tell him to spend more time in Connecticut - he's doing a rally there (!) this weekend. Tell him to spend a full week there, and maybe a week in Massachusetts. Tell him to do a major ad buy in the Boston market.

A-Schwarzenegger

(15,596 posts)

13. I'm working on a 6-hour speech for him about Martians.

Reply to auntpurl (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:32 PM

Aug 2016

With plenty of unassailable footnotes.

prayin4rain

(2,065 posts)

4. Trump is right. Blaming Obama for ISIS is utterly ridiculous. nt

Reply to A-Schwarzenegger (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 11:51 AM

Aug 2016

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

5. It was a nice try.

Reply to A-Schwarzenegger (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 12:13 PM

Aug 2016

Whoever came up with the sarcasm excuse knows Trump's audience particularly well, and knows that right-wing authoritarians have extreme difficulty understanding sarcasm, irony, analogy and metaphor. The walk-back is designed to placate the offended and reinforce the beliefs of his own supporters.

Unfortunately for Trump, the law itself has a hard time understanding sarcasm. I think that is going to prove to be Donald Trump's undoing, and sooner than most of us dare to think.

Skraxx

(2,977 posts)

7. I Now Realize That This is Proof That I Am God And Have Created This Universe

Reply to A-Schwarzenegger (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 03:07 PM

Aug 2016

As a virtual reality game because I was bored with infinite being, because it's the only explanation that makes sense.

A-Schwarzenegger

(15,596 posts)

10. There is one additional explanation but it's in Martian.

Reply to Skraxx (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:21 PM

Aug 2016

tblue37

(65,393 posts)

12. You think you're being funny, but he actually did walk back his walk-back today:

Reply to A-Schwarzenegger (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:24 PM

Aug 2016

Trump said: “Obviously, I’m being sarcastic — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you" <emphasis added>.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/the-latest-trump-pondering-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/2016/08/12/d21973a6-6043-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html

Edited to add this from another DU post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141548767

Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim

Source: Politico

Donald Trump put his foot on the gas pedal again, driving home the accusation he had reversed himself hours earlier that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State.

Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”

He seemed to revel in the uncertainty his tweet created, boasting nearly 90 minutes later of pundits’ inability to figure him out. “I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!” Trump declared.

But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasn’t “that sarcastic, to be honest with you" <emphasis added>.

“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-obama-islamic-state-sarcasm-226947

A-Schwarzenegger

(15,596 posts)

14. Yes. He is being seriously, straightforwardly, honestly, unambiguously, sincerely sarcastic