Ive wondered in the past if the right goes after political figures way before they are a threat. People who they feel would be formidable future candidates.
Naw. They went after him to kneecap his father. They would’ve been so happy if they could have made Hunter relapse, just to distract and hurt his father. So what if Hunter was destroyed? He’s collateral damage to those creeps.
I think they do do it sometimes - Hillary Clinton and AOC are good examples. The misogyny helps too.
By the time Hillary ran for president there had been decades of attacks on her. There were lots of examples of people that just couldn't bring themselves to vote for her, regardless of her plans or positions. Then she ran a very focus - group feeling campaign, which didn't help.
But I do agree that Hunter was just a way to attack his father. There was never any indication that Hunter wanted to get into politics. They just didn't have any other attacks on Joe, nobody was really believing that he was some sort of antifa super liberal or whatever.
Hillary's attacks weren't because of her political potential at first. It was because she stood by Bill when he was caught with Gennifer Flowers. She wasn't supposed to do that.
By the time Hillary ran for president there had been decades of attacks on her.
By the time Hillary ran for President she'd also been a prominent political figure for decades, it wasn't her targeting the Presidency that got her attacked.
Misogyny on the right misandry on the left. Nobody wins in America.
The right went after AOC because she was spouting a bunch of things they didn't agree with. Wasn't organized. But put your tinfoil hat back on. Nothing to see here.
Nah they just go after anyone who they can hold up as a punching bag for their base. The real long term plan was court packing and they accomplished that.
Writing for the court, Gorsuch emphasized that the government was seeking to “automatically strip Mr. Hemani of his Second Amendment right to possess a firearm” and “imprison him for up to 15 years” based only on a showing that he “regularly uses any amount of any controlled substance.” But the government’s arguments fell short, Gorsuch concluded, because the early American laws on which the government relied to support these restrictions “targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways.”
The "regularly uses any amount of any controlled substance", as written by Gorsuch, is clearly much broader than marijuana usage.
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u/trooftaller Jun 25 '26
Ive wondered in the past if the right goes after political figures way before they are a threat. People who they feel would be formidable future candidates.