When you hear this from people like her, who suffered through the horror of results of this kind of rhetoric and manufactured outrage and hate it really hits home even more. We should demand that all our citizens behave like responsible members of a civil society. And obviously this applies a million fold to those wanting to “lead” others.
“The integrity of our democracy and the decency of our nation is at stake.”
I think the rotten RNC convention was an inflection point for the public at least. Donald got the nomination on scorched earth. It took a little while after that for it to reflect in the polls. He’s not coming back. No way, no how. I don’t care what wikileaks has up its sleeve. It’s not enough to get Donald Trump elected.
The only possible way HRC is going to lose is if Trump gives up his own nomination and the Republicans pick somebody else.
It’s pretty clear he was saying that if the voters don’t stop Clinton, people with guns will be the only ones who can. Of course his staunchest supporters will do back flips to say that’s not what he meant.
In the best possible light, you still have a twisted individual who is unfit to be elected. The President of the United States’ every utterance is carefully parsed around the globe. Donald Trump can’t go a day without saying something his supporters need to do acrobatics in order to reinterpret as innocuous rather than the horrific way they’re understood by vast numbers of people who heard them with their own ears. How could this person ever be president?
And again, that’s only if you accept that he didn’t say what he actually said.
“Giffords was shot in the head at a meeting with constituents outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona in 2011, leaving her critically wounded. Six others were killed in the massacre.”
Ms. Giffords has given more for her country than Donald Trump can ever hope to give in his wildest dreams.
Meanwhile those same staunch supporters do backflips to tie every death of every person even tenuously connected to the Clintons to foul play. That includes my father-in-law, with whom I had enjoyed a good relationship until recently.
I hate saying it but this cohort of the older generation really can’t exit fast enough.
I had dinner with someone younger than I last week and had to hear all about the Vince Foster cover-up.
Slightly OT but heard on NPR that employee productivity declined in the 2nd Quarter. Is this the Trump effect?
Because too many people were posting online comments to websites from their work computers?
yeah, and that was just me…
Of course his staunchest supporters will do back flips to say that’s not what he meant.
While also claiming they like him for saying what he means.
Many people are saying that Drumpf is insane. Many people are right.
Good luck at Thanksgiving Dinner.
She should know. Sarah Palin got Gabby shot.
Oy gevalt.
More than that, he’s unfit to be in the public light. After we’re done soundly trouncing him in the voting booth, I hope there is a continued effort to remove him from any position of influence or public spotlight. He has no interest in politics, but any product, corporation, media company (looking at you book publishers and film/documentary makers) that feels the urge to work with him or make something about him, should be loudly protested and boycotted.
This latest dangerously outrageous remark could just be Trump just being Trump, but Trump’s previous talk about the election being rigged was preceded by Roger Stone saying the same thing in the media. What if this 2nd Amendment remark were not totally off the cuff, but brainstormed and intentional? Certainly Trump’s campaign people knew he was going to address “Hillary’s plans to abolish the 2nd Amendment”; there have been too many such “joking” messages to be a coincidence.
With the orange shitgibbon spiraling out of control, HRC will be the first POTUS candidate to secure 538 electoral votes in the same election.
Yes, and I still remember President Obama’s speech in Phoenix for the six killed along with Giffords and the other victims. What he said about the nine-year old victim Christina Taylor Green still rings true:
“I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. All of us -– we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.”
This dovetails with what Mr. Khan said. “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
@randyabraham I remember the president crying as he discussed the shootings at Sandy Hook and the hateful responses he drew for it.