Discussion: Report: Campaigns For Trump, Carson Request Secret Service Protection

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More free stuff. Shouldn’t you be looking to the private sector to solve all of your security needs?

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As a taxpayer this really brasses me off.

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Trump said last week that his own Secret Service protection had not been approved because he’s a Republican and “they don’t give a shit.”

Martyrdom, of course. You couldn’t be republican without professing persecution.

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Indeed.

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You’re welcome.

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purely a status thing…

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No.

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So Trump is seeking free security? Can he not afford a private army?

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Hey Donald, you’re a billionaire - surely you can pay for your own protection.

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Bingo.

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Why? These guys are always whining about people getting something they don’t…it USED to be you got ‘protection’ if you actually made it into the nomination…

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Protection? They don’t need no stinkin’ protection. Donald will shoot Tough Guy Glare Rays at the attacker until his gun melts, and anyway he might be armed himself; he sometimes carries a concealed pistol because, he says, it makes him “feel much better.” He’ll be protecting the Secret Service guys, not the other way around. Carson will blandly suggest the bad guy shoot someone else, and it’ll work out fine because the whole encounter will be imaginary anyway.

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Does Drumpf realize that getting Secret Service protection would mean that his private security would have to step aside? Secret Service will not allow a protectee to also have private bodyguards.

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Why don’t they just open carry? Isn’t that the answer to everything?

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Let these narcissists pay for their own damned security. They don’t deserve protection on our dime – especially since neither of them are going to be the GOP nominee.

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Paying attention to troublesome details you’re too ignorant to know and too bullheaded to bother asking about is a loser thing.

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Suggestions for Trump’s Secret Service code name?

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“Loudmouth Idiot” is a little too on the nose, I guess.

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Ben Carson and Trump should just rally their staff and rush any armed threat. After all, they can’t get you all, right Ben?

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