Discussion: White House: 'Absurd' To Suggest KS Shooting Linked To Trump's Rhetoric

After all, Purinton never even said the magic words, to wit: “get out of my country, you radical Islamic terrorists,” amirite Spiceboy?

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It is Absurd that these Nazis can’t take ownership of the hate that they feed daily.

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It may be true that this guy was not inspired by Trumps election…

But it is certainly true Trumps election was ispired by guys like this…

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“There are no American tanks in Baghdad, Never!”

-Sean “Baghdad Bob” Spicer

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Absurd! Absurd!

Fuckng asshats, every last one of them along with the supposedly 86% of Republicans who support the tyrant and his wrecking crew.

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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate,
contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and
unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We
subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy
the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”

―
John F. Kennedy

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I’m looking forward to the same forgiving attitude next time a Muslim shoots somebody.

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Well isn’t that convenient. I seem to recall the idiot gallery, including 45, blaming President Obama for inciting every violent incident in America. How nice it was to have a man in office who didn’t use activated hatred of brown people as a means to power. Whose back will this monstrous administration paint a target on next?

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How shameful that the press would think that calling immigrants rapists, thugs and worse could correlate to violence.

Trump supporters are peace-loving Christians, who just want to love their neighbor.

As long as that neighbor is a White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

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And the increased bullying at schools, and racial taunts at high school and college sporting events have nothing to do with Trump’s anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric or courting of the alt-right (and making them senior advisors). Nor do the white nationalists saying, “We finally have ‘our’ President in Trump,” and Trump accepting that and normalizing their ideas, have anything to do with increased violence against the very people they despise and want to take “their” country back from.

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Doesn’t matter what you think, Spicey. India is pissed and the shooting is becoming a diplomatic incident on it’s way to becoming a diplomatic big fucking deal (that’s diplomacy speak).

India has expressed shock after the fatal shooting of an Indian national in the US, amid reports that the attack may have been racially motivated.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla died shortly after Wednesday’s attack at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. His friend Alok Madasani, also from India, and an American were hurt.
Adam Purinton has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder.
The killing dominated news bulletins in India and social media, where some blamed Donald Trump’s presidency.
Mr Kuchibhotla’s wife, Sunayana Dumala, described her husband as a “loveable soul”.

The Indian consul general, Anupam Ray, told the BBC: “We would like to reassure the Indian community that this is being personally monitored at the highest level by Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj from Delhi.”

The US Embassy in Delhi decried the shooting.
“The United States is a nation of immigrants and welcomes people from across the world to visit, work, study, and live,” said Charge d’Affaires MaryKay Carlson.

Carlson is an Obama holdover, no doubt.

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Absurdism. Spicer going deep on us.

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STand youR ground, paTriots, against the musliM aNd KiLL them BeFore thEy do TeRRor all ovEr you!!1!1!1!!!1!one!!1!!1!!!

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OT, and now, this:

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Whatever. Whenever Spicer talks, all I hear is a muted trombone.

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[quote=“becca656, post:15, topic:52131”]
OT, and now, this:
[/quote]Not off topic at all. It is part and parcel of Trumpizm against “the other.”.

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It’s true: You could not go to court and posit a direct correlation between a specific Trump speech or statement or tweet and the shooting.

But we all know that, morally speaking, Trump and the Republican Party are to blame. The GOP has done nothing for almost half a century now, with their devising the “southern strategy,” but exploit racism. Since 9/11, they’ve broadened the enemy of black people to include brownish people who don’t sound the same as most people’s whitish neighbors in Kansas or Alabama or New Hampshire.

Damn Republicans. Damn them all, including but not only Trump.

But, also: Damn every one of us decent people if we don’t work harder against this.

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Also, Spicer added, it’s “absurd” to suggest that this tragic incident had anything to do with guns, because the suspect could just as easily have chosen dental floss as his instrument of death.

So anything involving this story and guns is FAKE NEWS. Fake! Fake!

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Pfft. Trump’s reckless, divisive, hateful rhetoric has been directly and indirectly inspiring violent incidents and a huge wave of harassment since the beginning of his campaign. That’s just not in question. His administration is taking steps to do less monitoring of and prevention of people prone to domestic terrorism and hate crime. There’s violence and hatefulness in his nature and seeing it played out is more stimulating to him than I care to imagine too much about. But the things this administration says about itself are becoming irrelevant. I suppose you have to ask them for comment, but its actions speak for themselves.

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