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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:39 PM Aug 2016

Watch these Trump supporters agree that putting shock collars on Mexicans is a great idea

One can only hope that this is a put-on- but given the demonstrated nature of
Don the Con and his Trumpkins, there's a good chance it isn't...

https://boingboing.net/2016/08/16/watch-these-trump-supporters-a.html

"We wanted to see how far we could push Trump's loyal supporters," says Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. So his team invited a group of Trumpkins to attend a focus group meeting where they were shown some fake Trump campaign ads, voiced by a convincing Trump impersonator.

The attendees were not told that the commercials were fake, even though the ads had proposals that were crazy, even by Trump standards: outlawing abortion everywhere except in depressed areas like Atlantic City, trapping Mexican day laborers in porta-potties and shipping them back to Mexico, locking shock collars on the neck of every Mexican citizen in Mexico so they'd get zapped if they tried to go past an invisible electric fence on the US-Mexico border.

The focus group members seemed a little surprised at first, but quickly came around to the seeing the logic of these proposals, and expressed their support. One woman was concerned about the dog collar proposal, though. She said the Mexicans were likely to cut off the dog collars and sell them.

This video is like a scary Milgram experiment.


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Watch these Trump supporters agree that putting shock collars on Mexicans is a great idea (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 OP
Genocidal maniacs! LuvNewcastle Aug 2016 #1
If only their mothers could have got $100 worth of chips... PersonNumber503602 Oct 2016 #16
Of only! LuvNewcastle Oct 2016 #17
"We love torture!" sakabatou Aug 2016 #2
Classmate erpowers Aug 2016 #3
Now that's great satire. Coyotl Aug 2016 #4
Stupid People erpowers Aug 2016 #5
funny but as absolutely stupid these people are they don't deserve to have their lives ruined for Demonaut Aug 2016 #6
I'm sure they all signed a release ProfessorPlum Aug 2016 #7
does it matter that they signed a release? Demonaut Aug 2016 #8
Yes, of course ProfessorPlum Aug 2016 #9
not the point, that protects the production company not the participants from looking like fools Demonaut Aug 2016 #10
Well, I, like you, hope their lives aren't ruined ProfessorPlum Aug 2016 #11
Why do you think their lives would be ruined over this? PersonNumber503602 Oct 2016 #15
Man oh man that's depressing as hell cleveramerican Aug 2016 #12
I'll bet 50 quatloons on the Mexican. Frank Cannon Aug 2016 #13
I wish I could say that there is no way those people could be real PersonNumber503602 Oct 2016 #14

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
1. Genocidal maniacs!
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:12 PM
Aug 2016

This is one of those times I feel like this country is unsalvageable. These people are the ones who should have been aborted.

sakabatou

(42,159 posts)
2. "We love torture!"
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:13 PM
Aug 2016

I swear, people who accept this have to do it themselves. Want to use waterboarding on terrorists? You have to go through it yourself. Use electricity/shock "treatments?" You have to go through it yourself.

And so on and so forth.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
3. Classmate
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:32 PM
Aug 2016

I went to school with a guy who suggested the same things. Deport them and then put shock collars on their necks so that they would get shocked if they tried to re-enter the United States.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
5. Stupid People
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:54 PM
Aug 2016

If these people were not in on the joke they are stupid. First, the young woman at the beginning of the video said she supported Donald Trump because she thought he had a plan. How can she think he has a plan if he has not put out any plans? Second, that voice did not even sound like Trump.

At some point I kept thinking they would realize this was a joke. How could they really believe what they were watching?

ProfessorPlum

(11,257 posts)
7. I'm sure they all signed a release
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 01:39 PM
Aug 2016

My favorite part was the calm way that the presenter talked about everything. That guy deserves an oscar.

ProfessorPlum

(11,257 posts)
9. Yes, of course
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:34 PM
Aug 2016

They had to have signed a release allowing the production company to use them in the video. Of course that matters.

ProfessorPlum

(11,257 posts)
11. Well, I, like you, hope their lives aren't ruined
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 05:12 AM
Aug 2016

But they are, as you yourself point out, absolutely stupid, which often has a worse effect on someone's life than being in a comedy video.

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)
15. Why do you think their lives would be ruined over this?
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 03:10 PM
Oct 2016

I'm sure most people in their lives already know what kind of people they are. What do you think will happen to these people lives because of this?

Also, they must have signed a release allowing it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were compensated for it.

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