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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 05:41 PM Oct 2018

Did the MAGAbomber just drop a bomb on Trump's election strategy?

Was it a large invisible bomb that was dropped into the lap of Donald Trump?

After all, a huge part of his election strategy was to portray the Democrats as a violent "mob". Well, if this was one of his cult followers that sent the pipe bombs, then he can pretty well scratch that strategy, I would think?

Because it would show exactly which Party owns the "mobs" and the violence. It is very difficult to equate interrupting a Senator's dinner date with an actual pipe bomb sent to your political opponents.

Worse still, even though he may say he is "angry and unhappy", he cannot escape responsibility for his violent language.

We don't yet know for a fact that the bombs were the work of a Trumpster, but if they were, this could be an October Surprise.

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FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
2. I don't believe that even a lethal bombing by a tRumpster would stop his message.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 05:44 PM
Oct 2018

He has his base and they will vote...that is all he wants....he also wants their adoration as king of Amerika....

Only true Patriots care.....

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
3. Yes, he has his base but...
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 05:53 PM
Oct 2018

He needs more than his base. This could make him very angry and unhappy ...

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
4. I expect him to twist and manufacture a story/lie
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:07 PM
Oct 2018

that directs to motivation of the bombing onto the Democrats....he always finds a successful lie to fit his disasters.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
6. If he does that it may backfire on him, sending
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:32 PM
Oct 2018

all the remaining decent people in the country to the polls.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
5. It certainly has made an abrupt change to M$M's narrative
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:29 PM
Oct 2018

from caravans and lies about made up tax cuts for the middle class. Its going to make it awkward for him to go to his remaining rallies and blow off lies about any of the people who have been attacked with these bombs. He needs hate and lies, thrives on it, so yeah, this is probably derailing his strategy.

Mr.Bill

(24,303 posts)
14. This is his strategy.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:42 PM
Oct 2018

Do you really think any of the people at those rallies would not be cheering if the bombs went off? They love this shit and they approve it.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
8. what do you think about the name misspellings? Weird. If you had the addresses
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:37 PM
Oct 2018

you would think that you would spell names correctly

Gore1FL

(21,132 posts)
16. Black powder is pretty easy to come by.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:44 PM
Oct 2018

My dad's girlfriend used to have a civil war cannon. We would fire it (sans shot) on the fourth of July using black powder wrapped in aluminum foil. Our use was quite different, I suspect, than most people's.

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
10. I dunno -its already being reported that some/many are dismissing it as fake bombing/ fake news - I
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:35 PM
Oct 2018

keep hoping that finally that the more reasonable non-cultist rightwingers (are there any?) will wake up and say enough of this craziness .... but it just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Quite possibly someone, or many different someones are intentionally driving wedges - creating chaos/confusion. Which btw happens to be tried and true methodology for facist dictatorships the world over - not to mention the sophisticated soviet style operations of recent years in Europe and elsewhere bent on destabilizing and weakening democracies. Keep everyone so confused that no knows whats going on. As a kid, I always wondered how hitler could get away with mass exterminations - like why wouldn't anyone stop him. Now its all too easy to imagine how it happened.

Mr.Bill

(24,303 posts)
12. Sorry, but it won't work that way.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:38 PM
Oct 2018

Every single person on every single conservative website I have read today is saying Democrats sent the bombs to themselves so they could blame Trump. He'll say that at his rally and the cheer will be deafening.

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)
13. "He cannot escape responsibility" ???
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:38 PM
Oct 2018

That's all he ever does. He will NEVER accept responsibility for anything. Not even the stupidest errors in one of his imbecilic tweets.

His twisted little mind, after 72 years of practice, knows how to deflect everything he doesn't like. He is going to create an entire new field of study for psychologists and psychiatrists.

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
17. You're right about that.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 08:45 PM
Oct 2018

" He will NEVER accept responsibility for anything."

"He is going to create an entire new field of study for psychologists and psychiatrists."

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