Did Trump just threaten us?

[The Great Zaganza]

Since all politicians lie, let's give them an allowance of 25 lies/year.
Above that, it ought to cost ya.

 

[Belz...]

Since all politicians lie, let's give them an allowance of 25 lies/year.
Above that, it ought to cost ya.

You're going to ruin Trump!

 

[The Atheist]

I don't think Trump lies any more than any other successful businessman. I'm not sure how we can compare them.

Chris B.

Just reiterating as noted above, Trump isn't just not a successful businessman, he's crook who was given a golden egg by daddy and has barely managed to hold onto it.

Secondly, I've dealt with very senior businessmen & women my whole life, and while a few are pathological liars also, the enormous majority of them are scrupulously honest, because they have other people auditing them, and checks in place. Completely unlike the orange toad.

 

[Stacyhs]

And that's what matters, right? He didn't COST YOU ANYTHING. Despite the numerous other people that his lies have brought harm to. As long as it didn't effect you, it's all fine.

May I suggest you preserve this (your) post for posterity. When you run for "poster boy of the amoral GOP" it'd be worth a whole lot of votes. I'd suggest you don't submit it as part of your dissertation for a degree in economics, though.



You'd have to prove that if anyone cared. He's not a businessman. He's the President of the United States of America. And he's a pathological liar, a bully, a white supremacist, a misogynist, a tax cheat, a philanderer, and is enriching himself with taxpayer money, laundered through his property holdings.

And for each of those items, you or Judge Pirro or Hannity or The Big Dog or Ziggurat will come up with "a lie" or "an example of bullying" or "a sex offender".... as a counter-example for attempted equivalency purposes. But in Trump you have the whole package. He's all of them. And y'all line up behind him in dutiful support because you're such fine upstanding citizens.

Well said!!

 

[Toontown]

I'm reminded of what the definition of "is" is.

Chris B.

I"m reminded of a Cookies tune.

 

[varwoche]

I don't think Trump lies any more than any other successful businessman. I'm not sure how we can compare them.

Chris B.

In addition to WilliamSeger's spot-on rebuttal, I'll repeat my challenge in case you missed it. I don't believe you or anyone else is capable of citing Trump speaking for 5 minutes, sans teleprompter, and not telling at least one whopper. "Liar" doesn't do him justice. It's a flat-out war against reality. Go ahead, prove me wrong.

Congrats(?) on changing the topic away from Trump's violent threats. After the ridiculous whack-a-mole inspired apologies you foisted, good idea.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Maybe his point is that trump's threat can't be a threat because it's just another lie.....

 

[Minoosh]

Maybe his point is that trump's threat can't be a threat because it's just another lie.....

That's probably a pretty fair assessment. I think even his so-called supporters agree that he's a blowhard whose spews a lot of nonsense.

I say so-called because on this forum I don't see much support for Trump. People will deflect by talking about Obama, Hillary etc. but actual defense of Trump, not so much.

 

[Toontown]

That's probably a pretty fair assessment. I think even his so-called supporters agree that he's a blowhard whose spews a lot of nonsense.

I say so-called because on this forum I don't see much support for Trump. People will deflect by talking about Obama, Hillary etc. but actual defense of Trump, not so much.

Whatever.

He needs to be afraid to threaten us. Nevermind honor, ethics, or common decency. He's fresh out of all that, so fear is the only restraint we can have on him.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Maybe his point is that trump's threat can't be a threat because it's just another lie.....

We didn't say it was a credible threat.

But yeah, Trump threatened everyone who doesn't support him.
Which is something he has done all his life.

 

[Minoosh]

Whatever.

He needs to be afraid to threaten us. Nevermind honor, ethics, or common decency. He's fresh out of all that, so fear is the only restraint we can have on him.

I have a feeling that Trump lives in a constant state of fear.

And I'm not at all sure he has the support of police and the military. They might resent the implication that they are Trump's private muscle.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I say so-called because on this forum I don't see much support for Trump. People will deflect by talking about Obama, Hillary etc. but actual defense of Trump, not so much.

I've noticed this, too. Which makes me wonder why people support him in the first place. Is it just a case of the high school wannabe thugs looking up to the lead school bully, the one who's been arrested several times and whom all the teachers are afraid of?

 

[Safe-Keeper]

And BAM! You're right back to false equivalence. You just can't bring yourself to say it.

NO ONE IS DISPUTING that all humans lie. Do you understand that? That is NOT the discussion. The discussion is whether Trump, himself, is a colossal liar. Forget Obama or your mother-in-law. They're not part of the discussion. Trump is a YUGE liar. That is the claim.

Do you agree that Trump lies MORE than most, YES or NO?

They are simple creatures. They also seem to believe a wall along the whole Mexican border is feasible because, oh, there was a wall around East Berlin, and Israel has one, and that's walls, so walls work.

If I had a background in special education I might conceive of a way to get through to them.

 

[Cainkane1]

How crazy is Trump, exactly? Does he really believe the military, the police, and the bikers would rise up against the collective will of the American people in support of HIM, DONOLF TRUMPLER?

Lawrence doesn't think so. He thinks Trump was just running off at the mouth again. Crazy, unhinged, but just another squirt of verbal diarrhea from Trump's incontinent mouth, Lawrence thinks.

Interestingly, Trump didn't include the nazis in his threat, no doubt because he and his are currently accusing Democrats of being Jew-haters. So threatening to unleash his obsequious nazis on us would have been inconvenient at this time.

Lawrence makes a good case for feckless verbal diarrheah. But even if that's all it is, I wonder if we can afford to allow such threats to go unanswered. We don't want politikers to get into the habit of threatening us, do we?

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-s-last-word-trump-threats-1458517571680

As a Trump supporter I'm sure he didn't threaten anybody at least not with anything illegal..

 

[Toontown]

As a Trump supporter I'm sure he didn't threaten anybody at least not with anything illegal..

Well, whatever it is, it is "very, very bad" in Trump's words, and would be carried out by the cops, the military, and the bikers.

Maybe he's talking about voting to give him the nuclear arsenal to have and to hold for a second term. That would be very very bad and not illegal. But I don't know if there are enough cops, military, and bikers to get that done.

Perhaps you, being a Trump supporter, would care to translate.

 

[varwoche]

As a Trump supporter I'm sure he didn't threaten anybody at least not with anything illegal..

What about the many times he clearly urged his supporters to assault people? Do you acknowledge that fact?

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Maybe his point is that trump's threat can't be a threat because it's just another lie.....

I mean.... that's pretty much it. Why would anyone take anything that comes out of Trump's mouth seriously? It's like trying to decipher the "logic" behind the rhetoric from this girl's answer:

 

[Foolmewunz]

As a Trump supporter I'm sure he didn't threaten anybody at least not with anything illegal..

Interesting phrasing. The second part follows logically from the introductory clause.... 'As a Trump supporter....." That's a safe statement. They're all sure he doesn't do anything illegal.

 

[Dr. Keith]

I mean.... that's pretty much it. Why would anyone take anything that comes out of Trump's mouth seriously?

People who voted for him after they chanted "Lock her up" and "Mexico will pay for the wall." He can convey very clear messages and his followers like those messages. To dismiss everything he says is to dismiss almost half of those who voted in the last presidential election.