Saying things like "The Evil Hag," "Obamanation," etc is nothing when it comes to the insane left doing things like "cutting" off Trump's head and having rants about killing male babies and getting rid of white people. Name-zingers make us laugh but they certainly don't inspire us to shoot people.
And, oh yes, long live Rush Limbaugh.

No one deserves to be shot like that, period. Whether you are on the right, left, or somewhere in-between. Period.

However, having said that, the rhetoric used by so many people on the right, the left, or somewhere in-between is often incendiary and frankly, in my opinion, leads to violence. Just look at all the negative terminology and name calling used in these threads, day after day after day. And most don't apologize for it. They consider it rational to throw around labels. Yet, reading it here makes me angry (which is one reason I don't post here all that often).

Many of the citizens of this country are angry, angry with the direction of the country, angry with the decisions being made, and this man must have felt angry enough to do this despicable thing. (Of course, we as citizens may never know what was his issue(s) that made him act this ways, but I digress.) And it WAS a despicable act to target Republicans, but it would be just as despicable act to target Democrats or Muslims or atheists or any other group into which people wish to separate them. This us vs. them mentality has to stop.

I always wonder, if they are so diametrically opposed to firearms (as most socialist liberals are), how do these same socialist liberals plan on shooting anything?

Like my values statement on another thread, they throw around stuff like this because they have no real understanding - or meaning - behind their words... ergo they are, to them, valueless, so it's OK in their minds to throw them around.

"Take away all guns", "Guns are ansty/evil/perverted/wicked/ugly/etc", "No one has any need for guns"... then "Let's shoot xxxxx.... "

I can make the assumption that they are truly, as shown by their own meaningless words, deranged.

Here Here!

Ayn Rand never saw this coming because AS was written in the 1950s, long before the internet. Another thing that she ignored in her depiction of the inexorable slide into socialism is the Second Amendment, not to mention the election of a President Trump, who wants to "drain the swamp!"

The so-called progressives (read: radical leftists) always complained that "we must respect diverse opinions". Then we find out that what they REALLY meant was "YOU must respect MY diverse opinion". But this is taking it to a whole new (low) level...

Dems went from freedom of speech, to hate speech, to a new KKK Antifas, to violence. MSM is a willing collaborator. Is history going to repeat itself? Dems took first shot in Ft. Sumter which led to a bloody civil war. I know there's a few good Dems and hope they stop this insanity.
Now they're all lined up waiting for their turn in front of a camera to ask for gun control.

I'm all for gun control. Train, practice, carry and shoot back with a good sight alignment. That's gun control, a good sight alignment. Can you imagine the whole ball team shooting back at that turd. The police response time wouldn't have been fast enough for that turd.

Thank you Pogo.

The Prtogressives are psychotically begging for the logical end of the Century of light they so claim to admire. That end is Robespierre, 1793.

Yet, strangely enough, the "right" has not employed clubs, firebombs, mace and rifles. I daresay your civil and moderate approach will kill us in the end. Perhaps you would prefer President Obama's Chicago Rules (unless you view him as an outlier?). Under those conservatives could now deploy M249 SAW light machine guns, or if our insist on strict incrementalism, a Barrett 50 Caliber Semi-Automatic.

"still find this whole sad mess to be indicative of the collapse of the fragile polity. They have allowed the idiocy to race out of control with their BS rhetoric and making crap up as they go."
I have the exact same thought. I hope it's just that it's easier for the idiots to run their mouths on Twitter now. Maybe 30 years ago the same people were with us, but the editor would not have published their letter on the op-ed page. Maybe they would have written this crap, realized it was wrong, crumpled it up, and thrown it away, as President Lincoln said he sometimes did.

If my hope is wrong and the crap in this article and name-calling MM describes are the average citizen's view, we are in grave danger.

I honestly don't understand what they're fighting about. I don't understand how people not involved in policy can get fired up about the successes and failures of politicians like President Trump and President Obama. I do not get it at all. This gives me hope it's just idiots running their mouths.

The last eight years was truly an "Obamanation" on several levels. I'll not apologize for referring to "the Evil Hag of the Clinton Foundation Crime Cartel" either.
I'll also never expect such an apology from my hero and inspiration, Rush Limbaugh, for saying stuff like "Dingy Harry" (Reid) and calling Al Gore "Ozone Head."
Rush and me dino never stated anything about shooting anybody unless it was Osama Bin Laden and I can't recall even writing that.
How low can me dino still go? Thar still be libtards to blow my nose at.
Here are some higher education snowflakes who can't find their safe zone~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hud...
Loved The National Lampoon when I was going to college on the GI Bill, getting even for being drafted.
I was a lib way back then, though. Maybe only part of me grew up. But me dino don't care.

Nick, I respectfully disagree. AR definitely saw this coming and hinted at it peripherally in AS.

This is an example of the philosophy of the left taken to its logical conclusion. It can only lead to death and destruction. It makes no difference whether the left agenda is promulgated by Socialists, Christians, Muslims, or atheists, the group is irrelevant; the philosophical underpinnings are the same and lead to the same place: the end of civilization. That has been their goal all along. It is the ultimate statement: "If we don't have power, we'll send us all back to caves." In AS, AR wrote, "They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence,and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of their hatred is himself." [AS, Kindle Ed. Pg 1046]

I hold the MSM responsible by printing such garbage it gives the fringe crazies the idea it's OK to do these things ...It must stop somewhere but the media just keep fanning the flames ...

one by one the scum of the earth from the demo party will now do to the repub party what the muslims do attack soft targets so the revolution has begun. macauliffe has to be shoved back in to the hole from which he came.

Are you sure James T. Hodgkinson acted alone? Because--well, a few little details about this case bother me. As they would have bothered a certain iconic TV character in a rumpled raincoat and driving an oil-burning Peugeot. Let's discuss it here:

https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

They is indeed us, when us cannot get together long enough to eject "they" from the game. Most of what "they" do is to facilitate that inability to gather together. Divide and conquer. Focus on the one hot button issue and lie, lie, lie so no one can ever find the truth. Must be like Rome around 300AD.

I am sorry, MIke, I see your points, but my use of "names" is an emtional reaction to the last 8 years of corruption, lies, theft, treason and numerous other misdeeds, all masked by a social structure that took every event, positive or negative, and twisted it to the point that it fit their agenda and bore no resemblance to truth. I would shrug in a heartbeat, if I could meet certain criteria, and the fact my economic survival is predicated on these loons not creating such a mess, that our economic and social structure collapses. Barring that, I am forced to exist along their lines in as much as I have to to keep a paycheck for now. Philosophy is all good and well, I can guarantee you most, if not all, of the masters and their minions on both sides could not, and would not, debate you on that. They are set on their use of "social stalinism, or rhetorical terrorism" to generate the events they percieve will gain them the power they want. Money is also tied into it, up to their necks. Remember a couple weeks ago when a Right wing zealot killed a couple guys trying to protect 2 women? The media castigated all conservative, right wing, non Progressives as if they had perpetrated the act, and yet when one of thier own ilk goes "RINO Hunting" (which may be true), they still turn it around and try to make it out like some right wing plot. I grow weary of the lies and manipulation that has spread like cancer everywhere, and the total lack of honesty to just a minimum level to allow some form of government to exist, I have to label them with some form of negative label to reflect all the harm they have brought to us.I would not advocate a violent solution, but I am all for total rejection of that cess pool called DC and just annex it to Zimbabwe or something, and start over. After 20 years of poking holes in the ocean for this country, to see the likes of these goons riding it into the ground is very disturbing...

Well, yes, but "they" is "us."

The comments here are indicative of the problem. Calling the previous administration "Obamanation" and calling the former secretary of state "Hitlery" and "the Evil Hag" are examples of the low point of discourse.

As for the claim that "progressives agree" all that was offered was a few comments by idiots; and we know that such people are everywhere. As I was listening to the news on the way to work yesterday morning, my first thought was that the shooter was a conservative super-patriot out RINO hunting.

Such outliers -- left, right, center, off the chart - do not define the group.

Even ewv has fallen in step, claiming that socialism is violence. So, is it the implication that shooting them back first is self-defense? I ask because, ultimately, the evil is not socialism but metaphysical subjectivism. So, do you go to the philosophy departments and hunt them down first? Get the Kantians, then the Lockeans, Cartesians, and Platonists... But ewv has disagreed with me about fine points in Objectivism. That kind of thinking never ends.

I call it "social stalinism" the theory that society cannot be safe until the last threat is removed. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) called it "rhetorical terrorism." Hate speech is not just about race or gender or religion.

One of the many aspects of Ayn Rand's "stunt" novel, Atlas Shrugged that was lost on the people who only saw the movies through their own ideological lenses is that the good guys always kept their benevolent sense of life. Their emotional response to mysticism, altruism, and collectivism was indifference. That is what it means to shrug. A shrug is a body language signal for uncertainty, ambivalence, or indifference, a refusal to commit.

still find this whole sad mess to be indicative of the collapse of the fragile polity. They have allowed the idiocy to race out of control with their BS rhetoric and making crap up as they go.

A Sanders campaign worker deliberately try to murder a team of Republicans because they are Republicans. Sanders then made an announcement proclaiming that he is against violence. What do they think socialism is?

As for the progressive writers cheering on the murderer, this isn't new. When Reagan was shot TV news broadcasts interviewd leftists saying he deserved it.