The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
And that it would be "a horrible day"
Donald Trump suggests 2nd Amendment Folks do something about Hillary
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And that it would be "a horrible day"
Also, the super fast, just-an-aside tone he delivered the line with is what he always goes to when he's trying to be mischievous say something politically incorrect that the establishment doesn't want you to hear. Not exactly the time he would use if his message was actually "go vote".
Spoiled Milk
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Ok I'm all on board that this was condoning violence but the context of "and that would be a terrible day" was followed by "if Hillary gets to put her judges".
GreatestHits
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Trump is a bigot. He was more than thrilled when he discovered he could campaign on nearly bigotry alone. America created this douchebag
What I don't understand is how these Republican supporters can defend Trump by implying that his comments were ambiguous and misunderstood. Uhh....ok? Who gives a fuck? Do we want a President who makes ambiguous comments which could range from treason to declarations of war to "merely implying this or that." What difference does it make?
gutter_trash
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Just like to how we still bring up Barry Goldwater 52 years later, Trump will be a case study for the next 100 years with all the media compilation
MadLaughter
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I think the 'horrible day thing' was him going back and saying it'd be a horrible day when Hillary gets to pick judges, but the other stuff is 100% indefensible (Not that I'd want to, anyway)
ratcliffja
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To be fair, it's probably in response to tons and tons of people tweeting them about it. Still, the fact that they acknowledged it means that they're likely going to do at least a cursory investigation.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
"2nd amendment" aka nra have been stopping obama and Dems from implementing gun control after Obama became president.
He gave himself enough cover to say really awful shit and still have room to deny it.
The terrible part is the weird comment, like wtf is he even saying lol
Sweeney Tom
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Secret Service aware and media reporting on this nonstop
At least we're past the days he can get away with some dumbass comments
At least we're past the days he can get away with some dumbass comments
Exactly. How would Hillary somehow getting impeached/kicked out of office through non-violent, entirely political means "horrible"? Horrible is not a term I'd use for my political opponent losing politically.
QuantumZebra
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We've never been here before
I don't even have a funny gif to post
This is the fucking twilight zone
sunshine and gasoline
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That is too glorious of an event to ever happen. : (
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Believe it or not this is the 2nd time they have issued that kind of statement. They "looked into" comments made by one of his campaign advisers when he called for Hillary to be executed via a firing squad, and he's still working for his campaign last I checked.
JHoNNy1OoO
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I sincerely hope they release an actual statement calling this bullshit out. I want the GOP and Trump to start arguing against the Secret Service taking his comment at face value. Good luck with that.
He's saying it would be a horrible day if she got to put in her Supreme Court picks.
GitarooMan
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This is what I was thinking. It looks awful no matter how you interpret it. It's a great example of how unfit he is and by defending it you look like at best you are defending a moron.
At the very least he's not doing the quadruple down he does with other scandals. Although if he did that in this case, he'd probably be arrested.
Ah, my bad, must have not remembered the full quote.
GreatestHits
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I'm still thinking he's a plant. We've been trolled since the 2000's
The Technomancer
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No I think you remembered it all, its just confusing as hell. But also he wasn't stuttering or stammering, it wasn't his usual word barf
A thinly veiled request for an assassination.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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And with that, Trump drops below 20% in election betting odds. That's the lowest he's ever been since the day he announced his candidacy.
If it wasn't over before...
If it wasn't over before...
Of course he was making a dumb inappropriate joke. And unfortunately, he couched in a way that there's some plausible deniability. But anyone with any sense wasn't voting for the idiot in the first place, regardless of these comments.
You imagine Hillary or any Dem saying anything close to this about a Republican and the outcry would be absolutely massive.
It's pretty amazing. This is supposed to be a dead part of the campaign season and Trump managed to break through again and make himself look worse! Not gonna be satisfied till that Nowcast falls at 99%
You imagine Hillary or any Dem saying anything close to this about a Republican and the outcry would be absolutely massive.
It's pretty amazing. This is supposed to be a dead part of the campaign season and Trump managed to break through again and make himself look worse! Not gonna be satisfied till that Nowcast falls at 99%
To be fair the man jumps subjects faster than Republicans jump off his ship.
Listening to it again he seems a lot more quiet and nervous than when he was doing shit like making fun of disabled people, make it come out a lot more confusing.
EricTheCleric
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The GOP just needs to go and die, crash and burn to ashes and be spread by the winds.
Ever since the tea party movement it has been slowly degenerating to a party ruled by idiocracy.
Ever since the tea party movement it has been slowly degenerating to a party ruled by idiocracy.
PrimaNocta
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lol @ anyone trying to defend this man. Horrible human being. Anyone with half a brain cell knew what he was insinuating. I'll do my part and make sure all my family & Friends vote for Clinton.
ScientificPizza
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Honestly, it really seems this way.
ratcliffja
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OK new strategy if I'm the GOP. Drop Trump and then turn his own tactics against him by suggesting that he was in cahoots with Hillary all along. They've demonized her for decades, so their best bet is to go all in and separate themselves from the guy who is giving their party a horrible look. Anybody who still fervently supports Trump likely does so as an anti-establishment, anti-Hillary alternative. They'd just switch to whoever the GOP props up, especially if they target their anger towards Hillary rather than towards the GOP.
SuperBowser
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Sounds like a death threat to me.
Most people DO make America great.
But we have a deeply rooted portion of the population that's been fed a non-stop steady diet of hatred, xenophobia, racism, and misogyny for years, through implications and insinuations from a prominent political party. Trump is not the disease but the symptom, and he's the PERFECT representation of all those fears and intolerance bottled up in a lumber, orange monster.
The racists, the bigots, the nutcases... they always were here, but Trump became a lightning rod, a flame that drew in the moths, and he made it socially acceptable to be a jackass in public again... instead of behind closed doors or the anonymity of the internet.
But that's the point where I view those that stand against such rhetoric as the things that "make America great" because they actually believe in and stand for those values... in the face of a hateful mass of people who support a man with no respect for those values.
... The only cure is to change hearts and minds, though, and that is damn harder to do than enacting any law.
PlayALLtheGames
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It's hard to imagine for an adult, especially one who has had success, but Trump really doesn't think before he speaks. I mean really, truly doesn't. If you were to pause time right after he made this comment and have his campaign go, "Dude, you know how it's going to come off", he might agree and they'd reverse time and he'd do it over; but he himself is incapable of thinking beyond his immediate feelings and the words he uses to convey them.
eBay Huckster
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no, we're in the united states, where approximately 10% of the presidents have been assassinated and probably another 10% have had it attempted, to say nothing about any other officeholders
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
You're mistaken in thinking this is just an American problem. The far right has been resurging all around the world.
CreeperBlocks
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Here we go.
Fellow Canadian here: Is there Any way that the Republican Party can deny him from running for President?
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
At the very least that man is unfit to be president because he can fucking speak without making any sense. His statements are so moronic and idiotic that you can't tell if he's calling for violence or political pressure.
That alone is enough for the guy to not be anywhere close to the White House.
But when you add all the crooked Hillary, lying Hillary, lock her up, and Russian hacking how can we not think he meant what everything thinks he meant??
That alone is enough for the guy to not be anywhere close to the White House.
But when you add all the crooked Hillary, lying Hillary, lock her up, and Russian hacking how can we not think he meant what everything thinks he meant??
Do you really have to think before ordering an assassination tho.
Like, does anyone really almost order an assassination but then stop and think hmm maybe I shouldn't order an assassination.
AuthenticM
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This shit has got to be criminal, right? It is in Canada.
This was just the corollary of the Republican strategy, including the RNC mob hollering chants of Lock her up, speakers saying she's the devil and then double down on it, their candidate inviting a foreign country to hack and spread Clinton's emails. This is his end game. If he can't win, well, just make a veiled suggestion of assassination and wait for it to materialize.
gutter_trash
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God bless we don't have a 2nd Ammendment up here
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