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NRaleighLiberal

(60,018 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:23 PM May 2020

My view - we are seeing stochastic terrorism finally taking real life tolls.

Of course, it didn't begin with the orange asshole, but he is the catalyst that is finally leading to murder.

He, again of course, is carrying out murder differently, on a vast scale, with his lies and misinformation.

But make no mistake...he is activating his cult. We all need to be very careful.

How many more innocent lives will be lost before the party of death wakes up and realizes what they are enabling?

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sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
1. There Is An Endless Amount Of Lives
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:28 PM
May 2020

It is only #'s to them. Even when it impacts them directly, it's still someone else's fault. Always.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. He's getting them prepared in case he loses in November.
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:29 PM
May 2020

They can't wait to go to "war" for their savior. Too bad many of them will be dead by then.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. I agree
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:39 PM
May 2020

His rather puzzling “Liberate” the States tweets which left him an opening that he could explain away struck me as an experiment on his part to see if he does have the mindless following he’s been cultivating in his rallies. So now we all know he does. At least a handful of idiots.

BUT when it comes to counting the people who marched for their right to basically spread the disease it’s really pathetically small. A few weapons doesn’t make an army. The crowd was quite small but the assault rifles made the news media go nuts. Those people are not even revolutionaries. They have no clear cut mission in mind either. If anything they’re mindless zombies without a message that rises above stupidity. A walking threat display.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. Unfortunately the mob mentality is very close to the surface
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:47 PM
May 2020

with some people. It’s a very real threat. Some of his followers have become violent. He usually cuts them loose very quickly.

unblock

(52,286 posts)
7. If we had same same covid19 death rate as the rest of the world, we'd have under 8,000 deaths
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:16 PM
May 2020

At least 60,000 of American deaths are due to Donnie's enabling of people spreading the virus after other countries knew to shut things down.

And more people will die due to his call to get back to idiotically spreading it more.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
8. Not literally, but figuratively, each Trump supporter
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:19 PM
May 2020

is like a Manchurian Candidate, imo. I am sure it is coincidence, but Trump supporters do seem like sleeper cells ready to wake up and do horrid things. The FBI has already said that hate groups have been caught planning to using the virus on minorities on purpose. It is only a matter of time before some of these "reopen" group members start killing people for daring to disagree with them. It is only a matter of time before Trump incites them to violence again too. He does that routinely enough that people remember him doing it before.

This proves that there is nothing so bad that Republicans cannot make it worse. How they handle everything just makes it worse.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
10. Several of his supporters want to cause harm.
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:30 PM
May 2020

I don’t know if they were raped as children, or if that’s just their genetic disposition, but I think there’s something fundamentally wrong with people who ever found hate-radio appealing or strongly support Trump.

Ford_Prefect

(7,917 posts)
11. In their dogma anyone is expendable and the least "fit" shoud go first to protect Herr Leader.
Sun May 3, 2020, 09:12 PM
May 2020

The GOP has long held to the belief that the fewer Democrats who can vote the better. We are seeing the logical outcome of that cult. I am surprised only that they have taken so long to engineer putting us below ground in large numbers. Puerto Rico was only a rehearsal.

The Only dead who matter to them are GOP voters and sometimes more so on election day.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
12. The "party of death" realizes exactly what it's doing. It's what they want to do and they love it.
Sun May 3, 2020, 09:20 PM
May 2020

Those of us in the majority have to beat them with our votes. Damn the ratfucking, full speed ahead!*

*with apologies to Admiral David Farragut...

kimbutgar

(21,174 posts)
15. But why is he advocating his supporters to expose themselves
Sun May 3, 2020, 09:42 PM
May 2020

To this virus and repuke governors ok’ing to go about as usual.

Sorry but our lives will never be the same.

keithbvadu2

(36,869 posts)
16. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis
Sun May 3, 2020, 09:45 PM
May 2020

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

When did the Nazis have America?

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

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