Jen Psaki is scared. She’s worried about the post-Trump assassination attempt blamed on a violent left-wing rhetoric narrative. Now that someone has attempted what many Democrats have been implying, inferring, or suggesting, she’s afraid there might be retaliation.
Quick reminder, Jen. Who was it that posed with Trump’s severed head after he won in 2016? Kathy Griffin was one of many who have since worked the Kill Trump angle, which has risen in recent months.
And it’s not as if you’re one of those “conservative” Supreme Court Justice or anything, but let’s see what she has to say and then provide some much-needed clarity.
“For anyone out there who has a platform who thinks the moment right now is to be political and attack the other party, you are feeding into the danger,” she said. “You are making it more likely there’s retaliation. I’m incredibly scared. I’m scared for journalists. I’m scared for people who have public platforms of all parties. And that’s how people should feel.”
Would it be inappropriate for me to ask Jen Psaksi to STFU?
When in forever have Democrats not done exactly this?
When is political violence, be it rhetoric or street action, not appropriate for the left?
I think this is a clarion call from the left to justify violence in response to the fake notion that the right is going to retaliate. I would not be surprised if any number of false flags pop up to give the media an excuse to move on from the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump, even though it has given them the one thing they’ve wanted for weeks.
And excuse to get the attention away from Biden.
A 20-year-old who donated to Joe just did that. And I suppose he planned to kill the man. Remove the threat Democrats had advertised relentlessly without regard to its impact on the other party or people with public forums who supported that party or their nominee for president.
[S]ince at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump: 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.”).
Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?
Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal. In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that.
So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” “In a bullseye?”
And now Jen is afraid that this relentless, unending, violent left-wing rhetoric might circle back on who? Her party? Her journalists.
We know she doesn’t care about all people or all parties, or she’d have spoken up sooner.
I guess silence is violence, eh, Jen?
Note: Victor Davis Hanson quote added after publication.