The Republicans and Democrats kind of flipped sides somewhere in the 1800s. Republicans were the Lincoln freeing slaves back in the day. The civil rights act wss republican and the dems opposed it. So most of those twenty are right wing.
I think it was basically The Roosevelts. TR flipped the Reps in the 00s, then 30 years of two right wing options, followed by massive labor violence and a historically bad depression (because right wingers are good for the economy) then FDR had to flip the Dems in the to the left in reaction. because they needed some adults in the room.
Wasn't there also an actual shooting at some outdoor event (for some reason, I want to say at a park, but that seems weird) where some congressmen were shot? I'm assuming those shot in the incident were also Democrat congressmen. I don't recall any incident where GOP congressmen have been targeted.
Steve Scalise(R) was shot at and wounded at an outdoor baseball practice in 2017.
I think it was basically The Roosevelts. TR flipped the Reps in the 00s, then 30 years of two right wing options, followed by massive labor violence and a historically bad depression (because right wingers are good for the economy) then FDR had to flip the Dems in the to the left in reaction. because they needed some adults in the room.
Accurate.
Here is a video that provides a general overview.
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The Republicans and Democrats kind of flipped sides somewhere in the 1800s. Republicans were the Lincoln freeing slaves back in the day. The civil rights act wss republican and the dems opposed it. So most of those twenty are right wing.
Sort of, but that's a bit simplistic. The assassination breakdown was from the last 100 years, so what happened in the 1800s is irrelevant. And they didn't switch sides so much, as there used to just be progressive and conservative wings in each party. The Civil Rights Act was a Democratic bill, but southern conservative Democrats opposed it (as did conservative Republicans) while the progressive wings and moderates in each party passed it.
And in terms of assassinations, I don't think anyone would call JFK, RFK, Harvey Milk, George Moscone, etc. "right wing". And of course, a lot of those aren't even necessarily political assassinations, so what party they're in isn't all that relevant.
Obviously a lot more information will come out of exactly what happened once the investigation is done, but I think given the footage that has been released it sure doesn't look good for the Secret Service.
There are now videos coming out that are overlapped with Trump speaking and people videoing the shooter that show almost 2 min between people identifying the fact that there is a person with a gun on a building until the shot is made. I'm sorry, but if that actually is true, and the videos are not 100% verified, but that is major, major incompetence. At the very least, Trump should have been taken away. Plus the fact that there was literally a counter sniper team there, the shooter was within a few hundred yards, people were literally taking video of him, and there was zero response?
What a gong show.
Everyone can call it whatever they want, but absolutely brutal. Now makes you wonder about the protection of any high ranking US officials & past Presidents.
The videos are legit and can be synched as Trump's speech was present in the video showing the shooter on the roof. There was a full 2 minutes of time that elapsed from when he was on the roof and the first shot
We are all talking here that the shooter missed and grazed Trump's ear, but his target was completely dead on, only a quick turn to the right at the exact same second as the shot caused the shot to graze his ear. The shot as aimed would have hit the back of his head. The political situation would have been in complete turmoil.
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I don't know if it's irony or not, but the New York Times endorsed his book saying it was one of the most important books to read if you want to understand how the MAGA movement happened. So maybe that statement says as much about himself as it does how he thinks about Trump. Maybe he doesn't think being compared to Hitler is a bad thing.
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I for one think it's hypocritical of all the people who cheered the assassination of Bin Laden to tell us that we should care someone tried to kill Trump. After years of using some of the most hateful and inflammatory rhetoric seen from an American politician in generations, publicly lying and embarrassing the country on an hourly bases, for him the be surprised that someone would value his death more than their life is completely unsurprising. I think this is firmly in the #### around and find out category of life, he and his supporters incited violence, and now they expect unity in the face of it.
If Trump had been killed, the consequences could have been rioting and violence across the country, and perhaps a descent into civil war.
To say nothing of the chances of further political violence now skyrocketing…
Cheering the death of Bin Laden, the man who orchestrated 9/11, is hardly the same thing.
So secret service has a hard time protecting a former president, but some people think a teacher should be able to protect their students from an active shooter…lol
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Saw the suggestion that Dems should rename one or more of their current gun control bills something like 'The Anti Assasination of Trump Bill' to see what repubs would do.
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^Brilliant. Republicans are long past the point of giving a single solitary #### about being hypocrites, so it would just be adding to the pile of total-####ing-nonsense things Republicans have voted or not-voted for as the case may be, but it would be funny all the same.
Biden's under-performance against Democratic Senate candidates in swing states is insane. From a poll released today; obviously these numbers may not be totally accurate, but they're from the same sample and the discrepancy is crazy:
The videos are legit and can be synched as Trump's speech was present in the video showing the shooter on the roof. There was a full 2 minutes of time that elapsed from when he was on the roof and the first shot
We are all talking here that the shooter missed and grazed Trump's ear, but his target was completely dead on, only a quick turn to the right at the exact same second as the shot caused the shot to graze his ear. The shot as aimed would have hit the back of his head. The political situation would have been in complete turmoil.
And now, instead of that timeline, we get this one. Which is peace and harmony? I'm not sure it matters, the US is so ####ed little events like assassinations barley register on the scale longer than a news cycle. Mass shootings happen daily. Gun violence IS America, it makes sense the leaders get shot at occasionally. This is what pure unrestricted freedom looks like. Want some?
