Coming soon to a theater near you, Donald Trump in the thriller “The Candidate Too Dangerous To Cover”.
Nice blame defection there. How about Trump goes more than a news cycle without saying something so stupid that most people who hear it interpret it as a threat to violence? Most people can get through a day without that happening to them.
Of course Trump is qualified to be a presidential candidate or even the president. That is a feature of democracy. The people get to vote regardless of what their “betters” wish. And if you don’t think the perception of elite derision is a factor in Trump’s popularity you might want to listen to actual Trump supporters and take them at their word.
This is just quibbling about the definition of “qualified”.
Not sure I understand your point. You disagree with the fact that he mentioned the snd amendment leading up to the statement that everyone is quoting? If so:
(Emphasis mine.)
And if that is not what you meant, how do you know that his “horrible day” portion was referring to the day that Hilary had been elected. That seems much more logical—if one does not reflexively insist in putting everything Trump says into the worst possible light and contort logic to insist that he meant it that way.
I just wanted to point out that there is some ambiguity over the punctuation after “horrible day”, whether its:
Or:
Whether there being a comma or a period after the “horrible day” changes the interpretation slightly. I’ve seen it reported both ways, but listening to the full audio clip a few times, it seems more likely to me that it’s the former. I still think the rest of the quote is obviously playing to the paranoid fantasy of armed resistance to the Feds, but I agree that the “horrible day” part is more ambiguous.
You mean “…so far” – obviously, if there were no negative consequences (i.e. if the media followed the ridiculous bend-over-backwards policy you suggest), it would become a standard talking point, until the stochastic-terrorism trigger was pulled or the campaign ended, whichever came first.
I have to push back a bit against this assertion. Al Gore made Jeb “Low Energy” Bush look like the Wally West Flash after washing down a carton of Pixie Stix with a gallon of expresso.
That said, I’m occasionally tempted to believe that il Doofus is really trying to throw the election, until the logic of the simpler explanation (he really is that far gone in narcissistic buffoonery) reasserts itself.
It was tasteless in how self-serving, thoughtless, and opportunistic it came across. Things were so heated in that election that it wasn’t a stretch to think Obama was at high risk of being assassinated. I’m sure I wasn’t the only black person extra nervous about that happening.
But of all the things Clinton could’ve cited as justification for staying in the race (like being determined to win and not letting her supporters down), why that one? It went without saying that had Obama been assassinated, she would have been nominated, whether she stayed in or out the race. So you have to wonder what she thought she’d gain by reminding voters Obama had a bullseye on his back. There was no reason to even go there unless she was trying to portray herself as the safer choice. Obama was gonna take us back to crazy 1968 with his black, charismatic self, but not good ole pragmatic Hillary!
That’s what made it indefensible. It’s poor form to stake your own electability on the life-and-death risks your opponent must contend with through no fault of their own.
Maybe he threw in the part about Second Amendment people to deflect from the fact that he unequivocally lied about Clinton wanting to abolish the Second Amendment. That little sleight of hand worked, because no one has called him out on that lie and I’m sure his followers believe it.
There was no attempt at deflection-he just doesn’t have a governor for his mouth.
How about Jim McGreevey?
That’s a nice handbasket.
My post is more concerned with the nature of people and democracy than the concept of standards. People want democracy? People want to vote in another party’s primary? Well, live with the consequences. Truthfully I hope the manipulation of the Republican primary by political trolls backfires.
Yeah guys, reporting on something is just as bad as doing it yourself. Why can’t you see that?
Well you got the right candidate. Donald will be known as the biggest troll ever.
No, I’m not. If Trump would STFU with the clueless comments, the media would report on something else.
I think it’s pathological with him. He looks at the news, and sees that Clinton is a featured story (and it’s often a bad-news story about her). This enrages him. He cannot understand that it is a GOOD THING if the media is reporting a negative thing about your opponent.
He is jealous. He WANTS some of that sweet, sweet media time. So, he figures he needs to run his mouth and say something outrageous. More outrageous than last time. THAT will bump Clinton off the front page!
So bad news for Clinton lasts only a short time, with Trump making sure he replaces her by saying something idiotic. I know it makes no sense, but you have to think like an egomaniac with no real desire to actually become president.
I still haven’t forgiven those rat bastards Woodward and Bernstein…
Except that Trump voters are not, by and large, poor whites living in trailers. His strongest supporters are white male Boomers with above average incomes but a lot of resentment that the country is becoming browner and multicultural, not to mention that they can’t get away with the sexism that was endemic when they were young.
I just don’t think that’s where her mind was going at all, although of course in retrospect she realized she failed to choose her words carefully. I think the point was that we only remember that day because he was assassinated (if he had just won the primary and stayed alive, only a much smaller number of political junkies and historians would remember). But since it is so well remembered, she was saying “Hey, you know that day that was so famous? That was in June, and there was still an active race going on. This isn’t over yet!” I really don’t think the actual fact that he was assassinated was part of what she was trading on there, not at all.
just "faux outrage " , as usual from lefties.
if "real danger " existed , you certainly wouldn’t continue broadcasting that danger, over-n-over.
As President, you’re allowed to say this **zero **times. That is the issue - it goes to character and temperament.