Trump: I could shoot people in streets and not lose support

[josephpalazzo]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/266809-trump-i-could-shoot-people-in-streets-and-not-lose-support

Is this hyperbole a sign if an exuberance of confidence or just plain bragging? So, his supporters have made up their minds and no degree of rational thought will sway them. Politics, you've got to love... er...

[drunkenshoe]

I think he really did go beyond himself this time.

[Baruch]

He is probably referring to the modern day Brownshirts doing shit in his name.  Worked for that German guy.  The guys in Oregon are Brownshirts (though in the NW I think they prefer plaid).  Not doing full retard on them ... is like the slap on a wrist that that German guy got for his shenanigans in Munich in 1923.  I give us 10 more years, then we get the rollercoaster of dictatorship.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

Just when you think he's reached rock bottom, ole Donald continues to dig....  :lol_hitting:

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I hope he tries it. Go ahead tRump! Start shooting strangers on the street to prove that point.. I'm sure the police will be more than happy to look the other way to let you become a serial killer because that would make America great again,  having a serial killer as commander in chief..

[TomFoolery]

Sounds about right. I'm still fully convinced Trump never wanted to be president and has been trying to sabotage his own campaign by doing and saying increasingly ridiculous things. The only problem is, the worse it gets, the more they love him. So I believe Trump could probably shoot someone who "looked like a terrorist/black thug/flower child" and while the sane part of the country would want to indict him, his fanbase would simply cry, "MOAR!"

[Baruch]

I hope he tries it. Go ahead tRump! Start shooting strangers on the street to prove that point.. I'm sure the police will be more than happy to look the other way to let you become a serial killer because that would make America great again,  having a serial killer as commander in chief..

The cops are the ones doing the random shooting.  They only care if a cop gets shot.  Obama is already the serial killer in chief ... NDA much?

[Atheon]

This is who the Repubicans are and why the're not fit to govern.

[Baruch]

This is who the Repubicans are and why the're not fit to govern.

This is who the Americans are ... there aren't two different hominid species here.  The D-folk aren't much different.  That is why I am part of the Master Race ... an I-person.  The usual political affiliation in the US is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[Mermaid]

The worst thing about that statement: He's right.

[drunkenshoe]

He is playing the thug gig. Like the one we have. Everything he says is unbelivably stupid, but this particular game doesn't play into sense as a strategy.

Unfortuntaely, it works in a certain domestic political climate, esp. when the target group of people believe they have become the victim in their own system which was founded on their own values which is the White Christian Republican in the States today.

People are not listening and thinking what he is saying. They are just hearing him and thinking "He is on MY side".

[Baruch]

People didn't pay attention to Hitler's war record ... he was only a corporal after all, but no coward ... except for that one time he ran away without any weapon and that British soldier didn't shoot him.  People paid attention to what he said ... he articulated what the body politic was thinking ... more and more over time as their country went down the tubes.  Eventually yes, he was one of "us" ... even the mighty plutocrats and militarists thought so.  But then Hitler did take professional lessons is speech-making and mass-hypnosis.  Ironically this was the ultimate realization of advertising theory, as invented by Freud's nephew.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public,  even their supporters would say enough is enough..
I really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.

[Baruch]

I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public,  even their supporters would say enough is enough..
I really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.

Don't read any history.  Then reality will be a depressing surprise, rather than a depressing anticipation.

[drunkenshoe]

I don't know.. There is still the part of me that wants to believe that if anyone running for high office decides to just randomly shoot people the public,  even their supporters would say enough is enough..

I agree with you.

I really hate to think that I might be wrong about this.

I have no idea.

But the words of this kind make more damage -or contribution depends on the side look from- than some dead bodies when they are no bodies.

Like I said. The thug gig.