http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/266809-trump-i-could-shoot-people-in-streets-and-not-lose-support
Is this hyperbole a sign if an exuberance of confidence or just plain bragging? So, his supporters have made up their minds and no degree of rational thought will sway them. Politics, you've got to love... er...
I think he really did go beyond himself this time.
(http://subversiveinfluence.com/images/2015/02/batshit-crazy-award.png)
He is probably referring to the modern day Brownshirts doing shit in his name. Worked for that German guy. The guys in Oregon are Brownshirts (though in the NW I think they prefer plaid). Not doing full retard on them ... is like the slap on a wrist that that German guy got for his shenanigans in Munich in 1923. I give us 10 more years, then we get the rollercoaster of dictatorship.
Just when you think he's reached rock bottom, ole Donald continues to dig.... :lol_hitting:
I hope he tries it. Go ahead tRump! Start shooting strangers on the street to prove that point.. I'm sure the police will be more than happy to look the other way to let you become a serial killer because that would make America great again, having a serial killer as commander in chief..
Sounds about right. I'm still fully convinced Trump never wanted to be president and has been trying to sabotage his own campaign by doing and saying increasingly ridiculous things. The only problem is, the worse it gets, the more they love him. So I believe Trump could probably shoot someone who "looked like a terrorist/black thug/flower child" and while the sane part of the country would want to indict him, his fanbase would simply cry, "MOAR!"
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on January 24, 2016, 09:31:49 AM
I hope he tries it. Go ahead tRump! Start shooting strangers on the street to prove that point.. I'm sure the police will be more than happy to look the other way to let you become a serial killer because that would make America great again, having a serial killer as commander in chief..
The cops are the ones doing the random shooting. They only care if a cop gets shot. Obama is already the serial killer in chief ... NDA much?
This is who the Repubicans are and why the're not fit to govern.
Quote from: Atheon on January 24, 2016, 09:34:07 AM
This is who the Repubicans are and why the're not fit to govern.
This is who the Americans are ... there aren't two different hominid species here. The D-folk aren't much different. That is why I am part of the Master Race ... an I-person. The usual political affiliation in the US is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
The worst thing about that statement: He's right.
He is playing the thug gig. Like the one we have. Everything he says is unbelivably stupid, but this particular game doesn't play into sense as a strategy.
Unfortuntaely, it works in a certain domestic political climate, esp. when the target group of people believe they have become the victim in their own system which was founded on their own values which is the White Christian Republican in the States today.
People are not listening and thinking what he is saying. They are just hearing him and thinking "He is on MY side".
People didn't pay attention to Hitler's war record ... he was only a corporal after all, but no coward ... except for that one time he ran away without any weapon and that British soldier didn't shoot him. People paid attention to what he said ... he articulated what the body politic was thinking ... more and more over time as their country went down the tubes. Eventually yes, he was one of "us" ... even the mighty plutocrats and militarists thought so. But then Hitler did take professional lessons is speech-making and mass-hypnosis. Ironically this was the ultimate realization of advertising theory, as invented by Freud's nephew.
I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public, even their supporters would say enough is enough..
I really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on January 24, 2016, 10:25:40 AM
I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public, even their supporters would say enough is enough..
I really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.
Don't read any history. Then reality will be a depressing surprise, rather than a depressing anticipation.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on January 24, 2016, 10:25:40 AM
I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public, even their supporters would say enough is enough..
I agree with you.
QuoteI really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.
I have no idea.
But the words of this kind make more damage -or contribution depends on the side look from- than some dead bodies when they are no bodies.
Like I said. The thug gig.
Quote from: Mermaid on January 24, 2016, 10:11:51 AM
The worst thing about that statement: He's right.
Unless he shot somebody from a trailer park?.... :celebrate:
Actually I agree with him on this one. People who support him aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.
It all depends on who he shoots.
Murder is still murder and whether trump realizes it or not premeditated murder is still illegal in all 50 states. Being a trump supporter doesn't automatically make anyone a law maker..Even within the rube party there are more than enough people who would want him locked up.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on January 24, 2016, 03:56:21 PM
Murder is still murder and whether trump realizes it or not premeditated murder is still illegal in all 50 states.
I don't think he was insinuating he could kill someone and legally get away with it, just politically.
Quote from: TomFoolery on January 24, 2016, 04:12:08 PM
I don't think he was insinuating he could kill someone and legally get away with it, just politically.
I'm hoping that's exactly what he means.. Donald Trump in prison? Oh let it be so..
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on January 24, 2016, 03:56:21 PM
Murder is still murder and whether trump realizes it or not premeditated murder is still illegal in all 50 states. Being a trump supporter doesn't automatically make anyone a law maker..Even within the rube party there are more than enough people who would want him locked up.
It isn't murder when the CIA does it, or Obama does it. At the highest levels of the State ... there are no laws, except that of survival at any cost.
Quote from: Mermaid on January 24, 2016, 10:11:51 AM
The worst thing about that statement: He's right.
The man is always testing the crowd: if he says something that brings a lot of applause then the next time, he'll push further on; if it doesn't, he'll drop the subject entirely in his next speech. The man is an entertainer, and he knows it. The culture has been dummy down to such a level that Trump is just right person to take advantage of that. Reagan was the first entertainer to make a breakthrough, the Don is following in those footsteps. Reagan was a disaster by bringing in the religious crazies into the GOP. As for Trump, the verdict is still out there. Does he win the nomination? If yes, does he win the presidency? If yes, the US will be entertaining the rest of the world in ways that were unprecedented in the past.
Reagan might have brought in the religious crazies, but Dumpster Trump just scored the endorsement of Mr Religious Crazy himself, Jerry Falwell Jr. which has REALLY pissed off Ted Cruz.. Cruz was all but sucking Falwells dick for the endorsement and I suspect he actually was sucking his dick, but just couldn't shut up long enough to finish the job..
I think Trump's just trying to prove to the world and the country just how stupid and ignorant the rank and file Republicans are, so they'll go the way of the dodo. After Trump, the GOP will be a laughingstock all over the world.
I think that was his intention from the start.
I could be wrong, though...
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 26, 2016, 06:36:04 PM
I think Trump's just trying to prove to the world and the country just how stupid and ignorant the rank and file Republicans are, so they'll go the way of the dodo. After Trump, the GOP will be a laughingstock all over the world.
I think that was his intention from the start.
I could be wrong, though...
Or it could have the opposite effect: the rest of the world could think he's really crazy and won't dare messing around with him. Remember the US still has 7000+ nukes in its arsenal.
Nukes unnecessary. Scuttlebutt says ... the US is messing with weaponized flu virus in the Ukraine, using soldiers from Kiev. But then Putin might be wrong this time.
Quote from: Baruch on January 26, 2016, 07:54:53 PM
Nukes unnecessary.
Under the MAD doctrine, the use of nukes weren't necessary, just the threat of using them was enough. OTOH, if Trump is perceived as crazy by the other countries, then MAD is no longer an insurance policy.
Trump probably began is run for president for the same reason he does all the rest of his media antics. The guy is a media whore. He's run out of things to buy, and he's desperately trying to think of crazy was to spend his money. Saying he could shoot people in the streets and not lose support sounds like something a guy who is just as befuddled by his success as the rest of us are. The statement has a quality of flabbergasted wonder about it. Now that his stunt might turn into a reality, look for him to make even wilder comments as he attempts to sabotage his own campaign and avoid the reality of a presidency.
He's pulling another stunt...
QuoteTrump’s Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
Tonight, Donald Trump’s months-long war with Fox News entered a chaotic and â€" for both sides â€" perilous new phase when Trump called Roger Ailes’s bluff and announced he was boycotting Fox’s debate to protest Megyn Kelly's aggressive coverage of his campaign. Instead, Trump said he would host his own Iowa town hall to raise money for veterans and let other networks cover it. One clear sign of the gravity of tonight’s development is the sense of confusion that is swirling throughout Fox. The network is split between Kelly's allies like Brit Hume and conservative anchors that are furious that Kelly â€" who graces the cover of Vanity Fair this month â€" has become the face of the network. An anchor fumed that Kelly hosted Michael Moore on her program tonight and the lefty filmmaker defended her against Trump. “That would be like Rachel Maddow laughing along with Charles Koch as he trashed Hillary Clinton!" the anchor said. One producer speculated that Fox could go “National Review†on Trump and start attacking him.
Read more at: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/#
Already his threat of a boycott of the debate is causing chaos at FOXNEWS.
Quote from: josephpalazzo on January 27, 2016, 10:37:47 AM
He's pulling another stunt...
Already his threat of a boycott of the debate is causing chaos at FOXNEWS.
Now his ratings will probably go up some more. He's a candidate made of titanium coated with Teflon. (By the way, what is the atomic number of Teflon? I can't remember my chemistry.)
Quote from: SGOS on January 27, 2016, 10:53:15 AM
Now his ratings will probably go up some more. He's a candidate made of titanium coated with Teflon. (By the way, what is the atomic number of Teflon? I can't remember my chemistry.)
Teflon is not an element, but a very complex molecule that goes by the name of Polytetrafluoroethylene. So it wouldn't have an atomic number, but it has a molecular weight of 100.1
Quote from: josephpalazzo on January 27, 2016, 11:23:59 AM
Teflon is not an element, but a very complex molecule that goes by the name of Polytetrafluoroethylene. So it wouldn't have an atomic number, but it has a molecular weight of 100.1
I was joking. I'm still impressed that you knew the weight.
Quote from: SGOS on January 27, 2016, 12:12:16 PM
I was joking. I'm still impressed that you knew the weight.
Internet sarcasm is sometimes elusive... (atomic weight can be easily googled)
Quote from: josephpalazzo on January 27, 2016, 10:17:05 AM
Under the MAD doctrine, the use of nukes weren't necessary, just the threat of using them was enough. OTOH, if Trump is perceived as crazy by the other countries, then MAD is no longer an insurance policy.
Yeah, they'll wonder whether he's too crazy to have that kind of power - whether he's crazy enough to strike first. That could destabilize things even more than they already are.
Trump I think is trying to revive the gloss and glamour that Hitler once had in Germany and might believe that he can become president and appointment himself to the job for life. In short he's a fascist.
Quote from: josephpalazzo on January 27, 2016, 10:37:47 AM
He's pulling another stunt...
Already his threat of a boycott of the debate is causing chaos at FOXNEWS.
Cry me a river. That and if Bernie keeps trying to suck up to Hillary, tell them to get a room!
Only a crazy person would want to be POTUS.
The latest on the Don:
"I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct," he wrote on Twitter. "Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0V51PU