Trump Once Again Encourages His Supporters To Get Violent, Do Crimes
By: Robyn Pennacchia
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His solution to shoplifting sure could get a lot of them sent to prison.
Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Carl Kemppainen, the O'Reilly Auto Parts employee who will be spending somewhere in between nine and 41 years in prison for having strangled a suspected shoplifter to death in the parking lot.
Now, we can't know if Donald Trump heard about that one or not, but at a campaign stop in California, after telling the wealthy Republicans there that they all smell bad because of the water situation in the state, the former guy started going off about his plan to stop people "pillaging" stores.
Surprise, it involves murdering people in cold blood!
"We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store," he told the cheering dimwits. "Shot!"
"The word that they shoot you will get out within minutes and our nation, in one day, will be an entirely different place," Trump added. "There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country."
It's like he just can't help himself. I'm starting to think he actually kind of likes the idea of people loving him so much that they are willing to commit crimes and go to prison for him. It feeds his ego. It's not the first time he's done it — he's encouraged his people to beat up protesters at his rallies and, you know, he also encouraged them to invade Congress in order to try to keep his Vice President from certifying the election. As of last month, over 1100 people had been charged in relation to January 6 and 662 had pleaded guilty.
On the other hand, he is a also master of telling people what they want to hear. The Right has been on a major vigilante jag lately — from songs celebrating lynching to the near-constant fantasies of taking down shoplifters by force. They've gotta flex their manliness somehow, and if that means gunning down a teenage girl swiping some lipgloss from Walgreens, then so be it.
Sure, they could get upset about the actual reasons behind the supposed increase in shoplifting — unaffordable increases to the cost of living and these stores cutting costs by not hiring enough people to work there — but that's just not as immediately satisfying as homicide. That doesn't make you feel like a cool Wild West guy.
To be clear, you cannot use deadly force on someone for stealing a loaf of bread, a tube of Maybelline Great Lash or even a 60-inch plasma screen television. Not legally, anyway. If you do that, you will go to prison, just like this other guy is going to prison, and you will have to spend the rest of your life knowing that you killed another human being over something so stupid.
Granted, if you are a Trump supporter, you may not actually care about that.
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Trump appears to be advocating for shooting shoplifters and flash mob thieves in the back.
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What do you consider 'drastic measures'?
Read post 1 for your answer.
You cannot answer a question directly?
Per your reference to @1 you believe shooting shoplifters is something we should enact?
Not sure why you don't understand what "read post number one for your answer" means.
No rabbit holes for me.
Gonna dig them yourself?
You can either say what you mean as a form of clarification,
or you can run around saying "I don't mean that"
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Thanks for stepping in while I was away.
A very common tactic: use vague language as a smokescreen to avoid looking foolish.
Those who use this tactic apparently do not realize people see through it.
Better to first ensure one is correct and then be clear in the expression.
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Trump always exaggerates to make a point. How should these thugs be dealt with?
Retailers close stores in inner cities due to theft and violence, and the leftists will bitch about that.
In related news, it looks like a victim might see justice in NYC.
Bodega clerk Jose Alba sues Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, NYPD for racial discrimination (msn.com)
How do you "exaggerate" about shooting someone in the back? It is a specific act.
Shot is an exaggeration for holding people accountable. Something the many liberals don't seem to be interested in.
Maybe he meant shoot them in the lower back.
”Shot is an exaggeration for holding people accountable.”
Unless, gawd forbid, he be held accountable for his fraudulent schemes. Then it becomes a shot in the dark?
The level of hypocrisy being spewed by his apologists is simply brain numbing.
Nope
In your mind.
TBF, he probably could if he wanted to.
All of that is true.
Did he though? Or did he say "peacefully"?
It just doesn't. The accusation is just asinine nonsense, and people who make it erode the credibility of all the other things they try to say.
*eyeroll* That doesn't justify stealing shit anymore than being upset about an election justifies kicking down the door of the Capitol. Either we're going to make excuses for bad behavior or we're going to actually act like grown ups for a change.
That very much depends on where it happens. If you're stealing my 80-inch OLED (nobody has plasma anymore) from my living room in Texas, I can absolutely shoot you. I would probably give you Lynyrd Skynyrd's Three Steps, but you'd need to take them quickly.
If you're stealing it from Target, that's their problem. They're not going to shoot you, but they are eventually going to close the store you keep plundering, which will enable well-meaning white sociology students to keep talking about "food deserts" and the like.
Why did Trump sit on his hands while the Capitol was being invaded?
I know, do you?
He wanted the riot to succeed.
The idea that he wanted the "protest" to be peaceful is wishful thinking. He wanted it to be whatever it needed to be to help him stop or delay the electoral count.
Actually you don't know. You might be right, you might be wrong. Only Donald knows for sure.
What? Trump denied Biden's victory long after the election was truly and fairly settled. Trump told his followers that they and he were cheated. That his victory was stolen. He called the insurrectionists to DC to "Stop The Steal". Trump incited the rioters to march upon the US Capitol to violently stop Congress from certifying Biden's election, which they did for hours forcing Congress to flee into bunkers. Trump cheered the insurrectionists on and stalled for hours before doing anything significant to stop it. But we do not know his mind?
No, we don't. We know he lies, exaggerates and talks shit. We don't know what is actually going on in his head. You want to believe he actually thought Jan 6th would change the election? Fine for you. I doubt his therapist knows what is actually going on in his head. To claim otherwise is just arrogance.
That's not the question. He didn't actually encourage them.
It doesn't matter what he wanted. The fact remains he gave direct instructions to go "peacefully".
“It doesn't matter what he wanted.”
Of course it did and does.
His increasingly delusional comments from that day to this day confirm his inability to face reality but only reaffirm his nefarious intentions.
Hanging on a single word dismisses the context in which it was uttered.
should be his campaign slogan. it'd probably get him more votes from MAGA types.
Or "I might lie, exaggerate and talk shit but I am still better then the other guy who also lies, exaggerates and talks shit but is also running the country into the ground".
“Or "I might lie, exaggerate and talk shit but I am still better then the other guy".
Hanging a maga hat on the rustiest of nails. If that elicits a vote, we are in deep trouble.
Conveniently forgot the rest of the sentence.
Only confirms the fact that partisan bias is driving the bus into a ditch.
I agree. Maybe the dems could nominate someone who doesn't lie, exaggerate, talk shit and is running the country into the ground rather than ignore what is happening because of partisan bias.
So when he says something awful, he absolutely meant every word of it, no matter how preposterous it is... and we should all run around like the sky is falling.
If he says something good, he really meant something awful... and we should all run around like the sky is falling.
That's not deranged or anything.
Then why don't you stop it?
It is AMAZING that you refuse to admit or see that you are a Trump apologist.
“If he says something good…”
As some wait patiently, while most others have heard enough…
…”peacefully” submitted.
Please keep your hallucinations to yourself.
You say that about everybody who doesn't engage in or validate your hysteria.
You make sideways apologies for Trump, and you have been doing it here for years. Then you say you are simply an unbiased bystander. Give us a break.
Truth is not a hallucination
Please mind your own business.
See 2.1.19
Yes John, you've been peddling the same batshit Trump hysteria here for years and yes, I still refuse to go along with it.
Or.... in the real world... I've said I dislike Trump and voted for Biden.
I'm not scared of Trump. I realize you can't understand that, and I won't ask you to, but I'm not joining your lynch mob.
But when you've convinced yourself that a fellow Biden voter is some sort of RW Trump "apologist", it may be time to look in the mirror and reconsider how far from the mainstream you've wandered.
You might be correct, his therapist is a mirror. /S