is becoming, and might already be, the mainstream.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Report: ‘Three Counter-Snipers’ Were In Building Trump Shooter Used, Took Photos Of Him
“And today we learned the Secret Service director herself said the roof was left unguarded because it was “sloped” and she didn’t want a slip and fall on it.”
“We now know the Secret Service director deliberately made sure that roof was available for an assassin to use, and that her stated reason is insane, which more than likely means she’s not being truthful about the real reason.
Next question: who gave the order to keep Trump on the stage when there was a known gunman on the building aiming at him?
And the next question after that: who suggested to the assassin that he should use that event, and that building to assassinate Trump?”
11:18 AM · Jul 16, 2024
‘Three Counter-Snipers’ Were In Building Trump Shooter Used, Took Photos Of Him”
They were IN the building, but they failed to secure the perimeter of the building or access to the roof of the building? The shooter climbed up on THAT roof while counter snipers were INSIDE?
The SS did NOT get Trump OFF THE STAGE until shots were fired?
This was a HIT on President Trump.
There is incompetence, and there is whatever the hell this is, which appears to be actual malicious intent to kill.
All evidence TODAY says: this was an intentional Hit.
The FBI, DOJ, HHS will now run a coverup operation.
The “negligence and incompetence” is SO OBVIOUSLY an intentional hit, that the Director of SS and HHS actually want us to know what they did and they don’t care. No one is resigning, no one is getting fired. The FBI will coverup.
This is the extent of evil we are dealing with.
“Everyone needs to see this photo to appreciate the tactical negligence that occurred during the assassination attempt on DJT. This photo was taken just minutes before the first shots were fired. DJT is oriented towards the shooter at this point.
Look in the upper left of this photo. That is the building. Look how f’ing close it was. Direct line of sight to DJT.
You can see my wife & I to the right of the SS agent in the front row.
There is no excuse to not have someone on that roof. None.
It amounts to the most stunning incompetence & negligence in a tactical situation that I have ever been a part of. Ever.
It’s simply incomprehensible to me how this happens.
The only thing that is more incomprehensible to me is how the Director of the Secret Service still has a job.”
https://x.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1813240829919539633
Dear Prof Turley,
“Staged” assassination!? Now that’s a ‘Hillbilly elegy’. Trump may be able to spin a yarn and walk on water, but not even the Russians are that good!
The sound picked up by the microphones on the podium was not ‘gun fire’. It was the sound of 5.56 bullets whizzing by Trump’s head with a velocity around 3,300ft per second.
While we’re on the subject of ‘staged’ assassinations, I have a few questions of my own:
*Did the ‘nothing special AR-style’ (FBI) rifle have a scope/optics – a ‘head shot’ at 130 yards may be easy for a skilled marksman, but for an untrained 20yr old using a ‘line of sight’ bead seems rather credulous?
(note. I can plug a turkey at that distance with my Kentucky long rifle .. . but I’m a crack shot.)
*conflicting reports on shooter being a ‘lone wolf’ (FBI). Seems to me some planning/logistics was required to pull this off ?
*Secret Service response/prevention? Other than the bldg.s directly behind Trump, the shooter was on the only elevated – line of sight – bldg. within a 1,000 yds. as far as I can see.
p.s. I have little confidence in the FBI to sort this out (they’ve had Hunter Biden’s laptop for 6 years) and, again, if president Biden said the sky is blue .. . I would have to go outside and see for myself.
Are you making a head shot on that turkey with that Kentucky rifle?