So using guns to “defend” yourself against police officers doing their job is OK?
God bless Elizabeth Warren.
I suppose it’s too much to hope that he’ll end up living in a van down by the river, eating government cheese?
So much for “Blue Lives Matter”.
No, silly, they won’t vote for her Supreme Court nominee. Duh.
the symptoms certainly fit. Not much left of his brain. He has shrunken hands. Very little heart left, too.
Oh, well, he made an off the cuff addition to his stump speech…further blemishing his reputation while at the same time, thank you, he made a convincing argument for the majority of Americans who want responsible and reasonable regulation of owning and using killing tools to get out in record numbers to be certain that Hilary gets the opportunity to appoint 2 or 3 outstanding large-brained people to the SC.
Imagine the complete destruction of individual liberties in the US if Trump gets that job?
To make it work, though, the same Americans who want to preserve the country for their children had better vote out any and all Republican nutcases from their state offices and Federal elective positions, senators and representatives alike. Couldn’t be more clear, that this is the election that will define America for the next century.
He’s a lout. In his life, he never has to hedge his mouth, nobody is going to scold him. He signs their checks, *all *his jokes are funny. He craves a reputation for being brutally honest, we are expected to see that as refreshing candor, rather than nasty and mean. Comes from having Wilford Brimley as your guru.
So, anyway, he was joking. He honestly does not think anyone has reason to be upset with him. Of course he’s joking, what do you think he is, crazy?
Yesterday’s economic speech may not have seemed stupid at first blush, but it actually was. So he’s never really had a break from stupid.
Serious question then …
What remedy is there that is seriously available?
If any celebrity / public personality said such a thing, they would face some unpleasant time with the Secret Service right?
So Trump is getting leniency, which in one way is correct - you don’t want the idea of carting political opponents off to the gulag to take root,
On the other hand …at what point does he become too unhinged and dangerous to be allowed to continue what he is doing?
I have September 26 in the pool, ben
It’s self-correcting. When he becomes that deranged, he stops being a threat. When even his own people disown him, we don’t need to prevent him from continuing what he is doing. Let him talk! Let him talk all day long! The only one he’s harming is himself.
That’s disappointing.
I was counting on him to do some serious harm to the Republican majority in the House, and to actually kill the one in the Senate.
Well…he ain’t helping, that’s for sure. We’ll never know, but I think he may end up costing the GOP ten to twenty seats in the House, and maybe two in the Senate. People are scrambling to distance themselves from him.
Pants on fire? His coat-tails are on fire!
The lame excuses offered by Republicans desperate to the avoid offending their Derping Millions of base voters could (and probably will) fill another page of this thread.
For starters, Paul Ryan, a man so cowardly and unprincipled that he makes Harry Flashman look like Captain America, is trying to spin the call to assassination as “a joke gone bad”. No, Paul, the only “joke gone bad” here is your attempt to pass yourself off as a statesman.
I can actually see it as a ‘joke gone bad’ - but that doesn’t really help. A President or serious candidate shouldn’t be making jokes like that in public. The best spin is that it was a bad joke, and that still shows bad-to-terrible judgement, especially in the middle of one of his “see, I can be reasonable” cycles.
It’s another one of those “I’m joking unless you agree in which case I meant it” moments, like the comment about Russia hacking Hillary’s emails. And if it happens? Hey, he didn’t really mean it!
As deniability goes it’s extremely implausible but any deniability will do in a pinch.
I like what former NSA director Michael Hayden said in a CNN interviewafterwards:
“I used to tell my seniors at the CIA, you get to a certain point in this business, you’re not just responsible for what you say, you are responsible for what people hear.”
All the plausible deniability in the world doesn’t mean jack to that crazy guy with 50 guns sitting in his trailer in Mississippi. I hope Clinton pushes back strongly and gets Gabby Giffords to campaign with her to show people just exactly what happens when you “joke” like that. On the other hand, this is another lost week for Trump as this is all people are going to talk about for the next few days.
In other news, a judge ordersGlenn Beck to reveal his sources linking an innocent man to the Boston Bombings. The stupid part is Beck’s stooges pointed to an innocent man and now there’s a small possibility that if Beck doesn’t do as ordered, he may get jail!
But my real reason for posting this was because I noticed that Beck’s “investigators” are named Joe Weasel and Joel Cheatwood. Nothing says “trustworthy” like a weasel and a cheater! 
I always wondered if those guys got another gig after Donald Trump sent them to Hawaii to get the straight dope on Obama’s birth certificate.
Wow.
First, MSN still exists and is putting out news coverage. :eek:
Second, this is one of those times where reality is just a little bit unbelievably written. If you wrote fiction about Beck where his two closest associates in this story were named that, you’d be accused of writing a thin caricature.