He’s only 17 years old, but is an in-your-face kind of teenager. He wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the American flag and Trump raising a middle finger (it might’ve looked something like this). He’d gone to a Harris rally with friends to heckle and antagonize Harris supporters. He w[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Political Violence’
October 30th, 2024 - 2:38 pm § in Politics
On being young, stupid, and full of politics, and baseball rules
There’s an expression to describe young dogs bursting with energy, bounding all over the place, and jumping up on every person they meet: “Full of puppy.” If you’ve ever had a dog, you know what I’m talking about. Just days before the 2024 election, novice political act[...]
October 29th, 2024 - 4:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Paul Pelosi attacker gets life without parole
David DePape, the deranged freak who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and broke her elderly husband’s skull with a hammer, will never get out of prison. DePape previously was sentenced to 30 years for the federal crime of attacking a federal official or family member. Now he&[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 4:34 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
A compendium of political violence, circa 2024
Aside from the two assassination attempts on Trump, the 2024 election season grown seen a bumper crop of politically-motivated assaults, according to Reuters (see story here). A sampling: In the pro-Trump town of Hancock, Upper Michigan, Joshua Kemppainen, a 22-year-old unemployed man, went on a ram[...]
GOP blowhard absurdly blames Democrats for political violence
It’s a talking point in a campaign season, and an empty one. Most of the political violence is coming from Republicans: The Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, threats against judges and election workers, talk of “civil war,” and the attempts to assassinate Trump. (Both would-be assassins[...]
Jury renders verdict in lawsuit against “Trump train” bullies
On Oct. 20, 2020, a Biden-Harris campaign bus traveling to a Texas campaign event was intercepted, boxed in, and aggressively harassed by vehicles flying Trump flags (shown in video below). A nearby police department refused to respond to the bus occupants’ desperate 911 calls; the city of San[...]
September 20th, 2024 - 7:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot!”
That’s what Kamala Harris said in her Oprah interview, but she later walked it back, calling it a joke. But it’s no joke. Harris lives at Number One Observatory Circle (details here, photo below), the vice president’s official residence, and if somebody breaks in, they’ll get[...]
Trump assassination attempt 2.0
America has always been a violent country. Several presidents, candidates, and leading public figures have been assassinated, with attempts made on others including FDR and Reagan. What happened to Trump isn’t a historical outlier. It shouldn’t be this way. Political violence is bad for [...]
GOPer threatens to deport Democrats
Sure, there’s mudslinging and hyperbole in politics, and you don’t want to go overboard in taking it seriously. But you’re entitled to take people at their word, and sometimes should. That certainly was the case with Hitler’s threats in Mein Kampf to kill the Jews. Rep. Chip [...]
June 7th, 2023 - 2:44 pm § in Law and Courts
What leftwing violence looks like
“Jane Doe” didn’t murder George Floyd, Derek Chauvin did. She wasn’t a Minneapolis cop, and didn’t testify as a defense expert in Chauvin’s trial, although her ex-husband, Barry Brodd, did. She got their California house in the divorce. In April 2021, when that h[...]