I detest these people

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/31/donald-trump-sons-hunting-iowa-zimbabwe-pheasants
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Donald Trump Jr, son of the Republican frontrunner, pulled five freshly shot pheasants from the back of his hunter’s jacket, placed them delicately in the Iowa grass, and posed with a toothy grin.

Trump Jr and his brother, Eric, had been dispatched to rural Iowa to help dispel the notion that their family is more interested in acquiring luxury golf courses than deer horns.

In contrast to their father, who never had much interest in hunting, the younger Trumps’ enthusiasm for the activity has been well known since 2012, when photographs surfaced of them posing with dead animals after a big game hunt in Zimbabwe.

The billionaire’s sons were snapped posing with an elephant, a leopard, a waterbuck and a crocodile hanging from a tree by a noose. There are, of course, no crocodiles in Iowa, but Trump Jr insisted that “90%” of his hunting was of the traditional American variety.

“From my weekend house I have deer hunting in my backyard – I’m setting up deer stands all summer,” he said, shortly after shooting a third bird from the sky.

[MBS]

1. Disgusting indeed. n/t

[mountain grammy]

2. I detest them too..

the pictures are sickening.

[HassleCat]

3. Hunting from stands

It was illegal to hunt from an elevated platform when I grew up and hunted deer. It should still be illegal, even though that's the way all my relatives hunt deer. The build little tree houses, some with cook stoves and TVs, and play American Sniper with the deer. It's quite unfair.

[cwydro]

10. Those stands are all around our property on neighboring lands.

They put food out in direct sight line so they don't even have to move to shoot the poor creatures.

I feed the deer on our property year round...hoping to keep them safe here.

Our land is well posted.

[Siwsan]

4. Apparently "affluenza" takes many forms

These people are just clueless beyond redemption. They have Louis XVI syndrome.

[malaise]

5. Well let's hope they are treated the same way he was treated in death

[Siwsan]

6. I admit to having that little fantasy, myself

But I think the most effective public and humiliating 'beheading' would be to simply have a public removal of that furry life form that perches on Trumps head.

[hifiguy]

18. May they get the same cure.

[valerief]

7. Just like Dick Cheney. They love to kill things. nt

[malaise]

8. They are sick people

Our planet has more than a few despicable residents.

[Snobblevitch]

9. I am opposed to Donald Trump becoming president.

I am opposed to trophy hunting. There is nothing wrong with pheasant hunting.

[oberliner]

11. Candidate's children should be off limits

At least that's my opinion anyway.

[malaise]

13. Then what are they doing shooting birds in the middle of Iowa?

They injected themselves into the campaign.

[oberliner]

14. I think it is fair to assume that a candidate's children will support their dad

I don't really hold that against them.

[Bucky]

25. Agreed, if they're just family. But if they're campaign surrogates, they're in the game

These are campaign events they're doing.

[cwydro]

12. I completely agree with you.

I'm glad I've not seen the picture.

[grossproffit]

15. I despise big game hunters.

[RebelOne]

19. I despise all hunters. n/t.

[Snobblevitch]

21. Are you a vegetarian?

[onethatcares]

16. "from my weekend house"

he's able to kill deer. On Mondays it's pheasants from the Monday house, Tuesday and Wednesday he gets a free shot at elk on his hump day land, Thursday and Friday it's time to shoot those damn Canadian geese that crap all over the driveway at the pre weekend cabin. Saturday is a day to sleep in from all the killin.

I used to hunt. Way back in another time, way back.

[milestogo]

17. five freshly shot peasants

...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. That's how I read it at first too. nt

[UTUSN]

20. *hey*!1 Royalty needs some R&R and shorts-wearing time *TOO*!1

[narnian60]

26. This picture is burned into my brain now.

Needed a warning.

[madokie]

22. So do I

I have no problem with a person hunting to eat or to feed his family but killing for sport I've no use for any of them.

I was raised poor and we hunted and fished to eat and not one bit was wasted, bragged on or smiled about. It was food.

[KentuckyWoman]

23. "my weekend house"

isn't that just special.........

[malaise]

24. Of course

Don't yah know they are very special

[B Calm]

27. Was this pheasant hunting where they release caged birds for slaughter?

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. That was Dick Cheney

Right before he shot his friend in the face.

These super rich guys are just such lowlifes.