Ordinarily I might agree with some of the above sentiments, but this is Trump. He is truly the most evil man ever to run for president. He needs to be protested at every opportunity. His supporters will be unaffected, but I think the protests have the positive effect of mobilizing the opposition. People watching on TV may think- “holy smokes, maybe there’s a reason why hi incites such reactions.”
Quick question: I’m aware of the statements that Trump has made regarding Mexicans and Muslims, but has he also made statements against Blacks? I get the push back against Trump, but I don’t see it as a Black vs White thing. Am I missing something?
I think that’s wishful thinking. While I’m sure some people will have the response you mention, I think Señor Beef’s take is the one that will rule the day.
Well it’s been hours since the anti-free speech protesters disrupted the Chicago Trump rally. The LSM have wanted a riot and they almost had one. The LSM should stick to the facts. Report the who, what, where, why, and when of these political campaigns. Instead, they repeatedly attempt to play king-maker and distort the facts.
For example, the LSM recently ran with the false claim that Trump asking his supporters to pledge to show up at the polls and vote for Trump was similar to some Nazi rally. Actually, Trump’s raised right hand was similar to the four times Obama raised his right hand when Obama was swore in as President.
A CNN reporter, live on the Chicago rally floor, mentioned that the Chicago Police (aka Democrat Rahm “Obama’s former Chief of Staff” Emanuel’s police) had earlier been visible on the floor of the rally but had disappeared.
After the police pulled back, the protesters appeared. What a coincidence!?!?!?
Actually, I thought it was three times. The first swearing in had to be redone because John Roberts flubbed the lines.
The difference is that Obama swore to uphold the Constitution, Trump directed his lemmings to swear their allegiance to him personally. Sort of like how Hitler had people swear an oath to him personally.
Not that I know of (from the candidate), but there were lots of BLM supporters there protesting last night, so it’s organically creating a lot of hatred and division between AAs and Trump’s angry white men. This seems to be something that’s developing not from the top of the campaign, but from his supporters. As he’s spoken against Muslims and Mexicans, I suppose the anti-Mexican and anti-Mexican crowd that flock to his rallies also have some anti-black tendencies. So having video footage of angry black men fighting white people who just happened to show up for a nice political campaign event sets up a narrative quite nicely for the Trump campaign to now exploit.
Wait, so is CNN part of the “LSM” that’s trying to create riots and play kingmaker, or are they the voice of truth working to expose the vast left-wing conspiracy against Trump?
In exactly what way did the protestors “cede the high ground”? They didn’t force Trump to run away crying victim - he did that on his own because he’s a coward who can’t stand to have his ego challenged.
I have to agree almost with all this, but there is a bit that does not match regarding the casual observers. Sure, the Trump followers will continue to support him, but what I have seen in the media like ABC and CBS is that both sides have been criticized, the problem for the ones that want to make this as simple as a failing for just the protesters is that the Republican opponents of Trump came to also complaining about the gasoline trowing of Trump (too late of course) and that has been added to the reporting.
That the police arrested a CBS reporter with little reason does not help the idea that only the protesters are the ones that deserve criticism in this case.
Well, there’s the incorrect tweet he sent out about black on white homicide.
Uh, somehow the copy of the link was not working regarding the first link, it kept on posting the last one, here is the correct first link:
He’s retweeted bogus stats on black crime from open white supremacists and neo-nazis. He’s also been very slow to disavow racist supporters like David Duke and the kkk, and feigned ignorance of Duke even though he had specifically criticized Duke years before.
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Is there a word missing or typoed in the underlined section [edit: besides “throwing,” I figured that one out]? If not, could you rephrase it? I can’t figure out what it means.
In any case, I don’t think it’s solely a failing of the protesters. But the protesters are likelier to listen to reason than the Trump supporters.
As usual, the liberal media aren’t reporting the real story:
And as pointed before, it could be plausible to ignore if it wasn’t that Trump showed later that he continues to rely on reprehensible sources that betray where he is coming from. Willfully joining Sheriff Joe Arpaio and seeking his support after it was announced that he had his men do racial profiling and investigate wifes of judges in their case was another clue.
http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/02/10/trump-retweets-white-genocide-account-…-stop-youve-heard-one/
And that is from the very conservative RedState, as I already pointed at other that noted that from the left side of things.
Any media outlet can be both the MSM and the LSM. They’re the MSM when they report the facts. They become the LSM when they claim that Trump’s raised hand gesture, which was similar to Obama’s raised hand swearing-in gesture, is some sort of Nazi salute.
Yes, it was supposed to be throwing.
Sounds legit, Mr. Trump.
This is false. He was asked about an unspecified list of groups and refused to condemn them all without knowing who they were. He had disavowed Duke many times before, including on Twitter the night before that interview. The whole firestorm over Trump’s supposed refusal to repudiate the endorsement played right into Duke’s effort to insert his irrelevant self into an invented controversy, and the media’s participaion shows that they have no problem whatsoever giving Duke exposure in order to drive ratings and weave a convenient and false narrative.
Or, to quote this Trump supporter: “David Duke and people like that, they come out from under the rocks all the time around this time of year. It’s got nothing to do with Donald Trump, I think we need to stop with all the racist stuff and all the race-baiting … Nobody paying David Duke no mind”
Right, but even with that, I can’t parse that underlined bit.