What does Trump have against the Mayor of London... Oh wait, he's a Muslim

[UNCjigga]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-trumps-tweet-misleads-about-london-mayors-r/

So Trump seems incredulous that the Mayor of London says "there's no reason to be alarmed" about terror attacks...Except that's not what the Mayor said. In context, he was telling Londoners not to be alarmed about increased police presence. Trump decided to attack the Mayor rather than praise his police force's response to the attacks...3 attackers dead within 7 minutes.

This isn't the first time the Trump family used the mayor's words out of context in order to paint him as weak, ineffective, or dare I say, complicit in terror attacks that have affected London.

What's the play here for Trump? What's his agenda? Why is he meddling with a foreign Mayor in the first place? Is the mere existence of a Muslim Mayor for the most cosmopolitan city in the world a threat to Trump's world view?

 

[raildogg]

The agenda since 9/11 has been to demonize Muslims, divide people, conquer nations. All these supposed terrorist attacks conveniently play into this evil narrative.

Yeah everybody ... look out, the evil Muslim is gonna get you so we must go over there and destroy their entire countries and make life totally miserable for them. Then, when they try to fight back, we'll call them terrorists.

Millenial Millie, Alex Jones, Rebel Media etc. are probably all insiders that are part of the game. Their job these days seems to be spreading hatred against Muslims.

The government/media/military/bankers are using "terrorist" attacks for their convenience. Just like always. And just like always, the dumbed down populace blames the oppressed rather than the oppressors.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I totally agree with raildogg, but I think he's describing the candy-coating on the M&M.

Trump promotes and represents a complete distortion of reality -- a totally fascist agenda. He came to power using Fear. He is no innovator in that respect. Behind his thinking lies this serious delusion: Any terrorist event, even if it kills dozens of people, justifies an increase in defense spending of billions. Why would he do his best to unsettle NATO, when NATO was -- and is -- instrumental in Afghanistan?

Trump depends on the terrorists. That's why, after his disrespect to our longtime allies, the terrorists gave a message of response: a huge bomb exploded within 80 feet of the German embassy of Kabul, in the diplomatic sector of the city where most of the NATO allies have a mission.

Terror is a message. It is a form of psychological warfare. Simple terror is only a crude form of it. But the bomb in Kabul the other day was an unmistakable answer to Trump's world tour. "Great! We agree! Let's destroy NATO!"

Without terrorists, Trump would not have been able to arouse the Chicken-Littles of Cornpone Flyover Shithole Land, who think the Muslims are coming to Podunk to blow up a corn silo.

 

[UNCjigga]

Holy crap, our "pathetic excuse" of a President just doesn't know when to quit:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871725780535062528

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terrorist-attack/story?id=47837703

I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican, communist socialist or fascist alt-right...when your President can't admit a simple misreading of a quote and instead chooses to double-down on a baseless attack on a foreign official, we should have SERIOUS concerns about this man's ability to govern and suitability for office.

Edit: Maybe Trump was pissed off that our own embassy in the UK is contradicting him? Such a weak leader: https://twitter.com/USAinUK/status/871435629569212416

 

[Stokely]

Not sure which is worse, a President who would deliberately mis-quote to make a political point or one who just doesn't have the intelligence (or willingness/patience) to understand moderately-complex sentences.

Using terrorism for political gain is certainly nothing new, ask people in Iraq about it.

As bad as terrorist attacks are...we should not consider giving up our privacy or freedoms to combat it (assuming that it even helps, which is an open question). How many people die each year on average from terrorism? How many people die each year from mistakes made in hospitals? One of those numbers is truly frightening and orders of magnitude higher than the other, yet I don't see people frothing at the mouth or cowering in terror. Hell more people die on average from lawnmowers...and deer are positively on the rampage.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Holy crap, our "pathetic excuse" of a President just doesn't know when to quit:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871725780535062528

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terrorist-attack/story?id=47837703

I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican, communist socialist or fascist alt-right...when your President can't admit a simple misreading of a quote and instead chooses to double-down on a baseless attack on a foreign official, we should have SERIOUS concerns about this man's ability to govern and suitability for office.

Edit: Maybe Trump was pissed off that our own embassy in the UK is contradicting him? Such a weak leader: https://twitter.com/USAinUK/status/871435629569212416

Yeah I don't get what the fuck he's doing going after London's mayor for what is so painfully obviously something that Trump himself is completely misinterpreting.

It's like he's intentionally trying to disparage the mayor of London to keep his base happy because, you know, he's "one of them". Just completely ignores reality.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I find it appalling that this is the direction he's pushing, in a time when we should be supporting our allies. I guess his need to feel superior to others completely overpowers any amount of reason or emotion, if there was any there to begin with.

 

[brycejones]

Edit: Maybe Trump was pissed off that our own embassy in the UK is contradicting him? Such a weak leader: https://twitter.com/USAinUK/status/871435629569212416

The commie liberal 5th column that is the deep state must be driven out! Everyone involved in that lying tweet should be called home and fired and sent to a reeducation facility.

There can be only 1 voice of the US government and that is Steve Bannon through DJT.

 

[Pens1566]

He's frazzled (even more than usual) by what's coming this week. So he's lashing out. He's so completely predictable.

 

[Roflmouth]

The agenda since 9/11 has been to demonize Muslims, divide people, conquer nations. All these supposed terrorist attacks conveniently play into this evil narrative.

Yeah everybody ... look out, the evil Muslim is gonna get you so we must go over there and destroy their entire countries and make life totally miserable for them. Then, when they try to fight back, we'll call them terrorists.

Millenial Millie, Alex Jones, Rebel Media etc. are probably all insiders that are part of the game. Their job these days seems to be spreading hatred against Muslims.

The government/media/military/bankers are using "terrorist" attacks for their convenience. Just like always. And just like always, the dumbed down populace blames the oppressed rather than the oppressors.

Your check from Isis is in the mail.

 

[xthetenth]

Holy crap, our "pathetic excuse" of a President just doesn't know when to quit:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871725780535062528

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terrorist-attack/story?id=47837703

I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican, communist socialist or fascist alt-right...when your President can't admit a simple misreading of a quote and instead chooses to double-down on a baseless attack on a foreign official, we should have SERIOUS concerns about this man's ability to govern and suitability for office.

Edit: Maybe Trump was pissed off that our own embassy in the UK is contradicting him? Such a weak leader: https://twitter.com/USAinUK/status/871435629569212416

Misrepresenting quotes is a standby of the right. Off the top of your head, what's the original context of Obama's "cling to guns and religion" quote? What about how Clinton apparently said that coal country was going to be left without jobs?

As a challenge, can anyone find a single clause that's a major catchphrase among the right that isn't stripped of context that inverts the meaning?

 

[Zorba]

Misrepresenting quotes is a standby of the right. Off the top of your head, what's the original context of Obama's "cling to guns and religion" quote? What about how Clinton apparently said that coal country was going to be left without jobs?

As a challenge, can anyone find a single clause that's a major catchphrase among the right that isn't stripped of context that inverts the meaning?

You forgot the biggest: We have to pass it to know what's in it.

 

[sandorski]

WTF?

 

[xthetenth]

You forgot the biggest: We have to pass it to know what's in it.

Absolutely true. That one warrants an expanded explanation though that probably includes among other things the conflict between legislation as an ongoing process of government versus a fixed declaration of intent that's immutable, and I blew my wall of text budget already.

 

[OutHouse]

The agenda since 9/11 has been to demonize Muslims, divide people, conquer nations. All these supposed terrorist attacks conveniently play into this evil narrative.

wtf? supposed terrorist attacks? care to defend that idiotic statement?

Muslims have been doing a very good job at demonizing, diving, conquering and killing. thats a very evil narrative in any culture/religion.

 

[Fritzo]

Remember that time when the British PM publicly ridiculed the mayor of Boston after the marathon bombings?

Neither do I.

 

[Roflmouth]

Remember that time when the British PM publicly ridiculed the mayor of Boston after the marathon bombings?

Neither do I.

Did the mayor of Boston say something incredibly stupid that deserved ridicule?

 

[Roflmouth]

You forgot the biggest: We have to pass it to know what's in it.

ROFL, it turns out that every stupid thing uttered by the idiot left over the last decade was just "taken out of context." What a relief

 

[Pens1566]

Did the mayor of Boston say something incredibly stupid that deserved ridicule?

Did the mayor of London?

 

[Zorba]

ROFL, it turns out that every stupid thing uttered by the idiot left over the last decade was just "taken out of context." What a relief

Go educate yourself, you shouldn't take pride in being an ignoramus.

 

[feralkid]

Your check from Isis is in the mail.

As is yours from Putin; seriously, grow the fuck up.

 

[HomerJS]

Go educate yourself, you shouldn't take pride in being an ignoramus.

Clearly he excels at ignorance and laziness

 

[Roflmouth]

Did the mayor of London?

Yes, but it can be difficult to miss in the barrage of stupidity that normally flows out of his rectum-like mouth.

 

[xthetenth]

ROFL, it turns out that every stupid thing uttered by the idiot left over the last decade was just "taken out of context." What a relief

You actually feel pride about being deceived into hating people based on words chosen to misrepresent what they were communicating. You actually unironically are opposed to the single use of language. How do you even pull this sort of thing off?

 

[Pens1566]

Yes, but it can be difficult to miss in the barrage of stupidity that normally flows out of his rectum-like mouth.

You got like a 12 on the SAT reading comprehension section, didn't you?