10-28-2018, 05:56 PM
(10-28-2018, 05:08 PM)Love Child Wrote: Of course I do not know what Trump thinks or feels. I have only his Tweets and speeches to go on.
I don't know what you think or feel either.
My statement about him saying he could shoot someone-was actually a reflection on the events in these past weeks. It was more so about that-than your comment about his consistency in words and actions.
Trumps hand has not pulled the trigger on a gun this week.
Those words he spoke are reprehensible. To suggest that he could shoot someone-who would he shoot? Anyway, to suggest that he could shoot someone in plain daylight and people would still vote for him is also an insult to those that do vote for him.
People are responsible for their own acts of violence that occured this week. They can't blame someone else for pulling the trigger. I feel that the president does not stand up to these acts of violence strong enough. Saying that the Democrats do the same-is NOT the answer either. He must be above all of that.
Words are not violence.
As for him using that particular phrase, so fucking what?
It was not to be taken literally. It was him saying to those that were trying to imply that his supporters support was not strong, that it was very strong.
Only very stupid people believed he wanted to actually shoot someone or that shooting people was good or anything like.
Some non-Trump supporters got bent out of shape like they do about everything he says. But not only was he right that his supporters support him strongly but there was nothing wrong with the expression.
Pretending that "you only have his words to go on" is dishonest and stupid and a standard you use with no one else in the world. No one else.
Jokes, allegory, metaphor, similies, inferences, suggestions and such are what you afford to everyone because to do otherwise is to greet the world in the confusion an Autistic person has.
So not only did you not for one moment think that when I was clearly identifying his consistency with his actions and words in context of law enforcement, but because you are not Autistic and not completely stupid, you know that the phrase made all those months and tears ago about shooting someone was NOT to be taken literally and you did not take it that way.
I get that you did not like the expression and maybe it conjured up bad imagery and perhaps you thought that kind of phrase unbecoming of a President but as it was not understood as a literal expression, why are you pretending otherwise and to who's benefit?