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highplainsdem

(48,981 posts)
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 09:11 AM Jun 2017

UK prof responds to Trump tweet: "Were you genetically engineered to be this stupid?"

This from a professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, responding to Trump's idiotic attempt to make an anti-gun-control argument out of the attacks in London last night:




Which is why they didn't kill many more people. Were you genetically engineered to be this stupid? It's the only explanation.





That tweet of Trump's:




Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!


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UK prof responds to Trump tweet: "Were you genetically engineered to be this stupid?" (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2017 OP
Oh.. it hurts.... CherokeeDem Jun 2017 #1
Chump is a raving lunatic. gademocrat7 Jun 2017 #2
THIS Zoonart Jun 2017 #3
Oh, my... Blue_Roses Jun 2017 #4
Should we ban... Else You Are Mad Jun 2017 #5
It's Donald Trump's supporters who are stupid. athena Jun 2017 #6
Donald Trump is a REPUBLICAN President. He & Pence are the natural product of 40 years. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #16
Well, that is a surprise Timmygoat Jun 2017 #7
Well, I am grateful that Scarsdale Jun 2017 #14
Bet putz blockes him Motley13 Jun 2017 #8
Why, yes. Yes, he was, more or less. Nurture didn't help any either. Solly Mack Jun 2017 #9
Was that Fred Scarsdale Jun 2017 #15
His father's name was Fred. Solly Mack Jun 2017 #17
Great reply. dalton99a Jun 2017 #10
Raw Story just picked this up: highplainsdem Jun 2017 #11
Warning NSFW.... Wounded Bear Jun 2017 #12
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2017 #13
We should be raising the question of where the terrorists get their weapons from. Initech Jun 2017 #18
dear Professor, demigoddess Jun 2017 #19

athena

(4,187 posts)
6. It's Donald Trump's supporters who are stupid.
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 09:25 AM
Jun 2017

I'm sure they are all convinced by the "logic" of Trump's comment, which in the end is just a rephrasing of an NRA talking point. If we didn't allow guns, killers would use knives and trucks. So let's give everyone in the country, including alcoholics, drug addicts, mentally ill people, and children a hundred assault weapons each. Because it's just as easy to cause a massacre in a mall using a knife or a truck as it is using a gun. And if everyone had a gun, someone would have killed the knife-wielder or the truck driver before he harmed anyone. Because no one would ever make a mistake and kill an innocent person. And no one would ever lose his mind and kill his friends or loved ones or himself in a fit of rage or depression. It's mind-boggling that anyone could be that stupid, but the reality is that huge swaths of America are that stupid.

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
7. Well, that is a surprise
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 09:32 AM
Jun 2017

From our leader ( 5 deferments from the Viet Nam draft) whose idiot sons shoot defenseless animals for sport.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
14. Well, I am grateful that
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 12:12 PM
Jun 2017

he does not have Beavis and Butthead helping screw things up like Princess Ivanka and her trained monkey, Jared.

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)
9. Why, yes. Yes, he was, more or less. Nurture didn't help any either.
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 11:09 AM
Jun 2017

Fred's genes had to be spliced into Mary's genes. No way she was she fucking anyone with her swooping kevlar hair. Might hurt the coif.

Obviously by some scientist who was annoyed by Fred's racism and Mary's hair, so he decided it would be amusing to genetically reduce brain size in the offspring. Nine months later - Trump.

Little did he know his joke would be on the world. Still, he probably died laughing. Not so the rest of us.

Well, it could be true. Got to admit, sounds plausible. (even if a little mean)



Disclaimer: This is a joke.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
18. We should be raising the question of where the terrorists get their weapons from.
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 12:44 PM
Jun 2017

It's not secret that ISIS gets a lot of their weapons from Saudi Arabia - a country who Trump himself gave $110 billion in arms to. So congratulations, Donald, you just armed the terrorists. If we're fighting a war on terror, does that make him an accessory after the fact?

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