Discussion: Trump: I Was Joking About Shooting People And Not Losing Votes

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… obviously, Donnie, we can’t tell anymore…

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GOP : something outrageous!!
Base : yay!
Media : you’re insane and/or lying
GOP (to Media) : just kidding! :smile:
GOP (to base) : wink wink :wink:

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And Trump’s word is gold (plate) until he changes his mind, again.

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Of course we know he was joking because gun fire is such a knee slapper.(snark)
Just like Caribou Barbie was the victim when she put crosshairs on the map of people she wanted out of office and one of her followers tried to help her.

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Next up:

Donnie lighting farts / or using them to blow bubble gum bubbles (not far-fetched— decades ago, one of my older brothers tried it… ended up with longterm dingle-bubbles… or so I’ve been told.).

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I love when conservatives say something offensive they go ‘Oh…don’t be politically correct!’

It has nothing to do with political correctness, but thanks for playing.

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A few decades ago a man was shot in the back, in Trump’s NYC, that made a joke like that. In his case he thought it was rediculous his rock band was more revered than Jesus and made a sarcastic joke about it. It was a bad joke and he later said so.

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There seem to be some more variations…

GOP (to Media) : Many people say we are correct!
GOP (to Media) : You are treating us unfairly!
GOP (to Media) : Our interns did it!
GOP (to Media) : No I never said that YOU are lying!
GOP (to Media) : Librul librul media!!!

Anything else?

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I think Trump sees that he has made the Republicans look foolish and that even he wonders about how easily he has been able to dominate the discussion.

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The “I was just kidding” defense.
It was a lie when you were 5. It is a lie today.

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If he fails to get the GOP nomination he’ll tell everyone he was obviously kidding about ever wanting it in the first place.

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Well, of course he would lose the votes of the people he shot, silly! Even Hair Donald knows that, so it has to be a YUUUGE joke that serious Americans just didn’t get. H.L. Mencken understood and would have laughed with Der Hair at his characterization.

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America doesn’t need someone with no verbal filter sitting down and discussing world affairs with global leaders. How many times already does this make that he has backtracked on stupid comments or “explained” them with gibberish logic?

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“It’s the fault of the black man in the White House!”

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Because it’s always funny when you talk about shooting someone, especially when they are innocent. What’s really funny is if they die a slow painful death and have a lot of loved ones that will really miss them.
Edit: what really makes it not funny is that it’s probably true for a lot of his followers, as long as they weren’t the ones shot.

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I make the best jokes.
I make the best walls.
I make the best everything.

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He was joking about that, but serious about all Mexicans being rapists? Funny he didn’t see the need, or Bartiromo for that matter, to clear that up.

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No Donnie, it just makes you look like a giant flaming asshole and a child to boot. Nothing wrong with that.

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Joke or not, the sad fact is the man is probably not lying. The cult of personality around tRump is such that there probably ARE tRumpbots who would defend his shooting a protester or Cruz voter on the grounds that they might otherwise prevent the “yuge one” from ascending his rightful place as blowhard-in-chief…or something.