Who Sent the Guy With the Hammer?

10/28/2022

You sent him.
You sent him in 2016 if you somberly assured that Trump was "good for the economy."

I know people with money who wanted more money and they saw Trump as a guy who would preserve their kind of order.
Money guys. Republican guys. I don't talk politics, or anything, with people like that, these days.

The evidence was clear in February of 2016: Trump was a guy who would stand up in a rally and whip up the boosters by whining how people like him couldn't get a break any more.
Had to hide their psychic white gowns and mental peaked hats.

Trump and his money guys unleased the mob on Feb. 16, 2016.
Violence was in the air, in Trump's sneering lament that life was tough for guys like him.
He prepared his mob to rush to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and somehow he encouraged the guy with the hammer to rush to the Pelosi household on Thursday evening, looking for the Speaker of the House or her husband or anybody.

Who set up the vigilantes preparing to swarm to the voting stations between now and Election Day? The mobs plan to intimidate people who want to vote, and officials who want to give an honest count of the ballots.
You did, many preachers of America, who told their flocks that Trump was a true soldier of Christ, who would fight against abortion, who would approve of Texans to run around with a gun, without even a license to carry it.

Who put a target on Nancy Pelosi and her family? The same candidate who put nicknames on the Speaker of the House, using venom he frequently shows toward women. He has sought a reputation for seeking sex with many women, but behind that is a contempt for the entire gender. He cannot tolerate a political opponent, particularly somebody smart and entitled and female.

Just the way Trump put a mark on the heckler early in 2016, he encouraged the mob to rush the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 -- making Nancy Pelosi a leading enemy.

But people who voted for Trump should remember, as the mob picks up its weapons: Trump is good for the economy.

Alan D. Levine

10/28/2022 03:46:58 pm

You've said it all, George.

John McDermott

10/28/2022 03:57:53 pm

Motherfucker.

Steve Jellinek

10/28/2022 04:19:30 pm

So how do you really feel, George?

Andy Tansey

10/29/2022 08:00:10 am

Mr. McDermott,

You are held in high esteem on this site, but language like that is inexcusable. It diminishes the credibility of its writer and, whether justified or not, of those associated with him and by extension, even though certainly unjustified, this site.

Freedom of speech allows you to communicate like that, just as it allows the far right to promulgate lies and explore the boundaries between free speech and dangerous incitement. I would think that the participants here believe that rationality and decency MUST prevail in a democratic society.

But who am I to judge? I am just a fan of George Vecsey who appreciates the chance to speak my own worthless ideas, and so these can be disregarded.

As to the substance, it is a losing argument, but the present economic woe of inflation has its roots in the free printing of pandemic aid cash, with checks appearing to be signed - without precedent - by the Sociopath in Chief ("SIC") at the time (though truly endorsed by the Treasury). The right will blame Biden for inheriting the problems caused by his predecessor and by his predecessor's counterpart in Russia.

For the rational and decent press to seek to tie the acts of a deranged criminal with the politics of the SIC makes sense when we look at the SIC's effect on American society. However, no matter how consistent the themes, doing so also feeds the claims of the SIC side that the liberal press is biased. We must adhere to decency, rationality and the truth so that, at least, we can point to those hallmarks.

Most respectfully.

bruce

10/29/2022 06:15:16 pm

andy,

i get your point but we've had worse language on this site.

guy disappeared a few years ago.

irrational as hell.

bruce

Walter Schwartz

10/28/2022 05:21:20 pm

It's boggling how our nation got to this point! Some of the most bitter and brutal words come from and apply to him. But, his message only boosts this boisterous belligerent bogyman and his bellicose brawling bookends.

Randolph

10/28/2022 05:23:12 pm

George,
My first thought when learning of the attack on Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was that we are there again: 1938….. Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass!
Back about 4-5 years ago I had a conversation with a good friend of mine. He is a very smart man, a physician, composer and renaissance man. I told my friend that the orange headed Donald was working from the play book of the propaganda minister of the Nazis, Joseph Goebbels. I said that with that playbook and his years of experience with the evil Roy Cohn, that the Republican party was in step with the Nazis. My good friend told me that I was being paranoid. But recently, he came to me and said “My God you were right.”
But the Don has not done it alone. Fox News is a propaganda channel and we now have millions of America who believe the big lie.
And so it goes.
R

10/29/2022 10:29:53 am

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1910/S00036/the-america-of-trumps-father.htm

There are varieties of this article all over the web. Fred Trump was arrested at a racist march in NYC...and went to Bundist meetings...the rest of it falls in place.
Just listen to the self-pitying voice of Trump in that youtube snippet above. Nice Aryan guy like him can;t catch a break. Now he's got followers.

Randolph

10/29/2022 02:52:17 pm

George,
Thanks for the scoop article. I did not know about Fred Trump’s active support of the nazis in the 1920s and 30s.
Wow.
R

Shelley Braunstein

10/28/2022 06:16:43 pm

I despair for the future. Can this really be happening here? The dregs of society TRiUMPhant? If the pollsters are right about the coming elections. . .

phyllis rosenthal

10/28/2022 07:20:35 pm

Such sadness for our country. There is only one way this could happen. REMEMBER! There really? are good people on both sides. Once the first lie is acceptable, anything goes.

Altenir Silva

10/28/2022 07:21:09 pm

Dear George, the situation is getting more complicated. The New York Times has shown that the future of the planet will be under threat if Lula is not elected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/brazil-election-climate-change-amazon-rainforest.html?searchResultPosition=3

Best/Altenir

Altenir Silva

10/28/2022 07:24:55 pm

I hope that 10/30, all Brazilians understand this danger and Lula is elected.
Be well/Altenir

10/29/2022 10:33:41 am

Dear Altenir: My heart is with Brazil during the vote. Bolsonaro sounds very familar to Americans. The big difference is that he has a whole rain forest to burn, for profit, and doesn't seem to care.
com meus melhores votos para o Brasil
GV

Edwin W. Martin Jr

10/28/2022 11:05:13 pm

As Quakers say, George speaks my mind.

Douglas Alden link

10/29/2022 09:59:15 am

Another (major) norm busted… And gone forever, thanks to no one with of any significance with zero republicans of statue saying anything. Busted and gone.

Alan Rubin link

10/29/2022 02:40:46 pm

Until Trump's many legal problems finally catch up with him and he is faced with some much needed accountability, he will continue to be an affront to our society and all decent people.

Maggie Haberman's "Confidence Man" is a must read from someone who saw him up front and personal.

bruce

10/29/2022 06:20:11 pm

trump takes a lot of heat for being who he is.

the mainstream media is still a bit timid about calling out the crazies who voted for that disgrace of a human being.

january 6 changed that a bit, but not enough.

without them trump is just a crazy man baying at the moon on a street corner somewhere.

bruce

10/29/2022 06:27:35 pm

i should've added that it astounds me that trump makes so many comments about the looks of other people.

guy mustn't allow any mirrors in his tasteful abode in florida.

hair unknown in nature, a face colour the same and, by his golf photos, a derriere that takes up two zip codes.

self awareness is not a strong point.

10/31/2022 12:39:00 pm

Best to Altenir and Brazil. May Lula live up to his hopes.

The trump-like headlines re resisting the election are signs of another pandemic.

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“I don’t think people understand how Covid affects older Americans,” Mr. Caretti said with frustration. “In 2020, there was this all-in-this-together vibe, and it’s been annihilated. People just need to care about other people, man. That’s my soapbox.”
---Vic Caretti, 47, whose father recently died of Covid at 85.
---From an article by Paula Span, who covers old age for the NYT, which currently has 2646 comments, the majority criticizing the American public – and public officials – for acting as if the pandemic is “over.”
Classic wishful thinking, at a lethal level.
Please see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/health/covid-pandemic-seniors.html

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