Publius
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"Let's put her [Cheney] with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." --DJT
This is but one thing, in a litany of things, stuff that Trump has done and said, that clearly reveal he is unfit for the presidency. And what will repubs do? Yawn. Amazing.
Oh, and I hear this all the time, "I took the line out of context". As if context mitigates it.
On another forum, someone suggested that my post should be banned because it omitted context.
Well, here's my reply:
Are you fucking kidding me? Context? In what universe can context mitigate such violent imagery?
Are you kidding me, you say this is disinformation? ‘Propaganda?’ Well, let's get something straight: those are Trump’s words -- plain as day, spoken from a podium in front of a cheering crowd, and yet you guys on the right are pretending they don’t exist. You’re taking up the role of the Official Whitewash Brigade, scrubbing down one of the most brazen, unhinged statements any public figure could make, let alone a former President of the United States. In fact, there is no context that makes Trump’s words anything less than an act of verbal assault, a gross display of power fantasy. Words like that -- wishing a gun’s barrel were ‘trained’ on someone’s face? You don’t sugarcoat it. You don’t downplay it. It’s raw, violent imagery aimed directly at an American official, a critic of Trump’s -- someone daring to speak truth to power.
Now, imagine if Kamala Harris had said that about, say, Mitch McConnell or any other political opponent? The GOP media machine would light up like the Fourth of July, screaming until dawn. They’d be flinging their hands to the sky, invoking the Founding Fathers, clutching their pearls, and calling for hearings, impeachments, and resignations. Heads would be exploding across conservative media with cries of unfitness, radicalism, and violence. Yet, here we have Trump standing there, openly fantasizing about this woman being in the line of fire -- making a ‘point’ that reeks of hypocrisy, considering he dodged the draft five times. That last deferment, by the way, was a medical loophole he exploited; the guy who supports and adores war from the safety of his golf cart (oh yeah, there is a tape of him approving of Bush's war) now wants to paint Cheney as the problem. So, never mind the monumental hypocrisy.
No, this isn’t ‘disinformation', this isn't 'propaganda', hey! -- it’s what Trump said. The words you’re trying to dismiss as ‘propaganda’ are precisely what Trump put out into the public square. No context can soften it, no spin can save it. For any reasonable person --Republican, Democrat, anyone who believes a President should have some modicum of decorum -- it’s clear: this isn’t leadership; it’s thuggery, plain and simple. And the fact that you can defend it, call it ‘propaganda’ to highlight it, speaks volumes about where y'all on the right are in politics today.
So my thread "should be banned' you say merely because it's 'out of context'? Context doesn't matter, the words are there, violent imagery on a person who is critical of him, someone who is willing to speak truth to power, not to mention his hypocrisy. Even if you don't agree on this point, you can't deny his hypocrisy. No, his quote should be emblazoned on billboards across America, in neon lights. And on TV commercials, 24/7 on all stations in every language spoken in America.
And yeah, if Harris had said it, you guys would be all over it like flies on poop.
Cut the crap.
You're really just pissed that he's such a moron that he's say something so so stupid. But he says a lot of stupid shit, nothing new, really.
Right?
Of course I'm right.
This is but one thing, in a litany of things, stuff that Trump has done and said, that clearly reveal he is unfit for the presidency. And what will repubs do? Yawn. Amazing.
Oh, and I hear this all the time, "I took the line out of context". As if context mitigates it.
On another forum, someone suggested that my post should be banned because it omitted context.
Well, here's my reply:
Are you fucking kidding me? Context? In what universe can context mitigate such violent imagery?
Are you kidding me, you say this is disinformation? ‘Propaganda?’ Well, let's get something straight: those are Trump’s words -- plain as day, spoken from a podium in front of a cheering crowd, and yet you guys on the right are pretending they don’t exist. You’re taking up the role of the Official Whitewash Brigade, scrubbing down one of the most brazen, unhinged statements any public figure could make, let alone a former President of the United States. In fact, there is no context that makes Trump’s words anything less than an act of verbal assault, a gross display of power fantasy. Words like that -- wishing a gun’s barrel were ‘trained’ on someone’s face? You don’t sugarcoat it. You don’t downplay it. It’s raw, violent imagery aimed directly at an American official, a critic of Trump’s -- someone daring to speak truth to power.
Now, imagine if Kamala Harris had said that about, say, Mitch McConnell or any other political opponent? The GOP media machine would light up like the Fourth of July, screaming until dawn. They’d be flinging their hands to the sky, invoking the Founding Fathers, clutching their pearls, and calling for hearings, impeachments, and resignations. Heads would be exploding across conservative media with cries of unfitness, radicalism, and violence. Yet, here we have Trump standing there, openly fantasizing about this woman being in the line of fire -- making a ‘point’ that reeks of hypocrisy, considering he dodged the draft five times. That last deferment, by the way, was a medical loophole he exploited; the guy who supports and adores war from the safety of his golf cart (oh yeah, there is a tape of him approving of Bush's war) now wants to paint Cheney as the problem. So, never mind the monumental hypocrisy.
No, this isn’t ‘disinformation', this isn't 'propaganda', hey! -- it’s what Trump said. The words you’re trying to dismiss as ‘propaganda’ are precisely what Trump put out into the public square. No context can soften it, no spin can save it. For any reasonable person --Republican, Democrat, anyone who believes a President should have some modicum of decorum -- it’s clear: this isn’t leadership; it’s thuggery, plain and simple. And the fact that you can defend it, call it ‘propaganda’ to highlight it, speaks volumes about where y'all on the right are in politics today.
So my thread "should be banned' you say merely because it's 'out of context'? Context doesn't matter, the words are there, violent imagery on a person who is critical of him, someone who is willing to speak truth to power, not to mention his hypocrisy. Even if you don't agree on this point, you can't deny his hypocrisy. No, his quote should be emblazoned on billboards across America, in neon lights. And on TV commercials, 24/7 on all stations in every language spoken in America.
And yeah, if Harris had said it, you guys would be all over it like flies on poop.
Cut the crap.
You're really just pissed that he's such a moron that he's say something so so stupid. But he says a lot of stupid shit, nothing new, really.
Right?
Of course I'm right.
