Wheat And Chaff

Lot of horrendous takes from both sides. Not a great day to be Team Normal on social media.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 14, 2024

Signal to noise.

NEW: The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is a historic and harrowing moment; it’s also a familiar refrain in America’s descent into routine political violence.

w/ @joshgerstein https://t.co/3iwxGbehSK pic.twitter.com/9zxs7fx22u

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 14, 2024

Discount Goebbels would like to remind you he helped Trump edit a speech so it would target Mike Pence directly, which led directly to chants from Trump's followers threatening to assassinate Trump's own Vice President.

Mike Pence "deserves it," Trump said. pic.twitter.com/u0VDaZWmbt

— emptywheel (chex mix) (@emptywheel) July 14, 2024

We don't know what the shooter's motive was yet.

We do know he had ready access to an assault rifle. Let's start with what we know.

— emptywheel (chex mix) (@emptywheel) July 14, 2024

CNN host forced to calm panel after conservative blames Biden for Trump shootinghttps://t.co/qpe6btBeJz

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 14, 2024

"Listen, it's it's all sides. I mean, just a couple of days ago, we heard President Biden in a conference call with his donors saying we need to put a target on president Trump, or that he was going to put the target and president Trump," Lanza stated. "Listen, Sarah Palin was wrong when Gabby Giffords was an assassination attempt on her by putting the target of her and a bunch of other Democrats on the list and that sort of triggered somebody. President Biden was wrong talking about that language. The Washington Post is wrong, we're all guilty of this language. I'm guilty of that myself. I'm ashamed of it. You know, I'm shaking, I had to explain to my six-year-old son what an assassination attempt is."

I learned what an assassination was when I was 8 (JFK, 1963). Welcome to America. 🇺🇸