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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeargassing protesters is now "a beautiful scene." Gotcha.
This guy really gets it, doesn't he?
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Daniel Dale @ddale8 · 3m
Trump is recounting the protest violence in Minneapolis. He says it was a "beautiful scene," even though it's not "supposed to" be, when the National Guard went in and, "like a knife cutting butter," stopped the violence, even though "yes there was some tear gas."
5:01 PM · Jun 11, 2020
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He also believes in "dominating the streets with compassion." Whatever the hell that means.
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Teargassing protesters is now "a beautiful scene." Gotcha. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Jun 2020
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. I'm watching and it's raising my blood pressure
Now Barr is bloviating.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)2. He isn't just out of his mind,
which is part of the reason he says shit like this, but he does it primarily to agitate and stir up more rancor. The economy is crashing, disease is rampant, and there have been riots. He's happy as a pig in shit because he's steadily increasing the likelihood that we'll have a civil war before all of this is over.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)3. that orange asshole
is a shit stain on humanity
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)4. "a beautiful scene"? He's a loser, nowhere man sitting in....
This is more to my liking.
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