As To The Trump Violence, We're Doing The "I Told You So"

Going back to the early days of the campaign, some media did report the violence at Trump events.

Since the cancelled Trump Rally in Chicago Friday night, the floodgates have been open, with many fulminating over the Trump violence, offering details of past Trump events and timelines to illuminate it.

Today, we have Josh Marshall at TPM offering "Someone Will Die", Karen Tumulty, and others, at WaPO asking "Trump has lit a fire. Can it be contained?", and you can go out to Memeorandum for more.

All well, and good, these writings.

It's just that the timelines and denunciations of Trump Violence doesn't go back far enough.

After pointing to Trump's Fascism on November 20th, from the GOP Debate, and Trump doubling down on his call to close all Mosques, and track all Muslims, it took all of 24-48-hours to see what his rhetoric wrought.

In our post It's Starting To Get Ugly Out There, on November 22nd, we linked to story of "Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called 'monkey' and other racial slurs, he says".

The Donald, actually, defended the beating of the protester!

A day later, we highlighted,  straight out of Central Casting, and on-cue, "Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force"

These were the early days of the campaign, when the Republican Establishment, and many in the Media, believed that Trump wasn't a serious candidate, that he would either self-implode, or drop out.

But he didn't do either, instead, gained strength, in part, hammering the GOP's Golden Saviour JEB!, to the point, JEB! was the one that self-imploded and dropped out.

And, the rhetoric, and violence continued at Trump events, escalating, to where we are now.

Trump is blaming Bernie Sanders, and his supporters, for the disruptions at his events this weekend, even, on stage, mocking Sanders, for when protester took over Sanders on-stage, taking the microphone away from him, to which we noted, back in November;

So, according to The Donald, Bernie Sanders is a wimp, for not kicking the shit out of the protesters at his event. 

And, The Donald, with a comment like that, has given tacit approval for his supporters to beat up anyone who protests, or, criticizes The Donald.

We've see that come to fruition, the violence, and mocking of Sanders, which Trump will milk, at least, until Tuesday, when there's a new round of Primary Voting, and we see what impact the weekend's events has on the outcomes.

We ended our November post with;

Before some actually gets murdered, time for The Donald, all the presidential candidates to adopt a policy of #AllWordsMatter.

Otherwise, the campaign trails melts down to a free-for-all, and the candidate with the better fighters and goons wins.

We refrained in November, so, now, belatedly, we told you so.

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#GOPDebate ...Now We Know Who Keyser Söze Is

Another Clown Car gathering last night, in Las Vegas, and it was almost Life Imitating Art

Ozzie and Harriet would be blushing today, with all the virulent insults uttered by the PartyofNican Clown Car drivers.

JEB! borrowed a spine from somewhere, and a rubber mallet from the circus, that he kept clubbing (and, at times, looking like he was going to break out in tears), The Donald, who kept dismissing him in Dorthoy Parker fashion (The "I'm 42 and you're 3" retort hurts a bit, doesn't it JEB!)

Only thing missing between Life Story Boy Mario Rubio and the McCarthyesque Ted Cruz was a WWF Banner and Cage Match announcement prior to the debate.

Cruz, in responding to Life Story Boy had to resort to, potentially, classified informantion to keep from getting smashed with a folding chair and thrown out of the ring.

Carli Fiorini looked like she had been stung by 1000 hornets, snarling at the moderators more than any of the other clowns.

Traffic Jam Starter Christie played the High School Prinicple in this production, pointing out the Hobbesian Trap rancor of the other candidates, but injecting his own "my dick is bigger", which was the overarching theme of the entire night, of all the candidates (yes, I know, but it still applies). 

Rand Paul, once again, the exasperated teacher, writing on the proverbial blackkboard, the correct CONSERVATIVE answer  (labeled a "Loser" by CNN) for his inattentive class, but he's looking more and more, like a steward on the Titanic, looking for space for himself on one of those lifeboats.

I think Carson and Kaisch were there, just so two podiums wouldn't be empty, though, our Pryamid Expert did declare he could handle the Commander in Chief thing, having to do what has to be done, because of his neurosurgery experience.

Let us hope, if Dr, Ben happens to get elected, all the terrorists, suddenly, come down with brain tumors.

But the biggest news, and I mean, this is a blockbuster, 10-pt, bold headline stuff;

We found out who really is Keyser Söze!

From Think Progress, and before the debate;

“We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” he said in response to a question about avoiding civilian causalities. “And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. They, they care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families.”

The Donald reiterated it again, at the debate last night,  stopping short of saying he would go after their friends, and even people who owe them money.

In a previous post, we asked, rhetorically, how more debased things would get.

Last night, came the first answer, we we have every expectation that it will be topped in the very-soon-future.

From Salon;

First, this was a bad night for Trump. Even by Trump’s standards, which are cartoonishly low, he embarrassed himself. He has no answers, no ideas, and no discernible reason to run for president. He doubled down on his plan to kill the family members of suspected terrorists, ignoring the Geneva Convention in the name of “toughness.” His strategy to defeat ISIS amounts to “hiring good people” and building a “great wall.” For most of the night, he flailed like the petulant clown that he is, and gave no indication that he’s taking any of this seriously.

Trump is a national mistake, and every time he opens his mouth in public, he reminds the world how unserious he is and how foolish we are for allowing him to hijack our nomination process.

Is Trump Keyser Söze?

When it's all said-and-done, the greatest trick The Donald pulled was convincing the world he does have intelligence

Bonus Links

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