Assassination threats against Trump flood Twitter and other social media

And? Do we really need to go through the tweets of Trump supporters pre Election Day about their views if Hillary won?

Stop trying to pretend Trump supporters are somehow above all this. It's just sad.

 

Lmao. Yeah there were no threats after Obama won.

LOL.

 

Hopefully, every incident with be properly reported and investigated. The US has a long history of political violence so we cannot afford to not be vigilant in punishing anyone who suggests such violence.

Passions and fears and hatreds are a light after a campaign in which Trump ran on hatred and bigotry. Left, right, up, down, doesn't matter. We should never accept hatred and bigotry as either normal or as electoral tools. Unfortunately, we just had an election in which someone did just that. And people are apoplectic (both the winning and losing sides).

What's up is that we need to drop the tribal partisanship and the attempts to play the usual political team games, especially with these transparent attempts at false equivalence. I know that statement won't stop those of you so committed to seeing your "side" victorious. But everyday lives get effected by these political games.

 

Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.

 

Nobody is pretending Trump supporters are any better. He is just pointing out the blatant hipocrisy of the left. And calling for someone to be in jail for breaking the law is not akin to assassination attempts. Though I have no doubt Trump supporters would not lie down peacefully had they loss, there's nothing to prove they would riot, burn and vandalize, attack supporters, or call for Hillarys assassination.

Though, @MojoMan, I believe Obama and Hillary have both come out and essentially said to support to results and we will survive. Rachel Maddow last her ****, but Chris Matthews reiterated the same thing Obama and Hillary did, we will survive this, it's not the end of the world. You have every right to protest peacefully. You have no right to call for violence or to act on that violence. That's not democracy.

 

To start, Obama got threatened a lot. Here's an article from 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...reats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

Just like with Obama, most of the Trump threats are people blowing off steam and are not credible. Still, people shouldn't say such things, and they'll probably regret it when the Secret Service calls them. As for Obama, you just posted an article that talked about how he called for people to come together and put the rancor behind them, so I think he's doing his bit. Elections have consequences. Democrats are going to rage for a bit, but there ain't **** we can do apart from exercising the first amendment.

 

Given the amount of hatred spewed from those on the left since this election, it's not surprising at all. I don't think we've had an election response this hateful since before the Civil War. Hopefully it's just a temporary thing like an infant that had their pacifier taken away rather than something more serious.

 

I think the Democrat reaction is optically worse than a Republican one would have been because Democratic voters are concentrated in cities. It makes it easy to congregate and protest. The social media reaction would probably be just as bad though.

 

So Obama got plenty of this, a lot of hate resides on the right. We should probably stop finger pointing on who hates who more, not sure what that accomplishes.

 

That stands to reason, since we haven't had a candidate or electorate this filled with hatred and preoccupied with demonizing 'the others' since Andrew Jackson.

 

Perhaps, though I don't recall so many open assassination attempts for Obama. I actually recall worrying about some racist idiot assisinating Obama before he was out of office when he was elected in 2008.

The hate for Obama by many on the right is real and vocal, but again, I don't recall riots, vandalism, and death threats.

Did people vandalize and riot when he was elected? Not saying it didn't happen, I just don't recall any. Pointing fingers isn't going to accomplish anything, you're right about that. But ignoring the destructive behavior of so many should not be ignored. As it shouldn't be ignored if Clinton won.

There is no excuse for burning/destroying property, attacking police, or calling for assassination attempts -- by either side.

I thought Clinton gave a wonderful concession speech in which she advocated for a peaceful transition. Others need to echo her sentiment to these snowflakes.

 

Obama and Clinton were threatened so this is not news. With that type of logic no wonder this country is facked. Of course that means kill yourself, not politicians.

 

Make a couple of flashy big time arrests and throw the book at them. Then watch these blowhards and their threat either away.

 

Perhaps, but one of the main reasons for the electorate being filled with the hatred that they are is because demonizing opposition is what the current president has always been best at. It's why he's so good at running for office and so bad at actually holding office. When people were upset at losing the election when he won, he openly mocked them and spoke down to them. All we had for the last 8 years was divisiveness coming from the very top.

Of course, that led to this current election where the left basically ran on demonizing their opposition and they actually had a pretty good target to do so, but it backfired and now all that is left is the hate they helped create and it has spilled into the streets both nights since the election. Fortunately so far Trump hasn't followed in Obama's footsteps when it comes to openly mocking and speaking down to those who disagree with him and are out there spewing all the hatred, at least he hasn't since the election. Perhaps if he continues taking the higher road, it'll help things in the long run.

 

You can just feel the seething anger in each one of MojoMan's posts. You need to chill out, bro.

 

You are all the absolute worst. Not even going to tell you which "side" I'm on, because the people who pretend that all the same backlash didn't happen with obMa are just as bad as malakas flying off the rails making sweeping generalizations about anyone who voted for trump. Both do your side no favors.

Everything is going to be okay I promise. R. E. L. A. X.

 

No, no one is condoning rioting, or anti-Trump people to drag Trump supporters out of cars, or of course for Trump to be killed. I know I'm not. That crap is terrible.

At the same time though...Clinton conceded...that doesn't mean that liberalism and the Democratic party should concede and roll over for the next 4 years. That people against Trump should be quiet. That there should be no protest against what people feel he stands for. I hear a lot of people that seemed annoyed that people on the left are showing no signs of rolling over. Expecting the other side to not fight back or to sit and wait is just not going to happen right now.

I think a lot of people are confusing the right to protest the president as some kind of "Hate" and division.

 

Absolutely, they should not roll over and cater to his policy proposals. They should use the democratic process and fight back with votes, legislation, and engaging the populous.

Perhaps your are responding to others comments. Because mine only called out the violence and assassination threats. I absolutely support anyone's rights to protest legally, without destroying property or obstructing traffic.

 

People are just stupid.. Trump knew he couldn't get support from the educated mainstream who could see some of his incompetence so he had to go the route of catering the extremely racists to get the votes. He got their vote but he's not going to follow through on any of the rhetoric. I bet he keeps Obamacare almost exactly the same and changes the name to Trumpcare. That's about it folks, Trump believed in universal healthcare not too long ago and still does. The anti-Trump protestors should give him a chance. When the smoke has cleared he will do some apologizing little by little.