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jpak

(41,742 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:30 PM Mar 2016

Trump blames 'agitators' for violence at rallies

Source: USA Today

Though he acknowledged that the beating of a demonstrator at a weekend Tucson rally was “tough to watch," Trump suggested Sunday that he was more concerned that his rallies and speeches were being specifically targeted for disruption.

“I wouldn't use the word upset," Trump said on ABC’s This Week, referring to the Saturday Arizona clash in which a man draped in an American flag was repeatedly punched and kicked. “I think it's very unfair that these (protesters)...sick protesters can put cars in a road blocking thousands of great Americans from coming to a speech and nobody says anything about that."

Responding to earlier suggestions that his supporters could riot if he was denied the nomination at a possible brokered Republican convention later this summer, Trump said he didn’t want “problems" though he described his supporters as formidable.

“Look, these people are fervent," he said. “They are really — they want to see positive things happen for our country…I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems. But, you know…I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else."

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/20/violence-continues-stalk-trump-campaign/82046384/

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underpants

(182,279 posts)
5. Still instigating and inciting
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 01:41 PM
Mar 2016

I think the most apt analogy is to a parent defending their poorly raised brat kid over the adult professional educator regardless of how their little sociopath acts.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
7. Trump is the...
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:01 PM
Mar 2016

...agitator-in-chief, so does that mean he is accepting responsibility? Sorry, silly question.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
8. For the youngsters: "agitator" = "mouthy black person"
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:16 PM
Mar 2016

How dare a person "agitate" for equal rights, tolerance, or respect! Anyone who does so is an "agitator" deserving of contempt!

You can make such an asshole shut up, and I frequently do, by saying the following: "if it was your kid being treated so unfairly you'd be right there with the agitators."

But it only stops the conversation temporarily. Anyone that far down the racism hole is incurable, best I can tell. They always reset to racist when nobody is looking or they think they are in the right company.

Phlem

(6,323 posts)
10. I'm confused, aren't there police around during big events and
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:38 PM
Mar 2016

do they not write up police reports and arrest assaulters? Every single one of these fuckers should be in jail.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
13. The cops are no better than than tRump's goons
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:00 PM
Mar 2016

In fact, some of them are exactly like the goons: genocidal racists.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
14. "I don't want to see riots."
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:11 PM
Mar 2016

Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. If that's the case, der Trumpenfuhurer, then STOP planting the idea in the minds of your followers.

He wants chaos. He can't expect to win without it because he's got nothing else.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
16. Ah yes, unwrap the all-purpose "agitator". Clampdown up first in DrumpFührer wannabe presidency
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:23 PM
Mar 2016

Partial lyrics:

[center]The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal

You grow up and you calm down
You're working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
You're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown[/center]


Hekate

(90,202 posts)
17. That's what Southern segregationists used to call Civil Rights workers. See, if it hadn't been for
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:21 PM
Mar 2016

...them outside agitators, the South would have been all peaceful in the 1950s and 1960s.

So, Mr Stubby Fingers, this is just another verse in a hateful song I've heard before.

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