2016 Postmortem

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:18 PM Aug 2016

Trump:"Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails"

Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump
Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails.

How is it possible that he can tweet things like this and not pay a political price?

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Trump:"Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails" (Original Post) oberliner Aug 2016 OP

The only price he's paying is this hashtag... liberalmuse Aug 2016 #1

Funny and depressing at the same time oberliner Aug 2016 #4

He couldn't even make his "reboot" last until sundown. madaboutharry Aug 2016 #2

Did he pull this off Drudge or what? oberliner Aug 2016 #3

Even his Tweets now sound forlorn Godhumor Aug 2016 #5

His supporters will accept it as Gospel truth, unfortunately. Eugene Aug 2016 #6

Closer he gets to looking like the loser he is, the worse he will get. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #7

Many people are saying... C_U_L8R Aug 2016 #8

well he does have many aliases, so those could be the KewlKat Aug 2016 #11

He tweets into an echo chamber. Ilsa Aug 2016 #9

Or so the Russians told him.... sofa king Aug 2016 #10

But he IS paying a political price. He's tanking. Avalux Aug 2016 #12

That's a good question, but it's only one of many examples. DanTex Aug 2016 #13

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)

1. The only price he's paying is this hashtag...

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:19 PM

Aug 2016

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ManyPeopleAreSaying?src=hash

And most of the media will stay ominously silent.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

4. Funny and depressing at the same time

Reply to liberalmuse (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:22 PM

Aug 2016

It would be more amusing if he wasn't an actual serious candidate for POTUS who has millions of people supporting him.

madaboutharry

(40,236 posts)

2. He couldn't even make his "reboot" last until sundown.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:21 PM

Aug 2016

His admiration of every kookie conspiracy theory is bizarre.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. Did he pull this off Drudge or what?

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:21 PM

Aug 2016

Seems like that was his source.

Godhumor

(6,437 posts)

5. Even his Tweets now sound forlorn

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:27 PM

Aug 2016

No explanation points, no one word quips and no nicknames.

Sad!

Eugene

(61,969 posts)

6. His supporters will accept it as Gospel truth, unfortunately.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:37 PM

Aug 2016

As Fareed Zakaria stated, Donald Trump is a bullshit artist
with absolutely no regard for the truth. And Trump is
generating such a sheer volume of it that the facts are
getting obscured.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512349952

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)

7. Closer he gets to looking like the loser he is, the worse he will get.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:27 PM

Aug 2016

C_U_L8R

(45,026 posts)

8. Many people are saying...

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:31 PM

Aug 2016

C'mon Trump, if you think you'll fool anyone
then you gotta do better than that dusty old
'Many people are saying' gimmick.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)

11. well he does have many aliases, so those could be the

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #8)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:35 PM

Aug 2016

many he's talking about, (John Miller, John Barron and John Baron, plus all those voices he hears in his head?

Ilsa

(61,709 posts)

9. He tweets into an echo chamber.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:31 PM

Aug 2016

If anyone says Hillary wasn't to blame, it'll be dismissed as liberal media propaganda. They accept nothing but what they want to hear.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

10. Or so the Russians told him....

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:32 PM

Aug 2016

Avalux

(35,015 posts)

12. But he IS paying a political price. He's tanking.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:43 PM

Aug 2016

I don't have a problem with Trump's penchant for tweeting stuff like this - the more bizarre the better.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)

13. That's a good question, but it's only one of many examples.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:47 PM

Aug 2016

The best explanation I've seen came from John Oliver. He made the analogy: if you step on a single nail, then it pierces your foot and hurts like hell. But if you step on a whole bed of nails (carefully), then you can manage to stand on it because your weight is distributed over all of them so no individual nail breaks your skin.

Trump has said so many crazy things that "saying crazy things" is now part of who Trump is, and saying one more doesn't change things much.

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