I don’t think anybody here actually thinks Trump would have sent the bombs. Putting aside the fact that he’s not the sort of person to do more work than lifting a golf club, I have extreme doubts that he would be able to address the package well enough to get them to their destinations.
Oh, and he’s also supervised as fuck. So there’s that.
I wouldn’t believe it. Seriously, that’s not a Trump move. Maybe telling Kelly to bring in a bomb-maker, the best bomb maker, a beautiful bomb maker who is really doing great work with bombs, and get this CNN stuff taken care of. But physically stuffing explosives into pipes and connecting wires and finding stamps? Reading a bomb-making recipe from the internet? That would never happen.
If Trump got on TV and held a press conference and explained how he sent the bombs, I’d figure he was lying, and just taking credit for someone else’s work.
Then the real bomb maker would write a tell-all book about how he made all these bombs and then got fired, and never got paid, and how Trump used to make rude jokes about bomb-makers and how that bothered him, but he figured Trump was just talking about other bomb-makers and not him, but now he realizes that Trump didn’t ever really care about bombs.
Agreed. Is this even a serious OP?
Do Dems actually think that a significant portion of Republicans would support the President* sending pipe bombs to people*?
I expect that the main disappointment of most of them would be that the bombs didn’t work.
I mean they support a con-man shyster from NYC, a man who cannot even speak coherently when he has a teleprompter in front of him, to lead their entire nation. And to best represent their interests - the majority of Republicans, as well as the majority of Democrats, are not rich. They make around the median income of 48k a year, a bit higher for those who actually vote. They in no way benefit from tax cuts aimed at the rich, or a trade war with China, or devaluing the very brand of America itself by putting an incompetent individual in charge.
The fundamental problem many of us have with typical conservative voters isn’t the causes they support that make sense. Less immigrants? Equal or better privilege for white heterosexuals? More jobs? Sure, these things may be bad overall but they represent the interests of the people casting the votes. But more guns and lower taxes on the rich? Pre-existing conditions on health insurance and uncontrolled price increases? These things screw over the very people who voted for them. They are literally firing a machine gun at their own feet and pretending the bullets don’t hurt because liberals complain more.
So what’s a few mail bombs that didn’t even go off compared to that?
Sounds about right to me.
Probably about the same way Democrats would have reacted if they found out that Barack Obama had been literally planning bombings with Bill Ayers. Make up whatever response you want, since the notion of either being true is about equally ridiculous.
Shouldn’t this be in the pit, or at least the elections forum? This strikes me as just another excuse for another round of tedious Republican bashing.
There is a vast difference between the parties regarding bad behavior. Look what happened to Al Franken with accusations at the low end of the scale vs. all the Republicans who have done a lot worse who are still in office, including Trump.
Roy Moore is a pedophile with a backlog of crimes and he barely lost his race for the Senate.
I can’t see how anyone can remotely equate the ethics of the two parties.
He would deny it, and they would believe him.
Well, I agree that any Republican you asked now would be forthright in their condemnation of Trump under those circumstances, but it is in the abstract. How they would react if it became a reality is something else again.
For example I’m sure if you asked Republicans, in December 2016, what they would do if Trump, called Neo-Nazi white supremacists, fine people, continued to use an unsecure cell phone, despite evidence that it had been hacked by the Russians and the Chinese, filled his administration with, corrupt cronies who are going states evidence against him, and stole children from their parents, their response would have been to lock him up.
But when confronted with these events in actuality, they hemmed and hawed about fake news, and made excuses for him. I would hope that incontrovertible evidence of attempted murder would be one bridge too far, but if, for example, the New York times leaked emails between Trump and Sayoc, that were uncovered as part of the Mueller probe, I would predict about a 5-8% drop in his approval ratings that would last for a month or so, than life would go back to normal.
Agreed.
Another angle is that Trump personally assembling mail bombs would be such a ludicrous thought - even if true - that it would be easier to deny than a more plausible act/deed.
It started out in GD and got moved here.
There is a thin sliver of validity in the OP in exploring the view that nothing will deter many Trump supporters from their support of him, no matter how negative or extreme. But as I said earlier, asking for speculation on other people’s potential reactions to an extremely unrealistic hypothetical isn’t the most useful way to explore this.
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Trump, 1/23/2016
Shoot somebody, bomb somebody, same difference.
So I guess we know how one Trump supporter (Trump himself) would react, then. ~59,999,999 more to go!
All these posters saying Trump can’t read or is not intelligent enough to wipe his own ass, how did you lose to that moron? At some point, saying that the guy who beat is Stephen Hawking -sans wheelchair- trying to beat GSP at the UFC, and then losing, is counterproductive.
So, the guy who shot the majority leader and other who also was part of Bernie’s campaign, does it say anything about Bernie or his campaign?
Apparently, lots think they would. It beggars belief.
Russian gerrymandering - it put all the anti-Trump votes into California and New York.
I’ve been on the Dope for eighteen years. At this point, I have no trouble believing it at all.
Regards,
Shodan