Killer Words

Flase Rhetoric Leads To Violence

7.16.24

Last Saturday, America witnessed a presidential assignationattempt on Donald Trump. The last time a president had an assassination attempthappened in 1981 when John Hinckley fired at then-President Ronald Reagan andinstead hit James Brady.

After the failed attempt at killing Trump, many people werevery thankful the man survived. However, Corey Comperatore, a firefighter fromSaver Pennsylvania did not survive and was hit by the shots fired by sniperThomas Matthew Crooks, along with two men (David Dutch and James Copenhaver) who were placed in critical condition.

Unfortunately, many people who identify as political leftists, democrat voters, or just Trump haters went to social media and posted content stating the assignment attempt was "staged".

Here are some posts from around social media:

"If you think the 'shooting' at the trump rally was an assassination attempt, you are in a cult. This is the most staged thing I've seen in a long time. He knows he's going to lose the election, so he fakes this s**** and shouts to the crowd to 'fight,'" a Threads user wrote.

Some social media users even falsely claimed that Trump faked the blood coming from his ear with a "blood pill."

"Trump staging a fake shooting at his rally is amazingtheater," one X user wrote."We saw him smash fake blood on the side of his head. Those were not gun shot sounds."

Words matter and have power. And, "repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth".

It's no secret, that the US country is polarized politically and it was not because of Donald Trump. This political battle can go all the way back to our founding. As the United States grew, the 1960s had a lot ofinternal strife among Americans because of the Vietnam War and the counter culture movement to name a few.

After that period, Americans continued to have differences in political opinions, however. The 1980s brought on a positive rhetoric in marketing on television, talk radio grew in audiences and shows, including RushLimbaugh and Larry King. And storytelling in movies and, television grew its content and audiences and the production value increased.

In this era, you didn't hear about committing violence on a president. Now, John Hinckley committed violence against President Reagan toimpress actress Jodi Foster. However, there were no publicaly charged outraged politicians, newscasters, or entertainers calling for the head of the then President.

Fast forward to the present day, many politicians are lying to stay in power. One party in particular, the Democratic Party has made false accusations about Donald Trump since he came down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President.

We have heard over and over Trump is "racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, Hitler, Mussolini and a threat to democracy."Whatever that means.

And it wasn't until early on in the debates for the election of 2016, when Trump said we "should not have gone into Iraq", the false rhetoric grew and negative narratives became more popular. Why would that happen? Well, when you threaten the powers that be, they do not like it. So inAmerican politics, those who can't compete in the arena of ideas, use words to lie, descent, and character their political opponents to win.

The years went on as Trump became president and then lost the next election in 2020. During his tenor of four years, the same words were used to describe him by his democrat opponents, news media, and entertainers:"racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, Hitler, Mussolini and a threat to democracy." Snoop Dogg made a rap video showing him fascinating PresidentTrump with a gunshot to the head. There was a play in Central Park that showedTrump's assignation daily.

Of course, rightwing news picked up on it but the masses weren't going to hear any conflicting sides from the legacy media.

There were so many more examples, including President Biden recently on a conference call to his donors said, . “Time to put Trump in the bullseye." Now to his defense on NBC, Biden said he meant "focused attention" and not "crosshairs". However, words matter and this is the continued negative rhetoric and false rhetoric that is currently plaguing our country's political and social landscape.

The democrats in government have tried to take out this man every chance they could. Each time they have failed. Saturday a twenty-year-old tried to kill him shooting an AR-15 135 yards away.

Everything thrown at Trump by his political opponents backfired. The man is lucky. But, all these attacks came at a high price. The country is divided. I personally do not think it was worth it.

Since Saturday we saw news host Joy Reid hide her X-Account.People were trying to find her posts as she has thrown every word at Trump for years. MSNBC's Morning Joe show was off the air on "Monday to avoid a potential situation in which one of the program's guests makes an inappropriate comment that could be used to criticize the show or the network."

However, over on Capital Hill, the democrat party isn't toning down its false rhetoric as AOC continues to spread division.  Biden continues to say Trump is a "threat to democracy”. Joe Biden said on Sunday that both sides should tone down their rhetoric. But then went back to their old ways.

It's obvious why they keep to their playbook; it's to stayin power, at all costs.

If we are ever to repair our country, the negative and false rhetoric, needs to be out of politics. Let us not take politician's rhetoric seriously and do our own research to find out if what these people are saying is true. The same goes for our news media. And as for the entertainment industry, in my personal life, very few people know what they are talking about. So no one should be taken seriously.

We need to come to our own conclusions in politics, and what works for our own individual lives. That is one of many parts of being an American. You can think for yourself.

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