Progressives in Higher Education React to Trump Assassination Attempt Just as You’d Expect
“What a glorious day this could have been.”
When people say that Trump broke the minds of some on the left, it’s not an exaggeration.
The College Fix reports:
Academics seize on Trump assassination attempt
Many in higher education didn’t waste time jumping on Saturday’s attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.
Perhaps most noteworthy is the University of Southern California’s Shaun Harper, who ended up having his article deleted by Forbes after he hypothesized that Trump’s “surviving gunfire” could result in appealing to black voters.
Harper, who in 2022 claimed that if the January 6 “insurrectionists” had been primarily black they’d have been “massacred,” wrote that Trump conceivably might say “And the Blacks, they love me because they know the terrifying sound of gunshots.” He added “Hopefully he doesn’t. But it isn’t at all unthinkable.”
The USC Race and Equity Center executive director also theorized Trump “could claim” that raising his fist shortly after being nicked by the would-be assassin’s bullet was an “homage” to the raised black-gloved fists of track stars Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games.
The University of British Columbia’s Karen Pinder, whose faculty page notes she “is dedicated to excellence in education in the UBC M.D. undergraduate program,” tweeted shortly after the shooting “Damn, so close. Too bad” (pictured).
In response to a commenter saying she “reeeeally wished the [shooter] had better aim,” Pinder replied “What a glorious day this could have been.”
Pinder’s X account has since been made inactive.
The University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Arie Perliger wrote in The Conversation that the Trump shooting “for many of the people on the far right, fits very well into a narrative that they’ve already been constructing and disseminating for the last few months.”
Perliger, a “principal investigator” for a just-under $1 million Department of Justice-funded project on mis/disinformation, went on to decry the “increasing [political] polarization” in the United States since 2008″ … and specifically cited the Tea Party movement.
The University of Guleph’s Shoshanah Jacobs, in response to Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s tweet expressing relief that Trump’s suspected shooter had been shot dead by the Secret Service, wrote “We’re executing suspects now?”
When it was pointed out the suspect was killed because he was still an active threat, Jacobs replied “Do we have to be happy?”
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Democrats and other progressives have no reason to be happy that someone attempted to assassinate Trump, because it makes the security problem worse for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Jill Biden.
Reasons:
1. It shows that the USSS countersniper teams can be fooled. The assassin was in plain sight while crawling up the roof with a rifle.
2. It pays to advertise. The news media have made an antihero out of the assassin, and hundreds of mentally fragile people now know that they can go out in a blaze of glory and publicity by assassinating a candidate.
3. There are insane Democrats and insane Republicans. Now that an insane Dem has taken pot shots at Trump, there is a reasonable chance that an insane Republican might want to even the score.
I am thankful that the assassin was a lousy shot, missing each time from only 140 yards. But his being a lousy shot and choosing an inappropriate semi-auto rifle for his sniper weapon caused several other people to be killed or severely wounded. He needed to be killed, but in some ways I wish he had survived so that we could hear what kind of perverted thoughts led him to attempt an assassination.
I hope the USSS and Homeland Security will be able to learn from this failure.
“I am thankful that the assassin was a lousy shot, missing each time from only 140 yards.”
Subsequent reports were that a local cop actually climbed up his ladder and confronted him just before launch, backing away when the shooter trained his gun on the cop. I’m wondering if forcing him to break his aim, and then hurry his shots assuming he was seconds away from getting neutralized, saved Trump’s life.
Good points. I wonder if he chose that rifle for a political point and not because it was the most effective.
It’s almost as if THAT rifle
( so scary and feared by the left) was purposely chosen for this attempt to “prove” the dangers of AR platforms. A scoped hunting rifle ( not vilified by the left) would have been the better choice but would have less political impact for the Red Queen hiding in the shadows……
Anybody notice the similarities between this kid and the character in Ssalinger’s Catcher in the Rye?
Yeah. The sgt in Full Metal Jacket implied that Lee Harvey Oswald used an antiquated gun against a moving target and did much better.
The Dems have started an actual shooting war, certainly against Trump whom they will continue to try to assassinate, and maybe others they consider a threat to “their democracy”.
You’re acting like the patsy 2 days ago was the problem, and the “failure” to stop him was a mistake. When one side declares war, the other side had better wake up and notice it.
Idk who reads LEGAL INSURRECTION …
And Idk whether parents of college-bound teens CAN be influenced (they’re soooo indoctrinated about COLLEGE COLLEGE COLLEGE C-O-L-L-L-L-E-G-E (almost like “Trump is hitler “ and @Vaccinate or Diiiiiie”)
But these “Academics In Good Standing” are showing themselves to be really, really sick.
They remind me of when Michael Jackson tried to convince us that sleeping with a 12-year-old boy was true love. He may have believed it, but it’s sick.
Mentally healthy grownups do not speak this way, and they certainly do not write or tweet such things.
These people should not be around students of any age.
Also, reminder!! for every one that tweets/publishes such things, there are many more who are thinking it.
Does your family have no ability to recognize that yes indeed there really is a problem in American higher education?
C’mon people, THINK!!!
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If you’re an able-bodied American high school grad … I can’t imagine a more counterproductive use of your time/money than to go to an American four-year college. Yuck.
College is not what it once was. Times change.
An opinion I have expressed frequently in the past 48 hours is that if you are truly upset and/or angry that Trump or anyone for that matter wasn’t assassinated, then you are more evil than anything Trump has ever been accused of being.
I also have been saddened by how disgustingly some of the people I considered friends have acted in the past 24 hours and how many I have had to tell to never contact me again. Because if that is what they truly feel then I don’t want them anywhere near me.
This past weekend, I believe Americans learned more about the inherent evil of leftists than we thought possible prior to the ass@ssination attempt. Just the sheer volume of vulgar cruelty, abject inhumanity, and gross amorality of the social media posts such as those made by Democrat party operatives, young Zoomer leftists and old burnouts made my stomach churn. The stinking manure of leftism is, to me, a morass of filth and depravity that will take generations to change. One of the best things is, they are not reproducing–potentially sparing us all from their dystopian nightmare. The youngest amongst them, the college indoctrinated young fools, have no futures, because after putting that garbage out on publicly available media, became instantly unemployable. That’s their own fault. Stupidity has a price tag with it–and theirs is going to be steep and probably lifelong.
Brilliant Dr Sam, I’m going to use your post as I share the article on my timeline. Thanks for a great response.
“The University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Arie Perliger wrote in The Conversation that the Trump shooting “for many of the people on the far right, fits very well into a narrative that they’ve already been constructing and disseminating for the last few months.”
Translation: “Damn ‘conspiracy theorists’ pegged it AGAIN!”
Notice the usual call for gun control after a high profile shooting?
Me neither.
I guess the media thought this was a good use of a gun. By omitting the usual outrage, they’ve implicitly endorsed the shooter.
I was wondering about that. How did we not have the usual gun control tropes flooding the ‘airwaves.’