Actor Hugh Grant added a little tweet today regarding Junior.

[Honeycombe8]

Link to tweet

He weighs more & has whiskers, but that's Junior, right?

Very clever, Hugh!

[irisblue]

1. That's Junior the Wanker

And I notice there is no blood on that knife, did someone else cut the elephants tail off for Wanker?

[smirkymonkey]

2. My opinion of Hugh Grant has just shot up immensely.

[Crowman2009]

10. You mean that you haven't watched "Love Actually" or "Florence Foster Jenkins"?

He stars in them, so watch them ASAP!

[Shrike47]

12. He also plays a mean piano.

[niyad]

18. "sense and sensibility"--the emma thompson version, "notting hill"

[RobinA]

15. He's Actually

a pretty funny guy.

[kairos12]

3. The Drumpt family is the definition of disgusting.

[Solly Mack]

4. !

lololololol

Too true.

[Hamlette]

5. lol

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Yup. The Trumps are all wankers.

And I dream someday they'll be wankers... in prison.

[llmart]

7. That picture disgusts me to no end...

What a disgusting, awful family - ALL OF THEM!

[lastlib]

8. He looks like an ISIS guy who just beheaded an infidel.

Same sociopathic expression.

And at his core, he's every bit as evil.

[magicarpet]

9. Masters of the universe

Spare no animal or beast.

[montana_hazeleyes]

11. This is pure sickening!

I can't believe what these evil cretins have gotten away with and still get away with. Arrogant, malignant, group of narcissistic asses.

Their supporters don't realize they are laughing at them! Using them! The only ones they care about are the rich.

[BigmanPigman]

13. And Kathy Griffin is shamed for a JOKE

by the hypocritical politically correct.

[mountain grammy]

14. Exactly!

[llmart]

34. I'd love to be the person who...

did a "Lorena Bobbitt" on him and I'd hold "it" up with a shit-eating grin on my face!!!

However, people would need a magnifying glass to see what I was holding up

[Honeycombe8]

17. Yeah...disgusting. Wanker. nt

[ashling]

16. Saw a story yesterday about the shooting of a "known elephant poacher"

by the authorities in Zimbabwe (I think)

this is the first thing I thought of

[LAS14]

19. In the days of PhotoShop, how do we decide when something is real? Nt

[Hekate]

20. The safari photos of the Trump Boys have been around awhile. There's one with a dead leopard, too.

Beavis and Buttheads's Great Adventure with Endangered Species.

[LanternWaste]

21. Simple research.

Simple research, which seems to be an alien construct in the days of PhotoShop...

[LAS14]

22. Can you give me an example of how research would prove a photo to be true?

I'm not sure "simple" is the right word.

[irisblue]

23. On his twitter feed dated Mar 12 2012 he posted the elephant meat went to a local village

Snopes also has it as a true statement


www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/953387/no-shame-in-donald-trump-jrs-elephant-killing-game/amp
The she knows post is on google page 5 on my phone. I suppose you could go to a large metro library and use the microfiche files to look in the NY
Daily news. He & his spawn were celebraties, a gossip columnists might have mentioned it.
Sometimes deep research will involve lots of physically hauling yourself to a metro library.
Betcha the reporters @ WaPo & NYT go check their old papers.

[LAS14]

25. Thanks for taking the time. This was very helpful. nt

[irisblue]

26. I really did like using microreaders when I was in college working on my history degree.

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It was satisfying seeing a contemporary view of the event; also how suprising how much American English has changed over the last 150 years.

[Honeycombe8]

31. Here it is. That's a known photo...Jr. explains why he cut off the tail.

He cut off the tail because others do it, he said. Guess his mother never told him, "If everyone else jumps off a bridge, that doesn't mean you have to, too."

He also gave the old "The elephants were overpopulated, so I was doing a good deed" meme. An old hunter standby.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/#45c77a32effb

[Honeycombe8]

29. For one thing, if the photo is in keeping with the person's known hobbies & behavior.

If it is, there would be no need to photoshop it.

Second, the left is less likely to photoshop & present it as real. It happens, but it'd rare. When they do photoshops, it's usually as a joke & is obvious it's a photoshop, or stated to be so.

The Trump sons are known animal killers. They spent July 4th killing Prairie Dogs or some little critter like that. There are other photos out there with their kills.

This is obviously real. It's not outrageous or unexpected. That's what photoshop is usually about.

You get to where you can spot the fake pics & stories, if you are inclined toward truth, as most people on the left are. There's no need to fake it. The truth is bad enough.

You can Google and see that the Trump sons have been killing animals for years. Nothing new. Even if it were photoshopped, it wouldnot be that big a deal, since this is a scene known to have occurred many times over the years. Not cool to photoshop, but not the same as making something up, like showing Obama with that lady Russian photoshopped in like in a private mtg, which would be totally fake...didn't happen & would be created to give a false impression.

[LAS14]

33. Thanks. nt

[Alice11111]

24. I never understood why Dems didn't use this in an ad. One

thing that often crosses party lines is love of animals, even just our cats and dogs. It's so repulsive, I try not to think about it.

[lib-ruhl]

27. That would take compassion for the photo to have an effect.

Which his supporters have none of.

Their spin would be anything from the meat was used to feed a starving Village to thinning of the herd is good for their survival.

[Honeycombe8]

32. His excuse changed. He was doing a good deed by thinning out the overpopulation.

He cut the tail off because that's an African tradition.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/#45c77a32effb

[Alice11111]

37. Forbes...disgusting, superficial rebuttal. We need to thin

the elephant population or they run wild. No, they run wild because they are losing their habitat, traditions & families.
They actually grieve and normally have something akin to a funeral for the dead. The NYT did a wonderful story on this years ago. Their other argment, they had guides...does that even give the elephants a chance...highly paid poachers. My uncle did some of these trips & came back with stories, the guides say they need to thin the over populated heards...and for just 100k....I try to avoid politi al arguments with 85 year olds in my family, but my look said it all. Plus, I told him anout their grieving. He said, you're right...I guess I don't need to kill an elephant.
I hope Zimbabwe wins against the Trumpsters! I would crowd fund.

Interesting that the article started out about Jr's Hollywood good looks...I guess he thought that meant he can do anything he damn well wants. I personally think he is ugly, looks stupid, sounds stupider, and needs a chin. ( I probably see him that way on the outside because he is so lacking of compassion &, as Colbert said, we need to apologize to Eric, because we always thought he was the dumb one...after Jrs tweet storm) Well, now that I have resorted to criticism of someone for their looks, I need to shut up.

[Honeycombe8]

38. Exactly. nt

[Kahuna7]

28. I loved it. I gave him a like and retweet for that one.

[irisblue]

30. umm a ?

I want to be clear, you liked & retweeted a picture of him standing with a cut off elephant tail.
Is this correct?

[Kahuna7]

35. To be clear...Are you going to give me a lecture or something?

Maybe you should view the tweet again and take it in its context.

[irisblue]

36. No lecture. Ever. Just asking for understanding of your position. Teach me?