MSNBC host Joy Reid has spoken, and once again, the world is dumber for having listened to her words.
Reid is outraged that people, media outlets included, are saying that former President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt and returning to his campaign is a “sign of strength.”
In comparison, Reid notes that Biden’s most recent brush with COVID-19 is a “show of strength.” But while millions have survived COVID, not quite as many have survived an assassination attempt.
And it only got more stupid as she continued to speak.
Reid said Biden getting COVID is a chance for him to show responsibility. She expects Biden to wear a mask on Air Force One to avoid spreading COVID. She thinks it’s also a chance for Biden to remind people of the tough times they had during COVID “because of Trump.” In fact, Reid believes it’s a good time for Biden to highlight how many people died, including many grandmas who passed away alone “with their iPads.”
It’s advice Biden might want to avoid. As a “vaccinated and boosted” individual, Biden’s latest brush with COVID will only remind people of how pointless his administration’s vaccine mandates were.
However, Reid used her comparison as a jumping-off point for conspiracy theories about Trump’s assassination attempt.
Reid said during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention that Trump got “nine seconds” to take a victory photo during an active shooter situation. She called it a “weird situation,” adding, “We’ll figure that out one day.”
Reid has suddenly decided to be a journalist. In a recent social media post, she planted the seeds of a conspiracy theory. Some of her points include questioning the nature and cause of Trump’s injury, saying it could have been shrapnel, glass, or a bullet. She notes that the locations of the three people who were shot alongside Trump are unclear. “Why haven’t authorities released information about all three civilian victims, including a schematic of where they were standing or sitting?” she wondered.
She noted that despite the possibility of more shooters, Trump stood and posed for photos, fist-pumping for nearly ten seconds, and even asked about his shoe. Additionally, she says, it’s puzzling how the gunman managed to get on the roof of the building while local police were inside.
Michael Steele, a host on MSNBC, also raised doubts this week about whether a bullet caused Trump’s ear injury. He mentioned reports suggesting it might have been from shards of glass from the teleprompter rather than a bullet. Steele seems to think that a bullet striking the teleprompter is less serious than one that grazed its intended target.
And no liberal viewpoint would be complete without victim shaming. Reid rabidly suggested that Trump was facing the “consequences” of “promoting violence.” “”It’s so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it.”
But Reid, like so many of her contemporaries, would be unable to list a specific time Trump has called for physical violence. His campaign has, however, allowed the left many opportunities to twist his words to make it appear he is unhinged and psychotic.
Democrats are correct; words have meaning. So do words that give a greater context to words, a concept the left has forgotten in their quest to label Trump a violent dissenter.
Unlike many Democratic lawmakers, such as Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Maxine Waters (D-CA), Trump’s “calls to violence” are anything but. Purposefully taking his words out of context to further political talking points is partially responsible for the violence the left claims to condemn. And that’s before the left’s own calls for violence are measured into the equation.
The left’s predictable response to the assassination attempt proves where the true heart of the problem lies. No conspiracy theory will remove Democrats from their role in it.
Trump has lived through the left’s lawfare strategy, lies, persecution, obstruction, and, lest Reid forgets, a brush with COVID, which, by her own words, proves he is “strong.” In comparison, Biden is having a good day when he remembers to wear pants.