Profiles in Courage

ford: "they tried to assassinate me twice"

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With all the hatred drummed up against "The Squad" by Trump, and frankly on websites like this, if we are to be honest with ourselves, she was right to be afraid of the people who stormed the Capitol Buildings. She also never claimed that she was in the Capitol building, but she was on the complex, and she was not safe.

"Never claimed" vs "I'll let them believe I was there" is a fine line between truth and lies

In the recording, she said, "members of Congress – except for the speaker and other very high ranking ones – don’t actually work in that building with the dome. There’s buildings right next to the dome, and that’s where our actual offices are.”
I think that is pretty clear.

Liked, but the Teddy Roosevelt story is fake.

No it isn't

In the fall of 1912, Taft still has a chance to win reelection; but that chance is about to disappear. Just 3 weeks before the election, an “October Surprise” comes in the form of an “assassination attempt” against Teddy Roosevelt (TR).

On October 14, 1912, just moments before he is set to deliver a typically Rooseveltian 50-page speech, TR, we are told, is shot with a Colt .38 by an Anarchist fanatic named John Flammang Schrank. The bullet is first said to be a “flesh wound” that “lodged in his chest”. Afterwards, the story changes to that of a bullet “safely lodged” against TR’s rib, after having been slowed down by both his steel eyeglass case and the thick speech he was carrying in his jacket.

As far as bullet sizes go, the .38 caliber is one of the larger size bullets. But “Superman” TR felt no pain? TR takes a clean handkerchief to cover the “wound” as he heads for the stage, where one of his bodyguards is attempting to explain what has just happened to the audience. Someone in the crowd shouts out: “Fake! Fake!”

True to his self-promoting form, TR the drama queen wastes no time in proclaiming to the crowd: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”

The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium gasps as the theatrical TR unbuttons his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. Then comes the proud boast: “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose.”

Now the crowd is really buzzing as the legend of TR reaches new heights of super-humanism. The babbler continues before launching into yet another 90-minute speech about nothing:

“But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”

In the days following the “assassination attempt” and preceding the election, TR blamed the now defensive Taft supporters for inflaming Schrank: “It is a very natural thing that weak and vicious minds should be inflamed to acts of violence by the kind of awful mendacity and abuse that have been heaped upon me for the last three months by the papers.”

Right on cue, Schrank claimed that the spirit of President McKinley had told him to avenge his murder by killing TR.

Should the disbelieving reader be inclined to dismiss the staged shooting scenario as an irresponsible “conspiracy theory”, your suspicious author here invites you to jam a .38 thick screwdriver through your chest and to your rib. Then, attempt to speak loudly for a full 90 minutes. Go ahead. Try it; and do let us all know how you make out.

After the “shooting”, the sympathetic press hype of the “wounded” TR’s “heroic” speech sealed Taft’s fate. The original story of a “flesh wound” in the chest was later changed to “a bullet permanently lodged against a rib.” The alleged bullet in TR is "never removed". That figures.

To this day, the idiotic legend still persists. If TR’s shirt was “blood-stained” due to a .38 caliber bullet that was STILL “lodged in his rib”, then why was he not drenched in blood after his 90 minute speech? What type of super-human could speak for 90 minutes with a .38 slug “lodged in his rib”.

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Also Trump: Oh No, we got Gab and Telegram and stuff like that, Twitter was too Liberal attacking anyway ;)

Its almost like you don't incite violence and you won't get banned

Trump was trying to bring peace to everyone and was mad at the stormers

That ain't inciting violence, also if storming a capital is ban worthy then rioting in a city or sending death threats should be ban worthy as ALL 3 of them would be inciting violence (all 3 by death threats, rioting and storming a capital)