Spends Decades Preaching Non-Violence, Gets Blamed For Shooting

AS ALWAYS ONCE A SHOOTER'S NAME GETS OUT, WE MIND THE
INTERNET
TO FIND THEM.
THEY FOUND THIS GUY ONLINE AND FOUND THAT HE
ABSOLUTELY DESPISED REPUBLICANS AND DONALD TRUMP IN PARTICULAR.
HE PREVIOUSLY SAID THINGS ABOUT
THE CONGRESSMAN THAT WAS SHOT, BUT ALSO THAT HE HAD LIKED
BERNIE SANDERS AT SOME POINT.
HE HAD APPARENTLY VOLUNTEERED FOR
BERNIE SANDERS.
MANY ON THE RIGHT EVEN SOME LIBERALS THOUGHT
THEY COULD CASH IN ON THIS.
SO THE ATTACKS AGAINST BERNIE
SANDERS AND HIS SUPPORTERS BEGAN
IMMEDIATELY.
BERNIE SANDERS DID NOT NEED TO COMMENT ON THIS BUT
TO HIS CREDIT HE DID IN WRITTEN FORM AND ON THE FLOOR OF
CONGRESS.
I HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED THAT THE ALLEGED SHOOTER THE
REPUBLICAN BASEBALL PRACTICE THIS MORNING, WAS SOMEONE WHO
APPARENTLY VOLUNTEER MY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
I AM
SICKENED BY THIS DESPICABLE ACT, AND LET ME BE AS CLEAR AS I CAN
BE, VIOLENCE OF ANY KIND IS UNACCEPTABLE IN OUR SOCIETY, AND
I CONDEMN THIS ACTION IN THE
STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS.
REAL CHANGE CAN ONLY COME ABOUT
THROUGH NONVIOLENT ACTION AND ANYTHING ELSE RUNS COUNTER TO
OUR MOST DEEPLY HELD AMERICAN
VALUES.
I KNOW I SPEAK FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND SAYING THAT
MY HOPES AND PRAYERS ARE THAT REPRESENTATIVE SCALISE,
CONGRESSIONAL STAFF, AND THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE WOUNDED
MAKE A QUICK AND FULL RECOVERY.
I ALSO WANT TO THINK THE CAPITAL POLICE FOR THEIR HEROIC
ACTIONS TO PREVENT FURTHER HARM.
I'M GLAD HE MADE THAT COMMENT.
WHAT I NOTICED IS THAT
IT IS THE MESSAGE THAT HAS BEEN
DELIVERING FOR OVER 41 YEARS.
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SAYING THAT
HE
COULD BE RESPONSIBLE HAS NEVER LISTENED TO BERNIE SANDERS
SPEAK.
ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT BERNIE THAT WE ALL UNDERSTOOD
EARLY ON IS THAT ONE OF THE BENEFITS IS THAT HE DOESN'T DRAW
IN TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATS OR
LIPS, HIS APPEAL IS BROADER.
THAT MEANS MODERATES AND
CONSERVATIVES LIKE HIM, OR AT LEAST SOME OF HIS POLICIES.
GOD
ONLY KNOWS WHAT THIS GUY'S BACKGROUND WAS FIVE OR 10 YEARS
AGO.
WHEN YOU POINT OUT IN THE WAKE OF A TERROR ATTACK,
SOMETIMES ON TYT WE HAVE CRITICIZED THE RHETORIC COMING
OUT OF THE MEDIA FIGURES OR POLITICIANS.
YOU MIGHT THINK
THIS IS HYPOCRITICAL THAT BERNIE SANDERS IS RESPONSIBLE.
BUT
POLITICIANS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEIR SUPPORTERS DO IN
THE ABSTRACT, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE WITH THEIR RHETORIC.
AND DONALD TRUMP DID THAT
MULTIPLE TIMES DURING HIS CAMPAIGN.
HE ALSO DID IT DURING
PARTICULAR POLITICIANS.
THAT HAS
BEEN THE CASE OF PEOPLE IN THE
RIGHT-WING MEDIA.
IF BERNIE
SANDERS HAD SAID THE 1% HAS TOO MUCH MONEY, YOU CAN CHOP THEIR
HEADS OFF, HE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE.
BUT THAT IS NOT AN
ACTUAL QUOTE.
LOOK IT UP.
I ALSO THINK YOU CAN'T CONFLATE WHAT ONE PERSON
BELIEVES WITH WHAT AN ENTIRE
MOVEMENT BELIEVES OR WHAT A COUPLE OF PEOPLE BELIEVE.
MY
ISSUE IS YOU CAN ONLY HOLD BERNIE SANDERS RESPONSIBLE FOR
WHAT HAS COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
HE HAS NOT ONCE INCITED
VIOLENCE.
IF YOU THINK HIS RHETORIC IS THE SAME AS TERMS,
PLEASE SHOW IT TO ME.
NOW IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME ON THE
LEFT WHO MIGHT INCITE VIOLENCE USING RHETORIC MAYBE THOSE CASES
DO HAPPEN?
KATHY GRIFFIN'S RIDICULOUS PHOTO, WE SPOKE OUT
AGAINST IT.
IT WAS BAD IMAGERY AND YOU WANT TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE
TO COMMIT ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
BUT BLAMING BERNIE SANDERS IS
RIDICULOUS.
I'M NOT JUST TALKING TO CONSERVATIVES, BECAUSE WE SEE
LIBERALS DOING IT AS WELL.
JOY READ.
SHE'S NUTS.
YOU HIT IT ON THE HEAD WHEN YOU SAID THIS CONFLATION BETWEEN
WHATEVER THE ALRIGHT IS WITH
THIS ALL LEFT IDEA JUST DOESN'T
EXIST.
EVEN THIS GUY, HE
ABANDONED BERNIE SANDERS AND
BRACED HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN.
IT IS ABSURDLY DISINGENUOUS TO ZERO
IN.
HE TWEETED SOME THINGS AFTER THE ELECTION THAT SEEMED MORE
SUPPORTIVE OF HILLARY, BUT I READ THAT HE SAID YOU SHOULD
EITHER THEORETICALLY RIGHT IN BERNIE OR VOTE FOR JOEL STEIN.
BUT LATER ON HE SAID HE FOCUSED ON JUST DONALD TRUMP AND
SAID HILLARY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING
WRONG.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS RESPONSIBLE IS THE SHOOTER AND
ANYONE WHO MIGHT'VE ENCOURAGED
HIM ñ RIGHT NOW WE DON'T KNOW WHO ENCOURAGED HIM OR IF ANYONE
INCITED VIOLENCE.
THE ONE THING WE DO KNOW IS THAT BERNIE
SANDERS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.
HE DOES NOT CONDONE
VIOLENCE AND HAS NEVER EVER
ENCOURAGED VIOLENCE.
AND TO USE YOUR DISDAIN FOR BERNIE SANDERS
OR USE THIS HORRIBLE TRAGIC EVENT IN ORDER TO SHOW YOUR
DISDAIN SHOWS THAT YOU JUST HAVE AN AGENDA AND YOU DON'T REALLY
CARE ABOUT THE FACTS.
YOU JUST WANT TO PLACE THE BLAME ON SOMEONE.
SO WHY ZERO IN ON BERNIE SANDERS?
IT IS JUST COMPLETELY
DISINGENUOUS AND HORRIBLE.
I KNOW SHE IS JUST ONE PERSON WHO HAS DONE THIS AND THERE ARE
A LOT OTHERS BUT THE JOY RETWEET ñ
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HER?
SHE TOOK SOME FAKE FACT THAT WAS TWEETED TO HER AND AGREED
WITH IT.
THAT BERNIE'S CAREER
HAS BEEN PROPPED UP BY THE NRA.
WHAT?
THAT WAS HER TAKE.
WOW.
I KNOW PARTIES ARE COMPLEX AND THERE ARE MULTIPLE FACTIONS
AND THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THINGS ARE SIMPLY
GOING TO LAY DOWN AND LET THE NEW GROUP TAKE OVER?
I KNEW THAT
WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
BUT WE CAN HAVE AN ACTUAL DEBATE ABOUT
THINGS WE HAVE SAID.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT DEBATE BY
MAKING UP RIDICULOUS BS AND
SMEARING A GUY WHO HAS MORE INTEGRITY THAN ANY OTHER
POLITICIAN IN WASHINGTON AT THIS
POINT.
COMMENTING ON THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST ANNOYING THINGS BECAUSE
I CAN'T WIN.
REALLY CARE ABOUT WINNING BUT YOU HAVE THE
HARD-CORE BERNIE SUPPORTERS WHO
THINK I AM A CORPORATIST, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE HILLARY PEOPLE
THAT ARE LIKE YOU ARE PART OF THE REASON WHY HILLARY LOST THE
ELECTION.
EVERYONE HATES ME AND THINKS WE ARE TERRIBLE.
WHATEVER, I DON'T CARE.
BUT WHAT
I DO CARE ABOUT IS JUST KEEPING IT REAL WITH BOTH SIDES,
ESPECIALLY THE SIDE THE JOY READ
IS ON.
IF YOU ARE FRUSTRATED AT THE FACT THAT HILLARY LOST THE
ELECTION INSTEAD OF GETTING ANGRY AND ANTAGONIZING PEOPLE,
ONE OF YOU LISTEN TO THEM AND LISTEN TO THEIR ACTUAL CONCERNS.
DEMONIZING THEM WILL NOT BODE
WELL FOR YOU OR YOUR PARTY TO YEARS FROM NOW AND CERTAINLY NOT
THREE TO HALF YEARS FROM NOW.
WAKE UP.
THEY ARE JUST SO BITTER
ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY LOST.
MAYBE THEY HAVE REAL GENUINE
CONCERNS WE NEED TO REPRESENT?
THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF SELF CRITIQUE.
THEY CAN'T LOOK AT WHY
THEY LOST, AND HOW THEY CAN WIN.
IF CORBIN WASN'T REVEALING OF HOW THE LEFT ACTUALLY DOES HAVE
A LOT OF STANDING ñ AGAIN THE CONFLATION OF TRYING TO TIE THIS
HORSESHOE THEORY WHERE YOU ARE
SO LEFT, AND JUST APOLOGIZING FOR THIS.
I'M AT SOME POINT GOING TO HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND ORGANIZE MY
THOUGHTS ON THIS.
THERE IS THIS WEIRD IDEA ñ THIS OBSESSION OF
SHOWING HOW IDEOLOGICALLY PURE
UR.
THERE IS ONE SPECTRUM YOU CAN BE ON. AND AS YOU DO THINGS
YOU ARE JUST MOVING TO THE LEFT
AND THE RIGHT.
THAT IS NOT HOW LIFE IS.
LIFE IS MORE
COMPLICATED THAN THAT.
YOU CAN MOVE MORE PROGRESSIVE OR MORE
CONSERVATIVE YOU CAN ALSO MOVE MORE WISE OR LESS WISE, MORE
FOOLISH OR MORE AGGRESSIVE.
THOSE ARE NOT THE SAME THINGS.
YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER POSITION
YOU WANT ON POLITICS BUT CAN ALSO
BE A REAL BIG FUCKING ASSHOLE.
PEOPLE NEED TO BE ANALYTICAL BUT
NOT JUST ABOUT THEIR POLITICAL VALUES AND GOALS, BUT ALSO
EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MAKES A
HUMAN.

Spends Decades Preaching Non-Violence, Gets Blamed For Shooting

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