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Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.
If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.
See also - that time Trump joked about Paul Pelosi getting bashed with a hammer
He's consistently in favor of his political opponents being threatened with violence, it's one of the few things he's been consistent about in his life
bUt ciViLitY!!1123
Did you just mock somebody/somegroup by appending part of the Fibonacci sequence 😅
I get the "!!1!eleven!!" thing (presumably the 23 bit is just mocking some ridiculousness or vapidity...?) but I find it very amusing to read your comment that way. Call it comic relief if you like 🤷
Yeah, it was not intentional, just a representation of the keyboard smashing that might go with that kind of comment, but I'll take the accidental Fibonacci lol 😂
Any sympathy I had for this assclown dried up ages ago.
“Look, you should just turn down the violent rhetoric!”
-people who’ve been espousing violent rhetoric since 2008
One side cares about civility and condemns advocating violence, so the other side exploits that every chance they get.
Maybe the first time we wished a Republican would have leaned just a little more to the right.
You should put the date in the title.
Fair point. Done.
There was also that time he said McConnell had a "DEATH WISH" because he voted for some stuff trump didn't like.
We go high, they go low.
Today on Facebook, a big trumpist just admitted to me that he just wants to see his political opponents suffer (even die), and sent me a gore image.
I'm in a gun club and the WhatsApp chat had, surprise surprise, a rich, fashy vet immediately saying that the attempt meant that all supporters of the Democrats were now "enemy combatants" and should be treated like enemy combatants were back when "they" were deployed. Fucking psychotic, brownshirt ass. I know this makes me sound like him, but people like him have one solution and it's measured in six foot increments of rope.
Make sure he knows that the shooter was a registered Republican and member of a gun club.
Tell them you want exactly the same for Trump and watch them get triggered like the little snowflake they are.
And surely we can find old tweets condemning it from all the Trumpanzees screeching about "political hatred" today, right? Right?
Wow you know what trump has aged a lot in 8 years. I guess that’s a long time n shit huh
Probably a tougher 8 years if you were already geriatric at the start of those 8 years.
Dated Aug. 9, 2016
They are armed and organized. Are you?
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Stochastic terrorism should be addressed when it occurs. The duopoly gave him a pass on it and he keeps using it.
This thread really shows the biggest crime Trump has committed so far: dividing the country.
For all the rethoric in this (and thousands of other threads) were people from both sides say the other side should die, everyone seems to forget that they're talking about their families, their friends, their neighbours. Anyone in doubt about how a civil war actually looks like should maybe ask Yugoslavia how well that worked out for them. Yeah i know, it no longer exists.
How many innocent civilians were murdered?
One should also think about what will happen to the US when other countries (hello China, hello Russia) will take advantage of the US being in a civil war. Land grabbing, US land grabbing and hell, WWIII aren't off the table.
To be clear, I'm veryuch against Trump, against the religious extremists and their takeover of the US government, but people on both sides need to calm down and look at their leaders. Right wing leadership is fucking evil and as far as I am concerned can all burn in a fire, but were talking about a fairly small group that pushes all this.
Stop fantasizing about murdering everyone following right wing media, most of them have been brainwashed, are dumb, or just plain angry and once all this is over, they'll still be your family, they'll still be your neighbor, they'll still be your friends, they'll still be there, and you can't murder them all, that is not how anything works.
Start working on bridging the gap, start working today on reaching out and pulling those angry fixkers back into the fold. Show them we're not the enemy.
Their leadership, again, is a different story.