Better yet bury his ass on the on the US/Mexico border on a path where each and every person immigrating to the U.S. can walk across his grave.
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Trump declines request to lower flags in memory of Capital Gazette shooting victims
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Better yet bury his ass on the on the US/Mexico border on a path where each and every person immigrating to the U.S. can walk across his grave.
Nah it's not bait at all.
Direct your ire at Trump, not the guy who is actually having to deal with an unimaginable travesty in his community in the best way he knows how while you bang away furiously on your keyboard.
I do owe you an apology, i thought that was a Trump quote and thought you were defending it. My bad. I still think it's cowardly on his part nonetheless. Things are already polarized.
But just for the record, my keyboard warrioring is pretty chill.
as far as i'm aware its half staff for every mass shooting.
exactly what is polarizing about a terrorist attack that killed people? Dude's a coward.
Flags go double high the day Trump bites the dust, right? Like we need to get extensions for all the flag poles. It'll be worth it, though.
We should actually raise it high, it will be a good day for America.
Just make sure to be an attendee at any local protests and national if possible along with the keyboard warrioring ;) That makes it okay. Also vote (obviously).
Where are the mythbusters to put this to the test when you truly need them?
We should probably just take the flags down all together then if nothing is ever going to be done about it.
I don't live in the US though :/
I do what i can in the UK. And believe me there is plenty to do here as well.
Oh I agree, but to some gun voters (the ones who are single issue voters particularly), guns are more important than anything. Other's lives, other freedoms, the sanctity of the US. Nothing matters so long as they can go to the gun store and get another gun with basically no restrictions.
Well to be entirely fair to Trump (read: not be fair to him at all but present a sign a wider problem), if we had to lower the flags every time four or more people died in a shooting every day, we'd be lowering it basically every other day:
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The flag should stay lowered till these issues are fixed.
Not a good look for President Trump, and a valid argument could be made that the declined request could be seen as an indirect attack on the 4th estate.
Cool. Can you help spread the word that the entire US is not this maniac and his cretins? Real sorry btw.
Tbf many idiots voted for Brexit, and mainly for the same reasons that different idiots voted for Trump. They kinda deserve each other.
Agreed. Or at least no longer at the same ridiculous rate it's at.
Implying that I can't criticize his inaction due to fearing that Trump would get angry with him, unless I am the mayor himself, is comical. He even passed the buck onto his wife.
Damn my incivility, clack clack clack.
By resisting fascism and kicking the scum into a bottomless pit where they belong. It's the only way of getting rid of it.
In the way of a combo? It is at half and another shooting happens so they go half half and eventually it just lays on the ground in the dirt.
He really should lower the flag, especially since the press got attacked, no matter the reason.
Didn't expect anything more (read: less) from Trump, but this is pretty pathetic.
Is this the place Stephen King likes to write scary book stories?
Nope it's Maine.
Both of the governor and Trump continue to be embarrassing.
Nope it's Maine.
Both of the governor and Trump continue to be embarrassing.
I know, I just don't understand it at all; the obscene over protection of gun rights. I would have thought one of the school shootings specifically the elementary school one from years ago would have changed something.
Some people in the US are still very afraid of their neighbors that they are willing to roll the die so they can have a false sense of protection.
They're a cult. Incapable of thinking for themselves. They're brainwashed at the behest of the Russia-financed NRA. Gun rights trump everything. They would willingly invite Russia to invade the United States and take it over if it meant preserving their precious gun ownership over the alternative of ANY sane gun control measure being implemented.
Obviously to protect themselves from all those people breaking in all the time *eye roll*, I think it's sick.
That's what's so obscene about the whole thing, everyone be damned as long as I have infinite access to guns. The line of thinking is just completely lost on me.
"If we lowered the flag for every goddamn mass shooting, we'd have to acknowledge the systemic issue and do something about it, and I don't wanna offend my golf buddies at the NRA."
Seriously, how much effort does it take to pull a fucking flag down a pole
Seriously, how much effort does it take to pull a fucking flag down a pole
Glad someone else is noticing this, it's one thing to have an alternate opinion but when you're coming down on the opposite side every single damn time, and it's always the side that's not the Nazi's or Nazi enablers, that's weird. We ain't perfect but shit hand us a raincoat when it's pouring don't put holes in the umbrella
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Honestly, I just feel like there's a shitload of hyperbole and vitriol going around at the moment and I call out what I see as being particularly egregious examples.
Make no mistake, im on "your" side. I think Trump is the devil incarnate and his election is one of the most shameful episodes in American political history. I completely understand that I probably project the opposite image, and I understand the argument that instead of "tone policing" I should be joining in, excoriating of the pieces of shit currently in power.
But I also find it interesting to offer a somewhat different perspective. Not just for the sake of it, but because I think its important. Every online community has it's own inherent biases but I think that sometimes that this one becomes such a roiling cauldron of angst that it's useful to just provide a different take and say "really, you want to call this guy a fucking coward over this?"
I'm not just trying to be an asshole.
This is like the easiest shit in the world to acquiesce to and he refuses, and it's because he know it causes division and controversy. He can't not be a shithead at every opportunity because that's what got him into office in the first place.
You just described being a contrarian asshole.
And yes, he is a fucking coward.
For what it's worth, flying the US flag at half mast is only supposed to be done by presidential order. Maryland state flags were flown at half mast in respect to the victims. Doing the same for the US flag would definitely have been seen as taking a stand against Trump, and as much as I'd like to see that, I can also see the argument that it's disrespectful to the victims. (And I can also see the argument that NOT rebuking Trump is disrespectful to them, too.)
This.
Also, the fact that he's doing this is a clear sign that he thinks journalists deserve to be killed.