Trump retweets a video saying ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat’

Phantasmal said:
The part I found disturbing was the crowd cheering, whistling and clapping before the gentleman clarified he was speaking figuratively.
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Yeah, much like in the one with Obama. Who never suggested it was figurative, we had to glean that.
 
Damocles said:
I provided a link to the statement, and a "snopes" fix for the liberal in you. The reality is, both are figurative but both had somebody literally state them. One statement was clearly indicated by the person stating it (not Trump) to be figurative and one not so clearly indicated by the person who stated it (Obama) but still figurative.

The hypocrite in you is how you suddenly cry about it here, but didn't before because you didn't care, in fact cheered on a statement in which republicans were figuratively to be shot down...

You are definitively a hypocrite.
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Really? Why don't you show me where I cheered that statement. I'll wait. You don't know me very well. I was often critical of Obama, and that was one of the cases. But I don't for a minute put that on par with this.
 
Concart said:
Really? What fight was that? Was there a brawl that Obama was aware of and then encouraged his followers to arm themselves and participate in the brawl? Of course not. Tell me how else you would interpret 'the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat'. Tell me the alternative reading of that statement.
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You should know one thing, Snowflake.

Don’t mess with Damocles.

He’s a great deal brighter than you...and he is JPP staff.
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, much like in the one with Obama. Who never suggested it was figurative, we had to glean that.
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I looked for the video of the people cheering Obama's comment and could not locate it, can you supply it, please. The only source I can find says the statement was made in an interview.
 
Concart said:
Really? What fight was that? Was there a brawl that Obama was aware of and then encouraged his followers to arm themselves and participate in the brawl? Of course not. Tell me how else you would interpret 'the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat'. Tell me the alternative reading of that statement.
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"the guy even said he wasn’t being literal!“
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-so you don't understand writing with a "pull you in "opening line . It has to be provocative to get you to read more
 
dukkha said:
-so you don't understand writing with a "pull you in "opening line . It has to be provocative to get you to read more
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Nope. That's a lame justification. if you are drawn in by that kind of idiotic statement, you aren't very smart.
 
Concart said:
I do too. Before the virus, I thought it was all talk. Now I'm not so sure. The ignorance and anger are visceral. And that's when Trump and the economy were relatively normal. Neither of those are the case now. I really think Trump is having a complete mental breakdown right before our eyes. And Senate Republicans do NOTHING. The moral cowardice is just shameful.
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Get the Dems to invoke the 25th Amendment like Rosenstein & McCabe were planning :rolleyes:
 
dukkha said:
so i'll put you down for anti-free speech
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How is that anti-free speech? Because the President got called out for lying? It's his right to lie. It's twitters right to point out the lie. That's the very definition of free speech.
 
dukkha said:
clearly you have never written anything for an audience.. It's quite common.
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That statement would not draw anyone who I was interested in engaging with. I've spoken at dozens of conferences. I never opened with a suggestion that a group of people should be killed. Not once.
 
dukkha said:
Get the Dems to invoke the 25th Amendment like Rosenstein & McCabe were planning :rolleyes:
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That's exactly what should happen, and it shouldn't be partisan. The President appears to be having a mental breakdown. Do you really think this guy should have access to the nuclear codes?
 
Concart said:
How is that anti-free speech? Because the President got called out for lying? It's his right to lie. It's twitters right to point out the lie. That's the very definition of free speech.
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there are all kinds of accounts of mail in voter fraud. the WH Press Sec. just gave about 1/2 examples that happened in the past few weeks. Now add in a blizzard of mail ins - they have to be checked and disputed...

The point is Twitter used selective references -CNN /WAPO /and NYTimes as the dispute. Those media all endorse mass mail in - so you know they are going to spin,and using that spin to discern truthiness......

We have a different policy than, I think, Twitter on this,”
“You know, I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” he continued.
“I think, in general, private companies probably shouldn’t be — or especially these platform companies — shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
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Zuckerberg
 
Phantasmal said:
Whataboutism, just because it was also
done by Obama doesn’t make it any less disturbing these people cheered the idea.
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Pointing out hypocrisy is not whataboutism. I simply note that saying it is bad here when previously not saying it was bad is hypocrisy. I personally don't think either is particularly shocking, nor did I cry all over a public board when Obama figuratively suggested that somebody should shoot at republicans (shoot, I didn't even bring that up when somebody did shoot at republicans).
 
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