So would I, but I’m trying my best to look at it objectively as I would for any politician. As silly as this may be when considering an incompetent, malevolent buffoon like Trump.
It’s no different from his “Second Amendment people” threat. But it doesn’t mean anything more than that, it’s just his usual bluster to the usual deplorables.
They are not accepting Breitbart as factual - they are accepting the CNN opinion piece as factual. Namely that Trump is threatening his political opponents with violence. Trump was actually speaking about how the left uses violence and intimidation to suppress free speech, and said that his supporters don’t respond in kind.
But CNN has told them what to think, and that ends it except for the shouting.
Regards,
Shodan
Exactly! He wasn’t threatening his opponents— he was threatening his strawman opponents.
Try to keep up with those goalposts, people!
Funny (sad funny) to see so many people leaping to give the benefit of the doubt to Trump, who has explicitly praised and encouraged violence on multiple occasions.
I can’t remember where I saw it, but some have speculated the comment was inspired by the actions of Maduro’s motorcycle gang as he refuses to peacefully transfer power.
What doubt?
You might have a point if there were instances of the left using violence and intimidation to suppress free speech. I admire your flexibility in contorting yourself into a pretzel to justify Dear Leader’s mob tactics.
Oh, please.
That’s the shouting.
Regards,
Shodan
Trump explicitly, clearly, obviously threatened violence from his supporters, including police and military. There is no way someone can twist this into Trump saying "his supporters don’t respond in kind. " It’s quite clearly the opposite of this.
Anyone who posts an excuse like this on behalf of Trump is being deliberately obtuse, and is a disgusting, amoral pathetic excuse for a human being.
Is that sarcasm or satire or something?
Trump’s doing the shouting? Well, I can certainly agree on that.
Trump has indeed loudly encouraged and praised violence on numerous occasions. I’d say it’s certainly reasonable to call some of that encouragement/praise of violence “shouting”.
That’s what you mean, right?
Huh? Those are Trumps words.
Your surety that something exists in and of itself is not evidence that it does indeed exist. If you have any evidence, it would be nice to see it.
You realize in Trumpworld, even a video recording showing him saying something like this is still “fake news”, right?
Lol. That can’t be a serious post. With 59,000 posts you’ve been around long enough to know that there are many instances of the so-called left using violence to suppress speech.
This is a very interesting perspective. I suspect that many of the members of this board are capable of reading an opinion piece, teasing out out the direct claims that underpin that opinion, and then review those sources - especially since they tend to be helpfully hyperlinked.
Of course, it also appears that there are some board members that lack this capability, and mistakenly view opinion pieces as “reporting” and cannot separate the perspective from the underlying facts. I suspect that this ability may have atrophied due to prolonged exposure to right-wing websites where “facts” are largely irrelevant, or contrived.