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Trump safe after gunshots in his vicinity at golf course; FBI investigating assassination attempt

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by okeechobee, Sep 15, 2024.

  1. NavyGator93

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    If you don't like people reporting the stupid crap he says the solution isn't to stop reporting it. He needs to stop saying stupid crap.
     
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  2. demosthenes

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    Funny, but true.
     
  3. gator95

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    So since 2019 he's donated almost 20 times to dems yet he's still a far righty in your book. Got it. You can claim trump also since he was a dem. LOL, now trying to say it's not his truck. You are hilarious, thanks for the laughs.
     
  4. WarDamnGator

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    I never said he was a “far righty”…. I said he was a Trump supporter for his first two runs, then switched to Haley and Ramaswami…. That part is undeniably true. You just need to accept facts, and stop with your strawman fallacies… it seems that Ukraine is his #1 issue and that’s why he turned against Trump. He seems to me like a possible swing voter who leans right…. Also, are we still calling his support for Tulsi “democrat donations”? Lol.
     
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  5. NavyGator93

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    Seems like weak minded people use the term msm as just a lazy way to justify some radical stance they have.
    I asked another maga Mensa what constitutes msm and never got an answer. My primary news sources are the hill and bbc. Is that msm? Is Fox?
     
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  6. okeechobee

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    I don’t for a second believe he ever supported Vivek given Vivek’s obvious dislike of the war in Ukraine and this guy’s life appeared to revolve around that war.
     
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  8. demosthenes

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    Those contributions all came in 2019 and 2020, totaled less than $150, and his last two candidate donations were earmarked for Tulsi Gabbard. Make of it what you will.
     
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  9. demosthenes

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    You’re right. We should just believe whatever we want and not take him at his word.

    Ryan Routh
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    Follow @NikkiHaley Please join Vivek Ramaswamy as a team of pres and vp; we must do this now to create a winning ticket now that we all can get behind. Please do not be selfish and arrogant; partner now to change the course of this election. Break norms and give us an option.
    11:50 PM • Jan 8, 2024 • 80.3K Views​
     
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    He follows Vivek because, apparently, he is an anti-vaxer.
     
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  12. okeechobee

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    LOL..
     
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    An endorsement is an endorsement, whether you do it by putting a bumper sticker on your car or do it publicly in a speech that got a great deal of media attention, as Cheney did. So is Cheney not a left-leaning Democrat because she only endorsed Harris for millions to see instead of putting a bumper sticker on her car?
     
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  14. okeechobee

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    People tweet flippant stuff all the time. Sometimes they are attempting to be funny, sometimes they are simply deranged. Nobody in their right mind believes for a second the thought of aligning with Nikki Haley ever came across Vivek's mind. So nobody following that race would be so foolish to suggest such a thing publicly, unless they were being intentionally flippant. And why would Haley needed to have joined Vivek to "give us an option"? Haley was miles ahead of Vivek in polling and results. Given that his tweet makes no sense in the context of politics and given that he's a known Democrat donor, I think we can chalk this up to somebody who thought he was being funny.

    It's really easy to take a flippant tweet out of context and make it into something it's not. But given the context, there are multiple reasons to not take that tweet seriously. And again, Vivek's position on Ukraine is well known and it goes against everything this dude's life revolved around. Probably deranged. Definitely TDS...
     
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  15. gator_jo

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    Maybe his actual words can show you that it's not just that bad ole media being rilly rilly mean to him?

    Then you can stop being such a lemming, sport? 20240204_143854.jpg
     
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  16. NavyGator93

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    You can't use trump's own words as proof. Clearly it's the media's fault for reporting those words.
    ;)
     
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    Go find where those are his “actual words” because I think you’ll find that the Trump “quotes” are, except for things expressly contained within quotation marks, at best the “interpretation” of what he said by the meme-maker.

    I didn’t think we would have to be giving a “don’t trust memes to be accurate” TED talk, but here we are.
     
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-fox-interview-migrants.html

    In addition to using the phrase “poisoning the blood,” which he started saying last fall, he has gone even further lately in demonizing migrants in his public comments. In a speech in Ohio on Saturday, he called migrants “animals” and said: “I don’t know if you call them ‘people,’ in some cases. They’re not people, in my opinion.”

    Trump blasted for saying immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" - CBS News
    On Saturday, at a rally attended by thousands in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump said of undocumented migrants, "They're poisoning the blood of our country. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world."
     
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    LOL. What, are you trying to say the quotes aren't accurate........unless he said them in literally the exact words depicted? Like....if there were any words whatsoever surrounding his Hitler-esque quotes, then they, uh, aren't reflective of what he actually said? Or are you trying to imply what he truly...meant?

    I only did the first three quotes. Because they were reported almost verbatim.

    Also, ya know, memes usually don't have words for multiple multi-sentence quotes. But that doesn't mean they're always inaccurate.

    Former President Donald Trump said immigrants coming to the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a remark on Saturday that quickly drew a rebuke from his chief Democratic rival as President Joe Biden’s campaign likened the words to those of Adolf Hitler.

    "We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country," he told a New Hampshire crowd.

    “We have the enemy from within, and we have the enemy from the outside,” the former president told attendees at a Turning Point Action event. “And I’m telling you, we are in more danger from the enemy from within. With these lunatics, these fascists, these communists, and we’re going to stop that also.”

    “The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within,” Mr. Trump said Saturday in a nearly two-hour Veterans Day address in Claremont, N.H.
     
  20. okeechobee

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    Who do you want as your Commander in Chief? Someone who runs from interviews and changes her core beliefs on a dime or someone who gets shot at multiple times, keeps coming back for more, takes on all comers and is true to his core?
     
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