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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAcosta describes crowd reaction: He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat.
The disturbing part of Trumps jokes about Gianforte was the effect on the crowd. I saw one young man in the crowd making body slam gestures. He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat. I talked to him after the rally was over. He couldnt stop laughing.Link to tweet
Solly Mack
(90,788 posts)And he gets away with inciting violence against reporters.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's the angry liberal mob that's violent, not the calm, dispassionate white fans of our favorite president (Trump!).
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Why the media continue to give the Republicans a fair shake is beyond me. Remember, in addition to praising a Republican body-slamming a reporter, Trump also tweeted out that .gif showing him sucker-punching a guy with a CNN logo for a head. Note to the media: These aren't jokes. This isn't just kidding around. This is the Republicans telling you how they will soon be treating you. Khashoggi isn't just the latest extreme example. When the New York Times reports with a straight face on the latest plan to assign blame for Khashoggi, this is naked, rampant corruption and criminality.
Call it for what it is, or expect to see more violence against the media, like the Capital Gazette massacre. (And how has THAT little episode been allowed to fall down the memory hole?)
Solly Mack
(90,788 posts)Exactly. Call it what it is.
spanone
(135,888 posts)fuck him
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)doubt he fantasizes about having this done to his critics here.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)Then a journalist and US citizen murdered here at home.
They'll just keep pushing it as far as they possibly can.
And why not? It's worked out fine for them so far, and it keeps the grift going, and the rubes will fucking eat it up.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)calimary
(81,518 posts)Until there are, this will continue. Wonder who the next victim will be?
LiberalFighter
(51,120 posts)Before there are victims.
Bradshaw3
(7,531 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Kill journalists that write mean things about him. Of course he wishes he could do it. Exterminate whole swaths of the population that are against him or don't have any value like Duterte or al-Assad.
He's an awful, ugly excuse for a human. And if the media and press don't start reporting the truth and help take this asshole down, that is exactly what their profession will become. Only writing/reporting flattering things about him or risk, at the very least, jail.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Khashoggi that we always give when we intercept information about danger to them. You know, our previously longstanding standard practice based on decency and humanitarian concerns. We even have a numbered form for it.
Trueblue Texan
(2,445 posts)...journalist and Trump loved the idea. He'll probably order more of those in exchange for a weapons deal.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)AdamGG
(1,295 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,785 posts)Trump must be stopped.
This is because the Democrats lack civility.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Sick!
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)As Obama said, "Trump is just a symptom"
Texin
(2,599 posts)They are devoid of empathy and are sadistic. That does not make them insane.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)They are just mean ass selfish fuckers who hate.
it isn't a sickness. It's a putrid soul. Sickness you can treat. This you can't.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Typo
malaise
(269,193 posts)egged on by their leader
Ohiogal
(32,101 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)They should get someone to read the Bible to them, and maybe get a clue sometime.
catbyte
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Jesus is just a brand name to them.
maxrandb
(15,360 posts)I swear to God, the media are like chickens covering Colonel Sanders rallies. I guess chickens have to be able to "see it from the side" of the fucking people that want to slaughter and eat them.
How many of you need to get chopped to bloody bits before you STOP with the "both-siderism" bullshit?
Look, just because a minority of crazy people decided to elect this orange shitgibbon, that DOES NOT mean you have to pretend that he's a real fucking president!
He's a fucking fraud and a con man. He's been a fraud and a con man his entire life. Maybe you should just report that, and stop trying to find some kernel...some fucking spec...some neutron size sliver of anything he says that would be of any worth.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Jeeze! Wake the fuck up, people! They are coming for you!
MojoWrkn
(139 posts)and NEVER see him or hear him again and I'd be happy! If you must report on what he says, you read it, stop playing clips of him! I believe CNN, NBC, MSNBC et al, are partly responsible for his election. They were so happy to have him on either live on by phone and look what that got us!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)CrispyQ
(36,532 posts)They are now going to malign the character of Khashoggi in an effort to save Trump.
NEVER FORGET:
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)I voted for George H. W. Bush because Dukakis was an embarrassment and Bush Sr. was relatively moderate. I won't vote for any Republican after Trump-McConnell-Ryan-Boehner-Gingrich because the Party has shown itself to be run at the top by hateful and hurtful, soulless people out for power and money and damn the rest of us -- at least 98% of us.
We have to do whatever we can to expunge the Republican blight from our country. Either that, or we will all succumb to its abuses and excesses.
dalton99a
(81,625 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)Fu*k that guy!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,207 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)hostalover
(447 posts)rickford66
(5,528 posts)Luka Boyd
(49 posts)Some magazine or newspaper needs to have the balls to publish a front page headline or better yet a cover page with Traitrumps photo and a huge headline reading "The enemy of the people"
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Absolutely sickening.
ZeroSomeBrains
(638 posts)They take their marching orders from up on high and these deplorables would want to kill journalists with impunity just like the saudis. Election day can't come soon enough.
elmac
(4,642 posts)its never straight out kill this, murder that, its through gestures, hints. The tRump crime family is as dangerous as any in this countries history.
dlk
(11,578 posts)jalan48
(13,892 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)for the misogynist.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I thought at first read that Trump had made the throat slitting gesture to Acosta. That's next, I guess.
bucolic_frolic
(43,332 posts)a narcotic upper stimulant for their sadism and hatred these people are sick
LS_Editor
(893 posts)You can't be a pimp and a prostitute, too.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Drumpfs rallies look just about like Hitlers rallies in the 30s.
We must take back the House at a minimum. About half or so of that evil idiots supporters are basically Nazis , the other half have taken leave of their senses.
Just think, those people cannot watch any of the late night shows, are hat all, as they should, rip that jerk to shreds. He shouldnt be President he should be in jail or an Insane Asylum. And yet millions saw him as Presidential material.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Do not stop covering the rallies. But while you are covering them, focus on the assholerly that goes on. Do not pay any attention to what the Rump says or does, only his magats. Show the audience at home how despicable they are. Discuss their behavior with guest psychologists. Forget the Rump and turn this shit show around on THEM!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)these trumpers have. Need exposure light on these cockroaches
Oneironaut
(5,529 posts)the_sly_pig
(741 posts)Or knock their effin teeth in for them. You cant fix stupid.