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Of course. Teflon Don has never done anything wrong. It's always somebody else's fault. No accountability... no responsibility. Just like when he worked the kooks of the States up into a lather over the thousands and thousands of invading illegal immigrant criminals getting ready to storm the Mexico-US border. Got some nutjob to drive hundreds of miles to El Paso, Texas... just so he could shoot himself up some Hispanics. Not Trump's fault either. Not his fault he created a feverish, delusional panic over a supposed "invasion", which in the end petered out into a boring flow of men, women, and children at the border. You know... the "toothless peasants" you wanted "mowed down."

The double standards here scream holy hell. Biden stutters in front of the teleprompter... and he should get hung by his thumbs. Trump incites violence, hatred, and division... and you give it the ol' wink and a nod. Just like your cult leader prophesized. He could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, and STILL not lose any of his blind voters.

On top of drinking industrial quantities of that Kool-Aid..... do you take it via IV's also?
point by point, no sarcasm if I can help it.

1. Teflon DOn has done many, many things wrong. So going that hyperbolic route won't disprove anything I said. Never said he "never done anything wrong".
2. IF Donald Trump claims he has never done anything wrong, then he is without a doubt WRONG. Because no human being ever can make that claim.
3. "Got some nutjob to do XY or Z", nahhh, the nutjob is who did it, the nutjob drove to El Paso, the nutjob is at fault, accountable, responsible. Now the nutjob can say Trump brainwashed/manipulated/zombified him to go and do whatever, and yet THAT is the epitome of avoiding responsibility right there. Trump didnt "get" someone to drive and shoot up Hispanics. The nutjob "got" his own self to do it. Blaming Trump for that is a non sequitur and unreasonable. Basically, Im keeping this straight here and hope your response will be too, but then again you love the Kool Aid quips so go right ahead, but to sum it up for you: CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION. Never will. And every court of law will prove that to you.


Ok, no Kool-Aid references.

Let's get something clear first. I'm not asking or pretending Trump be charged for the mass murder committed by the El Paso nutjob.

What I AM saying... and I think it's perfectly reasonable... is that Trump as POTUS holds a MASSIVE amount of influence over his supporters. Case in point... the drinking bleach to combat COVID story.

Never have I said it was Trump's fault that some people (and I use the term loosely) actually ingested bleach and either died or became very sick.

I'm objective enough to opine that while it was an irresponsible comment by a POTUS who has ZILCH knowledge about medical issues.... he didn't MAKE anyone drink bleach and die. Those fools did it to themselves.

However, going back to Trump's influence.

Trump spent MONTHS working people up in the States about a "supposed invasion" that never really materialized. You can talk about arrangements with Mexico and all that other stuff.

Fact of the matter is that Trump used his fear-mongering tactics to work people into a hate-filled lather regarding immigrants.

Somewhere in that group... there are nutjobs close to the edge... and all they need is a gentle nudge from their Cult Leader.... Commander-in-Chief.... to go over that edge.

Common sense.

With great authority comes great responsibility.

You CANNOT incite violence and then sit back with that stupid, smug look on your face (Trump's face, not yours) like saying..... "Who..... ME??" It's SICKENING coming from the leader of the free world (in title only).

My standards for President remain HIGH.

I'd rather have someone up there who I respect as a person, even if they make a mistake every now and then...... than an absolute jackass of a human being who cares about no one but himself.

YOU YOURSELF shouted about the blood on the hands of Trump by minimizing the pandemic from the very beginning... possibly costing many people their lives.

What the HELL has changed between then and now that has turned you around YET AGAIN 180 degrees??
Trump acting like an expert about bleach injections was sickening and embarrassing and I called him out on that doggedly. I'm glad to hear you say that whoever did inject bleach did that out of their own stupidity and that Trump could not be prosecuted for that. I'm also really glad to hear you say that Trump cannot be prosecuted for what that a****** and El Paso did to those innocent people. And to this day I have not gone back on my condemnation of trump for his failure to enact a federal masked mandate. Because he failed to do that, millions more people were infected than had to be and thousands more people died than had to die. I don't call it by party lines I call it by what I see and I condemned Trump and I still do to this day for injecting bleach comments and for failing about the mask mandate and I still condemn Trump for his close ties to Saudi Arabia and turkey. I have never failed to support the yemenis either. so basically I have always agreed with you on those points that I just listed.

what starts to get harder to enforce legally though is and let's say I agree with you on this as well that there is always that outer Fringe of people who just need a little nudging before they go off like a lunatic and do something crazy. Hell I can even find a way to agree with Larry that words do matter. But it becomes kind of a slippery slope. Even when one is in a position of power like president of the United States or lower positions for example in sports when they accused Mike Tyson of being a bad example for the youth, I mean nobody is disputing there are these Fringe people on the outside who just need a little nudging. But it is hard to draw the line between just how much a human being has the right to say and just how much it is going to give that little nudge to somebody somewhere at some time and just how causative it really was. I mean of course I agree that the safest thing in the world is to never ever speak any kind of insightful language ever and then nobody anywhere ever could ever make the argument that you may be influenced somebody somewhere to do something crazy. that's an extreme example but of course that would be the safest route and I don't deny it. It's good debating this with you Tito, we are getting much more out of our conversations like this I think. 🙂