Case in point: https://bsky.app/profile/npr.org/post/3lrqidutxy52f
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, calls for civility after an attack that killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded. From @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social and Destinee Adams.
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Helpful hint here:
1. DJT
2. Material supporters of DJT campaigns (staff, financers, propaganda in the press, etc)
3. DJT voters
4. Mitch McConnell
5. 1 again
6. SCOTUS
7. 2 & 3 again
answer: we know from reports that yes, she can... so why not now
i wrote this somewhere in here, but the whole thing is a tragedy and makes me sad more than anything.
i just want someone in power to say it
USA! USA! USA!
I am outta here.
That’s what I took from it. 🤷🏻♀️
Only a worthless piece of shit would find something wrong with condemning violence.
WTF is wrong with you?
A minority party cannot force the majority to do anything.
Did you even read the story?!
Stop attacking victims.
What the entire fuck is wrong with your brain.
You seem far more like an enabler, pos you are.
LOL, what are you? 5?
Grow the f up, you stand for no one.
You dumbasses just throw it around like you know what it means.
I have several friends on the shooter's list and it makes me so sick and angry that I know I can never be civil to these pieces of shit ever again.
Proposing violence sounds good but is of course exactly what Trump wants so he can declare martial law & cancel elections.
I read it as her clearly referring to some of the GOP rhetoric. Although I do think she could have named names (Mike Lee from Utah, for one).
If you need that shit, go find it elsewhere.
You stepped in it today
Do you think the toothless Dems are maybe ungrounded from their voters? It feels like they are happy with business as usual which seeks to point to either they don't know what we are going through or are paid to look away
We would have never gotten to this point if the Democrats didn’t ALWAYS take the moral high ground at the wrong time.
Decorum this, work across the isle that. The GOP has given them a playbook in how to shut everything down. USE IT!
There is a way to show anger and outrage without provoking violence. That’s what leadership is all about.
Fighting does not mean violence or killing, but we must fight we must show our will. If we do not fight we will lose.
We will not win, until we learn how to fight.
But doing nothing and calling for 'civility' from people who have none is good too, I guess.
they won't fight. they all shit the bed in 2024.
She should be more focused on satisfying the needs of Hollywood celebrities during this difficult time.
Pass.
PS Any meaningful criticism of the GOP?
She just lost a good friend. She's trying to ratchet down the rhetoric.
What the fuck do you want her to do???
They don’t use their power for good.
They don’t see the danger.
They don’t say what they actually believe… or have no beliefs.
They are beige, hollow, poll-tested septuagenarians who live in a delusion of “everything returning to normal” if they just “don’t rock the boat” enough.🙄
My god she was friends with one of the people that died.
Her job isn't de-escalation.
Her job is making laws that are, hopefully, designed to protect & improve the lives of USAmericans.
If someone interferes w/ that job by, say, assassinating her fellow lawmakers, she should be working VERY HARD on ending that interference & whatever made it possible.
Also america: WHY DID DEMOCRATS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE VIOLENCE THAT'S NOT THEY'RE JOB!!!!
America: HOW DARE DEMOCRATS WRITE ANTI-FASCISM BOOKS AND GO ON ANTI-FASCISM TOURS!! THAT'S NOT WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW!!!
Also america: WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS SAYING FASCISM IS BAD? THEY MUST BE IN ON IT!!!
No, from your comments I can see you apparently don't understand this.
She also felt the need to give credit to John Thune of all people who is one of the people who has brought us to this point
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3lrqyqrift22i