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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Republican candidate Nikki Haley was targeted in second swatting attempt

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Republican candidate Nikki Haley was targeted in second swatting attempt

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    You’re taking something a Trump voter did and using that action to judge Trump.

    I’m not. I’m saying the Party should stop shoveling his shit, because he’s shown time and time again that as soon as you turn against him, his minions will feel compelled to eliminate you.

    Like this Senator, members of Congress and law enforcement, these journalists, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, this Congresswoman, this other Congresswoman, the first Congresswoman again and also Obama, one more Congresswoman, members of Congress from California, Michigan, and New Jersey, a college professor, multiple members of Congress, this Congressman, a Senator and that same Congressman, GOP election officials, this Congresswoman, this Congressman, this District Attorney, these judges, this other District Attorney, this other judge, this other judge, and so on ad nauseum…

    Trump literally said, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”

    In June of 2023, Trump shared what he claimed to be Barack Obama’s home address on Truth Social. Hours later, a man armed with two guns and 400 rounds of ammo was arrested while seeking out ways to breach Obama’s private residence.

    What more evidence do you need?

    This is, in general, not something that I endorse unless the person being followed (Trump in this case) encourages the behavior. Although Trump has encouraged violence in the past, I’m not sure if he’s extended that encouragement to Haley?

    Um…WHAT?? So a mob boss gives orders for his crew to murder dozens of members of a rival family, but because he hasn’t asked them specifically to murder the 25-year old nephew, we shouldn’t make the connection to the boss when the nephew’s body suddenly shows up in a canal?

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      You missed my point entirely. I’m not defending Rump. I’m saying we should use the things he’s actually done-- like those you listed-- as our ammunition.

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        Which I just did. He doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt in Haley’s circumstance, because in short order I’ll be able to add “man arrested and charged for swatting Presidential candidate” to the list.

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          That’s not what you did, but whatever. I’m not going to waste both of our time arguing about this.

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            The Republican Party should distance themselves from a man who clearly has a dangerous following and who has shown no scruples in encouraging them to embrace violence.

            Anything else you’re claiming I’m saying, or that you’re finding between the lines, is a misrepresentation of what I’m actually writing in plain English.

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              Now that I agree with.

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                It’s literally a paraphrase of the first comment I wrote in this thread.

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