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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:07 AM Aug 2016

No worries everybody, just sarcasm - Trump Back Tracks His ISIS Statement

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) "the founder" of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?
3:26 AM - 12 Aug 2016
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/764045345332396032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw




It wasn't sarcasm AND you clarified for Hugh Hewitt that you meant what you said. You're insane!


@CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/donald-trump-hugh-hewitt-obama-founder-isis/
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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
1. This reads like the Monty Python "Witch" skit.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:23 AM
Aug 2016

VILLAGER #1: We have found a witch, might we burn her?

CROWD: Burn her! Burn!

BEDEVERE: How do you know she is a witch?

VILLAGER #2: She looks like one.

BEDEVERE: Bring her forward.

WITCH: I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.

BEDEVERE: But you are dressed as one.

WITCH: They dressed me up like this.

CROWD: No, we didn't -- no.

WITCH: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one.

BEDEVERE: Well?

VILLAGER #1: Well, we did do the nose.

BEDEVERE: The nose?

VILLAGER #1: And the hat -- but she is a witch!

CROWD: Burn her! Witch! Witch! Burn her!

BEDEVERE: Did you dress her up like this?

CROWD: No, no... no... yes. Yes, yes, a bit, a bit.

VILLAGER #1: She has got a wart.

BEDEVERE: What makes you think she is a witch?

VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt.

BEDEVERE: A newt?

VILLAGER #3: I got better.

VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway!

CROWD: Burn! Burn her!

BEDEVERE: Quiet! quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.

CROWD: Are there? What are they?

VILLAGER #2: Do they hurt?

BEDEVERE: Tell me, what do you do with witches?

VILLAGER #2: Burn!

CROWD: Burn, burn them up!

BEDEVERE: And what do you burn apart from witches?

VILLAGER #1: More witches!

VILLAGER #2: Wood!

BEDEVERE: So, why do witches burn?

[pause]

VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood?

BEDEVERE: Good!

CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah.

BEDEVERE: So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?

VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her.

BEDEVERE: Aah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?

VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah.

BEDEVERE: Does wood sink in water?

VILLAGER #1: No, no.

VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!

VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!

CROWD: The pond!

BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?

VILLAGER #1: Bread!

VILLAGER #2: Apples!

VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!

VILLAGER #1: Cider!

VILLAGER #2: Uhhh, gravy!

VILLAGER #1: Cherries!

VILLAGER #2: Mud!

VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!

VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!

ARTHUR: A duck.

CROWD: Oooh.

BEDEVERE: Exactly! So, logically...

VILLAGER #1: If... she... weighs the same as a duck.. she's made of wood.

BEDEVERE: And therefore?

VILLAGER #1: A witch!

BEDEVERE: We shall use my largest scales!
CROWD: A witch! A witch! A witch!

lindysalsagal

(20,686 posts)
4. Better, yet, "The Cooker" delivery
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:44 AM
Aug 2016

They go round and round about dropping off the cooker but lack the forms to hook it up to the gas....

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
3. It's Trump that doesn't understand sarcasm
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:34 AM
Aug 2016

Saying "It was a joke" or sarcasm implies the majority is too dumb to get it. In actuality it is he who is not effectively communicating. Besides being humor impaired, this is yet another example that his communication skills are inadequate for the job he is pursuing.

Blue Dalek

(178 posts)
7. Truth or fact does not matter as long as
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:51 AM
Aug 2016

he gets attention. And the media should be hitting him over the head with this shit but noooooo.

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
9. When jelly brain Hugh Hewitt talks circles around you, you're not fit to be president
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 10:46 AM
Aug 2016

and Hugh Hewitt is so so stupid and yet sounds like a genius paired with Donald.

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