"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[pErvinalia]

The fact that there are crazies on the right does not indicate a lack of crazies on the left.

What it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

[Tero]

Trump signs bill denying these folks the drugs they need to spend the rest of his 4 year term in a semicoma
https://www.foxnews.com/health/trump-si ... nal-crisis

[tattuchu]

The fact that there are crazies on the right does not indicate a lack of crazies on the left.

What it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

"No one could have predicted that the party of Nazis, child molesters, wife beaters, income tax cheaters, pedophile wrestling coaches, compromised Russian assets, blackout-drunk rapist judges and bonesaw murder apologists would also be the party of deranged bomb-sending terrorists." -- Jeff from Twitter

[pErvinalia]

Trump and his supporters are actually moderates.

[tattuchu]

Trump and his supporters are actually moderates.

Liberal moderates

[L'Emmerdeur]

But her emails.

'Chinese spies often listening when Trump calls friends from his cellphones: U.S. officials'

When U.S. President Donald Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Chinese spies are often listening – and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy, current and former U.S. officials said.

Trump’s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well. But aides say the voluble president, who has been pressured into using his secure White House land line more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones. White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them.

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Officials said the president has two official iPhones that have been altered by the National Security Agency to limit their capabilities – and vulnerabilities – and a third personal phone that is no different from hundreds of millions of iPhones in use around the world. Trump keeps the personal phone, White House officials said, because unlike his other two phones, he can store his contacts in it.

Apple declined to comment on the president’s iPhones. None of them are completely secure and are vulnerable to hackers who could remotely break into the phones themselves.

But the calls made from the phones are intercepted as they travel through the cell towers, cables and switches that make up national and international cellphone networks. Calls made from any cellphone – iPhone, Android, an old-school Samsung flip phone – are vulnerable.

The issue of secure communications is fraught for Trump. As a presidential candidate, he regularly attacked his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 campaign for her use of an unsecured e-mail server while she was secretary state, and he basked in chants of “lock her up” at his rallies.

[Tero]

Woman meets the nicest people at Trump rallies: they were all white Christians!

https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story ... 749501002/

[Tero]

[Animavore]

Trump bears responsibility for these acts of terrorism. Those who still stand by him are culpable.

[Forty Two]

The fact that there are crazies on the right does not indicate a lack of crazies on the left.

What it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

By the same token, Steve Scalise's shootings and the riots and other violence are indicative that the Democrats' divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

Or not - probably not, right? When Democrats refer to killing Trump, Republicans being fascists and Nazis, and how it's good to attack them, drive them out of neighborhoods and places of public accommodations....that doesn't have a consequence?

[Forty Two]

Trump bears responsibility for these acts of terrorism. Those who still stand by him are culpable.

Who can we stand with? The Democrats? They're responsible for Steve Scalise, ANTIFA and the various acts of harassment and violence we've seen against Republicans.

So hard to pick someone to support without being "culpable..."

[Animavore]

An excellent summation of Trump supporters.

Miserable.

Every time I see them, this is the word that prevails.

Whenever I encounter a supporter of this President on social media now, or scan the crowds at his propaganda rallies, or see his surrogates bloviating on talk shows or pounding upon pulpits, I am left with the same conclusion: they are a people bereft of joy.

There is so little happiness, so little benevolence, so little kindness.

The emotional deficit is continually on display:

In their contorted, sneering countenance; in their so readily brandished middle finger; in their steady spit shower of verbal filth. With each angry gesture and with every slandering epithet, they reveal in high-definition detail what it looks like when someone loses the light inside them.

War does this to the human heart. These people are at war with the world.

They’re against gays.
They’re against immigrants.
They’re against Muslims.
They’re against foreigners.
They’re against scientists.
They’re against atheists.
They’re against Liberals.
They’re against the Democrats.
They’re against the Media.
They’re against teenage shooting survivors.
They’re against athletes and entertainers.

The world in their heads is composed almost entirely of enemies and adversaries—and as a result they are perpetually disgusted. If I had that many enemies to fight, I’d be unendingly pissed off too. I’d probably pity them a lot more if I didn’t have to endure them.

These are the wildest of ironies: Their President is in the White House, their politicians commandeer the House and Senate, the Supreme Court is tilted In their favor—and yet they still manage to feel themselves oppressed, still picture the world unfair, still rage against a machine they’ve made and are part of. So many of them claim faith in Jesus, and yet live in almost polar opposition to his example.

The only time they do smile, is to reflect the arrogant, self-satisfied sneer of their leader; almost always in the face of someone else’s heartache or misfortune, almost always when someone else loses something. They only joy they seem capable of manufacturing, is in response to pain.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/08/01/th ... TAV1NApwZk

[Brian Peacock]

The fact that there are crazies on the right does not indicate a lack of crazies on the left.

What it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

By the same token, Steve Scalise's shootings and the riots and other violence are indicative that the Democrats' divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

Or not - probably not, right? When Democrats refer to killing Trump, Republicans being fascists and Nazis, and how it's good to attack them, drive them out of neighborhoods and places of public accommodations....that doesn't have a consequence?

Yep, Republicans are the real victims.

[pErvinalia]

The fact that there are crazies on the right does not indicate a lack of crazies on the left.

What it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

By the same token, Steve Scalise's shootings and the riots and other violence are indicative that the Democrats' divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

Or not - probably not, right? When Democrats refer to killing Trump, Republicans being fascists and Nazis, and how it's good to attack them, drive them out of neighborhoods and places of public accommodations....that doesn't have a consequence?

Tu quoque by proxy. Again, what it indicates is that Trump's divisive and dangerous rhetoric has consequences.

[pErvinalia]

Trump bears responsibility for these acts of terrorism. Those who still stand by him are culpable.

Who can we stand with? The Democrats? They're responsible for Steve Scalise, ANTIFA and the various acts of harassment and violence we've seen against Republicans.

So hard to pick someone to support without being "culpable..."

What have Democrat leaders said that have incited violence from their supporters? And before you bullshit your little heart out, realise that ANTIFA aren't fucking Democrats. They are anarchists.