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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 10:13 PM Feb 2017

A silent thread for Sweden's Bowling Green Massacre, cited by Trump, which also did not happen

Trump cites non-existent terrorist attack ‘last night in Sweden’ to justify Muslim ban at Florida rally



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-cites-non-existent-terrorist-attack-last-night-in-sweden-to-justify-muslim-ban-at-florida-rally/

At his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump listed a terror attack that never happened as part of the rationale for his controversial anti-Muslim travel ban.

In defending his executive order banning Islamic refugees and travelers from 7 Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Trump said, “When you look at what’s happening in Germany, when you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden — Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden!”

“They took in large numbers, they’re having problems like they never like they never thought possible,” he went on.

However, there was no terror attack in Sweden on Friday. Perhaps, as some Twitter users suggested, the attack in Sweden happened in the same parallel universe as Kellyanne Conway’s fictitious “Bowling Green massacre.”
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A silent thread for Sweden's Bowling Green Massacre, cited by Trump, which also did not happen (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2017 OP
The President of the Republicans is a whack job n/t leftstreet Feb 2017 #1
Today, we are all Swedes C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #2
Today I am Ingmar Komprad!!! grantcart Feb 2017 #15
It's said the meatballs fell on the floor C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #16
He is Brking mad! nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #21
A glogg toast to the departed! JohnnyLib2 Feb 2017 #3
I was wondering what the hell he was talking about. TrekLuver Feb 2017 #4
Yeah, I was too True Dough Feb 2017 #32
This stupid idiot didn't fucking learn from sewerat barbie's "Bowling Green Cha Feb 2017 #5
I googled it and the Swedes haven't a clue. Of course they could be hostages rzemanfl Feb 2017 #6
Oh those poor Swedes who didn't perish. progressoid Feb 2017 #7
They are not in my heart and prayers and will never be remembered. AgadorSparticus Feb 2017 #8
Where oh where will they bury the survivors? Wounded Bear Feb 2017 #9
Maybe ABBA had a reunion show last night. Yavin4 Feb 2017 #10
It was Liberalagogo Feb 2017 #19
Clearly, those poor Swedish victims are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. nt procon Feb 2017 #11
I see his hair and spray tan are the real massacre Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #12
I can't stop Saabing. moondust Feb 2017 #13
.... Laffy Kat Feb 2017 #14
DUzy worthy! Brother Buzz Feb 2017 #17
!!! JohnnyLib2 Feb 2017 #18
Bwahhhaaaahhhaaaa!!!! montana_hazeleyes Feb 2017 #25
Too much fox news...'Swedish govt hushing increase in rape/violence from refugees' jmg257 Feb 2017 #20
KInd of like they're unsafe areas in major European cities rpannier Feb 2017 #23
If only Frederick Douglas had been there to prevent it rpannier Feb 2017 #22
I want to hear . . . OldRedneck Feb 2017 #24
Be careful. He'll try to grab your Volvo. HassleCat Feb 2017 #26
... catbyte Feb 2017 #27
What's their end-game with creating these fake terrorist attacks lately... -Steph- Feb 2017 #28
I think they want to intentionally provoke a terror attack. Initech Feb 2017 #30
Where is Frederick Douglas when you need him? Initech Feb 2017 #29
Liar-In-Chief spanone Feb 2017 #31
Yes, Virginia, there *was* a Bowling Green Massacre... First Speaker Feb 2017 #33
Oh wow WilmywoodNCparalegal Feb 2017 #34
Trump inspires little to no confidence in Europe and Asia Stellar Feb 2017 #35
One attack like this can rune your day JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2017 #36

True Dough

(17,313 posts)
32. Yeah, I was too
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:07 AM
Feb 2017

I was on the elliptical doing my workout and listening to Drumpf, which is far more painful than working out, during commercials of other shows. I caught that Sweden attack bit and figured I must have missed it in the news. Glad this thread jogged my memory and once again reinforces that Don the Con lies every time he opens his mouth.

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)
6. I googled it and the Swedes haven't a clue. Of course they could be hostages
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 10:29 PM
Feb 2017

of radical Islamic terrorists, posting to the Internet on their home computers.

I weep for the Swedes who did not die in this non-event. At least they were spared Stockholm Syndrome by their sudden nonexistence. It's as if it never happened.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
10. Maybe ABBA had a reunion show last night.
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 10:46 PM
Feb 2017

Because "Dancing Queen" can be seen as an act of aggression.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
20. Too much fox news...'Swedish govt hushing increase in rape/violence from refugees'
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 12:51 AM
Feb 2017

Apparently they did a report last night.

rpannier

(24,330 posts)
23. KInd of like they're unsafe areas in major European cities
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 12:56 AM
Feb 2017

that police won't go into because of the danger
Yet, I've been through them, as has my older brother
I guess we're just braver (or more fool-hearty) people

-Steph-

(409 posts)
28. What's their end-game with creating these fake terrorist attacks lately...
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 01:39 AM
Feb 2017

At the same time they started creating fake terrorist attacks, they also started with their fake talking point about the media not covering certain terrorist attacks. Clearly that's a strategy and not a coincidence. They're trying to manipulate the masses into thinking these fake attacks might be real, and the media's just covering them up.

When Kellyanne made the false claim about the bowling green terrorist attack, she tried to pass it off as if she had accidentally misspoken. We all know that is a lie, because it was discovered that she had mentioned the fake terrorist attack on at least 3 different occasions. She didn't misspeak, and she wasn't misinformed about what had actually taken place. She was deliberately planting false seeds at the very same time they started wanting people to think the media doesn't cover certain terrorist attacks.

As a whole, they obviously don't want people believing anything that doesn't come straight from them, that's a given... but why specifically have they started wanting people to believe these fake terrorist attacks?

Obviously they want to scare people into supporting their bans, walls, and deportations.. but could it be even more than that? War or something else?

What's their end-game with these fake terrorist attacks?

Initech

(100,090 posts)
30. I think they want to intentionally provoke a terror attack.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 01:54 AM
Feb 2017

I wouldn't put it past these scumbags.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
33. Yes, Virginia, there *was* a Bowling Green Massacre...
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:13 AM
Feb 2017

...and a Swedish one, too. Not believe in a Bowling Green massacre? Only the cynical, in a cynical age, can say such things. One might as well say that the Germans never bombed Pearl harbor. Might as well say there never were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Might as well say that Hillary Clinton's e-mails weren't a threat to the republic!

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