A gunman opened fire at a pro-Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday evening, killing a man in the crowd and injuring two others. No one else was hurt in the attack, and the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old man who is in the process of being tried for an assassination attempt on the 45th President of the United States.
00:01:59.220Obviously a horrible situation to talk about, but I still must comment on the fact that Donald Trump is amazing at imagistics, even under fire.
00:02:17.460He is able to make up some of the greatest political images you've ever seen in your entire life. In a situation where he could get shot, knows that probably it is the way of winning the election right now to be able to show that he's all right.
00:02:30.960He's wanting everyone in the crowd not to be worried and willing to show that he is defiant, even in the face of some random twerp trying to kill him.
00:02:39.300There's some 20 year old who cares, who gives a crap loser, who took a shot at Trump.
00:02:45.400But now I want to move on to the response from federal conservative party leader, Pierre Polyev.
00:02:50.720He tweeted this just, I believe, an hour or hour and a half after the shooting took place.
00:02:56.160Pierre Polyev said, I condemn in the strongest of terms the attempt at murder of former President Trump today.
00:03:02.560I am relieved he is safe. My prayers are with other innocent people harmed or killed by this heinous act.
00:03:07.640I am also happy that the suspected shooter is dead. Democracy must prevail.
00:03:13.740Now, for some reason, I don't know why, online liberals decide to shred every little bit of credibility that they had,
00:03:22.820because these are the people who will call you indecent if you even say something slightly nice about Trump before the shooting.
00:03:28.820That even if you're saying, even if you are wishing, like, basically prayers and, like, good thoughts for those who were injured and for the family of the man who was killed,
00:03:40.380because you ended up saying that you're also happy that the shooter died, suddenly you're now in the wrong.
00:03:46.560So that's the way that many of these online liberals took it, that because Pierre Polyev was happy, the shooter, who could have killed more people, died.
00:03:55.000This means Pierre Polyev is somehow a ghoul of some sort, that that is showing he has no humanity for the man who had no humanity for Donald Trump and anybody else in the crowd that he was shooting at.
00:04:06.840So let's just go through some of these tweets. Roddy here says, after quoting what Pierre Polyev said, he says,
00:04:13.480that's what the man who wants to be prime minister of this country said.
00:04:17.160I know, great, isn't it, that we have someone running to be prime minister in Canada who actually wants justice served, who actually wants murderers to face justice?
00:04:26.660I think it's a pretty good deal that if you try and kill someone in cold blood that you yourself should be killed,
00:04:32.980especially if you're going to move on to shooting at other people after killing them.
00:06:19.320That means justice is denied and further perpetuates violence.
00:06:24.120This is an abominable stuff from men who could become prime minister.
00:06:28.620Why it's bad that the shooter is dead?
00:06:30.700This is where the left is just anti-life.
00:06:33.880Not only are they super pro-abortion, but they also just like the idea of criminals kind of getting away with murder, literally.
00:06:41.440That you're never going to be punished with capital punishment, which seems, at least in my mind, the just punishment for murdering other people.
00:06:50.720We can debate whether or not capital punishment is actually deserved in some cases because of legal issues around it.
00:06:57.240I think that Robert Pickton probably should have just been executed after he was convicted for serial murder rather than having him rot away in prison until another prisoner eventually killed him.
00:07:07.900But the idea that it's somehow good for somebody to just be rotting when prison, and that's like the nicer, more compassionate thing to do, is leaving out the compassion for the actual victims.
00:07:18.120We're forgetting about the victims and the victims' families who don't want to know that somebody gets to be in a cushy prison for the rest of their lives after committing a heinous, like, bloodthirsty, cold crime.
00:07:34.640Kyle Hutton, a respected member of polling Twitter, after having a full night to ruminate on this, yeah, this is weird.
00:07:42.960Happy the shooter is dead doesn't make sense, even from a right-wing viewpoint.
00:07:47.340You want the guy live to know what this was about, then execute him or something I don't know, like, or something I don't know their minds.
00:08:08.420Well, at least I can give props to somebody for having a good take in the midst of all this.
00:08:13.840But now I want to jump over to the take that Andrew Coyne had, a respected member of the media, somebody who's supposedly a conservative himself.
00:08:24.860So Andrew Coyne is having an absolute fit from the fact that Donald Trump didn't die or whatever.
00:08:31.100I don't know Andrew Coyne's heart, but his first response, which I don't have screenshotted for you guys here today, was basically saying that, wow, this could cause so much reactionary violence from Republicans.
00:08:46.860In the aftermath of Donald Trump almost getting killed by a crazy person, we need to worry about violence from Republicans.
00:08:53.820Notice how there isn't any right-wing riots going on in the United States right now.
00:08:58.760I hope nobody does anything because doing anything violent in the aftermath of this would be wrong.
00:09:04.760But the idea that we now have to worry about Republicans and conservatives is just blatant libel against half of Canada, the U.S., and the Western world.
00:09:16.560That half of people are in the political frame of mind that we have to worry that they're going to become violent because somebody almost took the life of Donald Trump.
00:09:24.120Now, you have to check your own backyard here, Andrew.
00:09:28.660Andrew Coyne is not a conservative at all.
00:09:33.820He is a liberal status quo warrior, and he considers himself conservative because he wants to conserve anything that the liberals do, any institutions the liberals create, any new regulations or laws the liberals pass.
00:09:45.300Andrew Coyne will stand in the gap in order to fight to maintain them, and he hates in an aesthetic way.
00:09:52.180He hates what Donald Trump represents, which is all the things that Andrew Coyne supposedly is in favor of, smaller government, lower taxes, being more proālike, you know, he's actually a fairly hawkish president on foreign policy, keeping the world safe by actually being tough.
00:10:07.940No wars had to be fought under Donald Trump's presidency in terms of the U.S.
00:10:12.200Because other countries took him seriously, and they knew if they screwed around, he would smash them, just like Iran got very quiet after he hit Qasem Soleimani with a missile because Qasem Soleimani was going around Syria and Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, basically fronting terrorist organizations or helping back terrorist organizations against Western allies as well as the U.S. embassies in Iraq.
00:10:36.820But now I want to read Andrew Coyne's Taken Full.
00:11:06.820To say it, and not in some unguarded private moment, but as the public reaction with the potential for further violence hanging in the air of a would-be prime minister, this is not normal.
00:11:28.120The idea that I'm supposed to be offended, that Polyev likes a terrorist, an assassin, being killed in the moment, and that we're not supposed to revel in a human's death.
00:11:54.540I give him my permission to delete his X account because he's only embarrassing himself.
00:12:01.920This is just how hyper-partisan people get online.
00:12:06.640And make sure that you never become this.
00:12:09.160Even if you're a conservative and you mostly see liberals doing this, every once in a while you will have a conservative have a stupid take.
00:12:15.980So guard yourself from ever being this contemptible, from ever having this much ill will towards a political opponent, that you're willing to step in and defend the assassin's, like, you know, honor after the fact.
00:12:30.700Because you're Andrew Coyne and you aesthetically don't like the way pure Polyev does politics.
00:12:54.760And he's not allowed to have a defiant, like, shout of fight afterwards.
00:12:59.780People are calling Donald Trump Hitler.
00:13:01.660People are trying to call pure Polyev Hitler.
00:13:03.720And they're trying to call, basically, pure Polyev Hitler from calling him, basically, Canada's Trump and comparing him to Trump.
00:13:10.280Like, let's see the liberals try and compare pure Polyev to Trump now and not immediately get called out by every single rational human being in Canada saying, please stop repeating this hyperbolic, fear-mongering nonsense.
00:13:24.860You guys are basically just trying to call pure Polyev Hitler by proxy of American unhinged left-wing media trying to call Trump Hitler.
00:13:37.280That's basically what everyone needs to do right now.
00:13:39.960Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
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