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Tone down the rhetoric

 Donald Trump has now been shot once and came very close to being shot again.  During the presidential debate Harris said Trump is a threat to democracy and will be a dictator on day one.  I have not seen one mainstream outlet say anything about those statements and whether an unhinged person might do something dangerous based on such rhetoric. Instead, CNN has decided the storyline is that Trumps is to blame for his own shooting: https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1835416101611589931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835416101611589931%7Ctwgr%5Ea62a556a9d223f4cd78066f68b92023b2ee66630%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fmy If he would stop saying things people didn't like he wouldn't get shot I suppose.  I'm not going to draw any parallels to how women dress and whether that sends the wrong message to bad people.  I have it on good authority from my left leaning friends that only one side is engaging in hateful and/or dangerous