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He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86

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TheClaws · 30/10/2018 03:24

This is one of the most apt political cartoon I’ve seen.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3393501-Couldnt-think-of-a-pithy-quote-so-have-this-instead-Trump-85

He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86
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TheClaws · 02/11/2018 02:16

Some snippets from his Missouri rally today. The live commentary is from Breitbart; any * remarks are mine.

On antifa: “We’re much tougher. We’re much tougher. We’re much more sane,” Trump says. “We don’t run around like Antifa with little arms… and then go running home to mommy’s basement… and put on the black uniform and the black helmets.”

Trump says it’s so disappointing when their helmets come off and their weak little faces are shown. He says Antifa hits people with clubs and says they are lucky Trump’s supporters are nice. Hmm

On North Korea and China: Trump says we were headed to war with North Korea and now, under his leadership, “no rockets, no nothing.” He says everything’s been amazing and rockets aren’t flying over Japan. Trump says he wants North Korea to be “very successful” and hopes to take sanctions off if North Korea meets various agreements, etc. Trump says China wants to make a deal but it has to be the right deal. *Clearly he isn’t reading his intelligence briefs.

On the media: “They’re attacking me… because I’m fighting for you,” Trump says. “We really have to bypass the media because… [the media are] so one-sided and unfair.”

Some says some in the media are really fine people but some are “not honest.” Trump says they have to go around the biased media.

“We have gone around them like nobody in history has gone around them,” Trump says. * Note the constant use of “we” - this is why he’s been so successful in developing and maintaining his cult, and why it’s so dangerous for him to make such statements - as they’ll do whatever he says.

On the Constitution: Trump says Democrats want judges to rewrite the constitution to “impose their own radical views.” He talks about the record number of judges he has appointed to federal courts and his two Supreme Court Justices. *Isn’t that Trump himself who wants to that?

On “birth tourism”: He talks about the birth tourism “industry.” He says China is at the top. Trump says a dictator or general of an enemy country could send his wife to have a baby on American soil and that child will be an American citizen. Grin

On the tragedies last week: He says “two maniacs” stopped the momentum last week because nobody was talking about the election but the momentum is now picking up again. Trump cites strong borders, taxes, common sense. 😡

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TheClaws · 02/11/2018 05:17

IMO, this isn’t an exaggeration. In any way.

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Remember the date well 11/1/18. On this day in history President Donald Trump announced building massive concentration camps to house asylum seekers while giving permission for the military to fire on civilians armed with nothing more than rocks. @realDonaldTrump

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TheClaws · 02/11/2018 05:29

He did actually say this (I annotated it in the rally notes in a post or so above). What sort of person do you have to be to even think this, let alone say it?

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LakieLady · 02/11/2018 07:13

I've stayed away from Trump threads for fear of imploding with rage, but the sheer idiocy of this fuckwit's "Treat rocks as firearms" has totally boiled my piss.

How long before some kids arsing about with stones in the street are shot by police for using "firearms"?

I know "disproportionate" is a long word, but one of his carers needs to explain it to him.

Minimammoth · 02/11/2018 07:20

He often accuses others of the very things he is doing with no awareness. I am regularlyShock by his lack....well of everything human and principled.
Sorry for muddled reporting on last post cozie should have referenced my reading.

BolleauxtoBankers · 02/11/2018 07:39

A friend just plonked this on my timeline, so I'm leaving it here for you all to suffer from as well. Not as good as the original thread cartoon, though. Grin

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TheClaws · 02/11/2018 07:47

Love that one, Bolleaux!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 02/11/2018 07:51

Fox are saying the operation to send troops to the border is called 'operation faithful patriot'.

It is horrifying to watch this descent into fascism.

BolleauxtoBankers · 02/11/2018 07:57

It's the distraction technique, in a way, isn't it, OhYouBadBadKitten?
I am just sitting here hoping that many of those who voted for him in 2016 have now realised the foolishness of their ways and will go all out and vote Democrat, perhaps against their political principles, but on principle to save their country from the fascist swamp into which is descending. Or do I live in cloud-cuckoo land?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 02/11/2018 08:03

It is Bolleaux - the only thing is, after the election, Trumps gangsters will not stand down and every person who claims asylum will have to choose where they settle carefully for fear of being shunned and worse.

LakieLady · 02/11/2018 08:05

It is horrifying to watch this descent into fascism.

It makes you realise how easily it can happen, doesn't it?

TooTrueToBeGood · 02/11/2018 08:09

've stayed away from Trump threads for fear of imploding with rage, but the sheer idiocy of this fuckwit's "Treat rocks as firearms" has totally boiled my piss.

Maybe he could really practice what he preaches. Ban personal ownership of firearms and rewrite the 2nd amendment to give a right to bear rocks. School shootings would become a thing of the past, replaced with school stonings. He could also update his military and equip them with rock-based munitions. Whilst a wedding in some distant sandy place might still not appreciate having 500kg of granite dropped on them it's a damn sight better than the same weight of HE.

of course, that's not what he has in mind because he's a psychopathic idiot. He's just going to authorize mass-shootings of unarmed civilians snd probably masturbate himself into a stupor watching the footage.

PerkingFaintly · 02/11/2018 10:14

masturbate himself into a stupor watching the footage.

He and some of his base. Who have votes. And access to said firearms and materials to make pipe bombs.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/11/2018 14:01

The Black Mothers Trying to Elect Stacey Abrams
A silent crisis of infant and maternal mortality could make the difference in the Georgia governor’s race.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/stacey-abrams-and-georgias-maternal-health-crisis/574687/

...But there’s a special dimension in Georgia that could very well mean the difference next week. The state is in the grip of a crisis, one that impacts, in particular, the lives of black women like Abrams and like those who form the foundation of her coalition and organizing base. Across the country, black women’s health—particularly the fate of mothers and their newborns—is in peril, and mortality rates have spiked. Nowhere is this more true than in Georgia: The issue has been front and center in mobilizing black women, and it’s central to the policy platform of the candidate seeking to be the first black woman governor in U.S. history. To black women in Georgia, the stakes of the debate over health-care access are no less than life or death.

Perhaps no one is more aware of those stakes than Joy Baker. Baker is an ob-gyn in Thomaston, a little more than an hour south of Atlanta. Thomaston is the picture of a small southern town. It’s got a Main Street and a Church Street. The town was built around a mill that’s long gone, but it’s still a hub for basic services for people living in the deeply rural surrounding areas. For hundreds of poor, rural women, Baker’s practice in the Upson Regional Medical Center is the sole lifeline. Half of the rural areas in Georgia don’t have any doctors’ offices, hospitals, or clinics where women can seek obstetric care. That means that Baker isn’t just responsible for the care of people in and around Thomaston, but also for women from an average of 40 miles away....

Perihelion · 02/11/2018 18:03

Just heard on the radio, the clip of Trump comparing rocks with guns Shock.....
DD and I sat with our mouths open...WTF?
I know it's a klaxon to his supporters, but.....

cozietoesie · 02/11/2018 18:12

He only thinks it's a klaxon.

lionheart · 02/11/2018 18:24

Hello LakieLady.

lionheart · 02/11/2018 18:26

Sally Q. Smile

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Perihelion · 02/11/2018 18:26

A call to the ballot box or a call to arms Hmm
Fucking bawbag.

lionheart · 02/11/2018 18:35

With a content warning. Sad

www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/world/africa/nigeria-trump-rocks.html

'DAKAR, Senegal — The Nigerian Army, part of a military criticized for rampant human rights abuses, on Friday used the words of President Trump to justify its fatal shootings of rock-throwing protesters.'