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Let’s be very clear about what Trump is doing here: as ABC wrote, he’s suggesting “Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim.” This is bullshit. It is flatly, verifiably, false. But that’s almost beside the point.
Trump listened to a speech by the bereaved father of a fallen Muslim soldier and used it to slander the fallen soldier’s family. That was his response. That is his character.
At this point, I honestly don’t know what to say. I don’t have new language for this, I haven’t found another way of saying this isn’t okay, this isn’t kind, this isn’t decent. Instead, I’ll note James Fallows’s response. He quotes Joseph Welch, speaking to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954.
“Until this moment,” he said, “I think I never really gauged your cruelty.”
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Ezra Klein asks
just what kind of person Donald Trump is (and if you don’t know the answer by now, you never will)
i am so mad about this i could cry. the guy is actually a psychopath. will his supporters care? of course they won’t. he could shoot someone in the face and it would be the fault of liberals, muslims or crooked hillary. vile, disgusting man.
(via arthoebeyonce)
The whole article is well worth reading. Trump followed his ‘just wondering’ comments about Mrs. Khan with a defensive babble about how he has too sacrificed for his country by being super successful in business. The degree of tone-deafness, meanness and self-centeredness this man brings to the table is remarkable. As Klein points out, it’s unimaginable that any other politician would have responded like this, with no attempt to appear empathetic or respectful of this family’s loss.
(via westsemiteblues)
“This isn’t partisan. This isn’t left vs. right. Mitt Romney never would have said this. John McCain never would have said this. George W. Bush never would have said this. John Kerry never would have said this. This is what I mean when I write that the 2016 election isn’t simply Democrat vs. Republican, but normal vs. abnormal.“
(via seapeny)
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Let’s be very clear about what Trump is doing here: as ABC wrote, he’s suggesting “Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim.” This is bullshit. It is flatly, verifiably, false. But that’s almost beside the point.
Trump listened to a speech by the bereaved father of a fallen Muslim soldier and used it to slander the fallen soldier’s family. That was his response. That is his character.
At this point, I honestly don’t know what to say. I don’t have new language for this, I haven’t found another way of saying this isn’t okay, this isn’t kind, this isn’t decent. Instead, I’ll note James Fallows’s response. He quotes Joseph Welch, speaking to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954.
“Until this moment,” he said, “I think I never really gauged your cruelty.”
”
-
Ezra Klein asks
just what kind of person Donald Trump is (and if you don’t know the answer by now, you never will)
i am so mad about this i could cry. the guy is actually a psychopath. will his supporters care? of course they won’t. he could shoot someone in the face and it would be the fault of liberals, muslims or crooked hillary. vile, disgusting man.
(via arthoebeyonce)
The whole article is well worth reading. Trump followed his ‘just wondering’ comments about Mrs. Khan with a defensive babble about how he has too sacrificed for his country by being super successful in business. The degree of tone-deafness, meanness and self-centeredness this man brings to the table is remarkable. As Klein points out, it’s unimaginable that any other politician would have responded like this, with no attempt to appear empathetic or respectful of this family’s loss.
(via westsemiteblues)
“This isn’t partisan. This isn’t left vs. right. Mitt Romney never would have said this. John McCain never would have said this. George W. Bush never would have said this. John Kerry never would have said this. This is what I mean when I write that the 2016 election isn’t simply Democrat vs. Republican, but normal vs. abnormal.“
(via seapeny)
