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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    patb wrote: »
    "Addressing a gathering of 39 state governors at the White House, Trump said officers who were outside the school at the time of the shooting “weren’t exactly medal of honor winners”.

    “The way they performed was really a disgrace,” he added. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”    :

    Sure ya would, Mr. Bone Spurs.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    patb wrote: »
    "Addressing a gathering of 39 state governors at the White House, Trump said officers who were outside the school at the time of the shooting “weren’t exactly medal of honor winners”.

    “The way they performed was really a disgrace,” he added. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”    :

    I'm confused. Does this mean Thunderfinger is actually Donald Trump?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    Posts: 8,706
    I sure wish he had been there and had done so. So, I said it.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    Amazing how Trump and his cronies still consider the Islam the greatest thread for the American way of lives while the out of control weapon possession in the US claims a multitude of victims each year. And his solution and the NRA's is more weapons, I do not expect any Nobel prizes anytime soon awarded to the US government.
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,500
    patb wrote: »
    "Addressing a gathering of 39 state governors at the White House, Trump said officers who were outside the school at the time of the shooting “weren’t exactly medal of honor winners”.

    “The way they performed was really a disgrace,” he added. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”    :


    It really is quite rich coming from a guy that skipped army duty thanks to his influentual father...

    Or maybe he was talking about running in to McDonalds?
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
    Posts: 3,564
    Cadet Bone Spurs, reporting for duty...50 years too late.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,691
    CENSORED Trump. Just CENSORED him. Because no one else will if they're not in the past and not being paid. Pathetic CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED dork.
    I think I have been clear about my feelings here... ;)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    He added that most of those present surely would have done the same. Judging by comments here, I am not so sure.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 7,988
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    He added that most of those present surely would have done the same. Judging by comments here, I am not so sure.

    Did he now? that makes all the difference!

    Is that guy capable of running in the first place?

    I wonder what those who defended him here before the elections think of this highly versatile Captain America....
  • patbpatb
    edited February 2018 Posts: 4,602
    It takes a different type of courage to admit human frailty and have an open and mature debate about how we react under stress. Trump's comments don't surprise me. He is exactly the type of ignorant, school boy bully who would boast all the time about how tough he is. We all know he will never be placed in that position. I have had the chance to meet a few people who have acted very bravely under stress and they have all been the exact opposite of Trump: quiet, humble and unassuming.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43202800

    "The armed school officer branded a coward by President Donald Trump has defended his actions during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

    Scot Peterson was outside the school when a gunman killed 17 people, but did not go inside as shots rang out.

    His attorney, Joseph DiRuzzo, said his client believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school.

    He followed his training by taking cover and prompting a lockdown, the lawyer said.

    Mr DiRuzzo said it was "patently untrue" that Mr Peterson was a coward on the day.

    Mr Peterson, a veteran officer who had been assigned to guard the high school, resigned last week after his boss, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, suspended him without pay."
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    He added that most of those present surely would have done the same. Judging by comments here, I am not so sure.

    Given he said 'I'd have run in even if I didn't have a weapon' I'm quite happy for people to call me a pathetic, cowardly worm for merely cowering behind a wall and calling the police like a sane person rather than adding to the body count in a futile gesture by charging mindlessly in shouting 'Let's be 'aving you then' like Delia.

    But then we can't all be made of the right stuff like you old son; clearly a combination of Bruce Lee and John Matrix with an extra side order of manly courage.
    patb wrote: »
    It takes a different type of courage to admit human frailty and have an open and mature debate about how we react under stress. Trump's comments don't surprise me. He is exactly the type of ignorant, school boy bully who would boast all the time about how tough he is. We all know he will never be placed in that position. I have had the chance to meet a few people who have acted very bravely under stress and they have all been the exact opposite of Trump: quiet, humble and unassuming.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43202800

    "The armed school officer branded a coward by President Donald Trump has defended his actions during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

    Scot Peterson was outside the school when a gunman killed 17 people, but did not go inside as shots rang out.

    His attorney, Joseph DiRuzzo, said his client believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school.

    He followed his training by taking cover and prompting a lockdown, the lawyer said.

    Mr DiRuzzo said it was "patently untrue" that Mr Peterson was a coward on the day.

    Mr Peterson, a veteran officer who had been assigned to guard the high school, resigned last week after his boss, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, suspended him without pay."

    Pretty much nails it.

    How are such comments as this adding to the debate? Donald and Thunderfinger gobbing off about running in there like Riggs and Murtagh without any weapons or training (I'm talking Donald here as Thundy is clearly an ex Navy Seal) only to get gunned down the moment they set foot in the building would've achieved what exactly?

    Well apart from obfuscating the real issue of stopping the guy in the first place but silly me that's the whole point isn't it?

    Poor Mr Peterson now needs to sue either his employers, because he followed his training to the letter yet this training is deemed insufficient when all the experts are saying in that situation you should actually just run through the door like Butch and Sundance, or Trump for defamation.

    Either way the poor guy's life is buggered as all the Trump voters/NRA fundamentalists will hound him to an early grave in the kangaroo court of Twitter.
  • LeChiffreLeChiffre
    Posts: 1,548
    The world is being run by morons. Dangerous times.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    I'm not expecting us all to turn into vegetarian, pacifist, ultra-progressive, liberal citizens of the world overnight, but to shower one man with the horrors of guilt and self-loathing is quite obscene when, as @TheWizardOfIce correctly pointed out, it's unclear how any of us would react in a similar situation. I've seen the bravest of men freeze dead cold when a kid with a piece of lab glass in one eye is carried into an ambulance. Imagine a lunatic with unclear motives and who knows what kind of weaponry empty his guns on children. You know this guy is off his rocker. You know he's unpredictable. What would *you* do, Mister President?

    Build a wall?

    Christ, how long is this joke going to play out?

    "Trump" sounds a lot like the French word for being wrong. We need to get rid of this madman. I'm starting to long for the days of George Double-yuh.

    @DarthDimi Trump also sounds like the French for to deceive. Just sayin'.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Trump means to fart,in the UK.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Trump means to fart,in the UK.

    Should mean to have diarrhoea spurting from the mouth.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Ludovico wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Trump means to fart,in the UK.

    Should mean to have diarrhoea spurting from the mouth.

    Indeed !!

    I think I will call him President Fart in future.

  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Trump means to fart,in the UK.

    Should mean to have diarrhoea spurting from the mouth.

    Indeed !!

    I think I will call him President Fart in future.

    I call him the Swine.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    This just in on Sky News,we all knew it would happen :

    President Trump 'to run for re-election in 2020'.

    Donald Trump will stand again for president in 2020 and has chosen his campaign manager, according to US media.

    Brad Parscale, who was digital director for his successful 2016 White House bid, is set to head up his campaign for the next run, CBS reported.

    The conservative Drudge Report website said the move comes 980 days before election day, earlier than any previous presidents.

    skynews-brad-parscale-trump-election_4242349.jpg?20180227154618

    Barack Obama announced he was running again for a second term in 2012, 582 days before polling.

    In January last year, Republican Mr Trump filed campaign finance documents suggesting he was keeping his options open about another bid for the White House.

    The real estate tycoon was elected president in November 2016, defeating Democrat Hilary Clinton, and was inaugurated the following January.

    More follows...
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 7,988
    Amazing fact:

    Republicans in Georgia want to keep their rights to murder children so badly they are willing to cripple their economy to do so:
    http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/26/news/companies/delta-nra-georgia-republican/index.html

    These kids deserve to live in a real country. Canada should grand them political asylum.
  • ThrasosThrasos
    edited February 2018 Posts: 1,469
    barryt007 wrote: »
    President Trump 'to run for re-election in 2020'.
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    I don't think there's a chance he'll get re-elected. Yes, a lot can happen between now and then, and Trump has a lot of supporters. But I suspect there'll be better Republican candidates, probably better than last time--and many new Democratic candidates too--the one that comes to mind is California's Kamala Harris, former state attorney general. When I saw her speech when she won her Senate seat, I knew she had "it" and is a smart cookie. Democrats will try like hell to make sure they beat Trump, especially given how many of them hate him. I think the fact that many younger Americans are being more vocal and more politically active will play some kind of a part too. But we have to guard against socialism.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    There won't be better Republican candidates, there'll be no Republican to oppose Trump. I do think he can easily get reelected: he has fanatical supporters and Russia to back him up. And he's in power!
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,500
    barryt007 wrote: »
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.


    Nah. "Sly" implies he is intelligent. He has sly old buggers working for him is more like it.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    jobo wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.


    Nah. "Sly" implies he is intelligent. He has sly old buggers working for him is more like it.

    Good point, jobo.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    Posts: 1,965
    Trump will win re election. Trump has the electoral college on his side and that’s what he is gonna play off of. Not the popular vote
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    jobo wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.


    Nah. "Sly" implies he is intelligent. He has sly old buggers working for him is more like it.

    He's like a real John Iselin.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    Posts: 4,813
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Trump will win re election.
    I believe you may be right- I just hope the riots aren't too bad :))
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    Posts: 8,706
    Ludovico wrote: »
    jobo wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.


    Nah. "Sly" implies he is intelligent. He has sly old buggers working for him is more like it.

    He's like a real John Iselin.

    Who's he? Google was not a real help.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,844
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    jobo wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    He's a sly old bugger too,i'm sure a lot will be happening 'behind the scenes' to influence the vote.


    Nah. "Sly" implies he is intelligent. He has sly old buggers working for him is more like it.

    He's like a real John Iselin.

    Who's he? Google was not a real help.

    The Manchurian Candidate.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    Posts: 1,965
    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Trump will win re election.
    I believe you may be right- I just hope the riots aren't too bad :))
    Lol the left will do their usual shtick and nothing will change
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