President Trump laughs after audience member suggests shooting migrants

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To be fair, Trump clearly said we don't/can't let the border patrol use weapons, he says he couldn't do that. imo
And the kinda' joke....the joke is on redneck Panhandle Texans, 'only those people' could do that. He clearly sees them as different than himself. It wasn't a compliment or encouragement like he was guilty of with ' Hilary and the Second Amendment People'.
He actually surprised me in his tone and posture.

Florida. Otherwise you're right. The Florida panhandle aboutu 10-15 miles inland from the coast is basically Lowest Alabama.
 
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Florida. Otherwise you're right. The Florida panhandle aboutu 10-15 miles inland from the coast is basically Lowest Alabama.
Thanks, :) I'd forgotten FL has a panhandle region.
Texas has a panhandle too. It's the northwest corner of the state.
 
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The President of the United States talked about not being able to shoot asylum seekers.

A crowd member yells "shoot them!"

The President didn't tell the guy he was wrong and instead laughs and cracks jokes about it.

The audience loves it.

Anyone else find that disturbing?


Other countries do? Not in the developed world. Next step 'they do it, why shouldn't we?'
 
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He encourages humankind's worst instincts. Every day he remains in office, his hostile, hateful vindictive comments rip away not only at our social safety net but also our nation's moral fiber.
 
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Someone Cracking a joke never disturbs me.

I enjoy my share of low-brow humor as long as its actually funny and not shared with people who would take offense to it.

This meets neither of those conditions.
 
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He encourages humankind's worst instincts. Every day he remains in office, his hostile, hateful vindictive comments rip away not only at our social safety net but also our nation's moral fiber.

And the irony is that he now represents the Christian Right and the rest of the Republican Party. This is the same political party who spent eight years morally outraged and pointing their judgmental finger at Bill Clinton for being an adulterer and a womanizer. And yet here these conservatives are rallying behind a man who could rival Bill Clinton in adulterous philandering and other sinful behavior. We're hearing excuses like "Don't judge Trump for his sins!" or "Trump's sins are between him and God!" or "Who among us is without sin?" It's very curious how we never heard these particular excuses or any other excuses when Bill Clinton was still the President. We also didn't hear his sexual deviant behavior toward women being called "LOCKER ROOM BANTER" or "MACHO TALK" either. It's interesting how all that has changed within the Republican Party since Trump came along and started his pandering.
 
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"Bring me the head of John the Baptist". It's the feminine nature that kills, and not the masculine. Donald Trump, being highly masculine, is probably one of the least likely Presidents to intentionally kill people. He's a civic nationalist(American Dream), which is no longer viable.



Strange coincidence that some people associated with the Clintons keep ending up murdered or dead in suspicious conditions. Like that Seth Rich guy, supposedly mugged, but left all of his stuff. And Hilary having a good laugh when Qaddafi was bayoneted to death rectally. Helping to turn Africa's richest country, into one of the poorer ones. Truly an outrage de Jour. Plus the thousands murdered by Islamist terrorists, and Africans drowned in the Mediterranean crossing to Europe. Helping to turn Africa's richest country, into one of the poorer ones. Uranium deals. Exploiting mineral wealth in Haiti, through the Clinton foundation.


Yeah, but these do not measure up to another alleged honest media reporting about Trump saying something.

For ex. Charlottesville: Trump did not say far right racists were good people but traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie. The causes of the civil war were federalism vs confederacy neither are inherently racist. While the old confederacy was tainted with the racism of slavery, not everyone who believed in confederate government was a racist.
 
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Yeah, but these do not measure up to another alleged honest media reporting about Trump saying something.

For ex. Charlottesville: Trump did not say far right racists were good people but traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie. The causes of the civil war were federalism vs confederacy neither are inherently racist. While the old confederacy was tainted with the racism of slavery, not everyone who believed in confederate government was a racist.

You mean the traditional Southerners who marched in the streets next to the Neo-Nazis and Klansmen?
 
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You mean the traditional Southerners who marched in the streets next to the Neo-Nazis and Klansmen?

I'm sure the people in these pictures consider themselves to be traditional Southerners as well. I'm not sure why but they were very disgruntled and concerned that the Jews would replace them.

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White nationalists use tiki torches to light up Charlottesville march
 
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Yeah, but these do not measure up to another alleged honest media reporting about Trump saying something.

For ex. Charlottesville: Trump did not say far right racists were good people but traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie. The causes of the civil war were federalism vs confederacy neither are inherently racist. While the old confederacy was tainted with the racism of slavery, not everyone who believed in confederate government was a racist.

Yes, these Southerners you speak of are some of the "very fine people" whom Trump mentioned.

Trump Says There Were “Very Fine People on Both Sides” in Charlottesville

In fact, these "very fine people" seem to really like him and are more than willing to support him.

Neo-Nazis explain why they support Donald Trump

Why Do White Supremacists Love Donald Trump? Ex-KKK Grand Wizard Explains

Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump

White supremacy has been more out in the open since he entered the last presidential race and it's been making a steady climb since he was elected too. White supremacists are no longer hiding behind their white hoods and white robes since they've have been rallying so enthusiastically behind Trump.

President Trump is normalizing racism

Trump's Actions, Speeches Normalize Racism

Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost
 
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Yeah, but these do not measure up to another alleged honest media reporting about Trump saying something.
What?

For ex. Charlottesville: Trump did not say far right racists were good people but traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie.
Grammatically, your sentence says that Donald is claiming the the far right racists are traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie, but I don't think that is what you meant to say.

Donald was speaking about the people involved in the Charlottesville march and protest, not about traditional Southerners in general.

The causes of the civil war were federalism vs confederacy neither are inherently racist. While the old confederacy was tainted with the racism of slavery, not everyone who believed in confederate government was a racist.
Oddly enough, if you read the Confederacy state constitutions of the time, each one of them prominently features slavery as a right. How is that not racist or not more than merely "tainted"?
 
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Grammatically, your sentence says that Donald is claiming the the far right racists are traditional southerners who are not ashamed of their overall sense of Dixie, but I don't think that is what you meant to say.

Donald was speaking about the people involved in the Charlottesville march and protest, not about traditional Southerners in general.

Oddly enough, if you read the Confederacy state constitutions of the time, each one of them prominently features slavery as a right. How is that not racist or not more than merely "tainted"?

The question also needs to be asked: if the Confederacy had won the war, would they also have outlawed slavery?

Not very likely.
 
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It's the feminine nature that kills, and not the masculine. Donald Trump, being highly masculine, is probably one of the least likely Presidents to intentionally kill people. He's a civic nationalist(American Dream), which is no longer viable.

Am I the only one who reads that and thinks it's an outtake from Dr. Strangelove? My first inclination was that it was something that Jack D Ripper would say, but then I could see it coming from Dr Strangelove or Buck Turdgison, too.
 
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The question also needs to be asked: if the Confederacy had won the war, would they also have outlawed slavery?

Not very likely.

I'm not defending the Confederacy by any means, but the United States Constitution had a Three-Fifths Compromise. It also took America 89 years to abolish slavery and another 99 years to finally give the descendants of the freed slaves civil rights and equality to white people. And that's not to mention how Native Americans and other minorities have been treated in this country either.

My point is, I have encountered some people (not meaning you personally) who are more than willing to condemn the Confederacy for having slavery, but they tend to stop short in demonstrating the same indignant attitude toward slavery being legal in the United States for 89 years. They aren't willing to condemn America with the same moral outrage as they are willing to condemn the Confederacy. The United States of America was just as guilty of legalized slavery as the Confederate States of America.
 
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I'm not defending the Confederacy by any means, but the United States Constitution had a Three-Fifths Compromise. It also took America 89 years to abolish slavery and another 99 years to finally give the descendants of the freed slaves civil rights and equality to white people. And that's not to mention how Native Americans and other minorities have been treated in this country either.

My point is, I have encountered some people (not meaning you personally) who are more than willing to condemn the Confederacy for having slavery, but they tend to stop short in demonstrating the same indignant attitude toward slavery being legal in the United States for 89 years. They aren't willing to condemn America with the same moral outrage as they are willing to condemn the Confederacy. The United States of America was just as guilty of legalized slavery as the Confederate States of America.
There is the small matter of an armed revolt against the Constitution...
 
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