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Bill Wyman

👤 Speaker
113 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

The things he says about the media, enemies of the people, traitors, execute them, kill them, the violence that he's used American military power to summarily execute people at sea.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Right now, he's overseeing a war that was not approved by Congress.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And not only do you hear this rhetoric on the right, no one on the right says tone it down, which is a corrective that used to happen.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Yeah, it is.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

It's funny.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

People might or might not know that four United States presidents have been assassinated.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Abraham Lincoln was probably the most consequential.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

It was a terrible, terrible event in American history.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

A few others you might not have heard of.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

William McKinley, James Garfield.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And then, of course, the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Which kicked off a lot of violence in the 60s.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, his brother Robert Kennedy, that was another.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

I think you can say those three are the most consequential in American history because it basically took out three of the liberal and American, in the American sense, the three great liberal leaders in America who could have had very consequential political careers.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And then it does seem like we're just seeing more of it.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

There's just a lot of guns in America.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

The truth is that actually a lot of people that stay in America just collect guns.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

They just buy them and buy them and buy them.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

So it's not like everyone in America has a gun, but a lot of Americans have a lot of guns.

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Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

And people are very curious, why can't America get gun control done?