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Trump just needs to STFU for so many reasons. I can't even begin to explain how exhausted I am by him and all of this nonsense. Some poor guy just got his neck blown out for having an opinion. His friggin kids are gonna see that someday. It's horrible. It's time to come together and use this as a way to come together, to disagree respectfully, and to exhibit better behavior and care for one another. Not make it even worse.

Again, who is “they?”

It’s not binary. Street gangs might just be apolitical.

I think everyone needs to take a breath on who is responsible for this and let LE do its job. I remember thinking immediately after Oklahoma City that it was Muslim terrorism. In the next day or so we learned it was a kid from Buffalo. So let’s all let this play out and allow justice to take its course,

Rage is why Dems lost in 2024. They lost the plot. I do believe that MAGA has been doing the same, and this will exacerbate it. What matters isn’t so much the social issues but the ability to live rather than survive. We’re tracking toward dual economies and an inability of the middle class to achieve upward lift because electric bills are too high and food costs too much. That’s not political. It’s reality. And, otherwise, today is a dark, terrible day. Not because I have any affinity (or antipathy) for Charlie Kirk. Frankly I didn’t know much about him before today. But because everyone should be able to speak their mind without fear of retribution or the friggin death penalty. I don’t care much for some of what I understood him to have stood for, but I’m shaken by his murder. Nobody deserves this, and we all have to be better to each other. It’s very, very wrong.

This is very, very misleading. New York State has some bad bail laws. (And this is a Democrat saying this.) But those laws are not remotely close to "easy bail" or "no bail" for dangerous people. If you say otherwise, you don't know what you're talking about or you're intentionally misleading. The dialogue with bail, frankly, is part of this problem of misleading toxicity. I don't like the bail laws. I think there's not enough discretion for judges. But they're not anywhere near the blight that too many people have made them out to be. Candidly, Kathy Hochul was totally right about this in the recent article in the Buffalo News about this issue. We need better judges who spend time reading those laws and know how to use them. (Some of the worst offenders in that respect that I know, and I do this all the time, are Republicans.)

Yeah this rhetoric definitely is not part of the problem.

This is another problem. This nonsense of pointing to isolated actors and pretending that they stand for a group or that they embody a large group has got to stop. MAGA doesn't want to be labeled a certain way because of a few bad actors. Same deal here. This is another type of toxicity that has to end.

Not true.

Both Trump and Biden engage(d) in BS fear mongering. A person isn’t evil because he wears a red hat, or because he votes for a party that historically has supported unions and the working class. Sending troops into Baltimore because the mayor pissed you off is of the same vein. It’s all absurd and I’m exhausted by the BS. I think we need to sweep them all clear - Trump, the Clintons, the tarnished Biden with that stupid pardon for his kid, Pelosi, Schumer, Mike Johnson, and even Newsome with his hilarious yet unpresidential and unbecoming Twitter account. Third way Democrat (which is what I am) is my solution. Who that might be? Let’s have debates, and forums, and figure it out.

And the problem is rooted in both sides. We have to work together to stop this nonsense.

Here we go. Another example of the rhetoric that has to stop.

Yeah, sure. Whatever. Go “get some” like you were so eager to discuss earlier.

This is illustrative of the commentary that has to end.

There’s a big difference between me teasing somebody (using a MAGA turn of phrase, FYI) who called me stupid and, for example, the July 4 remarks of the President. Or even Nancy Pelosi’s dumb comment from today. You’re smart enough to see the difference.

The Bible. Seriously.

Sadly think you’re right. The provocateurs on each side will keep doing what they’re doing. Hopefully the normies band together and restore some sanity soon.

Ban some more books. WTF. Some dad got shot for no good reason, the country is ripping apart at the seams through fault of everyone, and you bring up more specious nonsense. I just hope he survives and all of this nonsense stops.

Who is “they?” More unnecessary hyperbolic rhetoric.

That’s simply not true. The logic here is absurd. They guy was “leftist,” but had registered as a Republican three years earlier, but maybe became a “leftist” thereafter, but didn’t change his political affiliation because he planned to shoot Trump at a rally that he knew would be scheduled after his conversion to “leftism?” Wow. It’s much easier — and much more accurate — to say that there are too many people in both sides who have gone to an extreme. We can choose to be civil to one another and cut the crap, or we can take a different route.

I’m almost positive Thomas Crooks was a registered Republican. The Michigan guys are the goofs who wanted to kidnap the governor.

Illustrative of rhetoric that needs to be toned down.

Give me a break. Look at Trump’s July 4 remarks. Inciting and beneath the office. He’s hardly alone in that respect, though. Plenty of people on both sides are acerbic and hyperbolic, and they all need to stop.

The guy who shot Trump I believe was a registered Republican. The Michigan guys obviously weren’t “left.” So enough of this nonsense. No matter the source this is wrong. It’s not the time to score meaningless points.

Nothing. And nobody—least of all me—has said as much.