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Speaker 2: A busy news weekend across all fronts, so we'll try
to get to all of it here over the next
three hours. You've got the stuff going on over in
Eure up between Ukraine and Russia, some movement on that.
But I wanted to start on an underreported story. I'll
call it the underreported story of the weekend. And you've
got to go out west to Albuquerque, New Mexico for
this story to start. And it's where a fire broke
out at the entrance of the Republican Party of New Mexico.
This happened very early yesterday morning, before six am local time.
Now fires happen electrical fires, storms rolling through, lightning strikes
cause the fire. There are plenty of reasons why something
can catch on fire. However, this was not the case
of a freak natural disaster Mother Nature. This was not
the case of some shoddy electrical work that caused the
building to burn down. No, this is a case of
arson perpetrated on the Republican Party of New Mexico. So
the fire rescue responded shortly before six o'clock yesterday morning
to find the front entrance of the building on fire.
When crews arrived, fortunately quickly five to ten minutes, they
were able to get everything under control and for the
most part, save the majority of the building, even though
there is significant fire, water and smoke damage throughout the
rest of the facility. And so this of course brings
forward a very interesting question. How did this fire start
and local officials in fact are investigating it as a
case of arson, and why might that be the first
place that they're going Well, spray painted on the side
of the building. We're not dealing with the most intelligent
folks here, ladies and gentlemen. Spray painted on the side
of the building in red spray paint was ice ic
equals KKK. That's what was spray painted on the side
of the building, Not more than fifteen feet from the
burning entrance of the New Mexico Republican Party office yesterday morning.
So this is once again a case of political violence
being perpetrated by the progressive left. Now, of course, the
irony in all of this is the fact that it's
the same individuals on the left. It's the same organizations
on the left, the likes of which CNN, MSNBC, the
major news network's NBCCBSABC, there are always ones talking about
and we've really got to just ratchet down this political violence. Right,
how many times have you been told that you need
to be part of the solution lowering the political temperature.
No pun intended with the story in New Mexico. Yet
it's the same individuals that espounde this message that tell
us as Republicans, us as conservatives that we need to
ratchet down our political rhetoric. While they're out there burning
buildings to the ground, while they're out there throwing malotov
cocktails at the entrance of the Republican Party of New
Mexico's office at five thirty am on a Sunday morning,
it's the same group of individuals. Now, of course, this
idea that you can blame one entity for this. Now,
hopefully they find the individual or individuals who are behind
this act that decided that they were going to take
it upon themselves to destroy this property, to try and
burn this building down. Hopefully those individuals are caught, captured
and then of course have to deal with the full
throat of the judicial system thrown at them, as they should.
They should have the book absolutely thrown at them. But
let's not bury the lead on this. The uptick in
political violence that we are seeing in our country, this
is being fueled by one side, and one side alone,
and that is the far left fringes of the Democrat Party.
If you want to look at who is driving a
narrative right now that is leading individuals to believe that
it is appropriate, that it is acceptable that it is
okay to go in firebomb a building at five o'clock
in the morning on a Sunday. There is no other
place to look than the mainstream media and the individuals
that they continue to invite on their news networks and
on their programs. These are the individuals that are stoking
the fear of the American people that cause these things
to take place. There is undoubtedly a correlition, a correlation
between the two things. When over the last three months now,
all you've heard, if you watch MSNBC or CNN, is
about how awful Donald Trump, how awful Elon Musk, how
awful the Republicans, how awful the Conservatives, whatever group, how
awful these people are. They're stripping away rights from women,
They're doing this to that group, They're doing this other
thing to this other group. This is all that you've
heard for three months now, and by the way, probably
part of the larger message of everything you've heard for
nearly the past decade as it revolves around Donald Trump.
It makes sense that something like this happens. It makes
sense that somebody thinks that this is an appropriate thing
to do. It makes sense that individuals carry out the
will of these news networks, of these commentators, of the these
expert analysts that they bring on to talk about politics,
because this is what they're calling for now. Of course,
they don't go on CNN and say burn down the
Republican Party of New Mexico's office. But when you stoke
the fear of these individuals day after day, hour after hour,
minute after minute on these news programs, day in and
day out. Are you really surprised that this is the result.
I'm not. I'm not surprised that individuals are taking this
into their own hands and acting this way. This is
what they've been told. The people that they're doing this to,
in this case, the Republican Party of New Mexico are.
Speaker 3: The worst people that have ever existed. They're trying to
strip away everybody's rights. They're trying to destroy democracy. They're
being akin to Aidolf Hitler and the Nazis. So why
are we shocked? Why are we surprised that this is
taking place?
Speaker 2: Yet? We need to tone down the political rhetoric, right,
We need to roll back some of the nasty, vitriolic
things that are said by both sides of the political aisle.
When is the laft going to start practicing what they preach? Now,
don't hold your breath on that, you'll end up passing out,
of course, But at what point do we start looking
at these individuals and holding them responsible all of this.
Woke up to the store this story this morning, with
all of this going on, Just look at what's happened
over the last couple of weeks where you've had dozens
of videos making their way to social media showing deranged
leftist lunatics defacing individuals private properties. What are they doing
while they're keing people's cars? What kind of cars are
they keen? Well, the likes of Elon Musk and Tesla.
Now they're not keing Elon Musk's car, They're not keing
the cars of Tesla employees. They're keying the cars of private,
everyday individuals and citizens who are just minding their own
business and shopping, only to walk out and see that
their car has scratch marks all over the side of it.
Why are they doing that? That's the exact same thing.
They've been misrepresented and lied to by the mainstream media
about everything awful that's going on in the world right now,
and one man. That are two men or three men
that are responsible for all of it going wrong, and
these individuals are acting out now. They're trying to be
sly with it. Of course when it comes to the
Tesla cars, only to have them I guess not understanding.
They're too stupid to understand and realize that these cars
have cameras covering literally the entirety of them. So all
of these people's pictures, all of their videos have ended
up all over social media. Local law enforcement has videos
and pictures of these people and with their sunglasses on
being the Resistance party keying up somebody's car in a
parking lot because they hate Elon Musk, they hate the Republicans,
they have Trump by concerns, they and everybody because they're
party lost back in November. So their solution since then
has been, well, let's burned down offices and let's destroy
people's private properties. And I think this is going to
end very poorly for the LAFT big time.
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Speaker 2: Let's jump on over to our phone lines. Lee's hanging online.
One lead. Good afternoon, You're on the Peak Counter show
with Nick Craig.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Hey, So I was listening to what you
were just saying. First of all, I just found your
radio station. Actually just a couple of days ago. You
were talking about sank Advice, So I wanted to thank
you for that, But I wanted to make a comment
about what was stated about it being far left that
was the only ones doing damage.
Speaker 5: Sure, Okay, So.
Speaker 6: I'm not a affiliate with the parties because I know
everybody can hear and they're probably gonna made a sentence
backlash from I'm not affiliated with the party. I evaluate.
I go through the information and I make my own
own decision on who I choose. And I really don't
think it's necessarily accurate to say it's the far just
the far left.
Speaker 2: I think in all of these cases it is exclusively
the far left, though right. I mean the individuals that
are burning Tesla dealerships down and King individuals cars and
fire bombing or GOP office yesterday. I mean that is
exclusively the far left.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: Does anybody know who did the fire that just happened,
because if you my what my thought process is is
looking at everything. Are the far right not mad too?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean far what the far right was
mad for four years under Joe Biden. I didn't see
local Democrat Party offices going up in flames across.
Speaker 6: The country, Okay, And I understand that.
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't see people driving around electric vehicles
or people that had solar panels on their house. They're
their houses being burned to the ground because people on
the right disagreed with the Green New Deal.
Speaker 3: Lee.
Speaker 2: I understand the point you're trying to get to, and
that it's there is polarization on both sides of the
political aisle and I agree with that, and I don't
think there's there's not much to argue, but there's one
big difference. What there's one huge difference when the right
axe out, it is the responsibility of every elected Republican,
the president, and everybody associated with Republicans and Conservatives to
answer for that person. When somebody on the left axe out,
when a GOP office is burned down in New Mexico,
when individuals are roaming around mall parking lots keing people's cars.
I didn't see any microphones in front of any Democrats
this morning. I didn'te any microphones in front of Jasmine
Crockett space this morning. Is she's yelling obscenities in Congress
about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. There's no accountability. There's
not even a story on CNN or MSNBC's website about it.
I can promise you this, and I appreciate your call
this afternoonly, thanks for listening. If this was something that
was happening on the other side of the political aisle,
if a group of Republicans burned down a Democrat Party
office yesterday, Donald Trump would already have been hauled in
front of Congress and would have microphones in front of
his face, asking him why he caused this to take place,
why he allowed this to happen. I mean, that's the
big difference, and that's what's really frustrating to me, is
it's not called out equally. Political violence is bad when
individuals act out based on their politics, act out based
on the fact that they like or don't like one
side of the political party or asle or issue or
whatever it is. But it's not equally implied. When Republicans
act out, it's a threat to democracy. When Democrats act out,
that didn't happen. There's no news coverage about it. It
practically didn't even happen. And that's a major major problem.
And that's how I see this playing out. And it's
unfortunate because individuals should be held responsible for the things
that they do. I mean, there's just no question about it.
But unfortunately that's not what happens on That's not what
happens on both sides of the political lie. There is
literally nothing If you go to CNN or MSNBC's website
right now, there's nothing on there. It's as if the
story didn't happen, as if there's nothing that happened at all.
This was not a local GOP I mean, this was
the GOP headquarters in New Mexico. Yet no conversation about
it where there's no microphones in front of members of
Congress this morning asking them why they're rhetoric on the
left is responsible for this taking place. How about all
of the individuals who have had their personal vehicles faced
over the last two months because they decided to go
out and buy the car that the left told them
they needed to buy. Right, that's, of course the irony
with the whole Tesla thing. Now, these cars are what
the left said you need to go out and buy
so the planet doesn't spontaneously combust due to climate change.
You go out and you buy a Tesla, and now
it's getting keyed in a mall parking lot because Elon
Musk is working with the Department of Government Efficiency. It's
just insanity. Seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten.
Let's head back to our phone lines, line three. Tony's
hanging on the line. Tony, you're on the PA counter
Show with Nick Craig.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Hey, LOOKI man, I heard your complaining about
Tesla's being burned and this and that well, you was
concerned when they went to the Capitol deficated into building deficated.
Speaker 2: That's the first time I've heard of that.
Speaker 5: Oh you know what they did anything and everything up there. Well,
you just as concerned about these little teslas. But you
know what Elon Musk and you know as well as
that if you deep do people wrong, you gonna get
you gonna expect to get some paid back. And that's
what's happening. And I'm glad is happening.
Speaker 2: So you're you're You're okay, You're you're okay with the
GOP office getting burned to the ground in Mexico this
week in Mexico.
Speaker 5: This weekend, blurtly, certainly because certain let all these criminals, yeah,
like fifteen hundred criminals goals. So these people are pretty
much innocent that burning these you know, all these criminals goals.
He called them innocent.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're fully in favor of political So, Tony,
you're fully in favor of political violence. That's what I'm
hearing from you. Retribution.
Speaker 5: Let all these people go, yes.
Speaker 2: So you're all in favor of so. But I'm sure Tony,
you'd be the same one. I'm sure you'd be the
same one yelling and screaming about how we need to
lower the political rhetoric in the country. Right not, but
get that.
Speaker 5: That's that's overwhere. That really pushed that to the brink.
Speaker 2: So forget the Republicans pushed that to the brink.
Speaker 5: Yeah it's on now.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there you go, Tony. Appreciate your calling. I'm
glad to see that you're just falling into exactly the
narrative that I get. The guess that the left is
painting that you guys are all in favor of political violence.
Speaker 5: I why, Yeah, Hey, did you complain so much about Denver?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, individuals that trespassed on the US capital should have
been held. Yeah, absolutely, I do.
Speaker 5: Well, what do you think about him letting all of
them go? It's some of the biggest criminals. What do
you think about that?
Speaker 2: Like, who.
Speaker 5: Oh, the leader of the Proud Boys, what do you
think about that?
Speaker 2: The guy that wasn't even in DC at the time.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about the other would be who.
Speaker 2: Get out of here? Tony? I mean, come on, so
you're so you're so your your thought here is that
because of January sixth, it is okay for you, and
I guess you would do this yourself. By the sounds
of it, you believe it's appropriate for you. It's appropriate
for you to go into a mall parking lot and
deface somebody's private property because you disagree with how something
was handled in the past. Do you not see the
self destruction that you're bringing forward?
Speaker 5: The republic calls this and so it is.
Speaker 2: Really absolutely there you go. That is the typical leftist.
It is always the those Republicans, Those damn Republicans have
caused every problem. I just don't know how the left
comes back from this. So not only is this stuff
happening on the left, then you've got people like Tony
who are championing this on and then we wonder why
the Democrat Party had a miserable election cycle in November.
We wonder why the American people rejected the Left their
policies and their politics back in November of last year.
It can't possibly because of because of the rhetoric we
just heard from Tony. Can't possibly be that.
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Speaker 2: We're talking political violence this afternoon. It seems to be
all the rage these days. There was a story over
the weekend out of New Mexico where a republic Republican
Party office in New Mexico outside the Albuquerque area was
firebombed yesterday morning by a group of individuals. We don't
know who they are yet, but they spray painted on
the side of the building some of the typical Democrat
tropes that would lead you to believe that this was
obviously politically motivated. And the thing that I find myself
frustrated with this morning is how there's no coverage of it.
I'm opposed to political violence on both sides of the
political aisle, whether you are a Trump card carrying conservative
or a fringe radical leftist. I am not okay with
political violence. But I do find it to be quite
ironic that anytime there's a Republican involved in anything that
can be deemed politically violent, that there are cameras and
microphones in front of every single Republican in this country's
face asking them to condemn these actions. What do you
have to say to the individuals that purptray it. Do
you condemn what your parties stands for every single time?
Yet you've got people's private property. They're Tesla cars that
have been keyed and burned up all over the United
States over the last couple of weeks. You've got a
Republican party that got fire bombed at six o'clock yesterday
morning by a group of deranged leftists, and mum's the word.
It's not even talked about. It's not even on CNN
or MSNBC's website as a story. That's how little they
want to talk about it. So my question is, I
think is a fair one. If you're truly against political violence,
like we always hear from the left, how we need
to turn the temperature down, ratchet down the rhetoric over
and over again. Why don't you guys speak up when
your party is responsible for Why don't you speak up
when individuals on the left act a foul? You have
no problem doing it when Republicans act out of turn,
You have no problem doing it when it fits your
political narrative. And maybe that's what this all comes down to.
Maybe it's not actually lowering the political rhetoric. Maybe it's
not actually lowering the political temperature in this country. Maybe
it's just about pushing our agenda forward. And I think
that's exactly the case when you look at why there's
no coverage of this at all, why there's very little
coverage of individuals private property being keyed and burned and
scratched up all over the United States because they committed
the cardinal sin of driving a car that the left
told them they needed to buy to save the planet
and save the environment. The irony there is is pretty rich.
Let's have to head on over to a Ligne four
at seven oh four five, seven eleven ten, angel is
hanging on the line. Angela, You're on the Peak Calendar
show with Nick Craig.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Hey there, Nick, I'm just responding to the
person that called before. Tony is extremely sad, very sad
to see the attitude that people are having violence doesn't
give you anything, does they answer anything. I feel like
most people need to know their facts. That's why I mean,
it sounds ridiculous that he is really wanting violence city
to answer and he's okay with things like this happening.
Innocent people are getting their cars targeted. It's just not right,
and I cannot believe. We just need Jesus, that's what
we need to stop blaming everybody else, try to do
the right thing, treat people like they're supposed to treat it.
Get I mean, the politics needs to just get out
of it. I mean, these people's cars are being burned up.
There are people picketing outside of when these are the
same people who wanted us to have all electric cars
and clean up the air. And it's just crazy. It's
just so contradicting. But then it just kills me that
you want to save the air, okay, And how are
we supposed to how do we power these electric cars?
Speaker 2: Well, of course we power them with colon steam plants
all over the country.
Speaker 8: M hmm, Okay, I mean, I don't know. It's just
so upside down and so backwards. We need to get
back to the basics.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why anybody, regardless of where you
stand on political spectrum, why you would be advocating for
political violence right now. I was plenty upset over the
last four years. I was not happy with the previous administration. Angela.
I I would presume you probably weren't super thrilled with
the previous illustration. But at no point was it my
idea or a good thought for anybody on the right
to say, you know what, the solution to this is,
let's go burn down some Democrat party headquarters. I just
never heard that taking place at all on the right.
I didn't see it. I didn't hear it.
Speaker 8: You just create even more havoc. I mean, wow, I
mean that's not the solution. Just keep on digging and
digging and diggan. We're not gonna get anywhere. I mean,
none of this makes sense. Violence is not the answer.
You should not start balance with ending balance. You should
not retaliate or anything like that. I mean, we need
to get down to nitty gritty and work together, work together.
But I am very upset and disappointed that the gentleman
before and gentlemen's last week called in and they were
for all of this violence. Now, what I would like
to ask them is what if this was their family
member's car or their family members a place of business
that was targeted.
Speaker 2: And that's and that's exactly the case, Angela, And that's
what's so disappointing about all of it taking place. I
appreciate your words and your call this afternoon at seven
oh four or five, seven eleven ten. I mean, that's
exactly the case. It's it sounds great on paper, you
might sound great to post on social media, but we're
talking about people that are being really impacted by this.
The employees of this local GOP office that we are
not working this morning and probably won't be working for
some time due to the fact that the front of
their building was burned and is completely torched. I'm looking
at the pictures on a local news station out of Albuquerque.
With these pictures, I mean, these people aren't going to
work today. They're not. I mean, if they are, they've
got brooms and mops in their hands cleaning up the
destruction left behind. I just don't know why we would
be at a period in time right now where we
would think that it is good to egg this on,
to make comments that this is somehow going to lead
to what the complete and total Unless you're just for
the complete and total destruction of the American system, you
should not be in favor of this right because once
you start traveling down this road, when you say, okay, fine,
eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, both sides
can do whatever they want, and individuals are allowed to
attack you on the street if they disagree with you politically.
But where is that going to lead us? I mean,
if you critically think, where is this going to lead us?
It's not anywhere prosperous. It's not anywhere that you and
I would ever want to live. We would never want
to live in a society like that. You can go
back and read the history books on those societies. Turns
out they don't exist anymore. You don't have to have
a PhD in history or political science or political history
to understand what the progression of this looks like. And
you look at these situations with the cars that are
being destroyed in people's yards or their driveways and out
at malls and shopping centers or whatever. Folks, I can
tell you how this ends. And it's a scary proposition.
Somebody is going to get severely injured and or killed
when they go and try and scrape up somebody's car,
when they try and break through the window and throw
a lip moll Toov cocktail in there. That's what this
is going to progress to. I mean, this is where
this leads. When you continue to ratchet this up, somebody
is going to get severely injured or god forbid killed
because of their actions that they're playing out. We don't
want that. I don't want that. The fact that some
people do is a very, very scary proposition.
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Speaker 2: Let's jump back to our phone lines at John's been
patiently waiting, John, you're online. Five. Welcome to the Peak
counter show. Go ahead.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I don't think Tony represents what the majority of Democrats think.
I mean, violence is not a solution of any kind,
whether it's vandalizing cars or bombing with Republican campaign offices,
which I hadn't heard about. But uh so, yeah, he
is a very small, a small minority, as are I
think people on the right they want to have political violence.
But said that, I might want to remind.
Speaker 10: You, and you can look this up if you don't
believe me. But in Biden's last I think it was
his last State of the Union or speech to Congress,
he said, and political violence has no place in this country.
And they panned over to the Republican side of Congress.
Speaker 9: And no one stood up, and no one clapped. I
can't you know, I can't tax volumes to It's true,
it's what happened. It's a reality. So I think Tony
has a fair point in that comparing scratching a few
teslas compared to going to Congress and trying to overthrow
the government killing policemen is a bit of a stretch
of a comparison, don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't make that comparison at all, though I'm making
good Well, yeah, but I mean you're framing of that
is wholly inaccurate. I mean, I mean, here's the real.
Here's the reality. John, Political violence, as you stated, and
I am in full agreement with you, is not acceptable.
There's no I don't know of anybody besides a previous
caller that's making the argument that it is somehow appropriate
or good or the eye for an eye, tooth for
a tooth is going to lead us to great American prosperity.
I don't know anybody that's making that argument. Now we're
in total agreement. This is the issue that I have.
And it comes down to the fact that this the
political tension that we are feeling in the country right now,
which you could cut with a knife, almost as bad
as the humidity this afternoon. It's very, very real, and
it's very much there, and I'm not going to miss that.
People are freaked out on both sides of the political aisle.
There's a lot going on in our country right now.
What I'm what i' and this is what I find
myself very frustrated with, is that you've got this rhetoric
that continues to take place on the left, and you
see it constantly all the time about how Donald Trump,
Elon Musk, and anybody who affiliates or associates with those
two individuals are not only a threat to democracy, which
of course we're not a democracy, we're a democratic republic,
but we're the threat to democracy. They're akin to some
of the worst individuals that have ever existed in world history,
the likes of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi revolution in
Germany in the nineteen thirties. I mean, that has an impact.
And that's what I find myself so frustrated with as
we continue down this what is a very politicized time
that we're living in right now, You've got individuals that
continue propagating this message, continue propagating this narrative. And this
is where it leads when you tell individuals day after day,
hour after hour, minute after minute, on these cable news
programs that it is okay to act in this manner
because of everything that's happening right when you're fighting against
Ela Musk, when you're scratching up a tesla in a
in a supermarket parking lot, when you're doing that under
the guise of Ela Musk aka Adolf Hitler, Right, that's
how these lines are drawn. That's what's so frustrating to
me about what you're seeing right now. The narrative is
being pushed very, very heavily by the left. And if
you had a bunch of Republicans out here saying the
same thing, I'd feel the exact same way. I would
have the exact same comments if it were taking place
on the right. But it's not, And that's really what's
so frustrating about all of this. Let's jump back to
our phone lines. At seven oh four or five seven
oh eleven, ten Kirk spent patiently waiting online. Three Kirk,
Good afternoon. You're on the Peak counter show with Nick Craig.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, good afternoon, Neck. How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, so I hope you are.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I appreciate you taking my call. You know,
with all this violence, when you look at it, like
Jasmin Crockett says about Senator Cruz. You got to hit
him over to head, You got to hit him over
to head hard. She's actually promoting going out and doing this,
and as a member of Congress, that doesn't really look
too good. Supposedly she's an attorney, so she would she
should note that she is actually not only promoting violence,
she is threatening violence against a sitting senator.
Speaker 2: I mean, and my question, my question this morning, Kirk,
is were there any cameras in her face this morning
as she came back to Washington, d C. Asking her
about this political violence? And I believe the answer to
that question is no.
Speaker 7: Oh, the answer is no. There they have different folks
that do these little blips where you get to see
it and hear it. But no, never asked her about it.
And every time she speaks it's always about like she
talked about the governor, calling him hot wheels because he's
a hot mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about Greg Abbot, Greg Abbott who's a paraplegic
and his handicapped is in a wheelchair. That's what she
said about greg Abbott. It's insane.
Speaker 7: Well she's doing she did her speech. She says, oh,
you know, it's because you know, he's a hot mess
because we have all this hot ass leather down here in.
Speaker 2: Texas, exactly I mean and reframing.
Speaker 7: If you know her. No, it's not that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And again what I find myself frustrated with, and
it's a great call this afternoon, Kirk, greatly appreciated, is
it's just not handled equally. I mean, that's the issue
that I've got. I am against political violence. I'll state
it once again in case I haven't been clear over
the last hour. I am against political violence. But if
the media is going to be so quick to run
in front of every Republican that's ever been elected in
the history of the United States to ask for their
comment when political violeviolence shows up on the right, then
they need to be held to the exact same standard
when it shows up on the left and they're not.
And that, to me, I find that to be incredibly,
incredibly frustrating. If these same individuals that are constantly talking
about lowering the political temperature, if they truly cared about
doing so, they would hold their own party just as
accountable as they hold those folks on the right, which
I wish they did, because we should both sides should
be held to account equally for out of control rhetoric
that leads to political violence.
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