Astral Dog
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Trump tweeted out a video of him "beating up" CNN
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CNN statement:
"enourages violence against reporters" seems like quite the reach. It takes away from an otherwise sensible statement.
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Alex_Mexico
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The president tweeted a gif about him punching CNN. How is that not encouraging violence???
Trump better pray no follower of his ever attacks a CNN reporter after this tweet.
No it isn't. He's been doing it for 2 years and this gif is an attempt to normalize that and make it funny.
Apparently it's a reach when describing the exact video we all are seeing with our own eyes.
Lightning Lord
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Trump's followers are hardcore enough to be persuaded to do something to that affect with tweets like that, though.
Yep. A better statement would have been how it's something Trump does every day he portrays media as the "enemy".
Shadow Puppetry
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Soooooo...disregard the clips of Trump advocating violence during the campaign?
WhiskerFrisker
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What does the gif show then?
It's him clotheslining a logo. "Trump vs. CNN".
To extrapolate the suggestion of violence on reporters from that seems ridiculous to me. Anyone who would decide to attack a reporter based on that .gif would be solely at fault. That's a deranged intepretation that could be warped from anything innocuous.
You do need to realize this isn't the first time Trump has suggested violence against someone, right?
SenjutsuSage
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Because there's an even more embarrassing side of America. Lebron fans who think he's better than Jordan.
okay, low blow. Couldn't resist. 
Astral Dog
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Yeah its like they want to beat him when he is at his low (is that the saying
) wich isn't too bad i guess.Shadow Puppetry
Member
See Pizzagate.
RPGCrazied
Member
Someone should put the CNN logo on Austin's face putting the stunner on Trump.
It is like everyone has amnesia all of a sudden. This is part of a pattern of rhetoric. Anyone not focusing on that is simply playing into Trump and his supporter's hands by giving him the benefit of the doubt that he is just "joking".
Ether_Snake
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Trump doesn't drink.
Did he do that with a wrestling .gif too? Otherwise I'm not seeing the relevance - I'm not saying Trump hasn't ever suggested violence against someone, I'm saying that intepreting a cartoonish tweet as the suggestion of violence seems ridiculous.
PabloBolivar
Banned
Ok. Sure.
Just stop please. Let it be what it is.
plasmawave
Banned
Your president is insane.
Impeccable
Member
I will tell you this, Russia: If youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, - Surprise.
[GIF image of escalating violence against media surging on a non-stop torrent of calling out the media.] - ... surprise incoming.
He knows what the fuck he is doing.
[GIF image of escalating violence against media surging on a non-stop torrent of calling out the media.] - ... surprise incoming.
He knows what the fuck he is doing.
Shadow Puppetry
Member
He is doing a physical act on CNN. He is promoting violence by being violent in the clip. That's what is being done.
George Washington
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We elect only the best.
veryslowhand
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Don't know who is worse trump or those who defend his madness.
Thaedolus
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This gif isn't portraying him drinking
WrenchNinja
Member
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Once again, President Camacho eventually listened to reason. He turned out to be a good man.
An actual brutish professional wrestler type would make for a better president than Donald Trump.
V
Vilix
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CNN couldn't wish for a better situation. Think of the ratings.
RustyNails
Member
Oh the conservatives love to play the victims. They would have impeached Obama before calling it fascism and/or nazism.
Well, you're not wrong. Yes Trump supporters will have their laugh at their expense, but CNN will have the last laugh as their numbers continue to go up. And really, CNN is shit lately in my mind so I'm not exactly celebrating.
But yeah, if anybody thinks CNN has their feeling hurt, that's not true. They probably toasted at this. But, that doesn't change the fact that Donald Trump is an embarrassment.
uncelestial
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They aren't. I was a Bernie supporter and I'm not only offended at this assertion, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. 90% of us voted for Hillary, so you can either show receipts or can it. Thanks.
Yes.
I don't see how that's a reponse to what I've said, but I'll try to make sense of your point.
Trump, and unintelligent man who has made clear suggestions of violence in the past now has decided to use wrestling .gifs to convey that suggestion to his followers?
I'd present an alternative - Trump, being the stupid person that he is, saw a .gif that represented him defeating CNN (the organization) and decided to tweet it out.
"Promoting violence". This is a wrestling .gif. This isn't a .gif of a plane dropping bombs onto a building labeled 'CNN'. It isn't superimposing the face of any journalist into the .gif.
It seems, clear as day, meant to represent 'Trump thrashing CNN (the organization)', not 'tackle a reporter and bash their skull in'.
uncelestial
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If you're at the point where you're trying to determine what severity of violent acts do or do not constitute encouragement, maybe you don't really have a good argument.
Who works at CNN? People. CNN isn't an entity that floats around and is sentient. It's run by human beings. So he is thrashing the people of CNN.
Clear as day.
fastford58
Member
Master troll tactics level 9000.
And you all eat it up per usual.
And you all eat it up per usual.
No, not degrees of violent acts - indications of a suggestion. The examples I give would be "blow up this building" and "attack this person".
But the .gif is just "watch me, Trump, beating up CNN".
You're okay with the president being a troll?
Bruce Springsteen
Member
Exactly, respond with more memes
A little too many are, unfortunately.
Username1198
Member
Yes, we should all ignore trolls, I agree.
But in this case, the troll IS THE FUCKING PRESIDNT OF THE USA lol
uncelestial
Member
Do you think you can say with confidence that of all his millions of supporters, absolutely none of them will ever feel like it's okay to show similar aggression towards people who work at CNN?
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