From Clay Jones on his political cartoon “Second Amendment People,” how Donald Trump called for the death of Hillary Clinton, and why words matter
Trump committed a faux pas and did not mean to say “Second Amendment people” could stop Hillary Clinton from appointing a Supreme Court justice after she’s elected president. He meant to say “titties.”
Trump has hinted to his gun-toting supporters that they can shoot Hillary Clinton if she wins the election. Remember when we thought it was ridiculous when he started a debate talking about his penis? Maybe someone should shoot that. They make really tiny guns, don’t they?
Trump claims Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment, and at a rally in North Carolina Tuesday, he said, “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.” With the outrage of calling for the death of his political opponent, everyone has glossed over the lie that Clinton wants to take everyone’s guns away.
How many times has Trump made a statement that his supporters had to explain away, and then a day later Trump attempted to correct the record without apologizing? He wasn’t talking about periods when he said Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her whatever,” he didn’t call Carly Fiorina and Heidi Cruz ugly, he didn’t mock a disabled reporter, he’s never encouraged support from white supremacists, and he’s never called for his supporters to beat up protesters.
Trump’s supporters hate Hillary Clinton and believe the narrative that she’s a liar. They say they love Trump because he speaks the truth, but he’s really not serious when he makes outrageous comments. Seriously, why do these people have access to guns?
Trump supporters are making excuses for Trump’s dog whistle to shoot Hillary. It’s weird they will distort, take out of context, and give new meanings to Clinton’s statement, “What difference does it make?” and then try to say Trump doesn’t mean “shoot Hillary” when he says that “Second Amendment People” can do something about Hillary.
Words matter.
A few years ago, Democratic U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner after Sarah Palin published a bulls-eye on her district. Fourteen other people were injured, and six more were killed.
Last year, an anti-abortion activist group released a bunch of videos manipulated to look like Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts from dead babies. One of their fans who probably had a subscription to their newsletter, Robert Lewis Dear, took it upon himself to shoot up a clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three people and injuring nine more. Later in court, he claimed he was “a warrior for the babies.”
In 1994, president Bill Clinton’s approval ratings were plummeting, and the Republicans seized the momentum with an anti-government platform, retook the House and Senate, and convinced their supporters the government was clamping down on them. The fever swelled until April 1995 when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, killing 169 people and injuring 680 more.
Words matter.
They especially matter when you’re talking to a base of uneducated people who are very misinformed, love conspiracy theories, and are more prone to act than think. Who do you think follows and supports Donald Trump? He has already hosted a convention where his speakers were yelling for Hillary Clinton to go to prison. Remember, Trump says he loves the uneducated.
Trump has said that the system is rigged and that it will prove the election was manipulated if he doesn’t win. Now he’s saying that if he loses, his supporters should shoot Clinton. This is a dog whistle that everyone can hear. I hope the Secret Service and FBI hears it, because we don’t know what kind of dogs Trump has out there.
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If you cared only a little about the unborn babies being murdered in their mother’s wombs you would write such a stupid article. Just another brainwashed liberal.
Are you also going to be yelling about the babies when you go terrorize a PP (probably one that doesn’t perform abortions) and shoot pro life police officers too? If your takeaway from the Dear case is “abortion bad!”, you’re sympathizing with a terrorist, who like those radicalized by Daesh, was radicalized by false rhetoric about selling baby parts.
The vast majority of things done by PP have nothing to do with abortion. Most PP clinics don’t even perform them. In fact, one of their services is performing prenatal care and wellness checks, so your hero could easily have shot a healthy pregnant woman coming in for her folic acid. Care a little about actual humans. Or fact check a little so no one dies by your hand.