Trump once again becomes Trump

[Lux Interior]

swampy wrote:
In the news, look it up

[DeusxMac]

Occam's Razor

I must confess that, given Trump's extemporaneous speaking style (and I use the term "style" in the most rudimentary sense) where he hops from tense-to-tense, plural-to-singular, first person-to-third person - often in the same sentence - the simplest interpretation would be that the he was saying that the "Second Amendment people" could/should vote against Clinton.

[pdq]

swampy wrote:
Trump was talking about VOTES. and the NRA crowd can get out the vote. NOTHIN in what he said suggests to me that anyone should carry out any violence.

Repost from another thread:

But the Trump campaign was quick to dispute that interpretation. In an emailed statement with the subject line, "Trump Campaign Statement on Dishonest Media," Trump spokesman Jason Miller said:

"It's called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won't be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump."

The whole comment:

Trump wrote:

By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.

Swampy, if his comment was about votes, a voting bloc, or political unanimity, why did he say "that would be a horrible day"?

[bfd]

Regardless of his intent, the fact remains that interpretation is everything in the political/diplomatic world. Can anyone begin to imagine this buffoon trying to bluff his way through a simple White House press conference?

"Oh, the humanity…"

[Dennis S]

Still not finding any "news" about the tire iron beating. Help me out, swampy.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Not a confirmed Clinton supporter. Not described as a tire iron.

Man wearing Drumpf t-shirt beaten with crowbar in Bloomfield, NJ. Police think it might have been because of his shirt.I heard that the reason Trump isn't releasing his taxes is because he gave money to NAMBLA. I don't believe this, but it is possible.

[Ombligo]

In Swampy's defense (because I believe in fairness) -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...in-attack/

Not exactly as describe , but close enough to give Swampy a "Mostly True" on the MRF-Politifact meter.



The encounter apparently began after a passing motorist spotted Peter Yankowski’s T-shirt.

The shirt showed a picture of Donald Trump’s face over an American flag. “Trump for President,” the shirt read. “Make America Great Again.”

The motorist aggressively questioned the Trump supporter about the shirt, “directing profanities at him,” according to a spokesman for the Bloomfield, N.J., police force.

During the argument last week, Yankowski, who is white, shouted a racial slur at the motorist, who has been described as a black man.

That verbal exchange led to a physical confrontation, which left the 62-year-old Trump supporter with minor injuries, authorities say. An investigation is ongoing, police spokesman Ralph Marotti told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

The encounter occurred the evening of Aug. 3 in New Jersey, police said. Yankowski said he was walking down a street when a motorist started talking about the shirt in support of the Republican presidential nominee.

The driver allegedly followed Yankowski inside a Friendly’s restaurant, where the verbal argument escalated.

“Called me ‘white trash,’ cursed me out, gave me the finger, whatever,” Yankowski told News 12 New Jersey, describing a portion of the interaction. “I yelled back a few expletives.”

Yankowski also admitted that he used a racial slur during the encounter, saying: “Yes, I did.”

A witness relayed what Yankowski had said, telling News 12 New Jersey: “The white man, of course, he shouted out, he goes, like, ‘you’re a n—–, you’re not even supposed to be here. This is like, white people’s spot.’

The argument eventually spilled into the Friendly’s parking lot, where the encounter grew physical.

Marotti, the police spokesman, said the suspect had “what appeared to be a crowbar, some type of metal object,” and swung it at Yankowski.

Yankowski was hit in the forearm, hands and thighs, Marotti said, and was treated at the scene.

The suspect fled before police arrived.

No arrests had been made as of Wednesday.

[rjmacs]

Not defending the violence, but this was hardly a case of "Clinton supporter sees Drumpf supporter, attacks same with tire iron."

There was the small matter of the intervening argument and the racial slurring....

[pdq]

Does it include the part where the attacker described himself as an HRC-backer, as Swampy helpfully pointed out? (although I noticed that she did leave out the "n-gger - this is a white area" part...)

Or are we to assume that?

[$tevie]

Well, that's a singular incident, not a plural as swampy implied with the esses she put on the ends of all the nouns. But it IS more real than some of her other posts.