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(51,110 posts)"divine law & order "
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)Celerity
(43,397 posts)Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)I'm so tired of Donald Gump
Celerity
(43,397 posts)https://www.marketwatch.com/story/avengers-artist-feels-violated-by-sick-video-of-president-trump-comparing-himself-to-a-mass-murderer-2019-12-11
Shortly after House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment this week, the Trump campaign tweeted this video in which Avengers bad guy Thanos is replaced by the president, who delivers the famous line, I am inevitable:
Link to tweet
In the clip, that snap of the fingers causes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to disappear into dust, like the victims of Thanos. Jim Starlin, the comic book artist who introduced the supervillain in 1973, didnt appreciate his creation being used in that way.
After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer, he said. How sick is that? These are sad and strange times ... Fortunately, all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end.
Heres his full statement on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B56VlEZBpmk/
Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)He's such a bag of dicks.
Celerity
(43,397 posts)Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)Celerity
(43,397 posts)Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)Is because Staples and Office Max both threw him out when he asked for a dressing room to try one on.
Celerity
(43,397 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)May God, the Greek gods, and all the other deities get together to give the Blasphemer-in-Chief his comeuppance.
Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)It would give him the opportunity to work off some of those 300+ lbs. of flab, that's for sure.
Nevilledog
(51,110 posts)Looking around for people to throw under the rock. It would never dawn on him that he was supposed to push it.
agingdem
(7,850 posts)but I didn't realize it was back to the Civil War...that sounds about right, though
Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)On point.
bottomofthehill
(8,332 posts)I dont remember where I read it but I seem to recall reading during the civil rights struggles in many places, soldiers were given guns but no ammunition. I can not cite it, but I do remember seeing it.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)NO! NO! NO! A THOUSAND F**KING TIMES NO!!!!!!!!!!!
These are meant to be "peaceful" demonstrations. Such actions only inflame the situation!!!!
bottomofthehill - we CANNOT ACCEPT THAT!!!!!
Amishman
(5,557 posts)The peaceful protests have become an afterthought. The longer this goes on, the more the public will be ok with extreme actions against the rioters
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,332 posts)After talking to my wife ( we read a lot of the same books) she reminded me that ammunition was not allowed to be carried in your weapon but it was on their person. We were reading some books on the civil rights movement around the 50th of the Selma March. Congressman Lewis book Walking with the Wind was one of the books we read that summer.
bottomofthehill
(8,332 posts)Initially, a small group of guardsmen deployed in the city had been carrying guns while standing outside monuments, but the bulk of the forces, such as those working with federal park police at Lafayette Square in front of the White House, didnt carry firearms out of caution. Now, all of the roughly 5,000 guardsmen deployed to Washington from the District of Columbia and 11 states have been told not to use weapons or ammunition.
At a news conference Friday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said that some guardsmen in the District had been carrying arms on Monday, but he noted that they did not have magazines of ammunition in their firearms. Beginning Tuesday, the Trump administration de-escalated further, he said, by removing firearms from the equation altogether.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
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C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Trump will not last forever and there will be a severe reckoning.
Better to side with the Constitution and the People.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I remember stories of Nixon hiding in the White House, looking out at the protesters.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)Probably made it easier to direct the students toward the firing squad.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)LeftInTX
(25,361 posts)It looks like there might be a sheath on the bayonet. Heck I didn't know they even made bayonets anymore. Maybe they are being issued old old guns.
I remember Obama's debate with Romney: "We don't need horses and bayonets"....
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Do we have enough supply of antibiotics? Has Jared cornered the market on that?
Initech
(100,079 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Such an enterprising young woman.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)Not much different from carrying a weapon with loaded ammo magazines stashed in their ammo pouches, or am I missing something?
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,057 posts)I mean, they are a scary sight.
It's a jerk move, but I can see someone wanting to "dominate" even if there's no intention to use.
Of course, it's all fun & games until one panicked trooper runs someone through.