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Baitball Blogger

(52,724 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 05:38 PM Sep 2025

Jake Tapper is indeed a tool.

Just now, (paraphrasing) In the last few months and weeks there has been an increase in talk of violence, including from the left.

Nope. No. This is not a bothsiderism issue. And that should be the headline. The majority of shooters are white male with conservative political views.

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Jake Tapper is indeed a tool. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Sep 2025 OP
Did Jake give a single example of anyone from the left advocating violence senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #1
Nope. Baitball Blogger Sep 2025 #2
Theorise whatever you want but I'm afraid that dark days Firestorm49 Sep 2025 #3

Baitball Blogger

(52,724 posts)
2. Nope.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 05:51 PM
Sep 2025

In fact, he added it in as an afterthought, so he is intentionally trying to set the image of bothsiderism.

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