Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says progressive politicians need to tone down their rhetoric following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. As Sean Amato reports, Smith’s comments are also under the microscope. #ableg #cdnpoli
Let me get this straight, it's somehow the progressive rhetoric of universal healthcare and free education that caused a Republican voter to shoot the Republican presidential candidate?
They keep saying we need to tone down the rhetoric. But the rhetoric is all true. It’s directly based on what the conservatives do and say. So maybe they should stop doing and saying things that are so horrendous.
"Have you not looked at the headlines about how Pierre Poilievre is described as dangerous?" the premier said. "How the leader of the Opposition in Alberta has described me as dangerous? When you start using that kind of rhetoric, that ends up creating an elevated risk for all of us."
She's complaining about being called "dangerous". That's hardly violent rhetoric and certainly no worse than the language they use to describe their opponents.
Sure, there are some individuals on the internet spreading violence, but you cannot equate the non-conservative media rhetoric with the violent and dishonest rhetoric coming out of conservative sources.
Jokes aside you need to look up the concept of the paradox of tolerance. Only people lacking reason and centrists (but i repeat myself) would see "both sides" as being the same
Point out the elected democrat official who was openly calling for violence against republicans? What rhetoric are they even talking about? Us calling them an existential threat to our democracy? If it wasn't true, we wouldn't say it. Saying that isn't calling for violence, and proposing that it does is engaging in the same whataboutism that republicans always do. It's BS. Republicans shooting republicans and somehow it's progressives fault 🙄
They’re just really surprised a shooter came for them instead of a Democrat first. That’s the only thing they’re surprised about. They’ve been trying to make something exactly like this happen since Trump exhorted the “second amendment people” to “do something about Hillary” before the 2016 election.
Immediately after the list was posted, the front door of Giffords' office in Tucson was smashed. Asked about Palin's map, Giffords said at the time, "When people do that, they have to realize there are consequences to their actions.”
It's a hard line to ride in describing my hatred for this vile, shit stain of a human being.... Whilst also not being put on an RCMP watch list because of what I believe she deserves.