Matthew Dowd just told the truth?
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-- wot -- — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 07:48 AM)
Woah calm down there MMC2….i am not saying he should have not got fired.
BUT, he did kinda just tell the truth……that Kirk saying the things he said in this hot political climate IS dangerous.
He told the truth, that Charlie made himself a target for a nutjob. Aint the right all about being allowed to tell the truth? -
Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 08:06 AM)
The inflammatory stuff the left has been spewing is what fired up that nutjob to kill…
…not things Kirk said.
They're been using "nazi" and "existential threat to democracy" etc. for years now.
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Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 08:13 AM)
The left is, on average, FAR WORSE in spewing untrue and hyped up language in attempts to smear people they disagree with.
They've done it so much that a recent poll showed 55% of Dems said it would be reasonable to kill Trump.
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Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 08:23 AM)
They won't admit it to an anonymous pollster?
Are you daft?
Google it… in the meantime, I'll check around for it too. I believe Charlie Kirk posted it on X.
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/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 08:26 AM)
If some random phone number called you up and asked you if you support a criminal act, a act that even just suggesting it gets you arrested, how would you answer it? No one is going to say yes.
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Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 09:01 AM)
"In April, the Network Contagion Research Institute, along with Rutgers University, found that 55% of self-identified left-of-center respondents said that it was at least somewhat justified to murder President Trump. Forty-eight percent said the same of Elon Musk, and 40% of respondents, including 59.6% of left-of-center respondents, said it was at least somewhat acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/polls-show-rising-number-americans-000000863.html
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/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 09:08 AM)
I still highly doubt the results. What was the methodology? Is it an online poll where everyone trolls? From the same article you linked it suggested that republicans were actually slightly more likely to believe political violence is justified than democrats did.
In a November 2017 YouGov poll, when asked if violence was justified to advance political goals, only 8% of Democrats and Republicans said it was “at least a little bit justified.” Although the pollster stopped asking the question in the same way in 2020, the percentage of people who said it was at least “a little” justified had already risen to 36% among Republican respondents and 33% among Democratic respondents.
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Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 09:03 AM)
"The question was asked on a scale of 1-7 as to how justified these different acts were, with 1 being not at all justified and 7 being completely justified. Nearly 15% of left-of-center respondents said that the murder of Donald Trump was a 7 – completely justified – and 10.7% said the same of Musk.
In a November 2017 YouGov poll, when asked if violence was justified to advance political goals, only 8% of Democrats and Republicans said it was “at least a little bit justified.” Although the pollster stopped asking the question in the same way in 2020, the percentage of people who said it was at least “a little” justified had already risen to 36% among Republican respondents and 33% among Democratic respondents.
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Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 12, 2025 09:06 AM)
"While all three sets of polls make it clear that it is a minority of Americans who are in support of political violence, that minority is significant. Unfortunately, this 10%-40% of people who think violence can be justified to obtain political goals can individually cause severe suffering and chaos.
Perhaps the gruesome sight of increased political violence, as well as condemnation from politicians on both sides of the aisle, can help reverse the polarization that led to these assassinations and attempts. If not, more violence like what America has seen in Butler, Pennsylvania, New York City, Minnesota – and now Utah – is surely on the horizon."
Bentley is a walking, talking premature ejaculation of desperation & stupidity.