Trump's Rhetoric Is Divisive, Contemptible, Un-Presidential. It's Also Not Responsible for the Synag

[EasyAce]

Killers are responsible for their actions and the leap from rhetoric to action, along with all the blood they shed, is on their hands alone.
By Nick Gillespie
http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/29/trumps-rhetoric-is-divisive-contemptible

To say that President Donald Trump is the debaser-in-chief of contemporary political discourse is to state the obvious. After a weekend of gruesome, anti-Semitic murder that left 11 dead at a Pennsylvania synagogue, he tweets

the above. He should stop this sort of garbage talk.

Yet to hold him responsible for the actions of the shooter is ridiculous. The same goes for holding him responsible for the deeds of alleged mail bomber Cesar Sayoc. Mass killers and criminals are responsible for their actions and the leap from rhetoric to action, along with all the blood they shed, is on their hands alone. That won't stop political opportunists from trying to tie the two together, of course. "Trump's Caravan Hysteria Led to This," argues Adam Serwer at The Atlantic, despite the fact that the shooting suspect actually denounced the president just days before the shooting:

"Trump is a globalist, not a nationalist. There is no #MAGA as long as there is a" — he inserted a slur for Jews — "infestation."

At The Washington Post, ex-conservative Max Boot says "Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media can't escape responsibility" for violence. At The Nation, Sasha Abramsky avers, "The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is the ​Inevitable Result of​ Trump's Vile Nationalism."

No, it isn't, and it's particularly disturbing for journalists to conflate words with deeds and to impute motivation from the texts and ideas that evildoers consume . . . [/quote]

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Bite Me.

Where are all these Blame Trumpers over Maxine Waters?

She's all over the media Inciting Illegal Behaviors/Inciting Riots.

She belongs before a House Ethics Committee for her actions, leading to a floor vote that gets her Expelled from the House by the other members.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

After the House expels her the FBI and DoJ bust her.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2102

US Code 18 Sec 2102

(a) As used in this chapter, the term “riot” means a public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.

(b) As used in this chapter, the term “to incite a riot”, or “to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot”, includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.
(Added Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 104(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 76.)

[Frank Cannon]

LOL. Another too cool for school loser at Reason banging out another shit piece. This dead ender LIBertarian Nick slams the President for his speaking style while one of the nominees for LIBertarian President KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR because his dogs barked.

[RoosGirl]

LOL. Another too cool for school loser at Reason banging out another shit piece. This dead ender LIBertarian Nick slams the President for his speaking style while one of the nominees for LIBertarian President KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR because his dogs barked.

Yeah, but that non-stop dog barking is pretty maddening.