Tonal Dump Smells Like Shit
Best thing Bush has said in ages.
Compare to this waffly crap from Christie - just saying itās down to lack of experience, plus I remember 9/11!
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Trump speaks for a lot of Americans. In a way, Iām thankful for him because heās showing just how much work those of us who think differently have to do.
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The truly sad thing is that this sort of total crap is actually appealing to large segments of the population (and this his popularity in the polls). Even sadder still is that I bet if you polled the same supportive group theyād say that theyāre the true āfreedom lovingā americans, all without any sense of irony.
At this point, I donāt know what kind of batshit insanity itād take for his base to want to separate themselves from himā¦
maybe āIād kidnap kids from sunday schools, and grind them up into meatloaf for public school lunchesāā¦
or GASP! āIām in love with a manā. sarcasm (needed to be said for the truly moronic out there)
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As long as it wasnāt white, christian kids heād probably get away with it. (As long as you werenāt then going to feed it to white, christian kids)
As long as he was repentant, that would still work for him too - right-wing christians love a good redemption arc.
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And once Iām swept into office, Iāll sell your childrenās organs to zoos for meat! And Iāll creep into your houses at night and wreck up the place!
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Donald Trump has now gone where Godwinās Law does not apply.
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And still somehow less frightening than the idea of tRump as presidentā¦
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It could well be performance art. Check out the picture of him on his website and then go and look at a picture of comedian Garry Shandling ā¦ uncanny!
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Anyone taking bets on which way his polling is going after this?
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To Donaldās credit, he knows that a lot of his followers A.) donāt understand that the First Amendment applies to all citizens, including Muslims, or that B.) there are Muslims who are actual, legitimate citizens of the good olā USA.
Iām willing to bet a lot of Trump supporters are the same folks who used to complain about Obama āgutting the Constitution.ā
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What? Itās not a burn, it is a better comparison.
Hitler and the Nazis went and rounded up Jews because they didnāt like them and killed them.
FDR and the US kept out Japanese immigrants and sequestered the Japanese/Japanese-Americans who were here because they feared attacks by them.
Geeze you guys are wound tight.
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Hey. Donāt pick on Gary Shandling. That guy is a national treasure.
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It wouldnāt be that bad if Trump was just exposing the bigotry that thrives just below the surface of American society. But when people hear leaders (or wannabe leaders) speaking like this in public it legitimizes and emboldens their worst instincts. When those who dominate the national conversation say stuff like āall Muslims are a terrorist threatā itās only natural that some people are going to react by forming a lynch mob.
I donāt think Trump can win a general election, but win or lose his campaign has inflicted untold long-term damage to American race relations and public discourse.
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Even FDR didnāt campaign on that, though.
While itās no excuse for the Executive Order, the pressure to detain Japanese Americans largely came from senior military officials. It was a xenophobic, unconstitutional response to a bad situation but it wasnāt just a ploy to convert racism into votes.
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It was funnier in the 1980ās.
But itās a pretty accurate representation of a BBS member meeting Donald Trump.
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