Discussion: Kaine: Trump '2nd Amendment' Remark Shows He's Unfit To Be President

Wow, Trump used a dog-whistle instead of a megaphone. Guess he really is starting to pivot.

Trump: This is just target practice before I 2nd Amend all of the middle east.

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It also shows that the media covering the mess known as the Trump Campaign are totally incompetent.
I was amazed by the Trump second amendment spin cycle. I kept waiting for someone anyone to say it but no it didn’t happen. All of the MSM just glided past the usual blatant lie that Hillary is going to eliminate the second amendment which obviously belies the actual functioning of government that would require CONGRESS and ratification from the states to change the constitution.

Facts don’t matter any more to Republicans or anyone in the media

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I think Ted Cruz should start a hearing in the Senate to investigate Drumpf’s assassination request.

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ā€œā€œDonald is a master of manipulating the conventions of journalism,ā€ explained the veteran reporter. He proceeded to shatter many of those conventions in a book talk that was frequently punctuated with the declaration ā€œbecause Donald just makes it up.ā€ Johnston also repeatedly dubbed Trump ā€œa modern-day P.T. Barnum.ā€ The book by the former man book already has provided fodder for the tabloids.ā€

ā€œThey say I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters. It’s like incredible.ā€

Trump and Saddam Hussein.
Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Trump and Idi Amin.

If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?
If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?
If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?

And yet some people say he is unfit to be president. Can you imagine?

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I don’t understand the problem. Sharron Angle used a similar line when she was running against Harry Reid a few years ago, and she… um…

Okay, I see it now. Never mind.

I hope Trump brings back more weirdness from 2010. Has he denied that he’s a witch yet?

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Hate to point this out, Tim, but remarks showing Trumper unfit to be president are a dime a dozen. The news will come when one of his comments DOESN’T show him to be unfit.

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Don’t overlook something in this article, Kaine is in Texas. Clinton is about to make a play for Texas.

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Every single DAY we want to know if ā€˜this is the LINE’? Yes, Tim, he’s unfit. Now it’s up to US to crush him…at the voting booth.

Tim Kaine is a terrific person and I guess will make a terrific VP. As a campaigner, though, he is bringing a rhetorical pea-shooter to a gunfight. Trump put out a hit on Hillary–it was nothing less than that. It’s the oldest move in the book: just what King Henry did regarding Thomas Becket. (ā€œWill no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?ā€ etc., with predictable results). Trump puts out a hit on the presidential candidate, and Kaine’s response is a boilerplate remark about his unfitness for President? FFS. He might as well have said nothing.

Kaine and Clinton need to address not only his being unfit for office, they need to heavily stress how much his comments reflect an attitude that this nation has already fought one world war over. They need to make it clear that he is a clear and present danger to this nation with his attitudes, his mental capacities, his emotional instability, and his policies. They need to make him implode mentally and in public forums until he is stammering and frothing at the mouth, literally, in an attempt to make his point.

Our public sees him as the ā€œbossā€ of the apprentice, calmly sending people out of a TV show, but this is not Donald Trump. He is an hysteric at best, a delusional megalomaniac at worst. He must be made to state that he intends to bring the world to its knees and that only he can do this as a way of making America great again - and it must be done in such a way that he repeats it over and over. He wants to use fear to force voters into supporting him, so let him - only make it so poisonous that the voters see him for what he truly is, not the benign TV character he played. He was the villain in many ways on his TV show - so let’s see Kaine and Clinton make him show his true colors as a real villain working against the US and the world.

Talking nicely or tippy-toeing around this man is not going to work, make him froth at the mouth angry and then use it against him. Yes, he is unfit to govern this nation, but until people see him as the monster that lies within him, they will only see the GOP clown. He is NO clown - he is a dangerous lunatic who is pandered to by the media and by his family. He must be shown for what he is, and his most eager supporters must be shown in comparison to the white supremacist, Brownshirt fanatics that they are. I am fairly sure that many of those who support this monster do not even see the comparison to the Nazis of the 1920s and early 1930s, which is sad since so many of them grew up either fighting against the Nazis or losing fathers to the Nazis. The media needs to show the world that this Emperor has no clothes, only insanity and weapons - which is always a very bad combination.

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@djnoll THIS!

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Don’t know about that. He may be setting the stage for being the good guy for when he debates pence. Kaine will be able to show he’s the one that thinks and acts on the teaching of the gospels. Pence will just look hypocritical when he defends trump’s reprehensible words

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He probably said this real boringly too. :slight_smile: sorry, couldn’t resist. You can tell he’s a very good man, but John Oliver was on point when he called him a human sweater vest.

Yeah, apparently the reporters are so gobsmacked by Trump’s casual suggestion to assassinate Clinton, that they completely forgot to note the nest of lies comprising the rest of his speech. Maybe it’s just too much for them.