Our Jokester-In-Chief Laughs at Suggestion of Violence Against Illegal Immigrants

[Bodecea]

@Nemesis

@DougBH

@Nemesis

@DougBH

I have to give CNN some credit for actually not editing out the part where Trump says “We can’t let them (border patrol) use weapons. I would never allow that”. It sort of undermined their theme, but at least they made it available.

He laughed at the comment therefore he thought it was funny. This guy is the president of the united states. We should expect better from him.

If Trump supporters cannot say he was wrong on this then I have to assume that many of them actually agree with the comment about shooting them.

Actually, it sounded like a nervous laugh to me. He probably didn’t instantly know how to handle the comment. But if you want to be offended by it, you are free to be offended.

You just keep moving the goalposts dont you! I am not offended just sickened that the President would find this funny.

He has been President for 2 years and before that he led a life in the public and was no strange to public speaking in person or on TV. He cannot claim inexperience on this one.

I am not a politician with zero experience of speaking to large crowds but if I was and someone said “shoot them” I would not laugh (nervous or otherwise) I would call them out and say that sort of talk has no place anywhere in the USA. Its not difficult at all.

There’s a very good reason he didn’t call that person out.

[JayJay]

Not surprised that’s what you took from the story as the “Democrats’ ONLY concern” with what Trump was doing.

[NuffSaid]

That may have been his sell, but when a lunatic shouts “Shoot them!”, why did he laugh? Why didn’t he admonish that person?

[DougBH]

Both relevant. I linked to the entire story for your edification.
And you think it isn’t obvious that you are only concerned with any issue as long as you can get an anti Trump twist out of it?

[JayJay]

@NuffSaid

That may have been his sell, but when a lunatic shouts “Shoot them!”, why did he laugh? Why didn’t he admonish that person?

It was “nervous laughter”, see because “Trump didn’t know how to respond to him”.

Even if that’s the excuse one wants to choose, it absolutely dos not put Trump in a better light.

It puts him in a much worse light because any rational person knows the correct response is to admonish the person. They wouldn’t have to think about it…it would be instinctual.

That it wasn’t for Trump is quite telling.

[JayJay]

@DougBH

Both relevant. I linked to the entire story for your edification.
And you think it isn’t obvious that you are only concerned with any issue as long as you can get an anti Trump twist out of it?

But you highlighted what was probably the thing that concerned the Democrats the least.

What concerned them more was the immense pressure Trump was putting on the judges to rule quickly, and how he took away their ability to prioritize which cases to expedite and which didn’t need to be.

[DougBH]

Then I suggest the way they handle that is to authorize more funding for even more judges so this can be done without pressure.
Democrats seem to consistently criticize any steps taken to enforce our immigration laws but don’t seem to be stepping up with the solutions.
Unless you consider sanctuary cities to be a solution.

[bluedogdem]

You know it’s ok to admit Trump messed up right?

[adroit]

@DougBH

Actually, it sounded like a nervous laugh to me. He probably didn’t instantly know how to handle the comment. But if you want to be offended by it, you are free to be offended.

I know I get nervous and try to play it off with laughter when I don’t know how to handle someone non-ironically calling for the murder of migrants. It’s just a natural reaction for a non-sociopath.

[DOLOOP]

Fun to watch the defense of this going on here. There’s literally nothing that Trump does that doesn’t allow a defender to make up some “Trump’s real state of mind” deux ex machina ■■■■■■■■ to explain his behavior.

Time to replace the old “Jane Wyman was right” bumper sticker with a “Hillary was right” bumper sticker.

[adroit]

@DougBH

Then I suggest the way they handle that is to authorize more funding for even more judges so this can be done without pressure.
Democrats seem to consistently criticize any steps taken to enforce our immigration laws but don’t seem to be stepping up with the solutions.
Unless you consider sanctuary cities to be a solution.

Yo, over a year ago over $25 billion was offered for this. Trump refused. Then later he shut down the government. Then got a fraction of that amount.

Tell the ■■■■■■■ president you support to stop being such a whiny little bitch.

[LucyLou]

@Snagglepuss

@WuWei

How would that negatively impact the country?

I know I’m going to regret asking this, but are you asking how it would negatively impact the country if we started shooting people as they crossed the border? crosses fingers that I’m misunderstanding your point

I think that Sneakster is implying that Torey is clutching pearls and fainting on couches. Torey responded eloquently, as always.

[Bodecea]

@DougBH

@CaughtInTheMiddle

@hindsight

Apology for you Trumpsplaining every stupid Donald Trump says and for his campaign willingly expecting and recieving Russian help in 2016? Don’t make me laugh.

Just think. Trump voters have to keep up this enabling for either 2 to 6 more years. There going to be worn out if they aren’t already.

And the Trump haters have two more years, at least, of taking every statement out of context to try to get Trump. What better example than taking a speech where he says we cannot use armed force to stop illegal immigrants who mob our borders as an example of his encouraging violence against illegal aliens?

What does donnie have to hide?

[WuWei]

@toreyj01

On its own, probably very little. But it is death from a thousand tiny cuts, to me.

I always thought that there was always a certain “line” that all sides agreed should not be crossed when it comes to discourse and behavior of elected officials. We all sort of know politicians are bad by nature due to greed, sexual indiscretions and compulsive lying, amongst other faults. It’s baked into the bread and as a nation we have learned to deal with it.

But there was always lines that were not crossed, and now those lines have been blurred. You don’t insult war heroes, you don’t mock the handicapped, you don’t put kids in cages and you don’t defend Nazis.

These days though, lots on the Right simply don’t care if it happens as long as it upsets folks on the Left. Which, to me, is a sad thing.

I always use the three "I"s to explain unusual behavior in someone, if it can be explained by the "I"s it’s probably the case.

Incompetence
Indifference
Ignorance

Trump displays all 3 "I"s at different points, but his supporters mostly display indifference, they simply do not care.

That’s a really good post, thank you for taking the time.

I agree about the line, sort of. There were things that were “simply not done…” until they were.

What you think is Trump moving the line has pretty much all been done before at some point in history. A lot of it not so publicly. For example; Obama locked children in cages and nobody said a word.

The difference is in us. We are the ones moving the line. Trump is just a big, loud unabashed example of the result - and we don’t like it.

Is what the dems did to Kavanaugh acceptable? The rubber chicken and KFC?

I believe Obama and Roberts ramming obamacare down our throats created a lot more enemity than you might think.

Our current population is more ignorant and has far worse manners than probably any point in history. There are no doubt several reasons for this and any offering I make would be no more than a theory.

This society, despite all protests to the contrary, is not more civilized. Quite the contrary. And it is not one sided. Trump is the manifestation, the rash, not the disease.

[Jezcoe]

I am personally looking forward (not actually looking forward… but in a colloquial sense) to the day if one of the volunteer militia border patrol start shooting up immigrants and this all goes down the memory hole.

[Bodecea]

@SeaManatee

And why even bring up shooting them as an option, because all that says is that he CANT shoot them, not that you shouldn’t shoot them.

The NRA supports the guy who yelled about shooting them.

[WuWei]

@Snagglepuss

@WuWei

How would that negatively impact the country?

I know I’m going to regret asking this, but are you asking how it would negatively impact the country if we started shooting people as they crossed the border? crosses fingers that I’m misunderstanding your point

It wasn’t a point, it was a question. If one crazy person goes to the border and shoots an illegal and says, “Trump told me to.” How does that affect the country?

[WuWei]

@JayJay

@DougBH

I would ask anyone who cares to actually listen to the audio. No, he was saying that since he would not allow the use of violence, the wall should be built to stop them.
That was his clear sell…no violence, build wall.
Whether you agree with whether the wall would work, that is what he was selling…not violence.

His clear sell might be the wall, but to get there, his tactic was to work the crowd up to believe there was an enemy invasion and we should be afraid, very afraid…

…and that one of the byproducts of that would be that someone might yell “shoot 'em” bothered him not a bit.

That’s how rhetoric works. If he’s got people saying “shoot 'em”, then he knows he’s got them sold on the fact that this is an enemy not worthy of any human consideration…so he’s got the right level of fear and anger built up.

I listened to the audio. I know how storytelling works.

Oh the irony…

[Snagglepuss]

@WuWei

It wasn’t a point, it was a question. If one crazy person goes to the border and shoots an illegal and says, “Trump told me to.” How does that affect the country?

Well, I’m 1/1 on predictions today…

[SimplyTrying]

@Kelby

@Konssurvative1

Only in the panhandle…

But that’s incorrect. It’s whereever deplorables choose to congregate.

Bushel baskets.