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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy 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?
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)It is only #'s to them. Even when it impacts them directly, it's still someone else's fault. Always.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They can't wait to go to "war" for their savior. Too bad many of them will be dead by then.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)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 hes 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 its really pathetically small. A few weapons doesnt 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 theyre mindless zombies without a message that rises above stupidity. A walking threat display.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)guard in Michigan
lunatica
(53,410 posts)with some people. Its a very real threat. Some of his followers have become violent. He usually cuts them loose very quickly.
unblock
(52,286 posts)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.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,389 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)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)I dont know if they were raped as children, or if thats just their genetic disposition, but I think theres something fundamentally wrong with people who ever found hate-radio appealing or strongly support Trump.
Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)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)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...
empedocles
(15,751 posts)niyad
(113,510 posts)kimbutgar
(21,174 posts)To this virus and repuke governors oking to go about as usual.
Sorry but our lives will never be the same.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)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