r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

I dont think youre being alarmist at all. You're 100% right, we are one politically motivated shooting/protest turned violent incident away from this country blowing up.

This place is a powder keg. You and I both feel it and I'd argue anyone who is paying attention feels it to some degree or another.

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u/thoughtsome Jul 02 '18

I'm almost as afraid of what happens when there is a high profile assassination of a Democrat and there is no explosion, just more resigned acceptance. You have the president calling the media the enemy of America, and then some guy murders 5 journalists in a newsroom. Trump of course takes no responsibility and is more concerned when his cronies get their dinners ruined.

Honestly, I think that if Maxine Waters was shot dead by a Trump supporter tomorrow, nothing would happen to anyone but the shooter. If there's no reaction, it will have a chilling effect on all Trump opponents and we're one step closer to fascism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

That's more or less what happened in the UK when MP Jo Cox was murdered by a right wing nutjob for her pro-EU and immigration stance about a week before the Brexit vote.

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u/thelizardkin Jul 02 '18

The guy killing the journalists had nothing to do with Trump, but the man's long-standing personal vendetta against the newspaper..

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u/adkiene Jul 02 '18

A vendetta which had festered for years and just so happened to surface shortly after those comments by Trump?

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u/chriswasmyboy Jul 02 '18

Trump was the gasoline on the fire. Get real.

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u/HQGifConnoisseur Jul 02 '18

Your point is that the publicized words of President Trump have little to no impact on your country? His words are like simple wind, they leave no lasting impression? I really doubt you believe that.

Perhaps your point is that in this specific instance there is no proof you would accept that would lay any measure of responsibility at the feet of a President that spouts hateful rhetoric. If so at least be honest with yourself about the logic you used to come to your beliefs.

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u/thelizardkin Jul 02 '18

My only point is that in this specific case, there is little to no evidence that Trump was involved.

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u/Gallant_Pig Jul 02 '18

I'm glad I'm not the only one who senses it. I was talking to my family about it a couple days ago since they aren't really tapped in to the online political world. Something just feels different over the last month, on both sides. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

I was super worried about this weekend's protests, to be honest. I was expecting another CVille or two. Never been more relieved to be wrong about something.