People, take the high road.

[madaboutharry]

We don't know what happened yet, but people need to monitor their words. President Biden will surely be making a statement at some point tonight which will no doubt be magnanimous and measured, wishing Trump well. We need to follow his lead and refrain from making jokes or other kinds of irresponsible comments.

Seriously, we need to act like adults.

[Rebl2]

1. Agreed

[lamp_shade]

2. ...

[elleng]

3. OK, reminds me of Dad:

https://www.google.com/search?q=you+take+the+high+road+song&rlz=1C1RXQR_enUS1064US1067&oq=you+take+the+h&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBggBEEUYOTIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQLhiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCTEwNTE5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e6ed140d,vid:p0KQLJwMDzc,st:0

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Just like they took the high road

With Paul Pelosi.

[madaboutharry]

5. We don't have to act like them.

[The Grand Illuminist]

11. There are moments in time...

That there is no other choice but. Because that is the only way to fight them off when all other options are used up. No one has to like it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Use their playbook against them. Why is that so wrong?

[Hekate]

19. Because they are murderous thugs? No.

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. And yet, their playbook works and works well. Appeal to emotion works more than intellectualism

In the campaign do that. When elected, work on policy.

Again, why is so difficult to do?

[Hekate]

27. You asked for us to become them. They are murderous thugs. So, hell no.

[AZLD4Candidate]

38. I asked to use their playbook. Where did I say "commit murder?" Nice argumentum ad absurdum.

I'm not doing this with you again. Blocked.

[bdamomma]

32. Why would

we ever want to act like them???? We are NOT ignorant, and want a Dictator on Day one!!
That is a convicted felon criminal Dictator on Day 1.

[Daveigh]

7. Why are you comparing yourself to "them?"

Be better.

[Skittles]

9. doesn't take much effort to be better than absolute fucking scum

no indeed

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. When they go low, we say nothing? When Paul Pelosi gets attacked and they joke and insult him and we say nothing?

Now their leader is victimized by violence after advocating for it and all but encouraging it, and we need to be better?

Hell no.

[madaboutharry]

18. The high road in this moment.

There is time to get back into the hard fight. What I meant is over the next few days democrats can show some restraint. I agree that we cannot allow Trump to milk this and try to make himself into a martyr. He is an authoritarian who wants to be a dictator. There is a lot of time to bring that fact to the American people.

[AZLD4Candidate]

21. Last time we went high when they went low, we lost in 2016. Remember?

No. Never again!

[niyad]

34. That all sounds so sane and normal.. But guess what??? In the few days of

restraint that you mention, F'n, murdering, orange, RAPIST, TRAITOR** and his handlers/enablers/mouthpieces, will have cemented into the mass consciousness their own version of what happened, and good luck trying to dislodge it.

[Javaman]

6. Yeah okay

[BootinUp]

8. I don't like Trump, but I wouldn't shoot him or anybody.

unless it was self defense, course I don't even own a gun.

[Skittles]

10. I don't wish them any physical harm

but they can all still fuck themselves

[dalton99a]

12. Bring back the ads.

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. Politics is a full contact sport and i abhor people telling me what I can and cannot do.

I have absolutely zero sympathy for that asshole.
I have absolutely zero empathy for that asshole's family and don't give a fuck about their feelings
I have absolutely zero care what his idiot mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging cultists think about us at all.

Fuck Trump and everyone who looks like him.

These people joked and insulted Paul Pelosi. Gloves are fucking off and I'm tired of Democrats not understanding that.

These people would celebrate if Joe Biden was the victim and use it against him. We're supposed to have kid gloves with Trump and his asshole base?

Hell no! I won't say anything low because political violence is disgusting, but being thought police and warning people to "monito words" is real 1984 shit. I lived in China for 12 years where I had to do that. I won't do that on DU, in public, or any place else because I will use the freedom of speech we take for granted.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. Political violence should never happen.

And even if we want Trump dead and gone (which many of us do), him dying by getting shot would make him a martyr and he’d be remembered for that rather than his fascist policies.

[Emile]

17. If he were in jail, he would have been safe. Lock him up!

[hamsterjill]

22. I, for one, am so sick of these morally superior posts

Trump has hurt people. A lot of people. In very real ways. Let people react as they see fit.

No one is judging YOU by someone else’s post.

[madaboutharry]

23. This is not a morally superior post.

My point was that over the next few days democrats can show some restraint. There is no need to make reckless comments that make us look like MAGAs. Let the news settle down. Let Trump get back in public next week where he will resume being the dangerous threat to democracy he has always been. Then we can get back to fighting for our democracy.

Your criticism of my post is unwarranted.

[hamsterjill]

30. We must agree to disagree.

I think your post is unwarranted. This is a site for free discussion and people should be allowed to express their feelings as long as they are not breaking the rules.

The rules are in place to keep things in line and in order. That should be enough.

[niyad]

35. See post 34.

[Sympthsical]

25. More concerned with how stupid it all looks, if we're being honest

There are so many people, irl friends and online acquaintances, whose names I'm currently asterisking with, "You will never again be in a position to make fun of QAnon now."

[Sympthsical]

24. Alternative suggestion

[Hekate]

26. MadAboutHarry, I've been recalling DU during BushCheney. We refrained from calling for their deaths...

As such. Usually. Actually, every time someone got close I called it out just because it seemed to skirt some kind of federal crime and I did not want us to go there, and didn’t want it to become a habit. It’s about the office, not the man.

And for anyone reading this who doesn’t recall, we really, really hated BushCheney. When I first got here there was a thread on “what do you do when Bush’s face comes on the tv” and one guy (and yeah, I do remember who it was ) said he would full-on moon the tv screen.

Ah, the dear old innocent days. Maybe it’s time to bring back the Agent Mike jokes — they served a purpose. Agent Mike is retired now, but he trained his replacement Fred before he left. Hi, Fred. Have a donut on me.

We know Trump is a stochastic terrorist. Now he has the prospect of Project 2025. He’s not POTUS now, but he was and he could be again. I will not cower, but at the same time I am pulling myself up short in this moment and asking if I've crossed a certain line I set for myself 20+ years ago. There are some things adults shouldn’t put explicitly in a public setting.

We still need our jokes, dark humor, and a place to rant and vent. Yes we do, and this is our home. We need reliable news sources and a place to hash them over. We need our friends, and they are here.

[niyad]

28. Agent mikey retired??? Why did nobody tell me??? I didn't even send him a card.

Waving at agent fred!!! Hi fred!

[Hekate]

31. Agent Mike said he had some trout fishing to do

Last thing he said was, “You all weren’t what I was led to believe when Dick Cheney gave me the job. Best of luck, and watch out for Fred.”

[niyad]

33. Nice of him to warn us! I hope the trout are biting. . .

[-misanthroptimist]

29. The high road goes nowhere now. nt

[bigtree]

36. we fucking live on the high road

...we built the high road.

[MustLoveBeagles]

37. Agree

I don't think many will listen through.